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The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09
ReportOriaI Adventure.


There is in Kansas, or was ND to three
years ago, a society of newspaper men
called "The Bob Ellis Friends" The
society was formed to perpetuate the
name and doings of a reporter named
Ellis, who made his name famous on
the Pacific coast by his startling adven-
lures, and whose career finally closed
with balloon ascension. 1t seemed
that gentleman who had made one or
two ascensions had advertised to 90 up
from the fair ground on a certain dav.
and that large crowd assembled to
witness the exhibition. Ellis was sent
to make report of the affair, and he
took it into his head to have ride with
the professor and write up his expert
ence. His company was accepted, and
as the hour approached, he took his
seat in the car. The balloon was infia-
ted, Rd just as it was ready to rise the
professor had some excuse to leap out
Eased of his weight so suddenly, the
balloon jerked away from the men and
Ellis went skyward alone. The man
knew all about newspaper business, but
he was ignorant as to aerial navigation.
He, however, took things coolly as if
nothing unusual had happened. There
was no wind below, and, while the bal
loon hung over the grounds half mile
above the heads of the excited crowd,
the following message came floating
down: "I am all right, and intend to
see the thing through. Tell the paper
to look out for dispatch from me to-
night"
1t was about five o'clock in the after
noon of a June day, and the balloon
and it's freight finally foated away to
the northwest, and at last were lost to
view. No one in the crowd ever saw
Ellis again. In fact it was months be-
fore he was heard of. Days passed and
: o.O.s ----o W-isSos and dispatches sent,
but there was no news of the balloon
for week. Then a hunter found this
message on the prairie "Am still all
right, and am having a heap of fun. l
have found the valve cord and can de-
scend whenever I wish, but am going
to see the thing down to a fine point. "
He did. Months and months afterward
hunter, passing through few miles
from the Santee agency, on the line be-
tween Kansas and Dakota, found a
wreck of the balloon hanging to IA tree,
and near by the skeleton of Robert
Fills
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8 Sweet Cnrinth."

The other evening, as we were walk
ing leisurely along, the music OF cho1rs
in three churches came floating out into
the darkness around us, and they were
all new and strange tunes but one-it
was not sung as we have heard it, but it
awakened a train of long buried memo
ries that rose to us even as they were
before the cemetery CT the soul had a
tomb in it.
It was sweet 'eCorinth they were
singing-strains we have seldom heard
since the rose color of life was blanched;
and we were in moment back again to
the old village church, and it was a
summer afternoon, and the yellow sun
beams we're streaming through the west
windows, and the silver hair of the old
deacon who sat in the Sulpit was turned
to gold in its light, add the minister,
whom we used to think could never die,
so good was. he, had concluded cap
plication and exhortation, and the vii
lage choir was singing the last hymn,
and the tune was Corinth.
It is years-we dare not think how
many-since then, and the prayers of
David, the son of Jesse, are ended, !"
and the choir are scattered and gone.
The girl with blue eyes that sang alto,
and the girl with black eyes that sang
air-the eyes of the one were like the
clear June heaven at noon. They both
became wives, and both mothers, and
they both died. Who shall say that
they are not singing Corinth" still
where Sabbaths never waDe. and con-
gregations never break up? There they
sat. Sabbath after Sabbath, by the
square column at the right of the lead
er, and to our young ears their tones
were the "soul of music" That col
umn bears still their penciled names as
thev wrote them in those days of life's
June. 1S3-, before dreams of change
had o'ercome their spirits like sum-
mer's cloud.
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Children's Ways.


Gail Hamilton, writing of children,
SAYS 'I should be sorry to say any
thing that might aid or abet our idle,
lax, and worth ess American fathers and
mothers. But it is an indisputable fact
that children do take an immense deal
OF spelling without permanent injury if
there is good stock In them. Nature
seems to think more of substance than
training, for she gives children net when
people are wisest, but when they are
freshest and strongest. 1t is delightful
to see children always behaving with
perfect propriety and politeness but if
they kick and cuff and scream and grab,
all is not lost. There is a certain gov
ernor whom not having seen love, be-
cause he sends word to his son that his
grandson is the best little fellow in the
world if you do not thwart him, and
always obedient if you do not hurry
him about it. The baby in breeches
was standing by my chair, and clan
destinely snatched kiss, whereupon up
flew his chubby hand and gave me a
smart slap on the cheek. 1t was in my
heart to retort with thump, but re-
Trained, and by and by, when whis-
pered, why did you strike me p he an
swered. innocently, Because you stole
kiss Innocent as an angel, for it
was pure frolic, and no malice or rude
ness at all. But we expect to take lib
critics with children, and then have
them perfectly wise and aware of the
exact degree of respect to be observed
toward ourselves F"
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MIX and POTATOES.

