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BITUMKXA. VOSTL V JOKE. Is the finch times when oil-wells wen- the theme Whereon, men's inind wore principally dwi-l-liiiir. And cveiy speculator's nijrhlly dream Saw lire til Petroleum's aromatic eire:m The fat nf Nature's broth. Plutonic crcnni From li ir particular flowing well np-willine-, Twelve citizens, on money-innkit c leiit, Assembi-ii in an upper rtiamlier spacious, To listen to an enterprising Kent" While he to them should make it evident .Mai h money niiu'ht be miide for little spent, lly any one sufficiently' Hiarioii To irive him funds, by liim to b invested In a location he himself hail tested. "iThe territory where that well and derrick are In the bent oil -country in America! To no more certain tind can anv man io Than rijjht there in the heart i.f old Venango. "The drill will very shortly reach bed-rock. Being already prouiisinL'ly started.'" We paid onr moiiev and we took our clock, And our disinterested friend departed. K en then I marked. as I have marked before, "Twas not posecsciiin riches, treat or mall. That filed the due proportion each oi:c b'.re. Those who have little always -rive the more. And those pive leat who have tne greatest store. On them all burden do most lightly fall; While pome are like the cobbler in his stall. When into one small hide he put." hie- little awl. Why need I here repeat the old. old story? We never saw aam our cher-hcil pelf; The reader will have guessed hi, a friori. And very likely knows how "tin bunncll. When the whole enterprise had cone to Jiot, Once more we stockholders convened a mcet ini;; In the old sadly well remembered spot We came to fee where all our wealth wan not. And to the rest one then, there, thus L'ave greet ing: We Mor outsider do not leel so sore. Although we re neither more nor les thun hu man. At having sacrificed our little store For von rich folks, who know so vastly more, H.-ive been deceived in spite of your acumen: And this deep hole, that's proved so 'real a bore. Although it ha- Ul( oil. it lias lit-ji-w u '. In this dry jest the stockholders all shared ; It was their sole return for all their money. They paused perhaps tin y smiled I'm sure they stared Itut did not find it adequately funny To Hood their very souls with laughter sunny. The meeting was the iast we did attend; This unsuccessful joke the only dividend ! J. h'irklaiiii, in Scrifmr fur J mif . A "CASE" OF .MINK. Thk subject of "Memory" li;iviii:r Ik-i-ii iniic.li discussed lately in connection with a celebrated trial, I propose iIic-inr be fore my readers a ca.-c that I had under my own ken and care tor sometime, that may be interesting :is an illustration i "Imperfect Memory" m. "Imperfect Knowledge." 1 was one day called upon to visit pro fessionally a lady residing not far from my own house in IJloonisbury ; the mal ady some comm. n ailment, intluen.a or feverish cold, but accompanied by unu sual nervous depression. I found my pa tient a woman about thirty to thirty-two years of age, of nervous temperament and rather constrained manner. A half-suspicious, restless look in her eyes made me notice Iter more particularly than I other wise might have done, and when I left the room the impression that I received was, that she was a woman with a "story." die was dressed in deep mournintr, which made me remark to her sister, who was taking a few instructions lro'ii me concerning my treatment: " Mie has sustained a loss, I see, and the nervous depression attendant on that has lowered the vital energies; thus an otherwise slight cold has fa.-U-nrM itself rather tirh'.ly on her." " Yes," returned Iter sister, " she has, indeed, gone through much lately. Per haps, as her doctor, you nug-lit to be told more fully the details of her cae; and, in deed, they may interest you from another ; point of view." e sat down, and 1 will condense her narratira as far as possible. My patient, Mrs. Hammond, and her husband were returning to England Irom the West Indies, where the latter had some proper'y, when one of those unfor tunate collisions between ships occurred, which, though unhappily so freiUent of late, were then rate. The collision took place in very rough weather, a high sea and a Imisterous, fitful w ind. A few were saved, among them Mrs. Hammond, hut her husband was never seen again. Her baby, only six months old, was washed away. 1 did not attend very much to the particulars of the ship wreck, and all I can be certain of, is, that Mrs. Hammond, husbandless and child less, penniless and unconscious, was. ith a lew others, saved on that fearful night in one of the ship's boats and taken on board of another homew ard bound ves sel ot some sort that came to them soon after the calamity. Her husband's fam ily were well oil', and w hen the ship reached Pngland she proceeded to their house in liondmi. It was at the residence f her father-in-law that I had now seen the poor lady, just a year and a half after her lH.-reaveinc-i.it. "Hut the strange thing is this," con tinued my companion, "that she does not fret the ieast for the child, because all memory ot having had one is gone. When returning to consciousnes, we are told that she cried piteotisly for her husband but no one expression ever escaped her lips about the baby, and when naturally we condoled with her on its loss, she looked at us as if we had taken leave of our senses." "I'erhaps it is God's mercy,'' I said, reverently. "The double grief might have upset her reason." "IJut lias it not already?" asked her sis ter. "She has as utteily forgotten the baby's having cxMcd as if well, as if in fact it never had." "Areyou'sure she has really forgotten it?" I questioned. "Oh, certainly. She was never particu larly fond of children. She was brought up by an aunt, separate from me and my brother Frank, very much to herself, and never took to children of her own age. She used to say she hoped she never would have any, but when baby came, then," laughed Miss Dennis, "she made as great a fuss over it its any one; at least, so I heard, for it was liorn in J amaica." "The child was certainly drowned?" I asked. " Oh, yes. Out of seven little ones on board, only one was saved the child of a pool steerage woman, who was taken back by the culprit steamer. Although we sometimes endeavor to rake up old memories to her mind, we do not try her too much! What would you advise?" " Leaving her with her own sorrow, unconscious of her other loss," I an swered. " If the truth ever daw ns upon her, she will the better bear up against its consequent grief, the more strength of mind and body can be gathered up now. Keep her up in every way: cheerful looks about her, and pk-nty of light, nourish ing food." " It is not madness, is it, doctor?" said poor Miss Dennis, looking me sea re hi ug ly in the face. "By no means; merely a ca.-e of sus pended memory. The veil may be lilted any moment, though we could hardly wish for it." And to myself 1 said, " How many of us would pray that such a veil might fall upon our past:" Her cold took its usual course, unat tended by any worse symptoms than or dinary, except for the natural depression consequent upon her peculiar circum stances. Two or three times I led the way cautiously to the subject we were in terested in; I mean her sister and my self; but the suspicious, restless look in her eyes became so intense, that I re sisted, quite aware that she would lie far more likely to thtnk us insane, than I could think her to be so. In two or three weeks I discontinued ray attendance, with the understanding between her .