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Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-03-26

A SECOND FATHER MATTHEw.--Who
is there that does not'respect the memory
of Father Matthew, the great champion
of temperance. Innumerable societies
bear his honored name; but there is one
man who has struck more sure death
blow to intemperance, and that man is
DIR. J. WALKER, an old California ply.
stefan, who has discovered in natures
meek and lowly herbs" medicinal
tonic" and gentle stimulant that CON-
pletely takes the place of the fashionable
alcoholic poisons called "tonics," so
popular as compromise between strong
drink and cold water, and does away
with the mania for drink, and in reality
cultivates an involuntary disgust for the
same. 1t even does more: 1t acts upon
the entire physical system, purifes the
blood, and produces hale, hardy health.
The discoverer Of this great medicinal
stimulant Is surely entitled to the thanks
Of whole nation, and 1t Is not extrava-
CANT to entitle him "a second Father
Matthew" 80
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-03-26

DON'T TAMPER WITH CoUaH.-Perha,s I'm
the whole category OF diseases to which br
mainly is susceptible, the cough is most neg.
lected in its early stage. simple cough I.
generally regarded as q temporary affection.
unpleasant and nothing more, but to thoss
who have paid dearly for experience. it ia the
signal for attack Tor the most fearful OF ali
diseases Consumption A cough will lead 70
consumption-n not checked-so sure AZ ths
rivulet leads to the river, yet it is an easy
my to thwart, II met by the proper reInedy
Aliens Lung BalsGns Is the great cough rems.
dy of the age, and it has earned its reputation
bY merit alone. Sold by all good druggists
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-03-26

DIR. WMHoFT's ANTI-PERIoDIc OR Fgvrp
AND AGUE ToSIC!-Wilhoft's Tonic has estah.
lished itself as the real infallible Chill cure
1t is universally admitted to be the only re-.
liable and harmless Chill medicine now in use
Its efficacy is confirmed by thousands of Ger.
tifcates.of the very best people from all parts
of the country. 1t cures malarious diseases
Of every type, from the shaking agues of the
lakes and valleys to the raging fevers Of the
torrid zone. Try 1t! 1t has never been known
to fail. WHEELocK, FINLAY Il Co., Propr.
etors. New Orleans.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-03-26
Woe and South.

The Ohio Constitutional Convention has re-
fused, by vote Of 4s for to 80 against, to sub
nit to Q separate vote section allowing
woman suffrage. Fifty.thrce votes were
required to secure such submission TO sepa-
rate vote.
the next Democratic State Convention Of
Indiana Is TO be held on the 18TH Of July.
The Republican State Central Committee Of
Indiana has called State Convention, to meet
at Indianapolis on the nh Of June, to nomi-
nate candidates for State officers, to be voted
for at the October election.
The twcnty-sixth session OF the Wisconsin
Legislature closed on the 18th. Three hun.
dred and forty-nine laws were passed and
thirteen Joint resolutions were adopted during
the session.
There was an increase OF Q 40 pei
cent. In the area scwn with winter wheat
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-03-26

OLD By ALL MEDICINE DEALERS.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-07
Women i'm the Grange.

