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JACOB MESERVE.

Upton, Dec. g. 1874
We take great pleasure in informing YOU of the
surprisingly beneficial results from the use of your
English Remedy, The Cordial Balm of Syricum and
Lothrops Tonic Pills in of great Nervous De-
blllty and Prostration, by member of our family
who mad been under treatment by different doctors
for nearly three ears past without any apparent ben
ent therefrom but your medicines have produced
tient now enjoys comparatively excellent health,
MRS. HARRIET STURGISS
P. S.-We tell all with whom we are ACQUAINTED
who are similarly afflicted to try your medicines.
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MOUNT DESERT !!
DAY ROUTE!
COMMENCING JUNE l4th.

All Rail via Knox & Lincoln r. r. TO
KOckland and Steamer ULYSSES 10 North
Haven, Deer Isle, Mount Desert and
Sullivan.
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Old PIows.

A pillow used by the Emperor Joseph
II. of Austria, in 1869, was placed be-
side a modern Plow in a portion of the
Austrian department of the Vienna ex-
position of the old plows of various
nations. No better proof could be
given of the great advance in the i'm
provement of plows which has marked
the 100 years which have elasped since
his imperial majesty worried himself
and mother earth wish that pillow. This
venerable plOw was composed of the
root of tree, with the stem for beam,
resting on an axle with wheels under
meath it of about two an a half feet in
diameter the handles were secured to
the XII ee by holes bored into it, into
which the handles were secured the
share was a piece of iron about nine
inches long secured to the point by the
knee, and then strip of board about
SIX inches wide was secured near the
share. This last continuance vas de-
signed to answer the purpose of mold
board. The old English plows, though
much in advance OF this Austrian one,
we're very awkward and weighty affairs,
such a. now would not be accepted as a
Gift by farmers in any civilized coun-
try. Spain exhibited an old pillow with
shafts, and 3 wooden share. South
France. a pillow constructed with wood,
with the exception Of the share, with
wooden mold bosrls five inches vide /;
this plow was about 500 years old.
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BallooniuP.

The balloon ascent of NM. Ctoce
Spinnelli and Sivel has yielded many
facts of interest. Among these we may
mention the following The elevation
reached was seven thousand eight hun
dred meters. They found that the tenn
perature steadily diminished, except
when passing through clouds, and final
ly reached twenty-five degrees @. at
four thousand five hundred meters cfys-
tails of ice were floating between them
and glistening in the sunshine. The
lines IN the solar spectrum, indicating
the presence of vapor of water, disap.
peared when they reached the greatest
altitude, thus proving that this vapor
belongs to our atmosphere, and not to
the sun. At five thousand meters, SEN
sations of discomfort were removed by
the respiration of a mixture of forty
parts of oxygen and sixty of nitrogen.
At six thousand meters the oxygen was
increased seventy five per cent, and in
each instance the physical and mental
weakness was restored, aud the sky,
which previously to the inhalation was
a dark he, again became blue. NJ.
Croce Spinnelli has thus removed an
old error, and has demonstrated that
the black3ess of the armament observed
at great heights is due solely to the
effects of fatigue on the nervous sys-
m.-iS1cranleIltO Record.
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Well-Mannered Children

''Thank you, Charley" said Mrs.
Brown, as her little son handed her a
paper he was requested 10 bring.
Thank } on, Bridget" said the little
fellow, few hours after as he received
a glass of water from the Nurse.
Well, Mrs. Brown. you have the best
hammered children 1 ever saw !" said
a neighbor. 81 should be thankful if
mine were as polite to me as yours are
to the servants. You never spend half
as much time on your children's clothes
as co, aud yet every QUE notices them,
they are so well behaved. A"
1--WE alway Try to treat our children
politely, was the quiet reply.
This IVES the whole secret. When I
hear parents gruIabling sbout the III
manners OF fheir children, / al way 3
wish 20 ask, " Have You always treated
them with politeness? / once knew a
man, considered quite gentlemen IN
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Gerald remained stunned and be-