-ister and myself that if any material change took place in her mental condition I should be made aw are of it. Almost a year passed by without my hear ing any more of her, when one aftenoon, just as" I bad finished a hasty lunch, pre paratory to going my afternoon " round," I received a note from Miss Dennis, say ing how gratef ul she would lie to me if I could look in upon her that afternoon. At ihree o'clock I was at their house, and found myself once more t'te-a-tets with 3Iiss Dennis. ' We agreed," she commenced, "that I should let you know anything special concerning your old patient, and I have really something very odd to tell you. About six moths ago there was some little hitch in my sister's money affairs you know her busband had some property in Jamaica, and it was considered advisable that some one should go out and see aiter the estate, which had been entrusted to careless hands on my poor brother-in-law's death. The money had been coming in very irregularly, so our brother Frank, who has lived in the north of England for the last seven years, volunteered tngo and look up matters for her. He has not been well tor some time, and his doctor said a sea voyage would be just the very thing for him. The long ami short of it is, that yesterday the mail arrived with letters from him for us lioth. He hopes, he says, to make everything straight very soon; found affairs in a great muddle, and be lieves the agent anything but trustworthy. In his letter to me was another enclosure marked 'private.' This I t ok into my own room and read. The best w ay, doc tor, is for you to read it yourself; it will not take you long'" Miss Dennis handed me the letter, of which the substance was as follows: " In one of my rambles before the sun is well up, I was walking along a path near Kingston, when 1 came upon a woman with two children sitting by the roadside. The eldest was playing with little red berries, and seemed between two and three years old; the other, quite a baby. 1 shouid not have noticed them much but that the mother spoke crossly to the eldest as I passed, which caused me to look at him. As I did so, I was staggered b see w hat at the first glance seemed the image of Mary. Then the resemblance resolved itself into a still stronger likeness to poor Edward ; not. in the features, perhaps, but as he lilted his eyes to mine, the same half melancholy expression looked out from them. There was not the slightest likeness to the woman in aim. I stopped in my walk and got into conversation with her, and as I did so the little fellow quietly put his hand in mine, as if we had been old acquaintances. She notii-ed it by saying: ' Well! that is a wonder! he hardly ever takes to any one little shy monkey!' The words were said playfully, but the tone was hardly mother ly 1 thought." " " I questioned her about different things, and as we talked the wind got much fresher, and the morning betokened a rough day. I made a remark on the change in the weather." "'It will be a stormy day, I tear,' she said; 'and it is so stupid of me, but ever since the shipwreck that I was in, 1 gel quite upset when the wind blows high it makes me shudder!"' This remark naturally sharpened my wits, and 1 got from her lhe followingpar ticulurs : " She was going to England with her husband and baby, when, within a few days of arrival, the ship struck; a great many were washed overboard and never seen again. She and her husband ami baby were in tne water some time, and she and the baby were ultimately saved, though not together. She had given up both her treasures as lost, and had sunk into a kind of swoon, when a sailor placed the little thing dripping in her aims. 1 My joy was great,' she said simply; ' and when all hope was gopc of my hus band being saved, I turned to the little wet bundle in my arms for comfort, and 1 believe the necessity for giving it food saved my life. With some others I de cided to go back again in the other ship that oflcred to take us. What could 1 do w ilhout my husband in a strange land? So I never saw England, sir, and I came back without monev, clothes, husband or child.' " r child!" I repeated after her. " Yes, sir. It was not my child." Here she burst into tears. "It was not my own dear baby, but another. I found it out soon; but for many hours I nursed it as my own, for I lay in asortoi stupor, hard ly noticing anything that occurred around me, ar.d then sir, what could I do but keep it? It was fatherless and motherless, as 1 was husband less and chjl'ilcss, and so, sir, I have kept him ever sinct this little one !' She touched the boy's fore head as she spoke. " ' How did you find out that he was not yours,' I askeu, with a strange fluttering hope at my heart. " l!y his clothes first, sir. You see, the collision happening in the night, there were hardly anv ot us dressed, lie had only his little nirjht shirt on that he had been snatched up in, and when given to me was wrapped in something thick and warm bv the irood sailor; so it was not till 1 rou.-cd a little as some kind ladies ollered ii i e some of their own babies' clothing lor him that I found his shirt was tine and h lieate and my boy's was poor and coarse. It startled me at once and roused me up like a shock, and when I jjazed eagerly into his eyes I saw he was not my ow n ! My boy put out his little amis and chubby tinners and crowed in 1113' la' e this one drank of my milk, and never cooed or chirped to thank!' " " Tin: tears were coming fast to her eyes. I pressed the little delicate hand tinner to mine as the child lookeil up wonderingly to his foster mother's face. " Were the clothes marked?' I asked. "Yes, sir: there was E. H. on the shirt, and I've always kept it by me safely." "Now, my dear sister. docs not your opinion coincide with mine, that the child is our poor sister's lost darling?" " I saw the likeness to both parties at once; the shirt is marked with the initials that would have been on it (I bring the shirt with mc, saved in the collision. In fact everything points, in my opinion, to the same conclusion ; and though I 111:13- get a scolding from my little wife at home, I have acted to my firm belief. 1 told the woman our story and fully convinced her. Indeed, she did not need much inducement to give the little fellow up. She had a certain feel ing for him, she said, as having nursed him, but 'I have never quite got over the turn he gave me when I saw he was not my own. (lod foririve me!' she continued, 'I have tried to do my best for him. Last year I married again, sir, and have another dear little one now. My husband never took to Civile (I t ailed him after the ship, sir), but to please me he remains with us, and shares the little we have: but 1 don't think he'"l fret at till at leaving us; he never took to us any more than my hus band to him. " I saw her husband the next day, and with a small sum of money 1 got him to resign his paternal charge over the boy with great alacrity. Mrs. L , the ('onsul's wife, has kindly undertaken to tit him out respectably, and next. week, if all goes well, I hope to start for "England with 1113- as I tirinlv believe long lost nephew. IJut w hat 1 am to do with him when there I don't know. It's a queer business to force a child on a woman who says she never had one. Surel3' she'd say (and with seeming truth) that 'she ought to know best!' IJut as I believe Providence ordered my steps here to re cover the poor little fellow 1 will trust the same good I'roviuence to restore him to his natural protectors. If not, why it makes only one more mouth to feed. He is just I Jobby's age w ithin a week or two; they w ill lie capital playfellows." Here the letter entered upon other mat ters. "And now," said Miss Dennis, looking at me steadily with her large earnest eyes, " what are we to do?" "When does your brother return ?" I asked. " lie is on his wa3" now. In three weeks, please GihI, he will be at home. To think of tier little darling being alive and restored to her, and she not aw are of his existence or his ever having existed! It would be aimost laughable were it not so sad. How would you advise us to act?" "I must consiler," mused 1. "We must be cautious. With a nervous tempera ment such as ln r's, a shock, even of joy-, would be a great pain, and if the memory returns it might be with such