Kansas Itprmblican Platform.
After a long preamble which recites
the record of the Itepubhcan party from
- its organization to the present time, es
pecially notin.c: its action and achieve
ments during the war, and subsequent
reconstruction, and other measures for
the welfare of the country, and commend
ing in strong terms its rare courage in
v' investigating official delinquencies and
punishing official dishonor in its own
ranks, it proceeds as follows :
We recocrnize the fact that nartirn cannot live
Upon glory; new Wuew are constantly arieini;.
to provide for their "Glutton. The pant onlv af
ford" a cilHrantce that tne intelligence which.
created the Hepnhlican party and the patriotism
and wiMliim tlint have mimaim-d it are utlicient
to nroviilr for the emcrirencie" of the preitent. ana
make thin period the dale not only of the death of
laverv. but at well tne nirin 01 a conipxciic iiphb
nationality, the itricteit and firmed inteL'rity in
olllcial truptx. a iunt protection of Individual
rijihtu atrainm corporate power; thorough, prac
tical retorm in every department or the puhllc
"erviec; lioneotly-dietriliuted burdens and hon-efllv-exerrlHed
poweri ; therefore,
U'eaotvtd, 1. That the power" of the General
Government having been ctretched to an un
bealthv extent to meet the ericU of civil war and
reconstruction should be restored to their normal
action; that the public debt should he reducl,
not "nanmodicall v. but eradnally and .nrcly. and
in a wav that will not burden the induxtriee of the
country by excessive exactions; that any and all
schemes of taxation devised to meet an extraordi
nary demand should be modified according to the
dictates of the strictest principles of economy and
justice; that the ofticial prodigality, recklessness
and corruption incident to times of waste, irreg
ularity and convulsion must pive place to econ
,mv MtMliititv nnri honesrv. and. finally, that the
only test of political preferment should be ca
pacity and and integrity in tne uiscnargu 01 oinciai
trnst.
'. That as the policy of the Republican party In
relation to liuaiices lias all'ordcd the people not
only a sound and popular currency of equal and
uniform worth in everv portion of the common
wealth, but has greatly improved the credit of the
country at home and abroad, we point with pride
to its record and accomplishments in tins regard,
and while rvnlHrniin" the policy announced by
the party in the National Convention in WH and
1H7-J, and triumphantly indorsed by the people at
the polls a policy which, while contribntniK to
the public credit, "has also enhanced the individ
ual and collective prosperity of the American peo
ple we tavor such legislation as win inane na
tional bankinz free to all under just laws, based
niion a policy ol specie resumption, at such time
as is consistent with the industrial interest) of
the country, to the end that the volume of enr
renry may be regulated by the natural laws of
trauc.
:i. That while all necessary wants of the State
Government would be supplied by reasonable,
just and uniform taxation, the labor and produc
tion of the commonwealth must not be stopped
by the employment and maintenance of too many
otllce-holdcrs. Hence it becomes the duty of the
Legislature to lessen the number of officials, and
make such revision of the laws of the State as to
provide for a more economical administration of
rttate and county omces. e are opposed to an
official gratuities under guise of increase of pny or
salaries during official terms.
4. That the peril of the Government lies, not so
much in high ambitious as in low dishonesties
ami the pressing duty of the duv is to secure hoii
csty and purity in the public service. We
commend the courage of the Kepublican party
in instituting investigation of corruption in
office, spariti" neither Iriend nor foe, and wc de
tnand such legislation as will bring to certain
punishment any officer who, being intrusted with
the charge of public funds, appropriates the same
to his own use or fails to properly account for
them. Kmbez.lemcut is theft and ought to be
punixhed as such.
5. That all railroad corporations of the State are
the rreaturea of its Legislature, and it is the duty
of that body to subject them to such wise and im
partial enactments as will protect the people of
the state from extortion and win secure tne trans
portation of merchandise and passengers at rea
sonable rates.
. A revision of the Patent laws of the United
States is imperatively demanded, so as to prevent
a monopoly of usefuf inventions and at the same
time give proper encouragement and remunera
tion to inventor.
7. That the present policy of dealing with the In
dians has failed to atlord adequate protection to
frontier settlers, and we are in favor of trans
ferring the Indian liureaa to the control of the
ar Ivpartment.
K. That we commend the action of Congress
in repealing the act known as the Bnck-Pav law.
and favor an amendment to the National Consti
tution which shall forever prohibit any Congress
from settling its own compensation.
9. 1 hat drunkenness is one of the greatest
curses of modern society, demoralizing every
thing it tonches, imposing fearful burdens of
taxation upon the people, a fruitful breeder of
pauperism and crime, and a worker of evil and
oulv evil continual! v. Hence we are in favor of
such legislation, both general and local, as ex
perience shall show to be most effectual in de
atroving that evil .
10. That we rejoice with citizens residing on the
Osage ceded lands in the late decision of the
t niled States Circuit Court in their favor, and
point to that decision as evidence that the rights
ol the people are sare in the hand of the courts.
11. That the unwritten law enacted by the exam
ple of the father of his country, in declining a re
election to the Presidential term, is as control
ling as though it was incorporated in the Na'ional
Constitution, and onght never to be violated.
li. That the public lands of the Tinted Slates
rte sacredly held Tor the use and lie lie tit or actual
settlers, and we condemn aud disapprove of anv
further grants of the public domain to railroad or
other corporations.
Trained Itfrds.
The Baltimore American gives the fol
lowing account of a troupe of trained
Java sparrows and paroquets now exhib
iting in the streets of that city: " When
a suitable place is found, a circular table
is opcuc1 and the birds are all turned
loose upon it; they manifest no fear at
the crowd, and tlo not offer to escape.
l lie performance consists of rincing
oells, trunuling small wheelbarrows,
slack-wire walking, tiring off pistols,
lancing, swinging each other in small
swings, an excellent imitation of a tra
peze performance, and a number of other
equally interesting tricks. The most
wonderful part of the performance, how
ever, is done by a paroquet. The bird
walks to the center of the table, and,
alter bowing to the crowd, seats himselt
in a small chair near a bell. To the clap
per of the bell there is attached a small
cord, and any one in the crowd is allowed
to ask the bird to strike any number of
times upon the bell. If asked to strike
ten times, he leaves the chair, seizes the
bell-rope and pulls it ten times, after
which he 1kws and returns to his seat.
This was repeated a great many times,
and, with one exception, the bird made
no mistake. The bird will strike twenty
seven times, but after that he refuses;
and his owner states that he has worked
nearly a year to get this bird to strike up
to thirty, but it appears that his memory
gives out at that point, and he is unable
to count further. A collection is of
course taken up after each exhibition."
The Couriers of the Czar.
