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The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-10-25
Seed Corn.

In recent address on the subject of
corn, Prof. Beal remarked that the top
most ear was best for seed. OF two fields
one planted with seed taken at random,
and the other selected in the field, the
latter yielded as much again as the
former. Manure and cultivation may be
thrown away on poor seed. The best
time to cultivate corn is before planting.
A shallow cultivation was recommended.
Twenty-three ears of corn can be produc-
ed from one kernel-by proper cultiva-
tion and the use of the best seed, as high
as twenty-five ears. Smut is great
damage to corn, and smutty corn is very
injurious to cattle.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-10-25
Sbs gloon'a'ID Sin''s.
HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN.
Horse Talk,

III all cases where the shoulders of
horse have been chafed raw several times
and the skin is very thin and tender, 1t
is best to always use large, full canvas
collar. They do not cost very much,
and with proper care will last two sea-
sons. They should be used exclusively
on an old and thin. neshed horse. They
should also be used in all cases where
the shoulders are already CALLED, and the
animal must be worked. The shoulders
should be carefully washed at noon and
night, and then laved with cold water
until all Inflammation is gone and the
wound cool. The first opportunity
should be taken to give the animal rest
until the shoulder is entirely healed.
1t is lamentable fact that much of
the machinery used on the farm bears
very heavily on the horses necks. When
working such machinery broad, soft
cushion should be placed under the top
of the collar, the straps being heightened
out to admit it.
In cases where the neck or shoulders
have become swollen, nothing but rest
will effect cure. A simple lotion may
aid nature somewhat, but the farmer
had better not place much confidence in
in the many liniments and "cure-alls"
so extensively advertised.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-10-25
Mrs. Cases Spanish Cream.

Set pint of milk and a fourth of a box
of gelatine, in dish, into kettle of hot
water. Stir it frequently while the gela-
tine dissolves. Beat the yolks of three
eggs and cupful of sugar together; and
when the milk is hot and the water boils
stir in the mixture, and set back the ket-
tie, and keep stirring until the water
boils again. Set your dish on the table,
and stir in the whites of the eggs beaten
to a stiff froth; then pour it at once into
your mould to cool. Serve cold as des-
sert for dinner, or at your tea. table. This
is nice
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-10-25

ORGANS Is useful stops, 5 sets
bErt ~ reeds only 865. Pianos sl2N up.
NJ Illustrated catalogue free. Address BEATTY,
Washington, N. j. l9A1y
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-10-25
THE GREAT
ROUTE.

-
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class passengers.
Steel Track and Superior Equipment, COM
bined with their G reat Through Car Arrange
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Route to the South, Southwest, and the Far
West.
Try it. and you will frd travelling luxury
instead of discomfort.
Through Tickets via this Celebrated Line
for sele at all offices in the United States and
Canada.
All information about Rates of Fare, Sleep.
ing Car Accommodations, Time Tables, &C.,
will he cheerfully given by applying to
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306 Washington ST., Boston, Mass.
and 3l7 Broadway, New York.
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March Is 1sSl-4Ot
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-10-25
Big Results From Little Causes.

"Do you know 2" remarked man to
his friend on Chestnut Street, day or
two since, - believe both Conklin and
Platt had bad case of skin disease when
they resigned !" What makes you
think so?" inquired the listener in aston.
ishment. "Well, you see they acted in
piled the other, "they were boiling
over and merely resigned to huDlor them
selves, / suppose" If such be the case,
the National difficulty might have been
averted by applying Swayne's Ointment
for skin diseases. .42-45
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-10-25
How to Roast Meat.

