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Year: 1859

SPECIFIC POR REMOVING THE TAPE-WoRM.-
We have been requested to publish the follow
ing specific for eradicating the tape-worm,
which is one of the worst ills that the human
system is subjected to. The Names residences,
&c, of number Of persons who have oeen GU
red by its use, have been communicated to us,
together with the peculiar circumstances of each
case but we do not deem it essential TO publish
them. There eau be no reasonable doubt, with
the evidence before us that the remedy has
proved cfficacious in many cases, not only in
this, but other countries. The recipe was pub
lished in the Boston Medical and Surgical Jour
nal when that periodical was under the control
of Dr. j. " Q. Smith, who repeatedly cOmmen-
ded it to the attention of the faculty, and gave
publicity to instances where the specific had
produced the desired effect In all the cases
communicated to US but single implication of
the remedy appeared to have been necessary
although some remarkable cures were effected.
The recipe is rs follows:


"Procure sufficient seed of the pumpkin
(those grown in the West Indies are the besO
to make two ounces after removing the outside
shell of the seed: put them into mortar aud
add half pint of water; pound them well up
and make liquid orgeat of them, which strain
through a cloth. Drink this mixture in the
morning on fasting stomach. Ii it does not
operate in the course of an hour and a half,
take an ounce of castor oil. Drink all the time
as much fresh cool water as the stomach can
bear or contain; that Is, drench yourself with
water. After taking the orgeat, if the stomach
is well ribbed with ether, and an injection of
about sixty drops of it is taken, you will find it
an assistant to the orGeat, but tins may not be
necessary. Should the first application of the
remedy not answer, repeat it the next morning,
and there is no doubt your complaint will be
removed The worm win leave the patient all
at once, and probably entire. This can be as
certained by finding the small ehd or head Of il,
which tapers off almost TO point"


1t has been found that the seeds of the mar
row squash answer the purpose nearly as well
as those Of the pumpkin. They were used in a
recent case at Plymouth, Mass, with entire sue
cess.
Year: 1859

CTATE OF MICHIGAN-County of Cass.-ss.
y At session of the Probate Court for the
County of Cass, holden at the Probate Office, in
Cassapolis, on Saturday, the first day of October,
in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty
nine. Present, Clifford Shanahau, Judge of Pro-
bate. In the matter of the estate of Cornelia A.
Drew, minor.


On reading and filling the petition, duly verified,
OF Horace Thomson, praying for license to sell
real estate of said minor


Thereupon it is ordered, that Saturday, the
twenty day of October instant at ten O clock
In the forenoon, be assigned for the hearing OF
said petition, and that the heirs at law of said
minor and all other persons interested in said
estate, are required to appear at session of said
Court, then to be holden at the Probate Office, in
Cassapolis, and show cause, if any there be, why
the prayer OF the petitioner should not be granted
And it is further ordered, that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said estate
Of the pendency of said petition, and the hearing
thereof by causing copy of this order to be pub
lished in the Cass County Republican, newspaper
printed and circulating in said County of Cass. for
three successive weeks previous to said day Of
hearing. c. SHANAHAN, q
| "a true copy.1 Judge of Probate
October l. 1852. Oct6-24v3
Year: 1859

Take one fourth more money than
your actual estimated expenses.


Acquaint yourself with the geogra-
ply of the route and region of travel.


Have q good supply of change, and
have no bill or piece higher than ten
dollars, that you may not take COUNTERS
felt change. 80 sfu


So arrange it as to have bat single
article or luggage to look after. 4Al


Dress substantially better be too
hot for two or three hours at noon,
than to De cold for the remainder of
the twenty-four. 49,,


Arrange, under all circumstances,
to be at the place of starting fifteen or
twenty minutes before the time, thus
allowing for unfavorable or unantici-;
pated detention on the way. -. -
| Do not commence journeys tra-
vel before breakfast, even if that has
to be eaten st daylight. Dinner or
supper, or both can be more healthily
dispensed with than good warm
breakfast. ,r,


Pnt your purse and watch in your
vest pocket, and put all under your
pillow and you will not be likely to
leave either.


The best, if not securest fastening Of
your chamber door is common bolt
on the inside; if there is none, lock
the door, turn the key so it can be
drawn partly out; and put tho wash
basin under it; thus, any attempt to
Fuse jimmy or put in another key will
pushit out, and cause racket among
the crockery, which will be pretty GER
tain to rouse the sleeper and rout the
|robber .raar


A six-penny sandwich eaten leisure
lly in the cars is better to you than a
dollar dinner bought at q station.


