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Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19
HOME AND FARM.
Pruning and grating of fruit-tree:
arc now in seaSOn

Pruning and grating of fruit-trees
are now in season.
Never mulch anything in the spring
till the ground has become warm.-Ba1-
ter GiObe.
The most prolific cause of disea e
among fowls is uncleanliness of their
quarters and rurs.-Chicag0 Times.
Nut Cake. Two cups of sugar.
one cup of butter, three cups of flour,
one cup OF cold water. four eggs, one
teaspoOnful of soda, two teaspoonfuls OF
cream of tartar, and two cups OF hickory
nuts carefully picked out and added last
of a l. - The Household.
The Husta'1dman says: There is
no danger whatever that apples.
peaches, pears or any other useful
1ruit will be produced in excess of the
demand The truth, demand keeps
pace with reduction. People will use
a great deal more fruit when it is plen-
tiful, and when ;hcy acquire tie habit
OF using. they retain it Th re Is, per
haps. no branch of farming that yields
safer or more s:eady returns than orch
ard fruit"
"A great convenience is found iE
this simple contrivance: Have a tin
dish made taperin@ and with long
handle: Lave IL small enough aFotlIlu
50 that You can pla.e it ins de the tea
kettle: it is invaluable when there il
sickness in the family. as there are so
many occasions when one needs to
cook cruel or custards at short notice,
and with perfect immunity from the
danger Of burning. eren though con-
stant attention cannot be given them. -,
" !. Post.
TO renovate alapaca or black cash.
mere dress goods. rip the dress and
fold e pieces ready to place into u
rrcparation made as follows: Two
ounces or borax, one ounce of gum
arali,., dissolved bef re adding to the
mixture enough hot rain water to cover
the goods, which should be made very
blue with bluings such as is used in
r,n>ing white clothes. Stand until cold,
or over night If needed, one table
spoonful of the extract of logwood can
be added, mix well before adding the
goods Press on the WRONG side, very
wet, with hot irOnS.-Harpcr's Bd zdr.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19
Fog and GrOg.

Arthur was walking along the beach
with his father one fine afternoon. He
had been watching the hathers bobbing
up and down, their red caps or tapping
straw hats shining in the water like
shoals of buoys in the ocean. Here and
there he picked up a cork or wine
bottle. and at last his father pointed out
to him a great hulk of vessel that had
recently been wrecked. 1t had on it an
immense load of coal-several hundred
tons. You could now look into it and
see piles of coal; but no one could get
at it, and it would cost more to get it
out than it was worth. So at last the
coal was sold for eleven dollars. '.Hem
did it happen to get wrecked?' asked
Arthur. Il asked that question: re-
piled his father, ''of a gentleman with
whom walked to the wreck the day
after the accident, and said to him, I
suppose it was caused by fog He re-
piled in one word to my question, and
that word was 'grog.' So. upon inquiry.
l learned that this was true; that the
crew had been drinking and, of course,
with unsteady heads they could not
steer the vessel in q straightforward
course. So with many wrecks in life.
Men make mistakes that end in ruin.
and they often find that there is more
danger in grog than in fog."-7enper-
ance Banner.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19
Political Nicknames.

