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The Democratic House.
Tn new House of Representatives will
have ft Democratic majority. In the whole
number of Democratic lJepiesentatives
the routnern Democrats w ill hare a ma
Joiity. It is the first time they have had
a majority for many years. It is the first
time they have had an opportunity to dic
tate, bluster and crack the whip for this
fifteen years or more, and the dictation,
blustering and whip-cracking have al
ready commenced The bullying of the
ex-slaveholder, the bombast ot the chival
ry and the assumption of the Southern
gentleman against the Northern mudsill
are just as apparent now as they were in
the palmy days of slaver-. Numerous
outcroppintrs of this spirit have appeared
since the fall elections of 1874, notably in
such influential papers as the New Or
leans Bulletin and Vicksburg Herald, iu
the State elections this fall in the South,
in 6tump speeches, in college orations,
and upon numerous other occasions, show
ing that there is a preconcerted determina
tion upon the pari of the Southern De
mocracy to take possession of the House,
to dictate who shall be Speaker, and there
by capture the important committees, aud
then to dictate the policy of the Iloue.
Among those who have put in their claims
to office is Iitnjamin O. Harris, of Mary
land, a notorious Hourbon and fire-eater,
who arrogantly demands to be made Scr-ceant-at-Arms.
He has slated very explic
itly the reasons why he 6hould have the
ofhee, and he states them with a decree
of frankness and bluntness that shows
he is aware what the temper and tone of
the new House will be. In his circular
to Democratic Congressmen he sets forth
that for thirty-five 3-ears he has been an
uncompromising Democrat, and Liw al
ways been true to the party, not follow
ing it " into that mischievous line of pol
icy" which led "to the acceptance of
Grcelevism in 1872," nor following North
ern War Democrats in their opposition to
State rights in the war of the relstllion.
Mr. Harris occupies no uncertain ground
in this respect. He says:
For myself, 1 took side with the division head
ed by .lohn . IJreck'tiridjje in defense of the
right of the States, iror ten year before that
event the circumstances of the country l-d me
to consider the qo-.-tioQ of the ri'ht of a State to
ccede from the Union, mid, oiUr mature study
and reflection, I came to the conclusion that the
right clearly exi-teci. I fully justify the Southern
States in sccedinir from the Vnion. . . . The
war upon the Smith was, in injr opinion. most
atrocious outrage on the part of the Northern
Mates, displaying a cruel and a whim.-ically tyran
nical dijMtion. and it is a preat roirret with me
that the lemocrats of the Noith should ever have
piven their countenance and snport to men to
say the least of it) a stupendous art of lolly.
When in I'on-M I felt It my duty to vote
aenin-t every bill for the rai-iii!T of force, and rT
tt; bill for the expropriation of money to carry on
the war.
This is plain talk, but Mr. Harris
would not have indulged in this plain
talk if it had any tendency to prejudice
his reaching the office he is so anxious to
occupy. He knows the temper of the
Southern Democracy, and he has indited
his demand for that office to correspond
w ith that temper. Mr. Han is is and
alwa-s has Itcen a shrewd politician. His
blastagainst the North, and his etlbrt to
drag dead and buried issues to the light
again, and to fire the Southern heart, are
made with the knowledge that they will
be acceptable to Southern Democrats, and
that they are in accordance with the spirit
that will 1 rampant on the floor of the
House during the session of the new Con
gress. Mr. Harris closes his screed with a
declaration which would provoke a smile
did it not verge upon the blasphemous.
IIe?ays: 41 1 had the elory of receiving
the censure of the Radicals of the House
for uttering in a speech the following
prayer: "God Almighty grant you may
never subjugate the South. My great
est regret is that God did not grant
my prayer." This patronizing expres
sion of regret and mild criticism of God
by Mr. Benjamin C. Harris will probably
not occasion much stir in the eternal
world. Brother Moody says that even
Tresidcnt Grant might die and the
fact not be known in heaven, so it is pos
sible that Mr. Benjamin C. Harris is not
known there, and that God over
ruled the war of the rebellion and the
destruction of slavery w ithout any refer
ence to Mr. Benjamin C. Harris or his
prayers, notwithstanding the regret Mr.
