Terlls or the Fntnre.
Tlie New Orleans Hepitblican, referring
to a recent article in the CLicaeo Trib
rutitlcd "The Perils of the Future,"
if the Democratic party comes into
power in 1876, says:
" To all the Tribune has said we are
compelled to assent. Every claim speci
fied by that paper will he made an issue,
if not a plank in the Democratic plat
form. The Tribune has, however, omit
ted one very important item, probably
out of deference to the vehement pro
tests of the Northern Democracy that
they will never permit such a thing
never, never. We allude to the cherished
Southern ideas of compensation for
slaves. The Southern Democratic party
is entirely in the hands of the old ex
slaveholders and their creatures. Here
after, as heretofore, the Southern Demo
cnits will shape the policy and prescribe
the principles of the party for the whole
nation. The Cincinnati Enquirer may
protest; Thurman, Henderson, Pendle
ton, Fernando Wood, Sunset Cox, and
all the rest of them may declare that
nothing of the kind will ever be coun-'ten.-xneed;
the New York World and
TrUmne and the Boston Post may urge
their staid character as guarantees
against this great danger. Yet all will
avail nothing if the rank and file of the
Democracy once more come to the front.
Our old slaveholders have preserved
exact schedules of the number and
value of their slaves, and they intend to
insist upon payment. As between the
Republicans and the Democratic claim
ants for losses recited by the Chicago
Tribune, these ex-slaveholders will hold
the balance of power, and will adroitly
interpose obstacles to the realization of
the hopes of those who expect pay for
cotton, corn, transportation, etc. They
will take the strong ground that unless
justice, as they will dignify their pro
ceedings, is extended to them, not. a
penny will the other claimants receive
Means will readily be found to dragoon
the Northern Democracy into the most
complete subserviency. 1 hev know well
the art of leading that nost corrupt ele
. ment by the nose. It will be thus seen
that, while the Chicago Tribune has accu
rately limned forth the extravagant poli
cy of the Democracy in regard to certain
claims, the greatest of all has been
omitted. The heaviest item is not set
down in the already sufficiently enlarged
catalogue for the reason, perhaps, that
the editor accepts for yie present the
asseverations of the .Northern Democ
racy that they will miver permit any
thing to be done to increase the public
burdens. Perhaps these gentlemen, now
disinterested, are really sincere in their
professions, but they will be taught
the difference between what they now
consent to an! what they will be com
pplled to do by their allies in a very
short time after the high Federal offices
shall have been captured. Plainly, we
. tell the Republicans of the North that
the success of the Democracy means
more even than the Chicago tribune
foretold. Sonic of our politicians are
even devising schenTes to pay the rebel
debt and breathe life into VM,OUOMM or
(HX),OUO,(KH) of Confederate notes. For
the Confederacy and all pertaining to it
has been raised by a respectable minori
ty of the houfhern people into a senti
ment more or less morbid. They daily
make heroes of the human failures who
tigured in the atrocious war, and have
long since forgiven even JetT. Davis, to
whose obstinacy and incompetency many
southerners ascribe the final defeat and
overthrow of Lee, who all agree is now a
saint of the first rank. We saw not long
ago a querulous demand of one of our
White League journals that all officers
of the L nited htates army who resigned
to accept service in the rebel ranks
should be paid in full for their services
up to the date of their treachery. Let
our Northern friends bear in mind that
. the soft, velvety paw which they find
: ostensibly at the end of the Southern
7 arm is armed with claws of the sharpest
kind. They are as liable to be felt by
irienu as toe, ami will he .surely em
ployed in the grand purveying match
which will succeed the success of any
party arulialiug with the Southern De
mocracy.
m
An Old-Fash ioned Spelling-School in
Cleveland.
to hunt up hard words, but for several
minutes the four were invulnerable. At
thisjuncture he threw aside the book he
had been using, and with a sardonic
smile upon his face went down into his
coat pocket and brought out the " blue
irook." For some time vague hints had
been thrown out about that dernier re
sort, and its appearance was the signal
for enthusiastic applause, while the quar
tet exchanged significant glances, the in
terpretation of which was: " Now we're
going to catch it." That " blue book" isn't
very large, but there's a good deal in it
to be spelled. It contains a host of such
words as "chalybeate," "phylactery,"
"erysipelas," "logarithmic, "phar
maceutical, etc., ad infinitum, to say
nothing of orthographical monstrosities
of all kinds, the whole compiled for just
sucn occasions.
With a fiendish delight Mr. James
hurled those polysyllabic thunderbolts
at the little class standing be tore lnm
At lenirth the vountr ladv and the ex
C7 u
pounder of the Gospel both got inex
tricably entangled in the folds of an atro
cious six-syllabled word, and only two
were left. After successfully resisting
the bombardment for a few minutes the
" other fellow" not the pencil-driver,
who was bound to maintain the honor
of the press slipped up on
word about a foot long, but he didn't
know it till afterward, as the principal's
attention was at that instant directed
elsewhere, and the error was not noticed
by him. Then along came a little word
of three syllables and finished both f
them. Neither had ever seen or heard
of the word before, and were obliged to
" co it blind. 1 hey made wild and des
peratc efforts, but floundered hopelessly
and gave up in despair. Cleveland
Herald.
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Remarkable Discoveries.
Shortly before eight o'clock the "choos
ing tides began, a young lady and gen
t Ionian having volunteered to organize
and lead the opposing forces through the
many-wordy combat. All were urged to
participate, but "with one consent began
to make excuse," and were as prolific in
excuses as those told of in the Bible who
were invited to the marriage supper. A
Herald rciorter who had just dropped in
to "seethe fun" was pressed into the
service, the managers declaring that no
excuse would be accepted from him. A
Ledger chap who was present was simi
larly beset, but he firmly declared he
wouldn't, and that was " the end on't,"
and they were compelled to raise the
siege and "let him off." lie consented,
however, to act as " referee."