a rush as to overthrow reason itself." After a few moment's silence I proposed the following plan : " Thiy must meet in the ordinary course of circumstances: at least it must seem so to her. She knows of course, of her brother's having gone to Jamaica?" " Oh, yes, and takes an interest in all the arrangements; often talks aoout him and the oid places he will visit ; is quite cheerful when we mention his returning soon, and pay ing us a visit of a week or two, after he has run down to see his wife md family. Indeed, the said it might en liven me, if he could bring one of his children with him." "She has never seen Master Bobby, whom your brother speaks of as being about the same age as her own ?" " Never." " I have it!" I exclaimed. " Introduce .Master Clyde as Master Bobby, and see if any particular ellect w ill le made upon her. Let j our brother come as expected, and bring the boy w ith him. Is there a girl anywhere?" "Yes, the eldest, Mary; named after herself." The long and the short of it is this, that 1 advised the bringing up his little girl, Mary, and his supposed nephew, Clyde, w hose real name, if indeed he was his nephew, was Edward; and let the mother and child be brought together as events would naturally occur. "And let me know," I concluded, " as soon as you can, if anything comes of our little strat agem." I must now put another letter before my reader, for what followed will be better understood from Miss Dennis' narrative than from words of mine. " Dkah Doctor As I have now really something to relate to you, I will write you 1113' promised letter. 1 must just tell you that, for some days before Frank re turned, Mary had seemed very uneasy in her mind; restless and fitful ; complained of had nights and strange dream; buton the day that Frank was expected and came, she was much calmer and herself again. She flew to meet him, and the servants taking forcible possession of the children at a previous hint of mine, we had some minutes in the draw ing-nwm before tiny were brought in. " On their arrival Frank said, "Your little namesake, Mary, and Master Bob by." "As her eyes fell on the boy I saw her start. M3f heart beat fearfully'. "So this is Bobby, is it?" jhe said, and just laid her hand on his head. 'He is like not you,' and she looked fixedly at Frank; ' nor your wife' here she paused, and turning away passed her hand across her brow. Frank signed to me to take the children out of the room, which I did ; left them with the nurse ami returned. Mary had walked to the window, and for a few seconds we took no notice of her, but conversed on different subjects. Then I turned to her and said, 'I'll leave you two together, Mary, there's lots of busi ness t' talk over, and I'll go and look af ter the chicks.' " She turned round, and one would have thought she had aged ten years in those few moments. She had a pained and wearied look, anil her thoughts seemed lar awa3- as she answered, ' Do, Ellen and keep them quiet and get Bobby Bobby!' she repeated, ' who is he like? I don't think 1 can be wll, I feel so strange.' And she turned back again to the window and looked out. " I confess I thought of sending at once for you, she had such a wild, oppressed look on her lace. She was close to us, and yet one felt that she w as very far away. I feared that we had done wrong in testing her in this manner, ami might kill her reason if we ventured further. 1 wished at the moment that the boy had never been found, and went out of the room quite savagely. I remembered what you said about letting things come natur ally, so we did not have the children in again, or even mention them, until a bright young laugh rang in oui cars from the floor above, w here a temporary nur sery had been arranged. " ' They seem making themselves quite at home, Miss I'olly, at ui)3' rate,' said 1113' brother. ' I'll go and see the fun.' Mars hall been unusually quiet. The business matters that had to he discussed seemed for the time to have lost their importance. She would break oil" in the middle of a sentence, the strange look come over her agan, and her hand would be passed across her forehead and eyes. When Frank had gone she remarked, faintly: ' Bobby w as not laughing it was the inrr's laugh.' "How did she know ? She then left the room, and 1 went to dress for dinner. Frank tells me that on going up stairs he found Polly in a state ot gliv. Nurse was remonstrating as she wiped a saucer, and Master Edward, sittinir utterly disconso late in a very' big arm-chair, with two big tears courdng quietly down his cheeks. At her pupa's entrance. Polls' rushed to him. 'Oh, papa, isn't he a funuj-hoy? He's crying because nurse won't let him go and see Aunts' Marsr again. He says he wants to go to the lady, and stole a was' outside nearly all the way' down, and nurse had to cairy him back, and then he cried again! Isn't he a fuiins' bs', papa? " Frank quieted Polls' with a look, and comforted Edward y saying that he would soon see the lads again if he was a good bov. lie gulped down his tears, and Frank left him. The nurse was in the secret, and looked to me for orders in the matter. On the chance of Mar" visiting the room, we had left out on the table the little night-shirt the bab' had on when the poor woman discovered, on her recovers-, that he was not her own child. It was throw n carelessls- on the table, with a few odds and ends and tos's. "After I was dressed I ran up-stairs to have another look at the j-oung ones, and met Mars" just outside the door on the point ot enterini:. She blushed red when she saw me. 'Come along, Marj',' I said, entering first and taking her hand. 'We'll have it romp before dinner it will give us an appetite.' " Edward was standing at the window. Polls' wa-s nursing a doll and finishing what had once been a large slice of cake. Strantre to say Mars f-poke to Polls' an(' not to B ibbs ' though it was evident it was 'Bobby' she had conic to see, for her eves wandered to him, and rested with a pu..Iert look up:-n his face. She stood Iry the little table, and soon I saw her fingers take up the shirt. She turned and twisted it about for some time before she looked it it, then said, 'You have plents to do now, 1 suppose nurse; another lit tle one to care for?' 'Oh, yes, ma'am the more the merrier bless their hearts.' She talked a deal more of nurse talk, but Mary's eyes were now on the shirt, and I saw her give a sort of shiver. I signed to nurse to go awas w ith Polls'. She did so, and still Mars only lingered the little shiit in a nervous sort of was. 1 stole to her side, and as she turned her look frightened inc. 'Take that child awas, MillS"; take him away instantls! I can't breathe the air near him - it sttlles me!" "Hush Mary!' I said. 'You are not well, that is all. We will go a was", not poor Bobby.' I got her down stairs and prevailed on her to lie down. There seemed a struggle, a great struggle going on within her, and so strong was the mastery she had to keep over herself that 1 saw she could hard Is help thrusting me away from her in her efforts to throw off something that seemed forcing itself on her. Was it the memory returning, I thought and prayed silently to (lodtoaid it. She 1 lid. not refer again to the bos, but htr mental agony continued, and it w;us rpiite two hours before I could leave her. When, after at length prevailing on her to take a little food, she sank asleep, 1 stole thankfully' awas. ' Nurse was awaiting me. ' I can't keep the child quiet, miss. He keeps sas'ing he wants to go to the lads'. 