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A Defense of Society. Socikty is an organization for enter tainment. It rescml'li's a vast picnic. Thereto each guest brings whatever he or she has to oiler for ilic rnU-rtainmcnt of the whole. The amateur singer brings vocal and artistic delight. The dancing voting man oilers his leadership of the CJerniun. The young girl debutantes con tribute the charm of their youthful graces. The wit and brl exprit devote the sparkle of their conversation, the keenness o( their intellect. And wealth and hospital ity contribute gay balls and sumptuous dinners, the da.zle ol diamonds and tn luster of gorgeous dresses. Therefore, like all organizations, society has no place or room for individual feeling. A lady with a visiting list numlnTing a thousand names can scarcely expect to be loved devotedly by all that thousand. She does not herself take them all to her heart of hearts. The phrase " dear five hun dred friends" is a misnomer. Nobody on earth has five hundred friends, unless, perchance, some great hero or some note worthy piiblic btnefwtor. Blessed, in deed, is the individual who possesses five. As to acquaintances, that is another mat ter. Their number may be indefinitely extended. And society is made up of mutual acquaintanceships. Our friends hold a d liferent post. The sacred lew that we cherish in our heart of hearts are nt to be confounded with the crowd on whom we leave cards anil whom we invite to our largest balls and most gener al receptions, therefore, it we give our love, our trust, our tenderness, only to a few, we can expect return in kind only Irom that few. Society, so-called, is like a lady's ball-dress. It is a delicate and airy fabric, tit for festive occasions, not for daily use. And if any misguided dame were to brave t lie frosts of Decem ber or the winds of March, clad in tulle or tarlatan, she would not have much cause to blame her unsubstantial garb if she were to catch cold. She alone would be at fault for perverting the flimsy attire to a use for which it never was intended. And such is the fault of those that blame society for its heartlessness. True affec tion, firm friendship, warm sympathy are, indeed, to te found therein, but they are not the objects of pursuit. It is an associa tion for mutual amusement merely. We do not expect to gather pumpkins from rosebushes, nor to dig potatoes from a hyacinth bed. Society gives us what she can gay parties, pleasant receptions, agreeable mutual intercourse. It is not her province to feed our intellects or to till our breasts. If we love her unwisely because too well, that is our fault, 1101 hers. And the men and women of society are not one whit the worse or weaker than is humanity elsewhere. We know more about them, that is all. They are actors in the dazzling comedy of real life. The "tierce light" that is said to beat upon a throne shines broad and brilliant on the Kings and Queens of the gay world. Un der that pitiless illumination every defect becomes cruelly apparent. Human na ture is the same all the world over. There are as many weak and vain and frivolous girls on the Bowery as there are in Fifth avenue. A point-lace berthe as often hides a true and warm and womanly heart as does a black stutr gown. Folly and cmptyheadedness are usually said to abound in the masculine ranks of the army of society. Yet, if every fool in thoe ranks were led to instant execution, the race would be very far from becoming extinct. It would thrive and flourish and wax numeiically strong, even if society itself were to have the fate of those sup. pressed members. Many a wise man is a graceful dancer and a well-bred guest. Many a fcol is an ill-mannered and un social ixior. Many a so-called woman of th'; world is a true wife, a good mother, and a devoted friend. And many a home-keeping dame is lazy, slatternly, heartless and disagreeable. Pari , Register. The Spirit of the Democratic Tarty. It would be well for the people of this country to inquire what the probtbie re sult would be should the Democratic party by some means get control of the National administration. It clamors loudly for re form and makes prodigious promises, but what, in the nature of things, would be the inevitable consequence of its en thronement? We have already pointed out its utter imbecility in all its attempts to solve the problem of National finances, and upon that subjeit the country has absolutely nothing to hope trom it. So far as any question of public morals is concerned, any assumption of special virtue on its part would be too ridiculous to be contemptible, aud would provoke nothing but laughter. So far as honor in administering public ulfairs is concerned, it cannot be forgotten that its last effort in that line precipitated rebellion. What, then, docs the party promise, whether we consider its history or the present com position ot it? The inevitable result would Iks the supremacy of Southern sen timent in National politics: the terrorism which has so extensively prevailed throughout the South since the war would be intensified beyoud language to express; colored men would be powerless under the heel of the old despotism; the National Capital would be crowded with fire-eaters and blatant retels, and the men who saved the Na tion would be largely driven out by the men who endeavored to destroy it. If there has been bloodshed in the Southern States in spite of Repub lican authority, which has steadily op posed it, it is not difficult to imagine that under a favorable Administration outrages would multiply until our disorder and cruelty and wrong would make us a by word among the nations of the civilized world. '1 hat this would lie the result is evident from the history of the party. The Southern element in it has always con trolled it. The Northern Democracy have seemed to have no other calling or office than to furnish tail for the Southern kite. .Mr. Buchanan was a Northern man, but the South managed the Government and fairly persuaded the I'rcMdent that he had no constitutional right to put down rebel lion, as he certainly had no natural power to prevent it. 1c the House of Represen tatives now there are more than sixty men who held office, civil or military, under the so-called Confederacy, and only two of them are Republicans. J he mass of them are Democrats and unreconstructed reb els, and they are so numerous that in the nature of things they must determine very largely the principles and policy of the party with which they are identified. Mr. Bayard undertakes in the Senate to answer Mr. Boutwell's charges of terrorism and intimidation inj Mississippi and other Southern States, but he is power less in the argument because the facts are against him. The South is pretty well dotted with graves filled by the assassin's hand, for no other reason than that the victims were Repub licans. It is said, also, upon what seems perfectly good authority, that " of all the outrages committed bv white men upon colored people in the tate of Louisiana, not one has been brought to justice." There are places in the Southern States where colored people dare not to this day address a white man without calling him master. It will not meet these