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Our highest authorities and most
thorough investigators agree that this
disease is a blood poison" caused by
malarial or miasmatic atmospheric agents.
The remedies and preventatiyes indi.
Gated, then, are such as will neutraIiza
the poisons in the blood, tone the system
to render it more impervious in morbid
and epidemic influences, and also DESTROY
malarlal and epidemic poisons in the at
mosphere. Proper dietary and hygienic
measures must also be observed in hous.
ing in dry, well ventilated quarters, kept
~scrupulously clean and frequently white.
washed with fresh-lime wbitewash ia
which has been added a weak solution OF
carbolic acid. Diseased quarters should
be saturated daily with a solution Of car.
bolic acid.-Semi- Tropical.
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MIX aud Butter.

There gre no farmers productions,
says the Maryland Farmer, so subject to
injuries from many slight causes as milk
and butter, and lone so sensitive to un.
pleasant Odors of every kind none that
is so much and SO readily deteriorated in
value as these are. Hence, all kinds of
unCleanlineSs should be avoided, and the
utmost neatness should be observed in
every step Of their production and mar.
keting, from the very feeding, handling
and milking Of the cows, as well as treat
ment and handling of the milk, with the
churning, working and putting up of the
butter. All of the implements used, the
water and the salt used, and the rooms
occupied in keeping the milk and max
ing the butter, should be kept perfectly
clean and sweet, in order to produce the
best quality to secure high and fancy
prices. No article that the farmer pro-
duces for the market has such a wide
range or difference in price as butter, not
even cheese or choice fruit. We see bv
quotations in all the great butter markets
that the prices OF eating butter range all
the way from one dollar to ten cents per
pound, while greasy, cooking butter is
even lower than that even the packages
in which it is put UP, whether frkins,
pals, tubs, or rolls, affect the prices for
which it sells. Grains and meats have
but a small range compared to butter ;
the difference in the prices Of butter is
much greater than the difference in the
cost hence, it is much more profitable
to make and sell a tirst.class article than
a poor one,
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had been engaged for hours working
my way up a brook on which had been
told was a capital fishing place, and,
finding an end to navigation, toek to the
land. In making the circuit of a maize
alders impenetrablc even to a bear, | lost
the w]ater-course, and in looking for it
crossed a low ridge and fell on another
which ran the other side, and in the ops
posite direction from that which | had
left. The reversal of the current was
instantaneous cause Of a complete upset
of all my ideas Of material things. There
was no reason in the thing, 10 reasoning
against it. The points OF the compass had
been as clear in my head as if | saw the
needle, but the moment ! found this
ominous stream running the wrong way,
everything was unsettled. Ihe sun was
shining out of the clear heavens, but it
started out of the north. One minute
before | could have taken a bee-line
back to my boat, but the minute after
! had lost faith in every landmark. |
was not q novice in woods matters. |
could follow a trail readily, and find my
way in the dark, and know the points of
the compass as well as any trapper in
the country, but now north had become
south, and the labor OF my reason would
not persuade my senses that the sun
was not sinking north by east.
dared not travel by the sun, 50 firmly
was my fallacy rooted, | knew the
thing at once, and comprehended the
danger, knew that IN ten minutes |
would be as mad as any man ever was
with deIerlum tremens, that | should be
beyond sell control or human help. Not
once in three months would a foot pass
within reach o! my voice from where !
was, but that wolves were nearer, ]
knew 10y their abundant footprints in
the wet sand where had passed. |
knew as well that It | lost my wits in
that moment nothing lay between me
ard eternity but a namelesS honor. In
IL. my life ! can recall no moment of ter
ror ike that which IeIt gathering on
me in That silent forest, ! sat down on
a rottlng log, and, covering my face with
my HANDS, waited until lelt calm and
selt-possessed again. have no idea how
long 1t was, but when arose the sun
had got back into the southwest and
made up my mind as walked back tC
my boat never to trust myselfin a strange
wood again without blazing my path a,
went along. might point the mora
of my experience by more than II cast
not so fortunate. The most impressive
one remember is that of an Englishmar
who settled in Il of the towns border
ing on the Adirondack country, and who
having been fishing one day in the aut
umn with a ~neighbor, proposed to &c
back the next day and try it alone. He
never returned, and after a days absence
an expedition set out to hunt him up
a light snow had fallen in the night
and his footprints were found in one
case crossing the road near the village,
but plunging into the thickets and devi.
ating in the most aimless and frenzied
manner, with long strides like those of a
mar running and then these even were
lost. The second day after his departure
from home a man answering to hi.
description CAM to the door of a house
in the adjoining town and asked the way
IA the ~Villaup His fnpn u,ou bouu,,
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PITH AND POINT.

