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Abolish Treating.

Treating" constitutes one of the
chief perils attaching to the custom of
imbibing spirituous liquors, and there
are few persons who could not, if free
from its shackles, restrict the indulgence
of their thirst to a decent moderation,
A man meeting group of his friends
Just as he is bent on obtaining his after
noon allowance of sherry and bitters"
must, if he does not violate usage and if
he wishes to do what's expected of him,
ask them all to join him. Suppose the
whole party to number seven. Seven
drinks are poured down seven throats,
willing or unwilling. What is the i'm
mediate result Of this hospitality? Six
other individuals feel themselves mort
gagged with an obligation to equal it.
There may be little chat, and then
some one says: "Ah. let's have another
drinkw Then seven more drinks are
poured down seven throats. More talk.
Another happy thought by another
member of the party. Seven more drinks
descend the seven throats. More talk,
A fourth inspiration by fourth par
ticipant. Some one who has done his
fated duty tries to beg of; has business
to transact; ought not to drink any
more. His objection is vetoed by the
asking party, who is already slightly
stimulated perhaps. "No shirking, ole
feller, come on!" Repetition of the
gulping act by seven performers. Every
one feels the mellowing influence by
this time. " Charley" says No. Six af.
fectionately to the genius of the bar,
"Giv's mother! All hands roundp'
Encore the feat of seven men swallow
ing seven drinks. No. Seven's turn has
arrived. The happy reliefis near. He
happens to be the least experienced oi
the party. He is already full of bliss
His words are few but expressive. "Se
'em up again, hicp Up they go, ant
then down they go-seven more drinks
Let us see.s Seven times seven are forty
nine. And all because one man fel
like taking little sherry an,
bitters." Perhaps he goes home to hi
dinner afterward. Perhaps he don't
Perhaps he fails to see his wife and
mother-in-law until the next day. Sucl
is life in a country where treating"
the custom.
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The True way to Tnvi0ornte.

The true way to invigorate feeble system
is to infuse activity into the operations of
the stomach, that wondrous alembic in
which the food is transmitted into the con.
stituents of blood, the chief element of our
vitality. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, be.
cause it accomplishes this end, is greatly to
ne preferred to many so called tonics, useful
indeed as appetizers, but imperative as aids
to digestion and assimilation. This sterling
cordial, while it invigorates the stomach
BEAUTIFULLY stimulates the liver, bowels, ana
kidneys, insurine the escape through the
regular channels of effete and useless matter
thrown off by the system, which is thus
increase of vital energy and a m ore activ,
and regular discharge of every physica
function, and it has the further effect o
rendering the system unassailable by ma
larial epidemics.
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The Pyramids.

The Pyramids continue to puzzle
mans ingenuity, not only as to their
methods of construction, but as to the
purpose for which they were built. Mr..
Smyth, whose astronomical views i'm
bued everything he looked at with his
favorite science, endeavored to show
that the pyramid was nothing more than
an everlasting monument, with the be-
nefcent intention of keeping forever
fixed the unit of length-a sacred cubit
standard. The last idea is that the
pyramid is simply cairn, and that as a
cairn it will be resolved some day. and
will crumble to the ground. Discus
sions as to the age of the pyramids still
rage, and are apparently as far as ever
from being settled. What they do
point at, however, is their erection in a
time of profound peace. There must
have been a subject race and a people
who could be called upon for an
unlimited amount of labor. OF fine
arts there was no display, but immense
skill in engineering, quarrving and
building. 1t might have been architec.
ture, but of crude kind. One thing we
can get at, however, and that is some
| idea of the cubical contents of the Great
Pyramid. Having obtained this ap.
proximately, it is Interesting to compare
its process of erection, taking the labor
question in view, with modern work and
toll. The labor expended on the Grea
| Pyramid was equivalent to lifting 15,
733, ,000,0 900 cubic feet of stone one foo
high. If accounts can be relied upon, i
took one thousand men twenty years t.
complete it. There are innumerabl
railroads in the United States where 9
greater quantity of cubic feet have bee1
raised to the same height with one-tentl
the number of men in one half to one
third the same time. We can get exac
statistics of an English railroad, whic
will help the comparison. The Londo
& Birmingham Railway, in its building
lifted OO0,00O,OOO cubic feet of matt
rial one foot high. The road was bull
by twenty thousand men in less tina
five years.
