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Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29
Valuable Hints.

A regular habit Of body is absolutely essential
to physical health and clcarncss of intellect. Nor
IL this oil. Beauty of person cannot co-exist with
an unnatural condition of the bowels free
passage of the refuse matter Of the system through
these natural waste pipes, il as necessary to the
purity Of the body the free passage Of the offal
of city through its sewers is necessary to the
health Of its inhabitants.
Indigestion is the primary cause of most of the
diseases Of the discharging organs, and one of its
most common results is constipation This CON-
plant, besides being dangerous in itself, has many
disagreeable cOncOmitants-such as an unpleasant
breath, a sallow skin, communicating blood and
bile, hemorrhoids, headache loss Of memory and
general debility.
lIostetter's Stomach Btters remove all these evils
by removing their immediate cause In the digestive
and regulating the action of the intestines
The combination of properties in this celebrated
preparation is one Of its chief merits. 1t is not
merely stimulant or tonic, or an ambitious
agent, or nervine, or blood depurent, or ca
thartic but all these curative elements judicioue1y
blended in one powerful restorative. 1t lends ac-
tivity and vigcr to the inert and enervated stom-
ach, relieves the alimentary canal of its Obsruc-
tiOns, and gives tone to the membrane which lines
1t. gently stimulates the liver, braces the nerves,
and cheers the animal spirits. No other remedy
possesses such variety of hygienic virtues. 1t is
a houeehold medicine. Experience has proved
that it is as harmless it is efcacoue, and hence
it il as popular with the weaker sex as with the
stronger.
HOstetters Stomach Bitters are sold in bottles
only, and the trademark, blown in the glass and
engraved on the label, is the test of genuneness.
Beware of cOunterfets.
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Such can always be had, if not in the
country the city swarms with them, anG
benevolent societies are always ready tc
supply the demand.
1t is customary with many women tc
leave the DIT ecision of such matters with
their husbands, or the "men folks l,
would be safe and pleasant to do So if the
men folks were only what they should
be, instead of being, oftentimes, thought
less, careless, and selfish. We have known
men to be bright and shining lights in
the church" carry pious face from Sun
day morning until Sunday night, and as
sumo all the phases of conventional piety
while, at the same time, their wives OF
daughters, or both, were actually 4corhin5
Memsttres to death under the approving
smile of their master! The ply sical health
Of horses and cattle were intclligcntly re-
garded, but, then, the loss of H. wife is q
"dispensation of Providence" and the
consolation that comes in the shape OF
another is cheerfully accepted of at tho
end of year.
So, as long as such men exist, it is
neither safe nor advisable to always abid,
by the decision Of the head of the house,
unless half of it at least, grows on youl
own neck. The exercise of any faculty
or quality strengthens and develops it
and SO long as the Creator, in his wisdom
endowed women as well as men with tn,
quality Of judgment, why should they moi
exercise it, at least in their own behalf
Rural New Yorker.
Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29
SOi.iRg Food.

1t has been my habit for thirty years to
annually grow corn for soiling dairy
cows, at the rate of one acre to ten cows
plant early, so that it will mature and be
ready the first of August. deem it unfit
to feed till it is fully in blossom, and form
ing ears, when it is found to be sweetest,
and contains more saccharine matter. The
ground is marked for rows, three feet
apart, running north and south, to admit
the suns rays to strike the ground be-
tween them. The seed is planted in hills,
eighteen inches apart in the row, with six to
ten seeds in a hill, and titled like any corn
crop. The evergreen sweet corn is prefer
able to other varieties, as it remains green
and succulent longer.
The advantages of planting in rows and
hills are, that the plant grows rapidly on
good ground, and requires all the influ-
ence of sun, heat, light and air that can be
given It, to perfect its physical growth.
Being in rows gives opportunity to move
the ground by cultivation, and freer access
to those elements than whan sown broad
cast or in drills. Corn, like other plants,
master effort to produce its fruit; then it
will make the most and best quality of
milk
AC tSAS NACASCo Va LII AuS uuO
September are, that it relieves pastures
from being grazed too close in season Of
slow growth, and gives opportunity for
them to recuperate for fall grazing Keeps
up good flow of milk through the season
of flies and grasshoppers, and makes bet.
ter butter and cheese than any other
forage, except the flower Of grass feed,
which is an exception to any other torage
l have ever used. My usual custom and
best success has been in turning the
sward late in the fall, and drawing on from
twenty to thirty loads of manure to the
acre; the after sward is we'll dragged to
get loose dirt TO mix with the manure.
When ready to plant, spread the ma.
nure and pulverizc it we'll with the soil.
plant and till we'll, like any other corn
crop. The result is that forty to sixty
pounds of this fodder, fed alone, per day,
on experiment, makes thirty pounds of
milk and three pounds of cheese, or one
and a quarter pounds of butter. Thus
product Of from twelve to eighteen hun
dred pounds OF cheese is obtained, or from
five hundred to seven hundred and fifty
pounds OF batter from one acre of ground
American D1irymem's Association Report.
Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29
Cure for COrns.

