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Year: 1879

Let cravens shrink and towards sigh,


'Tis thine to do and not to die"


Young men these modern times are
beginning to look after a young lady's
health before asking her hand. As a
matter o.. .businessthis is quite right. Who
wants cale, sickly, lifeless, nervous
and hysterical woman for II wife Young
lady your disease is depicted in your
very countenance. Your feeble walk,
your short breathing, yorn want Of bloom
to the check, your Hfeless 'eye-all speak
that you are in ill health, and as many
young gents are experts these days they
perceive your condition and do not wish
to marry you. Ifyou should be thus af
hicted send at once for DIR. Droomgole's
English Female Bitters, and its use will
at once restore you to your health.
Year: 1879

GETTING RID OF RATS.-A cores


pondent of The English Mechanic gives
one or two valuable hints for Kidding


premises of rats. One very good plan,


he says, is to nail red herring on the


wall of the warehouse or place in


tested, about eighteen inches from the


floor; on this, little to one side, be-


meath the fish, place brick or piece OF


wood near the wall. At an equal dis


tance on the other side set an ordinary
steal snap trap not baIted. The rats, in
jumping off from the brick to get at the


herring, after few attempts are sure to
fall down in the trap. This is good


permanent plan, as it is somewhat above
their comprehension. If rats have un-


dermined the foundation walls. which
they do sometimes to such an extent as
to endanger the building, it is of no use
to attempt to stop them out by tanping
their burrows with broken glass bottles,
for they work diligently to make fresh
ones. A better way is to put shovelful
of dry sand over every hole. The rats
soon come up through this, but in so
doing let half the sand into the burrow,
which, unlike earth, they cannot either
force or carry up again, and by repeat


ing this at every fresh-opened place their
runs become quite filed up, and they
make up your foundations again. By
this means have known a granary that |
was terribly infested with rats, quite |
cleared of them. All their burrows be- |
ing at last filled with sand, they were
to betake themselves else
where.
Year: 1879

A THREAD OF SONG.
1t was only broken chord of song


That sang itself, the livelong day.
Over and over in my heart,


And always in the same sweet way
Always beginning low and soft. esq


Like a tenderly spoken "love good night"
And ending in glad and joyous strains,


Like morning psalm when the world is


bright.


And the hours ofthe day were woven in


By the mystic thread of the haunting song,
That, somewhere out of the vanished past,


Sent forth in witchery clear and strong;
Something akin to the song of birds


When the sky is flushed with the coming


dawn,


Yet sad as the thoughtful hour which comes
When the last red light of day is gone.
Beautiful echo that drifted back
From the far-off shore of long ago,
Over the wide and rugged waste,
Where never the winds of gladness blow,
Bringing the odor Of wildwood flowers;
The laughing song of the mountain rill;
The green, glad fields where the cowslips grow,
And the gleam of waters calm and still.
Sitting alone in the twilight still,
Whose mantle covers the earth with gray,
My heart is touched and my eyes grow dim,
As the glow OF the sunset fades away,
And feel the presence of the unseen guests.
That out of the shadowy regions throng.
And know they have crossed from the farther
shore
On the slender thread of the sweet old song
Year: 1879

SULPHUR FOR HOas.-If farmers
would give each full grown hog tables
spoonful of pulverized sulphur, and pro-
portionally less for smaller ones, once
in three or four weeks, mixed in meal, it
would prevent every disease known to
me that hogs are liable to. This asser-
tion is based on practice of more than
forty years, and for by far the longer
portion of that time kept as many as
fifty head yearly, in widely extended
range of some 1000 acres (not all mine)
of piny old field and open land. My
hogs were well fed and sheltered in win
ter; and in all that time did not lose,
on an average, one per year from any
disease whatever. 1t makes no differ
ence as to weather or stage of CESSATION
in giving it. It is true have had few
cases of sickness among my hogs, but
not one hog treated with sulphur died
when it YVES found out before he was too
sick to eat. In such cases I gave them
at ouce spoonful of sulphur in hand
full of meal, and if that was eaten the
cure was certainty. In some cases
where the hog was suffering greatly,
grinding the teeth, foaming at the
mouth, and reeling and pitching, he was
relieved. In this case mixed the sui
phur with melted lard, laid the animal
on his back, put stick across its mouth,
and poured the medicine very slowly
down its throat, and then left him to
take his chances. If he did not die in
four or five hours after, the dose was re-
peated, and the hog generally got we'll
This treatment will cure seven out O
ten so affiicted.-P. O. Lipsconab in R,s
raj Messenger.
Year: 1879

