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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-24

WE suspect the reason why so many
young men are so very fresh is merely be-
cause they are not able to earn their salt.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-24

Buchu-paiba-" Quick, complete cure, all
annoying Kidney and Urinary Diseases, 81.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-24

THE more you contract a cold thc
grea er it becomes.-DrQke's Travellers
MdGdSine.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-24

Rough on Coughs, 15c, at Druggists. Com
piete cure Coughs, HoarSeness Sore Throat
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-24

SOMETHING that should never be lost
yet seldom kept-a bad temper.-N !
Journal.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-24

WHEN does horse become a book-keep
er? When be becomes ''charger. "-Neac
man Independent.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-24

Skinny Men. "Wells' Health Renewer'' re
stores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, 81
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-24

DR.. l. N. G. NJ ,PHEETON of bloomington
Ind, writes: ".Sdaarddn Nsrpine cures fits
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-24
THE GENEKAL hAKAErs.

ETERNAL han~ing is the prizs of vigi.
lants.-Errdtic Enrique.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-24

Hale's Honey OF Horehound and Tar
Will stop wheeling cough. Pixies tooth
ache drops cure in one minute.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-24

"A Leroy co. hog has beaten tht
world by fasting 1871 days a. time
ClereLaad Leader.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-24

Rowland Jones, aged sixty-nine, Of
Rochester, N. Y, committed suicide
the other day by jumping from the
Central avenue bridge into the Genesc
River. The body went down the rive
and over the falls made famous by Sai
Patch's last leap. Financial trouble
were the cause of the rash act
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-24

Mother Swans Worm Syrup" for few
erishness, worms, constipation, tasteless. 25c
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-24
CONSUMPTION.

thousands OF OF the worst ind and Of long
standing cured Indeed strong faith
In its efficacy that win send TWO BOTTLES FREE, TO-
gether with a VALUABLE TREATISE this disease, to
any sufferer. Give Express and p. o addIEss.
DR. 7. a sLOCUN. ia Pearl st.. New YORK.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-24

found thing. But We kept him, be.
caISe we believed, indeed we knew,
that the dogs intentions were good
He meant well. Every morning as he
went forth. happy aud confident, he
hoped to find something and 10 bring il
no ne w tn him Joyous aud triumphant.
But he never did. And at last, one
keen. clear, brscing November day, he
went down in the ferny glens and lost
himself We never heard that he died;
nobo iy ever saw him or heard ANYTHING
of him again; his bark came back no
more; he was just lost; he had wrapped
the drapery of the unknowable about
him and joined the innumerable cara
van of intangible things he had been
hunting for years.
The moral of this passage is self-ev-
ident. There are men, even IN your
own circle of acquaintance. who hunt
all their lives and never finu ANYTHING.
They are industrious, patient, hopeful.
yet they never accomplish anything.
They take the Congressional Rec ,rd tor
its Jokes and read the Nation for politi-
cal instruction. He goes to the minstrel
show for amusement and reads the
Washington papers for news. He goes
to summer boarding house to'get cool
and takes vacation that he may rest.
He goes to the country for cream and
fresh eggs. and keeps horse to save
street car fare. In all this he doeth
foolishly. He hunts well enough, but
not wisely. You must know, my boy.
before you 60 hunting, where to hunt
for what you want. You might go
deer stalking all over Coney Island for
twenty years and never bring home
pair of branching antlers to hang in the
,ncestral halls of the fat in which you
.ive.-BartietLe, tn BROOKLYN Eagle.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
Last of the Leech Fishers.

