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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-01-31
An EnthusiaStiC Endorsement.

GoRHAM, y. H., July II, 1879.
'kNI--Nh hoover you are, don't know; but |
thank the Lord and feel grateful to you To know
tlt IN this world Of adulterated medicines there is
one compound that proves and does all il adver-
tses To do, and more. Four years ago | had a slight
shock OF palsy, which unncrVed me to such an eN-
tent that tie least excitement would make me shake
ike the ague. Last May was induced to try Hop
liltters. ! used one bottle, but did not see any
change; another did So change my nerves that they
are now as steady as they ever We're. 1t used to
take botn hands to write, but now my good right
hand writes this Now, il you continue to manu-
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viii accumulate An honest fortune and confer the
greatest blessing on your fell0w-men that ever
conferred mankind. TIM BURCH.
a lady who read that at is lucky to pick up
horseshoe" picked up one in a blacksmith shop.
The suddenness with which She dropped it showed
that il not lucky.
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The American Dairyman says there is
one point that should be deeply impress
ed upon the dairyman's mind, and that is
if he wants to make a first class article of
butter he must churn often. Never let
the cream get over three days old, no
matter how cold it may be kept If cold
it will get old, fiat and frinky. If sour,
the whey will eat up the butter globules.
Churn as often as you can.
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Rather than to sell at the prevailing
low prices, many farmers in Western and
Southern New York, are holding their
potatoes till spring. Dealers are not
anxious to buy at any price. Many of
them have store houses full of potatoes at
thirty and thirty-tive cents ]'tr bushel,
and even at this low price they cannot
get their money back. The commission
merchants in New York city write that
they will have potatoes to give away in
the spring. [Orange County Farmer.
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Twelve million clocks were manufactured
last year, and some are vet behind time.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-07-11
A Villain0us Shave.

There is no European quarter in XII
OTTO. the capital of the Mikados. On the
night of our arrival We went to a bar
ber-shop for a shave, and the excite.
ment at our appearance increased in
intensity. The crowd blocked up the
narrow street, the first line hattening
the r noses against the window, and
steaming it with their breath. Inside
the shop there was reflex of the en-
element. The barber himself, though
pale, was collected in manner, and
gave me only one cash. But his whole
family were ranged in a group in the
kitchen which opened into the shop.
The assistants stood around, from time
TO time handing unne cessary articles to
the operator. The most hopeless case
was the small boy, whose duty it was TO
stand by and hand paper. combs, brush,
towel, or whatever might be needed by
tn. barber. He stood at the elbow OF
the chair whilst l was being shaved,
with his face half a foot from mine, his
lips slightly parted, and a pair of great
brown eyes unnaturally di,tended, fiVed
upon my face. fancy he was in 4 con.
dition of modified catalepsy. At any
rate. he neither moved nor spoke whilst
the barber rasped Inc.
1t was the most villaInous shave
ever suffered. A dinner-knife would
have been for the purpose luxurious
article compared with the razor. be-
sought the barber to let me off, but
without avail. 1t was the opportunity
of a LIFETIME, and he would not limit its
duration by any voluntary act. We
had brought Ito, our guide. with us, a
necessary precautions; otherwise before
we could have made our protest under
stood we might have hal a few bald
places artistically arranged on our
heads, and perhaps our eyebrows
shaved OF in the manner of the Japa-
nese. After much haranguing, Ito in
duced the man to let me 90 TO the mani
fest disappointment of the crowd, who
were only consoled by seeing the Young
gentleman from GLASGOW take tho
chair. Finally the barber charged one
and eightpence. for his fiendi-h work,
which considering We had left the Uni.
ted States. seemed dear for y shave.
The price to 4 native would have been
twopence halfpenny at most, and he
would, in addition, have had his ears
and nostrils shaved and his hair brushed
end oiled-COrnit.H Magazine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-07-11
Farming for Pleasure.

