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A SUMMER DAY.

Deep down beside the tangled sedge,
The meadow-lark sings all the day,
And bursts at times from out the hedge
The mimic chatter of the jay;
And here and there wandering note,
A crickets chirp, comes sweet and clear
Where dreamy mists of summer float
At noon upon the grassy mere.
Afar away below the hill
see the noisy millwheel go.
The smooth broad lake above the mill,
The flash of foam that roars below;
And on the even slopes that rise,
So gently toward the mountains brow,
The cattle watch with sleepy eyes
The lazy ploughboy at the plough.
My soul is sleeping, and it dreams
All! sad and sweet that dreaming thrills!
For there are other wales and streams,
And other fOcks on other hills
The hills wherein climbed to pull
The golden rods and weeds of May,
When all the world was beautiful,
And all my life summer day.
&C. b. Brooks August Hdr pei
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How Much to Eat.

DR.. Wilson, an eminent English physi-
clan, gives the following precepts upon
the time and amount of meals: s'For the
active, outdoor laborer and artisan, an
early breakfast before work, amidday din
ner. with an interval of rest, and supper
after the days work is over have long been
proved by experience to be the most con-
ducive to health. For the business man,
later breakfast, a midday luncheon, and
a late dinner after the days work is over,
is the best arrangement For literary
men who write more iu the evening than
during the day, an early dinner and light
supper will be found to be the most adj
vantageous for steady work. Idlers, to
enjoy life, if they possibly can, should dine
early if they intend to spend the evening
at the theatres and the like; but if they
accept dinner invitations freely. should be
very careful not to eat too much at the
midday meal. The breakfast hour should
be determined, in great measure, by the
hour of rising, but in any case food should
be partaken of before the material business
of the day is commenced. Those who like
to take constitutional before breakfast
would find their appetite whetted and their
walk made all the more enjoyable if they
took little milk, or cafe-au-lait, with
bread or biscuit before starting. Work
done before breakfast is always irksome
and fatiguing and on that account is very
likely to be badly done, The last meal
should be sufficiently late for the whole
not to be absorbed before retiring to rest.
To person in health three meals day
ought to be quite sufficient, and the prac-
tlce of continually "taking something" is
sure to bring on indigestion,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-07-26
VEGETINE
I OWE MY HEALTH
TO YOUR VALUABLE
VEGETINE.

NEWPORT KY, April %, 1877
Mr.. II. R. STEVENS
Dear Sir-Having suffered from a breaking out OF
Cankerous Sores for more than five years. caused by
accident of fractured bone, which fracture ran
into running sore, and having used everything
could think Of and nothing helped me, until had
Mr.. Miller the apothecary recommended very highly
The sixth bottle cured me. and all say, is that
owe my health to your valuable Vegetine.
Your most Obedient servant,
ALBERT Won ROEDER.
''It is necessary for me to enumerate the diseases
for which the VEGETINE should be used. know of
no disease which will not admit of its use, with
good results. Almost innumerabe complaints are
caused by poisonous secretions in the blood which
can be entirely expelled from the system by the use
of the VEGETINE. When the blood is perfectly clean
sed, the disease rapidly yields: all pains cease; heal
thy action is promptly restored. and the patient is
cured.''
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-07-26

No species Of falsehood is more frequent
than flattery; to which the coward is be-
trayed by fear, the dependent by interest.
and the friend by tenderness,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-07-26

BAD habits are the thistles Of the heart,
and every indulgence of them is a seed
from which will come forth new crop Of
rank weeds.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-07-26

In the moral as in the physical world,
the violent is never the lasting; the tree
forced to unnatural luxurianoe of bloom,
bears 1t and dies,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-07-26

BLACKBERRY WNE.-Choose a dry day
for collecting the fruit, set it in an open YES
sci one Of those :having tap fitted to the
Side or rather near the bottom-and pour
over the fruit sufficient boiling water to
cover it. Next, let the blackberries be
bruised thoroughly, cover the vessel, and
let it stand three or four DAYS, when it
will be found that the pulp has formed in
to crust on the top. The fluid must then
be drawn off into another vessel, and one
pound of sugar added to each gallon, well
mixed in, after which the whole is ready
to be put into oask for week or ten
days, during which time the cask should
be kept well filled, more especially at first
When the working has ceased, let the
wine be bunged down, and at the end of
six months it may be bottled, and if kept
for four or five years the wine will be ex-
cellent.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-07-26

