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INTRA, M INTRA, CUTRA, CORN. ' ' IT THB RET. J. K. WTTTISO. Ten email hands upon the spread, Five forn.s kneeling beside the bed, Blue-eyes, Black-eyes, Curly-head: Blonde, Brunette in a elee and a plow. Waiting the magic word. Such a row! Seven years, six years, Are, four, two! Fifty fingers, all in a line i Yours are thirty, and twenty are mine), en sweet eyes that sparkle and shine. Motherly Mary, ajte of ten. Evens the tinr-tips again, Giances along the line--and then " Intra, mintra, eutra, com, Anple-ne&l and apjtte-tiorn, Wire, brier, limber lock. Three gee in a Jtoek, Ruble, rrMe, rnhble, and rout, Y, O, U, T, Oat!", Sentence falls on Curly-head; One wee dijrit is " gone and dead," 'ine-and forty left on the spread. " Intra, miutra," the fiat goes. Who'll lie taken, nobody knows, Only God may the lot dispose. Is ft more than a childish play? Still you Rich and turn away. AVhy ? What pain in the sight, I pray ? Ah, too true: " As the fingers fall, One by one, at the magic call, Till, at the last, chance reaches all, " So in the fateful days to come The lot frhall fall in many a home That breaks a heart and fills a tomb; " Shall fall, and fall, and fall again. Like a Law that counts our love but vain Like a Fate, unheeding; our woe and pain. "One byene and who shall say Whether the lot may fall this day. That callcth of these dear babes away?" " Tnie, too true. Yet hold, dear friend ; F.vermore doth the lot depend On Him who loved, and loves to the end: " Blind, to our eyes, the fiat goes. Who'll be taken, no mortai knows, But only Love teill Hue lot dioxe. " Only Love, with His wiser sight; Love alone, in His infinite mitrlit; Love, who dwell in eternal light." Now are the fifty fingers gone To play some new play under the sun The childish fancy is past and gon. So let our boding prophecies go As childish, for do we not surely know The dear God holdeth our lot below? Boston Coiigreqationalist. MARK TWAIN AS A KIYEK-riLOT. In the February Atlantic Mark Twain gives an account of his efforts, when a boy, to learn the art of piloting the Mississippi Itiver. The following 13 a history of his experience on the first trip up the river from New Orleans to St. Louis: What with lying on the rocks four days at Louisville, and some other de lays, the poor old 1'aul Jones fooled away about two weeks in making the voyage from Cincinnati to New Orleans. This gave me a chance to get acquainted with one of the pilots, and he taught rae how to steer the boat and thus made the fascination of river life more potent than ever for me. The Paul Jones was now bound for St. Louis. I planned a siege against my pilot, and at the end of three days he surrendered. lie agreed to teach me the Mississippi Iliver from New Or leans to St. Louis for $500, payable out of the first wages I should receive after graduating. I entered upon the small enterprise of " learning" twelve or thir teen hundred miles of the great Missis sippi Kiver with the easy confidence of my time of life. If I had really known what I was about to require of my facul ties I should not have had the - courage to begin. I supposed that all a pilot had to do was to keep his boat in the river, and I did not consider that that could be much of a trick, since it was 60 wide. The boat backed out from New Or leans at four in the afternoon, and it was " our watch" until eight. Mr. B , my chief, " straightened her up," plowed her along past the sterns of the other boats that lay at the levee and then said: "Here, take her; shave those steam ships as close as you'd peel an apple." 1 took the wheel and my heart went " down into my boots, for it seemed to me that we were about to scrape the side off every ship in the line, we were so close. J held my breath e.nd began to claw the boat away from the danger, and I had my own opinion of the pilot who had known no better than to get us into such peril, but I was too wise to ex press it. In half a minute I had a wide margin of safety intervening between the Paul Jones and the ships, and within ten seconds more I was set aside in disgrace, and Mr. 11 was going into danger again and flaying me alive with abuse of my cowardice. I was stung, but I was obliged to admire the easy confidence Avith which my chief loafed from side to side of his wheel, and trimmed the ships so closely that disaster seemed ceaseless ly imminent. When he had cooled a lit tle he told me that the easy water was close ashore and the current outside, and therefore we must hug the bank, up stream, to get the benefit of the former, and stay well out, down-stream, to take advantage of the latter. In my own mind I resolved to be a down-stream pilot and leave the up-streamiDg to peo ple dead to prudence. Now and then Mr. B called m v at tention to certain things. Said he, 4,1rhis is Six-Mile Point." I assented. It was pleasant enough information, but I could not see the bearing of it. I was not con scious that it was a matter of any in terest to me. Another time he said: This is Nine-Mile Point." Later he said : u This is Twelve-Mile Point." They were all about level with the water's edge ; they all looked about alike to me; they were monotonously unpicturesque. I hoped Mr. B would change the subject. But no; he would crowd up around a point, hug ging the shore with allection, and then say: "The slack water ends here, abreast this bunch of China-trees; now we cross over." So he crossed over. lie gave me the wheel once or twice, but I had no luck. I either came near chip ping off the edge of a sugar plantation or else I yawed too far from shore, and so I dropped back into disgrace again and got abused. The watch was ended at last, and we took supper and went to bed. At mid night the glare of a lantern shone in my eyes and the night-watchman said: "Come! turn out!" And then he left. I could not under stand this extraordinary procedure; so I presently gave up trying to and dozed off to sleep. Pretty soon the watchman was back again, and this time he was gruff. I was annoyed. I said: " What do you want to come bother ing around here in the middle of the night for? Now as like as not I'll not get to sleep again to-night." The watchman said: " Well, if this ain't good, I'm blest." The " off-watch" was turning In, and I heard some brutal laughter from them and such remarks as "ilello, watchman! ain't the new cub turned out yet? He's delicate, likely. Give him some sugar in & rag and send for the chambermaid to sing rock-a-by-baby to him. About this time Mr. B appeared on the