The Elk County advocate. (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, March 12, 1874, Image 4

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    farm. Garden and Household,
Honaeholil Recipes,
To Clean Mamim. Rnb first with
"oda and soft soap, then wash as usual
with water.
Mountain Cake. One crm sngar,
two eggs, half cup butter, half cup
uiilk or water, two of flour, teanpoonful
cream of tartar, half teanpoonful soda,
nutmeg.
Good Cake. Two cups of fingnr,
one-half cup of butter, two eggs, one
enp of raisins chopped, one-half cup of
milk, ono-teaspoonful of cassia and
clove and one nutmeg.
Trimming LAMrs. You must koep
your lamps trimmed if you do not wish
them to explode. The wick boooming
charred far down in the tube, the fire
creeps down to the oil below.
Ch ackers. Take nine cups flour,
one cup lnrd, two cups water, two tea
spoons cream of tnrtar, and one tea
spoon saleratns. First rub the lard
into the flour and add two teaspoons
salt.
Silvering and Gilding Wheat Ears.
Gold and silver shells may be pur
chased at artists' furnishing stores. A
solution of gum Arabia and a camel's
hairbrush are used in applying silver or
gilt.
Cold Sauce. Four tablespoons of
sngar, two of butter. When these have
been rubbed until very white and
smooth, add the beaten white of an
egg. Flavor it and mold it into some
pretty shape.
Pumpkin Pies. Pare the pumpkin,
grate it, and add sugar and ginger to
taste, and milk enough to make it of
the proper consistency. Then line your
niuipiB truni, put in your pumpiLin
nnd bake in the ordinary way.
Buttermilk Pudding. Two eggn,
two cups of sugar, half a cup of butter,
one teaspoonful of soda sifted in two
cups of flour, three cups of. milk ; stir
the flour in liglitly. Urease your tin
and bake one hour. It can be turned
out.
To Remove Berrt Stains. If you
should be so unfortunate as to crush a
berry -on a book or engraving, strike a
brimstone match and let the fume come
in contact with the stain and it will
disappear as if by magic.
Batter Pudding. Three eggs, seven
laDiespoons oi flour, one quart of milk,
boiled, preserving to wet the flour to
gether, and pour them into the boiling
milk. Add a little salt. If berries are
used, add one-third flour. Bake, and
serve with sauce.
Pudding Sauce. Four tablespoons
oi sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter.
one tablespoonful of flour, beaten to a
cream. Add the white of an egg beaten
to a froth, and pour into the whole a
gill of boiling water, stir it very fast.
Flavor with lemon, rose water, nutmeg
or wine.
Better Farming,
A writer in the Country Gentleman
furnishes the followins:
My text is better farming. My brother
rarmers will say, why not advocate good
iarmtng irst, because 1 wish to ad
vocate what is practically within the
reach of every farmer, no matter what
his situation. Ho need not wait until
next month or another year, or for more
means, or something to turn up but
may commence to-day to farm better,
Good farming generally is in the far
mutant future : it is a work of vears,
We need not cive ourselves anv trouble
about good farming ; if we only persist
in better farming, we shall arrive most
certainly at that in time.
One great reason why we do not have
neuer larming is because larmers are
tatisfled with measuring themselves by
themselves, and comparing themselves
among their neighbors ; they do not go
forward. I should like to write what
would make farmers dissatisfied, not
with farming, but with the manner in
whioh they are farming. A farmer who
is satisfied is of no benefit to ttie farm
ing community by his example. When
a man is satisfied" we need not look for
improvement. I would say for the en
couragement of those who desire to
become good farmers, that by being
better farmers is the only way to attain
to tne men position of eoocl farmers,
To those who do not I have nothing to
say, as they are not worth talking to as
larmers ; they may be as good men as
there are in the world, but as farmers
they are of no good to the cause.
Planting Apples..
George Plumb, Franklin County, N,
Y., asks: " Will it pay to set an apple
oronara of ntty acres in i rauklm county,
N. Y., and if so, what varieties of trees
. and what proportion of each? Also,
how eld should the trees be when set,
and what distance apart, and should the
trees be raised ironi the seed or root
grafted ? The trees to be set on newly
cleared land."