Take with you months supply of
patience, and think thirteen times be-
fore you reply once to any supposed
rudeness, or insult, or inattention.


Do not suppose yourself especially
and designedly neglected, if walters
at hotels do not bring what you call
for in double quick time; nothing SO
distinctly marks the well bred man as
q quiet waiter on such occasions; pas
sion proves the puppy. sr
i Do not allow yourself to converse in
tone loud enough to be heard by .
person at two or three seats from you; !;
I it is the mark of boor it in man, and
of want of refinement and lady-like
delicacy if in a woman. A gentleman
is not noisy; ladies are serene.


Comply cheerfully and gracefully
| with the customs of conveyanoies in
which you travel, and of the place
where you stop. f 20


Respect yourself by exhibiting the
manners of gentleman and lady,
if you wish to be treated as sach, and
then you will receive the respect Of
others.


/ Travel is great lcveler; take the
position which others assign you from
your conduct rather than from your
.pretension. ~
Year: 1859

PROBATE ORDER.


GTATE OF MICHIGAN-County of Cass.-ss
y At session of the Probate Court for the
County of Cass, holden at the Probate Office in
Cassapolis, on Monday, the twenty-sixth day Of
September, in the year one thousand eight hundred
fifty mine. Present-Chfford Shanahan, Judge Of
Probate. In the matter of the estate of Harvey
L. Drew and Perry G.. Drew, minors.


On reading and filing the petition duly verified,
of Marcus Sheriff. praying FOR license to sell real
estate of said minors.


Thereupon it is ordered, that Saturday, the
twenty ninth day of October next. at ten O'Clock,
the forenoon be assigned for the hearing of said
petition and that the heirs at law of said minors
and all other persons interested in said estate
required to appear at session of said court then
to be holden at the Probate Office in Cassapolis,
and show cause, if any there be- why the PRAYER of
the petitioner should not be granted.


And it is further ordered, that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said estate
of the pendency of said petition and the hearing
thereof. by causing copy of this order to be pub
lished in the Cass County Republican, newspaper
printed and circulating in said County of Cass, for
three successive weeks previous to said day Of
hearing G. SHANAHAN A
A true copy.l Judge of Probate.
September 20, 1889. oct6-24w3
Year: 1859

To MAKE SWEET PoTAToEs OF IRISH
PoTAToEs. = Steam them we'll and
wiring them in a towel to make them
mealy; mash till there are no Jumps
left. and sweeten with common brown
sugar, to the taste. They are now
ready to be baked, fried, or made into
puddings.-Oregof Former. -9.t 2
Year: 1859

The Ball RINGKRs sTo-NIGHT.-The lovers
Of music will have chance of listening to
the charming and unique harmony pro-
'duced by the celebrated Swiss Bell Ringers
tonight. They have ELECTED the warmest
applause. and drawn crowded houses where
ever they have been. Let it not be with
them as il was with Cooper's Opera Troupe,
our citizens did not become aware of the
charms and merits of their performances till
the evening they were to leave US.
Year: 1859

Generation after generation says
a fine writer. "haye felt as we now feel,
and their lives were as active as our own.
They passed like vapor while nature
wore the same aspect Of beauty as when
her Creator commanded her 10 be-
The heaven shall be as brigh. over ouiH
graves as they now are around our paths.
The world will have the same attraction
fer our offsprings yet unborn, that she had
once for our children. Yet little while
and all will have happened. Tue lhrob.
bing heart will be stifed, and We shall be
at rest Our funeral will wind its way,
and prayers will be said and then we shall
be spoken Of, but The things Of life will
creep in. and our names will soon be for
gotten. Days will continue TO move on, and
laughter and song will be heard in the
room ir which we died, and the eye that
mourned for us will be dried and glistep
again with JOY, and will not remember to
lisp our names"
Year: 1859

LIME IN TRANsPLANTINa TR71s. Am
English publication says that y large
plantation oftrecs has been formed In
that country within few years passr
without the loss Of a single tree BY put
ting small quantity Of lin Q in the hole
when planting the tree. Four bushels Of
lime are said to be sufficient for an acre.
The..lims is thoroug hly mined with the soil
in order that it may be reached BY the
roots with equal facility in very direction
as its principal effects to push forward
the tree during the first preearious stages
OF its growth. 1F 94s y
Year: 1859