scene. Something like a minute later I was climbing the pilot-house steps with some of my clothes on and the rest n my arms. Mr. B was close behind, commenting. Here was something fresh this thing of getting up in the middle of the night to go to work. It was a de tail in piloting that had never occurred to me at all. I knew that boats ran all night, but somehow I had never hap pened to reflect that somebody had to get up out of a warm bed to run them. I began to fear that piloting was not quite so romantic as 1 had imagined it was; there was something very real and work-like about this new phase of it. It was a rather dingy night, although a fair number of stars were out. The big mate was at the wheel, and he had the old tub pointed at a star and was holding her straight up the middle of the river. The shores on either hand were not "much more than a mile apart, but the seemed wonderfully far away and ever so vague and indistinct. The mate said : "We've got to land at Jones' planta tion, sir." The vengeful spirit in me exulted. I said to myself, I wish you joy of your job, Mr. B ; you'll have a good time finding Mr. Jones' plantation such a night as this; and I hope you never will find it as long as you live. Mr. B said to the mate: 44 Upper end of the plantation, or the lower?" "Upper." " I can't do it. The stumps there are out of water at this stage. It's no great distance to the lower, and you'll have to get alongwith that." " All right, sir. If Jones don't like it heTi have to lump it, I reckon." And then the mate left. My exultation began to cool and my wonder to come up. Here was a man who not only pro posed to find this plantation on such a night, but to find either end of it you preferred. I dreadfully wrnted to ask a question, but I was carrying about as many short answers as my cargo-room would admit of, so I held my peace. All I desired to ask Mr. B was the simple question whether he was ass enough to really imagine he was going to find that plantation on a night when all planta tions were exactly alike and all the same color. But I held in. I used to have fine inspirations of prudence in those days. Mr. B made for the shore and soon was scraping it, just the same as if it had been daylight. And not only that, but singing "Father in Heaven, the day is declining," etc. It seemed to me that I had put my life in the keeping of a peculiarly reckless outcast. Presently he turned on me and said: "What's the name of the first point above New Orleans?" I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. 1 said I didn't know. " Don't Inoic ?" His manner jolted me. 1 was down at the root again in a moment. But 1 had to say just w hat I had said before. " Well, you're a smart one," said Mr. B . "What's the name of the next point?" Once more I didn't know. " Well, this beats anything. Tell mc the name of any point or place I told you." I studied a while and decided that I couldn't. " Look-a-here! What do you start out from, above Twelve-Mile-Point, to cross over?" "I I don't know." "You you don't know?" mim icking my drawling manner of speech. ' What do you know?" "I I nothingor certain." ' By the great Ctesar's chost, I believe you! You're the stupidest dunderhead I ever saw or ever beard of, so help me Moses! The idea of you being a pilot ymi! Why, you don't know enough to pilot a cow down a lane." Oh, but his wrath was up! He ws a nervous man, and he shuffled from one side of his wheel to the other as if the floor was hot. He would boil awhile to himself and then overflow and scald me again. "Look-a-here! What do you suppose I told vou the names of those points for?" I tremblingly considered a moment and then the devil of temptation pro voked me to say : "Well to to be entertaining, I thought." This was a red rag to the bull. He raged and stormed so (he was crossing the river at the time) that I judge it made him blind, because he ran over the steering-oar of a trading-scow. Of course the traders sent up a volley of red-hot profanity. Never was a man so gratetul as Mr. B was: because he was brim full, and here were subjects who would talk back. He threw open a window, thrust his head out, and such an irruption followed as I never had heard before. The fainter and farther away the scowmen's curses drifted, the higher Mr. B lifted his voice and the weightier his adjectives grew. When he closed the window he was empty. You could have drawn a seine through his system and not caught curses enough to disturb your mother with. Presently he said to me in the gentlest way: " M7 boy, you must get a little memorandum-book, and every time I tell you a thing put it down right away. There's only one way to be a pilot, and that is to get this entire river by heart. You have to know it just like A, B, C." That was a dismal revelation to me; for my memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges. How ever, I did not feel discouraged long. I judged that it was best to make some al lowances, for doubtless Mr. B was " stretching." Presently he pulled a rope and struck a few strokes on the big bell. The stars were all gone, now, and the night was as black as ink. I could hear the wheels churn along the bank but I was not entirely certain that I could see the shore. The voice of the invisible watchman called up from the hurricane deck : "What's this, sir?" " Jones' plantation." I said to myself I wish I might venture to offer a small bet that it isn't. But I did not chirp. I only waited to see. Mr. B handled the engine bells and in due time the boat's nose came to the land, a torch glowed from the forecastle, a man skipped ashore, a darky's voice on the bank said, " liimme ue carpet bag, Mars' Jones," and the next moment we were standing up the river again, all serene. I reflected deeply a while, and then said but not aloud, Well, the finding of that plantation was the luck iest accident that ever happened; but it couldn't happen again in a hundred years. And I fully believed it teas an accident, too. By the time we had gone seven or eight hundred miles up the river 1 had learned to be a tolerably plucky up stream steersman, in daylight, and before we reached St. Louis 1 had made a trifle of progress in night-work, but only a trifle. I had a note-book that fairly bristled with the names of towns, " points," bars, islands, bends, reaches, etc.; but the information was to be found only in the note-book none of it was in my head. It made my heart ache to think I had only got half of the river set down; for as our watch was four hours off and four hours on, day and