TnE Russian couriers, or pony express
men, or mail-carriers, as you may choose
to call them, travel neither on foot nor
on horseback. You will find that in this
matter, as in almost every custom and
habit of every people, nature compels
man to alter his arrangements to suit
her conditions. In Tartary thev have
tine horses, great wide deserts, and splen
did roads, and, naturally, the couriers
there are mounted ; in Kngland, where
the roads are bad, running through bogs
and marshes, the old couriers were foot
men; in Uussia, where snow lies on the
ground nearly the whole year, sleighs
are used by the couriers. The " Couriers
of the Czar," as the mail-carriers are
called, travel with great rapidity. Fresh
horses and drivers are ready at stations
every twenty miles apart ; but the cou
riers themselves sleep in the sleighs, and
travel from one end of a mail route to
the other. Special messengers of the
Czar, on public business, travel by these
same routes, and with even greater ra
pidity than the mail-carriers. During
the Crimean war there occurred an inci
dent illustrating the severity of this ser
vice. The Russian General, Prince
Mentchikotl, who defended bebastopol,
bad occasion, during the siege of that
c ity, to send an important message to
the Czar at St. Petersburg; and ordered
a faithful officer to be his messenger,
giving him directions not to halt or delay
until he stood before the Czar, and, above
all, not to lose sight of the precious mes
sage which he bore. Away went the offi
cer in a sleigh belonging to the Czar's
couriers. At the end of each twenty
miles he found fresh horses awaiting
him; these were quickly harnessed to his
sleigh, in place of the weary animals,
and the servants and stable-men would
cry out :
"Your Excellency, the horses are
ready."
"Away then!" the officer would say to
the driver; and off he would go again at
the most rapid pace of which the horses
were capable. Riding in this way for
l .1 . -. a mtrrlite filiflnniKT with
cold and pursued by wolves m the for
ests, the officer, weary with watching his
dispatches day and night, at length
reached the palace of the Czar and was
immediately ushered into his presence,
lie had no sooner handed the Emperor
the letter of the General than the
messenger sank into a chair and fell fast
asleep in the royal presence an offense
which, in some ages, would have been
punishable with instant death. When
he had finished reading the dispatch toe
Czar wished to ask the officer a question
but found he could not awaken
him. The attendants called to him
touched and shook him, all in vain; and
at last one declared the poor fellow was
dead. The Czar was much grieved
thereat, and went to the officer and ex
amined his pulse, put his ear down to his
side and declared he could hear his
heart-thumping. lie was only asleep
Hut he soon found that the exhausted
officer could not bo aroused by the usual
means. At length the Czar, stooping
down, cried in his cars:
" Your Excellency, the horses are
ready."
At the sound of these words, which he
had heard every twenty miles of his
journey, and the only ones which he had
listened to for days, the faithful officer
sprang to Ins Teet and cried:
" AwftV then!"
Instead of driver and horses he founi
the Czar before him laughing heartily at
his confusion and dismay. 1 ou may be
sure his offense was forgotten; instead
of being punished for sleeping when his
work was done the officer was rewarded
for his faithfulness. From " I 'lie Pony
Express, in tit. A icholas for tcjlember.
Tbe Food of Primitive Man.
In the present status of research, the
earliest authentic traces of man on earth
go no further back than the age of ice, so
called, and the accompanying or subse
ouent formation of the diluvium or drift
The relics of man dating from an earlier
epoch, the upper Miocene formation
that is. the middle of the Tertiarv trroup
which are said to have been found in
France, are at least very questionable
Rut there have been preserved for us in
caverns remains dating from the Ice
age, which tell us of the food used by
man in those times. iuan then inhab
ited Central Europe in company with the
reindeer, the cave-bear and the mam
moth, lie was exclusively a hunter and
hsher, as is shown by the honts ot ani
mals found in his cave-dwellings. The
miocenc vegetation, which abounded in
arbored fruits, had disappeared during the
long period of the subsequent pliocene
formations, the climate of Central tu
rope, meanwhile, having gradually be
come colder. Nature supplied no fruits
for the food of man. What food he got
by hunting and fishing was precarious,
and there were intervals of famine ; for
fortune does not always smile on the
hunter, and the beasts of the forest are
not always equally numerous, flic food,
too, was uniform, and not altogether
adapted for man, for the flesh
of the wild animal lacks fat. The man
of those times had not enough of the
heat-producers in his food ; and that he
felt this want we learn from his taste for
the marrow of bones. All the long bones
of animals that are found in cave-dwell
ings are cracked open lengthwise, in
order to get out the marrow. Now this
insufficient, uniform food has its counter
part in the low grade of culture which
then prevailed, as evidenced by the mode
of life, the weapons and the tools. Jlan
then lived isolated, without social organ
ization; he dwelt in caverns, and his only
protection against the cold was the skins
of animals and the fire on the hearth
His tools were of stone, unpolished, un
adorned; so rudely fashioned that only
the eye of the connoisseur can recognize
in them man's handiwork. Popular
bcience Monthly.
Michigan Republican State Platform.
We, the delegated representatives of the Re
publican party in .Michigan, assembled In con
vention ou the twentieth anniversary vear of its
organization, appear before the people of the
state, and of the L nion, alter the uninterrupted
exercise by that party of all the responsibilities
and powers during its entire existence, ottering
no apologies, deprecating no criticism, invoking
no charity in the construction of its acts, but
challcnsnng a faithful scrutiny of its record
through every vicissitude of war aud peace, aud
the candid judgment of all just men. In no
spirit of vainglory, but in simple deference to
historic truth, we assert that since the Itepubh
can party raised its banner at Jackson in ltCVt it
has never tailed, under trials more severe than
have beset the history of any other party since
the organization of the Government, to stand in
the advance line ot human and national progress
IMtnn" the turbulent years berore the war,
throiiihout the war, and in the unprecedented per
plexities which succeeded, it has forfeited none
of its pledges to humanity, to its sister States,
nor to the interests of our own citizens. It has
promised the protection of good laws, and a
faithful administration of them; it has legislated
wisely lor tne development or our abundant re
ejtirces; it has been liberal in the encour
agement of learning, and bountiful in pro
viding tor the unfortunate; it has per-
r-ietcuiiv cm 1 1 nidi n oeiier civilization
and there is no malignant band that can
point to any of its legislation which may be
used to make men worse. At the same time, it
has been prudent and economical in expenditure;
has kept dowu taxation; has been, aud is. stead
ily reducing the public indebtedness, and the
liiianciul credit ol the Mate tinder its management
is or the highest standard In all the commercial
cities of the world. We shall regard it as good
reason for acceding to the statement of our oppo
nents, that the mission of the lienuhlicau party ia
euueu, wnen we are pointed to a political organ
ization more nenenciai in it aim or more de
voted or comprehensive in its patriotism ; but as
long as it leads all other parties as it has done in
the past, and as it still does in the advancement
of good works, in the investigation of irrievances,
and in the redress of wrongs, we can discover no
reason lor surrendering the reins of power into
the hands ol a party whose last public service was
to tlrag the country into civil war, to disgrace its
financial credit, and to leave the Government on
the very brink of dissolution, and which made its
last effort to regain the confidence of the people
under lead of its life-long enemy, in the most
brazen, bare-faced and shameless coalition ever
known in the history of parties, formed solely aud
avowedly on tne nasis oi spoils alone.