Beply. There is no property that is
more certain of large profits than an
apple-orchard. From a four-acre orchard
of Northern Spy apples, a prominent
iarmer near itochester. JN. X.. last sea'
son sold over $1,200 worth of fruit. If
there is any crop that would have paid
better we do not know of it. But he
knows how to take care of an orchard
and if every orchard in the country was
cared for as his is, apples would be sold
for $1 a barrel. But that will never
happen. Now, it is impossible to say
what varieties of trees should be planted
without knowing the exact soil, ex
posure, and various other matters,
respectable nurseryman would give
competent opinion upon that. The
trees should be raised in a nursery, and
when one year old set out forty feet
apart and top-grafted to the varieties
chosen. The ground should be culti
vated for a few years with corn, pota
toes, or turnips.
How to Jlleaiurc the Length ol a Tree
Take a forked stick : measure the
length so that it will come exactly up
to your eyes : then measure the length
of your timber wpnted say forty feet
in a line out from the tree and allow
for the stump : then pet up your stake,
lay down on your back with your heels
at the stake ; look through the stake,
and the place where the eye strikes the
tree will be the length of the timber,
The ground ought to be level ; if not,
allowance can be made.
XLHId CONGRESS.
Mr. Kelly, of Orpp-nti. presented a tiotition of
citizen of that Htnto in regard to charges
agaiiiRt liia colleaano, Mr. Mitchell, and anking
that the Bame be investigated by the Senate.
llofuaeu.
Mr. Oorden, of Oa., Introduced a bill diroot
a the Secretary of the Inlorior to liUce en
tho pension roll the names of all pemnna here
tofore dropped therefrom because of particina-
inn in me recent reneiiion.
On a motion of Mr. Wright, of Iowa, the
gonate took np the bill to provide for the ap
pointment of a coniniiKxion on tho mibjcct of
the alcoholio liquor Unfile. Much diHCiiKaion
ollowod thia. Mr. Tipton, of Nek, aaid tho
United Btatea realized ninety million of dollars
orory year from tho liquor tralllo bill, and
should make inquiries into tho subject.
The Honate discuinod the tariff qtiontion, or
that part ot it where an error of a comma bad
led to the Ioph of half a million of dollars of
revonuo, and which might lead to tho.loBS of a
larger amount. Mr. Hiimner romeniberod hay
ing beeu told by a loirnod Judge of the United
Stated Supreme Court that .be never regarded
punctuation in interpreting a statute, and it
was not believed the uoverunient wouia ue a
loner in the matter when a decision was
rendorcd.
Mr. Merrimon's amendment to the currency
bill was adopted by yeas 2S to nays 25. Mr.
Merrimon's amendment as adopted instructs
the committee to report as soon as practicable
a bill providing for the increase of the national
bank circulation, so that the whole volume
thereof shall not exceed $100,000,000.
Genuine Boston Brown Bread.
Four coffee cups 'full of sifted Indian
meal, two cups coarse flour, either wheat
or rye; one teaspoonful salt, one teacup
molasses, and boiling hot water enough
to make it as thick as griddle-cake bat
ter. When nearly cool, add half a tea'
cup yeast, either home-made or distille
ry. fat the mixture into an iron
baking dish, cover tightly, let it stand
in a warm place until it cracks over the
top (which should be smoothed over
with wet hands before it is placed to
rise). Bake it five or six hours in a
moderate oven which will not bTUrp the
sratt to a cinder.
A resolution for tho reaseembline of the two
Houses of Congress in Carpenter's Hall, Phila
delphia, on Sept. 5, 1874, the 100th anniversary
of tho meeting of the First American Congress,
as reierrea to tne uentennuu committee.
A bill relating to the refunding of Customs
duties in certain cases tva reported and passed.
j. lie House toon np tne contested election
case from the Third District of Arkansas, the
majority report being that W.W. Wiltshire was
entitled to the seat, and that of the minority
ueing to recommit tne matter witn instructions
to the Committee on KlectionB to make a report
on its merits. Mr. Wiltshire was given the
seat.
Mr. Frye, of Me., from the Judiciary Com
mittee, reported a bill providing that any per-
euu wno snail oe convicted or tne crime oi
manslaughter in any United States court in
any State or Territory, or in the District of
Columbia, shall be imprisoned not exceeding
nenty years, and fined not exceeding $1,000.
He stated that under the existing law the
maximum imprisonment for manslaughter iB
three years. A provision was inserted that the
act snail not affect any prosecution now pond
ing, or the prosecution of any offense already
committed, l'assed.
Mr. Frve reported the bill making the
punishment for extortion by officers or persons
acting under the authority of the United States
lino not exceeding saw and imprisonment
not exceeding three years. Passed.
