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The Osceola times., 1877-06-02
FARM AND PRESIDE.
wap~s on Manure.

The proportions of salt and lime, of
which | make u mixture, is one bushel
of salt TO three bushels of Stacked lime.
This mixture put in cistern. hogs.
head or barrel, and keep it filled with
water placing the cistern in the ground,
on one side where ! make heap OF
manure. In former years when carried
on quite a large farming business, and
kert five horses, and other stock, built
a manure shed adjoining my horse stable,
of the same length as the stable. The
floor of the stable was slightly inclined
10 the rear, aud all of the urine would
run TO the hack part. Here ! left an
Opening into the manure shed, and made
a water tight floor, descending from both
sides to the centre. In the centre, and
under this floor l placed tight trough
emptyibg into the cistern. Upon this
floor the manure was thrown every day
from the stables. The liquid in the els.
tern was pumped over the manure two
OF three times week, and all thesurplus
which was not absorbed by the manure,
run back into the cistern. When the
water was exhausted, an additional
quantity was supplied. By this method,
all the animal excrements, both solid and
liquid, were preserved.
The effect Of this mode of procedure is
to preserve the whole of the manure
without exposure to the sun or the rains,
and thus evaporation and washing away
are both prevented, and, consequently, a
large saving of the most valuable parts
Of the manure. The direct effect OF this
salt and lime mixture upon the manure
is TO hasten decomposition, while all the
properties OF the manure are preserved
TO destroy the terminating power Of foul
seeds, which usually are such terror to
the farmer, and to reduce the whole mass,
coarse or fine, to such a condition as will
enable the workingmen to handle and
use it as they would ground gypsum, or
any other fine fertilizer. Whenever the
mass becomes warm, and likely to " fire.
fang" set the pumps to work. and qui-
etus will be placed on it at once. have
generally kept in the stable barrel OF
ground gypsum, which have sprinkled
around the stalls two or three tiIhes a
week, which prevents the rising of the
carbonate of ammonia from the decom-
posing excrements, in the stable, which
ia no destructive to the eyes and luugs OF
horses. BY this process, an almost un-
limited amount Of the very best manure
may be made on the farm in year.
And the beauty Of the operation is, that
you know of what IL is composed, and
ton for ton Is worth more than any arti.
fetal fertilizer which you can buy at
from $50 TO $40 per ton.-L v MaDes.
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02
Starvation in Northern China.

simultaneously with the dearth in
India, famine is raging in the north of
China but while the care and energy of
the Indian government reduces the dis
tress in the former case to minimum,
people are dying by thousands in China
of sheer starvation. The scenes of the
chief distress are in the north and east,
in the extreme north of Kiangsu, in
Shantung, in Pechili, and in Shanse
and from Shantung especially the ac-
counts are heartrenderipg. The whole
tract of country suffered last summer
from severe drouth, which nearly de-
stroyed the crops; and the peasantry,
having eaten what little grain they had
in store, or were able to gather, are re-
duced to the last stage OF want. The
people are eating grain husks, potato
stalks, and elm bark, buckwheat stalks,
turnip leaves, and grass seeds, which
they gather up in the fields. After
these are exhausted they pull down their
houses and sell the timber, and many
eat the rotten sorghum stalks from the
roof. They sell their clothes and chill
dren. Having no clothing left to pro-
tect them from the cold, many take
refuge in pits underground to keep them
selves warm by the fetid breath of the
crowd. In the east surbubs of Chinge>
how city there are four such pits. Ones
third OF the number (240) originally put
into them are now dead within fix
weeks, aud no sooner is a corpse carried
out than a crowd are struggling for the
place. Villages of 500 families report
800 dead of starvation villages of 800
report 100 dead.
Almost the whole province of Shan>
tung is suffering but the suffering of
eight hien districts is said to beyond de-
scripton. and as each contains an
average of 1000 villages, the thousands
who have already perished may be too
readily conceived.
The government are doing next to
nothing to relieve the distress They
have allotted only cl4,000 for the whole
of these eight districts-a mere pittance
for such calamity.-London Times.
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02
Malaria and Vegetation.

