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now TO PREVENT COLDS.

If people were blessed with common
sense and little wholesome self-de-
NAL, they might often escape severe
colds and feveEs by resolute means
adopted in season. A correspondent
of the .EUGngelist sends the following.
giving an infallible recipe for q bad
cold, if it is handled in time. Perhaps
some of our readers may hate the cOur-
age to try the experiment.
There Is probably not man, woman
or child who is not as often as once a
year afflicted with severe cold, which
ends in cough or catarrh; and thots-
Rnds there are who die every year OF
consumption brought ON by taking colds
He, then, who should discover certain
aud effectual remedy for this complaint
would be justly regarded as one of the
greatest benefactOrs of the age. The
writer does not profess TO have diseov-
cred such a remedy, but he wishes to
attest the truth of the following certain
and effectual expedient for preventing
cold. A cold cannot be easily cured,
but if it can be prevented, tt Is of no
importance to know how it may be
cured.
A bad cold. like measles, or mumps.
or other similar ailments, will run its
course of about ten days, fu, spite OF
| what may be done for it, unless rem
edial means arc employed within forty
eight hours of its inception. Many a
useful lie may be spared, to be incfeas.
iugly useful, by cutting cold off in the
following safe but simple manner: On
the first day of taking cold there is q
very unpleasant sensation Of chilliHess.
The moment you observe this, go 10
! your room and stay there. Keep it at
such temperature as Will entirely pre-
vent this chilly feeling, even if ii re-
quires 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
In addition to this, put your feet In
water half leg deep, as hot as you can
bear it, adding hot water from time to
time for a quarter of an hour, so that the
water shall be hotter when you take
your feet out, than when you put them
in. Then dry them thoroughly, and put
on thick, warm wOOllen stockings, even
If it be summer-fOr summer colds are
more dangerOus-and for twenty-four
hours eat not an atom of food, but drink
| as largely as you desire of any kind OF
warm teas, and at the end of that time
the cold will be entirely broken without
any medicine whatever. Efficient as the
above means are, Tot one in thousand
attends to them led on, as most men
are, by the hope that a cold will pass
away itself. Nevertheless, this article
will now and then pass under the eye OF
| wise man who does not choose to run
the double risk of taking physic and dy-
ing tOo.-NedGc0L Journal.
The above experiment is a severe one
for epicures and gluttons, but most per.
sons will find it easier to fast one day
than to be sick fortnight. The writer
has usually found that tasting for three
or four meals is sufficient, but the whole
remedy is better than part.
/ : Let those who are often afflicted with
colds-ministers,s students and cOnsump.
tives generally. cut out the above di.
| rectiOns and preserve them if faithfully
followed, they will do you more good
than all the pulmonaries. cold cordials
| and other hurtful nestrums, which now
load your shelves.
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CANNING PEACHES.

Select the rich, juicy, rare-ripe peach
es; peel, halve them, and throw them
into clear, boiling syrt1p, made with
one third of pound of loaf sugar to a
pound of the fruit. and . tablespoonful
of water. Clear the syrup as it comes
to boil, by skimming it thoroughly i;
then throw in the peaches and the pits.
Let them boil gently a few minutes till
they look transparent, then remove them
from the fire. take them out with skim
mer, and put them in the jars, which
you have made ready by heating in wa
ter, which has been gradually brought to
thirds full, and fill up with syrup TO the
top, taking care to put fair proportion
of the pits in each jar.
The filing should be done rapidly.
and the covers screwed down while the
jars are hot.
The pits will be found a great i'm
provement. They not only impart a
fine flavor, but are of medicinal value.
Peach pits are specific for dyspepsia,
and a small paper of them is sold in
New York as remedial agent for sew
enty-five cents.
The amount of sugar specified inst
makes the peaches sweet enough 10 eat,
and not any too much so. We have
LSICu eOIIS "a ways Va Chuu4uSs Jul
find this SO entirely satisfactory that we
shall abide by it, till better method is
| shown to us.
In the peach-growing districts, where
the fruit is SO plentiful that it is some.
times left to rot, women might as well
make their hundreds of dollars every
year as not, if they would put it up in
telligently, and try to make arrange
ments with families, instead of middle
men, to take it.
The very best canned fruit to be pur-
chased is, after all, poor and very dear.