IMPORTANCE OF A CLEAN SKIM
Most of our invalids are such, and mil
lions more of healthy people will be-
come invalids, for the want of paying
the most ordinary attention to the re-
quirements of the skin. The mem-
brane is too often regarded as covering
only, instead of complicated piece Of
machinery, scarcely second in its texture
and sensitiveness TO the ear and eye
Many treat it with as little reference to
its proper functions as if it were moth
ing better than bag for their bones
1t is this Reconsideration for the skin
that is the cause of very large proper
ton of the diseases of the world. If, as
claimed by some scientists, four-fifths,
of the bulk, of all we eat and drink
must either pass off through the skin or
be turned back upon the system as q
poison, and that life depends as much
upon these exhalations through the
skin as upon inhaling pure air through
the lungs, it must be of the most vital
importance to keep the channel free.
Year: 1879

STAINS OF ALL KINDs.-If you have
been picking or handling any acid fruit,
and have stained your hands, wash them
in clear water, wipe them lightly, and
while they are yet moist strike match
and close your hands around it so as to
catch the smoke, and the stains will dis
appear. If you have stained your muslin
or gingham dress or your white apron
with berries, before wetting with any
thing else, pour boiling water on the
stains, and they will disappear. Before
fruit juice dries it can often be removed
by cold water, using sponge and towel
II necessary. Rubbing the finger with
the inside of the apples will remove the
most Of the stain caused by pairing. Ink,
also, If washed cut or sopped up from
the carpet with milk Immediately when
IL Is split, can be almost entirely remov-
ed. Ink spots on floors can be extract
Cd by securing with sand, wetted in oil
OF vltriol and water. When the ink il
removed, rinse with strong potash wat.
s~As
Year: 1879

To WASH BLANKETS.-I have seen
various directions for this work, but o
few things seem essential in every case
to avoid hard water and resinous
soaps, to wiring without twisting ii. e..
with wringer) or not to wiring at all,
to use water of the same temperature ali
through, or to increase in heat during
the changes, not to rub the soap upon
the flannel, but mix il with the water.
Flannel is so porous texture that it is
easily cleansed in good suds without
much rubbing. Hard rubbing tends to
"full" the cloth, and to rinse in cold
water flannel that has been washed in
warm water. is sure way to shrink
and harden it. From cold to warm, but
never from warm to cold. 1 have seen
the direction to rinse fiannels in soapy
water, but am sure there is no value in
this. The clean, warm rinsing water is
sure to be soapy enough. if good suds
have been used in the washing. One
or two suds may be used, according to
the degree to which the f1annels have
been soiled. When they have been
rinsed, two should take them, one q!
each end, and shake and snap them well,
to make them more soft and fuzzy.
Year: 1879

ICING.-The white of one egg not
beaten, one teaspoonful of cold water,
and pint of powdered sugar, stirred to-
gether, will make icing for one cake
Less sugar makes the soft icing seen on
bakers cake.
Year: 1879

RECUPERATING THE BRAIN.-The
best possible thing for man to do when
he feels too weak to carry anything
through is to 60 to bed and sleep as long
as he can. This is the only recuperation
of the brain power, the only actual re-
cuperation of brain force; because dur
ing sleep the brain is in state of rest,
in condition toreceive appropriate par
ticles of nutriment from the blood which
take the place of those which have been
consumed by previous labor, since the
very act of thinking burns up solid par
cles, as every turn of the wheel or screw
of the steamer is the result of consump-
ton by fire of the fuel in the furnace
The supply of consumed brain sub
stance can only be had from nutritive
particles in the blood which were OBJ
tanned from the food eaten previously,
and the brain is so constituted that it
can best receive and appropriate to it,
self those nutritive particles during the
state of rest, of quiet and stiffness OF
sleep. Mere stimulants supply nothing
in themselves; they gorge the brain,
and force it to greater consumption of
its substance until it is so exhausted
that there is not power enough to re-
ceive a supply.-ManaJacturer and
Builder.
Year: 1879

To judge cow for butter, her hide
should be thin, soft, and mellow, and
under the hair of a deep yellow color;
her udder should be soft and yellow
skinned, well covered with zigzag veins,
large and broad; her tail at the end rich
yellow the inside of her ears and around
the syelids yellow.
Year: 1879

pension claims but that was only an in
dividual opinion Or Misrepresentation Of
fact against the plnin letter of the bill IT.
sell, which furnishes no such exemption as
Mr. MCLANE intimates.