1 don't know what to do with him, but I know not a bit of rest I shall get this blessed night.' "Oct him interested in some little story, nurse, and keep them both quiet, for Mrs. Hammond has gone to sleep. I am tired 1113'sclf, and will go and lie down.' And what we had been so anxious to accom plished came about quite naturally, in this wise. " An hour later, I got up from the sofa and slole to nis sister's room. I found the door ajar, and on looking in, there was little Edward sitting vers gravels" ls her bedside, one small hand on the cover let. It was touch ingly beautiful to see the little child sitting patkntls' waiting for its mother to awaken awaken to memory memory of love and of him. I could hardly move I felt spell-bound. He never stirred, but his large blue eses rested alternately on her face and on mine, and his tiny hand crept closer to hers; but he never ventured to touch it for fear of awakening her, while on his face rested the half sad. wondering ex pression so like his father's. I saw it was best as it was. God had taken away He was about to restore, and He kntw the wa' better than I. " For half an hour we watched, when a slight movement told us that the had awakened. Still she did not or en her eyes, but moved about restlessly-; and sighed as if waking from a dream. I stole Iwhind a screen, that he might be the first object she saw. "She began speaking to herself a habit of hers. " It is so strange! Dream upon dream dream iion dream! and when I open my eyes 1 almost expect to see the child before me, that in my sleep hangs round 1113" neck till ms' blood warms at his touch?' She added wearily, ' I think I must be going mad.' Still her eyes were closed, and she seemed to lie gently dozing off again, w hen the child quietly touched her hand, and in a voice of subdued ecstass burst out, 4 I want you for my mamma!' The eyes opened and rested on him they seemed to grow larger and larger; she raised herself, and the bos', with his over flowing childish love, flung himself sob bing on the bed! " For a moment she was stupefied, and passed her hand again across her brow. It was but for a moment ; the veil was raised, the mist cleared, and the sunshine of the pent up mother love overflowed with a loud cry' My child! my boy?' " So ended the letter. I indeed went to see them as soon as 1 could, and a jiwful household I found. Mother and boy were inseparable the long fast of the a"fTeetions made them rav enous of love. In this case the child's instinct seemed to lend him to his mother as much as her instinct led her to him ; but bs' what link the chain of memory was united we cannot conceive. lie who constituted the brain and mind, as well as the heart and emotions, only knows but so it was. They found con clusive evidence of young " Clyde" being indeed her son ; and when once the mem ory was whole again, various circum stances came to her mind to substantiate the woman's story, without even the aid of the identity of the nightshirt with that of her child. I told Mrs. Hammond and Miss Dennis that with their permission I would cer tainly write their strange story in my book of ""Keinarkablc Cases." You, reader, must judge whether it be ohc or no. Loudon Arjoy. FACTS AM) FH JUKES. Dallas, Texas, has increased its popu lation of 1,000 in 171, before a railroad touched it, to 17,000. W011.11 you believe it? The area of Texas is 71,:(m square miles, or 17o,o!)4, ."i;o acres, and is one-fourth large; than France. Tiik railways of England earned dur ing the week ending April 'J .,l,0!l!t,s:i(; up in a mileage of 14, st.il, which is at the rate of :70 per mile. AccoiiiHNi; to a St. Petersburg paper the total population of Uussian Turkestan is r,('00,utiO, and its total area about -1,000,-000 square kilometers. A Nt'.Mi'.KU of residents of Western Pennsylvania have purchased -1,.VK) acres of land in West Yiiginia, much of which contains bituminous coal. A Maine packing com pans put up last season 1"0,0(H) cans of lobster, tM.OOO of clams, and (I0.0O0 of blue-berries, and ex pects to double the business this. A kihm of Philadelphia druggists have obtained a judgment against the United I Mates overntnent lor sgo,:5,o.so torover paid duts on an invoice of opium. A (JekmaN has so far deciphered the hierogisphic records sufhcicntls' to prove that one of the pyramids was built ;i,010 years before Christ, which is l,0O(t years earlier than any chronological date pre-viousH- established. A not T ten per cent, of the Cape dia monds are of the first quality, fifteen per cent, of second, twenty of third. The estimated value of the diamonds found at the Cape from March, l'i7, to the present time exceeds 'fl'J.OOO.tKK). Two tiioi'sano vorks connected with the history of the Bcforniation. collected duiing forty years by Mr. A. F. H. Schneider, of Berlin, are among the re centiicquisitions of interest bv the British Museum. Some of the works are vers rare. An average of about 100 bars of silver bullion, each weighing about l','o pounds, addressed to the United States Mint, Phil adelphia, and dozens of boxes of coined silver from the Carson Mint, addressed to the United States Sub-Treasurer at New York, are cxprissed eastward over the Union Pacific dails. Tiik Canadian Minister of the Interior reports that there are tH.'JlO Indians in the Dominion, of which number about 10.1MHI, belonging to untreating tribes, are settled between Peace IJivcr and the United States boundars". In the five older provinces, thes" have personal property worth f real estate worth $ 7,;:;:j,- 70S, and in invested capital the sum of $2,S44,!'72. A 1.KTT1.K from a Black Hills miner tells what Custer consists of. as follows: " Of business houses there are 100 lsr actual count. Of saloons there are four teen ; of real estates ollices three; assay oflice, one; carpenter shops, two; and about fifty carpenters, who are vers buss-; hake-shops, seven ; lioarding-houses, five; grocers and liquor stores, eleven ; tobacco and cigar stores, five; grocers and drs' goods stores, three; dancing houses, two; hotels, three; gambling-houses, three; clothing stores, two; fiardware stores, two ; wholesale liquor stores, three; tin shops, two; blacksmith shops, three; doctors, three; drug stores, storage and commission houses, two; boot and shoe shops, two; sign painters, one; restau rants, ten; lumber ollices, two; pons' ex" press oflice, one; breweries, two; meat markets, lour; barber shops, two." How Mr. Blaine Settled der. Another Slan- The New York Sun. of the 27th ult. contained a letter of Mr. Blaine, written in 170, to Warren Fisher, Jr.; of Boston, stilting the advantages of certain railroad investments, etc. This letter and accom pans'ing documents the opponents of Mr. Blaine tried to distort into something dis honorable or corrupt on his part. In re ply to inquiries concerning the matter Mr. Blaine has made the following state ment : Some six or seven years ago some friends of mine in Boston desired to make a small investment in the North Pacific enterprise, and as the Vice-President of the road, the Hon. It. I). Bice, was si near neighbor of mine in Augusta, it was thought I might find out where and how the purchase Could be made. In one or two instances I hoard of interests being for sale, but nothing was done. Finally, in the autumn of 170, a definite interest was for sale, and it was brought to 1113' at tention, with very glowing and extrava gant accounts of its prospective profits. As it was a road chartered bs Congress, deriving its franchise and grants directlv' from Congress, and liable at a 113 time to appls" to Congress for future favors, I did not myself entertain for a moment an idea of becoming interested in it; but, as these friends had la-en wishing such invest ment, and as they had the same right as ans" other private citizen had to ow n in the enterprise, I communicated the facts to them precisely as t lies' h;ld been given to me. A lew das after I was notified that tlu'3 would be glad to purchase, and a certificate of deposit or cashier's check for -f --, 000 was placed in 1113' hands " in trust," as the receipt shows, to hand over to the person proposing to sell, w ho in due time will doubtless speak for him self The certificate was to be taken in in the name of Elisha Atkins, one of the most prominent and honorable merchants in Boston. It was soon found, however, that the North