A bill providing that no person shall be prose
cuted, tried, or punished in any United States
court for any offonse not capital, or for any
One or forfeiture under any penal statute unless
indicated or information Bhall bo found or in
stituted within five years, except in the case of
persons fleeing from justice. Passed.
A bill providing that when an occupant of
public laud having color of title, has made
aluable improvements tnereon and uis title is
found afterward not to be good, he shall be
entitled to all the rights and remedies as pro
vided in such cases in their respective States
or Teiritories.
The bill reported by the Post-Office Com
mittee in regard to the dintribution of public
documents came up as the special order. It
provides for the distribution of public docu
ments priutcd by authority of Congress, and of
seeds furnished by the Agricultural Depart
ment ; for the free exchange of newspapers
betwoon publishers, and for the free trans
mission of weekly newspapers by mail within
tne county wnere puunsuea.
Air. roland, of t., reported a tun to provide
for the appointment of a commiesion on the
subject of the alcoholic liquor traffic, tho com
mission to consist of live persons, who are to
serve without pay for two years, but are to be
allowed all necessary incidental expenses, and
a Secretary at $2,000 a year, lteferrcd to the
Committee of the Whole,
Mr. Butler, of Mass.. made an adverse report
on tho memorial for au acknowledgment of
Almighty God and the Christian religion ln'the
Constitution of the United States. Laid on
the table.
Mr. Potter, of N. i.. reported a bill to estab
lish au additional Judicial District in the State"
of New York. Iteferred to the Committee of
the Whole.
Tho House took up the bill for the distribu
tion of miblic documents minted by authority
of Congress, Bceds furnished by tho Agricul
tural Department, for the free exchange of
newspapers between publishers, and for the free
transmission of weekly newspapers within the
county where published.
llnnnir the discussion. Mr. Irarfield, of Unto,
said he would vote for tho part of the bill al
lowing free transmission to weekly newspapers
in the counties of their publication. The wholo
country newspaper press naa been almost
fatally crippled bv tne repeal or. tne irauKing
privilege. In his judgmont the 5.000 weekly
newspapers of tho couutry were the best real
exponents of public opinion. A man who
climbed to the fifth story of a metropolitan
newspaper office at 11 o clock at uigut and
slashed off an editorial and sent it off to the
couutry, called that the public sentiment of the
American people. In country newspapers the
editor, a quiet sensible man, who in the course
of the week san men from every township in
the county, and bad his mind tilled with the
best thoughts of his county, wrote notices and
editorials in the course of the week which gave
more of the public sentiment of that county
than all the metropolitan journals in the
United States could give of that county. The
repeal of the frank threatened to carry down a
very large number of country papers that
could hardly live if the present order of things
nrmtmiiflfP " The weekly newspapers of New
York now come bv mail into districts m Iowa
1.200 miles off. and weighing three times
much as the simple couutry newspapers, and
pass through the mail at the same price. That
was an injustice which ought to be remedied
and remedied in the name of the public press
and the metropolitan papers ought to consent
to it for their own goou, Knowing nasi puuuc
opinion is.
iur. ianmng, Ol luuu, iiieetsuieu o jcliiiuu
to have the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln
birthday declared a publio holiday.
A report iromine oecreiary in mu xieaeiuy
informed the House that the proceeda. of tho
sales of captured and abandouod property
amounted to 20, 910,050.
Cossack MAncriiTrcs.
Writing from St. Petersburg, the
London Times' correspondent says :
" After the review the Princes drove off
to the Michael Manege, where the Em
peror's Circassian and Cossack body
guard went through their feats. These
wild horsemen gave us some scenes of
their predatory warfare, exhibiting a
skill and activity perfectiy marvelous.
One after another, they galloped by the
rrincps, shouting fierce warwhoops and
firing their long pistols and flint-locks
at imaginary foes. They seemed to
discharge their weapons in every posi
tion but from the saddle. Hanging on
one side of the horse till the head almost-grazed
the ground, and taking a
leisure aim under the animal's belly,
seemed the favorite attitude." One cava
lier wont by at speed standing on his
head in his saddle ; others leaped on
and off their horses with the ease of
circus riders. The manege soon so
filled with smoke that it might well, for
all we could see, have been some moun
tain defile, and the body-guard a band
of robber knights swooping down on
some village or caravan, or on the party
of peaceable travelers represented by
the Grand Duke Nicholas, the Prince of
Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, and
Prince Arthur. The Czarevna and the
Princess of Wales were there also, and
altogether the wild riders would have
made a good day's work of it had they
been brigands of the Steppe instoad of
the faithful body-guard of the Emperor.