At length, when the audience had been
pumped dry as the boss declared it
was found that forty-six, twenty-three
on each side, were in line, eager for the
fray. Among them were a leading mm
ister who enjoys the reputation of being
one ot tlie "crack" spellers ot the neigh
borhood a county official, a bank cash
ier, half a dozen school-teachers, and
many well-known residents of both sexes
A considerable number were pupils of
me puuiic scnoois, ana some of these
showed that they were "no slouches" at
spelling either. On account of the muta
tions of school text-books the spelling
books in use when those who are now
men and women went to school in pina-
lores and pantalets having long since
gone out of date and the differences of
authority in orthography, it was agreed
that, although words might not be spelled
as in tne rook from winch they were pro
nounced, if they were spelled as author
ized in the dictionary it should not
count as a " miss." Here was where the
referee got in his work. He was furnished
with a copy of Webster's Unabridged, and
to him and his big book all questions of
tins nature were referred for settlement
All the preliminaries being arranged
"time" was called, and Mr. H. 31. James,
one of the city supervising principals.
began to give out words from " Dcwolf's
Speller," the book used in our public
schools. He went a couple of times
along the lines with " easy" words of two
syllables, as he said, to give the spellers
a-chance to recover from their emhar
rassment and " cet their hands in." Put
loathe first fifteen minutes but two or
three words were missed. Then Mr.
James got down to business, and scan
ning page after page with his practiced
eye he selected the more difiicult words,
and the slaughter became general
Whenever the fatal word " Next !" was
pronounced, the person who had missed
quietly slid out and took a seat among
the spectators. Now and then a word
would sweep down half a dozen in a
row, leaving great caps in the ranks.
The survivors closed up the gaps, the
second fifteen minutes witnessing the
downtatl of at least half ot the combat
ants.
Those remaining had generally pretty
. well explored the mysteries of English
orthography, and during the third quar
ter the casualties became less frequent.
The master of ceremonies turned over
leaf after leaf, keeping an eye for hard
words," and one by one the spellers went
down. The cashier stood fire nobly, but
in an unguarded moment the word " vin
egar" soured on him and he went under.
At length but ten remained, the " sides"
being just equal five on each, and both
the leaders still bravely holding their
jositions. Then the county official
t-.ruck a snag and surrendered; two lads
who had fought valiantly were swept
away, and Mr. James betook himself in
earnest to the work of searching out
puzzlers. In fifty minutes from the
opening of the engagement but five re
mained the lady " captain," with the
clergy as her support, and the gentleman,
flanked by the press representative and
a young lady who had thus far withstood
every assault.
The feminine leader was the next vic
tim, reducing the quintet to a quartet, on
one side the minister being " left blooming
alone." Warming up to his work Mr.
James became almost frantic in his zeal
Mr. W. F. Putnam, Jr., of Salem, Mass.
director of the Peabody Academy and a
Vice-President of Jussex institute, lias
been making a scientific exploration of
the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, lie
took home with hir.i several specimens
of the eyeless fish which abound in the
rivers of the cave, and a few fish hitherto
unknown to exist there. These latter
have eyes and are of a blackish color
the bund nsh being nearly white. -Micro
scopic examination of the blind fish
showed, where the eyes should ne,
number of delicate threads which would
seem to float above their heads. These
are nervous filaments by which the sense
of touch is made to replace that of sight
The fish that have eyes swim close to
the bottom of the water instead ot near
the surface, as the blind fish do. A cor
respondent of the New York Mail, who
gives that paper an account oi me uis
coveries. considers this tact a statrgere
to the theory of Mr. Darwin. "If," he
says, " as the Darwinians claim, the blind
fish had lost the sense ot sight lrom lack
of need of it, and had been bleached out
by the darkness in which they lived
these other fishes living still below, and
if iMjssiblc, in a darker place than thei
eyeless brethren, should bequite as blini
and even more colorless." Mr. Putnam
found a straDge variety of flora, which
was pretty mucb all root. But the most
remarkable discovery of all was that o
human remains. S;ys the Mail corre
spondent: "Mr. Putnam has brought
home several skeletons found imbedded
in the soil miles within these other caves
Some few miles in, also, they noticed
curious piles of stone, w Inch had in the
center a round hole, and seemed to De
blackened by a charred substance
Further in they came upon bundles o
fagots tied with ropes of grass, which
were evidently the tapers set to burn in
these cairn candlesticks. They also
found moccasins of woven grass, here
one and there another, in the soil, as
though they had been cast oil by thei
probably prehistoric owners; and in one
place a pair tied up together by the same
ivvine oi woven grass, it, is uiiiusiuic
at first sight to say whethei these re
mains are hundreds or thousands of
years old; but they are at any rate pre
historic, and there are indications to
show that they reach far back to the an
futility of the Roman cave-dwellers. Im
plements and utensils are also found in
abundance, 6uch as have been discovered
in European caves as well.
Hair Dressing.
The most natural-looking coiffures arc
now most stylish. Hair dressers delight
in showing the whole of the parting on
top of the head, provided the hair is
thickly set. A large tress on each side
is waved in soft large waves; there is no
side parting; the whole mass of hair ex
cept the waved tresses is drawn together
low down behind, tied there, and allowed
to droop in a short thick loop, not
braided, and not as long as the Catogan
loop. The waved tresses are then
brought low behind, and fastened by a
short strap made of the ends of the tress.
This makes the charming Psyche coif
fure, and displays a handsome head
finely. It is worn both for full dress and
for the street; it is better, however, to
bra'd or rope the loop behind for street
wear, as the soft tress loop would soon
be disheveled if worn in the open air.
