farmn's ®ulitrait. COFFEE SUBSTITUTES*. The lore of coffee is en acquired teste. Per heps nine-teeth* of the families using it btrn it alaoat to e coal, so that, in reality, any other burnt bitter would answer quite as Well In fact, multitudes wa the far West, removed from markets, have become accustomed to use Went breed crusts as substitute, which cer tainly is not injurious, but it is a known fact that a cup of some mild, hot drink at meals is a positive benefit, while a glass of the purest oold water is as oertainly an injury, especial ly to Invalid* and to all who do not have ro bust health* The following substitutes for coffee have been colleeted, in all of which it is suggested first, that the substitute be mixed with the genuine articles, half-and-half; second, that in order to know what you are really drink ing, roast and grind your own coffee. In this way only can you know that you are not im posed upon, or may not be drinking some cheap material, either filthy or poisonous. 1. It is said that three parts of Rio, with two parta of old Government Java, well pre pared, ia quite as good, if not superior, to that made of the latter alone. 2. WHEAT COFFEE. —Wheat coffee, made of a mixture of eight quarts of wheat to one pound of real coffee, is- said to afford a bever age quite as agreeable as the unadulterated Bio, besides being much more wholesome. 3. BLYE COFFEE —Take a peck of rye and oover ii with water, let it steep or boil until the grain swells c commences to burst, then drain or dry it. Roast to a deep brown color sad prepare as other coffee, allowing twice the time for boiling. Wheat coffee probably could be made the same way. 4. ANOTHER. —Take some rye; first scald it; second dry it; third b.own it, and then mix it with one third coffee and two-thirds rye, and then you will have as good a cup of coffee as you ever drank. 5. SWEET POTATO COFFEE Take sweet potatoes, cut them fine enough to dry conven ientlv, and when dried, grind in a coffee-mill; dry them by the fire or stove, at this season ®f the year, or by the sun, when that will do grind and use one and a half teacupfuls for six ptrs*s, or mixed with coffee in such proportions us you like. Some omit half of the coffee, some more. 6. BARLEY COFFEE —Take common barley, or the skinless, if it can be obtained, roast as you would coffee, and mix in such propoction as suits your taste. It is verv good. 7. PEA COFFEE. —It is probably known to many that a very large per cent of the ground coffee sold at the stores is common field peas, roasted and ground with the coffee. There are hundreds of thousands of bushels of annually used for that purpose. Those who are in the habit of purchasing ground coffee can do better to buy their own peas, burn and grind them, and mix to 6uit themselves. 8. CARROT COFFEE. —It is recommended by an exchange. Cut up, dry and grind, and mix with coffee in quantities to suit the taste 9. CHESTNUTCOFFEE —Chestnuts, also, are •aid to make excellent coffee. 10. Dandelion root, dried and slightly scorched, never burned. 11. Ciucorv Coffee.— Equal weights of chicory and coflee, dried and roasted in the usual manner. The chicory root is raised as easily as carrots, and in cxactlv the same manner. To prepare the root, wash it dean, slice it lengthwise in four to six pieces, ac cording to size, cut in two inches lengths,dry and keep in a dry place until wanted. Chic ory is largely used to adulterate coffee in this country, and especially in Europe, 25,000,000 of pounds being used in England and France alone. 12. EXCELSIOR COFFEE. — (Our own). Half a cup of pure, new, farm-house milk,and while almost boiling hot, add to it as much boiling water, and when sweetened to suit, call it "coffee," and drink it down.— HaWs Journal. HARNESS FOR OXEN. A subscriber agrees with us that "to make •xen draw by the neck is a refined sort of cruelty," but objects to our assertion that the true way for neat cattle to draw, is by the head. He says : " Although I admit that the 'power of the muscles is concentrated at the forehead,' (does not this settle the question ? Ed.) atill the strength of the neck and fore head do not warrant us in expecting so much of them—they were designed for other eses, aot for us to contemplate now. The forehead has not breadth enough to allow it to be used satisfactorily. The draught would have a tendency, as the neck is so flexible, to draw the nose of the animal upward. If, however, the animal knows enough to obviate this diffi culty by throwing bis head downward, this would be an unpleasant position to work in. He has at all times to keep his head so that the line of draught will be at that angle where ox and weight ore upon a level; it is this tes timony in a yoke (of getting the neck and head down), that help to make the beast pant and Wow on a hot