night, there was a long four-hour gap in my book for every time I had slept since the voyage began. Tale of a Suck. The London Graphic says: " Monte Christo's escape from the sack in which he was Hung into the sea from the Chat eau d'lf has been imitated by an ingen ious Persian. Having incurred the dis pleasure of a high functionary at Shiraz, Mohammed Mirza was condemned to be fastened up in a sack with a viper, acock and a cat, and after an hour's timc.when this happy family had improved their ac quaintance, the sack and its contents were to be thrown into the river. For tunately for Mohammed Mirza, his exe cutioners forgot to search his pockets, which contained a small knife. Directly the mouth of the sack was closed upon him and his companions he cut in half the viper, which was already encircling his leg; the cock and the cat were next dispatched, and our Persian occupied the remainder of his hour by simulating a violent fight of the three animals, and giving forth the most excruciating cries of agony. In due time sack and all were consigned to the water, and then Mohammed Mirza, speedily freeing him self from the prison gained the other side of the river, and came post haste to Europe, for the future a voluntary exile from his fatherland." " Oh! your nose is as cold a3 ice," a Boston father thought he heard his daughter exclaim the other evening as he was reading in the next room. He walked in for explanation, but the young fellow was at one end of the sofa and the girl at the other, while both looked so innocent and unconscious that the old gentleman concluded his etrs had de ceived him, and so retired from the scene without a word. Valentines. Mr. Alexander Wainwright, writing for the February number ot the hi. Nicholas, thus talks about fashions in valentines and makes some suggestions of interest to worshipers of the eccen tric saint: There was a time when valentines were simply love-letters written on very fancy note-paper, with some poetry and a bunch of forget-me-nots at the head. Years ago my dear old grandmother made me happy by sending one of these, which I have still, and very pretty it is, although the ink is faded to a yellow. The poetry is especially nice, but the punctuation marks are left out, as they didn't care about these troublesome little things in the good old days. I think it said : When the-nnn.litue is around thee In the durk and silent niulit In the cottage and the palace May thy way be always bright! Of course I couldn't imagine who sent it nobody who gets a valentine ever can but I strongly suspected Sallie Law ton, and she had a bite out of all my ap ples until 1 found out my mistake. Tommy Jones was her valentine, and 1 gave him a punching for it, too, as he was mean, and pretended all the while he didn't like her. However, the old fashion has passed away, and valentines are now very elab orate things, employing thousands of skillful workmen in their manufacture. They serve as the covers of all sorts of costly presents, and some of them are real works of art. Clever designers are constantly employed in the invention of new combinations, pleasing efiects of grouping or color, and whimsical sur prises. The most careful labors of raughtsmen, lithographers, wood-engravers, painters, color-printers, card board, artificial flower and feather makers are spent upon them, to say nothing of the assistance given by work ers in silk, silver or glass. Even the tropical forests of Brazil and the depths of the sea are ransacked for fresh ma terial. There is one firm in London which has 368 different kinds of valentines. The cheapest are two cents each, and the finest cost nearly sixty dollars. All are pretty, and some arc magnificent. One is called "Love's Photograph." A tiny mirror is hidden beneath a bunch of flowers, and some dear girl finds that the reflection of her own face is your love's photograph. There are true lover's knots painted on the softest satin ; birds of bright plumage under gauze; girls in silver frames; paper flowers which bloom when the valentine is opened and close when it is shut; more paper flowers hidden behind screens of silver and in little wicker baskets, w'th exotic flowers painted by hand on the finest silk and framed in silver lace. No florist ever succeeded better than the modern valentine-maker does in put ting together the prettiest colors. Blush roses and forget-me-nots; camelias, wirti rich, dark green leaves: lilies of the valley, water lilies, ferns and pansies are combined with a wondrous degree of taste and skill. Sometimes the valen tine is the miniature of a transforma tion scene in a theater. It is folded and unfolded by an ingenious arrangement, which reveals a garden with a Mock of birds flying over if, and a lake of mirror-glass, with a swan upon its shining surface. Sometimes, too, the flowers are neither painted nor made of paper or muslin. Far away in Brazil there is a large con vent in which the sedate nuns make gay artificial flowers entirely out of the feath ers of the gorgeous birds that haunt the forests of South America. I cannot give you an idea of how rich and lustrous they are. More than this, marine flowers gathered from the bottom of the Mediter ranean Sea are used in valentines, and real birds are quite common. As Lucy opens the box that comes for her with a whole string of postage stamps upon it, it is possible that she will find the cun ningest of humming birds in a little nest, holding a message in its beak. Not the picture of one, mind you, but a real one, that has been caught and stuffed for the valentine-maker. The latest fashion in valentines is to combine them with useful articles. A lace or pearl-handled fan, costing sixty dollars, is secreted beneath flowers and mottoes and Cupids. A line silk necktie, for a gentleman or boy, is w rapped in white gauze, with tender sentiment: " Through cloud and sunshine I am thine." Articles of dres-s or jewelry often are inclosed. Sometimes' a sinok-ing-cap or pair of embroidered slippers. The descriptive catalogue of Mr. itim mel, the London perfumer, includes val entines containing Japanese ornamental hair-pins, cravats, pin-cushions, chate laine bottles, brooches, gold watch trink ets, lockets, turquoise and garnet rings, silver filigree brooches, ear-rings and bracelets, head-dresses and double smelling-bottles. Then, too, there are musical valentines in the form of glove and hand kerchief, or jewel-cases. One magnifi cent aflair cost forty dollars. It is made of pale blue silk, and trimmed with gilt. At one side is a compartment for