JAN .17 
RESTRICTION Of DIPHTHERIA. 
Diphtheria is a contagious disease, and hence the 
strict observance of the folio wing precautions are 
of very great importance; 
1. Ever)' person known to be sick with this dis¬ 
ease should be promptly and effectually isolated 
from the public ; one or two persons only should 
take the entire charge of the patient, and they 
should be restricted in their intercourse with other 
persons. 
2 . The room into which one sick with diphtheria 
is placed should previously be cleared o; alt needless 
clothing, carpets, drapery and other materials 
likely to harbor the poison of the disease. This 
room should constantly receive a liberal supply of 
fresh air, without currents or drafts upon the 
patJent. it will be well also to have the sun shine 
directly into tho room. 
it. In order that the guardians or the public 
health may have early warning, it is important 
that every case of dlptheria be promptly reported 
to the local board of Health. 
•i. The duties or householders, physicians and 
board of health, as specified in sections 1734. l r:n>, 
1732 and ir»i>r. of the compiled laws of Michigan* 
1871, should be rigidly enforced. 
5. The dischaige from the throat, nose and 
mouth are extremely liable to communicate the 
disease, and should be received on soft rags or 
pieces of cloth which should be immediately 
burned. 
7. The discharge from the kidneys and bowels 
are also dangerous and should be passed on old 
cloths and burned, or Info vessels kept thoroughly 
disinfected by nit ra te of lead, chloride ot /.Inc, or 
sulphate of iron, (copperas), a nd then be buried at 
least 100 leet distant iron any well. 
7. Nutsesand attendants should be required to 
keep themselves and their patient as clean as pos¬ 
sible ; their own haft Is should frequently be 
washed aud disinfected by chlorinated soda. 
8 . soiled bed and body linen should at once be 
placed in boiling water or in water containing 
chlorinated soda, chlorinated lime, or solution or 
chloride oi zinc. 
it. All persons recovering irom dlptheria should 
be considered dangerous and therefore nosueh per¬ 
sons should be permitted to associate with others, 
or attend school, church, or any public assembly, 
until In t Im judgment or a careful and intelligent 
physician they can do so without endangeilng 
others. 
10. The body of a person who has died of diph¬ 
theria should as early as practicable be placed in 
the coil in with disinfectants, aud the coilin then 
should be tightly closed. Afterwards the body 
should not be exposed to view except through 
glass. 
11. Mo public funeral should be held at a house 
In which there is a case of diphtheria, nor in which 
a death Horn diphtheria has recently occurred. 
No children, a> least, and It would be. better in 
most cases that few adults, should a ttend such a 
funeral. 
12. The room in which there has been a case of 
diphtheria, whether fatal or not, should, with all 
its contents, be thoroughly disinfected by expo¬ 
sure for several hours to strong fumes of chlorine 
gas. or or burning sulphur, and then, If possible, it 
should for several days be exposed to currents or 
fresh air. 
13. After death or recovery from diphtheria, 
the clothing, bedding, carpets, mats, and oilier 
cloths which have been exposed to tbe contagion 
of the disease should either be burned, exposed to 
superheated steam to a degree or dry heat equal to 
240 degrees Fahrenheit, or thoroughly boiled. 
PRKVKNVIVB MEASURES. 
14. Avoid the special contagion of the disease, 
is. Beware of crowded assemblies in ill-venti¬ 
lated rooms. 
10. The grounds under and around the house 
should he well drained. 
17. NO vegetable or animal matter should be al¬ 
lowed to decompose on the surface of the ground 
near the house. 
15. If any soap-factory, slaughter-house, render¬ 
ing establishment, or other source of foul odors, 
contaminate the air which you and your children 
dally breathe, take immediate measures through 
your local Board of Health or health officer to have 
such nuisance abated. 
10. Your own privy especially, should at all 
times be thoroughly d lain reeled, by dry earth, coal 
ashes Or copperas-wat er; and the receptacle should 
be so constructed as to be water-tight aud to be 
tightly covered when removed Lo be emptied, as it 
should be often enough to prevent the air about it 
from becoming offensive, and in cold weather so 
far as possible. 
