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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29
DOMESTIC.

Room DECORATION Fashion in dress
do not vary more quickly than fashion
In room decorations, and every month
shows some new device for the bedizen-
lng of our home. 1t is impossible for
people to adopt every novel freak In the
matter of room ornament, and the best
plan Is that they should choose the ideas
that are the most suitable to their taste
and the most easily adapted 70 their
materials and circumstances. We are
learning that houses to be attractive
should be individual; and we may rest
assured that the fact that variety Is
charming is as true OF this as it Is Of
many other matters. If one Is paying
n long round OF calls and has the mem
ory of six or seven drawing rooms, all
pretty and costly, but all showing signs
of having rather been furnished with
regard to the taste of n fashionable up
hClsterer than 10 that of their mis-
tresses, what Il relief Ii is to enter a
room entirely different, where every
thing, however simple, bears the look
of having been approved and chosen
and arranged by one with fine eye
for beauty OF color aud form and de-
licate instinct Tor harmony of line.
This art of room arrangement ID one
which saves much money, fer woman
who owns il does not need 10 discard
unfashionable furniture or out-of-date
ornaments, which would be u eyesore
in many rooms. BY her faculty Of ar
rangement she discernS just the place
where The angular table will tit In and
look we'll and appropriate and In what
corner the Objectionable console Will
tighten the room by its CLEAN of mirror
and gliding, Among the many pretty
notions which have been lately intro
duced Is that OF cover doors" The de-
vices introduced for this purpose are
numerCus-stag's antlers, convex eagle
mirrors, makes OF statues on oval vel
yet shields, and even clusters of Jap
anese or peacock screens. The fancy
of half moon shaped design in Nene-
tlan mosaic, sunk in a deep band OF
dark velvet, may he new to many, and
would have ia many rich rooms very
beautiful effect. The arrangement of
blue china, and shelves and brackets of
ebonized or enameled wood, always
looks well and plaster OF frieZe
in basso relieve. as long as the door Is
wide, will be effective in many rooms;
the ground of the frieze might even be
colored Of faint green or blue. so as
to give it the appearance of Wedg-
wood plaque. If you hang picture
over door. do not let 1t be small wa
ter color sketch or anything of that
kind, so that its beauty is entirely lost
on anybody under eight feet high; the
pictures that look best over doors are
still life pieces of flowers or fruit.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29
Children.

Bless their hearts, how dirty they get
their faces.
A child with clean face hasn't been
absent from its mothers wash-rag five
minutes.
How pretty the hair of child looks
just after ithas BET pasted down where
it belongs by couple quarts of soap
suds.
The little aprons Of childhood amt
they sweet with their checks of blue
and big spots OF GAVIN?
The children's shoes, how cunning,
with holes in the toes, run over at the
heel, and every button gone off on a
fly.
But their stockings, wudgeted in a
little wrinkled bunch between plump
ankles and grimy knees, with "this
little pig went to market" wlggling
through the rayeled tip; amt they
cute?
Their little pudgy fists, half the time
grinding grief out from their eyes and
the rest-wel1, who doesn't like to be
pounded by a child's weak fist?
What royal little cooks children are.
Mud pies take on more flavor from the
loving pats of childhood than any vet
eran can produce with the spices of the
Indies.
What questions child can hurl at
the head of wisdom. 1t can upset the
theology of the world with one effort.
How sweet the rosy lips of children :;
girl children sometimes retain this
sweetness.
What an indie scribable conglomera-
ton OF sounds child's voice can pro-
duce, playing the most heart-1ending
havoc with the nerve-cords of grown
up humanity.
The glories of children's laughter.
1t is infectious as the measles, breaking
in spots all through the neighborhood.
The wonderland all children dwell
in; wouldn't you like to live it over
again, and have perennial freshness
constantly with you? Perhaps it Is.
Those childhood dreams, rooted in
overplaying and overheating, but bios
soming under the guardianship of an
gels. These celestial beings must have
curious fun crowding comical fancies
into little brains.
How wopsical child can get the bed
clothes. Alexander himself never
could have cut the Gordian knot, if it
had been twisted sheet around
sleeping child's curled form.
No diamond ever dug from the. deep
est mine can show the lustre in child's
eye; that round, wondering, opal of
brightness. Perhaps children's eyes
are peeping through the cracks of the
"pearly gates"
How lovingly the little arms of chile
hood twine about your neck and leave
a nice bit of bread and butter on your
coat collar,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