The social feature of the grange is
one of its best elements of success.
Farmers wives and daughters have too
little opportunity to visit their neigh
bors. The social enjoyments are swal-
lowed up in the drudgery of the kitchen,
dairy, garden and nursery. Their daily
lives are too much like the tread-mill
routine. In the monthly meetings of
the grange, while they lend sanctify-
ing influence, they are revived in spirits,
instructed by an exchange of opinions
about household duties, the changes in
fashions, as we'll as the best means of
turning the products of the dairy, the
eggs, chickens, or other surplus, to the
best account for pin-money. They can
do good in the grange, and wherever
they are useful, there is the place for
women. In the past three years in the
grange we have seen women awakened
to a new life. Where sadness and in
difference wasvisible in every lineament,
life, energy and vivacity have sprung
up anew, Tightening her labors, making
her more cheerful IN her family, and re-
minding her husband of former days.
The women go to the grange monthly,
and there meet and talk with friends
and neighbors that otherwise they
would not meet for the entire winter.
There they discuss the questions of the
best magazines, agricultural papers,
and the new books that have come into
the neighborhood. There they learn of
the cases of Sickness or want either in
or out of the grange, and take the steps
to provide for such cases. There they
learn the character of the young ladies
or young men who have come into the
neighborhood, with whom their sons
and daughters may fall in company.
They go to the grange to get rid of their
low spirits, their lonesomeness, and to
satisfy their longings after society and
congenial spirits. Let the women come.
They are needed wherever they can do
us or themselves good. They are need
ed in the grange to keep up its interest
when all other sources fail. They give
it dignity and character. They purify
its atmosphere and refine all its delib.
erations. Without them the harvest
feasts would choke in our throats, and
no one would look forward with interest
to the next monthly meeting, without
those who always cheer our pathway.
And those oranges that meet only even
ings at country school-houses are losing
nearly all the delightful social features
of the Patrons. Come to the grange,
ladies, and talk about what you please.
Wear your best calico, and be relieved
for few hours from the drudgery OF
the house and family, and you will fee
for the month a renewed pleasure in
life, and your duties will be relieved Of
half their burdens.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-07
The Changers in Wisconsin.

The Executive Committee of the Wis
consin State Grange have held meet
ing, at which it was ascertained hat the
whole number of subordinate oranges
in the State is now 430, all but 100 of
which have been organized since the LIST
of March, 1873. These have an average
membership of 40 each, making 19, $50
grangers in the State. Under these, Al
county councils have been organized,
to attend to the purchasing of supplies
for the different oranges, and to man.
age the cooperative stores, factories
and mills already begun. A law has
also been passed enabling them to in
corporate local fire insurance COM
panies, of which 90 are already doing
business. They usually include about
four civil townships within their as
signed territory, give the offices of
President and Secretary to some of the
local town officers, charge from to 2
mills ON the dollar, besides policy and
survey fee of S1.50, for carrying risks,
and yet there has not been failure to
meet liability. Several of them are
carrying from S40U, 900 to $500, 900 each
in risks, and, while the insurance is
cheap, the satisfaction given is univer-
sal, so far as reported to the State
Executive Committee.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-07
Pitman Perforated.

Pitman's woodpile has suffered good
deal lately from the ravages of thieves,
so the old gentleman the other day
loaded his gun with coarse salt, and
expressed his determination to bonn
bard the first man who should be OBJ
served to haunt the timber. On We'd
nesday morning he had to attend court,
and as he did not expect to reach home
until late in the evening, Mrs. Pitman
felt it her duty to keep an eye upon the
woodpile. But Pitman returned about
dusk, and as he walked up the yard he
thought he might as well carry in
enough wood to last all night. He had
just placed the fourth stick upon his
arm when an explosion occurred, and
the same instant he felt as if million
red-hot darning needles were dancing Up
and down his legs. He had heard from
Mrs. Pitman. He yelled with pain, and
dropping the wood, most of it upon his
toes, he fell to the ground. just as he
did so, he saw Mrs. Pitman standing in
the kitchen doorway with his frearm at
parade rest" and contemplating her
victory and her victim with serenity.
Pitman's first thought was that she had
suddenly been animated by an insane
but judicious desire to realize upon his
life insurance policy. But when ne
screamed to her, she dropped her artil-
lery and few to the scene with express
sions of alarm and grief at the discovery
that she bad perforated Pitman. She
called the servant girl, and as they car
ried him into the house, she explained
that she mistook him for thief, and
then she apologized. Pitman said it was
all very well to apologize, but what
good was that to man with two quarts
of salt and half pound of gun-wads in
his legs. Mrs. Pitman insisted that lie
oughtn't to mind little salt, it would
do him good. She urged that salt was
better than anything else for preserving
meat, and that his legs would probably
be alive and well and prancing around
the universe when the rest of him was
dead and spoiled That madehim mad,
and after splitting up his gun with the
ak, he went to bed, and he hasn',
spoken to Mrs. Pitman since; but he
has limited gloomily to the doctor thai
if divorce can be had he wi]. Obtain
one.-MQr Adeler.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-07