liz Rome. Georgia, the other day,
seven brothers, named Hill were indicted
for counterieiting. Rome sat ON her
seven Hills as usual.
RECENT vestigaJions prove the asser-
tons that one baby with q large biscuit
will make the couch of wearied industry
more uncomfortable than fifteen prize
mosquitoes.
A BRIGHT boy in suburban school,
being asked the other day TO give an eN-
ample of comparative and ouPerlatlYe
degrees, promptly answered; Miss
mister, mistress.
APUNcu bowl which once belonged to
Robert Burns was sold at Dumtries the
other dav for two guineas. Mr. Burns
wrote poetry, but he was not the author
of the sweet lines as to the adylsaolIlty
of punching with care.
OLIVE LOGAN says the Princess OF
Yates initiates Paris women in her dress
and that a polluted stream runs
through London drawing rooms decEed
with all the enticing loyeIiness OF sum
mer roses and purlingits tainted current
togthe strains of sweetest music
NEITHER Bret IIarte nor Albert
Rhodes has got his desired
foreign appointment, but Secretary
Eyarts is amusing them, mean
time, with such observations as this
" Literary men can get laurels on then
brows, but they can't browse on then
laurels."
IT was a little to much when the fore
man brought It's Il paper slip that the
pressman had rested his hand on after
handling an inky %rooler, and asked Us t.
put in the names OF the towns-es
pecialIy as he knew we had refused tC
put any war-maps into our columns.
THE "White Whale March" com
memoratiye of the white Whale transpor'
tation from Quebec to Cincinnati, is 8
new musical publication. As the whale
died before arriving, however, tine name
might be changed to the Dead Marcel
in SauI,t Water"
The history of beer dates back to the
time OF the old Egyptians but it IS not
recorded that any Old Egyptian ever
drank fourteen "schoOners' at II sit
ting in order that thirteen other ole
Egyptians might have the pleasure o
treating around
s4-t II l., L..
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the blood, not only Of man, but Of the
lower animals. In the case Of the blood
of man, the presence of copper might be
thought to be accidental, and introduced
through the use of vessels of that mate
rial. in the preparation OF food. Bat an
ANALYSIS of the blood of wild herbllorous
animalsalso discloses copper. 1t has yet
to be ascertained whether the copper be-
longs to the plasma or to the blood glob,
ules. or both, or whether it is introduced
in the food or drink.
GYPSUM FLOUR.
Among the recent dispatches relating
10 matters connected with the Russo
Turkish war there wa one stating that
some uuprinciplcd persons had been
adulterating -four with gypsum. Dr..
Vohl gives this method for testing the
purity of hour 50 treated: Mix twenty
grammcs of tine -four with twenty
, grammes of potash saltpetre, and having
placed the mixture in a platinum vessei
ignite it with a red-hot platinr W {
Ii the flour is pure the ..melte N'' Us,
will dissolve almost entirely in
and the solution will give no preclpitatt
"I'l ul.lo; ;r IL,,i' ham nnnlavoJ
P''clPi,'1e ;.''y.l'' "". ria oo;d toJ
solution should give with barium chic
ride a slight turbidity, and 4 decided
precipitate indicates lime of baryta.
AuIoNAIoN FALhERN'
A talking machines said to have been
invented which is able to say " was
born in America. speak all languages,
and | am very pleased TO see you
thank you Ior your WISH IVh HAS oeei'
humorousIy suggested that an apparatus
OF thus KIND could be used 10 announce N
the stations TO railway passengers; Inns
service Is now performed 10y oraRemeh'
and often IN a way that makes the names
almost Unlnteluglble. Inc machlhe Is
sad to contain a m~echanlcal reproduc'
llon OF the human lungs, iaryhX' gioIIlS
ana tongue. IL Is operated oy Il bellows,
and Is sGPPiled "lIh a KEYBOARD ana
pedals ithe SOUND can De reproduced,
there WouId De no ulIIIcuIty IN arranging
the apparatus TO run automatically, IKE
a music box Imagine Il mysterious
voice IN cacn ear OF Il Tram saying al III
terNaIs, the next stop IS %t Ne"
YORK In cohllecli9h win lhiS SUP
lect IL may De mentioned that fSyche.
the famous automatQn chesS'PIayer o.
London continues 10 De a great success.
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New Disease Attributed to Tobacco,

