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The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-04-20
BLEEpNG TRoN IuSas, oATARRu, BRoxourrts,
CoSsuMrloM A WoNpEnrul Cum.
RocnEsrRR, N. Y, Jan. 18th, 1874.

ROCHESTER, N. T., jan. 18th, 1874.
II. v. rERcE, NJ D., Buffalo, N Y:
Dear Sir-I had suffered from Catarrh In an
aggravated form for about twelve years and for
several years from bronchial trouble. Tried
many doctors and things with no lasting bono
IL. In May, 70. becoming nearly worn out
with excessive Editorial lRborB on 0 paper In
New York City, l was attacked with Bronchitis
In severe form, suffering almost total loss
OF voice. / returned homo horc, but lad been
home only two weeks when was completely
'prosirated with Hemorrhago from the Lungs,
hauling four SepCre bleeding spells toiihtI ttpo
trtcky, and first three inside Of nine days. In
tho September following, improved sufficient
ly 10 DO able 10 DO about, though In very
feeble state. My Bronchial trouble remained
and tho Catarrl was tenfold worse than before.
Every effort for relief seemed frlitlcss. I
FoemOd 10 DO losing ground daily. l continued
In this feeble state. raising blood almost daily
until about the frat OF March, rs, when bc-
carlo 40 bad as TO be entirely confined to tho
house. A friend suggested your remedies.
Dat was extremely skeptlcal that they would
do mo good, Us had lost ali heart In remedies,
aud began to look upon medicine aud doctors
NTH disgust. However, obtained ono Of your
circulars, aud read II carefully, from which
came 10 the conclusion that you understood
your buaincss, Of least. ! finally obtained
HUAutltY Vi LIE GuBe AAkA4Ih Ah1uloAS4 sSha
Golden Medical Discovery aud Pellets, and
commenced tlelr vigorous tlso according to d.
rcctions. To my surprise, ! soon began TO i'm
prove, The Discovery aud Pellets, in . short
time brought out q severe eruption, which con-
tinuod for several weeks. l felt much better,
my appetite imptoped, and gained in strength
and deah. In three months every yestigo OF
tho CatArrh was conc, tho Bronchitis had nearly
disappeared, had no Cough whatever and had
entirely ceased 10 raise blood and, contrary
to tho expectation OF some Of my friends, the
euro has remained permanent. have had no
moro Hemorrhages from the Lungs, and am
entirely free from Catarrh, from which had
suffered so much and 30 long. Tho debt OF
gratitude owe for tho blessing have received
At your hands, knows no bounds. lam thor
oughly satisfied, from my experience, that your
medicines will master tho worst forms Of that
odious disease Catarrh, as well % Throat
aid Lung Diseases. have recommended
them to very many and II ever speak In
tlolr praise. Gratefully yours,
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Creditor,
Sold 2, 450 lbs. OF bnttOr for. g., lb2 O2
Used In family $50 lbs, at Soc. 65 10
Sold calves, pigs, and pork. 100 90
Pork sailed 800 lbs. at 7c... IS 90
Killed one calf worth. ...... 800 1877 !.
Cost of mcal fod to COWS. siS7 %
Cost Of meal fed TO hogs. go. 10 90
Freight and express on butter. 90 % 2e7 Of
sl,ilO Il
Leaving so3.5O per COW to pay for
work, hay, and pasture. Now, let us
hear from the farmers and know what
each other are doing. As dairymen can
not get far from home very often, we
must talk through the papers.
- Medical Hints.
DISH FoR THE s1cK.-To one teacup
Of cream take four rolled or grated
crackers, one teaspoonful of white
sugar, tho white Of one egg beaten to a
froth, with teaspoonful Of jelly Of any
kind.
ALCOHOL FOR BuRSs,-sydenham rec.
ommends the application Of alcohol to
burns, especially Tor children, whose
immediate relief is desirable. The
alcohol should be applied for one or
two hours constantly, as the pain re.
turns when dry. In case Of large burns
care must be taken lest the alcoholic
yapors stupefy the child.
WEAK HAR.-Take oil Of rosemary,
ono part oil Of sweet almonds, one
part saturated solution OF borax, two
parts; abby volume. To every half
pint add one fluid drachm OF tincture
of cantharides and few drops Of
ammonia solution. Shake. Apply two
or three times week. This is a capital
emulsion, and usually answers remark
ably well at any rate, those who have
tried it say so.
MILK FOR CHnDRES.-Dr. Gardne
suggests that young children should be
fed on the milk Of farrow COW, since
it has not been deprived OF its essential
ingredients TO nourish the years calf.
"If any one questions the effect Of
double attempt at nutrition, let him
compare tho milk in ordinary use with
that OF % farrow COW. The latter is
small in quantity, thick, redundant in
cream OF q very high flavor. This is
the milk destined to strengthen the
bones and inyigorate the body"
CunE ron CArARRH.-According to
Hamilton, the severest catarrhal cold
can be removed in about ten hours by
mixture Of carbolic acid, 10 drops ;
tincture Of iodine and chloroform each
q drops. A few drops OF the mixture
should DO heated over a spirit.lamp, in
a test tube, the mouth Of which should
be applied to the nostrils as soon as
volatilization is effected. Tho operation
should be repeated in about two min.
utes, when, after the patient sneezes
number OF times, the troublesome
symptoms rapidly disappear.
White Cake.
Three cups of sifted flour, one and o
half Of sugar, one OF sweet milk, ono
egg, two tablespoons Of butter, two Of
cream tartar, one teaspoon OF soda, and
one of vanilla, almond or lemon essence.
Beat the butter and sugar to a cream,
add the milk with tho soda dissolved in
it, and tho egg-well beaten-and the
essence. Mix with this, very gradually,
the flour, putting the cream tartar In
the last enpful, and bake in a quick
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MAGIC lENNE1l;INISI

