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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
Glorious Spring. All Hail?

The warm season comes on apace, and
the llghtning-rod men invents bagful
OF new lies and departs for the rural
districts to devour the substance of the
unwary granger; the book agent Frances
about with fiendish desire to perse-
cute mankind; the poet swoops down on
the honest, Woodworking newspaper
man with his lode to S." about
these days the able bodied males gather
on the public highway and tell naughty
stories and call it working out their
poll-tax; the gentler sex play croquet
nineteen hours per day and talk scandal
at the rate of fifteen knots an hour;
Benedict, the married man, catches his
meal on the fly, while his softer half IS
IN the ecstasies of spring cleaning"
the fashionable young blood HES him
self unto the barber, and comes away
with his head resembling beautiful
billiard ball; the man who maketh a
garden crieth 'Shoo" to his neighbours
hens; the alamagoozelum soda-fountain
fizzles in the drug store, and the Ice
cream man imposes on the swain and
swalnesses; the turkey gobler swells
with Importance, and innumerable small
boys career madly around, dressed in a
straw hat and holy pantaloons; the mix
err OF ungoodly beverage setteth green
blind before his door; the old man ar
ises in the morning and beholds his
front gate hanging by one hinge, and the
old mans daughter keepeth her own
counsel; the poor young man is often
seen in brown study as to how he is
to get $40 spring suit on So per week
salary; the bull-frog croaks dismally,
and the Thomas cat yawls with renewed
energy; the sedate gander stands on one
foot and meditates over prospective
goslings; the garter-snake crawleth
around, the tumble bug stands on his
head, and the Covington, Columbus and
Black Mills railroad man talks proudly
of continuing the road right off" By
these signs does the wise man know
that spring has arrived.-Dokata City
(NeJ.) EaQle.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
Paint Your Tools.

Keep pot of paint and brush on
hand, and paint your tools. Farm tools
wear out more from want of paint and
exposure than from the use they re-
ceive. After you have used plows, har
rows, cultivators, and such implements
for few months, the thin coat of var
nish will be worn off. They sho'd then
receive a good coat of paint. Don't
forget the farm wagons while you are
about it; the wheels will need less tire
setting if they receive an occasional
coat of paint.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
Grange DIRECTORY.

PRAIRIE GROVE GRANGE, No 443.-Meets
at the Sheridan School House, Monday even
ing, on or before the full moon each month.
A. WROTEN, Sec'y.
WINTHROP GRANGE, No. 1866. - Meets at
Winthrop on Friday, on or before the full
moon of each month.
S. G. PIERCE, Master
S. w. RICH, Sec'y.
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE, No. I2l6.-Meets
Tuesday, on or before full moon.
j. ID. RUSSELL. Master.
GREELEY GROVE GRANGE, No Sl1.-Meets
on Friday evening, on or before full mOon at
Warehouse Hall.
w. BUNCE, Master.
+. Is. SCHEMERHORN, Sec'y.
MlDDLEF1ELD GRANGE, No. 52S.-Meets on
Wednesday, on or before full mOOn
b. DUBOIS, Master.
E. J. WIGG. Sec'y.
SUPERIOR GRANGE, No. 352.-Meets Satur-
day, on or before full moon, at No 8 School
House, HazletOn Township.
Il. MESSENGER, Master.
G. M. MILLER, Secy.
BYON GRANGE, No. 267.-Meets at Justus
Durkee's. on Tuesday evening, on or after
full moon.
E. GLEASON, Master.
FRANK Fox Sec'v.
TRIUMPH GRANGE No. 1663.-Meets at the
Sill School House, on the first Thursday, on
or before the full moon of each month, also
in two weeks thereafter
o. S. PAINE. Master
E. l.. HOPKINS, Secy.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