warm place for ten hours, then stir
well, put in the skillet and bake by the
fireplace four hours. If you haven't
hop yeast add half pint salt-rising yeast
before putting to bake.
Corn meal cakes for morning dish :
One quart OF sour milk; two or three
eggs; teaspoonful of saleratus, not
heaped two level full of salt. Mix
thick with corn meal, and fry after
steak, or In lard.
HAsTY RUsKs.-Two eggs, one pint
of -four, one cup of sugar, one cup of
milk, one dessert-spoonful of butter, one
teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls
of cream tartar. To be made up and
baked Immediately thereafter.
PUDDING SAUCE.-One-half teacup of
butter, one and half teacups of sugar
aud one pint of strawberries mashed till
juicy. Canned berries may be substi-
tuted for fresh ones.) Beat the butter
and sugar to cream, then stir in the
berries.
FRENCH CAKE.-Two cups of sugar.
four cups of -four, three-quarters of a
cup of butter, one cup of milk, four
eggs, two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar,
one teaspoonful of bi-carbonate of soda.
To be favored with r0se-water and
baked in tins.
DELICIOUS DRESSING FOR Fowls
Spread pieces of stale but tender
wheat bread literally with butter and
season rather highly with salt and pep
per, working them into the butter a
little; then dip the bread in wine, and
use it in as large pieces as is convenient
to stuff the bird The delicious flavor
which the wine gives is very penetrat-
ing, and gives to the fowl a rich, gamey
character which is very pleasant.
A NICE OMELET.-Beat two eggs,
yolks and whites together, in bowl,
until very light. In cup put one
tablespoonful of corn starch add slow
ly half teaspoonful of milk new milk
is BEST; when well stirred and smooth,
pour this over the eggs, and beat them
all well together for a few minutes a
little chopped parsley can be added if
wished. Cook as other omelets. In
making any kind of omelet, salt and
pepper should not be added until sent
to the table; and to have them perfect
ly light and tender the ingredients must
be welland quickly beaten with the fork.
REMEDY FOR SORE THROAT. Take
one large red pepper, such as are grown
for family use; steep in half pint of
water, after which strain in quart of
molasses, adding little vinegar boil
all together to thin syrup; use this
whenever the throat feels dry or dis
agreeable /; if it be in dead of night it
will soothe the throat land not irritate)
and warm it up well. If sharper than
can be borne in the mouth, put it back
near the palate with spoon and swal-
low; apply outwardly thin slice OF
salt pork, warming it mp well in vinega,
and pepper; apply as hot as can be
borne on the throat. Journal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-07

FIsH.-The fish of the United States
are unsurpassed in flavor in the world.
Sportsmen who, with rod and line, have
whipped European waters, say there is
nothing like them there from the Nor
way fords to the Guadalquiver. Africa
and Asia are both poor in this respect.
Even in China, where fish is an abun-
dant article of food, and is found in
great variety, the flesh is coarse. The
salmon of the Scotch lochs afford the
nearest approach to the succulence and
tender delicacy of our mountain trout
and the faky tenderness of our salmon
trout. Then there are the whitefsh,
the bass, the shad, and an innumerable
multitude of others. We have but one
rival, and that prolific but small one.
It is the French sardine when fresh.
This delicious fish in few years will
cease its rivalry, however, if reports are
true from the coast of France. Atpres-
ent the sardinc fisheries employ twenty
thousand men, women and children on
land to prepare the fish for market.
Each year shows an advance in the
price and diminution in the catch,
and In no great time everlasting will
have produced its usual consequence
failure of the fish.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-07
The Vienna Panic.