Benjamin C. Harris has that God did not
follow his advice. The declaration, how
ever, is in keeping with the general as
sumptions of the average Southern Bour
bon, and, in view of these assumptions, it
becomes interesting to know what the
Northern Democrats are going to do
abont it whether they will rise up and
manfully defy the fire-eaters, or whether
they will bare their backs to the whip and
meekly receive the smiting, as the' have
done in years past. The Southern Bour
bons whipped the Northern Democrats
into the defense of slavery and State
rights, and whipped them into opposition
to the North during the war of the re
bellion. Will they now succeed in whip
ping them into an acknowledgment of the
right of secession, with all that that ac
knowledgment implies, such as payment
of rebel debts and indemnification for the
loss of slaves? The outlook is not encour
aging to the assumption sometimes made
that the .mission of the Republican party
is at an end. There is more work to do,
and Mr. Harris may again have to regret
that God has not followed his advice.
Chicago Tribune.
The Results 'ow and Last Tear.
TriOCGn the returns of the electionsjust
held are not yet reported complete in any
. State, they are sufficient for our present
purposes. Ten States have voted for gen
eral tickets this autumn, all of them ex
cept New York electing a Governor. We
propose to compare the results of the con
tests in those States last year with the re
sults of the present campaign. The ten
States to which we refer are Maine, which
Toted in September last; Iowa, Nebraska
and Ohio, which voted in October, and
Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
which yoted on Tuesday last.
Though California elected a Governor in
September and Mississippi a State Treas
urer and her members of Congress on
Tuesday, neither of them held an eleotion
last year. Some other States, like New
Jersey, for example, have now held elec
tions, but they were local and partial in
their character, and allbrdno sufficient data
lor the comparison we are now instituting.
Last fall Massachusetts, New York,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and Wis
consin were carried by the Democrats.
The Democratic majorities in these States,
taken together, were 102,028.
Last fall Maine, Iowa, Nebraska and
Minnesota were carried by the Republ icans.
Their aggregate Republican majorities
were 52,208.
It will be perceived that the net Demo
cratic majority last fall in the ten States of
which we are speaking was 40,770, or say,
in round numbers, 50,000.
These ten States, as we have already said,
have held elections this autumn. All of
them have gone Republican except New
York .and Maryland. The aggregate of
the Republican majorities, as nearly as can
now be ascertained, cast in Maine, Massa
chusetts, Pennsylvania, Otio, Nebraska,
Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, is So,roo.
The aggregate of the Democratic ma jor
ities cast in New York and Maryland is
bout 22,500.
It will be seen that the net Republican
majority this fall in these ten States is
63,000, and hat there is a change from last
fall in favor of the Republicans of 113,000.
These figures show the drift of the polit
ical tide. The philosopher who does not
take them into the account while attempt
ing to forecast the results of next year's
contest leaves out of the calculation a
most important element. JV. Y. Sun.
. f3T The Albany Evening Journal, one
of the most sagacious political journals in
the country, regards the result of the
recent election in New York as a decided
Republican victory, and a great gain for
the Republican cause. "It would, in
deed," eays the Journal, "have been more
gratifying and wouldiave completely
tilled the cup of rejoicing if we had elect
ed the noble State ticket with Mr. Seward
at its head. But in sweeping away Gov.
Tilden's boasted majority, in winning
both houses of the Legislature, in de
stroying the illusion of Tilden's fictitious
strength and personality, and in restoring
State alter Stateto the Republican column,
there is enough of glory and triumph. "
A of strong attachments"
The Sheriff.
The Ups and Downs of Life In San
Francisco.
Decidedly the most striking character
istic of San Francisco is the radical
change constantly going on in its social
and commercial circles. Yet how great,
rapid and astonishing are the changes
wrought by this intense existence which
we live in none can fully understand ex
cept those who reside here. To me, even
familiar as I have been w ith California
life in years ago familiar a9 I" am w ith it
to-day the changed and changing condi
tion of the small traction of the popula
tion whom 1 call my friends amazes and
a-tounds inc. 1 cannot comprehend the
mysterious fate that rides through nil the
department of our affairs. Are we, in
deed, diUcrent from our brothers of the
Atlantic hlope? Is our career more
erratic, more dangerous? Do we move
in tangents and not m wcll-tielineu circles?