When meats are put in to roast have
no water in the pan. When they begin
to brown it is time enough for the wa
for
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-10-25

lE Women that have been given up
by their dearest friends as beyond help,
have been permanently cured by the
use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. 1t is positive cure for all
female complaints. Send to Mrs. Lydia
E. Pinkham, 223 Western Avenue.
Lynn, Mass, for pamphlets. 4a-43
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-10-25

Outfit sent free to those who wish engage in the
M most pleasant and profitable business known
W. Everything new Capital not required. We will
furnish You everything $40 n day and upwards is
easily made without staying away from home over
night Nc risk whatever Many new workers wanted
Ladies make as much as men, and young boys and
girls make great pay. No who is willing to work
fails to make move money every day than be made
in week at any ordinary employment. Those who
engage at once will hnd short road to fortune. Ad
dress II. HALLET h CO., Portland Maine. 1 1y
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1881-12-22
POisOns in Our Food.

A paper read before the Maryland
Academy of Sciences was as follows:
The use of beer, generally recognized
as wholesome drink, has become much
less general because of a suspected use
of harmful bitters and grape sugar. A
large piece of this so-called grape sugar,
taken from the hands of youth, who
said that his father manufactured it,
proved, upon analysis to contain guam
tity of sulphuric acid, enough to destroy
some half dozen sets of good teeth. As
this SUGARS largely used in adulterating
cane sugar, candies and numerous other
articles of luxury and necessity, fur
Their comment is unnecessary.
Yeast powders are made and sold here
which contain soluble salts of alum
inium, The use of tin in sugar, of
baryta in numerous articles of food to
increase their weight are barely con-
cealed. The agreeable odor of caramel
in the neighborhood of the coffee mills
tells its own tale, and to explain the
wonderful cheapness OF the beautiful
jellies now in such common use we
should have to go further than our
matutinal friend Rags-Bones," and
pursue through the wonderful trans
formations worked by modern chem
istry the bones from our garbage box,
favored and colored by the waste pro-
ducts from the gas works, back again to
our tables as currant jelly for our famous
canvas backs and red heads. and perhaps
meet in our sugar bowls our old shirts
transformed into very palatable sugar.
When in Washington recently I asked
the Chinese Ambassador what was the
punishment for food adulteration in
China. He replied: "Death."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1881-12-22

The Norristown (Pa.) Herald in re.
cent issue referred among others, to the
following cases of special interest. They
are their own commentary. Mr. Samuel
G. Nyce, resides at 308 Marshall street,
and holds the responsible position OF
journal clerk in the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature, at Harrisburg. While Mr..
Nyce and family were in the country
recently, his boy, aged three years, fell
and broke his leg. He recovered. but a
very troublesome stiffness set in and he
could scarcely use the leg. The injured
limb was rubbed several times with st.
Jacobs Oil, and the stiffness was so
much reduced that the boy was able to
use his leg freely. DIR. Knipe said it
was the use of st. Jacobs Oil that cured
the stiffness. Mr.. Nyce himself used
the Great German Remedy for tooth
ache with good effect, and also for a
sprain and pains of rheumatic nature,
and always with good effect. Mrs.
Nyce also says she thinks the Oil is a
splendid thing, and she always keeps it
on hand.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1881-12-22
A Big elephant.

Jay Gould's latest possession is the
Grand Opera House in New York City,
which he has taken IN part payment for
some coal lands in Pennsylvania. The
mutations of fortune of this place of
amusement are decidedly remarkable.
Built originally by s. N. Pike, the great
Western distiller, it was failure from
the start, and under the successive man.
agement of Clifton W. Tayleure and
Augustine DAILY did not succeed in max.
ing money for the lessees; then James
Fisk took control, and ran it on the
most extensive plan, producing opera
bouffe, spectacle, ballet, and similar en-
tertainments. One Sunday night he
gave dress rehearsal of the "Twelve
Temptations to an audience of some
5000 invited guests, and all these peo-
pie were provided with a supper fur
nished by Delmonico and served on one
long table that extended the entire
length of the foyer. When Fisk died
the property came into the possession
of the Erie Railroad Company.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1881-12-22
On the River Thames.
THE LITTLE STEAMERS OF THE RIVER AND
THE WAY THEY ARE RUN