Admiral Popoff told me it was a fine sight
to see 1.C00 of these horsemen play
ing their warlike pranks for miles and
miles about the imperial cavalcade when
the Grand Duke Constantino was
traveling in the Caucasus. They always
turn out in honor of a member of the
imperial family, going through "e
whole drama of their war -long the
road. Once or twice they divided and
fought a battle among themselves. Half
of them made their horses lie down,
and crouched behind the animals, the
long barrels of the flint-guns pointing
in the direction of the enemy. Pres
ently the assailants came riding out of
the curtain of smoke with fierce cries,
opening'a glorious Are in all directions.
Every one must have been killed, spec
tators included, before the bauds dis
entangled themselves from each other,
and retired attain to opposite ends of
the manege to take breath and measure
powder for another onslaught. It was
a picturesque ana inspiring sigui., as
utterly opposed to the precision and
science of modern warfare as anything
well could could be. The costumes.
the arms, the men, and the hors?s who
carried them all were wild and strange,
telling us of a nation of warriors who
knew not barrack yards and schools of
musketry, but who knew right well
how to light in their own wild way. In
real fighting these hue fellows, one may
suppose, ate not quite so gamesome as
in the Michael Manege. Probably, for
instance, the trooper who rode with his
head in lus saddle and his feet in the
air would reserve that attitude till the
day was over, and till he might safely
indulge in the transports of victory,
One of the Circassians, a burly man up
on a white horse, was a son of the great
Schamvl. He was presented to the
Prince of Wales at the conclusion of
spectacle. More than one of tho Rus
sian officers present wore decorations
earned in frontier warfare with such
cavalry as those before us."
Tour Newspapers.
Now is the time when all should re
member the newspaper subscription
a wise man will see that his money is
sent on in season. A good newspaper
is everything to a young family. .Farm
ers families are necessarily much se
eluded from society, and the children
have not the advantages to be obtained
by intercourse with other minds. A
newspaper in a good measure supplies
this want. It brightens their own ideas.
and gives them hundreds of new sug
gestions they would otherwise nevei
have had. It cheers many lonely hours
and keeps them out of more mischief
than you ever dream op. It is a rest too
to tho toiling mother to sit down and
look over the. home newspaper every
week, which your thoughtfulness has
provided; and it will save many a doc
tor's bill in the course of the year.
There is nothing that helps promote
health of body like a cheerful mind.
Look after your newspapers, and don't
lose the face of "an old friend for want
of a little attention at the proper time.
Origin of Newspaper!.
An Interfiling fiketrtt ot the Early Days
or the mil.
We are indebted to the Italians for
the idea of newspapers. The title of
their gazctta was perhaps derived from
gazzera, a magpie or chatterer ; or more
prooauiy irom a farming coin, peculiar
to the city of Venice, called gazctta,
which was the common price of the
newspapers. Another etymologist is
for deriving it from the .Latin aaza.
which would colloquially lengthen into
gazetla, and signify a treasury of news,
mi CJ ' I . .i L . -r 1
me DjmuiHu tienve ic irom nn juaun
gaza, and likewise their gazelcro and
our gazetteer for a writer of tho gazette,
and, what is peculiar to themselves,
gazctlsta for a lover of the gazette.
.Newspapers, then, took their birth in
that principal land of modern politi
cians, Italy, and under the government
of that aristocraticol republic, Venice.
The first paper was a Venetian one ; but
it was merely tho newspaper of the gov
ernment. Other governments after
wards adopted the Venetian plan of a
newspaper, with the Venetian name.
From a solitary government gazette,
an inundation of newspapers has burst
upon us.
Those who first wrote newspapers
were called by the Italians menanti,
because, says" Vossius, they intended
commonly by loose papers to spread
about defamatory reflections, and were
therefore prohibited in Italy by Gregory
XIII, by a particular bull, under the
name of menantcs, from the Latin
minantee, threatening. Minage, how
ever, derives it from the Italian menare,
winch sismues to lead at large or spread
afar.
Tho first newspaper in the British
Museum is marked No. 50, and is in
Roman, not in black letter.
