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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-01-31

them, when they are in such plight,
that shells not very entertaining. John
Is dimly conscious that his family do
mot appear at their usual good a.ivan-
tage, and wonders where the baby got
such dirty face. The old army friend,
being bachelor. is little surprised
at his comrades enthusiasm over either
wife or baby, but praises the child,
more or less. according to the elasticity
Of his conscience, and does not prolong
the interview beyond the demands Of
lpoliteness.
However, everything must have an
end, and this journey is no exception.
Already passengers are beginning to
gather up bags and parcels, and soon
our travellers are seated in the coach,
which is to carry them up the ''log
hill'' to the pleasant farmhouse.
81 am so tiredr' gasps the poor
mother, and her face confirms the truth
Of her words. The father feels dis
tressed, but only says:
IS / am very sorry; but never mind.
we are almost there" while he thinks
e How little these women can en-
dure! Here l have taken care of that
child all the way up, and feel as fresh
as can be, and she is all tired out with
the journey. What pity our Ameri-
can women haven't more staminar'-
Mary Blake, in Scribner's Monthly.
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from the decay or fermentation Of veg
etables in rooms under family apart
ments.
Ten years ago we constructed fruit
cellar under our stable, and it has
proved so satisfactory that we venture
to give brief description of it. The
division walls are constructed of brick,
and the apartments are two In number,
an outer and an inner room. The outer
room is but partly underground, and is
ten by twelve feet in area, and eight
feet high. The inner room is wholly
underground, and frost-proof; it has
four brick walls and q cemented floor.
In this room the fruit is stored early in
December, when the weather becomes
cold. The outer room holds the fruit
during the autumn months after it is
gathered, and it is cool, well lighted
and dry The windows are leftopen and
q free circulation of air allowed 90 long
as no danger from frost exists. When
the fruit is taken to the inner room,
the door is closed and no light admitted.
Ventilation is secured in moderate
weather by opening the inner door and
throwing down window in the outer
room. In this cellar we kept apples of
last seasons growth until the present
winter in perfect condition. Some of
these apples, exhibited at the autumn
agricultural fairs, were pronounced as
fresh as those of the past seasons
growth.
Apples stored in this cellar which
would bring only one dollar barrel
at the time of gathering we sold last
spring and summer at three dollars.
without picking over. The profits of
good fruit cellar are greater than any
thing connected with farm arrange
ments.-Boston Journal of Chemistry.
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Fruit Cellars.

The Importance to every fruit cult
vatOr of a suitable place in which to
store the products of his orchards late
in the autumn and during the winter is
strangely overlooked. No farmers es-
Enlistment can be satisfactory without
fruit cellar, and this is specially the
case if large quantities of apples. pears,
or grapes are among the products of
the farm. The ordinary cellars under
dwellings do not meet the want, as
they are usually not adapted to pre-
serve fruit, except for month or two
after harvest. They often do not pro-
tect from frost, or they are damp and
without means of ventilation, and fruit
soon decays. To keep fruit several
conditions are important. First. the
atmosphere of fruit room should be
dry; there should be no more damp
ness than ordinarily exists in the cold
outside air. The room should be sus-
ceptible of ventilation in proper wealth
er, not by direct currents of air, but by
air modified before it reaches the fruit.
A fruit room must be frost proof; it must
be cleanly and accessible. As regards
location, it may be placed ON side
hill, the excavation opening to the
south; or it may be placed under >
barn or stable, or other convenient out
building. 1t is not well to store large
quantities Of fruit in rooms under
dwellings,, even if they are adapted 70
the keeping Of the fruit. The hygiene
OF families must not be jeopardized by
the possibility Of evil ransI1ta avsa;n1,
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A Good Example.