gloves, and at the other a place for handker chiefs, with two beautiful smelling-bottles in the middle. As the lid is raised a musical-box, hidden underneath, plays a favorite air, such as, " Then You'll He member Me," or an air from an opera. I am not sure that the new custom of making expensive presents is belter than the old one of writing a love letter, and it certainly is not a proof of greater af fection in the senders. A pleasant improvement might be mad upon both the old and new customs without sacrificing the observance of the day. Let the boys and girls make their own valentines, during the long winter evenings. All the necessary materials may be purchased for twenty-five or thirty cents at a stationer's store. Suita ble designs are to be fround in many books, and some tinsel, crayons, water colors and lace-paper would enable clever young fingers to produce very pretty things. There might, for instance, be a simple Grecian border around a sheet of lace-paper, and inclosed within this a lily, a rose or some illuminated verses. Decalcomanie would dovery well, in case the valentino-maker could not draw; or, better still, pressed leaves might be called to the service. A red autumn waif or two carefully dried, pressed, and mounted on tinted paper, and surrounded by a wreath of ivy, would be pretty. Or one might make something lovely out of very delicate grasses, mosses and lichens, arranging them at the head of the paper, leaving space for a letter beneath. This would call for a tasteful box-envelope. A little care, taste and patience would w ork won ders with the simplest materials. Valentines of this kind would be more highly prized by a sincere friend, too, than the finest productions of the pro fessional valentine-maker. At the same time their preparation would afford you many hours of amusement and exercise in the use of color and form that would be profitable to you in countless ways. How Christmas Came in Slam. A writer in the Galaxy, speaking of the Princes of Siara, says: "About a year before the usurper's death the younger brother was dining at our house, and seemed highly delighted with two paintings representing Christmas sports one a tree ith its tiny tapers all aglow and every branch freighted with the gifts of the season; the other, the in ner view of adining-hall, with its blazrng fires and arches of evergreen, and table piled with Christmas luxuries. The Prince took the pictures from the hands of his little sons, to w hom I had been showing them, and after vainly trying to decipher their mysteries turned to me for explanation. This I had no sooner given than he exclaimed, excitedlv, Why can't ve have Christmas too! When is the time for it? Wouldn't it be splendid to keep Christmas at Bangkok in my palace, and have all the Americans and .English present. Come, promise me that you will be major-domo, and give all the orders. I will see that everything is done just rigbt, and we'll have a grand time. The first Christmas ever celebrated at Bangkok! Say j-es, won't you?' And so he talked on eagerly while I was can vassing mentally the pros and con ot the case, and tl? possibility of getting up a Christmas fete that would be stall worthy of the name. I consented at last to do my best, and my noble friend took his leave almost beside him self "with joy. V hen the time came 1 spent two or three days in the palace decorating the 100ms, and making, or rather superintending, the arrangements for the festival, for" there were scores of skillful servants in attend ance and the Prince himself always at my elbow, ready with his rare taste either to devise or execute. The salle a manger was an elegantly-frescoed saloon, sixty feet in length, hung with long French mirrors and fine paintings and lighted by three massive chandeliers. Over the table waved the British and American flags, one at each end, and the Siamese royal banner in the middle, while between were lofty arches of ever green. The dinner and dessert were the work of a hundred royal cooks, and in variety and abundance defy description. There were more dainties than the entire couit ought to have consumed in a month; and had the princely host expect ed a hundred or two for each of the thirty guests invited the provisions would have been ample. His Royal Highness, who was the only native pres ent, wore on the occasion a dark-blue, full-dress naval uniform, with epaulets and buttons of gold, and sat at the head of his table, with an American lady at his side, with his characteristic grace. Everything went off admirably, and I never attended a more genial or enjoy able feast." The Beggar. Begging iz a profession. Begging iz a science, and haz its arts and rules. Whether a man begs for moldy bread, decayed boots, damaged pantaloons, seedy coats, old hats, or even begs for munny to bild a church with, he haz got to understand hiz bizziness to make day's wages at it. It even requires a certain kind ov deli kasy and modesty to be an adept in the proleshun. The fust attempts at begging show the awkwardness in the prackticioner justaz plainly az the fust lesson at a dancing skool duz. Each beggar haz a kind ov originality in hiz or her programme which shows tallent, and in some cases even approaches genius. Sharp beggars hav been known to git ntch in the trade. Like gambling, once a beggar allwuss a beggar. Thare iz az mutch novelty and excite ment in asking alms az in playing draw poker, and the same kind ov frauds and cheats are in it. Beggars take az mutch pride in their suckcesses az enny other speculators. They are regular opera tors, and Bull and Bear the market and chuckle over a corner like enny other ov the financiers. They are ov all ages, sexes and condi shuns, from five years old up to seventy. Sum ov them attak their kustomcrs with their voice, sum with the weeping eye, and sum ov them with palsyed legs, arms and boddys. I hav seen them in the morning go haff-bent and limping to their day's w ork, and at evening start oil" briskly, whistling a lively catch, to count over the assetls ov the "day in some rickety garret, or be neath sum shelter in a lumber-yard. Beggars are allwuss luxurious, and a big days work iz sure to end in a feast or a frolik. They hav their distrikts in the large citys, which are sakred against all inter lopers, and if one ov them is kaught on the beat ov another he gits beat bi the rest ov them. They hav their bi laws and constitu shun, and change begging grounds with each other quite often. Theze changes enable an old veteran, with a bandaged foot, and a praktikal limp