1t is put up without favor, tastes fat
and insipid, is often hard or unripe.
There is an immense waste in the tin
cans, which are nearly always thrown
away, and which are never half filled,
although the cost is so high.
We sincerely hope the time is not dis
tant, when women will control this
branch of labor, and do it more con-
scientiously than it is done by men,
who care only to make a large profit.
Fresh fruit and vegetables are SO great
luxury, and at the same time SO essen.
tial to health, that one who helps to pop
ularize and render them accessible to all
becomes great observation-disclosures
Monthly Magazine.
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by quotas from each of the States. with
reference to their pysical znoral and in
tellectual attributes.
To imagine the leader Of this famous
band of fixed patriots Ne have hut to
revive the stron9, deyofed. faithful face
Of Captain Colfax dresGed In the uni
form of his company Blue co3t with
white facings, white waietcoat, breeches,
half black gators, and e6rked hat with
a blue and white feathef.
Mrs. Matthews has n0sE In her posses
sion the silver shoe buckles of General
Washington, part of the tokens which
the chief give his beloved attendant. It
was while at WashingtU6' 3 headquarters
that Colfax made the arduaintahce of
General Schuyler and InNtried into his
family, whereby our candidate for the
Vice Presidency adds te bis name that
of the heroic PATRON Of albany. When
COlfax was nominated the other day,
George Schuyler sent him cousinly con-
gratulations.
Captain Colfax became General Col
fax in the war of 1872. 1t is pleasant
to recollect that the hand which Wash
ington had shaken so intimately and so
trustingly, has also as often caressed in
his grandson, the intimate and beloved
friend of Lincoln. The war of Inde-
pendence and the war of Freedom are
represented alike in Grant and Colfax.
Both are grandsons of soldiers of the
Revolution. Colfax shows his good ex-
traction in his clear completion, ruby
lips. fine eyes. and the excellent Iustre
of his hair. Grant looks like the sturdy
soldier of the line, bearing toughly up
with the bayonet against the tedious
fortunes of the battle. Being what they
were III parentage and patriotism, who
they stand at the head of the lifeguards
of the Republic? G. A. T.
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The NEW FIFTEEN CENT IssUE.-fhe
new fifteen cent notes have just been
turned out by the printing department OF
the Treasury. The notes are of the same
width but somewhat shorter than the
twenty-five cent notes. On the right
side of the note is an excellent vignettc
of Gen. Sherman. Between the Wig
nettes is the word fifteen cents" prom
inently displayed, aud Immediately be-
meath, the figures 'I5." The back is
similar in appearance to twenty-five
cent notes, with the denomination on
each end. This issue, it is believed, viii
be quite popular and supply awant that
has long been felt. 49,.
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THE Exprn1rNcr OF MrN wEo Kvo,

THE EXPERIENCE OF MEN WHO Know
Horace Greedy, who has had q long
experience as newspaper man, says !:
The most successful business men in
this city are those who advertised lib.
orally and constantly. A small adver-
tisement constantly appearing is better
than display column occasionally"
Geo. ID. Prentice of the Louisville
Journal, says: I'VE have been carry
ing on the Louisville journal for thir.
ty-seven years and during all this time
we have known no man Of business in
the city to fail who advertised literally.
And we have known no one to succeed
in any considerable, If even in a respect
able degree, who don't advertise liber.
ally"
Fanklin, who was one of the most
observing and clear-sighted men of his,
or any other time, said: "When you
pay more for the rent of your business
house than for advertising your BUSH
ness, you are pursuing false policy.
If you can do business let it be known"
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New CRooUEr.-The new style Of Gro.
quet set, by which the game is greatly
simplified and improved, has just been
patented. Only two colors are used in
this patent, red and black, to represent
the sides-black on one side and red on
the other; and the balls are striped in
numerical order from one to eight. No.
l in red, and every alternate ball in
black and SO striped that their number
can be ascertained at a glance. The
players play in numerical order.
The mallets are striped TO correspond
with the balls. The colors OIL the stake
are nearly done away with 1t is pro.
nounced by all the players of the game
to be just the thing needed.
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AN INTERESTING REMINISCENCE.
Schuyler Colfax's Grandfather Command.
ing WAShingtOn's Life Guard.
