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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-20
hest without nermanentIy e%xhausting the


best, without permanently %exhausting the
soil. A contemporary very wisely re-
marks 4" if we were to count up the losses
incurred every year by the farmers OF the
United States, from a want of accurate IN.
| formation in the practical conduct OF their
| affairs, it would aggregate a fearful
| amount. The earth yields so generous a
return for all intelligent labor bestowed
! that it balances all losses from unskilled
labor. and produces a surplus upon
| which all the wealth Of the world is based.
IF farmers could be induced to study their
| processes with the same accurate observa-
| ton that manufacturers do the processes
of their business, agriculture would soon
be taken from the unknown and placed
upon the side OF accurate human Knowl-
edge. 1t was humiliating to hear enc Of
the best farmers in the State OF
| New York excuse the want OF
progress in our agricultural col
leges by stating that agriculture
is not a SCIENCE that no one can
tell him what it costs to make a pound OF
beef and, by inference, that these schools
are to be excused for not helping the
farmer to a knowledge of what he has all
his life neglected 10 observe for himself.
Just as if tina were not precisely what
these schools were endowed for-to re.
deem the want of common observation on
the part of farmers, and teach their sons
the value of accurate knowledge."-Col-
z1gn,S RurnZ WorlH.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-20
Turkeys Naval Strength.

THE military contributor of the Co
logne Gazette observes, in an article on
the navies of the Mediterranean, that by
far the strongest naval power on that sea
is Turkey. All the on-clads of her fleet
are of recent construction and most of
them have come from the best English
ship builders; the German iron-clad KONG
Wilhelm was originally built for the
Turkish Government. The plates of the
Turkish iron -clads arc from So to s
inches thick two of the casemate ships
9-inch plates, and they are armed with
9-inch and 9.inch Woolwich muzzle- load
ers and Krupp breech leaders. Turkey
has four Tonclad frigateS Of 1850 horse
power and Ga guns, six caemate ships,
each of 700 horse power and 5 guns, and
three turret-ships of 200 horsepower and
II guns, making in all fifteen iron clads
with $3.50 horse power and 116 guns. To
these should be added three iron-clad gun
boats of 240 horsepower and 6 guns on
the Danube and two iron-clad gunboats on
the lake of Scutari, each with 60 horse
power and 2 guns. The screw ships
are also for the most part well built and
equipped. They consist of four ships of
the line, thirteen frigatcs and corvettes
twenty-five avisos and twenty-sevcn gun
boats and coasting vessels, besides 101
transport ships, all large and mostly well
armed. The actual strength Of the. avail
able feet of Russia on the Black Sea can
not at present be accurately estimated,
but the writer thinks there can be no
doubt that it is far interior to that of the
Turkish feet. Austria has four iron clad
cascmate ships of $500 horsepower and
60 guns, and seven iron-clad frigatcs of
1860 horsepower and $50 guns. Three
Of these ships, however, are low being re-
built, and most of the others do not full
fill the requirements of modern naval
warfare either as regards the thickness of
their plates or the caiiber of their guns.
This remark applies even more to the ltal
ian iron clad ships, several of which are to
be sold by auction this month in order to
obtain funds for constructing new ones
more suitable 10 modern requirements.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-20
Tendency to Crime in the Two Sexes.

THE tendency to crime, as exhibited in
its actual commission, for males at all
ages until sixty diminishcs at the rate of
3 1889 per ccntum. For females under
similar conditions of age it diminishes at
the rate of % per centum. Keeping in
view the liability to error in q search
through the obscure underlying forces
which seem to regulate human conduct in
the aggregate, it nevertheless appears
reasonable to expect an explanation OF
this phenomenon TO lie in the physical
rather than the mental conditions of the
sexes at the terminal periods of life. In
the decade which was above distinguished
as That of physical equilibrium the gov
erning principles seemed to be the ex-
preston of mental forces; but on reach
ing the .sixtieth year of life the condi-
tons are reversed. While in the former
the conditions of waste and repair were
equal, in the latter the repair of the
physical forces is exceeded by the waste,
This is tho law which applies equally
to both sexes, but with this difference in
the result: the occupations and the crimes
which belong in such great excess to men
are those which require more physical
strength than the occupations and crimes
which are adapted to the lesser strength
of women. Let us take a familiar illus
%tration: after a man at sixty years of age
has retired from the scenes of his labor in
the mine, field or workshop, the wife of
the same age, or older, is yet proftably
engaged in her lighter domestic duties.
She is yet contributing as materially to
the comforts of her family as during the
more active years of the husbands life.
Now, while it is more evident that we
must regard the cause of the sudden more
near equality in the proportion of the
sexes which presents itself in the period
of life between forty and fifty years as due
to physical changes, the evidence is yet
stronger that the ratio of the more rapid
decrease of male criminals at the more
advanced period of fifty to sixty years is
due to the cause l have named-the
rapid impairment Of physical energy pc.
GUITAR to the period.-Popular Science
Monthly for January.
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ASwimmer Five Hours and a Half in
Stormy Sea.