allegations to Pay that these outrages are committed and these abomirable crimes are justified by the worst classes alone, because it is not so. If it were so, the men ic Lou isiana who commit political murders would be brought to justice. It is not difficult to enforce law against a vulgar criminal when all the best classes of so ciety are against him. And when a criminal of this kind escapes, and especially when such criminals are nu merous, and their crimes run through a term of years, and not one of them is ever punisnell, it is conclusive proof that local public sentiment favors the criminals; the best classes feel upon the subject as the worst classes do. The proof is abundant and overwhelming that this is so. The men who commit these crimes, and the " better classes" who approve them, are all Democrats, and propose to make themselves felt in shap ing the policv of the party. And they will succeed in their purposes. They have always done it, and they have neither abandoned their purpose nor lost their power, while their disastrous deleat in their appeal to arms has only increased their violence. It is neither wise nor de sirable to blink the facts in the case. " Men may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace." Sentiments so vitally and violently antagonistic to each other are still entertainea by the two sections of this country, that peace can come only when one or the other is abandoned. It would, of course, be an error to affirm that every individual Democrat in the Northern States is a secessionist, or a pro-slavery man, or that he justifies these outrages in the South ; but it is true beyond all ques tion that the party is so hopelessly en tangled with its Southern alliances that its public policy must be shaped by its Southern constituents. It is practically impossible that it should be otherwise. Gradually the people will come to see this; the true issue will force itself upon their notice, and their votes will be de termined by the same questions precisely that were involved in the war, and which, with slight alterations, have been the sub stance of every political struggle upon the National arena since. Imiianapolis Journal. Consistency. The Democratic majority in the House of Representatives received, in the early days ot the present session, a severe re buke from an aroused public opinion. They bent before the indignation, and pleaded misrepresentation in regard to the alleged dismissal of worthy Union sol diers as officials of the House, and the re placing of them by ex-Confederates. It was claimed on the floor that the Demo cratic officers had employed more ex Union soldiers than did the Republicans formerly. Everyone who knew the s'.atus of affairs at the Capitol felt that this was an evasion. So it has turned out to be. Nearly all of the ex-soldiers retained on the rolls for buncombe by the Confederate Doorkeeper, have since been discharged. What few remain are in sulordinate places. The same thing is true in other departments of the House. Democratic chairmen of committees, nearly all of whom were very green and raw, retained in some instances the former clerks. But this appears to have been only a make shift. When the clerk had instructed his ignorant superior he, too. was turned adrift. An instance of this kinu oc curred in the Committee on Pen sions. Mr. Jenks, the "reforming" chairman, was so ignorant of matters over the nature of which he now writes and speaks so glibly, that he asked the Republican members to recommend a proper person for clerk. Mr. Wilson, an ex-soldier, who formerly filled the posi tion, was named and appointed. He worked very hard and faithfully for a number of weeks. Mr. Jenks then dis missed him without cause, and appointed a political follower of his own. The com mittee were greatly annoyed, and a Demo crat thereon proposed a resolution very complimentary to Mr. Wilson, however it might be regarded as affecting Mr. Jenks, and it passed unanimously. The Chair man of the Committee on Invalid Pen sions is a consistent man. He presents an elaborate attack on the Pension Bureau, and proposes to remove it to the War De partment. One of his principal reasons therefor is the alleged frequent political removals in the Department of the In terior, and the comparative freedom there from the War Department would and does enjoy. Yet this same reformer plays a confidence game learns his business, or tries, from a Republican subordinate, and then dismisses him for a Democrat w hom he has to teach. Republic Magazine. 3Ilssing a Fish. The water was heavy and no mistane, and, as it dashed around the rock on which I st"od, I rather hesitated whether to try that particular pool or not; tor I knew by bitter experience the difficulty of follow ing a fish, should he, as most probaby he would, take down stream. However, I did the plucky, and in a few minutes my blue-bodied fly was sw inging across the pool. Round it came floating on the top of the stream ; so strong was the cur rent that it would not sink. Two or three more throws ind then came up a noble fellow, half of him showing out of the water, as he boldly took my fly; the line tightened, and the steel struck home. A moment's pause as we both prepared for the tussle, and then off he dashed down stream. 1 groaned as yard after yard raced out, aud I prepared to follow my friend in his reckless career. Fortunately, before I had moved, he turned and came straight back to me; fast as i reeled up, yet taster came the fish. I could not step back so as to regain the touch, and for a few agonizing moments I thought he was off; but no. I suppose the water kept the line taut, and prevented the fly coming away, as too often occurs in such a crisis; and I felt that the link that connected us still held good. Eagerly I watched the line as it slowly moved round and round the small pool, and made up my mind, if possible, to keep my antagonist within its narrow bounds. A short dash down was stopped by a little extra pres sure. I dared not put on the strain too hard, for 1 was fishing with single gut and that little thicker than sewing gut. I began now to have hopes of killing him, and was chuckling over the idea ot send ing him home as a present to the friends I had left in the morning, and so have the laugh on my side; for of course they had made merry at the idea of my rushing off so frantically. "There's many a slip." The extra pressure had evidently riled the fish, and he made an angry dash up stream, followed by a grand leap clear out of the water; but he was unfortunate ly so close under my rod at the time that I could not slack suftieientlj-, the hold broke, and my fly came back to me. As if in derision, clear out of water again spranc my late antagonist. Was it my fancy, or was there a wriggle of his tail and a cock of his eye, as much as to say, " Sold again, old fellow?" London Once-a- Wei k. iagara After a Gale. Tub incessant galu from the north and northeast for the past week caused a won derful change in tiie Niagara River. Dur ing Sunday and Monday the falls pre sented an appearance such as has not been witnessed since the year 1843. Many of our citizens, and more especially the visitors who happened to be in