Gerald remained stunned and be-
wildered.
Where is the codicil ?" he cried to
the lawyer, who stood at the door. q" My
aunt left her money to Miss Williams.
She told me so when she was dying y
sOh, that was when you bought the
horse I I was afraid there would be
trouble then but, bless your soul, she
got all over that"
And the money is mine ?" cried
Gerald.
'Of course it's yours, and the lawyer
went down the stairs chuckling at his
incredulity.
Then Gerald held out his hands to
Luane.
81 was going to be magnanimous
enough to marry you despite your
money" he said "now there is no OBJ
stacle to our happiness. Come, my
sweet Luane, and bless the life you
have given me -
Laane became his wife. Mrs. Grundy
said that he married her to spite Emily
Thorpe. The lawyer chuckled still
more, and thought of the codicil. But
we know that it was love, ard for love
alone.
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of invalids. How sad il is to look
around us end compare the frail and
effeminate looking lady of to-day with
Ehe hs1e, hearty and buxsm ladies OF
DAYS gone by. To ell such he late dis
e1vsry Of Dr.. Walker, of California,
which is known as Vinegsr Bitters, is
priceless boon indeed. For this class
Of diseases It is certain and safe, and
any lady, old or young, can take It with
entire confidence in the result, and thus
avoid what to thousands is e stumbling
block never overc 3me, via consulta-
ton with family physician. lis true
there may be cases of years standing,
that viii peeessita'e more powerful
treatment, bat IN nine cases out Of ten
this remedy viii reach the disease, and
after little time effect a cure. The
number of ladies cured by it are num-
bered by thousands, and are scattered
through evsry state in the union.
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PRICE, of Pam orops.

From the last monthly report OF the
department of agriculture we copy the
following in regard to the prices of the
two leading farm crops for the past six
years
The price of corn in this country is
governe by the quantity grown, the
abundance or scarcity of other feeding
material having slight modifying in
fuence. The foreign demand, sverag-
ing between one and two per cent, and
reaching In recent years three per cent,
is too small to be disturbing element
in the market. The commercial assel
ton, that the foreign value of an ex-
ported article fixes its home price, while
particularly true of wheat, fails almost
utterly in its application to corn. So
we usually see the lowest prices of
corn when we have the largest products;
but an average crop of wheat, with
larger foreign crops, may bring lower
prices than a more prolific one With
deficient harvest abroad. A reference
to the records of estimated production
and current prices in past years illus
trates this truth, and at the same time
attests the accuracy of the records.
The quantity produced and average
prices of recent years are as follows
In 1868, SOC, 1000, coo bushels, valued
at 60 cents per bushel.
In 1869, 874, 900, 600 bushels. valued
at IS cents per bushel.
In 1870, 1, O94 900, 0G0 bushels, valued
at "a cents per bushel.
In 1871, 99l, 000 600 bushels, valued
at 43 cents per bushel.
in 1872, !, 092, 600, 900 bushels, valued
at SO cents per bushel.
In 1873, 932, 900, 600 bushels, valued
at 4S cents per bushel.
In 1874, 854, 600, 600 bushels, valued
at IS cents per bushel.
The prices in 1873 would have been
a. least 10 per cent. higher than in 1871,
but for the effect of the monetary panic
on prices generally. The price at the
close of 1872 was Is cents lower than in
1870, partly from gradual decline 10
prices, and in part bee Iuse the surplus
Ct corn was much sma Ter in the latter
year, the combined product of 1869 20
heing 1868, 600, 900 bushels; of 1871-72,
2,0S3, 600 600 bushels a difference of
l15, 600, 900 bushels. At the present
tine, a season of continued monetary
depression, the average price is IS cents,
10 cents less than in 1869, when the
crop was 100000 600 bushels greater.
In 1871, a'medium crop, with large
surplus of the immense producs of 1870,
and tendency to lower values gener-
ally, caused a reduction of five cents
per bushel.
f. The crops Of 1869 and 1874 are the
shortest for many years, and the price
naturally the highest.
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Inherited Longevity.

