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Southern Swngrser. The Clnrleaton (S. C.) Neva nys: Tlii fooo'r the people of the United. Stahia com to t ie uui1rtUii(11n; that Sont i erucr i au American citizen by hi own iP:ht, and not by anybody- grace, the quicker will the couutry Le truiy nuitcd. It detracts from the rlriue of mngns Dimity to lioast rf it, and it is unpleasant to bo force I to remind people ot tlie pr.itt tuJe tbey owe; but the constant rei;eratinn ofthealxive sentiment by the Southera press and by ovitht ra orators Dccc-sitates the declaration that such utterances re childish, puerile, and unworthy eTen of a very low order of intelligence. Tlieie are upward of Rixly members of the Houe of Ueprcentatives who are hot American citizens by their own liht, within the scope and menning of the fteirt article. They are citizens by the prace of the men they are abusing and the people they alandcr. This fact is so plain as to bard ly require demon itrai ion. As well miht a convict, pardoned from thepf nitentiary, assert that he U a complete citizen " by bis own riirht," and ' not by anybody's grace," as for tha e Utor of the JYf to do fo. Putting the mildest construction upon the acts of the Southern people, they re volted. A revolution that jails Incomes a rebellion, and there is oir? law lor rebels throughout the world. Their lives and their property l.ecome lor feit. They can retain neither except by the grace of theconqueror. Does the Nevct pretend that the Government could not liave legally tried and exeruicd Jetl'erson Davis? And If it could Lave tried aud executed him, why not a million of Ids followers, who are pronounced by the law equally guilty ? "We do not epeak of what would have been policy, or what would have been humane, bat of what would have be -n leirnl, an 1, in the eye of of the law, lust. Ha-.licals" did not make the Constitution, which defines treason, nor the laws regulating its pun ishment. They were made by tiie lSorih and t-'outh. actin? together. One of tue parties violated the provisions therein contained, and by their own declara ions were liable to tho punishment prescriled. They were not uunisheJ; they were re stored, pardoned; and yet the Aeva impu dently asserU that they are occupying thir present position by "their own right," and "cot by anybody's "grace!" Tkc the present case of Jetl Davis. He Is now disqualified from holding places of boti or or protit under the Government be cause of the part he took in the rebellion. If it is true that his fellow conspirators are American citizens " by tneir own right." whnt prevents him from exercis ing all those privileges of a citizen which are permitted to so may of his brethren in in guilt? Now, suppose a general Am nesty bill should pass, and that the dis abilities resting upon Davis should be th reby removed? Should we have it thrown in our faces by such papers as the JV'etf that Mr. Davis had thcrihtto sit in Congress or the Presidential chair, and no thanks to anybody? Surely, there is little inducement to exercise clemency, if this is the spirit in which it i to be received. The Jfeiea cannot escape by alleging that it uses the word "citizen" in its limited sense, merely. Whrtit plainly means is, that the South is entitled to ail the privileges which it now enjoys by iU own right, and " not by the grace of any body." Indeed, this is the way it puis it in another part of the article. As fre sa'.d in the beginning, we dislike to be eon tantly reminding these people oi the obli gations they are under; but what other course is left whfn they so plainly forget such obligations, aud cont nually declare that they are under none whatever? The trouble with the South is. that it forgets that it did not succeed in the late war. It demands to be treated as if it were tho conqueror, and not the conquered; and, strange enough, the demand has been largely complied w ith I Says the A'eu$ again : All the leek that Sontherners intend to swallow were swnllowed before last November. The sup- fily is exliau.-tcd; the vegetable doca not flourish n thta latitude. A Southerner ia as much an American citicen as a Noi therner ia. The Soma Is in the Union, and intends to atiy in. And the South truant to mate it m found, wholesome, consti tutional I'niom. instead of iht eeoti alttfU despot' im that Mr. ITiaddtus linens dstiitd. liven if al'. this is true, it is pretty big talk for a people to indulge in who were whipped into submission. It is not only lii; talk, but it i- unbecoming- and smacks of the liaidolph and Pistol swagger, w hich grew threatening and terrible in propor tion as the danger diminished. e dare say th it the warlike Ph-t l cou d have been induced to swallow, another leek qui e exsily if the same ' pei suasion' had leen used the second time, and the Is cut should remember tbn. Vie siucen-ly deprecate all this recrimi nation, but the South seems det -rmined to ignore the past in toto. It has the bad taste to get up, through its representatives in d ngres, and reassert the same old heresie which it took lour years of war to se tie. - It comrs back glorifying ihe lead ers of the rebclli n, celebrating ii vic tories, defending i:s outrages, and prac ticing the same old 6ystein of ostracism toward Northern residents which pre vailed before the war. We tell its repre sentatives now, tiiat, although this epirit and their acts may be tolerated for aw hile, a spirit will yet be awakened that will sweep them and thi.ir doctrines Lto inecoverablc disgrace. This nation will never become the eulogist of treason. Dis loyalty w ill never become ihe peer of pa triotism. 'Ihe men of the South who wish f;r historic glory must obtain it by what they do in tho future, and not w hat they, have done in the past. "Treason must be npide.oJious," ana the men who now stand up, defending mid honoring it, will oniy add to tueir own dishonor by at tempting to vindicate, in words, what they faibd to vindicate by their arms. Inter Ocean. tSTThe election of a Democratic Pres ident means a restoration to full power in the Government of the worst elements of the rebel Confederacy. The Southern States are to be organized by violence and intimidation into a compact political jiowcr, only needing a small fragment of the Northern States to give it absolute control, when, by a majority rule of the party, it will govern the country as it did in the time of Pierce and Buchanan. It it should elect a President and both houses of Congress, the Constitutional Amend- a 1.1 J a mtois wuum oe aisregaraeu; tne lreed men would be nominally citizens, but really slaves; innumerable claims, swol len by perjury, would bo saddled upon the Treasury, and our public credit would be impaired; the powers of the General Gov ernment would be crippled, and the hon ors won by our people in subduing the rebellion would be subjects of reproach rather than pride. The only safeguard from these evils is the election of a Re publican President and the adoption of a liberal Republican policy, which should be fair, and even generous, to the South, but firm in the maintenance of all the rights won by the war. Our election In Ohio shows that, even under most adverse circumstances, we can win on this basis. Senator Sherman. CSfThe "Washington Star says: "A few days ago a rough-and-ready appear ing fellow, dressed in butternut gray, wearing a light slouch hat, and carrying a formidable-looking musket, might have been seen, and in fact was seen, slow ly wending his way along Pennsylvania ave" nue, toward the Capitol. On his arrival at the latter place he inquired where he coma nna uen. ippa Ilunton. a lrgiuia representative in Coagress. Thinking he meant mischief, the person addressed (an employe of the House) aked : 4 What do Iou want with Gen. Ilunton ? 