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The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04
Farming Now and Then.

Now aud then some one signs for 'the
good old times" and there is no question
but that some of the ways of our grand
fathers we're better than we practice now.
Still, upon the whole, it appears to me we
are doing things easier and better than
ever before hence getting more out Of
life for ourselves and able to do more for
others, aud that the new times are better
than the old. a lot of newspaper men in
Boston a few we9ks ago at club were
talking of early days on the farm long
ago, snd they brought to mind ur-
pleasant, disagreeabie duties of life at
that time as not to impress one favorably
heavy, back.aching work, poor living
and little chance for amusement.
I had a little taste of it myself twenty.
seven or twenty eight years ago as a hired
boy on a New Britain farm, working
from A 80 a. M. till z to s o'clock at night,
yet I have never regretted the experience.
Modern farm implements aud more
intelligent methods of the present day
have entirely changed life aud work on
the farm. Here on the farm to-day, one
man and a pair of horses and a Syracuse
gang pillow, turning three burrows at a
time, and doing three times the work of
an old,time plowman, while in an adioin.
ing field another man and team with
eutaway harrow are ~mellowing up the
soil faster, and at ~one-quarter the cost
of old-time method, and the II year-old
boy and the old $50 horse and Breed
weeder are sweeping over the fields and
doing more good hoeing than could half
a dozen men for more cultivated crops.
Sulk plows, moving machines, hay
ted9 and rakes all tend to easier and
BETH work on the farm, and the farmer
who takes advantage of the rest from hart
labor that all these improvements give
him, and devotes his leisure time to the
intelligent study of his business and for
the culture of his mind and heart certainly
has opportunities of life opened up to him
such as we're never dreamed of in "the
good old times of hard cider and harder
work. II Hale, in tie Hartford Cour-
ant
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04
Three Good Rules

First-Never do a thing you know to
be wrong. AS surely as you do you will
| get into trouble. However attractive the
path may be, it ends in a pit. A wrong
once done can never be undone. Even if
repented and forsaken its evil influence
can never be wholly counteracted. You
can never be the same person again. If
you are in doubt if a thing is wrong,
don't do it till you are sure it is right,
Second-When you undertake a right
thing that ought TO be done, go through
with it. There always comes a point
when success is almost reached that one
is tempted to relax effort, a time when
one doubts if the prize is worth the exer-
ton. Beware of yielding then. Yon are
not in condition to debate the question at
that time. 1t is WEAKNESS makes you
hesitate and not good Judgment. Push
| ahead ! If you were sure that you were
! right in beginning, You will be glad you
persevered to the end.
Third-Waste nothing. Don't fritter
away time, strength or money. Use all
for the best advantage and you will find
yourself gaining in the race even if at
first the progress seems to be slow. Ben
Franklin used to say, ''Take care of the
dimes, and the dollars will take care of
themselves" If you have little, then all
the more reason why you should make
good use OF it. You can't afford to waste
ANYTHING.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04
XVI No. 29.-NEW SERIES.
Raw Bones

wnen properly treated are vitloub
ao00t the most desirable source know. 4ccr
which to derive AMMONIA and AvAILkBlA
PhOSPH0RIC ACID; and when scient1fj6a.4y
compounded with high grade chemicals Ln=y
furnish the most successful complete mau-
ureS obtainable.
Baugh's Raw Bone Manures contain the
very life and essence of animal bones.
They are the OLDEST of all brands Of
Animal Bone Fertilizers manufa ctured in
the United States.
They were introduced by US in 1855,
over 40 years ago, and ever since then
they have been accorded a constantly
+ wing patronage.
The combined capacity of our works at
present is about $4,000 tons per annum.
a completely appointed laboratory is
located on the premises, and our own chem
lists analyze the crude materials received
into, and all manufactured fertilizers
shipped from Baugh's Delaware River Chem
ical Works, situated at the foot of Morris
TO Moore streets, Philadelphia.
We do not think there exists the wide
world over any brand of Animal Bone Fer
tilizers, enjoying such a long uninter-
rupted honorable record as Baugh' Raw
Bone Manures.
BAUGH & SONS COMPANY,
20 South Delaware Avenu.,
o OR Ra p nanu nsnufsfs PhiladeIDhia.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04
VOLTS DO MOI HARM PEOPLE.
1t Is the Amperage That Does the Deadly
Damage.