Gen. Egbert L. Niele read paper
before the New York academy of science,
last Monday night. which is OF great
scientific interest. The subject discussed
was the relations between malaria and
vegetation, and in laying the foundation
for this the consideration of the relations
existing between the animal and vege
table Kingdoms in the lower forms OF
organic life. The solution of the causes
of disease, especially malarial diseases,
Gen. Niele believes will be found in the
parallel lines of cellular development in
plant life, where the animal and vegeta-
bic are almost Identical passing in some
Instances from the one kingdom into the
other with the facility OF a mere change
Of garment.
In the ascending scale of the great line
of demarcation which first develops IT.
sell, is the all important fact that the
refuse Of the one is the life Of the other.
This led him to infer that somewhere in
this border line between these two great
kingdoms of nature there must be Just
equilibrium of the normal elements OF
vitality, the destruction OF which may
be the true cause Of most OF the evils
which have been entailed upon our
existence. In great cities, he said, the
surroundings Of nature are removed and
the equilibrium Of the natural forces is
destroyed by the preponderance OF
animal life.
Malaris, he said, signifies bad air,
while miasma has been more sharply
defined as infection floating in air; but
no definition, however full or precise,
can give anything like an adequate con-
ceptlon of the wonderful potentiality and
universal presence of the morbifc prin-
ciplc which is known as malaria. Mias-
matte or malarial diseases include all
those specific disorders which are
contaeiously or which may become cpl
demic, and to these are due nearly three
fitths of all the deaths which take place
throughout the world. Alter referring
to the fact that the physical health OF
all human beings improves in the
atmosphere Of the country where vegeta-
tion fourishes, Gen. Viele spoke OF Prof
Tyndars sdemonstration that even minute
particles OF the air are vital organism
developed under favoring circumstances
into actual living creatures. In this one
simple experiment, he said, is the whole
secret OF contagion
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02
Evils OF Gossip.

| have known country society which
withered away TO nothing under the dry
rot OF gossip only. Friendships, once as
firm as granite, dissolved to jelly, and
then ran away to water only because of
this; love that promised future as en-
during and a. stable as truth, evapora, ed
into n morning mist that turned to a
days long tears, only because Of this; n
father and son were set foot to foot
with the fiery breath of an anger that
would never cool again between them
and husband and young wife, each
straining at the hated lash which in the
beginning had been the promise of a
God blessed love, Eat mournfully by the
side of the grave where all their love and
all their Joy lay buriedy and all because
of this. have seen faith transformed
to mean doubt, joy give place to grim
despair, and charity take on itself the
features of black malevolence, all be-
cause of the fell words of scandal, and
the magic mutterings of gossip. Great
crimes work great wrong, and the deeper
tragedies of human life spring from the
larger passions; but woeiul and most
mournful the shipwreck often made of
noble natures and lovely lives by the
bitter winds and dead salt waters of
SANDER. SO easy to say, yet SO hard to
disprove-throwing on the innocent all
the burden and the strain of demonstra.
ting their innocence, and furnishing them
as guilty il unable to pluck out the
stings they never see, and to silence
words they never hear-gossip and
slander are the deadlest and cruelest
weapons man has ever forged for his
brothers heart.-AH ,he Year Round.
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02
Nerves that sluiSer,

Heads that ache, stomschs that infict dys.
pcptic torments, muscles and joints racked
with the rheumatism, are infalllbly restored
to health by the celebrated elixir, Hostetter's s
Stomach Bitters, n medicine prescribed by
physicians; possessing infinite purity, and
which no one takes in vain who is afflicted
with any of the numerous complaints to
which il is adapted. 1t frequently happens
that so-called remedies fan to produce a
permanent effect This is because they are
merely palliatives, and therefore do not re-
move the cause of the maladies, whose symp'
toms they after time cease to amelliorate.
This is notably the case with opiates and
sedative drugs. 1t is not so, however, with
Hostetters Bitters which are searching
specific that conquers the disease as well AS
banishes its iudicid.
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02
The inventors of Burnett's Coo