Prof. Jas. F. W. Johnston says {:
every forty gallons of milk carried off
the farm contains one pound of bone
earth Estimating the average yield
of a good COW at 750 gallons a year, this
milk will contain 10 pounds Of earthly
phosphate, or as much as is present in
30 pounds of bone dust, and the urine
contains about IL pounds of the same
phosphates. Suppose that only a third
of this runs to waste, there will be a
loss equal to about six pounds of bone
dust. But by Mr.. Quincy's arr nge-
ment the urine is saved by being alb
sorbed by the peat muck. According
to Prof. Johnston's statements it will
be seen that there are annually carried
off in the milk from Mr.. Quincy's 100
cows, phosphates equivalent to 5000
pounds of bone dust. But if the cream
of the 100 cows milk was made into
butter, and the buttermilk and skim
milk were fed to swine, and they were
supplied with muck or good loan suf-
ficient to absorb the urine, all loss from
the phosphates of 100 cows would be
what was continued IN the bones of the
hogs.
Butter-makers in New York increase
the yield of grass without purchasing
any bone earth, as none leaves the farm
in butter. But Mr.. Quincy sells milk
in Boston, and requires 3, 900 pounds of
bone dust to compensate for that sold
in milk in twelve months.
Dr. Jas. r. Nichols tells us in one of
his lectures, that 81 field OF potatoes
yielding 800 hIshels to the acre removes
from the sol, in tubers and tops, at
least 400 pounds of potash also, that
it will remove $50 pounds of phospho-
ric acid. A potato field which gives but
100 bushels to the acre, requires at least
$50 pounds of potash but allowing the
tops to decay upon the field, so pounds
are restored to the soil again, as that
amount is contained in them"
Every farmer should know that it al
ways takes something to make some
thing and that one element cannot be
changed into another
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River and HarbOr Improvements.

The house committee on commerce
have completed the river and harbor
bill. Owing to the financial condition
of the government, the commissioners
have coneluded-net to report in favor of
HeY works Io--4e ;eonfine their recon-
pletion of those 5<ifesuy commenced.
Among the largest items of appropria-
tions in the bill are the following: Har-
Dor of Refuge, Chicago, $75, 900; s..
Mary's Fall canal, 5000, 900: Harbor of
Refuge, Lake Huron, S75, 900; Toledo,
S75, 900; Des Moines Rapid canal, $4O0,-
600; improvements of the Mississippi,
Missouri and Arkansas rivers, 800, 600;
moving Red river raft, $4,000; inn
proving the mouth of the Mississippi
river, $l30, 900; Mobile harbor, $75, 600;
White river, above Jacksonport, $50, 900;
Mississippi river. between the mouths
of the Ohio and Missouri, 5000, 600;
Ohio river, s15O,OOO; Tennessee river,
above Chattanooga, s25, 900; below Chat
tanooga, including Muscle shoals, $780,
900. The bill authorizes about forty
surveys to be made, fifteen of them in
the south. The entire amount of appro-
priations is 81, 500, 900, or 81 900, 900 less
than the amount Of the bill reported to
the house last wear.
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The Flood in Arkansas.

The Arkansas vslley is overfowed up
to Arkansas Poet SIS, 600 will probably
cover the damages there. From the
mouth of the Arkansas down is Where
the greatest dan, ace resulted, and where
destitution existssmong all classes, put
particularly laborrs and thelr 1amilles;
LARGE nortionS efihe Tallahatchie and
Yellobusha bottns have oeen over
flowed for some bne, but at the ia latest
Is another crorsse at Catfish Point,
making the fourtbin. thag vicinity, ana
yet but few pla1etlona nave Deen IN
iured SunfoS eflyer mas carried on
The main ,,ort;o,,f the water escaping
through the HusRuck.ana crevasse, ana
the Deer creek ppta tions nave V5 not sur
fered materially rom Nil1Aen liz I
Bend, twenty.fssE a1ove Yicks- KS
burg, is where t4sseest damage mas
been done, and / re tie greatest des-
titution and suf{lg psRai's'
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09
The Commune In France