Such coiffures are most becoming to
ladies who have the low, broad, Greek
forehead, and when nature has not sup
plied this the hair-dresser attempts to do
so by adding false waved tresses attached
to a white, invisible seam, and covering
the upper part of high foreheads. The
effect is good usually, and the price of
the false front is $10. Ladies who have
not much hair of their own retain high
coiffures, as there is much independence
in hair-dressing just now. Finger-pufft
are massed over the top and back of the
head, and soft loops arc added behind, so
that while the coiffure towers high above
the head it is also low behind. Young
ladies whose hair grows thickly above
the car, behind it and on the nape of the
neck display its luxuriance by combing it
straight upward to a mass of soft puffs
or else crown braids, over which droop
t fo small, short, feathery curls. The
ornamental coiffure is now let directly
on top, on the left side, or quite in front,
but not low behind. This ornament is a
cluster of roses or other flowers, or else
light, downy marabout feathers, with a
heron's feather aigrette in the center.
The chatelaine braid and the low-plaited
Catogan loop arc worn in the street. A
crown braid is worn with the chatelaine;
a bow of ribbon or of twilled bias silk
ties the Catogan. A fillet of black vel
vet studded with iet beads is a simple
and pretty ornament when worn around
massive braids. With the present shape
of bonnets it is necessary to drag the
hair low on the forehead, henre many
paste it there in bandolined scallops.
These have a stiff, set look, and are be
coming to very few faces. It is also nec
essary that the back hair be soft to fit the
new Itonnet shapes, and this has had the
good effect of doing away with the jute
and topsies once used for filling and
bringing real hair into use. Harper's
Ba&ir.
Whore the Silver Wont.
Almost innumerable are the devices
housekeepers to guard against the depre
dations of burglars; yet the cunning
thieves manage in most instances to cir
cumvent the shrewdest plans for the
protection of valuables. Two sisters,
not far removed from the Hub, bearing
in mind this peculiarly of the common
foe, when leaving their home for a sum
mer sojourn, selected a queer hiding
place for the silver that had descended
to them from their ancestors. Though
the idea was not particularly original, it
was deemed a iucky hit by the fair pair,
and when suggested by the elder was
adopted by the younger without an "if."
They deposited the valuables in the sitting-room
stove, taking care to cover
them with a little paper rubbish, and de
parted for scenes of enjoyment without
a thought of harm befalling their treas
ure. They left in sole charge of their
domicile a gentleman lodger, a tried
friend of the family, who had passed
years under the hospitable roof. The
summer wore oh without incident in the
city, however rapidly the varied phases
of rural enjoyment came and went with
the absentees. Fall approached apace,
but not with severity sufficient to drive
the sisters to their -winter residence, and
they lingered near the forest and the
fields until the season was well advanced.
The weather was remarkably mild, and
now and then did a chilly day remind
them of the pleasures of home. One of
the dreary periods lell on Sunday. The
oager awoke to a realizing sense oi
his forlornity, rendered doubly un
comfortable by the lack of fire.
and cast about for the material to
start a blaze. He first examined the
kitchen stove. "Ashes !" exclaimed the
bachelor he was averse to drudgery,
and looked farther. The parlor was
closed. The sitting-room was the last
resort, and, of course, the most cheerful.
f ortunatcly, too, the stove was clear of
ashes, and primed for ignition. Not a
moment was lost. In went the charcoal,
the match was applied, and the anthra
cite followed at the proper interval. Our
bachelor friend was happy over glowing
coals, and passed the day in serene en
joyment of his book and his cigar.
Could anything oc better? in tmssiui
ignorance of aught untoward in his Min
day's experience he returned to his
business on Monday and followed the
week 8 routine as usual, ihe next week
the ladies had returned, and after set
tling themselves in their dwelling began
tlie work of putting to rights for a per
manency, one glance into the sitting-
room stove sufficed as to the status
there, and but little more was accom
plished until what remained of the
spoons and such was hauled over, talked
over, wept over, laughed over and melted
over for curtailed reconstruction upon
the domiciliary table. Tlie lodger's ex
perience in keeping house over Sunday
will be a fruitful source of badinage in
the circle for some years to come, and
when the spoons go down to .future gen
erations through nephews and nieces of
the maiden aunts the Thanksgiving
gatherings will not fail of interest if
nothing more is related than the story of
their passage through the nery iurnace
and how they came there. Boston. Iran-
script.
Practical Charity.
Thkkk is in the city of New York an
educational and industrial society, con
ducted by women, which asserts itself as
a worthy institution, not only for what it
purposes. Out for mat winch it accom
plishes. It is, that is to say, a practical
organization. There is a vague notion
in the minds of many that women, as a
class, are not gifted with business capac
ity. That they are ideal, emotional in
their character, and these only, we
shall not stop to make our argument
upon this, as we believe, mistaken view.
but present in brief some evidence of
what in this particular case they have
done, the testimony of facts. The prime
objects of this society were to give era
ployment to women and to improve the
service of the household two distinct
but cognate ideas. In all our cities there
arc a large number of women who arc
actually earning but a scanty subsist
ence. fo improve their condition is a
laudable desire; but there are also
very large proportion of families either
really or supposedly dependent upon
servants for the working condition of
the household. To give better service,
then, is one mode of improving the con
dition of women, the employer and em
ployed. Ihe society Pegan by giviu
employment to women in sewing. So
far so good, but this did not meet tne
entire case. Instruction was then given
in book-keeping and classes formed for
the training of governesses.
After a while it became certain that
these measures did not occupy-the whole
field. The society undertook to train
girls in the knowledge of housework
During the last year there have been in
structed and sent to places of employ
ment 2,300 seamstresses, "UU domestic
servants, housekeepers, etc., ninety-five
book-keepers, nfty-Iour photographers
And in the meantime these pupils have
been furnished with pleasant rooms,
books and music. This is a charity
which is perlect in conception and wise
in the working out. It fits persons for
useful labor and then Bets them to work
It is said, and with a good degree of
truth, that American "women avoid do
mestic service. But if they can be
taught how properly to perform it they
will at once secure good wages and gen
erous treatment. It is possible that some
women arc indifferent to the feelings and
welfare of servants, but, on the other
hand, there are many who are dominated
by them. What is wanted is knowledge
and self-respect in the domestic and
kindness and appreciation on the part ot
the employer, which latter will almost
mvariaoiy he secured by the former
The New York society has entered upon
a work worthy of all commendation, and
its success appears to have been satis
factory. Will the example on both sides
find approval and imitation? Providence
J. I.) Journal.
A Scrap of Paper Saves a Man From
State Prison.
