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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-01
Stammering.

STAMMERING is due to unbalanced ae
ton of the muscles concerned in articu.
lation. This is why many persons who
stutter badly in speaking can sing with
out difficulty. Singing, compared with
speaking, is as walking compared to run
ming. Some persons whose muscular
systems are not equally developed, as in
the case of many sedentary females, can
walk very well, but cannot run without
staggering. The athlete can run with the
same grace and symmetry of motion that
he can walk In singing, the motions of
the articulating muscles are slow, delib-
crate and measured In speaking they
are rapid, and if all do not contract in
harmony, some will be thrown into spas
modic action. And this is stammering.
In some cases the tongue, and in other
cases the lips act spasmodically, produc'
ing the varieties of stammering known
as lingual and labial. 1t is very easy to
understand that, if these defects
are not corrected in childhood, they
become, by long habit, very inveter-
ate in adult life. Yet nearly all cases are
durable by judicious training. But
months of patient and persevering effort
are usually required.
The remedial plan consists essentially
in ascertaining what words or letters oc-
casion spasmodic action, and practicing
on them by pronouncing very slowly and
distinctly. as IL singing. unfil the habit
1f spasnlodle action is overcome. The
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-01
Building VS.. Being Built.

THE Christian Union publishes con-
versation which occurred between an old
gentleman who used the verb is building
and a young lady who said being built, in
which the lady is quite ungallantly van
pushed. Suppose the young lady had
been the interrogation, the conversation
might have been somewhat as follows:
Young Lady.-Are there any houses
being built this summer in the village?
Gentleman. No. But there is an ele-
giant house building on State street of
brown stone.
Young Lady.-For whom is it build
ing?
Gentleman (promptly).-It's building
for Mr. Smith, the banker.
Young Lad y.-It's very kind in the
house to be building for Mr.. Smith. Is
Mr.. Smith wealthy?
Gentleman.-Yes, the richest man in
town. He pays the master-builder ten
thousand dollars, and the workmen get
four dollars day -
Young Lady.-Oh, see! Mr.. Smith
pays the contractor, the mechanics do the
work, and the house is building. Is it
building anything else for him?
Gentleman (decidedly).-No! the house
isn't building anything else, but a
barn is building. (The gentleman's SER
want enters and says, Dinner is eating,
sir"
Young Lady.-And dinner is eating.
Does dinner eat often? Does dinner eat
meat or vegetables? Does dinner drink
coffee or tea? Does dinner eat break
| fast -
Gentleman.-We will adjourn to the
dinner table -
Young LADY, hope the horses have
been fed.
Gentleman-Yes!t the oats have been
given to them, and the oats are eating
Young Lady.-So the horses are eating
and the oats are eating, and the dinner is
eating, and the folks are eating!
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-01
Charming Don't PaY.N

IF farming didn't pay it wouldn't be
followed; necessity compels it to pay
not on all farms, or rather with all farm
ers, but with the bulk of them, and par
ticularly the best. So it is with any bust
ness; it must pay or it will be discontin-
ued Sometimes, however, it pays less,
particularly farming, in which nature has
so much to do, and the exertion of the
man the less. So also the farmer has his
thrifty times. All business are subject
to these changes. But the greatest di-
versity is in another direction-in the ca
pacity or activity of those engaged.
There are many poor farmers, some quite
-wretched. These do not find it to
pay, and so change to something else, or
to some other and tbetter" farm. But it
is the same; they are not apt to do well
anywhere. If farming were dependent
on these men, the world would starve,
But it is bound not to starve, and so it
employs, among others, its bestmep, who
are sure to do well, as they would do
well anywhere. 1t requires mind, enter
prise, and care to succeed well in any
business or calling. While some men
are compelled to vacate their land, others
will grow rich and secure themselves the
fine nomeste, Ids we see in the older set
tied parts of the country. 1t was not
idleness and shiftlessness that did this.
Farming, then, will pay, but only with
those who exert themselves and make it
pay. There is money in it, says enter
prise, and will have it. There is money
in it because there must be; people must
have bread, and to furnish this in the
best way is to realize the profit. But this
must be done: the man must keep up
with the progress around him, or he viii
surely be left behind. Hemust avail him.
self of the advantages, and there ere
many; be cannot dc without theHl they
make II a condition. But bow Ensng are
Still struggling IN the CID wayi aoanasFIas
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-01
Ii ra......., ANN, faIsa fhaao Rittcrs a,