The inventors of Burnett's Cocaine
knowing that when the loss of hair occurs, it
is generally from that part of the head where
the greatest heat is necessarily generated and
tnat animal fats by their nature induce heat
rather than alleviate it-turned their atten
ton and pharmaceutical science toward
vegetable oiis, as the basis Of medicameut to
promote the growth and preserve the beauty
of the hair. The Olirm cOctS, or COCOANUr
OIL presented itse { most strongly, as Dos.
sessing many qualities peculiarly adapted for
the purpose; but its odor was Objectionable,
and its density Except when exposed to heat)
seemed for long time to defy all efforts to
render it available, for popular use, in cooler
climates. BY q scientific selection of other
ingredients, those which will chemically
combine with the oil have been discovered,
and they together have produced a com.
pound, which is unqualifedly pronounced to
be the best that has yet appeared.
In the form presented, this oil is perma.
peply deodurized, and held in n combination
which peculiarly adspts il for the toilet; BUR-
SErT's COCAINE is unrivaled in delcacy
and Notwithstanding in its nature
and possesses such penetrating affinity for
the secretion of the skin, that 1t is rapidly alb
sorbed.
Itpreatest efficacy is best secured by per.
feet cleansing, before its application, of the
hair and scalp, under which circumstances
this oil diiays irritation, ren'ores all tendency
to dandr7if, and iarigorates the action of the
capillaries in the highest degree. Its effect
upon the glossiness and richness OF the hair is
such rs cannot be surpassed; and it is offered
TO the public in the firm belief that il only re-
quires to he known to supersede all other
preparations. We are confident that no one
who will make trial OF its efficacy will be
willing TO return to the use of any other pre-.
paration.
JOSEPH Burnett 4 Co, Boston, manufac.
turers, and proprietors.
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02
How Eyes Grow.

Few products of nature are more in.
tercsting than sound, fully developed
eye. By the aid of good microscope il
is easy to see and count some seven thou
sand lenses, admirably set to receive light
from all directions, in the eye of com.
mon house fly. Until quite recently,
and after the facts OF evolution had been
carefully studied, it was believed that an
eye not only suggested, but revealed the
handy work OF an architect quite as
clearly As a watch or steam engine.
Now, men OF science have little doubt
that the beautiful and wonderful mechan-
ism of the eye in all its varieties, grows
like hundred thousand species of plants,
and a much greater number of animals,
from an inherent, active force in matter.
This change OF method does not detract
from the creative energy of the great
first cause. The origin of life is still a
mystery, but not the origin OF eyes, ears
and the organs OF sense. Democritus,
two thousand three hundred years ago,
recognized the existence OF u general
sense OF touch from which all the senses
are slowly developed. In this idea We
see the germ evolution.
Fish have been found in the
dark Mammoth cave OF Kentucky
with no eyes. They had no Use
Tor eyes, and they ceased TO grow.
Ii light produces eyes, rs it does green
leaves on trees and grass, the question is.
how? Tyndall, who has stddied the
properties Of light more closely than
most scientists, says: The action of
light, in the first instance, appears TO be
mere disturbance of the chemical pro
cesses in the animal organism, similar to
that which occurs in the leaves OF plants.
BY d grees the action becomes localized
in few fgment-cells, more sensitive to
the light than the surrounding tissue.
The eye is here incipient. At first il is
capable Of revealing differences of light
and shade produced by the bodies close
at hand Followed as the interception
of the light is in almost all cases by the
contact of the closely adjacent opaque
body, sight in this condition becomes a
kind of anticipatory touch The ad.
iustment continues, slight bulging out
OF the eperdermis over the figment
granules superveues.
"A ltust II inVipicbt, anu tnrouSu tne
operation OF infinite adjustments, at
length reaches the perfection that it dis.
plays in the hawk and the eagle. SO OF
the other senses they are special differ.
entiations of tissue which was origin.
ally vaguely sensitive all over
Eyes are very suggestive. They prompt
the inquiry whether that vitality which
has done 80 much TO give remarkable
wings, bones and lungs, as well as keen
vision to the eagle; which imparts fins
and tail to the fish for swimming; and
enables man by his electric batteries and
wires to talk undestandingly with his
brothers Of the glebe may not continue
to grow, and do infinitely more for ex.
alted manhood on earth, in the infinit-
future? There is unmistakabie eviS-'. !.
that life has been progressive.ntfy sl.'
planet millions OF year,; ~
that the end is not yen1
come tor millions o.
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02
whiting Strangers out Of Mormondom.

A duty assigned to the police was to
watch all strangers that came into the
city, and whittle every suspicious person
out of town. This whiting process was
peculiar. Some ten or fifteen Mormons
would get around the man they wanted
to drive away, each with keen ground
butcher knife, and a piece of soft wood
in his hand. They would crowd close up
to him and commence whiting, all cut
ting toward him, but no one apparently
paying the least attention to the stranger.
Surrounded and threatened thus, the
poor man was compelled to retreat from
the town. On his retreat he was sur
rounded by whittlers whiting, whit
tling. some of them make skittish lunges
toward his breast and arms. If he took
his escort quietly, very well II he was
foolish enough to resist or threaten, he
was very likely to be put out Of the way.
From Supplemental Confession Of j hn
d. Ice.
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02
household Receipts.