For several days past the Essex Coun
ty Court of Cjuarler Sessions in Newark
has been absorbed in the trial of a young
New Yorker named Patrick McCarra
gher on an indictment" for complicity in
the wholesale scries of burglaries per
petrated during last summer in the sub
urbs of Newark by one Louis Walrabe,
alias Meyer, " the Orange Mountain
burglar." The circumstances of the case
are exceedingly interesting and reveal a
degree of blundering and looseness in
the administration of justice which fur
nishes the reverse of a flattering com
mentary on "Jersey justice," about
which the ex-State of Camden and Am
boy is wont to be so proud, and, in the
main, justly, indeed, as the sequel will
show ; it was only by chance that an in
nocent man was saved from conviction
of crimes which would have consigned
him to State Prison for ten or fifteen
years and his octogenarian mother to
her grave.
The facts in the case are as follows :
This Walrabe, alias 3Ieyer, above men
tioned, had found against him twenty
five indictments, the full penalty for
which, in case of conviction, would reach
nearly 100 years' sentence injhe State
Prison. He had several accomplices.
One of these, Richard Barrett, was also
arrested and indicted. Walrabe, in the
hope of having his sentence toned down
three or four score years, pleaded guilty
and turned State's evidence. Through
him it was hoped to sweep in quite a
gang of burglars. Barrett stood trial
and was promptly convicted. In the
meantime Walrabe said a certain James
Murphy was an accomplice. He gave a
description of the latter to the Newark
Chief of Police, who took it down in
writing on a scrap of foolscap and gave it
to Detective Becker. Becker went to
New York and saw McCarraghcr go in
and out of Barre tt's house. This excited
in Becker's head the idea that he might
be implicated, so he induced McCarra
ghcr to go to Newark with him, saying
that he might be able to do something
for Barrett. On reaching Newark what
was McCarraghor's amazement to find
that Walrabe, seeing him declared that
he was James Murnhy. Upon this
evidence the Grand Jury indicted Mc
Carragher as an accomplice of Walrabe.
He was placed on trial, and the evidence
seemed pretty strong against him, though
his friends and employers all highly
respectable people came from New
York and did all they could for him;
proving him a person of unblemished
reputation. But Walrabe swore that
McCarraghcr was Murphy. During the
trial it came out that the paper upon
which was the description given by Wal
rabe to the Chief and by the Chief to
Becker was lost. The case went to the
jury on Monday at two o'clock. They
were out all night. - Yesterday forentJbn
the Court sent for them and McCar
ragher. The Court handed them a scrap
of paper, saying that that doubtless
would facilitate their deliberations.
They took a searching look at the pris
oner, retired, and in a few minutes re
turned with a verdict of acquittal.
The paper was the description of Mur
phy. It called for a person the very
opposite in appearance from McCar
ragher, a light-complexioned person,
whereas McCarragher is dark. As a mat
ter of course there was great rejoicing
among the friends of McCarragher over
his hair-breadth escape from a felon's
doom. N. Y. Herald.
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.
The Best Clam Soup. Boil for three
hours a knuckle of veal, with a goodly
portion of water and one onion. Strain
and add the liquor f filty clams.
Thicken with a tablespoonf ul of flour,
well rubbed with butter, the size of a
small egg. Have your clams cut in
three pieces, with the hard rind removed.
Beat the yolks of two eggs very light
and put into your turreen with chopped
parsley and a half pint of milk. Just before
serving drop the clams into boiling soup,
letting them boil up once. Pour into
tureen, stirring well its contents while
doing so.
Cattle of all kinds should be fed
with great regularity and not over-fed.
Stock will thrive much better upon the
same quantity of feed when it is given at
regular periods than upon a larger quan
tity when irregularly given. Whatever
kind of feed is given, only so much
should be placed before them, or they
will not eat up cleanly, and, on the other
hand, all that they will cat cleanly
should be given them. Over-feeding,
starving or irregularity in feeding should
be carefully avoided by every feeder of
farm stock. Massachusetts Ploughman.
-Styrax in Itch. At the Stuttgard
hospital they treat scabies with the fol
lowing ointment: Styrax, one ounce;
olive oil and common spirits, each one
dram; mix. If an old case, the patient
is first washed thoroughly with soft soap,
nine to twelve times in three days, and
then anointed with the above one to three
times a day. In recent cases the soap is
not required. In 1.G59 cases thus treat
ed every one was cured, although no pre
cautions were taken to destroy the in
sects on clothing, and no relapses oc
curred. Bread-and-Butter Pudding. Cut
about a pound of good, light bread into
thin slices; spread them with butter, as
for eating; lay them in a pudding dish
and strew between each layer of bread
seeded raisins. Beat six eggs with three
or four large spoonfuls of sugar, mix
them with three pints sweet milk and a
grated nutmeg; turn the whole over the
bread, let it remain until half of the milk
is absorbed by the bread, then bake. No
sauce will be required. This, of course,
will make a large pudding and is excel
lent. Borax Soap for Bleaching Clothes.
One ounce borax, eight quarts water,
three pounds of soap. Put the borax in
the water and let it boil. After it boils,
add the soap in small pieces.
Lard mixed with sulphur and applied
occasionally to the necks and backs of
young and old turkeys is a very good
safeguard against the ravages of foxes.
3Ixa eh useti s J 'lough man.
Dry paint is removed by dipping a
swab with a handle in a strong solution
of oxalic acid. It softens at once.
Close stables and barns should be
well ventilated if the health of the stock
is to be preserved.
Cultivation or Winter Whoat.
