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CAPT. STEVENS Of the "Boston Lancers'' says
BOSTON, MARCH 8, 1875. .
Prof. ATPHoNsE HITLER: Dear Sir-Accept my
astipg gratitude for the benefit which myself and
wife have experienced from the use of the wonderful
medicine called Diamond Rheumatic Cure
For several years past haze been suecs 70 as
succeeding attack much more severe than It's prede-
cessor. The last visitation from the terrible scourge
lasted three months. The best medical talent OF Cam
bridge was called n bit no relief was experienced
was so low several occasions that my life was de-
SPARED Of When at last rallied sufficient to discern
what was transpiring about me, learned that my
wife was also afflicted with the same fearful disease
friend learning of our helpless condition. brought
her six bottles Of the DIAMOND RHEUMATIC
CURE. BY taking of two doses of this invaluable
remedy she was entirely relieved. then commenced
to take and rapidly until in about Ssd aOeeT
attack and one dose dispelled it. l no longer fear
Rheumatism its baneful effects. About two weeks
ago. recommended it to friend who was likewise
suffer ing and the result certain cure by the
use of one bottle. Yon can mention my name either
publicly or privately in the interest Of suffering man ~
any desiring to know the above facts from me;
and feel fully convinced that the thousands who are
to-day suffering in tormens tromhe effects of Rheu.
matjsm and Gout if they but knew how ready relief
and cure was at hand would at once resort to this
sure and simple remedy, and would bless with bene
to suffering humanity this truly effective remedy the
DIAMOND RHEUMATIC CURE, remain CRATE
fully yours ,,,,r,,~,e
20 Elm Street, Cambrdgeport, and Cambridge
Street Boston.
The above testimony ought to convince the most
skeptical Rheumatic that cure has been discov
cred in the DIAMOND RHEUMATIC CURE.
The proprietor of this medicine has walked the
aisles of the hospitals of London, England, for the
past twenty years, making Rheumatism speciality,
and the prescription from which this remedy is COM
pounded is all he ever used in the treatment OF this
disease. 49,.
In simple cases sometimes or two doses suffice.
In most chronic cases it is sure to give way by the
ple remedy hundreds of dollars are saved to those
who can least afford to throw it away surely it is
by the purchase of useless prescriptions.
Let any sufferer who reads this purchase small
)tte and take it according to instructions around
the package and it will not take long to convince
him that paying doctors fees is money thrown away
-Iiniments of all kinds are useless.
This medicine is for sale by all Druggists through
out the United States and Canada. If it happens
that your Druggist has not got it in stock, ask him
to send for it to the Wholesale Agents. SMITH,
DOIITTLE q SMITH, 26 fremont Street, GEO. C.
GOODWIN 81 CO., No. 80 Hanover Street, Boston;
G. H MARTIN & co, 1O3 Main Street, Concord,
n. II.
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Books of Bound Music,

Containing the Creme de la Creme of all
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The above books uniform In style snd binding,
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To the Hon. HarbOr Commits
siOners of Portland HarbOr:

TEyHE undersigned desire to build Wharf on the
Il southerly side of Little Hog Island, and re-
spectfuly ask your attention thereto; a,.
LEWIS, WRITTEN SEQ.
Portland, May q, 1875,
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Kidney Complaint.
PAIN IN THE BACK,

There is no remedy known to medical science which
has proved itself more valuable In cases of Kidney
Comnlaints than the VEGETINE. 1t acts directly
mon The secretions ceanses and puries the blood,
the whole system to healthy al ACTION
The following ma Sar Se 81
homeless cases. will speak for themselves and shohid
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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-12-09
VALUE OF. IMPROVED STOCK.

A writer in the New York Times, puts
the question plainly in saying that if a
farmer keeps thirty cows that average
thirty dollars year each, for milk. and
he can increase the average to forty dol
lars a year, by the use OF a thorough
bred bull, of good milking breed. he
can afford to pay good round sum for a
bull. And yet better results than this
have been accomplished. It he is rails
ing cattle for beef, and he can add 200
pounds to the carcass of each, by the
time it is ready for the shambles, by the
use of Short-horn bull, it will certainly
be profitable for him to pay good
price for such bull. And yet this is the
average result Of using thoroughbred
bulls on native COWS of the country, as
estimated by all the best stock breed ers.
And his two hundred pounds is clear
gain, for it is produced with no great
er consumption OF food. If the use of a
thoroug hbred ram on flock of common
ewes, will increase the weight of fleece
one pound. on the average, certainly
more than Five in hundred could make
it paw whether more than one in five
would or not, is another question. And
so with hogs. The difference between
the ..woods" breeds of the past, and the
improved breeds of to-day, is beyond
comparison.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-12-09
THE GRANGE ORGANIZATION.