DIR. HALLS views in regard to the eff
cacy Of food as medicine, when discrimi-
natingly used, seem to be reasonable. He
relates the case of man who was cured of
biliousness by going without his supper
and drinking freely of lemonade. Every
morning this patient rose with wonder
full sense of rest, refreshment, and a feeling
as though the blood had been literally
washed, cooled and cleansed by the lemon
AIDE and fast. His theory is that food will
be used as remedy for disease successful
ly. For example, he instantly cures the
splitting OF blood by the use of salt; epilep-
sy and yellow fever, by watermelons; kid
ney affection by celery; poison by olive or
sweet oil; erysipelas by pounded cranber-
ries applied to the parts affected; hydro
phobia by onions, etc. So the thing to do
In order to keep in good health is really to
know what to eat, and not what medicine
to take.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-07-26

POTATOES cut in small squares, and put
into cruets or bottles. with water to wash
them, will clean them quickly and well.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-07-26

WATER SuPPLY.-To prevent cistern
water from becoming offensive and impure
have the supply pipe run nearly to the bot
tom of the well, where the supply of purest
water is always to be obtained.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-07-26

Drunkenness Cured SIRE The f tast f or DE-,
Wine or Beer forever destroyed by the us OF DR.
I,INGER's accidental discovery OF the beneficial
properties of cinchoma; Not patent medicine d ne
..nre Certain the cure Wives and daughters reclaim
CIRCUMSTANCES and brothers. Circular free
""- CHAS. S. FRANCIS & CO.
So North Clark St., Chicago, III.
may3l-3m
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SCIENTIFIC PATCHINa.-I shall begin
with the perhaps original axiom that
patch must be rectangular. A round or
tcrooked'' one will inevitably thrust itself
into notice, as it is impossible to match
thread. Then patch should never be
"laid on,' but ''set in." To this end, first
cut away carefully by thread all that is
in the least worn, and turn back and haste
down an even seam all around. The coz
ners may be slashed slightly in diagonal
direction to keep them square. Then to
this opening fit the patch exactly, with the
edges turned and basted; and sew it in
cover and over" on the wrong side with
thread of the precise shade and very fine,
sewing alternate opposite sides to avoid
trouble with the corners. The extra thick
ness caused by the folded corners of the
patch itself should be cut out after sewing
and a little fine darning added to keep
them secure. Now slightly dampen and
press on the wrong side, and you have
neat piece Of mending which cannot be
seen few feet away, Figures and striped
goods must of course be carefully matched.
heavy wooden fabrics, such as men and
boys wear, need not have seams turned,
the clear cut edge being strong enough to
hold.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-07-26

WHAT CONSTITUTES A CAR LoAD.-In
general 10000 pounds is car load-it is
also 20 barrels of salt, 70 of lime, 80 of
hour, 80 OF whiskey, 200 sacks of flour,
cords of hard wood, 7 of soft, IS to 20 head
OF cattle, SO to go head of hogs. so to 100
head of sheep, 5000 feet of solid boards.
1900 feet of siding, SO, 900 feet of noorine.
40, shingles, one half less of hard lumber.
one-quarter less Of green lumber, one-tenth
less OF loists, scantling, and all other large
lumber, $40 bushels of wheat, $50 of corn.
$50 OF oats, 400 of barley, $50 of faxseed.
$50 of apples, $50 of Irish potatoes, $50 Of
sweet potatoes, 1000 bushels of bran. The
foregoing table may not be exactly correct.
for the reason that railroads do not agree
in their rules and estimates, but itapprox-
mates so closely to the average, that ship
pers will find it great convenience as a
matter of reference.
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y 1'ARM AND FIRESIDE.