n M'Allis.ers Patent ARTopTIcoN.
The most powerful Magic Lantern
for noas, sanaay pt sehooi an ~ SafR Is!
tSsS.. sis1reSptisons A.. Slides a
- .Jor. a man pllh small capital. soma
T sPhmp y, NJ IL Sstalogue: W. MTTC1iRGL MALLis.
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There was discussion in the Farm.
ers' Club on the subject OF the tree
peddlers who were flooding the country
with worthless trees at an enormous
price. Several members stated the OK.
perience Of their neighbors in buying
them, and IL was generally agreed that
such foolish people deserve TO be swim.
died. One gentleman said the custom
OF these men was to go TO well known
nurseries and buy refuse trees, which
they afterwards sold rs from such q
celebrated nursery.
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for Private Houses, S-si
ti,aiOEaeI sent 10 any address on application.
fremont ST, lopp. wAllham,l B0ston, Mass.
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Leaving $3.50 per COW to pay for
work, hay, and pasture. Now, let us
hear from the farmers and know what
each other are doing. As dairymen can
not get far from home very often, we
must talk through the papers.
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DISH ron THE S1oK.-To one teacup
Of cream take four rolled or grated
crackers, one teaspoonful OF white
sugar, tho white Of one egg beaten to a
froth, with teaspoonful Of jelly Of any
kind.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-05-14
La Alcohol POIsOnOusp ?

Baron Leibig says: Beer, wine, spir-
it's ETC., furnish no element capable Of en-
tering into the composition OF blood, mus
cular fibre, or any part which is the seat
of the vital principle"
Professor Molschott, in his work on the
Chemistry of Diet" says: 1--WE cannot
believe that alcohol, theme, ETC., belong
to the class Of substances capable of con-
tribuiinK toward the maintenance Of the
vital functions"
DR.. E. Smith, F. r. s., says: "Aloohol
is not true food. 1t interferes with ali
mentation." (1e56.)
DR.. w. B Carpenter, in the fourth edi-
ton Of his Manual Of Physiology" QS55)
says: "Alcohol cannot supply anything
which is essential to the due nutrition Of
the tissues." 327)
The French chemists and Psychologists,
Lallemand, Perrin, aud Duray, as well as
DR.. Smith and others, have amply demon
strated that alcohol, when drank moder-
ately, is not k7lOt0l 10 undergo decOmposI-
tton al al within the body, but IS knO1OIs
to be constantly given of by the breath,
skin and kidneys.
DR.. T. X. Chambers, in his remarkable
book, THE Renewal of Life" (lS62) says:
"It is clear that we must cease TO regard
alcohol as IA IN any sense an sliment."
DR.. Markham, F. R. g., sums up long
discussion on alcohol in "The British Ned
ical Journal" as follows: at is, TO all
intents, foreign agent, which the body
gets rid Of as soen as it can. Alco-
hol is not q supporter of combustion.
Part, probably the whole oft escapes from
the body; and none of 1t, so far as We
know; is assimilated. tits, therefore, not
food in the eye of science"
DR.. W. B. Carpenter Justly says; ''The
experience of the Arctic voysgers is most
decided in regard to the low value of al
cohol, in comparison to fat, as g heat
producing material. The operation Of
alcohol is essentially that of a Stimulus
being foLlol0ed 6y corresponding depTss
sion of po1Oer. Where exhilaration il
produced, there is subsequent depression" I"
Baron Leibigsays of the drinkers: "Spir.
its, by their action on the nerves, enables
him to make up deficient power at the
expense of his body. He consumes
his capital instead of his interest
Wine is constantly followed by the erpen
ditiSTe Of power"
Professor ChristiSon, NJ D., in his ''Trea-
tise on Poisons," ranks alcohol along witt
nightshade, nux vomica, and tobacco, il
the class Of double poisons-'naroerOtic
GeTid, being both local iTTitasats, and pro-
ducing an effect on the nervous system.
DR.. Charles Wilson, in his admirabl,
book, "Ths Pathology Of Drunkenness
(Edin., 1856, says: mo circumstances o
ordinary life can render even the moder
ate use Of Intoxicating fluids either ben6
cial or necessary, or eVsn i'snOenO1lS."
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Fifty Thousand Sufferers.