to attak a nu sett ov benevolents, giving up hiz place to a middle-aged widow, with a tale ov sorrow, and two infants at the brest, both ov which hav been borrowed for a day's begging from sum ov her associates. It iz better than a comedy to watch theze speculators. Now yu arc met bi a neatly-drest girl crying piteously; she waz sent out bi her mother, or mis tress, to buy a bottle of kastor oil for the baby, and haz lost 25 cents that was given her to make the purchase with. She iz sure to git whipt for her care lessness on her return home, and God will bless yu if yu will only giv her ten cents to help make up what she haz lost. By this pit3'ful lie she squeezes a dime outovyu, and darts into sum alleyway to arrange: her tears and story lor the next credulous martyr that falls in her way. Here, on a corner, yu are met by a meek looking man, in the very blush ov life, az helthy az a Quaker, and more able to earn a dollar at enny labour than yu are, with hiz coat buttoned up tite at the throat, and are most piteously told ov the loss ov hiz pocketbook with eighty-three dollars in it, just az he stept old from the kars last eight, and not a cent uv munny haz he got to buy him a brekfast, or tc pay hiz fare back to hiz home, in Sullivan County. Right away ahead ov yu, at the next corner, with hiz eye allreddy fastened on yu az yu approach, shaking from bed to foot, like an ague, with sum artifishall disseaze, iz planted a gray headed old bummer, with eye lids az" raw az beef stake, and a noze on him like a pickled blood beet, with hiz hat in hiz hand, and a nasal twang, in which he lies about the starvashun ov himself and wile, and no coals to keep them from freezing. Az ju turn sum corner yu are suddenly met by what seems to be sum honest, hard-working labourer, with hiz coat oil", hiz sleeves rolled up, and he on the run; he stops in front ov yu and shows a telo graphik dispatch, got up all right, onone ov the Western Union blanks, which calls him immediately to Rochester to see hiz dicing wife, and he haz not got a cent ov miinuy to undertake the journey. It would require more than double tile space of the spice-box collutn to write up the thousand and one dodges, ded beats and sharp iniquitous frauds ov this arm' of impostors. I w az once begged bi a man in New York for 23 cents at the corner ov 4lHh street and 5th avenue, who had eaten nothing for 3G hours, and pretending to pitty hiz sad condishion, told him that i had but one dollar myself and if he could give me the change back i should be happy to relieve hiz wants. He mistook me for a country brother, and changed mi bill for me. Among all this crew tharc may bo one in a thousand that don't lie and are worthy. Josh Billing, in N. Y. Weekly. MOXTIIL.Y CA LfcXDAR 1675. A Groat Man Dead. On Wednesday morning Mr. William Kupp, aged twenty-one jears, resid ing nenr Doughsville, and celebrated throughout that section for his remarka ble weight, died suddenly. He had been in good health and spi ils oi the day and evening previous to his demi-e, and had retired at the usunl hour. In the morning early one of tbe lar.ii'y acci dentally entered his loom, and, ap proaching the bed, found him lifeless. Mr. Kupp was a wonderfully-framed man, weighing 450 pounds, and mnic idea of his immense size may ; gath ered from ti- fact that th; calf ot his r it: lit leg measured twenty -nine inches in circumference. He was about rive feet eight inches in height, and was, wit'. out doubt, the heaviest man in the United Slates. He was said to h ive been a tin-gularlv-handsome man. and his unusual size did not seem to detract from his personal comeliness. Reading (I 'a ) I'iines. TrrE California hop-vine has the singu lar habit of only growing in the winter. The colder the weather is the better it thrives, and on clear, frosty nights it sometimes grows an inch in five hours. It bears beautiful snow-white flowers, something like tuberoses, only much more fragile and fragrant. Ladies wear them with diamonds at evening parties. They wither in daylight, and open only at night. When the mercury is lowest, and the star3 are almost reflected on the crisp, shining snow, then this delicate flower opens its petals and fills the frost v air with its perfume. Small Fruit Re corder. Black si'ks embroidered in colors are very fashionable. FEBRUARY. - 14 2 3 4 5 G 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 U 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 25 2G 27 28 - - AGRICULTURAL AD DOMESTIC There is in every household a great quantity of worsted and flannel pieces that are of small account, and can be of no service for garments, but if saved it can be rendered useful and beautiful in the manufacture of hearth-rugs or mats to lay before bureaus, sofas or organs. Take a piece of hemp sacking, and draw some pretty design in the center a bouquet of flowers, a wreath or some an imal, mark a border with a chain or her aldry pattern; sew the canvas into a frame like quil ting-frames, only smaller, so as not to occupy too much room: have a hook made like a crochet-hook or needle; one can be manufactured easily by taking a parasol-brace and filing the end into a proper form ; cut the strips of cloth into strips of half an inch in width if thin fabric make it wider. Pass the hook through the canvas with the right hand, have the cloth underneath the frame in the left hand, insert a loop on the hook, and draw it to the upper side about three-fcurths of an inch; leave about two threads space and close in an other ljop. Regard the selection of col ors so as to shade them nicely and keep the form of your pattern. It is very quiet, easy and fascinating work; work the figure first, and then draw in the fill-ing-up or grouud-work of some dark col or black, brown or drab. After it is completed, shear the whole surface even ly, but not too close, and you have a fine, substantial, durable rug, that will last a lifetime, and do more service and be prettier than an imported article that would cost an v where from ten to thirty dollars; and, best of all, it is home-made. Our Fireside Friend. Leaf and Flower Impressions. Oil a piece of white paper on one side; hold the oiled side over and in the smoke of a lamp or pine-knot till quite black; place 'he leaf on the black surface smooth ride up, as the veins and fitx rs of the leaf show plainer on the undtr part. Now press on all parts of the leaf with the fingers; then t ike up the leaf and put the black oiled sides on the page of a bonk made for leaf impressions with an ex tra piece of paper on the