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The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-07-30
Spralns.

If sprain is nothing more than a
sprain-that DIS, il no bones are broken
or put out-wrap the part in several
folds of flannel which has been wrung
out of hot water, and cover it with a
dry bandage, and rest it for some days
or even weeks. Entire rest at first, and
moderate rest afterwards, are absolutely
necessary after sprain. If it is in the
ankle, the foot should be raised as high
as may be com Portable if in the wrist,
it should be carried in sling.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-07-30
White Specks in Butter.

A correspondent asks the cause of
hard white specks in butter, and how to
avoid them. There are several causes
for this defect, 1t always occurs with
the milk of some cows, and in this case
cannot be avoided. In other cases it is
caused by an acid condition of the milk,
it is then remedied by putting pinch
of soda in each pan of milk as it is set
away. Sometimes it is caused by the
milk standing too long and the cream be-
ing too sour, when particles of curd be-
come mixed with the butterin churning.
The proper course to pursue is to find
out which of these causes is acting, and
then apply the remedy.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-07-30
A Bite from a venomous Snake.

Suckthe wound for several minutes.-
No danger need be apprehended from
doing this, as venom of this sort does
not harm when it passes into the stom-
ach, but only when it gets into the
blood. OF course the saliva need not be
swallowed. Battle the place copiously
with hot water, to encourage bleeding,
and tie bsndage tightly above the
wound, between it and the heart. Pro-
cure medical aid as soon as possible.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-07-30

eg An experienced farmer in Frank
lin county thinks he has discovered the
true cause of smut in wheat. He in
forms the editor of the Waynesborough
Record that it comes from seeding the
ground with wheat that had been har-
vested before it was well ripened. He
has been putting this theory into prac-
tice for number of years, and says his
grain has been free from smut, except
one year, when he had not enough of
the well npened seed and took several
bushels of the more early harvesting,
and Of the latter seeding had plenty of
smut, the other being entirely free from
it. This would seem to be pretty con-
elusive evidence Of the correctness of
his theory.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-07-30
Ashes as Cattle Feed.

The Maine Farmer says: One of our
substantial subscribers, in recent con-
versation gave his experience in treating
neat stock affected with the habit of eat
ing wood, chewing bones, etc. His cat
tie were one spring affected in this way:
they became thin in flesh, refused to eat
hay, and presented a sicl1ly appearance.
He put about four bushels of leached
ashes in his barnyard and threw out to
them about shovelful each day. They
all ate with evident relish. After turn
ing them out to pasture he put one peck
of dry ashes per week on the pasture
They ate it all up and gnawed off the
grass where it had been lying. The cat
tie began to improve, gaining flesh and
looking better than they had for several
years. He now gives one quart of ashes,
mixed with the same quantity of salt, to
twelve head of cattle, about once week
and finds it to agree with them wonder
fully.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-07-30

r AIDES AND CHILDREN win fud a
j 4 splendid assortment of shoes at the one
price store Of +. Mortimer.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-07-30
Sbr SIoonrirlD Sinrrs.
HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN.
Select Poetry.
Woman's Work.

To wash and bake, to mend and make,
The weary steps of toll to take
To cook and scour, to dust and sweep,
And all the house in order keep,
To rise at morn and o'er and o'er
Do duties done the day before,
And know that in to-morrow's train
The same things will come o'er again
And often to herself to say,
The old, old lines In weary way,
"From dawn of day, till setting sun,
Woman's work is never done"
To watch and pray, to gladly take
Loves crosses for loves crowning sake;
To love and grieve, to smile and weep,
Her deepest thought in silence keep,
To teach and lead, to hope and trust
Have trust betrayed-as woman must,
To gently chide, TO cheer and bless,
And bear with patient tenderness
Her burdens all; nor shrink away,
But bravely look ahead and say,
"From dawn of life to setting sun,
Wcman's work is never DONE"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-07-30

