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JULY 47 
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NOTES AND NOTICES. 
Stockmen all over the land, and especially 
those of the South and Southwest, will receive 
with gratitude and satisfaction Mr. Wood¬ 
ward’s recommendation and indorsement of 
crude petroleum for skin diseases, wounds, 
and above all, for the scab. The doses used to 
cure the scab are many aud various, half the 
time not effecting a radical cure, and always 
troublesome to prepare and bothersome to 
make use of. That the worst eases of scab 
can be readily cured with one thorough ap¬ 
plication of crude petroleum, and that it can 
be applied without danger to the animal or 
much expense or laltor to the owner, are facts 
worthy of the widest, publicity. 
It was thought when the self-binding reap¬ 
ers came into general use, that the farmers’ 
wives and daughters would be relieved of as 
much of the hardships and drudgery insepa¬ 
rable from the small-grain harvest, as they 
ever would be, nobody imagining the hor¬ 
rors of thrashing week would ever be alto¬ 
gether avoided. But the world moves, and 
though in some things we appear to be going 
backwards, in more the movement is in ad¬ 
vance. Lately a new idea has been suggested 
in grain thrashing, it is for the organization 
of a company of men to do the thrashing, the 
stacking of the straw, and the delivering of the 
grain tied up in sacks, or put into the granary, 
at a fixed rate per bushel, the company to carry 
its own grain and forage for the horses, or to 
buy them of the farmer, furnish and cook the 
provisions for its men, cany a bent in which 
to cook and sleep, thus relieving the farmers’ 
wives and daughters of the drudgery of cook¬ 
ing for a large gang of men and cleaning beds 
afterwards. This latter because the men are 
necessarily dirty from their work, aud uot 
infrequently so through carelessness'and in¬ 
difference, if nothing worse. When such com¬ 
panies organize in the regions where the small 
grains are leading crops, we may look for¬ 
ward to see them have a monopoly of the busi¬ 
ness, for it will suit the wife and daughters no 
less than it will the average farmer, whose 
experience has taught him thrashing week 
and the preparations that have to be made for 
it, are the most laborious, trying and ex¬ 
hausting of the year. 
Have we reached the safe limit of the intro¬ 
duction of labor-saving machinery? Many 
seem to think so, and those so thinking are 
not, as might be supposed, laboring men or 
mechanics. Those I have heard so express 
themselves were farmers of means and intel¬ 
ligence, prosperous manufacturers, aud some 
few who have read much, observed widely 
aud thought long. The occasion was a con¬ 
test of tile ditching machines, and the turn¬ 
out to see it was a large one of every trade, 
occupation and profession. The machines did 
excellent work and enough of it to show their 
superiority to hand labor. Still the general 
sentiment of the majority was, or appeared to 
be, that there were lubor-saviug machines 
enough, and that something must be left for 
the laboring man. b. f. j. 
Champaign, Ill. 
Work. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY L. TAPLIN. 
NURSERY SONG. 
From Good Housekeeping. 
Pace, pace, pace— 
That’s the way the ladles ride. 
Foot bung down the pony’s side— 
Pace, pace, pace. 
Pacing gently into town 
To buy a bonnet and a gown; 
Pacing up ibe narrow street, 
Smiling at the folks they meet— 
Thai’s the way the ladies ride. 
Foot hung down the pony’s side— 
Pace, pace, pace. 
Trot, trot, trot- 
That’s the way the gentlemen ride, 
O’er the horse's back astride— 
Trot, trot, trot. 
Riding after fox aud bound. 
Leaping o’er the meadow's bound. 
Trotting through the woods In Spring, 
Where the little wild birds slug— 
That’s the way the gentlemen ride, 
O’er the horse's back astride— 
Trot, trot, trot. 
Rock, rock, rock— 
That’s the way the sailors ride, 
Rock aud reel from side, to side— 
Rock, rock, rook. 
Jack Tar thinks he’s on the seas, 
Tossing In a northern breeze; 
Thinks that lie must veer and tack, 
When he mounts a horse’s back; 
Rocklng’east and rocking west, 
Jack tar rides, dressed In his best— 
Rock, rock, rock. 
Sleep, sleep, sleep— 
That’s the way boy Ned will ride, 
Floating on the slumber tide— 
Sleep, sleep, sleep. 