There are some forty piers or landing
places for passenger steamers along the
Thames in London and suburbs, says
Detroit Free Press correspondent.
Fleets of little steamers ply the river,
conveying passengers anywhere from
London Bridge to Putney for penny.
On Sundays and holidays, for some I'M
known reason, double fare is charged.
The steamboats, are open, without cabin
or awning, but rather swift. They sit
low in the water, are very long and
sharp, and are propelled by side wheels.
The rudder is managed by helm, and
the helmsman is stationed away astern.
The engine is amidships, in the hull
below, but partly projecting above the
deck. The pistons work direct on the
shafting. There is no "walking-beam"
to project high in air. A bridge from
wheel house to wheel-house gives the
captain elevation enough to look fore
and aft, and command the course of the
steamer.
On this bridge the captain stands, and
never pulls bell, turns crank or says
word. But he 'looks alive" and the
inquisitive passenger will see the skip
per's fingers open and shut, Or his arm
swing-with hardly perceptible mo-
ton, it is true, but still in regular
way. A little urchin in blue, with cor
duroy breeches and perhaps a grimy
neckcloth, lounges about the open
space above the engine. The chances
are that he will be picking at some pla-
card on the wheel-house, contemplating
some little trinket, or putting on an ap-
pearance of interest in something else
where on the steamboat. All at once,
in shrill child's voice, will be heard
"E-e-ase 'er p
It comes from the playful and appar-
entity Indifferent urchin. In another
moment you hear, ''Sto-op 'er !" and,
before there is time to wonder, again he
shouts, ''Tu-urn astarn p The engine
is obedient to his shrill ordinations.
The apparently Indifferent lad has kept
watch of the captains hand and has in
terpreted the slightest curl of his finger
for the benefit of the engineer, who
stands just below him under the deck
and the helmsman who stands astern.
The bridges, tides and other contingent
cies of the Thames navigation make
communication by bell and signal too
slow. The captain must get word to
the engineer, and the helmsman must
comprehend that word in the shortest
possible interval. So the captain moves
his hand and fingers and the youngster
shouts out accordingly: "'Ed easy !"
esteem easy" 5000 on ed p and
such other commands as the captains
languid gestures may imply.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1881-12-22
Our Exports Of Breadstuffs.
SOME INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE
STATISTICS.

In the November International Re-
Viea0, Mr.. Richard Fl. Edmonds brings
together the figures showing the mar.
velous growth in the breadstuff exports
OF the United States in recent years,
During the past six years we have sent
to foreign countries more wheat that
during the preceding half century, and
Within these six years our exports of
that staple have nearly trebled. We
exported 81, 900, 600 bushels in 1876 and
about lou, 600, 600 during the year end
ing June 30, 1881. Of all the wheat
and flour exported during the past six
ty-one years about thirty-eight per
cent. in value is the product of the last
Six, and about twenty per cent. of the
last two years. Of wheat and flour re-
duced to wheat the exports have in
creased in quantity from $4,000. 900
bushels in 1874 to 1876, 900, 900 bushels
Ill 1881, and in value from 500, OOO, 900
to $211 100000.
Turning to Indian corn, we find the
figures not less striking. The quantity
of this staple sent abroad during the
past six years is greater than the guam
tity exported during the preceding
fifty-five years, and the exports have
been steadily increasing, except that
they were less this year than last.
Excluding meal, which is no small item,
we supplied foreign countries with
AZ, 000,O bushels of corn in 1876;
SO, 200, 900 in 1880, and 81 900, 900 in
1881, while the exports have risen in
value from $50, 600, 900 in 1876 to $685.
100000 in 1880 and $50, 900, 900 in 1881.
The total value of the breadstuffs, in
Guiding wheat, -four, corn and meal,
which we sent abroad was 1868, 900, 900
during the year ending June 80, 1881,
and $3.50, 100000 during the preceding
year.
In these results both the advocates
and the opponents of a free and i'm
proved canal system in New York State
may find some very significant lessons.
New York is naturally and justly enti-
tied to the greater part of this vast ex-
port trade, but in order to retain what
it already has and secure what it might
have, a wise and liberal canal policy is
essential. A bold bid is being made for
this traffic by the advocates of the Mis-
sissippi scheme, whose advantages are
less and whose disadvantages are
greater than those of the trade channel
which connects the Northwest and the
seaboard at this point. This fact and
the great and growing extent of the ex-
port trade in American breadstuffs are
matters which should receive the con-
sideration their Importance demands in
dealing with the canal question, now
before the people of New York State.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1881-12-22
Farragut at Ten.