These latter-day saints of political reform
in the purity of elections cut n sorry figure
now in their awkward efforts to do something
that they have never learned how to do and
know nothing about. They reform and
purify the elective franchise through rifle
clubs and othcrurmed banditti, false natural
izatiOn papers, repeaters, tissue ballots, and
bull-dozing in every possibly obnoxious
shape and then go screaming through the
country "Give us honest elections" some
thing of which they have meyer had any
practical or theoretical knowledge that has
been discoyerable in their manner of man
aging political contests. Now they bring
forward the 1lOsTETLER bill, which is n
novelty and an enormity, inasmuch as
| it is without parallel in the his
tory of the country. 1t is all right to guard
the elective franchise against fraud and cor
ruption. The laws cannot be too strong in
that direction; but to prohibit citizen be-
cause he chances to hold Office, or has or
seeks Government contract or has claim
against the Government from giving vol
UNFAIRLY of his means to aid any legitimate
lpurpOse-and none are more legitimate OF
honorable than the conduct of our elections
upon which hang our very national exist
ence-under heavy forfeiture, is an invasion
of the rights of citizenship to which none
can submit without sacrifice Of self-re-
spect. We can say to the majority of thi:
Congress that they have heaped repeated in
suits upon the Government during the pres.
ent session; they have essayed to starve
it out; they have made war upon the army
and the Judiciary but in all this they have
not dug so deeply into the very heart o.
arbitrary and tyrannical wrong as they have


in this HosTETLER bill, and we warn then
that in this they are only forging nails TO


their own political coffin.
Year: 1879

WHEN the Democrats have prolonged
and bitter fight in their caucuscs, lasting
for week Or more, as in the pending con-
troversy regarding the WARNER silver bill,
and the majority of them are bull-dozed
into submission to the will of one man
Senator BAYARD, in this case--they call it
"haTmOnizing mattcrs.n
Year: 1879

AFTER more than week of wrangling,
snarling, and bitter dissension, the Demo-
Gratis seem to have patched up temporary
peace in the matter OF their quarrel over
the WARNER silver bill in the Senate. Mr..
BAYARD will stick but this is simply a
postponement of the quarrel-a putting of
of the evil hour
Year: 1879

II is anoteworthy fact that in all Of the
Democratic discussions over tho BAYARD
cmcutc, in caucus, in the press, or otherwise,
the finance question is alluded to and treat
ed as a subordinate issue in the present po.
litical situation. In fact, the Democrats
admit that the question of State Rights sand
the issues growing out of the late war are
of more Importance just now than anything
else
Year: 1879

THE Democrats in Congress are moi in
love with the Presidents amiable serenity.
He is entirely satisfied with their sojourn at
the National Capital. He thinks lie might
perhaps be lonesome without them, as he
has become accustomed to their presence.
Then he has no pressing engagement away
from here before September. lie has no de-
sire that they shall adjourn to please him,
or, for that matter, until they have conf
pleted the work for which he called them
together.
Year: 1879

C1cERo's CREED. 20 glorious day
when | shall enter that divine COM
pany and home of souls, when l shall
leave this turmoil and conhux of i'm
purites for I shall not 60 only to
these men of whom / have spoken,
but also to my Cato, than whom no
better man was ever born, no man
more eminent in all good works for
whom performed the last sad rites,
when it seemed more fitting that he
should mourn for me whose soul not
forgetting me, but often looking back
upon me. departed to that place
whittier it perceived that I, too, must
come.


While l seemed to bear my grief
bravely, I did not endure it with a
calm mind, but I comforted myself
thinking that only short time would
intervene between our parting and
meeting.


