SPRING FLOWERS.
Oh, dainty baby foresters,
That liiac in silent nooks,
Tbat linger by the cow-paths
And peep Into the brooks.
To me you are the warders
Of the realm of Lonj? Ago,
At whose soft beck unnumbered forms
Like shadows come and go.
By mossy rocks and nodding ferns
"You lift your timid eyes.
And by the wounded maple trees
In smiling group arise.
No more the shrieking winter winds
Affright the naked woods.
But all the scented aisles are gay
With Flora's dappled hoods.
Though years have sped since first for me
You made the meadows bright.
And many a sunset-tinted dream
Has faded into night,
Still do I hail with boyish love
The violeta sweet perfume
Still joy to see the crocus burst
Like Lazarus from the tomb.
I thrill to see the buds again
Upon the apple-tree.
Where every branch is eloquent
Of glories yet to be;
Where soon the winged Argonauts,
From lands beyond the main.
Will sing their merry love songs
And build their homes again.
1 trace the tints of deathless Hope,
Sweet flowers, in all your beauty;
Tou come as meek interpreters
Of raan'e exalted duty.
You whisper of a dawning heaven
Beneath us as above.
When earth shall melt with poetry
And man be full of love.
Avyurtus Watttrt, in Golden Age.
SHE THAT WAS PATIE3CE HITCH
INS.
It was a stifling morning in dog-days.
Nature seemed just ready to faint, and
so did Mrs. Mosely, when from her
chamber window she spied Patience
ilitcbins 6ighing on the door stone. It
wan bad enough that oppressive day to
d iscover mold in the cuke-chest and a
blight on the ch-rr -trees; but to see the
moid and blight embodied in Miss
Pali nee crossing one's threshold was
great deal worse; and Mis. Mosely was
heard by her kitten to say that she
' should give up.'
On second thought, however, she did
no such thing; but, possessing herself of
the camphor bottle and a touching look
of resignation, descended to find her
gue-t ea ed on the lower stair, wearily
fanning herself with her pocket handker
chief, which it was Miss ilitchins' habit
to hoist as a signal of distress when
suffering from an " attack." Sue laid it
now across her chest, and mutely folded
her band above it while waiting for her
breath to overtake her. Hitting bolt up
right against the balusters, with her veil
over her face, she looked in her strip ed
gown not unlike the dignified flower
known as " Jack-in-the-pulpit," if a
mature maiden of forty might be likened
to any of the floral creation.
It may be, with closed eyes, she
seemed to Daniel Kilgore like the Sleep
ing Beauty of his dreams, for he gazed at
her through the doorway, with mouth
agape, for a full minute before he re
membered to ask Mrs. Mosely where he
should set out " that ere rhubard."
"Oh, wherever you can find room,"
she said, too intent on reviving Miss Pa
tience to pay much heed to her hired
man, who stood watching her as she re
moved her visitor's bonnet and sprinkled
her face with camphor.
44 She doesn't seem to come to. Sha'n't
I lay her on the lounge I" said he, com
passionately, advancing toward Miss Pa
tience with arms extended.
"No! no!" cried Miss Ilitchins, 44 com
ing to" precipitately, and waving him
back frantically with her black-mitted
hands. " It's gone now! It's my heart!"
Daniel looked as aghast as though she
had made a tender confession, while Miss
Patience, rocking back and forth in her
own arms, proceeded to pity herself
auaihly.
" This is nothing to the turns I have
sometimes. There are hours upon hours
when I am so distressed I don't know
whether I'm in this world or the next
But I'm better than I deserve to be, and
I feel to be thankful that I am as well as
what I am."
44 You don't say so!" ejaculated Daniel,
rather awkwardly.
"Not that it would matter much if
w as to die, being a lone woman so,
sighed Miss Patience.
" Perhaps it would be as well to plant
those roots before the sun gets hotter,"
suggested Mrs. Mosely, opportunely; and
Daniel retreated, his honest face aglow
with sympathy.
"She looks pindlin', that's a fact,"
thought he, tenderly stroking a wilted
rhubarb leaf ; " seems to need chirking up.
I wonder who she is and why she isn't
somebody!" For Daniel's bachelor in
stinct assured him at the first that Miss
Ilitchins was a spinster.
Had he lived long at Quigby he would
have kDown also that she was a home
less orphan, with a crushing legacy of
hypochondria, spending her life in an
eternal round of visiting. She settled
down like a dreary fog in the various
homes into which she came; yet every
body spoke well of her, for her kind
heart was brimful of sympathy for the
rest of humanity as well as for herself.
She and Mrs. Mosely coming down the
gravel walk presently found Daniel
seated on the wheelbanow musing.
44 I'm studying out a place for that
rhubarb." he exclaimed briskly, his eyes
on Patience.
Now it isn't to be supposed for a mo-
ment that Daniel was indulging in a fig
ure of speech in which " rhubarb" stood
for ' Miss Ilitchins;" but it is neverthe
less certain that at the very moment of
their approach he was thinking: "I
wish I had a home to take that poor
creature to;" for, by her own statement,
Patience was a "lone woman," and Dan
iel's heart always softened toward such.
In many respects that organ was like a
winter 44 Baldwin ;" it was 8und at the
core; it was always aglow; repeated
brumes only made it more mellow. Con
sequently Daniel "dropped into" love
as readily as Silas Wegg dropped into
poetry, and it had long been his earnest
desire to "settle down," as he expressed
it, carrying out the poetic figure in which
he spoke of himself in his bacnelor life
as a " bird on the wing."
But, unfortunately, ladies were not
fascinated by DanieL " lie was well
enough," they said; but they all wanted
to I t well enough alone; and, be -ides,
he really couldn't afford to light the
hymen al torch now, with fuel so dear,
and such a tax on matches! It is a mel
ancholy fact that Daniel's very suscepti
bility had been the cause of bis poverty.
I I must be confessed that his irascible
old father had never believed in love
or, if he ever had, Daniel's mother bad
shaken his faith and he bad no patience
with his son's incurable heartburn. But
his railery. scolding and downright anger
were alike in vain. Daniel wrote love
sonnets under his father's very eves, and
drained his own purse in paying the trav
eling expenses of bis maniage proposals
with at persistency which is beyond all
praise, refusals which failed to come by
return mail.
This state of affairs could not last al
ways. Daniel grew softer, his father
grew harder, till one fatal night, exas
perated beyond measure at the then ob
ject of bis son's affection a country
milliner who couldn't make bread he
willed his snug little farm to a widowed
sister, vowing that not a cent of his
property should be used for the support
of " that doll with blows in her bonnet!"
It was a harsh and cruel act ; but the old
man was rendered spiteful by a week of
sleepless nights, in which Daniel had
given vent to his tumultuous emotion in
Practicing 44 Os-ian's Serenade" and'4 The
one. Starry Hours," on a cracked flute.