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the day. They spoke of it among them
selves, and there was but one explana-
ton of his absence. He had been foully
dealt with. Some one, to get the price
less diamond, had taken the miners
life.
And this proved to be the truth. He
was found that night murdered, in the
little river, and the belt and jewel were
gone.
They carried the stiff, CORY body to
the camp and prepared it for burial.
Rude were the hands and rough the
hearts perhaps at the work, but some
thing in the pale, handsome face, with
the blood trickling from an awful club
wound in the forehead, made them
gentler They had not loved him alive /;
but now dead, there went up many
silent curses against his murderers.
And who these were did not long re-
main secret. Two of the most profit
gate villains of the camp were the cul-
prits. Each fearing the other, divulged
the story of the crime. And when it
was known, the unmarked grave by the
river became a shrine, where many OF
the men often went, and in the memories
that it called up, lived over an earlier
and better life.
1t seemed they had resolved on rob.
bing him and making their way south
At first the thought of murder had moi
entered their minds. So they followed
him one evening to the stream, and saw
him take out the diamond that appeared
to fash and glitter in the light of the set
ting sun. They were at some distance
and saw him press the stone to his lip
again and again. And while sitting
silently there, they had crept up, ant
springingly quickly, pinned him to tn
earth. He struggled desperately, AM
fearful of losing their prize, the fata
blow was struck.
They then took his treasure from tn
hand still closely clutching it in death
J 1t was only a locket containing tn
pictures of an elderly woman, evidentl
his mother and of young girl, probabl
, his sweetheart. Between the portrait
: was the remains of faded flower.
: This was the great diamond, and fo
this they had shed brothers blood.
2 The murderers were sent under escol
i to Cape Town, but ere they reached
| perhaps through the completely of th
l guard, escaped.
: None of the men knew his rame {
r country, or knowing, never mentione
a them. But the story, however, of tt
Great Diamond" to this day remain
s one of the classics Of Diamantina Cam
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ITEMS FOR FIELD AND RO USE,

THE Journal of Chemistry says that no
European nation is so advanced as italy
in its methods of teaching agriculture.
CREAM pancakes: Mix the yolks of
two eggs, well beaten, with a pint of
cream, two ounces of sifted sugar, a
little nutmeg, cinnamon, and mace.
Rub the pan with bit of butter, and
fry the pancakes thin.
BREAKFAST cake: Take some rice
that has been boiled soft, twice as much
-four as rice, little fine Indian meal,
and a little yeast; mix it with cold
water, and let it rise over night. This
will make very fine biscuit for break
fast.
ANY dairyman troubled with COWS
having sore teats should use plenty OF
linseed oil before and after milking.
He will find but few, if any, sores about
his cows teats if this be done. Many
COWS that are kickers would delight to
be MIXED if little linseed oil was used
on the teats.
AN English paper tells of new poi
son for rats and mice. It is precipitated
carbonate Of baryta. This occurs as q
| heavy, fine, white powder, devoid Of
taste or smell, and can be purchased al
any ordinary drug store. A portion oi
it was mixed with four times its weight
| of sound barley meal, and made into 8
stiff paste with water, and small pellets
of the soft cake introduced into the
holes of rats, house mice and field mice
FRIED chicken: After neatly dress
ing and carving in pieces of proper size
parboil half hour or longer until ten
| der; take out with fork and place il
frying-pan of melted butter; fir,
brown by frequent turning to keep from
bu ming. A nice gravy is made by pour
mgr the broth in which it was boiled int
the frying-pan with thickening of fou
and any seasoning preferred. Curle
parsley arranged as a ga1nish adds t
the general effect.
