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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01
Why Advertise

People sometimes ask why does DR.. r. V.
Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y, spend so much
money in advertising his family medicines,
which are So well known and surpass all
other remedies in popularily and sale. 1t Is
well known that A. T. Stewart considered it
good policy, and undoubtedly it paid him,
to spend many hundred thousand dollars in
advertising his goods, yet nobody questioned
the excellence of his merchandise. The
grand secret of success lies in offering only
goods which possess merit to sustain them
selves, and then through liberal and persist
emit advertising making the people thor
oughly acquainted with their good qualities.
Men do not succeed in amassing great for
tunes, establishing thriving and permanent
business, and founding substantial institu-
tons like DR.. Pierce's Grand Invalids' Hotel
at Buffalo, which cost over two hundred
thousa dollars, unless their business be
legitimate, their goods meritorious, and their
services which they render the people
genuine and valuable. DR.. Pierce does not
attempt to humbug you by telling you that
his Golden Medical Discovery will cure all
diseases. He says, off your lungs are half
wasted by consumption, my Discovery will
not cure you, yet as remedy for severe
coughs, and all durable bronchial, throat,
and lung affections, believe it to be unsur.
passed as remedy" The people have con.
fidence in his medicines because he does not
over.recommend them, and when tried they
give satisfaction. His Medical Adviser, q
book of over nine hundred pages, jllustrated
by two hundred and eighty.two eugravings
and bound in cloth and gilt, is offered to the
people at SO moderate price ($l.50, post
paid), that it is no wonder that almost one
hundred thousand have already been sold
His memorandum books are on every drug
gist's counter for free distribution.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01

in fattening their surplus stock for the
fall and early market. They should, of
course, be cooked and mixed with corn
meal when used for fattening purposes.
If fed TO young fowls or chickens de-
signed for breeding or to laying hens, it
is we'll to substitute wheat bran or shorts.
or oat meal If it can be readily obtained,
for a portion of the corn meal. Use salt
and pepper to taste as for table use (; the
fowls will relish such food and thrive, or
fatten on it nicely.
POPCORN, which formerly ruled at
wholesale at dollar and quarter to
dollar and half per bushel of ears,
has recently been purchased in large
quantities by local dealers at eighty
seven and half cents to one dollar per
bushel. A considerable amount has
been shipped to New York, where prices
are fifteen per cent higher, although the
Connecticut Valley has seldom raised
enough for its own use. Many farmers
have tried piece of popcorn, the past
summer, instead of so much tobacco, and
eighty bushels of ears per acre can be
obtained, with little cost of cultivation,
on good land, which, at one dollar a
bushel, gives a fair margin for bad
times
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01
Bogus Bey in New York.
New York Tribune.l

A goodly number of New Workers
have been taken in by a dashing naval
gentleman of extensive military and
financial experience, known a. " Edin-
boro, Captain in the naval service of his
Imperial Majesty the Sultan" In Sep
TENDER last the Captain registered at the
New York Hotel as "H. Il. Edinboro,
Constantinople." His trunks bore the
star and crescent. He represented him
self as standing high in the confidence OF
the Ottoman authorities, and as having
been sent to this country on delicate
and important mission connected with
the pending war with Russia and Tur-
KEY. He was dined and wined by a we'll
known gentleman, introduced into society
and made himself observed by his auda-
city, wit and consequential bearing.
Nobody suspected he was not what he
represented until his sudden disappear
ance without his having paid his board
bill or various ebts to his quondam
friends caused suspicious which have
proved but too we'll grounded. Among
the victims are number of ship.build-
ers and brokers, who were to reap rich
harvest from Bey's friendship, and who
advanced him money readily on the as
surance that as soon as the necessary
papers came their vessels should at once
be engaged in Turkeys service. Captain
Stead, of the steamship Professor Morse,
loaned round sum, and the loss of the
owners, who refused valuable private
offer in anticipation of a foreign cruise,
will be two thousand dollars. The board
bill at the New York Hotel is some six
hundred dollars.
BY the confession Of all parties, the
Bey has proved himself, during stay of
five months, one of the most adroit
swindlers the city has ever entertained.
His stories were as large as those of Mum
chausen, and his history scarcely less
eventful. One was that Senator Jones,
of Nevada, had offered him twenty-five
thousand dollars year to introduce a
new ice patent in India, and for two
months he kept an unfortunate civil
engineer named Brown hanging around
the hotel, in the promise of being en-
gagged by the Bey to introduce the bless
ings of ice among the benighted nations
of India. His hotel bill was rendered
promptly every week, but nobody
thought of pressing 80 magnificent an
individual for payment. To those who
saw him last he stated that his destina-
ton was Washington, but it is thought
he had returned to London or Paris.
His greatest mourners are the ship. brok-
ers, among whom he is affectionately re-
ferred to as "Torpedo Bey," and whose
ships are now lying idle at the wharves,
awaiting the next arrival from Constan-
fipopIa
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Self.TOrture.