Soon after Daniel was disinherited the
milliner discovered that she 'had not
kaown her own mind," and, the month
follomng, Mr. Kilgore the elder settled
his last remaining obligation the debt
of nature leaving his only son bruised
in heart and bereft of fortune. For a
few days Daniel's flute wailed forth the
most doleful tunes, among which could
be distinguished, "I'll hang my harp on
a willow tree" and 44 As on some lonely
building's top;" but gradually it glided
into livelier airs, till finally, taking up
the ecstatic eulogy of 44 'Squire Jones'
Daughter," it thus proclaimed its own-1
cr's restoration to his usual health and
spirits. y
Then, hearing that work was plenty
here. Daniel came to Quigsby. and thus
Mrs. Mosely secured a gardener and the
village clocks a regulator; for, being
gifted with ingenuity, Daniel, on rainy
days, picked up an occasional sixpence
iu putting broken jewelry in order or In
repairing old umbrellas.
So that it fell out that evening that he
was seated on the porch-step at Miss
Patience's feet, mending her large square
breast-pin (which looked like an old
fashioned tombstone), while she solemn
ly knitted away at a black stocking.
" You broke this kind of curious," re
marked Daniel, polishing the monu
mental slab on the cull of his left sleeve.
" I didn't break it," sighed Miss Pa
tience, as if it were a regret to her.
"When I was stopping at the Widow
Getchell's, her grandchild was possessed
to play with that pin, and when I was
havingone of my sinking spclh he got it
and pounded it with a flat-iron."
44 Widow Getchell, at Shy Corner?
Why, she's my aunt, and Bhe's living on
my lather's farm! Do you know her?"
"Just as well as I do Mrs. Mosely,"
said Miss Patience. " I've just been mak
ing her a little visit. She hadn't fairly
got settled after moving, so I took right
held and helped her, and I remember I
brought on the spell by looking over her
wool and paper-rags. She felt awfully
about my pin, "ind brought along this
yarn I am knitting, and would make me
take it."
"I want to know!" said Daniel, who
always adopted either the interogative
or exclamatory style in conversation.
"les, your aunt is an awiui Kina
woman, pursued Miss i'atience, paus
ing at the seam-needle. "I know when
I felt a little bet-er and begun to winu
the varn on an old letter I got out of the
rags she took the bill and would finish it
for me because I looked 'just gone,' she
said."
Daniel was so touched by his aunt's
kindness that he pressed the melancholy
brooch into Miss Ilitchins' hand, begging
her 44 not to mention the trouble."
This was the first of many happy even
ings spent by him on the old porch at
Miss Patience s feet. JNevcr uetore were
Mrs. Mosely's tools in so fine a condition,
for in the twilight of M ss Patience'n
smile the jovial Daniel fitted rake-tceth
and whittled hoe-handles with astonish
ing ardor; and as the dews grew heavy and
th bats were flitting he would possess
him elf of the gradually diminishing
black ball and slowly unwind it, while
Miss Patience, guarded from the damp
ness by a heavy shawl, as closely knit.
t or Daniel was in love again, ana he
knew it. lie had often had the sensation
before, and was used to it, and yet each
time it thrilled him with fresh rapture.
There seemed to be an artesian well of
hope in his breast which protected his
spirits from drought ; and in spite of his
numerous rejections he was firm in the
faith that bis gushing affection would vet
find a retuin. And why not in 31iss Pa
tience? Was she not a 44 lone woman,"
timid and feeble, needing masculine sup
port? But, alas! this very reasoning
made him pause; for how could he and
Patience both live on what was just
enough for him! It was all very well in
poetry to speak of sharing one's crust
with another; but in the prose of every
day life Daniel knew that a whole slice
of "bread was not too much for his diges
tion. And then there were the medicines,
the pills and powders, the camphor and
ammonia, which were a part of Miss Pa
tieoce's daily diet, and surrounded her
with an atmosphere peculiar to herself.
Strong, cheery man that he was, her
weakness and melancholy made her very
attractive to him; but how could he af
ford the luxury of a sick wife, or even of
a well one, now tbat bis father baa cut
him off without even the traditional shil
ling? These thoughts possessed him one
evening as he unwound Miss Patience's
yarn upon the porch. She was toeing
off the second stocking as he reeled the
last thread into her lap and smoothed
out the wrinkled paper on which it had
been wound.
44 Jerusalem!" said he, after inspecting
it a moment. Miss Patience impaled her
finished stockings on the four needles and
rose with offenaed dignity.
44 Moses in the bulrushes! Beg pardon.
Miss Ilutchins, but as true as my name
is Daniel Kilgore this is my father's
handwritiog. Just listen:
44 4 1, Ebenezer Kilgore, of sound mind,
do, on my death-bed, bequeath to my
only son Daniel all the property where
of I may die possessed, provided that
said Daniel docs not marry Hester Ann
Rogers.
" 4 Should he marry the bonnet-girl
afterward this will shall be null and void,
otherwise it shall remain in full force.'
"And here are the witnesses, and there
is the date, three months later than that
of the other will. Jerusalem!" and, paus
ing for want of breath, Daniel turned to
ward Miss Ilitchins, who stood trembling
behind her needles like a thornbush agi
tated by the wind.
" Of all thing's!" she gasped, sinking
down upon the door-steps. 44 And that
is what came out of them rags in the
attic, which Mrs. Getctell said hadn't
been picked over ever since she movea
into the house. Ohi'm all of aflutter."
44 Can't 1 kind o' steady you?" said
Daniel, tenderly, crooking his elbow into
an awkward resemblance to a photo
graphist's bead rester. But the prudish
Patience moved away and leaned her
bewildered head agaiast the senseless
door-post.
44 "iou ought to have the best right to
your own father's property, I'm sure, and
I'm glad you've got what belonged to
you; but dear, dear, dear! what'll Mrs.
Getchell think? I've as good as taken
the bread out of her mouth, and she was
like an aunt to me!"
' That's pleasant. Do let her be your
a mt," pleaded Daniel, smoothing Miss
Patience's sl tk locks so clumsily that
h r back comb fell, and with it the neat
little knob of hair it fastened.
"Oh, my head! my head!" cried Miss
Hitchms. staring up in frantic haste. " I
must go in. I'm going to have one of mv
spells!"
"Don't yet," urged Daniel, securing
her hand in his a measure suggested by
prudence as well as sentiment, for the
needles were fairly alive with excite
ment. 44 1 want to know one thing
fir8r. Are you at liberty, disposed, and
will you "
44 Oh, my heart ! Oh, I've such a pal
pitation!" gasped Miss Patience.
"Thank fortune!" cried Daniel ecstati
cally, disentombing her face, which the
had buried in the black stockings. 44 1
was coming to that directly ! It's just
what I want you to have. I've suffered
with it all my life !"
Coming into toe kitchen a few minutes
later, 44 to set the bread to rise," good
Mrs. Mosely stood transfixed with as
tonishment at sight of Daniel staunch
ing Miss Patience's ready flow of tears
with his red bandanna; and when he
followed this audacious act by boldly
pillowing her camphorated head on his
shoulder the bewildered matron was
again heard to say that she 44 should
give it up."