DIR. I. S. LamberS, in his book on
g Longevity" says: Every one has
noticed that nearly all the members of
some families die aged, while others are
gone before what wOuld be called the
middle sge of the former. Tt is a com
mon and correct remark that some are
as old at forty as others are at sixty >
the latter will, in fact, be more likely
to live twenty years than the former.
The years q person has lived is by no
means the most important element for
judging how many he may probably
1--we, nor IS present health of much
more consequence, since it is often the
case that families are very vigorous and
healthy while they live, yet are not
loDg-lived. They inherit healthy bnt
short lives. Notice the Laplanders.
Observe the citizens of Zurich, Swift
eIlaud, very healthy, but seldom reach
ing the age OF sixty while members of
one Italian family living in their midst
since the sixteenth century reach the
age of eighty or ninety. The Welsh
are the lonRest-lived people in Europe.
The Scotch are longer lived than the
English, and the Irish shorter-lived,
yet they are au healthy as a people.
On the other hand, some who do not
have robust health are noted to live
long. 1t is said that they attain old
age because they take such excellent
care of themselves. Yet, though it is
not denied that the care is useful, it
will be unusually found that they had
a least one probably long-lived parent,
and thus Inherited longevity from one
side if not from both for, though
it is often the case that those die young
who have loDg-lived ancestry, it is very
seldom that any person lives to be
more than year or two older than any
of his ancestOrs-parenis, grandparents,
etc
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The True Economy.

The question is ro5 how cheaply we
can manage to keep soul and body to-
getheF, but how IN We bring both body
and soul TO the highest condition of vi
tality aud power To live is something
IN Ore than to exist. How can We live
most and best? How can we feed in
tellect and affection, conscience, SYM
patty, imagination, reverence, as well
as the physical system? ALI pinching
and restricting of diet is injurious in
the long Iun. The bean man, the beam
bread. man, the one meal-a- d man, the
man who goes mousieg about the world
IN 'ent on cheapness, never makes the
seal OF power kick the beam. He
wastes more thsn he saves. He checks
an income inste ad Of stopping an outgo.
The men who make the most ado over
the petty prudencies of life, aud per-
petually obtrude their pafsim0Rious
practics on public notice new T amount
TO anything, or do anything of account.
Man wants all he can use, assimilate,
organic, reproduce. The things that
strengthen and beautifY his essential
manhoo5, that enrich his sentiments
and refine his sensibiities, that ennoble
his intellect and enlarge the scope of
his being and the horizon of his posi-.
Dl1lbIGSs DeIOuB 10 AlIu Dy Ilgnts rs Inc
crown and purple belong TO royalty.
Every man ought to aspire aud labor
to live generously, and have a comfort
able and tasteful home, and surround
himself and his family with everything
that tends to increase health and happi-
ness and create an atmosphere of intel
hgenco and refinement. Beauty, ele-
gance, art, society, music, are our birth
right. 1t is not waste to spend what
one has for things that foster a noble
pride, hejghtcn self-respect, beautify
the body and cultivate the mind. It is
true economy that spends something
for books and pictures for occasional
glimpses OF nature and the entertain
ment of the stage. The charities and
humanities are not luxulies that the
poorest man on earth should deny him
self of them. The loving, trustful,
a3Orning sympathy that forgets his own
wants and meaRer re sources and breaks
the cosiliest thing it has on the head of
the one beloved is not a reckless SIC SIS to
be censured, but devotion to be COM
mended for its divine nobility. Saving
may be aut-like ard besvsr-Iike, but
sacrifice is Godlike. Herald OF
Health.
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TEE official report Of the Austrian
government respecting musical instru-
ments at the Vienna xpos ltion, declares
the Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs to
be 81 the most distinguished and praise
worthy instruments of their class /;
praising IN detail their power aud reso-
nance of tone, variety of combination
and solo effects fine power of express
sion smooth, even and sympathetic
tones, aud thorough workmanship.
They were awarded the first and high
est medal. Other American organs in
competition were declared to be far less
meTtoriOus, the tones and workman
ship being both inferior, IN cOmpari-
son, It was said Judged ieniently,
they DO not rise above a respectable
mediOcrity.' This WAS undoubtedly the
most extensive, thorough aud eompe
tent comparison of saeh instruments
ever made.
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Do Not Eat Raw Eggs.