THE Journol Of -Applied Chemistry says :
"Soak the feet in warm water, then, with
a sharp instrument, pare off as much of
the corn as can be done without pain, and
bind up the part affected with piece of
linen or muslin thoroughly saturated with
sperm oil, or, what is better, the oil which
floats upon the surface Of the pickle of
herring or mackerel After three or four
days the dressing may be removed, and
the remaining dead cuticle removed by
scraping, when the new skin will be found
to be of II soft and healthy texture, and
less lilhle to the formation of new corn
than before. We have the recipe from a
source which we cannot we'll doubt, and
publish it for the benefit of many suffering
readers"
The pain occasioned by corns may be
greatly alleviatcd by the following pre-
paration: Into an ounce phial ask drug
gist to put two drams of muriatic acid and
six drains Of rose water. With this mix.
ture wet the corns night and morning for
three lays. Soak the feet every evening
in warm water, without soap Put one
third OF the acid into the water, and, with
little picking, the corn will be dissolved.
-,ItsSSe PieSsle
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Food for Thinkers and Workers.

Those who expect to think should not
eat much food which simply produces
warmth and fat, such as ham, fat pork,
white bread, butter, rice, tapioca, and
starch. These contain very little phos-
phatic food, being chiefly carbonaceous.
Prof Agassiz says, fish enters largely in
to the requisition of the human system.
It is kind of food which refreshes the
system, especially after intellectual fatigue.
There is no other article of food that sup.
plies the waste of the head so thoroughly
as fish diet. Fish contains phosphorus to
a large extent, chemical element which
the brain requires for growth and life. He
would not say that the exclusive use of
fish would make blockhead wise man,
but that the brain would not be wanting in
one of its ess initial elements" Man can.
not, however, live on fish alone, because
most fish are not fat enough to furnish
the hcat-producing element in sufficient
quantity. The amount of phosphate or
brain-supporting food contained in the
flesh Of animals is in proportion to the
activity of that animal; those of great &C.
tivity such as the canary bird, for instance,
secures food which feeds brain, nerve aud
muscle, but does not produce fat. The
flesh Of the trout, the pickcrel or salmon
imparts more mental and physical v,gor
10 the Gator than the flesh Of comparative.
ly dormant fish, like the eel and founder.
The flesh of wild animals, such as the
bison, deer or boar, promotes activity in
the eater more than the stall fed OK, sheep,
or hog Wild game generally is consider
ed better food especially for the GONZALES.
or goose. Barley, oats and wheat,
ground without boiling, furnish
food for brain but lawyers, ministers, and
students eat the white, supertine, or bolted
wheat bread, and 60 to sleep. That which
would fatten pig, and give him no desire
to exercise or to think is eaten by the
learned and refined of the human race,
who look in pity upon the poor peasant
following the plow, because he is obliged
to eat his brown loaf; which brown loaf
and cheap fish and wild game contain the
incitement to branwork, in which poems,
orations and art are conceived and nursed
The proper food for laboring men-we
mean those who have to exercise muscular
strength chietly-should be that which
contains the greatest amount of nitrogen.
Among these articles barley and cheese
stand high. The red flesh of the OK or
sheep are the leading articles. Men who
train prize lighters seem to understand
much better than others how to build up
physical strength and endurance. When
their battle and their race is ended, they
lay aside their unbolted bread and fruit,
lean beef and mutton, and fall into their
old habits of liquor r-drinking and of eat
ing starch bearing articles, such as rice
fine bread, pudding with fat meat and but
ter, and they soon become as fat and lazy
as these carbonaceous articles can make
-ILrenOL0U1cOL I0nrnnL
Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29
A New Swindllng Dodge.