THE Boston Traveller says while the
ship Memnon, Capt. Baker, was beating
down the Bay of Bengal, a seaman fell
from the foretopsail yard while reefing,
A life-buoy was cut adrift, the sailor
reached it and, stripping himself, made
fast to the buoy with his s%uspenders, fol
the sea was very rough and he was in
danger of being cramped if he held on
with his hands. In the meantime the
ship, after sail was made, attempted to
work to the windward of him, but in
vain; after wearing several times (she
would not stay, the sea was so heavy
and losing sight of him, he was given up
for lost.
A faint cry was heard; he was again
seer "a line was fastened to another life
preserver and thrown overheard. Henoticed
this, struck out and finally reached it, and
was hauled on board, after being in the
water five hours and a half. He had
husbanded his strength and, as the water
was not cold, did not suffer much beyond
shipping considerable water.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-20
How to Treat Frosted Plants.

A WRITER in the Intcr-Occan says:
"The disastrous effects which tender
plants which have become frozen are sub
iect TO is generally known TO cultivators;
but how or why freezing produces the eff
feet it does upon plant life is not so easily
ascertained; and all attempts heretofore
made by scientific men to solve the qucs-
ton have been at most only partially NC
cessful. In practical experience it is found
that the length of time and the degree of
cold to which plants are exposed affect
them in proportion TO the duration and
intensity of these conditions, and these
point, therefore, to the speedy restoration
of a suitable temperature as the best
means of restoring plants that have I'M
fortunately been exposed to frosts. But
the thawing out should in all cases be
moderately gradual, and n of the best
things to do when plants have become
frozen either in the dwelling, conserva-
tory or open air is to sprinkle the foliage
with cold cistcrn or well water as the
temperature turns to rise. In the dwell
ing or conservatory, however, it will be
necessary to start the fire in the stove, 1ur-
mace or tlue the first thing of all, to give
the temperature an ascendency; but it
should for several hours not be allowed
to rise above an ordinary suitable degree.
Some advocate shading the plants from
the sun and light for some length of time,
but the policy of so doing has never been
apparent to HE, while l have frequently
had proofs to the contrary; and the suns
rays, striking upon the plants with grad
uaily-increasing heat, in a great measure
aid in their recovery. There is a great
difference in plants as regards their ahili-
tY to resist cold; and while some by the
slightest frost will be injured beyond cure
others will bear various degrees and even
alternate freezing and thawing aga1 and
again with impunity. Avoid handling
plants in a frozen condition as much as
possible, as the injury to them will be
heightened should the leaves become bent
or be roughly brushed over. To restore
flowers that have become frozen place
them in cold water until the leaves are
thawed out"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-20
Positive knowledge Needed.

Farming, as an occupation, will never
attain to the high position to which it is
by right entitled until a series of accu
rate experiments determine facts. II
asked how much a pound Of beef, pork
mutton, wool or grain costs us, we cannot
answer. What would we think of the
manufacturer of cotton goods if he could
not show the exact cost of a yard of cloth
We would at once concede that bankrupt
cy would inevitably result, or at least
would be likely to result, by pursuing
such a course. The need of closer caleu-
lation in regard to the cost of production
becomes more and more obvious the long
er the country is settled and the popula.
ton increases. ~
The farmer should farm in%telligently,
should learn what each crop costs him, so
that he may be enabled to diversity his
crops, and grow only what will pay the
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-20