Pacific interest was in some way pledged or hypothecated, or embarrassed as to the title, and the matter ran along for over a year, and fiualls" came to nothing. The mones" in full, with in terest, was returned to Warren Fisher, w ith whom the negotiation was had, and the holder of the North Pacific interest retained it, or possibly found another pur chaser, of which I know nothing. This is simply the hole of the transaction out of which the sensation is attempted bs' the Sun,. My connection with it was purels' of a friendly character. I had not the re motest interest in it in any shape or form, and no intention or understanding that I should become interested in it. The trans action was of course regarded by me as in evtrs' way proper; otherwise I should most certainly never have received and receipted for the mones' to hold in trust until the transaction should be consum mated betw een the parties. I am very glad that my letter which the Sun publishes, proves on its face I would not rns'self touch the investment. I could easily have purchased it had I been will ing, but I did not deem such investment advisable for me to make. From first to last in all legislation touching the Pacific ltailroads, I never had an interest of a penny In one of them, nor in ans' of their branches, directly or iudirectls". In a private letter, if anywhere, a man will speak unguardedly, and this letter, writ ten w ith no expectation of its ever being published, proves conclusively that when a Pacific Itailroad interest was offered me with brilliant promises of great profits, I declared that I could not touch it. I think the Sun, in publishing this private letter, has supplied a valuable proof of nis' offi cial integrity in the matter. All these attacks are intended to impress the people with the belief that I have large wealth, and that it has been acquired since I entered Congress. The moderate properts' which I own was almost WI10II3' derived from fortunate investment in coal lands in my native Mononga hela Valley in Western Pennsyl vania, made some sears before I first ran for Congress. I notice many papers, whose editors never saw me, and know nothing of 1113 affairs, glib I3' put 1113" property down at a round mill ion. The utmost my property would bring to-das' would not amount to a fifth part of that sum. I can sas, with the strictest truth, that, all things considered, I am not to. das' as well off pecuniarily as I was the das 1 entered Congress, in De cember, 1(!:. Had I not remained in Congress 1 would to-day, in ms' judgment, have a large fortune, as the business en terprises which were at 1113' command, il I could have attended to them, would have resulted most favorabls. But every friend who know s me knows that neither 1113' in come nor 1113 expenditure, nor 1113' habits of life, imply or suggest the possession of a forume, or of ans thing indeed beyoad a moderate competencj'. SEASE AM) 0SESE. TrtE latest tile A new hat. John Vai;iety, of Detroit, claini3 to be the spice of life. I k you w is!i for mono', send a postal end to the man who owes y ou, and the thi.ig i i dun. Kev.-sMu. MruRAY says there are two atitit'td words in our language horse and heaven. I 1 is not ctiqucM" for a lady to peruse nn ic cream sign aloud while walking wit 1 a cei.t. Ykky few seem to wear calico. Several rint mills have shutdown because the price is so low. Sii.vi k wa- fiat in the Lndoa market at last accounts. It just commenced to get "round here. Tiik Christ;in Witn speaks of a burglars where the burglars used a " .lames'" to pry open the tloor. In announcing the inarritge of Miss M;rv Hoops, the Bo.-ton Alrertixer pre sumes that she will continue to wear her maiden n inie. A lanpi.miv heard nn impecuniou lodger jingling silver, and she wondered how such a roomer gained currencs. A'rfu Origin Republic m. A Boston 1 ap-T, noticing the pride of ycttng in- n en'ering business lite, says toO many of them w ish to retail high-toned stra' b'-i ries instead of peddling plain codfish. Tiiky say an average Philadelphia man h is so much quiet an I deep seated conceit about him nowadays that travelers fre ouentlv mistake him for a Chicagoan. il-Kt-n lib be. A i-istoi. to shoot marbles with has be- n invented. Now for a pab nt for sonit thing to take the place of the boys and the marb'es. Tcisisanage of pro gress. Bv-aud-bs things will be so nice and ct niph te that nohody can have any work or any fun. Tiik. indifieienceoftlie people of England to tduc.-dioit was pa-nfully illustrated the other day in a Yorkshire vil'age. A lec tin er mi the Feejee Is'ands offered to show the native niannir of preparing food if any lady present would lend him a baby. No one offered! A t'i.K i:LM lady objects to the new silver quarter-, for the reason that the O'lili'e-s of Liberty wears the same old clothts she had on when the war c ulled her temporal's" retirement from society some years ago. Miss Liberty should by all means keep up with the fashion. Tiiky sat in the parlor, and he squeezed ln-r hand. "Oh, would this hand were mine!" he sighed. " Whs?" 41''-' sim pered. " Because, if it were mine, I could knock buliocks down w ith it bctter'n with a sledge-hammer." The last seen of that 3011 11 t man he was tiying to climb on the top of the house bs-means of the water spout. I Ik was going to see a girl who was about his own height. Sunday afternoon they nieasiiicd, and she claimed to be the talh-r of the two. " Oh, well," said he, ''if soii stand on your toes I reckon 3011 are at least two feet taller." She tinted f'oni the room, a-id has notspokeu to him sir.ee. Silently tiny imc drifting apart. Two more lives made miserable oy words thoughtlessly spoken. Bruixictck (Mo.) A etrx. The girls at the Washington seminary at Leavenworth, plas' foot-ball In the errove-s at the rear of the institution. Thej' kick the ball and crsr " hail' as loud as the bos. A neatls'-written, girlish-linking challenge was tin the bulletin-board at. the college, offering to plav a nia'ch game of fo it-ball one afternoon inthccni inary yard. The freshmen were nfiaid to accept, a.nt have incurred the disgust of everyone in cons; queti"e. Tiik Coroner, in summing up a recent case, pointed out to the jury that there was no evidence whatever that the deceased had come to her death 13' foul phis', and therefore there was nothing for them to do but to return a verdict of " Death by the visitation of iod. ' The jnrs", however, thought it dignified to retire for consider ation. '1 luy dared not, of course, give a verdict right in the teeth of the Coroner's summing up, and so, after a long consid eration, this is how thev satisfied t'u ir own consciences and the demands of jus tice: " We tind that the deceased died by the visitation of God, but under the, vxost x usp icia i x e ire a mstiin rex . ' ' It is hardls' possible t believe that the mustang race was not purposely lost. It was more a test of the rider's than the horse's endurance, and the former was totally unprepared for the work. J. M. Graham, himself a rider, writes to the Sun. " Parker," says Mr. Graham, "is far from ignorant in the art of riding, but totally so in keeping himself in tvim for such a fearful task as he expected to go through. To say- he i a wonderful rider does not express it. and his endurance was marvelous. But how on earth can a man expect 10 go through such an ordeal and drink a tumbler of water eveis' five minute-? He ete twice during the eleven hours and twenty-seven minutes he was riding, and, t 1113- surprise, he each time a'e half a mince pie. He seeine I to not understand himself, and had no a 1 vipers. I attribute his losing the race to improper management; and believe, with good man agement, in good hand-, he can succ.-ss-fiilly do what he undertook." Ruchtster iJ.iiiocriil. Porri. vn saj-ings are generalls" errone ous. For a man to part his hair in the middle and to write the first initial and the second name in full are thought to imply inib' cilitv, reg irdlcss of the fac t that Napoleon always parted his hair in the middle and that L'a?