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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29
The Machine. Called Man.

Is very complicated and delic tie one, and is
more liable to get out OF order, and much more
difficult to repair than any combination Of wheels,
and eranks, and levers. made by the hands of man.
As rule 1t is tinkered too much. and 6aty tnkered
at that 1t is often calomeiZed, narcotiZed, de-
pleted, and otherwise misused, when all that 1t
really needs is VIII olesoma tonic and restorative
like HOSTETTERS STOMACH TiTTERS to
put 1t in proper trim and keep it SO. The stom-
ach Is shamefully maltreated. In the first place,
the food which it's juices are intended to dissolve,
Is too frequently Mroagn into nhdstiiy, and In a
halfmasticated condition, in which state the gas
trio acid cannot properly act upon it. The result
Is dyspepsia Then comes the doctor, and finding
he proceeds to weaken and paralyze still more
with drastic purgatives. These failing-as they
always do--to produce a salutary change, he tells
the invalid that medical science can do no more
for him. This, with all due Difference, IL mis-
take-one of those mistakes which Talleyrand
said were tantamount to crimes. What the dys-
peptic needs is inUigorGtion Strengthen the
stomach with HOSTETTER'S BfTTERS, and the
stomach will strengthen every other part of the
human machine, and make it, in common par
lance, as good as new. Upon the state of diges-
whole system Now, the Bitters are the most ad-
mirable tonic known They coaset of the finest
vegetable invigorants and restoratives, combined
with unadulterated stimulant. The dyspeptic
needs nothing else to effect cure, except light,
nutritious diet, and fair amount of exercise.
Even in the absence of these lest mentioned ac-
cessores. the tonic and Alternative properties of
the preparation will work wonders enabling the
dyspeptic to digest inferior fare with comparative
ease, and to maintain q good habit of body in
spite of the drawbacks of a sedentary occupation.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29
Points of a GOOD Fowl.

FoR. general use hen should be good
layer, sitter, and mother. She must be a
good feeder, too, bright, clear-eyed, quick
in her motions, but not scary, and with
these points, she will pay to keep. Be
sides, she should be large, we'll feathered,
with small, short legs, with small head,
broad shoulders, and deep body. The
cock should be thicker in the leg, broader
across the shoulders, fully third heavier.
He should have gallant strut, be first out
in the morning, first to go to roost, in
clined to take on flesh easily, generous in
picking out titbits for the hens, and not
quarrelsome. We do not associate large
eyes with great hardness. They are a
great beauty, and indicate high breeding
hence, with perfection in feather and other
points, they are desirable in fancy fowls.
In very large breeds quick growth is de-
sirable, while early maturity is not. Each
Of the different breeds has its character
lstic points, and the fowl should, in addi-
ton to the above general marks. show
them NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AgraculturiSt.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29
Boot and Shoe Grease.

THE SHOE AND LEATHER REPORTER
says hogs lard is admirably adapted to
secure to leather both pliability and i'm
permeability to water; train oil, after 1t
dries up, renders the leather brittle Hogs
lard renders the leather perfectly plant,
and no water can penetrate it. IL is espe-
cialy suitable for greasing boots and shoes,
but in the summer season an eighth part
of tallow should be melted with it. It
should be laid on when in melted state.
but no warmer than ones finger dippe
in the mass can bear. When 1t is first APP
piled to boot or shoe, the leather should
be previously soaked in water, that it may
swell up, so that the pores can open well
and thoroughly absorb the lard. $685.
The liquid lard should be smeared over,
Ito be ter-proof,) at least three or four
times, and sole leather oftener still. After
ward the lard remaining visible on the
outside should be wiped eff with rag.
By this means you have water proof
boot or shoe, without the ANNOYANCE
caused by most stutfs of penetrating the
leather and greasing the stockings. An
occasional coating of hog's lard is also to
be recommended for patent leather boots
or shoes, as it prevents the leather from
cracking, and if it be not rubbed in too
strongly, the leather will shine Just as well
after the grease has been applied.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29