Hester Ann Kogers, "the bonnet girl"
aforesaid, said the same a week later,
when she was commissioned to make
Miss Patience's bridal hat. Out of spite
she gave it a very melancholy effect, but it
suited the wearer all the better for that.
On her wedding-day Miss Ilitchins
cast aside her brown striped dress for
one of lighter hue, and in the fresh glory
of a green veil the 44 Jack in the-pulpit"
was transformed into the 44 mourning
bride." Of course she had enough re
gard for appearances to weep during tbe
ceremony; but it was not in human na
ture to remain long tearful in the sun
shine of Daniel's presence; for if ever
perfect satisfaction was seen in this
world it beamed from his face that day.
This satisfaction was greatly increased
by the fact that Mrs. Getchell was pres
ent at the wedding and greeted her new
niece most warmly even congratulating
her on the discovery of the will, and de
claring tbat she herself was too old to
have the care of a farm. Mrs. Mosely
made the cake which, to the gratifica
tion of the bride, was a little heavy
but she protests that there is not the
least truth in the report that she made
the match.
Improvident Habits
One of the great characteristics of
town life at the present time is the alarm
inir predominance of improvident habits.
Look where we will, the fact constantly
appears. The spirit of extravagance has
set in; no class in society is altogether
exempt from it; and very few individuals
regard it with unfavorable eyes. Upon
the abstract argument that every man
ought to live within his means, there
is tolerable unanimity; but immediately
the proposition is reduced to its practi
cal application the general principle is
discarded and each individual treats his
own case as exceptional and as governed
by special circumstances. The result, as
might be anticipated, is iar irom being
satisfactory. Social barriers are being
broken down and destroyed, not for the
purpose of abolishing class distinctions
and treating all as members of one great
and homogeneous community, but mere
ly to foster and perpetuate extravagant
habits. Some people are so advanced in
these views as to look upon a spendthrift
as a benefactor of his species. They do
not care to inquire how the money has
been spent or whether it has been em
ployed productively; the mere fact of its
having circulated is regarded by them as
all-sufficient. There is a constant disre
gard, also, of that beneficial habit of
laying by a store for a rainy day, of pro
viding for less prosperous seasons, and of
preparing for the time when labor can
not be pursued. The motto of the ca
rousers: Be happy to-day, what care we
for the morrow? is acted up to hymen
who in other respects are looked upon as
possessing a fair share of worldly wis
dom. The pretext for doing so is the
very shallow one of keeping up appear
ances. They imagine, or at least profess,
that they must spend precisely the same
as their neighbors, keep up the same
style, give the same parties and dress in
the same way, or they will lose caste.
The question as to whether they can af
ford these luxuries is never considered
and they would fain regard themselves
as martyrs to circumstances when in
truth the deception can be seen through
by all their friends.
The unsuccessful merchant imitates
the wavs and style of the successful one,
greatly to the injury of "his creditors.
The evil does not, however, stop here.
The s inae plan is adopted by the mer
chant's clerk, who afl'ects a fine house
in the suburbs, k-eps a couple of serv
ants, lives in good style and entertains
troops of friends. N one pretends that
he can afford to do this or that it can
last for any considerable time; still, the
system prevails to a considerable extent.
The false notion of keeping up appear
ances serves as an excuse and a clak
for all manner of wasteful extravagance.
We fear, also, that it begets habits of a
more criminal character which cannot
but be deplored. But why all this de
sire to appear richer than he really is?
There is an end to all things, and those
who live in this assumed and artificial
style speedily realize this truth. Debts
accumulate and means decay; and then
these people, who have always stood
upon their dignity aud kept up appear
ances take the cap round to their friends
for the purpose of obtaining temporary
assistance. This must be very humili
ating and at the same time is unpro
ductive of any permanent benefit, owing
to their having contracted habits which
are difficult to curb and lead to greater
excesses. The result generally is that
the parties who adopt these unwise plans
are the architects of their own misery,
They can never hope to attain that
proud position of being independent of
work; they condemn themselves to per
petual anxiety, and though their labor
may be incessant they will never reap
the advantage of their industry.
We regret to say that vast numbers of
workingmen come under this category.
Most skilled artisans earn sufficient, if
rightly applied and wisely expended, to
enable them to place a small store awav
This would soon accumulate, and bring
with it the dawn of independence. Con
trast this state of things with the specta
cle which meets our eyes when some
strike takes place. Workingmen who
for years have been enjoyine thebene
fits of regular employment are then
found, after the first week's cessation of
labor, to be penniless. The folly of ex
travagance is most to be deplored in the
case of those who have to earn their sub
sistence by laborious work, and is, in
tact, wnoiiy inexcusable. Much misery
and poverty might be prevented by the
very simple expedient of counting the
cost before rushing into unnecessary ex
pense. It is quite true that many work
ingmen earn comparatively small sums,
and that the cost of living is much great
er than some tew years back ; still it is
conclusively shown by the records of
provident societies that there is a clear
margin above necessary expenses which
could be reserved for the future. Ilome
Journal.
Romance in Oregon
The Portland Oreqonian thus gives the
particulars of a marriage which took
place a week or two ago at Kalama:
44 More than twelve years ago a certain
gentleman (name not necessary to the
interest of the story) was acquainted
witnaJi'tie girl a mere child, as she
was only seven years of age out in
v asbington County. When the gold ex
citement broke out in Idaho the gentle
man, tnen but a sti inline, caught the
auriferous contagion, and, along with
thousands of others, took his pick, shovel
and pan and started to make his fortune
among the hills and canons of that re
gion. Alter several years ot mining
vicissitudes our hero came down from
Idaho and settled on a farm somewhere
in Washington Territory. Although
twelve years had passed over his head
the gentleman never forgot the sweet
heart of his boyhood days. During ail
thee years he never saw the girl, nor
did even a letter pass between them. A
few months ago the gentleman sat down
and penned the young lady a few lines,
reminding her of 4 old times and asking
to renew acquaintance and brighten up
the old rusty chain of friendship. In a
short time to his great joy he received a
favorable response. Correspondence fol
lowed, photographs were exchanged ard
matrimonial overtures were made aud
promptly accepted. Every preparation
was made for the nuptials, and a few days
days since these parties met at Kalama,
alter an absence of twelve years, and
were joined in wedlock within an hour.
Yesterday the happy couple came up to
this city and took the train southward,
intending to make a hymeneal tour
through the valley."
Honing a Razor.
"The first requisite," says our corre
spondent G. AV. D., " is to have a well
shaped, well-tempered and well (water)
pround razor; unless very truly ground
it will be impossible to hone it properly.
Take an Ital:an hone, of not too fine grit,
iace it perteciiy witn nne emery paper
glued on a board; dust it off and drop
six or eight drops of sperm oil on its
face. Hold the razor perfectly flat em
the stone, draw firmly but lightlv from
heel to point (from the further right
nana corner to tne lower left hand cor
ner), against the edge ; if a wire edge be
produced, run the edge lightly across
the thumb nail, and a few strokes on the
hone will remove all trouble on that
score. If you will examine the edge
of the razor now by aid of a magnifier
you will find that the fine grooves or
teeth incline toward the heel.