4 What do want with him, suh? Well, suh, I am rom Uotetourt County, Yixginny, suh. an' I hearn that we uns ContedTit soldiers, was gittin mist ot the places up yere, and so, 6ah, 1 hoofed it all the way yere couldn't afford to ride in the kyars t j see my old commander, Gen. Epoa Ilunton. I lout under Gen. Ilunton, suh, "all through tha wah, and if the Confed'rits is a gettin' places, Gen. Ilunton must git me one. But what are you doing with tuat old gun?' queried the party addressed. 4 That, uh-'replied the gentleman from Botetourt, isthe musket I carried all through the wah. I Jest brought It along to show Gen. Ilun ton, and, suh," he's got to get me a good place. Here he left the gun in charge oi the other party, and went to find Gen. Ilunton. -The result of his interview has not transpired. Thi3 is no fancy sketch, but an actual occurrence." AndersonTiUo. There may be some who have growi into manhood since the close of the war of the rebellion, who do not remember the horrors of Andersoavillc; though few who lived through the war and were old enough to understand the awful atrocities of the rebel prison pens at the time they occurred, will ever forget them. It is well to recall them accurately, .now that they have been brought into fresh mention by the debate in Congress. In 107, a Con gressional Committee, composed ot Demo crats and Republicans, unanimously re ported the following terrible description ot Acdersonville, after Winder and W irzhad been given full power there by Jeff Davis. 4 'Ihe subsequent history of Andcrson ville has startled and chocked the world with a tale of horror, of woe and death, before unheard and unknown to civiliza tion. No pen can describe, no painter sketch, no imagination comprehend its fearful and unutterable iniquity. It would seem as if the concentrated madness of earth and hell had found its final lodg ment in the breists of those who inaugu rated the rebellion and controlled the policy ot the Confederate Government, an ' that the prison at Anderson ville had been selected for the most terrible human sacrifices which the world had ever seen. Into its narrow walls were crowded o3,0C0 enlisted men, many of them the bravest and the best, the most devoted and heroic of those grand annic3 w hich carried the flag of their ountry to final victory. For long and weary months here they suffered, maddened, were mur dered and died. Here they lingered, un sheltered from the burning rays of tropi cal sun by day, and drenching and dead ly dews by night, in every stage of men tal and phj-sieal disease, hungered, ema ciated, starving, maddened; festering with unhealed wounds; gnawed by the rav ages of scurvy and gangrene; with swoll en limb and distorted visage; covered with vermin which they had no power to extirpate; expo-ed to flooding rains which drove them drowning from the misera ble holes in which, like swine, they bur rowed; parched with thirst and mad with hunger; racked with pain or pros trated with weakness of dissolution ; with naked limbs and matte I hair; filthy with smoke and mud; soiled with the very excrement from which their weak ness would cot permit them to escape; eaten by the gnawing worms which their own wounds bad engendered; with no bed but the earth; no covering save the clouded sky these men, these heroes, born in the image of God, thus crouch ing and writhing in their terrible torture and calculating barbarity, stand forth in history .as a monument of the surpassing horrors of Andcrsonville as it shall be teen and read in all future time, realizing in the studied torments of their prison bouse the ideal of Daute's Inferno aad Milton's Hell." The New York Mail, while deprecating the attempt to bring before the public the horrors of the rebel prison-pens, remarks: " To say that the Davis Government shall not be made to face its responsibil ity, in the light of the notorious, brutal fact3, is to talk nonsense and insult all reason and humanity. There are a tew figures which Mr. "Hill needs to be set right about. Surgeon-Gen. .Barnes can hardly be good authority, if he says (as Mr. Hill quotes) that the Confederates had in their prisons 6'),000 more Union pris oners than we had ot Confederates. Aud a death-rate based upon ?uch a statement is fallacious and misleading. As we un derstand th ma ter, the number of Con federates captured and sent to depots at the North was 222,847, and the number of Union soldiers captured by the other side and sent to the depots at the South was 12G,&50. It is upon these figures that the death-rate Mr. Hill wants to csta' lish was computed, and so computed it is found that (we quo:e Dr. J. W. Draper) the death-rate of prisoners in the prisons of each side was one in 8.27 in the Union depots and one in 3.41 in the Confederate depots. And the same authority ex presses the opinion thut " tho true ratio w ill probably be not less than three United States soldiers to one Confederate soldier." It is in most respects unfoi lunate tnat this old ulcer should again be publicly exposed; but the North Is not to be slan dered and the world insulted by such tactics for the overturning of historical truth, as those parsued by Mr. Hill. To whitewash Jeff. Davis and his gang at the expense of Lincoln, Stanton and their compatriots, is indeed a bold procedure, but truth cannot be crushed out in any such way. JJeti uit Tribune. An Irreconcilable. EX-SlNATOK IIOBEIIT TOOMBS, WllO has not vet called the roll of his slaves in the shadow of Bunker Hill, is still eating t re and trying to stir up the embers of South ern hate against the Union With wild aud malignant bombast and howling denuncia tion of the people of the North. A few days ago ha addrsed tt;p Grn-ii Legis lature and others ;ii Atlanta on ttie issues of the day. lie let all the w ild animals loose again, got on the ra:r.page, and lashed and tore things to tatters in a man ner which outdid any of Ids maniacal ravings prior to and during the Slave holder's Itcbellion. Elsewhere we print the main points of his speech, which ap pears to have been vociferously a pplauded by his audience, which embraced the Georgia Legislature. His first tilt was at the Constitution, of course. It was not the law of the people of the South. It " violated the fundamental principles of society." The people is "accursed" w hich "accepts a fundamental law from another people." It was made 44 by ignorant sav ages led by rogues to perpetuate the pow er of rogues." 44 It w as made to plunder thepeople and ought to be changed." 44 The Saxon race is ever more dishonored by that instrument," and so on ad nauseam. From the Constitution he passed to the negroes his late chattels whose roll he was going to call on Bunker Hill. "The Yankees," saj he, 44 are miserable wretches who have injected 5,000,00D of savages into the stomach of our body pol itic." He explains how some 44 honest fellows" have secured election to the Legislature. 44 AVe got them there by in timidation and bribery, and I helptd to do it. I would have scorned the pcorde if they had not done it! And 1 wiU buy them as Ions as they put beasts to go to the ballot-box !' 