AACdu, ACluS WOluly OACcIS,
Sores, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Pain in
the Bones, Side and Head, Female
Weakness, Sterility, Leucorrhea, arising
from internal liberation, and Uterine
disease, Syphilitic and Mercurial dis
eases, Dropsy, Dyspepsia, Emaciation,
General Debility, and for Purifying the
Blood.
This Sarsaparillais combination Of
vegetable Alternatives - Stillingia, Man.
drake, Yellow Dock with the Iodides
of Potassium and Iron, and is the most
efficacious medicine yet known for
the diseases it is intended to cure.
Its ingredients are so skilfully COM
bined, that the full Alternative effect of
each is assured, and while it is so mild
as to be harmless even to children, it is
still so effectual as to purge out from the
system those impurities and corruptions
which develop into loathsome disease.
The reputation it enjoys is derived
from its cures, and the confidence which
prominent physicians all over the coun-
try repose in it, prove their experience
Of its usefulness.
Certificates attesting it's virtues have
accumulated, and are constantly being
received, and as many of these cases are
publicly known, they furnish convincing
evidence IF the superiority of this Sar-
saparilla over every other. Alternative
medicine. So generally is its superb
GRITTY to any other medicine known, that
we need do no more than to assure the
public that the best qualities it has ever
possessed are strictly maintained.
PREPARED BY
Dr.. J. c. AVER 4 CO., Lowell, Mass,
ProcftooE and analytical Chemists.
GOLD BX ALL DRU001sTs EVERYWHERE.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
TO Preserve Fertility OF Soil.

To keep the soil intact no method
equal to rotation of crops has yet been
found. BY keeping stock on the farm,
and applying the manure to the crop
most benefited by the Indian corn, and
by driving the farm into fields of equal
size, in which some crops suitable to it
is grown. as well as by using clover and
other green crops to be turned under
occasionally, the fertility of land may
be constantly increased and made much
better.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
G. & N. w.
LINES.
c. s. NV. r. II.

THE CHICAGO SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY
Embraces under one management the Great
Trunk Railway Lines of the West and North
west. and with its numerous branches and con-
nectiOns forms the shortest and quickest route
between Chicago and all points in Illinois, Wis
cOnsin. Northern Michigan, Minnesota Iowa,
Nebraska, California and the Western Terri
. tories. Its
OMAHA & CALIFORNIA LINE.
Is the shortest and best route between Chicago
and all points in Northern Illinois, Iowa, Dako-
ia, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah. Neva-
da, California. Oregon, China. Japan and Aus
tralia. Its
CHICAGO. ST. p. Il MINNEAPOLIS LINE
Is the shortest line between Chicago and all
points in Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota,
and for Madison, st. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth
and all points in the great Northwest. Its
LACROSSE, WINoNA & ST. PETER LINE
Is the best route between Chicago and La
Crosse, Winona, Rochester. Owatonna, Manka-
to, ST. Peter New Ulm and and all points in
Southern aud Central Minnesota. Its
GREEN BAY & MARQUETTE LINE
Is the only Line between Chicago and James,
vile, Waterfowl, Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, APP
pleton. Green Bay, Escanaba, Negaunee, Mar
quette Houghton, Hancock and the Lake SUI
periOr country. Its
FREEPORT & DUBUQUE LINE
Is the only route between Chicago and Elgin,
Rockford, Freeport and all points via Free
port. Its
CHICAGO q MILWAUKEE LINE
Is the old Lake Shore route, and is the only one
passing between Chicago and Evanston, Lake
Forest, Highland Park, Waukegan, Racine,
Kenosha and Milwaukee.
PULLMAN PALACE DRAWING ROOM CARS
are running on all through trans of this road,
This Is the ONLY LINE running these cars be-.
tween Chicago and st. Paul and Minneapolis,
Chicago and Milwaukee, Chicago and Winona,
or Chicago and Green Bay.
Close connections are made ut Chicago with
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, Michigan
& Chicago, Kankakee Line and Pan Handle
Routes for all points East and Southeast and
with the Chicago 4 Alton and Illinois Central
for all points South.
Close connections are also made with the
Union Pacific Il. Il. at Omaha for all far West
points.
Close connections made at junction points
with trains of all cross points
Tickets over this route are sold by all Coupon
Ticket Agents in the United States and Cana
das. Remember, yOl ask for your Tickets via.
the Chicago & North-W estern Railway and take
none other.
No. 5 State street: Omaha Office, PAS Farnham
street; San Francisco Office, l22 Montgomery
street; Chicago Ticket Offices, 62 Clark street,
under Sherman House; 70 Canal, corner Madi-
kinzie and Canal streets; Wells Street Depot,
corner Wells and kinZie streets.
For rates or information not attainable from
your home ticket agents, apply to
W. II. STENNETT, MARVIN HUGHITT,
Gem Pass. Agt Chicago. Gen. Man. Chicago
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