A Paris letter says Evidently diff
ficulties are fast closing in about us, and
every day we have some fresh cause for
rejecting upon the security of the mo-
ment. The spirit which animated the
Commune is very far from being crush
ed. Some men are once more organic
ing for another attempt, and just as
they did before in 1S48 and 1871. So
cieties of workingmen are formed in
each arrondisement under the direction
of district commissioners which take
their orders from a central committee.
The next step is to bind the men by
making them solitaire in all dangers
and benefits, and by the element of Sc
crecy always attractive to the uneduca-
ted Members of the society who have
work, are privately taxed and one-half
of the proceeds is added to the sinking
fund reserved for war budget. The
rest goes to aid those who are out of work
and in distress. Just before the war
matters had reached the stage where we
find them to-day and Creuzat was Sc
lected as the best point for beginning
strikes. The difficulties then caused,
made possible the 4th of September.
This time the strikes are to be encour-
aged in Paris. 1t is positive certain
ty that the septeunate must come to an
end one day or another, and the belief
that it will not last long gives the chiefs
of the International an opportunity for
saying that it will be succeeded by an
other commune.
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09
THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE OF AN
II

Mrs. winsIow's Soothing Syrup Is the prescrip-
ton OF one of the best female physicians and
nurses In he United States and has been used for
thirty years with never falling safety and success
by millions OF mothers and children. from the fee-
RcidIty OF the stomach, relieves wind collie, regu-
iates the bowels and gives rest health and comfort
to mother and child. We believe It 70 be the best
and surest remedy IN the world in all Of dys-
entery and diarrhoa IN children, whether Il arises
from teething OF from any other cAnse- Full d.
rections for using Will accompany each bottle
None genuine unless the fac-simile OF CURTIS d
PERKINS is on the outside wrapper.
ssld by all medicine dealers
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09

Alasl +hot With the old singers most
of the sweeter tunes nave dleo upon the
thew shall Of be sung in the sweet re-
union of go that shall take place by
and bv IN hall whose columns are
beams of roorning light, whose ceiling
is pearl wbose floors are all gold, and
where hair never turns silvery, and
hearts never grow old. Then she that
sang alto. and she that sang air, will be
in their places once more.
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09

IT WAS an ancient custom of the Spar
tans, in order to inculcate among their
youth an adherence of intemperance
and its kindred vices, to make their
slaves drunk with wine in the public
market places, so that the rising gener-
alton, upon whom would some day de-
volve the honor and safety of the Lace
demonian Republic, might see before
them all the CHASTITY details of the
drunkald's disgrace, his loss of reason,
and of physical strength. 'Twere well,
perhaps, to-day, could some of our
young men contemplate a similar in
structive lesson drawn from the life,
showing them, by sharply drawn con-
trast, the advantages and true lowell
ness of abstinence and virtue. .
For such as appreciate these, Vinegar
Bitters is the beverage best adapted, it
being purely vegetable draught, de-
void of alcohol or mineral poisons, and
possessing all the virtues, but none of
the damning curses, of the diffeSent
poisons which year by year are syAep-
ing away thousands Of dollars and lives.
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THOSE FAYORITE HOME REMEDIES.
PERRY DAVIS
PAIN KILLER.
ALIENS
Lung BalSan, ,

And ,ohy they should al,oays be kept neay. al
hand.
1st. PAIN KIrLEE is the most certain Cholera
cure that medical science has produced.
I'd. ALIENS LUNG BALsAM is a cure for Coue hs.
of the Pulmonary Organs
any part of The system. a single dose usual
ly effects a cure.
4th. ALLrN's LU~e BAIsAM will cure that terri
BILE disease; Consumption, when all other
5lh. PAIS8xILLER has proved a sovereign reme-
dy for Fever and ague aud bill Fever 1t
has cured the most obstinate cases.
7th PAIN KILLER a. a liniment Is unequaled for
F ost Bi- -es, Chi.b .blains, rms, Bruises Cuts
SpTains. etc.
sth. ALIENS LUNG BALsAM-Mothers should
keep IL on hand d ca e of Group.
9th PAIN KILLER has cured cases of Rheuu1a-
tism and Neuralgia after years standing
10th. ALIENS LUNG BALsAM has been before the
public n period OF ten years, and in that time
has become known throughout this and large
many rivals but no equals.
IIth. PAIN Kill ER is purely vegetable prepaTa-
ton. safe TO keep and use in every family.
The simplicity attending its use, together
with the g reat variety of d seases tina NAV
be entirely eradIcated by il. and the gre at
amount of pain and suffering that can De al
leviated through its use. makes it Imperative
upon every person to supply themselves with
this valuable remedy, anu 10 keep It near at
hand.
18th ALIENS Lung BALSAM is largely endorsed
by Physicians. Drug <ists, Ministers. Public
an the hirbest terms and racor "a "a as rs
use in all cases of Coughs and Colds.
Every housekeeper should keep these 40 valu-
able remedies at hand with them, to use them in
many physician S b IL will be saved
Directions ace ompany each bottle.
]. N HARRIS. Proprietor.
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09

