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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1874)
SKA lUtKAMS BY JOHN i. WHITTtEB. The wavt-p are glad in breeze and sun, TtM rocks are ringed with foam ; I walked once more a haunted shore, A etrauger. yet at borne A laud of dreams I roam I i Is this the wind, the soft sea wind Thatwurred thy lock of brown? Are these the rocks whose mosses knew The trail of thy licht gnwu Where boy aud girl Bat down ? I see the gray fort's broken wall, The boat that rocka below ; And, out at fee, the passing sailB We daw ro long ago, Koee-red in morning's glow. Trie freshness of the early time On every breeze is blown ; A glad the sea, as blue the sky The change is ours alone ; XI. e saddest is my own 1 A stranger now, a world-worn man Is he who bears my name ; lint thou, uiethiuks, whose mortal life In i mortal youth became, Art evermore the same. Thou art not here, thou art not there, Thy place I cannot see ; i troly kijow that where thou art The biessed angels be, , And heaven is glad for thee. Forgive me if the evil years Have left on me their sign ; "Wash out. O soul so beautiful, The many stains of mine In tears of love divine ! Ohturn to me that dearest face Of all thy sea-born town, The wedd&d roses of thy lips, . Thy loose hair rippling down In wves of golden brown I Look forth once more through space and time, And let thy sweet shade fall n teudert'ct grace of soul and form On memory's frescoed wall, A shadow, and yet all 1 Draw rear, more near, forever dear ! Where Vr I rest or roam, Or in the crowded city streets. Or by the brown sea foam. The thought of thee is home ! WHAT CAME OF MAKING PICKLES. "Well, Lore, my poor child," said a dignified old gentleman, "I have looked your matters all over, and I must say I see nothing but starvation, before you and your family. " "Well, father," replied a bright little woman of twenty-five years, in a tremb ling voice, ' I've not the least idea of starving, nor of letting my family starve not if God spares my health." "You were always a brave child. Love, but this is a terrible crisis. It would be cruel in any one to taunt yon now, but remember that I told you and George that it was very imprudent tor a man to marry till he had something ahead for an emergency." " I remember, father, that you thought I should be wiser to marry a man with a house and store, for whom I did not care, than to marry George, with two thousand a year. But if I had the choice to make over again to-day, I should do just as I did then. I wouldn't change places with auy woman on earth, even now." ' Yon are a faithful wife and a brave little woman, Love, but " "But what, father?" "You cant live on .in this way, child." " But I will live, father, and live well, too, and take care of George and the babies." " How ?" Ay, that was the word that had been ringing in the heart of this brava little woman ever since the day that her husband failed at his desk, and was brought home apparently dying. She knew that she could rear the pillars of her domestic structure herself, but how? " Well, Love I will do what I can for you," ead the old gentleman, " and and if it were only for you and the ba jSnes, I shonld say at once come home, and be as welcome there as you were four years ago ; but you know the house is so small we haven't room in it." Love smiled a sad smile, and then said, perhaps a little, provokingly, " Four of us would occupy no more chambers than three ; the babies are too little to be away from us at night. But if your house were twice as large, father, I could not take my husband's own little home away from him, now that he is sick. "I shall have to decide soon, and will let you know my plans." The respectable old gentleman rose up, and with Mb handkercLief polished his already shSning beaver, kissed Love, patted the heads of the babies, and turned to ro, saying, " Keep up a good heart, child, afcd remember that the ravens fed Elijah." " Well, I don't want them to fee;, me ; I prefer to feed myself," replied the punky little woman, who felt that it was rather hard in her father to discour age her, and then exhort her to " keep up a good heart." She loved the old man, although he was stiff and narrow in his views, and never forgot any slight offered his judg ment. She fallowed him to the door, and said, "Good-by, father; give my lave to mother," although the real mother, who