Ut can make money Faster at work for us than
at anything else. Capital not required we
VIII start you sl2 per day at home made by the
everywhere to work for us. Now Is the time
Costly outfit and terms free. Address TRUE &
CO., Augusta, Maine. Eli1vr
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03

fort. Time wore on. The Europeon
and American bullionists bought up
the leaders Of both our great parties
and they have undertaken to cry down
the money that saved the country,
thag paved the soldier. That bought ev-
erytlling there was for sale, congress
men included. and it became Mr..
Blaine duty to again appear in Show
hogan Bat this time on a most
contemplate errand. Standing up
before this same people, with siver
half dollar III one band and q paper
half dollar in the other. he told them
that one was money and the other was
only a rag And at chat very hour
the rag" would buy more gold than
would the silver. Poor Blaine It
was pitiable, and the people shuddered
at the siehening sight, and could only
exciaim, How are the mighty fall
en- =
It is indeed laughable TO look back
and contrast the clamors for ''hard
money made two years ago, by the
Republican politicians, with the terri
bic efforts now being made to destroy
silver money, which is harder than
gold.
Never have a set Of lying knaves
been brought to the rack quicker by
the torce Of events.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03
WHOLE NO. Isl

darkness cover the majestic scene:
This world is all q fieeting show;
For man s Illusion given;
The smiles OF Joy, the tears of woe,
Decelttul shine, deceitful flow,
There's nothing true but Stebbins.
Teddy blew out the candle and ex~
claimed:
out, out brief candle.
Steb's but walking actor, Il poor slaFer
hat struts and frets his hour upon the s.eae
And then is seen no more. He is tale
loid by en- IDIOT tull If sound and fury, Il
Signifying nothing
Too true, Teddy; TOO true'' sobbed
Steb. And Teddy,
When am forgotten, as shat, be.
And sieepin dulscoid marble,
place over me this epitaph.
Put away his little breaches
He will never need them here
tie has crossed the heavenly bitches
lie W1llciinb the golden stair y
No, no, said Teddy, ssthat won't
do:-vou are notin a condition to
climb stairs or cross bitches. You
want something more peaceful for
and epltaph. How would this do2
Sacred TO the memory Of CHRrsToPHkK
COLUMBUS STEBBINs
ROTTEN BUT NOT forgotten,
This stone is erected by his distin-
guished partner.
IR Wing TODD,
DAKOTA COUNTY's FAVOR
TIE SOM
Celebrated for all the virtues that can
adorn the soul and ali the great
ness that can dignity
mankind =
..That'll 10, Teddy, said Steb-
''That'll do but ba sure to get my 3
name in somewhere on the stone.s'
CONFINED FROM LAST wEEK.)
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03

The Tramp nuisance grows great.
ar. Conventions are being held IL
different states to discuss the ques
ton. At Social Science meeting al
Hartford. Conn the other day, one
speaker said:
His impression was that they. lthe
tramps) have increased tenfold. u hat
is the cause If this Are they IN gen
eral thieves and dishonests N hat is
the condition Of society thathas caused
thIs increase Is it the hard times 7
He had the impression that many had
reen forced TO this life He learned
tAat there are from 5000 TO 10000
persons liz Hartford, formerly laborers
who have now no means OF support.
This has lasted for two or three years.
The small savings soon slip avaF when
work ceases, He gave some instances
o. this. Of persons Wiling to work, but
forced to beg. No doubt Jha5 once
having adopted this demoralizing,
mode Of life, they pursued II from
choice. lie thought it the duty OF So
riety o furnish means OF employment
10 seasons Of distress.
The tramp IS simply IN express
ion of the disease OF contraction.
Nine-Jenths Of them were formerly in
6nstrious. honorable workmen; and
win be so again when prosperity
comes back TO the nation.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03

l. common faiacy WAS well answer
eadt the great Chicago mass meeting
h9 Judge Lawrence. 1t is claimed
lha6 the payment Of the bonds in silver
would impair The nations credit. Up
on this point Judge Lawrence said:
If that were true, I should say that
50 long as we are right and Just, our
power to borrow money at low rate
IL interest abroad is Of vastly less con-
sequence than the preservation OF our
people at home from ruin and starya-
sion. But the proposition is not true.
Ut is most transparent fdllacy. All
t0ere is of truth in the assertion is
simply this, that bonds which are pay
able in gold or silver 1T our option VIII
rot sell Tor so much ii the present
state IF the markets us Il bond payable
only III gold. But that is only imma-
tarlal. II we can. sell q 4 PER. cent
gold bond at par abroad in gold, we
can sell per cent silver bond at par
abroad in silver, and if the silver thus
received win pay a per cent bond at
Is face, is / not The same TO u.s. No
man ever yet impaired his credit by
Insisting upon his right to pay his
debts according to his contract, and
there is no danger that the credit Of
oar country Will suffer from q like
course. Foreign bankers VIII not dis.
trust ON adherence TO our contracts
ln he future because we insist on
4Qhering to those made in the past.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03
4 correspondent Of a MaIne