There is no doubt that some people en-
Joy being unhappy. They take pleasure
in contemplating injustice done to them
selves. A pet grievance becomes hobby
with many men. In setting forth their
grievance to the world, or on brooding
over it in solitude, they are necessarily
dwelling upon their own virtues. And it
is mot surprising that, in many cases, the
habit should generate an unreasonable
selEcomplacency. Inordinate melancholy
is but one of the many forms of vanity.
A recluse from society takes a perverse
pleasure in cultivating melancholy; or
widow cherishes her grief for dead hus-
band till she resents any attempts at
comfort, and takes pride in self-torture.
Are they sincere in this2 This morbid
recluse may be really nothing but a
thoroughly indolent man, who dwells
upon his weakness to excuse himself
from action. Excessive grief for the dead
easily connects itself with personal
vanity. We are really seeking for the
praise of constancy, or yielding to a sort
of superstitious belief that the dead will
take pleasure in our useless sacrifice of
our own happiness. The play of motives
isso intricate that the attempt to analyze
them or sum up the result in single
formula is necessarily illusory.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01
What IL n Pasha2

At the head of the Turkish State is a
Sultan, or supreme ruler, who, before he
comes to the sovereignty, is kept secluded
from all political and State affairs, until
suddenly, perhaps at days notice, he
finds himself called to Office, with de-
spotic power at his command, to use as
he pleases. But if he is ignorant of
State matters to begin with, his Grand
Vizier will be able to give him all the in
formation he requires. The Grand Vizier
has, indeed, the entire responsibility on
his shoulders, and is assisted by six
Viziers of the Copola, as they are called,
to distinguish them from various other
vizers In Turkey. The word vizier sig
nifies he who bears or supports bur-
den, and was first confined to the Sultan's
Prime Minister, but at the present time
is applied to numerous high officials in
Turkey and other Mohammedan States.
Closely resembling Vizier is Pasha, a
title formerly given to princes of blood,
but afteward extended to the Grand
Vizier, and other civil officers. The
word is derived from "pa," foot or sup
port, and "shah," ruler. The badge OF
Pasha is horses tail waving from the
end of staff, crowned with gilt ball
but IL you happen to come across a
Pasha of Three Tails, he is very exalted
parsonage; in fact, the Pasha of Tire
Tails is the Grand Vizier himself.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01
Professor LOOMS on Polar Exploration.