wjnild have found room enough in her heart and home for them all, had been for years in the grave. It was twilight, and as the old gen tleman was goingdownthesteps ayoung man came up. "Ah, good-evening, good-evening," said the stout, good-natured hotel-keeper to both, and- then added to Love, " Here I am on fae old borrowing busi ness. My wife says she can't please the lawyers in court time since you and she changed pickles and honey. Old Squire Watts called out the minute he sat down to supper, Come, Bruce, bor row some of that neighbor's pickles for us.' Them pickles is a standin' joke among -them. Why can't nobody in town make pickles and catsup and chow chow like yourn? My wife's a cook that can't be beat on bread and meats and pastry and cake, but she ought to 'prentice herself to you on some things." Love, who had known Bruce all her life, smiled, and said : " I will give you a jar with all my heart, Mr. Brace, and that won't half pay your wife for the nice things she has semt in to poor George. I have my cucumlers all ready mow to make next year's pickles, and I yet have two or three jars left." " Suppose we make a bargain, Mrs. Bart. I'll buy two barrels at the best Boston price, if you'll make them for me, and chow-chow and catsup too." Loe laughed, and the hotel-keeper went down with her to get the jar. The old man went down the street, whisper ing, with a sigh, " The Lord knows what's going to feed that family; I can't do it, for wife says I can't ; and she knows everything most ; and Love is terribly obstinate." Well, the hotel-keeper ran back the next moment with his pickle jar. as hap py as some men would have been to find a nugget of gold that size, for he had a rival who kept the old tavern, od he wanted to keep all the lawyers who came there to hold court as his customers. Love had a long talk with her hus band that night. The next day an old school friend, who had always been like a 8ister, came to stop with the sick man ail to look after the babies, and she nt to Boston, ten miles away, in an early train, with a neat little basket in her hands. If anyone had been near enough, when she put her little basket on the platform of the depot with such spirit, he might have heard her whis per : " See if my familv starves while I'm alive and in my health ! " The day was lovely, and everybody on the cars and on the street looked cheer ful and happy. Of course there were sick, and lame, and blind, and deaf peo ple, and beggars pienty in the world, but Heavt n was keepinsr them out of her sight that day, and bringing before her only happy grown folks and merry little ones. The streets looked so clean and the air seemed so pure that she charged herself with having often borne false witness against the beautiful, as she ran with light heart through Washing ton, Tremont and Court streets, and Bowdoin square first, to a store and then to the hotel. In each place she oakorl f-- r.h nrrvnrietor or the steward, and opening her basket, drew out three little glass jars of what thehctel-keeper at home had called " sour things." In one minute she told her business and the necessity that brought her out on it. Her cheerful face, her prompt man ner, and her well-chosen words gained the victory for her. She went back at night pledged to supply home-made pickles, chow-chow and catsup for three hotels and five large groceries, and she whispered as she mounted the steps of her little home. "I'll show father whether or not we are going to starve." Her cheerful storv of success did more for her poor, disheartened young j husband than a peck of Old School j pills or four tiny New School ones j could have done. The very story of an ) old woman's poke-bonnet, which was j worn one-sided in the cars to blind one l eye, and of the silly airs of a silly bride, j and of a boy with two guina pigs but toned into his jacket for safe transporta tion, really brightened the hope of life in his heart, and after partaking of a nice supper prepared by their pretty friend, he said : " Now, girls, I feel as if I was going to get about again, and this is the first time I have had any hope !" Love kept away from her father till she had visited a market garden in the j outskirts of the town and engaged a great supply of cucumbers, oaions, pep pers and tomatoes, and had brought j back the strong girl she had first felt obliged to dismiss, to help her in her j new work. j But if you