GEPING MEAT IN Hot WEATHER.
|. Great is the convenience of good refrig-
orator. But many of us, who live in the
country, have to get along without such a
convenience. Farmers families, who Of
ten depend upon the butchers meat cart
for supply of fresh meat, are annoyed by
the bother and the waste that comes of
getting more beef OR mutton on hand than
they can conveniently use up before it be-
comes tainted. The most foolish waste is
to eat more of it than you need, with the
idea OF Saving it," the doctors bill that
may result from overlooking the digestive
organs is not so good show of economy
as the fresh eggs you might coax from the
hens by feeding them any excess Of meat.
The meat should first be wiped clean and
dry. Some sprinkle it well in all parts
with salt. Others use black pepper plenti-
fully (washing and wiping it well before
using it to remove the pepper Or salty and
then hang it in the coolest place possible
some in the we'll, others in cellar Per-
haps the best precaution is to wrap it in
dry. cloth, and cover it with charcoal dust.
Some say that wood ashes will answer
about as well as charcoal, but only know
the virtue of charcoal by experience.
have found that charcoal will even remove
a slight degree of faint. I am told that
mutton is improved, as well as preserved,
for short time, by wrapping it in cloth
wet with vinegar, and laying it on the bot
tom of a dry cellar. All kinds of meat in
GLIDING fish and fowl, may be preserved in
brine for longer or shorter time. -Amers-
cam Naturalist.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-07-26

FRENCH RoLLs.-Heat pint of new
milk, make thick batter, into which put
teaoup of yeast. After it lightens, beat
up three eggs, one teacup of sugar, and put
in the batter. Then rub a teacup Of lard
in some flour, make it into soft dough
with the sponge, and after it lightens, work
out into rolls. Let them tighten and then
bake, ssts
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-12-18
CUT Down THE ARMY.

Cut down the army! Who are he.e
sweet carpet knights o snail rFBoWn,
Who wear Their untlarm- 90 please
TIE Idle people OF the toWus
who draw their pay, but 10 their swords,
And win such couquests as they may
Among he gay and giddy hordes
" NJ while In sport their live, away
Cut down the army! 10 The days
W hen men Wer, wanted. 10 tt39v came
From forge and field, from labor, ways,
with muscles knit and souls atlame
They pnt the lustY Toe 10 rout.
Their Well-earurd laurpis shall not fade .
Remem Der them, and muster out
These heroes OF the dress parade.
Cut down the army. Freedom wants
No hirriing guard about her throrr.
tull-hedgei General who vauuts
Ills swollen rank in losdlv tone.
A thrifty people, earnest. brave,
Not given % foolish pomps and shows
To such she trusts her realm 90 save
From open or from secret foes.
Cut down the army He who uursed
viper-Would you share his iatcg
Beware of thh.e whose growing thirst
For power mperils Freedoms state.
Cut down the army. ere here comes
day when roaring cauuons trown,
And when. amid the roar uf drums.
The army cuts the people down.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-12-18
Louisville Index
TIME national PARTY.


WASHINGTON, Dee 2.--Members Of the
central executive committee OF the National
party to-day Issued an address 70 the people
of the United States reviewing the rise and
progress OF the party, predicting continu. a
success ana rapid spread of its principles. aud
expressing confidence that the party will
elect its candidates for president in 1880
with majorties in congress aud i'm nearly
all the State Legislatures. The address de-
nOunceS the action OF the banks sneak in d.
through the Clearing House Association Of
New York, and says: "The contest is not
between the Republican aud. ID mOcfatic
parties. Ii is between the money power and
the peOple-betWec bHuk bill, based ON uu-
taxed bonds and "a Government. Legal ten
der currency and the people have no chance
whatever OF ever securing their cmaucipa-
ton from Industrial thraldOm, either
through the party OF money pOwer--the Re
publican party--Or its attorney, the Demo-
cratic party"
Appeal is made Reorganization I'm the In
terest of the National party in every school
district, City, town and ward.
The Greenbackers held "A meeting this even
ing with closed doors. They claim sixteen
members in the next Congress who will act
independently, not joining either party ia
caucus. and That those num beers AS "a balance
of power will enable them to decide the
speakership and claim the clerkship and
chairmauship OF important comm ittpes.
They say that either EWING Ohio, Kelly
or Wright of Pennsylvania would be accpp-
table TO them as speaker and that their pre-
ferencps are for "A Democrat. They propose
to maintain in Washington an Office for dis
tribution OF political Information, but not
as has been stated, intend to start here a
greenback organ.
The following resolution was adopted aJ
the conference tonight:
Resolved, That the National party, so
far as it is represented by this conference,
denounce resumption Otspecie payments as
a fraud and delu-iOn improbable in This
or any civilized country yet If persisted iu
by the secretary Of tie treasury We insist
that it shall be so carried out As 10 be equal
in its operations in all sections and 10 all
classes, and enforced for the redemption of
national bank notes as well As for legal-ten-
der notes issued by the Government.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-12-18

