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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-05-15

This Grange is located in Mel.
rose township, Grundy county,
Iowa, Of which G. F. Clarkson is
Master. Its members claim that it
is model Grange. 1t was organic
ed in February, 1872. It has thirty
members, fifteen males and
fifteen females-all married, being
fifteen men and their wives. The
rules prohibit any more or any less.
They never missed single meet
ing, and it is seldom q member is
absent at any time. They have new
er missed their regular monthly
feast since their organization. 1t
is a hive of workers. It's delibera-
tons are always harmonious. They
never meet at night. They take the
day for it, and take time for bust
ness, for social enjoyment, and for
their feast. They confine not their
attentions to the sick or afflicted of
their own grange or to the Order,
but attend to the necessities of all
the neighborhood. They contrib
ute largely to the losses Of members
of other oranges. In their deliber-
ations and discussions ability and
dignity are characteristic traits.
Being equals socially, they strive
to be equals in doing good to each
other and to the world. The mem.
bership look forward with deep So
licitude for the approaching month
ly meetings, and joyous social union
and communion of congenial hearts.
II any Grange in the State is
equal in devotion to the Order,
equal in p:omptness in attendance
at its regular meetings, equal in its
faithful attention to the wants and
necessities gifts members, its neigh
bors and the world-equal in uni
formity of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in
unalloyed social enjoyment-equal
in all that constitutes a live, faith
full, working grange, carrying out
the spirit Of the Order in its higher
and holier aims, let us hear from
that Grange that it may receive the
congratulations ofthe Order.-Iowd
State Register.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-05-15
TX Marvel's Address to Farmers.

Donald G.. Mitchell, ok Marvel
In an address before the Connect
cut State Agricultural Society, said:
'.But there is something worth
living for besides money. That is
very good but it is not all. With
the rest let us raise a crop of good
ideas. While you are farmers re-
member also that you are men, with
duties and responsibilities. Live
down the old brutal notion that a
farmer must be uncouth, uneduca-
ted and unthinking-a mere plod-
der.
You are brought into immediate
contact with the great heart Of CIV
ilization. You can not get out Of
the buzz Of the toiling world. The
thrill of the woodworking wires
and the rumble Of the locomotive,
(the thunder tread of nations) come
to your once secluded hillside.
Move toward u better life. Do
not keep your boys corn-shelling all
the long winter evenings. Make
your farm a place that your sons
and daughters cannot help loving.
Cultivate the trees-they are Gods
messengers. Don't say that you
care nothing for looks. You do
care, else why did you build that
two-story white house with green
blinds and a cupola into which you
never go? Or why did you years
ago, carefully brush your coat and
pluck up your shirt collar, when you
were starting on Sunday evening
to visit that good woman who now
shares your home?
Care much more for books and
pictures. Don't keep solemn par
Tor into which you go but once a
month with the parson or gossips
Of the sewing society. Hang
around your walls pictures which
shall tell stories Of mercy, hope,
courage, faith and charity. Make
your living room the largest and
most cheerful in the house. Let
the place be such that when your
boy has gone to distant lands, or ev-
en- when perhaps, he clings to a sim
gle plank IN the lonely waters Of the
wide ocean, the thought of the old
homestead shall come across the
waters of desolation, bringing al
ways light, hope and love.
Have no dungeons about your
house-no rooms you never open
no blinds that are always. shut.
Don't teach your daughters
French before they can weed q
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-05-15


AScotch Dish. Cut up fresh cod
fish in pieces four inches square; lay
them on tie bottom oftho frying-pan;
slice over them very thinly Q layer
of raw potatoes and some bits of
butter: if onions are liked add some
Of them, chopped 6ne, and o sprink-
ling of salt and pepper. Fill up the
frying-pan with the layers, and fin
ish up with layer ofhard crackers
or sliced stale bread. Fill up with
boiling water, and let it stew for
twenty-five minutes to half an hour
or until the potatoes are thoroughly
cooked. Cover it while stewing
with plate or tin.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-05-15

flower.bed or cling to . sidc.sad lie;
and daughters! do not be ashamed
Of the trowel or the pruning knife.
Bring to your doors the richest
flowers from the woods; cultivate
the friendship Of the birds; scorn
the scamp who levels his gun at the
blue bird or the robin. Study bot.
any, learn to love nature and seek q
higher cultivation than the fashion
able world can give you.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-05-15
Liver and Blood Disease
BY Il. v. PIERCE, NJ. d.

