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dangerous and discreditable OF our political
phenomena that it adds bitterness and
unscrupulousness to our political contests
that IL organizes corruption, venality, dis
honesty in politics; that it has built UP
the detestable boss" system, by which a
few adroit re-pullers are enabled to con-
troll the patronage and consequently the
politics of whole districts and States, to the
entire suppression of public opinion, and
to the aggrandizement of knaves and
rogues that it fills our public offices with
incompetent persons that it prostitutes
the fiscal system of the nation into
mere plunder-collecting machinery
for the special benefit of the dominant
party; that it teaches partisans TIC
regard party as equivalent to coun'
try that it has paralyzed our foreign
service by filling our consulates and mis-
sions with utterly unfit and utterly unse-
lected officials that it has enormously in.
creased the expenses of government, and
as greatly degraded the standard of COM
potency in the public service; in short that
it has turned government into a means o.
enriching demagogues and rascals at tbs
expense OF the people, and in doing this
has driven the best elements of society out
of politics altogether, These facts the
people are beginning to understand, and
therefore when some swashbuckler partisan
undertakes to arraign party chic
because he has not regulated every
appointment according to the ole
spoils standard, there is not only les
disposition to approve the indictment, bu
there is growing impotence with the i'm
pudence OF it. No doubt there remain
only too many of the Bourbon class Wit
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Bread md Meat.

M Schcurer- KcstnLr has discovered
the remarkable fact that the fermenta-
ton of bread causcs the compete diges-
ton of meat. He found that Il beef
steak cut into small pieces, and mixed
with flour and yeast disappeared en-
tirely during the process of p~aniiicatiOn,
its nutritive principles becoming in
c~orporatcd with the bread. The meat
would also appear capable of prcserva-
ton for IN indefinite period in its new
state, for loaves of meat bread made in
1873 were submitted to the French
Academy of Science, when not 4 trace OF
worms or moldiness was obs ervable,
At the beginning of his experiments,
M. Scheurer-K estncr us ID raw meat,
but the meat bread lad n disagrceable
sour taste. which was avoided by cook
ing the meat for III hour with sufficient
water to afterward moisten the flour.
The meat must be carefully deprived of
fat, and only have sufficient salt to
bring out the flavor, rs salt, by aborb.
ing the moisture from the air, would
tend to spoil the bread. The proper,
ton of meat to flour should not exceed
one-half, so as to insure complete dlges-
ton. Bread made with q suitable pros
portion of veal is said to furnish excel
lent SOUP for the sick and wounded.
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Bismarck'S Dog,

A London correspondent of the Phila.
delphia Times tells the following story
about Bismarck's dog: The other day
two delegates from Altoona, charged
with presenting a petition, were re-
ccived by Bismarck. The chancellor
sat in his rocking chair, the Realm
Dog" stretched on the carpet, while the
delegates took their seats facing his
ilighness. One Of the delegates held a
roll of paper in his right hand, and, be-
ing an energetic speaker accustomed to
emphasize his arguments by gesticuln-
ton, he waved his scroll about while
addressing Bismarck, disregardful of the
fact that his movements ~elicitco several
successive disappearing utterances from
the watchtul hound; whereupon Bis
marck, hastily interrupting his inter.
locutor's remarks, exclaimed: do
put down that scroll, | beg of you. My
dog, like myself, enlertains a profound
aversion to every kind of paper. He be-
lieves 1t 10 be q weapon!" 1t is need
less to add that the delegates promptly
complied with this request, obviously
to the satisfaction OF the dog. which at
once subsidized into 3 peaceful attitude .
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No Pension Wanted,