20. Your whole house and especially its sleeping 
rooms should be well ventilated. 
21 . Y'our cellar should be dry and well ventilated; 
it should frequently be whitewashed, and always 
kept clear of decomposing vegetable or other sub¬ 
stances. 
22 . No cesspool should be allowed near the house. 
If there be one, It should either he removed or he 
thoroughly and frequently disinfected with sul¬ 
phate ot Iron, (copperas.) 
23. Y'our house drains should be looked to with 
scrupulous care, to see that they are well trapped, 
kept clear and ventilated into the open air. 
24 Y'our house should not have uninterrupted 
connection with a sewer. Be sure that the waste 
pipes do not permit the entrance of sewer gas Into 
the house, but that they enter the sewer through 
an open air apace, or at least through a space 
freely ventilated to the open air. 
25. Be sure that your chinking water Is not con¬ 
taminated by surface drainage, or by leakage 
from tho drain, gas-pipes, sewer, cesspool or 
vault,— St. Altiin'x i t'wtcly Messenger. 
A SPECIMEN SWINDLE. 
Last week the ‘‘put and call" swludle, one of 
the most Ingenious aud successful ever perpetrated 
and one against which we warned our readers in 
our Querist Department several months ago, was 
THE 
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practically broken up by the Post Office authori¬ 
ties of this city. A brief account of the affair may 
be a warning to some of our readers, or rather to 
their paper-borrowing neighbors, against a host of 
frauds differing only in their methods, whose cir¬ 
culars crowd the malls while their advertisements 
fled prominent, places lu hundreds of newspapers. 
In the city here the X. Y\ Times deserves well of 
the public for thoroughly exposing the. whole af- 
falr. The business was started In a *• bucket shop ” 
here In 1875. The head of the concern devised the 
system of roguery which proved so safe and profit¬ 
able that It was soon taken up by many others, 
ills plan was simply to advertise extensively 
throughout, the country asking for money with 
which to speculate In stocks—and to pocket, every 
dollar that was sent to him Circulars hlled with 
enticing descriptions of the Immense profits to be 
made by the investment of small sums, were scat¬ 
tered broadcast throughout the laud, espee ally the 
rural districts, and fools were nor. lacking to Jump 
at the bait. All any of them overgot was a letter 
announcing that the speculation had proved disas¬ 
trous. No stocks were ever purchased. Ballroad, 
mining aud other stocks are constantly rising and 
falling, and as no special kind of stock was ever 
mentioned beforehand in which the operator in¬ 
tended lo deal, he always told his dupes that he 
had speculated In some kind w hich had actually 
fallen inside- the thirty days within which he 
stipulated that he should have eniire control of his 
patrons' money. The representations made were 
very Cleverly drawn up, and. although on the sur¬ 
face they seemed to promise fortunes to everybody 
on close analyses they really amounted to nothing 
more than an Invitation to tools to hand over their 
cash. 
In 1878 the number of similar swindling offices 
had so increased and the nuisance bad become so 
unbearable that the members ot the stock Ex¬ 
change made a uultcd demand for their suppres¬ 
sion. The styles of reputable houses had been 
closely imitated and these v. ei e constantly in re¬ 
ceipt of letters, some asking tor tniurrnatlon, 
others fiercely denunciatory, and a LI Intended for 
Uiespurlous concerns, lu November of that year 
the Law Committee engaged the services of a 
shrewd lawyer to ferret our, the matter and to use 
every means to break up the nefarious business. 