We extract the following frm an ar
ticle upon this subject read at a recent
meeting of the New York Agricultural
Society :
In preparing land for wheat we should
be governed by trie-quality of soil and
the condition in which it is found. If the
soil be free from all noxious weeds and
grasses, and of a quality easily made
fine, an inverted clover ley (with a second
growth of clover, after a crop of hay has
been taken off) is the cheapest prepara
tion ; but a soil that breaks coarse and
hard needs time to pulverize by the ac
tion of rain, air and sunshine. No land
can be in condition for wkeat till the
seed-bed is made fine and mellow; but I
do not w ish to have the soil worked for a
seed-bed over four inches deep, however
deeply the breaking may be done. The
common two-horse plow I regard as a
bad tool to fit land for the seed. It
should not be plowed over a second time.
One plowing is all that land requires; but
the surface should be repeatedly stirred
up till every foul plant is subdued, and
the seed-bed so fine that the plant-food
can be made available for the nourish
ment of the young wlicat. A soil may
be rich in the elements of fertility, and
yet if it be coarse and clodddy it will not
nourish the crop. A lump of gypsum or
plaster affords no plant-food till it be
ground. An uncrushed bone, though
rich in phosphate, has no elfect on veg
etation; but reduce it to a soluble state
and its effect is marvelous.
The subsoil alone will not grow a stalk
of corn nor a head of wheat. Deep stir
ring of such land is not necessary for
drainage, oi for moisture in time of
drought, for its natural porous condition
aflords all-these advantages. But the re
verse of this is true of heavy soils, the
base of which is clay. The depth to
which it is profitable to plow land is a
question which has elicited much dis
cussion, and on which practical farmers
as well as theorists still disagree; but if
we first understand the natural difference
in soils we may all arrive at the same
conclusions that neither deep nor shal
low plowing, abstractly or as a theory,
can be recommended. All depends on
the quality of the soil. All sandy
land having a loose and porous subsoil
should be plowed shallow, and the fertil
ity kept as near the surface as possible;
for the tendency is to leach away by
the rain that settles directly into the
ground. Then again, such soils are gen
erally of drift formation, and they con
tain but little plant food but that which
has accumulated on the surface.
The quantity of seed necessary to sow
is a question on which there is a diversity
of opinion with practical farmers. My
opinion is that a large amount of seed is
not necessary to a large crop; the quan
tity of wheat-food is more important
than quantity of seed. 1 have sowed one
bushel, and also two and a half bushels
per acre, and have harvested forty bush
els per acre from two bushels seeding,
and have also harvested forty bushels
from one and one-fourth bushels seeding.
My practice is to drill in the seed at the
rate of one and one-half bushels per
acre, which on land in good fertility is
sufficient.
In these remarks I must not be under
stood as recommending a specialty of
wheat culture. A judicious farmer will
adopt a system of rotation of crops, both
for the benefit of the land ami for econo
my in cultivation; and that- rotation
should be such as is best suited to his
land and the use he wishes to make of
his surplus, whether for market or for
feeding on the farm. The rotation
which I have found profitable is, fmt, a
greensward or clover Icy, summer-fallowed
to clean the laud of the foul stuff,
and enriched by plowing in clover; sec
ond, wheat; third, corn or beans, with
green manure plowed under; fourth, bar
ley; and fifth, wheat, with top dressing
of manure worked into the soil, or some
commercial fertilizer instead, and seeded
to clover and timothy. In this rotation
we have two crops of wheat, one of corn,
and one of barley in five j'earss, leaving
the land in as good condition as in the
commencement, with but once plowing
for each crop, liiit larmers may say
that they cannot clean their land by one
plowing as well as by repeated plowings.
Perhaps not, if the ground is allowed to
produce a crop of thistles, weeds and
grass after it is broken. If the surface be
worked with cultivator, gang-plow and
harrow, so that nothing w ill grow during
the hot summer, there is no plant that
can survive, and besides the land w ill be
in much better condition for wheat than
if worked up loose to the depth of the
furrow, which should be at least ten
inches in heavy soil. When land is
throw n up loose with the plow at seeding
time the soil is in much better condition
for the action of the frosts of winter,
and the crop is far more liable to be in
jured by heaving and throwing the plants
out of the ground than if it lies more
compactly, only the surface being pul
verized. Besides this the land will be
kept more loose during the following
season by leaving the vegetable matter
under what was plowed in. In conclu
sion I will add that the man who would
be a successful wheat-grower must culti
vate a soil adapted to the crop; he must
keep his land rich and fertile; he must
cultivate thoroughly and allow no weeds
or thistles to rob or choke the crop; he
must drain well, that there be no excess
of water; he must be thorough and in
time with all his work; he must be a
man of thought and observation, of good
sound judgment and of thorough busi
ness capacity, and should be a good
neighbor and citizen, a gentleman and
an honest man. With these qualifica
tions he need not have fear of failure.
The Way to Make Enterprising
Farmers. In the first place there must be suc
cessful farmers to teach beginners the
correct principles and the better and
most reliable practices of agriculture. A
farmer who dislikes his livelihood who
don't care to be a successful tiller of the
soil, and would abandon farming wholly
if he could engage in any other pursuit
is not the man to instruct beginners in
the great art of agriculture. Such men
always drive their sons and employes
from the farm. Farming is looked upon
by them as the most unsatisfactory and
unprofitable business that they can en
gage in. Hence they are always morose
and crochety and forever grumbling
that farming don't pay, and they do not
want their sons to engage in such busi
ness. The same is true with reference
to most of our schools and colleges. The
practices and courses of instruction
adopted at agricultural institutions, thus
far, have been educating young men
away from the farm rather than toward
it; Flic agricultural colleges are as yet
an unfinished experiment. How much
aid the farmer can derive from the
schools remains to be seen. But there is
a work which can be done before the
young man is given into the hands of
professional instructors. He can be in
terested in the farm or disgusted with it
before he leaves the paternal roof.