44 We carried them with us by bribery and intimidation. I advised it, an I paid my money for it. You all know it, but won't say it." 44 If you have a convention I can make you a Constitution by which the people will rule and the nigger will never be heard of." The raving madman closes his speech with the personal declaration: "I am, I believe, the only living secessionist to day in the State of Georgia." 44 1 am just as good as JetF. Davis, and he is no better than I am. I demand to be placed beside him." These are a few sample utterances from a long speech, breathing the most malignant hate, venom and rancor toward the North. They resemble nothing so much as the incoherent raving of a mad man, which must disgust even his South ern hearers. It is somewhat curious that this blatant and blustering fire-eater does not leave the country which he hates so intensely, and take up his abode in some other land where the Constitution and ne gro will no longer provoke theie displays of lunacy. It he insists upon remaining here, his own friends ought to put him in a strait-jacket, or s.nd him to some pri vae asylum, in the interest) of peace, or der and decency. This would undoubt edly be done were it not a fact that he re flects the feelings and sentiments of tens of thousands of Confederates, who warmly sympathize wi.h all he says, but do not deem it politic or advisable to give ex- F"331"" w iiiL-ir reai views until alter the next Presidential election. Chicago Trib- It will sadden many hearts and cause many an humble citizen to glance hastily and nervously at the contents of his pocket-book when it is stated that there is a dangerous counterfeit $o00bill in circulation. Neablt all furs are now called seal's kin. Tils ia probably to fur-ther sales. A Boston grocer was telling a news paper man that it was sinjply throw-in" away money to advertise, when the SheriS came in and shut up the store, ltetribu tion is alw ays loafing around. Abby and Julia Smith, of Glast enl ury. -e "'- nj lut-ir nixes, oe cause they are not allowed to vote. 44 No taxation without representation" is their battie-cry. friendship. ' The point that we wish to make is, that we should not expect to have Ihe f en tinients and actions of our friends and companions always equally satisfactory to us ; and after we have once made up our minds that, on the whole, we like a certain person; that we like certain or all of his ways, opinions, tastes, qualities whatever it is that draws us to him, it is rather foolish to be rejudging him too severely every five days on a new issue. After a man is once a member of the Na tional Academy he should not be subject to the annual weighing in the balance ot the Academy's Hanging Committee. You may say that, after we have known a man well for thirty years and that is a long lease for a friendship in this mutable world it is idle to talk about its being possible for him to surprise or disappoirit us. But did yon ever hear of 44 the old man's disease" avarice? Do you sup pose that an affliction like that comes to the surface late in life, if the seeds have not been deep in the soil all the time? But that is a hard and cruel question. Let Us ratherspeak of a more pleasingand no less surprising development. There was an old woiuan about whom we once wrote, to prove by an example that it is the disagreeable young folks who make the disagreeable old men and women, and that sweet girls aud boys need not be troubled by the nightmare of a sour aod crabbed old age. 'Ihe woman we wrote about had lived out and down three husbands, and was about as unpleasant an old g ssip as you might meet in a day's journey, yet the traits of her age were only the traiis of her youth, stripped of whatever charm youth must have lent her. But presently, after we had held up this aged person as a warning and a consola ion, what docs she do but fall into her second childhood, and de velop one of the sweetest and gentlest dis positions with which inortal ever Messed his or her neighbor. All she asked was her doll and her prayer-book, and all went merry as a marriage" bell. No; we never know our friends. And, curiously enough, w hile we are going on with our discoveries concerning them, they are making the same observations Upon us, and are having the same surprises and disappointments. dcribner fvr February. Chimes or Bells. 44 The Poetry of Steeples," an article which appears in llarper'g Magazine for January, has elicited some interest ing'in lormation relative to Christ's Church chimes in Philadelphia. It seems that ihe popular legend that the bells which hang in the belfry of Christ's Church were a gilt from Queen Anue of blessed memory is a fable. A part of the communion service in that church was a gilt from her, and her name is inscribed thereon ; but tho bells were purchased with the proceeds of a lottery, in which Benjamin Franklin took an active interest, which was drawn in 1753. The steeple -was finished in 1734, and the bells were purchased in En gland in the same year at a cost of JtUOO. They were brought out in the ship Ma tilda, Capt. Budden, and were made by Lester & Pack, of London. Now, Queen Anne died in 1714, and it is not probable that she had left any legacy for the pur chase of the bells, or if fche did her execu tors were a long time in tarrying out her will aud paying oil her legacies. AVhen those chimes were new thev created such wonder aud excitement throughout the colony of Pennsylvania that there was a town regulation made providing that on every Tuesday and Fri day evening they should he rung for the benefit of the country people, w ho should be in the city on those days with their produce for the next day's market; and that regulation was in full iorce twenty years ago, and probably is still. Any one can have the bells rung by paying thirty dollars, half of which goes to the ringers and the other hslt to the church. This is not an exorbitant price for that performance, if it is done in the oil English style of peal ringing, which required a practiced ringer to each belh From another source it ii ascertained that the oldest, and perhaps the largest, set of chime bells on this continent are in the bell ry of Old Christ Churc h, Salein Bteeet, Boston. They were placed there in 1741, in the reign of George II, whd; with his uoblt-men, raised the money to pny for thehl by subscription, aud sent them over to the colony of Massachusetts from England. A Bear in Chnrcli. A gentleman from North Creek, "War ren County, N. Y., in the Adirondack t gion, in speaking of the mild w inter we have had to far, related, as something very remarkable, the appearance of black bears in the villages in his neighborhood. He says that fotir bears appeared in one tay in North Creek in broad daylight; that their presence had been discovered by their visits in the right-time by the loss of shtep and Los. but i ruin had not been bold enough to come in the day-timo. On Sunday, about three weeks BincH, a iargH be;ir entered the Church at North Creek just alter the minister had commenced his sermon, and walked leisurely up the pas sageway until he reached the middle of the church. Ihe women jumped upon the top of the seats and screamed at the height of their voices, nil w as confusion and the services tame to a stand-still. Bruin raised himself up on his haunches and calmly and in his native majesty sur veyed the scene, with a look as much as to say, " What is all this confusion about' and seeming satisfied with his scrutiny, deliberately walked out. Sev eral men immediately followed him out, and a lively scrimmage was indulged in. But the bear