EaEHNIl -
scuEScx,s PuLMoN1c SYRUP. SEA. WEED TONIC
AVN MANpRAKE. P~nLs.-Tbese deseryedty cee-
brated and popular medicines have erected a rev
olution in the healing art, and proved tue tansSs
of several maxims which have for many yeass Cd
structed the progress OF medical science. hnv
false suppositfon that :" Consumption is 1ncpraD,e
deferred physicians from attempting 70 ma reme.
dies for that disease. and patients afflicted with II
reeopciled themselves to death without making an
effort to escape from 4 doom which they shPPoseo
TO be unavoidable. 1t is now proved. however,
that Consumption cen De cured, ana that ! Hae
hen cured in a very great number 81 cases lsome
Of them apparently desperate ones) by schenck .
Puimonic Syrup alone; and in other cases py Ine
same medicine in connection with Schencks pea
Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills one or potn' ac'
,ord;py 10 the requirements Of the case.
Or. Schenck himself, who enjoyed nninterrnpteo
GOOD health for more than forty years, WAS sup
nOsad. at one time, to be at the Fery. Sate OF Geath-
Ais physicians having pronounced his case nope,
ess. and abandoned him to his fate. ne waf
cnred by the aforesaid medicines. and, since MS
recovery. many thousands similarly affected nave
assd Dr.. Schenck's Preparations with the same re-
markable success. ~,
Full directions accompany eacb, making no.
absolutely necessary to personally see Ut. Scheucs
unless pntients wish their lungs examined. ano
for this purpose he is professionally at his ptlne,'
pal office. corner Sixth and Arch streets. fhlianei
phia, every Monday. where all letters, Tor aoNlcl
must be addressed Schencks medicines an
sold by all druggists. ..t 'r
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Diphtheria.

ABOUT a year g DR.. Stephen Smith,
of the New York Health Department,
published some useful suggestions rela-
tive to diphtheria which are we'll worth
remembering. Under the heading of pre-
cautions, in addition to the removing of
sources of sewcr-g gas escape, he advises
the removal of every kind of filth from
around the house, tho cleaning and white
washing Of dirty walls, and the disinfec-
ton Of cellars and ventilation of all
apartments, especially those which have
been occupied by people suffering with
the disease. 1t is well, in such rooms,
not only to limewash the ceilings but to
paint the woodwork, boil or subject to a
high degree Of heat every article that can
be SO treated, and expose the room and its
contents to currents of fresh air for at least
a week before re~occupation. Children that
are well should not be allowed to kiss
others affected with sore thro 1t, or sleep
in the same room, or use toys or other ar
ticlcs previously handled by the sick. 1t
is safer to isolate i'll ones from all the flmi-
| ~ SAttPtJ VI ScoiSC, Il bt1CsSdiy ttcbtA-
ants. The air in the sick-room should be
changed at least hourly, and all discharges
| from the mouth and nose should be re-
I ceivedi into vessels containing disinfectants,
| such as solutions of carbolic acid or sui
Phate of zinc, or upon cloths which are
to be Immediately burnt or else boiled or
soaked in ~disinfecting fluid.
Diph,heria, like many other maladies, is
not difficult to check if attended to in
time; but it frequently battles the highest
feature is the formation of a false mem
brane in the throat, which shows itself in
| grayish brown patches. Sometimes the
whole membrane forms suddenly; but, as
a rule, the patches first appear accompa-
MED by fever and prostration. The first
symptoms of the disease, sore throat and
abnormal heat, are too often considered As
%premonitory of a simple cold: but there
is no necessity of such error if parents will
carefully examine the throats of their
children as soon as soreness is complained
of. The patches can almost always be
well recognized, and a competent physi-
clan should be Instantly summoned.
Homemade remedies and gargles should
not be depended upon; and the only treat
ment worth practicing before the doctor
arrives Is to administer pounded ice, the
use of which was found very effectual
during the ravages of the disease in the
Oneida Community in this State. The
prevailing %dampness peculiar to the win
ter months may lead to increased numbers
of cases of the malady. 1t is well therefore
to keep in mind that there are but three
safeguards: first, cut off the foul air; sec
ond, watch all sore throats in the family;
and thirdly, summon the doctor immedi
ately.-Scientgic american.
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If you find it hard splitting wood, sup
dose you split the difference.
tFrom the Toledo Blade.1
Mr. Dfo-nA