It is estimated by the Distributing Com
mittee, which holds sessions daily on Car
ondelet street, that there are SO, 900 per-
sons in this State who have been made
homeless and foodless by the inandation
in that State That this is no exaggeration
is shown by the amount of rations which
are being distributed. At least 10000
per day are despatched to the various
agencies, and these bo not meet the de-
mand. Yesterday there were acquisitions
for 16, 900 rations from two localities in
the Ouachita Valley. The Purchasing
and Distributing Committees are busily
at work from nine till three every day,
and still the labor and demand grow upon
them. The liberal donations from var
ious quarters of the country will be Judi
ciously and faithfully applied. Thus far
we believe that the money donations
reach about $50, ,600 Besides these there
are large amounts of provisions, which are
promptly forwarded. These timely and
generous contributions will tend greatly
to alleviate the condition of many, but 1t
is not reasonable to expect that all of the
suffering which has resulted from so wide
spread disaster will be relieved from
these sources.-Nel0 Orleans Pieay1tne
May 2.
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DR.. McHenry, of Quebec, who spent the
last summer in Labrador, writes to the
archaeological Weekly that he found many
important evidences of the presence of the
Northmen in that peninsula, on the banks
of the river Moisie and IN the regions fire.
quented by the Msntagnais and Nasqua-
pee Indians One cairn in particular, the
stones of which were so heavy as to defy
the assaults of Indians or bears, he forced
open with gunpowder, and found in it a
gigantic human skull, breastplate, and
brass bound shield. The breastplate,
though much rusted, bore signs of an in
scription or legend, failing to decipher
which, he sent it to Copenhagen to see If
it could be made cut BY the American
srchsologists there.
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POETRY.
LOVE, nRINK AND DEBT.

Son of minel the world before you
Spreads q Thousand secret snares
Round the feet Of every mortal
Who through life's long highway fares
Three especial, let me warn you,
Are by every traveller met
Three to try your heart 0f virtue
They are Love, and Drink and Debt.
Love, my boy, there's no escaping,
'Tis the common fate of men;
Father had it; I have had it -
But for love you had not been.
Take your chances, but be cautious;
Know q SQUAD is not dove;
Be the upright man Of honor;
All deceit doth murder love.
As for drink avoid it wholly;
Like an adder it will sting;
Crush the earliest temptation,
Handle not the dangerous thing.
See the wrecks Of men around US
Once as fair and pure as you
Mark the warningl Shun the pathway,
And the hell they're tottering through.
Yet though love be pure and gentle,
And from drink you may be free,
With yearning heart l warn you
'Gainst the worst Of all the three.
Many a demon in his journey
Bunyan's Christian Pilgrim met;
They were lambs, cen old ApOilyon,
To the awful demon Debit
With quaking heart and face abashed
The wretehed debtor goes;
He starts at shadows, lest they be
The shades of men he oWes.
Down silent streets he fugitive steals.
The face of man to shun,
He shivers at the pOstmAn's ring,
And fears tbs awful dun.
Beware of debit Once in, you'll bs Z
A slave for eVermore;
If credit tempt you thunder 'Nei"
And show IL to the door.
Cold water and 3 crust OF bread
May be the best you'll get;
Accept them like 8 man, and swear
I'll never run in Debt I'
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-05-14