Out uoou the drowsy sea, 
Where the sweet dream blossoms be, 
Far away to Sleepy Isles 
Salts by Ned. "Good night,” he smiles; 
Sinking down In pillows deep, 
Little Neil ts fast asleep— 
Sleep sleep. 6leep. 
—ANNE M. LIBBT. 
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN. 
We commend to those courageous sisters 
who agitate on Women’s Rights, Women’s 
Wrongs and everything for women with a 
capital W, the list of women’s rights suggested 
by the Chicago Living Church: 
The right to watch while others sleep, 
The right o’er other’s woes to weep. 
The right to succor In rllstTess, 
The right when others curse to bless, 
The right to love when others scorn. 
The right to comfort all who mourn. 
The right to shed new Joy on earth. 
The right to feel the soul's high worth, 
The right to lead tile soul to God 
Along the path her Saviour trod; 
Such woman’s rights God will bless 
And crown her champion with success. 
These agitators on the question of feminine 
suffrage mighL profitably turn their attention 
to another field—the question of women’s 
work. A Plainfield paper very pertinently 
asks why, in all the vigorous efforts now being 
put forth throughout the country for more 
wages and less work, the wives’ side of the 
question is so little considered? The next time 
a procession of laboring men on a strike 
parade your streets, just hunt up their vivos 
and ask them about their work. They will 
tell you that they rise at five or half-past in 
the morning, get their husband’s breakfast, 
get the children off for school, do the washing, 
ironing, baking, sweeping, and scrubbing, 
care for the little ones, get dinner, do the hun¬ 
dred odd jobs so necessary to a pleasant home, 
yet of which the husband knows nothing, and 
then their sewing and mending till 10 or 11 
o’clock at night. They work over hot stoves 
in Summer, aud in cold rooms in Winter. 
Sickness even brings no release if they can 
possibly compel their wearied bodies to per¬ 
form their appointed tasks. Sunday’s work 
is but little less, and Thanksgiving aud Christ¬ 
mas mean extra cares. 
Week after week, year after year, with only 
an occasional afternoon or evening respite, 
the work goes ou. What do these women know 
of leisure ? What chance have they for self- 
improvement. for true growth? What compen¬ 
sation do they receive for such a toilsome 
life? Cheap food, poor shelter, poorer clothes. 
And what do they think of strikes? How 
many would there be if they were consulted? 
Few, very few. Having been forced to a life¬ 
long study of the subject they generally un¬ 
derstand economy hotter t han their husbands. 
They know that half a loaf is better than 
none, and they realize that no work means no 
pay. They know, too, that the burden of re¬ 
duced expenses must fall most heavily upon 
them. When the income grows smaller they 
are told they “must economize.” How can 
they do it? Not by reducing the expense of 
the table. Oh, no! their husbands don’t mean 
that. It must be done by denial of self and 
little ones. The already shabby clothes must 
be worn another year. There must not be one 
concert or lecture, and not eveu one day’s 
excursion to the woods or seashore. Fuel must 
be used most sparingly, when the husband is not 
at home, and not one cent, must be spent for 
that which is not a genuine necessity. Mean¬ 
while the husband goes on with his smoking 
and beer drinking. If the strikers gain their 
point, how long will it take them to make up 
what they lost in days of voluntary idleness? 
CHILDREN WE MEET. 
Taking children as miniature men and 
women, some study of their peculiarities, char¬ 
acteristics, and naughtinesses is interesting to 
us all, and we are somewhat of the opinion of 
that writer who says: “Beware of the man 
who hates children and music. He is not to lie 
trusted.” Nor do we exactly echo the opin¬ 
ion of Charles Lamb, who, when asked by a 
proud mother, how he liked babies, answered 
with his amusing stutter: “Boiled madam,” 
and who said he could not imagine what 
people made such a fuss about children for, 
“they are so common.” 
We might begin our discourse as the small 
boy begins his school composition, and 
say; There are a great many kinds of babies 
truly, there are babies and babies, cry¬ 
ing babies, fretting babies, solemn babies, 
crowing babies. The kind we regard with 
the most unmitigated abhorrence is that 
variety which wrinkles up its small features 
until it looks like a map of the United States, 
stiffens its entire person as if it were petrified, 
and then delivers a yell that would curdle the 
blood of a Sioux chieftain. And then the 
fond mother proceeds to compose the nerves 
of that infant with the art and blandishments 
known only fcg mothers, just as if it were not 
the nerves of baby’s audience that really re¬ 
quired to be composed. 