A healthy liver secretcs each day
about two and half pounds of bile /,
which contain great amountlof
waste material from the blood.
When the liver becomes torpid or
congested, it fails to eliminate this
vast amount of noxious substance,
which therefore, remains to poison
the blood, and conveyed to every
part of the system. What must be
the condition Of the blood when it
is receiving and retaining each day
two and a half pounds of poison?
Nature tries to work off this poison
through other channels and organs
the kidneys, lungs, skin, etc., but
these organs become over-taxed in
performing this labor in addition to
their natural functions, and cannot
long withstand the pressure, but be.
come yariously diseased
The brain, which is the great
electrical center of all vitality, is
unduly stimulated by the unhealthy
blood, which passes to it from the
heart and it fails to perform its office
hcalthfully. Hence the symptoms
OF bile poisoning, which are dull
ness, headache, incapacity to keep
the mind on any subject, Impairment
of memory, dizzy, sleepy, or nervous
feeling, gloomy fcrebodings, and
irritability Of temper. The blood
itself being diseased, as it forms tho
sweat upon the surface of the skin,
it is SO irritating and poisonous
that it produces discolored brown
spots, pimples, blotches, and other
eruptions, sores, boils, carbuncles
and scrofulous tumors. The stom-
ach, bowels and other organs can
not escape becoming affected, SOON
err or later, and we have as the re-
suit, costiveness, piles, dropsy, dys-
pepsia, diarrhGa. Other symptoms
are common, as bitter or bad taste
in the mouth, internal heat, palpita-
ton, teasing cough, unsteady appe-
tite, choking sensation in throat,
bloating of stomach, pains in the
sides or about shoulders, or back,
GOODNESS Of extremities, ETC., etc.
Only q few of the above symptoms
| are likely to be present in any case
at one time. The liver being the
great depuratlng or blood cleansing
organ Of the system-set this great
"housekeeper Of our health" at work,
and the foul corruptions, which gen.
der in the blood, and rot out, as it
were, the machinery of life, are
gradually expelled from the system.
For this purpose DR.. Pierce's Col.
den Medical Discovery with very
small doses daily of DR.. Picrce's
Pleasant Purgative Pellets are pre-.
e1nincntly the articles needed.
They cure every kind of humor
from the worst scrofula to the com.
mon pimplc, blotch or eruption.
Great eating ulcers kindly heal und-
err their mighty curative influence.
Virulent blood poisons that Turk in
the system are by them robbed Of
their terror, and by their persever-
ing and somewhat protracted use
the most tainted systems may be
completely renovated and built uI
anew. Enlarged glands, tumors
and swellings dwindle away and
disappear under the influence Of
these great rcsolvents.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-05-15

We are in receipt Of new Goods daily,
and are at the present time selling all
wool Cashmere Suits, Pants and Vests,
Coats, &C., at less figures than half
cotton goods are sold anywhere else.
We Will back every word we say
Also defy any house west Of the
city Of Chicago TO compete with
us.
SQUARE DEALING is our
motto. A child can buy as cheap
from us us Il grown person. Ev.
ery article is mark ed i'm plain fig
ures. We sell at strictly ONE
PRICE ONLY!
SOCKS IS CENTS PER DOZ.
Give ms q call.
ENGEL & LIVINGSTON.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-05-15
Aarifnltnral Column,

The reading columns ON this page will be devo.
ted, mainly, to topics pertaining to FARN and
HOUSEHOLD. The farmer readers Of the BULLETIN
are requested to write for 1t.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-05-15
House Drains.