Before me stand i a man who, a few short
3'ears ago, worked us a day-laborer in a
mine, and to-day lie has more dollars than
any other man in the United States, re
joicincr in an income of nearly half a mill
ion of bullion a mouth! Yonder is a man
trembling on the verge of want and utter
destitution who a few months ago was a
millionaire! In this passing gauiy equi
page languidly reclines a woman, robed
in the richest fabrics and decked
with the rarest jewels, who, live
years ago, tot.k in washing for a liv
ing! And that ior, s:yl -faced and
meanly-clad woman to my right, not half
a decade has passed since she was a power
in society the proud wile ofa man worth
the revenue of h kingdom, and who sold
all things short in this lile and then sold
death short! One can find human wrecks
all along our streets wrecks that have
tn-en made so with the suddenness of a
thunderbolt. And we can rind where fort
une has suddenly poured its golden
stream into the lap of hard labor and
pinching poverty, and the recipients walk
before us now as rulers in the marts ol
commerce. Men pass us on all sides anx
ious and excited, hurrying on to disaster
and defeat, or to success and victor-, as
though this day enfolded all their chances
in this life and, I had almost said, all their
hopes in the hereafter. And must it be
said thatwomen, many young and beautiful
and pure, are found indulging with and
Liking a part in and w ith the surging
throng, as anxious, as determined to brave
".fate and the devil," as ate their fathers,
husbands and lovers! Ah, me! As
strange is life and its surroundings here
as are the genial climate, the naked hills
and the radiant heavens! San Francisco
for. Philadelphia Press.
Italian Politeness.
A correspondent of the London lime,
writing from Milan in regard to the Em
peror's visit, says: "In two important
particulars the court of the King of Itaty
appears at great advantage, and, perhaps,
excels all other royal or imperial estab
lishments. Victor Emmanuel never stints
himself in the purchase of tine horses
and tasteful as well as splendid equipages;
an 1 he musters the best-bred, most cour
teous and obliging stall' of servants. The
men of menial rank in the royal house
hold are mostly Piedmonte.se; and I be
lieve there is nu instance of any person,
high or low, ever entering the palace on
anj errand without receiving due atten
tion. Access to the King's statF, und to
ever' one high iu office about the King's
person is always open and easy, and upon
any application to them the utmost readi
ness to grant any reasonable request is in
variably evinced. Even those .strangers
who are apt to find fault with the Italians
in other respects those Northerners,
espec ially, who rather too freely claim the
monopoly of tiuth and honesty, and all
other virtues under the sun are forced to
admit that, whatever ma- be the defects
of the Italian charac ter, they are rather
more than glo-sed over by a uniform,
never-iullled, never failing coating of
national politeness. As the court is, so
is the whole couutry. Politeness, another
word lor civilization, is w ith nations a
matter of age. It is most mature where
it is oldest, and it has attained a higher
standard here than in any other country
in Western Europe, precisely because
modern intellectual, social ami moral re
finement had here its earliest develop
ment. That ripeness necessarily involves
rottenness is not as easily proved as it is
assumed. Ill their ever-prompt and un
tiring obligingness the Italians are, as a
rule, perteeily disinterested, and those
strangers who too hastily style it llattery
or rcirard it as fawning servi.iiy, tho.-e
who stroke this feline race on the wrong
side of the hair, soon rind that the temper
on the smooihr.e-s of which they are
tempted to trespass is speedily milled,
and that the people have, alter all, pride
and re-entment enough never to be coaxed
or forced into a repetition of their rejected
advances."
A Runaway Hill.
Even more terrible than the stoppage of
a mill, by which hundreds of hands are
thrown out of employment, is the case of
a mill the machinery of which cannot be
stopped, and from which the work-people
lly lor their lives, expecting every mo
ment that the building will come tum
bling about their ears. An occurrence of
this nature occurred on Monday at a cot
ton mill at Bollington. near Macclesrield.
The machinery suddenly bolted like a
runaway horse, and caused a general
panic- It appears that from some cause
"not at present thoroughly underskxxl"
the steam from the boilers overcame the
control of the governors of the engine,
and the machinery began in consequence
to move at such a speed that the
minders threw their mules out of gear,
and by so doing precipitated the catas
trophe they were trying to avoid. The
rapid revolutions of the engine caused the
fly-wheel to break in pieces", and one huge
fragment dashed upward through the
floor of a grinding-room above, and then
through the root, coming down again
through another portion of the roof. The
other sedgmeuts of the wheel w ere hurled
through "the walls, and altogether the
building was w recked to such an extent
that the walls in some parts fell in, and
the room above and the roof were demol
ished. A complete stampede took place
among the hands, who number about 150,
and they rushed out of the room in the
wildest confusion. Happily, no lives
were lost, but it is fully expected that the re
sult of the casualty will be a three-months'
stoppage of nearly all work at the mill,
the machinery of w hich, it is to be hoped,
will be brought under some kiud of con
trol iK-tore it is put into action again.
Pall Mall Gaze tte.
USEFUL AD SUGGESTIVE.