HINTS FOR WIvBs.z-What the
world calls avarice is oftentimes no.
more than compulsory economy; and
even wilful penuriousness is better
than a wasteful extravaganza. Al
just man being reproached with
parsimony, said that he would rath-'
er enrich his enemies after his DEATH
than borrow of his friends in his
lifetime.
Year: 1859

| desired to exclude them in such a manner
as would have the least tendency to affect
personal friendship, and thus adopted PO-
iiioal means for their exclusion. In this l
do not believe have infringed- upon the
usares Of our party, to which a Democrat
should not object. | hold that man who
will not abide by and support nomination
made for him, (and, by their own admission,
there we're such present, is unfit to make
one which shall bind others. Furthermore,
in order that the impression may not go
abroad that there was a majority OF this
class present, as it might appear from a
failure Of the resolution, would state that
whilst it accorded with the views of many
present, they voted against its passage only
because they believed its introduction at this
time as -impolitic, and as having a tendency
to split or further divide the party. l was
and am still, honestly Of the contrary opin-
ion. | believed that then was the rery
time to firmly draw the party lines, and
promptly to exclude all who had neither
affinity for our principles, desire for its
success, and who never did unite with us
in support Of our principles" by support
Of our parties nominees. | was therefore
only acting in accordance with the following
resolution passed by the Territorial Con.
vention on the 10th May last:


18th. Resrlred, That we hail as Demo
Gratis all, whatever may have been their
political principles heretofore, who will
unite with us in support of our principles" "


But, laying aside the policy of my amend
mcnt, hatter myself that my Democracy
cannot be so readily ilApcached as can that
of those who claim to be Democrats, but Ia.
bored day and night to defeat the nominee
of that convention, and still much less than
that of he who roied to nominate, and then
loorked to defeat.


OLIVER SHEAD.


OLYMPIA. Dec. Dist 1859.
Year: 1859

Arn1T Ar IScEDIARIsN-An attempt
was made TO Gre the Washington Hotel,
in this place, on Sunday evening last,
shortly. after dark. A quantity Of combus-
iible material, such as spliniered shingles,
was found to have been inserted under the
aOoF Of the wood house, in the rear of the
Hotel. aud but for its timely discovery by
gentlemen Of the legislature, who occupy a
building close adjoining, would have been
beyond redemption in ten minutes time.
1t IS impossible even to conjecture who
could be 50 inhunAn as by such act TO
jecpardizc the lives Of so many persons
now rooming at the house 1t is evidently
q g floating character. who has no friend
Of the house that could be injured in the
general destruction. If he had, be woald
not ron such narrow chances as one would
have 70 undergo in making an escape. The
motive undoubtedly was to plunder. We
warn our citizens to keep a vigilant eye up
oa certain characters in our town
Year: 1859

~ The Governor Of Oregon has OPP
pointed Thursday the goth day of Decem-
Der to be set apart as q day of public
thanksgiving and prayer.


This is the FIRST time the people of Ore
gon have had extended to them the priv
ilege Of feasting and eating turkeys on a
given day, and thereby will be perpe,rated
that old and very ancient custom of the
" Pilgrims Of Plymouth" The coming
week will be more fatal to turkeys in Ore
gon, than the gaPes to chickens elsewhere.
Year: 1859




Only flushed. how weak he is! What is
the matter with him?


Only tight.


Only tight, mans best and greatest gift,
his intellect degraded; the only power that
raises him above the brute creation trodden
down under the foot of debasing appetite.


Only tight. The mother stands with a
pale face and tear -dimmed eye to see her on
ly sons disgrace, and in her fancy, pictures
the bitter woe of which this is the foreshad-
owing.


Only tight. The gentle sister whose
strongest love through life was given to her
handsome and talented brother, shrinks with
contempt and disgust from his embrace,
and brushes away the hot impure kiss he
prints upon her cheeks.


Only tight, and his young bride stops in
the glad dance she Is making to meet him,
and checks the welcome 10 her lips to gaze
liz terror on the reeling form and flushed
face of him who was the God of her idoIatry.
Only tight, and the fathers face grows
dark and sad as with bitter sigh he stoops
over the sleeping form of his first born.