day, at the rate they do. If you place a leather collar upon his shoul ders, and lot it fit nicely, you will at once see an improvement. He will carry his head up to a corresponding hight, where he can get plenty of fresh air, and prevent it interfering with his legs. His head is free to balance himself, and swing io motion of his body "With his collar yon would, of course, need fracas and breeching for road work." No doubt a properly made collar and har uess would be a great improvement over the yoke now used. Experience, after all, must decide the point. Have any of our readers thoroughly tested the three methods? CUBING WARTS ON CATTLE—A correspon dent of Moor's Rural New Yorker says : " I have known several very had cases cured by the application of tar. I will warrant it not to hurt the creature, and I think it will effect a cur©-" pise aitii ftfisfto. MRS. JONES ON THE WAR. Two Opinions. " O, dear me, what is this country coming to, when men stand at the street corners all day long, to talk about the ' state of the na tion V Can't work, because business is dull, can't chop wood, because they've got to look after the affairs of the republic! If Ebenczer would go and fight I wouldn't say a word— it's a man's business to fight, particularly when he isn't good for anything else! but I'm not going to have him round under my feet from morning to night, with his nose in the newspapers—and I won't stand this firing at the back fence, and going through the sword exercise in my kitchen ! Stays at borne to protect me, does he ? I just wish the enemy would attack us, and we'd see who would do the protecting! I'm not afraid of the enemy—l'd let 'em know what a Yankee woman can do, and I'll warrant they wouldn't want to find out a second time. Y'es—of course Ebenezer Jones' heart s bleeding for his country, but his stomach ain't, that I know very well. Don't see but that he wants his three meals a day, just the same as ever ! I do wish that man had a spark of patriotism about him! Terrible thing this war is ! There isn't a bit of comfort in walking on Broadway with a new dress—nobody looks at you, as long as there is a soldier anywhere in view, and pray when isn't there ? Ebenezer goes about with holes in all his toes and elbows, because I am busy knitting stockings and making flanels for the soldiers. If Ebenezer wants whole stockings let him volunteer ! That's the way to get 'em 1 " I was over to tea at Mrs. Hemlock's last night—she says the house is quite peaceable now since all her men folks have gone to the wars. I suspect she's rather in hopes Hem lock won't come back again—a miserable, drinkin', good-for-nothing fellow ! catch hiui gettiu shot—there isn't a bullet in all the Confederate army that could hit him by any [tossibility. No such good luck for the Hem locks. If he does come home killed, I wond er if M rs. Hemlock wiLl get a pension. I think she ought to pension the Vnited States for gettin' her husband out of the way. There's one good thing about the war—aft er men get knocked round in camp a year or two, and sewed, and cooked, and washed for themselves, they will know what a woman has to do. They'll appreciate us a little bet ter. Wouldn't I like to see 'em on washing day 1 Wouldn't I like to taste of the pud. dings and pies they'll make? Wouldn't I laugh to see their patched elbows, and shirt buttons sewed on every which way ? "I wish Ebenezer would volunteer! I don't know of anybody lhat needs a little banging around more than he does. Gracious knows I would be glad to have a minute's peace, once in a while. Everybody else's hus band has volunteered, and I don't know why on earth Ebenezer is hanging about the kitch en fire yet. But I'll pack him off this very day—see if I don't!" " What's that you're saying, Ebenezer Jones 1 You've enlisted ? Oh !ohl to think that I should live to see this day I Dcn't go, Ebenexer, dear, don't I For your poor wife's sake, dun't do any such thing! I've often said that I wished you to go ! Well, I know it, but a w-o-o man dou't always mean what she says, and it will break my heart if you go Oh dear L oh dear ! I just wish I was dead ! What's the use of a woman's living any long er, when her husband has gone off'to be shot by those good-for-nothing Confederates ! Such a useful man as Ebenezer always was about the house. What shall I do when he is gone, what shall I do L" WONT HAVE the THIINGS AROUND. A capital 6tory is told us of an old farmer in the northern part of this county, who had been " saving up" to take up a mortgage of $2,000 held against him by a man nearer the sea shore. The farmer had saved up all the money in gold, fearing to trust the banks in these war limes. Week before last, he lugged down his gold and paid it over, when the fol lowing coloquy ensued: " Why, you, don't mean to give this $2,000 in gold, do you ?" said the lender. " Yes, certainly," said the farmer. " I was afraid of the pesky banks, so I've been saving up the money, in yellow boys, for this long time." " All right," responded the lender, " only I thought you didn't take the papers." " Take the papers ! No sir, not I. They have gone on 60 since the war's been a going, that I won't have the d —lish things around. But the money is all right, isn't it V " Yes, all right, $2,000 in gold. All right. Here's your note and mortgage." And well he might call it all right, as the premium on gold that day was 22 per cent., and his gold was not only worth the face of his bond, but $440 besides, enough to have paid for his county newspapers for himself and posterity for at least three centuries. It pays to take the papers— Norwalk (Conn.) Gaz ette. young lady fainted at dinner, the other day, because the servant brought a roast pig on the table that showed its bare legs. - • "What made you faint?"' anxiously en quired her friends as soon as she came to. u The nakedness of that horrible ciutfrvp ed," sobbed this bashful piece of modesty. "Och, an' bedad,' exclaimed the servant! who had brought in the offensive pig, "it wasn't, naked at all,. at all. I dressed it my self before I brought it in sure." JC3T Who is that ragged and furlong crit ter, Jack, enquired a countryman ? " Why, that's the Printer—he's just re turning from a dunning expedition." Ml ELMS .TO BUY BEST AND CHEAPEST. IS AT G. H. EASTMAN'S HIT HD SHE SHE, as ha intends for the future to sell exclusively for CASH O READY PAY; thus making every man pay for his own work, with out taxing him for the debts of those that never pay. He will sell all kinds of the best custom made work at a lower figure than the slop work usually found in country stores can be bought at. He is constantly adding to his large stock of THE BEST MATERIAL, and will keep on hand and make to order all kinds o BOOTS, SHOES, BUSKINS, GAITERS, SLIPPERS, GLOVE-KID SHOES, R. WINT, P. B BALDWIN, Miller. Proprietor- ' ?8a AVER'S riSEH PILES. FOB ALL THE PURPOSES OF A FAMILY PHYSIC | THF.RE has long existed a public demand for &A I effective purgative pill which could be relied on as sure and perfectly safe in its operation. This has ! been prepared to meet that demand, and an exten sive trial of its virtues has conclusively shown with what success it accomplishes the purpoae designed. It is easy to make a physical pill, but not easy to make the best of all pills one which should have noge of the objections, but all the advantages, of every other. This has been attempted here, and with what success we would respectfully submit to the public decision. It has been unfortunate for the patient hitherto that almost every purgative medi< h. j is acrimonious and irritating to the bow els. This is not. Many of them produce so much griping pain and revulsion in the system as to mora than counterbalance the good to be derived from them. These pills produce no irritation or pain, unless it arise from a previously existing obstruc tion or derangement in the bowels. Being purely vegetable, no harm can arise from their use in any. quantity; but it is better that any medicine should be taken judiciously. Minute directions for their use in the several diseases to which they are ap plicable are given on the box. Among the com plaints which have been speedily cured by them, we may mention Liver Complaint, in its various form of jaundice, Indigestion, Languor and Loss of Ap petite, Listlessness, Irritability, Bilious Headache, Bilious Fever, Fever and Ague, Pain in the Side and Loins ; for, in truth, all these are but the con sequence of diseased action in the liver. As an aperient thfv afford prompt and sure relief in Coe tiveness, Piles, Colic. Dysentery, Humors, Scrofula and Scurvy, Colds with soreness of the body, Ulcer# and impurity of the blood, Irregularities; in shorty any and every case where a purgative is required. They have also produced some singularly suc cessful cures in Rheumatism, Gout, Dropsy, Gravel. Erysipelas, Palpitation of the Heart, Pains in the Back, Stomach, and Side. They should be freely ] taken in the spring of the year, to purify the blood and prepare the system for the change of seasons. | An occasional dose stimulates the stomach and ! bowels into healthy action, and restores the appe ! tite and vigor. They purify the blood, and, by their j stimulant action on the circulatory system, reno i vate the strength of the body, and restore the j wasted or diseased energies of the whole organism, i Hence an occasional dose is advantageous, even . thou si h no serious derangement exists : but un . necessary dosing should never be carried too far, 'as cxery purgative mcdn'r.e reduces the strength, when taken to excess. The thousand cases in which a