-ar wrote his name C. Julius Ca:sar. "No lover of flowers can hi a thoroughly bad man," says Emerson; but Dolan's last request to his wife was, " Place a pot of flowers on U13' grave," and Piper teases lor rose and violets like a dog fi r his dinner. Miss Dickinson likes diamonds, wheieupon the H't'ild constructs an apothegm ujion the fact, implying that of coutse she cannot act. A fop is never intelligent and a brag gart is necessarily a coward are among the commonest of popular delusions; in lace of the circumstance that many of the world"s heroes were, likeMnrat, both lops in dress and bricgarts in speech. Before hangiDg up a maxim it were well to es tabhsli some connection between premise tiud conclusion. JV. Y. Grujiuc. USEFUL AMI SUGGESTIVE. Mks. Watson's IIeumith. One cup of butter, one and one-half cups of brown sugar, three eggs, one cup of chopped raisins, one tea-spoonful of siwla dissolved In two tablespoonfuls of milk, all kinds of spice and flour enough to roll out; cut as cookies and bake. To Color Pkh.manent Yellow and Oranuk. For five pounds goods, seven ounces sugar of lead, in which dip the goods five minutes. Make a new ds'e with four ounces bichromate otash ; al low the goods to remain about ten mm utes, or until the color suits. For orange pass it through strong lime water. Blind Birds. Take a piece of beef steak as large as your hand and spread it on the table, cut a piece of bacon as large as a finger and lay it in, then cut up some onions fine and spread them over, salt and pepper it to taste, add a pinch ot juniper berries, roll it up and tie it with some thread so it will not open, then stew and try an hour. Ic e Cream. Take three pints of milk, four eggs, well beaten, three-fourths pound of sugar, and one tahlcspoonful corn starch; mix in a three-quart tin pail; boil in a kettle of water till quite thick; add one pint sweet cream, and flavor to laste. Freeze in a common water-pail or any vessel of suitable size, with equal parts of ice chopped fine, and coarse salt. Itotatc the pail and stir frequentls. To ci.'ke corns. Take a lemon and roll it until it is solt; cut a thick slice and bind in on the corn on retiring at night. In the morning, if the corn is white and disintegrated, pull it out with 3'our finger nails never cut a corn. Sometimes sev eral applications of the lemon slices will be necessary, but the corns are bound to succumb, and 3011 can dance the next night if 30U like. After you remove the corns wear shoes that fit and are not too still" in the soles. Inter Orcan. To Co 1 -ou DriiAiiLE Brown for Five I'oi nds Goods. Two ounces copperas (or alum) in sufficient water to wet the goods. One pound japoiiica dissolved in water. Take as much weak le as will wet the goods well (or eight ounces bichromate potash this is more expensive, but no better); put in the japonica water; dip the cloth first in the copperas water, then in the japonica water, having it hot. Care must be taken in Using weak ls'e, and not have it too strong, else the color will be too dark. To Color Permanent Bi.i v; on Cot ton. For five pounds of goods, dissolve one ounce of copperas in four gallons ol soft water. Wet the goods in warm suds, put them in the copperas water, let them remain ten minutes. Dissolve in another vessel two ounces prussiate potash in four gallons soft water. Wring 3'our goods, put into this solution, let them remain five minutes; wring out again, now add one ounce oil vitrol to the potash water and stir well; put the goods in again and bring to a boiling point, letting them re main until you obin the desired shade. Straw her it y Shortcake. One quart of Hour, sifted; one teaspoonful of salt; two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, a piece ot butter the size of a large egg; rub it in the flour well; dissolve one tea spoonful of soda in a ta'olcspooniul of water, ami put the soda-water in two cups ol milk; bake in a quick oven. Take three pjnts of berries, press half, tind then" put the other berries in; save some of the juice and mix some sugar with it: split the cake, butter il, and las mixture be tween. Peaches cut up, sugared, and mixed with a little cream or milk; or oranges cut up with sugar and laid be tween the cake, are also vers" nice. Saving Seed Corn. We introduce this now, not for the rea son that it is the appropriate time to save seed, but it is the r'ght time to prepare to save it Main" farmers neglect this im portant duts" for the reason that they have no place to keep it. To gather carls which is the appropriate time, the corn is green, and must be put someplace to diy. In most cases this is either where it is subject to be caught in rains, or devoured by chickens or domestic animals. So many hindrances prevent its accomplish ment. Let us suggest a plan. Build a smoke house two stories high; each stors six feet. If you raise yearly one hundred acres of cord it will take fourteen bushels of seetl. This will require a ypace of lorly-two square feet, so that the upper story of a smoke house five feet square would be room enough. But we would recommend building at least eight feet square. Put in no lower Hour except of stone. The second tloor should be laid with two inch strips one inch apart. In the middle of the upper room for the corn turn a queensware crate upside down, so that the smoke and heat from below will quickly penetrate the entire corn. Make it perfect Is tight, sides and roof, except latticed ventilators in the gable ends, and have these closed during winter. Then gather the seed corn before the Sepletn tember frosts, and put in this second story and build a fire under it so as to thorough ly drs- it out before it is cold enough to freeze. In this position it is free from rats ami mice, and if tight, not subject to be injured ls snows, nor by the gases which frequentls' destroy- seed corn in barn or stables, arising from cattle and fermentation of manures. This, too, has another advantage which in one year will pas' for the house. Corn when thoroughly smoked will not be trouuled bs the ground squirrels, which are a serious nuisance in all parts of Iowa. We frequentls see farms where one-twentieth of the corn is taken up by these pests. This would be live acres in HM, which would detract from the crop 2(M.( bushels. This would pay for two smoke and corn houses. But we would advise our readers to las in at least three times as much seed corn as they will want. There are a plenty of dilators neighbors who will never build such a house, and will never have good seed corn. And such well-smoked corn, when its virtues become well known, will al ways command double the price of com mon corn, and thus the house can be paid for in another was each year. After the corn is dried out in the fall, if there should be a damp or rains season, it might be well to build a tire under the corn. But in the late winU-r or carls spring, when smoking the meat, the corn can get the principal smoking to make it offensive to the squirrels. This is so practical and reasonable a plan, we hope that but few wide-awake farmers will neglect to be reads' lor seed-corn this fall. Ikx Mninex (loir i) S title Re inter. Early Tilings Pay Best. A chicken which comes to this market in J11I3', and is large enough 10 make any show when broiled and placed on a niece of toaM, w ill sell for fift- cents. Feed the chick till it is four or five times that size, which will require it to be kept till about Chrisimas, and it will bring a quarfer of a dollar. Most farmers follow the latter I practice, and declare that raising poultrs j for the market does not pay. ! Spring lamb retails in Juls tit twentv ! five cents per pound, and the market is seldom supplied, even at that price. Keep the lambs till November, and the meat will riost likely retail at twelve cents per pound. Continue to feed tne lambs tiil thes are sheep, and their flesh is denom inated mutton, and the latter can lie dis posed of at about six cents per pound, though there will In- little demand for it. Most farmers think there is no mones in mutton. The first quart of strawberries, rasp berries or blackberries that appears in the market brings about as much mones as the la.