He didn't look a bit like q patriot as
he stood rubbing his back on a corner
wal, butt it isn't everybody who can tell q
patriot at first sight. They were talk
ing about pensions, and all at once he
woke up and said: .
"WasI in the army? You bet was!
Didn't l have charge of orc Of the big
guns in the trenches at Yorktown?
Didn't I stand in the mud all day and
sleep in q pond all night, and wasn't it
that which twisted my legs out Of shape
with the rheumaticsp And yet have l
applied for a pensionP Has any one
seen me insidiously stretching forth a
hand to grab at the vitals OF this dis
trcssed country. Not q strctch-not a
grabm ,
No one had anything to say, and
presently he went on: .
:" In the army-humph! Who eaved
the day Mt Malvern Hill? Who killed
seventeen of the enemy with his own
hand? Who was decorated with six
teen medals and Il cross by General
| Mcclellan? and yet does any assassin
charge me with making midnight visits
to pension agents to swear that the hard
| ships of the tented field have left lie
with only one lung and no liver ut all |?
Hang a soldier who wouldn't sacrifice
his liver for bis glorious countrym
He burned up five or six matches in n
vain effort to light the stump OF a cigar
and then growled out:
Il may look seedy now, but who led
the Second corps at Fair Oaks? Who
captured three flags from the enemy
with his own hand? Who was shot in
four places and left for dead? And yet
do 70 whining around after the tinnn-
| cial yitals of this glorious republic?
| Not q whine! When l reach out my
hand and ask Uncle Sam to come down,
it will be when I lave forgotten the
teachings Of a patriotic mother and the
bravery of a veteran father"
"Werc you w~ounded?" inquired one
of the group.
WAS 1? oh, no! 1 didn't get hit sew
enteen different times IN three years! /
am not carrying half an acre of scars
down to my grave to attest my devotion
to my country! And yet Whist man
dares charge me with n desire to skulk
into the barn and rob the treasury COW
of her fecd-the feed she needs for her
daily existence?"
Won't you show US some OF your
scars" inquired two or thee at once.
mo, sir! / never show 'cm except
at reunions! There is no reunion here.
This is simply a gathering of two hum
mers. n politician, n lame man and q
soldier who has been in forty-six diff
ferent battles, received seventeen
wounds and doesn't want q pension.
GU wouldn'tknow the scar of a cannon
ball from that of an old wood-saw, and
you'd 60 of and shy I got run througha
threshing machine! | am now going
inside to drink alone to the prosperity
of this great and glorious Union, and it
won't do any Of you any good to stand
lhcr ound door!"-Frec Pre- S.
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FOB TIE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.

Bodices of velvet or brocade are worn
with any skirt.
Tea gowns are the fashionable Eng
lish house dress for afternoon wear.
Collars tor children are still made very
large, covering the shoulders.
Such pretty little colored bordered
handkerchief as there are. Why must
one sigh and remember the destructive
washtubP
Lisle thread gloves in reality cost
more than kid ones, but it is a luxury
to pull on the thin things in a second,
and it is stylish to have brown hands at
this season.
Black skirts are much worn with
Jacket waists, rs well as a great variety
of silk and wooden draped skirts in
fancy designs. Satin is also used fer
this purpose.
Very thickly woven black silk mitts
are fashionably worn with plain sum-
mer toilets, and are cool and pleasant to
wear, serviceable. and are suitable with
dresses of any color.
Those who have the old-time shout
d~er-capes of embroidered musllns, worn
by mothers or grandmothers, may
| deem themselves fortunate, as their
! exact counterpart are now produced as
among the summer novelties.
Parasol handles are things of art this
| summer, finished with knobs Of palnted
porcelain. set with cats eyes, lapis
iazuli, coral and other semi-preclous
stones, and carved into heads, animals
and birds. or insects of various kinds.
Turned-over linen collars that are
| rolled away from the throat without
being pressed flat are very popular with
| young ladies who have adopted the low
| cut surplicc dresses, as they I'll! up the
space sufficiently and q chemlsette is
not needed.
Belts for the front of basques are so
broad that when they are meant TO be
smooth and straight they are stltfened
by whalebones and are ornamented with
two rows of buttons, five in each row.
Nevertheless the soft sash belts. with
tasseled ends and carelessly tied,a are more
popular.
For evening wear, as well as for bon
nets. large flowers are the style. Marsh
mallows in many shades are arranged
IN large punches duu pldCeu IL oiASLeao
parts of the skirts and in the hair. Very
large pansies are also used, their purple
and yellow tints corresponding well
with the fashionable ~colors-gold and
heliotrope.
Skirts are still drawn rs much back as
ever. Very small puilings are over the
hips and rather larger ones are in the
back, on the lower part Of tn: skirt and
bust. All walking-dresses are short or
last clear the ground. Petticoats are
trimmed with plated %houncts, winch
are not starched; even those on the
trains Tor evening dr'sscs are lett I'M
stifened.
Small lace caps with beads. inter
mixed or wholly covered with jet, are
worn more than ever. Last year they
consisted ola plain collar made Of beads,
they are now q kind of tulle garment
completely covered with jet work and
fringe. This is a convenient and be-
coming style, and can be worn with the
plainest waists.
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The World as I Find 1t.