The nicknaming of prominent men,
part jcularly of those mixing in pol tics,
is practised in this country more per-
hap> than in othe~. and, as a rule, the
recipient takes to it kindly. Thus Cen
eral jackson was as well known as
..Old Hickory and more readily rccog-
nized than if called President Jackson.
Senator Renton in his lifetime was
almost as well known as "Old Bull
ion.' SO called from his advocacy OF q
gold and silver currency and his invet
crate opposition to banks and paper
money The late Thomas Ewing, of
Ohio, while a Senator in Congress, had
his nickname of Solitude and il so
stuck to him that even now, long after
his death. the prefix is still given him. TO
distinguish him from his son and name
sake, General Tom Ewing Senator
living mad. a speech in the United
States Senate which fastened the
solitude upon him. 1t was during
the National Bank agitation, when the
supporters of that institution We're ac-
tive in picturing the ruin that would
come upon the country if the banks
charters were not renewed Senator
Ewing in debate spoke of the mechanic
being out of work, and that the busy
hum of industry is heard not in this the
busy season of the year, and wound up
with the assertion that ''our canals are
a solitude. our lakes but desert wastes
of water" \ number of Congressman
several of them Senators, and more
than half of them Democrats made up
a party 20 return to their homes ley the
way of the New York Canal. The West
was then sending its produce to the
East via lake and canal, and the Con-
,rfy- hot h.,, ma,
trade. # Judged by the number of boats
nat, was immense, and it was a stand
ing Joke with the democratic members
when fleet OF boats hove in sight to
call Mr.. Ewing from the cabin O. the
packet-boat to look at his SOLITUDE. F"
At the lower end o. the canal there
had been a break, and large number
of boats We're usually in sight. OF
course, it was fun to see them and to
point them out to the Ohio Der, but
the fun was not on his side, nor to his
liking. At Rochester. Just as the
packet-bcat landed. a freight boat was
discilarging cargo. and Mr.. Ewing and
the other congressman were lockers
on. BY some accident, a hogshead
filled with molasses had its head burst
in and the contents poured into the
canal. An Ir sh laborer standing near
10 MIR. Ewing, without knowing who he
was. exclaimed; '-Jabers. mon, that
must be solitude swatened-" The other
Congressman roared with laughter, aud
Mr.. Ewing was forced to join them.
The Democratic members told the joke
and it got into the newspapers, and it
aided in perpetuating The soubriquet of
Solitude" on Senator Thomas Ewing.
tell the tale as it was told and printed
at the time.-Cor. Cincinnati Ealu luirsy
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19
The Vale Of Years.

Very young people are ant to regard
a person who has passed her first youth
as already meandering through the vale
of years, where the flowers are nolonger
blooming, nor the fields green, and
where the faded autumn leaves rustic
NOUN ully beneath the tread There
is no joy, no happiness, or beauty. in
their eyes, within this valley, which is,
ter all, only suburb of that other
where the d. nse shadows take CHASTITY
shapes. As they grow older, they make
the astonishing discovery tnat the path
is not so full of thorns as they supposed,
nor SO steep. 1t was Mrs. Somervile
who ''wisho d che could persuade young
people that to be old is not as terrible
as they think" Life has revealed to
the old n thousand pleasures it has hid
den from the young pleasures that
grow by the common roadside, to
which they are blind: pleasures which
it has not entered into the heart of the
young TO understand.
Youth is crude, and has no perspec-
tive, but the vale OF years opens charm
ing vistas in the past, where the night
ingalc sings, and the rose blossoms,
and stars scintillatc. The youth is full
of impatience and enthusiasms. eager
to test himself, to grasp at happiness;
age dwells in the land o. the lotus
eater, where neither the pain of
failure nor the gladness OF sue
cess penetrates; where vanity and
heart burning are out OF fashion;
whore ships have come in with rch
cargOes, or have long b en- given up;
where to-day is faircr than tom rrow,
and expectatiCn and suspen-e are out
of date. The old have found out long
since what the world held for them of
good or ill. and have male the best of
it. The Able Morellet. we are told,
was SO in love. with old age he de-
clared that ''if the gods were to permit
him to return to arth in whatever shape
he might choose, he should perhaps
make the whimsical choi e of return
ing as an old man. Old age is some
thing more than infirmity, ''gout and
rheumati, M" it is another stand point;
we Sc, the world and its happenings,
perhaps, with the impartial eyes OF
dwell II in another star.
"The souls dark cottage. battered and de-
Lets in new light through chinks that Time
has made.
The ve<atious troubles of youth and
middle life seem trifl .ng to the old, seen
by this illumination, and affect them
no m re painfully than a pleasant mel
ody in the minoc key. In truth the
vale of years is not so dolorous a place
as it is painted; the shadows close about
those who linger there SO gently and
iupel ccptbly that they are hardly
aware of the darkening.-Harter S
Bazaar.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

Me. w. H. Gilbert, Albany, Ga, saws:
"a gentleman named Moore, near this
city, had an eating cancer on his face
which had eaten away his nose and his
under lip, and had extended upuntil it had
nearly reached his eye. Tie cancer was
eating his gums and had rendered his tee, Ii
so loose that he thought they might at any
time drop out. He has been taking SwIFT's
SPECIFIC about three months, and its effect
has been wonderful. 1t has driven the poi
son from his system, the cancer has healed
greatly his teeth have become strong again,
and he thinks he has been rescued from an
awful death. He is the most enthusiastic
man ever saw.o
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free. THE SWIFT Specific Co,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