DIR. Baker, secretary of the Michigan
state board of health, says: There has
come under my notice for several wears,
but more particularly during the last
two years, a kind of rheumatic
condition of the walls of the chest. The
patient complains of a dull, heavy pain
in the chest walls. The disease, in n
large majority of cases, is confined to the
left side. The pain is circumscribed and
limited to a space of not more than two
inches in diameter, just below and a little
to the left of the left nipple. At times
the pain is very severe, and always con-
slant day and night when the patient is
awake. | have investigated the disease
to some extent, and find it to be more
common among tobacco users, especially
those who use the weed co excess. Pa,
tients suffering from this complaint in
varlably come to their physician with the
belief that they have heart trouble.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-07-21

The English language is often q puzzle
to foreigners, and sometimes drives even
an American hotel keeper into Il corner,
as for instance in the following expert
ence at the Fifth Avenue hotel, where a
wealthy French guest came to complain
at the Office, and was there met by the
gracious GriswoId, who rose to explain :
What for, sare, your garcon not pre-
sent my demand?'
Your demand, Monsieur"
Yes, sare. DO | sneak IngIis pprfait,
sarc? Do you comprehend me, sare ?"
"Certainly, your English is perfectly
correct, my dear sir. What is it you
dcsire?'
"Vy, sare, you tell me | can have at
my private table wis my frens, yateyer |
desire to manger-pardon, to eat"
"Ce%rtainly,' said Griswold, "anv.
Unregistered doubloons and diamond
sauce, if you wish.'
"Ah, no, Monsieur, Eat is too richie. |
simply desire some grice."
och. some what"
"Some grice, Monsieur Griswold, such
as | eat for dinnay re ozer day"
"Ah! you mean rice, boiled rice-cer-
tainly, all the rice you desire
ono, sare. 1t is not rice. lat is
what Eat premier garcon-head waiter
say. 1t is 4 bird | want, sare; | want
him roast, not boiled"
"Roast grice, Why, let me see" said
Griswold, in a dilemma, not wishing to
appear ignorant of his guests nearing
81 don't believe there is a single grice in
the market
"Ah, you make mecstake ven you say
single grice."
"Indeed?'
Yes, sare. Natvou call alittle rat %
Mouse suggested the hotel propri.
etor.
eyes. Zen two of ZEN, vat you call
twO-mice, ell ~
Quite correct. responded the host.
"Ien, it one is re bird you call grouse.
two is what you call grice, ELI ?"
why, not exactly" said the hoteI
man, struggling to keep countenance
We say TWO grouse, Just as we say two
sheep or two deer-but for mouse, mice,
and"
"Iaas, sare,' said Monsieur, triumph.
antly, ian Wy not you say two bice for
two houses, or two house tor two houses,
or"
How far he might have continued
cannot be said, but at that moment the
head clerk, Palmer, standing near, had a
violent attack of coughing, and Carr, the
room clerk, walked off suddenly and
slammed on the big bell, and called for
"%tront" to do something, aud then stuck
his own head down beneath the counter,
as the amused host walked away towards
the dining-hall with his guest to order
the two grice" for Monsieur's private
table,--BOqton Commercial ByUcin
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1t will be seen from the above figures
that Australia stands next to the United
States in quantity supplied, although
fresh meat has to cross the equator and
encounter a voyage three or four times
longer than one from New York to Liv-
erpOol. The prospect is that that far off
country will greatly increase its export
OF fresh meat in 1877 by new improve,
ments in refrigeration.
1t is an instructive fact that Holland,
with a dense population of her own to
iced at home, where they wall out the
sea to obtain thousands Of acres of grass
land at the bottom of it, exports about
on:'ou,th as much beef and mutton to
Great Britain as the United States
where we have grazing lands by the hun
dred million acres, which costs us moth.
Ing The relative cost of the meat to
producers. sent to England by different
nations would be- an interesting spbiect
Of inquiry. Belgium has the most penple
70 the square mile Of any nation in En-
rope. yer This small kingdom exported
last year IS 62l hundred weights to
Gfeat Britain. This intensive system of
farming is able to compete with the most
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extensive system of cattle-grazing and
stock ~husbandry.
Selling cows, calves, steers and oxen,
windwheels for irrigation as in Holland
and Belgium, corn, hay and corn-meal
for feeding all growing and tattening
animals, have fairly come to the front in
the battle of advanced agriculture. With
the right quantity of rain, natural or
artificial, the right quantity of manure
and proper culture, how much corn,
plant and seed may be grown in Tennes-
see on ten acres in twelve months II
we are to compete with all the world IN
feeding the bipeds and quadrupeds OF the
British islands, it is time 70 study closely
our resource, Neither Uruguay nor
France nor Canada nor Australia will
hold back for our benefit. 1t is cultured
intellect against cultured intellect, and
we should be sharpening wits for
good work.
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Se two small, cheap mirrors, fasten
'"k. to back, attach a cord to one
,.o,L them to a pole. When
AVihgs the suns rays are refec,
er the field, even if it be a large
even the Oldest and bravest of
depart precipitately should
lightning flashes fall on him.
ld plan, although a terror to the
specially well adapted to fields
, the inroads Of small birds, and
3kens. 1t involves the artificial
'2de from a large potato and long
nd turkey feathers. The maker
else hisimitative skill in sticking
ners into the potato so that they
e the spread wings and tail of the
1t Is astonishing whats ierocious
lg bird of prey can be constructed
the above simple material. 1t only
aims to hang the object from a tall
at pole and the wind will do the rest,
The bird will make swQops aud dashes in
the most threatening manner. Even the
most inquisitive Of venerable hens have
been known to hurry rapidly from its
dangerous vicinity, while to small birds
it carries unmixed dismay.-Scieatifc
american.
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Farm AND HOUSEHOLD.