MUFFINs.-Three pounds of -four,
one quarter pound OF yeast powder,
three eggs. half a pound of sugar three
ounces OF butter. Mix the powder dry
In with the flour; in another pan rub
the sugar and butter well together, then
add the eggs and beat to thin batter !;
then add the -four and wet with milk !;
heat thoroughly ill the rings and bake
in a quick oven. These mullins are good
cold as well as hot.
To Cook SPINAcH.---Wash free from
dirt and git, and boil twenty minutes
in salt and water. Add u small lump of
alum to give handsome color. Drain
well, and chop as fine rs powder. Add
butter, salt, a little pepper, and nutmeg,
and garnish with hard boiled eggs cut
up in various shapes.
STRAWBERRY SHoRTcAKE.-- One quart
Of -four, half a cup of butter, two spoon
fuls of sugar, two teaspooniuls of yeast
powder, flour to roll Split open, spread
with butter, then thickly with straw.
berries. hen sprinkle with sugar, then
put on the upper half, crust down, spread
with butter, berries and sugar and cover
all over with pad, TO steam and soften,
while hot. Eat with cream.
AsPARAGUs.---T fresher the better,
and all stalks not crisp and tender
should be thrown aside. Cut off the
white parts, tie the rest in punches, and
boil, with little salt in the water, for
almost twenty minutes; then take out
and drain minute. lay in deep dish
on slices OF buttered toast, the heads all
one way, covered with rich drawn
butter. Or the stalks may be cut in
inch pieces, boiled tender; then seasoned
and cooked for a few minutes longer in
thick cream.
COFFEE CUsTARp.-B Boil one quart si
milk with five spoonfuls sugar. Add one
cup very strong hot coffee, four beaten
eggs, one half cup corn starch. rubbed
very smooth, in little cold milk. Stir
well till smooth, putt into cups, and when
cold ornament with the beaten whites,
just before serving. Another good
method is to crush the coffee 9, aims
coarsely, and add one spoonful u the
boiling quart of milk; then proceed as
in an ordinary boiled custard, and strain
into cups.
VEAL LoAF.-Mince cold roast veal as
fine as possible, add sne.tourth fat ham
chopped very fine, one cup grated bread
crumbs, one grated nutmeg, two beaten
eggs, little salt and Cayenne; mix
we'll, form in Loaf, glaze over with eggs
and sprinkle with bread crumbs; bake
half an hour; serve with roas, veal gravy,
heated. and thickened with beaten egg
put in just before serving.
RHuBARB PIE.-Peel and cut the
stalk quite small into rich paste, put
layer Of rhubarb, then deeper layer Of
sugar. sprinkle with nutmeg or CHINA
mon, lay on several small pieces of butter
and cover.
VEAL SwEET-BRE WITH ToMA.
ToEs.-Set over the fire two quarts OF
nice. ripe peeled tomatoes, stew half an
hour slowly - their own liquor and
strain through coarse seive; then put
In tour or five sweet-breads, well trimmed
and soaked in warm water; add little
salt and cayenne, and one-quarter of a
pound Of butter, smoothed in three
spoonfuls of -four. Stew slowly till the
sweet breads are well done. or about an
hour and halt A few minutes before
dishing stir in the beaten yolks Of three
eggs.
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02

WmHofT's Tonic is not panacea-is
not cure for everything, but is a catholicon
for maiarious diseases, aud day by day adds
fresh laurels to its crown of-glorious success.
Engorged Livers and Spleens, along the shady
banks of our lakes and river, are restored to
their healthy and normal secretions. Health
and vigor follow its use and Chills have taken
their departure from every household where
Wilhoft's Anti-Periodic is kept and taken.
Don't fail to try it. q. X. FINLAY x Co.
Proprietors, New Orleans.
For sALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02
AFTER an experience OF over twenty.

AFTER an experience OF over twenty
five years, many leading physicians acknowl.
edge that the Graefeabsry HdrIdPs Uterine
Cdthotcien is the only known csrtan remedy
for diseases to which women are subject. The
Gruef,n5erg Vegetable Pills, the most popular
remedy Of the day for biliousness, headache,
liver complaint and diseases Of digestion. Sold
by all duggists Send for almanacs. Graefen.
berg Co, New York.
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02

The increasing popularity Of HOME
STOMACH bITTERs is strong evidence in ia.
vor of its medicinal virtues and those who
are suffering from maiarial effects are ear
nestly requested TO try them. Prepared by
the Home 3itters Co., St Louis. No.
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02