1t Is he Amperage That Does the Deadly
Damage.
Newspaper reporters, copy readers
and head writers are in need of a pri-
mary education i'll electricity. Every
row and again the newspapers record
the death OF somebody from the effect
Of Il given number of volts, OF tell of
another's wonderful survival after re-
reiving the shock of many thousand
volts. Strange enough, in the news
paper accounts nobody is even killed,
nor has a remarkable escape from III
peres of electricity been chronicled,
o is the damage often done by Il cur
rent, o. has anybody ever seen
watts" figure in the matter. The num-
Der OF volts i'll a current of electricity
is its speed or pressure. The number of
amperes is its volume. Volts with
out amperes would be speed without
substance.
A light molecule moving with a
speed or voltage of 1875, 900 miles per
second strikes the eye without injury,
but if the molecule had a weight or
amperage of one two-thousandth part
of a grain it would have the same effect
as an Il ball moving /, 900 feet per
second. Any number of "amperes" with
out voltage would be a dead engine i'll a
roundhouse.
An article in a New York paper was
headed, "NCt Killed by 1000 Volts. "
1t told Of a boy who had become locally
famous because $50, 900 volts of electric
ity had passed through Joe's body with
out killing him." Without the am
perage of the current being known the
statement means nothing. Another story
of escape from electricity was headed,
Shocked by 2, 1850 Volts"
The electrical current used in the Ed
ison Horoscope has Il minute fraction
of III ampere, but an almost iLcalcula,
BILE voltage of perhaps above $50. Gee.
To receive these $50, 600 volts III the
body would feel like the prick Of L
needle.
At the state penitentiary the victims
of the law are given about 1880 volts
of electricity, but it is the electrical en-
ergy, as expressed III watts, that kills.
The amperes multiplied by the volts
give the energy of the current, CT watts.
He who would caress a Live Wire
need care nothing for the volts CT am
peres it may have concealed about it
person, but let him carefully calculat'
it's watts before he grabs held. -Nev
York Mail and Express.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04

A business man IS not the most patient
creature in the world. He cannot wait
to bear any long drawn out story of tue
cause of his ailment. He dos st care two
straws about a I'M spun theory ofhow he
should treat himself. He may be predis,
posed to scrofula, or consumption
That, be will tell you ''has nothing to
do with the case." He wants to be well.
If he can be cured, write out a psrscriu-
zion and send in your bill. So, here's the
fret part of the proposition.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
is q microbe hunter and killer. MANY
persons Of scroful. blood, the
breaking out of unsightly sores, to pre-.
vent the disease going to the lungs.
There is no need of this state of dread and
discomfort. Purify the blood. 1t can be-
done. Golden Medical Discovery" will
cure SO per cent. of all consumptiye cases.
also of all other lingering bronchial
throat and lung diseases.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04
Here's a State of Things.

Science. dear Lady Betty, has dimiu.
ished hope, knowledge has destroyed our
illusions, and experience has deprived us
of interest. Here, then, is the dictionary
of discomfort:
What is creation q? A failure.
What is life ? A bore.
What is man A fraud.
What is woman? Both a fraud and q
bore.
What is beauty? A deception.
What is love? A disease.
What is marriage? A mistake.
What is a wife ? A trial.
What is a child? A nuisance.
What is the devil? A fable.
What is good? Hypocrisy.
What is evil? Detection.
What is wisdom? Selfshness.
What is happiness? A delusion.
What is friendship? Humbug.
What is generosity? Imbecility.
What is money: Everything.
What is everything? Nothing.
We're we. perhaps. not happier when
We were monkeys ?-London Truth.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04
90 1900 PURE
AN PRAYER.
BY MARIANNE BIRMINGHAM.