Wiien I find a forked tree that is likely
to split, I look for a small limb on each
fork, and clean them of leaves and lateral
branches for most of their length. I then
carefully bring them together and wind
them round each other, from one main
branch to the other. In twelve months
they will have united, and in two years
the ends can be cut off. The brace will
grow as fast as any other part of the tree
and is a perfect security from splitting. I
have them now, of all sizes, and I scarce
ly ever knew one to fail to grow. Prairie
Farmer.
A clean, fresh mattress has fir more
warmth in it, to say nothing of its whole
someness, thau one that has been used a
longtime, and therefore for economical
reasons, as well as purely hygienic, it is
advisable that all mattresses be frequently
and thoroughly cleansed and renewed.
The ticks should be emptied of their con
tents, be they hair, wool, moss or shucks,
should be washed, boiled and sunned,
and thus made sweet as when new. The
hair and wool w ill need beating, airing
and sunning to cleanse it perfectly, and
may he for days in the open air with
profit. This being done it is an easy task
to return the contents ot the mattresses to
their ticks and tack them with a mattress
needle. In moss and shuck mattresses
there is a good deal of breaking and
wasting material, which settles in a fine
dust on the lower side of the mattress
This waste should all be removed and re
placed with fresh material. If moss can
not lie procured shucks will answer very
well as a substitute. Western- Rural.
Stove Damteus. These nuisances are
now quite common, and because they
" save wood," and thereby save money.
they are popular. By shutting olf the
upward dratt they throw back into the
room all the poisonous gas generated by
the combustion ol fuel, and are therefore
very destructive to health. It is a subject
of common remark that an open fireplace
is more healthy than a stove, and it is
largely owing to the better circulation of
air inrougii ine open, upw aru urau. iow,
it is true that wood might be saved in a
fireplace by covering up the top of the
chimney; but we should not wish to live
in the house. And that is exactly the
principle on which wood is saved by
means of dampers in stovepipes. Fir
may be easily checked by shutting oft' the
supply of air in front, and this istheonlv
sale method of checking it in a stove. If
all the air could be shut olf from the fire
in front it would go out as quickly as if
it were imrccrsed in water. Thus it may
be seen that fire may.be well controlled if
the stove is tolerably tight in iront when
closed up. All who do not wish to com
mit suicide nor undermine the health of
the family will do well to discard stove-
p:pe dampers. Lairs of Lije
Care of Mock Its Effects on Character.
The question as to w hether the care of
farm stock is conducive to the moral ele
vation ol the farmer is one ot more im
portance than is generally j believed and
one which will do to talk about, jvcry
farmer of any experience or observation
in this matter knows how much ot annoy
ance there is connected with the care of
the ditlerent kinds of stock usually kept
on a farm; especially where the stock is
neglected anu the owner indulges in bad
temper and pettishness. lhe pigs tres
pass upon reserved ground and the owner
is angry. The hungry cattle and horses
break over fences and destroy in a night
more than would keep them in condition
a week and acquire such a knowledge of
their power that finally fences are looked
upon as no barrier at all. Restraint be
coming impossible, the farmer finally
gives way to a strain ot eloquence worthy
of a Clay or a Webster, yet it is not of
such a character as to redound to the ele
vation of his better nature. On the w hole.
it is degrading in no small degree. Tl
man loses his manhood and the stock
loses its domesticity.
Our advice to farmers is: If you have
not the facilities, the taste and the pa
tience for taking care of stock properly
you had better not have it; and this, not
only upon moral considerations but upon
principles of economy. It is better to de
pend upon the raw materials of the farm
for a liv ing and be content with the small
er profits. Association has much Vo do
w ith an ordinary life in elevating or de
grading the character, and we think it the
duty of all men to think of this when they
engage in any occupation.
Where stock is properly cared for the
relations between it and the owner seem
to become one of mutual understanding.
The breeder provides an abundance of
food and everything necessary for the
comfort of the animals; and in return
they bring ouict contentment and com
parative freedom from disease, to reward
the farmer, for of course they bring the
lest possible returns in ready money for
the time and tooil bestowed upon them
lhe breeder in this case has no reason to
be otherwise than contented and happy
He has time to study nature and nature's
laws, and apply the knowledge thus
gained in all the departments ot the farm
and in promoting the happiness of his
family. In fact, the moral character is
rather promoted than otherwise from hav
ing the care of domestic animals, incase
all the duties due them are strictly per
formed by the possessor. The thorough
farmer be comes wise in the study of the
nature of the animal, nud also the nature
of the food they should eat, and puts the
proper conditions together to produce the
best results. He brings under his control
the elements of nature so fully that w hen
he desires a healthy, thrifty and muscular
animal he bestows the proper food to pro
duceit; or if he wishes to promote the
development ot tat, to prepare the animal
for the butcher, he understands the kind
of food to be given to produce that. So
he goes on joyously, hand in hand with
the unseen nnil unknown, as it were, yet
the results are as sure as in an algebraic
problem in mathematics. r armcrs
study your calling and be happy; treat
your stock well and be good-natured.
extern llural,
The Death or olody.