top to prevent soiuiting the opposite page. Press this a few moments ; then remove the green leaf and the impression will be kit on ti e page as be lu'itu'ily as if it were an en graving. F.owers of tingle cor. lla can be pressed in like manter. Many of the geranium leaves make beautiful impres sions. Tt:C impression book may be made stid more interesting by giving ho tinicil classifications of each leat and fl o w e r. America n Ua rdea. Recipe for Coloring Red. For on pound of yarn take one and one-half ounces cocaineal and two ouuees cream of tartar; take sufficient water to cover tiie yarn, let it boil, put in the cream of tartar, let it dissolve, then powder the cochineal very fine and put it in, let boil five minutes, then put in two outu-es of muriate of tin. Be careful in put ting in muriate of tin, for it is poison ous. Then put in your vain, boil twenty minutes, airing it; rinse in cold-water. Rice Pudding with Fruit. Swell the rice with a very little milk over the lire; then mix fruit of any kind with : cur rants, gooseberries scalded, pared and quartered apples, raisins, or black cur rants, and still better, red-currant jelly with one epg to bind the rice; boil it well, and serve with powdered cinna mon and sugar. Cream Cake. Beat two egfs with one cup of sugar, add one cup of thick cream, a teaspoon fu! of saleratus and one of salt; flavor witn nutmeg atd lemon, or otner spice, mix as still" as will j our in o pans. A handi'ul of currants improves it. Tr3' it. French Cake. One-half cup of but ter, two cut3 of sujar, three eggs, one cup of mi. k, and to teaspoonfu's of baking-powder. Bringing Up Worthless Lund. Most farms have some lands that is lacking in quality; this often happens in yellow or light-colored ridges, usually drift soil, and frequently quite bate, sometimes yielding little beside weeds; this is aggravated by the drought, which kills grass or prevents its taking root. Such land can be made good, tillable soil, highly remunerative, and w ith but little expense. It needs but manure and clover to start, and which will pay at once more than the investment, and soon become a profitable thing. It is done In first plowing pretty deep, bringing up some raw soil, which is likely to be bet ter than the top soil. This should be done in the fall or winter, or in the heat of summer, but never in the spring, un less unusually early; it must then be very dry. Apply to this a coat of ma nure. It need not be very heavy, but it must be properly applied, or there will be but little benefit derived. About this mode of application people are in credulous, and are also careless and ig norant. They apply the manure generally after it has laid so long that all the strength has passed out of it, and it is partly hardened; taus applied in lumps that are but partially reduced, the manure is scattered unevenly. In this way the land is sown to weed and receives but little benefit, what strength there is in the manure mostly passing off, not being sufficiently close to the ground to be within reach of its attraction. The lirst season will do nothing. The next, by shallow plowing of the soil, mixing weeds and the remains of the manure with it, will improve the land so that a little may be grown on it. If. however, the drought is severe, this little will dwin dle to almost nothing. The thing re peated several times would at last get up soil that wouid pay something, but would not pay for all the trouble and ex pense. It is not the way to treat this soil successfully, as has often been demon strated. Instead of this careless application of the manure, apply evenly, so that all th" land gets covered"; then reduce to pow der. This can be done best by a brush drag from six to nine feet in length, three lengths of scantling framed lit the ends and in the middle. Then put long, stout brush under it, the butts resting on the forward piece, and fasten them there. A seat is put on for the driver; two or three horses being required, according o its size, to drag it. This drag is the best thing we have ever known for reducing manure on meadows. It will also clean oil" what nio3S there may be. The manure being thus finely distrib uted and close to the ground, covering the whole surface, the first rain will wath out the soluble parts and thus en rich the surface soil. Clover seed then sown will be sure to catch. This should be sown early in the spring on the snow, if the land Las been prepared in the fall or winter, as it should be. If plowed and prepared in the summer it may be sown early in the fall so as to get a good foot ing, else the frost may be severe w ith it But we prefer the early spring sowing on well-prepared land; no harrowing is required to cover the 3eed as the action of the frost does that. There will then be a crop the same season, and if plaster is used, as should always be the case, and the drought is not unusually severe, there will be a fair crop the same season, yielding not far from two tuns to the acre. If cut in mid-summer there will be by winter a good growth f--r protec tion and manure and an early i trt in the spring. Then there may be two crops taken off, yielding from four to five tons per This can be greatly increased by apply ing a coat of manure in the fall, and the earlier the better. It is still better to ap ply immediately after the crop is re moved. Plaster generally has a good effect on such land, and so has manure applied in the manner we described. It is gratifying to see the effect, as we yearly do. The soil is usually drift, com posed large'y ot sana ana gravel with some clay. Sometimes a considerable amount of clay covers the laud to be used, m winch case it must be drained in order to be successful, as manure as well as plaster is thrown away on wet land. We have insisted on the manure be ing spread evenly and closely to the ground and made line. This is absolute ly neces-ary to success. But another thing is also necessary. Let no one un dertake this without putting on plenty of good seed ten or twelve quarts to the acre. Then there will be a thick set. It should be remembered that the same soil will carry many plants as read ily us a few, the strength being mostly obtained from the atmosphere, aided by plaster ; a thick set will thrive as well as a straggling crop; two tons may be ob tained aswell as one, leaving the land not only un impoverished but far moro enriched. This is the effect of clover. This dense set will fill the soil with large, fat roots, which will be equal to a heavy dressing of the best manure. A little manure well