For about a week past a few rough.
looking sharpers from New York have
been operating in this vicinity. swindlinp
the farmers by what is known as the clotR
dodge. They went around by twos. and
played their game in the folio wing man.
ner: One of these two would go to q house
and offer for sale piece of cloth at verv
low price. If he sold the cloth there his
pal would reach the house soon after he
left it, and ask the inmates whether man
had sold them any cloth. When the cloth
was shown to the second conner, he would
instantly claim it, saying that it had been
stolen from him, and the purchasers, TO
avoid being implicated in any trouble,
would Of course surrender the cloth, and
lose what they had paid for it. 1t is said
that these sharpers made Newburg their
headquarters, but carefully refrained from
practlcing their little game here. Police
Officer Andrews has been watching them,
not liking their looks, but not being able
to bring anything directly against them
until to day. But they left town for New
York last night, leaving, it is said,
some unpaid bills behind them. If ex-
changes will refer to the "dark ways" of
this gang of New York gentlemen, who
live by their wits, at other peoples ex-
pense, farmers in other sections may be
put on their guard against the swindlers.-
Neaobu7y J0ur,lul
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Fecundity of Weed Plants.

Few persons are aware of the astonish-
ing fecundity Of most of the pcrnicious
weeds which infest our farms.
In some countries, where large landed
estates are held by single individuals, and
| whose incomes are very large, the most
pains taking investigations have been
made in order to learn what single weed
plant is capable Of doing in the way of
propagating itself We have before us
some of the results of these careful invcsti.
gations and from which we learn that a
single coitsfoot produces from 1000 to g.
500 seeds! The wild mustard, 5000 seeds
from single plant! The chamomile, 40,
900; the Mayweed, $4,000; the burdock,
$4,000; the red poppy, $4,000; the wild
parsley, 5000.
mer which surrounds the thistle seed
which is borne up by the wind and carried
aloof like tiny car. In this way from a
single plant, 10000 seeds have floated away
on downy wings. Then there arc weeds
whose seed pods burst open with VIC:
lence, like the common garden basam, so
as to scatter the seeds to distance, where
they will propagate new plantations of
their kind. On the other hand, some
plants have seeds supplied with delicate
hooks to fasten in the soil others, again,
propagate slyly under the earth, as the
crow garlic, which produces 700 offshoots
ayear
The Irish Gazette states that the nod
ding poppy or cookie plant has lessened
the wheat crop in that country by at least
tenth part of its value, and that" the
weeds of Ireland cost nearly sir millions a
year!"
In England experiments have been re-
Gently made to ascertain the influence
which weeds have upon the growing crop.
In one instance several acres were sowed ;
one acre was measured and not weed dis
! turbed in it, the other six were carefully
wcedcd the unweeded acre produced eight
teen bushels and the wecded acres averag-
ed twenty-five and half bushels per acre.
In another instance the unweeced acre
produced thirteen bushels of barley, and
the weeded twenty-eight bushels. A third,
with oats, produced seventeen bushels,
and the wcedcd acre thirty seven bushels.
Any reform in this matter, to be worthy
Of the name, will be futile until We can
purchase pure seeds with which to sow
our fields. The fault in this particular is
sometimes with the farmer himself: He
foolishly desires to purchase cheap seeds
and finds some secdsmcn willing to oblige
| MIN. SceOS are t1uS mixed O1tcn LOT pur-
poses of fraud.
In an examination made and reported to
the Croydon Farmers C2ub, England, it was
found that as many as 100000 plantain
seeds were contained in single bushel of
red clover
In other experiments, in bushel of rye
grass there were detected no less than
2O4, 800 weed seeds. In a bushcl of clover
seed, $4,000; Of linsecd, 304,6OO; and all
this was irrespective Of dirt and particles
of stone, which make cheap seed by far
the dearest.
Let US urge, then, again and again, upon
farmers, the importance Of extirpating the
weeds upon their own lands. 1t is useless
for one to keep his fields clean while his
neighbor's fields are foul and constantly
Resolving all the land within half mile Of
him.-N H. Farmer.
Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29