"Success is never achieved without merit.
A man may make a poor article and sell it
once, and, there being 10000, 600 people in
the United States, the sale to each one would
be enough to make a decent fortune. But
an article that holds the field year after year,
and the sales of which increase regularly and
rapidly, must have absolute merit.
DIR. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y, occu-
pies our entire eighth page to-day with his
various articles. We admit it because we
know the doctor, and know of his articles.
we know him to be a regularly educated
physician, whose diploma hangs on the wall
OF his office, and We know that he has asso-
clated with him several of the most eminent
practitioners in the country. We know that
parties consult him, by mail and in person,
from all the States in the Union every day,
and that they are fairly and honestly dealt
with. 80 - ~
This grand result has been accomplished
by two agencics-good, reliable articles
articles which, once introduced, work easily
their own way-and splendid business man.
agement. They have succeeded because
they ought to have succeeded"
II you would %patronize Medicines scientific.
ally prepared by a skilled physician and chem
list, use DR.. Pierce's Family Medicines. Gold
en- Medical Discovery is nutritious, tonic,
Alternative and blood cleansing, n an une.
4ualed Cough Remedy; Pleasant Purgatiye
Pellets, scarcely larger than mustard-seeds,
constitute an agreeable and reliable physic:
fayorite Prescription, a remedy for debili-
tated females; Extract of smart-weed, a
magical remedy for Pain, Bowel Complaints.
and an ~unequaled Liniment for both human
and horse-hesh; while his DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy is known the world over as the
greatest specific for Catarrh and /" Cold in the
Head" ever given to the public. They are
sold by druggists.
TWENTY YEARS A sUFFERER-CUREp BY THE
GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY.
Dr.. R. v. PIERCE:
Dear Sr-Twenty years ago I was ship
wrecked on the Atlantic Ocean, and the cold
and exposure caused q large abscess to form
on each leg, which kept continually dis
charging. ! was attended by doctors in Liy.
erpool, Havre, New Orleans, New York, and
at the hospital on Staten Island where the
doctors wanted to take one leg Off. Finally.
after spending hundreds Of dollars, / was
persuaded to try your " Golden Medical Dis.
covery," and now, in less than three months
after taking the first bottle, l am thankful
to say l am completely cured, and for the
hrst time In ten years can put my left heel to
the ground. l am at home nearly every
evening, and shall be glad to satisfy apy Der.
son OF the truth Of this information. I am.
sir, yours, respectfully,
WILLIAM RIDER,
" Jefferson Street, Buffalo. N. Z,
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lieved to be an intellectual truth, in he
interest of his pride or his self-love, or
in q moment of passion, he would have
faced death with unbroken fortitude
and calmness. But to be the victim
of an accident; TO be the lamenta-
BILE sequel of a logical succession
OF chances, without motive or purpose; to
be sacrificed for nothing-without prov
ing OR disproving anything; to be
trampled to death by idiotic beasts, who
had not even the instincts of passion or
revenge to justify them; to die the death
of an ignorant tramp, or any negligent
clown-a death that had a CHASTITY ludi-
crousness in its method, a death that
would leave the body a ~shapeless, indis-
t~inguishable, unrecognizable clod, which
affection could not idcalizen nor friendship
reverence--all this brought a horror with
it so keen, so exquisite, s. excruciating,
that the fastidious, proud, intellectual
being fleeing from it might have been the
veriest bastard that ever turned his back
on danger. And superadded to it was a
superstitious thought that, for its very
horror, perhaps, it was a retribution for
! something that he dared not contemplated
And it was her that his strength sud-
denly tagged. His senses began to reel.
His breath, which had kept pace with the
quick beating of his heart, intermitted,
| hesitated-was lost! Above the advanc-
ing thunder of hoofs behind him ne
thought he heard a woman's voice. He
knew now he was going crazy; he shouted
and fell he rose again and staggered for
| ward a few steps and fell again. 1t was
| all ever now! A sudden sense of some
strange, subtle perfume, beating up
through the acrid, smarting dust of the
! plain, that choked his mouth and blinded
his eyes, came swooning over him. And
then the blessed %interposition Of uncon-
seriousness and Teace.
He struggled back to life again with the
word "PhiliP" in his ears, a ~throbbing
brow, and the sensation of an effort to do
! something that was required of him. OF
| all his experience of the last few mo.
ments only the perfume remained. He
was lying alone in the dry bed of the
arroyo; on the bank a horse was standing,
and above him bent the dark face and
darker eyes of Donna Dolores.-Erona
Bret Harte's Gabriel COnr0y," in Serb.
ner's for February.
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IT is no wonder that we hear this question
on every cerner. SO many are dying SUD
denly of diseases of the brain in thcse days
that everyone is alarmed, and Is asking;
What shall we do?" There is alarm ON ac-
count of dizziness Of the head, a whirling
sensation when rising up suddenly, Il Dad,
" aII-gone" sensation at the pit OF the SION.
,cb' ike the .nawing of an ulcer. with
feeling like a load after eating, pains in the
back, sides and chest, at times, with costive
bowels, scanty, high-colorcd urine, some,
times voided with pain, appetite poor and
when food is eaten it oftentimcs distresses,
the skin, after a time, becomes dark, cold
aud ciammy, eyes sunken and tinged viii
yellow, spirits detected: with evil forebod
lngs. When any Of these symptoms are
present no time should be lost in using 8
proper remedy. The one that we have
known to operate with the most certainty Is
the SHAKER EXTRACT OF RooTs OR CURA
TIVE SYRUP mot q patent mediclne1, sold bJ
| DRUGGISTS and a. j. White, BY Pearl street
New York,
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-20
HOPE.