In this early training lies the
secret of holding the young men. Let
there be intelligent and enterprising
farmers to instruct beginners in the
better practices of farming. Let the
farmer lighten the labor which he puts
upon his son by telling him all he knows
about the reasons for doing it. Explain
to him the processes of nature, so far as
they are known, and show him the things
which remain to be discovered. Show
him that agriculture is only just begin
ning to understand itself. Excite him to
think by mentioning the many things a
farmer does without knowing why he
does them. Induce him to think of these
things and lie will perceive that every
thing which invites investigation is not
away from the farm. Show him that, by
pushing ahead and availing himself of
new discoveries and ideas, he can make
a better farmer than his father. This is
the way men in other occupations hold
their sons to carry on the enterprises
which they have labored to promote;
and thus must the farmer gain early the
interest and sympathy of his boy if the
boy is to build onward and upward upon
foundations which his father has laid.
There is no class of citizens that have so
much leisure and such easy times and
that can live so luxuriously as farmers,
if they understand their business. True,
at certain periods of the year farmers
must labor unremittingly " for a few
days, after which their duties are light
for days, weeks" and months. Farmers
should exercise themselves to love their
employment. Hleu York Herald.
Pianos and Organs.
Fine new rosewood pianos for $300.
Fine walnut organs, six stops, $135.
Good second-hand pianos, $ 150 to f"i00.
Reed's Temple of Music, Chicago.
Cost of Fences.
i
Taking the returns of the National
Agricultural Department as our guide,
we find some curious items with regard
to fences and their cost. From these re
turns it would seem that the cost of our
fences is about the same as the amount
of our interest-bearing national debt;
that for each one hundred dollars in
vested in live stock we invest another
hundred in fences, either to keep them
in or out. The estimated annual cost of
repairs, with interest uion capital in
vested in the fences, is estimated at
$200,000,000. In Pennsylvania the re
turns indicate that each hundred acres
of inclosed land has an average of 1)55
rods of fence, at a cost of $ 1.20 per rod,
or $1,14(5. This, it must be remembered,
is only an average, and that in many por
tions of the State the amount is much
greater. The cost per rod varies from
72 cents in Florida to $2.20 in Rhode
Island. The amount to each 100 acres
varies from 400 rods in Minnesota, Ne
vada and Louisiana to 1,000 in Rhode
Island. In Pennsylvania it would seem
that of the fences 67 per cent, were
" Virginia" worm fence, 17 post and rail.
12 of board, and 4 per cent, of "other
kinds." In the same State 24 per cent
of the openings are closed by gates and
76 per cent, by bars, and the average
cost of the former is 4.5.. 1 he returns
state: "The average proportion of bars
in the whole country is about oJ per
cent., of gaps 46 leaving 4 per cent, of
openings fqr slip-gaps or other modes of
entrance." Ihe report very truly says
with regard to the sum total of the cost
of fences: "Experiment has proven
that at least half this expense is unncc
essary." The report furnishes material
for the careful consideration of farmers
(Jountry Gentleman.
Manuring Frnit Trees.
One would hardly suppose that it was
necessary to say to people that they
should manure their fruit trees. Over
and over again we have urged this in our
columns. But universal experience is
that fruit trees are neglected, and expe
rience equally universal shows that it is
only by calling repeated attention to
these matters that people will do better
While orchard trees are young and
crops cultivated between them they get
along tolerably well. Garden or farm
crops cannot be grown without manure.
Everybody knows this. They are ma
nured and the trees steal some of it. But
the time comes when the trees meet
their branches, and crops cannot be
grown to advantage any more and then
all manure for the fruit trees stops for
ever. They generally go back after this.
The leaves get yellow, the fruit poor and
knotty and, much falls off in a dry time.
Just here comes in another idea. Ev
erybody wants or ought to want good
roads! One of the best ways to keep
roads good is to keep ditches open and
clean. This lets off the water easily; it
is water on roads that spoils them. Then
this ditch stuff is capital food for trees.
If it will pay to keep the road dry it will
doubly pay when drying the road to
spread the stuff under the fruit trees.
Many think fruit trees reuuirc good
rich manure, and when one talks of ma
nuring fruit trees he has an idea that
valuable material at so many dollars a
ton must be procured. Nothing of the
sort. A ride around our good old Ger
niantown will show many an old pear,
apple or cherry-tree so situated that sim
ply earth every year washes down
around the stem over the roots, and it is
wonderful how they grow and bear.
Some of these old pear trees are Seckels,
apd the fruit is of a size generally to
excite astonishment. This dirt, or dirt
similar to it, hauled and scattered under
the large trees, has a wonderful effect on
the growth and productiveness. About
one load to three or four trees does not
take long to haul and spread as a general
tiling, and the good effects will be visi
ble for several years. We have also seen
excellent results from the ifse of kitchen
ashes spread under the trees in the same
way. We know that the analytical
chemists lell us that there is no value
whatever in coal ashes that it is the
ashes of wood used in kindling, or the
potato parings, slops, or some other mat
ter thrown in that does all the good.
Perhaps it is, no matter about that.
These ashes, with whatever may be in
them, are capital material for top-dressing
old trees. We say old trees. It will do as
well for them so far as that goes; but
generally there is grass to mow around
about the trees, and men do not like to
have ashes about where there is grass to
cut, as it is nnnoying to the scythe. Ger
tnantown Telegraph
Is preparing winter quarters for sheep,
be careful that they are provided with
pure air as well as a dry bed. Sheep
sheds are frequently too low and diseased
sheep is the consequence.
Smell of Paint. To get rid of the
smell of oil paint plunge a handful of
hay into a pail full of water, and let it
stand in the room newly painted.
An interesting case was recently
tried before the Superior Court at Gran
field, Mass. The authorities of Deerfield
took the land of Joseph S. Clark, against
his will, for a school-house, awarding
him only $50 for what he claimed he
would not have sold for less than $1,000.
Mr. Clark got wrathy, brought suit to re
cover, and now, owing to illegal proceed
ings by the town, the court awarded him
his land together with the school-hous
that the town had built thereon.