I pou the hnanctal record of the Kepublican
party, alike in the nation and the State, we con
fidently challenge comparison with any other
party which ever held power in either. Pointing
with jnst pride to the great and steadily-increasing
reduction of the national debt, and the im
provement of the national credit, accompanied
bv an equally remarkable reduction of taxation
and of expenditure in administering the Govern
ment, with all this our material interests and
general prosperity have enormously increased,
and our citizens are belter clothed, better fed and
better paid lor their labor than any other people
in the world.
In this State the State Republican management
has secured the same blessings of light taxation,
economical administration, aud rapidly-diminishing
debt, whilcour State institutions' have been
literally built np until they have become the pride
of the people. Education, public morals, and the
vanons branches r industry have been fostered.
crime has been repressed, suffering alleviated.
and the nnrortunate provided Tor. Large and
important improvements have been projected and
arc in process of completion, and every State in
terest has been generously, yet economically.
c:redforwithsiiclt scrupulous honesty in every
department of the State Government that even
partisan calumny dare not bring a specific accusa
tion against any.
vv e in ii v appreciate thecxtrnordinarvcharacter
of the financial difficulties through which the
country has recently passed, and regard it as iu
evitahfe that able and patriotic representatives
should have differed like their constituencies as
to what were proper remedies in circumstances
wherein they were without specific precedence
for guidance. We indorse as wise aud timely the
measure finally agreed upon by Congress be
tween conflicting intercts and opposing theories.
While we recognize in the greenbacks and Na
tional Banlc notes a circnlatiug medium far su
perior to any paper currency heretofore existing
in me. i uueu laics, saviuas u uoes luc peo
ple, directly and indirectly, many million of
dollars annually over the old State hank svstem
n exchange and discounts, we demand that in
all financial legislation Consrress shall keep
steadily in view the resumption of specie pay
ment, to the end that at the earliest day practi
cable the promises to pay of the Government
may be equivalent in com in like amount
nrotignont tne commercial worm. we believe
thHt h,iibinn Mniinr ..11 ..Iln.l.nl n.tmnal ui-j .
tem. shouldle free, the volume and locality "of
issue being regulated by the business law of de
mand, and we denounce repudiation in every
lorm or degree, noldiug the pledged faitn or the
Republic t-acred and inviolable in both letter and
spirit.
w e would not forget the claim of the colored
people of the South to the nation's fostering care
and protection. Wrested from their master's
control, with freedom conferred upon them by
the Government as a war measure, and in aid of
tbe Union cause: given the elective franchise as
a means, not alone of protection to themselves,
but of protection to the nation, it i now the high
duty or the Government, from which it cannot
shrink: without incurring and deserving the exe
cration of mankind for all time, to protect them
in mi: rimi" biiu firiwicgcs 01 lueir euiorcea citi
zenship. Their ignorance is not their fault. Kr
rors ttf theory and mistakes in conduct are but
the legitimate fruits of their former enslaved
condition. The Government assumed the re
sponsibility for the evil resulting from these
when it clothed them with the full rights and
privileges or citizens, we appeal to the Nation
al Government, as the rood name and fair name
of the nation is dear to it. to protect these people
in their human and political rights, aud in their
person, property and home, aud to provide for
and secure them in the enjoyment of all educa
tional advantages ana privileges.
Thysieal Training.
The Chicago Tribune, publishing a re
porter's interview with a prize-fighter,
and his description of the process of
physical training required for these
brutal contests the sweating, the rub
bing, the dieting, the laborious gymnas
ticspoints a moral, as follows:
Leaving out the motive which induces
the bruiser to submit to this sort of
physical discomfort, there is a result
achieved which is worth some consider
ation. The bruiser goes to the trainer as
an old hat is sent to the hatter, or an old
carpet is sent to the renovator. Nine
times out of ten he is out of condition
enervated by dissipation, bloated with
whisky ana a general physical wreck.
liy the time, however, that he get
through with his trainer he comes out :
new man. He loses all his superfluoi
flesh. His muscles are firm and hard
His digestion is perfect. His lungs are
as tough as a blacksmith's bellows. His
nerves are iron cords. His bleared eye
are brightened. His whole frame is sup
pie, springy and elastic. He is the per
feet picture of physical health, strength
and beauty.
Now this result is what two-thirds o
mankind are seeking. Doctors of all
schools have this purpose in view, name
ly, the repairing and renovating of worn
and dilapidated human bodies. Dru
stores are multiplying rapidly. itfinera
springs, blood purifiers and curative pills
are advertised everywhere. Crowds
of people flock to the watering-places
every summer and other crowds Hock to
Europe, with the one object in view to
repair the ruins of time and reckless liv
ing or overworking. And yet, in ninety
nine cases out of one hundred all these
means fail. But here is a bruiser who,
without drugs or doctors, without min
eral springs or travel, transforms his
whole physical man in an incredibly
short space of time. 1 lie process never
fails. The trainer of prize-fighters knows
more than the doctors. His patient eats
mutton and beef without seasoning of
any sort, tea without sugar and dry
toast. He makes him get up early
in the morning and go to bed
early at night. He gives him plenty
of physical exercise. He uses nothing
but nature s medicines and he uses them
with unerring accuracy. If the bruiser
has a weak spot, he strengthens it. He
goes over his man as a tuner goes over a
piano and brings every note into perfect
tune. It he has not flesh enough he puts
more on him. If he has too mucli he
takes some off, and he performs this op
cration with such accuracy that he will
take off the same amount every day, and
upon the day of the fight will present
his man weighing within an ounce of
a specified number of pounds. Now
what is good for a bruiser is good for
those who are not bruisers, if they have
the courage and persistence to follow
the regimen, which, of course, can be
regulated to suit each case. Here is
chance for the overworked to be made
good as new at a very cheap rate. The
clergymen need no more go to Europe
alter their health. Fat men need no
longer to be fat. Lean men have some
hopes of clothing their ribs more com
fortably. They have only to pitch physic
to the dogs and take the bruisers rem
edies, modified to suit their cases.