One of the most common preiudices
of house wives ard mothers is that hard
eggs are difficult to digest, especially
the white, and that the less they are
boiled the better they are for weak and
dyspeptic stomachs. The reverse is
the case, as there is more danger of raw
and soft white of an egg passing
through the digestive apparatus with
out being really digested, than when
thoroughly boiled and hard in fact,
then 1t constitutes a most excellent food
for dyspeptlcs, IS experience is prov
ing. A writer IN a medical journal
says: 1--WE have seen dyspeptics who
suffered untold torments with almost
every kind of food. No liquid could
Ice taken without suffering bread be-
came a burning acid meat and milk
were solid and liquid fires. We have
seen the same sufferers try ing 10 avoid
food and drink, and even going to the
enema syringe for sustepance. And we
have seen their torrents pass away and
their hunger relieved by living upon
white of eggs which had been boiled in
bubbling water fer thirty minutes. At
the end OF q week, we have given the
hard yolk of the egg with the white,
and upon this diet alone, without fluid
OF any KIND, we have seen Them begin
to gam flesh and strength and refresh
ing sleep. After weeks of this treat
ment they have been able to begin
upon other food" And all this, the
writer adds, without taking medicine
He says, what We have always mani
tested, that hard-bOjled eggs are not
half so bad as soft-bOiled ones, and ten
times as easy to digest as raw eggs
nnH un houn don ~ That I
may be starved to death by eating only
raw whites of eggs, for the same rea-
son that dogs have been starved by
eating gelatin alone. OnIy toothless
babies can digest soft food, such as
milk
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English Literateurs Refusing Royal
Patronage,

NJ. d. Conway writes to the Cine n
natl Commercial 1t is probable that
some people in high places may pres
entity begin to realize that there is such
thing as g the Republic of Letters. 4"
A little time ago Mr.. Ruskin refused to
receive from her majesty's hands a gold
medal, offered for his service to English
architecture; and now we have Thomas
Carlyle declining the Grand Cross Of
the Bath, and Alfred Tennyson a baron
etcy, both in one day. The queen was
indignant at Ruskin's refusal of the
medal, but what will she say to Carlyle,
whom she once asked to sec and did
see, or to her Laureate? She will feel
particularly sore about Carlyle, I sus-
pect, because he accepted the order of
civil merit from the King of Prussia,
but now refuses decoration from his
own sovereign. It is very probable,
indeed, that the Bath Cross was offered
to Carlyle by the queen because she felt
uneasy that her German friends should
think she could not recognize the abil-
ity they had honored. If so, the mat
ter stands worse than it did before.
The fact is, it was not an easy matter to
obtain Cariyle's consent to the German
decoration, though that was not q sham.
It was an order founded by Frederic
the Great. But the Grand Gross of the
Bath belongs to those who regard the
sovereign as the " fountain OF honor"
which Carlyle does not it is the dec
Grafton of sham aristocracy" with
the symbols of the great The Lau-
reate's refusal of further royal patron
age is more unexpected, but will not be
the less welcome to his truest friends.
Whatever may be said of the partic-
ulsr opinions of the veteran Carlyle,
none can fail to recognize that he has
shamed cut of existence the ancient
snObbery and seTvility of literary men.
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LEONA.
BY JAMES @. CLARK.

