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Fever and Ague,

from which mankind suffer over large part OF
the globe, is the consequence OF diseased acton
in the system, induced by the poisonous miasm OF
vegetable decay This exhalation is evolved by
the action of solar heat on wet soil. and rises with
the watery vabor from ii. While the sun is below
the horizon this vapor fingers near the earth sur
face. and the virus is taken with il through the
lungs into the blood. There it acts an irritating
poison on the internal viscera and excretng organs
of the body. The liver becomes torpid and fails to
secrete not only this virus but also the bile from
the blood. Both the virus and the bile accumulate
in the circulation, and produce violent constitu-
tional disorder The spleen, the kidneys, and the
stomach sympathze with the liver. and become
disoraered Also Finally, the instinct Of our or
ranism as if in an attempt TO expel the noxious
Infusion concentrates the whole blood OF the body
IN the internal excretories force them to cast 1t
ont The blood leaves the surface, and PUSHES 70
the central organs with eongestive violence. ms
is the CHrII But in this effort it fails Then the
FEVER follows, in which the blood leaves the CEN
trial organs and PUSHES To the surface as II IN
another effort expel the irritating poison through
that other great excretory - the skin. In TINS
also il fails, and the system ahandons the attempt
exhausted and waits for the recovery OF strength
10 repeat the hopeless effort another day. These
arc the fits or paroxysms Of FEVER AND AduR.
Such constitutional disorder will of course under
mine thc health If it il not removed.
We have labored to iind and have found, an
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FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF ST. LOUIS.
DIRECTORS:
j s.. McCune, s. Nj. Edgell, C.S. 9reeIy,
Il. Wyman, g. II. Peck B.W Ale xander,
James smith, 8. ID. Pomeroy, ID. ID. Page.
r s.. ELLIOTT, Sec'y. s. NJ, EDaELIs, Pres't
AUTHORIZATIONS RISKS TAKEN.
T.. b. HOLMES, General Agent.
decldIy A .BKIDaMAN, Ag't X eokuk
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FOR ALL THE PURPOSES or A puRGarHt MEDICINE.

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FOR ALL THE PURPOSES or A pURGATivE MEDICINE
FoR CosTrvENEss
For THE CURE OF DYSPEPSIA
FoR JAuNDIcE,
FoR THE CURE OF INDIGESTION
FoR HEADACHE;
FoR THE CuRE OF DysENTERY;
FoR Foul STOMACH;
FoR THE CuRE OF ERYsIPELAs;
FoR THE PI1.Hs;
For THE CURE OF ScRorrIA.
For ALL ScRoFuLoUs COMPLAINTS:
FoR THE CURR OF RnEuMAT1sM
FOR DISEASES OF THE SKIN;
FoR THE Cure or LIVER COMPLAINT,
Fon DRorsY;
For THE CURE OF letter, TuMoRs AND SALT
RHEUM
FoR WORMS;
For THE CuRE or GorT;
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FoR THE Cure OF NEURALGIA;
FoR PURIFYING THE BLOOD.
They are sugar-coated, so that the most sensi-
tive can take them pleasantly, and being purely
vegetable, no harm can arise from their use In any
quantity.
Price Is sents per Box; Boxes for $lOo
Great numbers Of Clcsgymcn, Physicians, States
men, and eminent personages, have lent their
names to certify the unparalleled usefulness Of these
insertion Of them. The Agents below named fur
Msh gratis our AMERICAN ALMANAC III which they
are given with also full descriptions of the above
complaints, and the treatment that should be fol-
lowed for their cure
10 not be put of by unprincipled dealers with
other preparations they make more profit on.
Demand AYERS, and take no others The sick
want the best aid there for shcm and they should
have it.
All our Remedies are for sale by
BARTLETT, KAYE & co, Keokuk.
j. III. REED CO., Chicago,
BARNARD Il Co, st. Louis
SURE, ECKsTEIN CO., Cincinnati,
Wholesale Agents
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Ayers Cherry Pectoral