USEFUL HINTs.-Sprinkle Persian in
sect powder IN the feathers of your
chickens to rid them of lice. Where
borax and insect powder have failed to
extet inmate cockroaches, sprinkle the
floor with powdered white hellebore ;
they will eat it, and are poisoned by it.
When lettuce shows signs of running
to seed, IL knife be passed through
one-half of the stem of the shooting
head, the plant may be preserved good
for an additional week. You can get a
stain of oil off any carpet or WOODEN
stuff by applying dry buckwheat plen-
tifully and faithfully. Never put
water TO such grease spot, or liquid of
any kind. For chicken cholera. there
is nothing better than carbolic acid.
one drachm with two gallons of water.
Let the fowls have free access to it as a
drink, and mix it with their food once
day. TO ventilate stack, use a sack
some four or five feet in length, which
when filled with hay or chaff will be
about eighteen inches in circum fer
ence. Place this upright on the stack
bottom, and raise it as you build up
around 1t with hay or grain.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29
VEGETINE
For Cancers and CancerOua
Hill HumOr6s

THE DOCTORS CERTIFICATE. RBAD 1T.
ASHLEY, Washington Co.. Ill, JAN Il, 1875.
Mr. ii. X STEVENS:
Dear Sir.-Tnis Is TO certify that had been
suffering from a Rose Cancer on my right
breast. which grew very rapidly, and all my
friends had given me up 10 die. when heard OF
your meulcl q, Vegetine, recommended for
Cancer and CancerOu5 tmors. | commenced
70 take IL, and soon found myself beginning TO
feel better: my health and spirits both Ielt the
benign influence VIII ch II exerted, and in "a few
months from tn time | Commenced TO use tie
Vegetine. the Cancer came out almost boJly
CARRIE DEFORREST.
certify that / am personally acquainted with
Mrs. DeForrest, and cons der ner one or our
very best women. DIR. 3. III. FLOWERS.
ALL DISEASES OF THE BLoRD.-Tf Vegetine wifi
relieve pain, cleanse, purity ana cure such dis
eases, restoring The pat ent TO perfect health
after trying different physi ians, many RENE
dies, suffering for years, is IL not conclus We
proof, II you are sun rer, you can be cured +?
Why is this medicine perform ng such great
cures IL works IN the blood. IN the circulating
iud. II can truly be called the Great Blood
Purirer. The great source or disease originates
IN the blood; ana no medicine that does not act
directly upon It, pur ~ ana renovate, has
any just claim upon public attention.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29
a GrOundWork for belief.

The american people fully believe in Hos.
letters Stomach Bitters, and there is SUBJ
stantial groundwork for that BELLE They
have Witnessed and experienced it's effects for
over twenty-five years. and have found no
reason to distrust one statement made in re-
gard to it. Proofs have been brought home to
their own hearths that it is q family medic ne
which is Of the utmo value in cases of ma
lara, dyspepsia, debility, disordered condi,
tons of the liver and bowels, and in a variety
of other maladies. They have found it q COM
petent tonic, genuine Alternative, and in con-
trasting it with the many preparations OF the
same class In tie market, they have willingly
their belief in it's efficacy has received the
strongest confirmation in expressions of
opinion by medical men, and the approval of
hhe press.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

IT Is-NOT NECESSARY to keep on TAX
ing this medicine continually, using a
syringe, or dosing day and night for
months at time; the bowels are re-
stored to regularity, the digestion
strengthened, the blood purified, the
bad breath made sweet by short sys-
tematic use of simmons IiveG Regu-
lator; 1t leaves the system in healthy
condition after its use, which saves the
patient from continual dosing.
81 was cured by Simmons Liver Reg
ulator, having applied for the medicine
while in a most wretched condition
some two months ago, and am now so
changed man that am a subject for
congratulation by my family.
isaac MULLEN,
"37th and Lancaster Ave-, Phila."
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29
AGRICULTURE.