o give me a message of quiet,
l asked in my morning prayer;
For the turbulent spirit within me
Is more than my heart can bear.
Around these are strife and discord
And the storms that do not cease,
And the whirl of The world is on me,
Thou canst only give me peace.
/ opened the dear old Bible
And looked at a page of psalms,
Till the wintry sea of my trouble
Was soothed by its summer calms.
For the words that have helped so many,
And that ages nave made more dear,
Were stror G in their power to com fort,
And they brought me my word of cheer
They did not find it easy,
Those writer's of long ago,
Tolive in this world of sorrow
And its lights and shades to know.
They were often sad and weary,
Their hearts were sore afraid,
But they knew In whom they trusted
And they were not quite dismayed.
Like music of solemn singing
Their words came down to me;
1.-THE Lord is slow to anger,
And of mercy great is He.
ZACH generation praiseth
His works of long renown.
The Lord upholdeth all that fall.
And raiseth the bowed down"
That gave me the strength l wanted;
new that the Lord was nigh;
All that was making me sorry
Would be better by and by.
l had but to wait in patience,
And keep at my Fathers side,
And nothing would really hurt me,
Whatever might betlde.
l found that when He gives quiet
No other can trouble make;
Pardon and peace and safety
Lie in the path take.
So, stronger to carry the burden
met my day of care,
For my heart was lightened and joyous
With the peace of an answered prayer.
Christian AdUOcate.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04
S1.OO YEAR.
Highest of all in Leavening Power-Latest US. Govt Report
R@!aa!I! ks;8Rs
ABSOLUTELY pURE
Uncle Pills Story.

"Tell US a story, Uncle Phil" said Rob
and Archie, running to him.
"What about ~ said Uncle Phil, as
Rob climbed on his right knee and Archie
on his left.
COB, about something that happened
to you," said Rob.
"Something when you were a little
boy" said Archie.
sOnce, when 1 was a little boy" said
Uncie Phil, 81 asked my mother to let
Roy and myself go out and play by the
river"
"Was Roy your brother" asked Rob.
mo, but he was very foud of playing
with me. My mother said yes; SO we
went and had a great deal of sport. After
awhile | took a shingle for a boat and
sailed it along the bank. At last it
began to get into deep water, where l
couldn't reach it with a stick. Then |
told Roy to go aud bring it to me. He
almost always did what I told him, but
this time he did not. began scolding
nlmy ana ne ran GOWdlO nome.
Then l was angry. l picked up a
stone and threw it at him as hard as |
could"
"Oh, Uncle Phil ~ cried Archie.
Just then Roy turned his head and
it struck hin.
COB, Uncle Phil y cried Rob.
uNac.. Ha 0oua q IittIa orv ap5 Law
down on the ground.
"But l was still angry with him did
not go to him, but waded into the water
for my boat.
"But it was deeper than l thought.
Before knew it / was in a strong cur
rent. I screamed as it carried me down
the stream, but no men were near to help
ne.
'Bnt as l went down under the deep
waters, something took hold of me and
dragged me towards shore. 1t was Roy.
He saved my life."
"Good fellow. Was he your cousin ?'
asked Rob.
"No,' replied Uocle Phil.
"What did ynu say to bin ?" asked
Archie.
Il put my arms around the dear fell.
lows neck aud cried and asked him to
forgive me-"
"What did he say 81 asked Rob.
"He said Bow, wow, WOW y"
why who was Roy, any way ?" asked
Archie, in great establishment.
"He was my dog" said Uncle Phil
"the best dog I ever saw. I have never
been unkind to a dog or to any other
animal since, and l hope you will never
be. "-Sydney DGyre IN Our Dumb
Animals
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04
Toms Prayer.

The way train ahead of us had struck
an open switch and been ditched, and
two passengers were killed outright and
five or six others more or less injured.
The killed and injured were lying on the
depot platform as our train came up, and
among the injured was a professional
tramp who had been stealing a ride.
After the doctor had looked him over the
v%agabond, who had not lost consciousness
for a moment, smiled family and asked
"Wall, pard, what's the verdict of the
jury?"
"You are badly hurt" was the reply.
II know that. l was right in the
squeeze when the two cars came together.
I'm as fat as a pancake. Will 1 ever
tramp again ?"
"I'm afraid not"
"Are my legs off?
"No. You are fatally injured, how
ever"
"That means Pm a goner ?"
eyes"
wall, I'd liked to hev got over this
and had sunthin' to talk about and brag
over, but l amt doin' no kickin'. NY
pard was on the car ahead. Was he
hurt P"
mo; here he is"
At that moment a ragged, unkempt
and typical vagabond came forward and
bent over the victim and asked:
wall, Jim, they say you hev to go?"
Eyes"
"How ye feelin' over it ?"
"Sorter. No use to kick, Tom"
That's right. You never was no
kicker, nohow. Got any friends P"
"No."
Want word taken to anybody ?"
"No."
"Kin do anything fur ye ?"
The dying man gazed at him for a mo.
ment in silence, and then whispered:
"Tom, ye are the only pardner / ever
had as knowed the Lords prayer. Jest
say 1t over to me-"
The tramp pulled off his cap and knelt
down, and as the score of us uncovered
and bowed u heads. he repeated the
prayer word for word, and with such feel
ing as astonished everybody. When he
had finished he rose up and said:
"That's it, Jim, and kin I do anything
more?"
Nothing more for him" answered the
doctor, as he looked down upon the pale
face. "Your partner is dead."-Er.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04
Sense and Sentiment.