They say the worlds a weary place,
Where tears are never dried,
Where pleasures pass like breath on glass,
And only woes abide.
ltmay be SOL cannot know
Yet this l dare to say,
My lot has had more glad than sad,
And so it has to-day.
They say that loves a cruel jest;
They tell OF women's wilcs-
That poison dips in pouting lips,
And death in dimpled smiles.
1t may he sol cannot know
Yet SUI, OF this l am,
One heart is found above the ground
Whose love is not a sham.
They say that lite's q bitter curse
That hearts are made to ache,
That Jest and song are bravcly wrong,
And health a vast mistake.
Ii may be sol cannot know
But let them talk their fill;
l like my lie, l love my wife,
And mean to DO so still.
Good Words.
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Some Celebrated XOmens

Women, often debarrcd from practi-
cal knowledge of certain aspects OF lie,
vet obtain 4 rcctiiied comprehension
through sympathy, Mrs. Browning pos
sessed the gift in I tranScendental de-
gree it vibrated on the chord OF poetic
expression in her; Jane Austin and
Charlotte Bronte led retired lives, but
they had the power perpetually to pass
out of their circumscribed individuality
into that of others and the genius to re-
tain and turn to account the heetlng i'm
pressiops Of their passing contact with
individuals. The darlings and orna-
ments OF society are the women who can
throw themselves best into the intcres.
of the moment. If to this sensitive ma
lure belongs a native sincerity, conf
dence is attracted. friendships are made
and retained. Nine. Recamier is per-
haps the best type of this gilt OF social
sympathy allied to a certain reality OF
nature. She attracted the best and the
most gifted of her time. When age had
married her beauty, poverty succeeded
wealth, and partial blindness rendered
her intirm, her salon in the Abhaye aux
Bots was still the resort of the eminent
men and women of the period. She was
not q wit, she was Away somewhat shy
but sine Lad the wish to win love rather
than admiration, ard possessed the tact
of drawing out the best gifts in others.
She had the genius Of friendship; her
steadfastnesS could not be shaken. She
incurreu exile because she would visit
Nine. de Stael against all prudent adj
vice. She lost the change OF recovering
her cyesight because she insisted upon
atten, ing NJ. de Ballanche on his death
bed, and for eighteen years she tended
III. de Chateaubriand in his age and in
trinity. We would, therefore, say the
impressionablc temperament distin-
gushing all Sympathetic people is
either a strength Dr. weakness, accord
ing to the character allied to it. AS
sympathy gives an angelic grace to vir-
tue, food to genius and steadfastness to
social relationships, SO it can degenerate
into nothing but bilious, over-facile
sensitivcness to the passing impressions
of the u.oment.-London Queen.
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Some Great Private and Corporate
Fortunes.