A ptrom, through the cemeteries would,
no doubt, be enlivened by the recognition
of the names ot many forgotten friends
and acquaintances inscribed on the tomb
stones; and, strange as it may seem, a
visit to the casual wards and common
lodging-houses would often lead to some
"delightful reunions" as interesting as
unexpected. Indeed," the history of many
of the inmates of these institutions would,
if it v-ere known, afford invaluable ma
terial for novel-writers. For instance,
what romance is probably concealed in
the history of a man, "name unknown,"
who was lound dead in his bed the other
morning in a common lodcing-housej in
Castle street. Long acre. The deceased,
it is stated, " is known to have moved in
good society some years ago, but sudden
ly disappeared from among his circle of
friends." His name was never disclosed,
and when questioned on the point he was
in the habit of curtly replying, " No
body." About three years ago, after a
Kriod of absence, he w as again seen in
ndon, aud took up his abode at the
lodging-house in Castle street, where "he
led a quiet, easy-going life, never being a
trouble to anyone." To the last he per
sisted in calling himself "Nobody," bat
for all that he might have been anybody,
and in all human probability, at some
period of hi3 existence, was somebody
Pall Mall Gazette.
A norsEKEEPER writes: " One day last
week, as we sat looking at a light stand in
our library, we saw a smoke risinsr from
it. Upon going to it we found that a
stereoscope lay ujmui it, and the sun shin
ing through one of the lenses had set the
varnish on fire. It was a pine stand, and
had we not been there we should have
goon had an uncxplainablc conflagration."
The Black Hills.
I'rof. jexset, in h is report on the m in
eral and agricultural resources of the
Black Hills country, says:
The Black Hills of Dakota are located
between the two forks of the Cheyenne
River, and occupy an area included be
tween the 10od and 105th meridians of
longitude, and the 43d and 45th parallels
of latitude. They extend about 100 miles
in a northerly direction, with a breadth of
irom. torty to sixty miles, lhe 104th me
ridian, which is the boundary between
Wyoming and Dakota, passes through the
central portion of the hills, leaving the
greater area in the territory of Dakota
That portion of the Black Hills which
may be designated as Harney's Peak Gold
Field is almost wholly in Dakota, and
extends about nity miles north and south
w ith an average breadth of nearly tw enty
miles, covering an area of not less than
800 square miles. The valuable gold de
posits, however, are found in the valleys
of the streams which drain that area, the
gold being derived from the disintecra
tionofthe quartz ledges, which are very
numerous in the rocks ot that retnon.
The most extensive and valuable depos
its of auriferous gravel discovered during
the past season were in the valleys ol
Spring and liapid Creeks and their trib
utaries, where in almost every case the
rrravel bars are very advantageously situ
ated for working, and many natural cir
cumstances contribute materially to the
profitable extracting of the gold which
they contain. Timber of suitable size and
quantity for the construction of flumes
and s'uices is abundant. The water sup
ply is in most localities ample and the
fall of the streams sufficiently great to en
able the water to be readily carried above
the level of even the more elevated bars
and deposits of gravel.
While as yet there have been discovered
in the Black Hills no deposits of gravel
sufficiently rich in gold to be profitably
worked in the primitive manner w ith pan
or rocker, vet there are many bars in the
Harney's Peak field, especially upon
Spring Creek, the forks of Castle and
Rapid Creeks and the valleys of those
mountain streams which, -when skillfully
worked by gangs of miners with sluices,
will yield a good return for the labor em
ployed and the moderate capital required
to be invested- But little could be done
in a single season in prospecting the
numerous segregated quartz veins of this
region, some ot wnicn unuouuieuiy con
tain gold. I have procured abundant
samples for testinff their value by assay.
The Bear Lodge gold field, situated in
the extreme northwestern portion of the
hills, is wholly in Wyoming, and entirely
separated from the Harney Peak region.
It does not exceeu niry square nines iu
area. The gold deposits are sman com
pared with those on Rapid Creek, and are
remarkable for the absence of quartz in
the gravel, the gold being derived from
the disintegration of feldspar, porphyry
carrying irregular masses of iron, and
manganese ores.
It is difficult to determine the agricultu
ral resources or climate of the Black Hills
by the observation of a single season, es
pecially as I could gain but little informa
tion respecting the severity of the w inter
or the prevalence of early and late frosts.