Mo rsarsoS can take these Eftters accord.
;,c "a Srections and remain long unwell, provided
their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other
means, and the vital organs wasted beyond the point
Of repair ,r, IA.
Dyspepsia or Indigestion. Headache Pain
in the Shoulders, Coughs Tighness OF the Shesi Oh
ziness, Sour Fluctuations of the Stomach, BAD Taste
in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Papitation OF the
Heart Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain IN the regions
Of the Kidneys, and hundred other painful symptoms,
are the ofsprings of Dyspepsia. In these complaints
it has equal and bottle will prove letter guar
antee Of its merits than lengthy advertisement ,
For Female Complaints, IN young or o,u,
married or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or the
turn Of life, these Tonic Bters display so decided an
influence that marked improvement is soon percep-
tible.
For Inflammatory and Chronic Rheu-
matism and Govt Bilious, Remittent and Inter-
and Bladder these Bit,ers have equal. Such Dis
eases are caused by Initiated Blood, which is generally
produced by arrangement of the Digestive Organs
They are n Gentle Purgative US well as
n Tonic, possessing also the peculiar merit OF acting
as powerful agent in relieving Congestion or lntam-
nation of the Liver and Vsceral Organs, and IN Bilious
Diseases.
For Skin Diseases, Eruptons, letter, Salt
Rheum Botches Spots Pmples Pustues, Boils, Car
buncles. Ring-worms, Scald- Head, Sore Eyes, Fry
speas ITCH Scurs, Discoorations of the Skin, Humors
and Diseases of the Skin, of whatever name or nature,
are literally dug up and carried out of the system III
short time by the use of these Bitters.
Grateful Thousands proclaim VINEGAR BIT
TIERS the wonderful 1nvgorant that ever sustained
the sinking SYSTEM - 80
7 WALKER, Propr r.. III. MCDONALD g. CO.,
Druggists and Gen. Agts San Francisco and New york.
ME- SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS & DEALERS.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-01
Restoring the Old Landrna rIxS.

The wholesale heavy hardware house of
Hall, Kimbark & Co. have removed intotheir
new store on the old site, so to "a Michigan
avenue massive iron and stone front
building, 60x130 feet, with six floors, admira-
bly, lighted, railways, elevators, and all the
appliances for handling their immense stock
of iron, steel, nails, spikes, bolts, horseshoes,
vises, anvils, wagon, and carriage wood ma
terials and carriage hardware. Their store
is heated by steam, and has all the conven-
fences for receiving, storing, packing and
shipping goods which the experience oftwen-
ty-five years in the business could suggest.
They have a larger and more complete
stock, and sell more goods in their particular
line, than any house in the United States.
Their enterprise, integrity and fair dealing
have made their firm name synonym for up
rightness among Western merchants. Their
trade is so directly connected with produc-
tive industry that its large and rapidly in.
creasing volume measures the development
and prosperity of the West. To such as
they Chicago is indebted for the preserva-
tion of its mercantile honor, in it's late fiery
trial, and for the marvellous restoration
which makes the New Chicago the wonder of
all beholders.- Chicago Tribune.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-01
HydrOphObia.