The Old Way of Crossing the Plains
The most curious and perfect of all
the pony expresses was tha which" used
to run across the plains. Of course you
know what I mean by the plains. When
I was a boy almost the whole country
between the Mississippi Kiver and the
Pacific Ocean was called, on the maps
the " Great American desert," and in my
geography it was described as a wide
sknilr plain. In mv mind it was not un
like the Desert of Sahara, with fiercer
tribes inhabiting it. Schoolboys nowa
days have better maps and geographies
and know this country by the names of
the great States of Kansas, Nebraska
Colorado and Nevada, which have been
formed of it. What was desert to vs is
prairie to you, boys; what we thought
barren, sand you know to be rich soil ; and
you cross it by rail in three days where
we, in stage-coaches, used to make the
trip in seventeen. The Pacific Kailroad
killed the pony express; but in its day
the latter was a great institution, which
would have put to tne blush the pony
express of the Russians and Tartars, or
our own array couriers, it was not
Government line, either; private enter
prise started and kept it going on a grand
scale. It " used up and " broke down
more than a thousand horses and Indian
ponies a year, it employed nine or ten
hundred couriers and coach-drivers and
station-keepers, and more than one
hundred Concord coaches. Every day
n the year one of these stages started
from the east end and one from the west
end ot the route, and olten as many
as fifty were making the trip at
the same time. The coach stations
Mere ten miles apart, and there
were more than two hundred of
them in all. The route led from Atchi
son, 3Io., across the plains for live days
to Denver, Col. ; then five days more up
the liocky -Mountains to bait Lake City,
Utah; then seven days more down the
mountains to Sacramento city, Cal
At one station the stage-coach reached
a level of 5,000 feet above the plains, and
in the summer months it was the custom
of the drivers to stop there ten minutes,
not for refreshments, but to allow the
passengers the novel pleasure of snow
balling each other in July. In these
dreary mountains few persons were then
to lie met, other than members ot the
family of 3Ir. Grizzly Bear, who, if he
happens to be hungry, is a very unpleas
ant fellow to travel with. On the plains
the enemy most dreaded was the red-
skinned tribes, whose roving bands al
most daily attacked the coaches. To re
pel such attacks each passenger was re
quired to carry a rifle as part of his bag
gage. A "crack driver ' Mas one Mho
could drive four horses at full speed with
the reins in his teeth and a rifle in his
hands. Every station Mas a fort, with
soldiers to defend it. Often the coaches
had to be guarded from station to station
by the soldiers, who followed on horse
back, and at times the soldiers and pas
sengcrs were forced ' to fortify them
selves in the coach and fight until help
came uy tiic approacii ot other coaches,
Seventeen days of a trip like this would
lurnish almost enough adventure lor a
lifetime.
But it was the swift mail-couriers of
this line M ho ran risks and led adven
turous lives full of daring and danger.
They ran the gantlet of the Indians all
alone at night as well as by day and a
rougu time many oi mem nau oi n.
Their stations Mere twenty-five miles
apart, and the trips between them had to
be made at a full gallop, and in two
hours and a half, winter or summer, day
or night, over plain or mountain. 1 he
horses Mere hardy Indian ponies, swift
and sure of foot ; but the service killed
them very rapidly. The riders M ere old
pioneers, who knew the M ays of the In
dians and how to avoid them. Still
many of them fell victims to their dar
ing and their sense of duty. 1 he long
trip of 2,000 miles occupied the mail-carriers
eight days, at the rate of more than
ten miles an hour; but important election
news was carried at a still more rapid
rate. But at length the harnessed light
ning and the iron horse distanced the
pony on his own track, and he has gone
farther west to pastures new. From
The Pony Express" in bt. NicJutlas for
September.
Classification of Languages.
All the languages spoken on the sur
face of the earth have been divided into
three fundamental groups; these are the
monosyllabic language, the agglutinative
languages and the flexible languages.
luc monosyllabic languages are the
most imperfect. Each of their M-ords
consists of one syllable. As an example
I M ill name the Chinese, which is a mon
osyllabic language, par excellence. In
this language each word presents itself
Mith a sense perfectly absolute, and the
delicacies of our language, even the dis
tinctions of time, of place, of going, of
coming, etc., can be translated only by a
kind of paraphrase.
lhe agglutinative tongues form the
second stage of language; here there are
Mords, placed after the fundamental
conception, M hich serve to modify the
primitive sense roots, to employ the ex
pression in use. As examples of agglu
tinative languages, I M ill name the ne
gro languages, and those spoken by yel
low people, and also by very small num
bers of m hite people.
Finally, the highest development of
language is that of flexible language, so
named because, by simple changes in the
termination of a word, we can change
and modify the absolute sense, and make
it express divers shades of meaning,
thus: f speak now ; I shall speak to-morrow.
Almost all the Mhite races speak
flexible languages. Popular Science
JfontMy.
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. '
Cse common salt to remove egg stains
from silver spoons.
The question is often asked by careful
mothers: 44 What will remove grass stains
from children's clothing?" An exchange
says that simply Metting and rubbing
the stained cloth in cold water will re
move all traces of the grass. Fruit stains
M ill disappear on the application of boil
ing hot M ater. No soap should be used
in either case.
Pillows long used acquire a disagree
able odor. The ticks should be emptied
and M-ashed, the feathers put into a bag
and exposed to the heat of the sun for
several hours. If in the country, M here
the old-fashioned brick oven is still in
existence, it is a good plan to place the
bag in the oven after the bread has been
MithdraMn.
Glazier's Putty as a Surgical
Dressing. According to the Medical
Press and Circular, ordinary mixed putty
has been found by 3Ir. Couvall to be the
softest and most applicable means of
treating excrescences or tumors of vari
ous kinds where compression is desired,
as it molds itself so neatly to the skin.
He believes it to be superior to dextrine,
silicate of soda, or plaster bandages. It
is cheap, and always attainable.
Treatment of Burns. .The New York
Medical liecord states that at the Poose
velt Hospital white-lead p.iint has been
found, after trying almost every plan of
treatment hitherto propose!, to be the
best and cleanest application. Mix as
for painting, but considerably thicker,
and apply M ith a brush. A very neat
and satisfactory dressing in superficial
burns consists in coating the surface with
mucilage, and then covering it M ith pow
dered lycopodium.
Disn Cloths. A dish cloth has been,
but needlessly, a contemptible thing. It
should be sweet as a sheet just from the
perfumed drawer Mhere it has lain ready
for use amid rose leaves and lavender.
It should be Mhite and clean, but, alas!
it is not always. The dish cloth should
be made just as much as your holder for
ironing or handling hot things about
the stove. Take new unbleached, rather
thin, coarse cotton cloth or M'orn cotton
flannel, double once, twice or three
times, as you like, but always once; run
together all around the edge M ith double
cotton, then quilt from corner to corner
and across the middle both ways, and
you have something tangible to lay hold
of, and it Mill hold no bones or crumbs
When the table dishes are M ashed spread
it upon the grass or hang upon the line
using another for pots and kettles, and
do so invariably. Do not forget and use
this nice white dish cloth upon a greasy
pan or pot and thus streak it so you
M-ould be ashamed to hang it upon the
line. The size depends entirely upon
your preference. When washing jars
deep pitchers, etc., have a wooden
handle M ith a spring in the end, upon
which can be fastened the dish cloth in
an instant. Dish Mipers should be of
soft linen crash, bleached or brown. The
bleached to be used on silver and glass
and never on anything else, as we all
know a towel must be clean to make
glass clear and silver shine. Never use
the dish wiper about the stove or to
M-ipe baking tins, pots, kettles or any
such thing. For such a purpose use
calico; a piece of a dress or apron an
SM-ers verv well. Some buy cheap crash
and make what they call 41 stove cloths,"
using them for nothing else. Ilarper ,
Uaear.
