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The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

A HINT FOR Town AND STREET Ma
KERs.-It is worthy of remark that the
arranging of the streets according to the
cardinal points involves a sanitary OBJ
lection of-eo mean import. No fact is
better established than the necessity of
sunlight to the highest degree of animal
health, and no constitution can long en-
dure without i'll effect, the habitual dai-
ly privation of its health-giving power.
City houses, at best, can rarely be so
well provided for in this respect as those
which stand alone, as is generally the
case in the country. and it is all the
more important that every facility
should be afforded to secure as much as
possible of its general influence. But
every house on the south side of a street
running east and west must have its
front rooms, which are generally its
living rooms, entirely secluded from the
sun during the winter, and for most of
the day during the summer. This fact,
coupled with that of the indoor life of
American, and particularly western wo-
men, is enough to account for a very
large share of the nervous debility
which so generally prevails. If the rec
tangular system must be adhered to in
city arrangement, it would be far better
that the lines of streets should be north
west and southeast, and the cross streets
at right angles with them, than as now
dispOsed.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12
The Instinct and Motive of Dress.

It is utterly Useless to try to make
| anything Of human llk believe that
dress is not of primary Importance,
that beauty unadorned has the slightest
chance, because it is not true in fact,
however excellent in theory. Let a
pretty woman neglect the amenities of
dress, leave all the accessories of hair,
lace, or ribbon adornment uncared for,
and go about limp, loose, and dowdysh,
with only her natural charms to coun-
terbalance, and see how little chance
she stands for admiration. A syste-
matically cut, gracefully hanging dress :
a bright knot, artistically disposed a
soft, delicate bit of lace, makes all the
| difference in the world in the effect of a
| woman produces upon the senses. 1t is
a remarkable fact that, while men make
women's folly IN dress the target at
which to let fly their sharpesS witticisms,
it is for man alone that she indulges in
these extravagances. Since the far
away times of the Aspasis, and before, IN
deed, of the Livis, Du Barrys, Pompa-
dours, ct. als., down to the representa-
tives of Mother Eve, to-day, women are
what the Pericles, Alcibia les, kings,
ernperors, and poets of their periods
make them. Men and women may exist
fer each other but it is in an inverse
ratio, women living great deal more
fer men than the converse. To look
Zones best for some lordly eye is thenatu-
raj instinct of every loving heart. To
have fair, healthy appearing complex
ion; round, full, yet plant figure
soft, white, shapely hands; glossy, well
cared for and fashionably arranged hair;
are all of them as much necessities to
true woman as the breath she draws,
the food she eats, for indeed to he out
of the fashion is to be out Of the world.
-INev York Evening Mail.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12
" Across the Plains. I"
Notes from the Danbury News Mans
TraveIs-Denver and Elsewhere.

Notes from the Danbury News Mans
TraveIs-Denver and Elsewhere.
In Kansas City they speak of Denver
as fourishing hamlet, and then shrug
their shoulders. In Denver they think
that Kansas City would be passable-
place if it was on earth.
The favorite expression here is Gin
time" Such "town will in time be a
big city" Such ''man will in time
make fortune. And so on. q" In time "
is the popular qualifer used in every
connection.
They tell me here that grave-yards
are not needed for residents; they are
merely laid out as an act of courtesy to
visitors. This intelligence affected me
very much, and visibly shortened my
stay in Denver. Kindness always did
overcome me.
We passed number of settlements
on the line of the Kansas Pacific. They
were in fourishing condition, and am
ply provided with printing offices and
churches, but L would bave freely
traded them all for one buffalo 1t is
an awful thing to want to see Il buffalo
and not see it.
The markets of Denver are superior,
the saloons are elegant, and in one of
these places are billiard tables, which
are pronounced by people who know to
be equal to anytlAng in New York. To
see shirt-sleeved miners and bull-whack-
ers punch balls over these tables is next
in impressiveness to the eternal
SHOWS"
We found the populations of the
cities at the depots The men were
whiting, not slashing off chips as yaN
see in the east, but softly tapering down
the stick, lovingly fondling it like
man would do if he was whiting off
the end of his nose. Only the wealthy
whittle, anyway, because timber is
scarce.
These are admirable grazing lands. 1
did not see cattle on a thousand hills,
but 1 saw a thousand cattle on no hill.
Herd after herd we passed as we
whirled along, and attending them We're
rough-looHing men on horses. Men
who have been idealized in novels, only
in novels they are known as rangers,
but here they are simply deneminated
g bull-whackers.
If you come across any statements in
this letter that appear TO be rather fgu-
rative, so to speak, you must remember
that the letter is written on the cars
while in motion, which are apt to make
the soundest statements and the most
awful truths appear vague-like. The
motion of a running train is uncertain.
start to give some facts which would
make a river open its mouth, when a
sudden move sends the pencil ont of the
golden realms of truth into the obscene
| atmosphere of levity. wish now that I
had written this pamphlet at the hotel,
because Denver is a most delicate sub
iect to handle under the most favorable
| circumstances.
P. 81 may be mistaken, but I feel
certain that a careful survey of the
above letter will not reveal the least
reference to the Pixies Peak and Longs
Peak as being so far distant and vet so
wonderfully discernible from Denver.
I am the only writer who has performed
this feat, and I feel proportionately
proud of it, but I should hardly at
tempt it again.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12
AGRICULTURAL.
The Wash-Honse.