TIE GALLows.-Jeseph Waltz WAS
hung IN the jail at Hudson, N. Y, on
Thursday Of last week. The crime for
which Waltz was hanged was com
mitted on the night Maya, 1878.
Early in the evening Of that day a poor
scissor grinder, named Herman Holcher.
whose home was IN Albany, sought lodR-
ings Of Anselm Waltz, the father of Jo-
seph, whose house is situated about three
miles from Catskill. His request was
granted; and, complaining of being tired,
he was shown to 3 room early. The next
morning when the family rose they could
find nothiRgof their lodger, and missing
= bed quilt which was in the room occu-
pied by him, concluded that he had left
before daybreak TO avoid paying for his
nights lodging. and had stolen the quilt.
HOlcher's friends institated search for
him. As LIE was last seen in the Waltz
house, they obtained authority to examine
1t. When they came TO the room which
the missing man had occupied, they dis-
covered dried clots Of blood on the under
side of the bed he had slept in. Anselm
Waltz and his son were arrested. The
father loudly protested his lnnoeencs the
son for some time preserved silence
finally the son confessed having committed
the deed. He said he had entered Hol-
chers room at 10 p. m and broken his
skull with hatchet. Then he wrapped
the body in blanket and carried it to
neighboring field, where he buried it, to-
gether with the victims properly.
"The bad spirit was IN me," said he,
"and wanted to do something bad" A
Jew days ago Waltz confessed to having
murdered an organ grinder three yeais
ago. He told where he had buried the
victim and also where he had hid the or
gan. Parts of the organ have been found
where he concealed them, but the place
where he claims 10 have buried the body
is now covered with water. Efforts are
making to draw of the water from the
spot and ascertain whether the whole Of
his confession is true His last crime was
the beating of his keepsr, Charles Ernst,
with an iron bar, two days before his ex
ecution. Ernst's skull was badly crushed
but he survived till Monday when be ex-
pired,
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ding him with an education and throwing
around him influences which will make
his life profitable investment.
But society has also taken some pains
and trouble to render null and void its
own efforts. In this city, for instance,
the community has licensed over 5000
places at which the means of forming the
habit of drunkenness can be found, and
society pays four times as much to sup
port them as it does to protect and edu-
cate they whom it has raised at such
trouble and expense. By crowded, ILL
ventilated dwellings, by insufficient nu-
triton, by ignorant and depraved anees-
tors, by congenital traits and taints with
out number, society does its best to turn
the boy into q drunkard, and make its
better efforts useless; and in justice to So
ciety it should be said that the attempt is
very often successful. He enters his
eighteenth year in drunkard. Three cour-
ses are before him. He may continue to
be producer to an extent great enough
to support himself, and to do that alone
4 burden on the community, but only IN
a negative way not meeting his full share
of the burdens of the industrious, but al
the same time Aot directly adding to them
He may become 3 pauper, and fall q dead
weight on the producers of the communl-
ty, to be cared for as well as protected.
And he may become a criminal-not only
burden on society, but an enemy to its
welfare, to be abated and restrained at all
hazards; no longer either floating waif
or dead weight on society, bat an ex-
pensive antagonist, with whom war is =
expensive as war war always must be.
At best the state loses by his intoxicatien
completely and entirely the direct invest
msnt Of $5 900. At eighteen the mans
labor is worth at least $728 year. or $l4
weak. All this is lost, and it amounts
to the interest on nearly twhice the sum
spent for the mans education. The av-
erage life of q man addicted to ardent
sslrits is about seventeen years, and the
sum lost in this way is $l2,3
1t ID even greater than this. At tWen-
ty person IN health has an even chance
Of living forty-four years a dram drink
sr's chances are cut down to about one
third Of this period; and the difference
between these figures is q loss of SIS. .657,
and adding together these sources Of lose
and damage to the community the total
deficit; even where the man has enough
energy and method left to keep himself
from becoming an actual burden on the
community is as follows:
Original 5000
Loss OF labOr during lfs(sSvsntsen years) l2,S76
IsHH q Al ImhO hV
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Observing the rranuit Of vsnus.

The United States steamship Swatara.
rebuilt" last year, has been selected to
convey the different parties appointed to
observe the transit of Venus next Decem-
Der, and now lies in the stream off the
Brooklyn Navy-ysrd, with her mAsts
shipped and her rigging in order. She will
go INTO commission Monday, under the
command of Commander r. Chandler, with
the following officers: Lieutenant-O Com
mander A. b. Wright, executive officer;
lieutenant 6. F. Wilkins, navigating Of
fcer; Lieutenants Charles II. Stockton, J.
]. Hunker. w. McLittle, J. E. Pillsbury,
and Seaten Schroeder; surgeon, Edward
Kerschner; engineer. T. ]. Jones. The
Swatara Is vessel OF l ,I50 tons, with en-
gines of $50 horse power, and is manned
manned by q crew Of $50 men. She will
be accompanied by the tender Trans,
which lett Washington Saturday, with the
instruments and outfit Of the observing
parties. The observations will be con-
ductsd by five parties, each containing
five persons, These parties will be left at
CroZier's Island, at KergGelen's Island, at
Sydney, and neighbering points on the
Australian coast. Professor Hardness,
from the Observatory at Washington; Pro-
feSsor Peter, of Washington College; Lieu.
tenant Commander Brayne, Lieutenant
Ryan, and other officers and astronomers
are included in the parties Of observation.
In her voyage the SwRtara will make Rio
e Janelro as her first port, and then sail east
to the Cape of Good Hope.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-05-14