Many persons who are engaged IN
farming for livelihood or rs branch
of business do not regard it as q very
pleasurable occupation. In fact, they
complain of their monotonous life and
of their lack of the means of enjoyment.
Many farmers make their plans to
spend the later years of their lives in
some town. where they can have more
70 enjoy than they do on the farm.
Men who become rich in cities, how
ever. desire to retire to the country,
and very many of them do so. A large
proportion of the very wealthy men in
this city own and manage farms. Sew
eral of them are well versed in every
department of agriculture, fruit-grow-
growing and stock-raising. The like is
true of men of wealth in other cities in
the country. Farming is engaged
in as paStime by many peo-
PIE in Great Britain. Indeed, COM
plants are constantly being made in
the English papers b. farmers that SO
much land is icing secured by persons
of large means. who desire to engage in
different branches of huS Iandry simply
for pleasure. They purchase land at
pr ccs that those vino look upon it as .
safe investment for conducting farming
operations cannot afford to pay. They
also secure the best stock of all kinds,
not with view to profit. but as sources
of pleasure. The Englishman of wealth
and leisure takes more pleasure at his
country seat than in his London man.
sion. He takes pleasure in being good
farmer, a skillful fruit grower, and 3
successful stock-breeder A large num-
Der of professional and business men in
New York and Philadelphia manage
farms as a means for recreation. They
spend money on them, not with a view
of getting returns in cash. but in happi-
ness. Lawyers, ministers. merchants,
and manufacturers spend considerable
of their time in farming as a source of
pleasure. .HT.
Is there any other kind of bus mess in
which men engage simply '.for the fun
of the thing?" Rich men do not en-
gage in mining, manufacturing. or trade
simply for pleasure. No one, perhaps.
ever heard of a man who had an album
dance of this worlds goods engaged in
running train of cars, hammering at
an anvil, tending a saw-mill, laying
brick or quarrying stone for pleasure.
They do lot think that they can obtain
any enjoyment in any of these occupa-
tons They leave them to persons who
are obliged to engage in them for the
purpose of supporting themselves and
their families They engage in agri-
culture, horticulture and stock-raising
with the expectation of having a good
time. and, from their own accounts, are
seldom disappointed. Chicago Times
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-07-11
John Bright i'm the House Of Commons.

The massive, well set head, the lofty
brow, the white hair, the clear blue eve,
as Saxon in its expression as the Ian
guage of the speaker, have immediately
arrested the attention OF all spectators.
Yet, in the House of Commons, the
visitor may have failed to recognize i'm
mediately the voice and the presence of
its greatest orator. Slow. low and dis
tinct in bis commencement. he has APP
peared to be suffering from a nervous
hesitation which those who have never
heard him previously might doubt
whether he would succeed in overcom-
ing. But in five minutes all apprehen-
sions on this score have disappeared.
The popular chamber is crowded, for,
with the speed of electricity, the news
that Bright is up has run the round of
lobbles. library and smoking room.
Never has there been associated in the
same speaker and in the same speecl,
merit SO sustained with excellence so
rare. Mr.. Bright has spoken, no doubt,
not infrequently below himself; but
when he has spoken at his hest, he has
been at his best throughout. His elo-
quence may be compared to the glow of
a clear fire steadily burning at white
heat. There is nothing fitful or spas
modic about it The solemn and the
sportive are interviewer a naturally as
the serious and comic scenes in one of
Shakespeare masterpieces. Mr. Bright
has probably coined as many concise
and adhesive phrases as Disraeli him
self. 1t is ne who invented the words
'.fancy franchise" vino first employed
''the cave of Adullam'' as metaphor for
the refuge of the disaffected. and who
compared the Adullamites themselves
to the Scotch terrier of which it was
difficult TO say what portion formed
the head and what the tail. His humor
has always been of the quiet cutting
and sarcastic STYLE He likened Mr..
Disraeli to 1.-The man who was not
Cabinet Minister. but only mounte-
bank. and who set up a stall and offered
the country people pills that were very
good against earthquakes. He likeneG
Lord Derbys professions about reforR
to 1.-The sort of feast that a Spanish
host sets before his guest, consisting OF
a little meat and great deal of table
CLOTH" The remark of n peer. when
MIR. Bright was once absent from Par
Lament through illness. that ..Provi-
denee. ip punishment of the manner in
which he had abused his talents, had
inflicted upon him disease of the
BRAIN" elected from him on his return
to the House of Commons the retOrt;
''lt may be so. but in any case it will
be some consolation to the friends and
the family of the noble lord to know
that the disease is one which even
could not infiict upon him."
Nor could anything be better than his
criticism of Sir Charles Abberley. now
Lord Norton, when that gentleman had
made some statement from which MIR
Bright disseuted: II hope he thought
he was speaking the truth: but he is
rather a dull man and liable to make
IT. H. S. EScoI, IN Tie
CANARY.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-07-11
English Bulls.