could only have seen the size of the old gentleman's eyes, and 1 the style of month he got up, and heard i his exclamation, "Why, Love, you are crazy ! What will your motner say Yon surely forgot that her first husband was the President of the L Na- i tional Bank, and that I'm cashier of it ! Whoever heard of a bank officer's daughter making pickles for taverns and groceries ?" "Who ever heard of a bank officer's: daughter sitting down and starving when trouble comes," replied the little lady. " Why don't you teach music?" "Because I don't know enough." "You might keep a few very genteel well, not just boarders, but friends j who don't care to keep house, and would pay largely ?" " Where are they, and where 's the j house and furniture for them ?" " O, that's true. But yon might ! eh ? or might eh ?" and here his wits failed him ; there are so few grand things that people can do in the hope j of cheating others into the belief that j they are working for fun rather than necessity. But soon the old gentleman added " I declare, I'm afraid to go home, lest it had reached your mother's ears !" The proud woman soon heard of it, and she talked angrily about what Mrs. Adam and Mrs. Col. West, and purse proud Miss Allen would say, and she almost inclined to think it would be better to give Love five hundred dol lars than to be disgraced in society. "Love wouldn't take any money," replied the old man, whose attitude during the conversation was that of one caught out in a cutting hail-storm with out any umbrella. " Dreadful independent for any body that's penniless," cried the old lady. Love and her stout helper went to work at once, and very soon the china closet, and next the neat little dining room, were filled with glass jars through which tiny green cucumbers and onions, ana every tiling else nice in that line, was peeping, or, as Love said, " smiling on the family." The business went on bravely, and in one year Love's husband, who was par tially restored to health, forsook the bed and took charge of it, and she went back to the nursery, every good mother's place when Providence doesn't call her out of it. This is no pretty fiction to teach young folks that "where there's a will there's a way." It is a true story of a brave little woman, and we can tell you the street and number of a large store in a certain city, not far away, where her enterprising husband has built up a large business, and made not a little money. He says that if Love had never learned to make pickles, or had been too proud to make them for others, in his dark time, he should have been in his grave five years ago. Who thinks less of her for doing it ? What's in a Name! A New Yorker was introduced to a Cleveland gentleman to-day, and not hearing his name distinctly, remarked : " I beg your pardon, sir, but I didn't catch your name." " But my name is a very hard one to catch," replied the gentleman, "per haps it is the hardest name vou ever heard." "Hardest name lever heard! I'll bet a bottle of wine that my name is Harder," replied the Ne.w Yorker. " All right," said the Cleveland man, "my name is stone -Amasa J. Stone. Stone is hard enough, isn't it, to take this bottle of wine ?" ' Pretty hard name," exclaimed the New Yorker, " but my name is Harder Norman B. Harder and I bet my name was Harder. " The joke cost Mr. Stone just $27.87. The Rev. Mr. Scattergood is regis tered at Dr. Strong's. He's a first-class man to scatter the seeds of truth. Saratoga Letter. Cockroaches. Mr. Lowery, the chief propagator at the Floriste de Paris, has given to the Revue Horticole his method of destroying cockroaches, which are found very destructive and annoying, both in greenhouses and dwellings. This plan is to take a pack age of matches, and dissolve the phos phorus on them in a 'quart of water, and make a paste with this water by mixing it with a pound of flour and six or seven ounces of sugar. Place this mixture where the cockroaches will most readily find it, and it will destroy them effectually. Thz number of journals at present published in Sweden amounts to 256, How Daniel Webster Prepared His Speeches. In one of the debates in Congress which suddenly called Daniel Webster to his feet, he made a brief but quite eloquent speech, apparently without any opportunity for previous prepara tion. In the course of his remarks he drew out the following sentence, which has ever since been admired as