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DRINKING WATER.

No sensible person need be told that
pure water is as essential to good health
as pure air, and we can not be too care
full of that part of this most necessary
article of domestic economy to be used
in cooking and for drinking. Water has
an immense absorbing capacity, and the
colder it is the greater the facility with
which it takes up impure gases. An
open vessel Of water will render the cir
of n room purer, but the water itself
will, in q few hours, he rendered totally
unfit for use by reason OF the fact that
most all the carbonic-acid gas and am =
monia, the result of respired gases, IS
taken up by ii. Hence, water for cook
ing or drinking should, if kept inside,
be in tightly-covercd vessels. Where
well or cistern water is used the better
plan is to keep the drinking pail on the
outside.
Certain it is TINT no prudent house
wife, knowing these facts, will use water
that has stood uncovered, for any length
of time, in an occupied room. When
studying cleanliness and ventilation do
not forget the important adjunct to COM
fort nnd health--pure water.
, 1883-04-26
HkMIST TRY.

Some time since the director OF the
museum was granted leave to provide
himself with apparatus and chemicals in
order that lie might make some expert
ments for the benefit of the club. Being
now called upon to report progress, he
came forward with his first experiment.
Taking up an egg, he explained its pro'
portions of lime, albumen and sugar,
and broke it into TIN dish. He then
poured in n gill of whisky, @aa explained
hat whisky was the juice OF corn ami
was principally used to tone up the sys-
tenn, prevent badness, cure lockiaw AMI
produce pleasant dreams. He grated IL
a little nutmeg, and explained that the
auts couldn't grow in this country ol
account of the weather fooIing rounI
20 much. Milk was added without com.
ment. and the mixture well shaken Gu..
poured out in II tumber and HANDED t.
Brother Gardner. He CUPID it all down
with evident relish, and remarked that
.a should hereafter encourage chemistry
with all his ht.-Lj'He Min CUB.
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TIE CHINESE BAMBOO.

A bamboo, be it said, can be put to
more uses than any other thing of the
vegetable kind in the world. What
would our opposite noighbors in the Ce-
lestial empire do without itp 1t is en-.
ployed for every conceivable, Leslie
some uncomfortable purposes, on land
and water, and even III tho air for kites
are made of it, and 50 are the queer lit
tie whistles bound to the tame pigeons
to frighten crows from the grain fields.
1t can be used in the Whole cane, in
strips, in segments on in threads, and
10 part comes Rlniss. The tubes nre
suitable for water pipes, and SO it nn
sw,rs for uQue,ucts 1t is so strong that
foot bridges ;ue constructed OF il, and
light enough for rats 50 available that
whole huus. can be built Of it the
frame, the thatch, the lattices, the pr.
titiuIs--aEd 1t fGrni<hes mrte,ia for
the tables and chairs and some Of the
utensils ana decorative artl lies; 1t liz s.
hard that knives are mnie from thu
slices, and so d lirale rhat it may be
carved into dNiutissJ OF boxes, and even
thimbles and necklaces SO elastic ttlat
baskets are woven Of 1t, SO iibruds that
it may be twisted into ropes and cord.
age. 1t supplies lining for the chests
OF tea, strands for fishing nets, strip,
for fans and canes still enough fot oars
and spears and palanqnin poles. IL is
one OF the four things without wAlcn
China would be China no longer; rice
for food, tea Tor drink, silk tor wear and
bamboo for everything.
There are said to be more than sixty
varieties of this wonderful thing, which
is neither grass nor tree, yet is i'll struct-
ure like grass, while it grows in dense
groves, like trees, and shoots away up
even to height OF $50 feet, aud is
nothing after all but y hollow, jointcd
reed - Wide AOakG.
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!, IHE hook of Chicago angler caught
MN ~ ste collar Of Il dead man, and he
tuieu i"u the body to shore and went mp
So;dl Usn and told that he caught corpse
hSJIlsning 800 pounds. The force OF
c,.n S Will crop out under the grayest
~Ah PHoFEssION OF JOURNALISM.
=, az college commencement dinner,
~ q. L. White, editor of the Proyi-
Uence CR. J. Fress, was called upon to
speak for the profession Of journalism.
ne SAID, In substance: IL have been
AsAea to say a word for a profession
"uicn does not need speaking for; the
press like the poor, you have always
WIN you, and it needs no word from nae
-, introduce it. The profession Of Jour-
ASm has grown up almost within the
s'nory Of those present. It is only q
s"years ago that newspapers were not
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Authors at work.