Where there is a kitch-
en- sink it is much better to have the
discharge fall on the surface and
there evaporate, than to have an
imperfection drain that smudges,
and stcams, and freezes. I doubt
the propriety of underground drain
age such as is usually arranged, and
if the pipes are less than four inches
in diameter they will become coated
with what looks like mucous, a
white, tough, leathery substance,
which, gradually accommodating, will
after time stop the flow altogeth-
er. l have seen discharge by a
six-inch pipe into pit twelve feet
deep, which seemed to me to work
well; but then, what effect did it
have on we'll water? We had better
be cautious. l think that the line
Of discharge should be as short as
possible; that all deep pits are to be
avoided, and that a shallow pit lin
ed with brick or board should be
constructed, and into it fresh earth
should be added every day or so
for deodorizer, and this will make
a valuable compost. l find no pur-
ifier equal TO fresh earth, but chic
ride Of lime, copperas, and ssnch
chemicals are to be used where only
fluids run. The truth is, dish-watcr
ought not to be poured into sink,
hog should IL kept, and it should
be emptied into swill barrel to
which bran, meal, or other food is
added. This whole subject requires
much closer attention than it has
yet received.
The Patrons of Husbandry will
be glad to hear-what they arc not
likely through. their official Organs,
immediately-how it was about the
expenses of the National Grange for
the year 1873. The St. Louis Globe
presents the following condensed
statement of the accounts: The
receipts for the year were 1892, ISL
20, of which all but some $4,000
came from dispensations, over $500
of which were issued. The balance
was made up from interest (only
$500, quarterly dues (paid only by
Wisconsin two quarters, and Iowa
and Illinois, one quarter each)and
sales of manuels. The expenses
were in all $79,333.53, Of which
$50, 3O3.sO were for printing and re
gala, 81. 400 for salaries, $ls,s4O.-
81 for clerk hire, express charges,
freight, etc. OF the balance Of $52,.
8l7.75 in the treasury $29,5l2.5O are
invested in Government skies, and
$l3,l52.7O are in the Washington
Loan and Trust Company. Mr..
Kelley, the secretary, received $3,-
500 salary and 43,S2l.74 arrears, be-
sides some other small perquisites,
which altogether make up nearly as
much as he could have earned BY q
years hard work on tho farm.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-05-15
GRANGE DIRECTORY

CRESCENT GRANGE, No. 157s.-Regulal
meetings on the last Friday before the full mool
of each month. Place. Meets at the residence
Oft. s. Stone, three miles eOuth of Jesup, ant
nine miles southwest of Independence.
8. g. MASON, Secretary.
WINTHROP GRANGE, No. 611.-Mects a.
Winthrop on FRIDAY on or before the full moor
of each month.
s. G. PIERCE. Master. s. w. RICH, Scc
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE, No. 1216.-Meetf
Tuesday evening, on or before the full moon.
I'D. RUSSELL. Master.
MIDDLEFIELD GRANGE, No. 528--Mcets on
Wednesday, on or before the full moon.
B. DU BoIs. Master. E. j. Vice, Sec.
SUPERIOR GRANGE, No. 352-Mects Satur.
day, on or before full moon, ut No. School
House, HasletOn twp,
G. NJ. MILLER, Master.
T. MESSENGER, Secretary.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-05-15

DO not fail to examine our stock
before buying, and be cOnvinc I'd
that this is the place to get the
worth Of your money, for money
saved is
MONEY! EARNED.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-23
Mr.. Watkins'S Fireworks.

Mr.. Watkins is a gentle old man living
on Ninth avenue. He believes in Fourth
OF July, in long winded oratiOns, and es-
pecially i'm having fireworks in the eve
ming. He has no children, but the neigh
bOrs have them by the square acre, and il
was generally understoOdin that neighbor-
hood that Mr.. Watkins was going to give
the children a treat Saturday night. He
laid in "a pile of rockets. ROman-can-
dies. fire-wheels and so on, and rigged up
post and had everything ready against
the coming of night. When darkness fell,
and the glorious day of liberty was skulk-
ing away into obScurity. Mr.. Watkins's
yard was filled with eXpectant neighbors
and their childrtn. They sat on the stoOp,
on the fence, and We're three deep on the
grass. The hour came, and Mr.. Watkins
prepared to unloose the fire-fiend. If he
had ever seen any fireworks touched off he
had forgotten how they did it, but his ig-
norance didn't weigh on his shoulders like
a grindstone. He took outs sky-rocket, a
boy showed him how to set it up and
where to ignite it, and away she went,
striking plump against the house oppo-
site. The owner of the house, who had
been on a steamboat excursion, and had
his watch stolen. leaned over his gate. and
said that he could. and had good mind TO,
knock Mr.. Watkins into eighteen frag-
ments, but the boys Kissed him into the
house. 1he next rocket was more OF a
success. 1t went straight up, and the
stick came down on the baby's head and
produced a grand jubilee chorus. They
took the baby home, and the next rocket
was balanced with care. 1t started TO rise,
fell to one side, and went into a house
where red-headed young man satsqueez-
ing the hand OF a cross-eyed girl. II bob
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-23
A Domestic Tragedy.