Persons who have never thought OF
finance, and have paid no attention to
political economy, have an idea that
the wealth of the globe is substantially
measured by it's precious metals. These
do not, however, represent one-tenth
the value of even the private fortunes
of the world, invested in houses, lands,
bank, mining, railway, government and
other securit;e IS. The railway secur
tiles of this country amount to S5,00o,-
COS, 600, and the national bonds ofBritain,
France and the United States to o.
OOO, 0OO, 900. The largest landed estates
are held in Mexico, South america, Eng
land, Russia, and, especially In this
country, by corporations. 1t is very
properly considered a great injustice to
the people of Britain that the Dukes Of
Sutherland, Dcvonshire and West
minister, with other mobiles, should own
from 100, coo to 1000 600 acres each.
when the United Kingdom is so very
small, and when the great mass Of
its inhabitants have not either actu-
ally or prospectirely a single foot of the
common soil. But some railway COM
panies here have grants of land of from
rs, 900. 600 to so, 000, 1000 acres. When
Henry VIII confscated the estates of
the Roman Catholic church they did
not number one 1.-THE Us many acres rs
Congress has granted to the Northern
| Pacific railway. Nevertheless, the con.
| tiscated estates were enough TO found
the richest nobility in the world. 1t is
reasonable to suppose that the most
colossal fortunes on this continent will
be gained from these vast land grants
during the next fifty years. The land,
now scarcely worth $3.50 an acre, will
be certain TO Ee salable ut from $50 TO
800 an acre. Thus. q corporation,
whose grant comprises, say, 2 5000, 600
acres, and ninety per cent. of whose
stock is in the hanas of ten men, as is.
in some instances, actually the case,
will own (if it can keep it's grant, free
from takes, twenty or thirty years. a
landed property worth anywhere from
S4OO, 900, COO to 3. 900, 900, 600, or to each
of it's stockholders from $40,0 600, 900 to
5000, 600, 600, money enough to buy a
sizable well-cultivated planet, with all
the modern improvements. Enormous
as these figures are, fabulous as the esti-
mates may seem, they do not much
transcend the actual money-getting of
William S. O'Brien, Asa Packer, Alex
ander L. Stewart, Cornelius Vanderbilt,
or John Jacob Astor, each of whom
acquired stupendous wealth from q
capital of mere energy, foresight, and
understanding of opportunity. The
great landed estates of Britain are pro.
tected by laws of primogeniture and
entail. which are i%nterdicted here. But
snch laws will be s%uperauous to few
men who can for years hold millions of
acres, free from taxation, with a GER
tainty of selling them at an advance of
from 1000 to 5000 per cent. The pos
sible wealth of some Of the land gram
tees, in tile not remote future, appears
to run into fable, and is sufficient to
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The annual meeting of the board of
missions of the Methodist Epi scopal
church South was recently held ut
Nashville. 1t was reported that the re-
ceipts of the year were 1929, 713, IN in
crease of $l7,l62 owe the previous
year. The amount appropriated for the
coming year was Sl2l,248. of which
$685. 4S goes TO China, $40. 600 to the
Mexican missions, SO, 800 to Brazil, and
$40, 900 to the Indian mission. The rest
is devoted to home missions.
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son, how 1 do wish my skin was as
clear and soft as yours" said a lady to
her friend. "You can easily make it
So" answered the friend. "How?" in
quired the first lady. by using Hop
Bitters, that makes pure, rich blood and
blooming health. 1t did for me, as you
observe" Read of it.-Buuetin.
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In regard to the method of coloring
butter, the theory is that cows when
well fed and cared for will make yellow
butter; the fact is that not n in ten
will, except in times of flush pasture.
This is Just the reason thatthe very best
da;rymen in this country use Wells,
Richardson & Co.'s Perfected Butter
Color.-Moore's Ru7G al.
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Vegetine
Puriies the Blood, Renoyates and
Invigorates the Whole System.
IT'S MEDICINAL PROPERTIES ARR
Alternative, Tonic, Solvent
and DiuretIc.