He has brought sorrow to all these affec-
tionate hearts; be has opened the door to the
fatal indulgence; he has brought himself TO a
level with the brute; he has tasted, exciting
the appetite to crave to the poisonous
draught again; he has fallen from high and
noble manhood, to babbling idiocy. and
heavy stupor brought grief to his mother,
and distrust to his sister, almost dispair to
his bride, and bowed his frther's head with
sorrow, but blame him not for he is "only
tight"
Year: 1859

that night from our mountain camp. Not
far below the crater, one of the new side
streams had been damned up until q lake
had accumulated behind the obstruction,
and the weight broke it down, and the re-
leased mass rushed down with tremendous
noise and fury through the thick Jungle.
cutting down the trees, rolling of huge
boulders from its front of twenty five feet
high, resembling pile of burning Goals
Year: 1859

A WORD TO Pork EATERs.-It is
asserted that great deal of the pork con-
sumed for food is affected with the
measles; and the measles, again, are said
to be nothing but the Larva of the CON-
mon Tuenia tSolium, which, when taken
into the human stomach, develop into
the full-grown tapeworm, that elongated
monstrosity which preys SO insidiously
on its ignorant victims. As the larvae
seldom lose vitality in the process Of
cooking, they are eaten unconsciously in
large quantities. The moral of this
item is-if people ,rW eat the Jewish
abomination, let them first be sure that
it is not affected with the measles.
Year: 1859

ALFALFA IN THE MoUNTAINs.--The
San Andreas Independent thinks it
would be an excellent experiment for
persons going into the sheep raising
business in the mountain regions, to In
troduce Alfalfa. Sheep do not require
any other food than such as our hills
supply from February to November; but
later than November they begin to fall
away in flesh, as the natural pasturage
then fails materially. If Alfalfa were
sowed it would afford good fall and win
ter pasturage, and our contemporary
thinks that in few years it would spread
over large scope Of country, making
thousands of acres of now valueless
land contribute largely to our wealth.
Year: 1859

THE NEwspAPER.-A great deal has
been said about the newspaper-its
characteristics, province, influence and
value. A writer in the Westminster
Reuieao recently termed it the Bible of
the nineteenth century, but it has often
been designated, with more truth, as the
greatest power of modern times
monarch Of public opinion, when not its
slave-and the lever of civilization The
true newspaper is all these, but It's rep
resentatives are not numerous. The
common newspaper does not seek to
elevate its readers to higher levels, but
sinks itself to the lowest 1t does not
aim to make the dissemination of news
subservient to the incubation of humane
sentiments and enlightened opinions.
1t does not truly represent the age, nor
give voice nor helping hand to those
better instincts which are ever strug-
Cling for the mastery over men.


On this subject an eastern cotempor-
ary thus forcibly lyremarks:


The common newspaper has come to
be little more than the record of the
strifes, accidents, crimes and calamities
of the world There are some news
papers-perhaps many-which better
apprehend their position and mission
but from newspapers as a whole, we think
it may be admitted that no very exalted
idea of human nature can be obtained.
There is too little of mind employed on
them-too little of the power that moulds
all events to the execution of an over
ruling purpose of good-too little OF
that genial sympathy with what is true
in the world which takes note of all the
better aspects of private and public life,
and reveals them. There is constant
greed for exciting events. Murders are
spread before the public with a profes-
sional gusto that would often be amusing
were it not horrible and disgusting.
Crimes Of every grade are the staple
articles in the newspaper market, and
command the most attention and the
highest price. 1t is only within the
past year that newspapers generally have
given up their columns to the record Of
the more remarkable religious move
ments, or have contributed in any mark
ed degree to the forwarding Of those
movements. 1t seems not beyond the
province of newspaper to record q
theft by poor and vicious boy and tc
publish his punishment; yet not one in
a hundred would think of mentioning
such boys reclamation to virtue
through the efforts of good man OF
woman.
Year: 1859

WHAT'S CoNTENTMENT?- ?-Some OLE
defines it as condition of moderate la
ziness; while another more philosophical
ly declares, that it is to sit in the house
and see other people stick in the mud
For our part we do not believe there is
such thing as contentment possible,
except to fools who can have no ambi-
ton for themselves nor any feeling fol
others. 1t is not possible to the selfish,
because they are constantly coveting
nor to the generous, because they desire
always to give; and contentment, by re-
moving every motive of exertion, would
render it impossible either to get or to
bestow. No conscientious and humane
person can be contented, for however
comfortable may be his own outward
condition, there is a rigid introspection
which prevents self-satiseaction, while
the contemplation of the vices, woes, or
destitution Of others equally contributes
to render him dissatisfied.