Whatever charlatans may say, there is
no known remedy for canine madness.
When bitten, the surest means to escape
infection is the application of a. red-hot
iron with a firm hand, and as soon as
possible. A curtain-rod, a small poker,
a bit of stout wire, knife, any iron near
est to hand, heated to bright red, will
suffice. With this the wound must be
sounded and burned. 1t is good to put
the iron again into the fire, and repeat
the operation effectually. The pain is
quite supportable. M. Leblanc, senior,
says that the cauterization gives the person
bitten, not exactly pleasure, but decided
satisfaction, because the sense of preser-
walton and safety completely overpowers
the pain inflicted. In Hayti, where canine
madness is common, they apply gunpow
der to the wounded parts, and then set
fire to it. After this blister, and mer-
curial treatment carried to salvation,
complete the cure, or rather prevent the
disease. Of course, after these necessary
precautions, any known nOstrum may be
employed. Old women's precepts and
popular prescriptions can do no harm,
and may do good by keeping up the pa
TENTS spirits, and inspiring him with
hopes of favorable result.
1t is great consolation to know that a
person may be bitten by really mad dog
without contracting the disease. A bite
through clothing has rarely serious conse-
Guences; the saliva-the only vehicle of
matchmaking thus wiped from the
animals teeth. Out of twenty individ-
uals bitten, it is uncertain now many will
go mad; perhaps none. But it is quite
certain that they will not all go mad.
The cause of their escape is unknown;
but such escapes make the fortune of
charlatans, cunning men and practisers
of superstitions. Bitten persons, who
have taken such and such drugs, or have
gone through such and such devotional
forms, and remain unframed, never fail,
they and theirs, to attribute the result to
the means employed. But it is reassur-
ing thought. likely to have a favorable
influence, without hindering the employ
ment of rational precautions, to know
that, although bitten, it is quite possible
not to be touched by the poison. Infin-
itely better it is to persuade the patient
of this than TO hazard remedies which
will make as many victims as there are
persons foolish enough to try them.-Ap-
7)lft0n's ,TOlL3n1l
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-01
Control of Our Health.

IT is safe, however, to regard all pain
and sickness as the result and the
necessary result of violence done to the
physical organism by the violation of
law. To deny this is to deny Creator,
and that he has established laws, ordain-
ed relations, and dependencies, assigned
limits aud decreed the unyarying condi.
tons of cause and effect. 1t is blank in.
fidelity. gross impiety, to charge the
legitimate results of our own acts, our
reckless physical sins, our utter disregard
of Gods laws, the laws which control
this wonderful mechanism of the human
body, upon the good Father, with no re.
gard to His established conditions of
health and longevity, referring the varied
forms OF human suffering to "naySteTTo,ts
dispensations of divine Providence "
Indeed there is NO more of mystery"
connected with ordinary forms of dis.
ease, or the natural causes of them, than
in the event of the more usual forms of
violent death. The suicide no more Ger.
tainly does violence to his nature than he
who more tardily secures the same result
by career of dissipation. The inebriate
is no more responsible for self destruc.
ton, is no more certainly the direct cause
of his degradation than the man who by
course of epicurean indulgence legit
imately produces the same result. He
who abridges human life by overtaxing
the body or the mind, who recklessly
tramples on the laws of his being, etc., is
as certainly practically suicid as he who
employs the more usual weapons, He
who takes his own life is a suicide, the
particular means employed being a mat
ter of but trifling importance. Science O
Health. .
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-01

JUST TAKEN HIS BrTTERs.-W heard
a seedy looking individual, with an alarm
ingly red nose, remark to brother soaker
that he had 'just had his bitters, but he
did not mind taking another nip" His
remark suggested train of reflection.
How was it, we asked ourselves, that the
word ''bitters" had grown to be syno-
nym for gin, whisky, rum, and other alco-
holic stimulants, to which it was applied
Unfortunately. Bitters, we reasoned,
suggested the idea of a healthful tonic, not
of poisonous stimulant; something in
MIGRATING to the sytem, not an alcoholic
irritant, full of fusil oil, producing pres
ent intoxication, and ultimate insanity,
idiocy, or premature death. Moreover,
our idea of bitters was totally irreconcila-
BILE with "gin cocktails" "rum punches, "
and brandy smashes,'' which, we are in
formed, are sweetened with sugar, and
rendered doubly injurious with essences
colored by means of mineral poison. This
was bitter sweet with vengeance. We
mentioned this problem to friend. He
solved it by exclaiming: "Why, don't you
know that most of these bitters advertised
as remedies are only drains in disguise.
Topers know it, if you do not. must
make one exception, however" he added,
'eand that's DR.. WALKERS CALIFORNIA
VINEGAR BITTERs; there isn't particle
of alcohol or fermented liquor in it, and it
is the best vegetable tonic and Alternative
in America"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-01
WeIl-FIaYOred Butter.