Periodical papers seems first to have
been more generally used by the Eng
lish, during the civil wars of Cromwell,
to disseminate amongst the people the
sentiments of loyalty or rebellion, ac
cording as their authors were disposed.
Peter Heclin. in the preface to his
Cosmography." mentions that " the
affairs of each town of war were better
presented to the reader in the " Weekly
jxewsuook. Hence we find some pa
pers entitled "News from null,"
Truths from York." Warranted Ti
dings from Ireland," etc. We find,
also, "The Scots' Dove oppposed to
the Parliament Kite, or Tho Secret
Owl." Keoner animosities produce
keener titles : " Heraclitus ridens "
found an antagonist, " Demeritus ri
dens," and the " Weekly Discoverer "
was shortly met bv " The Discoverer
Stript Naked." " Mercurius Britanni-
cus " was grappled by " Mercurius
Mastix, faithfully lashing all Scouts.
mercuries, 1'oets, Spies, and others.
Under all these names, papers had np
peared ; but a Mercury was the pre
vailing title of these JSews Books, and
the principles of the writer were gen
erally shown by the additional epithet,
We find au alarming number of these
Mercuries, which, were the story not
too long to tell, might excite some
laughter. They present us with a very
curious picture of thoso singular
names.
Iu the reiga of Queen Anne there
was but one daily paper : the others
were weeklios. Some attempted to in
troduce literary subjects, and other
topics of a more general speculation
Sir Richard Steele formed the plan of
his "Father." He designed it to era
brace the threo provinces of morals and
manners, of literature and politics.
The public were to be conducted in
sensibly into so different a traok from
that to which they had been hitherto
accustomed : hence politics were ad
mitted into the paper. But it remained
for tho chaster genius of Addison to
banish the painful topics from his ele
gant pages. Tho writer in polite let
ters felt himself degraded by sinking
into the diurnal narrator of political
events which so frequently originate in
rumors and party faction. From this
time, newspapers and periodical litera
ture became distinct works.
Words of Wisdom.
Scoff not at the natural defects of any
which are not in their power to prevent.
Oh I 'tis cruelty to beat a cripple with
his own crutches.
It makes the mind very free when we
give up wishing, ana oiiy mm oi
bcarinsr what is laid upon us, ana do
ing what is given us to do.
The love of things ancient doth argue
staidness ; but levity and want of
expenenoe makes men apt unio inno
vation. If there is a past in which men have
done ill, let thorn have hope, for there
is a future in which they may dwell.
Silence is the safest course for a man
to adopt who distrusts himself.
Do not neglect doing a thing imme
diately good for foar of remote evil.
Hope lives ever, but her children die
one by one.
He who receives a good turn should
never forget it ; he who does one
should never remember it.
True politeness consists in being easy
one's self, and making every one about
one as easy as one can.
A good man is kinder to his enemy
than bad men are to their friends.
A man may be great by chance, but
never wise and good without taking
pains for it.
Happiness is often at our side, and
we pass her by. Misfortune is far off,
and we rush to meet her.
Never turn a blessing around to see
whether it has a dark side to it.
Frightened to Death.
It is well known now that small-pox
existed for some weeks in a store on
Centre street, Pottsville, Pa., and com
mitted great ravages in the family circle
of that storekeeper. Among the cus
tomers who dealt at his store were two
men, one a well-to-do storekeeper at
Auburn, and the other from Cressona.
Oae day the Auburn man came to this
store, bought a stock of goods, and in
going out noticed that the doors and
windows were closed. He asked the
reason of this funeral appearance of
things. "Why," said some one, "don't
you know that they have small-pox
there ?" At this intelligence the heart
of the Auburn man sank within inru,
he was at once seized with pains, went
home, and died of small-pox in three
days. The fate of the Cressona man
was almost exactly similar. He entered
the same store, was informed of the
existence of small-pox there, was dread
fully frightened, and went home to die
of small-pox.
Cane Breton Driving.
Our conveyance was a one-horse
wagon, with one seat. The horse was
well enough, but the seat "was narrow
for three people, and the entire estab
lishment had in it not much prophecy
of Baddeek for that day. But we knew
little of the power of Capo Breton driv
ing. It became evident that we shouli'
reach Baddeek soon enough, if we could
cling to that wagon seat. The morning
sun was hot. The way was so uninter
esting that we almost wished ourselves
back in Nova Scotia. The sandy road
was bordered with discouraged ever
greens, through which we had glimpses
of sand-drifted farms. If Baddeek was
to be like this, we had come on a fool's
errand. There were some savuge, low
hills, and the Judique Mountain show
ed itself as we got away from the town.