A FEW weeks since. it was proposed
to the Sabbath-School connected with
the Broadway Tabernacle Church in
this city, that they should make their
Christmas merry by the bestowment Of
gifts upon others, rather than by re-
ceiving gifts. The proposal was hearth
ly approved both by teachers and
pupils; and the classes, near fifty in
number, soon selected the recipients
for their fayors. These were mostly
families worthy, but in want. Some
were poor widows with little children;
and others were individuals, aged or
infirm, and dependent. The time was
then improved in preparing the gifts,
SO that they should best meet the ne
cessities of those for whom they were
intended.
On Friday evening last meeting Of
rare and delightful interest was held At
the Tabernacle. The teachers and
pupils Of the school and their friends
came together to learn the results Of
their new method of Christmas merry
making. After singing, prayer, the
recitation of portions Of Scripture BY
the classes, and m address by the
pastor. DR.. Taylor, brief reports from
the teachers were read, giving : state
ment Of the work of each class. some
account Of the condition of those aided,
and Of the effect Of what had been done,
50 far = observed. upon the givers and
receivers.
These reports stirred the hearts OF
all present. They showed that there
had been contributed tons Of coal, and
barrels Of hour. and bushels Of pota-
tosA and pieees Of heef, aad Fosstsd
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What Causes Consumption.

Statistics prove that the percentage
of deaths by consumption keep exact
pace with the number of inhabitants
who follow indoor occupations. More
women than men are victims to it, be-
cause more women spend their time
within doors as matter of course.
The rooms in which they live are gen.
orally very warm, and without ventila-
ton. When their poor, abused lungs
break down, they anathematize the
"disagreeable and unhealthful eli
mate,n though their failing health can
be traced directly to an outrageous vio-
lation of the physical laws Of Nature.
How many people in this very city are
preparing for the coming of the under
taker by sleeping in warm rooms, with
the death-dealing base-burner in full
blastp The old prejudice against night
air still clings to many. They exclude
it from their sleeping diving rooms,
and when they shut it out they shut in
every night enough poison to carry
them over Jordan's stormy waves.
Then the air in churches and public
assemblies is universally bad. Appar-
emily the blessings of ventilation are
unknown to the custodians of the doors
and windows of such places. If Chris
tians had half the regard for their
lungs that they have for their souls,
they would labor for the passage of q
pure air ordinance in the churches that
would give them more time and vigor
to prepare for Heaven. The theater is
not much better. Until places of wor-
ship and amusement are better venti-
lated, no one who has proper regard
for his lungs should frequent them, UNI
less he carry his own cubic air with
him. Factories, printing offices and
all places where human beings are COR
rallied for several hours together, are
Conservatives for the propagation of
consumption. Who were the healthy
people? Those who, years ago, slept
in rooms that never knew fire, and
worshiped in churches as cold as the
experience of the Polaris expedition.
Now, surrounded with every comfort,
large proportion of the population of
this country cuts loose from its life
every year by means of consumption.
Pure air will make the dead scourge
avaunt. Open the windows at the top.
and keep them open night and day, and
see how quick consumption will sneak
out of sight.-DenUer NeUs.
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Power Of Habit.

REV. N. L. BRAKEMAN, of Frankfort,
Ind, is delivering course of lectures
to the young people of his congrega-
ton on 1.-The harmony between Bible
truth and human experience" One
lecture Con the harmony of these two
great teachers as to the formation,
growth and power of habiD closes in
these words:
OF what we have said on this subject,
this is the sum:
Little acts, carelessly done at first,
are repeated until they run into Gus
tom; custom forms habit; habits crys-
tallize into character, and character
makes immortal destiny. So that hab-
its may yet bind the soul in chains of
eternal fate.
A flake of snow is light and little
thing, but flakes make the avalanche
which shakes the mountains in its fall,
overwhelms the city, and floods the
valley. That spark from the electric
wheel is little thing; but tits electric
ity that leaps in the lightning's bolt,
from the storm-cloud, skaters the
giant oak of the forest, and makes the
earth tremble to the pulsations of its
power. That fantastic spray of frost
upon the window-pane is a small thing,
but it is frost that makes the great ice
bergs, floating in the Northern seas,
and grinding to atoms the strongest
ships caught between their ponderous
bodies. Sands form the globe; drops
fill the vast oceans bed; and stars form
the innumerable shining hosts that
crowd infinite space. Learn well the
lesson which flakes, and sparks, and
sands, and drops, and stars would
teach. Take care of the Titles, and
guard well the beginnings of thoughts,
desires and deeds. A little, careless
habit may end in wasted fortune, a
blighted name, a wrecked soul, a
ruined life and wretched Immortality.
Every habit is the representative of al
most infinite power for veal or woe;
for time and for eternity.
Thus have we traced the power of
habit, and seen in it law of sin. and
the soul; of character of life; of time
and eternity. So does sin enslave the
soul. So helpless is man when bound
by the cords of iniquity. And so do in
ternal consciousness, personal expe-
rience, and human history harmonic
and demonstrate the truth of Bible
teaching on the subject. l close with
these lines of the poet:
Habit, at first, is but silken thread,
Fine as the light-winged gossamers that sway
In the warm sunbeam of a summers day;
shallow streamlet ripping o er its bed;
A tiny sapling e'er it's roots are spread;
A yet unhardened thorn upon the spray;
A lions whelp that hath not scented prey,
A little smiling child obedient led.
Bewarei-
That thread may bind thee rs a chain;
That streamlet, gather to fatal sea;
That saping. spread into gnarled tree;
That thorn, grown hard may wound and give
thee pain;
That whelp his murderous fangs reveal;
That child, giant grown, may crush thee
meath his heel"
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home, FARM AND GARDEN.