applied does all of this. Any crop can be grovu largely, followed by seeding wich will take at once and yield increased crops. Thus wi know that land that has been re claimed In this way, bare at first, but now bearing a dense soil and yielding the heaviest of crops, could not be pur chased at a hundred dollars per acre; it is fully worth that. Such lands must be kept good or else it-will go back to nature. Being some what leachy the strength will eventually pass away. There must be treatment. The soil must be fed from the surface; the sod then established, the grain then raised. It will not do to bury either sod or manure deep in such land; that would be its grave. Keep at the surface and all the greater w ill be the benefits. Rely first upon clover; then grass may be worked in; timothy will do well. Elevated land grows quantity better than low land. There is a plumper berry, brighter straw, sweeter grass and more nutriment, improving the flavor of butter and cheese, the former especially, which is readily noted. Fruit is also im proved on these uplands. There are also less insects. We should bring up this land and not neglect it, especially as there is profit in the improvement from the start. But follow directions, which is the experience of the best farmers here. J '. (7., in Indiana Fanner. m Cut This Out. Evi t!Y peison should know how to treat a flesh wound. Every one is liable to be placed in circumstances away from surgical and veterinary aid, where he may have to save his own life, the life of a friend or a beast simplyfrom the exercise of n little common sense. In the first place close the lips of the wound within the han-s and hold them firmly together to check the flow of the blood until several stitches can be taken and a b.irdage applied. Then bathe the wound for a long time in cold water. " Should it be painful," a correspondent says, "take a panful of burning coals and sprinkle upon them common brown sugar, and hold the wound part in the smoke. In a minute or two the pain w ill be allayed and the recovery proceeds rapidly. In my case a rusty nail had made a bad wound in my foot. The pain and nervous irritation were severe. This w as all removed by holding it in smoke fifteen minutes, and I was able to resume my reading in comfort. We have often recommended it to others w ith like re sult. Last week one of my men had a finger-nail torn out by a pair of ice-tongs. It became very painful, as was to be ex pected. Held in sugar smoke twenty minutes pain ceased and promised speedy recover' " Exchange. A BEAt'TrFi'i. WomaN'. The perceptive faculty of women is usually keener than the same phrenological organ in men. Woman knows that beauty rather than genius is worshiped by the sterner sex. A man may talk with his lips of the lat ter to his lady-love, but the keenness of the woman knows he is thinking of the former in his heart. AH women have an innate desire to please their beaux. They are fond of admiration, hence one of their longings is to be beautiful. The grand secret of female beauty is health the secret of health is the power to eat, digest and assimilate a proper quantity of wholesome food. Take Yixkar Btt tkhs. It will cleanse the stomach, tone the vital organs, give a perfect eligeslitm, purify the blood, clear up the complexion and produce a state of mental and phys ical electricity w hich gives symmetry of form, bright eyes, white skin, glossy hair and a genuine type of female'loc liness which no cosmetic can compare with. 19 Xo vse of any loniriT taking the large, re pulsive, griping, drastic unci nauseous pills, composed of crude niul balky ingredients, and put up in cheap wood or pasteboard boxes, when we can, by a careful application of chemical science, extract til) the cathartic and other medicinal properties from the most valuable roots and herbs, and cor-centrato them into a minute Granule, scarcely larger than a mustard-seed, that can be readily swal lowed bv those of the most sensitive stom achs and fast id ious tastes. Kach of Dr. I'ierec's l'lcasaiit I'urgaiive Pellets represents, in a most concentrated form, as much cathartic j'ower as is embodied in any of the. large pilis found for sale in the drug stores. From their wonderful cathnrtic power, in proportion to their size, cojle who have not tried them are apt to suppose that they are harsh or drastic in elleet, but suc h is not at all the case, the dillereut active medicinal principles of which they are composed being so harmonized, one by the. others, as to produce a most searching and thorough, yet gently and kindly operat inir, cathartic. "The relicts are sold by eleal crs in medicines. Vetrtnlile Pnlmonarr Italian t Mot jv. rruretl. relinhle ami well-known reun-ly for C onirlm, oldfl Hiid CmiHiniiptlon. Urt A trennt14. 1'ricutl .mull r.i b '..-r, wii llu.t. Ad',. lln.fiiu. We received a vci pleasant letter of thanks from our old friend Kendall, since his return home, for a bottle of JoIihoh'h A ho. ditie Liniiiteul which we gave him and which he says has entirely cured him of the trouble some" and dangerous cough he had when here. Ov The death f f one of England's most em inent physicians all his etlects were sold by unci ion, 'and among other things was a sealed packet, marked ' Advice to Physicians." which brought a great price. The purchaser, on opening the packet, read as follows: ' Keep the head cool, the bowels open and the feet warm." If physic is necessary use J'nsorx' J'liri.tirr 1't ln; they are the most scientifically prepared pill that has uppea-cd in the 1 .st hundred jears. Wii.tiift's Fkvek vm Acre Tonic. This ii!L(Ii. ine i-. used by construction companies fur thn benefit of their omphy s, when cn iraircd in malarial districts. The highest tes timonials have been given by contractors and bv the l're:-i icnt:, of some of the leading rail roads in th.- Mnith and West. When men are congregated in lar;e nuiiibers in the neiarh bornood ofswamps and rivers Wilhoft's Tonic v. ill prove a vahuMe addition to the stock of medicine-, ai.d wiil amply reward the com. paav in the saving of time", laborav.d money. We" recommend it to all. WlIEEI.OCK, Fim.W v: Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. I"t:: Sai.j: r am. Dun. ;its. Important to Conscmitives. The long-looked-for specific for the cure t X Pulmonary diseases is found at last. Allen's Lung 15al sam ha- proved to be the most cxtraordinry ined cul preparation for curing Consumption. Il not only cures Consumption, but relieves immediately the incipient stag'.