We sec by the commercial report that
Proctor & Gamble have reduced the price of
their long established and popular brand Ex-
ira Olive Soap. It's present price and superior
quality makes it the cheapest as well as the
best 7ap for consumers.
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09
READ WHAT IT WILL DO.

DR.. r. V PUEEcE-Haying first applied to a
number Of physicians aud failed to ct relief,
/ resolved to try your remedy. Four bottles
have completely cured me of one of the worst
cases of catarrh OF which I have any know
ledge, having suffered for months with an
acute pain in the head, and breathed only with
the greatest difficulty. l deem it due YOU as
well as suffering humanity, that this recogni-
ton be made Of what we deem an invaluable
medicine. CHAs. Q. ANDERSON.
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09
THE most stupendous enterprise o.

THE most stupendous enterprise on
the continent for the relief of human woe is
the National Surgical Institute of Indianapo-
liz. Indiana. 1t has capital stock of $780,
600, with over fifty surgeons, assistants and
ployed IN giving relief to thousands OF suffer
ers annually. They treat as specialties crook
ed feet legs, spines and all other human de-
formities, also paralysis, chronic diseases,
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09
sxmntoms of Catnrrh.

Dull, heavy, headache obstruction Of nasal
passages, discharge falling into throat. some
times profuse, watery, acrid. thick and tena-
cious, mucous, purulent muco-purulent bloody.
putrid, offensive. etc. In others a dryness.
dry. watery. weak or inflaned eyes. ringing in
ears. deafness, hawking and coughing to clear
the throat, ulcerations, scabs from ulcers.
voice altered, nasal twa4g offensive breath,
impaiISd smell and ia ste. dizziness mental de-
preston. tickling coughs. etc. Only few of
the above symptoms are likely to be present
10 any case at one time. No disease is more
common or less understood by physicians.
The proprietor Of DR.. Sages Catarrh Remedy
viii pay $500 reward for an incurable case.
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09

WE have often wondered whether
there is a person in the country who does not
know and appreciate the value of Johnsons
Anodyne Liniment as family medicine? 1t
is adapted to most all purposes, and is the
best pain destroyer that can be used.
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09

VICTIMS of consumption seeking Ie-
lief and restored health should use DR. Wish
arts Pine Tree Tar Cordial This is the only
preparation that develops the full virtue Of
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09

FARMERS and stock raisers have fre-
quently told US that they have seen very good
results from giving Sheridan's Cavalry Goncti--
tion Powders to COWS and swine before and
after they drop their young. The Powders
put them in good condition, and give them
strength to care and provide for the sucklings.
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09
Why Southern Immigration Schemes
Have Failed.

The defect the fatal objection to all
southern Immigration propositions, is
the failure 10 offer to sell homesteads to
the farmers whom they seek to allure to
that country There is no propositions
to allow the thrifty farmer an interest
in the soil. There is too much inteli
gence in the world, even among the
working classes. to render any scheme
acceptable which does not concede to
them an eoual station with any and all
other classes. The European immigrant
comes to America to secure home for
himself and his posterity. If he is ex-
pected to be merely a tenant. he Will
remain on the estates1of the European
aristocrat rather than become tenant
on the lands of an American. Let the
south arn people secure an influx of
white immigration by offering to sell
lands IN parcels to suit, to immigrants,
on accommodating terms, and then show
the natural advantages of the country,
and they viii soon turn stream of i'm
migration in their direction. A few years
ago large nu,nber of Swedish and Ger
man immigra,.s.were induced to go to
Mississippi REtAlabama. They had
not been lolsSSSssa until they saw the
Do sinpSs1 sse.ected to ocGupv
fis - America to be-
come hireIn' With good reason they
became dissatisfied, and scarcely waited
for the close of he year to leave the
country. Some of these people came
to Missouri, where they became pro-
prietors of small homesteads, and are
annually contributing to the prosperity
of the state. They might have remained
in Mississippi and be contributing to its
prosperity, had they been properly re-
ceived.
These may be unpleasant truths, but
it is best that they should be told. The
interest of the whole west should be
subserved by the highest possible de-
velopment of all the southern states.
There must be disposition to give i'm
migrants an even start in life, if the
south is ever made to bloom on account
of the labors of adopted citizens
st. Louis Republican.
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09