got away. It is probably uiiuecessaiy 10 say mac me services were brought to a speedy termination, the con gregation all going to the bear huut. A remarkable thing is noticed by the in habitants of the Adirondack region, name ly: that the be irs are very bold and star close to the villages and the deer all push back farther into the wilderness than ever before known. Troy (V. Y.) I'reet. Look Tnlce. A lady who has a great horror of agents and who has been more than usually cheated out ot time and money by them lately, was called to the door the other morning by a resounding ring ot the bell. Upon opening it she discovered a nicely dressed man, carrying in his hand a small satchel. One glance she gave at this, then, in stantly concluding he was one of her abominations, she hastily ejaculated: 44 1 do not wish anytuing this evening, sir," and brought the door to with a click, after ward returning softly to the partly -closed blinds of a front window to rwconnoiter. She beheld the supposed ajent staring rather blankly at the closed door, a com ical struggle, in which amusement and annoyance were each striving bard for victory, taking place on his face, while his disengaged hand, after the manner of all men when considerably taken aback, vigorously stroked his whiskers or nerv ously twisted his moustache. She gave one hasty look, then another, her eyes growing larger; then there was a little half-scream of delight, a sweeping rush, a door swung wide open, a man and woman rapidly advancing, and then oh! food for ye gossip-loving neighbors on the watch an audible kiss, and a woman clasped tightly in a man's strong arms. It was the lady's lather, whom she had not seen for a number of years. Cincin nati 2'inies. William Bell, let Coleraine, Mass., twenty year ago, and fettled in Illinois; about twelve years since, one of his neigh bors was murdered in her barn-yard, and, as Bell had passed through the yard that morning lo his work in the woods, he w as convicted of the crime and hung at Waukegan, HI., after he had vainly writ ten to several cf Ida former townsmen for. testimonials of his good character. Now the real murderer, a neighbor of both vic tims, has made a death-!ed confession of the crime. Springfield (Mast.) Itepublican. The Federal authorities in New York have discovered a manufactory of bogus nickels which rivals that in the Ohio Pen itentiary. The principal counterfeiter ia a woman, and several thousand dollars of the coin have been issued. Fresh and Simple Attire. One who writes in an English journal on 44 Clothes" declares that 44 men do but ask to see their mothers, sisters and sweet hearts daintily clean and fresh in all their arrangements and appointments, and as pleasing to the eye aa modesty and moder ation permit." There is something really charming in this picture, simple as it is. 44 Daintily clean and fresh in all their ar rangements and appointments." We may concede that, for great occasions, ladies may elaborate a little on this basis; but, say, for the breakfast table, or for all or dinary home occasions, how deliehtful it is to see our womankind arrayed in fresh and simple attire no crumpled hair in un wholesome reminder of last night's elab orate coitfure; no silksor other once-costly fabrics, now soiled and dilapidated; no formidable wrappers, loud of color and wonderful of pattern ; no twice used linen; no slatternly shawls, that horror in un tasteful households; no touch of desha billein the slightest or least suggestive de gree. Unhappily, this picture is much too rare. There are many women w ho per sist in wearing at the morning meal, and upon other domestic occasions, old gowns, or apparel that has been banished from the drawing-room. Now, a lady may be dressed in more rich and costly fabrics at one time than another, but there should be no degrees of neatness, of order, of purity, or of freshness. The morning dress may be a wholly inex pensive one, but a grease-tain or a rent is just as much an offense at breakfast as at dinner. In f;ict, if there must be a ftain, we would rather see it on the even ing silk than the morning muslin, which should always have the supreme senti ment of freshness and daintiness. Many women have little idea of how greatly they shock the tastes and really endanger the affections of their husbands by their unseemly domestic apparel. There is not a man of sense and refined fetling anywhere who would not pre fer some simple and chaste adorn ment for his wife in the morning to anjr extreme of splendor at the evening ball. Let a woman by all means dress brilliantly on those occasions that render it proper; we have no desire to abridge her privileges nor baffle her instincts in this particular; but we claim that it i3 important for her, if she values her household serenit, that she should give equal heed to her customary domestic attire. The female who goes about the house untidily dressed has no right to the title of woman. She is without those marks and Indications by which she can be classified. We reject the notion that a person can really be a woman who is without those dainty instincts fur sweet and pure apparel that traditionally per tain to the feminine sex. Such an indi vidual has lost the characteristics, the qualities, the refinements, the distinguish ing elements of the daughters of Eve; and, as she has not by this elimination gained any characteristic of the masculine sex, she evidently belongs to some as yet un described variety of the human family Appleton' Journal. Garden Work In Winter. WrxTEit is often called the season of leisure, and, as distinguished from those periods of hurry nnd drive which often overtake the gardener, perhaps it is. But to a good manager there is no rest at this season. He can find plenty to do in look ing ahead and preparing for the number less things that will be wanting when the season for active work arrrives. If the weather is wet or bad generally, the tools need to be looked over to see that all are in their places in the best working condi tion. If they are dull-edged they can be ground or filed. Loose handles can be tightened, or nails and screws can be used to stay or strengthen weakened parts. Many tools can be wholly made by the exercise of no great amount of ingenuity; and, indeed, in a hundred wars can an active man be uscTully employed, even in the very worst of weather. When the weather is at all fair loads of work can be advanced in the open air. Many fruit and ornamental trees are ruined by bar barous pruning, but there are few trees that are not to be benefited by pruning judiciously performed ; and then remem ber that use can often be made in the gar den of the parts cut from the trees. The garden pea loves, above all things, to run over tw iggy branches, and some of the trimmings can be cut out for this purpose and lied into neat bundles and stacked away. Then the tomato likes being tied up on single stakes. Short, stout pieces that have stubs or strong spurs to help hold up the weight of tomato frUit may be cut Out arid saved for them. Then raspberries, blackberries, dahlias, glad iolus, tuberoses and many things among both fruit and flowers, as well as vegetables? want stakes sometimes, and gixxl material for these purposes can be had from the tree-waste very often. And then poles for beans and similar things give us a good use for the taller and stronger stud". Another good thing to think of now by those who have street trees is to get out some sort of a guard to protect them from