Meditating upon those things find
old age pleasant; not only not sad,
but even joyful. And if in this, | err,
1 err willingly, and I do not want this
error In which delight to be wrested
from me; and if after am dead, l
shall know nothing as certain petty
philosophers think, I do not suppose
that these philosophers will laugh at
me when they are dead.-From "De
Senectute. "
Year: 1879

IN on article on Gentlemen Of the
Old School," in tho Springfield Re
publican, Mr.. w. NJ. +, Round says ;


The old school ministers were evei
more highly reverenced than the min


listers Of today. They scorned the art
ofpopularity. They considered them.
selves on n theological rock and made
OF that rock n throne from which they
issued judgment as if clothed with
divine inialllbil'iy. They did not flirl
with science as ministers do nowadays
and get worsted. They were not
ministers Of congregations they were
ministers of God. Their names were
given to their churches. They didn't
call their churches after streets, but
after saints sometimes, and often after
the minister, who himself was reckon.
ed by his congregation to stand in the
succession oi. .sain.ship and the old
school ministers generally stayed long
enough in q place to make his title
good. Wherever he was, the old
school minister never forgot his minis.
terial dignity.


He wasn't a minister IN the pulpit
and a horse, jockey or n humorist in
the street. II he made joke it was
y stately. well.weighed joke, conscien
tiously made, as by one who felt that he
must give an account for every idle
word, and did not mean to have the
balance against him for the sake Of
n roar Of laughter. The old-school
minister was man feared and dreaded
by the young, and loved and respected
by the aged. TO boys he was terror,for
he gave a theological twist to all their
naughtiness, and would argue a rent
in their trousers or a dirty face into an
evidence that they were fallen from
grace and unfit for the kingdom Of
heaven. They were stern and unllnch-
ing in judgement, and with prayers and
exhortation dwelt on the necessity of
free use Of the rod. They preached
death and judgement until there was
a flnerea, aspect to all their doings,
and New England parlors were only
opened when there was a funeral a
wedding, or the minister came on
one of his parochial visits.


Yes these old.school ministers were
clad in a vestment of frigid dignity,
but when once it was laid aside there
were great hearts beneath. When
repressed emotion once breaks
through there is 9 torrent. ID is this
fact that made the old.school mast
ters so successful in love. What
maiden heart could resist the soft i'm
portunities of saint when they were
poured forth in noble language as a
message delivered from heaven. All
messages of true love are indeed mes
sages from God, but these seemed
doubly so as coming from the accrsdit
ed ambassador OF heaven: American
npvelists have not been unmindtul OF
this, and the clerical love of the old
school has furnished more than one
writer with a character.


But the gentleman Of the old school
were not all of the clerical profession.
There was the dear old school doctor
with his air ofprofound wisdom and un
hakeable belief Of calomel and blood.
letting. More than once in the history
of the world Que error has been modi-
fed BY another and so homeopathy
Year: 1879

A man will sit in the theatre for
three hours and think the play the
shortest he ever saw, and yet sit as
uneasily in his pew on Sunday as
though he was being used for apin-
cushion and think the twenty. minute
sermon the longest be ever beard
Year: 1879

WHAT A MAN WANTS HIS WIFE TO
KNow.-There are certain things a
man wants his wife to know, which
are never learned at ladies seminaries,
and but too seldom, we fear, at home.
One would like his wife to know how
to make shirt. Ever so rich, it
would be a comfortable sensation to
know that she made it, yet there are
some who cannot even sew on but
ton. 10 be able to cook beef steak
properly, or roast a joint to turn-to
make savory sauce, or dish up q
fricasse cook ones husband a
good dinner, IN short, if need be, what
ever, woman ought to know, and
what very few do know, until obliged
to learn it. 1t is a solemn fact that not
one manageable girl in twenty can
make really good cup Of coffee.


1t is all very we'll to study French,
without ever being able to read or
speak it with any facility-to learn six
or eight sciences up to confused smat-
teriug, unavailable from the fear OF
making blunders, to learn music and
drawing tor the parlor and drawing
room; but man wants inore than
this in a wife and the sensible lover
is often frightened away from an ami
able girl by display Of accomplish.
ments, which indicates the lack Of
more useful requirements.
Year: 1879

The ills of the mind are greater
than the ills of the flesh. 1t is said
that of two men, one of whom has a
raging toothache, while the other is
desperately in love, the man who has
the toothache will always 80 to sleep
first.
Year: 1879

Should the fever again appear IN Louisiana.
threatening our State on every avenue leading
into 1t. We candidly believe the people would
rise In their might. and, II necessary. tear up
and destroy every railroad and burn every
steamboat coming within our limits-[Jackson
Mississippian.