BARLEY OR OATs.-In regard tC
whether it is better to SOW oats or bar
ley, much depends on climate and soil
In sections where oats do well, and
barley usually fails, 1t would be unwise
to SOW barley. But In those sections
where the climate Is alike favorable for
barley or oats, and where It IL ques-
tion of soil and preparation, 1t may be
observed: lst. That oats sometimes do
well on an old sod, but barley rarely,
IL ever, does so. I'd. Oats ripen later
than barley, and while it Is very desira-
bic to sow oats as early as the land can
be got into good condition, still you
stand better chance of crop from
late sown oats than late sown barley.
Sd. Oats will do far better on low,
mucky land, than barley. If such land
be well drained and is In good heart,
and In fine, mellow cOndition-as after
well Cultivated corn, potato OF root
crop-a great crop of barley may some
times be grown, especially If the land
has been lined, but the chances are al
together more favorable for a great crop
of oats. 4th. On low, mueky land, that
is only partially drained, and which
cannot be worked early in the season, 4,
IL would be folly To SOW barley. Ii
sown at all, | would drill in oats, if the
land was dry enough TO admit the use
of the drill; or If not, SOW the oats
broadcast, and If they could not be har-
rowed in, let them sprout on the sur
face, and roll the land when it is firm
enough to hold up the horses. Ii would
De better, however, TO summer fallow
such land, working it thoroughly, and
make it clean and mellow, and then
seed IL down heavily with timothy (and
perhaps red tOp) next August. Atany
rate, do not sow barley. 9th. Oats will
do better on heavy clay land than bar
ley. This is the rule. The exceptions
are rare. The heaviest crop OF barley
ever saw was on a field of heavy clay
iand that was summer fallowed the year
previous for wheat by three plowings,
and then not sown TO wheat i'm the fall
but plowed again in the spring early
and sown In barley. Everything was
favorable, and the crop was immense.
9th. On weedy land it IL better to SOW
oats than barley. Drill in the oats deep
and use plenty of seed. Roll the land
either at the time of sowing or after the
odls dIS up 1hel WHcu tuc Wccus are
sprouted, and are In the seed leaf, 90
over the field once or twice, or three
times, if necessary. with light, fine
toothed harrow, for the purpose OF
killing the young weed plants. Oats
can be narrowed with less injury TO the
plants than barley. And if the soil and
weather are favorable, and the opera
ton performed at the right moment,
rhousa ands OF weeds will be destroyed,
and the stirring of the ground will be
favorable 70 the growth of the oats.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

GINGERBREAD CAKE.-Stir one pound
of butter to cream with a wooden
spoon, add three-quarters OF a pound
Of sugar, and then eight eggs Zone at a
time stir in three quarters ofa pound
of treacle with two ounces of ground
ginger, one ounce of mixed spice, and
lastly, one pound and half of flour,
with two teaspoonfuls of Royal baking
powder; bake in round papered hoops,
half filled; bake them in moderate
oven.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

OCHRE. the artist, went with his wife
to get her some shoes. You know the
sizes are marked on French-made shoes
In centimetres, so that what in America
would be about No. 4, in Paris is No
40, and so on up. Nine. Ochre tried on
pair of good proportions, for she is
hardly Cinderella. "W ell !" eXclaim-
ed Ochre, looking a. the mark, l knew,
my dear, that you had big foot, but /
never supposed that you wore 40s."
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29
A. Memorable Indian Fight.