Nelson Ritter says the best way to
color butter with carrots is to feed
them to the cows.
The Nebraska Farmer says: Corn
piles in the yards of Nebraska are near
~ as plenty as wood piles in the East,
and for the same purpose, to-wit: to
burn for fuel.
The following radical sentiment is
from the Western Stock Journal: In
nine hundred and ninety-nine cases in
q thousand the man that loses hog is
himself to blame.
Fresh seed is always more produc-
tive than old seed. Farmers neglect
this point too much. Make also selec-
tons of good seed. A large kernel
produces large stalk just as surely
as large bird produces large eggs or
a large COW large calf.-N. Y. Herald.
Who says the farmer is feeble? 1t
is by his mighty hand the forests of this
continent have disappeared, the wan
tonness of wild nature has been tanned
and the golden grain has waved over
this vast domain. Before his face the
wild beasts and still wilder Indians
have retreated as before mighty
power. And this has been done by no
royal children, but by the plain,
hard hand Of the farmer. -l0s0G State
Register.
Corn is cheap. Fatten and kill all
poor and old cows, and get better ones
for breeding and for milk. We ought
to whitewash our yard-fences and out
buildings more, and our public officers
and great men less. There are some
things it never pays to doctor. If you
have sick fruit tree of any kind, dig it
up at once, and in so doing dig big
hole ready for thrifty tree next
spring. If you want TO keep your hogs,
horses, cattle and sheep healthy, give
them salt regularly. There is no bet
ter vermifuge than salt. Much of the
so-called hog-cholera is due to intes-
final worms, which salt would prevent.
Golden Rule.
1t is singular that half the world
do not know how to make buckwheat
cakes; even here in our own enlightened
State, we are, in many sections of the
country, in the "dark ages" on this
important subject. 1t really gives us
pain to see the good danes baking
them the size of dinner-plate, and a
half inch thick, piling Them up upon
each other long before breakfast is
ready; and there they lie. steaming and
sweating and cooling till the pigs will
hardly relish them. This steam fodder
is what some people call buckwheat
cakes! Now, the real buckwheat cakes
are made thus: Take warm water and
thicken it with flour. to which add a
tablespoonful of molasses, to make
them brown well. Brewers yeast is
best, but it cannot generally be OBJ
tanned except in large towns. In the
morning add a little soda. If the bat
ter is of the right consistence, and the
cakes baked quickly and eaten direct
from the griddle, they will be quite diff
ferent from the tough, heavy things
too often stacked up before the fire.
Germantown Telegraph.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Bowler, sister of George II.
Pendleton, was formally received into
the Roman Catholic Church at London,
on the 18th of December.
1t is reported that Sec'y Evarts, in
recently criticising the course OF Sena-
tor David Davis, spoke of him as TOO
political on the Bench and too Judicial
in the Senate "
Oliver P. Dunn, ninety-four years
of age, of New Brunswick, N j., is
seeking a parson to unite him in mar
rage with Mrs. Way, some twenty
years his junior.
So far as Cornelius Vanderbilt has
got along with his testimony, itappears
that he has borrowed more money and
paid back less than any other man in
America. -HaWk-Eye.
Judge Jeremiah Black has a great
dislike to ordering from bill of fare
when at dinner, and his usual direction
to an attendant is, +" Bring me anything
that is proper for civilized being to
eat"
The man who graduated first in
Charles Summers class at Harvard is
now minister in an obscure village in
New Jersey. The next best scholar is
a Section Superintendent on the Penn
sylvania Railroad.
Gov. E. Conner, of Me-. Is only
thirty-nine years of age, and yet has
been elected three times to the Cover
norship of Maine. He started poor,
but reached eminence and wealth by
practicing E. Conner, Me-, with big
M.-Detr0it Free Press.
Mrs. Hicks behaved in lordly
manner at the funeral of her first hus-
band. She sent 5000 to the clergy
man, with directions to pay the sexton
$50. each of the colored couriers S25,
retain 800 for himself, and distribute
the remainder among the poor.
Kellogg, who stole the Song of
the Milkmaid' from Sidney Dobell,
and sold it to Scribner for five dollars,
is not receiving very kind notices from
the press. and is not likely to try his
little game on any udder magazine
NorristoaOn Herald.
DIR. Cowes, the naturalist of the
Hayden Survey, does not seem to care
for company. On the door of his Office
at Washington is the inscription: mo
tice to Visitors Blessings brighten as
they take their flight" And the walls
are hung with such notices as these:
E1eunt Onnes," "He who robs me
of my time confers the charm of his
personal presence at. the expense of
science" .'Freedom from interruption
confers peace of mind that religion
cannot give ''Brevity is the soul of
wit in visiting" 1.-THE simple fact of a
door has certain suggestiveness."
The Wilmington On. c. Star
vouches for the following rather trans
parent story: "Mr. Norment, we'll
known politician of Robson County,
was engaged in fishing in Lumber
River, using hook and line, when by
some means he lost overheard valua-
BILE gold ring which he had worn upon
one of his fingers. The water was deep
and the bottom of the river was soft
and muddy. SO of course no attempt
was made to recover the lost trinket
Nine weeks afterward he was again
fishing in the same locality, when he
caught large trout, which he took
home with him, and upon opening the
fish preparatory to cooking it, he was
astonished to find in its stomach the
identical ring he had lost overheard
more than two months previously"
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The Hnmming.Bird u the California
Waterfalls.