We take occasion now to protest against that
plan for keeping clear of fever. and submit that
other and less expensive plan, viz: Quarantine
mississippi on the appearance Of the first case
In the Crescent City. and. IL necessary. enforce
the Qua ranttne with shot gums In the interior
and cigar dealers OF New Orleans have no right
to Introduce the fever into New Orleans every
sippi valley must shut the New Orleans people
and ner commerce out Of the valley from May
70 November OF every year.1Hinds County
Year: 1879

Considering the fact that the Legislature
meets to-day, and that In connection with the
meeting there are 80 many interesting topics
for discussion. and 80 many subjects for specu-
lation and predictions, the gather ring yesterday
and last night at the 81. Charles Hotel rotunda,
the usual place Of assembly for statesmen IN
and politicians was decidedly small and those
who were IN attendance had little to say. and
that little Of BY no means an entertaining or In
structive character.


The truth Is that the average legislator is
dazed By the importance OF the questions and
particularly the two great questions. the con.
vention and the finances OF the State, which he
is called upon to consider and decide and In
the shadow OF these others which under ordi-
nary circumstances would be counted as OF
great consequence. are either lost sight OF or
ignored.


AS TO A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION,
quite a number of the legislators have been
instructed by their constituen to to advocate and
vote for it, To some have been delegated or
accorded the power TO ACT In accordance with
their own judgment" after hearing the uues-
tion discussed. but TO none, so far as could be
ascertained. have instructions been given to
oppose 1t. and the probabilities are strongly In
favor OF one being called ut aS early date as Is
practicable and possible.


The question Of





Is one which requires unusual consi deraticp.
and SO far no serious proposition looking to its
solution has been advanced. IL Is true that some
members have expressed their ideas and opin-
tons as to the proper way to get out of the ex-
listing difficulty. but their views have not been
received with anything like sufficient enthusi-
asm to give them any appreclable weight. The
matter Is one which Ia worthy OF, and will be
given. the most careful deliberation and 1t will
no doubt be some time before any measure pro-
posed in connection with It will receive the In
dorsement Of the majority necessary to put 1t
through.


There was some talk yesterday about the
chances OF the several candidates TOR


THE sPEAKERsHIP,
and the friends Of the three gentlemen, Messrs.
Hill, Lyons and Moncure, who are among the
foremost in the race. were confident OF their
men. caucus. however. indicates that the
odds are In favor Of Moneure


The friends Of Messrs Kenner. Eustis and
Jonas, candidates for :


UNITED STATES SENATOR,
were hard at work throughout the day and dur
ing the evening. The opinion OF those who
are watching the contest and are supposed to
know sufficient to be able to predict the proba-
bic result is that Kenner leads. and that on the
second or third ballot either Jonas or Eustis,
according to the votes received. will withdraw
and the struggle will be between Kenner and
the remaining gentleman. with the chances on
the side Of the former.
Year: 1879

As in our line of business we do not
have goods specially adapted for holi
day gifts or presents, except 1t be the
lounging coat, which We have had our
share of making up for the ladies for
their husbands and friends, and will
continue this special work for any OF
our customers who desire us. While
this ia the case, We would announce
that we are making up overcoats, ul-
sterettes and suits Of superior cut and
finish at very reasonable prices. You
might as well go to the Model Tailor
Store, 233 Market street, as 1t will cost
no more to have your clothes made first
class.
Year: 1879

The public roads of Tennessee


how to improve and keep them ii
| repair, is subject that should com


mand the earnest consideration o.
our Legislators. This question, be-


yond all dispute, is one OF vital I'm


portance to the citizens of the State.
It deserves the immediate attention


Of the Legislature. At this time.


the roads everywhere, are almost


impossible. In the language Of an
exchange, if our road system'is de-


icient let it be changed, but if the


system is good in theory and simply
not properly applied from some
cause, as it should be, let the steps
be taken at once to remedy the de
feet, whatever it may be. No coun
try can prosper in any large degree
without good roads, and no country
with ordinary natural resources, will
fail to prosper with good roads and
plenty of them. Every farmer should
have a good outlet to carry his pro-
duce to market, and everybody com-
ing into the country with a view of
selecting future home, will be
greatly Influenced either for or
against the idea of settling, as the |
roads he travels over may be good
Or bad, We hope this road matter
nay receive that prompt and eff
,ient attention which it so eminent
Y deserves.