A correspondent Of Name news
paper, the Portland Nesg Era, writing
from Skowhegan in that state, gives
the following interesting points;
The city il also celebrated as the
place where the Hon. James =. Blaine
made siokening exhibition Of servil~
ity. When the greenbacks were first
issued the banks refused 10 receive
them. Blaine heard Of itand came UP
Ike roaring lion. He told the PEG
pie that all the gold and silver and
lands and houses and lives of this
country were behind the greenhacks.
That the greenbaclz was the best mon.
ay on earth. This is true. and Mr..
Blaine deserves and receives the
thanks Of the people for his noble eff
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03
Re learned blacksmith, Elihu

7 1.-The learned blacksmith, Elihu
Burritt, has been publishing some
sensible remaaks recently, from
which we extract the following.
Thirty years fago labor was safely
and happily distributed in this coun-
try, TWAS the pre-corporation period
OF our industrial history. Our manu-
features and commerce were conduct
ed by private firms Of two OF three
individuals we'll trained for the busi-
ness, who gave to it the whole concern
trlted force of their interest, Thought
aEa experience, who were generally ais
thirst. in the mol1lsng and last at
night, always accessible to their en-
ployees, and personally responsible
and responsive to them. Under this
private-firm regime labor was freely
modified and equally distributed
! among all the industrial occupations.
| Capital and labor moved on,s hand in
| hand, in peace and healthy prosperity.
But the reg me Of incorporatedsca pitai,
operated III large companies Of absen-
tee, invisible or inaccessible stock
holders, changed al this even eondi-
ton Of Industry We now had am
incorporated company Of twenty or
thirty shareholders. These could self
their stock N Z. coal mine or 3 steam
engine factory to tailors, hatters. and
| fancy goods dealers, thus increasing
the constituency of the corporation
until the president hardly knew who
or how many were its members, ex-
cept on dividend days
Mr., Burritt seems to think that the
working classes are being driven cut
OF the country to the wilderness by
the power Of corporations. He says:
There Is still great deal OF land
between the Mississippi and the Rocky
Mountains that we have not vet given
to railway companies. 1t is scarcely
:sfteen hundred miles from What you
! call your own door. Go and hunt MP
q aopest.ao. in these wide regions and
/! il SHALL :e yours. Wanlake youa frae
si:t:s. IL. You should be grateful for
such q generous offer. IT isal we can
do for you: it ii Fall you ought to ask
No, we cannot give or lend you money
TO help YOU to reach the offered home
stead Or TO bnild q hut upon it. Don't
tell us aD0at that; five gave millions
apcGt AiitdiEnc III bslE DEfst IsGIGS Di bElvs
public domain to the great railway
companies, and Endorsed their bonds
for millions upon millions Of dollars
that's got nothing TO do with it,
These great corporations have inter-
ests we are bound TO respect and guar
antee- Yes; it sail very well for
L Canada to pay the passage money for
1000 Mennonites from Southern Rus
STA to settle in Manitoba, and to loan,
money to the Icelanders on the same
styles of spoke-shaves or pairing
knives. and even If the validity or
these patents could be admitted on
] reference to this point, the court
could find no evidence that the defend.
i ant, McMurray, has infriuged then,
by using the knife ofcornplainant, but
e on the contrary, the proof shows that
he used different knife entirely.
Some fellow will next apply Tor i
d patent On baking bread, or for boiling
III tomatoes in their own juice.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03