The last patrons Helper has an excel
lent article on the present condition OF
the Patrons of Husbandry or the Grang-
ers. We qoute the following from it,:
1T cannot be said that their union has
yet accomplished all that was hoped fer
it. but no man ough, TO be discouraged.
Good progress has been made in reach
ing the ultimate objects sought, and an
organization has been effected through
which to act. 1t takes time to drill
green troops; it takes time to educate a
large and widely scattered body of men
it takes time for maturing plans: it take $
time, in word for the ripening and con-
solicitation of a great organization. Great
movements must he slow movements.
and this is the first organization the
frmtrs ever attempted. Agains, the
farmers and opposed To their progress
are older aud letter perfected organizes
tions heads Il 10y the most accomplished
leaders the. control pretty much the
whole machinery OF organized society,
and 10, y handle the guns that they have
trained on US with the skill and cool.
ness OF veterans. What are we To Il
Stand steady, take the tire and return 1
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The Anti-AGonoP0lSt.

advantage Of starting on grass in the
spring with thin and unthrlfty lot OF
cattle. In our opinion, this is the prln-
ciple reason for the impression that
breeding and raising steers is unprohta-
BILE.
All young stock, colts, calves, and
lambs, should have meal or grain the
first winter, for this is the time to lay the
foundation for future excellence and
profit, For calves and lambs there is no
feed that pays better than shorts and
bran-we mean the old fashioned shorts
or middlings- this we may profta-
bly, mix shelled corn for calves, and oats
for lambs. For colts nothing can take
the place Of oats.
We wish to impress upon the inexperl-
enced breeder the great Importance OF
keeping up the best possible condition IN
the young stock during the first winter
here is where poor keeping never
fails to prove disastrous, and where the
more liberal expenditure for nutritious
food makes the most profitable returns.
It is also most important that suitable
shelter should be provided tor stock at
this age There is the same necessity
for nutritious food and proper shelter,
for cows in milk, and it is as cruel as it
is improbable to allow these useful and
most profitable animals to run out ex-
posed to the storms of winter, with poor
or scanty supply OF food. The young
stock over one year old, with the dry
cows, will do very well out OF doors
with the shelter OF wood lot 10 run to,
and where corn is cheap this may be the
most economical way OF wintering such
stock.
We suppose that in many OF the corn
growing States there is, this year, a good
deal OF corn that is not perfectly ma
tured, and this may be protitabIy dis
posed of by feeding it in the fodder to
our cattle. And in this connection we
call attention to the fact that it is gen.
orally more economical to iced cattle
some grain, than to undertake to keep
them exclusively On hay. One pound OF
meal is estimated as equal to four pounds
of hay. II therefore, we have, say fifty
bushels OF corn per acre, we have forth
weight of the grain $500 lbs.-equal to
five and half tons OF hay! Whether
this estimate be correct or not, we think
every practical man will agree that an
acre OF corn, with the fodder cut at the
proper time, is of a good deal more
value as feed tor cattle than two acres
of hay. 1t is therefore evident that the
prevailing notion that corn cannot be
profitably fed to stock cattle is enron
eous
As to hogs, it is to be assumed that
good farmers will only winter over q
few sows tor breeding, with, perhaps,
some fall pigs-the latter should be
pushed for the spring markets. and com
Portable quarters provided Tor all. We
should aim to have our pigs farrowed nc
later than April. SO as to be ready fol
market in the fall.-T. C. J. IN Nutloaaa
Lire Stock journal.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-12-09
FRENCH MODE OF SELECTING HORSES