Worthy Secretary Adams, of the Cali
ifornia State Grange, in the Pacific Ru-
raj Press, has the following note on tax
alton: There are many professional
men and capitalists who have incomes of
SO, 600 year, whose names do not APP
pear OH the Assessors books, and conse-
quently do not pay taxes. But let one of
these capitalists or professional men take
one years income and buy farm with
it, and by our present revenue laws, he
will be taxed on $4,000, on a farm
which the best of cultivation, for the first
year at least, will not produce an income
of $500, and after it is brought under a
thorough state of cultivation, not to ex-
coed 50, 600 Yet the capitalist on his
farm expends twice the labor, lives much
poorer, and is compelled to pay taxes on
land the price of which has been arbitra
riIy fixed, without any regard to its pro
ductive capacity, or the amount of income
it can be made to yield. How any
reasonable man can advocate a property
tax instead of an income tax, We cannot
conceive, and more than all, how they
can consent to taxing lands used for ag
ricuture, the basis of the prosperity
of the State Agricultural lands require
less protection from governmentthan any
kind of property that can be mentioned.
1t cannot be stolen, it cannot be burned
up by mohs, and it is seldom trespassed
upon, yet it never escapes an undue pro
portion of taxation"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-12-18

Inaugural Of Gov. C,bb Of AIal

Inaugural of GOV. Cobb of Ala.
Since the State has recovered her lost au-
tonomy, wTested from her by tyTaunical
usurpation. and since the strangers who we're
the instruments Of foreign Governments
have ceased 20 control her domestic affairs g,
a pure, just and legitimate public sentiment
has again asserted its influence iu favor on
law, order and The sacred protection of all
personal an property right under the laws
and the. Constitution. The people have unit
ed with great alacrity in every movement
calculated to secure the free and equal en-
joyment OF civil and political rights and
privileges To all classes without discrimina-
ton. The result is that the laws are pee
ted and enforced, and the rights Of person
and property are as secure Hs law can make
them in any country; and confidence in the
State, in it. credit, in IFS justice, and IN its
power 10 afford IT'S citizens he real benefits
of free government, is established upon en-
during foundations The wise course OF
Legislation and the faithful performance Of
duty by those who adm mister the laws,
have done 50 much for our people, and with
in so brief period of the enjoyment Of
home rule, that We need no inducement be-
yond our present experience TO make us
steadias in keeping to our established
course for the future.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-12-18

From the New Haven Palladinm.
Yesterday morning about 7 30 o'clock,
Mrs. DAILY, wife of James DAILY, sent her
oldest bOv. seventeen or eighteen years Of
age, to Charles 3. Sturer>s drug store for
5 scents worth Of Rhubarb. The dose was
for Michael l.. Daily, aged TWO years and
three months, a. he had been feverish since
Thanksgiving Day. The boy returned with
the dose, and all OF il was given TO the child.
Mrs. Daily says chat as soon as she had adj
ministered il, she noticed that the child did
not show the usual repuguauce that chill
dren manifest toward Rnuharb She then
discovered by The smell that the liquid was
Laudanum. Drs. NJ. e. White and Dibble
were called, and one or the other worked
over the infant until les death at 3 40 tn the
afternoon. Emetics were given the patient,
and the oth~r modes Of treatment adopted,
but all to no purpose. The lethargic con-
dition OF the chill WAS not improved, all
though Just before death 1t laughed. There
was bali an ounce Of Laudanum. Mrs. Da-
IL 3 son says the clerk at Storer's who gave
iC TO him said. upon being in formed OF the
mistake, that Lsudanum bad been measure
ed in the vial just previous to the Rhubarb,
and that the Wo became mixed. He AFTER
ward, according TO the DAILY boy acknOWl-
edged that the mater was pure accident on
his part, and that the dose Was entirely ot
Laudanum.
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FAITH

.,-,.,,, Of Hope has grown so feehly dim,
Nv mn laiIr and ieel my way like one that's
-, vain with trembling heart to find
So Serrer way thai leadeth unto Him.
La, nv lamp is filled with heavenly OIL
sal' 6,r 70 Il blrned; and then the narrow
WI broad enough and easy bat to day
and what then was pleasure now is
toll.
-, -i.a. and take my feeble light again
III il,hGngh | know that pilgrims on the
IN pa.,ing me triumphantly will say. ,,
u ,Pnun.rimed lamp hath caused him all
I'D Al length. if sincerely pray,
tn when my lamp goes out 1t willie be
day. II q rJ,.d
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FAITH