COMPETENT literary critics have pronounced the
1oho~inR poem unsurpassed by any other produc-
rhyme, BEAUTIFUL 10 figure aud expression, and we
know our readers will thank us for it's reproduc-
toni
Leona. the hour drawa nigh.
The hour we've awaited 80 long,
For the angel to open door through the sky,
That my spirit may break from its prison and
Its voice in an infinite song.
just now as the slumbers Of night
Came DER mo with peace-giving breath,
The curtain half lifted revealed to my sight
Those windows which look on the kingdom OF
light.
That borders tho river Of death.
And vision fell solemn aud sweet,
Bringing CLEANS OF a morning-lit land
cav the white shore which the pale waters
beat,
And heard the low lulI as they broke 81 their
Who walked on the beautiful strand.
And / wondered why spirits should cling
To their clay with q struggle and sigb,
When LIES purple autumn is better than
And the soul dies away, like sparrow, to sing
In climate where leaves never die.
Leona. come close to my bed,
And lay your dear hand on nv brow,
The same touch that thrilled me in days that
are fed,
And raised the lost roses Of youth from the
dead
Can brighten the brief moments now.
thank tbe Great Father for this,
That our love Is not lavisbed ia vain;
Each germ IN the future, viii blossom to bliss
And the forms that we love, and the lips thai
we kiss,
Never shrink at the shadow OF pain.
BY the light OF this faith am taught
mn iabO Ia oTIr
In the strength OF this hope have struggled
and fought
With the legions OF wrong, till my armor has
caught
The CLEAN OF Eternity's sun.
Leona, look forth and behold.
From headlaDd, from hillsIde, and deep
The day-klng surrenders his banners OF gold
The twilight advances through woodland and
void.
And the dews are beginning to weep.
Tho moons silver hair lies uncurled
Down the broad breasted mountains away,
Ire sunsets red giories again shall be furled
On the walls OF the west DER the plains OF the
shall rice in limiLless day
o come not In tears to my tomb,
Nor plant with frail flowers the sod
There ~ rest among roses too sweet for it's
And life where the lilies eternally bloom
In the Misunderstanding gardens of God.
Yet deeply those memories burn,
Which bind me to you and to earth;
And l sometimes have thought that my being
would yearn
IN the bowers Of It's beautiful home, to re-
turn,
And visit the home Of it's birth.
'IWould be pleasant 10 stay,
And walk by your side to the last
Eut tho land-bree2e OF Heaven is beginning To
play
LIES shadows are meeting Eternitys day,
And it's tumult 10 hushed in the past
Leona, good-b should the grief
That ID gathering now, ever be
Too dark for your faith, you Will long for re-
lief
And remember, the journey, though Lonesome
Is brief
Over lowland and river me.
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society, who would speak to his chill
dren In manner that well INSTRUCTED
dog would resent. He would order
them with groE1 to bring his slippers,
or perform some other little service !;
and yet he complained of the rudeness
and disobedienoe of his children.
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MOTHERS who have delicate children,
who are subject to eroup. When your child
goes to bed wheeling and coughing you know
not before morning Group may set in, and be
fore you can get physician your child may be
beyond the reach of help. Aliens Lung Bal
sam should always be kept in your house. and
be given Immediately when the fret symptoms
appear. which viii remove the mucus collected
IN the throat and save the life of your dear
child. For sale by 81 madeline dealers.
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- Fnglish paper Recommended exc

An English paper recommends eggs
for food. 1t says Excellent sand
witches may be made of hard boiled eggs
and brown bread and butter eggs
spread on toast are fit food for kings a
poached egg-that is, one dropped from
the shell into hot water-is not only
clean and handsome, but a delicious
morsel eggs are better favored with
out salt or pepper, a little sweet butter
being the best dressing persons who
eat eggs freely may live to the age Of
eighty or ninety and lastly, eggs con-
tain much phosphorus, and are the best
food for those persons who are deficient
in brains. The last idea is of the ut
most importance to miIny persons.