For the benefit of our country friends
building farm-houses, in which comfort
and convenience are desirable to the
'help, as well as general cleanliness
to the household, We give these observa-
lions, Of the late Mr. Loudon, in his En-
cyclop@dia Of Architecture:
"The wash-house should be well
lighted and therefore, if united with
other Offices, it should, if practicable, be
made a corner building, and have win
dows on two sides.
Instead of portable round tubs,
which, as noticed in the preceding
book, are the most mconvenient of all
the forms that could be devised for
washing by hand, oblong t1oughs,
about three feet IN length, eighteen
inches wide at the top, one foot wide at
bottom and eighteen inches deep.
should be fixed round the two lighted
sides OF the room. Each trough should
have hole and stopper in tho bottom :.
and close under these holes should be a
gutter, common to all the troughs.
which may convey away the waste wa
ter to the manure tank. In one corner
or side OF the room the boiler should be
placed and over it a supply pipe from
a cold water cistern. Pipes may be
conducted from both the cAd water
cistern and the boiler, so as to deliver
on turning cocks, Geld or hot water, at
pleasure, into the trough.
The floor Of every bath-house ought
to be very carefully paved, with an in
clination Of an inch in a yard towards
one corner, in which there ought to be
a trap-drain leading to the manure tank
The inclination, which viii hardly be
perceptibIe to the eye, or recognized in
standing or walking, wiz yet be most
useful, by directing all the water
which must occasionally be split on the
floor, to the point where it viii be car
ried off Close under the ceiling there
ought to be several openings eommuni-
eating with the outside air. to carry of
the steam, and IN the bottom of the
door there ought to be corresponding
openings to admit fresh air; both open
ings ought to have shutters sliding in
horizontal grooves with hooks in them.
50 as to admit of their being easily
drawn back or pushed forward.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

LITTLE BEGINNINGS. steam
which raised the lid of the kettle, led
a philosophic mind to utilize it for
mans benefit. No one dreamed that
we should now be dragged along by it
at the rate of sixty miles an hour
When Perry Davis made preparation
for the medicinal use of their family,
thirty years ago, neither he or any 9TH
er man imagined that it would now be
sold in every land, and prove to be the
4" Pain Killer" of the world. 1t should
always be kept on hand, especially at
this season of the year, when so many
suffer from bowel complaints. There is
nothing so quick to relieve in attacks
of cholera
Sold at only 25 cents bottle, by
merchants generally
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12
SUB ROSA


The flower you placed within my button-hole
Has faded but there lives within my soul
Another rose, unfolding hour by hour
Your beauty's self III its immortal flower
That makes me rich with an unfathomed wealth.
And happy in the heaven Of its health.
SO living-warm this dainty flower giows
As if a sunbeam hlushed into q rose:
With fragrance like q watt from heaven afar,
And look as iustrous as the mOrning-star.
do not come to crown your beauty, Sweet!
Nor thank you for it, kueellng at your feet;
But pray that on Loves bosom il may rest
As thornless as its likeness in ny breast
And ask Him who such promise here bath given
To let me see the flower fulfilled IN heaven.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12
sheep &c Oowg erazing Togetbar