" I would here say that the hone must
be kept perfectly clean, as, after using
a few times and then neglecting it, the
pores will get filled with steel, and in
that case it will not be possible to- get a
keen edge on the arazor. I have had a
hone in use for forty years, for my own
and friends' razors. I have kept it per
fectly true, and yet there has been no
perceptible wear.
" I make my own straps as follows : I se
lect a piece of satin, maple or iose-wood,
twelve inches long, one and three-fourth
inches wide and three-tightbs inch thick;
I allow three and one-half inches for
length of handle. Half an inch from
where the handle begins I notch out tbe
thickness of the leather st as to make it
flash toward the end. I taper also the
thickness of the leather; this precaution
prevents the case from tearing up the
leatLer in putting the strap in. I then
round the wood very slightly, just enough
(say one-twelfth of an inch) to keep from
cutting by tbe razor in strapping and
turning over the same. I now select a
proper-sized piece of fine French book
binder's calfskin, cover with good wheat
or rye paste, then lay the edge in the
notch and secure it in place with a small
vise, proceed to rub it down firmly and
es solid as possible with a tooth-brush
handle (always at hand or 6hould be),
and after the whole is thoroughly dry
trim it neatly and make the case.
44 Use cold water for lather, as it softens
beard and hardens the cuticle; hot water
softens both and makes the face tender.
Always dip the razor in hot water before
using and also after use, as it will dry
and prevent rusting." Scientific Ameri
can.
Two or Three Tretty Things.
Take a strawberry box left of last
summer and cover it with the fine green
moss that you can find in the woods,
nestling close to the roots of the trees.
To fasten the moss on you must take
brown cotton and wind it round and
round. The thread will sink into the
fibers of the moss and will not be seen
Now, if youJiave boily berries or tiny
shells arrange them here and there upon
the moss. Stick the coral berries in,
stick the shells on, with mucilage. In
side your box set a low tumbler, fill it
with water, and in it place plentiful
sprigs of the basket-plant trandeseantia,
commonly known as 44 The Wandering
Jew," or 44 Creeping Jacob." Ii grows
rapidly when potted, and even in water,
which must be changed once a week or
so, it will put forth shoots and make a
most refreshing greenness. Such an ar
rangement as this, the moss-covered box
and the trailing vine, set on a bracket
will make one corner of your sitting
room a source of interest and delight.
If you have a little table whereof the
top is scratched or worn j'ou can make a
cover for it that will be really ornament
al by cutting a square or round of bright
red flannel the size and shpe of your
top and piuking it around the edge in
the same manner. Upon every alternate
scallop of this upper cover fasten with
mucilage a little fluted shell of the sort
used to make pocket pincushions of. If
you want your shell to look very gay in
deed wind it with sewing-silk of different
colors in the convolutions.
Are you boarding or crowded for room
in your house, so that contrivances are a
necessity? If so, you may like to hear
of a new scrap-bag, which is convenient
for soiled collars, cuffs and small pieces
or for rags. You will require a yard of
brown lawn to make it. Make an ordi
nary bag, ten inches from the bottom
run in a shirr and introduce a hoop
skirt wire, over which, to hide it and for
ornament, sew a quilling of bright satin
ribbon ; shirt-braid will do if you don't
wish to'be extravagant. Pieces of linen,
oblong and cut in points, may be braided
and hung from the shirr, in which case
they may be put on before the ribbon
quilling. Finish the whole with a bright
cord or string of ribbon and hang it by
your bureau. liural Ilome.
Keeping1 Accounts.
How maxt of our readers will start out
this spring with a determination to keep
an accurate account ot their entire farm
operations? Twenty thousand we hope
" W hen it rains 1 cannot shingle my
house, and when it does not rain it don't
need it," are words attributed to some
shiftless wight. When the farmer gets
through the year with money ahead he is
apt to think that accounts are ot no par
ticular value. If he falls behind he
cares little about seeing the figures in
black and white. But such farming is
not business farming, there may be,
and in thousands of cases are, men emi
nently successful at farming who never
Know what it costs to grow any particu
lar crop or to feed anv particular lot of
animals. And likewise there arc men
who keep accurate accounts of these ex
penses who fail. But the intelligent
man, the man of tact and thought, by
his accounts is much more likelv to be
able to tell why he failed to get a good
return and to reach a success! ul change
than he who goes it blindly year after
year, losing where he least expects it
The business method goes a long ways
in the education and discipline the
farmer needs, now that he is taking his
place in the law-making and law-enforc
ing positions ot the btate and nation
This hint is worth something to young
farmers who are to have a better field
and a broader one for action than most
of their progenitors have had before
them. Prairie Farmer.
A Postponed Burial.
The pall-bearers at a funeral in North
Carolina were latelyWievcd from duty
in a manner not anticipated. The funeral
occurred at the time of the recent flood,
and the procession on its way to the
cemetery had to cross a small creek. In
.crossing the creeK, wbich was rising
rapidly, the wagon stuck fast, and those
in charge of the coffin were rescued with
difficulty. Ko sooner was the wairon-bed
relieved of the weight of the ten bearers
than a new trouble occurred, 'he box
of the wagon rose upon the water and
floated awav, carrying tbe coffin with it
In vain those in the procession attempted
to recover the body. The wagon-box
capsized and disappeared, but the coffin
floated still, and, despite the energetic
efforts to secure it, was carried away by
the raging waters and soon lost to sight
in the distance. Naturally, this little
occurrence prevented the consummation
of the funeral ceremonies., a body being
one of tbe first requisites for such an oc
casion. Days atterward, when the flood
had subsided, a coffin was discovered
upon a pile of driftwood, thirty miles
from where the accident at the funeral
occurred. It proved to be the one lost.
and was, with its contents, uninjured in
anyway; so that the ceremonies were
not prevented, only postponed. It is
doubtful, however, if burial exercises
were ever postponed in just such a way
before.
Victoria as a Paragraphias
A writer in the Philadelphia Press
says: "It may not be generally known
that Queen Victoria, though not actually
on the staff of any public journal nor
regularly engaged to perform editorial
work, sometimes docs contribute lead
ing paragraphs if not leading articles to
the dailv naner self-entitled the leadintr
journal of Lurope.' For this there is no
lack of precedents. Napoleon I., before
and after he became Emperor, frequent
ly wrote stinging articlej in Le Jfoniteur,
the official organ of the French Govern
ment, chiefly attacking the English, and
Napoleon III. also wrote occasionally
for Paris journals, though never in a tone
unfriendly to England. In the London
Time of March 10 the following appears
in the Court Circular immediately lollow-
ing the political editorials of the day:
4 By the death of Sir Arthur Helps the
Queen has sustained a loss which has
caused Her Majesty great affliction. As
a loyal subject and as a Kind friend he
rendered to Her Majesty very important
service. He assisted with a delicacv of
feeling and an amount of sympathy.
which Her Majesty can never forget, in
the publication of her records of the
Prince Consort's speeches and of her
44 Life in the Highlands," to which he
willingly devoted the powers of his en
lightened and accomplished mind. The
Queen feels that in him she lost a true
and devoted friend. "
To Keep Dried Beek in Summer.