Harriet Martineau at first believed
copying to be absolutely necessary,
She had read Mrs. Edgewortl's account
of her method OF writing-submitting
her rough sketch to her father, then
copying and altering many times, till no
one page of her Leonora" stood at last
as it did at first. But such tedious
process did not suit Miss Martineau's
habits of thought and her haste to APP
pear in print. She found that there
was no use copying ii she did not alter,
and that even ii she did alter she had to
change back again; 50 she adopted
Abbott's maxim, "Io know first what
you want to say, and then say it in the
first words that come to you. We have
a very different style AMI different re-
suit in Charlotte Bronte's toll in author
ship. She WAS III the habit OF writn y
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her iifss dfsT5s IN very small square
book or folding Of paper, from which
she copied with extreme care. Samuel
Rogers advice was to write a very little
and seldom--to put it by-and read il
from time to time, and copy it pretty
often and show it to good judges.
Another contemporary authoress, Mary
Russell Milford frankly confesses that
she was always most slow and labori-
ous writer. "The Preface to the Trag-
edies was written three times over
throughout, and many parts of it five or
six. Almost every line of "Atherton
has been written three times over, and
it is certainly the most cheerful and
sunshiny story that was ever composed
in such state of helpless feebleness and
sufferinn
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LAUGH ANp GROW FAT.

One is not apt to laugh and grow fat
il he is not feeling we'll The legions
who, from babitunl constipation, suffer
constantly from headache. torpidiy Of
The liver, dnilness, fevcrishness. sour
stomach, &C., aan be persuaded TO laugh
only after t.,y J have taken a few doses pf
Syrup Of Figs. Try it and see, For
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the power that they are to-day. Among
the influences tending to change the
character of Journalism and to elevate
it to its present high standard, that OF
the colleges of the country and its insti-
tutions of learning is one ef the strong
est.
"The Importance of the infuenceofthe
profession Of journalism leads to the
consideration of the responsibility OF the
journalist There is no other class Of
professional men on whom 30 great re-
sponsibility rests. The duty of the
journalist to-day is not only to present
TO the world mirror of events, to hold
up record Of contemporaneous history,
but also to present tLis record in such q
way that the propar lesson may be
urawn r:v;a 40. AMER mlunlgnt, within
an hour of the time when the paper
goes to press, the editor hears for the
first time of some event Of great national
importance on the spur of the moment,
without time for rejection, he must pre-
sent it to the world in his editorial in
such way as will lead his readers to
look upon it in the right and rccper
light. When We consider these thiEgs
we cannot overestim.tte the responsible.
ity which rests upon him.
"Ghe great newspaper today yis nett the
mouth. 9:ecc Of politicians, or intended
to promote the ambitions OF single men
who control them. As n class. the
newspapers Of to-day are independent,
owned and controlled by mcI who have
no special ambition Of their own, and
who are hence able better to judge
events. The public service of this
country IS improving daily, and this fact
is due, to great extent, to the exist
ence of free and Independent press.
81 would say to-day to those young
men who propose to enter journalism
you canno5 place too high an estimate
upon the calling you have chosen. Enter
it with the idea of work. Journalism
to-day demands devotion such as no
other profession requires. OF those
who enter it not more than one-fourth
continue to the end. The drudgery,
the long hours, the incessant demands
of journalism are too great for many to
bear. But to him who enters it able
and prepared to undergo the necessary
strain and toll the possibilities OF res
ward are great"
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c. G. BARTLETT.
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Every family should have a bottle Of
Syrup of Figs constantly on hand, Its
pleasant taste and beneficial effect make
il popular everywhere, and the results
are better health aud fewer doctors bills.
1t may be taken by old and young, by
men and women, under any and all cir.
cumstances. For sale by n. ID. Hill &
Son.
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rTHR LITTLE SHEPHERD DOG.