has won for itself such "a renown for the cure Of
EVERY variety of Throat and Lung Complaint that
II Is entirely unnecessary for US 20 recount tie
evidence of its virtues wherever il has been cnl-
ployed. AS it has long been in constant use
throughout this section, we need not do more than
assure the people its quality kept up to the best
It ever has been, and that it may be relied 10
do for their relief all it has been found TO do
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EE Buildings, Merchandise, Factories, Dwell
ings and contents insured at rates low other
Companies who pay their losses.
IL. b. TEN-EYCK, Agent,
Office corner 81 and Mali SITS +, keokuk, Iowa.
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DUBI4IC NOTICE is hereby given that on Satur-
J. day the 30,h day Of July next, will sell at
public sale in front Of the banking house of VIM
Thompson Co., In the city OF Kcokuk, Ice county,
Iowa the following reat estate wit .he e.ste-. :
half If lot nine t91, block one hundred and six
(lDs1 Of said city, rs feet front on Main-st., and
lao feet deep.
The above sale is made by virtue Of Deed OF
Trust from Thomas Bruce 70 III for the purpose
Of securing the payment Of promissory note made
By James e Bruce To Grnnell jenkins FOR the sun
of 81 sal "a, and said Deed OF Trust provides thai
the property may bs redeemed from the sale to b
made by me by paying the above debt and ten PEI
cent. interest, ut any time within one year aftel
sale. The sale will r. for cash, and deed will b,
made to the purchaser
JOHN w. RANKIN, Trustee.
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Litchfield enquirer., 1859-04-21

tiou,. that they should learn to know them
 selvcs and command themselves. Another common error is fayoritisn in families One child, because he happened to be frs. borna or lis called by particular name, or from some other equally absurd cause, or perhaps from mere caprice, is idolised and advanced, while all his brothers and sisters are treated within difference. Much dispeace and petty misery have arisen from this system of favoritism, which, wherever it occurs, is discreditable to the parental relation. All the children in a family. whatever be their capacities, and wheth- CT maleor female, should be treated with eqnal consideration and kindness Gu no account prefer one another
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-04-21

aHectS more or less all classes or our 1afInfng population. especially perhaps in eastern sec. tions, is the secret, we imagine, of our neg iected road.sides and unadorned homesteads. ! 1t was not so with the early settlers.in in the, older sstates.l They took possession of the
 wilderness, and expected that when tbey had redeemed it, it would be 2 possession to them. and to their children forever. They laid out in the. center of the town 8 broad avenue, and planted it with trees, as. we'll as the road side, around their cwn houses. No one eau visit these old towns, which are found all the way Up the yallies of the Connecticut, and of the
 Hudson, and at almost sil points settled Q hundred years ago, and behold the long ave- nues of elms and naples, without q feeling of veaeration fer the men who planted them. fine sons should emulate the example of the, fathers. and like them plant trees for future generatious.'o Tesset ss.S .si'1 asa- 4ss5Ssi a1 ? Nor should we look at this improvement merely as matter of taste. Admitting that your present location is not a permanent home, and that you will sell out within few years,i it is for your interest to plant trees. They are cheap, are easily removed from the nursery or forest, occupy no valuable room, and when once established add beauty and value to your farm without your thought, and labor. You can do nothing at so small cost, So likely to enhance it's value. Your best purchaser, five or ten years hence, is likely toI come from the city. with whom such an ad iunct to your farm would be chief attrae- ton. The taste for rural life is growing more and more strong in cities. aud will increase as the follies and extravagaucies Of fashion are multiplied The retiring merchant or profes- sional man caneot wait to grow his own trees. He can build his house, end lay out bis grounds, and plant his shrubs and flowers in a year ;; but trees are the work of time., These are indispensable to his cultivated tastes, and the essential condition of his location in the eoan- try He can sooner make him a tasteful home in the uncleared forest than upon, treeless farm. Whatever then your future home may be, tilng the old homestead or going hence, make the most of it as home Of intelligence and taste, while you remain. Let the passing traveller see that 's1" ~''sss' N'''<' 'D" '-' ''s'' Hence every gale
 Breaks odors every zephyr from his wings @F Waiting new fragrance; borne from trees, from
 shrubs, t3s.- .-s,r - l From deep carnat tions, iron, the blushing rose,
 From every flower and aromatic herb. 'a' 1i's.* In grateful mi xtures Hence ambrosial fruits i Ii cid the r delicious fayoTs tJseass fssss ss.s ....,- '.,'... - American Agrieultarist.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-04-21