Take a clean box or barrel and put in a
panful of hard-wood ashes, wrap each
piece of beef in a thick paper and pack
tight in the box of ashes; put a layer of
beef, then a layer of ahes; be sure the
ashes cover the beef ; I think vou will
find the last piece of beef will be as
sweet and good as the first; ours is.
Smoked hams can be kept in the same
way by putting corn-cobs between the
layers. Cor. Household.
A Chinese vniinir ladv was an annli.
cant for a vacancy among the teachers of
a oan r rancisco scnooi.
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.
A correspondent of the Scientific
American gives the following new cure
for wounds: As soon as such a wound
is inflicted, get a light stick (a knife or
file handle will do), and commence to
tap gently on the wound. Do not stop
for the hurt, but continue until it bleeds
freely and becomes perfectly numb.
WTien this point is reached you are safe ;
all that is then necessary is to prefect it
from dirt. Do not stop short of the
bleeding and the numbness, and do not
on any account close the opening with
plaster. Nothing more than a little
simple cerate on a clean cloth is neces
sarv. I have used and seen this used on
all kinds of simple punctures for thirty
years, and never knew a single instance
of a wound becoming inflamed or sore
after the treatment as above. Among
other cases a coal-rake tooth going en
tirely through the foot, a rusty darning
needle through the foot, a bad bite by a
sucking pig, several instances of file
shanks through the hand, and number
less cases of rusty nails, awls, etc.; but
never knew a single failure of this treat
ment. How to Select Beef. See if the meat
is fine, of a clear, red color, with a yel
lowish white fat. Cow beef must also
be of a clear red color, but more pale
than other beef; the fat is white. Bull
beef ia never good; you recognize it
when you see hard and yellow fat ; the
lean part is of a jlirty, reddish color.
The roasting or bakiog pieces are the
tenderloin, the fillet, and some cuts of
the ribs. For soup, every piece is good;
to make rich broth, take pieces of the
rump, sucket, round, etc., but every
piece makes excellent broth and there
fore excellent soup. A good piece of
rib, prepared like a fillet or tenderloin,
makes an excellent dish, the bones and
meat around them being used to make
broth.
Cattle-feedig. 44 Little and often"
is the motto of the careful and skillful
caUle-feeder. As an example the prac
tice of the most successful of English
feeders is given. At 6:30 in the morn
ing, meal mixed with pulped roots and
cut chaff, just enough of the roots to
moisten the chaff; at eight o'clock twen
ty pounds of sliced roots; at ten o'clock,
meal and chaff, as before ; at noon, oil
cake and chaff ; ai two o'clock, meal and
chaff, as before; at 4:30 p. m., meal and
chaff; at six p. m., hay, from four to five
pounds. Water is kept where it can be
taken at all times, and the animals are
kept in boxes, loose. Three or four
pounds of meal is enough to begin with
per day, and it is increased as the cattle
need it.
Farm Mortgages.
We do not desire to excite unneces
sary alarm, but the great extent to which
farms are becoming mortgaged to East
ern capitalists is a bad state of affairs.
We are informed that three-fourths of
all the farm3 in some of the counties in
this State, as well as Illinois, Minnesota
and Wisconsin, are mortgaged to long
time loans, at from 10 to 13 per
cent, interest. There are agents in all
our counties for Eastern moneyed men
liberally advertising money to loan.
Generally the owners of the money get
10 per cent, and the agent adds as much
more as will pay him for his trouble. Of
this we do not complain. Anyone has a
right to loan his money, and in many
cases it is advantageous to have such an
opportunity to borrow money. But
there are but few men and few branches
of business that can pay for any length
of time 10 per cent, interest. It is al
most sure bankruptcy to the borrower.
And if the agricultural interests should
be depressed for a few years, but few ot
the present owners of the farms of the
'Northwest will be the lords of the soil.
Let us look at this question. In Iowa for
the past six years wheat has not aver
aged over twelve bushels to the acre, nor
over seventy cents per bushel, making
the value of the product per acre, at the
railroad warehouse, $8.40. The cost of
production is, seed, $1.40 per acre; rent
of ground, $3; plowing, $1.25;
seeding and harrowing, $1; har
vesting, stacking and threshing, $4.30,
hauling to market, $1 making it
cost $11.05 per acre, or a loss of $3.55
per year, or more than the entire rent of
the ground. Others who keep no books,
and know nothing what it costs to raise
wheat, may bhow different figures, but
twenty years of close observation has so
ground these items into our mind that it
will require strong demonstration to re
move their impressions. With this show
ing and with a determined persistence
in rais5ig wheat there is no wonder our
farms are thatched with mortgages. In
our late trip South we frequently met
with Eastern tourists who were lavish of
their statements that they had large in
vestments in mortgages on the farms of
Iowa or Illinois. We would advise our
farmers to prepare for the storm that is
coming. " Estimate exactly when your
mortgage has to be paid, and create a
sinking fund to meet it. If the debt is
$500, and is due in three years, buy at
once at least ten good steer calves and
set thern apart to meet that debt, or in
some other way set apart some certain
source- to meet it, and by economy and
mdusfry keep out of debt otherwise, and
thus let the intolerable incubus to the
prosperity of our State be wiped out at
maturity. Wheat alone will not do, but
will sink deeper and deeper those who
are bound hand and foot to the cart that
bears the sheaves. Iowa State Register.
IVew Process for Preserving Wood
From Fire and Decay.
The following process is by S. W.
Moore and Weatherby, of England:
The wood to be prepared is first kiln
dried, which process deprives it of all
moisture and much of its volatile turpen
tine and other inflammable matter; it is
then put into suitable cylinders, in which
lime and water, with sulphurous acid
gas, are forced into the pores of the
wood under considerable pressure, the
sulphurous acid being a by-product from
the wasting of pyrites.
1 he wood is removed and dried, and is
then ready for ue.
hen sulphurous acid is passed into
lime under pressure, a sulphate of lime
is formed which is soluble in water, ca
pable of crystallizing as a bisulphite,
which is readily oxidizable and converti
ble into sulphate of lime or gypsum.
As this is an exceedingly insoluble
salt, it is not easily removed, therefore.
from the pores of the wood, and not only
protects the wood by its presence as a
non-conductor of heat, but deoxidizes all
matters which are likely to prove ob
jectionable as ferments.