Walls have ears.
Wedlock's a paddock.
Good clothes open all doors.
God sends cold after clothes.
Idleness is the key of beggary.
Good is God, and long is eternity.
Great trees keep down the little ones.
Idleness must thank itself if it 60 bare
foot.
Fortune helps them that help them
selves.
God healeth, and the physician haiti
the thanks.
For whom does the blind mans wifi.
paint herself?
Nothing comes ont of the sack but
what was in it.
We never know the worth of water til
the well is dry.
IT'S in vain to kick after you have
once put on fstters.
Fools and madmen ought not to be lef
in their own company.
Fools may ask more in an hour thar
wise men can answer in seven years.
Patch by patch is good housewifsry
but patch upon patch is plain beggary.-
Good Housekeeping.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04
GEMS.

Friendship is il finitely better than
kindness.
Olly the base believe what the base
ouIy utter.
Half our knowledge we must snatch,
not take.
NEEDLE not with him that fl .ttereth
with his lips.
Time is tire old Justice that examines
all offenders.
Respect is better secured by exacting
than soliciting it.
Humility is the first of virtues-for
other people.
Who gives a trife meanly is meaner
than the trif3.
We mo do evil to others without
doing it do ourselvers.
A sunny temper gilds the edges of life's
blacklist cloud.
To men pressed by their wants all
change is ever welcome. .
The sure way to miss success is to miss
the opportunity.
1t is less pain to learn in youth than to
be ignorant in age.
Loves voice doth sing as sweetly in a
beggar as in a king.
Teach your children to respect their
elders and themselves.
1t is astonishing how little one feels
poverty when n loves.
Liberty, that best gift dealt out by the
impartial hand of nature eyen to the
brute creation.
he that does good for goods sake seeks
neither praise nor reward, though sure of
both at last.
Wit is, at best, a hazardous possession
it is very apt to make enemies, and it
seldom secures a friend.
Consider that i'll usage from some kind
of people can't be helped, and therefore
don't be worried by it.
Law, mans sole guardian ever since
the time when the old brazsn age in sad.
ness saw love fly the world.
Never mind the world, it floats with
the stream; it is the duty of man to swim
against the stream.
l have always found the less we speak
of intentions the more chance there is of
our realizing them.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04

A s.omachful of u~ndigested food is
| about as unhealthy a mass as one can well
imagine.
What can be done with it?
There it stays. 1t won't digest. 1t
churns up, ferments and decays: becomes
poisonous Gas all putrid matter does) aud
causes great pain and deep,seated dis
orders.
In order to change all this, take Shs ker
| Digestive Cordial.
1t stops fermentation and decay at once,
so that no more poisons are created.
1t clears the stomach o fpoisons already
there. 1t helps it to turn the food that
remains, into heslthful nourishment. 1t
strengthens the stomach for the next
meal.
Here is the whole philosophy and cure
of indigestion in a few words. And what's
more, it's all true. Try it.
Sold by druggists, price 10 cents to 81
per bottle.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04

A county superintendent of schools in
Northwestern Minnesota, where a fourth
Of a township is a school district, relates
a peculiar incident. On a tour of inspec-
tion he found one school district that had
only one family living in it, and the head
of that~family was a homesteader who
was not required to pay taxes. He was,
of course, the school director Of that
district.
The other lands in the district were
owned by spectators who lived in St.
Paul and elsewhere, and paid the taxes.
The wife Of the homesteader was draw
ing from the county $40 per month as
school teaoher, and her only pupils were
her own two children. Being asked who
appointed her, she replied, "The school
director" and being asked who he was,
she replied, "My husband"
The husband and wife, school director
and school teacher, were Norwesians.
and yet there are persons who think that
foreigners do not "catch on to our sys.
tems'' as rapidly as they should.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04
WHEN POLLY TAKES THE AIR.