Suicides are in the main too common
and too like to be interesting. One in
Elma, near Buffalo, was exceptional. 1t
was death-scene glimpse of domestic
romance. John w. STANDARD was farmer
and country storekeeper who had wealth
and good social connection. He was thir-
ty-six years old and his wife only twenty.
They had two little children, and it was
supposed that they were contented and
happy. The story of the suicide was thus
told by the wife, who may not recover OF
her own hurt: "Soon after breakfast my
husband loaded his pistol and took his
razor from the shelf and threatened to kill
himself. | said, You had better do it
right here If you are going to, and | will
Kill myself, too, because | can't live with
out YOU This was on account of some
words we had, but we made up. A little
while afterward he said he was going
away, and | would never see him again. |
said If he did he would find me dead when
he came back. He pulled pistol from
his pocket and said he would kill himself.
| tried 10 wrest it from him, but he was
stronger than l was. l put my hand over
the muZZle of the pistol so he couldn't hit
himself. The pistol went of, and shot me
through the head and face. | then said,
oh, John, you have killed me! L am go
ing TO die,' He came toward me, seeming
very sorry for what he had done. and put
his hand up to the wound on my face.
He then took razor and drew 1t across
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-23

be ] around awhile and then leaped out Of
window, and the red-headed young
man nearly twisted of letter-box In try
ing TO sound fire-alarm.
Then MIR. Watkins selected mildeyed
boy TO go on with the remnant OF the dis
play. The rest of the rockets went knock
ing around the neighboring roofs and
chimneys, and the fiery serpents chased
everybody over the fence. Mr.. Watkins
ran out to say that they must be careful,
when ROman-candle commenced shoot
ing at him. His hat was knocked off, his
hair singed, and as he cried, ''Good land ~
and jumped through the gate, fire-ball
hit him in the back and took foot of cloth
out OF his Sunday suit More boys offered
their services, and despite the protestations
of the good old man, they decided on hav-
ing grand ''whoop de grease as wind
up. Two of them touched off the rockets,
while the rest danced around the road with
the Roman-candles. and Mr.. Watkins cried
GOOD land!" again, and said he'd give
$40 TO see policeman. He stuck his head
out of the bay-window and rocket or Ized
his nose. Women ran, men shouted, and
children whooped, and six punches offire
crackers on the stoop went off like the roar
of musketry at Gettysburg. The last
rocket hit the corner of the house and
glanced and struck fat man in the back,
who leaned against the fence and said he
was MORALLY wounded, but that before he
expired he was going to drink enough hui
man gore to make a second Lake Erie
Detroit Free Press.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-23

The GREAT MEDICAL REFORMATION
The Satanic Theory that preparations
which infame the brain are. in any sense
of the word. remedies. has been OUeTthrot0H.
and can neUer be re-estGbljshed. The won
dcrlul effects which have attended the use
of DR. WALKERS VINEGAR BTTTERs as an
antidote to the causes of disease and a cure
for every comfortable ailment, have dem
onstratcd the utter fallacy of the doctrine
that alcohol is tonic as well rs a stimtLaHt.
The New and Incompatible Vegetable
Remedy which has superseded the death
draught of rum bitte:s, is as free from
every intoxicating element as the dew OF
Heaven, yet see how it is invigOrating the
nervous, relieving the bilious. curing the
dyspeptic, purifying the blood of the
scrOfulOus, strengthening the debilitated,
arresting premature decay, and replacing
dependency and weakness with cheerful
ness and activity. Truly grand Medical
Revolution is in progress.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-23
A Plea for the Car-Driyer.