The advantages presented bv this wood
are that its weight ia less after treatment
than of the same wood before kiln-drying;
a series of pieces gave a mean
specific gravity of 0.3501. The process
lor workiDg is very much cheaper than
that of any other yet devised ; it is an
admirable means for preventing dry rot
and decay from the action of water, as
the pores are coated with an insoluble
salt; it thus wears longer and vibrates
less than ordinary pine; it resists the
attacks of insects, and, from the removal
of tbe volatile inflammable matter, as
well as from the introduction of a non
conducting material, it is well able to
withstand fire, the interior parts not giv
ing up gaseous matter, which always so
readily inflames.
Ibe wood, although answering these
ends, contains but little matter foreign
to itself. Wood fiber, 87.2; moisture at
239 deg. Fahr., 8.5; ash, 4.3. Total 100.
The idea here presented is much the
same as that noticed accidentally in the
late Franco-Prussian war ; many houses
there were found to have been protected
from fire when they were largely built
with plaster; lath and plaster walls were
absolutely uninjured by the fire when
surrounding parts were destroyed.
Scientific American.
Chestnut Pudding. Take clean.
boiled chestnut kernels and pound them
in a mortar, or rub them through a sieve.
To one cup of this add three cups of
chopped apple, one cup of chopped rais
ins, and one-half cup of sugar, and one
cup of water. Mix thoroughly and bake
cne-half hour, or until the apple is ten
der. Serve cold.
A Remarkable Rook.
Z In 1S58 P. T. Barnum wrote h'15 Autoblogra-
fthy for Burr & Co., the celebrated publishers
n Hartford, Conn., for which they paid him
$15,000. It made a book of W) pages, was
profuselv illustrated, gave a particular a"
couutof'Barnum's eventful life in all parts of
the world, and included his celebrated lecture
on 44 The Art of Money Getting." Horace
Greeley pronounced the book 44 worth a hun
dred dollar greenback to manv a beginner in
life." The publishers sold 9J,000 copies of
the book by subscription, at three dollars aud
a half a copy. In 1S71, when Mr. Barnum
started his great traveling shows, he bought
back the copyritrht and stereotype plates of
his book for $10,000, added an Appendix
bringing: the account of his life up to that
date, printed an edition of 100,000 copies,
sent them with hU traveling shows, and sold
the whole of them at cost, oue dollar each.
He has added an Appendix each year, which
has now increased the volume to a thousand
pages. It averages a sale of lOOtMW copies
each year. They are neatly bound iu muslin,
gilt, and sold in all his traveling shows. A9
his patrons emerge from his great show tcnU
with his hooks under their arms, tuey iook a
if coming from a circulating library '
book in this country ever had such an enor
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of real life and valuable experiences. J"j-
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Theodore Iiiomas, of 1 nomas' or
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musical authority in the world, says there
are no other cabinet or parlor organs
equal to those made by the .Mason !c
Hamlin Organ Co., and that musicians
agree with him in this opinion.
r V Send for "Chromo"
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with a family, however poor he may be, owes
it to ms wue to save uer health and strength
in every way possible. He has no right to al
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life out toiling with her needle to clothe her
family. His duty is to buy the llson shut
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family sewing and manufacturing purposes
ever invented, and he can buy the AVilson
machine upon terms which enatle him
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capable of doing every variety of family work
in the most beautiful manner; a machine tha
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on application. This company want a few
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A $4.00 Book, for $1.50.
Tbe People's Common Sense Medical Ad
viser, in plain English, or Medicine ttimpli
tied; by It. V. Pierce, M. D., Counselor in
Chief of the Board of Physicians and Sur.
geons at the World's Dispensary, Buffalo, N
1. the above WorK a book 01 about nin
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with Wood Engravings and colored plates,
and well and strongly bound will be eent,
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EVEll OFFERED TO THE AMERICAN I'EOI'LE.
Other books treating of domestic medicines
of like size and style of binding, and not
nearly as well illustrated, with no colored
plates, and some of them containing no pre
scriptions and making kuown no means of
6clf-cure for the diseases which they discuss
sell for from three dollars and a half to live
dollars. Were Dr. Pierce's Work not pub
lished by the author, printed and bound with
lm own machinery, aud were it 6old through
agents, as other like works are, the price of it
would have to be not less than four dollars
For when the publisher pays the author
fair price for his production, then adds a
profit to his investment large enough to sat
isfy himself and compensate him, not only
for his labor, but also for the risk of pecuniary
loss which he assumes in taking the chances
of the. enterprif e proving a success, and when
the State, county and canvassing agent has
each received his profit, they have added to
the expense of a book that -''originally cost
about 1.25 so much that the people have to
pa v not less than 4.00 for It. 1 he People's .Med
ical Adviser, on the contrary, is placed within
the pecuniary reach of all classes by the author,
who adopts the plan 01 the Grangers, aispens
ing witn middle-men and giving the bench
of their profits to the people, offering his
book at a price little above actual cost of
publication. That those desiring the book
may run no risk of losing their money in
sendinir it through the mails, the author ad
vertises that money addressed to him at Buf
falo, 1., and inclosed m REGISTERED let
ters, may be at his risk 01 loss, ibe authon
large correspondence with the people upon
medical matters twmcn, we are credibly in
formed, frequently exceeds 300 letters a day
and requires several trained and skillful med
ical assistants and short-hand reporters to en
able him to entertain and answer them), a
well as his large daily dealings with disease
at the orld's Dispensary, appear to have pe
culiarly fitted him for writing the Work, by
rendering him very familiar with the every
day medical needs of the people, lie eu
deavors, in this work, to answer all the nu
merous questions relating to health and di
ease that have been addressed to him by the
people from ail parts of the land, and hence
it contains important information for the
young and old, male and female, single and
married, nowhere else to be found. All the
most prevalent diseases of both sexes are also
plainly and fully considered, and means o
self-cure made known. Unlike other works
on Domestic Medicine, it includes the sub
jects of Biology, Cerebral Physiology, Hygiene
Temperaments, Marriage, Reproduction.
etc., all cf which are treated iu an origina
and interesting marner. It is a compendium
of Anatomical, Phvsiological and Medical
Science, and embodies the latest discoveries
in each department.
Herbamstic Kkmedies. In former
days, if a member of the household be
came indisposed, the family-head, under
instructions from the gray-haired dame
went to the forest or the field to gather
herbs or berries, from which were quick
ly made invigorating extracts, which ere
many days brought the patient safely
around, and saw the family gathering
once more without a missing member
How is it now? The slightest indisposi
tion brings the 44 family physician," with
his handsome carriage, lie feels the
pulse, examines the tongue, looks very
grave.writes a few lines of hieroglyphics
charges a big fee, and leaves, only to re
turn the next day and find, his patient
mercurialized sufficiently to be really
sick. A week or two of attendance tol
lows, and therein lies the secret of
"wealthy physicians." Compare the
physique of the present age with the past
and the story is complete. Keader, dis
card chemicals and try herbs. If j'ou are
ill, try the great herbalistic remedy, ur
J. Walker's Vinegar Bitters. 30
Davis' Pain Killer. This article needs
no comments from us, but the real worth of
so valuable a compound compels us to give
nublicitv to it. 1 he Pam luller we keep con
stantly at hand, and have done so for a num
ber of years, and have administered it for
ails of all descriptions, both external and in
ternal, aud have ever found it to be the best
remedy extant. We well recollect its first in
traduction for public patronage: it was then
sold in a few shops in the city; look at it now
the world are Its patrons.