In this first stage, the heat of the sun,
the monotony of the road, and the
scarcity of sleep during the past thirty
six hours, were all unfavorable to our
keeping on the wagon seat. We nodded
separately, we nodded., and reeled in
unison, uut, asleep or awaKc, tne
driver drove like a son of Jehu. Such
driving is the fashion on Cape Breton
Island. Especially down-dill, we made
the most of it; if the horse was on a
run, that was only an inducement to
apply the lash; speed gave the promise
of greater possible speed. The wagon
rattled like a bark mill : it swirled and
leaped about, aud we finally got the ex
citing impression that if the -whole
thing went to pieoes, we should some
how go on such was our impetus,
Round corners, over ruts and stones.
and up hill and down, we went jolting
and swinging, holding fast to the seat,
and putting our trust in things general.
At tho end of fifteen miles, we stopped
at a Sootch farm-house, where the driver
kept a relay, and changed horses.
Nover put a particle of aoap about
your silver if you wish it to retain its
original lustre. When it wants polish
take a pieoe of soft leather and whiting
and rub well.
A Lucky Hit.
A French noblomnn, observing his
tenant about to destroy a fine, thrifty
pear tree, inquired the cause, lie was
told that it was a chance seedling, and
had borne no fruit in twenty-five years.
He had already cut its roots preparatory
to the first stroke, but was ordered to
let it remain. He did so, and in the
following year it was loaded with su
perb fruit of an entirely unknown vari
ety, which at once became celebrated.
Tho root pruning the gardener had
given it worked like a charm. Not
many years afterward the Duchess
d AnKonleme was passing inrougu tne
city of Lyons, and its inhabitants sent
to ner meir nospiiaiiuet). wins iuir
maidens presented the Duchess with
golden salvers, on which lay heaped this
precious fruit, and begged hit to be
stow on it her name; and the pear now
recognized as the crowning glory of all
fruits was thenceforward known as the
Duchess d Angouleme.
A Dream and What Came of It.
Mr. John Eiswirtii. a resident of
Ilartford, Conn., is a German by birth.
He came to this country in 1818, bring
ing his wife with him. They had been
here about a year when they received a
letter stating that a brother of Mrs.
Eiswirth was cn route to America. But
from that time to this they have never
seen their relative. Up to the time ol
the war they expected he would turn up
some time; but when the unhappy civil
strife swept over the land, and peace
came again, and yet no tidings of the
missing man, he was mourned as lost ;
and as the years rolled by, if not actu
ally forgotten, uis late was a mystery
which it was thought never would be
explained.
And now comes a singular occurrence
in connection with the case. About
three weeks ago Mr. Eiswirth had a
dream. He thought he was seated in a
enr at the depot on Asylum street. He
didn t want to go anywhere, but in
epite of this feeling he was rolled out
of tho depot and whirled away at light
ning speed, l o.il villages, towns, and
cities ; through valleys, over rivers and
plains on I with a rush and a roar,
stopping for nothing and heeding noth
ing. It seemed to the dreamer that he
was being carried, much against his
will, thousands of miles from home.
Why it was so, he had not the faintest
conception. He was under a mysteri
ous influence that chained him to his
seat and made him a slave of its power.
At last the train slackened its speed
and came to a halt, and John found
himself moving along with the passen
gers who were makin? tw ; t.uu
the cam wneu once outside, he dis
covered that he was in a strange city
and among strangers. He asked a man
where ha was. He was told " St
Louis."
" But," says John, " I live iu Hart
ford. I want nothing in St. Louis."
Tho stranger smiled and passed on,
leaving our Hartford friend as perplexed
as ever.
While standing in his tracks, wonder-
inor xvhat to do, he saw at a distance a
tlgure which sent a thrill of ioy throucrh
his frame. It was hia long lost brother-in-law.
It had been more than ; a
quarter of a century since John had set
eyes on him, and time had worked a
great change in his appearance ; but
for all that our friend recognized him,
and ran towards him hallooing at the
top of his voice, as if afraid he might
disappear. The meeting was a cordial
one, and the pair celebrated the event
in a stylish saloon, where foaming mugs
of lnger played a prominent part.
The next John knew ho found him
self awake at his home on Park street.