To brighten gilt frames, Take suf-
ficient -four of sulphur to give golden
tinge to one and one-half pints Of water;
boil in this water four or five onions
strain, and when cold, wash with soft
brush any part that requires restoring;
when dry it will come out as good as
new -
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
agricultural 4'ss.

me reading columns on this page will be de-
voted, mainly, to topics pertaining to FARM and
HOUSEHOLD. The farmer readers Of the RUI,-
LETIN are requested to write for IT.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
VECET|NE
For Sick Headache

EVANSVILLE, Inu., Jan. /, 1878.
Mr.. STEVENS
Dear Sir-I have used your VEGETINE for
Sick Headache, and been greatly benefited
thereby. ] have every reason to believe it to
be a good medicine.
Yours very respectfully,
Mrs. JAMES CONNER,
All Third st.
HEADACHE.-There are various causes for
headache, as arrangement of the circulating
system, of the digestive organs, of the nervous
system, sc. VEGETINE can be said to be a sure
remedy for the many kinds of headache, as 1t
it acts directly upon the various causes of
this complaint, Nervousness, Indigestion, Cost
iveness, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Biliousness,
sc. Try the Vegetine. You will never regretit.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

Last week we travelled fifteen miles
over rough roads, to see friend on bus
mess. HIS wife informed us that as he
had nothing to do, he had gone to town,
and would not probably be back till
dark. And yet when we went to his
barn we found no hinges on his stable
door, no feed-trough in his manger, no
hay nearer than eighty rods off, in a
stack by the slough; the calves, colts
and hogs In his young orchard, and
around his door and we'll His corn
crib had no roof, his front gate was
nailed up, pigs sleeping IN the manure
pile, chickens roosting on the harness in
the stable, etc, etc. And yet he had
nothing to do. In the house we found
smart wife, sweet baby, and every
thing neat, clean and tidy. Can it be
possible for any animal to be more per-
verse, careless and slovenly than man
when he tries to be?-lo,oa State Reg
lsfer.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
Ayers
Sarsaparilla

For Scrofula, and all
scrofulous diseases, Erysi-
pelas, Rose, or St. Antho-
ny's Fire, Eruptions and
Eruptive diseases of the
skin, alterations of the
Liver, Stomach, Kidneys,
Lungs, Pimples, Pustules,
Boils, Blotches, Tumors,
letter, Salt Rheum, Scald
Had R;aouo,.no IIloo.n
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
FOREIGN.
vECET|NE
EAn n~aAa-

VEGETINE.-When the blood becomes lifeless
and stagnant, either from change of weather
or of climate, want of exercise, change of diet,
renew the blood, carry Off the putrid humors,
cleanse the stomach, regulate the bowels, and
impart tone of vigOr to the whole body.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
How to Make Coffee.

1t is not at all difficult to make good
coffee. That it is so often spoiled in
the making is perpetual wonder to u.s.
Given, good coffee, water, clean coffee
pot, good fire, and condensed milk or
cream, it seems to us that most deli
cous beverage is sure to result. We
give you one method, which has stood
successfully the test of many years.
Put your ground coffee in a bowl, a
large tablespoonful for each person;
break into it the white or an egg 1--WE
use an egg for two mornings, the white
for one, and the yelk and shell for the
next; stir this thoroughly-this is an
important part of the process then add
cold water very slowly, stirring all the
the time, until tcaspoonful or more
has been mixed in. Having previously
scalded your coffee-pot, pour the coffee
into it, rinsing out the bowl with little
cold water; fill the coffee-pot more than
half full with boiling-hot water; then,
with a spoon, stir it moment; set it on
the fire, and when it first boils up stir
it down and add half a teaspoonful of
cold water; this settles it. Then set it
back on the range, where it will keep hot
until your breakfast is ready. 1t should
never be set back far enough to grow
cold. When needed let it boil up once
more, and then pour INTO your silver
coffeo-pot and serve as hot as possible
Use black sugar, and condensed milk
or cream. Boiled milk will not give it
the proper color or flavor. If you really
desire to get up your reputation for
good coffee do not forget this.-Chrfs-
fiun /uteUimucer.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
VECETINE.
Doctors Report.