town, rushed from point to point viewing the wonderful sight. The huge rocks below the American falls that are usually cover ed with water frort fifteen to twenty feet deep, were bare and stuck out like moun tains. William Glassbrook, the old ferry man, said he could have walked from the entrance to the " Shadow of the Rock" up to the " Cave of the Winds" in front of the American falls without danger. The river between Goat Island and Prospect Park, where the water usually runs more than twenty miles an hour, was checked to such an extent as to be wada ble anywhere without the slightest assist ance. But the greatest view ot all to lj hold was the great Horseshoe fall. This had lost fully two-thirds of its immense body of water, and was compared by many with an ordinary mill-pond. The stream immediately above Table Rock and far beyond Street's Island, a distance of more than 400 feet, presented one solid bed of rock, but hardly a drop of water. The place just opposite, where the old Terrapin tower formerly stood, corres ponded very much with that already de scribed, and the handful of water that re mained, comparatively speaking, was forced through tne deep channel in the center, which forms the horseshoe. Sus pension Bridge Journal. riant a Centennial Tree. In Connecticut, the Secretary of the Board of Education has issued a call upon the people, urging each one to plant a Centennial Tree. This is a good sugges tion. Trees, in a civilized community, are evidences of good taste, refinement and culture. They are handsome and valuable. The tree planted to-day, will afford pleasure to thousands of admiring eyes during the coming century of our nation's existence and confer untold blessings upon coming generations. The tree planted this year, will be preserved and cared for by all. The knowledge that it was planted upon the 100th anniversary of American independence, would cause all to watch it with peculiar Interest. Plant a tree, then: wjjl do good. Toledo Blade, Fashions In Women's Dress. CAMHKICAKD I'EKCALE DRESSES, With the first warm days of spring the fresh importations ot cambrics ana other cotton fabrics are eagerly welcomed This year their cheapness and variety make them m re popular than ever; and the designs which c:u.h year are brought nearer to perfection, show this season in checks and stiipes in all tints on delicate grounds of the same shade. A foulard finish adds to their beauty, and makes them assume a marked place among ma terials used for morning costumes for the street, to be worn further on when the warm days come. Some houses import these cambrics in dress patterns. In making up these cambric dresses care should be taken in using patterns for overdresses which will not necessitate ripping them apart for washing. A series of carefully-constructed drawing-strings and tapes are used fr looping. Among other new fabrics we mention Algerienne, in all shades, in checks and strires, at twenty-five cents a yard a ma terial which will wash and is suitable for summer morning-dresses. Gazolene cash mere, in all shades, ia another pretty ma terial. Spring knickerbocker cloth, a check of color on dark ground, is another useful and attractive fabric. In tact, there is an abundant variety of material to suit all purposes in the cheap spring importations. CHECKED AND PTHII'ED SILKS. Great bargains are, offered in these goods; they form one of the features of the spring fashions and are always popu lar. Wide stripes, black and white, aud also stripes of color, have been extensive ly used in Paris by certain houses. In making them up the novel feature of car rying the stripes up and down on the back of the waist, and by fitting the dress without shoulder seams, allowing the stripes to pass over the shoulder and meet in f ront, thus giving the stripes a diagonal line on the front of the waist, has also been adopted. Pingat has sent over dresses in which alternate stripes of color were hleuded with plain silk of one of the shades, making very beautiful dinner and evening dresses. In making up checked dresses, whether in silk or in any other material, a favorite style is to use flounces on the underskirt of two different sized checks, the middle flounce being generally of the fiuercheck. Where this style is used in woolen ma terial the overskirt is made on the straight ol the goods; if its width allows, then the width forms the depth of the overdress; it is drajed at the sides, and falls in natu ral folds at the bMck, winch are afterward caught up underneath by tapes so as to form a puff. Ball fringe finishes the over dress. Almost all overdresses, if "not trimmed with fringe, have narrow p'.aited ruffles; if the material used is woolen, the plait ings are of silk. For heavy, rich fabrics, long, plain, untrimmed skirt? are fashionable; sometimes a sinirle nar row and scant flounce defines the bot tom of the dress. With these the over skirt is long, and very often has a flounce or rufile. A style much worn foi overskirts is a double apron ; the under one long, and put on with the point di rectly in the middle, while the upper one is a little on the left. They are as often put on one directly above the other, the upper one reaching only to the knee, and both trimmed with fringe. AVith these the back of the overskirt is long, square, and looped in graceful folds. With a plain apron-front the back is generally out up to the waist and trimmed up the sides before it is looped. Cuirass waists are much mors trimmed around the edges; it has been found that the whalebones necessary to make them fit wear through the material, and now a fringe or narrow plaiting finishes the waist as well as the skirt. Long polonaises of black silk, made plain, almost like the cassocks worn by priests, are fashionable in Paris. If trimmed it is down the entire front, some times with fine jet beads in delicate pat terns of embroidery. For home dresses the surplice waist is worn, and with these large, square handkerchiefs of Spanish lace or Chantilly constitute the only trim ming. The handkerchief is a yard and a Quarter square, and is loosely tied on the bosom. The following description of a French dress recently sent home shows a novel trimming for the waist: Brown silk trimmed with salmon color; apron and basque of brown silk ; sleeves, vest and middle of the back, salmon. The trim ming of the back docs not end at the waist, but in two long ends, two yards long and a breadth wide of salmon silk, which are looped like sash-ends at the back. J-CKU AND CKEAM COLORED LACES. Ecru and cream-colored lace is to trim everything; we seem likely to be thor oughly satiated with the cream-colored mania, just now at its height. Not only are the cashmere laces in" this tint, but Italian and all other trimming laces are made to nssume it. One of the prettiest ideas for the making up of this creamy material is found in the mantillas, worn abroad at full dress concerts, and which will also be a summer evening fashion. Lace edging is fulled on to a large square of biond either cream-colored or white Spanish blond; one point is put on the head, over a little bunch of flowers; while another point lies on the shoulders, and the two ends are caught and knotted on the