The Charleston, (s C) Mercury says of the nsxt Democratic Pfeidsntisl Conyentson,s unless it.ls lnsd ezclussely Q delgats iron Ne Soshs It will be no Convention of the Democratic Passy. l. xs
 Ex-Ssnator James 0. Jones. of Tennessss, vho went from the Whigs to the Democrats few years ago. has become so disgusted with the Demccratic party. that he has gone back to the Qppo1tion par ty, and is working for tin Tsnnessee. -. 9 Al rrishrsn, going to bs hangsd, besged that fi,e rooe might be tied under his arms instAad of sound shis, throat F fofs seid nt,H en no se- markably ticklish in the throat that If ted there, fI certainly Kill myself with 1eushtsr.'
 The earIiess pspef-mill etablishsd in America vas as EIisabsth, New Jsrssy 1t RI pufehassdin i7So D William Bradford, sRoysl sRfintsr Of New Jersey and PeunsylyslAia. The eecond Americaa paper-miIl went into operation fn Boston, and was aided by the Massachusetts, Iegislaturs.
 The Republican ma3ority in Michigar q tho judf- cial election Monday week vas about "a, 900 Al least Rsesixths of the counties went Republican-- usnally, by increased majoritiss. sss s 2 The Repubiicans of Wheslins Virginia, have sd- dressed memorial to the Republican NatioAal Committe, urging the sslectiQn of Wheeling g< the place for holdfngahe NatlopsI coeseption th9f C to nominate the nsxt F1ss
 There vas severe frost In Augusta, Ga, oa t!.> night of April 9th.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-04-21

KEEPING UP -ApPEARANcEs.--Som Something ought to be done by the whole community to lower the style of living and to diminish it's ex- penses. Men, who find themselves growing poor, must not be ashamed to meet poverty with more rigid economy and harder labor To keep up appearances, SO as not to lose caste, is the object of too many families--to live without labor is the aim of too many men. We should never be ashamed to work either mentally or bodily. It is better to labor hard with the hands, if necessary, than to, be shii,- ming around borrowing where there is any thing to lend, and beseiging banks and brokers for loans, suffering immense slaves in the way of interest-all for the sake of keeping up ap- pearances. When man finds himself unfor- tuhate in business. he had better let every thing go by the run than to attempt to sail a. gainst the adverse wind. Let him gracefully succumb at once-give up all to his creditors, and commence life anew, even if he has to work. Honesty will be a better salve to mans wounded pride than these false appear ances. ..9sAzS. <Ef@ @a5 g. 67Sssi
 ' We are sorry to see in the present genera ton such m aversion to labor --suchla a desire for a splendid and expensive life, such e deter imitation to acquire the means of this splendor in any other way than by honest work Our fathers and mothers lived a different life with different and better aims. They toiled late and early, and they gloried in the independ- ence which they obtained by the sweat of their brows. Their hands may have been as hard as horn when they were laid in their graves i; but they were honest hands uncontaminated with the stains of defalcation and dishonesty, or any of the more fashionable modern methods of preying upon the community There would not be so much dishonesty and dedication among us if we were as simple in our man ners, as frugal in our expenses, and as perse- vering in our labors as our ancestors were. Simplicity, economy and industry are what the present generation need. They are the best specifies to drive the demons of debt and
 fraud from our hearts, even if their names are Legion. Ygsa ss.rss. i--,iss3 aSsaa
 Women couid assist much fin the change that must take place in society if we wish to keep the world honest. If they would com mence the selfsacrifce, the men would the more readily follow Many . woman, who dresses beyond the legitimate means of her husband or father, does so from ignorance.
 She takes it for granted that he can afford it because he allows it. 1t would be better for her to enquire more about his business and it's profits, and for him to be more candid and communicative, and thus ward of the crash that must come Let women remember that the shoal towards which the winds are driving their husbands barques, and on which they
 will be left high and dry, goes by the name of " Keeping up False Appearances. z But af- ter all, in ninety y-nine cases in . hundred it is the men, and not the women, who are to
 blame. Men, lack the courage to own to their wives and daughtera and the community that they are really poor. and mnst live as poor men live. HarefaF1 Cssrsak. 1d
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-04-21
tDHrGTTGTRY.