The best of these dogs are worth 5000
or even more. Ono herder, whom we
met at Gold Spring ranch, showed us
very pretty one that he said he would
not sell for $500. She had at that time
four young puppies, The night we ar
rived we visited his camp, and were
greatly interested in the little mother
and her nursing babies. Amid those
wild, vast mountains, this little nest Of
motherly devotion and baby trust was
very beautiful.
While we were cxclalmlng, the assist
ant herder came to say that thcre we're
more than twenty sheep missing. Two
male dogs, both larger than the little
mother, we're standing about with their
hands in their brooches, doing nothing.
But the hprlcr said neither Tom nor
Dick wouId tiud them Flora must CO.
IL was urged by the assistant that her
foot Nas sore, she bal been hard at
work all day, was nearly worn out, and
must sucklo her puppies, The boss IN
sisted that she must go. The sun was
setting. These wns no timo to lose.
Flora was cal ed, aud told to hunt for
LOST sheer, while her master pointed to
great forest, tnruugb the edge OF
which they hGi pissed on their wey %.
She .aised her heud, but seemed very
lo.h TO leave lIer bah cs. The boss called
SHARPLY TO Le:. Sae rose, LOOKING tired
aad low.sDlr,tel, wiCh heGa aal tail
down, anl tfotooi WEAKLY GlS coward the
iU-est. SAID:
"This - tap bad"
ooh, shs'l bo right back. She's
Lightning on stray sAeep."
The no1L morning went over to
learn whether Flora had found tho
Gtraye. While we were speaking the
sheep were returning, oriycn by Little
deg, who did no. raise Der head ncr wsg
hsr tail, even WHEN spoken to, ha5
travlol to hac puppi anl lay down oy
them, Offering tno Little empty breast.
Size hal been out all night aud, wdile
he: hungry babies were tu88ing away,
feiI asleep. ! have never seen anything
10 touching. 80 far as vas concerned,
"there was not dry re in tho horlc. :"
How oftol that sg9ue comes back to
me--ths vast, gloony forest, ard tns5
little creature, with the sore foot and
her heart crying for hsr babies, inpils
ara creeping about i'll tae wild ca~erna
and through the long, dGfk hours, fLd-
ing and gathering i'll the lost sheep
wonder il any preacher Of tho gcHosl
eysc searched fcr lost sheep under c-Z-
ounstances SO hard and With Slch pa.--
PRESIDENT GARFIELD's favorite poet
waa TennvaOn
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, 1883-04-26
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PITCHERS CASTOhlA
is net Narcotic. Children
grow Fat upon, Mothers Ike,
anG Physicians recommend
CASTORIA. I5rcgulatcs Ito
Bowels, cures Wind Collie,
ailays Fevcrishncss, and de-
StrOys Worms.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-10

That revolutions never move back
ward is once again made evident by
the action of the Virginia burbons
who have suddenly discovered that
it is inexpedient to make the color
line an issue as by so doing they
would drive the colored men in a
body to vote the Republican-Mahone
ticket. This action is enough, one
would almost think, to make the dry
bones of the dead bourbons, who
ruled in the old dominion half CEN
fury ago, rattle in their collins.
Hundreds of men still live who re-
member distinctly the howl of anger
and Indignation that went up from
the bourbons in Congress as late as
1887, when the venerable ex-Presi-
dent, John Quincy Adams, stood up
in the House of Representatives,
with moral courage that the young
men of to-day would do well to
initiate, and asked elf it would be in
order to present a petition from 2a
slaves" And in the never to be for
gotten debate which followed this &C
ton of the cold man eloquent,
John c. Calhoun, the incarnation
and prophet of the slave power, said
that emancipation itself would not
satisfy these fanatics, that gained, the
next step would be to raise the
negroes to social and political equal
ity with the whites" Well, times
change even Virginia bourbon,
when visions of an office fit before
his eyes and he knows he can only ac-
qulre it by the votes of the colored
men raised from position below
that of cattle, in the estimation of
the bourbons, to American citizen
ship by stroke of Abraham Lincoln's
pen. We repeat, revolutions never
move backwards"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-10
The Future of Hindostan.