Correspondence of the cleveland LEADER
az ~ u On

Correspondence of the cleveland Leader.l
WAsHINGToN, July, 1868.
Down at the old Virginia city OF
Alexandria l saw, not long ago, faded
flag of white silk, fringed, well-worn
with mold and rain, bearing an old
fashioned device of soldier holding in
one hand fiery horse and with the
other receiving from the genius OF
liberty, who sits beside the American
eagle, g streamer bearing the motto,
Conquer or die"
This was the original standard of the
Life Guard of General George Wash.
ington, commanded by Captain, after
General, William Colfax, the grand
the Vice Presidency of the United
States. The old man died in 1888
when the present Speaker of the House
of Representatives was fifteen years
old, and the latters recollection of his
distinguished ancestor is vivid and
enthusiastic.
Mrs. Matthews, Colfax's mother, re.
calls, as if it were yesterday, the time
when she entered the Generals family
as the wife Of his son. He was a hale
and handsome man, positive in hit
opinions, o Washingtonian in politics
something of traveller; for he visited
Indiana among the earliest of his fami
ly, and he knew by the association o.
the whole war, the military life and
habits of the first President. He il
buried at Pumpton, New Jersey, the
seat of his family. aa.
The sight of this old standard, sc
much older and mole storied than oul
newer shot-riven and grimy guidons
impelled me to make some search il
the library of Congress for the life Of
VIM. Colfax. In this, Mr.. Spofford
the librarian, assisted ME, and although
the facts were meagre, they were Of the
highest interest.
First, out of Peter Forces collection
of manuscripts l drew a yellow fools
cap sheet, in the handwriting of evil.
liam Colfax, Commandant," bearing
the date of June %, 1888, and contain.
ing the names of siXty-five men, consti'
tuting the life guard of COMMANDMENTS
Chief. Across the back OF the report
in the handwriting of George Washing,
tan, was written:
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EMPTY CHURCHEs.-Various reasons
are given why men do not go to church
Human nature is true to itself, and men
will not go where they are not fed
Ii there was discriminating preacher
in the pulpit, and he sent men away
with better judgement, and with better
moral convictions, and with better bal
anced states OF mind; if he sent them
away feeling that the sermon went
home with them, and that they needed
it, the church would be a place to
which people would resort far more
than they do. And never was there a
time when men wanted religious tracts
as much as now. Never was there 9
knowledge of things that pertain tC
manhood, here and hereafter, as this
very day. And when they go tC
church and get nothing but cut straw
and straw raised five hundred year,
ago, and are dissatisfied at that, anG
will not go again, l honor them. I lay
this law as much to myself as to my
brethren. never scolded you for not
coming to church, and never will. ]
do not mean here, for you almost al
ways fill this house, but if my prayer.
meetings are not well attended it is my
fault and not yours. know it. I dc
not OeneVe, as long as human nature
remains true TO what it is, that the
herds will refuse to come to the rack
when there is juicy fodder there; and
if they do not come, it is because there
is nothing to eat. Therefore, when oul
evening meetings have fallen off,
have always said to myself You are
falling off and not the people," Ever
when have not remedied the evil,
have known the cause of it all the time
And on the other hand, the moment
my soul was full, and my sympathies
flowed out in overwhelming tide to.
wards my fellow men, have noticed
that my meetings have gone up. If q
man sleeps. under my preaching, I dc
not send boy to wake him upj but
feel boy had better come and wake
me up. am not speaking of watcher.
of the sick, nor of seamen who have
just landed, but of I" these pillars of thu
Church O God" that make sleeping {
business.-HenTy Ward Beeeher.
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The Doom OF MoRMoNIsM.-While
the newspapers inform us of a large
body of dissatisfied Mormons leaving
Utah, the telegraph tells US that three
thousand or more of the faithful have
just arrived from Europe. This is an
other astonishing fact in the history of
the church of the adroit imposter, Brig
ham Young. This is another proof of
the astonishing energy OF the despotic,
una merican church. -.s.
But while we have these evidences of
vitality, we have a more powerful in
fuence working for its destruction. The
Pacific railroad will introduce into Utah
the American influences that have been
so long excluded by Brigham Young.