Table Customs.
While certain forms of table etiquette
may seem altogether conventional, even
fantastic, the forms usually observed are
founded on good sense and adapted to
general convenience. Table etiquette is
not, as is often alleged, merely a matter
of fashion, although some things that M'ere
in vogue a generation or two ago are no
longer deemed polite. The reason is that
manners and table furniture have under
gone so many changes ; have really so
much improved, as to require a mutual
readjustment. For example, everybody
Mas accustomed twenty or thirty years
since to use the knife to carry food to the
mouth, because the fork of the day was
not adapted to the purpose. Since the
introduction of the four-tined silver fork
it has so entirely supplanted the knife
that the usage of the latter, in that way
is not only superfluous, but is regardeti
as a vulgarism.
Another example is the discontinuance
of the custom of turning tea or corlee
from the cup into the saucer. Although
small plates Merc frequently employed
to set the cup in, they were not at all in
general use ; and even when they M-ere
used, the tea or cotrce was likely to be
spilled upon the cloth.
j ne naDii, iikCMisc. oi putting one s
knife into the butter arose from the fact
that the butter-knife proper had not been
thought of. Such customs as these, once
necessitated by circumstances, are now
obviously inappropriate.
Certain habits, however, are regulated
by good taste and delicacy ot feeling,
and me iauure to adopt them argues
lack of fine perception or social insight.
One of these is eating or drinking audi
bly. No sensitive person can hear any
one taking his soup, cotlee, or other
liquid without positive annoyance. Yet
those Mho M-ould be very unwilling to
consider themselves ill-bred are constant-
guilty ot such breach of politeness,
he defect is that they are not so sensi
tive as those with whom they come in
contact. They M'ould not be disturbed
by the offense they never imagine,
therefore, that anyone else can be. It is
for them that rules of etiquette arc par
ticularly designed. Were their instinct
correct, they would not need the rule,
M iiicn, irom tne aDsencc ot instinct, ap
pears to them irrational, purely arbi
trary.
Aorcsi ones eioow on the table is
more than a transgression of courtesy; it
is an absolute inconvenience to one's
neighbors. All awkwardnesses of posit ion,
such as sitting too far back from or lean
ing over the table, are reckoned rude
nesses, because they put others ill at case
through fear of such accidents as are
liable to happen from any uncouthness.
lining Dread or cake, instead of cutting
or oreaKing it into mouthfuls, is unpleas
ant, since it oilcnds our sense of form or
fitness.
These and kindred matters are trifles:
but social life is so largely composed of
inncs that to disregard them wholly is a
serious affront. We can hardly realize
to Mhat extent our satisfaction or dissat
isfaction is made un of thinirs in them
selves insignificant until their observance
or non-observance is brought directly
uume to us. ocrion-er s Jiomiuy.
Farmers
Should Save
Seed.
Their Own
Tillers of the soil are not always
aM-are of the losses and disappointments
incident to planting and sowing seed
destitute of vitality. In the autumn of
loto tne writer procured a ouantitv of
44 Bowick" wheat for seed, as this variety
was highly recommended bv those who
had been accustomed to cultivate it. The
seed was sowed in a congenial soil, deep
and mellow, but not one kernel germi
nated. That grain evidently had been
kept one or more years.
teedsmen may oiler any suggestions
hat occur to them concerning the vitali
ty of old seeds and old grain of different
kinds, yet the numerous failures of old
seed to germinate should teach every
farmer and gardener the importance of
providing a supply of reliable 6eed every
season. Sometimes seed wheat, oats,
barley or corn, which has been kept from
year to year, will appear to vegetate
quite as satisfactorily as that which grew
the previous season. Then again, scarce
ly a kernel Mill germinate. The influence
of repeated dry weather of summer and
the alternate cold of winter on such seed
as niay be kept from year to year is
usually so fatal to the vitality of the
germs that it is not safe to sow or plant
old seed. It does not prove true that
seed containing a large portion of oil
will retain its vitality for many succes
sive years. Flaxseed yields a large per
centage of oil; yet a sack of Russian
flaxseed sent to the M nter was sowed on
rich and mellow ground, at a period in
the growing season M hen the soil Mas
moist and warm, hut not a single kernel
germinated.
In the former part of the present grow
ing season a packet of carrot 6eed and
another of parsnip received from the" Ag
ricultural Department at Washington,
D. C, M ere soM-ed in a moist and mellow
seed-bed ; but not one seed germinated.
Other packets of seed of the same sort
Mere received from seed-dealers in Roch
ester and in New York city also, all of
M hich turned out to be old seed destitute
of vitality. A half-buslfel of seed corn
M-as also procured of a farmer in Orange
County, N. Y., Mho averred that the
grain was of the first quality; and he felt
confident that every kernel Mould germ
inate. This seed was planted in a moist
and mellow soil after the ground had be
come thoroughly warmed; yet not more
than half of the seed planted ever came
up. Many of the ears when broken ex
posed a cob that was somcM hat moldy,
and M hich had been kept the previous
season where the grain M-ould not cure
properly and M here the moisture of the
cobs could not escape, although the ker
nels appeared a!l right. When an ear of
seed corn is broken the cob should al
Mays appear bright M'ithout exhibiting
any signs of mold or dry rot. When corn
is kept in large shocks and the ears are
not husked until the moisture in the cobs
has become stagnant and decomposition
has commenced, the vitality of the grain
is liable to be destroyed or seriously in
jured. In May, 1873, a quantity of tim
othy seed, red clover seed and some
orchard grass seed Mere soM-ed on a soil
well prepared; but not one seed of a
thousand germinated. In this instance
the loss of the value of the seed consti
tuted only a small part of the damage in
cident to poor seed. When a farmer
stocks a field down M ith grass seed and
clover seed and the seed fails to gnnv he
sustains the loss of a valuable crop.
Wheat, oats, barley and corn should
be saved for seed every season. It is
not safe to somt or to plant any sort that
has been kept more than one winter.
It is no less important to sow grass seed,
garden seeds, and seeds of all legumi
nous plants every year. Seed grain is
often injured while in the mow or stack
by the great heat evolved in consequence
of too much dampness, in the straw.