DIR. Emin Bey found a colony of
Akkas during his recent travels in
Africa. They were pigmies, the
tallest Of them not exceeding four
feet, the average for men being about
three feet. They are regular little
savages, and fight with desperation
when aroused. The color of their skin
ranges from a clear yellow to a glis-
tening red, and their bodies are Gov
cred with thick, stiff. filthy coat of
hair. They usually live in the forests.
without other shelter than that afforded
by the trees: vet their chief often has a
hut built, and surrounded with other
huts for the married members of his
tribe.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19
Figures Won't Lie.

The figures showing the enormous year
ly sales of Kidney Wort demonstrates its
value as medicine beyond dispute. 1t is
a purely vegetable compound OF certain
roots, leaves and berries known to have
special value in Kidney troubles. Com
oined with these are remedies acting di.
rectly on the Liver and Bowels. 1t Is be-
cause OF this combined action that Kidney
wort mas proved such an unequaled RENE
dy in all diseases of these organs.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

PALPIT >TIoN or rapid beating ofthe heart,
followed by p 'riods of complete cessation.
Is caused chiefly by nervousness and bad
blood If the d disease is neglected it is Iia-
bic to result seriously, especially at a timo
OF sudden excitement. Purify the blood.
strengthen the muscular and nervous sys.
tenn, governing the heart, by using Dr.
Guysott's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla.
and you will soon be rid Of every trace of
the affection.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

WAS troubled with Chronic Catarrh and
ga herring in my head, was very deaf at
times, had discharges from my ears, and
was unable to breathe through my nose.
Before the second bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm was exhAuste 1 l was cured, and to-
day enjoy sound health. G. j. CoRBIN.
923 Chestnut street, Field Manager, Phila-
delphia Publishing House, Pa.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

Everywhere are refusing to take white,
lardy looking butter except at grease"
prices. Consumers want nothing but gilt
edged butter, and buyers therefore recon-
mend their patrons to keep uniform color
throughout the year by using the Improved
& Co., Burlington, VT. 1t is the only color
that can be relied on to never injure tho
butter, and to always give the perfect color.
Sold by druggists and merchants.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

The Texas Courier Record of Medi-
cine says that certain elderly colored
women have ga habit of chewing pins
as solace for trouble.'' The occa-
sional swallowing of one of them does
not appear to he attended with danger.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19
TO OUR READERS.

The proprietors of ALLCOCK's PoRoUs
PLAsTERs and BRANDRETH's PILLS will
publish for the next few weeks in this
paper some of the many cures that these
remedies have effected.
If you are in need of medicine give them
trial. They guarantee them to be made
of the purest and best drugs that money
can buy. powerful to cure, yet perfectly
harmi ass.
ALLCoCK's Porous PLASTER is the stand
ard of excellence and like all good things
largely initiated. The public is especially
cautioned against all so-calied porous plas-
ters, none of which contain the healing
gums that Allcock's does, but are made
from poor and cheap materials and simply
gotten up to sell on the reputation of the
genuine article.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

1T is truly wonderf full to sec how the name
of Mrs. Pinkham is n household word
among the wives and mothers of our land.
Alike i'm the luxurious homes OF our great
cities and in the humble cabins of tho re-
mote frontier one woman'S deeds have
borne their kindly fruit in health for others.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

d. r. LOCKE, Petroleum V. Nasby, editor
Toledo Blade" writes: 81 had on a
forefinger of my right hand a run round ,
The finger became swollen to nearly twice
its natural size. A friend gave me HEN
RY'S CARBoLIC SALvE. and in twenty min
utes the pain had subsidized. The Inflam-
nation left the finger In day"
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

A POET has written poem entitled
80 Lady Moon" This explains what the
man in the moon has been doing up there
go long.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19
B1LLiDE OF Il SWELL