The purchasers of horses for the
French army always endeavor to obtain
a first look at the animal when he is
tranquil in the stable noting ii the ami
NAL supports itself equally well on all
its legs. and if one seems to yield. to es-
pecially examine it; attention is then di-
rected to the largeness OF the pupil OF the
eve, which ought to be more dilated
when in the stable than when exposed
to tul light. After the animal has
been led out of the stable, his eyes ought
to be again examined TO observe if the
pupil has contracted; if not. the sight is
feeble others to test the power OF vision,
feign to strike the forehead with the
hand. If the hollow over the eye be
profound. and the temple gray. old age
Is to be concluded; wounds about the
temples suggest attacks of staggers. and
when the end of the nose presents cir
cular scars, it may be concluded that the
horse has been twitched with n cord to
insure his quietness while being shod or
having to submit to some painful opera
ton
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with instructive knowledge the right
place for a field of corn, or of potatoes,
oats or rye.
Always, in the elder days, they were
the God-fearing men and women They
had their pews in the meeting house for
their families, their sheds for their
horses, and on Sundays they always
went reverently to meeting. And when,
after the heat Of summer and the storms
ofautumn they had garnered their crops;
when winter had come, as Virgil has it,
Joyful among themselves, they inter-
changed mutual feasts," which the high
piled banks of snow could not prevent,
and which the long, cold nights Of q
New England winter could not interrupt.
When in their warm dwellings before
the cracking wood-fire on the old
fashioned hearth, could lot be found
fairer and happier? There was an easy
competence with honor crowned, and an
independence which could endure no
tyranny. They would endure no tyranny.
gether wherever they have maintained
their proper rank. The Roman COM
monwealth began to decay when the old
plebian yeomanry, ''the truest gloly Of
Rome," began to die out, and their little
farms were swallowed up in vast estates
titled by slaves; and the Consul, or
Tribune, who spoke to the Quirites in
the forum, spoke to a mongrel rabble of
naturalized strangers and entranchised
bondsmen. And it is to the considera-
ton of the vast debt we owe to the 'sem-
battled farmers who, a century ago, held
possession OF this territory, that we
should give attention to-day.-S. B.
Noyes to the Bristol County agricultural
Society.
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a SKIIIFUl REPARTEE.

Horace TWiSS was one OF the readIest
and most amusing takers IN the world,
and when he began TO make his way IN
London society, which he eventually did
yerv successfully, ill-natured persons
considered his first step in the right di-
rection to have been repartee made in
the crush-room OF the opera, while stand
ing close to Lady L, who was wait
ing for her carriage. 4 man he was
with saying, ''Look at that fat Lady
L; isn't she like a great white cab
bage?' Yes" answered Horace, in a
discreetly loud tone, "she is like one, all
heart, believe" The white-heart cab
bage turned atfably to the rising barris-
ter, begged him to see to her carriage,
and gave him the entree of H house.
Lord Clarendon subsequently put him
in parliament for his borough of Woot-
ton-Basset, and for short time he form
ed part of the ministry, holding one OF
the r-secretaryships. He was clever
amiable, and good-tempered, and had
every qualification for success in society.
He had married Il Miss Searle. one of
his mothers pupils at the fashionable
Bath boarding school, the living image
of SCOTS Fenelia, the smallest woman
that have ever seen, with fairy feet and
tiny hands. the extraordinary power of
which was like that of steel talon. On
one occasion when Horace Twiss hap
pened to mention that his bright little
spark of Il wife sat working in his library
by him. while he was engaged with his
law or business papers, nv mother sug-
gested that her conversation must dis
turb tim. "Oh, she dosen't talk" said
he, "bu. like to hear toe scissors tail, y
pretty conjugal reply, that left pleas
ant image in my mind. His only child by
her, daughter. married first Mr.. Bacon
then editor OF the Times, and. after his
death, John Delane. who succeeded him
in that office and still holds it; so thai
her father said "shc took the Times and
Supplement. n-IHantic for December.
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FARMERS AS PATRIOTS.