An experienced correspondent of the
Practical Farmer, from eastern Penn
sylvania, after enumerating a list Of
very tempting profits realized from
sheep, advises that farmers do not rush
headlong into the business but those
who have none, procure and trv q few
upon their farms, and see if there be
not a profit in keeping them. a few
sheep can be proftably kept on almost
any farm, as they VIII feed upon some
thing that other stock will not touch
VIII entirely eradicate some kinds Of
weeds, and what they thus consume
wiz not be missed at the end of tbe
year. as to grazing sheep and cows ON
the same pasture, the writer SAYS:
L viii conclude by giving a summa-
ry OF my own experience in sheep hus-
bandry. I have been farming and
keeping sheep nineteen years. Du-
ring the last seven years [ have been
keeping thoroughbred southdowns
carefully selected from some Of the
best focks IN the country. Nv lambs
have averaged me SO piece. and the
wool 3 for each sheep. think I can
keep one sheep and one COW to every
acre, on a given amount of pasture
land Just as wei as to keep the COW
alone. In regard to alleged injurious
effects affirmed by some of keeping
sheep and dairy cows in the same. I viii
state that have never observed them
And if there were any injurious effects
resulting from the practice, it would be
confined to the short space of time in
tervening between first turning to pas
ture and harvest, say from the middle
of May to the first or middle of july
Sheep prefer and VIII cling to the old
pastures. while COWS are continually
seeking and longing for new
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

TIE cynic of the st. Louis Democrat
says: The clerks in the new Grand
Pacific hotel of Chicago have not had
charge of the cash drawer long enough
yet to sport diamonds, but one wears
the bottom of beer glass set in silver
on his bosom, and the other, the night
clerk, has small bull's-eye lantern set
in his shirt front with revolving light"
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

FENTInATTNG SrAoKs.-A new inven-
ton had been adopted this year at the
Prince Consort's farm and the Norfolk
, farm at Windsor, England for the pre-
servation of hay ricks from the heating
occasioned by confined air and moisture
a long perforated tube fixed in short
lengths which fit into each other. is
built into the body of the rick as it is
carried UP, and surmounted by bowl.
which turns with the wind and pro-
vides a constant down current an up
ward current is also arranged for an in
ner tube, which is solid, opens at the
bottom, and so completes the circula-
lion. The invention is also adapted to
graneries and ships in transit, but in
those several arms are provided, run
ming out from the central shaft at right
angles, so as to distribute the air
lrough the grain.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12
Rockbridgc Alum Springs, Va.

TEIHTS CELEBRAT ED WATERING PLACE
1 is now open TO receive guests. Those who are
afflicted with scrofula, glanduiar swellngs and
cutaneOus erupriVe diseases, erysiptlas, tetter.
eczema, etc. Chronic diarrhOea, and dysentery,
dyspepsia. bronchitis chronic thrush, drOpsy and
piles, should lose time ia coming TO this fOuu-
tain of health TO be healed. For the cure OF many
of the above diseases this water stands unrivaled
among the mineral water of the United states.
JAS. \. FkAzIEK. Proprietor.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12
FREE TO BOOK AGENTS.

AN ELEGANT BOUND CANvAsSING
IA book for the cheapest family Hible ever pub
lished will be sent free of charge tn any book
agent II contains nearly 700 fine scripture H.
lustrations; and agents are meeting with unprece-
dented success. Address. stating experience etc.
and Will show You what our agents are doing.
NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., st. Louis, Mo.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

WINNING GOLDEN OPINIONS. Per
haps no man living has won more gold
en- opinions than DIR. Walker, as the
enormous and widely increasing sale of
his California Vinegar Bitters attest.
We never look into one of our exchang-
es, but there is a panegyric of the bit
ters staring us in the face. Our readers
viii say there must be a reason for all
this praise. They are right. The eff
cacy of this celebrated medicine is es-
tablished by evidence which it is i'm
possible 10 doHbt. Among the thou
sands who have borne testimony to It's
excellence, there IS not one dissentient
voice. In very many phases of inor
ganlc disease 1t seems to be unfailing.
All disease arising from a vitiated state
of the blood are surely eradicated by it.
1t is an effectual remedy for pulmonary
complaints, bilious, remittent and inter
mittent fevers, rheumatism and dyspep-
STA. 1t purges the body of all unhealthy
humors, gives tone to the system. and
where the vital powers are enfeebled,
restores their functions to vigorous and
healthy action. All this it does the
more effectually because its operation is
not interfered with by the presence of
alcohol. The Vinegar Bitters is perfect
ly free from any such hurtful ingredient.
We have always believed that plants
contain the true remedies for disease,
and all the remedies necessary. DIR.
Walker is on the line of real progress.
and we hope that he Will not rest on his
present discoveries.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

An exchange says ''Some men
are born for a niche" g Yes, says the
Boston Bulletin, 81 but they don't all
come up to the scratch"
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

THE clown prince of Wales will ex-
hibit at Vienna again in August.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