-wah-wah-puk ke. te- kee-wis
(Mighty Hunter with-a Hog-eye) Twain
adorned the middle Of the eighteenth CEN
tury, and aided Gen. Braddock with all
his heart to resist the oppressor Washing
ton. 1t was this ancestor who fired seven
teen times at our Washington from behind
tree. So far the beautiful romantic mar
rative in the moral story-books is correct l.:
but when that narrative goes on to say
that at the seventeenth round the awe
stricken savage said solemnly that that
man was being reserved by the Great
Spirit for some mighty mission, and he
dared not lift his sacrilegious rifle against
him again, the narrative seriously impairs
the integrity of history. What he did say
was:
1T amt no (hic y no use! AT mans so
drunk he can't stan still long enough for
a man to hit him. (hicD I can't ford
to fool away any more am'nition on him !"
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Early in the fifteenth century we have
Beau Twain, called "the Scholar" He
wrote beautiful beautiful hand. Any
he could initiate anybody's hand so closeld
that it was enough to make person laugh
his head off to see it. He had infinite
sport with his talent. But by and by he
took contract to break stone for q road,
and the roughness of the work spoiled his
hand. Still, he enjoyed life all the time he
was in the stone business, which, with in
considerable intervals, was some forty two
years. In fact, he died in harness. Dur
ing all those long years he gave such sat
isfaction that he never was through with
one contract week till government gave
him another. He was perfect pet And
he was always favorite with his fellow.
artists, and was a conspicuous memb:r of
their benevolent secret society, called the
Chain Gang. He always wore his hair
short, had preference for striped clothes,
and died lamented by the government
He was sore loss to his country. For he
was so regular
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WASHINGTON,

THE Boston Aduertiser says: "A wealthy
gentleman, seventy.tive years old, residing
in one of our suburban towns, recently Of
fered to settle 1000 on any young lady,
a resident of the town, who would become
his wife. He desired, he said, some one
to ride with him, spend his money, and
take care of him in his old a &C. Strange
to say, although the place is noted for the
beauty and accomplishments Of its lady
residents, no one could be found willing
to take the chances Of even becoming 4
rich young widow"
Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29

GODEY's LADY's Book" The Music
Lcsson'-a steel plate-graces the July number,
along with colored fashion plate, containing six
beautiful designs Of dresses also extension sheet
with its large number of late fashions in dress and
lingerie articles; page Of children's fashions an
interesting wood engraving of 1.-THE Peddler."
There are an unusual number of designs for fancy
work given, among which will be found, in the
front of the book five designs for making up and
ornamenting a portfolio cover for manuscripts
drawings, etc. Cooley has presented his patrons
this month with novel slipper pattern. The ease
with which it can be worked gives promise of its
becoming fashionable slipper for gentlemen. .
Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29

The colorcd population of Iowa is re.
ported to have increased from 1,104 in 1860
to 5,762 in 1870; in Ohio from 3G,G64 to
G3,2G1; in Illinois from 1928 to 2s,G71 -;
and in Kansas from G27 to 17,109. Con-
trariwisr, Kentucky shows decrease of
from 23G, lG7 to 222 2lO The total increase
of the race for the decade is given ut
about ten per ccnt--less than half the old
rate,
Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29

DR.. S. o. RICHARDSON'S SHERRY WINE BIrrERs
A pharmaceutical preparation, by a regularly
and valuable tonics of the day. Persons recover.
ing from protracted illness, or those who at this
particular season of the year are subject to jaun
dice, habitual constipation, or any disease arising
from disOrdcred mach, liver or bowels, will
find in the Sherry Wine Bitters friend more to be
desired than gold.
Sold by oil Druggists.
Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29