LARGE quantities of potatoes were DIES.
troyed by frost last year in the hills or
drills before they were harvested, and in
the heaps In which they had been left in
the field without sufficient covering.
Late crops of any kind are seldom good,
but If there is one crop which ST ffers more
than another from late planting it is the
potato. The whole summer, and early
part of the fall are short enough for the
potato to extract those ingredients from
The soil and the atmosphere which are
necessary for bringing it to perfection.
Soil for potatoes should be deeply titled
and thoroughly drained The bestcrop we
have seen was on land which had been
thoroughly Grained, and SUBSIDIZED, to the
depth of eighteen inches. Some persons
are prevented from subscribing their land
on account of the supposed expensiveness
Of the operati n This has been the lion
in the way Of very great improvement
In places where regular subsoil pillow is
not available, any strong pillow with the
mould-board off, following in the furrow
made by an ordinary pillow and loosening
the subsoil to the depth of six, eight, or
ten inches, without bringing it up, will do
work which will be exceedingly beneficial
to crops of every kind, but especially to
potatoes. sisstt 1rGs a5 ao6
In those soils where the vegetable mould
rests on clayey subsoil, frequent plow-
ings alta uniform dep.h forms hard pan
through which the roots of plants find it
difficult to penetrate. Subsoiling most
effectually breaks up this pan and allows
rain water to percolate through the soil,
and also opens it to the beneficial action o.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29

the atmosphere. Few persons are aware
OF the tough stratum Of soil called hard
pan which the sole plate of the pillow and
the trampling of horses or oxen in
blowing form in the generality of tillage
fields, or of the good effects on crops
which result from breaking up and pull
verifying this crust In soils which are not
naturally or artifcially drained, deep
tillage sometimes does more harm than
good. Even in well drained land turning
down the active vegetable mold, that is
the warm, rich surface soil, and turning
up the cold subsoil is injurious. A. small
portion of the subsoil mixed with the sur
face soil is sometimes very beneficial, but
the best Elan is to loosen the subsoil, re-
esuperabundart moisture by draining,
and give plants an opportunity of awaiting
themselves Of such Ingredients as the sub
soil contains, without compelling them to
extend their fibers or surface roots in it.
The sell for potatoes should be plowed
in the fall and laid mp in wide ridges or
sets, the deep burrows between which will
carry off ali surface water, leaving the
soil high and dry, and in good condition
to be worked early in spring. a
The planting of potatoes should take
place as soon in spring as the soil is
ready for the sets, and there is no danger
from frost. When soil has been properly
prepared for the crop, and the after.cul-
ture is all right the potatoes will grow
rapidly and come to perfection in time to
be harvested before there will be the
slightest danger from frost Another very
important reason why potatoes should be
planted early, is. that the product of the
early crop is always of better quality than
6 lat of the late one.
Potatoes stored In cellars or root houses,
should be examined for the purpose of re-
movingall those tubers which are showing
symptoms of decay. The tubers which
have been frozen are now nearly decom
posed, and such are very injurious to
sound ones. 1t is well to prepare for
heavy frosts by stopping up every crevice
by which it might enter the cellar or root
house, and by piling additional covering
on pits Heavy losses are sometimes pre-
vented by little timely precaution.-
Western Ra1YoI. 9e
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29
Dry Earth as a DeOdOrizer for Poultry
Houses.

THE employment of dry pulvcrized
earth as the means of deodorizing poultry
houses, appears to be worthy of more at
tention than it has hitherto received The
fact that from 400 to 500 fowls can by this
aid be kept in one building for months to-
gether, with less smell than is to be found
in any ordinary fowl-house capable of ac-
commodating dozen chickens, is very
conclusive as to its efficacy. In the build
ing of the National Company, where this
fact has been ascertained, seven or eight
fowls are kept in each compartment, twelve
feat by three feet and yet there is no smell
or trace of moisture.
Mr.. Greyelin informs us that if q much
larger number are put into each run, the
ground becomes moist, ceases to deodorise,
and the birds at once become unhealthy.
1t should be stated that the droppings that
fall from the perches during the night are
removed from the runs each morning, and
that the dry earth only receives the ma
nure that falls during the day; this has its
moisture absorbed so speedily by the
earth that 1t at once becomes pulverized,
mixes with the soil, and ceases to SMELL
SO powerful is the deodorizing effect of the
earth that it does not require to be re-
newed in the rms for many weeks together.
London Field taa
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29
Audubon and ROtiiSchild.