-t bushel of these fruits. The same is true of the first cherries, peaches and apricots. Nothing sells more readily in April than pie-plant, and nothing is less salable than the same substances two months later. The first asparagus in the market is caught up at lifts cents for one bunch, while the last that comes finds slow sale at the rate of five cents per bunch. The first cucumbers in the maiket sell for from twenty-five to fifty cents each; late in the season a bushel brings about the same sum. Nothing produced from the soil pays better than early vegetables, and hardly ansthing pays as poorly as late vegetables, unless it be late small frujts. After one variety of fruit that suecctds another comes into market, the price for the former immediately falls. It is like a garment no longer in the height of fashion. Early poultry, meat, fruit and vegeta bles class as luxuries, and there are al-was-s persons enough to purchase luxuries at any price. In every large city there are persons yvho do not hesitate about the price in the matter ol gratifying their ap petites. The demand for luxuries docs not seem to decrease during hard times, neither does the patronage of expensive restaurants. The high-priced luxuries that fanners can derive benefit from are the things that can be mnrketed early. Chicago Time. . It emulate I lie Ifodily 1'iiiirtlon. This advice should be especially heeded bv tliiime who sutler from an irregular habit of lmil v or disorders of the bladder or kid ni'va. " Inactivity of the bowels, or of tile urinary organs, l speedily rectified by that w hob-sonic aperient and sterling In v'nrora tie diuretic, llostetter's Stomach Hitters; and, as all affections of the organ of dis charge have a strong tendency to become chronic, and that very rapidly, the use of tao Hitters should 1 ot be delayed a moment longer than is necessary. The action of this inestimable corrective upon the bowels differs w idcly from that of 11 drastic purga tive, since it is never violent or abrupt, but always gentle and nntuntl, and iti effects ujniti the bladder and kidneys are strength ening as well u s mildly tlinulative. The healthful impetus which it gives to diges tion also renders it a ino;t (b-s'irable general tonic. "Liver mill llloutl Ilefto. By K. V. I'ikkce. M. D.. Author or " The 1Voi1i: Common St-nsi- Medical Advier." A healthy liver secretes each day about two and a half pounds of lole, which eon tains H great amount of waste material taken from I he blood. When the liver become torpid or congested, it fails to eliuiinat- this vast amount of noxious stil'satiec, which, therefore, remains to poison the blood, and be conveyed to every part of the system. What in ut be the eoiuiit ion of the blood w hen it is receiving and retaining each day two and a half pounds of poison? Nature tries to work off this poison t hrough other channels and organs the kidneys, lungs, skin, etc., but these organs become over -taxed in per forming this labor in addition to their nat ural functions, and cannot long withstand the pressure, but become x ariously diseased. The brain, which is the great electrical center of all vitality, is unduly stimulated by the unhealthy blood which pusses to it from the heart, and it fails to perform its ulliee healthily. Hence the symptoms nf bile poisoning, w hieh are dullness, headache, incapacity to keep the mind on any subject, impairment of memory, dizzy, sleepy, or nervous feelings, gloomy forebodings, and irritability of temper. The blood itself being diseased, as it forms the sweat upon the surface of the skin, it is so irritating and poisonous that it produces discolored brown spots, pimples, blotches, and other eruptions, sores, boils, carbuncles, and scrofulous tumors. The stomach, bowels, and other organs, cannot escape, becoming affected, sooner or later, and w e have, as the re- tilt, costl vetn ss, piles, dropsy, dyspepsia, diarrleea. Other symp toms are common, as bitter or bad taste 111 mouth, internal heat, palpitation, teas ing cough, unsteady appetite, choking sen satioii in throat, bloating of stomach, pain in sides or about she tildei s nr back, coldness of extremities, etc., etc. Only a few of the above symptom are likely to be present in any case at one lime. The liver beintf the great depurating, or Id loil-clcansing organ of the system, set tfiis great " housekeeper of our health" at work, and tin: foul cm 111 p tioiis vi h'ch gender in the I it o,id, and rot out, as it were, the machinery of life, are gradu ally expelh-d from the system. I-or thi- pur pose, III. Pierce's (foblea Medical I liseo very, with very small doses daily of Dr. Pierce' Pleasant Purgative l'i lids," is pre-eminently the articles needed. They cure riery kind of humor from the worst scrofula to the common pimple, blotch, or eruption, lireat eating ulcers kindly heal under t le ir might y curative inltuenee." Virulent blood poisons that lurU in the system are by them robbed of their tenors, and by their persevering and somewhat protracted use the most taint ed systems may be completely renovated and built up anew. Knlarged glands, tu mors, and swellings, dwindle away and dis appear under the influence of thene great resolvents. Pit. Sf IIENCK'S Prr.MOXTC SVKfP, Ffa Wkki Tunic ju.ii Mamirake Fills. Thfss nicd-ieiiu-s have undoubtedly performed mure cures of Consumption than any other remedy know n to the American public. They nre compounded of veye table ingredient and contain nothing which can be injurious to the human constitution. Other remedies advertised ns rures for Consumption prohalily rontain opiunt, whirh is somewh it d 'tijerreis drug in nil cases, and, if taken freely by consumptive patients, it must do preat injury; for its tendency is to routine the morbid matter in t he system. hirh. of course, must make n cure impossible. Srheiirk's Pulmonic Syrup is war ranted md to contain s. purtlc! of opium. It is composed of powerful but harmless herb, which net on the Inn.", liver, stomach and blood, and thus correct all morbid secretions and expel nil the diseased matter from the body. These are the only means by which Consumption can tie cured, and. as SSchenck's Pulmonic Syrup. Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills are the only medicines w hieh operate in this way. it is obvious they are the only genuine cure for Pulmonary Consump tion. Kach bottle of this invaluable medicine is accompanied by full directions. J)r. Schetirk is professionally at his principal oflice. corner Sixth and Arch streets. Philadelphi I. every Monday, where all letters for advice L-uist be addressed. Da. SiiAi.i.EMiEKOF.K celebrates the Cen tennial by putting the price of hH famous Ague Pills at one dollar. This old and tried medicine is cheap at any price, because it cures promp'ly itny case of chills when all other remedies have failed utterly. Ft iixiTi id- Is sold by Ilolton it Hildreth, i-i.") and gi7 ttate St., Chicago, low er than any h musc iu the Wcs. (jotis aie lii'r t-class. Pki ssino's celebra'ed White Wine Vinegar h;;s been before the public twenty seven tears. k ny. HOW TO M. HE IT. ltulnrf A'"" A iVtUonorubLe. CUE. YOS'lEJt CO.. 6t.Louit.M9. rr EXTRA FINK MIXKD CAIiDS, with rums, 4m J 10 ct., post paid. L. Jio. n A Co., Kaisuu.N.'f. DIP DUV""1' Ilulitier Stumps. Trrnis free. DlU rrtl H. S. I-AKR1SII. P. O. ll 2-.lT.. lllCRKD. T -i ( ft mnnttn ni1 traveling expenses to leracn. JplOU Adtlrc-M Gem Manuf'i.e Co., St. Louis, Mo. t c n ',!,y r home. Samples wort!, si sent fT'J 'rmr 11 ree". bTi vso.v A: 'Jo.. Por'Iiind. Me. G VEIIV 1rtirahle NKW AltlM I KS fr Atrnta. MlrU by ii. J. Cai-iw ell. A i o.. -clieRiiire, Ceo a. $10 $25 r 5y. nl for Chromo Ctloti. unurtl foul. 