One winter morning. when the
MERGED River was blue and green with
unmelted snow, observed one of my
ouzels perched on snag out in the
midst of swift rushing rapid. He
sang cheerily. as if everything was just
to his mind. and while Istood on the bank
admiring him, he suddenly plunged in
to the sludgy current, leaving his song
broken abruptly off. After feeding
minute or two at the bottom, and
when one would suppose he must in
evitably be swept far downstream, he
emerged just where he went down,
alighted on the same snag, showered
the water beads from his feathers. and
at once continued his unfinished song,
splicing it together as if there had been
no interruption.
The ouzel alone of all birds dares to
enter a white torrent. And though
strictly terrestrial in structure, no other
is so inseparably related to water, not
tross, or storm-petrel. Ducks go ashore
when they have done feeding in undis-
turbed places. and frequently make
long overland flights from lake to lake
or from field to field. The same is true
of most other aquatic. birds. But our
ouzel, born on the very brink of a
stream, seldom leaves it for single
moment. For, Notwithstanding he is
often on the wing, he never flies over
land, but whirs with rapid, quail-like
beat above the stream, tracing all its
winding modulations with great mi
nuteness. Even when the stream is
quite small, say from five to ten feet
wide. he will not try to shorten his
fight by crossing bend, however abb
rupt it may be; and even when dis
turbed by meeting some one on the
bank, he prefers to fly over ones head
to lodging out over the ground.
When, therefore, his flight along a
crooked stream is viewed endwise. it
appears most strikingly wavered-an
Interpretation of every curve inscribed
with lightning-like rapidity on the air.
The vertical curves and angles OF the
most PERCEPTIONS Alpine torrents he
traces with the same rigid fidelity.
Swooping adown the inclines of cas-
cades. dropping sheer over dizzy falls,
amid the spray, and ascending with the
same fearlessness and ease, seldom
seeking to lessen the steepness of the
activity by beginning to ascend before
reaching the base of the fall. No mat
ter how high it may be, he holds
straight on, as if about to dash head
long into the throng of booming rock
cts, then darts abruptly upward, and,
after alighting at the top of the preci-
pice to rest moment, proceeds to feed
and sing. His flight is solid and i'm
petuous, without any intermission of
wing-beats-one homogeneous buzz,
like that of laden bee on its way
home. And while thus buzzing freely
from fall to fall. he is frequently heard
giving utterance to a long outdrawn
train of unmodulated notes, in no way
connected with his song, but CORE
spending closely with his flight. both
in sustained vigor and homogeneity of
substance. John Mir, in Scribncr for
EpkYnOyN
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THE SClE NICE OF LIFE