A Pkovidentiai. Man. This title now
justly belongs to a physician who has
added to the list of medicines a new rem
edy, which appears to include all that
is most valuable in the old pharmaco
peia, and not to include any of the
drawbacks with which the so-called spe
cifics of the Faculty arc chargeable.
The Providential man is Dr. Joskpii
AValker, of California, whose Vinkoak
Bitters has achieved, in the short space
of two years, a degree of popularity
never before attained by any advertised
preparation in this country. We have
too mucb confidence in the shrewdness
of the American people to suppose that
this sudden and surprising oelebrity is
the outgrowth of a delusion. Indeed,
we have reason to know that it is founded
on innumerable and well-authenticated
cures of almost all the bodily ills that
flesh is heir to. Not the least among the
merits of the famous Tonic and Restora
tive is its entire freedom from alcohol, as
well as from all mineral drugs. It is
composed exclusively of rare vegetable
extracts. 12
Seed lIoute of David Landretli fc Son.
It is pleasant to note the nourishing fall
trade doing by this long-established firm in
the midst of dull times. In the prevalent
stagnation, enterprise has the field almost
without competitors. So determined arc the
Landretlis to secure, as usual, a large share of
the approaching year's business, that the v have
now nine of tfie fast steam presses of Met 'alia
fc Stamhj diligently at tnorfr printing On-ie
" Jiural Jlegistrr" for 1875. This has never be
fore occurred in the history of tficir house.
The ".urn Keiister" is furnished without
charge to all who use Landrcth's seeds and
who do not? Philadelphia Commercial List.
A Walking Advertisement.
I.1MKMTONK HrKINUH, S. C.
Dr. K. V. Pikrcb, Buffalo, N. V.:
Dear Sir I. am a walking advertisement
for your Golden Medical Discovery, l'urga-
five Pellets and Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy,
they having cured me of Catarrh of nine
years' standing, which was so bad that it
disfigured my nose, and while curing it your
medicines also cured me of Asthma in it,
worst and most aggravated form. Before
using your medicines I had become reduced
in flesh from one hundred and fifty-five to
one hundred and fifteen junds, and I now
weigh one hundred and sixty two pounds
and am in better health than I have enjoyed
for twenty years. Yours truly,
J. L. LUMSDEN.
The above is but a fair sample of hundreds
of letters which are received by Dr. Pierce,
and in the face of such evidence who can
longer doubt that the Doctor's medicines cure
the worst cases of Chronic Catarrh?
The Great Favorite With the Lad leu.
Wm. Forsyth, Bynum & Son, druggists, of
Live Oak, Fla., write, Sept. lfith, 174. as fol
lows: "Dk. K. V. Piekcb, Buffalo, .'. Y.
Your Golden Medical Discovery and Purgative
Pellets sell very largely and give complete
satisfaction, as many of our customers and
friends testify with pleasure Your Favorite
Prescription is indeed the great Favorite with
the ladies, and numbers can say with joy that
it has saved them from eking out a miserable
life or meeting with premature death and re
stored them t-j health and happiness."
Thousands of women bless the day on
which Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription was
first made known to them. A single bottle
often gives delicate und suffering women
more relief than months of treatment from
their family physician. In all those derange
ments causing "hack-ache, dragging down sen
sations, nervous and general debility, it is a
sovereign remedy. Its soothing and healing
properties render it of the utmost yalue to
ladies suffering from internal fever, conges
tion, inflammation or ulceration, and its
strengthening effects tend to correct displace
ments of internal parts, the result of weak
ness of uatural supports. It is sold by all
druggists.
Dk. Pi ebce's pamphlet on Diseases Pecul
iar to Women will be sent to any address on
receipt of two stamps. Address as above.
Sate, Permanent and Complete. Wil
hofl's Tonie cures Chills and Fever, Dumb
Chills and Bilious Fevers those Titans that
kill their thousands where this remedy is un
known. It cures Enlargement of the Spleen.
It cures Hyiertrophv of the Liver. It hurts
no one. It cures all types of Malarial Fevers
and is perfectly protective in all its effects.
Try Wilhoft's Tonic, the great infallible Chill
Cure. Wheeixjck, Finlay ifc Co., Proprie
tors, New Orleans.
For Sale bt all Druggists.
Every wise business man shapes his busi
ness so as to make it conform to the circum
stances by which he is surrounded. Believ
ing tliic, the Sherman House, at Chicago, has
reduced its rates an act that should be ap
preciated by the traveling public.
Now is the time to buy presents for Christ
mas. Combine beauty and utility, and give
your gentlemen frieuds a carton containing
one hundred Elmwood Collars. They will
last hi.n some time, and he will think of you
with pleasure every time he puts on one.
Anna S. Getsinger, of Ilonesdale, Pa.,
writes the following: "After sullering for
nearly two years from neuralgia in the breast,
passing up into the throat, face and head, I
was entirely cured and restored to health bv
using Dr. L Q. C. Wisharfs Pine Tree Tar
Cordial.
Coi.cmbcs discovered America, but it has
been found that the only economical Shoes
for children are the celebrated SILVEK
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progress of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, t
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of fxlieumalinTH, Aenralyia,
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JUilll John Paul is one of the brightest of
n a III mf our humorists, and it Is very safe to
Hxl Ml predict Hist his IkhiIc will bearemark-
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RMflK publican.
UUUIli The book has been demanded by s
S nolle clamor too general u be disregarded. A". 1'.
nbune.
Was It Shakpeare or Bacon who said of John Paul's
new book " TKtre'H muyic im tlie tc of itr'Jf. '.
ixrapKir. .