OF bulls in the sense of plumbers pure
and simple, have heard as good speci-
mems in England As / ever heard in
ireland. Take, for instance, the TIRES
following:
An English peer. when speaking some
years ago in the House of Lords on the
necessity of passing some coercion bill
for Ireland, and reproaching the Gov
eminent Of that day for their delaying
to do so, observed that ...this delay
might be very convenient for the min
listers, but that it was not quite so con-
venient for those Irish landlords who
were meanwhile being frequently MUIR
dered."
An English clergyman, pleading
earnestly with his parishioners for the
construction of cemetery for their
parish, asked them to consider 1.-THE de-
plorable condition of thirty thousand
Christian Englishmen living without
Christian burial.
Another English clergyman, waxing
sarcastic in the pulpit over the enormi-
ties of the age, exclaimed: ''And these
things, my brethren. are done in the So
called nineteenth century,"
Here are three prize bulls, and all Of
them of pure English breed-not DROP
of "Hirish" blood in one of them
London Spectator.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-07-11
Quarter Crack.

The presence of 4 quarter crack Is
usually an indication of some diseased
condition of the foot In ether words,
the wall of a perfectly healthy foot sell
dom cracks. In this case the crack
may not have been present when tho
animal was purchased, but the abnor-
NAL condition of the foot certainly waa.
The treatment is to pare the wall abou.
the era k away in the shape of the let
ter V. with its base resting upon the
coronet and its apex extending down.
ward TO the lowest extremity of tho
crack; also pare that part of the wall
that rests upon the shoe about the vi
cinitT of the crack, so that it can, not
possibly have any bearing. Require
him 90 have a bar shoe; apply a mild
blister to the quarter. and. with fire.
quent changing of the shoe, the trouble
viii gradually grow out If, however.
the foot is so badly diseased as to cause
him 20 become lame without the assist
snce of the crack, you should blister
the entire coronet and turn him to past
ure for couple of months.-N y Her.
aid.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-07-11
Rabbits as Vineyard Pests.