From the statistics of an Austrian
journal of finance, it appears that the
Vienna panic was much more wide
spread and disastrous than was general
" supposed at the time. In Austria
eight banking houses, representing an
aggregate capital of 10, 200, 900 forms !;
two insurance companies, representing
$500, 900 forms; one railway company,
representing 600, 1000; and seven indus
trial establishments, representing
1000, 100 forms, have failed outright
Forty banking establishments, with
139, 10000 forms capital; insurance
companies, with 5000, 900 forms one
traffic establishment, with 1,000,000
forms eighteen building societies,
with 81, 900, 900 forms, and thirty-four
industrial establishments, with 46, 6O0,-
900 forms, have resorted to liquidation.
In Hungary as many as ten banks, with
$500, 900 forms capital, and two indus
trial establishments, with 100000
forms, have declared their failure
while thirteen banks, with II, 300, 600
forms two insurance companies, with
800, 900 forms; one traffic establish
ment, with 4, 100000; one building So
ciety, with 100000 forins, and forty
industrial establishments, with collect
lively $500, 900 forms, have been driven
to liquidation. The number of fusions
or amalgamations effected is not stated.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-07
A City of Glass.

Consumption has found an earnest
opponent, perhaps a conqueror. MIR.
Gearge A. Shove, in book Osgood &
Co. are about to publish, suggests a
city of refuge for consumptives. 1t is
not to be IN the Sunny South. There
are such cities there now for those who
can afford to go to them. The new oneis
to be in bleak New England, but per-
petual summer is to reign within its
walls. 1t is to consist of a monstrous
structure of iron and glass, covering
forty acres of ground. Graceful iron
towers are to strengthen the walls, and
to contain the steam-engines which will
maintain summer temperature
throughout the long Northern winters.
A great dome will rise in the center
ga dome of the Invalides," says the au-
thentic author, "of even more magnifi-
cent proportions than the famous land
mark of strangers in the French capt.
tai" Within the building the iron col
umns will be covered with luxuriant
vines. The whole interior will be
park, with lawn and ponds and cro-
backgrounds, with trees, and shrubs
and flowers. Bands will play. Birds
will sing. The January sunshine will
pour into this Garden of Eden like that
of June. Moreover, the Adams and
Ewes of the nineteenth C entury will es-
cape the intense heat of New England's
brief but scorching summers. Arti6-
cially-cooled air will be forced into the
building. Around this central struct-
ure a glass-covered avenue will run,
lined on the outer side with hotels and
theaters and stores. The cost of the
gigantic conservatory with the attached
hotels is estimated at So, 900, 900.
The interest on this, at s per cent,
would be $96O,OOo. Add to this sum
the cost of boarding 10000 visitors
from November to June 60. 500,000),
and we have So, 100000
If the 10,0O0paid only 50 day apiece,
the enterprise would net 1910, 600 over
expenses and interest on capital. The
question is, would the 10000 come
Mr.. Shove shows, by the census NOR
tally charts, that pulmonary consump-
ton causes over one-fifth of all the
deaths in New England, in Northwestern
New York, in Eastern New Jersey, and
in other localities. It is far more
deadly than smallpox or cholera, but
we adopt the greatest precautions against
these diseases, and apparently regard
the other as a decree of fate. This
resignation is partially explained by
the fact that in its treatment drugs have
proved a failure. So, indeed, have
doctors. The disease is practically in
durable, unless the victim can spend the
winters in some sunny cline. Since
the city OF glass will be the only refuge
for the great majority of the tens of
thousands who are dying of this dread
disease, Mr.. Shove considers it but fair
to calculate that one of those tens will
be constantly living in the oasis he
wishes to construct in the midst of the
bleak desert of snow that covers New
England with shroud for so many
months al,d sets so many fingers sewing
on other snrouds. Chicago Tribune.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-07

are not backward In spending one or
two days every three months IN close
and ar6uous consultation about the
wants and the means of relieving the
necessities of the agriculturist. We
want men who will rot be thinking of
or demanding the mileage or per diem,
but men who feel that they have work
to do. Too often the grange appoint
men for such positions who seek them
for the position or notorlety it will give
them or the money it will put in their
pockets. The order is already cursed
by such. There are good men all over
the country, but they are seldom found
seeking position. Compel them into
service.
In our county councils there is not
enough fraternal interchange of opin-
ions with adjoining councils. The or
der is yet feeling its way, and all the
light that is eliminated by the conflict
of minds in our councils should be
more largely enjoyed by adjoining coun-
ellis. There are men among us ready
and capable for this work, without
drawing largely upon the finances. 1t is
folly to ceny that we are yet sadly de-
fcient in many things-many of our
plans fail-many of our ideas are crude
and impracticable. Neighboring coun-
ellis may have better plans-may save us
from experimenting, where they have
already demonstrated. 1t is an easy
matter to send two delegates to the
quarterly meetings of neighboring coun-
ellis, and it may save county from
year of disastrous experimenting. And
as the county councils are evidently to
become the stay and motive power of
the order, care should be taken in their
organization. Every grange in the
county should be faithfully represented.
Give time for deliberation. Select the
best men for agents, for the member
ship and the world will decide as to the
prosperity and perpetuity of the order
by Its agents. Men incompetent to
transact their own, should not be trust
ed with the public business. If we can
not make our councils working body,
there is no hope of our stability. Place
on guard as your representatives none
but sound men, who love the
order and will work for its prosperity
IoaOa State Register.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-07