The Black Hills rise like an island from
an ocean ot grass covering treeless plains,
watered by occasional and scanty sup
plies of rain, lhe winds in passing over
these plains gather some moisture which
they part with as rain on being chilled by
contact w ith the colder and more eievateu
region of the central portions of the hills.
The result of this is the prevalence of fre
quent, though not heavy, rain-falls, giving
to the hills a most peculiar climate.
There is scarcely a day from May to Au
gust without one or two showers, yet ow
ing to the dryness ot the atmosphere the
climate is found to be very healthy.
The area of land suitable tor cultiva
tion is, from the mountainous character
of the region, limited, as compared to the
vast area embraced in the hills, but the
soil along the stream, and in most of the
valleys, is deep and lcrtne, and w ill be
sufficient for the requirements of the
population which the lulls will support as
a stock-raising community, i should
judge from the observations which I have
had the opportunity to make, that at least
one-twentieth of the 3,000 square miles
embraced in the Black Hills maybe fairly
described as arable lands, and that among
these lands lying near the streams anil
rAnlinniina tT.rrm rrli tlif liillir fmintrir nrp
large tracts ot land torming the slopes ot
the hillsides, which, while not arable, will
afford fine grazing, thus largely enhanc-
ing ine VMue oi lauus 10 wnicu mey are
contiguous.
Among the rocky areas of the Harney's
Peak range and in the northern portion of
the hills there are regions where the
irrasses are comparatively wanting, but
generally throughout the whole area of
the hills a luxuriant growth ot the hnest
grasses is to be found, even covering the
giound under the shade of the pine trees.
On the elevated divides between the
streams the abundance and fine quality of
the grasses and the shelter aflorded to
stock by the densely-timbered slopes and
deep valleys will make it a region well
adapted to stock-raising purposes.
The timber of the bills is a variety of
pine known as yellow or heavy pine. The
grain of the wood is straight, rather
coarse, splitting readily, and, where the
trees have escaped the action of fires and
violent gales, good straight logs, free from
knots and from forty to sixty feet in
length, and from twelve to twenty-four
inches in diameter, can be obtained in
abundance. Spruce of good quality is
found among the canons in the interior.
and white birch, oak and elm of medium
size among the hills on the eastern slope
The wattr throughout the hills is excel
lent in quality, mostly derived from
springs among the limestone, or the gran
itic, or the schistose rock. Only in local
ities among the foot-hills is it contaminated
by alkali.
There was no evidence found that the
Indians ever lived in the hills, or ever
visited them, except in the spring to cut
lodge poles or occasionally to stop and
hunt deer among the foot-hills while pass
ing from the agencies to the Upper Mis
souri. The only reason advanced for their
not living in the hills is the prevalence of
severe thunder-storms and the frequency
of trees being struck by lightning.
Guarding from Danger.
Passing through a friend's farm-build
inss recently we came on a cistern for
catching water from the roof, the lid of
which opened in a frequently-traveled
path. On our expressing surprise our
friend wondered at the alarm, " For," said
he, " all about us are trained to such
careful habits that there really is no
danser. No one would ever think ot
leaving the trap-door ojen." This reason
ing seemed correct, and yet the newspa
pers are filled w ith accidents 'which occur
in cases w here " all hands" are supposed
to exercise the greatest care. Some one
comes in with a loaded gun and does not
draw the char ere. He knows how care
ful everybody is in handling fire-arms,
and yet numlcrs of people die every year
simply through forgetfulness on the part
of some playful fool that the article may
possibly be loaded.
A man carries matches loose in his
pocket and goes through his stables and
over his hay-mow and straw-stack. He
is quite sure that his careful habits will
never let him drop one so that something
may tread on or fall on it and afire ensue.
But some day the whole thing" goes up,"
and there is no end of w onder how such
a thing could be!
It is indeed singular that accidents and
losses are usually the luck of those who
are the most careful. We knew a man
once w ho carried money loose in his vest
pocket as many do their matches. No
one could be more particular than he in
watching every time that none fell to the
ground or blew away. He regarded loss
as impossible, and he continued to think
so until one day when about to give up
his room at a hotel, after visiting a coun
try fair, his wife found a ten-dollar bill
lying on the floor.
Carefulness is very well. Study it by
all means. But in all our arrangements
security should rest rather on impossibil
ity than on w atchfulness. The man who
lies asleep with one eye open to guard
against foes does well ; but the one who
takes his rest where he knows no enemy
can come has the best chance of rest.