breast. A bow of ribbon, with long ends, holds the point which rests on the head, and a hair-pin or two 'on the sides make the handkerchief assume the form of a loose hood. The ribbon used should match the little bunch of flowers worn on the head. Crimson roses and crimson ribbon, forget-me-nots and blue ribbon, or violets and violet ribbon; these hist two for a blonde. SPRINd rON"ETS. As most of the spring bonnets are cream colored, whether they are of coarse straw or fine French chip, the cream laces are very much used for trimming. Scarfs come in these laces expressly for round hats. Bonnets are smaller, closer to the ears, with flaring brim, and little capes of straw which are hidden by the trimming. Wide barbes of lace and soft twilled rib bons are used with wreaths of flowers, and encircle the crown, fallingsometimes over the back of the hat; but oltener the barbes of lace come close down over the sides of the hat, and are tied loosely un der the chin. Cream-colored chips have fronts of navy-blue chip, and in that case the crown is trimmed with soft, twilled navy-blue ribbon and blush roses. One pure white chip has a wreath of violets and pale roses, the violets falling over the back in a loose bunch; inside the front Ls a half-wreath of roses and a bunch of violets. The flaring fronts of all these hats have deep facings of silk. Velvet leaves, in all the shades which foliage as sumes, are used on chip and tulle bonnets. These wreaths of velvet leaves have been very fashionable on ivory-tinted silks this winter; now they are used on bonnets. Rmind hats are to have narrow brims, and resemble the old turbans. A'. Y. Evening Post. Insect Aeronauts. Bctterflies, frail and delicate as they seem, sometimes accomplish wonderful feats on the w ing. A writer in Nature statts that, while making a voyage to New Zealand a few years ago, a butterfly visit ed the ship when it w as distant from the nearest point of land the rock of St. Paul's fully 200 miles. The wind had probably assisted the wanderer in this ex tended departure from land, perhaps bearing it much of the way without ef fort of its own, or even contrary to its inclination. Darwin relates, in the " Nat uralist's Voyage Round the World," that one evening, when ten miles from the bay of San Bias, vast numbers of butter flies surrounded the ship Beagle. The most remarkable instance known to this eminent observer of an insect out at sea, was that of a grasshopper (acrydium) which flew on board the Beagle when the nearest point of land not directly opposed to the trade-wind was Cape Blanco, on the coast of Africa, distant 370 miles. In connection with the incident ot the grasshopper and the butterflies, quoted above, Darwin states that, on several oc casions, as the Beagle was lying within the mouth of the La Plata, the rigging was coated with the webs of the "gossamer spider. One clear, fine morning (Nov. 1, 1832), the air was filled with "tiocculent webs, to which myriads of small, dusky- red spiders were attached. Darwin esti mates the cumber of these venturesome visitors at some thousands. Each one came riding in on a single thread ; but the threads were so many and so long that in the course of the voyage they ran afoul of each other, and became entangled, form ing by the accidental snarl the flocculent mass resembling a web. The spiders were of both sexes and of all sizes, but were all of one species. As soon as their aerial carriages came in contact with the ship's rigging, the spiders alighted, and resumed the use of their legs with great alacrity. They ran all about on tours of discovery, throwing out over vacant spaces ladders of their own spinning, along which they made their way in every direction. They appeared very thirsty on their first arrival, as though they had traveled in their long journey sixty miles from the nearest shore through a dry and rarified atmosphere. With extended maxilla? they eagerly sipped at drops of water until their thirst was appeased. The little creatures had the remarkable faculty of running on the surface of wa ter. When disturbed in any of their oc cupations, they would lift up their front legs in an attitude of inquiry and atten tion. Once seated on their gossamer bal looons, they were at the mercy of the wind, w hich blew them w herever it listed, " While watching some," says Mr. Dar win, " that were suspended by a singie thread, I several times observed that the slightest breath of air bore them out of sight, in a horizontal line." When any of the tiny aeronauts wished for a sail, they had only to mount upon some emi nence, shoot out a thread from the abdo men, and then, holding it last, ride off "with a rapidity that was quite unaccountable." SESE AD KOSESE. An What keeps Lent longest and best umbrella. To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath. The lastest parasol-handle contains a powder-puff and a small mirror. A Persian proverb says: "There are only two days for which to feel anxious. One that is past, and the other is the day to come." A woman at Denver knocked a United Stales official down w ith a chair, and her neighbors are all glad that she let chair-ity begin where it did. The proper caricature for the new bon nets, according to Jennie June, is a wide flower-pot, with a fountain casting up spray in the middle. "An Omaha man has trained a buffalo so that tie rides him all around. tt. j) jer. If he wants a buffalo to ride hiin around no outsider should eoni-prain. l ufXfj ladies wuo expect callers should look out who they send to the door. A Savannah belle didn't look out. and her William concluded to take the servant girl instead of the bello. Vermont is going to put a stop to the frequent change of school books by em ploying " teachers who can t be bribed by acents." it will Le an interesting thing to watch. Detroit Fret Pre. A Connecticut grocer died the other day, but before he closed his eyes he ad mitted to having a pair of scales weighing httcen ounces to the pound. He didn't want his soul weighed on them. Potter Valley, Mendocino County, Cal., hs a female physician. During a recent storm she twain three rivers to gtt to a case of measles, and when she reached the house fainted away at the sight of an awful mouse. Answer to a Bookkeeper: If John Smith agrees to pay l,0tK on demand. and pavs if 100 at the end of one year, at the end of two years, if the demand is mad, he will owe $1,100. Partial pay ments apply first on accrued interest. Llneago 1 ribune. The season is already coming over the hill, when a modest man who prefers the quiet of private life is so persistently im portuned by his "many mends fro id all parts of the district," that he is forced to abandon home and friends to announce himself a candidate for office. "And this is the very room," said a country cousin, on being taken into Faneuil hall the other day, "in which our forefathers met to unite against tyranny." " That sounds well," said her city relative, rather bored with sight see ing, " but the tact is, this Hall was built in 1S0S." Emily Faithfcll. says, in Women ond Work : " Wc like unladylike girls. We dislike to hear a chit often or eleven praised for being 'such a ladylike little girl.' Wc would far rather hear the com plaint, ' Mary is so boisterous; she never comes down the stairs, but always down the banisters; she tears about like a mad thing, and is never so happy as when KJifl is after some lark, as she calls !.t' " Dear. dear! who broke my f.ivorite Ptjn . Cried Biddv- liautam to her daughter;' "Some lazy cur. too proud to be;.'