All this on the supposition that the
family has included three rooms only that
the family has had not more than five
persons in it, all told, and that food and
clothing have been of the plainest des-
cIiption, with enough of both to produce
a healthy and vigorous growth but with
nothing to vary the monotony of fare
limited to the necessaries of life. He has
cost as member of family, and that a
family inexpensive and economical, about
$1,000; as a citizen he has cost a much
smaller sum, but still one that is fairly
appreciable.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-05-14
The Cost Of the sot.
From the New York World !

In estimating the cost to the community
of a single drunkard it is safe to assume
that his intoxication will not begin, in any
fern whatever, till he is fifteen years old.
Street children, with all the temptations
of q vogrant life, very rarely get under
the influence of liquor till they have
reached that age, and children who have
any home, it is safe to say, never do
Even those who are limited for house.
room to the few square feet of tenement
are pretty sure to avoid the perils and
pleasures of dram-drinking the first if
teen years of their lives: A stringent
law prohibits the sale of liquors to any
minor under eighteen, even, without the
consent of the guardian or parent, and
public opinion itself effectually curbs any
practice. There are many who begin to
drink at about this age, and are confirm
ed IN the habit in early manhood, driven
on by favorable surroundings and the
transmitted tastes and passions of a dis
solute ancestor; but their habits have
cost the community nothing till after they
have passed their fifteenth birthday. To
avoid any exaggeration, and to make the
elements in the problem as simple as pos
sible, it may be well to go to the bottom
of the social scale and take, as q typical
instance of the waste in excessive drink
ing, boy who has had the nurture and
the education which any industrious me-
chanic In this city, or any of the higher
class of day laborers could give. So far
as drunkenness is concerned he has reach
ed fifteen with the negative virtue of nei-
ther knowing good or evil, without bias
or predllection either for or against the
habit. Up to that time he has been rear
ed and educated with every reasonable
prospect that the cost of bringing him to
manhood will prove a good investment In
every sense of the word. The first loss
which the community feels from his intox-
ieatien Is the entire disappearance of the
sum expended to bring him to a point
where he could get drunk. The value of
an able-bodied, clear-headed, healthy boy,
fifteen years old, who has been to school
for about the average length Of Iime-six
years-is not easy to compute Down
South a "likely" boy fifteen years old
would have brought, few years ago at a
forced sale. $500. But this boy is more
than "hkelY" He is educated IN the
simpler branches of knowledge. He may
have also learned the rudinentS of a
trade, and become already, in q small way,
what society has right to expect he will
become IN very lew years IN large way,
a producer. The mere private cost of his
production Is by no means small. He has
had his share besides IN the protection
and safety of government and the accu-
mulated comfort of the pact, all of which
has been lavished on him in the legitimate
hope that he would in his time shoulder
a part of the taxes. and aid in accumUla-
ting comfort and capital for the future
oLsll kL,A L..
been passed in the family of a mechanic,
much below this estimate
Board ten years at s., and i've years at So
week
Share of rent at sI4 month In q family Of
nfe
Clothing $50 fer ten years, $50 tor i've years. $50
Sehool Dook8..-. 90
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HORSE sHoEING.
New York Horse Shoeing Shop
FIFTH STREET,
One door East of Union LiUery Stable,
CANTON, OHIO.
TIP. M'GINTY, PROPRIETOR,
HnnsA SInnn

make IA different kinds Of Shoes adapted to
all kinds of Diseased Feet Particular attention
paid to Shoeing Horses with Corns, Gravels
Quarter Cracks, Sand Cracks, Separation of the
Foot, Thrushes, Split HOofs, Flat Feet, Contrac-
ted Feet, &C.
Particular attention paid to Over Reaching
Interfering and Tender Footed Horses. Private
TrottinR and Team Horses Shod In the most su
perior manner, and satisfaction guaranteed or
money refunded. pne6L Is72-1y