one of the most harmonious and expressive in the language. He was speaking of our militia conflict with Great Britain: "Our fathers raised their flag against a power to which, for the purpese of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be com pared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drumbeat, following the sun in its course, and keeping pace with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial air of Enarland. " As he Bat down one of the Senators congratulated him upon his speech, and alluding to the above passage, said that to him it was inconceivable, how Mr. Webster, in a speech so manifestly unpremedita ted, could have formed so perfect and so beautiful a sentence, which with: hours of study he could not improve. Mr. Webster replied that the passage was not extemporaneous ; that in his summer vacation he had visited, Que bec, and while standing upon the mass ive and almost impregnable citadel there looking out upon the wondrous scene of national grandeur and of na ture's loveliness spread before him, the idea occurred to his mind. He imme diately took his seat upon a gun, and with pencil and paper, sketched the thought in the most appropriate lan guage he could at the moment command. Upon arriving at his hotel he sat down at his leisure and wrote it and re-wrote it, with many interlineations and eras ures, until he had molded it into the form of words which satisfied him. He then laid it aside in his retentive mem ory to be used when the occasion should offer. The opportunity arose upon that day. Gen. Jackson Protecting a Court. Gen. Jackson was the Attorney-General for all Middle Tennessee. The two Kirkendalls were the great bullies of that creek. They were spirited and powerful men. They held that the sit ting of the court taking such jurisdic tion invaded their dominions, and they went in a bullying manner and dispers ed the court and ordered it never to meet again. Gen. Jackson heard of it, and attended the next term, carrying upon his arm his saddle-bags, contain ing his long black bulldogs. He placed his saddle-bags in a corner of the neuse. The justices took the bench, and the sheriff proclaimed the court open. ' The Kirkendalls appeared and ordered the court to disperse. In the confusion and terror of the hour, the sheriff fail ed to arrest the parties and restore or der. At this juncture Gen. Jackson appeared before the court and denounc ed the bullies and their conduct, and told the court if they would appoint him their officer he would arrest them and have order. His proposition was readily accepted. Jackson seized one of the Kirkendalls, who was a terror to the country. They clinched and got outside, and being on the edge of the bluff, the bully threw Jackson, and they rolled over and over down the bluff into the creek. When the bully thought he had conquered Jackson he leit him. But the old game-cock came rushing up the hill, as wet as an otter, in search of his bulldogs. He grasped them, and pointing one at each of the bullies, ar rested them and brought them before the court. They were heavily fined, and order was restored, and the thanks of the court were extended to Gen. Jack- Hoist with His Own Petard. The London Spectator tells an amus ing story which has a very perceptible point to it. A materialistic lecturer and a city missionary met before a very in telbgent audience to discuss the ques tion of personal responsibility, a point which modern theorists of the advanced school incline negatively. To illustrate his theory the materialist pointed out to his hearers the fact, now generally admitted, that in seven years the atoms of the body have undergone a complete change, and punishment to one body for deeds done by the other was a manifest injustice. The city missionary, in re ply, expressed his sorrow that he should be engaged in discussion with a man who was living with a woman to whom he was not married. The mate rialist rose angrily to his feet to repudi ate the assault upon his wife. The missionary retorted that according to bis own showing the materialist was by no means the same man who vowed eternal constancy to a woman at the al tar twenty years ago, nor was his so called wife the same woman. As the two existing persons had never been married, they were living in a state which he could not countenance. The retort was ingenious as illustrated in the absurd conclusion to which the ar