In 1884, being in London, Audubon
called on Baron Rothschild with proper
letters of Introduction, hoping to secure
his subscription to the Ornithology. He
writes: -
Soon cOrpulent man appeared, hitch
ing up his trousers, and a face red with
he exertion of walking, and without no
ticing any one present, dropped his fat,
comfortable body into chair, as If caring
for no one else in this wide world but him
SELF While the Baron sat, we stood, wi h
our hats held respectfully in our hands
| stepped forward and with a bow pre-
sented him my credentials. The banker
opened the letter, read it with the manner
of one who was looking only at the ten.
poral side of things, and, after reading il,
said This is only letter of introdutop,
and expect, from its contents, that you
are the publisher of some book or Other,
and needing subscription Had a man
the size of mountain spoken to me ia
that arrogant style in America, should
have Indignantly resented it.; but where |
then was, it seemed best to swallow and
digest it as well as l could So, in reply
to the offensive arrogance of this banker,
said should be honored by his subscrip-
ton to the Birds Of America Sir, he
said, I never sign my name to any sub
scription list; but you may send me your
work, and will pay for a copy of it.
Gentlemen, | am busy, and wish you
good morning We were busy men, too,
and SO bowling respectfully we retired,
pretty well satisfied with the small slice OF
his opulence which our labor was likely
to obtain"
The point of this interview was in its
result. Several numbers of the "Birds q
America" were sent to the Baron by Al.
dubon, and after eight or ten months a
bill for GtO0 was presented.
"The Baron" writes Audubon, "looked
at it with amazement and cried out, What,
e100 for birds Why, sir, I will give
you e5 and not a farthing more" and
since the naturalist did not regard that
amount of the Baron's money as worth a
e100 from any one else, he was compelled
to take back the numbers delivered.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29
Health Hints for the Season.

KEEP the children's feet warm and dry
during cold and wet days. By doing this,
many severe attacks of disease may be
averted. Do not let the children play
out ofdoors without being sufficiently pro-
tected about the shoulders and neck.
Avoid any change to lighter garments
until the weather is fully warm and set
tied. Be especially careful of laying aside
your fiannels. If you are uncomfortably
warm for few hours it is better to en-
dure it than to run the risk of severe
CT Id. while these sudden changes in the
weather are taking place.
If those who are subject to rheuma-
tism or predisposed to pulmonary dis
ease would wear fannels all the year
round, it would be greatly to their advan-
tage.
The garments that are worn next the
skin should be changed about twice each
week. Most people change only once,
but it is best to renew the clothing before
it becomes saturated with secretions of the
skin. a a s ag 5ss 81
Be careful to have all clean clothes well
aired and thoroughly dried. Its extremely
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29
J Cause and Effect.

Colds are the effect of INSTRUCTED perspiration.
The symptoms are so generally understood, that
Heea oe sn,a ON po
cised second cold will often be contracted, in
other words, one cold will run Into another, and
and racking of the lungs, and the production Of
tubercles. Although many thousands Of persons
are drifting through these symptoms towards pull
monary diseases of dangerous character, Yet the
majority think that they are tron bled with moth
ing but an ordinary cold. which will remedy It.
self and pass away. Fatal delusion-the rock on
which many life has been lost. See to It at
once that your cold is attended TO. Csc MISH-
LER'S HERB BITTERS, the most potent remedy
ever discovered for Colds and Coughs, and cer-
tain protection against the danger of taking them,
Hit is used regularly two or three times day ss
q tonic.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29
Old Maids.