horses, which are sure to get at them when the sap begins to rise in spring. Many have already made up their minds to set out sidewalk trees in spring; but how many have given thought to preparing protec tors for them ? One may as well throw his money in the ash-heap as plant, trees on the streets near a town without taking measures to keep horses from them. And then there is the matter of manures, com posts, and in connection wllh these very otten hotbeds for early vegetables. Not one in a hundred ever has as much manure as could be judiciously employed; and yet a great deal goes to waste through sheer want of thought in collecting or of judicious treatment at this winter season. Many a man likes to take a pipe or cigar and of a winter evening sit for an hour or so by his fire and dreamily think over the things that are past. This is all right. There is pleasure in memory. But let him not forget the pleasures of hope. He can think of his seeds and his crops in the future, and what he will need to bring them on to the best advantage; and then be led to see what he can do now to help the good -work along. It is well enough to read. We like to see the studious man. But time is well employed in thinking for oneself, and especially when that thought has reference to the forwarding of work, against the busy time to come. There is some prejudice against counting chickens before they are hatched. True, the coun ter is often disappointed. But the ont who never counts, who w aits to see how many chickens he will have before he firovides anything for them, is much more ikely to be'the disappointed man. Ger mantown Telegraph. Dr. Cutler calls debt 44 the cancer that devour churches." To Sell or Hold! We frequently receive requests from readers to tell them what the prospect is for a rise or fall in price of certain pro ducts. In short, they want to know wheth er to sell or hold. Now this is a responsi bility no agricultural paper wants to as sume; it is too great. Probabilities may be stated, and generally are; beyond this no man can go. Too much depends upon contingencies in these matters. We might say, sell your wheat now, for there is no prospect of its being higher and next week a war might be declared in Europe that would send wheat up fifty per cent. Wouldn't we catch it then? The farmer smarting under a loss of $500, would declare war against ali false prophets, and we would sutler much from our ill-timed advice. Let farmers assume this direct responsibility each for himself. It is the duty of the press to keep him posted on crops, failures, price and pros pects, but further than this he muft be governed by his judgment and surround ing circumstances. If he knows what a crop costs him and w hat he can afford to sell at, then all difficulty is removed. Let him watch the markets, and when the price, offered will justify and there is no resolvable probability of a rise soon, then sell. If he is in debt and the interest ac cumulating will over-balance profits from any probable rise in price, sell and dis charge the debt. If he can afford to hold he should always do it, when the price will not pay a reasonable protit on cost of produc tion. OhW Fanner. A Brooklyn express-wagon has this Sjgn: M Orl k'ines of Horling dun." He jiiight add: 4 In hog signo vinces." USEFUL AND SUfJGESTlVE. Oystek Potato Balls. Beard a dozen small, plump oysters, cover them snugly with a plain mashed potato paste, roil them with flour or beaten up egg and bread crumbs into balls and fry them in outter or dripping. Put into each ball when you make it up a teaspoonful of the oyster liquor. Pickled Mutton IIamx. Three gal lons soft water, one pound of coarse sugr.r, two ounces saltpetre, three pounds com mon salt. Boil and remove the scum, and when cold pour over the meat. In two or three weeks the ham will be excel lent for baking or boiling. It may be sm ked if preferred. A Good Paste. Get ten cents worth of gum tragacanth at a drug store: put a few pieces of it into a small tumbler; cover it with four times as much water, and let it stand over night. This will make an excellent paste for a scrap-book, which will keep as long as it is wanted, adding more gum or more water as needed. Home Soda Water. Ponr three pints of boiling water on three pounds of white sugar and allow it to stand until cool. Then add the whites of three eggs well beaten, two ounces of tartaric acid, and ( ne ounce essence of wintergreen. Take two tablespoonfuls of this liquid in a tumbler and fill it two-thirds full of water, then ad4 one-half a teaspoonful of carbo nate of soda, and stir it up until it foams. The planting of fruit or nut-bearing trees in place of merely shade trees, upon grounds of limited extent, is to l com mended. A fruit tree by careful pruning can be made a very ornamental object. It is surprising what grace aud beauty can be imparted to the top of an apple, cherry or plum tree, by one who daily and judi ciously looks after his trees. No shoot is allowed to grow which is not needed. Nut-bearing trees may be used instead of fruit trees, if desired. But it does seem that either fruit or nuts should be required as well as shade. Ltitisloi Me.) Journal. Confederate Pcddiko. Hub thor oughly into, four tea-cupfuls of sifted flour one tea-cupful of suet, shredded and chopped fine, one tea-cupful of raisins, seeded and chopped, the same quantity of currants; washed and dried the day previ ous, and one tea-8poonlul ot cinnamon; stir into this one tea-cupful of molasses, and the same quantity of sweet milk. Pour into a pudding bag, well floured, or, better still, a pudding mold, and starn for two hours. Eat hot, with sauce. If there is any left, it may be heated well through, and will be found just as good as when fresh. Almond Sfonoe-Cake. Pound in a white mortar until very tine one ounce ot bitter almonds; take out, and put into a bowl, pouring over them four tablespoon fuls of boiling water, and let them simmer three or four minutes. To the yolks of twelve eggs, well beaten, add slowly one pound of sand sugar, and beat light; then, afer wiping tile almonds dry, add them. Beat until very stiff the w bites of the eggs, and add to the yolks and sugar, alternating with the flour; stir well, but very lightly, together, as beating destroys the lightness of sponge-cake. Bake in tins with upright sides, and in a moderate oven. Scrk Cure for Gapes. An expe rienced chicken raiser says as soon as a manifestation of gaps in his fowls ap pears, he confines his chickens in a Ihjx, one at a time, sufficiently large to contain the bird, and places a coarse cotton or linen cloth over the top. Upon this he places air-slaked iime, aht! taps the cloth sufficiently to cause the lime to fall through. This lime dust the fowl inhales and is made to sneeze, and in a short time the cause of the gapes is thrown out in the form of a slimy mass of worms that had accumulated in the windpipe and smaller air vessels. This remedy htfeon siders superior to any he has ever tried, and he seldom fails to effect a cure. Ver viont Union. Controlling the Sap of Plants. What influence has bending, twisting, cutting or regulating the sap of plants on the growth of them T Take a branch and bend it down. What will be the result? On that place where the branch is bent, the sap, the nutritious element of the plant life cannot circulate any longer as freely as before; those ves sels that bear the fluid through the cells of all parts are to some extent compressed ; the developing process in