. Ilaa mahcd it and he hadn t ought ter. Th child stave one pathetic rw. Her rueful tears boiranto thicken; Sin- hob'ied aloud: " f broke it. mat This little perxon is my chicken. Some albumen and lime I'll buy Aud make another one to match It; O ma! I cannot tell a lie I did it with my little hntch It!" N. Y. Graphic. A peripatetic "medicine man" in New Jersey is curing blindness, or pro fessing to do so, by fastening a wire ti?lit ly around the neck of the patient. This wire is to be retained in position for a certain length of time, before the expira tion of which the "doctor" hies him to fresh fields, leaving his dupes t discover that thev are such at their leisure. He is supposed to be the same individual who formerly traveled selling tin helmets to be worn as a cure for deafness. Tick comes to the surface again. He doesn't prognosticate that showerof spare ribs, but he lays down the postulate that storms run in spirals, and lhat "the bor eal pole will hurl an electric current around it in a definite direction, and the austral pole in the opposite direction." Tice may as well understand that this sort of thing will not do. The sort of weather they have in Austria is of no consequence here. What we want to know is when the local corkscrew is going to uncork the storm. N. Y. Graphic. The Bmoklvn Argus, bribed by Chica go gold (raised on second mortgage), has gone over to the enemy and joined the ranks of those who prate of St. Louis' feet. Here is its first essay: "Prof. Proctor is astonishing the St. Louisans by his long dnily walks. People there mostly ride. When a fashionable young lady ventures out on a shopping excur sion it's a common thing to hear her neress attendant remark: 'Done tire j'orese'f, honey, totin' dem foots o' yore's too fur.' " St. Ltmis Republican. An old Mussulman tradition tells us very sweetly why animals are dumb. Acting under Gabriel's directions Adam set to work witn a plow ana a yoke of oxen to till the ground. The plow" struck a rock, and Adam in his impatience smote one of the oxen. The beast at once turned its head and asked, "Wherefore hast thou smitten me?" Adam replied, "Because thou dost not draw the plow." "Adam," quoth the ox. "when thou wast rebellious did God smite thee then?" The Almighty then withdrew from beasts the power of speech, lest they should cast their sin in the teeth of men. The Idaho World tells a Ftory that seems almost incredible. One evening two years ago a party of ten of the promi nent citizens of Idaho gave a reception at Boise City. Now not one is living, all having met w ith violent death?. One was killed by an insane man, another preferred laudanum to political disgrace, another blew his brains out with a pi-tol ball, one was murdered and his body concealed among the rocks, one fell down a mine shaft 000 feet and was dashed to pieces, another was assassinated while walking along the street, one fell out of a wagon and received fatal injuries about the head, one was killed in Washington Territory, and the last of the ten was scalped by In dians in Eastern Idaho. The fashion in dress-coats has not changed much in five years. The only difference is in details. How to make a good thing last Make everything else first. JV. J Commercial Advertiser USEFUL A.M SUGGESTIVE. SrLPniDE of roTASSiot, if placed on the surface of the soil under the plant af flicted w ith sulphides or plant lice, w ill drive all the insects away or destroy them. Rice Sponge Cake. Three-quarters of a pound of rice flour ; one pound of white sugar, ten eggs; beat the yelks witii the sugar; tli e whites alone; add the yelks, sugar and flour together a little at a time ; flavor and bake in shallow pans. To prevent an ox or steer from going ahead ofhis joke-mate when attached to a sled or cart, put a chain around his end of the yoke and fasten it to the pole or tongue of the sled or cart, just back of his fore-leg, allowing him to come up even with his mate. He will soon give up the habit as a bad job. II. W. F., in Maine Farmer. Cleaning Knives. A small, clean po tato, with the end cut off, is a very conve nient medium of applying brick-dust to knives, keeping it about the right moist ure, while the juice of the potato assists in removing stains from the surface. We can get a better polish by this method than by any other we have tried, and with less lalor. Cor. Rural New Yorker. Fricassee ok Onions. IVcl two or three dozen of the very small, round, white onions; sprinkle them with salt; let them remain for half an hour, then roll them upon a cloth to dry them slight ly, and dredge with flour; throw them into a stewpan in which you have melted two ounces of fresh butter; toss them over a gentle fire for five minutes; drain the fat from them, add a pint of rich milk, minced lemon-peel, white pepper, salt and butter. Simmer for leu minutes and serve in the sauce. Necdle Pudding. Three eggs leat light; add a little salt and flour to make a paste that will roll; roll the paste an eighth of an inch thick; fold the paste and shred fine; boil in clear water, with a lit tle salt; put them in the water while it is boiling, and do not allow them to stick together, or uncover the pot for ten minutes; take them out and drain well ; bake them one hour; beat two eggs light; mix them in a quart of milk, and stir in the neudles; add salt, sugar and spices to taste, and bake as custard. Fisu Cakes. Onepintbowl saltcodfish, picked very fine, two pint bowls of whole, raw, peeled potatoes; put together in cold water and boil until the potatoes are thor oughly cooked; remove from fire and drain off" all the water; mash with potato masher; add piece of butter the size of an egg, two well-beaten eggs and a little pep per; mix well with a wooden spoon; have a frying pan with boiling lard or drip pings, into which drop a spoonful of mixture and fry brown; do not freshen the fish lefore boiling with jnttatoes, and do not mold cakes, but drop from spoon. Have a written contract with laborers. Use the best implements on the farm and keep them always in order and well pro. teeted from the weather, reed stock regularly, and recollect a fat horse cats less than a poor one, and does much bel ter work. Early planting is best nine times out of ten. Never buy what you can produce at home equally as cheap. Never plant more than you can cultivate well. Never borrow from a neighbor ex cept in case of necessity, and then return whatever you borrow as soon as possible. Prepare well for market whatever you can spare from the farm and sell it when it is in the best state of preparation. Pomeroy's Democrat. A correspondent of the Practical Farmer says: Proprietorsof farm wagons and carts, the wheels of which are made with narrow rims have no adequate idea of the amount of feed and flesh of teams that would be saved it the wheels of their vehicles were provided with rims three to five inches broad. Of