His forehead he frngeS and decks
With careful! y cut Monfagues:
lie aD2leS his 3rmeS s-mi-X,
And dresses in delicate hues:
His hauutS ar. the rich avenues;
Siac alto Is somewhat his ga
II takes bsl; wink to anusc
His sidiy-impOvcTished pate
His costumes are covered with checks.
he travels in tapc-tocd snOcS
Through Vanity air. there to vrN
The silly Young heart that he wOOS;
Hes Clever with cards and with cues,
Aud hant"rs with Foi tune and Fate:
Ala. that the lad can not lose
His sa1ly-impJverished rate.
He : fond of the frivolous sex;
His light conversation he strews
With ''tOffy": aught eisc would pcrpleX
The topic his fancy pursurS:
Tne Cud Of contcltmCnt he chews,
While women and wcalth on him wait;
And n;Iturc with nothing endues
His sadl v-itnI ovcrishcd pate
envoy
1air priuceSscs. all who peruse
This balatle. beware ere TOO late.
Lest Opulencc IN. u you abuse
His sSadly-iInpCycrished pate,
-ETuUH sherman The CsUflITu.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

IT is a remarkable fact that however well
young ladies may be versed in grammar'
very few are able to decline matrimony.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

Iowa is said to be out of debt.-Phild-
deIphid Call That's the result of SO many
people settling there.-Hdryord Sunday
.TO7frncI.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

No MATTER how marfy people are dis
nosed 10 kick whenever any noise is made,
they never complain about the racket made
by the dinner bell.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

SOME of the agricultural papers are
printed on Hoe presses. And number
of them rake in n great deal of money,
too.--N. Y. Grdphic
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

MAN over-bored!" :" exclaimed the office
boy as his boss vainly endeavored to re-
flute the arguments OF a book-agent.-N. y
Journal
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

A MAN too lazy to make a suggestion
can not expect TO become a leader of men.
~ y Times
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19
Butter Buyers

Does anybody know where the dead OF
night is burie1 4!
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

"BALMY Sleep" is denied to nervous suf'
ferers, unless they use Samaritan Nerrtne
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

MRs. JoANoRA BRANNFGAN, of New
York, got drunk and her baby starved
to death.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

SOME people wonder why others do not
make money. 1t is often because they
have not the cents to begin with.-Rose's
IOothpick
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

nBA New Suit. Faded articles OF all
kinds restored to their original beauty by
Diamond Dyes. Perfect and simple; Ioc.
at ali druggists. Wells, Richardson q Co.,
burlington, VT.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

DEArHLEss execution-Paper-ha
Judge.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

THERE are now seventy three Tenn
perance journals in England.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19
OPINION OF DIR. MOTT, LATE GOV
ERNMENT CHEMIST, ON ALLCOCk'S
POROUS PLASTER.

My investigation Of ALLcoCK's Porous
PLASTER shows it to contain vdiudbie and
essential ingredients not present in any
other Plaster. These ingredients are so
perfectly proportioned that the ALLcocK's
Porous PLASTER will not cause .8iisters or
Ercessire Irritation, and find it superior
to and more efficient than any other Plas-
ter. HENRY A. Mort, JR., PH.D., F. C.S.
Professor of Chemistry MY. Mot:. College, cto.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

A PLEDGE of notwithstanding the
wedding ring.-Lffe.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

ru,o.r DISEASES commence with q
Cough. Cold, OF Sore Throat. =" Brotcn,s
RroRchidI Iroches" give immediate relief.
Sold OnIu in bOLeS. Price % cents.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

HaIe's Honey of Horekound ana
Thoroughly cures a cough. Rerne!ilpe,
pixies tootbache drops cure in one minute.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

TsUFrEREp with paralysis for year,.
Samaritan Nerrine cured me-" JOS. \ aosS
Paterson, N. j..
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

WOMEN never crack jokes. They breaR
them gently to their husbands
Times.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

MANY a thing keeps Lent that has no
business to do so. That five dollar bill,
for characterization Sunbeam.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19

II arnicted with Sore Eyes. use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Ego Water. Druggists sell II. 20.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-10-16

SOME THOUGHTS.
Or LILY NJ. CURRY.
How will look when am dcad2
I've wondered hundred times and more
When the sheet Ia drawn UP over my head
And Grape disfgurcs the outer door.
Will my checks seem thin and my lips turn blue,
And 4 general strangcness shadow my face2
VIII they dress me Ia white, with ribbon or
two,
And fasten rose In the folds of lace?
What will they cay when am dead?
Poor thing, poor thing, she Is better oHG'
The stoop in her shoulders hectic red
I'VE knew that horrible, hacking cough"
"How natural" and "How waxcn- -purc!"
But passing sad that the Young should die :
II they say this last. and hear, am suro
shall long to rise and give them the lie.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-10-16
What Farmers Are, and What They
Might Be.