Sold everywhere.
Dr. A. JonNsoN. one of the most successful
practitioners of his time, invented what is
now called Johnnon's Anod'M Linitr.cn f. The
jrreat success of this article in the cure of
Bronchitis and all diseases of throat and lungs
will make the name of Johnson not less favor
ably, if less widely, known than that of Louis
rsapoleon.
Electricitt is Life. All nervous disor
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The public are hereby assured, through the
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Pill contain no injurious principle, but that
they may le administered to children and the
most weak and shattered constitutions, in
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Dr. J. lVallicr's California Vin-
r l.iffrrs are a vurclY ccctaL.:
preparation, mado cliicl!y from iho na
tive herta found on tho lower ran03 of
tho Sierra Xcvadn mountains of Califor
nia, tho medicinal properties cf which
nto extracted therefrom without tho uso
of .leohol. Tho question ii dmo.-t
daily apked, " What is tho cauco of Hki
unparalleled succc?3 of YixkoaiI Jit
tki:s ? Our answer ia, that they rcmoVO
tho caupo of disease, and tho patient ro.
rovers his health. They aro tho gre;e'
Llood purifier and a life-giving principle,
a perfect Innovator and Invigorator
of tho system. Never beforo in thn
history cf tho vorld'haaa meditir.o been
compounddl possessing tho rornarkalila
qualities of Viskoar iirrTEr.s in houlinj? tho
fick of c-ery dise.no man U heir to. They
aro a pent'o Purfrutivo v-!l a1 a Tonic,
relieving Congestion or I;l'a:ri:iiatin of
tho Liver and Visceral Organ, ia lluioun
Diseases.
Tho properties of pn. walkkh's
YiJiEOAR liiTi iJKS are peril-lit, D ar horetie,
Carminatives, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic,
Sedative, Counter-irritant, Sudoric, Altera
livo. and Anti-Hiliona.
r ii. vieuaswn A co
tniirc!s!s and Gen. Ada., San FrnncUco, California,
uad cor. of Vv'uMiiirton nml Charlton Su., N. Y.
Sold by all UriigIatK and L ultra.
IIIXTS OV CARDIAC IMSEAStC SO. 1,
Tim veins aro cunMrucu.tl, In iroticnil, likn Hi
llrterW'K, lint tlu lr coats art- much tliliiinT. Many of
Hut lart-r v.'lnx, particularly In tli llinlx. Iibvh rrca-I'.'iit-hliapcd
valvra, UMiully arranged in palm anil op.
posito t acli oilier. Tln-y arc formed ny t n l-uliUiiKa
of tlit! HniiiK nieiiilinmc, f I rcnt In-lied Hh lnttrrvcu
inx llhro-clantic tixMH'. liclilnd cacti valve then; la a
filiation of ih vein, forming a lit lie pouch. 1 lie veins
are arranged in two M't, tin; Mipcrlli ial and the decu
acatcd ; the former lie immediately tiuiler the ykln. poa-(m'im-Iiik
no correpoiiilliits arti-rfeai the deep-Heated
veins directly attend the arterlea. and ii-ually take the
aauin mime.. Tho larci.t arteries hav one venous
trunk; the iiiodium-Kized have two. railed 1 'ikK oiii
ltea The w alla of the aneriea and veins uC furnished
ith nutritive vcwel and iiervea. The unaljaeaof
l'.lood hy flillerent chemiM five different remit, duo
c-hieily to the varvinf? condition of health, arc, teiu
pernnient, ele.. of llio person from w hic li It 1 taken.
The following from Lehman ptvcn the compoMt ion of
1.0UU narta an calculated from t lie aiiah ls of vemma
llloodhy Lccnuu: t orpneles Water, lit! : llalmiitiil,
8..s;.: t.lobnlai. 11.111; fat, J.l.Vi: Kvtniiiive ltter,
l.S; Sails. 4.i;: Fibrin. : Aiiiu'iieli. I'laMina Wafer,
1M.45; Fat, .Hi: Kxrrartive Matter. I. 7: Salts. 4.
AcOordSin; to tiiis i -Mimafc, KliH.di-oiitHii' about x'per
cent, of water and an per cent, (lid liMtfcr. lUooil
cbnr'C-d Willi pum-s Oxyp-n, Nitrogen and Carb inlo
Acid li:t A faiilie tate liud iilknlilie qua Hie. When
Hloi.d is exj'i.M d to the air the Fibrin contained I"
co.iiMVites, told carries down with It mechanically f)"'
corpuscle, which li aM-s i;n amber-colorc I 1'iud tailed
fri mm. in w hit h I lie so i id pari or clu I floats.
Dr. Newman, of London, regard 'he -c of nrretiif?
and otlier ison- In f r -day medical prnriice. as a
-'Uili:i hi taiise of the prevalence ot heart flii-ease.
These tend to diminish the uhe and r an e the vol"
nine of biood ill the heart, arteries and veins. J'lof.
I arker. ot New York, reifiirtia extreme Medical imi n
a proline cause of heart-dropsy, wnh lis attendant
symplouis ot'jrenersl ileliHitv, shofthess i f hrentli nnd
sense of s'llns-utioii. l'rof. t liapiiian. d riilii.dclidiia,
riec!are that any coiir-eof medication lib U reduce
the volume of blood tends to cause heart-' trophy. i:i l
Induces general dropsy nnd panilysis. Mr. Hoo'l.ip
posea t ! :e extreme Use of canst ic on IhesV m 111 ei upth
diseases, because of tbctr tendency t i strike to III')
heart, and thus produce sudden deaUi. I-r. .M. Itichntl,
of Paris, reports, nineteen ca-es of heart disease, re
pull inn from I lie use of this and similar mrcnti lor ttm
cure of aVsec-.scs, ulcers, cancers, arrottibi, ami tho
lik", all of w hli h disappeared from I lie anri;iee. hut -
infected tin: heart thai i'cricaniitis, Dropsy and aud
den d' ath requited.
The prevalent forma of fardlar complaint r rn
laivmenf, coiifi -tion. intlaiiiniaiioii and dropsy, ami
of these t'ie most couinioii symptoms are a ru-h of
biood Io the heart, cold let t, i'eiu ral wcaknc-s. short
ness of breath, tiizzint ss, und a m-ii-c "i siittot -ation in
the region of the heart. Many ci' .- H e on record
where persons nppiireurlc free f-'oiu disca'' have, ntter
a full meal, or in a lit of linger, or in all utlut k of
niir'ilmare. died almiet In an Instant.