guments of the sheer materialists must bring them. MoBTAirrr as Affected by Weath er. An interesting paper on the rela tions between human mortality and the seasons of the year, which was read be fore the Scottish Meteorological Socie ty by Dr. Arthur Mitchell and Mr. Alexander Buchan, gives, in brief, the information that the death-rate from bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, and kindred diseases, is highest in cold weather ; from brain-disease, convul sions, and whooping-cough, it is high est in cold and dry weather ; from suicides and small-pex, in warm and dry weather ; from diar rhea, dysentery, and cholera, in warm and moist weather ; and from rheumatism, heart-disease, diphtheria, scarlatina, measles, and croHp, in cold and moist weather. Vinegar Bitters the Greatest Yet. A few doses 3tir the life-current ; sluggishness departs, pain vanishes, and after continued use of the remedy the whole body glows with a new energy and a new being. Purge the blood and every organ will perform its function perfectly. The stomach will be no long er tortured with Dyspepsia ; the lungs will be free from Consumption, the liver active, the heart healthy, the brain clear, the nerves braced, and the mind elastic. Use the "Vinegar Bittebs," and purge your blood. Whether the disease be Fever, Consumption, Dys pepsia, A fiection of the Liver or Kid neys, Dropsy, Catarrh, Rheumatism, Gout, or pains and aches of any kind, attack it in its stronghold, the blood the fountain of life and it will soon surrender and abandon the outposts. To do this you must have the "vine gar Bitters ; " there is no complaint to which the human system is liable that will not yield to its influence, and there are thousands which no other re medial agent will remove. 4 Died Suddenly of Heart Disease. How common is the announcement. Thon sanda are suddenly swept into eternity by this fatal malady. This disease generally has its origin in impure blood filled with irritating, poisonous materials, which, circulating through the heart, irritate its delicate tissues. Though the irritation may at first be only slight, pro ducing a little palpitation or irregular action, or dull, heavy or sharp, darting pains, yet by and by the disease becomes firmly seated, and inflammation or hypertrophy, or thickening of the lining membrane or of the valves, is pro duced. How wise to give early attention to a case of this kind. Unnatural throbbing or pain in the region of the heart should ad monish one that all is not right, and if you would preserve it from further disease, you must help it to beat rightly by the use of such a remedy as will remove the cause of the trouble. Use Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery before the disease has become too seated, and it will, by its great blood purifying and wonderful regulating properties, effect a perfect cure. It contains medicinal properties which act specifically upon the tissues of the heart, bringing about a healthy action. Sold by all first-class druggists. HEART DISEASE CUBED. Rochpout, Spencer Co., Ind., Feb. 1, 1874. Dr. It. V. riKKOK, Buffalo, N. Y. : About t wo years ago I was afflicted with a disease of the heart, which at times created a pressure around it, almost causing suffocation. I saw an advertisement of your Golden Medical Discovery, recommending the same as a cure ror disease or the heart. I then nought halt a dozen bottles of it, and after using three Dottles I was entirely relieved, and am now enjoying good health. Gratefully yours, Vitus Killia.v. An Old Term. Tradition saith that the word "poster," as applied to printed handbills came into use in such connec tion in the early part of the seventeenth century, when the public proclama tions were sent to the sheriffs of various towns, who stuck them upon two stout " posts" which were placed before each sheriff's office for that purpose. There is a boy in Harrison, N. H., who, though only six years old, weighs 146 pounds. Chill Cure ! Safe and Sure. Dr. Wilhof t's Tonic is curative and protective. It will cure Chills and protect from further at tacks. Its reputation is established. Its composition is simple and scientific. It con tain . no poison. It acts promptly, and its effects are permanent. It is cheap, because it saves doctors' bills It is harmless, speedy in action ai.d delightful in its effects. Try it and prove all that's said. Wheelock, 1'inlay & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. Fou Sale by all Dkugoists. Gatherings in the South. There has been much written lately that is very dubious about political gatherings and con flict of races, yet there is one class of gather ings all over the South about which there is not even the shadow of doubt, namely, gather ing for the purpose of purchasing the remain ing tickets for the next and last Gift Concert of the Public Library of Kentucky, to come off November 30. The South has been impov erished, and a reasonable share of that $2, 5JO.000 then to be distributed will be very ac ceptable. The Elmwood Collar is the most perfect-fitting collar yet made. It is so close an imitation of linen that it cannot be detect ed. The novelty that produces this effect is the folded edges, which, when worn over a soart or tie, prevent the sharp, raw edge- from showing as in other collars. It is for sale at all gents' furnishing stores. Brooklyn Union. To have good health the liver must be kept iu ord-sr. Sanford's Liver Invigor ator has become a staple family medicine. Purely vegetable Cathartic and Tonic for all derangements of Liver. Stomach and Bowels : clears the complexion, cures sick headache. Shun imitations. Try Sanford's Liver Invigorator. Familiar and necessary as household words are Rathbone, Sard & Co.'s cook and heating stoves to Western housekeepers. The Northwestern Horse-Nail Co. 's " Finished " Nail is the best in the world. The Rice Divorce Suit for fraud In age, ix causing great excitement in Boston. It should warn young men not to marry in haste. Rice is but 22; bis bride 37. He swears that she made him believe she was but his own age, by using Magno lia Balm upon her face, neck and hands. Poor youth! He probably found her elbows weren't quite so soft and pretty. Ought Hagan to be in dicted? We know of many similar cases. This Balm gives a most wonderful pearly and natural complexion, to which we don't object. We like pretty women. To finish the picture, they shonlc use Lyon's Kathairon upon the hair. With pearly chin, rosy cheeks, and soft, luxurious tresses, '.hey become irresistible. Fell from a Railroad Car, and nearly broke his neck. Pat picked him up, rubbed him with Mexican Mustang Liniment, and sent him on by the next train. Falls, bruises, cuts, contusions, lameness and such accidents are constantly oc curring. There is nothing so sure, safe, cheap and convenient as the celebrated Mustang Lini ment. It costs but SO cents and Sl.cc per bottle, and no Family or owner of Horses should be with out it. There is no flesh, 'bone or muscle ailment npon man or animal, like Rheumatism, Bruises, Spavin and Lameness, which it will not alleviate or cure. Why will you suffer ? Beware of coun terfeits. It is wrapped in a steel-plate engraving, sigued " G. W. Westbrook, Chemist." On Everybody's Tongue. Eulogiums of the great National Regenerator of Health, Plan tation Bitters, are on everybody's tongue. 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GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK Offers to and will give to every Subscriber, whether single or in a club, who nays iu Advance for 1875, and remits directly to this office. A opy or "THE KJSSCUK," The Handsomest Chromo ever offered. For circu lar containing terms, etc., addresn L. A. GODET, K. E. Cor. Sixth & Chestnut-ata.. Philadelphia, Fa. CUSHING'S MANUAL Of Parliamentary Practice. Rules of proceeding and debate iu deliberative assemblies. An indispenauhle hand-hook for every r ember of a deliberative body, aud the authority in 11 the states. "The most authoritative expounder of Ameri can pari amentary law.'1 Cbas. Sumner. Price Oft cents Sent hv mail on receipt of nrice. Address THOMPSON, BROWN A CO., Boston, Mass. MANUFACTORY AND SALESROOM, 23 & 25 RANDOLPH ST., CHICAGC nocj SI1VGER. 70,000 Kin jeers, S.