I preached one Sunday in the parlors
at Long Branch. The war was over,
and Admiral Farragut and his family
were spending the Summer at the
Branch. Sitting on the portico of the
hotel Monday morning, he said to me:
"Would you like to know how was
enabled to serve my country2 1t was
all owing to resolution formed when
I was ten years of age. My father was
sent down to New Orleans, with the
little navy we then had, to look after
the treason of Burr. I accompanied
him as cabin boy. had some qualities
that 1 thought made man of me. i
could swear like an old salt could
drink stiff glass OF grog as if had
doubled Cape Horn, and could smoke
like locomotive. I was great at cards
and fond of gaming in every shape.
"'At the close of dinner, one day, my
fathsr turned everybody out of the cab
in, locked the door, and said to me,
David, what do you mean to be p
"'I mean to follow the sea-
"'FolIow the sea / Yes, be a poor,
miserable, drunken sailor before the
mast, kicked and cuffed about the world,
and die in some fever hospital in for
eign cline.
"'No,' I said, 'I'll tread the quarter
deck and command, as you do
"'No, David no boy ever trod the
quarterback with such principles as You
have and such habits as you exhibit.
You'll have to change your whole course
of life if you ever become man.
d" My father left me and went on deck.
1 was stunned by the rebuke and over
whelmed with modification. A poor,
miserable, drunken sailor before the
mast, kicked and cuffed about the world.
and to die in some fever hospital. That's
my fate, is 1t? Til change my life, and
change it at once. I will never utter
another oath, will never drink another
drop of Intoxicating liquors, I will never
gamble. %
r ''And as God is my witness, have
kept those three VOWS to this hour.
Shortly after, I became Christian.
That act settled my temporal as it set
tied my eternal destiny. LEAVES from
The Tree of Life.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1881-12-22
CIV THE CROWDED 01rY STREET

In the crowded city street,
Unrewarded and neglected,
Mid the rush of hurrying feet
Solitary, sad. detected.
Stands with violin in hand
One by fame and fortune sighted,
One OF Orpheus' scattered band
Scattered, but In heart united.
Now, with tears, he turns away;
When passing stranger fingers,
Begs his violin to play
Sways the chords with ieweled fingers.
While the thrilling tones that rise
Stop the teeming tids of traffic,
As the genius in disguise
Moves their souls wi h sounds seraphic.
And the scorned one, Bcorned SO long,
Reaps, with gratitude and gladness,
All the harvest that the throng
Shower in storms of gleeful madness.
Ah sometimes, too. when the bard,
Silent, sad, is slowly turning
From the world, whose cold regard
Wears his heart with wasted yearning;
From the realm of greater souls
Flies, to touch the lips that falter,
Some bright seraph, with the Goals
Caught from an immortal altar.
So commissioned, so inspired,
All! what eyes with rapture ghsten.
As he sings, with geni1s fired,
AL the world stands still to listen.
WuIRED II. WooLLAAI.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1881-12-22
Butter Authorizations.
DENOUNCED BY THE CONVENTION OF THE
DAIRYMEN.