But it is only when children begin to talk 
that the full extent of their virtue or depravity 
can be known There are occasionally those 
pure, angelic children who seem, 1 ike Aldrich’s 
“Babie Bell,” to have wandered from Para¬ 
dise; and, opposing them, are those infantile 
fiends, whose pitiless logic, keen sight, and 
precocious minds make them the terror of all 
who meet them, All children are apt to make 
startling remarks at times, for they view the 
great phenomena of the world from the stand¬ 
point of their own small experience; but these 
terrible children seem to do it as much from a 
desire to make people uncomfortable as any¬ 
thing else. Woe to the unlucky one who pos¬ 
sesses some personal defect when in their pre¬ 
sence. It was a little cherub of this descrip¬ 
tion who publicly told a lady showing traces 
of the dentist’s art, that she had copper toed 
teeth. Upon the whole, we think little girls 
of this description are more dangerous than 
little boys. They go off more unexpectedly, 
as it were, aud, true to the natural instincts of 
their sex, have more to say. 
After all, these naughty children are more 
interesting to most, of us than abnormally good 
ones, like those in moral story books who keep 
on getting better and better till they finally 
die. They always die, and the bad ones live 
on to an evil old age. 
Many children are tryingly mischievous, 
simply because they have no proper outlet for 
their energy. Who has not seen some poor 
little victim at school nervously trying to fix 
in his slippery memory some incomprehensi¬ 
ble rule, and looking the picture of youthful 
misery, laying up a series of penalties for 
negligence and inattention when he would be 
far better employed developing bis mind and 
muscle at once out on some green hillside or 
by the shore of a breezy river. With all our 
fine methods of higher education, it seems we 
have not yet arrived at the proper means of 
producing the sound mind in a sound body. 
When we teach children to think and reason, 
instead of cramming their small brains with 
a mass of undigested knowledge, we shall be 
nearer the millennium in education than we 
are at present. 
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS. 
A sound mind in a sound body is the most 
desirable combination in the world; pity it is 
that they are not invariably associated. But 
alas! daily we see a little dwarfed, misshapen 
mind inhabiting a straight and shapely form, 
or a bright mind placed in an undeveloped 
body, like an ill-set jewel. If oiily our outer 
form—our earthly prison—could present a re¬ 
liable index of our mind! but as Mrs. Gamp 
says: “Our characters is not writ on our fore¬ 
heads. which is fortunate for some people.” 
But though change of actual form is impossi¬ 
ble to us, change of expression is not, and 
sound health, cheerfulness, unselfishness and 
purity develop a greater beauty than mere 
attractiveness of feature It sounds mater¬ 
ialistic to put sound health before all other 
virtues, but really, everything else depends 
upon it. Perfect health gives serenity of 
mind; it gives the possessor a greater sympa¬ 
thy and helpfulness for others; that is, when 
accompanied by the well-balanced mind. The 
sound body only, without the cultivated men¬ 
tal power, produces a fine animal, but not a 
fine man, going to the other extreme, we have 
such educational monstrosities as Dr. Blim- 
ber’s immaculate young gentlemen, who were 
forced into intellectual bloom so early that 
they speedily run to seed, aud spent, the last 
year or two under his charge in forgetting all 
they had previously learned. 
Moral qualities, as well as mental, greatly 
depend on one’s bodily health. It is more 
than probable that Henry VIII would have 
disposed of fewer wives hail he been free from 
suppressed gout, while his daughter Mary, of 
cruel fame had her rancor against the Protes¬ 
tants much increased by constitutional bilious¬ 
ness. According to some historians the great 
Napoleon lost Waterloo, not so much by his 
marshall’s delay, ashy an attack of indigestion 
caused by a surfeit of mutton, stuffed with 
onions—an impressive warning against that 
particular dainty. 
What must we do to produce that sound 
body, which is the fittest temple of a 
sound mind? Ay, there’s the rub, aud it seems 
easier to say what nob to do. We must re¬ 
member first, of all that in this case most surely 
are the sins of the parents visited on the child¬ 
ren. A father intemperate in food or drink 
or disposition—a mother fretful or frivolous, 
or sickly, will transmit their own frailties of 
miud and hotly to their children in an increas¬ 
ed ratio. And if children receive the happy 
birthright of sound health the added dower of 
sound mind depends much on their parents. 