RAGGED stockings and protruding
toes are not seen on feet where SILVER TIPS
are worn. Parents remember this, they last
twice as long.
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09
J. N HARRIS. Proprietor.


For sale by all Druggists and seical Deaiers
For sale by Richard on d Co., ouis /; ]. ID
Park, Cincinnati; *. A. Robinson & Co, Louis
Vile; G. W. Jones u Co. Memphis; E. ]. Hart Il
Co. New Orleans; @. W. George, Galveston.
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09
The English Language in the Orient.

noticed but one striking change.
=ih.~s the astonishing spread OF sias-
sh language within the last twenty
-, resulting both from the numbers
English and American travellers who
sit the east, and tho use of the Ian
guage by travellers of other nationali-
Z ties. French, which until within the
asst few years was indispensable, has
een slowly fading into the background,
I'd Is already less available than Eng
b for Italy and all the TFfent. / was
title surprised, in Rome, at being
acsosted by native bootblack with,
Shine up your boots ?" In Naples,
every Pedder of canes, coral, photo
graphs, and shell fish knows at least
enough to make q good bargain put
tins is nothing to what one meets IN
Egypt. The bright-witt d boys learn
the language with amazing rapidity,
and ere so apt at guessing what they do
not literally understand that the trav-
eler no longer requires an interpreter
At the base of Pompey's pillar to-day a
ragged and dirty girl came out of
feliah hut and followed us, crying,
" Give me ha'penny" All the coach
men and most of the sLopkeepers are
familiar with the words necessary for
their business, aad prefer to use them,
even aitef tHey see tn2C you are ac-
quainted with Italian or Arabic. The
simple, natural structure of the Eng
lish language undoubtedly cont. ibutes
also to its extension. It is already the
leadiag language Of the world, spoken
by ninety millions of people double
the number of the French-speaking
rsces). and so extending its coaquests
year by year that It's practical value is
in advance of that of any other tongue.
BQyard Taylor
FouSDER REMEDY.-As soon as the
horse IS found to be stiff, swab the legs
aud feet with hot water, SO hot that the
hand can not bear to touch it, but not SO
llct as to scald. After short time the
legs should be rubbed dry and the horse
gently exercised. Have never known
this to fail to remedy the trouble.
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09

Go TO Riverside Water Cure, Hamilton, Ill.
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09

ITCHING OF THE Tail OF HORSES. The
itciiing described is of the fundament,
and in the endeavor to scratch it the
tail is often rubbed against something
until the hair is all worn off, and thus
dis6guring the tail very much. A free
application of lard to the parts, even
reaching into the parts affected, will
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09
BROWNS vERM1FUeE coMF1Tss

CHILDREN OFTEN LOOK PALE AND
SICK
from no other cause than having worms in the
stomach
BROWNS VERMIFUGE CoMFITSS
Will destroy worms without injury to the Mild.
being perfectly WHITE and free from all color
ing other injurious ingredients usually used in
worm preparations.
CURTIS & BROWN, Proprietors,
No. 2I5 Fulton street. New York.
Sold by druggists and chemists, and dealSrs In
medicines, at twenty-five cents a bottle.
The Hickman courier., 1874-05-09

THESE are the days in which she says,
:" / don't care / wish i was dead y and
he sympathetically reioins, "Hang the
bonnet You're never satisfied -
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EMPLOYMENT.

ND WUTmRTuD CIT ST. Chafies t..tr. ..I
IN. W1lTIlhh, Louis, No Long,@ 'f.'.s|.
and most successfsl phyeielan q ~, .n3 -. 11 N
for The benehl OF Young men wng VI x. ,..11I fI
foi niess, Debility. &C.. treatZ1 IrI NNN'N
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