The second day of the Dairymen's
Convention at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was
opened by discussion on oleomargar-
inc. Mr.. Englehard, Of Chicago, told
of the magnitude of the adulteration
business lii butter, 40 per cent. of but
ter being used and the balance butter
inc. The manufacture and trade in but
terine was one of the principal business
interests of Chicago. Adulteration was
destroying the butter trade at home and
abroad. Our export for six months this
year, as compared with the same period
last year, fell off nearly so per cent,
wholly in consequence of adulteration of
the products of the dairy.
Even where the manufacturers COM
piled with the laws requiring that adul-
terated articles be marked, the middle
men would violate them by removing
the marks. T.. S. Coffin, of Fort Dodge,
Iowa, read paper in which he de-
nounced adulterants as base thieves and
the veriest counterfeiters. The next
topic was the American Dairy" Mr..
Smith, of New York, gave brief his
tory of the dairy business in the country.
The question of how to increase the
home market and the foreign demand
was easily solved-make better quail
ity. Mr.. Simpson, of Boston, said that
it was not sufficient to denounce and
suppress authorizations in dairy pro-
ducts, they must attack authorizations
in all goods. He believed that any man
had right to make these authorizations
for butter, but no man had a right to
sell these authorizations as butter.
He advised farmers to refuse to sell
their milk to owners of creameries who
adulterate their products. g. F. Dexter,
of Chicago, thought that the convention
could do but little more than excite an
interest in the matter. But little good
could be done toward suppressing the
traffic until those adulterable products
were declared deleterious to public
health, The man ufacture of these
articles was legitimate, and it was not
right to denounce the manufacturers as
robbers and counterfeiters. The con-
vention passed resolution "that it is
the sense of this convention that a law
should be passed to prevent adulter-
atoms of butter and cheese"
The afternoon session was opened by
discussion of Shortage in Cream and
Puttor -
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1881-12-22

room, and when, soon after, they came
out together I heard the doctor say that
she was sinking fast.
"Oh, let me stay with her this one
night" I cried, out of the depths of my
broken heart, ''please, please let me r
"Do let her, if you can" said Mary's
gentle voice, and the doctor answered:
eyes, let her stay, if you like; nothing
can do any harm now."
So I stayed through that long night,
and we all watched round Grace's bed
together. Sometimes she was in sharp
pain, which it agonized us to witness.
Then she would seem to sleep the heavy
sleep of exhaustion. From time to time
she spoke to one and another of us,
some tender, thoughtful sentence.
Once she drew Edith's hand and mine
together, as we stood near her, and
said, quite clearly:
"You both loved me. For my sake
love each other"
And once she said, but that was when
it was almost morning:
evil it not be a good day to be born
into heaven, the day ON which our Lord
was born here?
1t was the stillest chamber. We all
tried to be quiet, and to keep back all
signs of our sorrow for her dear sake;
and we saw, or thought we saw upon
her face the light of some new dawn of
glory.
Toward the end, her mind seemed to
wander little. She said over and over,
in dreamy kind of way:
"Oh yes, I knew always-I never
doubted"
| The window shades were pulled high
up, and I caught sight of rosy flush
above the eastern hills. Just then, as
if in answer to some voice we did not
hear, she cried out strongly, eyes
Yes p
And then she turned to us, as one who
sets out upon journey, and bade us,
one after the other, good-by.
Garry, last" she said; and spoke
| to all the others, even to her mother.
Then she turned to me, with the igh
upon her face by which I shall know
her when I meet her among the angels,
"Cahwy, Cahwy!"
| 1t was the old childish name when
she could not speak plainly-the name
by which she had adopted me when she
and were only four years old-and as
it crossed her lips sudden ray of dawn.
| ing struck them. for
"The morn Of the nativity had just begun to
| break"
With that dawning Grace was born
into another world than ours. The lips
which the first sunbeam kissed were al
ready cold.
They buried her, as she had request
ed, with my Christmas gift upon her
heart. My face went down with her
into the silence below the grass and the
snow.
have never laid aside her last gift,
the little silver locket with the forget,
me-not on its cover. If there is any
good in me at all, if have striven ever
so feeblY to uproot from my heart the
evil weeds of jealousy and injustice,
God only knows how much of it I owe
to this my talisman, my silent monitor
Especially do I look at it every
Christmas morning, and think of hel
on whose frozen beauty that Christmas
morning of long ago looked in. Anc
still, though SO many years have passed
do I miss her sorely.
Does she miss me also, in her far,
blessed home, and bend to listen to the
chant in which souls that aspire or
earth and souls that rejoice in heaven
alike may join" Glory to God in the
highest, and on earth peace, goodwill
| toward men,?