No wise, thoughtful person will sigh
for contentment, any more than for the
philosophers stone. Happiness depends
upon condition of unrest. The blissful
emotions are all agitations. If the ocean
of our lives were never rippled by a
breeze, nor tossed by storms of passion, we
should lie useless hulks on it's surface,
never reaching any harbor of desire, but
idly rotting till we sank below forever.
Move must keep plunging before the
wind, courting every breath with our
sails of effort, and dashing gallantly
through opposing waves. Then, we
shall take and discharge rich cargoes,
and make our course blessing; and if
we sink amid conflicting elements, shall
carry with us freight of precious
opinion and be long remembered for our
worth and usefulness.
Year: 1859

| Ouo VI c,oOO pC1SOuo COHuIIlICu W
the jails of Massachusetts, during the
last year, the number reported as addic-
ted to intemperance is 4, ,604 and near
ly half of the whole number could nei-
ther read nor write. A large proportion
of them were foreigners, or the children
of foreign parents. Here we have an
other proof of the fact continually ig-
nored by Legislators, that ignorance and
intemperance are the parents of nearly
all the crimes which atflict society and
burden the State. If careful statistics
on these points were preserved in all our
prisons, it would be found that the great
majority of crimes in California were
committed either under the immediate
influence of intoxication, or as the re-
suits Of habits originally induced and
perpetuated by that insidious evil
Hardly an affray occurs in the State but
the newspaporial record of it is accom-
panied by the remark that the parties,
one or all of them, were under the in
fuence of strong drink. Thus the
damning chronicle is repeated, year after
year, continually swelling with the in
crease of our population. When shall
we learn wisdom, and strive as hard for
the prevention of crime as FORTS punish
ment? An occasional death-say even
one or two a year-resulting from the
carelessness or ignorance of apothecaries,
alarms everybody and stimulates to the
enactment of strict laws with view to
the prevention of such lamentable occur
rences in the future But the liquor
business, which Stays its thousands an
nually, though doing its fatal work
gradually, is allowed to be pursued with
out restraint, on the sole condition that
certain tax be regularly paid.


For the last five years the State has
expended but nine dollars for the edu-
cation of each child old enough to at
tend school, while during the same pc
riod the sum of 81 1885 has been spent
on every criminal! If to this fact could
be added the exact amount of money
devoted to each object by the counties,
the disproportion would probably not be
less, while the increased aggregates
would have amuch more startling effect.


Must we go on thus forever? Is
there no plan by which the evil Of in
temperance can be abated-for it can
hardly be removed-by which educa-
tional facilities can be largely increased,
and a blow struck at the very roots of
crime? These are questions which ev-
cry conscientious legislator should ask,
and try to solve. They more nearly
concern the welfare of our State than
much that gains greater attention. Who
is there, loving his race and country
more than party, that will deserve pop
ular gratitude and remembrance by
practically solving the questions we
have presented!
Year: 1859

The Federal Union (published at NIL
ledgevilIe, G,s,sgays "Thosc who at this
time and under SexisJifTig circumstances.
in defiance of all laws, State and Federal,
attempt to carry on the African slave trade,
not only violate the penal laws of the
land, but in our opinion. they also war
against the vital interest of the SOUTH
AT the present time the products of slave
labor bear good price, and planters in
all the Southern States are prosperous.- -
They have almost monopoly Of the great
cotton trade in their own hands. As yet
no other country has been found able to
compete with them in the production of
this great staple, and consequently slaves
and the product of slave labor bear high
price, but in The midst of all this pros
perity they are asked by the advocates of
the slave trade to enter into competition
with themselves, TO import wild negroes
from Africa that they may bring down
the price of negroes, and all this for the
benefit of Old England and New Eng
land, both of whom are very anxious to
get cheap cotton" e
Year: 1859

THE NEXT CENsUs.-As the census will
be taken next year, it is suggested that
the farmers of the country keep an accu-
rate record of the amount and value of
their crops for the present year, so that
when they are called upon, they may be
able 10 make reliable report.