course, where the ground is hard, no perceptible advantage will appear in favor of broad-rimmed wheels. But when hauling manure over soft ground, or hauling loads of grain and hav from fields where the wheels sink only to or three inches into mellow soil, if the rims of common wagon wheels are four or five inches broad on the periphery, a team will draw fully one-third more per load than if the rims were of the usual width. m s Some Suggestions for Planting Small Places. With beginners, and those of limited experience in the art of gardening, there is always a strong desire to rush the work in the garden, have the beds dug and raked, the seeds sown, and the trees aud shrubs planted before the frost is well out of the ground, or the soil dry or warm enough to facilitate vegetation. This natural, but very common, error, to turn over or disturb the ground too soon in the spring not infrequently h'ads to discour aging results later in the season. Garden seeds, sown too early, while the soil is still cold and wet, are sure to be seriously injured, rotting in many instances before germinating. This will be found true in degree cf fruit-bearing trees as well as garden seeds. I have known of many cases where young pears, apples and cherries were permanently stuuted from the very start by this unwise course of planting when the soil was cold and soggy. On clay land, no more fatal blun der can be made than planting fruit-trees, vines or shrubs, before the soil is in the right condition. Better by far wait two week than start one day too soon. If the soil is thrown around the roots when heavy and wet, it soon hardens, encasing the fibers in in impervious cement which hinders their natural action, and, as n atter of course, checks the grow th and vigor of the trees or vines. Early plant ing in the open ground of vegetables or fruit-trees possesses no other' advantage beyoud that ot having the work out of the way, and for this the risks run from the causes named are out of all proportion. I nave Known oi instances time and again, even with as hardy a vegetable as the potato, that those planted about the mid dle of April were ripe and reiidy for use one to two weeks in advance of those planted a month earlier, and produced a larger yield this, too, on the same farm, and under the same treatment and cul ture. Scribner's Monthly. Laying Out Too Much. The majority of farmers err in laying out too much work to do. During the early spring thev strive to see how much land thejr can get plowed. In their eager ness to get a great number of acres turned under, they are not at suitable pains to have the plowing well done. They also plow a good deal of the land when it is al together too wet to do gocd work. Land plowed in this condition will require a vast amount of labor to insure its produc ing even fair crops. No amount of sub sequent labor, however, can make up for the damage done land by plowing it when it was too wet. Having turned over a very large num ber of acres of land, there is hurry all the year, and still the work is behind. There is hurry in sowing the small grains, and even then much seed is sown too late to produce a good crop. The land is indif ferently harrowed, and quite likely not rolled at all. As a natural consequence the grain is bard to cut, and if the land was seeded down to grass it will ever after ward Ik? difficult to cut and rake the crop that crows upon it. Unless land can be seeded down in a proper manner, it should not be seeded down at all. Too much land was plowed for corn, and accordingly there is great hurrying during the planting season. The seed was not evenly dropped or evenly cov ered, and as a natural consequence the coi n comes up unevenly and remains un even till narvest time, when the ears are found to be uneven both in size and in ma turity. There was hurry all the time the crop was tended. There was a strife be tween the farmer and the weeds to see which would keep ahead, and the weeds fairly won the race. In the fall there is less corn and that of poorer quality than if a smaller number of acres had been planted. Young farmers especially are apt to reckon up the number of acres they can plow, plant, cultivate and harvest if there are no drawbacks, and plow according ly. Now, there are always drawbacks. In the first place there are rainy days, and other days when the 6oil is too wet to be properly worked". As the seasons go there w'ill be on an average one rainy I day in a week, or one day in which cul tivating and hoeing cannot be done. An allowance must be made for these days. Otherwise all the cultivated crops cannot be properly cultivated. Then an allowance must be made for times when the team will not be in a condition to work, when the driver will be sick, when business will call the farm er away, when implements will be out of order, and when accidents of various kinds will occur. Counting these all up, it will be found that the estimate made on the supposition that the days are all to be fair, the hands and horses all to be well, and the implements in good running or der, is altogether too large. In truth, it must be reduced about one-half. The great majority of farmers will ac knowledge at the last end of the year that they undertook too much at the first end. They generally find that they broke con siderable green sward that would have produced more had it been left in grass. They also find that the largest crop pro duced on the farm was weeds. These grew because an attempt was made to cul tivate more land than the farmer was able to attend to. The farmer whose finest crop was weeds last year should seed down land rather than break up more. Chioi go Times. Seed Failures. Some cultivators, through ignorance or forgetfulness of the fact that the products of a garden, being natives of various soils and climates, require peculiar man agement, deposit their seeds in the ground at an improper season. The early and most hard' species and varieties should not be planted until the ground can be brought into good condition, as some species of plants that, in an advanced stage of grow th will stand a hard w inter, are often cut off" by a very slight frost while young, especially if exposed to the sun after a frosty night. Some species of seeds, such as bean, beet, cabbage, lettuce, radish, salsify, turnip, etc., being from their nature apt to vegetate quickly, are often destroyed while germinating, through variableness of the weather, and some are liable to be devoured by insects forty-eight hours after they are sown, and before a plant is seen above the ground, unless a suitable remedy is employed in time to annoy the insects. Some species, as carrot, celery, leek, onion, parsley, spinach, etc., being nat urally of tardy growth, taking (in un favorable seasons) from twr to three or four weeks to vegetate, are apt to perish through incrustation of the soil or other untoward and unaccountable circum stances which cannot always be con trolled. The failures often occur through seeds being deposited too deeply in the ground or left too near the surface. Sometimes, for want of sufficiency of seed in a given spot, solitary plants" will perish, they not having sufficient strength to open the pores of