What shalt thou sing, 0, SOUL gifted with
song;
TO whom, therefore, the paia and joy be-
long?
sound
That rolls between the silences profound.
Thou hear Science crying loud and far
Il find the deepest pearl; on farthe>t star
| lay my Ger ii finger; all is M ne:
| m the true, the only, the divine"
RPasoR4boTn blind, doth Sitting unaware
Iron the "mountan's secret top declare
That which see know, and that alone:
There is no hioden sermon in the stone."s
w bile Faith. deep-eyed as Love, with noise
less key
Opens the unsuSpected heaven to thee.
-ZADEL BARNES GUsTAFsoN
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TriAea

Sleight of hand-Refusing marriage
proposal.
Saws the heather in his blindness
cam not man and a Buddah?"
Who Mrs once to take a kiss has Mr.
thing he should not Miss st. Louis
Times.
The following classical poser is sub
mitted for college boating clubs: Did
Leander swim the Hellespont or did
Hero?
An elegantly bound copy of Sankey's
songs was put up at church fair and
ratified for. Was it game of chants
w hitehall Times.
The borrowing fend, who is always
little short of change, is an enemy to whom
no quarter should be shown New Or
leans Picayune.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-12-18
The Queen of the Lobby.
HOW SHE TAKES IN THE GREEN ONES.
Washington Letter to the Boston Post.l

HOW SHE TAKES IN THE GREEN ONES.
Washington Letter to the Boston Post.l
When we left Philadelphia in the early
morning, noticed among the passengers
who had joined US there a lady who had
for some years past been known here
in Washington as 1.-The Queen of the
Lobby" Age adds to her personal
charms, and could but notice her as she
sat gracefully, yet proudly as throned
sovereign, glancing over the newspapers
with her keen gray eyes, and a purpose
marked in each line of her handsome face.
Of course she was exquisitely attired, for
the soldier of fortune of either sex must
wear a gay, untarnished uniform, al
though the pockets may be empty. AT
Baltimore every feature softened as
a Western Congressman came into the
car, and she gave him joyous greeting.
Before we had left the Monumental City
the rural representative, fresh from the
Lares and Penates, had marched into the
little parlor, and when at the Relay
House the fair spider opened her lunch
basket, pertaining the car with the odor
of old Bourbon, it was evident that the
Hon. Jefferson Caucusman would vote
for the Oregon and Alaska steamship
subsidy, the South Arizona Elevated
Railroad grant, and che other jobs which
have retained The Queen" The ses.
is to be short and there is no time to be
lost. Here was an early worm who was
accidentally caught by pretty bird be-
fore he could reach the metropolis.
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A Boys Composition on shaving.
From the London Argonaut.l

From the London Argonaut.i
One time there was a barber. And
one day a teller he cum in the shop for
to git shafed, and be handed the barber
a card which wa wrol Oh like this way ::
''For my hair ralier cone. lard, berg
mot, pematuln, oil, tonnick, resoratif,
pitchooly gum, beeswhacks; kesriscen
and tar For my face-Cole cream,
camfrice powder, ham fat, sof sope, glis
sern police, rooge manned, giant ce-
ment, shoe blackn. For my whiskers =
Sames for my hair, only more taller.
For my muctash-Do, starch, grew, NOR
ter and solder" Wen the barber he red
it he was jest delited, and he said to the
Teller: "You are the most sensible man
wien has ever set in this chair; yes, in
deed; never seed a man of sech good
tase" And then the barber shafed the
Teller and told him all the news wich he
cude think, and never stopt tockin, the
barber dident, while he shafed, cos ER was
delighted. But jost as he got dun shat
en- the Teller, and was gettin ready to put
them things unto him, cordin to the
memmy randem, man wocked In and
took the teller by the ear and sed to the
barber, the man did: "This feller's got
to go now caus he is a escape if you
want to finish him you must fetch them
things over to the def and dumb ward of
the Lunatic Asylum"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-12-18

Miss Sadie Sykes, by vote of POI to
103, has been declared the prettiest girl
in Reno, Nevada. And the rest of the
Reno girls are now, doubtless, endeavor-
ing to comfort themselves by working
samplers containing the legends, "Hand-
some is as handsome does" and Beauty
is only skin Deep"