The following is good receipt fo
worms in horses: Powdered poplar bark
two ounces; powdered sulphur, fou
ounces; salt, three ounces; mixed wei
Divide this mass into twelve parts, an,
mix one with the food every night
This will not only remove worms, bu
tone up the digestive organs, so that tn
parasites cannot find a foothold.-Cou1
try Gentleman. Three parts wood ashe
and two of salt, a tablespoonful fed dali
with the feed, is a simple and efectus
remedy.
INCREASE your pasture lands. N
part of your farm pays so well. Th
coming spring put ten, twenty, or fit
more acres of the farm in pastur
Plow the ground well, harrow it fin
and SOW clover, timothy, red-top, an
orchard grass on it. Keep off the stoc
| the first summer, or for the first thrt
; or four months, and you will soon ha,
a pasture that will add greatly to tt
value of the farm and the condition
your stock. For winter pasturage, so
orchard grass and blue grass seed.
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PERHAPS the queerest case of the SEN
sibility of domestic animals to human
ailments is shown in the case of house
cat in family living on Garden-street,
north of Capen. A little girl in the
family had sharp attack of the mumps,
which is the prevalent disorder this win
ter in Hartford. She continued to hold
and caress her cat, favorite with her,
and few days ago the face of the cat
was observed to be swelling. Gradually
it developed into decisive and unmis-
taxable case of "mumps," with all its
pains and penalties. Luckily the cat
didn't take cold-or there is no telling
what might not have happened. The
animal, as Artemus Ward said, is now
con the improve. ."-Hartford Times.
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Some medical writer has an ingenious
theory that the belief that certain dis
ease exists will in time beget it; that
thought of any given organ as deranged
will so disturb the vital process going
on in it as to soon make it so. But be
this as it may, forgotten aches, espe-
cially nervous ones, are like neglected
guests-hkely to take their leave.
Occasionally we meet one who has a
great love for being sick, or at least
being thought 50. In the "hearts of
such is an aching void, which naught
but pity for pain can ever fill"
Now we have no more right to keep
the hearts of our friends on the rack. in
pity for us unnecessarily than we have
to ask them to toll for US when not need
full. Yea, more, in proportion as the
spirit is more sacred than the body, is
the former more wicked than the latter.
Some take great care to awaken hus-
bandly solicitude, lest it become dor
mant. Many patient of mine have l
seen grow worse the instant her " other
half' entered the room.
An amusing instance of this type oc
Cured in Allegany County, NY, where
we formerly resided. An invalid wife
fearing her husbands feelings were
becoming rather obtuse, conceived the
idea of giving his sympathetic anc
afectional nature slight jog, and SC
colored the entire surface of her body
with indigo, in his absence. But i
seems the scarf skin did not dye we'll
for the affrighted husband, on his return
called physician, who, when feeling
the pulse, took also the liberty to spi
on his finger and rub her arm, disclosing
to the astonished friends the fact tina
the disease, though deep blue, was no
"skin deep"
The first step in cure of many a
invalid is to break up this morbid desir
for sympathy, to cut off all forme
resources of this sort, and call out sell
reliance. 1t needs a will to find tn
way to health.
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The Albany IN. " Journal tells a
romantic story of young man who met
his future wife by accident. He was
driving street-car for fun, having per-
suaded the regular driver to loan his
car, coat and hat for one evening. As
he was driving up hill he saw a run
away horse, attached to a sleigh, coming
down at breakneck speed. He jumped
from his car and, striking the fright
ened horse blow in the face, stopped
him and then-fainted. The sole occu-
pant of the sleigh was young lady.
She insisted upon bringing her preserver
to her home, when it was found that he
had been wounded in the head by the
horses heels. She nursed him tenderly
and they read much poetry together.
No cards.
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A Remarkable Man.

The Cory Herald says: Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard, living in Scottsville, Warren
County, have seventeen children, all
born within twenty-one years, and never
more than one at time. They live in
shanty with only two rooms. Mr..
Howard, it is said, can recite the names
of his children backwards in seven diff
ferent languages, blindfolded, with his
hands behind him. He makes it point
to split cord of wood every morning
before breakfast, and has not missed
voting since jackson was a candidate.