There is young Hindoo now So
jour ping in New York city who has
made some interesting statements about
the possible future OF the 250, 900, 900
people who inhabit the peninsula of
Hindostan. Amrita Lal Roy is a grad
uate of the College of Calcutta, and has
studied medicine in Edinburgh. AL
though in appearance almost black
man, he is very intelligent and Guilt
waited gentleman. He states that all
classes of Hindoos detest their British
rulers. A revolt cannot be far distant,
and when it takes place, it will be found
that the people are practically unani-
nous in preferring native rule to for
eign domination. OF the ESQ, 100000
annually raised by taxation in India,
but little over f20,000,00 is expended
for the Hindoos themselves. Nearly
f40, 900, 900 is distributed among Eng
lish military and civil officers, who are
in India simply to keep the country in
subsection. In other words, that vast
sum is a tribute annually paid by the
East Indians to their conquerors. There
is scarcely any middle class of native
Hindoos. The Englishman is the
banker and the merchant. Hence the
native is cut off from all honorable and
lucrative pursuits. He cannot be
high officer of the army. The English
man also almost monopolizes the civil
service; the higher judges are all i'm
ported. There are some few rich ma
tive landowners. The Hindoos have,
however, their own physicians and law
yers; but the vast mass of the people
labor continuously for the merest pit
lance. Now, the Hindoos are quick
witted and intelligent; indeed, their
language shows them to be variation
of the Caucasian race. They keenly
realize the humiliating position which
they occupy, and are only waiting for
an opportunity to drive the handful of
foreign invaders from the soil. Mr..
Roy further says that the contact with
Europeans has unsettled the belief of
the educated classes in the Brahminical
faith. But still there are practically
but very few Christians in Hindostan.
The educated and intelligent are what
is known as "agnostics" here in the
Western World. In other words, they
do not believe in anything. This, how
ever, does not much trouble the priestly
class, who pay little attention to relig-
ious PHILOSOPHERS or creeds. Brahmin-
ism is II secular religion, and aims only
to order the lives of its votares. 1t in
structs the people as to what they shall
do in their social and family relations.
From what Mr.. Roy says, it is evident
that ut any time we may hear of re-
volt of the myriads of Hindoos against
the power of the British Empire. The
whole peninsula swarms with secret So
cieties having in view the incubation
of patriotic ideas. When the crisis
comes the sympathies of the United
States will naturally be with those who
are trying to rid themselves of detest-
ed foreign yoke. Monthly.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-10

back to encourage his child. He at
tends races and bets little on each
race to encourge the boy. In fact,
he does everything to stimulate life.
"lf that boy grows up and turns out
badly" said an old lawyer to me the
other afternoon, che ought to be shot,
for in all my life never saw a father
expend so much affection on his
child.
hear it stated, and from pretty
good authority, that Mrs. Stewart
Chat is to say Judge Hilton), pro.
poses to build Convention Hall in
Saratoga, so that all State Political
Conventions and perhaps National
Conventions may meet at the Springs.
There is an entire block between the
Grand Union and the Columbian
Hotels, directly opposite Congress
Park, which at present is unoccupied
save by little one story structures
occupied by stores. This would suit
admirably for hall. After all Sara
toga would be the best place in the
country for meeting, for the hotels
offer ample accommodation.
The capture of ex-policeman MI
gent, who with two other villains at
tempted to rob a bank cashier Of
$4,000 in railroad car, has again
attracted public attention to the dan.
gers to which employees of moneyed
institutions are exposed. The at
tempt to knock senseless with slung
shot, man in public conveyance,
surrounded by hundreds of people,
is certainly as daring a piece of vii
lainy as has been attempted in long
while. l was speaking with Inspec-
tor Byrnes, the Chief of the detective
force, last night. He was delighted
that Nugent had at last been made
safe. "His escape from the Man
haitian Bank robbery embrolio dis
gusted me" he said. "Then you re-
member the attempted robbery of the
cashier of the Rupert brewery. He
was driving home from the bank with
the money to pay off the hands, when
a butcher cart with three masked men
drove up, ran against him. and the
man was robbed of several thousand
dollars. | gave the matter every at
tention and finally fastened the mat
ter on Nugent beyond a doubt. But
l could not get him exactly identified.
l had two Germans who had seen the
occurrence, watch him for a week.
but they failed to be sure of their
man, for one of them was near sight
ed, and the other could speak no
English, and thus they could not
identify him. l am glad that Nugent
has at last got his deserts, for now
there is no escape for him.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-10
GOTHAM GOSSIP.