DR. E. W. BLAKE would call the at 0yyv Stention of his patrons to his superior f- ' mode of filling Teeth with pare gold, which renders further decay next to impossible. He would also ask them to look at his superior Single Gum Teeth also to his Premium Continu- ous aum Tceth--the best in use T 4 gnt ls5*
 The strictest attention given, usua to the care ful yet expeditions Extraction of Teeth with with oat She use of Chloroform, Ether and other benumb- ing agents. asfss s-y .s as 4ta.3 ftanrltyl
 Business hours from s o'clock A. M. to 6 'oc clock F. M. 0f1cs in the first building south of the Man. sicn House. (up stairs.) e1sT 5 y sasf
 sikteen years in the busness--thirteen in Litch. field, Conn. sssg 7yaslf -4sss { 2 ,sf.is sfegs4{
 Liteh6eld, August 1, 1s5S. a f. sa ...z as l,.fs
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-04-21
94itsbftlo C'plllltu.. ] !.

s1 IT any parent wlsnes recfpe how to spDk
 dasgkters t can be easily and readily given,
 and can be proved by the experience of hun.
 dreds, to be certain and eficacious.s e..sk $ 2 l. Be always telling her from earliest child.
 hood what a beautiful creature she is. It is
 capital way of .iufating the vanity of . little girl, to be constantly exelaiming " How pret-
 Y v Children understand such fattery even when in the nursc's arms, and the sevil is done to the character in it's earliest foripation. 2. .' 2. Begin as, soon as she can. toddle aronnd,
 to rig her up in fashionable clothes and rich dresses. Put hoop upon her at once, with all the artificial sdornments of fennces and feathers and flowers and curl& Fondness for dress will thus becomesa prominent character. istic, and will nsarp the whole attention of the young immortal, and be long step towards spoiliag Aer.y es xass es ,flse s1tsaa sses egas D 8. Let her visit SD much that she finds no happiness at home, and therefore will not Do apt to stay there and learn home duties. It is'a eapitalsthinge fos g spoiled daagater to seek all her happiness in visiting, and change of place and nssociates.. She will thus grow as useless, as modern fashionable parents de- light that their daughters should be. sd rya 4. Let her reading consist of novels of the nauseatingE sentimental kind z. She will be spoiled sooner than if she perused history or science Her heart will be occupied by fcti- tious scenes aud feelings j; her mind filled with unreaiities; and her aims placed on fashion and dress and romantic attachments. sa4. Be careful that her education gives her a smattering of all the accomplishments, with out the slightest knowledge of the things re- ally useful in life. Your I,damgAter wont be spoiled as long as she has real desire to be plishment. If her mind and time are occupi- ed in modern accomplishments, there will be no thought of the necessity and virtue of be. ing of some real use to somebody, peryading her heart, and she will soon be ready as 3 spoiled daughter. s,4 .s.s,, .,..3 ,t..4 rg,.,
 6. As 9 consequence, keep her in profound ignorance of all tue useful arts of housekeep- ing, impressing upon her mind that it is vul- gar to do any thing for yourself, or to learn how any thing is done in the house. A spoiled daughter should never be taught the. myste- ries of the kitchen-such things lady always leaves to the servants. It would be "vulgar" for her to know how to dress trout or shad, to bake, to wash, to iron, to sweep, to wiring the neck of a live chicken, pluck it and prepare it for breakfast or to do any thing that servants are hired tosd do. As Q mistress of house, it is her duty to sit on a velvet sofa all day, in
 the midst of aspyramid of silks and aonnces,
 reading the last fash novel, while her domes- tics are performing the labors of the house.
 ise- To complete the happiness of youra spoiled daughter, marry her to a bearded youth with soft hands, who knows as little how to earn money as she does to save it. Her happiness will be yfnished for herlifc time. Courant.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-04-21
GOULD SE.NX.S.aRY.