The vitality of clover seed, of timothy
seed and other grass seed is frequently
destroyed by the heating of the mows.
Seed may appear all right even Mhen
there is no more vitality in a
kernel than in grains of coarse sand.
1 he ears of corn that come to matu
rity first in the garden and field should
not be plucked and eaten according to
the usual custom ; but a red or black
string tied to every early ear to designate
it as grain to be left for seed. The first
tomato that ripens should be alloM ed to
hang to the vine until the pulp has begun
to decay. The seed of the first ripe
melons should be saved with care and
stored in paper sacks in the attic of the
house. For two years past the writer
M as obliged to procure seed of others.
But hereafter there Mill probably be no
loss, damage or disappointment from
planting old seed destitute of vitality.
Seeds of all sorts are things of life. The
little germ in many kernels is so exceed
ingly small that one can scarcely per
ceive it M'ith the naked eye. Hence, it
requires only a little too much moisture
or heat, or both alternately, to render
the minute vital atom as lifeless as adry
leaf of autumn. J eu 1 ork Observer.
single
Sheep for Their Money Yalne.
It is not to be expected that any busi
ness man M ill long pursue that M hich
brings him no profit; and if he be a saga
cious man he will not extend his bust
ness into untried channels until ne is
M'ell assured that there is a fair show of
profits to be realized through the new
departure. It is not every farm that
adapted to stock-raising and feeding
Much less is every farm adapted to th
keeping of sheep. Nevertheless, no farm
can be successfully carried on M'ithout
stock, and, as the Western lluralhnsherc
tofore demonstrated, those farmers mIio-
carrv the most stock, according to thei
facilities for so doing, are, as u rule, the
most successful.
i here has been a good deal ot grum
bung, first and last, about the unprohta
bleness of sheep husbandry. The cause
of this unprofitableness, if examined
into closely, Mill be found, nine times
out of ten, either to be that the farm Ma
unsuitable to sheep, or that they had
been neglected. There is no stock kept
on the farm that M'ant more continous
looking after or better care than sheep
but then they alMays pay amply for this
care.
We have already called attention to
the importance of selecting good shcej
to begin Mith, and also the importance
of knoM ing just how the money Mas to
be made from them, whether from the
M-ool principally, or from both mutton
and wool. This M ill depend in a great
"measure upon your nearness to, or dis
tance irom, a market. II near, you may
make as much or more Irom the mutton
as the mooI ; and in this case especially,
since you will keep smaller flocks, the
long-M-ooled mutton breeds should be
kept. If far away, this Mill be out of
the question, and the merinos must be
kept ; but in either case, M ith care, the
profits are sure. With avoo! at forty to
forty-five cents per pound, and Mith
sheep that Mill average from four to five
pounds per head, there is no doubt as to
the profits, if only the situation and land
be right. At least, there is fully as mud
profit as in any other ordinary branch of
I arming.
lhere is no reason why. with the cheap
lands ot the VY est, and our unlimited re
sources as to hay and grain, we should
fail to raise mooI enough to supply the
yearly demand of our manufacturers,
And yet we do lau. there is no reason
Mhy, as a rule, prime mutton should be
the dearest meat in our city markets
Yet it is so. There is no reason M hy
farmers, however badly situated as to
conveniences, should fail to raise enough
of this nutritious and healthful meat to
supply their families in summer. But
they don't do it.
lhe reason is, first, farmers imagine
that sheep arc a lot of trouble, M hen in
reality the principal trouble lies in the
fact that there are too many worthless
curs kept. Another is that the keeping
of sheep is considered to be a pottering
business. The facts are that mc as a
class do not sufficiently diversify our ag
nculturc. Sooner or later wc must
come to it, and when we set waked up
to the true value of sheep on the farm
M-e shall be surprised that M'e have never
seen the point before.
Any stock costing an average of not
more than three to five dollars per head,
tnat win average an increase ot lou per
cent, each year in young, and an av erage of
four to hve pounds ot wool, Morth, say,
two dollars per head, cannot but be prof
itable. This would give, including the
value of the sheep, allowing three lambs
to each two sheep, as the gross product
for one year, the value of three fleeces
and the value of the carcasses of the tM-o,
as the result of the investment on one,
and the feeding of the three. It is true
all shepherds do not do so M ell as this.
Some do better. Can a better show ing
be made in any other direction Mith
stock? We think not. even M ith swine.
There is mouey in sheep, but to get it
there must be no slip-shod Mork. It is
only good farmers Mho succeed Mith
sheep; but this class do succeed. Try,
therefore, a few sheep and grew into "a
knoMiedge of their special m ants M hile
you are growing a flock. It will soon be
apparent how many or how few you can
keep with profit; but, whether few or
many, their fleeces and M'ell-fattened car
casses Mill always command cash. Hom--ever
hard the times people must eat,
summer and M'inter, and wear Moolen3
in cold M eather. Western Rural.
Prince & Co.'s Organ.
Five octaves, two full seta of reeds.
Solid walnut cases, elegant bronze finish.
Priee, with six stops, f 125; eisrht stops t ISO.
Address Reed's Temple of Music, Chicago
New French watches for children are
so small that they can be put on the nail
of one's thumb. Tlie3r are enameled and
keep perfect time.
Didvou ever 6ee a child that did not have
boles through the toes of its shoe If von
did they were protected by SILVER TfPS.
they never wear through at the toe. Try
Them,
Treating the Wrong Ulieiat.
Many times Women call upon their family
plivsicians, one with dyspepsia, another with
palpitation, another with trouble of the
breast, another with pain here and there, and
in this way they all present alike to them
selves and" their ea.vg"ing and Indifferent
doctors separate and distinct discuses, for
which he prescribes his pills and Mitions, as
sinning them to be such, when, in reulity,
they are all symptoms caused ly some uterine
disorder; and Mhile they are thus only aide
to palliate for a time, thev are ignorant of the
cause, and encourage their practice until
large bills ure made, when the suffering pa
tients arc no liettcr in the end, but prohaMy
worse for the delay, treatment, and other
complications made, and which a proper
medicine directed to the cause would have
entirely removed, thereby instituting health
and comfort instead of prolonged misery.
From Miss Lokinda E. St. Ci.aik, Shade,
Athens Co., Ohio, Oct. 14, 1ST2:
"Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, X. Y. Your
Favorite Prescription is working almost like
a miracle on me. I am better already than I
have been for over two years."
From Ki.la A. SciiArEit, Zancsville, Ind.,
Aug. 3, 17-2:
" Dr. Piekce I received the medicine you
sent me and began using it immediately. As
a result of the treatment I feel better than I
have for three years."
From Mrs. Jons K. Hamilin, Odcll, 111.,
March 1X72:
"Dr. Piekce The Favorite Prescription
lias done me good, which I am very thankful
for."