Two hundretlth edition revised and enlarged Just nj
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English language written by physician Of gr a: ele
rience. 10 whom was aged geld and jeweltd El
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dred pages more than 20 valuable preset tnns for
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The author s noble Ienefactor An ill rated
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thor may b, consulted all d ases requiring sal
and experience Address
DR. W. II. PARKER. No. 4 BulinchSt Bostoa
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Sunday.Schoo Lessons.
FIRST QUARTER. ISIS.

FIRST QUARTER. 1873.
Feb. 3.-Jehosaphat Reproyed. 2 Chron. 10: 10.
Feb. l0.-Jehosaphat Helped of
God ............ $500. z Chron.IO:H Y.
Feb. H.-JoSsh Repairing the
Temple -. $50. q Chron.24: 4-l3.
ished .............. 49,. 2 Chron.2s:l 6 q.
Mch. 3.-Ahaz' Persist mt Wick
edness.. ............... 2Chron. % 10 a.
Mich. l0-Hez' kiah's Good Reign. Chron y: Ill.
Mich. I7.-Hezekiah and the
Assyrians ....................2 Chron.32: 9-2l.
Mcb. A.-Manasseh Brought to
Repentance ..........'...... 2 Chron..3: GIG.
Mich. I.-Review of the Lessons for the Quarter.
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WISE people who love to drive into
apparently unfathomable mysteries are
requested to explain why pencil lead
always breaks Just when you have I'm
ished laborionsly constructing : point
with q dull knife.-Rockland fAs.J
Courier.
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According to the Boston He ,';so,
Mark Twain has made q very ay'oSs
apology for his "insult" TO - Lo hssnouet.
and the rest at the atlantic Danqu th.
The The Feratd says: eve have not tne
te Ut Of his letter at hand. but unael s
s sear A. that be said to them in substance
That tS he was a fool, that be knew it. put
thst Cod made him q fool, that ne was
Cod, : fool and couldn' help himself, ana
that thew ought to have a little compass
s s:~' an him Tor Gods sake. if not for
his own If there is any apology IN ex-
istence which is more searching ' :. =
this. we should like to know where II -
to be found.
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VEGETINE,
vECETINE.

Thousands will bear testimony land do 1t Voluntarily
mat vE6EIINE is the best medical compound yet
placed before the public for renovating and puriffnr
tne bood graduating all humors Impurities or poison
Gus from the and strength
ening the system debilitsted by disease in fact n r.
many have called it. sThe Great Health Restorer.n
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THE receipts of hides at the port Of
New York for the nine months from
Jan. l to Oct. / were 2,324.6l5; the
samctime last year, Less, s6si increase,
eSQ,962.
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mo,n.,. motner.. mothers.

Don't fail to procure MRS. WINsLow's SooTH-
rsa SYRUP for all diseases of teething in chil-
dren. 1t relieves the child from pain, cures WIND
collie, regulates the bowels, and, by giving reiiel
and health to the child, gives rest to the mother
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An Oregon paper says that during e
a recent court martial the ev1dence =.
the commanding officer, Col. Cuvier
Grover, brother of the Senator, was
ruled out because of his expressed I'M
belief in God.
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ON the theory OF the survival Of the
fittest, the tailor and the dressmaker
ought ere long to possess the EARTH
Boston Advertiser. Win not the cpl
leptic come in for his shareP Worcester
Press. Yes; and the prize-ring combat
ant?-N Y. Graphic
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Honor I'm ssis own Land.

What is that from which II yoe
take the whole some will yet remain'
Wholesome.