A little wicker basket rolls
Along the pavement walk,
And at the sight the young and old
Begin to laugh and talk
And wave fair hands and kisses throw
And cry "Look here!" "See therei"
"This a. it comes!' And all because
Sweet Polly takes the air.
TIL newsboys run and shout with glee
And follow on behind.
The eoachman and the footman gaze
As if they had a mind
To do the same. The good old priest
Stands still with solemn stare
AS down the shady avenue
Sweet Polly takes the air.
= =
And all the while sweet Polly sits
In dainty gown and hat
And smiles On one she loves the best
Her pretty Maltese cat
And softly coos, when pussy purs,
Without a thought or care
How all the town turns upside down
When Polly takes the air.
-Zitella Cookies GA Doric Reed"
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04

All the time? This condition is a sure
indication that your blood is not rich and
n%ourishing as it ought to be and as it may
be If yon will take a few bottles of the
great blood purifier. Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Thousands write that Hoods Sarsaparilla
has cured them of that tired feeling by
giving them rich, red blood.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04

II you desire a luxurious growth of
healthy hair Of a natural color, NATURES
browning ornament of both sexes, use
only Halls Vegetable Sicilian Hair
Remover.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04

In a recent letter to the manufacturers
Mr.. ". F. Benjamin, editor of tn Specta-
tor, Rushford, N. Y, says: ut may be
a pleasure to you to know the high esteem
in which Chamberlain's medicines are
held by the people of your " state,
where they must be best known. Ar
aunt of mine, who resides at Dexter, Iowa,
was about to visit me a few years since, and
before leaving home wrote me, asking If
they were sold here, stating if they were
not would bring a quantity with her, as
she did not like to be without them"
The medicines referred to are Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy, famous for its
cures of colds and Group; Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera aud DiarrEGa Remedy for
bowel complaints. These medicines have
been 10 constant use in Iowa for almost a
quarter of a centuary. The people have
learned that they are articles OF great
worth and merit, and ~unequalled by any
other. They are for sale here by Geo. M.
Andrews, Druggist.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04

Merit in Medicine means the ro-or to
cure. The great cures by Hood, Safsa-
parilla prove it's u~neqnalled merit.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04

The day is coming when the man who
gives little will feel little.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04

A laugh is worth a hundred groans il
any market.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04

HOOPS PILLS act easily and promptly
on the liver and owels. Cure sick head.
ache.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04
Are YOu Tired

It's a good plan when you get the worst
of it to make the best of it.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04

A word to the wise is enough when it is
the right word.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04

The very best way to know
whether Dobbins' Electric Soap is
as good as it is said to be, is to
TRY IT YOURSELF. 1t can't deceive
YOU. Only be careful not to get
an imitation. There are a great
many Electrics and Magnetics, all
intended to deceive the public into
supposing that they are Dobbins'
Electric, or just as good. VIZ
have made this since 1860. 1t is
the original Electric, and is guar
anteed to be worth four times as
much as any other soap ever made.
For washing anything, from the
finest lace to the heaviest blanket,
it is without a peer. Only follow
directions.
all that we say on the
REAu W wrappers around the
cAocclmuv soap, and then see for
NAnEr ULkI yourself, whether or moi
you can afford to ever
use any other soap than this, after having heard
its own story, told you by your own test of it,
DOBBINS SOAP MFG co.
Successors to I. L. Cragin & Co.,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04

With DR.. Humphreys Specific No "a
for Brain Fag. General Debility. aud all
forms of Physical Weakness. For sale
hY druggists.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04

1t costs a great deal more to be proud
than it does to be generous.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04
A Good Investment.

On receipt of ten cents. cash or stamps
a generous sample will be mailed of the
most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever
Cure (Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to
demonstrate its great merit. Full size sos.
nrr nnnTnnnC
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04
So Warren ST.. New York City

/ suffered from catarrh three years; il
got 3D. bad | could not work; I u.ed two
| bottles of Ely's Cream Balm and an
entirely well; l would o be without it.
IA. G. Clarke, 341 Shawmut Ave.
l Boston.
The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04

To have no aim in life is to sooner or
later fall into the ditch.