physic is required cannot be enumerated here, but they" suggest themselves to the reason of every body ; ;ml it is confidently believed this pill will answer a better purpose than any thing which has I hitherto been a\ailable to mankind. Mil en their ' virtues are once known, the public will no longer I doubt what remedy to employ when in need of a ! cathartic medicine. Bern:r sugar-wrapped, they are ! pleasant to take, and being purely vegetable, no ! harm can arise from their use in any quantity, i For minute directions, see wrapper on the PREPARED BY DR. JAMES C. AY Eli, Practical and Analytical Chemist, LOWELL, MASS. Price 25 Cents per Ecx. Five Boxes for SI. A VE R - S CHERRY PECTORAL, For tin- rapid Cnre of ! COIGNS. COEDS. HOARSENESS* | BRONCHITIS, UHOOPING-COIGU, ( HOI P. ASTHMA, AND CONSI'NITTION. Tnrs remedy has won for itself such notoriety from its cures of every variety of pulmonary disease, J that it is entirely unnecessary to recount the evi dences of its virtues in any community whore it has been employed. So wide is the field of its use fulness, and so nsKt'n.'VJS the cases of its cures, that almost errrr —,frr. of the country abounds in persons publicly known, who have been restored from alarming and even desperate diseases of the lungs by its use. When once tried its superiority over every other medicine of its kind is too appa rent to escape observation, and where its virtues are known, the public no longer hesitate what antidote to employ for the distresr tig and dangerous affec tions of the pulmonary organs which are incident to our climate. Not only in formidable attacks upon the lungs, but for the milder varieties of COLDS. COUGHS. HOARSENESS, AC. ; and for CHIL DREN it is the pieasantest and safest medicine that can be obtained. As it has long been in constant use throughout this section, we need not do more than assure the Eeople its quality is kept up to the best that it ever as been, and that the genuine article is sold by j?. .Stark, Tuukhannock ; T D. Spring, Laceyvill* Harding & Co., Nicholson; E & J Prear, Facttu J ville, and by dealers in Medicines everywhere. MRS. WOOD'S " niMiiniie OMBEII. FOR WHISKERS AND HAIR. THE STIMULATING ONGI EXT AND TNYIG ORATOR will restore hair !o the bald head, give new life and restoro to original color gray hair cause red hair to grow dark. Is warranted to bring out a thick set of WHISKERS OR A MUSTACHE ! in from three to six weeks. This article is the onlu one of the kind used by the French, and ia Londoy Und Paris it is in universal use. It is a beautiful economical, soothing, ye< stimula ting compound, aetiug as it by magic upon the roots, causing a beautiful growth of luxuriant hair. If ap plied to the scalp it will cure BALDNESS, and cause to spring up in place of the bald spots a fine growth of new hair Applied according to directions, it will turu RED or light hair DARK, and restore gray hair to its original color, leaving it soft, smooth, and flex ible. The " ONBVENT "is an indispensable articl. in every gentleman's toilet, and after one week's use they would not for any consideration be without it. The subscribers are the only Agents for the article in the United States, to whom all orders must be ad dressed. Price ONE DOLLAR a box—for sale by all Druggists and Dealers—or a box of the "'unguent," warranted to have the desired effect, will be sent to any, who pa sire it, by mail, (direct) securely packed, on reeeip of price and postage, 81.18. Apply to or address HORACE WOODL Souih 7th Bt., cor Grand,AVilliamsburth.il ÜBS MIUI Bit This preparation, made from the best Java Coffee, is recommended by physicians as a superior NUTRI TIOUS BEVERAGE for General Debility, Dyspep sia, nnd all billious disorders. Thousands who have been compelled to abandon the use of coffee will usw this without injurious effects. One can contains the strength of two pounds of ordinary coffee. Price 23 cents. KOLLCCK'S LEVAIN, The purest and best BAKING POWDER known, for making light, sweet and nutritious Bread and" cakes. Price 15 cents MANUKACTIREP BY M. H. KOLLOCK, Chemist. Corner of Broad and Chestnut Streets, Phil'a., And sold by all Druggists and Grocers. vlnjOly HOWARD ASSOCIATION, IIHILAPKLPHIA. For the Relief of the Pick Jf Distressed, afflicted uiilt Undent and Chronic Diseases, and especially for the Cure of Diseases if the Sexual Organs Medical advice given gratis, bv the Acting Surgeon Valuable Reports on Spermatorrhoea or Seminal Weakness, ami other Diseases of the Sexual Organs, and on the New Remedies employed m tLe Dispensa ry, sent to the aftlieted in sealed letter envelopes, freo !of charge. Two or three stamps for postage will be acceptable. Address, Dr. J. SKILI.IN HOUGH TON", Acting Surgeon, Howard Association, No. - Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. [v InoOly.