For long time an idea prevailed that
the superiority of Philadelphia butter
was owing to the sweet vernal grass
which often gives peculiar fragrance to
some hay fields. The Weekly Press took
the matter in hand some years ago, and
showed that in very few pastures did this
peculiar grass grow, and chiefly in those
poor neglected localities from which any
thing else but first class butter came.
Besides this negative evidence, we point
ed out that milk was ready absorbent of
the slightest odors and impurities, and
that our buffers reputation was chiefly
owing to the scrupulous care and cleanli-
ness Of the butter-workers, and to the
fact that our best butter dairies had
spring houses, where the temperature was
cool and regular, and where whatever i'm
purities might get in with the atmosphere
were absorbed by the water and carried
away at once by the stream.
Some of our friends, however, say to us
that we are mistaken in believing that
there is no influence on the milk in what
the COWS feed on. But we have never be-
lieVed or taught any such doctrine. In
fact, no one who has had but the COM
mon dairy experience must be aware that
food has a great influence. A COW fed
suddenly to turnips, or day or two's
grazing in early spring in field contain
ing garlic, will soon satisfy any one that
the flavor of the food is often communi-
Gated to the milk; and consequently will
more or less affect the butter made from
it. Still we regard the question of pas
turage as second in Importance to that of
proper dairy care. We would by no
means ignore the value of nice, clean
pastures in getting good butter. We
should study out what grasses or forage
plants produced the incest and sweetest
results by all means; but we are quite
sure that, with every care in this respect,
the butter will be not IN the least the bet
ter for it, unless the dairy work is of the
cleanest and most careful character
F0rney's Weekly Press.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-01
Rather Slow.

A RAILROAD runs from Oswego to Syr-
acuse 1t is thirty-six miles long. Irode
on it, and those cars moved so slow that
if you want the draft in your face you
have to ride backward to get it. They
never have hot journals on that road; the
great danger is, the stuffing and gravy
around the axles will freeze. The
screeoh of the locomotives is very faint,
kind o. like the MARBLE of a four-year-old
boy blowing through knot.hole in a
board fence. 1t is capable of giving a
grasshopper thrill of alarm, but won't
scare a crow worth leather cuss. The
conductor, engineer and fireman always
walk ahead of the train to look for broken
rails, and the COWS always run on ahead
of them to keep out of the dust. tried
an experiment. Two trains were passing,
and stuck a match out of the window
and let the head of it rub against pas
senger car. 1t went so slow 1 couldn't
strike light. If you ever take a trip
from Oswego to Syracuse over that road
you want to take lois of clothes, q whole
ham and barrel of corned beef along
with you.-Syracatse Letter to N. 7. San.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-01
Stories of Peter Cartwright.
A DISPUTE WITH A DOCTOR.


MANY anecdotes could be told of this
eccentric and talented man, and there is
one too good to let pass He once had a
dispute with doctor relative to religion.
The doctor said he wanted honest and
unequivocal answers to few questions.
did you ever hear religion ?"
ono"
ono"
Ono"
odd you ever feel religion ?"
eyes"
CHOW, them" said the doctor, with ap.
parent triumph, II have proved, beyond
a doubt, by four respectable witnesses,
that religion is not seen, heard. smelled,
or tasted, and but one solitary witness,
feeling, has testified that it is an expert
mental fact. The weight of evidence is
overwhelming, and you must give it up. u
Cartwright asked
did you ever see pain ~
ono"
"Did you ever hear pain ?"
emo"
"Did you ever smell pain -
emo"
Did you ever taste pain ?"
"No."
"Did you ever feel pain ?"
"Certainly did, sir"
The doctor and his family were con
verted.
BLAZING HIS WAY.
Cartwright, having been brought up in
log cabin, did not like climbing stairs
and when he took up his quarters in a
hotel he preferred rooms on lower
floor. He once went to Chicago, and
booked himself at the fremont House
The preacher was assigned to room on
the eighth or ninth story.
Soon after being shown to his room
Cartwright rang the bell. A waiter was
promptly in attendance. 81 want ar
AK" said Cartwright. The astonished
servant said he would procure one. Hav
ing obtained an ak, Cartwright asked the
waiter to guide him down stairs. At the
first turn in the stairs Cartwright blaze6
his mark in the walnut baluster. The
dumbfounded waiter asked him what he
meant ~ want to know my way back tc
my room again." said Cartwright. The
preacher was assigned to room at 6
more reasonable distance from mother
earth.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-01
piece of rawhiae can be made to cut like