THERE is stigma of reproach cast up
on the term old maid too often Justly
so, admit. Butswhere does the fault lie ?
know two women who may be classed
in this ategory-unmarried, forty years
old. or Whereabouts Both are of good
family, the daughters of wealthy men.
The one. some dozen years ago, finding, as
no sensible woman can fail to do, that
fashionable life had nothing in it to satisfy
her, made stand for herself She told
her family that she must have q life of h, r
own. She had no especial gifts, except ii
remarkable aptitude for business inherited
from her father. In quiet way she had
turned her attention to fruit growing, a
branch of industry offering many attrac-
tiOns to her, and into that business she de
termined to enter. Fortunately, she had
sufficient money, left her by her grand
father, to be able to carry out her plans,
despite the sneers of her fashionable &C.
quaintance, and the objections and obsta-
cles raised by her home circle. She estab-
'ished herself on 3 fruit-farm in the
western part of this State. Her work
.prOspered. Now she is the owner of
several hundred acres, and has constant
and remunerative occupation of a kind
agreeable to her After few years her
father died, and, instead Of the rich man
he was estimated, he was found to be
bankrupt This daughter had comfort
able home and support to offer her mother
and invalid sister. She has quite settle
ment of work people, men and women, to
whom she and her sister minister in vari-
GUS ways. In fact she lives life which
is useful to others and develops her own
powers, and in the consciousness of that
she finds happiness and peace.--"Neao
Vine in Old Bottles" in FEB No. Of LIP
pincost's Magazine.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29

IT is seriously proposed, in New York
city, to put up an elevated plank road, to
be used only for velocipede riders-each
one TO pay small fee upon starting out.
The road, it is stated, could run over the
roofs of houses. The idea is certainly an
original one. 1t comes from Mr. Dana,
OF the New York San, who is an enthu-
siast on the velocipede subject, and has
been copied and favorably commented
upon by nearly all the newspapers of our
American metropolis"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29

A PLEASANT little episode at the con-
clusion of wedding in Rush, Genesee
county, N. Y. the other day, was the ar.
rest of the bridegroom on $4,000 suit for
breach of promise, entered by young
lady to whom he had been engaged, sew
eral years before. The bride compre-
hended the situation and accompanied her
husband and the Sheriff to Rochester, re-
could not be found Bail in 5000 was
shortly procured, however, and the bridal
tour to New York resumed with slight de
lay. all the parties are of the first fam
lilies.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29

THE German papers mention meian-
choly case of suicide and filial devotion.
A widow had two sons, the eldest of whom
supported the family. He recently was
ordered to join the army, having fallen
into the CONSUMPTION. The younger
brother, feeling himself unable to support
his aged mother. shot himself through
the heart, thereby iiberating the elder
from military service on account OF his be-
ing widows only son. x80TT
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29

On the hundredth anniversary of the
introduction of vaccination into Prussia,
the government has offered a prize OF 5000
roubles $4,000 for the best history on
that treatment. The essay can be written
in any modern European language,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29

The Jacobs sharpeners advertised In this Issue
we know fave excellent sharpening qualities, and
we advise our friends to supply themselves with
the article and be plagued no more with dnh
house knives or scissors. ,s"4 z 7"izt
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29

SAN FRANoIsco's assessed value last
year was sos, 576 179, which is paid by
about 10000 persons The two wealthlest
citizens are James Lick, worth 81 $500,
and Michael Reese, worth 81, 10000.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29