INV = AANA AAANAH
ny ANNIE l.. JAON,
She lives within a quiet home,
No model Of the graCeS,
Unknown 10 cultures higher walks,
OF fashions tiddy places;
A thoughtful giIl, so sweet, so wise,
With earnest face and loving eyes
The farmers gentle daughter.
From morn tin eve this little maid
Is busy at her labor
she sweeps and duNtS the old farmhouse,
And helps a poorer Deishhor
No gossip will she listen to-
A merit rare | own to you
So lives the farmers daughter.
On baking days her tiny hands
Are busy at the making;
No bread more light aEd sweet than hers,
Was ever made by baking
She ChuTus the butter golden, sweet,
And keeps the dairy white and neat
The farmer useful daughter.
Her garden is nm Eden fair.
A-bloom with pinks and roses
She knows the name Of every flower,
And makes ome gorgeous posies;
And corn and squash, and herbs to press
The farmers happy daughter.
Long may she brayely smile on us
Our darling household fairy,
The queen OF garden, house aud lot,
And princess OF the dairy
To teach us by her pleasant WAY
To love the things Of every day
God bless the farmers daughter,
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4 New Horseshoe.

Mr.. Yates, of Manchester, England,
has invented a horseshoe, composed of
three thickness of cewhide compressed
into A steel mould, and then subjected to
A chemical preparation, 1t lasts longer,
and weighs only one-fourth as much as
the common shoe it never splits the
hoof, and has no injurious influence on
the foot. 1t requires no calks even on
asphalt, the horse never slips. 1t is 50
elastic that the horses step is lighter and
surer. 1t adheres so closely to the foot
that neither dust nor water can penetrate
between the Shoe and the hoof.
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rested for carrying counterfeit money
around9' 7
didn't throw that quarter away
She handed him a nickle, rode TWO
blocks farther, and all of a sudden lett
the car to speak to friend on the walk
When the car went back the woman was
walking in the middle of the street, bent
almost double, and %glancing this way and
that. asi if in search Of some small object;
She looked up, recognized him, and
called out:
"Say, did any of you fellers find
market basket along here?'
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How 10 Choosc a Good Cow.

a Grumpy horn is a good indication.
a iull eye another. Her head should be
small and short. Avoid a Roman nose
which indicates thin milk and little Of
IT. See that she is dished in the face
sunk between the eyes. Notice that she
is what stock men call a good handler
skin soft and loose, like the skin on a
dog. Deep from the loin to the udder,
n a very slim tail. A COW with these
marks never fails to be a good mixer.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-07-21