There is scarcely problem relating to
the physics of the globe which can be
fully understood without knowledge Of
the phenomena we may wish to investi-
gate. 1t is of special Importance to
determine its maximum and minimum
values, and in nearly all questions of ter
restrial physics one or other of these
values is found in the neigborhood of the
pole. II, for example, we wish to deter
mine the distribution of temperature
upon the surface of the globe, it is
especially important to determine the
extremes of temperature, one of which
is to be found near the equator, and the
other near the poles. If we wish to in
vestigate the system of circulation of
the winds, our investigation would be
sadly deficient without knowledge of
the phenomena in the polar regions. If
we wish to study the fluctuations in the
pressure of the atmosphere, whether
periodical or accidental, we can not be
sure that we understand the phenomena
| in the middle ATTITUDES unless we know
what takes place in the polar regions.
If we wish to investigate the currents OF
the ocean, we find indications of currents
from the polar regions, aud it is I'M
portant to be able to trace these cur
rents to their source. If we wish to in
vestigate the laws of the tides, we need
observations from every ocean; and OBJ
servations in the Arctic regions have a
special value, on account of their dis
lance from the place where the daily
tidal wave takes its origin. If we wish
to study the phenomena of atmospheric
electricity and auroral exhibitions, no
part of the world is more important
than the polar regions. If we wish to
study the phenomena of terrestrial mag
netism, observations in the polar regions
have special value, since it is here the
dipping needle assumes vertical pc.
sitiOn, and the intensity of the earth'i
magnetism is the greatest. 1t we wish
to determine the dimensions and figure
of the earth, we require to know the
length of degree OF latitude where i
is greatest, and also where it is least. 1
, we wish to determine the dimensions anC
, figure of the earth, we require to know
the length of degree of latitude wher'
it is greatest, and also where it is least
If we wish to determine how the force o
i gravity varies in different parts of tn,
world, we require observations of TIN
/ length of the seconds pendulum, boil
where it is greatest and where it is least
3 In short, there is no problem connecte'
with the physics of the globe which doe
} not demand observations from the pola
; regions, and generally the poles and tn
equator are more important as station
, of observation than any other portion
of the earth's surface.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01

who said: Jimmie ! come to-supper this
minnit p'-and last by his father, who
lust said: "Jim I" and crooked his thumb
toward the house in way to let Jim
know something else would crook II ne
didn't mind-Major waited outside.
When his little master was stuffing him.
self with baked potatoes and brown
bread, the dog took the rope in his teeth
and dragged the sled up the little hill.
When he got to the top, he stopped,
turned the sled around, as he had seen
the boys do, and then began to think
as much as to say: "Ought dog to
slide belly-bunt, or side-fashion or sitting
upT He didn't know whether to steer
with his tail, or his fore feet, or his hind
feet. But slide he must; and so he
jumped on, caught the rope in his teeth,
and started down, letting the sled steer
itself, while he sat up and watched the
fun. Down, down it went. Major hang.
ing on, but looking pretty well scared
Just as the sled got near the "Jounce,'
at the bottom, going like a runaway
horse, Jim came'Out and you never saw
boy so astonished. He puckered up hi'
mouth and let out an O-h-h-h r' az Ions
as one of the icicles on the shed. The
"jounce" threw Major off heels ovel
head in front of the sled, and he go
caught between the runners and pushec
into a deep snow drift. that filled hi
mouth and eyes and ears full, and made
him as white as sheep all over.
When Jim saw that Major WASH hurt
he laughed and roared, and called tn
dog into the back door where his mothe
was, and said:
"Here'sa Teller that's been running
away with my sled, and coasting; ant
the sled ran away with him, and duste.
him good. guess you'd better brusl
him off, and see if his feet are wet, an.
toast his shins before the crate, and tel
him he can't 60 out again to night"
And when his mamma found 1T wa
the dog she saw the joke, and laughed
too, and let Jim stay out half an hou
later, and didn't tell him to !" Be car.
fulp and "Don't get cold," and b
sure you come in on time u and Don
60 near the hill till you learn to steer,
over seventeen times. Wasn't she a
uncommonly good mamma?-1he GoIde
RnIe
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01
The Intelligent Parrot.

Mr.. Bayard Taylor, writing of animal
nature in the Atlantic, tells this story of
parrot owned by friend in Chicago /:
When the great FIRE was raging, its owner
saw that she could rescue nothing except
what she instantly took in her hands.
There were two objects equally dear, the
parrot and the old family Bible, and she
could take but one. After a moment of
he sitation she seized the Bible, and was
fastening away, when the parrot cried
out in loud and solemn voice, GOOD
Lord, deliver usl" No human being
could have been deaf to such an appeal |;
the precious Bible was sacrificed and the
bird saved. He was otherwise a clever
bird. In the home 10 which he was
taken there were among other visitors a
gentleman rather noted for volubility.
When the parrot first heard him it
listened in silence for some time, then to
the amazement of all present it said very
emphatically, "You talk too much p
The gentleman, at first embarrassed,
presently resumed his interrupted dis
course. Thereupon the parrot laid his
head on one side, gave an indescribably
comical and contemptuous "Hm-m ~
and added, "There he goes again!"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01
Practical suggestIons.