Wixxrxo Goijien Oi'ixioxs. Perhaps
no man living has won more golden opin
ions than Dr. Walker, as the enormous
and widely-increasing sale of his Cali
fornia IXKCAK BlTTKHS attests. Wc
never look into one of our exchanges hut
there is a panegyric of the Bitters staring
us in the face. Our readers M ill say that
there must be a reason for all this praise.
They are right. The efficacy of this cel
ebrated medicine is established by evi
dence which it is impossible to doubt.
Among the thousands M ho have borne
testimony to its excellence there is not
one dissentient voice. In very many
phases of inorganic disease it seems to
be unfailing. All diseases arising from
a vitiated state of the blood are surely
eradicated by it. It is an effectual rem
edy for pulmonary complaints, bilious,
remittent and intermittent fevers, rheu
matism and dyspepsia. It purges the
body of all unhealthy humors, gives tone
to the system, and, Mhere the vital pow
ers are enfeebled, restores their functions
to vigorous and healthy action. All this
it does the more effectually because its
operation is not interfered Mith by the
presence of alcohol. The Vixec.au Bit
tekr is perfectly free from any such
hurtful ingredient. We have always be
lieved the plants contain the true reme
dies for disease, and all the remedies nec
essary. Dr. Walker is on the line of real
progress, and M e hope that he m ill not
rest on his present discoveries.
Wit.itoft's Fever and aufe Tonic. This
medicine is used by construction companies
for the benefit of their employes, when en
gaged in malarial districts. The highest tes
timonials have been given by contractors and
by the Presidents of some of the leading rail
roads in the South and West. When men are
congregated in large numbers in the neigh
borhood of swamps and rivers, Wilhoft's Tonic
will prove a valuable addition to the stock of
medicines, and will amply reward the compa
ny in the saving of time, labor and money.
We recommend it toall. Wheelock.Fixlav
& Co., Proprietors, New Orleans.
Fott Sale bt All Druggists.
Fell from a. Railroad Car, and nearly broke
hla neck. Pat picked him np, rubbed hiin with Mexi
can Mustang Liniment, and sent him on by the next
train. Falls, bruises cuts, contusions, lameness and
such accidents are constantly occurring. There is
nothing so sure, safe, cheap and convenient as the cel
ebrated Mustang Liniment. It costs kut 50 cents and
f 1.00 per bottle, and no Family or owner of Horses
should be without It. There la no flesh, bone or mus
cle ailment upon man or animal, like Khcumatl.tn,
Bruises, Spavin and Lameness, which It will not alle
viate or cur. Why will you suffer? Beware of coun
terfetts. It la wrapped In a steel-plate engraving.
signed -Q. W. Westbrook, Chemist."
On Everybody'alTongue. Euloglums of the
great Xational Kcgcnerator of Health, Plantation
IJittebs, are on everybody's tongue. This gratuitons
rlra voce advertising is better than all the pald-for
puffing to which the owners of bogus bitters are
obliged to resort. It lias a simntaiicous heartiness
about it which carries conviction to the tuind of the
auditor.
Uf asthma can be cured. See Hurst's advertise
merit.
Nature's Great Remedy
FOR AH.
THROAT and LUNG
: DISEASES!!
It is the vital principle of the Yn Tree, obtained
r-y a peculiar process in the distillation of the tar, by
Jluch its highest medicinal properties are retained.
Var even in its crude slate has been recommended by
eminent physicians of ntrytckool. It is confidently
offered to thealilicted forthe followingsimple reasons:
I. Itcukf5, not by ahruf-tiy ttofpiHfjht cough
but by dissolving the phlegm and assittinf nat:rt to
throw off the unhealthy matter causing the irritation.
In cases of tratni consitmptk n it both prolongs and
tenders less burdensome the life of the afflicted sufferer.
a. Its healing principle acts upon the irritated stir,
face of the lungs. penrtratig to rack disrated art,
relieving pain, and subduing inflammation.
3. I r 1 UKiFiRs and NRiniis thh nuxm. Positive
ly curing all humors, from the common vimi-lh or
BKt'PTiON to the severest cases of Scrofula. Thousands
of affidavits could be produced from those who have
felt the beneficial effects of Pine Tuck Tak Cokdiau
in the various diseases arising from imi'Ukmibs os
TUB FLOOD.
4. It invigorates the" digestive organs and restores
the af'petite.
All who have known or tried Pr. L. Q. C. W"is
hart's remedies remiire no references from us, but the
names of thousands cured by them can be given to
any one who doubts our statement. lr. I.. Q. C.
Wishart's Great American lysf-efsit fills and
Worm Sugar Drops have never been equalled. For
sale by all Druggists and Storekeepers, and at
Sr. It. Q. C. WISHAST'S Office,'
Av H313 A. Second St., fhUad'a,
ECONOMY.
Every intelligent perwn Isswarethat alargeamoum
of money i wasted awl thrown away every voir in
Clothinc. Silk, U-tces, 1 id (iloves. etc., which IhtoiiK
soiled Willi (.KKVK. PAINT. TAK. Kir., ami art
laid aside not hall worn. There is uo lunger auy ex
cuso for Miis fearful waste, as
Saipoliene
All Kinds of Clothing:, Silks. Laces,
Kid Gloves, Etc., Etc.
It KcmoTes PAINT, GREASE, TAR, Etc, Instantly,
And without the leant Injury to the finest fabric.
Makes Old Cloths Look Like New.
lil bv Agents and Druggists.
wouivrrM wanted.
Address WM. WHKKI.KK & o.
107 Bank Stkkkt, Ihvhumi, U1110,
Orders lllh'd by W. AV. IIAIXOCK, General
Western Agent, 77 Sz 7ii Jackhon St., Chu'aoo.
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Evekt one knows tlutt a cold or cou;li
ought not to be neglected, and that if it is not
attended to in season it may result fatally. Our
advice is to take care of it before it is toolate,
and u.se Dr. "Wishart's l'inc Tree Tar Cordial,
which can be had of any drutriribt. Dr.
Wishart's Worm Siiirar Drops are the best
remedy for worms ever discovered. Com.
One of the busiest places in the country is
the factory of the iarracransctt Collar Com
pany. From eighty to one hundred youni
ladies are constantly employed folding and
boxing Elm wood Collars. Jt looks like a bee
hive and all " queens."
Th Northwestern Horse Nin. Co.'a
" Finished " Nail i the best in the world.
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cauaing great excitement in Boston. It should warn
yomiff men not to tnarry In haste. Klceis but 22: Ms
bride S7. lie swears that she made hlin bellcro she
was but his own age. by using Magnolia Balm upon
her face, neck and hands. Poor youth ! He probably
found her elbows weren't quite so soft and pretty.