4 Washington correspondent Of the
Chicago Journal of commerce thus al
ludes to one Of the pests Of the present
generatian:
We have had reason for b0undless
contentment IN Washington this week.
for besides the common blessing Of
congress, we have been favored with
the presence Of d national convention
at pedagorues, and Bob Ingersoll; all
harbingers of sweetness and light. 7
say pedagogues advisedlv, for while
many of them aspire to be pedants.
few have sufficient learning for that
distinction. Cur public schools, III SO
far as they teach The poor boy Or girl
to read. write and compute. deserve
TO be sustained. bus as an asylum for
quaeGs who have rallied, Or never dared
to compete in those walks Of life
where attributes Of robust manliness
are required. She schools take proceed
ence even III the National Treasury
Department. Concajying it to he the
| duty Of your correspondent I have at
tended sonIe o. the meetings of the
j National Convention of education, and
! have always come away with disgust
as deep as that which a healthy man
feels after listening TO Buncombe in
/ the House OF Representatives They
/ read intermina0le papers on schoo
discipline, methods of teaching, ST.
perintendence, courses of study, etc
AID then they have what is called {
| discussion On the subject of the last
! paper read. The papers. as a rule, art
so hackneyed and pointless, that NJ
editor could afford to publish them
/ and the discussionsare little more thar
cant about mo7al suasion, aud mould
ing perfect men and women. HEAVIER
pity these narrow chested. scan
Drained, slim-souled iourneymen edu
Gators, and protect. as much as posi-
bic, the rising generation from tn
| influence of such models and sucl
lartists.
! We have number Of these crea
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03

e newspapers are opening mp
urt in lively style; ii is thunder
all around She. SKY. THE Rush
Post SAYS.
+ er since the passage OF the late
m9l book laws il. b. has apparently
what he could do to break ~
B. law, he has apparently been IN
ted vita this school book ring.
may be he has part Of that 5000,
kaev ropose 10 mead TO make Ii
We, 50 they cam swindle the
while longer. When the
examiners. appointed 10 eX-
the new books furnished by
errill. Of which ha was 4 mem
ct t0pass their ilEa gement upon
loks. he voted against receiving
when in fact the books We're
than the law required, it any
:. i5 looks as If hisvote nad been
.hasad III that diredtion. The
nee OF the hoard conld not see ii
sas light. however. and voted to
I'VE the books. r. Burtisa hoary
sled old religions ass, and isnot lit
each a country school common
Sc
lie ANTI oNopoLIsT, being
erate paper, would hardly have
assed itselfinthe strong language
the concluding paragraph of tht
sc extract: but nevertheless if {
was mad.-mad all over,-he
1t, we think, properly use some
expressions as the foregoing.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03

lt seems that in Wisconsin the Hght
,~ae sc,,arelv hatwaen the hard-monev
.a.,or ,.a41, .,u.;,no,4 ~ craan.
.''0'' - "0.' i'''' w. NV
packers y correspondent o. 'he OH
Du sac wis., Champion says;
In fbis norton of the state. to the
vritnr's own knowledge. prominent
Da,9ncrars deserted HE Marty with
which they had long affiliated, and
voted and worked Tor 5he smith ticket
ios 9'l 'lc.o1"' 81 d s1'l'''9h y''it al
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03

lures in Minnesota; they are usually
ex.preachers; asanctimonious, preten,
tious, pharasaical pack, who will
whine and shuttle in the path of reform,
and spend aweek over the construction
Of some magnificent sentence, written
by some man who knew nothing of
grammar.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03