AFTER an experience OF over twenty
five years, many leading pin ~ysicians acknow.
edge that the GrdtfeHberg MdrShdPs Uterine
Cath1Ic0u is the only known certain remedy
for diseases to which women are subject. The
G.pctenbcrq Vegetable Pits, the most popular
remedy OF the day for biIliousness, headache,
liver complaint and diseases of digestion.
Sold by all druggists. Send for almanacs.
Graeienhere Co. New York.
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RHEuMATIsM QUICKLY CUREp,-Du-
rang's Rheumatic Remedy, the great Internal
Medicine, will positively cure any case of
rheumatism on the face OF the earth. Price
81 4 bottle six bottles, 50; sold by all Drug.
pists, Send for circulars to Heiphenstine,
y Bentley, Druggists, Washington, d. c.
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Mexico Travelling Down Hill.

Galveston News, 8: What is to become
of Mexico when revolution, anarchy and
decay have worked their worst upon her,
must be a question of deep concern to
American craftsmanship. Geographical
facts and social and national considcra-
tions of the highest importance forbid
indifference. There il noevidence what.
ever that Mexico, left to depend solely
upon remedial forces within herself, is
capable of self-redemption. From wear
to year for the past half century, she has
gone from bad to worse. Her history
has been as disastrous as eventful. Since
her independence of Spain she has never
known a period of more than four wears
without a revolution, and at one time,
four different military adventures occu.
pied the presidential chair in fifteen
months. She has had two emperors,
three or four ~dictators, a multitude of
presidents, two foreign invasions, inces.
SAINT domestic and local wars, countless
pronunciamentoes, No wonder she has
steadily declined in population and
wealth. In 1921 the populations of Mex
leo was estimated to be $4,000, 600. At
present it is estimated to be 1900 600,
and only a few hundred thousand out Of
this number are of pure European de-.
scent the rest being Aztec or mixed
Yet Mexico is one of the fairest and most
eiiglble countries on the face of the globe.
Shall such a country be abandoned at
last to complete desolation? If not, how
Is 1t to be rescued from such a fate with.
out some sort of American interposition ?
geographical situation and national ext
gency may ultimately force upon Amer.
icah craftsmanship the task of redeem.
NY mexico from the consequences other
unhaRpy connections and her chronic
instability, as they forced upon it the
task OF rec aiming a vast wilderness from
the dominion OF the savage TO the uses
OF civilization. N9e'
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Scene at the seaside Youth with sad,
love-struck AFRO, wilt thou not be
mine"-my own dear bride? love you
deeply, iondly, p~assionately, wildly !! |
cannot live without you Maiden, with
downcast eyes-"Adolphus, is there any-
thing the matter with my dress. I saw
the Smith girls just now look at me Gu
riously. Does my hair set all right %
AdOlphus discOntinues his love.makinp.
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OF all the preparations brought to
public notice, none deserves greater com.
mendation than HOME STOMACH 3TrrERs,
Being extracted from the best vegetable ma.
teriaI, and containing no mineral poisons.
they should he used by all who desire to re.
tain or regain good health. Prepared by the
Home Bitters Co., st. Louis, Mo.
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For a G"nh nrcnknnst or Ten.

You often have to make rolls, biscuit and
such delicaeies, in about ten minutes. It's
easy and certain with DOoLEY's YEAST
POWDER, the best of them all. Troubled
housewife, here is one cause of your annoy.
ances swept away. Full weight and hest
material are the watchword Of the manufac,
turers,
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Holland objects to the annexation of
the Transvaal republic by England, and
a protest drawn up by the famous Prof.
Brcede, at Utrecht, has received numer-
Gus signatures, as also has another which
is headed by all the professors of the uni
yersity OF Leyden.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-07-21

PONDS EXTRACT. There is no swell.
ing it will not abate no pain it will not cure.
This is the testimony Of those who have
used it many years, Try it!
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PARTIES visiting Memphis will find elegant
apartments furnished, with board, at the new
residence of Mrs.C,C .Bayliss, t3 Madison st.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-07-21

An official return just ordered by par.
Lament showing the quantities and value
OF fresh meat imported into the united
kingdom during the year 1876 gives the
following totals;