piece of rawhide can be made to cut ike
knife.
AS the executioner stood facing the
scaffold, Alexandria Kossowitz was
brought to him by her guard, and in a
few moments her clothing was removed
to her waist, despite her almost mute ap-
peals to be spared the shame. As she
pleaded she was bent on the plane, her
hands strapped to the two upper corners,
and her ankles secured at the
feet of the structure. One of the
executioner's assistants held her head,
and the petty judge gave the order for
whipping to commence. Twirling the
the long lash in the air, the executioner
stepped suddenly backward, and with q
sharp crack the thong fell on the back Of
the sobbing girl, cutting livid streak
from her right shoulder to her waist. A
terrible tremor passed over her, and a
quick, low cry escaped her lips, but it
was the only sound she uttered, and were
it not for the blood which soon COM
menced to flow, 1t might have seemed
that the whipping was being done
on the naked back of a corpse.
When the last lash had been
given the young lady was unfasten-
ed, and with her clothing rudely thrown
over her, she was taken to prison, and
there, after thanking the Judge for his
mercy, according to the necessary for
mula, she was delivered over to her
friends.
Five DAYS afterward the Gazette of
Wilma contained this announcement:
"The Polish criminal, Alexandria Kos
sowitz, daughter of the rebel Peter Kos
sowitz, who was knOuted for seditiOus
utterances on the goth of July, at Kernst,
while submitting her decorations to medi-
cal treatment in the house of the physi-
clan Kemenksky, stole vial of prussic
acid, with which she ended her days.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-01
Criminal Imposition.

bad bill substituted for good one is simply loss
to the pocket of the taker but poisonous Stop sub
stituted for DEMONSTRATING medicine imperils the
health of those who imbibe It, and the man who con
cects Or sells, or recommends such article is a
criminal imposter, and deserves to be visited with
heavier penalty than if ne had counterfeited gold
pieces or forged bank biNs. Many vile, unwholesome
potions now being offered for sale in various parts OF
the country as "tonics and "restoTa;ives are rec
commended by their dishonest proprietors and vend
ers as superior the famous national specific, Hos
letters Stomach Bitters. Desperate attempts are
made to thrust these perncious compounds into the
hands and down the tnroats of lifelong patrons OF
the great vegetable stmulant and stomachic; and al
though these conspraces against health and life ve-v
rarely succeed it nevertheless seems to be duty oc
casionaly to warn the credulous against them. Hos
letters Bitter the unequaled remedy for casual nd
gcston, confirmed dyspepsia, biliousness, liver COM
plant malarous fevers, constipation, constitutional
weakness, and the functional arrangement of the
weaker SEX for twenty years stood at the head of
all medicines of its classso far above them as to
render composition futile. 1t has not vet cached the
meridian of its popularity its sails being larger now
than at any period since its introduction Its utility
as preventive of disorders engendered By nsau-
brious atmosphere unwhoesorne water is admitted
by physicians practicing in unhealthy Districts and it
is recommended stimulant by many practitioners
who will not take the responsibility of prescribing
the adulterated liquors of commerce.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-01

THE SCIENCE OF HEALTH for Novem.
Der has a rich table Of contents. Among the in
teresting articles are: Popular Physiology, illus
trated; Dragged to Death, by Howard Glyndon;
Physical Culture; Dislocations with illustrations
An interesting article on the different Medical
Systems; Intelligent Cookery; Offensive Breath,
and how to make it Pure; The use of Oatmeal fol-
Human Food, and how to Cook it; Something
about Sundry Humbugs; The Cure of Stammering
Women Physicians in England, with rich miscel
laneous matter, which is full of useful hints on
Health, making the numer worth many times its
cost, only 20 cents, or for the year, 80. The Pub
Usher offers the last three numbers OF this year
on trial, for 25 cents. Address, S. r. WELLS, 1886
Broadway New York.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-01

FEVER AND AGUE prevails to a painful sx-
tent in most sections of the West. A good,
safe and sure remedy is looked for by the
people; one they can take to their homes to
use in time of need. We would, therefore,
recommend to all, Perry Davis Pain Killer,
as being safe and sure remedy; by using
from the system. For sale by all medicine
dealers