DURANG's RHErMATIC REMEDY mas been
before the public three years, and has never
failed in y single case of rheumatism, no
matter how aggravated the case. Write to
any person in Washington city, where il is
manufactured, and you will learn that this is
true in every respect. IL is taken internally
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02

A TERRIBLE famine is raging in the
Chilli and Shangtung districts Of China.
In village visited by Europeans the in
bsJitans were putting an end TO their
suferings by suicide, and in one family
the father and mother buried their chill.
dren alive, that they might not witness
their agonies. The people have devoured
the grass and the foliage of the trees, and
the eff5rts o. the government and the
priests have been insufficient to meet
the needs OF the famishing multitude..
China h 70 densely populated, and the
facilities for Internal traffic 30 inadequate,
that failure of crops in any large sec
hon Of the empire is sure 10 cause awful
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02

You SHALL HAVE TIFF your grocer
or storekeeper does not keep, and will not
gel, pooLEY's YEAST POWDER for YOU, send
9oc Dor quarter pound, Soc. for half pound, or
Sf-cfor one pound can, direct to DooLEy 4
OTHER. New York, and you will receive
,ostpaid, by return mail. IL is absolutely
., and every can full weight,
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02

INFORMATION worth thousands to those
out of health. Self-help for weak and nerv.
Gus sufferers. Facts for those who have been
dosed, drugged and quacked. The new
Health journal teaches all. Copies free.
Address, Electric Quarterly, Cincinnati, o..
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02
To re HROID OF.

statistics show that more OF TUFTS Pills are used
in Europe than OF all other manufacturers COM
hined. As Americans We are proud of the superb
ority of our productions. These pills have a world
vide reputation
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02

A New BEDFORD school boy, to ex.
plain the difference between dear" and
"deer," said that one is biped and the
other a Guadruped.
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02
70, . mara nf Hat,h'u nj nivarsal Como u

SELL more of Hatch's Universal Cough
Syrup than of all other similar preparations.
| have sold it for about six years, and my
customers would certainly not continue to
buy it if it were not a valuable remedy.
&C. HIGGINS, Friendship All. Co., my.
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02

Ponds Extract. The household
remedy tor Pam, cuts, Burns, Bruises
etc. Always reliable. 1t never fails
Give il n trial.
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02
rn coRRrsrON DENTS.

...-,..,,on. for thi. rarer should he sc.
ns s.m y, me name Of the snihor; not necessnns ~
ahi rst,os but eviden e ci good i.l'h ou ,se
nt pus, p,.s .yiter Manuscript should l'e written
psts y, " n. .iie ~ the PAGER. Ne particularly carr
.i ~ say.rI To- your dates. and to having Az sigma
tsres plsanly written.
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02
The Wit and Humor of Charles Lamb.

Coleridge in 1899 went TO Germany
left word to Lamb that il he wished any
information on any subject, he might
apply to him q. e. by letter., so Lamb
sent him the following abstruse PROPOSE.
ton, 10 which, however, Coleridge did
not "deign and an answer :"
Whether God loves lying angel
better than true man?
Whether the archangel Uriel could
knowingly affirm an untrutb, and
whether il he could he would
Whether the higher order of seraphim
illuminate ever sneeze?
Whether an immortal and amenable
soul may not come to be damned at last
and the man never suspect it beforehand
Ir is said to be fact in the history OF
silver production that wherever in any
part Of the world silver mines have been
worked they are worked now, unless ar
rested for some explainable cause. The
mines of the Andes have been worked
for three centuries. Those of old Spain
from the middle ages, and are in working
condition now. Ia Hungary the same
mines worked by the Romans before the
birth of Christ still yield their steady
increase. Those OF Freiberg in Saxouy
worked from the eleventh century, know
no dimunition. In Bohemia. Tyrol,
Norway and Sweden, in the Ural and
Atlas mountains, and wherever else dis
coveries of silver have been made, we be-
licve, without exception, the mines con-
tinue to be worked, and arc generally
more productive now than at any time
!; their mast history
The Osceola times., 1877-06-02
Maize Flour Toilet Soap!.
MAKE Flour Toilet Soap!.
Maize Flour Toilet Soap!-

great dscoyeryl-a nov soap com pound II soothes
7oftens and whtens the skin, has wonderful healing
and superior washing rr rerties and equally suited
for the bath nursery and general toilet II il delight
fully perfnm ID aud sold everyw here sta moderate
price Registered in pateut-ofice ls76 by the mann