We make a note of these things now be
cause winter is coming and with it the
season when things take fire from "defect
ive flues" and other accidents. These
things never occur where people are al
ways careful, but the best rule is to so or
der things that, no matter how careless
people may be, accidents are next to im
possible. Germantoirn Telegraph.
Dyspepsia It9 Cause and Cure.
The most universal cause of dyspepsia
is eating too often, too fast and too much.
The general rules should be :
1. Eat thrice a day.
2. Not an atom between meals.
3. Nothing after two o'clock but a piece
of cold bread and butter and one cup of
hot drink.
4. Spend half an hour at least in taking
each meal.
5. Cut up all meats and hard food in
pea-sized pieces.
G. Never eat enough to cause the slight
est uncomfortable sensation afterward.
7. Never work or study hard within
half an hour of eating.
The most universal and infallible indi
cation that a person is becoming dyspep
tic is some uncomfortable sensation com
ing on uniformly after each meal, whether
that be in the stomach, throat or any
where else. The formation of wind in
the stomach, indicated by eructation,
belchings or otherwise, demonstrates that
dyspepsia is fixing itself in the system.
Then there is only one course to pursue,
and that is infallible: eat less and less at
each meal, until no -wind is generated and
no other uncomfortable sensation is ex
perienced in any part of the boeiy. No
medicine ever cured confirmed dyspepsia;
eating plain food regularly and living
out of doors industriously will cure most
cases. Hall's Journal of Health.
Two young men in Crawford County,
Pa., are serving out ten months' terms in the
Work-House for stealing chickens. They
attended apolitical meeting, noticed what
farmers were in attendance and made a
tour of the hen-roosts of these parties.
The New Sttle of School, by Prof. W. P.
Jones, Evunston, 111., where common-school,
business and early colleire studies are taught
in the i'.d-vitiual tnetfi-xi instead of in claimtx,
receives the approval of business men and
the best teachera. Xex t term opens Dec. 6.
Thieves are sometimes inclined to
doubt that a thingof booty is a joy forever.
A few days ago a man named Mar
cus II. Nelson came to Dr. Armsby's of
fice in Albany, N. Y., and requested to
have a finger which had ulcerated taken
off. It was pronounced a case oi gan-
grene and he was sent to the hospital for
treatment. At the regular hospital clinic,
which occurred a few days alter, he was
brought lefore the class and insisted upon
the amputation then and there. A small
quantity of ether and chloroform was
given him, and aner tnree minutes, as me
surgeon was about to perform the opera
tion, it was discovered that he was dead.
" For lite lllood Is the L.'fe."
8ee Deuteronomy xii. 03. "The blood be
ing the source from which the system is
built up, and from which we derive our
mental as well an physical capabilities, how
important that it should be kept pure! If
it contain vile, festering poisons, all organic
functions become enfeebled. Settling upon
Important organs, ns the lungs, liver and
kidneys, the e fleet is most disastrous.
Hence it behooves all to keep their blood in
a perfectly healthy condition, and more
especially does this apply ot this particular
season of the year tlian at any other. No
mutter what tlie exciting cause may be, the
real cause of a large proportion of all dis
eases is bad blood. Now, Dr. Pierce docs
not wish to place his Golden Medical Discov
ery in the catalogue of quack patent nos
trums by recommending it to cure every
disease, nor does he tm recommend it; on
the contrary, there are hundreds of diseases
that he acknowledges it will not cure; but
what he docs claim is this: that there is but
one form of hh4 disease thatitwillnot cure,
and that disease is cancer. He does not
recommend his Discovery for that disease,
vet he knows it to be the most searching
blood-cleanser yet discovered, and that it
will free the blood and system of nil other
Mood-poisons, be they animal, vegetable or
mineral. The Golden Medical Discovery is
trnrrar.trd by him to cure the worst forms of
Skin Diseases, as all forms of Blotches,
Pimples and "Eruptions; also nil Glandular
Swellings, and the worst form of Scrofulous
and Ulcerated Sores of the Neck, Legs or
other parts, and all Scrofulous Diseases of
the Bones, as White Swellings, Fever Sores,
Hip-joint and Spinal Diseases all of which
belong to Scrofulous diseases.
CONFIRMED. niP-JOINT DISEASE CCRED.
W. Gr.ovE Station, Iowa.
Dr. Pikiice, BnfTnlo. N. Y.:
Dear air My wife tirst became lame nine
years ago. Swellings would appear and dis
appear on her hip, and she was gradually
becoming reduced, nud her whole system
rotten with disease. In 1S71 a swelling
broke on her hip, discharging large quanti
ties, and since lAiat time there are several
openings. Have had rive doctors, at an ex
pense of $l'i", who say nothing will do any
irood but a surgical operation.