November 2, 1865
LIPPINCoTT 81 BAKKwBLI-
1e1T Slrs 81 received your second Red Jacket Axe
ner express and now acknowledge the same. For the
kenef of all whose desires ornecessties make II their
business to chop With an axe. would sGy Try the
Red Jacket: and the Supreme Court have held that
q Doctors opinion Without bis reasons Is of little
value, will give my reasons: Fgst-The Red jacket
round on the cut, It does not stick in the wood.
cover that there az much labor and strength expend
ed In taking the axe out Of the cut as in making the
blow F0uTzh-This with the Red jacket is all avoid
ed and one-third to oneha the labor Is saved IN
cutting the same quantity. Efth--By putting in the
same labor that Is necessary with common you
can easily make at east thirtythree per cent.
wood in the same time. You safe In letting any
honest try Red Jacket these tests. and IL
It fails refund him hts money. st2 ~ W.
f # Respectfully, yours,
HARRY BALDWIN.
For sale by all responsible dealers and the mRnuac
turerB, LJPFINCOTT d BAKEWEIxL,
PIrrsBU1aH, Pa. Sole owners OF Colburp'. snd Ped
Jscket Patents. - 10 SO.
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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-13
SUMMARY or RELIGIOUS NEWS.
METHODIST.

LIN ST. Loais, Missouri, Methodlsm is feeble,
having hut one good church, the Union, OF
sohurch SOUTH IS strong al this point, having
numbers, wealth social position, and elegant
houses OF worship. But take tue State alto
eether, and suite a different showing is rem
dered.
The statements and appeals in regard to the
failure OF thelrIch Methodists in New York o do
What they ought towards the multiplication of
churches ID the city ave not beea put forth in
vain. meeting OF thirty prominent MINISTER'S
and laymeD was heId last week at the house of
Nr j. b. Cornell, TO devise means to reach the
Masses with the Gospel. 1t was enthusiastically
md unanimously resolved to raise $500,OOO for
nurchasing sites in destitute parts of the city,
md building on them suitable Methodist
""hnrches aud ohapels; 100000 was subscribed
Sor This object before the meeting adjourned.
1t is designed that the money be expended
,,rder Tic auspices OF the Methodist sunday
SnhooI and Missionary Society, which has been
n existence less than three years. and has
, already ia operation fourteen mission schools,
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-13
Missions i'm India.

Let it be borne in mind that about half
century covers the period of free and active
missionary effort in India, Fourteen entire
versions OF the word of God have been made in
various languages and dialects, and III whole
or in part in twenty-five different languages
and dialects. In the last ten years alone
upwards of two million copies of the sacred
Scriptures, in whole or in part, have been
distributed. Within the same period about
one thousand distinct works, books, and
tracts have been issued in the vernacu-
lars aud a circulation of at least ten
million copies of these has been effected. In
the accom- plishment of this, thirty mission
presses are at work, some OF them very large.
Already Protestant native church of but little
short of t.o hundred and fifty thousand men,
bers has been Iaisedup and at the present ratio
of increase the entire population of India would
become Christian in something more than one
century. This calculation does not include the
Romanist missions, whose converts double
those of Protestant missions, which, however,
have entered the field much later Such is the
promising foundation laid tor Christianity
in India, the grandest country Of ASA. We can
hardly mistake her destiny. She is to the great
~uceans stretching south aud east, and to the
eastern countries whose shores are laved by
them, what Palestine was to the Mediterranean
end the Leyant. India has now extended
through all her mighty frame electric ma
chinery, political and evangelistic, which must
very rapidly vitalize her myriad population
with better, nooler liie She seems destined,
as from antiquity, still to lead the van of
Asatic countries. She has given TO this
vast continent science, philosophy, false
religion, and idolatry; 10 her it may be
reserved to give these countries the Gospel of
the Son OF God. This is a worthy field of con-
fict for the six handred missionaries engaged
here p-day, who should be soon joined by twice
ak hundred more. 1t would seen that the final
great battle of idolatry, and perhaps of Mo.
hammedsnsm. doctrinally, must be fought
here. Prophetically, this great people has been
| given to the Son; and the time may not be dis
| tant when from the peninsula of HIndostan,
I radiant with the light OF Him who 'lighteEeth
every man that coMeth into the world" and
washed by the blood that flowed from Calvary,
floods of light and truth will pour over all the
populous East.-Meth0disi Quarterly.