How amusing this Tilden scare is
at present. 1t is beyond a doubt
that the veteran schemer of Greystone
thinks that he has a mortgage on the
Presidency, but every other man of
prominence in the party is in the po-
sition of a nephew of rich uncle,
eager to knock him out, to borrow a
phrase from the chaste Massachu-
sets English of champion Sullivan.
Kelly and Tilden are at present max
making coy advances towards each
other, but as neither trusts the other
the entente eordiale will as usual end
in free fight. The Democratic party
at present is worse off so far as 1884
is concerned than it ever was before.
The expectations of the Iowa DEM
ocrats that the discussions in the Re-
publican camp, and the dissatisfac-
of the Germans would materially aid
them are now being found baseless.
The Germans of course are the natur-
al enemies of the temperance plat
form, and so are many good Repub-
licans. But the alliance of the Dem
ocratic party with the liquor interest
is so revolving that all self respecting
people must grow disguised with the
party.
The suicide Of the Spanish Minis
ter, Senior Barca, has cast a decided
gloom over the social community,
and from the watering places and
seaside resorts, wherever the gay
world is gathered, came many express
sions of sympathy. Senior Barca was
polished gentleman of the old
Spanish school. A silent but courte-
Gus man, his house at Washington
and his visits in New York were
alike highly rated on account of the
beauty of his daughter and the charm
ing manner Of his wife. His death
is sad lesson on the sin of extrava-
gance which is the vice Of the age.
Possessed of comfortable means,
though not exactly rich, he kept up
the same style of living which the
Cresuses of the country INDUCED in.
Of course it was then only a question
of time how long it would last. am
told that.he tried to stem the tide by
specializing in railway and mining
stocks, but without avail. In fact, l
believe that these efforts only ran
him deeper into the mud. Then,
when all hope was exhausted, credit
gone and money wasted, the thought
of seeing his wife and daughter suf-
fer maddened him and he retired.
AS suicides usually follow suicide,
it is more than likely that Senior Bar
cas- example will soon be followed
by others similarly situated. For
some months men about town have
been watching the career Of the pro-
prietor of one Of the richest gambling
houses-or club houses as they are
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-10

Bay City Press, "With the history
of the United States under the benifi-
cent influences of protective tariff
system before him, it seems incom-
prehensible that any American can
SO stultify himself through political
or other influence as to advocate free
trade, which can only prove destruc-
tive alike to the manufacturer and his
. employee"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-10
New York Tribune, "'Freedol

New York Tribune, "'Freedom,
Free Men, Free Soil. Free Speech.
1t was not the Democratic party that
raised that shout back in SO. Oh,
no. 1t was not that kind of party.
1t was party that took no interest in
such free things. But let Democracy
have its due. To-day finds it strik-
ing Gan earnest blow for freedom" in
Ohio and Iowa. Not for free men,
nor for free soil, nor for free speech,
but for free. rum. 1t was said of
certain dinner that everything was
sour but the vinegar" Democracy's
record on freedom is equally brilliant"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-10

The Richmond, Va, Dispatch says,
that "the people will rule after the
next presidential election" From
that are we authorized to infer that
the people in South Carolina, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana
are to have free election and an
honest count. If SO, the people 7Oiv
rule.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-10

The King of Bavaria has for six years
been building at the entrance to the
Tyrol, palace, said to surpass in ar
tistic splendor all other royal residences
in the world. The main building Is
finished, and from the vari-colored
marbles with which the walls are lined
to the minutest detail every resource of
art has been taxed. The palace is not
visible from any road, complete priva-
cy being an object.