John l'aul's Book will be a clever one. for Its author
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Dr..l. Walker's CalilornU Vin
egar Bitters aro a purely Vcpctabl'j
preparation, mado 'lucrty ironi tho na
Uto herbs found on tue lower rnrtprra ft
the Sierra Nevada mountain! of Califor
nia, the medicinal properties of w uich
are extracted therefrom vithout tho u.to
of Alcohol. Tho question is dlnnx.
daily asked, "What ia tho causo of the
unparalleled success of Vis nr. An Brv
TKKSt" Our answer 13, that thoy rcruovo
the cause of disease, and tho patient re
covers his health. They aro tho preat
blood purifier and a lifo-givin principle,
a perfect Kenovator and lnviorator
of the system. Never lofi.ro in. the.
history of tho trorll has a uiivli'-iso been
compounded poKKossinfj the) rii'arkitM
qualities of Vinegar IUttwm in l-.- iiinrr !?.
tick of every disoaso xuan in lioir to. "l'hoy
are a gentle rurpativo us wvil a it Tonic,
relieving Conpo1'11 r liifl.uimiat'nm of
the Liver and Visceral Oraun, 1a ililioaj
Diseases.
The properties of vn. walker's
VikkoaeJJittees aro Aperient, IikiihWHi?!,
Carminative, Nutritions, Laxative, Limn-lio.
Sedative. Counter-irritant, buduriuc, Altera
tive, and Ajati-liilio
R. II. MrDOWALO & CO..
Xrnrri;t anl Hon. Acta.. San Kmnciaw. 'iilifoniia,
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Admtrahle collection of Sonn ami Ihicta.
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AL.FHKI) MAKTIES, IiitIIher,
21 South Seventh Street, I'hiia.lelphiav.
WISH ART'S
PineTreeTarCorflial
It Is now Bftoen vnr since the attention of in
puhl c w JnrVfcalfi-d by Ur L V. V.V. I.hart to his
wonderful reniedv. and so well haa It stood Ihe VH ol
U ne Inu today li not only ha the contl-unre of ih..
anMre cot iimuulty. but Ik more frequently pi-e.cril.crt
by phviula.i. n their practice than
tarallllfl in 1 l I'lllllII IT. v in
noncTnleof the Pine Tree ol.iaiued by a peculiar
ErnrUS in the distillation of the Tar. f.v wU s
. . ..... 1. 1 nmiwrr i, nrn reimiiei. i ' ' -
ol-m """""-"---..- ...i
folUw
il"g ;mpiainis iniiH.iiHinii."!. "7
.inTr Complaint, b'!nach, I
Kidney Vrliiary Coinniainta. Nervous la inliiy. Mjs
mr I a, sort dosses ariaiar from an 'nipi";''aliift'n
of iheVoort -there la no remedy in Oa worhl thai, ha
been oaed so successfully or ca sla.w si-fi a miniber
wcrve 1.1 .mm
, 1 . ........ 'n.n rn tfiw nf Wll
the eailinaiHm in which 1Mb aovereiBn remedy Is heW
by those who have used lt.
Consnmption for Ten Years Cored.
Dr. taC WtsrtART: TVar Blr-T sm Rratefitl to
yri, from the fact that von have made a ."" '
will cure Ihe diacaae of tho I-o'JKX- My - fe hay bad
the Cor.su motion for len years ITjyaicians ha.1 tolrl
n elhat they conld only .tc.h he. up for the time
s,snnr(rt Tt Itfip I ts w I HIM 1 1 1 TW I l-v-J as 'r
sometime. 1 nmiu rwl J . . . "
amlswimMortc lirrftle ' ei -evert .ier coujrh. M.e
haVnow Unladed b fnurll. 1k,uI.-, arwl la aide to do
the work for her farr.tiv. and tray trort na-ed yoo on
with yonr ureat discovery and cure you have made lor
Cousuiuptlotu Rev p rjopKISS.
jacksoo center, bbclby Co., Ohio.
From St. Louis, Mo
w Ttsnanr. PHtf.ATwT.pnt a: Dear Rlr-TWir1n
Visit At PhilatlelihlB a.njie three yeir. atro. I ;' '
fenoa from a severe cokl, and waa nalm .-d 10 take a
boVnSof yo,,r PioeTrv , TarlisJ. wlae 1 l- II
etfectof etirininelas ft-w.lKva I ""cd H in
mv fanVllyeve"mnce. and am of the o.uo.m that It
S v.""he hfn of in dnrTUhUft wlH. was witlennif from
Jiver.-arU pairrt'd ,.mt,. If tl.c p.
wW be ot uuy TV-e. you are at litierty luuwt
Sours ean fully.
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Forsnlebyatf DnigglstsaudStoretetra, and at
DR. L. Q. C. WISHART'S Office,
No.232 N. Second St., Philadelphia Pa.
For ONV. IKM.I.AK we will send, po.lasf paid,
The Weekly World, One Year.
All the news af tlio naf seven dav. in if.en In the
weekly edition of The u rll 1 .-lne-d u .. wlorii
contain, in addition to the new . I'iai. n'eml t .1
lire, prepared exprewiy f.r 11. 1 ii'' ..rai.jii- .oi";
ment elves each week the latest new. l 1 1 Order and
of the Patron.. Tlie agricultural depart mem pre-em.
I he Intent experiment aim experience. 01
c'lltiiri.t.. full reMrt. of Ihe farmers' 1 1 1 1 of Ihe.
American in.tliiiie, teller. lriu practical tanner -,
and Inlere.tinir.li'M'iiH-Jionaof profitable l..iuiinn. Tim
paife for tiw f otillv furiii.lies Interest ami iiniuw inem.
for the flrcide .liirnnf the Ionic a inter evcMior. r nil
anil fni.tworinv nve-iocK, rourirv irinin-e. k--m-eral
pn.ltice market report, .how Ihe .tale of trade.
For TWO OOf.I.AKS we will m-ihI, po'lasie pai'l,
The Semi-Weekly World, one year.
Tlie Semi.VVi-. klv contain. (Tuesday and Y rldav ll
the content. '( the Wre!.!v. 0110 or two tin-t rale Nov
el, demur I he year, ; lid all the cream of the I'aily
lori
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The Wnrhl, In ix.let of .A ility. enterprise and in-
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1 country."
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