closely-conteSte that ever took place
in Texas, was fought on the 9Th of
January, 1851. Lieutenant Ed. Bur-
Lesson, with detachment of cavalry,
was on his way from San Antonio to
Camp Los Ojuelos.
When near the Nuces river, he saw
three Comanche Indians on horseback.
Taking eight men, and ordering the
rest of the party to keep the road and
move on, he pursued them.
After running for twoor three miles
the Indians came up with eleven of
their band on foot, and prepared for
battle.
Burleson's men, who were old Texan
rangers, moved up within fifty or sixty
yards of the Comanche line, and open
ed the fight. BY some mistake they dis
mounted. The Indians charged, and
terrible hand-to-hand fight ensued'
Shots were fired at the distance of a
foot or two.
The field was an open prairie, on
which there was not even bush for
cover. 1t was a trial of strength, skill
and courage. The rangers fought be-
hind their horses, shooting under them
or over the saddles.
Red men and white men, Colts six
shooting carbines aud bows and arrows,
revolvers and lances were mingled in
a general melee. There was no shout
ing, no maueuvering, but each man
fought on his own ''hook, and for life.
Many of the incidents of personal
prowess would, ifthey had occurred in
a battle between medieval knights,
have been celebrated in song and
chronicle.
A Comanche singled out Jem Carr,
a cool, brave ranger, and charged upon
him with bow and lance. Jem, with
steady aim, fired at and shot him; then
fired again, with the same effect. The
Indian still advanced, shooting arrow
after arrow. The arrows came with
less and less force, until the last one
hardly left the bow, As the plucky, de-
determined warrior fell dead few feet
from his white foe.
Jem received four severe wounds.
cit was like clock-work," he said; !;
"every time raised my carbine they
stuck an arrow in me-"
He had his carbine to his face, ready
to fire, when an arrow, passing through
the last joint of his right forefinger
pierced the breech of the gun. Luckily
the wood splintered and released his
hand.
Baker Barton, one of those in
demltable spirits who are game unto
the last, received three mortal wounds.
He died on his feet, holding to the
horn of his saddle.
One of the coolest of the rangers was
man named Leach. His self-posses-
sion was wonderful. Burleson, seeing
an Indian aiming a pistol at Leach,
raised his revolver to shoot.
Don't shoot at him, Lieutenant
called out Leach; "he's only blufflng.
I've been watching him; there is no
load in his pistol"
Finally the Indians fled, having eight
wounded and leaving four dead on the
field. They were so thoroughly whip
ped that, contrary to their custom, they
did not take their dead with them. Two
of the rangers were killed and several
were wounded. A gentleman who
visited the field thirty days after the
fight found it covered with arrows.
Over two hundred were picked up on a
space of less than onc-fourth of an acre.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

CHOCOLATE CARAMELs.-Boil one
quart Of good New Orleans molasses
until it hardens when tested by cooling
little OF it in water. just before re-
moval from the fire add four ounces of
chocolate, finely and uniformly grated.
Pour a thin layer into thin trays slight
ly creased, and when the surface of the
candy has become hardened a little
mark with knife into squares. They
may be favored, but the natural favor
Of the chocolate and moiasses is gener-
ally preferred without addition.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

A BIG six-tooter was lifting for all
he was worth on wagon-wheel which
was stuck, when little two-foot mite
OF humanity, nearly as broad as he was
long, and just out of long dresses and
into pants, with his hands in bis pockets
and staggering air, sang out: mis-
ter, do you want me to help you? | can
grunt while you lift.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

AN old beggar woman accosted in
piteous tones the other day gentleman
who had been in the habit of giving her
aims.
"Alas, sir" she said, am prosecuted
by bad luck. had blind child. She
was my only means of support, and she
has unfortunately just recovered her
sight"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

A FRENcHMAN, living in Louisiana,
whose wife deserted him, amused his
neighbors by telling how he got her
back without trouble. Ibid run after
her to come back?" he dramatically
asked. mo. did not run after her.
l zhust publish in re pandire Eat have
drawn fifty thousand dollars in ze lot
terry, and she vas back much quicker
Zan in no time.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

HEwas simple sportsman who did
not often 60 TO church, but he had been
Much impressed with the parable OF
Lazarus AMI Dives-notably with that
portion of it In W hich the attention OF
the dogs TO the cripple are set forth.
Months after he went with his She
consins TO concert in st. James hall,
and heard man play the clarionet
wonderfully. whats his name? ?" he
asked. They replied Lazarus. de
Wondered moment and then muttered ;
'It would lake clever dog to lick
that beggar."
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29
MORE than one hundred and twenty
five thousand bottles of DIR. Bulls
Cough Syrup have been sold by single
hrm In BaltimOre.-Messrs, VIM. III.
Brown & Bro,
"AnakeuIs" Is AN 1nfAllIble cure for Piles.