July 1, 1ST3, he writes thus: My wife has
certainly received a great benefit from the
use of your Discovery, for she was not able
to get oil' the bed and was not expected to
live a week when she commenced using it, a
year ago. She has been doing most of her
work for over six months. Has used twenty
bottles, and still using it. Her recovery is
considered as almost a miracle, and we attrib
ute it all to the use of your valuable medi
cine. I can cheerfully recommend it as a
blood-puritier and strength-restorer.
J. M. KoniNsoN.
Golden Medical Discovery is sold by Drug
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issued "in the United States Patent Olliee;
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Sclenck.' ITIandrake Pills
will be found to posess those qualities nccescary
to the total vradictition of all bilious attacks,
prompt to start the fecretious of the liver, and
give a healthy tone to the entire system. Indeed,
it is no ordinary discovery in medical science to
have invented a remedy for these stubborn com
pliiints, which develop nil the results produced by
heretofore free use of calomel, a mineral justly
dreaded by mankind, and acknowledged to be de
strurtAein the extreme to the human system.
That the properties of certain vegetables comprise
all the virtues of calomel without its injurious ten
dencies Is now an admitted fact, rendered indis
putable by scientific researches; and those who
use the Mandrake Pills will be fully satisfied that
the best medicines arc those provided by nature in
the common herbs nnd roots of the fields.
Tlu-se pills open the bowels snrt correct all bil
lons derangements without salivation or any of the
in; in ions effects of calomel or other poisons.
The secretion of bile is promoted by these piilg. as
will tie seen by the altered color of the stools and
disappearing of the sallow complexion and cleans-
ng or tl
he tonirne.
Ample directions for nse accompany each box of
pill-.
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lifn. Editor: in every city, town and
iainlet in the land may be found some feeble
person unable to perform hard laborj some
man or woman that delights in visiting the
sick and ministering to their wants, some
local preacher not fully occupied, or some
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little to their present income and I want
some such person in every place where I
have no agent to sell a Medicinal Extract
made by the Shakers, which has proved of
such signal service in the cure of those long
standing diseases that prevail in all parts of
our country, nnd which have heretofore re
sisted all kinds of medical treatment. Your
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There can be no risk on the part of the
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An Accidental Ccrk When death was
hourly expected from consumption, all remedies
having fa ltd, nd Dr. II. James was experi
menting, be accidentally made a preparation of
Indian hemp, which cured hia only child, and
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which so exactly suit the various conditions
of the human hair.
Gentian was our grandmothers hobby for
a tonic, and no bitter would be considered
complete without it; hence it enters into
nearly all. But experience has proved that
it is injurious to the stomach if frequently
used. A far better tonic la found in Guarana
Bitters.
Bctter and cheese are almost indispensa
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nutritious and healthy; but an inordinate
use of either causes indigestion and dyspep
sia. Parsons' Purgative Pills, judiciously
used, will remove both of these troubles.
TIave you ague in the face; and is it badly
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back or side? ilave you cramps or pains in
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colic or severe gsipiug pains? If so, use
Jvhusoitt Auodyne Liniment internally.
The Tcbclar Lamp is a wonderful thhogi
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jr. Emile Mer, who has attained con
siderable eminence as a physiologist
among French botanists, says that a leaf
that has attained its full growth only con
tinues to exist on the condition of forming
starch or glucose. When there is insuf
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these, what has been already elaborated is
parted with by the stomata, the leaves turn
yellow and die away.
Dr. Schlieman writes from Leyden,
Holland, to the London Academy that he
has become convinced, by new evidence
treasured in the prehistoric portion of the
museum of that city, that there never was
any "Stone Age," but that stone weapons
and implements have at all times, even in
the remotest antiquity, been used simul
taneously with weapons and implements
of copper.
Paint intended for outside work,
which will not be protected by varnish, is
mixed as follows : Crush the color if in
lumps, and mix to a stiti paste with lin
seed oil, boiled or raw the latter is prefer
able; then, if a dark color, add brown
japan or gold-size, in the proportion of
one-half pint to a gallon of oil ; in a light
color, use patent drier in similar quanti
ties. Western Monvfacturer.
m m
--Alter filing a saw, place it on a level
board and pass a whetstone over the side
of the teeth until all the wire edge is off
them. This will make the saw cut true
and smooth, and it will remain sharp
longer. The saw must be set true with a
saw-set. Scientific American.
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suddenly remembers, as he is getting his
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For the rich with few chililreu
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