the earth, and very frequently injudicious managcmentin manuring aud preparing the soil will cause defeat. Western Rural. A Bear Story. The Southern Californian, published at Bakersfield, Kern County, Cal.. relates this adventure with a bear: Walter, the renowned bear-hunting sailor, has desert ed his camp in the Tejou Mountains, where for two weeks he has been snowed in, with nothing to eat except flour for most of the time. Just before the snow came on he starteil out for a deer. The weather had been warm for several days, and the deer kept well upon the hills. At last he wounded one and followed it for a mile, when it gave out and he soon had it dressed. But he was tour miles from camp anl he could only carry one-quarter of it with his ride, having the mountains to climb. As he crossed the creek, with his load strung with his belt strap over his shoulders, he sat down to wash his hands. On looking up he saw something pulling at tiie venison he had left hanging to a sapling. He was not more than fifty j-ards away, and he rose to his feet for a better look, aud saw a grizzly busy mak ing a square meal jle could not resist drawing his rifle on him and looking through the sights. The bear did not see him. After taking aim for some time and thinking he could make a tolerably sure thing with an ounce ball, stopping occa sionally to look over his gun and take the better measure of the beast, he drew a fine siirht, waited an instant till the broadside of the face was well toward him, thi n touched the trigger. The bear bounded iu the air us it it had been shot out of the euii itself, and Walter bounded for a tree. He had no more than caught a limb be fore he saw the bear was making toward him. Up the tree he went, the quarter of venison still strapped to his back. He had hardly reached his length above the ground before the bear, as if just seeing him, and frightened, wheeled and fled the other way. He thinks the ball hit the bear on the side of the head, glanced off' and so confused the beast that lie did not know which way he was running. He says lw has not had a night's sleep since without seeing the grizzly close upon him. Fating and Dyspepsia. It is an old German adasre that "more people dig their own graves with their teeth than with spades," and verily it w,u!d seem so if we would look at the immense number of dyspeptics, rheu matic and gouty individuals, creeping through life in pain and wretchedness. Yet it is next to impossible to induce even thinking people to control their ap petites, and to eat such things and a, such times as nature shows them is necessary and right. Dr. Hall declares unhesitatingly that it is wrongto eat with out an appetite, for it shows there is no gastric juice in the stomach, and that nature doe not need food, and, not need ing it, there being no fluid to receive and act ujMn it, it remainsthere only to putri fy, the very thought of which should be sufficient to deter any man from eating w ithout an appetite the remainder of his life. If a tonic is taken to whet the ap petite it is a mistaken course, for its only result is to cause one to eat more when already an amount has been eaten leyond what the gastric juice is able to prepare. The object to be obtained is a large sup ply of gastric juice; whatever fails to ac complish that essential object fails to have any efficacy toward the cure of dys peptic diseases. The formation of gastric juice is directly proportioned to the wear and tear of the system, which it is to be the means of supplying, and this wear and tear can only take place as the result of exerefse. The efficient remedy for dyspeptics is work out-door work ben eficial anil successful in direct proportion as it is agreeable, interesting and profita ble. Jiural Neio York r. Ir. $chtnfk'i Standard Kemedlei, Thk Ftaodard remedies for all difeaaes of the lunc are S hixck's Prutofiic Srnrp. Schknck's Sba Wiid Tovro and Schfnck'8 .Mandrake Pn.i.e. and, if taken before the lungs are destroyed, a speedy cure is eilected. To these three medicines Dr. J. H. Pchnck, of Philadelphia, owes bis unrivaled pieces io tba trentineut of pulmonary disease. Ths Pulmonic Syrup ripens tbe morbid matter in the 1iidl': tature throws it oft" by an eay ex pectoration, for when the phlegm ormnt.er is ripe a slight couch will throw it oil, the patient has reot and the lung's begin to heal. To enable the Pulmonic Byrap to do this, Pchenrk's Mandrake Pills and Schenclc'a Pea Weed Tonic mast be freely n?eri to clesnxe the stomach ana liver. Schencfc's Mandrake Tills net on the liver, removing all obstructions, relax the gall-blndder. the bil start freely and Die liver is soon relieved. SchencI Sea WeeO Tonic is a pentle stimulant and alterative; the alkali, of which it i composed, mixes with the food and prevents souring. It as sifts tbe uigeftion by toninjr up the ytoinach to a healthy condition, so that the food and the Pul monic Syrup will make t'ood blood; then th luna hal. and the patient will surely j;et well if care Is taken lo prevent fres-h cold. All who wish to consult Dr. Schenck, either per sonally or by letter, can do so at his principal of fice, corner of Sixth and Asca Sts., Philadelphia, very Monday. Schenck s medicines throughout tbe country. i sold by all drnsgtats PlRBOlfAL. John W. Hollix, tfontezvmi, Tenn., May IS, 1S70. "I have been usinsr SIMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR, and it hag proved to be the best mtdk-ine in my case that I ever saw. We believe it to be one of the best medicines in the universe." Ask your druggist for " Dr. Svke' Sure Cure for Catarrh." or send Ten Cetiti to Dr. C. R. Sykes, 169 E. Madison St., Chicago, 111. The largest Vinegar Work in the world are in Chicago. E. L. Trusting & Co., Prop', A Tostt. Two Important Discoveries! The dis covery of Amerh'a by Columbus, and Dr. Pierce's (iolden Medienl Discovery; the one opening up to mankind a new continent, the other a fountain of health, which is indis pensable to the full enjoyment of life and its lilessiii's. In response to the above sen timent come the unsolicited attestations of tens of thousands of grateful patients, who have been relieved of chronic ailments throuirb it instrumentality. Those voices aro limited to no one locality, but from everv city, village, and hamlet. In our broad domain, as well us from other climes, and in the strange utterances of foreign tongues, like the confused murmur of many waters, come unfeigned and hearty commendations, It is, in combination with the Pleasant lfur e:tive Pellets, the c;rcat depurator of the aav. Under its benign action eruptions dis appear, excessive waste is checked, the nerves are strengthened, and health, long banished from the system, resumes her tnhlishrs her roseate throne ,.,.r. Ml who have thoroughly tested its virtues in the diseases for which it is recommended unite in pronouncing it the great Medical Discot m y ol the ae. 5.000 a V ! una firicii-.it i.r Alliift r..p. I'-in-n. All me new ar .I piiiihUi , N,,Vcltl'- ntl Cliro tn. I'rle I ncloiiifii, Hai In , .(,- i-'r' , l ie S Ul tcrnix L'iVi'll tu Ak-MiHiT)lirrc. V ! M-nil Viiluabl t.iiiii- s with In tilii! i.f iMin ,...,! , r. i nil It. L. l-Lt I Clitic 111 Chambers tt w Vurk. 