/. They are the most numerous Of the
productive classes.
2. They cast votes enough every four
years to elect the President and majority
Of Congress and the State Legislatures.
3. They own and represent but one fourth
of the nations wealth.
4. They furnished three -fourths of the
soldiers, and bear three -fourths Of the ma
tons tax-burdens.
5. They produce nine-tenths OF the
wealth which annually flows into the cof-
fers of the rich corporations and Million
aires.
q. They are poor and hard-up, from be-
ing excessively taxed to support extrava-
CANT national, State and local governments,
aud deprecated prices of their products,
as a result of exorbitant transportation
charges, and commissions to Board Of Trade
middle
Z. They are blind partisan idolaters who
furnish the Juggernaut and the team
which rolls it over their bodies every four
years.
And what might they be-
l. They might, il united, be the control.
ling power in the land.
2. They might repeal every unjust law
that affiicts them, and enact such statutes as
would secure to them justice, equity, and
protection.
3. They might pass laws to obtain from
| the Government all the currency they need
on land security, at the same rate and cost
| that national banks now obtain bank cur
rency on bond security at | per cent for,
| twenty years.
l. They might establish a transportation
system, that would be operated at cost as
the postal system now Is.
s. They might abolish the debt and usury
system, which is filling the land with few
rich, and many poor, by providing means
| for labor to do cash business, as capital
now does.
are robbiug aud expressing them, and make
their farms as gt,od az Governments bonds,
by making thom the basis If the currency
of the country ghisago 6saiissl
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-10-16
Blaine's Letter Corrected.

The Chicago Times prints the following
editorial with reference to corrections that
have been made to Mr.. Blaine's letter Of
acceptance:
In his acceptance" message, Mr. Blaine
made the astounding statement that in the
period between 1860 and 1850 the enormous
value Of $50, 900, ,00O. 900 had been added to
the permanent wealth of the nation! The
permanent wealth in 1860 Excluding prop
erty in slayes) he found to be only $14,-
OO0, ,O00, 900; this, he said. resonantly, was
athe net result of the labor and savings Of
all the people within the area Of the United
States from the time Of the landing Of the
first British colonists in 1907 to the year
1860 period Of $50 years.
Twenty years later lSS0) he found the
permanent wealth to be 1900. .00O, 900,
On increase Of $50, 00O, 0O0, 900, or pa per
cent. in twenty years. From this assertion
he leaped, with the agility Of magnetic
acrobat. to the assumed conclusion that
this astounding growth Of wealth-more
than double in twenty years tho total accu-
mutation Of the preceding $50 years-was
the blessed consequence Of high protect
i've tariff
Mr.. w. NJ. Springer has been making
careful examination Of the grounds for that
astounding discovery Of the magnetic spec
ulator, and has stated the result in a public
address.
1t is found that Mr.. Blaine statcd--as his
custom is-what he did not know, and what
is neither true nor IN approximation Of the
truth. 1t is found that the aggregate per-
manent wealth of the country in 1860 tex
cluding slave property instead OF being
fourteen billions was upward OF nineteen
billions. aud that in 1851, instead Of forty
four billions, the census returns showed a
little over forty three and a half billions.
But. also according to the census authority,
from 90 to 80 per cent of the apparent in
crease was error. and from 80 to 40 per cent.
instead Of appreciation Of wealth. was de-
probation of the measure Of wealth. Re-
adjusting the terms Of the equation by the
lowest figure in each case, what appears is
that the aggregate increase Of wealth be-
tween 1860 and 1870 was 50, 4OO, 600. 600,
and between 1870 and 1880 $1,000, 000, ,00O,
or Ss,4ON, 100000 in the whole period Of
twenty years. instead Of $50. 900. 0OO. 900 as
| serted by the author of that charming work
entitled "Epistles to My Dear Fisher"
What the best evidence of the census re-
turns show respecting the increase OF
wealth per capita in the three decades since
1850 is the following:
1850 to 1860. increase per capita. 1888.
| 1860 to 1870. increase per capita, 800.
| 1870 to 1880, increase per capita, Sill.