He has never seen sick day in his life,
never drank anything stronger than
alcohol, never chewed any fne-cut, and
never swore any thing stronger than
by darn" If we knew just how far
Scottsville is situated from Cory, We
might give further particulars.
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WE are in receipt of Geo. P. Rowell &
Co.'s American Newspaper Directory, con-
tanning the latest statistics up to the close
of 1873. In this handsome volume will be
found accurate lists of all the newspapers
and periodicals pablished in the United
States, the Territories, and the Dominion of
Canada and Newfoundland, with a de-
scription of the leading towns and cities.
The book is absolutely indispensable for all
men who have the habit of extensively ad.
vertising their business. what man is
there who expects to build up profitable
business without the aid of the press? The
labor in the compilation of such volume
must be immense; but bears the marks ol
almost absolute accuracy. The information
it gives is obtained from the most trust
worthy sources. To say that the Directory
is without superior in its line is to assert
what everybody familiar with the facts
knows; to say that it is without an equa
| for general merit is using language none toe
strong..- Commercial Advertiser, Bufalo, N
| Y, Jan. Is, 1879.
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A PRISONER at New Ulm, Minnesota,
escaped from Jail by practicipg a pious
fraud. He pretended to be very pious,
and every night before retiring knelt
at his bedside as if in prayer. The
Jailer gave instructions not to disturb
him while SO engaged. This the prisoner
no doubt knew, and in order to deceive
the Jailer he stuffed out pair of pants
and coat and placed them in front of
the bed in a kneeling posture, and then
secreted himself in an empty cell. When
the Jailer closed the cell for the night
he supposed him to be saying his usual
prayers, and the trick was not discovered
until the next morning after his escape.
1t is we'll to add that he was sub
sequently recaptured, and SO, after all,
| lost his trick.
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WE have received a copy of Geo. P. Rowe

WE have received a copy of Geo. P. Rowell
& Co.'s American Newspaper Directory, for
1879, published at 10 Spruce-street, New
York. 1t contains an accurate list of all
the newspapers and periodicals published
in the United States and Territories, the
Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland,
together with a description of the towns
and cities in which they are published. II
magazines and periodicals. New York State
has the largest list of any State in the Union
--1,154. Pennsylvania, 1853; Ohio, 6z3; In
diana, 393.--The Journal, FishkilI, N. Y, Jan
80, 1879.
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THE American Newspaper Directory of
Geo. P. Roweli & Co. is much more than a
schedule for advertising agents. 1t is very
carefully prepared statement of all tine
newspapers and periodicals published on
this continent, with conscientious report
of their circulation and thus of their stand
ing. 1t presents them also geographically
and by their specialties. Compact and at
tractive in its typography, the volume de.
serves to be in the hands of all who have
business with the press, and it has besides
a permanent value as showing the condition
| and progress of this great estate LticG, ~
| Y, Morning Herald, Jan. II, 1879.
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All the "phones of this phonetic age are
surpassed in practical benefit to mankind,
by the discovery of Allan's Anti-Fat, the
great and only known remedy for obesity,
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ELLSWORTH, KAN, July 1S, 1878.
BOTANIC MEDICINE Co., Buffalo, N. Y:
Gentleme,a-Allan's Anti-Fat reduced me
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Yours respectfully,
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MEssRs. GEO. P. RowELL & Co., adver-
tising agents, New York City, have just
issued the January number of their Ameri-
can Newspaper Directory. 1t is handsome
book bound in cloth, library size, and con-
tains an accurate list of all the newspapers
and periodicals published in the United
States and Dominion of Canada, together
with description of the towns and cities
in which they are printed. Messrs. Rowell
& Co., are a reliable firm.--reliable alike to
the publisher and advertiser.--Dayton,O o.,
Journal, Jan. %, 1879.
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WE acknowledge the receipt from the
publishers, Geo. P. Rowell & Co., New York,
of their American Newspaper Directory for
January, 1S79---a convenient and truly val
liable compendium of journalistic statistics.