Water around the lu-art i a l , i roti? f irm or Car
iliac disease, and arises from a varieiv of causes, lit
its earlier sta r" it yields t prop r t rei'i tueiii. lui' I
have never k:io'. n'aii 1 :.st.i n- c el .-ore a ti r the h'1 rt
has become entirely s.ii ror.ii'.ed Willi 1'ie thud. 'I hu
tissues arc soconstriu-ied that their vi'a'i'y dcpci drt
ll p in their act ivit v, w hich i u t io n is depei.i-.ei.t i n I '.it
(iti.uitil v uf nxjpii ai.d nut r:t,e mailer si, pi 'bed -! a!
former leln heccssa' y to t he l,ca:t hv si : u. ul us of tint
ret vo-iiiuscular system and to t h chemical c.:nl.i;a
lions, w l! :i"tit which third i mid be i.o renew a I ol le
suc particles, and I he Fitter t se !;!' w a - can -!
bv tin' ch'.llle.il and Vllal aetivll h ... II :iee t he l.ccc--(.fly
of a pneumatic, apparatus fu provln' a e. inl.iht
supply of x L'en, nnd a hydra uie i. pp ir..tn- t i ma ev
that prep ired iiulrLuei.t to every jmrtol tie b..d; aid
remove the worn-out particles. I he forim r i- pto
vided by t he lun-'s and the I liter by t,. b a' t and
bl'S"l-Viseis. '1 lie two rv'ciieies. biirr.i'.aio.. .y wn!',
iiiir by Hi' ans of ihe tl'iuhf ircut'tU;nt t :-i.-ii: v; 1 i' ne
cessity .if t he double heart.
ll often happen t hat disease attack one Mile of I;..!
heart w h iioiit im oW inn the other. 'I he l.tshl .;i:d I'll,
sides, act alternately ami ii:il pem:, '':'. l! h i.- no
rest, and works on from the day if l.'n.i until death,
and hence none of t he ori-ans in the huei.ia ei . in.i.iy
reijuire more skili fill I re.; t iiicnt w hen a; : u k -1 i '!'-ea.-e.
Leiii'-dies should be c hosen w if a i-ve..i c u e and
administered with H:lil and .iu-Umeiil I pi." su :..i of
sairaeity and cxperieiM e. There appears., iti thep:es
ciitd iy. a spirit ol re. kleM: 'S iiiimiff ph-,t i..i.a in
the adiaini tratnui of miw en ul r t.o up s ly way of
experiment ll practice, wlocii should i.'t oeroa;
nanced. 11 Is iiieiui-stior.ainv II ne inn n i.i;,.' pcr-
A Is
--h I a
ccnta'-rc of d -ease and con. e':i:- ut l.i'
directly iro!,i tins cuim-.
F rom tin left ven' ririe the p;
Bort i, to be thence di!:'ii--cd tbr.
capillaries in c cry part of the
turned by the x eii's throieh thi
auricle, w !i: ll del hi rs it to t he
cenpletes t!'e ' tinr r- t ni.
ventricle it is throw n into t be 1
t!inui;!i its I ram-In s to t' i-
tin nee reform d by tli" 1
lout
lilesc
into t'io
tir-iilti'
of the ll.
taiicou .:
contra
ul Unary n
leli i en: rich
.'. T-elv.i
uble c; i-ciii..
. . 'I he IC'I i
ion n.id ihi..;
loll
I. It i.m !c!e.
'.ii's compii tiii
. :..-t'le!e one c
ii. L":!i are ca
s contract and
.,lb.w.d 1
f .re. .1 Ic.t.i V."
al ter.' t i I se
b .1; . 111., thel ce re
l ( i. 'f , tt to 1 '.e r i h t,
neiit Vllirii "e. 'i ids
.mi. I roM 1 he ri:-! t
iihaniii'i y ci o r , cud
uil'loli'i! Y capOi.i-n -;
ual V ci l.H. v. I:
v i h
Ibe )
like nelioll i I Ihe vlil nc. I'.j tl el.
is throw n it: to the body mid impure lnt
almost si!iiultaiieo";-i tae auricles r
blood from Ihe iwvlv ;!! pure from tli
jif'tn it
tlm'Hi'l
' !''( lilt
m i i en t 'mtti
ijiale, sti'l tins
,l!i eiliateiy bv
i Ti-r pi.r--1. I'll .il
the luiii-'s : and
eive impure
jum's.
MORE
55
To b! continued by N. - Jodi-e, M- l , v 1 o may lie
Consulted at the l'aimerllou.sc, Lhicuiro; timely liolh o
1 visit will he given. :
IiiActiial Use :
E THAN
000
RGANS!
ISTEY
MANUFACTURED BY
J. ESTEY & CO.,
BUATTLEDORO, VT.
Sent fob Ilixbtbated Catalog?.
IP
The C, K. I. & P. R. R. Company
I oftareis lot ala at Lo FriMJ aa Moat lU-aMiial la Term,
TO AC"! '.. JIKTTI.HIN.
.Somcof llir ?lot I)eirnil- ami 1-ertlie
llilliilirnvrii i.uiiii
0 LANDS
ntlv lrtr- th irniTtj.- t -.tn-a of m wmvi
rx.lrr.1 tr J RFAT
1 u ,tir t iirl, tu4 avr
.i I .inll b'Ua'l, LB tt
in of Xoa-aV.
IjOVV.
Ranging from 55 to $ I O per acre.
The ivcr.if price nctiur witi'n nat n sa umn .
ar-fcpl"0' O '7 tn-'.-l''ir r.lrnrf t.-r m i i u
a., mr,f f.-r la. 1.
f..r .!
BWchwri. Ml '. .
J. 1. DIIKH ,
C. 11.1. Ul 1'. It.
air.rn-it.ml t. krt i u(.f 0 '
Irrtuc ut scm 4tn-l tuct.on w i&tsMMUng
TjMimI ( ommlwlonrr,
mm
GUI CUI Oil
immmMmmm
agJrawt
rj.
mm
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500.000 ACRES
or
MICHIGAN LANDS
S J. L E!
The Lands ef the Jackson, Lansing k Sarins w Ball-
road Company are ow Offered For Sale.
They are situated airmail railroad and contain large
tract of excellent rAli.Il-Vu ana ris t Laud.
The farmiuu iuu inciuue noma 01 tne most fertile
and well-waterea naruaiwa lanaa in tin- Mais. I liev
are Umbered in .inly with hard-maple anil bea-ch : ofl
black, sandy loam, and abound In anrmca of purest
water. .Micnis-an n one ot tiie least Imicfdetl ami nua-t
nrfisnenius State in t lie I'nion. anil its lartnera ba e a
greater variety of crop and resources than fcry West
ern btate. wniie aoine or tne prairie Mate may pro
duce corn In frreat abundance, they have no other re
aource, and when this crop fail destitution follow. a
ha Deen tne case the past year In Kansas hiuI Nebraska,
For Maps. Circular, aud further lulortu atom, apply
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rgr LARGE DISCOUNTS FOIl CASH.
Machines sext OX trial to any part of
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