II there is q pest in the whole cata-
logue which vineyard men dreadS and
thus far have been unable to combat it
| Is the iack-rabbit. Their devastations
are usually confined to young vines, but
when green grass grows up they even
attack older vines. They are just now
promenading, on moon-lit night and
early morn, through the outlying vine
yards to find out where the most succu-
lent canes grow, and the way they will
sweep field of cuttings, and even two
and three year old vines, would make a
stranger think flock of sheep had been
through the vineyards. What vines are
not killed outright, are SO stunted that
the roots are barely able to keep alive.
We. in this section, who have exposed
vineyards, haye tried many remedies
and failed. 1t is almost impossible to
entice them with poison, for they have
most delicate sense of taste and
smell. To shoot them is impracticable.
Last year my men and killed fifty on
a forty-acre tract. and yet there ap-
peared to be no decrease in the number,
and can safely estimate my damages
at several hundred dollars. A great
many last year applied blood to the
vines. but it is expensive and only lasts
until the first heavy fog destroys the
smell. Some tried scare-cTows, and
others. more fortunate than their poor
neighbors. have been able to build rab-
bit-.ight fences. This is not to be
thought of by q man who is putting his
scanty earnings into Lew piece of land.
and is therefore anxious to get the cut
tings to growing. This year various
experiments have been made in the hills
here, and one of them at least has
proved so cheap and efficient that l feel
| it duty to give it to the vine
growers in other portions OF the
state, satisfied that l could give
them no more valuable information.
About the middle of May l noticed
that Mr.. Rabbit had begun to nibble the
tender leaves on a piece of two acres
that had been replanted this year, hav-
ing last year been bodily destroyed by
rabbits. procured a pound of aloes
for fifty cents, and dissolved it in five
gallons of water. Then taking whisk-
broom and bucket. had Chinaman
sprinkle a little on each vine over the
whole piece, and then awaited the re-
suits. At the end of week 1 went
over and examined the cuttings, ana
while the ground was full OF rabbit
tracks, there was no sign of the vines
having been nibbled; but on piece ad-
joining there were several vines eaten,
and Immediately applied the solution
to the entire vineyard, young and old.
at 2 cost of about thirty-seven and one
halt cents an acre for aloes and labor.
At this date not vine has been touched
since the treatment, although a large
new growth has been made, while right
across a fourteen-foot turn row be-
tween me and my heighbor. they are
vigorously at work. l shall make an
other application soon, and this time
shall add little.
SO important has this matter become
that the Board of Supervisors of Napa
County are now paving bounty on
rabbit scalps.-Cor. San Francisco Bull
iaiiU-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-07-11
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

"A good grass run for pigs win do
more in the matter of keeping them well
up in growth than anything else. Troy
Times.
Horses at work will be gratified If
they are allowed little green grass
once day. If not convenient to turn
on the grass cut it and feed, with little
salt, in the rsck.-DetroI Post.
The Cleveland Leader says: There
is rapidly-growing interest in the pro-
posal to form National Association Of
Stockmen, and it is believed that before
the end of the present year definite
steps will bave been taken for the form
alton of permanent and powerful as
ISOLATION of the kind"
"A shying horse can not be consid-
cred safe horse, yet the habit is gen.
orally considered of so small n conse-
quence that it does not materially affect
the value of horse. There are but
few faultsthat driving horse can have
that are more liable to do mischief than
that of soaring and shying. Although
it may take some time time and trouble,
such habits should be broken up as
soon as possible.-M 7. Tribune.
The idea that sorrel denotes sour
condition of the soil, because the sorrel
leaf is itself acid. is an old notion long
since exploded. Lime and ashes have
been recommended TO correct this sup
posed acidity. They will often prevent
the sorrel, but they do it by encourage
ing the growth of clover, which. with a
good catch, will usually keep down all
annual weeds.-Atbdny journal
"A farmer of Cass Township, Hunt
ington County, Pa, wanted to borrow a
gun from neighbor for the purpose of
killing some crows in his field of corn
which were eating the grain. His
neighbor declined to loan the gun, for
he thought the crows useful. In order
to satisfy his curiosity he shot one of
them, opened its craw and found in it
twenty-one cut worms and four grains
of corn
"A common fruit and spice cake is
made of one cupful of butter, two cup
fuls of sugar; beat these to a cream.
then add two well-beaten eggs, the
whites and yelks beaten together, a
large handful of currants, quarter of
pound of citron cut in small bits, one
tea-spoonful each of grated nutmeg, Gin
namon and cloves, half q cupful of sour
milk with quarter OF a tea-spoonful of
soda dissolved in it and three cupfuls of
-four. This cake requires nearly an
hour for baking in moderate OVEN
Erc61D0e
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-07-11
CURE OF CHRONIC COsrIvENEss.
BULLY BUENo MILLS, ARIZONA TER.
Jounopv o. 1900