The greatest possible care seems to have
been taken to make the Directory correct,
and a reliable guide to advertisers; and ev-
cry effort seems to have been made to pro.
tect honest publishers against such as would
resort to false statements in orde to gain
unfair advantage.---7he Lyons Republican,
Feb. %, 1879.
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IT is stated as peculiar fact that
myopism. or near-sightedness, is exclu-
sively an attendant of civilization,
never being found among savages, and
rarely among the peasantry of any
country.
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RowELL's Newspaper Directory.-This
publication, for 1879, has just been received,
and is an Improvement on any of the former
editions. 1t shows vast amount of care
and labor, and reflects infinite credit upon
the enterprising firm by which it is com.
piled The price of the book is So. 1t should
be in the hands of every general advertiser.
-Ragerstotcn Hail, Hdgersto,cn, Nd, jan
81, 1879.
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WE have received the American News.
paper Directory, for 1879, Geo. P. Rowell &
Co., 10 Spruce St., n. Y, Publishers.
Messrs. Rowell & Co. deserve great credit
for their pains in making this work so COM
plete. This issue goes ahead of all preced-
ing ones. 1t can be examined by calling at
this oflice.-Quincy, Mass, Independent, Jan.
| %. 1879,
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WE are in receipt of Geo. P. Rowen
Co.'s Newspaper Directory for 1879, and
must say that it is the best ever issued by
Rowell--which is saying good deal. 1t is
on the same plan as the rate books issued
by commercial agencies, and is most com
plete in every particular. Rowell & Co. are
honest, straightforward and reliable, and
we can commend their Directory for 1879 to
every advertiser in the United States.---
The Daily Times, LeauenUorth, Kansas, Feb
f. 1879.
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WE have received of Geo. P. Rowen &
Co.. their Newspaper Directory for the
quarter, issued January. 1t is a neat vol
ume and of great value.-Southe7n .Egis,
AShuilIe, Ald., Jan. %, 1879.
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done our country as much credit as the Ma
son & Hamlin Cabinet Organs, which have
been acknowledged best at all great worlds
exhibitions for many years. See advertise
ment,
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TESTED BY TIME.-For Throat Diseases,
Colds, and Coughs, " BROWNS BRONCHIAL
TRocHEs" have proved their efficacy by a
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WE have received the new volume of the
Newspaper Directory from Messrs. Geo. T;
Roweil & Co. New York. 1t is a good
thing.-Fountain & Journal, Mt. Vernon,
No., Jan. 80, 1879.
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MEssRs. GEO. P. RowKLL. of the well.
known advertising agency, No. 10 Spruce
Street, New York, have furnished us with a
copy of their American Newspaper Direc.
tory. 1t is highly useful work.-Colunsbia,
s. c., Ph6nir, Jan. 25, 1879.
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MEssRs. GEO. P. RowELL & Co.'S News
paper Directory for 1879 has just been re-
ceived. The work is nicely printed, and
substantially bound, and is of great value
to those who need, in business way, such
information as it gives.-Middletoscn ". Y,
Daily Press, Jan. 16, 1879.
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BE punctual; neglect of this disturbs
business arrangements, wastes time, and
sets bad example to others.
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Coon breeding is guard upon the
tongue; the misfortune is that we put
it on and off with our fine clothes and
visiting faces, and do not wear it where
it is most wanted-at home.
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OLIVER DlTS0N & CO., Boston.
c. HI. Ditson d Co., J. E. Ditson a Co.,
III & 843 B'dway, N. Y. s22 chestnut-st., PhiIa
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WE have received from the Advertising
Agency of Messrs. Geo. P. RoweH & Co., No,
10 Spruce-street, New York, a copy of their
Newspaper Directory for January, 1879, a
work of over 500 pages, which bears the
stamp of neatness and accuracy. The book
is valuable to business men and advertisers.
-TheP enduluna, East Green,oich, r. L., Jan.
81 1870
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Octave ChOruses.

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