PERHPAs it is scarcely correct to say
that rafting on the lakes is an innova-
ton, as it has been done before. On
Lake Erie, Mr.. Bowen says that 40, 900, =
900 feet were RATED last season from
the Huron country to Tonawanda, Buff
falo and other ports, and not log was
lost. In 1862 Mr.. Redmond Prindiville
RATED 4, 1000, 600 feet of dressed lumber
from Saginaw TO this city, distance of
800 miles, in eight days. The tugs
John Prindiville and the Mclean did
the towing. Mr.. Prindiville, whose ex-
perience on the lake makes his opinion
valuable in this connection, thinks that
so long as the weather remains fine and
the water smooth rafting is feasible and
safe, but that rough weather might
break up loose lumber, though a raft of
heavy logs might survive. Chicago
Tribune -
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

Ii you desire rosy cheeks and a com
plexion fair and free from pimples, blotches
and eruption{, purify your blood by taking
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery 1t
has no equal for shat purpose. 647
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

The London Saturday Review thinks
that Bert Harte is a teller and
poet of true genius.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

How TO PRESERVE HAN1.-Cut the
ham into slices, as when you fry it, then
fry it little and pack in a crock or
other close dish, and cover the meat
with lard to keep the air from it. In
this way ham can be preserved through
the warmest weather in good condition.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12
MARKET REPORTS.
Louisville.

MApurT prpOpTc
Louisville.
SdRY SHsAIed and Amber .-.-.--S . as 80
OATS 0aPsC, COO ff;:s....-.....-..... 20 q
Lues.......... -. 90 "a 5 co
FGdsEFTesb BGds EInGholoe ,...-.-.....- is 1s a 20
HAY-Timothy.. .............. 10 90 q 20 90
NJ f1od........... fi........... Sx9 81
r7sH-FLf1a SslY is 20 10 I6 90 %
NoI & - 500 a 8 so
PoRK-Mess. -. .....:.. 1s 90 "a 1s 50
RAE9; RAE6Y-c;ie:r Side s22@ s2@ 1o2 io2S
CHEESE Choice ..-....... IIK@ l2E
corn MEAI-Bd sS -. - 60 q 65
fLooh-9SPgP9I''S SUPER IN - gS gS 90
,roor .rs Fancy .--.---.--- 90 90 q Sc
Unwashea go .....,... 80 a 80
FQTHI06SmSe~ FQIAro6SS75Se l ''..... so so "a 90 90
oo-r.,,,l Dairy Try; $4,000 so q ,o,>
CO - 10 a l6K
IN e,ns.
FroUR-Ex;rJ -. 7 SO a so
CORN. "a. Fan -. -. 81 "a GO
OATS 41T $1,000 ..--..'- 1s 90 90 q q ., 81 81
PoRK-NIess -. II . q IT 50
HANS HANS =. 5 Is "a I5E
IN; aI4f: aR- n, Foil 80 % ~
wHIsKY-Los L,1 "a "a q
ooTToN-s w 10 a 15zs
E5 - IS "a iss
0Oi i0- i9aS IS i4
CoRS- C2RS 5S 53 q % %
BACON - 7l@
IL q iON
FLOUR : - 90 a 25
q = -, 90 S 3 so
C0RN C0RN ~ s = 'S' ~ 81 81 q 90 60
OATS - = - 45
+ - = + =.
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n do7
4 T. r. q 8 90
F75 "a . 50
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L Lie
There isl dest danger of
the collaI6 khest personal
life, the 5z been shown
us, befo, of the half
lights and h' the new era.
Complexity ad is the great
condition OF life-shades of
thought too yield up defin-
ite opinions ~ moral obligation
too complex TO PUP definite axioms
of duty-shadei insight too various
to yield up def .tences of approval
or condemnatioiX X the action of others
On all subjects strictly scientific, on
all those menta md moral questions
which determine onduct and action,
the growing senW Of eomplexity and
difficulty is rapidly producing a relax
inc, effect ,,non the force of individyoI
character, IN some sense men are
blinded by the excess OF light. The
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12
JUST PUBLISHED,
Good Morals and Gentle Manners.

BY ALEX. NJ. COW. A. NJ
a useful book upon highly important and much
neglected subjects. For schools and families.
I2mo Cloth 252 pages. Price 81 D. sample copy
to teachers 81 cents.
WILSON, HINKLE q CO., Publlsher RS,
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

How PEOPLE GET SIcK.-Eating too
much and too fast, and swallowing i'm
perfectly masticated food. By taking
too much fluid during meals. Drinking
poisonous whisky and other Intoxicating
drinks. Keeping late hours at night
and sleeping too late in the morning
Wearing clothing too tight, 50 far as
to relax the circulation. Wearing thin
shoes. Neglecting to take sufficient
exercise to keep the hands and feet
warm Neglecting to wash the body snf-
ficiently to keep the pores of the skin
open. Exchanging the warm clothing
worn in a warm room during the day
for light costumes and exposure Incl
dent to evening parties. Starving the
stomach to crafty a vain and foolish
passion for dress. Keeping up con
slant excitement, fretting the mind
with borrowed troubles. Employing
cheap doctors, and swallowing quack
nostrums for every imaginary i'll. TAX
ing meals at irregular intervals.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

