The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-08-18
Equal to the Occasion.

NOT be so much as named among US. So
far - it is the result Of greed it is to be
dspouaced aud resisted. | sincerely
hoPe tbst every man who has added one
iets to his country's perplexity that he
might fill his own pockets, will find his
Ralhs TO be as rottenness in bis bones.
Bat as one of the hardships of the war,
high prices are to be nothing accounted
o. suppose sugar is thirty cents
pound, molasses dollar a and half
gallon, beef sold by the square inch, cot
ton sixty cents yard, and gold at two
hundred add eighty. How long has it
bssO since mans life consisted in the
abundance OF sweets which he could
swsilow. II sugar is three times as high
o IT usel to be, use one third as much of
~ and the equilibrium is at once restor
ed. Even at that you will probably have
. much as the soldiers have. If St.
Psul would egree to eat no meat while
the world standeth, lest he make his
BROTHER to offend, cannot Christian men
end, women forego beef steak for wear,
or.tvo, or three, or twenty. that nation
perish not? If cambric aud linen are
expensive, are we al! princes and prin-
cesscs that we must have twelve dozen
Of everything, the wardrobe through B.?
Pan ont the bureau drawers and use
their contents unainchingly, regardless
Of the, future, where the honor of now is
imperative. Dive into the old lining.
With scissors and needle, and gar auld
claes look amaist as weel as the new
Ask for black buttons at the shops and
then see what an inexhaustible mine of
black buttons your old boots at home are,
and walk away without purchasing, at a
clear gain of forty two cents. Make your
loaf cake of dried apples and molasses,
and sahrn resolutely that nobody could
ten the difference till people are silenced
1t not convinced Economy can be
made as interesting as a mathematical
problem, aud as merry as July picnic.
And having economical carefully and
successfully, consider that the pleasure
aud privilege of it are enough for your
share, and send the money saved to the
relief of wounded soldiers, or to the as.
sistance of the freed people. 1t may be
said that this does not take into account
the really poor people; but so far as |
haze observed, the fearful looking for il
not among the really poor people. 1t is
not they who are threatened with abso
hase want, bat they who fear curtaiI-
nseht OF iuxnries, a diminuation of diyi
bends, an increase of expenditure, who
haze the most anxiety-GuH Hamilton.
IMPORTANT TO kNow.-It is fact
not generally known, that under the act
sJ vae. 30, 1861, which went into oper.
ation on the LIST of August. a stamp Of
two cents is required on every receipt for
thepayment of money, except on a mort.
gage, IN amount over 500 As also on
receipts for the delivery of property
and by the same law every bank check,
draft or order drawn upon any bank,
banker, or trust company or for any sum
exceeding $40 drawn upon any other
person or persons, companies or corpora
tiotssg st sight or demand, is also made
liable to stamp tax Of two cents. The
paoy~lOn taxing receipts is new in this
country, though long in use in England.
The tai on bank checks, drafts, &c is
extended to all checks, as well as those
lsnder, as those above, $50.
A TIMELY HINr.-Let every person
Who has a friend in the army send him
loIlar's worth of quinine, with instruc-
lions to put as much as will lie on the
point ofA knife in bis coffee every morn
'sg, and the probability is that he will
.ssspe chronic diarrhea, fever and ague
md bilious fever. Three years ago the
uTesoos Of some Of the regiments in the
Army Of the Potomac administered Pc
usian bark, or its extract, quinine, to
llSbe soldiers in their regiments every
~ during the three sickly months OF
Eukass, September and October, and the
Skltsh IA statistlca showed remarkable
ke,pption from disease 10 those regi-