'Anakesis' 10 AN InfAllIble cure for Piles,
MIR. VIM. j. Andrews, OF Columbia, Tenn,
writes the following:
MEssRs. NEUsTAEDTER & Co, New York:
SkNTs-For upward of 20 years have been
hinIcted with the Piles When / frat took
them they were blind and very painful For
ABOUT ten years they continued AS blind then
commenced bleeding. The hemorrhoids con-
tnued to Increase until Was losing ut every
stool fully ill of blool, and frequently.
while standing at my desk. the blood WOO.
run down into my boots. have had the %
hemorrholds to last for several hours. In the
meantime, like drowning man, MAS grasp
'hg everything trying 10 find relief On
enc occasion / had them cauteriZed which,
hIter intense suffering for over month Of
iected temporary relief. for u short time only
however. About ten months siuce, while mt
stool, my eye fell on al advertisement headed
IN large letter, piles send cent stamp and
get circular / did 30 and received a few
Plain Blunt Facts IN reply, after reading
which, concluded 1t was such plain common
sense that | would give "Anakesis" trial |
ald 80 and The result was. that after few
days use, the bleeding ceased and have not
suffered moment. pain since. 1t is SAID
mat "a fellow-Ieeling makes one wondrous
KIND. 3d. knowing quite number of friends
who were suffering like myself, distributed
quite number uf them, aud from every one
received favorable report. | would not be
without ''Anakt siz" for a hundred times it's
cost To all who are afflicted with Piles |
would say Give "Anakeaia trial aud YOU
will no longer be sufferer"
VIM. J. Andrews
"Anakesis" is sold by all tirst-class drug
gists- Price $l.O0 per box. Mailed free on re-
ceipt OF price, by p. Neus aedter 4 Co., sole
manufacturers of Anakesis, Box 39i6, New
York. Samples sent Tree to all sufferers upon
application.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

NATURAL petroleum, deprived of its
color and disagreeable odor without
distillation and the aid of acids or all
kalies, is what the Carboline Ia made
from. AS now improved and perfected
1t is beautiful preparation. and per-
forms all that is claimed for 1t az
hair restorer.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

MARY, do not approve or your ell
tertaining your sweetheart in the
kitcb en-, ;" said lady to her servant.
''Well, ma'sm, its very kind of you to
mention it; but he's from the country,
you see, ma'am and Pm afraid he's too
shy and awkward in his manners,
ma I'm, for you to like him TO come into
the parlor," replied Mary.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

Chow many rods make furlong ?"
asked father of his son, fast urchin,
as he came home from school. "Well,
| don't know" replied young hopeful ;
''but fancy you'd think one rod made
an acher if you got such tanning as
did from old Scroggins this afternoon
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

BYRoN's ideas on the subject OF
finance and education are very widely
prevalent. He said once: "rhey say
that knowledge is power. used to
think so; butt now know that they
meant money; and when Socrates de-
clared that all he knew was that he
knew nothing, he merely intended to
declare that he had not a drachma in
che Athenian world
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29
HUMOROUS.

THERE is good deal of square COM
mon sense about the directors of saw
ings bank down at Marysville. They
engaged a new cashier the other day,
and the president said to him: Mr..
Steele, your duties will be verv light,
and the salary $400 month. Now, If
you'n agree not to speculate In bonds,
or gamble, or hypothecate the deposits,
we'll double the pay. Come, now,
what do you say!" "l'm very much
obliged to you, gentlemen," was the
reply, land rll think IL over and give
you an answer in the morning" But
he refused the offer, after all. He said
he couldn't be cramped down in that
way.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

IF the man who helps to circulate a
scandal would remember that he is only
making an investment in garbage he
might possibly employ his time and
capital for better purpose.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

AN Irishman with q heavy bundle
on his shoulder, riding on the front OF
a horse car, was asked why he did not
set his bundle on the platform. He
replied: BE jabers, the horses have
enough to drag me; In carry the
tundIe.''
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

WHEN INDEED "A sailor belonging
to one OF her Majesty's ships, coming
on board drunk, was met by the cap
tain, who, addressing him sternly,
said: 'What do you mean, sir, by be-
ing drunk on board shipp | WON'T
have it, sir. And hear besides that
you've been drunk on shore. | WON'T
have It, sir" The inebriated tar
steadied himself for moment, and
looking the captain full in the face,
hiccupped out, well, IL "A man may'n
get drunk or shore, where is he To set
drunk ?"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

DRIVING through Sackvllle street,
Dublin, the other day, on an outside
car, the wretched appearance of the
horse suddenly struck me. | said:
"Pat, you ought TO be taken up for
cruelty 10 animals, driving such an old
screw as that" BE gor, sur" was
the quick reply, "if l didn't dhrive
that, I'd be taken up for cruelty to a
wife and six children.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

A FAVORABLE NoToRIETY.-The good
reputation of "Br0toa's Bronchial Tro-
ches" for the relief of Coughs, Colds
and Throat Diseases has given them
favorable notoriety.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-04-29

ETHE boy who plays truanEand goes
fishing for half day may not catch
anything with his rod and line, but he
is pretty sure to catch something when
he goes back to school again.