The Governors of several Western
States ask Congress for measures pre-
venting the grasshopper plague. This
is not q sectional matter by any means,
for it concerns every part of the country.
DIR. STOCKTON, successful farmer of
Kern County, California, planted his po-
tato field to pumpkins, after taking OF
his crop of early rose potatoes, and had
fifteen tons to the acre of pumpkins for
his stock Of autumn fodder. lie
raised some enormous sweet potatoes last
year, six of which weighed together one
hundred and fifteen pounds, the largest
weighing twenty-five and half pounds.
The very large ones are as sweet and
palatable as the smaller ones.
In Ireland sixty-four acres in every
one hundred acres are seeded down for
pasture purposes. In England forty-two
acres in every one hundred are seeded
to, pastures. And pastures in the
old country are pastures in reality,
seeded to several varieties of grasses, 30
that when one variety passes its greatest
vigor another takes its place, and this
continuation is kept up throughout the
season. The pastures are well fertilized,
and weeds are eradicated mercilessly.
II the farmers in this country would pay
better attention to pasture lands IL
would pay them well.
A POULTRY journal says: =" Potatoes
make first rate chicken feed. The
poultry raisers ont West use them Largely
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01
The Ringing Rocks of POttstOwn.

Pottstown, Pa, can boast of as great
curiosity, says the Philadelphia Press,
as nearly any town in the Union. We
speak of the Ringing Rocks that are
situated three and half miles north
east of Pottstown post-oflice. We started
early in the morning, and after walking
through and gazing on as fine and
picturesque scenery as can be found in
this State, we came in sight of the rocks.
A wilder looking place it is bard to
imagine. On the rocks are advertise
ments and autographs of people from all
parts of the country. There is an eat
ing and refreshment stand close by for
parties, etc. On striking the rocks with
a hammer they send forth as rich and
delicate sounds as the finest music-box
BY striking different rocks we get sounds
of every note of an octave, and it is GER
tainly the oddess freak of nature we
have ever seen. The rocks cover about
one acre OF ground, and are a perfect
mass of confusion, being piled together
as if they had been upheaved by an
eruption. They are visited every sum-
mer by hundreds of people.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01

The snobbish Council of the Botanical
Gardens in London has relaxed the rule
forbidding smoking, in favor of the
Prince of Wales. His Royal Highness
seems to be almost as devoted to thu
weed as the President of the United
States. When Whites Club notified
the Prince that he would no longer be
permitted to smoke in certain apart
ments of the Club building, he with.
drew from the organization and estab.
lished the Marlborough, where he may
smoke, drink, and invite his soul as he
p!eases.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01
Beautiful Women that No Longer Rule
In Washington.
From the Independent. ]