From that time until last week he has been per¬ 
sistently engaged la the attempt, to bring crimi¬ 
nality home to the astute swindlers; but so care¬ 
fully had they operated just within the letter ot 
the law, that although he had tue advice aud as¬ 
sistance of the Fidted .States District Attorney and 
Of the District Attorney ot this city, all Ids efforts 
failed to fix a criminal offence upon them, ills in¬ 
vestigations, however, disc ivered the names or the 
chief operators and their huhIus opnuurh 
He soon found out that the eh lei man In the 
business—the owner o( tour of the principal con¬ 
cerns—was one Benjamin ft. Buck waiter, who es¬ 
tablished his fl rat “put and call” swindle In 1876, 
at No. lo Wall street under the name of Buekwal- 
tt-r <ir Do. lie made a mistake then, however, in 
attempting to do a city business along with a reg¬ 
ular country trade, and the etty sharpens got the 
best ot hint. With his experience, however, he 
soon got a partner and started anot her concern at 
40 Broad street, under the title oi Bradley * Do. 
As they confined melr operations to simple coun¬ 
try folks here, they made money rapidly aud used 
It to branch out on a larger scale on the corner oi 
Broad-street and Exchange-place as Lawrence* 
Co., an imitation of the reputable neighboring 
banking-house of Lawrence Bros. Tho office was 
small, but the building was Urge and Imposing, 
on their circulars was a wood-cut ot the entire 
block, including the tinted Stales sun t reasury 
and tho splendid Urexel Building on the side- 
wall of winch was the legend. Lawrence * do. 
“Bankers and Brokers,” the Intention evidently 
being to give countrymen the- iinpresstot, that 
that was the budding occupied by the concern. 
Here they bought, up all the uarnes they could 
get of farmers, villagers and all soi ls of people 
a very where, and actually copied the entire list of 
one mercantile agency embracing the names and 
addresses of every business man in the Dnlted 
States. They mailed over l.unu.uiru circulars at tbe 
hi stdash,giving an Ingenious improvement on their 
own -put and call ” artlllcw, since known as the 
“ Combination Scheme.” Hundreds or our readers 
havedoubttess, received circulars descilptlveof this 
alluring invitation of “ tbe spider to Umlly," and 
those who have not, should be thankful that they 
escaped the temptation to “ step into that parlor—” 
so wo’ll let the hundreds of our readers who know 
all about It, tell all about It to the thousands 
w'ho know nothing about It. The circulars were 
models both as baits to attract t he tintlnuklng aud 
for their avoidance of all responsibility of any 
kiud whatsoever, ir the recipient sent a good 
sum-say $too—he was pestered no farther ; but if 
his remittance amounted only to, say. $io, he was 
templed again and again to invest more until nis 
folly bee«ao manifest even to himself and anger 
took the place of greedy hope. Then he was drop¬ 
ped. 
So many were the “innocents” that sent In their 
remittances that the sharpers were all soou breast- 
high *■ In clover.” The books of Lawrence & Co, 
show that their receipts were, in duly last, over 
$37,000; in August, nearly $24,o00, and lu Sep¬ 
tember, over $32,000, During that month an 
article primed in the Now Y'ork Times, expos¬ 
ing the swindle, caused their receipts to fall in 
November to $18,000 aud lu December there was 
a lurtUer drop to S 12 , 000 . Jn October last, which 
was an average month, the receipts of one day 
exceeded $ 2 , 300 ; of another, $1,000 ; and so on. 
Alter paying $15,042 for mailing circulars, adver¬ 
tising, etc.. Buck waiter's share of Lawrence * do.. 
profits was, for that month, $ 17,452 43 , and alto¬ 
gether he has been receiving iroin all nts concerns 
$22,833,33 per month. At alow estimate taken from 
the books ot the eight concerns lately suppressed, 
an aggregate capital or $ls,ouo per month was ob. 
tallied from the dupes ot these sUurpers. 