DO not sorrow as though hopeless
Christ Is mine!
And in beams of Purest radiance
Blessings shine
Clouds may darken thick around me,
Yet, all through,
Glimpses of the brightest sunlight
Meet my view.
Through deep sorrow and experience
Hope appears,
Bringing Christ and heaven nearer
Vain my fesrsl
Friends and wealth may surely leave mo
Day by day,
Still I've mercies sweet to lean on
by the way.
Oh, the sympathy of Jesus
Maketh whole:
Healing, soothing and refreshing
Each poor soul
Giving hope and peace and comfort,
Full and free
Heed the tender iuyitatton:
Come to Me-"
So no sorrow seemeth endless;
Christ, in love,
Sends the truest hope to cheer mo
From above,
Shows me love and deep compassion
Not in vain,
And with sweetest consolation
Soothes my pain.
Hours are daily growing brighter,
Gone is fear,
And experience gained by sorrow -
Grows more dear;
Hope is now around, above me,
All is rest!
For I'm SURE my Heavenly Father
D0eth best.
" Z MhSsrNeE.
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THE Grafton Mills, at New England Viii
lage, Mass, have been sold under the
hammer for a little over $4,000, being
valued at $500, 900 three or four years ago,
and being still taxed for 800, ZOO. E. &,
Lamson, of Shclburne Falls, the mort
gage, took the Davis Mill with eight
acres of land for $15, 900 above tie Sl6,O00
mortgage, and the upper mills for Sl7:0oo
above the claims of about 81 600.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-20

"GINx BABY" JENKINS, through his in
tense %conceit, is coming TO be considered
in London as somewhat of a nuisance. A
short time ago he called on the editor Of a
prominent daily son urgent business"
and, being shown up, stated that he was
about to change his publisher, and he
wished the fact announced. The editor
glared on him speechlessly for a few mo-
mcnts, then replied: Certainly, certain
ly; and when you change your boot
maker let me know, and Ill announce
that. too" a
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THE fire losses in New England for No
vembcr footed up 81, 499,1oo of which
Massachusetts, share was 1888, 100; New
Hampshire, S275, $50; Connecticut, $1O7,
200; Rhode Island, 800, 900; Maine, ST.
915; Vermont, 1923, 015.
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International Sunday.School Lessons.


FIRST QUARTER OF 1876.
Jan. 90 David and Jonathan. I Sam. Xxx. 35-4 AZ.
Feb. 6 David Sparing Saul, I'll sam. xiv. Lila.
Feb. u, Saul and his Sons Slain 1 Sam xxi. 1-16.
Feb. 20 David Established King 2 Sam. v. IT25.
Feb. % The Ark Bro'ght to Zion 2 Sam. iv. lib
Mar. 8 God's Govt with David z Sam vii. 1873.
Mar. II Absalom's Rebellion -. ? Sam. XIV. la.
Mar. 10 Absalom's Death. 49,. 2 Sam. xviii. 24-33
Mar. s6 Review.
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MILWAUKEE papers give all the society
news. "The lovely and accomplished
Mrs. Crooked Bourbon" we read in a re-
cent Sentinel, "was the admiration of all
the indicted guests at the fancy ball last
night. She wore 10000 gallons of the
finest point lace, sent her by her husband
when he fled to Europe and forfeited his
bail bonds, and a set of diamonds valued
at the whole local press and twenty five
gaugers and INSPECTORS