Ought Hagan to be Indicted ? We know of many sim
ilar cases. Tliis Balm gives a most wonderful pearly
and natural complexion, to which wedon't object. Wo
like pretty women. To finish the picture they should
use Lyon's Katlialron upon the hair. With pearly
ctun, rosy cheeks, and soft, luxurious tresses, they be
come Irresistible.
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JtANVFACTUEEBS OF
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CANTON, - OHIO.
D. S. Covert,
Cen'l N. W. Agent,
GT' Htnto Htroct,
CHICAGO, ILL.
ituwni iy ncrtjiiiitfun mit'i i ion, nui nua w
that nearly all who saw him thought his
possilile. A council of able physicians c
but the faintest hope of his ever rallvina
Tn following letter from Eet. E. S. BEST, Pastor
M. E. Church, Xatlck, Mass., will be read with Inter-
est by mmy phytician. Also those suffering from
the same diseases as afflicted the son ot tbe Kev. E. 6.
Best. Ko person can doubt this testimony, and there
is no doubt about the curative powers of Ysqxtixk.
Katick. Mass.. Jan. 1. 1S73.
TVftr Sir have rffiort reason for riri,rilini? vihif
assured that it has been the means of saving our son's
life, lie is now sevrntern y-ars of age; for the last
two rears lie has sunereu from necrosis ot Ills lee.
caused by scrofulous affection, and was so far rcdnccti
recovery lin-
could give us
ne of his ever rallvinz. two of the
number declaring thai lie was beyond the reach of
human remedies, that even amputation Could not save
him, as he hud not vigor enough to endure the opera
tion. Just then we commenced giving him Vkok-
x R. ana lronl that time to the present he has been
continuously improving. lie has lately resumed his
sruuies. tnrown away criiicues auu cane, aud walks
anout cheerful ana strong.
Though there Is still some dischartrn from the onen-
Ing where his limb was lanced, we have the fullest
confidence that iu a little time he will be perfectly
Clireu.
He has taten about three dozen bottles of VKGK-
TI NE. hut lately uses but little, as he declares that he
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E. s. BEST,
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The rantre of disorders which rield to the influence
of this medicine, and the number of defined diseases
which it never fails to cure, are greater than any other
single medicine has hitherto Deen even recoinmenuea
for, hv nv oilier ilinn the nronrietors of some quack
nostrum. These diseases are Scrofula and ail Eruptive
disease and Tumors. lilieumatism. tJour. Neuralgia
and Spinal complaints, and all Inflammatory symp
toms. Ulcers, all Svphllliic diseases. Kidney and Blad
der diseases. Dropsy, the whole train of painful disor
ders which so generally afflict American women, and
wnicn carrr. annuanv. luotibanns oi inciii i int-mur
tnre graves: Dvspepsia, that universal curse of A
lean manhood; Heart burn. Piles. Constipation,
oitn... intiltilffv to i)Mn. anil Intntirtf illood.
This Is a formidable list of human ailments for any
single medicine to successfully attack, and it is not
probable that anyone article neiore me puonc im ins
power to cure the quarter of them except the Vkok-
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by first eliminating every impurity from the blood,
promoting the secretions, opening the pores the great
eseape-val ves of the svstem invigorating the liver to
its full and natural action, cleansing the stomach and
strengthening digestion. This much aceoiupliheil,
th iiwhIv ind the nerinSTieiit cure of not only the
diseases we have enumerated, but likewise the whole
inunnf rhniuiumil const itntlonal disorders. 1 cer
tain to foilow. This Is precisely what VrsiTixf
does, and It does It so quickly and so easily that It is
an accomplished fact aluiusl before the patient is
aware of it himseir.
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TEKsf' Our answer if, that they remove
tho causo of disease, and tho patient re
covers his health. They aro tho prcafc
blood purifier and a life-giving principle,
a perfect Henovator and luvigorator
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Bick of every (lineage man id heir to. Thy
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relieving Conpestinn or Inflauiuiatinn of
tho Liver and Visceral Orgaus, in Hiiiouj
Diseases.
The properties of Dr. Walker's
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Sedative, Counter-irritant, SSudorifio, Altera
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Graf eful Thousands proclaim Yis
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system.
No Person eanlalte these IliMers
according to direction, and remain long
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repair.
Jlilious. Remittent and Inter
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lent in tho valleys of our great rivers
throughout tho United States, especially
thoso of tho Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri,
Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkan
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Pearl, Alabama, Mobile, Savannah, Ko
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their vast tributaries, throughout oui
entiro country during the Summer and
Autumn, and remarkably so during sea
sons of unusual heat and dryness, aro
invariably accompanied by extensive de
rangements of tho stomach and liver,
and other abdominal viscera. In their
treatment, a purgative, exerting a pow
erful influence upon theso various or
gans, is essentially necessary. Thero
is no cathartic for tho purpose equal to
Dr. J. Walker's Yinkuau Uitteks,
as they will speedily remove tho dark
colored .viscid matter with which tho
bowels aro loaded, at the same Li mo
stimulating the secretions of tho liver,
and generally restoring tho healthy
functions of tho digestive organs.
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Hitters. No epidemic can take hold
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Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Head
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Tightness of tho Chest, Dizziness, Smir
Eructations of tho Stomach, Pad Tasto
in tho Mouth, Pilious Attacks, Palpita
tation of the Heart, Inflammation of tho
Lungs, Pain in the region of the Kid
neys, and a hundred other painful symp
toms, ,'iro tho offsprings of Dyspepsia.
One bottle will prove a better guarantee
of its merits than a lengthy advertise
ment. Scrofula, or King' Evil, Whito
Sn-ollinps, Ulcers, Erysipelas, Swelled Neck,
(Joitre, Scrofulous Jllainiiiali )".-,; Indolent
Inflammations, Mercurial aUVc"i.iih, Old
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In these, as in all other constitution.! Dis
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tho Plood, Liver, Kidneys and Piiulder,
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Median ical Diseases. Persons en
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I 'lumbers, Type-setters, Gold heaters, and
iliners, as they advanco in life, aro subject
to paralysis of the Dowels. To pinird
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egar Bitters occasionally.
For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Tet
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I'ustnU-s, Boils, Carbuncles, King-worms,
Scald-head, Sore Byes, Erysipelas, Iteh,
Scurfs, Discoloration. of tho Skin, Humors
and Dise'ases of the Skin of whatever name
or nature, are literally dug np and carried
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of these Bitters.
Tin, Tape, and other Worms,
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are effectually destroyed and removed. 'o
pystem of medicine, bo vermifuges, no an
thelminitics will free the syntem from worms
like these Bitters.
For Female Complaints, in young
or old, married or single, at tho dawn of wo
manhood, or the turn of lif these Tonic
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improvement is soon perceptible.
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the ekin in Pimples, Eruptions, or Sore. ;
cleanse it when you find it obstructed and
sluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it i
fonl ; your feelings will tell you when. Keep
the blood pure, and the health of tho system
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