The testimony of competent judges is
decided in the opinion that the use of
ardent spirits is .hurtful to health and
long life, and the old-fashioned calcula-
tions of Nelson, in his "Vital Statis-
tics" are confirmed by the researches
of the General Life Office. According
to these estimates, the probability of
death among drinkers between 81 and
40 years is ten times as much as among
the whole population between Al and
60 years, four times as much and
among habitual tipplers over 60 years
of age, twice as much as among the
people at large. In England, 1S50-59,
more than 5000 cases were reported of
men who had literally drank themselves
to death. Nelson has given us his in
vestigation of Gill tipplers; that out
of 1000, 5S.4 die annually, while out of
1000 inhabitants of the same age only
19 die. Thus the mortality among
drinkers is three times as great as in
the community at large. He has car.
ried out his calculations into all ages,
and shown how this chronic self-murder
marvelously diminishes the expectation
of life. The highest point as to num-
bers is found i'll the years 1870, which
report 1872 men and A women intern
perate out of 10000, in England and
Wales, and which reckon the diminu-
ton in the rate of expectation of life
accordingly. This last statement is
most startling, and shows falling-ofi
in the probable term of life for each ten
years, from 20 to go and upward, of re-
spectively %, %, II, 10 and 5 years,
with fractions, and amounting to the
fearful percentage, respectively, of 35,
3S, 40, 81 and 63 per cent. of probable
life, as compared with the population.
Surely strong drink is slow fire, and in.
temperance is voluntary madness and
chronic suicide. Samuel OsgoOd
an Hdrper's Magazine for Nay.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-07
County Councils.

This branch of the organization of the
Patrons is evidently to become the
main-stay and workshop of the order.
The State organization is too unwieldy
too expensive, and too diversified in
its interests to work rapidly and ener-
getically. The subordinate grange is
too feeble-lacking power and compre-
hension. But with live subordinate
oranges, cultivating the social features,
and working up to the regulations of
the county council, sending its best men
and women to plan and counsel. and we
have just the organization to carry out
the plans for the up-building of the
former. Subordinate oranges must be
careful to select enterprising men who
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-07
THE SHORTEST WAY HOME.

The shortest way by half mile
come so very often by it
Is up the road, across the stile,
And through the meadow. Shall we try it n
The days were not without a charm
When, talking soft and looking SILLY,
My love and walked arm in arm.
The lanes were lone and fields were Silly.
Wefound so many things to say,
That always in the shiny weather,
We took the-well, the shorter way,
To be a longer time together.
We spoke about Out goodness knows
Our tspics of confabulation)
About the weather, suppose,
The crops, the harvest, and the nation:
At all events, although the talk
Was neither wise nor witty,
We ended each successive walk
With Home already-what pity! ]"
We might have lost little ground
Through coming by the road selected,
But both agreed that we had found
The journey shorter than expected.
Can LIES experiment support
The paradox that love proposes?
Does any path seem very short,
Unless it be path of roses
We seldom find the nearer way,
And if We hit upon and take 1t,
BY creeping on from to-day
It seems as long as length can make it.
The road to fame is never brief,
The way to wealth is dull and dreary;
All earthly routes, in my belief,
Are very long and very weary.
Nay-one that leads through care and strife
Is short, when mortals once begin it;
We take the near cut out Of life,
Although we take the longest in it.
Tinsley's Magazine.