One year ago Mrs. Belknap was the
toast. Every night and every morning
we read anew of the brightness of her
face, the marvels of her dresses, the num-
Der of her shoes. She read so much
about the splendors of her beauty and
the wonders of her toilet that she grew
to believe herself little above any OF
her earthly sisters. In three years she
was utterly transformed from gentle,
subdued. looking widow, to an airy, SUI
percilious woman of fashion.
When Senator Christiancy married a
little girl who counted scrip in the Treas
ury, the society leaders met and debated
whether they should receive her or not.
She entered their enchanted circles as it
by fire. She was by no means unani-
mously received, nor in any way warmly
welcomed. Nobody tabooed her so posi-
lively and utterly as Mrs. Belknap. She,
the daughter of a country doctor, was
not willing to receive on equal terms the
little Counties of Scrip" suddenly
elevated to the dignity OF Senator's
wife. That was but one year ago.
Yet already we have ceased altogether
to hear of Mrs. Belknap's dresses. She
lives at the Arlington, and no doubt
keeps still her near personal friends
but she is no longer the fashion. Nc
body cares whether her shoes are ones or
tens.
Just the same gay throng rolls up to
the door of the Secretary of War; but
his name is Don Cameron. He has q
daughter, tall, strong, dark, and beauti-
| full. She now is the toast. So also is the
daughter of the Attorney-General, the
bride of week. She is blonde Of
blondes-blue-eyed and lovely in an
azure dress. The whole world of fashion
is rushing to gaze upon her at the Ebbitt
House. Every week We read that the
most brilliant receptions of the season
are those of Mrs. Taft.
1t seems but yesterday that the whole
world was flowing into the house of the
Attorney General whose name was Will
liams. What sumptuOus feasts were
those in the new house into which the
beautiful woman had put her very life
Among costly hangings and azure SAITH
furniture, dressed like Peri, this beau
tiful Sultana stirred her famous and fra
grant punch for the Tasting and dane
ing crowds who packed her house. Sh
stirs it still in the same house, no doubt
for her personal friends; but the crowd
for the Attorney-GeneraPs all rush t
the Ebbitt House, and Mrs. Taft answer
Just as well AS Mrs. Williams, the beau
tiful, albeit she stirs no toddy.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01

THERE are more than one thousand differ.
emit kinds of pills in the United States. Some
of them are worthless and injurious, others
are good and beneficial. Old DIR. Parsons
invented the best ambitious pill we ever
saw or heard Of. They are now sold under
the name of Parsons Purgotipe Pills.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01

WE understand that the whooping-cough
is quite prevalent in the towns around us /;
but that no cases have proved fatal. Some
families use nothing but Johnson's Anodyne
Linin,ent. Our Doctor, however, says lit
tie inicac, to produce vomiting, would be an
advautaoa
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01

Is THERE ONE reader OF this paper suffer.
ing from rheumatism? II so, write to Hell
phenstine & Bentley, Druggists, Washington,
b. c., for circular of Durang's Rheumatic
Remedy. This medicine is taken internally,
and will positively cure any case OF rheu-
matism on the face of the green earth.
Price, one dollar bottle.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01

GEORGE WASHINGTON offered himself
to five women before he was accepted.
lie could lead armies and govern a
nation, but he did not comprehend
the subtle influence of an attenuated
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01

A YOUNG man, looking somewhat like
a Southerner, and somewhat like an
Oneida Indian, was discovered among a
crowd of snow-shovelers at the Centrai
Railroad Station in Syracuse. lately.
While waiting for the pittancs due him,
it was observed that he seemed DESTROYS
of being by himself, wholly avoiding his
late comrades. This poorly-clad but
proud shoveler was Bushnell Forrest,
second son of the noted Confederate
General, N. b. Forrest, of Fort Pillow
memorv
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01

SANFoRD's Radical Cure for Catarrh is a
local and constitutional remedy, and is pre-.
pared by distillation. Not a particle OF
woody fiber or caustic chemicals enters into
its composition. 1t thus differs from other
remedies.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01

MAJOR POWELL, who has carefully in
vestigated the subject, comes to the con-
clusion that poisoned arrows have never
been used by American Indians. The
belief of Indians is that disease can not
come from natural causes, but are the
work of evil spirits. Hence, they would
not be likely to conceive the idea OF i'll
oculating disease by means of poison
GUS substances. They do not know, for
example, that rattlesnake poision comes
from a sac in the reptiles jaw. What
they call poisoned arrows or medicine
arrows, are arrows to which supernatural
qualities are supposed to have been i'm
parted by incantations.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01
Coughs and Colds.

SUDDEN changes of weather are sources OF
Pulmonary and Bronchial affections. Take at
once "Bro,on's Bronchial 2roches," let the
Colds, Cough or Irritation of the Throat be
ever so slight
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-01

The Baptists of Virginia are measur-
ing themselves with their Episcopalian
neighbors. They claim three thousand
more members in Richmond alone than
there are Episcopalisns in Virginia and
West Virginia combined.