Well, there Isn’t space here to tell how the per¬ 
sistent lawyer and tbe United States Post. Office 
at length managed to suppress the various con¬ 
cerns, but we give a list of the names of those 
whose malls tUe Post Office authorities have 
stopped. No doubt many of them are already 
familiar to some of our readers, as the chief prey 
all of 1hem hunted dwelt In rural places. Besides 
Lawrence &. Co., Buck waiter owned Adams, 
Brown, * Co., No. 2s Bread-street; Allen. Jordan 
X Co , No. 54 Wall-street and Barnes, Harrison, 
w Co., Nob. it Broad-street and *>$ Exchange-place, 
i he malls of four other concerns were also stopped; 
namely. Charles DoxeU ,v Co., Thatcher, Belmont 
* Co; Simpson X Co.: and Heath * Co, Tho two 
last named were run by J. M. Pat'ee who origin¬ 
ally ra n the Wyoming Lottery; then the Cheyenne 
Lottery; then the grand Distribution company, of 
Victoria, Canada; then the Bullion Mining Com¬ 
pany; then the Gold and Silver MiniDg Company 
and numerous other swindles, against nearly 
every one or. wnich we have at one time or an¬ 
other cautioned our readers, 
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THE BLANCHARD CHURN. 
Tub present manufacturers of “ The Blanchard 
Churn” [P. Blanchard's Sons, Concord. N. H.j 
have been engaged (father and sons) In making 
• burns tor over fifty years. They have devoted 
much (line to the scientific investigation of the 
process ot butter-making, aud in developing the 
best mechanical means for aiding it. It has been 
for many years their only business. They have 
carefully observed and examined every new 
claimant for the dairyman’s favor. They have 
been constantly testing and applying iwprove- 
tuerbs to Hie churn they have been making They 
bt“ been perfecting the machinery anti appli¬ 
ances ot their factory. They have been untiring 
In their efforts to combine every desirable quality 
In their churn, and to omit everything needless or 
complicated, and they now have tbe best-known 
churn In the country We now offer these churns 
as presents to those of our friends who will send 
us In subscription clubs : The No. a [2 gallonsj for 
aelubof m, and the No 3 is gallons] for a club of 
14 No housewife, dairyman or dairymaid who 
do not, already possess one ot these churns, can 
spend a rew momenta more profitably than to 
visit their friends and neighbors, obtain their sub¬ 
scription to the H v ka 1 and send them to us along 
with an order (or a chum. 
-- 
Palace Groan.— Style 13 , Five Stops—Five Oc¬ 
taves—Is offered In our premium list as premium 
No. s3. The Loring and Blake Organ Co., Wor¬ 
cester. Mass , and Toledo, Ohio, make this organ. 
In selecting a suitable Instrument of this class to 
offer as a present, we were guided by the advice 
of musical friends, and the style we give tsLhought 
to be exactly suited to the requirements of the 
country-home. 
A case comparatively plain in appearance was 
selected because the absence o r excessive orna¬ 
mentation Is a positive advantage from a musical 
point of view, as the light, resonant ease secures a 
peculiarly sympathetic quality 01 tone, that Is the 
perfection of accompaniment for solo singing. 
The action, or Internal mechanism, Is precisely 
the same as that which is furnished in the most 
elaborate cases, and Is warranted for five years 
There tire three sets of reeds-one of twenty -eight 
notes, and two of tblny-three notes each. ’The 
power is sufficient to nil any ordinary room com¬ 
pletely, and It will lead a fair-sized chorus without 
difficulty. The five stops -diapason, melodla, vox 
celeste, treinelo and lurtc. with the patent knee- 
swell, produce a charming combination of musical 
effects. We will present one of these organs, 
direct from the factory, [price ?is0j for a club of 
200 SUBSCRIBERS. 
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Sorafstic (fojunmr. 
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CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
FOR MEN ONLY. 
ADELINE E. STOKV. 