Be kind to the street-car driver. Not
many know all that he endures. Without
the advantage of having an eye in each
corner of his head. he is required to see all
that passes within two squares of him,
whether it be in front, to the right, to the
left, or to the rear /; and he is expected to
keep q liet when a woman or other per-
son who has not succeeded in getting the
car stopped instantly addresses whitening
remarks to him. Always an object of sus-
picion, in consequence of the amounts of
money by which he is constantly sur
rounded, and criticised by an unjust and
undiscriminating public as to his spirit of
accommodation, it is no wonder that he
occasionally gives vent to his feelings in
extra whacks upon the tough hide of the
least sprightly of his mules. Up in Gin
cinnati he is probably treated with less
consideration than anywhere else in Amer
lea. and il is a wonder that somebody does
not START some sort of a society there for
his protection, the mules long ago having
been provided for in that respect. The
Cincinnati driver is on duty fifteen hours
a day, and though conductor helps him
TO manage the car. he is allowed no time
for dinner. From his early and hastily
swallowed breakfast till his late and per-
haps meager supper, his stomach cries TO
him in vain for anything better than dry
morsel which he may have slipped into his
pocket In the morning. He is eo-se-
quently unhealthy and unhappy. and his
lot is made still sadder by the knowledge
that if, in his pride and vanity, he were TO
resign, fifty unemployed men would stand
ready to mount his platform and cry
= G'long," while he would pass into OBJ
livion. 1t may be that he is TO blame for
his condition in life. It's possible that he
played baseball and went in swimming
when he might have been fitting himself
for pleasanter occupation than street-car
driving, but he really ought to have his
dinner. A man who has to be on appe-
tizing duty fifteen hours a day not only
ought TO have meal when half his work
is done, but he ought to be supplied with
a little money to buy himself dog and a
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Courier Journal.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-23
OF Interest to Those Who "Take Some
thing Occasionally"

A former Brooklyn saloOn-keeper, who
has been converted by the Quaker ladies,
has printed the recipes he used to keep Sc
cret. He says Bourbon or rye whisky is
manufactured from high wines, commonly
called fusel-Oil whisky, made to-day and
drunk three days after. 1t also contains
vinegar, strip, oil of Bourbon, French
cOlOring, bluestOne, and other poisonous
chemicals. 1t costs from 80 cents to 81 a
gallon, and retails for s. to So a gallon.
Cognac brandy is made from French or
Cologne spirits, burnt sugar, oil of Cog
nae, vinegar, blueStOne. Jamaica rum,
honey strip, pOrt-wine, French cOloring,
alum, and alOes. 1t costs s. gallon, and
retails at from Sc to $40 gallon.
Irish or Scotch whisky is made from
Canada highwines, or new distilled wills
Ky, one week old, saltpetre, fine salt, es-
sence of oil of Scotch or Irish whisky, fusel
oil. sirup, bluestone, ST. CrOiX rum, some
imported Irish or Scotch whisky for flavor.
1t costs 81 30, and retails for Sc gallon.
What sells for the best of Holland gin is
made from French spirits, water, oil of
uniper, sirup, white wine vinegar, blue
stone, New England rum, peach pips, with
some imported gin for flavor.
''Old Tom" gin is made from the same
ingredients, but double strip is added to
make it sweeter. 1t costs 81 % gallon
and retails for So. 1t is also bottled as a
medicine and sold for the kidney disease.
jamaica and st. Croix rum is made OF
double refined highwines, French cOlOring.
oil of rum, fIsel oil, vinegar, bluestone,
burnt sugar, mOlasses sirup, with some
| imported Jamaica, Cuba, or st. CrOlx rum
for flavor, alum, aloes, and prune juice.
Stock ale or porter is diluted with oil of
vitriol, strichnine, and aquafortiS, to make
it keep. New ale is diluted with oil of
vitriol and damaged molasses. Lager-beer
contains little malt, plenty of water, some
| inferior hops, rOsin, tar, saleratus, soda,
with four different chemicals to make it
keep after brewing.
An eX-liquor-dealer said yesterday that
| fluids sold over twO-thirds of the bars in
New York and Brooklyn are compounded
| as above.
Charles Meyers, who kept saloon and
gambling-hOnse in Bridge street, Brook
Ign, but whose place was closed by the
crusaders, says the liquor-dealers never
sell their liquors as they buy it, but always
water it copiously. When his stock was
rebought by the wholesale dealers they
would not pay him more than One-half OF
what he paid for it, because it was not
''proof," or unwatered. Meyers is now in
the Board of City Works.
Oliver COtter, who kept Cotter's place
near the City Hall, in Red Hook lane,
where the thirsty politicians IN the Ring
days drank, is preaching and practising
temperance.-heUY York Sun.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-23

his throat" At this point the woman ex-
claimed, "And oh God, how the blood
spurted!'' and swooned completely away.
After a few moments delay she regained
consciousness and continued her state
ment. "He staggered and fell to the north
corner of the room. l called out to him
to come to me. He staggered across the
floor and kissed me two or three times.
He tried to speak but couldn't. asked
him if he loved me and he couldn't an
swer, but indicated that he did. He then
lay down on the floor beside me and died.
N Y, Sun.