The grizzly old man, with his breeches
legs turned up to his thighs, waded
through the bitches of "the Neck" in
the First ward the other day, says the
Philadelphia Record. He carried with
him a tin can and miniature scoop net.
He was engaged in the somewhat curious
occupation of catching leeches. "The
business" said he to an inquiring re-
porter, ''is nearly played out, but make
something at it yet" The old fellow
then proceeded to carefully wash out his
tin can, remarlling: "Have to be very
careful to have nothing but pure water
in this can, for the leeches will not live
iB anything but pure water. I have
been leech fisherman for twenty years,
and it took me good while to learn how
to keep them"
The manner of this odd old mans fish
ing was very simple He vigorously
stirred up the mud in the ditch with his
feet, and then watched for the leeches to
rise to the surface or perhaps settle upon
his bare legs. Those which came up he
caught with his little scoop net, trans.
ferred them to his tin can full of water,
and then calmly proceeded to pick off
such as had fastened upon his limbs,
The loss of blood appeared to give him
no uneasiness, although in a days fish
ing this must be considerable
Chatting about his curious mode of
making living, the old man said: 81
have frequently taken 2, 900 leeches from
a single stream. If they once get filed
with blood they drop off dead, and thus
many die after getting square mea!
from the legs of the cattle which roam
through the bitches. Leeches may with
care be kept indefinitely. There is fair
sale for them in Philadelphia, but the
demand has dwlndled very much of late
years. French and Swedish leeches are
now very generally used, because they
can be preserved so much easier. Years
ago many men and boys were engaged in
this neighborhood. | am all that is left,
and only because am too old for any
THING else
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
WORDS OF WISDOM.


Mark this well, We proud men Of actionl
You are, after all, nothing but uncon-
scious instruments Of the men of thought.
No state can be more destitute than
that Of a person who, when the delights
of sense forsake him, has no pleasures Of
the mind.
BY holding very little misery quite
close to our eyes we entirely lose sight oil
a great deal of comfort beyond which
might be taken.
Thinkers are as scarce as gold; but he
whose thought embraces all his subject,
who pursues it uniuterruptedly and fear
less of consequences, is a diamond Of
enormous size.
A happiness that is quite undisturbed
becomes tiresome; we must have ups
and downs; the difficulties which are
mingled with love awaken passion and
increase pleasure.
All men can with honor and credit give
friendly salute to the honest man. He is
always the finest and worthiest sight in
any street, no matter how many palaces
rise up from its sidewalks.
If Satan ever laughs it must be at hypo-
critics. They are the greatest dupes he
has. They serve him better than any
Others, but receive no wages. Nay,
what is still more extraordinary, they
submit to greater notifications than the
sincerest Christians.
All things have some kind of stand
ard by which their worth is to be meas
ured. We do not esteem a ship to be
good because it is curiously carved,
painted, and gilded, but because it ID
fitted for all the purposes of navigation,
which is the proper use of a ship. II
should be so likewise in our esteem oil
men, who are not so much to be valued
for their titles or the grandeur of theiI
estates as for their inward goodness and
| expellpncn
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
Household Hints and Recipes.

The livers of chickens and turkeys are
nice fried with a few thin slices of bacon.
Cut the liver and bacon very thin season
with pepper and salt. This IS a good
breakfast dish.
The best labels for marking plants are
made from zinc, and nothing but COM
mon lead pencil is needed to mark them.
The writing is at first faint, the same as
if made on glass, but soon becomes dis
tinct when exposed to the weather.
A teaspoonful of borax in the last
water in which clothes are rinsed will
whiten them surprisingly. Pound the
boraX so it will dissolve easily. This is
especially good to remove the yellow
that time gives to white garments that
have been laid away for two or three
years.
A nice way to cook boiled potatoes for
supper is to slice them as thin as posi-
bic and still have them keep their shape.
Put some milk, butter, pepper, and salt
into the saucepan and let it boil up once
or twice; then put the potatoes into it
and let them cook for five minutes, not
longer.
Cabbage cooked in this way makes a
good entree: Shave the cabbage very
thin, then let it cook until tender in a
very little water; drain it thoroughly.
Put lump of butter into clean sauce
pan, let it melt and brown, then put the
cabbage into it and let it brown; season
with salt and pepper; send to the table
very hot.
Rubber rings, such as are used on fruit
cans, often become hard and brittle
They can be restored by letting them lie
in water in which you have put little
ammonia. Mix in this proportion: one
part ammonia and two parts water.
Sometimes they do not need to lie in this
more than five minutes; but frequently
q half-hour is needed to restore their
elasticity.
Delicious cookies are made after this
receipt: One cup of butter-a small
cup-two cups of sugar, three cups of
flour, two eggs, leaving out the white of
one; roll out quite thin, cut in any shape
you choose-square ones are generally
preferred; beat the white of the egg
which you reserved and spread over the
tops of the cookies; sprinkle cinnamon
and sugar over them and bake them.
Here is a recipe for squash fritters To
pint of cold mashed squash add two
eggs, sufficient flour to make the mixture
smooth and thick enough to retain the
form of griddle cakes when put upon a
frying pan; heat griddle or frying pan,
well buttered or rubbed with piece of
raw salt pork, and then bake the squash
upon it in the form of cakes, or drop it
by the tablespoonful into frying kettle
half full of smoking hot fat, and fry it in
the form of fritters; if the latter method
be followed take the fritters out of the
hot fat with skinner when they are
brown, and lay them for moment on
brown paper to free them from fat before
serving them.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS

It is said that notaries public were first
appointed by fathers Of the Christian
church to collect the acts or memoirs Of
the lives of the first century.
Hoods "song of the Shirt" IS supple
mented by an English seamstress with
table of figures showing the number OF
stitches In a shirt. The total Is said to
be 20, $40. ~
Froissant says that there was bond Of
brotherhood among all knights, and that
"nobleness and gentleness ought to be
aided by mobiles and gentles." 1t was
evidently custom among them that no
ransom should be set so high that tho
knight could not pay it with ease and
maintain a suitable rank afterward.
1t is stated that in France the majority
of the church organists are blind. They
have been educated at the National l >
stitution for the blind in Paris. There
are between thirty and forty institutions
for the blind in the United States, and
many printing presses for the production
of books for their use, the establish
ments at Boston and Louisville being
very complete. ~" -
In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, one
Mark scalist, smith, constructed lock
consisting of eleven pieces of iron, steel
and brass, all of which, with pipe-kcy
weighed only two grains of gold. That
great inventor, the Marquis Of Worcester.
who fiourished in the reign of King
Charles l., devised lock containing a
steel barb, which was perfectly harmless
so long as the right key was used, but if
a wrong key were inserted the barb
sprang throug oh the keynote and "caugi.t
the hand CT the intruder as trap catches
fox"
italian masons, when they begin Ia
build house, dig deep pit, into which
is put lime enough to fill it within foot
or two Of the top. Water is then poured
in until the pit is filled, and the mixture
is then left 10 itself, care being taker
only to add water as that first put in il
evaporatcd or absorbed. AS mortar il
wanted portion of the lime is takar
from the top of the mass, but the lowe
portion, which will be used to mix witt
the plastering mortar, remains undisturb
ed for years, and acquires q smooth
pasty quality much priced by the Italian
architects, who place value upon tn,
lime which they use for such purpose,
proportionatc to the length of tips'
which has elapsed since it was frs
slallcd.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
settIng slrawterrY PIants.

The best time for this work, as every
one is aware, Is in the spring Just as the
young plants are beginning their growth.
Next to this in the season is Immediately
after fruiting, while the plants are in
partly dormant state, and before they
tully recover from the exhaustion of bear
ing, but more care is then required.
Most of the old leaves should beremoved,
the fine mellow earth pressed on the
spread roots, and if the soil is dry they
should be well watered, and a mulching
OF manure given an inch or two in thick
ness. This mulching will prevent the
ground from crusting or baking if sec
ond watering becomes necessary. Setting
potted plants late in summer succeeds
well, but the operation, first and last, is
attended with considerable labor, and it
Is only adapted to limited garden beds.
An easier, and quite as successful mode,
where the plants to be set are nearat hand
or in the same garden, is to take up blocks
of earth with the plants by using spade,
and to set them with their mass of earth,
into openings previously cut with the
spade, where they are to remain. We
have now long bed of the Cumberland,
and another of the James Wick, both in
full and abundant bearing, set in this
way during the latter part of last August.
The plants were scarcely checked in
growth by removal. With dry, light
soil the work would be difficult, as it
would readily crumble from the roots,
unless the plants were carried one at a
time on the spade; but with strong
loan sufficiently moist, two or three
dozen may be taken up in compact blocks
and carried on q wheelbarrow to the
place for planting. 1t is hardly necessary
to remark that last autumn rooted run
nerS must be selected if the work is done
now, but later in the season the new
plants of the present years growth may
be chosen Country Gentleman.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
The Young Parsons RetOrt.