&00 Tones Sold. Hardware Dealers Sel 1 Them. Klngrergl, Kmirrnpr JOO&k-tt, Tones$l,J5, by nmil, post paid. Circulars Ires. Address H, W. HlXX CO. Decatur, til. A Leaiini Lite imm Company Wants Successful Agents in the Western States. Contracts cau be obtained direct with the home office, thereby securing the entire compensation allowed by the Company, which is an inducement not usually offered. Liberal terms will be made with LIVE, ACTIVB Agents. For particulars, ad dress, in full name, Fostoffice Box 1G, Chicago, 111. II ni FortteMiMleinui II n U i Region Western lUff A l,iUUiOU Acres t. R. Land, better and cheap er than can be had elsewhere. The best Corn, Wheat a:id C tUe-ralsinir belt In all the West. Prt e $6 and 6 per acre. CiLmaie and mil unsur passed. Pure water.no sirue. no grasshoppers), no Indians. SEND FOR A. HAND-BOOK. It Cost! uotoing, ana gives maps, full descript ons, pri ces terms, and how to reach the lands free. Address IOWA R. R LAND CO.. Chicago, Illlrni', or Cedar Rapids, Iowa. JOHN B. CALHOUN, Lduid Commisiioner. NOVELTY PRINTING PRESSES The Beat Yet Invented For Amateur or Business Pur poses, and unsurpassed for gen eral Job Printing. Over 10,000 In Use. BENJ. O. WOODS. Manufacturer and Dealer in every description of ? HINTING MATERIAL, i & 1 r & Knerland-iti., Boston. v nff m Kusick.6Mnrrav-st.. New York; Kellcy, Howell Ludwig, 917 Market-st., Philadel phia; S. P. Rounds, 175 Mouroe-st., Chicago. Send for Illustrated Catalogue. Wisconsin Central Railroad. 1ST OT ICE TO SETTLERS AND LUMBERMEN, This Company offers foT tale a large amount of very desirable Farming Land, situated along the line of Its road north of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, at low price to actual settlers. The laud Is covered with a dense forest of various kinds of hard wood interspersed with the finest pine. BxtraonUnary facilities granted to par ties loeatlnfr mills on the line. Wot further information apply to F. W. WEBSTER, Land Agent, Or to E M. PHILLIPS, Gen. Manager. Office of Wisconsin Central Railroad, Milwaukee, June 6, 187. THE GRAND PACIFIC HOTEL, CHICAGO. The only EMINENT Hotel in the fionnt.rv. meetiner the oon- servative views of the public, by REDUCING KA l iUS to $3.50 Per Day, GEO. W. GAGE & J8HN A. RICE, Proprietors. j . . ... . A . 5 v X.- I V BEST ORGANS for EASIEST PAYMENTS The MASON t HAMLIN ORGAN CO., winners THREE HIGHEST MEDALS and DIPLOMA OF HONOR, at PARIS, 18G7, and VIENNA, 1873, anrt HIGHEST AWARDS I.N AMERICA ALWAYS, r specsfully announce that, having greatly increased their facilities for manufacture, they now off their celebrated Cabinet Organs not only for cash exclusively, as formerly, but will al.o rent them, with privilege of purchase. or sell for payments running through one to four years. One may rent an Organ and thor oughly test it before completing Its purchase ; if paid for in the course of one year, the cost will be only xlve to ten per cent, more than the lowest price for cash on delivery. The following table shows amounts and times 1 payment on several plans, running through one year, for a FIVE-OCTAVE DOUBLE-RBED OuOAS, style T, with Five Stops, Vox Humana, 4c Other styles are at proportionate rates. Cash Price, $130. Time Price, SHS. RentSMos., $14.3 Paym'tiu In Three in Rl-r iTn VtuinW-lu Advance. Mouths. Months IMonthsJMout: s. No. 1 Kn 9 $14 30 UB 60 7160 67 92 lt 30 28 24 It) io $14 30 $14 30 No. 3 !-.', t 28 Si 16 ib 28 24 164o 67 93 26 24 1C45 No. 4 No. 6) No. a No. 7 69 90 $14 30 in advance, and $10 44 each month n,i twelve months. 69 90 Organs will be furnished on these plans, either through agents, or directly, to almost any part i the country. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES, With full descrip tions Of the Organs made by this Company, ana circulars showing in detail the different plans ol payment on which they are now offered, sent free. Address MASON A HAMLIN ORGAN CO., 7stari, Now York, or Chicago. The American Meat and Vegetable Chopper. From the Farm and Fireside. " Herewith we present an illustration of a most useful little machine, designed to serve several useful purposes in the kitchen, Buch as chopping saiiBage meat, pie meat, hash, fish, fiuit and vege tables. A glance at the cut will give the reader a general idea as to the mode of operating the ma chine. Being compact, it takes but little space, and can be used on a kitchen table, taking abont the same space as an ordinary chopping tray. The American Meat and Vegetable Chopper has been long enough before the public to be thoroughly tested, and the volume of praise that has been be stowed on it from various sources must convince all that this invention is almoBt a necessity in every family. This chopper is made in laruer sizes for the use of butchers, and these have also become very popular." These choppers are made in seven different sizes four sizes for Family use and three ptzes for Butchers and are sold bv the principil dealers in Hardware. House Furnishing Goods, aud Agri cultural Implements throughout the country. For Descriptive Circular and Price List, address D. A. KKWTON eb CO., HO Chambers Street, New York. THE ISTKW TJyrjpRO"VTET3 REMINGTON Sewing1 Machine. AWARDED THE " MEDAL FOR PROGRESS," AT VIENNA, 1873. Thi Hiohbst Order or "Midil" Awabl id at TBI EXPOSITION. No Sewing Machine Received a Higher rize. A FEW GOOD REASONS I 1. A Seu- Invention, Tbobocoelt Tbstxs and secured by Letters Patent. St. Makes a perfect lock stitch, alike on both sides, on aU kinds of goods. 