But his dream had made a strong im
pression, and do what he would lie
oould not forget it. . It haunted him all
the next day, aud when he got up the
next morning the remembrance of that
long ride anrt.happy meeting clung to
him still. That very day some clerk in
the Hartford Post-office might have
seen a letter addressed to Mr.
of St. J-iouis, with the instruction on
the end of the envelope, " If not called
for within ten days, return to John
Eiswirth, Hartfort, Ct,"
Mr. E. says that he sent the letter ad
dressed to his brother-in-law without
the remotest expectation of hearing
from him. He sent it to relieve his
mind, ns he confesses that tho singular
dream harassed him not a little. But
after the missive was sent ho dismissed
the matter from his mind, and might
never have thought of it again if some
thing startling had not occurred a day
or two since. John was at home with
his family when the postman came to
the door and delivered a letter. It was
postmarked St. Louis. It was torn
open with tremulous fingers, aud to
their great joy it was found to be from
their long lost relative, in answer to
tho letter which John had forwarded in
obedience to his dream. In a large
city like St. Liouis it wonld seem that
a letter lacking specified direction
might not reach its destination, but ol
course the chances are that it would go
straight to the mark, as it did in this
case. It appears by the letter that the
St. Louis German has been as much in
the fog as to his sister's and Eiswirth's
whereabouts as they have been in re
gard to him. The St. Louis man writes
that he shall soon como to this city on
a visit, and his iiartiora menus aro de
lighted at the prospect of a happy reunion.
Hack, Hack! Couch, Cough!
Cough is a symptom by whioh various
diseased conditions of the throat, bronchial
tubes and lungs manifest themselves. But
whether it arises from the irritation produced
in the throat and larynx by taking cold, from
an attack of Bronchitis, from incipient Con
sumption, or from various other causes, noth
ing will allay it more speedily nor cure it more
permanently than Dr. rieroe's Golden Medical
Discovery. It does not matter whether it be a
recent attack, or a lingoring cough, the Dis
covery is in either case equally well adapted
for its relief and permanent cure. In fact, it
will cure a cough In one-half the time necessary
to cure it with any other medicine, and it does
it, not by drying it np, but by removing the
cause, subduing the irritation, and healing the
affected parts. No time should be lost in com
mencing the lire of proper medicine for the
relief of a Cough, for unless this course iB
pursued, serious and dangerous disease of the
lungs is liable to result.
DonTons soon learn its value.
Buffalo, N. Y., Deo. 13, 1R70.
Da. riF.ncR For the past six months I have
used your Golden Medical Discovery In my
practice, and in that time I have tested its
merits in sevore coughs, both acuto and
chronic, in chronic diseases of the throat,
severe cases of bronchitis, general dorange
mont of the system, constipated condition of
the bowels, and wherever a thorough alterative
has been indicated. In all cases I have found
it to act gently yet thoroughly and effectually
in removing the various diseased conditions
and bringing about a healthy astion throughout
the system. Yours fraternally,
If. I,. Hall, Jf. D.
TEnuviAN Hyiiup vitalizes the blood. Com.
The New York Weekly Witness,
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tieittrpaper in America, ft hat increased in
circulation ten fold within a year.
The Xvw York Daily Witness, at Three
zniHart, it vest for tnuinest men. lend (by
postal card) for tatnple copies.
Do you cough ? Then prevent, if you
have any gumption, with Hale's Honey of
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Tike's Toothache Drops cure in one miuute,
Com.
More than CO years have elapsed since
Johuton'g Anodyne Liniment was first invented,
during which time hundreds of thousands have
been benefited by its use. Probably no article
ever became so" nniven-ally popular with all
classes as Johnson's Anoilyne .iiiiincn(.-C!om.
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ly investing from $10 to' tlOO.. Mailed free to
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Cristadoro s Kxcelsiob Hair Dn
itandB unrivaled and alone. Its merits have
been so universally acknowledged that it would
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furthor nothing can beat it. Com.
Pills which contain antimony, quinine
and calomel, should be avoided, as severe
griping pains wonld be their only result. The
eafurt, surest, and best pills are 'Parsons' l'ur
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FtiAGa b Instant Belief baa stood
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Dr.J. Walker's Calllornia vin
egar Bitters are a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiety from the na
tive herbs found on the lower ranees ot
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor
nia, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted thei nrom without the use
of Alcohol. Ti9 question Is almost
daily asked, 'Wha'' is the cause of tha
unparalleled success of Vine&AR Bit
TEitst" Our answer is, tin they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient ro
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and a life-giving principle,
a perfect Kenovator and Invigorator
of the system. Never before in tho
history of' tiio world baa a medicine beea
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities ot Vikboar Bitters in healing tha
sick of every disease man is heir to. They
are a per-tlo Purgative as well as a Tonio,
rulievi'in CungoHtiou or Inflammation or
the Liver and Visceral Organs, in -Bilioiui
Diseases.