| went to Concord and Lexington on
that nexer-to-be forgotten Monday
morning, last April. We all of US will
long remember that night and the morn
ing of April 10, 1875. There was some
thing indescribable about the night
which prevented sleep. Then in the
cars, how like poem it seemed to find
men and women just awaking from
uneasy sleep who had been travelling
day and night thousands of miles to at
tend the festival, and who We're getting
their first sight OF New England scenery,
and their first breath OF New England
air. 1t may seem that enough has been
written and said in hundred years of
the character aud Of the acts of the
men whose deeds were recalled and cell
ebrated on that day. Yet no history can
sufficiently express the greatness of their
deeds on that memorable morning. To-
day can recall that as | walked by or
went into the woods where hundred
years ago these men had lived-as / went
into the old church where they had been
baptised in infancy and had worshipped
in manhood-as looked into the little
old river where they had fished and
bathed in summer or skated in winter
as | fingered beneath the branches of the
old elm-trees that had sheltered and
shaded them-as | gazed into the win
dows Of the chambers under the old roof
where they had been Graded in infancy
as / went about on that sacred, hal
lowed ground-tnis one thought was
ever and uppermost in my mind, that
the farmers held the world together as
always they had done. and as always
they will do. The men who went to
Lexington and to Concord, and who
came here and settled these inland towns
in the colony OF Massachusetts Bar. were
farmers, More and more as grow old.
er do / reverence the character Of her
native born. genuine New England farm
ers. No language but the Saxon has
the word farm; its meaning is food; the
tenant was required to provide his land
10 I'd with food BY way Of rent.
Let US praise our fathers. Let their
glcry be recorded, for they it was who
cleared the fields OF rock aud briar, who
builded the walls, who felled the iores
trees. who made the desert to bloom
with herds grass and clover, who plant
ed the orchards and the vineyards; who
subjugated the boys, utilized the streams
and with their chained waters turned til,
mill-Wheel before the use Ut steam,
power was known; who builded thei
dwellings on southern slopes. away bacl
in the beginning Of the settlement b
these old New England towns. Ii is a
once our glory and our pride that farm
ers now exist al about in our New
England who pIouW and SOW, and plan
and hoe, and reap and NOV. on the bill
sides and in the valleys. - their ances
tors for two and a half centuries hav
done, independent Of the foctuation
Of commerce or trade; superior in tnei
; rural pursuits 10 the temptations Of sho'
! of equippage and of dress; content
labor six whole days from the rising
the setting Of the sun. always selectin
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SAVED BY GOOD COOKERY.


Careme was the most famous of French
cooks, and many curious anecdotes are
told of him. One day he was saunterine
along the quays Of Paris, dreaming of
some new dish, when his atteption was
suddenly arrested by a mi,ldle-aged
woman, who was crying bitterly at the
door of wine sho7. Careme kindly
asked:
ssWhat is the matter, my good
woman? Can I do anything for you?"
'.Thank you, sir; but | cry it is be-
cause no one can help me. My husband
who is a first rate silver smith, spends
all he earns in that abo1ninable tavern,
and leaves me to,with my two children
to starve."
..He is too fond of good fare then?"
''Ah, it he were half as fond Of his
work, we'd be well off,
''Yet, although he is a man Of taste
you condemn him to eat boiled beef
every day?"
"Eh. Who told you that?" asked the
woman with look of surprise.
Il guess it," replied Careme. ''No
man cares to 60 abroad for bad meal if
his wife can cook a good one. If you
will listen to me, III teach you how you
can keep your husband at home. Where
do YOU live?"
"No. SO ROYAL street,
And what is your husbands name?
Wagner"
VERY well. Take these five francs.
and purchase some charcoal. To-mor-
row morning you'll receive basketball
ofprovisions. lay them out in the kitchen
and wait till call, for intend to do the
cooking myself"
Next morning Careme paid the prom
ised visit and found the workman in bed.
''Sir," said he, Il have heard OF your
talent as chaser, and | have brought
you this silver cup, which requires to be
repaired. Though the task is difficult
one, | know | can safely entrust it to
such an artist as you, and you can charge
your own price. By the bye, | have in
vited myself to breakfast, as | want to
show you that l too am an artist. Now,
Madame Wagner, lead me into the kitch-
en-, and bring me an apron. Well begin
with the wood-cock.
Careme distinguished himself. and the
meal was worthy of Talleyrand himself.
Wagner, who was a real gourmet, had
never tasted such fare.
Why he exclaimed, "Careme him
self could not prepare a wood-cock in
better style.
Thank you tor the compliment; am
Careme," replied the cook. "With your
permission I'll come back this day week,
and il my cup is ready, We'll try wild
duck. In the mean time your wife, to
whom l have already given some good
advice. will pay more attention to the
culinary duties.
Careme, ut the next visit, found hi:
tankard admirably repaired. The wild
duck was eaten and found more delicious
than the wood-cock. Madame Wagner
quickly learned how to prepare more
tempting food than boiled beef; her hus
band ceased to visit his favorite tavern
and became an artist instead of com
mon workman.
One morning Careme received DO,
which contained silver wood-cock, ad
mirably carved bearing on its bill ;
small cup. with the following inscrip
ton:
ITO Careme: from friend who wa
saved by good cookery"