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Pt'l Mrrarv HUC ft I Sparer. OnlT II.MUvnr. Ttiree ;0 cbronioa free. Mum ton A fcPOMbLitR.P'tjtu., Phila.. Pa. tTji 1 "1 A MOTH anil traveling expense. riaJd I . f.r SAbl-VVKM. No pedrtl. rs wanted. Ad ilrek. iomioK MANUF'G CO.. Cincinnati. Ohio OPIUIY1 nlais. Describe case. MA BIT CTKED AT HOMR. No putdirlrv. Time de.rC Terms in'xVrate. l.i(irestirni Vr. K. K. Marsh, yuiucy, Mich. OPIUM and Morphine Hatitt absolutely and 'M-eilPy cured. Painless mo pnVliel- ty. s-end stamp for particulars. Dr. I arlt.in. Ih7 V achtiiKton-at.ChXAgo Vtsltlna- ( arils, wirh your name finely pnulocl, ent fur'i. We have lllMstylrs. Agent Wanteil. Q sampifs "nt for Can, p. A. II. Kuller 4 Co.. Lruckton. Mas. lfi ," AVrrk and rTipenes, or .IW T Ml forfeited. All the new :nl Mstnd'inl Novi-.t lea, lil'MlM". ere. Val'ialtie Sample trie wch irelilar. Ii. 1 FI.Kli IIKi:. Ill Chambere Street. New ' vik. BCmn KKK .t".AK.MKEn T Vy Airects. Male and Female, in their own V J ff . Terms ami (u tkit Khff. Add-c: M P.O. V1CKKKV A-l.-O.. Aiiii.ista. Mam WANTED! Men to sell onr ronti t l .A I.IUS. Vo ledrtltr from house to house. sfj nth. and Traveling ew. peufea paid. Jlomioi M ax t o Co.. Cincinnati, Ohio. IT1 1 The choicest In the world -Importers' -- AJ-' price Largest Company in Anierlea tap,e article pleases everybody Trade continually Iner-asing Ac-nts wanted everywhere best lndtice-?.";-n.,fT:1""'t.,l"4re tune send for circular to UOU'T fcLLS. 43 eey St., N. V. p. o. Box 14H7. 3 ENGRAVERS WOOD SODA FOUNTAINS. ew and l:ich ii.-stcnt. L-itett Improvement in Sc-sla F.-en'a nt-. Fine- Mai hie aud Mlv r-l'l.ited Coul ter st.ii.d at reduced pn.-et. For desenrtive ctrcmT ea4 to ' . I). K0B1.N S, Shcjbvv Uie, ltd. GEO. A. PRINCE & CO. BEST IN 00,000 THE WORLD! ITsT TTJ33Z2 ! rillFES KKUt I Wl for atalo.oie. etc . to C. I I.ANC As 1 Fit, 11 Van Hnri-ii Mre. t. iu ai.o. Tie Catechism or lie Locomotive By M. N. FOHNEY. MECitAKIcal. K f 1 t x tc -t , Is n elempntnry treatlie on the lyK-oninth e, written In the form of question ami anaweis. Th hook eon ta lis fV pa-"-ni"l i ' ennravins, tin-hiding 10 full paKO ulaio of dull-rent t. les of lot-omottvea. I he principle or operuio! and netans of eonmiir. ttfl arc so clear'y ex plane d as to enable any ln''-lll- f;enf Person i i tltoronuhlv understand IImou, Tim 100k Is w I Hu n without the use or t elinic l lei l e. er abstruse mat hi-oint if-u calculations, and is Iniiietel for all clashes of rcadem. No pi pular treatise en ti e toromnm e In the Knll" lnnuuiii:e rives sor'.ear. iiupe and complete a de scription of the constnietion and working of the ofo rnoi ive en trine, ami no work of any kind. Imwro-r i-i- tcni e. ciV'S so lull an an 11 1 o' inodi-i 11 to- r ran practice In liM-omotuc eon-trin-Uon. and of t lie Intent Setciititir dii-eineries whirhhave aie.-'i .iIh.ii to tlm Operation of the locomotive, especially mow 1 In to combustion, heat, etc., all of w Itlrh the .fulhor lets endeavored to make pun 11 to those who have i ut cvun the rudiment of a scientific education. iiiiom, sfta.rso. Address THK tfAII.Rn.A t V. 7VTTK. ; Jw kson Mrel, I hu aKO. : 1 s z z ; EH M o I s. - k V V if. ? 23 is n ' - , V . . I T a i . y 3 ' .5 y - : - I .a. ?" e T 2 - i t'iOH.- ';'-,.e 1 Jiifs.h z. si; ? 5i.: - e - - M i 41 m ? 1 ' 3J l - m m n I r- v 1--: ti u 3 C '-5 : '. A - - 2 v Z fi!r- y . ?i C ". ' , o u. - s- r & z t a " c it et j: 3 y su '9 0 . n C T - -at, LaMMstsfl c- I - 's. - r v " - "-T-. 3T -J o c "THE VIBRATOR" IOUO FOLD LAST BFA80N WITHOUT ONE FA I LI" it E Oil BISECTION Tills Is tlio f.iiiiotiH Tliresliim; uifu liine tlinl tia "swept the ticl.l " and created such ii revolution In the trad", by Ha MATtlll.i h Urain-Savinu ash 1 tMiy-bAT-INO iirinciplea. rfit$0ml "vibrator: - " - ---- "- ffrfaMiaiis irlH' " TIIK EXif'.MOF.- yVAKTAlii; of (Train, o U-ril ih' will, c,il-r riiitn, ot Tbr.liers, ran be SAY LI) by Ibis Improved JI.h bin", inJIMitt, tm eery jtl, to mutt than pay nil cspcwun of tlirctdiiiiT. FLAX, TIMOTI1V, JUI.t.LT, HHNIJAUIAN nnrt like s -edt are tlircitied, separated, cleaned and saved as easily aiel perfectly aa Wheat, Outs, Ily or I'm by AN KXTKA ritfCK i-i usually paid fm p-ruln ami seeds cleaned by thin machine, for extra cleanliness. IN THE WET GIIAIV or 1K7.S. these were sulwtan tially thn ONLY MAU1I INKS that could run with j.rotlt or economy, doin fust, tLiurcugli and Jaifect work, it'ien of Acts utterly faded. ALL GRAIN". TIME soil MONKY wastin; complica tion, such as "Kmllem Aprons," Huddles," "beaters," " Tickers," etc., are entirely ispenscd trtM ; less than one-half tho usual Gears, Ili lUi, l'.oxes, and Journals; easier maniiKed; morn durable; lilit runtiing ; no cost ly repairs; nodust; no" litterin's" to 1 1 ,in Up; nut troubled by adverse winds, rain or storms. FAKMEBS and CHAIN KAIsFIlS who nre pout, A In the l:irR aavinir made by it will tmt employ infe rior and wasteful macliiin-a, but will innrf on thi improved Thresher doing their work. FOUB SIZES made for 6, , 10 and 12 IIrse Powers. Also a specialty of Skpahatoks, desintd and made Exmr.RKi.T mn steam powrn. TWO STYLES OF HORSE 1'OWEIIS, viz: our 1m proved "Triple Gear." and our "Spur Speed" (Wyod Lury Stjle), loth Mounted " Miwr wheels. IF INTERESTED in Thrchinr or Grain Raising, apply to our nearest Dealer, or writ" to us for Illntn ted Circular (sent free), friTing full particulars of Siies, Styles, Prices, Terms, etc Nichols, Shepard tB Co., BATTLE CBKEK, HICK. The Enemy of Disease, f ho Foe o! ruin to Man and Heatt, Is th Grand Old MUSTANG LINIMENT, TV1IICII n STOflll TIIKTI'IT OF T I'.A It. . Til KICK li 0 SOU i: 11' II. I, MIT lli:.l.. : I. A M K K IT YYII.I, tvo r 11 1- minimi:, miimi,tma t A KKIJCTsl 'I UK II I'M A " IIOIIY'. oil J UK. ItnllY III' A IMIKM: (IK o I Ml II KOMI W I M A f M A I,. THAT HOK HIT riKI.I) TO ITS l A." Till I II. A l.nllls coat Ins; 'J'tc. Htc. or $ I ,(HI, lisinflrii n veil llir lifr ill s liiiiiisn lirlnv.alut rratoif l tlfesuduicfuiucii imu valuable I101 se. 5 MACHINES, I V AT, ..-Vr PORTABLE 4C. 1-6 tU- TV otb-r extraordinary Inducements-New Seven Oc tave fnll Iron frame. ovcrfriii n la- I'lnie. i!'i rosewood case and carved leps. for fj'rfi itoi d snd delivered at. ant IL H In-pot In hi. a-o I cries of payment, f e"h. remainder !.' moit hiy ; or t'.icati and '.o monthly: or fi'i an and 3 ijuarterlj --n -u 1 lor cataloi.-iie w ith f'Hl exnistiaTion. KKKIl's TKJII'LK OF ."H'M-. '.It Vhii It turn .. hliKta. f Cut this out and I nc : it in our let ic. K . The Best Place for SAVINGS IS A GOOD LOT IN OR NEAR CHICACO. Tirst-clais Lots at S50 to S I 50 eacb, on Monthly Payments of $3 to $3. Fend for Circulars. No Letter ji'nce in iio r!i for Profits. .Kll. II. II . o . lOfV lliHilwiii M.. 4 Itiino. 1 w !11 tie si K V For the Campaign. The events of ths Pi ci-lden' isl rinins'i-n fAitnfii'lv mul foil,- I'lii.trili-il In 'I I I f' Itlltlv VI V ss to ci. 11 in. c in I it to ri rid. I teen ail parties! w e will end tl.c KKK I V KM I 1' rFe t, p-.t)H.i. from .Iniic '-t ti'i alter e' 5-t.; tl.e M'VI I- I il I li IN. mine ame pi , e; or Hie DAILY, f r p-u' AU'lle I III. tsl . 1 IN i-Tli n ..r . f , New r VI i at 11. e k 1 ity. harden Flower FRESH AND RELIABLE. Catalogue Frea. Kl.VU n SAYAlsK, 11 bUte bl Chicago. A "aj-fVT I ACENT S W AN T E D ' ' il iBook J Brlfcham Young'a . tTT7 Iwife No. 19. 23.COOS ; iiilliX l,1,,iM.Jiini.lin1i.il.i. Oustln, VflTTWri ICHman A Co., H.rtf., . 1.. 1 XUUXM X. I.... Int.. Cu.-ii.usw. Uam, Hithu-u. Vs. Learn TELECRAPHY7 But before f?olne elsewhere to do so, send for circu lars of the .. W. 'I rlcunt ptn Institute, .l.n:--vllle. Wis . which is recoiainenie 1 tv Mipi. of ' u Luioo Te!. Co. n Itie only reliable t-eliool lu the H et. A N. K. . 3. -s. f. r. H'HEwvrimrvcTo AmEKTisi.it, f please my you saw the Alvrttsts meat in tHt paper.