Augustus Twain seems to have made
something of q stir about the year 1160
He was as full of fun as he could be, and
used to take his old saber and sharpen il
up, and get in convenient place on dark
night, and stick it through people as they
went by, to see them jump. He was a
born humorist. But he got to going toe
far with it; and the first time he was
found stripping one Of these parties, the
authorities removed one end of him, and
put it up on nice high place on Temple
Bar, where it could contemplate the peo.
pie and have good time. He never liked
any situation SO much or stuck to it SO
long.
Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29

Then for the next two hundred years
the family tree shows succession of SOL
diers-noble, high-spirited fellows, who
always went into battle singing, right be
hind the army, and who always went out
a-whooping, right ahead of it.
This is scathing rebuke to old dead
Froissart's poor witticism, that our family
tree never had but one limb to it, and that
that one stuck out at right angles, and
bore fruit winter and summer.
Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29
Relations Of Companies to their Employees, and Met,
Seperal Rights and Duties.

This paper prepared by corps Editors of special
qualifications and every pains taken to itindspens-
able to every Railroad Man. Its altogether Independent
avoids all undue putting Of men or corporations givee
fully and imparaly, aims especially to give practt
cal Information which will directly aid its readers in the
prosecution of their business Business find in the
RARoAD GAZETTE the earliest information of the open
Ing of stations railroads In course Of construction
and thus enabled to establish relations with such towns
from the beginning Of their existence.
Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29

A TAILOR at Richmond, Va, has prose
cuted sewing girl for the value of but.
ton he had previously given her.
Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29
Extracts from Mark Twain's Auto.
biography.

OURS is noble old house, and stretches q
long way back into antiquity. The earli
est ancestor the Twains have any record of
was a friend Of the family by the name of
Higgins.
Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29

Arthour Twain was man of considera.
BILE note-a solicitor on tho highway in
William Rufus time At about the age
Of thirty he went to one of those fine old
English places of resort called Newgate,
to see about something, and never returned
again. While there he died suddenly.
Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29
SYMPTOMS "R CATARRH.

Indisposition to exercise, difficulty of think
ing or reasoning or concentrating the mind
upon any subject, lassitude, lack of ambition
or energy, discharge falling into throat, some-
times profuse, watery, acrid, thick and tena-
clous, mucous, purulent, offensive, etc. In
others dryness, dry, watery, weak or in
famed eyes, ringing in ears, deafness, hawk
ing and coughing to clear throat, ulcerations,
death and decay of bones, scabs from ulcers,
constant desire to clear nose and throat,
impaired or total deprivation of sense of smell
and taste, dizziness, mental depression, loss
of appetite, indigestion, dyspepsia, enlarged
! tonsils, tickling cough, difficulty in speaking
plainly, general debility, idiocy and insanity.
| All the above symptoms are common to the
disease in some Of its stages or complications,
yet thousands of cases annually terminate in
consumption or insanity and end in the grave
without ever having manifested one-third of
the symptoms above enumerated.
No disease is more common or less under
stood by physicians. The proprietor of Dr.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy will pay $500 reward
for case of catarrh which he cannot cure
Sold by druggists, or send sixty cents to r.
V. Pierce, NJ. D., 1873 Seneca street, Buffalo,
N. Y, for it. A pamphlet free. Beware Of
countcrfeits and worthless limitations. Re.
member that the genuine has the words I" r
V. Pierce, M. D., Sole Proprietor, Buffalo,
N. y" printed upon the wrapper: also has
DR.. Pierce's portrait, name and address on his
private government stamp upon each pack
age. 572
GENTLY DOES 1T. Without pain or irrita-
tion, DR.. WALKERS VINEGAR B1TTERs re-
licve the constipated bowels, at the same time
and restoring their mechanical action, that
it seems as if they had been reOrganized on
an improved plan! Yet the result is solely
due to nature, reinforced and sustained by
the best vegetable alternative and tonic that
ever passed the lips of the sick and suffering.
THE system frequently gets out of order,
and should be at once regulated, else other
troubles will ensue; when physic is needed
take Parsons Purgative Pulls they are safe,
wholesome and natural medicine.
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Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29

Ear rings arc now made to initiate
cold fish globes,