Church tyranny and religious terrorism
will have lost their power when the iron
arteries traverse Utah, and before the
echoes of the first whistle of the loco
motive shall have been lost in the dis
lance the history of the Mormon church
will be ended. oa
The fertile fields of the Mormons will
fall into other hands; the dupes will
take a new leader and seek another
earthly paradise, while the Prophet
with few choice spirits will retain the
vast wealth of the church and enjoy
the income. Mormonism, driven from
Illinois by force, will die a natural death
in Utah.-LeGcens1orth Times.
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HOW MANUFACTURES DEVELOP A
CITY.

A good illustration of what manufac-
lures will do for place when encOura-
ged (says Pennsylvania paper) is af-
forded by the fourishing town of Can
ton, Ohio, where reapers and mowers
are made. When the inventor went
there, few years ago, it was the dullest
and least progressive town in the State,
and was retrograding in wealth and pop
ulation. He asked tor ten Thousand dol
lars from the citizens to start a manu-
factory. They raised and gave it to him.
The following are the results of the in
vestment:
Two large agricultural implement
manufactures, of plows exclusively,
one of stoves and hollow ware, one of
reaper aud mower knives, and saddlery
hardware, two of horse rakes, one of
wrought iron bridges, one of soaps. and
others more or less extensive. These
are not small concerns. The machine
interest alone supports two thousand
five hundred men. The town has treb-
led in population, quadrupled in wealth,
besides developing home market for
farm products which is stimulating pro-
duction and enriching farmers in the
country tributary to it.
This is how the smart people of Ohio
get along.
The above, which we clip from an ex-
change, is true, every word of it, and an
exemplication of its corrcctdess is af-
forded in our own town.
Two years since property in the low
er part of the town was, commercially
speaking, drug. the locality was voted
unhealthy. and people would shave none
of it," When lots changed hands at
wide intervals, twenty and thirty dol
lars was an outside price.
About that time our citizen, f. L.
Crane, gave to an Eastern manufactur-
ing company feeling their way west
ward, solid block of land in that Sec
ton, and other men increased the dona-
ton and thereby secured the location
here of foundry. Now, property in
that neighbOrhoOd, has advanced two
hundred per cent, the foundry is over
run with orders, two new mills are now
going up, other manufacturing enter
prises are now organizing, fifty new
houses have been built there, and as if
by magic, the bugaboo of malaria has
'made itself air." These men builded
better than they knew, for we believe
that the present movement is only the
nucleus of better things to come in the
guize of machine shops, car factories.
Topeka is bound to be the hub in all
matters. It has the most coal, without
which no manufactures can be carried
on, and, by-and-by, when we have fifty
thousand inhabitants, who shall meas
ure out the benefit to us which a little
forecast and liberality of comprehension
has wrought ?-IopekG Record.
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GYPSUM AS A MANURE.

Most of our readers are doubtless
aware that gypsum is one of the most
valuable manures that can be applied
to the soil. 1t is a sulphate of lime, a
combination of lime and sulphuric ac-
id i'll certain proportions. Strictly
speaking it cannot properly of itself be
called a manure, though it acts as one OF
our most powerful and valuable fertil-
izers by absorbing ammonia and other
salts that exist in the atmosphere. 1t is
used with fine effect on clover, timothy
and all other varieties of tame grasses,
and on corn and wheat. We have al
ways believed it would prove specially
valuable ON our Kansas soils. No little
complaint has been made by our Kan
sas farmers that the tame grasses do not
seem adapted to our soil. In our judg-
ment the marls and loamy soil of the
eastern part Of the State only need the
gypsum of the western to enrich and
fertilize, or rather to supply the condi-
tions lacking, to make our State as pro-
ductive in the growth of the tame grass
es as it now is rich in natural meadows.
In the western part of our State, in
the vicinity of junction City ard ST.
lima, gypsum is found in sufficient guam
tity TO supply the world. 1t will yet
become one of our most valuable arti-
Giles of export. 1t crops out in rocky
ledges from twelve TO thirty feet in
thickness, and being on the line of our
great east and west line of railroad il
will soon be shipped east and prove val
liable as an article of export.
The principal gypsum beds in this
country are found in Michigan and
Ohio. The exports from Grand Rapids.