BEsT ASD OLDEST FAMILY MEDIc.SE,-.,7Sa,.-
Soras LUZ nvRoTg1ofa purely vegeDs1t ton oa
debility. sick hea,dache. billions attacks. and al
your druggist for it. Beware ~ mutations
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

CURE FOR RHEUMATISM "A bath in
hot sand is the latest discovery offered
by a therapeutist of London as an d" in
fallible cure for rheumatism. He
claims that the advantage of this mode
of treatment consists especially in the
fact that it does not suppress perspira-
ton like the hot water bath, but rather
increases it F; and another advantage it
possesses is that it does not interfere
with the respirations of the patient, as
does the steam bath or Turkish bath.
It is asserted that the body can endure
the infuenceaf such bath for a much
longer time, and much higher tempera-
ture can also be applied. 1t can be
used for infants, and permits of easy
application to part or to the whole
body. If this remedy shall prove eff
cacious for so serious an ailment, it will
indeed be boon to a large class of suf-
ferers.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

y New YoRK has over 100 centenarians.
one-third Of whom are negroes.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12
OFFERS EXTRAORDINARY

TTNO any person sending me the address 81
i more men who want 10 make rom ~
s5 81O per year sure ifarmers' names preierrf
viii send n Census book Of 1s7o and an euera
entitled " The Old and the New lnN21 IL ~
Address. J. q. TIIToS. Pittsburgh.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12
PAIN! PAIN !! PAIN!!!
WHERE Is THY RELIEVER9
Beaders, you VIII find it in that Favorite Hon
a1s-
PERRY DAVIS PAIN-KIL[ER.

It has been tes' ed in every variety OF climate and
by almost every nation known TO Americans II
is the almost G. Instant companion and inestima BILE
friend OF the missionary aud traveller on sea and
rivers without it.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

IF You have chills. periodic headache, or any
Pills will remove the troublss at once. ley are
an Antidote.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

FARMERS and "hors! men are con-
tinually inquiring what wsfsnow of the utility
of Sheridans Cavalry Codition Powders, and
IN reply we w4d hnt Te Sa trough ga 1hT from bnn.
dreds who have used ther1 with gratifying re-
suits; that is also our experience.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

FoR loss of appel "
depression of spil
IN their various I'd
ELIXIR of CALIsAYAs
ARD d. Co., New Yorl B
is the best tonic. Al
tients recovering from
it has no equal. If tal
prevents fever and p
tent fevers.-CoDl.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12


Every drop of the SARSA PA RILLIAN RE
SOLVENT communicates through the Blood
Sweat, Urine, and other fluids and juices OF the
system the vgCr of life. for IL repairs the wastes q
the body with new snd sound material. ScTOfulR.
syphilis consnmption, Glandular diseases. Ulcers
in the throat. Mouth, Tumors, Nodes In he Glands
and other parts of the system, sore Eyes, Stru-
morous discharges from the Ears. aud the worst
forms of skin diseases, Eruptions, Fever Sores,
scald Head. Ring Worm, Salt Rbeurn. Eryspelss,
Acne, Black Spots, Worms In the Flesh TnTnors,
Cancers, in the Womb, and all weakening and
painful discharges. Night Sweats. Loss Of Sperm
and all wastes of the life principle are within the
curative range OF this wonder Of Modern Chemis
try, and few days Will prove 70 ady person
using Il for either of these forms Of disease rs po
tent power TO cure them.
If The patient. daily becoming reduced BY the
wastes and decomposition that Is continually pro
gressng succeeds Ia arrestinz these wastes ana r-
pairs the with new material made rom heal
thy blood-and this the SARSAPAkILLIANw SA A y VIII
and does secure-a cure Is certain for when once
this remedy commences its work of publication,
and succeeds In diminishing the loss of wastes. ts
repairs will he rapid and every day the patient VIII
feel himself growing better and stronger the food
digesting better. appetite improving, and hesh and
weight increasing,
No; only does the eSARcAPAEILLIAN KEsOLvENT
excel all known remedial agents in The cure %
Chronic, Scrofulous. Constitutional. and skin dis
IL Is the only pO6tiVe cure Tor
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-12

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isn't Iono enouob on1v y dozar
gives four lines lomeIet," :" mere
lv to whet the ra oetite They
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