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Ths Original Clrt Bonk K mer it! Ita ??nd .ear -. ::ioi bilk Dre.s f:. ia Wlth'J. Milvrr mnA iu.f.,1 articles of all kinds, FREE to ever, purchaser or a tss.k. tntr4 Agrnt and oltr. o esnd tor our cautloane and trims WM. FM.T, 133 h.&ll St.,l'tUlada..ia. 2 A fl T"W W ThsOrlrfm ! h3 S pna-.n..wt ;Ty Tlln-trated Floral Cfttalornft for 1S6 Cents less than half the cost. Boston, Mass. ters, formaof rontracts. lutr.ei. r,n CIS. and sifti paintltiir. graining. Tarnishing, polishing. a vn.ining. papering, lettering, staining, mniing, etc.. fiOcis. Hook of A Iphnhrt, rat. hero is.ind Orna ments, f l. Watchmaker and Jeweler. Mt. rif acniaker, W. Taxidermist. Mi. Hunter and 1 ranter's t.uide. . llog-'l'taimng. ir. Improvement of Meipory, l.. iimM to Authorship. fs. Lightning Calcula'or, T.. Ilorae- hoer. .'.). I.orue and Ci.gueriea of . W. Of hook sellers or hy mail. JL.-8K UAtV A CO.. Nassau St.. N. . V. We have Inst purehaaed l fTfl Ural-class I'l iti"" and Organs for the M'KINt. TliAl'K, and1 will sl'll Ihctil r the Urgrt d.seount from factory prices ever ottered. 1 erma of pay. im nt to :ri t arii, remain der .ii.iit. rlv. or ci o t .1 lilolitulv. Catalogues Wlthluil explanation sent free. REED'S TEMPLE OF MUSIC, U UI IOA " I I. 1IUA.0. ItiT"Cut this out aud Inclose It In your letter. K. flew Englat.dersati.se West. ri'HK IOH l'l.AM TKVM llll'T. a largo I literary and news weekly. pnl.it-!n -d al 1 ortlainl. Maine, has a wide circulation ul Hie HwUi New I upland pie. who llnd lit it the news ami gossip of their former homes, as well a- stones, sketches., house) I hints, letters fioin abroad. m. ami oili er mailers llsllaiK found ill l lllst-c a-s literary week Iv. onh J a ear. !h adiain e. m.M:i. c paid ;l hr s'lx months. I he chrouio " Among the l'ai-ie-. l-xl.j. ora pairof smailcr chroinos. " I light and Uiriii, scutliv mail loany who pay c.r In adiam e and who send liiccnia extra to cover expense of mal.ing. Try it. rend stamp lor specimen copy. Addt-e-a F.I WK1.L. I icKAUO A t O- l orCittid. Maine. ;'D0fi!F.8TS6" SEWING MACHINES. Liberal Terms nf Ex- chanKclorSeioond-liand Wat hir.cs c! every description. "DOMESTIC ' PAPER FASHIONS. The Ileat Patterns made. Send Siti. for Catalogue. Address DCHESTi: SEV7H IIOU Agcnts Wanted. ft ivi;v voiiu. innnn I IUHUU rnnrn FOR $1,00, POSTPAID, In order that wverytMtdy may be enjiMe:l to titknOiift (freat Story and F.miiJy NewpiiMr. wo h dVtM mint-! to offer it till Jan., 177, for Sl.l, pofttpaid. It in tha LARGEST, HANDSOMEST- BEST, and most widely circulated Newspaper in the West. Send money addieaaed THE I.FDGKR, Chicago III. .V5c asaatKSSEritT-.. 'I ft a m a jf u j - a i .yaiicwwii-a'Hw-l ANNUA1LY 7 W i THE Milk or In the manufacture! of It utter and Chpo.o In the I 'nU ted States. The Ilest Clfe and Hotter Making An. paratus ls made by IL II. liOIJ Ac CO., Sen4 for Circular. Mailisou 1-ave l,ou, ONSUMEDrJJ WHY WILL and dia'-swars h hen f will) cle. It Is a f'li'l t Mat I 'ie . r. Is. does, and ha- for )eir lie varie'v of g'to.N well it rlh lar. (" Miiluias fnr n I line what we say and hue ri.-vt for ,'. Mlvr ie r'f-i vim anl I'nr s-a'e of Koston. ii sei.mtf an nnmcti-'! to v. nt O'l 'l i ' dol .'. If otl ill only - w lie'C v m l- ifi h'ti Von pay flA' iv t Do y m i- iti h'tr cheapest. .' cle.rant i.ew f .' and f 1 h'"" H.J lor I. 1 rv anil Kaliev Is. I . T'.ci r.ei. s;,r.... ,V. Ac., at h il' the li- ial jo I.e.. '1 del e sun " t I " tin kery. i lottery, no All ordets iii:.-.i pi ompi iy. mils sent C O. D. ' Vi u can s. e I! i.ciore paj I tig. M need a.'il t- at .1 llil l"l to t'l l 1 1 - a 1 1 I li . La dles and ot '.er- i an ra -e cinhs for n Jj.JJ. e lie i t M r.ll '.(.no people tn lie trial an. 1 fli-c tiioiivii.'i-i oi i-ine. shall secure your continued patron i.' air! . ill till I Y (.He us I k M ' l wo e Sell Oil article for ?1. or giie spl.-n.lld premiums for rluln. '1 RV us and skk. We cannot here the our list. It could till the entire paper. Our house is .-nilorsee ov th hest merchants and papets of l'.os..n mi. I Hy .-.'i patrons. :;i.'t patrons hoiiht of us in I-- f-end v for our treat clrcu'at ". ."Wiuresa it oujusnn CO . N. K. DoLLAK fcALK, 3d llionKuld M lio- ton. Mana. Smith Oman Co., BOSTON, MASS. Tl.csc Standard Instrument. Sold by Music Dealers Everywhere. AGENTS WANTED IN EVZEY TOWN. SOLD TIIBOronCeUT Tn UNITED STATES OS TBI I.STAL.UUE.Vr PLASj That la, on a System of Monthly I'aj menta Pnrcha'ers should ask for the PxiTn Am fric-axObv liAN. LaUilocuc-a and full particulars on rppiicatiou. 8 to ,r fiividc'! air nn? th' nix mot MJUf'fsif;ii grower h Minll rr'K.urrt tri -irrt ii'i.ir t 'f v f tm ll. of JfrilY ami A 1.111 V potatoes. l'rn' t,f i .uli, il h t it.l CENTENNIAL PREMIUMS. Sl.1.0 lo 1 awarded fnrtl.r U-t coilrction, nc if k ra-h. of imt.'i- forth i'f-t end ino't prom- i ttf? rd mr n ! l t li . "fr f pi:ii !rln ul- II vlrlc!l7.' I'otuto ffft. I'ar kr d '('fin, ii-f two itremmniH of Jf'JM fire Iit t v iif 1 c , li t -f t :ie .,- ninniai r.iuiiiHiiin, in t ii t;in n i.v in " " ' ,-r , nd ftrrmitims will ho aunrdfd .y tfu r mji;it or cf)flir ion anl luir jmrt iruinn n-mi l- t our i oiai'j p'tiiiuiii i irrtntir, iiifiiH'fi ir'" finu t I(lia IMuMrAted I'liiHloffnf nn Amu- ur ii stitilrt to tii- KJf"T ni K it h u ... rt ii. n tAinw ati'f'rtiptiri li-t of iVHi vnn ti "f t.irt-T. trl, snrl r'lnuror Muula Uitll Oinllfif i , rt -I ' t l( . T t 1 ' r f 1 1 If M T 'f)j&izr-, Kfivfrtl hunlr'l fifth vmr. lnulif uliy co!"r d httift-irrapri. i'-nt t.o-M. tl. 1jt rtn. I'irft' ti.trti, n. t-i'l 'tn-i f'-n tr J ! ti t I H lit - t'lr illutrtto1. inil-1 t nil HTilKn irirlohtiifr I'tc in. lHIIIiirMlf INti. o t fitiiloirue nnit'4 dHrip iv li-t ntf II th n".r vanr t iei r' nt !y int r- &iiforiu..tiun upon tiit.r cult i vat im. 'SI par' 1 Oct at a. B. K. BLISS &. SONS. 0. Box No. mi'i. '.1 1 Unr l:iy St., N.Y. VANBUSKIWS FRAGRANT la now ronitv Vrte lo Willi a.m K. Bowditch.6U Warren t. V" c l--s" .er " 7 HEALTHFUL AND ELIGIBLE HOMES In a Pleasant Climate. Good openlne for I'npilalut: innu fnrturm, Mmrrt, A-jr,citUurantt ani othm. A reipiefct, hv ioital card, addresaed to Hon. W. Moody, Tu-eal ioi.a. Aiahatna, will secure a pamphlet ol reiiahie Information, free. Garden Pield Flower FRESH AND RELIABLE. Catalogue Fre. lil.NO v SAVAOIC, Tf feuis bu, Chicago. 5?,C0QUILLARD WAGON. J3 A tyPrlce-Llats sent ou ap ..cation. J FEEIGHl, rLi.ht Hiztio, VT-.J ntstir., aifarriai'i, Etc utll ItelKl, ind. AY DERRICKS AY CARRIERS ORSE HAY FORKS, Etc THE VERY BEST. Write for Hlnatrared catalntrue i to C. H. klHKPATKH K. ;U Fayette, lncl. I tlsvlssia M AND ISTIOORATES AW HARDENS THE GUMS! It imparts a delightfully refreshing taste and feeling to tbe mouth, remov ing all TAIITAR and SCURF from the teeth, completely arresting the pro gress c decay, and whitening such parts as have become Watk hy decay. IMPURE BREATH caused by Bad Teeth, Tobacco, Spirits, or Catarrh, is neutralized by the daily use of S0Z0D0EUT It is as harmless as water. Cold I j Druggists and Dealers la Fancy Good. One bottle will last six months. -b. B. p. A. X. K. B. 5 5V3- lyinEx -writitvo to aijvehtisf.kh, If please say you saw Ue AilvcilU sUcnt In till paper.