sfuyHE SUMMER SESSION of this Institute for
 II 1889 will commence May 4th, and continue 2l weeks. is et tsft si*st t'Ah% .@'+ .s1e sF '~a't
 Every effort will be made to render the instruction saeoagk and the progress as rapid us is consistent with true meutal culture; while due attention will begiven to the formation of character of those en- trusted to our care. EF f1A1f 's5s72s e 5s'' s5as Tho patronage of this community Is respectfully solicited. G F l77f1 sA 's5 f F sts's S's4 }is' , Applications should be made prevToss to the open ing of the School, directly to the Principals, .
 VI 'si 5srsg 4 kE The MISSES STYLES. s utchAeld March 28, 1859. ''s' s''' v # 49-6w
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-04-21

A Dutchman. having friend hung in this country, wrote to his friends, informing them that after addressing . large meeting of cit izens, the scsfold on which he stood gave way,
 owing to which he fell and broke bis meek"
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-04-21

oa A Rev. Father said to a colored minister4-. !" Suppose we exchange pulpitse a week from next Sundayp "Oh, your folks don't want to hearsne they wouldn't come out any mnFe than Mr,---'s people, when they heard . negro was to preach" You let me manage that," said the shrewd old clergyman. A. greed" 3zsss.l:sss., ------..-----.--
 Well, the next Sunday. he gave notice to his people that on Sunday, after he should ex- change with good brother--and said he: '''I want you all to come and hear him, for the last place where he exchanged the people wouldn't come out to hear him, bseawss As looked 50 ?' sl '.'
 s Everybody wondered all the week how . man could look, if he looked 50 that people would not come out to hear him preach. At au early hour the house was crowded, and "'at the drop of the hat, ," the negro preacher lifted his ebony face above the desk, and, sure enough, he looksd SO [ ss.5 F passas
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-04-21

An old lady combatted the idea of the moon being inhabited, by remarking with emphasis, that theiidsa is incredible, e" fol" says she, " what becomes of the people in the moon when there is nothing left in 1t but . little
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-04-21
Elm Park, English and Classica -. ... Institute for Boys, a.s .t,

Rev. JAMES RICHARDS, D.D., Principal. JAMES RICHARDS, Jr., A,B., Assistant. G UMMER SESSION of 422 weeks. commences 0 MAY 3d.. Every attention will be given to the physical. mental and religious training of the pupfls. Instruction will he given in the Modern Languages and in Music if desired. e, fta s..s.,t E, Terms moderate. For circulars apply to Plinci- pal. .+',,e. e..l .,ets a4leea <. 1 61 1-3m !.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-04-21

aTAKE CARE OF YouR LITTLE FAuIrs--- -- Correct your little faults, and you will gain courage and overcome great ones. No man arrives at excellence but through sharp watch ing and constant curbing of his faulty tenden- cies in the smallest matter. Washington and Franklin drew. up rigid rules, and proceeded upon. thorough system in disciplining them selves, from early life. their footstepseyery young American should be proud lto follow Were less empty praise showered upon those fathers of the nation, and more earnest copies attempted of their grand lives, we should be- hold 2 different risins. generation from the present. z z @s9s ss- ass