CURE OF CHRONIC COsTIvENEss.
BULLY BUENo MILLS, ARIZONA TER;:
January "a, 1855.
For the last two years I have been
greatly troubled with costiveness, often
ten or twelve days elapsing without any
movement of my bowels. I have tried
many remedies, but none with success, I'M
til used your VEGETABLE Frustrating
three pills and increasing one each night
until took nine, then decreasing one each
night. Since thon my bowels have con-
tinued regular each day, and my head
ache, sour stomach and general lassitude
have left me, and feel like another man
which is entirely owing to your pills
and would not be without them in this
new country. A. n. HEATH.
Impurity Of Blood, however generated,
is always present in the body when pain is
felt; it spreads and ferments wherever 9
weak spot or low vitality exists.
BRANDRErH's PILLS are the one great
and unfailing remedy, because tHey take
hold and expel emily what is hurtful; so
when sick, have pain, dizziness, rheuma-
tism, colds, or costiveness, take from three
to five, and il they do not operate in four
hours or so, take three or four more. They
cleanse the bowels and circulation from
all impurities of the blood, and often save
life. BRANDRETH's PILLS preserve the vigor
of youth, and for long period keep of the
debility Of age.
Sold in every drug and medicine store,
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-07-11

Il have been in the business over
;orty years." he continued, land know
thoroughly. In Europe my only or
iers We're to make new buildings old.
With chisel. pumice stone, acid and
amp you can convert a new building
nto ruin. Only it costs money. To
;hange a Queen Anne house of to-day
nto one of $50 years old is worth, ac-
,ording to the size. from $1,000 to So
100. hal an order of that sort years
$50 near London. | took the Job, and
finished it to the owners satisfaction.
How did 1 do it, l cut out the brick
work with hammer and ch;sel, and
:rumbled the mortar with acid. The
stone work | broke up by heating it
with blast rom the lamp and then
throwing water on it. This breaks the
tone into irregular cavities and pro-
luces just about the same effect rs time
ioes. With acid l ate the woodwork
iuSt As wanted it. Acid is good in
this way, as it brings out the
yrain and makes the wood much
1andsOmer than it would be even
when altered by time. There's a
house In Seventh avenue. Brooklyn,
lot more than two years old. where all
the cabinetwork. oak, has been treated
with acid 1t looks now as if it had
been there almost n century. But in
New York things are Just the opposite.
Everybody wants his house to look per-
fectly new. In ten years l have had
tour orders to make new houses old,
and more than 40 to make old ones
new. How / dc t depends upon the
,ouse. fits a frame build ng. make
sharp edges wherever there's wear and
ear. The doors. windows. and stoop
are where most of the work is done.
rom use the edges get rounded and
he paint wears out. If not too much
worn. make new edges and lines on
Ill the mouldings and repa mt them.
too much worn, lake ont the used-up
pieces and put in new ones. hen, in
tn cases, put on two or three coats
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p

MAY mean Poisoned with Potash This f. the
MI case with hundreds who have been wise
enough to take Ssrssparillas Potash mixture. - {.
until digestion e almost fatally mpaired
to health and builds up the waste made BY these
poisons.
s.Ivas suffering with Blood Poison and trsat6s
eral months with Mercury and Potash, only 10
me worse. The Potash took away my appcti md
rave ME dyspepsia and both gave me rheumsu I
then took Sarsa parillss, etc. AL these Sarss ?
mixtures have Potash In them. This made
worse as IL drove the poison fart her into my o,
friend Insisted should take Swif,'s SPECIFIC 10
cured me of the Blood Poison drove the Mereuf and
Potash out Of my system, and To- day am W as
ever was" GEO. o. WELLAAN. JE
Salem. NJ
Trestise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed Fl to
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-07-11
In the Shade,

Hon. R. c. Payne, City Alderman, Bris-
bane, Queensland, Australia, writes: az
have been q great sufferer with rheumatism
for years and have tried every known
remedy, including galvanic batteries and
Turkish Baths. Finally tried ST. Jacobs
Oil the great pain-curs and can positively
say it gave me instantaneous relief. It
puts all other remedies in the shade"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-07-11
Lots of Peopl0

get bilious, have heavy headaches, mouth
foul, yellow eyes, &C., all the direct result
CT impure blood which can be thoroughly
cleansed, renewed and enriched with Kid
neyWort. 1t acts at the same time on the
Kidneys, Livec and Bowels and has more
real virtue in a package thIa rsn be found
in any other remedy for thu same class Of
diseases