II. II. STEV EMS, ES(g.-
Dear Strive have been selling your valua-
BILE Vegetine for three years, and we find that
It gives general satisfaction. We believe it to
be the best blood purifier now sold Very re-
spectfully, DIR. J. f. BROWN SEQ, Druggists
Uniontown, Ky.
Vegetine has never failed to effect a cure
giving tone and strength to the system debili-
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

The farmers who lifted the mort
cages from their land during the flush
times caused by the war were the fortu-
nate ones; while those who went into
debt have generally failed In view of
the prosperity of the farming class dur
ing the present year. it is well to re-
member this experience. A combina-
ton of causes has produced fair prices,
in conjunction with an immense crop.
But the Ru,al World reminds the farm
crs that European war will not last al
ways; that next year perhaps there will
be a larger crop in Great Britain than
has been produced in fifty years; that
but very small portion of our crops
may be wanted abroad, and that in con
sequence the very lowest prices may
prevail for all our farm crops" To be
forewarncd is to be forearmed. Farm
ers, therefore, who take in money for
their crops this year had better pay
their debts. Instead of incurring new
debts, pay off the old ones. Get in an
independent condition. The farm will
always make an Industrious farmer a
good living. Resolve to owe no man a
cent. Pay as you go, and peace Of mind
that the debtor cannot enjoy will be
yours CMicngO Journal,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
Treatment OF Cabbage.

A New Jersey gardener considers salt
necessary to the development of cab
bage, especially in places far from the
coast. He finds them more crisp, of
better flavor, and to keep better when
salt is used than without He uses it
as follows:
"a few days after setting out the
plants, and when they are damp, either
after rain, or when dew is on, | take
small dish of fine salt, and walking
among the rows, sprinkle pinch of salt
on the center Of each plant. When the
leaves begin to grow repeat the salt
ing, and when the center Of the leaves
begin to form the head, | apply the salt
again, scattering it over the leaves
After this look them over again oc-
casionally, and if | find plants that do
not head well, or appear diseased, |
sprinkle tho salt over freely. This will
save all such plants. A quart of salt
is sufficient for 500 plants in season,
although more can be used with safety"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
vECET|NE
For Kidney Complaint and
Nervous DEBILITY.

ISLESBORO, Me-, Dec %, 1877
MIR. STEVENS:-
Dear Sir had had a cough, for eighteen
years, when l commenced taking the VEGE-
TINE. l was very low; my system was debii-
and was very neruous-couOt bad, lungs sore.
When had taken one bottle l found 1t was
helping me; it has helped my cough, and it
strengthens me. l am now able to do my
work. Never have found anything like the
VEGETINE. l know it is everything it is rec
commended to be. Mrs. A. J. PENDLETON.
VEGETINE is strengthening and nourishing;
purifies the blood; regulates the bowels; quiz
cts the nervous system; acts directly upon the
secretions; and arOuses the whole system to
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

Dr.. }. c. AVER 4 CO., Lowell, Mass,
Procttcot and analytical Chemists.
GOLD Bx ALL DRUo0IsTs EVERYWHERE.
West-Jersey pioneer., 1878-06-20

SUPERsTITIoNs OF SOLDIERS. .-Skobeleff
would never ride in battle any other horse
than gray one, since it was on gray horse
he fought his first battle lin the late Russian
war, and he believed that it would be fatal
to him to change afterwards. Gen. Joseph
Shelby, of Missouri, had a similar supersti-
tion. A soldier who served under him says:
He firmly believed, and used often to say,
that he would never be killed in fight
while he rode sorrel horse And the fact
seemed to bear him out in this He was
wounded three times during the war, but
never once while riding sorrel horse. He
had twenty-four horses killed under him in
the various engagements where he was not
hit, and in every single instance where the
horse was hit and the rider escaped, the
horse was sorrel. Once, at Springfield, a
ball struck Shelby fair in the middle of the
forehead. 1t knocked him clean from his
stirrups-something difficult to do, for he
was splendid rider-and back over his
horse, and heavily upon the ground. Those
about him thought him killed, but he was
OH his feet in second, and on his horse in
another, saying in the cool tones of an ordi-
nary conversation, 81 cannot be killed to-
day, for l am riding sorrel horse" Sure
enough, the brim of his large felt hat had
caught the ball and broke it's force. It
knock ed him from his saddle and drew some
blood, but beyond this no other harm was
done.
West-Jersey pioneer., 1878-06-20