the upjxr parts of the branch is retarded; the sap looks for other channels, it is accumulated in the low er parts, by which means a greater growth arid perfection of the flower bud are produced, and fertility will be the re sult. " By tw isting, the same effect is produced. By pinching off the end of the flower bud, the bud will be developed in a year, which will produce flower buds the follow ing season. By pruning and trimming lruit trees, the regulating of the sap is of the utmost importance By cuttingoff too much wood, the roots, those parts ot the plants that take off from the soil the nutritious ele ments, will supply the plant with the same quantity of sap as w hen uncut, and instead of furnishing nourishment for the flower buds, will form new wood, or en tirely perish lor want of issues under the bark. The gardener has, therefore, to prune very judiciously; a moderate cir culation of the sap by lightly tiimmlng or pruning, or bending the branches from a vertical position to a horizontal one, or by rubbing off some of the buds, the sap, sufficiently moderated, w ill produce fruit. When cabbages grow too vigorously, so that their leaves seem more disposed to spread than to form heads, then cleave their stalks through and tnrough, often three and four times during the season of their vegetation. The free circulation of the sap is by this means interrupted, and the Impetuosity of the sap moderated. 1 would not advise to break off the lower leaves as some people do, for in most cases it is done too early or too late, and instead of producing heads, the growth of the leaves is only accelerated. In shortening the tops of our peas and beans, the flow of the sap is also slack ened, and a greater development of the pod is effected. As soon as the second or third flowers of the peas appear, pinch off above these; do it in due time and in right measure, and the peas, making new branches below the second flowers, will furnish the gardener w ith plenty of this delicious fruit. Gathering the fruit as soon as possible has, in the regard to the ripening of fruit, left a similar effect. When cutting off the vinjs of gourds, souashes. melons and cucumbers, do it above the first-formed fruit instead of leaving several to form. The retarded sap will develop the only lruit left on the vine. But if not only early fruit, but plenty, too, is wanted, pinch off the ends of the young plants when they have formed the sixth leaf, by which operation side branches are produced which will form very quickly plenty of fruit, and besides this the fruit will ripen earlier. Bruising the vines above the .first-formed fruit (a method to wnicn i give prefer ence) has the same effect. When this is done the bruised part should be covered with soil. Many gardeners who in rais ing cauliflowers break the loose leaves and bend them together above the newly formed flower buds, do this in the suppo sition only that these leaves help in the bleaching process; but by this breaking and bending the impetuosity of the sap is moderated, and renders a larger part of it disposable for the growth and perfection of the head. To produce a large quantity and a good quality of potatoes, some growers pinch off the ends of the branches some the yielding flowers; but this is a great mis take. The pinching can only be done when the but.ons or seed-balls are formed, bv which proceeding the forjiation ot tubers is hastened. A better result is ob tained by bending down the branches above the ground to the ground; in this case the bent-down branches ought to le kept down by layers of soil or light boards: bv doing this the flow of the sap will be directed to the parts below, and an augmentation of the tubers will be effected. In the same manner the retardation ot the sap, by knotting or trampling down the stalks of onions and garlic produces a quicker ripening and a finer and larger fruit; or by training the stems in two or three places against sticks, a greater pro fusion of fruit-buds; or by supporting the pear fruit by small boards, or by resting them on the branches, very largs fruit-s; or bv forcing beans, in diminishing their height, to fall backward, a greater pro duction of pods and bears. Now the gar dener has plenty of means on haDd by regulating the sap, to enlarge the produc tion of his garden. What has the planter done until the present with regard to the regulation of the sap? Have none of you. Patrons of Husbandry, tried to trim or prune the cotton-plant? Have none made olservation whether broken down stalks of it produce larger bolls and a finerqual ity of cottwn? Did you cet more sweet potatoes when cutting off the vines ? Did your corn ripen quicker and heavier by cutting off the tops of the cornstalks? Who did ? A kind answer w ill much oblige the undersigned gaidtner. Will tain Keil, in Our J Jotne Journal. Drisrsa the five years ending Decem ber, 1875, says the New Yoik iimrt, there were 281 homicides committed in the city of New York. Some of them were pre meditated, many of them were unpro voked, and a large majority were utterly without palliation. Nevertheless, out of all this appalling number of man-killers, the perpetrators who suffered death were onlv seven. Only twenty-four were sent to prison for life. And review ing this dreadful list, we discover that more than one-fourth of the criminals were never brought to trial at all. Some of them escape, and are never followed up nnd ar rested. A few have ended their own w ortLless lives after they have committed crime, and more evade detection. These are In hiding to this day. Possibly some of them, variously disguised, return to their old haunts and live securely, in the belief that 44 the thing has blown over." PI VnCRIHC StnJTorirt 01sfrtn Cream" ULlUCnlllC cnrr.rhni,l Immli. Itpi.c Ak ft a t A M yr tlrutfixt for it or nd :jk to lorrey LU It t A filfc BraJley. l.i Kuidulpb street, Clncagu. Ivins Patent Hair Crimpers. Adopted tT nil tha Qnt-e n of Fashion. Send tor rlrc lar. K. 1V1NS, No. 2 North H rib .U I'Ml.J'a. r. CoscTiTTrvKs, Tak Noticb. Every moment of delay makes your cure more hopeless, and much depends on the judicious choice of a remedy. The mount of testimony In favor of Dr. Schenck' Pal tnonlc Syrup, as a. cure for consumption, far ex ceeds all that can be brought to support the preten sions of any other medicine. See Dr. Schenck's Almanac, containing the certificates of many per sons of the bJgheet respectability, who have been rentored to health, after being pronounced Incurable by physicians of acknowledged ability. Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup alone has cured many, as the?e evidences will show; but the cure is often promoted by tbe employment of two other remedies which Dr. Schenck provides for the purpose. These ad ditional remedies are Schenck"s Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills. By the timely use of these medicines, according to directions. Dr. Schenck certifies that most any case of Consumption may be cured. Dr. Schenck is professionally at his principal office, corner Sixth and Arch streets, Philadelphia, every Monday, Where all letters for advice mast be addressed. " Tiie Poultry Argcs. If any farmef, muctmnic or laboring man who has the care of a half-dozen Chickens would make an investment that will pay him 200 per cent, let bim subscribe for the Poultry Argus. This old, reliable Western poultry paper is one of the bet of its class. It is han icinely illustrated with splendid enp"avings of the leading varieties of poultry. The publishers have enlarged and improved it for 13T6. 