Michigan, amount to hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars annually. 1t Is shipped
over the Detroit s. Milwaukee road
both in the form of rock as quarried
out and in the ground or puiverized
state. AT nearly every station along
this road are kept mills to grind the
rock to supply farmers in the vicinity,
The Michigan farmers very rarely think
of raising a crop of grass, especially
clover, or wheat, without using plaster
About one hundred pounds to the acre
is used. 1t is found specially valuable
in dry season, being great absorb.
ent of the moisture existing in the at.
Imosphere.- Journal.
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THE ANNUAL: Cosr OF NATIONS Lro

THE ANNUAL: Cosr OF NATIONS L1o-
UoR.-The New York Examiner has
compiled a curious table, comparing the
cost of liquors sold by retail in this
country during one year. Mr.. Wells,
in his report for the fiscal year ending
June 30th, 1867, shows that the cost OF
liquors to the consumers, that is the val
ue of the retail liquor trade, Jas de-
duced from the receipts of internal rev.
enue," reaches the sum of 81, 4S3. 49,, =
S65; that is, forty-three dollars for ev-
cry man, woman and child in the coun-
try. 1t is more than one eighth of the
entire annual sales of the country, more
than the entire product of the precious
metals from all that region west of the
Rocky Mountains for twenty years,
which is estimated by j. Ross Brown n
81 $50, co., 600. 1t is nearly ten times
the value of all the church property IN
the United States, giveuin 1850 by the
census at SIT, 1896, $50. 1t il more thar
0ne-half the national debt.
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The average cost per mile of the rail-
ways of Pennsylvania, Is S45, 1881; Of
Illinois, 81, 563.13; of Nebraska, SI9,-
334.SS: OF Missouri, S2O, 1884, of Tex
as, $62,O02.15. The first cost of con-
structing English railways is immense
when compared with these prices; but
when once built the English road re-
quires far less working expenditure.
10 keep the line in repair in England
costs less than eleven cents per mile
annually for French roads, eight cents
and for American roads At least twen-
ty-fiye cents per mile. s
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The English girls as well as our own
are beginning to realize that fashion is
imposing ceiibacy upon themselves and
the young men of the land. A very
lively discussion has arisen in the col
umns of the London telegram on the
subject. Extravaganza in dress is not
the only hindrance to wedlock COM
planned of; another and a more serious
one is asserted to be the most objection
able, namely, the incompetency of Young
women TO assume the duties of dOmee-
tic life. From the lowest to the high
est. they are taught, there, as we'll as
here, that the great end and aim of wo-
men should be to get "a good match,
and this being SO, the young men also
very naturally wait until they can do
the came. One sensible girl writes that
it is wiser to wait than take up bur-
then that increases as the world grows
wiser" One who married on El20 g
year salary, and evidently could not get
along very smoothly on so small an in-
come, advises young women not to mar
ny a man whose salary is less than &2OO
81 ,OOO-in gold. A matron advises
the young men to wait until by indus
try and economy they are able to offer
suitable homes to girls worth the work
ing and waiting for. "a single man"
fears his sex does not exhibit courage
enough in this particular. He thinks
men are bold enough in ostentation,
but are timid in self deuials; they sell
themselves wholly over to that sham
called society, aud join the foolish race
for show, lest their attire or frugaEity
should be considered mean or unfash-
iOnable. As the case stands on both
sides of the Atlantic, it looks very much
as if the prophetic day would soon come
when seven women shall take hold OF
one man, and agree TO maintain them
selves, but demand the privilege of be-
ing called by his name.
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The Atlantic & Pacific Railway
Company have sold their interest in the
charter and land grants Of Congress.
This guarantees the construction Of the
road from Springfield through South.
western Missouri to the Pacific Ocean
via AlbuQuerQue. sszz-
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Camphor and perfumes will not keep
moths away. If you wish 10 preserve
yotir furs without injury, Keep them in
the dark. Darkness is the sovereign
moth preventative. Iffurs are taken out
for airing, in the summer, the work
should be done very quickly.
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Tho Secretary Of War has promuiga.p
ted an order embodying the eight hour.
law recently passed by Congress. It ap-
army officers, and when extra work IL
necessarily performed, it will be paid
for at the rate of so many hours per day.
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Never swear, never lie, never steal,
never defEaud, do not, under any cir
cumstances, allow anger to override
reason and common sense, decisive not
the weak and innocent, and above all, do
not desert q true and faithful heart.