ANCESTRY OF THE PEN The earliest
mode of writing was on bricks, tiles, oyster
shells, stones, ivory, bark and leaves of
trees; and from the latter, the term ''leaves
of book" is probably derived. Copper
and brass plates were very early in use; and
bill of feoffment on copper was some years
ago discovered in India, bearing date one
hundred years B. c. Leather was also used,
as we'll as wooded tablets. Then the papy-
rus came into vogue, and about the eighth
century the papyrus was superseded by
parchment. Paper, however, is of great
antiquity, especially among the Chinese;
but the first paper mill in England was
built in 1886 by German, in hartford,
Kent. Nevertheless, it was nearly CEN
tury and half-namely, in 1713-before
Thomas Watkins, stationer, brought pa
per-making to anything like perfection.
The first approach to pen was the stylus,
a kind of iron bodkin, but the Romans for
bade it's use on account of it's frequent and
even fatal use in quarrels, and then it was
made of bone. Subsequently, reeds, point
ed and split, like pens of the present day,
were used.
West-Jersey pioneer., 1878-06-20

A NEW KIND OF HELL.-Here is the lat
est on the He'll question: About twenty
years ago. an old colored preacher in Geor-
gia was exhorting number of Africans to
"git on board the Gospel train and be saved
from the torments of a freezing hellp' The
old colored brother drew a shivering picture
of how cold place hell was, and how sim
ners were never permitted to get within a
million miles Of the faintest glimmer of a
spark Of fire. At the conclusion of the ser.
vices white brother who was present at
tempted to correct the old darkey, in regard
to the climate of the place where the wicked
are said to take up permanent abode after
death. The white man went on to give the
colored preacher an orthodox description of
red hot hell-burning birthstone, bursting
of mountains of seething lava, scorching
lime, rivers of coal, etc. When the white
man finished, the old colored preacher took
him by the hand and whispered privately in
his ear: "Massa, don you nebber tell de
coons about here OBJ such hot hell; eff sum
ob de ole rhumatic niggers wus to find dat
out, dey'd want to go to hell de .falst frost,
sure!"
West-Jersey pioneer., 1878-06-20

A WITHERED FLOwER-The Honesdale.
(Penn.) Herald relates the following: sLit
tie Maud Mott, the only child of E. H. Mott,
well-known in newspaper circles, was pas
sionately fond of flowers. She had a favor
ite fucshia, which she watched and cared
for with childish but unceasing attention.
1t was, at the time she was taken sick,
large, strong, and in every way healthy
plant, and had been in profuse bloom. On
the first day Of her illness there were 40 buds
upon it, ready to burst into flower, which
event Maud was waiting with the fondest
anxiety. 1t seemed that only few hours
could intervene before the plant would be
one mass of brightness. 1t never bloomedt
From the day its tender nurse was stricken
with the dreaded disease that snapped her
life, the plant gradually withered One by
one the full buds shrank away and dropped
from the STEMS On the day that little
Maud died the last bud fell off, and next
morning the plant itself was as leafless and
shrivelled as if the bitterest frost had stung
it to the heart, although it had received the
best of care throughout
West-Jersey pioneer., 1878-06-20

CURE FOR COLDS IN THE HEAD.-The
Lond0n Spectator says:-It would seem that
the cure for those orst of small nuisances.
colds in the head, which DR.. Ferrier sug-
gested in the Lancet, might prove to be a
remedy of very great value. 1t is snuff
white powder-composed of the following
ingredients: Hydrochlorate of morphia, two
grains; asacia powder, two drachms; trisni-
trate of bismuth, six drachms-the whole
making up quantity of powder of which
from one quarter to one-half may safely be
taken, it necessary, in the course of twenty
four hours. DR.. Ferrier says that with this
snuff he has twice cured himself of very vio-
lent colds. once, indeed, by taking trisni-
trate of bismuth alone, which is a very
powerful remedy for catarrh of the mucus
membrane, and is the most important in
gredient in this snuff. DIR. Ferrier men
tions two other persons who were cured of
violent colds by the same snuff, and to
these instances We may add that of the
present writer, who, having a very violent
cold coming on, with the sensation of
weight in the temples and the usual disa-
greeable feeling in the throat, as well as
ordinary catarrh, made trial of Dr. Terriers
remedy one evening, and cot up on the fol-
lowing morning completely free from cold,
which has not since required. The snuff,
instead of increasing the tendency to sneeze
almost Immediately begins to diminish it.