vrorrlHI b made exclusively from tho Juices Of care
fully selected barks, roots and herbs, and % strongly con-
centrated that 1t will e~fsctually eradicate from the system
every faint Of Scrofula, HcrofuIous Humor,
Tumors, Cancer, Cancorous HumOr, ETY.
sipeIas, Salt Rheum, Syphilitio Diseases,
Canker, E~aintness At the Stomach. and all
diseases taat arss FROM impure blood. Sciatica,
Inhammatory and Chronic rheumatism,
NEURALGIA, Gout and Spinal Complaints, car
only be efectually cured through the blood.
For Ulcers and Eruptlve Diseases Of the
Skin, Pustulcs, Pimples, Blotches, Boils,
letter. scaIdhead and Ringworm, VEarI1sz
has never failed 70 effect a permanent cure
For Pains In the Back. Kidney Com.
plants, Dropsy, Female Weakness, Leu
corrhaa, arising from internal liberation, and
uterine diseases and Genera Debility, VEGErIsI
acts directly upon the causes Of these complaints It In,
vigorates and strengthens the whole system, acts upon The
secetlve organs, allays Inflammation, cures liberation and
regulates the bovelh
For Catarrh, Dyspepha, Habitual Cos
tiveness, Palpitation Of the Heart, Head
ache, Piles, Nervousness. and General
Prostration OF the Nervous SYSTEM, NJ
medicine has ever given such perfect satisfaction as thu
vEGr7ISE. 1t purines tho blood, ceanses al OF tn
organs, and possesses . controlling power over the nervous
system.
The remarkable cures effected BY VEoEr1HE have
Induced many physicians and apothecaries whom VI
know to prescribe and Use Il N their own families
In fact vEcrrIsr Is the best remedy yet discovered To-
the above diseases, and ID the only reliable BLOOD
PURIFIER yet placed before the public.
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Edwin Freeman, Of Norton, Mass, says:
~ have suffered the most excruciating pain
in my kidneys for years, and physicians or
medicine could not relieve me until about
three years since I commenced taking Hunts
Remedy. purchased a bottle at Bindings
drug store in Providence, and I took the first
dose there, and after using one bottle I was
tree from all pain, and although this was three
years ago, I have seen no trace OF disease and
have not had to take any medicine since. I
believe Hunts Remedy to BIZ the best Kidney
and Liver medicine ever known, and 1 cheer.
fully recommend it to all sufferers from this
terrible disease" Trial size, Is cents.
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When it is fully recognized that one of the
first and highest rights OF the Baby is to have
a bottle OF DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup, there will
be more rest for the household and comfort
for the little one.
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The happiest man in the world during
q financial panic is a giant-he is never
| short.
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When the publishers dress their beau
tiful new books in blue and gold they
cannot expect them to be read.-Rca-
yune.
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Tho Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich,
Will send their Electro Voltaic Belts 10 the
afflicted upon 80 days trial. See their adver.
tisement in this paper headed, "On 30 Days
Tria1D
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Mothers never fail to recommend Malt
Bitters as nourishing and strengthening.
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Prevent weakness and degeneration of the
kidneys and urinary organs-Malt Bitters.
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The political situation-A govern
ment Understandable Journal.
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TIMELY TOPICS.>

The Madison Avenue Presbyterian
church, in New York, Rev. William
Lloyd. pastor, voted recently to become
independent of presbytery, synod, and
general assembly.
An English authority estimates that
every ten years 500, 900 persons engaged
in industrial pursuits in Great Britain
sustain personal injury or are killed;
in mines, 300 900; in railways, 10000;
and in factories, $50. 600.
Siamese twins have been born in q
small fishing village in North Devon,
England. The wife of a thatcher
named Gaydon recently gave birth to two
| children incorporated or grown together
from the breasts down to the abdomen.
They are perfect in every other respect,
having a head each and two hands, two
legs, and, it is believed, a separate ex.
istence.
Potato -four, or the dried pulp of the
potato, is attaining great Importance
in the arts. 1t is said that in Lam
cashire, England, 10000 tons of it are
SOLD annually, anQ IL brings at preSenG
in Liverpool about double as much in
| the market as wheat -four. It is used
| for sizing and other manufacturing pur.
| poses, and when precipitated with acid
is turned into starch. When calcined
it is employed as a dressing for silk.
The Bombay Gazette has an accoun
of a remarkable thunderstorm that
occurred at Dharwar in March last,
during which hailstones fell measuring
no less than nine or ten inches in cir
cumference. The thunder and lightning
were terrific, and after the fall Of hail
there was a heavy down-pour of rain.
We thought the hailstones mentioned
above were the largest we ever heard
! of, but it turns out as usu al that the
| West is ahead in hailstones as well as
| meteors and other celestial commodi-
ties. The bulletin of the Iowa weather
service for April, 1880, received since
| the above was written, tells of thunder
| storms during the month in that State
! where hailstones fell measuring twelve
inches in circumference.
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Arc You Not In Good Health

II the Liver is tho source OF your trouble,
you can find MI absolute remedy i'll DIR. SAN
FoRD's LIVER 1NvIGoRAroR, the only vegeta.
bic cathartic which acts directly on the Liver.
Cures all Bilious diseases. For Book address
DIR, SANFORD, l62 Broadway, New York.
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A fiery speech should invariably be
reai l.ut.-NeU York NeUs.
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VEeET1NB is not a stimulating bitters which
creates a fictitious appetite, but a gentle tonic
which assists nature to restore the stomach
to a healthy action.
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THE MARKETS.

%Straighten your old boots and shoes with
Lyon's Heel Stiffeners, and wear them again.