If father and mother neglect in their own 
persons the attempt to advance mentally and 
morally, they scarce can wonder if their child¬ 
ren neglect it. 
It is almost pathetic to witness the sublime 
faith of children in their parents capabilities, 
and it is the bouuden duty of every parent to 
deserve that faith, by all means possible. So, 
by advancing personally, in mind, body and 
estate, we are advancing the powers and possi¬ 
bilities of future generations, and blindly 
working for our ideal millenniums like the 
coral insect that unthinkingly toils and per¬ 
ishes, until a new land arises above the lonely 
sea. 
■ ... ■» » 4 , 
GOLDEN GRAINS. 
Teaching by mere precept, in telling others 
what to do and what not to do, says the In¬ 
dependent, is much easier than teaching by a 
living example. It is the latter kind of teach¬ 
ing, however, that is generally the most effec¬ 
tive, and best illustrates the sincerity of the 
teacher. Christ taught in both ways, and 
with equal perfection in both. ...... 
A good many people act ou the advice of 
the venerable philosopher who said: “My son. 
never waste your time—not a moment of it; 
always waste somebody’s else.”. 
At a recent meeting held at Bradford. Eng¬ 
land, to consider the question of non-atten- 
dence at church on Sunday, the following 
recommendations were agreed upon: Earnest 
and simple preaching of the Gospel; hearty 
singing, in which all can join; free scats; con¬ 
stant efforts on t.ho part of Christains in the 
way of tendering invitations to others to 
come aud worship with them or to go where 
taste directed; deeper interest in the spiritual 
welfare of the young, the necessity for prayer 
for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. 
If every member of the Knights of Labor 
would only pass a resolution to boycott strong 
drink so far as he is concerned, for five years, 
and would pledge his word to study the labor 
question from its different standpoints, we 
would then have an invincible host arrayed 
on the side of justice.... 
Ruskin says: “It is only by labor that 
thought can be made healthy, and only by 
thought that labor can be made happy; and 
the two cannot be separated with impunity”.. 
Mr. Richard Baxter, when on his death¬ 
bed was visited by a friend, who reminded 
him of the glory to which he was going, aud 
that his many good works would attend him 
into a better state. The old gentleman lifting 
up his dying hand and waving it, replied: 
“Do not talk to me about works; alas! I have 
dealt too much in them already.”. 
Hazlitt trul 3 r says: Prosperity is a great 
teacher, adversity is a greater. Possession 
pampers the mind; privation trains and 
strengthens it. 
The deepest love is that which owes its ori¬ 
gin to some sweet sacrifice. The strongest in¬ 
spiration is that which owes its origin to such 
a love.... . 
We should not. halt between two opinions, 
or regret a choice after it is made. A good 
maxim is that of an old writer who said: “Nev¬ 
er worry over what can be undone, bat go to 
work and undo it; nor over what cannot be 
undone, because it cannot be undone.”_,.. 
The Rev. J. Heber Newton says religion is 
the bond of life; the bond between the actual 
man aud the ideal man. binding effort loyally 
to aspiration; the bond between man and na¬ 
ture, holding will obedient to law; the bond 
between man aud man, knitting men togetl 
er unselfishly in a human brotherhood; the. 
bond between man and God, rooting the finite 
spirit conscientiously in the Infinite Spirit 
What could the Infinite Spirit, whom we 
call Father, do toward the higher life of man 
so effectual as to bring into being a child in 
whom all choicest influences should concen¬ 
trate; on whom all favorable conditions should 
watt as spirits of benediction; who should thus 
grow iutoa model man, living as a son in the 
Father's house, walking its a gracious exam¬ 
ple before all the other children? This is the 
Father’s gift to man in Jesus. 
The pastors of Cleveland have united in an 
address to the Christians of that, city, calling 
attention to the growing disregard of the Sab¬ 
bath, which they attribute to “mental unrest, 
worldliness and spiritual apathy.” They 
speak of the reading of secular newspapers on 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Caatorla, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla. 
When she had Children, she gave them Castorlu. 
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