Bishop Wilmer, Protestant Episcopal,
of Alabama, is one of the readiest men
with retort to be found in the States.
His first parish was in Virginia. At
certain company, where all the gentlemen
of the neighborhood were, the young
clergyman was present. There was also
present man noted for his infdelity as
to Christianity and for the roughness of
his manners and speech to those to whom
it was professed. This skeptic soon be-
gan talk at the youthful parson, who
prudently made no reply. The enemy
became more aggressive, and addressing
him directly, said:
"Mr. Wilmer, you don't seem to like
to talk about religion and the Bible"
eyes, Sir" he replied; 81 do like to
talk about it to people who are earnest
and respectful in their treatment of it."
"Well," rejoined the assailant, eff
you will answer me one question l will
let you off,"
Mr.. Wilmer said: "Sir, do not know
that care to be let off from anything,
but ask me the question, and if it is a
proper question and | know the answer,
l will give it to you"
"Well, sir, have asked all the preach
ers I have ever seen, and none of them
could tell me, and now ask you. What
became of the body of Moses when the
devil and the archangel had a contest
over it2"
1t was trying question for the young
theologian, and trying occasion, for
the assembled company all silently
awaited his reply. He quickly arose
from his chair, walked across the room,
stood directly in front of his antagonist,
and said, firmly and respectfully: "Sir,
that question does not concern you in
the least"
"Why not, sir?"
"Because it is perfectly certain that nc
archangel will ever have any contest with
the devil over your body"
The infdel confessed himself whipped,
and, joining in the laugh at his own ex.
pense, said he would bet $500 on his
parson against any other preacher in the
country. = Cincinnati Enquirer.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
Use of Ants in China.

Ants have been used in China for
many years to protect orange trees and
other fruit trees from the depredations of
insects DR.. G. Il. MACEDONIAN, in COM
munication to Professor G. V. Riley,
gives a curious account of the use of
ants in the vicinity of Hong Kong. In
many parts of the province of Canton
the orange trees are injured by certain
worms, and, to rid themselves of these
pests, the inhabitants import ants from
the neighhoripg hills. Two species of
ants-the red and yellow, which build
their nests suspended from the branches
of trees-are collected and sold to the
owners of the orange trees. The trees
are colonized by placing the ants on
their upper branches; bamboo rods
are stretched between the different trees,
so as to give the ants easy access to the
whole orchard. The remedy, it is said,
has been in constant use since 1910, and
probably from much earlier period.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
The Hoe in Growing Crops.

1t has not been such long time ago
since the implements used in tending
corn by horse power were so few and so
rudely constructed that the hoe was looked
upon as indispensable to the work. But
now that these implements have become
SO diversified, as we'll as better constructed,
the hoe is thrown aside as no longer nee
essary. Men are so prone to accept of
any theory that will enable them to live
with less labor, that farmers have readily
caught at the idea that all that was nee
essary to insure crop of corn is to throw
earth enough to it with the plow to cover
up the weeds. But that this is not all
thatsis necessary we shall now ep.deavor
TO show. We start out, then, with the
established fact well-known TO all. that
the more the ground is stirred the better
will be the crop. And why9 Simply be-
cause the ground is then kept in its best
condition to absorb Dioisture as we'll as
fertilizing matter from the atmosphere,
with both of WHICH it is always filled.
Not only so, but by the frequent stirring
OF the soil 1t Is placed in its best condi-
tion TO draw up, through capillary attrac-
tlon, molscurc, as we'll as soluble mineral
matter nom below. But, some may ask,
why may not all of this be accomplished
lby the plow9 We answer, so it could if,
ey blowing, the whole surface of the
ground was kept mellow, but as the pillow
throws the mellow surface all into ridges,
leaving the spaces between as compact
and hard as ever, the power of the ground
to absorb is thereby diminished rather
than increased, and in so far the crop is
damaged.
1t is on this principle that summer fall
lowing is so beneficial to wheat. BY this
additional stirring of the ground it is put
IN better condition to absorb and hold
the fertilizing matter floating in the at
mosphere, especially when supplemented
with little plaster. The best chemical
authorities tell us that the main use of
plaster to vegetation is its power to at
sract ammonia from the atmosphere and
six" itin the ground for the use of plants
Now the more the soil is pulverized the
more its absorptive power is increased,
and, therefore, better enabled to extract
Fertility from the atmosphere. This fer
tllty consists of gases emanating from
decaying vegetable and animal substan-
ces, and which, being brought down by
the rains and SHOWS, are deposited on the
surface of the earth, and the more the alb
sorptive power of the latter is increased
the more this fertilizing matter it incor-
porates. 1t is evident, then, that the
greater the area of surface pulverized the
greater the amount of fertilizing matter
absorbed, and which is best done by the
use of the pillow not in throwing the pull
verized ground into ridges, but in mel
lowing the whole surface, as we'll as in
killing the weeds, Weeds in corn-hill
are like parasites on an animal, drawing
the life-blood out of it, and not to use the
hoe in INSTRUMENTATION is the very way
to establish them on the farm. -Balttm0re
SIN.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
The Price for CIergymen.