'x'ue February number will contain a full list of awards made at the great Chicago poultry show and a number of communications of great importance to all who breed or have the management of poultry. Now Is the time to subscribe. It will only cost you $1.00 per year. You cannot afford to do with out It. Setid ten cents for sample copy. No at tention pniti 0 postal cards requiting sample b'pies. Actarss all order to Milleb fc Clinton, Polo. I1L , YVlter Does It All Co tue Promt Pints and quarts of filthy Catarrhal dis charges. Wh-re does it all come from? The mucous membrane which lines the chambers of the nose, and its little glands, re diseased, so that they draw from the blood its liquid, and exposure to the air changes it iHto corruption. This life-liquid I needed to build up the system, but it is extracted, and the svsteni is weakened by the loi. To cure, gain flesh and strengtn by using Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery, which also acts directly upon these eland's, correcting them, srid apply Dr. Race's Catarrh remedy with Pr. ricrce's Nasal Douche, the only method of reaching the Upper cavities, where the discharge ac cumulates and comes from. The instru ment and both medicines sold by druggists and dealers in medicines. i Kbeumatlam a Symptom of Oilier !! easts. The alarming extent of chronic rheuma tism In the country has led to persistent in vestigation. It has lately been ascertained that the disease is the result of other com plicated diseases of the liver, kidneys, pan creas, blood, absorbents, etc. In other words, that rheumatism is a symptom. It is also found that, by the removal of the com plicated disease, the rheumatism disappears, as a result which seems to substantiate the theory. We all know, to our sorrow, how fruitless the ordinary treatment of this disease has been, and we now hail with joy the dawn of this new discovery. We afl know that the symptoms of these diseases are generally present in cases of chronic rheumatism, but few have supposed the disease to be an effect. To remove these diseases the surest rem edy enn be found in the Siiakek Extract or" Roots ok Ccrative Syrip; it appears to be working many cures. We refer to the article sold by Druggists and A. J. White, New York. IJc-onomt. You will save money by using Procter A OatrMe's Ori;hial Mottled Gtrmnn Soap. It will not waste nor become 6oft like ordinary yellow soap when used in warm water, nor it it cheapened with article in j rious to clothes. Jittntmber, you obtain a lull onr-poutid bar if you purchase their brand. To protect their brand from imitators Procter & (Jumble patented it, and the patent was sustained in the United fetatcs Courts. Examine the stamp on the tart ichm you buy TaLe their S'tao ordu. A Box of GnocERiESrM to every sub scriber is what the publishers of The Jlotmekesper offer in our advertising col umns. Messrs. "Wingatc fc Co. will do iust what th?v promise. It is the best chance for agents ever offered, as no good housekeeper who sees the box would fail to subscribe. Itead the advertisement. gr g 04 dy at itotn. tTT!l. BTiJteoir a Co les wortf fi nt , Portland. Me. A BIOSTIf . Agents wanted. hrit setting-articles In ttie world. On sninple free. AUdrcc JAI BKOO.l. Detroit, Midi. EVEI1YH0DY SKXD onbie Minj-b"! and full particulars. Ad4reM K. B. WAoliUUICNti A CO.. Middicburu. Afaui. CAI cujfo. Write O f sf Tr. It ii bo ft efcfM'a r- wis vi per. Imt la flllc-d with urWi ao4 Hterrtia riiwilanr. A ' trraa J. A. nOKKLLd i CO, JavfrEkMj.N. OUIU .OOOCl'RED. So t alllml !V t niKllrl CK.1W2 Went Madl-'in-i-t. t'lil- fuil description. AilVice tree. Miss Kate Field, writing of Carlyle's birthday in the Courier-J our nil, says: 44 lie has kept his calling sacred ; he has been a light in the world. 4 If I had not read Carlyle, I should never have made my leather so good, said a tanner, a few months ago. Is not this being a priest to some purpose V m m Cooper Garfield, a veteran of the war of 1812, died recently at the almshouse in Weston, Mass., agetl 100 years, 6 months and 22 days. lie had been an inmate of the almshouse since 1840, at which time he was admitted, as the record says, on account of infirmities and old age. Ex-Speaker Blaine was once a profes sor ot Mathematics at Drennon College, Ky., when Bushrod Johnson was Presi dent of the same institution. Vallandigham's grave at Dayton, Ohio, is unmarked even by a headtone, though a small cedar grows at its loot and another at its head. Herbert Spencer is fifty years old and unmarried. He is said to be very fond ol a quiet life. The fact that fire million of pair? or KII.VRR TIPPED Sbe are ui.tIc j er. uliowi huw th'M !! iims them ff-cl about il. Thev know that they fust three times an I:tig. Kconomrr in wealth but the best Shoe is tiie Cable Screw Wire. Thev never rip. leak, or rom apart. Try them. All genuine good sunipe-l. f W U M J Jos. M ttfw, rtn 'jinmtiion l"A TAjtJLtUI lioxiu '.Si. I W axtiinrfton-B'. Chicitjco Bollcitn coiitiffiunent. K-ten to J. V. Knreil Co.: Iteld. Murdoch A FUcher; Han of llliuoi.. O n liny at Houe. A(r-nt wanted. Ootflt and Ol jitemn free. Addr-f a T ttUE 4c CO..Aairtuta.Me. 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Tlieie ltirh 1'rairles. Neurone million acres for sue on the sjiijui City & St. Paul Kailrond and on the Me GrVoT ' Mismiurt liiver Itailro:id. Keveral lartre trac'a for Colo tile Come or send committee to ex amine, tverrone who sees the land likes it. Apply Mttlev Oat-eolav Co.. Iowa.. American School Music Readers, In 3 booVs, S.ets., ''ct. and SO cl. Flo traded course fwr Primary (lid Grammar .vehools. All the preceding wrk are compilation of those tliornutrh i.-acher and composer, L. O. tMKmoK and V. S. llLHE.1. Cheerful Yoices. Arar's National Hymn and Tune Book, !.) Contain the et colle.-tlo.iof Sacred Mu sic eitaut for opening ami c!'jtii schooia. We al-o call attention to those exrcllerit eoi!eeti,,n of (M-hool Roups: -Merry C lilmes." -Gol.leu Wreath," " Nlirliti nuale, and "Golden rt.in," racli W ct.: to "Deems aolleg; Klos." "PiinseiW A 11 C." Perkin- "Orphean," "llotirof MnRine." all for the lilitiiern-liool. 4Jaou's K-reat Music Churls. . and Dr. 6n eeter's ii eatise on I'rl liinr Kleinents. SO rt. All book sent bv mall. pot n ee. for retail price. OLIVER DITSON & CO., J30t3XOJNT. C. H. Mf-so lo. i llton nuc is to i.eo iT t aiivu. Philadelphia. 711 JlrouUvay, Ntw i ork. MS. Tlie publisher of Ihe IIOl SI'.h KKPKIt- A . r.'-'l' tl'U'Vily Mmnn"f, recommended b .tei.nle June. Jlney J,. p.ootli. Dr. V. W. Hull. .lame. Part on and others v. 111. un receipt of the sulicrlptlooj price of TWO IX A Its., ile.lver to each sub aerllier nearest tiniinn, en-r of the Mli-sis-ipid Kiver, KliKK. one oft r 1H KM 1 1 H LOitS,'' containing the following- articles, vu.: ak.- ff K Jl.nifiin s Kons (-apo'lo I'rieeioo. CENTS uetjitl writ tut Ag-iry for nw book by Jinn Jhjiiza fiYotmg Io. 19. CD Stliinz at th mi ot .COO w-eTk. Fnll exrt-tw f th bnrri- iltustrntrd t ircul in, wKh coniplvi A lJrrt fi'irrtt ofio of DuStiflt KK5 M - "nrtnil inn fr.-s to CiKmelO aft. COai ilrtl"r'l,CU,CtJtco, lll..Cii.ciuiiu. U. IOIaoIx. Ilillaa. 1 Ht lile.HAKCM T K I K V V., I'll III islied 75 mill nearer the lllack ll.iistln unv other newspaper. Kies more re- liable information concei ninj; iiiem i . T? r- tlnin fliiv other. S"nt to any an ores, -Ja-v t.Hf.ti.er with a line nortrait of t.en. in-ler, mourns tor n. sinrwB ot.. C. A. tx.rxfciiKr.FY M ir.aircr, litMiiarck. Dakota Terrnory. M l ilrnl ' M, .Sunn's holis' lUlld t-llpollo. Package, I'nrye.i s Fiiftn Gloss btarcli... P.tckmre. 