3. Runs Light, Smooth, Noiseless and Rapid best combination of qualities. DrjaABLa Suns for Years without Repairs. 5 Win do an varieties vf Work and fancy Stitch ing in a superior manner. 6. Is Most Easily Managed by the operator. Length of stitch may be altered while running, and machine can be threaded without passing thread through Loles. 7. Design Simple, Ingenious, ELegant, forming the stitch u ith'.ut the use of Cog-Wheel Dears, Rotary Cams or Lever Arms. Has the Automata Drop-Feed, which insures uniform length of stitch at any speed. Has our new Thread -Controller, which allows easy movement of needle-bar and prevents injury to thread. 8. Construction mos careful 'and rarisnss. It is manufactured by the most skillful and experienced mechanics, at the celebrated Remington A ruio ry, lUon, N. V. New brk Office, No.6 VI a ,11 son Square (Kurtz's BulMinK). BRANCH OFFICE:: 237 State St., Chicago, III.; 181 West Fourth St., Cincinnati, 0. 35 Ni agara St., JBiiftH lo, N. Y. 33ii Washington St., Boston, Mass. s 810 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, P. IO Sixth St.. Pitts, burgh. Pa. ; 258 West Jefferson St., Lou isville, K. ; lleiilves Opera House, Ma rietta St., Atlanta, Ga. t 607 North Fourth St., Saint Louis, Mo.; Corner -of North Pearl St Steuben St., Albany, N. Y. GRAND MUSICAL JUBILEE AND GIFT CONCERT, AT SIOUX CITY, IOWA, positiyely Thursday, Noy. 26th, 1874. 9 i qu,uuo i n VAs n And Valuable Keal Rat&te Will be distributed among the tick holders . Only ua.ooo tickets win be issued a large por tion of these already sold. People's Scheme. Net profits to go to Chamber of Commerce, Fire and Militia Companies, and the Public Library iof Sioux City. Single Tickets, 33: Two for $5. Reliable agents wanted. Liberal commissions allowed. Send for tickets, terms or circulars to N. HATTENBACH & CO.. Sioux City, Iowa (ANOTHER CHANCE. FIFTH i LAST GIFT CONCERT IU AID OP THI Pilic Lilrary of MMy, POSTPONED TO NOVEMBER 30, 1874. Drawing Certain at that Date. LIST OF GIFTS One Grand Cash Gift $250,000 One Grand Cash Gift 100,000 One Grand Cash Gift...- 75,100 One Grand Cash Gift 50,000 One Grand Cash Gift 25.000 5 Cash Gifts, $20,000 each 100,000 10 Cash Gifts, 14, 0(H) each 140,000 15 Cash Gifts, 10,000 each 150,000 20 Cash Gifts, 5,000 each . 100,000 25 Cash Gifts, 4,000 each 100. WO 30 Cash Gifts, 3,000 each 90,000 50 Cash Gifts, 2.000 each 100,000 100 Cash Gifts, 1,000 each 100.000 210 Cash Gifts, 500 eaeh 120,000 500 Cash Gifts, 100 each 50 000 19,000 Cash Gifts, 50 each 950,000 Grand total 20,000 Gifts, all cash. $2, 500, 000 PRICE OF TICKETS. Whole Tickets $50.00 Halves 25.00 Tenth, or each Coupon 5.00 11 Whole Tickets for 600.00 22J Tickets for 1,000.00 For Tickets and information, address THO. E. BRAMLETTE, Agent and Manager? Public Library Building, Louisville, Ky. Jlsl:fllSlM41 .flBimv.Mf-iswii.ra Dr. J. Walker's California Vin e?ar Bitters are a purely Vegetable pieparation, made chiefly from the' na tive herbs found on the lower ranges of tht' Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor nia the medicinal properties of which arc extracted therefrom without the use of Alcohol. The question is almost daily asked, "What is the cause of the unparalleled success of Vixkgak Bit tees?" Our answer is, that they remove "he cause of disease, and the patieut re covers his health. They are the greas blood purifier aDd a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and Invigorato of the system- Never before iL th history of the world has a medicine beesi compounded possessing the remarkabls qualities of "Vinkoar Bitters in healing th sick of every disease manisheirto. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious D . eases. The properties of De. Walker's inkgar Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic. 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