Jf women’s curiosity is as great as it has come 
to be considered, no doubt every one of the sis¬ 
terhood who glances at the above beading, will 
read what lollows. The woman whose, good foi- 
tuue il is to have a kind, thoughtful husband ; 
one who takes her out frequently, never forget¬ 
ting to see that the robes arc well tucked in 
about her in cold weather, and thinks it hia 
f l ice and not hers to hold the umbrella in ease 
of a storm; who, to lighten her labor, winds the 
clock every morning and attends to the lock¬ 
ing up at night; who has never discovered 
that the children take all their bad traits from 
her, and that in their good cues they take after 
him; who shows as much consideration for 
her as he dues for other women : who, in short, 
attends to all the little detail-, for her comfort 
as though that were us much to him its his 
own, will think what is here said altogether 
uncalled for, while the woman who is fast 
hound to a man of a different stamp, will say : 
“O, I know all about those men. But there’s 
no use in talking to them—they're too selfish 
to care for anything.” 
It is for such men as this woman’s lot is east 
with, that what I have to say is intended. I 
know that every oue of you that has read thus 
far, will go on. because you haven’t the faint¬ 
est, suspicion that it is meant for you, and you 
will want to see how some one else *• catches 
it.” 
But let us sec. What do you do for your 
wife because she is your wile, aud it is, there¬ 
fore, your duty to do your best to make life 
pleasaut to her? You undertook the task— 
though theu it was not so much a task—years 
ago. A'oiv you look after you*' own comfort, 
aud that, is about all that you want to attend 
to, iu that line. You use tobacco, though she 
dislikes it, and the stnell of it iu jour breath 
aud iu your clothes is nauseating to her. You 
swear in her presence, though yon would uot 
iu that of another woman, and that, too, when 
you know just now hateful it, is to her. You 
are, moreover, in other respects not too choice 
iu your use of lauguage, obliging her to hear 
words from you that you would be shocked, 
and rightly, too. to hear eotniug from her lips 
Y'ou spit on the floor, though you know it dis¬ 
gusts her. You keep your hat on in the house, 
and she weighs you in her mind against oilier 
men she kuows, who do not—and you are 
found wantiug. You eat with your knife, even 
when there is company present, aud that mor¬ 
tifies her. Y'ou tell all the little secrete she 
trusts you with, to your father and brother, 
and that weakens her confidence in you. But 
these are trifles, you say. They may be, but 
trifles make up the sum of our happiness or 
unhappiness. 
But you are delinquent in other respects aud 
your faults of omission are as great as your 
faults of commission. Y'ou never voluntarily 
and of your own free act, ask her to go out 
with you. If she is one of the favored few 
aud is so siLuated that she can go of herself 
when she pleases, it does not matter so much ; 
but if she is one of the many compelled, alone 
aud unassisted, to keep the domestic tread¬ 
mill in motion, it does matter a great deal. 
Y'ou hitch up your team, slick yourself up a 
little and drive to town. You have business 
there, or you go there because you have noth¬ 
ing in particular to do, aud you want to grt 
out. But do you take your wife along ? Nut 
you, indeed, any more ihaQ you do when yon 
drop in at a neighbor’s of an eveniug for an 
hour's chat, and yet if there is any earth) \ 
mortal who needs to get away, now aud the;,, 
from a scene of care and worry, it isthehous - 
wife who must make her one pair of lraudr 
do the woik of two. She never asks you to 
lake her. do von say ? Perhaps if you try you 
will remember that she used to. She would 
be lacking in dignity to keep it up ail her lite 
when your actions, if not your words, plainly 
tell her that you don’t want her to go along 
with you. 
Aud then you withhold your sympathy from 
her in matters which are of interest to her, or 
which are trying to her, aud being a woman 
sympathy is necessary to her happiness. There 
are many other things you do which you 
should not, and many which you should do 
aud do not, but this article is growing long 
aud so, tor the present I forbear. 
HOUSE-HOLD HELPS. 
H. E. S. 
Fringed Mittens. 
Men who are out in the cold aud handle cold 
thiugs, know how comfortable a good, warm 
pair of mittens are, aud I thought 1 would give 
directions to aid the inexperienced iu making 
friuged mittens. Tho yarn for the fringe is 
Lest, if spun very coarsely, aud but slightly 
twisted. It may then be reeled into skeiub 