'V B ... iitit ea's oru Starch P.ox Hixhy's Hc'l UlurlJnit Hox Itixl.v renrh I'.lnliitf. A Package Dixon's Move Polish Dixon's American Graphite Pencil Package, H -. tchejip Desiccated Coeoae nnt I$ox, lloyal Unking I'owder Itottie Hov.il t eleryHll l ake Jerse Oakley A I'o. "a king Hoap Package K. P.. Mniili A Co. a Crushed Willi Wheat Itottie H pa ''time's Prepared Glue, Il h brusb. lt'.x J. i uylor's Gold Medal W ashlna: r stal.. I kge., 1 B.., . Yi ildu Prepared lilce t iowr. .. Total And UOI SKKIEl'KRoneyear. po.tpuld.. 8 10 HI 10 10 2t 1 r 10 IS 29 S 15 iTVt-ay C. t.-?i.i-?r .W i! REoW;"iMIi us,";1 aV I'.y PcKO J. 1,01 S?, LI.. I . HOW .rah HISTORY tii a STATES. IT ! ont ct"tt pirtr H. lory ot cur kot t,nrrm I t on larc ml itWtly-tMnn4, yt ittw-nrWrt rthiTO nvrr 800 ' 4 50 n"rv1nr,- nd tit's m!r Aii worthy ! u pwbll Herat bh - ClUlt nd CnrwiiB. Full miiI p,MiIMIy ilhiftt.w-l 4w count of the tp oirt,),ic (rrtieel Orntnmal OUttrutut AGENTS WANTED! Rf'l''..f row,n-: inter mmry wut. tit At i.iisf MK4II,, of on country : hanr, ar ctiainro fcr Acetita rkinc a Hr-r.7iM Uootc. f ail mat m n M t T-r full Her 1 .tt. n -f l;ii n -' A. UIJ1 A.HUOMP...Y.tklMft. 111. HERIDEN Make ail kinds of Tuble Knives and Forks. Exclusive m ikers of PAT K. NT ItOltV," most durable WIIITK II A n I) I. E known. Always call lor " Trml" Mirk" on the Made. Hold by nil dealers and by MK'tlliKV t t TI.KKV :o.. .! Chambers St.. N. . HO! FOE IOWA!!! TO K . H Mlilt It. tier Lands at chciincr punt cannot be ha 1 in the world 11. mi from the l;irn It. K. Jmuito. il and climate strictjv first-class: pure water abundant. Ilalf-faie tickets from Chicago out and buck, wild frkkkskk to ri ki oakkks. A de scriptive pamphlet, with limps of orer nr. null on urrrM for sft.e at .. and 6 v. on It. K- terms. e ''"' Address low IS. It. Lash Company. W Kandolpb at, Cuicaoo, III., or CKPAR I!I'IIS. lows. JOHN H. CALilpCN. .mut Cominvutlonrr. ... MO MnV-lns a total of $4.0i For as atiove aniioiinred. 'if! prices Bliine quoted are TIIK I'l'l. SKI" VOUK IITV KIT A 1 1. P KICKS, i.idtle K .oils sre tie best in their line Aa we allow AGKVH A I.AItGK C tSII ( i.iniil i.ioii, it ii il nttf chime l iul tiinnr' rut'iilitf "ii'l ""' b"'ft'i. "Ihe. V. Weekly uii of .Inn. 1'4. l".7t, kmt a I " Tne readers of this paper lm on I.I like U a-.-t more than the wortii of their money r relerred to the advertisement a " Now Idea." J his M " a new de parture," and as the parties v. Il I do ail ihey rlsini recommend all our readers to peruse the same Careful ly ( G our ufih b"t rlmm ri or v j- tiU frrr fpfrtU." CltAsi.'K. sliA'I K fc . (I Imit'-d). Publishers. G. Diisue St.. New ork. I'O lloj S3 la, itnjle Cpii sent lo'pil'it on it of IO e-t. liiiiiH VANBUSKIBK,S FRAGRANT ': '"'" 'i! yr--' ' 'S T-rr? vr xttz' w , ; )M)r , MOV F.T FOR ALL. Only two Dime. Only two I Mines. It Is alwav dark est beforcniy." loany reader who will send JlcenU to us. ne wlil send one box of which we guaran tee v. ill put yon in the way to make ?JH) a month, ana not tuke l-aif your time. Suitable for men or women, bovs or irirN. end is entirely new. Thousands can now wwure paying business ami constant Income. This I the "dunce ol a lifetime," and if you will not em brace It, tc'l your friends, for it f aioiuhi for some woi U", deserving fMTson who needs a helping; hand. Nura recipe, jewelry, or oilier bum line, but a kakr and at kb Knaranteerl bnsines opiiortunlty. Sample Ih.x. circulars, etc., etc.. are sent at cost, 20 cent, onlv to Introdnce it: none free, and none need rej.lv unless they want to make Until year clear. Hundreds are mnkina that, nnd 2rt cent and "ww" will show vou how 'tis doue." Addrea UUXTi.lt CO.. Hinsdale. K. H. AND IXVIOOnATES AND HARDENS THE GUMS! It imparts a delightfully rc-fresliing taste and feeling to the mouth, remoT lag all TARTaK and SCUKF from the teeth, completely arresting the pro gress cf decay, and whitening bucIx parts as have become black by decay. ' IMPURE BREATH !' caused by Dad Teeth, Tobacco, Spirits, or Catarrh, is neutralized by ti e daily use of sozooorji It is as harmless as water. Cold by Druggist and Dealer in Fancy Goods. One bottln will lat six monthl. TOP ALO L T1KADY - MIXKO fATSTT AN D IC A I.MIHItK, SO renla to 1 7 .. r tsllsn. 'AltlII. l to4.r,0 l-r lallnn. TUASHl. PICTlJllKS, WAX An PAI'Klt MiWKIt M A I Li.l AI.. A Ii 1 Iel v (; i SASH, DOOP&. BLIVI'S, WISD'iW-til.A'-S asu PAINTS or ALL KINDS. CUH.AP. tIIA. Ii. AI I IllPlt. ...!.-- - "ll BAR 52 rnnrn G O TwI 2P -tO. IxT Broadway, jSTew York, VOCt I I E EL b. VOII "f "il .'' V "JOtniAOl T1MVTJ "V "OSf oi jmJi3 joj duim aj-iili BET PNOal tr ! SJW Ct t XV SlglfJT ICPUT tapls Article. Indisneti.able to ev nuL' rv household. Fronts Ww. Addre "All I CU. Trcuiont Ml, tj, , -a Lak-t, Cbicao. Ii now ready to organize a complete Agency System in this Country and Abroad rar-SewW Machine A(rent. Knlttln; Machine Arenta. Canvassers, enterprislnir mn eompetent tt Uka STATE AtiKNCtKSI. and other interested, msy a-ldres the Coninsny below, and isll letter la cloaina reatdr-atddrcaaed atamsved envelop for rrplr. will lae prompt attention. rrn.eComriiTCOTROIi not onlr A I.I. OR IfJ I . r. PATENTS in existence, but ALU PA1 t.NTSwnder viliich a 11A1(.M.U MAlill.Ktu be built. tTTThe first IIl."DTIKr TIIOlt!D MA"IIIFt will be bnllt as rmpMlT aa msj las, ar.d DEUlVfc.lt I CAN 111011 A iiliV BKOl.N AH KAHLY AS JIAHCII IrvT. rrA the Companr mar aafely rely opon a Terr lare- demand from the outet. and bs; no er'tltlon and the "ti.-.-s- are stilf" dull.-the itaSdard Machine MILL UK SOLD AT UL1 A bHADL AlitAMh I PO.N (Osf. and wlil be ltKTAIL.fc.Ls AT Tt. LHL.L.Alt. m ills MAC IlIXK doeslU work In all respect as TIIortorGHI.Y and f ATJSF ACTOUILT a tha . cot:y tewing alachme due iu work. "We expect to sell it by Ihe .M1L.L.IO.N. LOCAL CANVASSINC ACENTS, IM ALL CASES, PREFERRED. Flret-ciaa Agent will have Flrat-clas Term. Ko econdla lie:p wanted on any term. State Exactly What Yon Want to Do, and Why You Think You Can Do It, And irlve reference, and do not forget stamped envelope for reply. Addres . F. O. BOX 3448. KEW YORK CITY. Selected French Burr Mill Stones 1 ti-j. ii an si.s, atn iiir'"r '4 ?.fX workmsnshin. roUsllei ' " , :Hulli-. Hill, unrwr r.r ntid'T 1 1 . i ri i -n ..r lanu or Ms-rttint work. Genuine I' If Ik r- er Itoliina; loth. Mill irks. Corn Mie.l.is sill lanrs. tiearinu. Miuftin, Piilln-s. Man;-''ts. etc.; ail kinds of ilul .Ma. binary sn-I Millers' uppli-s. foetid f.r Pamphlet. Wtsab .mil t owtianr. Hx I1UU, In. intiali. hlo. Ia dcjateu fill l.r im.oukta Lt iug B, Jl T. wC h ntvr VM 4 reHd JTrtfafl Btf. P h ' aTvrU f - rr;rt Dia-IT C8raj la'liKM'Wst. Hiftfuaa-t unatifaitioo. lrr?9a., pjfaj. Lunc. LieT. B. -Mr, Kt'inrT n1 ftUv-i ! ---. rma t Pfii trUaa mr U umrhmifl FEMALE DISEASES wea.M-. God aKnd to Uriu . HoLCopatbie and Old BchOOl FhytCln rpo : "Il ar nti. A ry meirtHs) f- r . U.ie-a.. ,d fe-mtU." "Tif tolT iAJ,d Ritairt of Bf rh Jmutc R'l '.1te we w.lt ; r.-r .' pr- fl pr feu. KiSHAgOSuM V TULLIB8E, CIICIRfiATI, I. .--. ) s. A. K. K. B. e. 8 . B. P. The uhmpmt and bet seed In tha niaikrt. Frnd two cent Btano.. f..r ilhi'trsrrd cstskue. tn s at.d comliar price. W. ii. SUUAB, iiosio. AUs. rpiIIS paper la Printed with IJfK Dianofacttired 1 ". B. KASE bv A tO-141 IiearrKjrn H.. ( hicaru. 'or sal by A. K. fc.a'l.LOfev. IV Jacksuu bt., Ctticag.