The properties of Dr. Walkbb'm
Vinboak Hittkrs are A pcricnt, Diaphoretlo,
Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, lMuretio,
Sedative, Counter-irritant, Sudorific, Altera
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n. u. m uorvAi.n co.,
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mil rnr. of WiiNliinirtnn nnd illinrlton Kts.. N. V.
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N Y M U-N0 9
tf C Ofl rxT ,T! Arnl wst"d! All oIasw
iO 10 ZU of working peopln, c,f eilhen.ei, young
or old. make more monpy at work for us in their sparo
momenta, or all the time, town at anything- else. Partica
Ura roe. Addresa G. Stinbon A Co., Portland, Mains.
SHI
CHILUUKlt OK1EN LOOK PALIS AND
HICK
rom no other came than having wormi In the
tomach.
BROWN'S VERMIFUGE COMFITS
will destroy Worma without injury to the child,
being perfectly WHITE, and free from all coloring
or other Injurious. Ingredient! nsaally used in
worm preparations.
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Ton Suffer 1
To all persons snfTeiing
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Cramps In the limbs or atom-
ach, Bilious Colio. rain In the
back, bowels or side, we would
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Ltjnab Solitude. It "is argued by
Professor Proctor and other eminent
astronomers that the moon is uninhabi
table because it has no atmosphere to
sustain human or brute life ; and that
it has no atmosphere because its valleys,
as seen tliroucii the telescope, ate abso
lutely dark when the mountains shade
them from the sun. instead of beius
lighted like ours by atmospherio refrac
tion, and because start become instantly
parent disk.
What they Believe.
According to the, ortliodox creed of
Islam, women will be saved with men
and all be made young again all ex
cept one woman. Joseph, when Vice
roy of Egypt, was riding one day, when
an old woman seized his reins and de
manded alms. He turned to look at
her, and was so shocked at her appear
ance that he involuntarily exclaimed,
" How terriblv homely you are !"
" Then," said the old woman, why
don't you pray to God, who answers all
your prayers, and ask him to make me
beautiful 1" Whereupon Joseph lifted
up his hands and prayed for her, and
instantly beheld her standing by him,
young and 'lovely, so lovely that he
loved her and made her his wife. She
lived long after him, and died very
aged, and went to heaven, and is an old
woman there now, and the only old
woman there, for Qod makes all good
women young again onoe, aud she can
never be made young again.
Cairo doctors won't go out after ten
in the evening, aud sick people have to
grin and bear it until next morning.
Heathen Law.
Here aro tho ten commandments of
Buddha :
First Thou slialt not kill.
Hecond Thou shilt uot take for thv-
self what belongs to another.
Third Thou sliult not break the laws
of charity.
Fourth Thou slialt not he.
Fifth Thou shalt not slander.
Sixth Thou 6halt not speak of in
juries.
beventu Tliou slialt not excite quar
rels. Eighth Thou shalt not hate.
Ninth Have faith in holy writings.
Tenth Believe in immortality.
There is a striking resemblance be
tween these and the decalogue of
Moses.
To Save Exeliauges.
We have found, says the Danbury
XewD, that a sure way to circumvent
the man who k&ps through the ex
changes, and rattles them when you
want to think, is to keep them in a bas
ket, and to throw worn out pens into
the same receptacle. We made this
discovery in au accidental way the other
afternoon, (having thrown a Gillott
there instead of out of the window)
when one of our numerous squires, who
was going turougli the basket, came up
to the surface screaming like a choir,
with a rusty pen driven under one ol
his nails, aud his face distorted by un
holy passion. We have caught three
more iu the same way since then, and
every one of them lost his presence of
mind.
'it has cured the above com
Iplatuts In thousands f cases.
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It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind
colic, regulates the bowels, and gives rest, health,
and comfort te mother and child. We believe it tc.
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canee of DYSF.NTF.RY aud D1AKRH(EA IN CIIIL
DUEN, whether it arises fr'.m Teething or Irom
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wrapper.
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Tonics," " Appetizers," " Itastora
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