The great meeting OF 5,UUU business
men, held in Chicago the other day,
passed a series Of ringing resolutions
in favor Of the RECOMMENDATION of sill
yer, Of which this is sample;
ResoJred, That the Recommendation Of
the silver coinage of the United States
was a change in our monetary system
so grave and radical in it's character,
and so vitality affecting the commercial
interests and rights of the people. es-
pecially those of the debtor class, that
it ought not to have bean Yentured
upon. even under circumstances the
most favorable. until after q full thor
ongh and exhaustive discussion Of its
merits before the people and the cover
scheme by which this most important
measure was precipitated upon the
country without one word Of discuss
ion either in congress or ont, and the
obstinate persistence with which the
scheme is still prosecuted in @ time of
unparalleled business prostration and
disaster, and with forced resumption
of specie payments in Immediate
prospect. discloses q reckless disregard
Of public welfare on the part Of it's
members which merits orr seyerest
censure and condemnation.
And they wound up as follows:
Resoired, That we will resist the con-
Summation of this wrong by ali honora-
bic means within our power. We call
upon both houses of congress to insist
upon the repeal Of the demonetizing
act and the restoration Of The silver
dollar TO It's rirhtful place in our eur
rency, and If the president shall, by
use of a negative, succeed in deafeat-
ing the bill, then we call on congress
TO append q similar repeating clause to
The general appropriation bill and
stand by it TO this last: with the full
confidence that the people will assur-
eddy stand by them.
The Pioneer-Press says this means
revolution. Of course it does. But
isn It revolution better than ruin.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-11-06

In one of DIR. Motey's scholarly addresses
he mourns over the fact that a language was
never perfect until it was dead. If King All
fred should come back to earth, for instance,
he would probably not understand word
spoken in his kingdom. While a language is
growing there is no accounting for the gro
tesque forms which words will take. Pocket
handkerchief, for instance, is an absurd mass
of syllables for little thing in common use
1t began growing centuries ago. Kerchief is
cougrechef, a head covering then it began to
be carried in the hand, for obvious purposes,
and at last was put in the pocket gathering
cumbrous additions to its name all the way
How much more sensible to call 1t as the
French do, a Ds0achoir, wiper? The only
objection to this would be the temptation af-
forded to low punsters, who would warn you
whenever you put your mouchoir in your
st-pocket not to take wiper to your
bosom.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-11-06

dered, and for an instant his revolver lay on o
level with the cross-eyed boys head
!" IN not do so any more, gasped the bull
~.
!" See you do not. never give second
warnings, said the teacher, and the revolver
fell.
It 4 Il two hours to organize the GLASSES,
but when done, they were well organized
Then came recess. The teacher went out too,
for the room was crowded and hot A hawk
was circling overhead high in the air. The
teacher drew.a revolver and the next second
the hawk came tumbling down among the
wondering scholars.
From that day on Harry kept school for
two years in saSserry Gulch, his salary
doubled afterAS ArSt quarter, and his pupils
learned to lovesas well as to respect bin, aud
the revolvers went out of sight within a
month.
They had found a man at last who could
keep school. This is a fact.--San Francisco
Chronicle
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-11-06

A Lone WALK.--A young man in Toronto
has a very clear knowledge Of the danger Of
attempting to firt with female pedestrian.
Ono of these walkers stopped Mt Nh inn there
last week without making known her powers
of speed and endurance, and the clerk of the
inn showed her n good deal of attention. At
last he one afternoon proposed to take walk,
She consented at once, saying that she was
longing for u ramble. " Let me KNOW ho
said, If ! 90 too fast" She soon took tho
lead aud began pace of five miles an hour
Her gallant companion kept up by great ex-
ertion, but when she increased her speed he
proposed to return home. She protested she.
was not in the least tired, and ON they went.
When about a dozen miles had been walked
the clerk found that his gallantry must yield,
and he dropped down and confessed that he
could not take another step. His companion
then turned back and walked to the inn, say
ing that she would send carriage for him.
The young man thinks that lie will take a
years practice before asking another young:
lady to have stroll with him.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-11-06

TIT FOR TAT.-The following comes from
correspondent, and is, he says, "too good to
be lost -
&C. little thing. too good to be lost, hap
pened some weeks ago less than 1000 miles
from Sioux City. certain conductor, who
is very bad speller made report to bis su-
perintendent. Superintendent, who is an ex.
ceedingly bad scribe, found the report full of
misspelled words, and sent it back with a 10
cent spelling book, with instructions to prac
tice spelling at leisure hours. Conductor
had some expert decipher Superintendent
letter, thought that there was room for i'm
provement in writing and so invested 10
cents in copy-book, making Superintend-
ent present of the same. Superintendent
took the thing good-naturedly, kept it quiet
for while, but finally told on himself. Con-
ductor and Superintendent are good friends.
-Chicdgo JournaI