A long-haired, long-legged gentleman,
wearing buster, tall hat and gold
bowed spectacles, recently approached
the ticket-window of Causeway Street
depot, when the following dialogue took
place:
SIS this the ticket office9"
5 eyes. SIR"
| 'Do you sell tickets to Poolville9"
eyes, sir"
"What is the price of ticket to Pool
zone dollar and seventy five cents"
"H'm Qause). Do you have tickets
for clergymen2"
eyes, sir"
"H'm. What is the price of those7"
zone dollar and seventy-fve cents"
The long-haired stranger glanced stern
ly at the irreverant railroad man over his
spectacles, purchased ticket, and de-
parted. Boston Globe.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
Farm and Garden Notes.

A sharp, bright hoe is poisonous to
weeds.
Scalding the milk before feeding will
usually remedy scours in calves if taken
in time.
Breed we'll, feed we'll and then sell
well, There is profit in so doing; there
is loss in the reverse.
" A Bath (Me.) man kills potato bugs
with two spoonsful of ammonia in a gal
Ion of water. 1t is sure knock down
for the pest.
Air-slaked lime in fine powder is good
preventive of damage from many kinds
of insects. 1t kills them by closing the
apertures in their bodies through which
they breathe.
A small body of water is very useful
on every farm. 1t will afford drinking
place for cattle, while it can be stocked
with fish and made useful in keeping
ducks and geese.
The use of blood as a food for cattle
has, it is stated, been the subject of ex-
pertinent in Denmark by chemist, who,
as a result, has now invented and
patented a new kind of cake, in which
blood forms one of the chief ingredients.
If hedges do not require more than two
trimmings during the year one should be
made at either the end or the beginning
of the season, and the other about the
first or middle of July. 1t is we'll to
prune just before the leaves start in
spring.
If water be applied to the leaves of
plants it will have marked effect in dry
weather. The constant evaporation
from the surface of the leaves will use up
the water derived from a dry soil. Ap-
plying water to the leaves checks the
evaporation.
Mr.. w. D. Hoard, the father of Wis
consin's dairy interests, says that the
logic of sound breeding teaches that no
breed has yet been discovered which will
combine and transmit Jersey results in
butter, Ayrshire or Holstein results in
cheese, and Durham results in beef"
1t is a common notion among gar
deners and many farmers that it does
not pay to fight insect pests. This no.
ton is no doubt due to the fact that cul-
tivators are ignorant of expeditions
means of fighting them. Many insects
can lie fought as easily and effectively as
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
Very Hard Luck.

Jones-It is too bad, believe I W"
born on an unlucky day.
Smith-Why 500
Here l am, mere nobody, and yet
the man that 1 made sits to-day in the
halls of Congress, and he don't &C
knowledge his debt, either"
"That is strange. To whom are YOU
referring"
"To Colonel Blank"
"But he owes all his political success
to his brilliant war record"
eyes; but if it had not been for me
he would not have any war record"
''How SOP
81 was drafted, and sent him to the
war as my substitute" - Philadelphia
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