-, such as Coughs, Colds, Oppresrions, etc.. Pains In the Chc-yt. It breaks up the most distressing cough in an incredible short time. For sal- by all Medicine Dealers. W'r. learn that the- Co-operative Stove Co., of Cleveland, are the only manufacturers of the celebrated Kotary f'olt Coal Base Burner, said to be the cheapest, most economical, powerful heating, durable and only success ful bae-burner f tove for soft coal yet pro duced. Call at your stove dealer's and see t-ie Hot irv. Tnr.riE are few who need to be told that the Sherman House is the best hotel ia tVhic.i.ao. But all may not have learned I hat i'.- pric es have reet fitly hern materially reduced. The North western- Horsb Kaii. Co.' "I iiuihed ' .Nail U tLe bet in the world, Ut" o &f T,r day t tinme . Trm Kr. .nnrtrrM pO H 7drJ una btinbuM a Co.. i'urLUud. Mitluti. 4 GENTS. Chun it Chang cll at sli;M. Neccary as llunp. Cioo.ln free. Ciianx CUuUK M I K Co., uuxu CL- T A WKKK. Akri-nta wanted ever whtTH. Kor fp I l oimit Zk. uicu& Walker. 1hi lull, Ohio. (COnfl " ii"nth to A(r'-nt evt-rywhere. A(t.lrf pfcUUtUKLSli UIM'K'CiCO., liiirlimiaii. Mich. COMETH !!; KOIt VOl'. 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Alldl'-ss JOJI.VSiOX, CliAIIft ,i CO., CillcAOo, III. iOWA R. R. LAND GO. Has for sab- 1 .-VM-. OIM r.y nt Ka Jr u.! Land- :n t.'.e M; i''.ie i;. 11 of AX cst 1 n lov.a. Better Lands at Cheaper Prico3 Thau can bf found e;ev lu re within civil ' r. ii :..:i. N o (.'ra-.-h'.ptxT-. SiH-.:c. Nn II dial's. A ( ll.-e cre.i I price ." and !i j.t-r i-re. Mar l r'.iifl ! 01 ... nd to Ihe otnpanv's .t:!t . ': l;a. .!:!';. n street. h:c:e.-i.. Pt.d obtain fail fi:f.riu:i:i M inl h.. to r-ach toe lauds free. For maps atri p-.mpi.let. ui'li pr'; - and terms. i. hires lo v i liallroid Land Co.. fl.ic.i-... or ed.ir Kapids. I. ..v.. .'C'iiN 11. Al.IKH'V. Iai;d ..iimiis.-ioui r. My IIXrSTirAI Y.1 Si.F.U CATAIj'mU'K for IS7 a l snvr Er.iuv and w'.W bo mailed, t'l.l V. C r CHAnCF:, to e!! appllc .nts. Engilbli and t.erinari Ldiiion Address JOHN VLZZRli, 21 i IVJarket St., St. Lou!. tlfState where rou saw this advertisement. tkade T5irsurrLii:D. HOME TOB THE rM7W' book tiitnce,.;i.jvf. . V TV"". ?etre fort! Ished hv ladle, of ChlriTn snd ad la'-ert towns; name to each recijie. Large amount ol" other Information, rnaklnf it nioct valuable work. Paper used euperb: iiindUigparticulurly adapted to t he kitch en u-e. Traps will be supplied bv .IAN'sKN', Mi fLVKOA CO.. X-. B. KKF.X. COOKE & CO., and VvKTF.KV NEWS CO., CHICAGO. C-aiiocuC will tie mailed I.U receipt f price. Dr. .J. Walker's California Yin- esar ttitters aro a rure '7 VcRetabla preparation, mado Mcfly irora tho na tive herbs found on trio lower ranpea of the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor nia, tho medicinal properties of which aro extractod therefrom .vithout tho usa cf Alcohol. Tho queptioa ii almosj daily asked, "What U tho causo of tho unparalleled eucccss of Vixfoar IJrr TEr.sf Our answer ia, that they rcraovo tho causo of diso.'ujo, and tho patient re covers his health. They aro tho great blood purifier and a lifo-p vins principle, a perfect Keuovator and Invignrator of tho tyetem. Never before is. tha history cf tlio world biw a lueclicino bora compounded possessing tho romnxkahl qualities of Ti.neoab Hitters in hoaiinir th eick of every discaso man in heir to. They are a pentlo Turpativo aa weil as ft Toaio. relieving Conpotiwa or Inflammation ot the Liver and isccral Org i.ua, ui JJiliotu Di.castss. The properties of Dn. Walkkh's Vinegar ijittkrs are Api'ricnt, DiarnWiitio, Carminative, nutritious, Laxative, liiuretio. Sedative. Counter-Irritant, tSudorilic, Altera LiTe. and Anti-lilio'' Grateful Thousands proclaim Vik Egau IJitteks tho most wonderful In Tifrorai.t that over sustained tbo sinking syi-tom. No Person can lafco Iheso Hitlers according to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones aro not do jptroyed by mineral poison or other means, and vital organs wiistcd beyond repair. Uilious. Remittent and Inter mittent l evers, which aro bo preva lent in tho valleys of our Rreat rivers throughout tho United States, especially those of tho Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkan sas, Ked, Colorado, Hrazos. liio (Jrando, l'earl, Alabama, Mobile, Savannah, Ko anoko, James, and many others with their vast tributaries, throughout our entire country during tho .Summer and Autumn, and remarkably so during sea sons of unusual heat and dryness, aro invariably accompanied bv extensive de rangements of tho stomach and liver, and other abdominal viscera. In their treatment, a purgative, exerting a pow erful influenco upon theso various or gans, is essentially necessary. Thero is no cathartic for tho purposo equal to l)n. J. Walker's Vineuak Hittkus. as thev "will speedily removo tho dark- colored viscid matter with which tho bowels aro loaded, at tho samo timo stimulating tho secretions of tho liver, and generally restoring tho healthy functions of tho digestivo organs. rortify the hod v airainst disease) by purifying all its lluids with Vixkc.au JiiTTEUS. No epidemic can tako hold of a system thus fore-armed. Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Head ache, l'ain in tho Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of tho Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eruct;:ions of tho Stomach, Had Tasto in tho Mouth, 15i'iou3 Attacks, 1'alpita tation of tho Heart, Inflammation of tho L.ungs, Pain in tho region of tho Kid neys, and a hundred other painful symp toms, aro tho onsprings of Dyspepsia. Ono bottlowill provo a better guarantee! of its merits than a lengthy advertise ment. . . Scrofula, or Iiuiir s Lvil, Whita FweliiUfrs, Ulcers, Erj hit. elan, fcxvcllol Nnclf, Goitre, iscTofulouii Inflammations, Indolrnl Inflammations, Mercurial Allections, Old Sores, Eruptions of tho Skin, Sro Eye-i, etc. In these, in in all other constitutional Dis eases, WLKKIt's YlNKOAR DlTTKUH ImVO kIkiwu their peat enrativo power iu tho nmst obstinate) and intractable oascx. For Inflammatory and Chronic Iiheuinaf ism. Gout, IJilious, Kemit tcnt and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of tho Illiiotl, Liver, Kidneys and Iiladdcr, thefcc Hitters have no equal. Such ilihca.ses are caused by Vitiated blood. 3!ichanKal Diseases.- Persons en gaged in Paints and Minerals, fiuch as 1 'J ii i nbers Type-setters Gobi beaters and iliners. ns they advance in life, are subject to pai'ilysis "of the I'.oweN. To jruard against this, tako a cIom; of Walk Kit's VlN Ec;au I'.iTTJ-fus occasionally. lorSIiill lii.M'ilses, Eruptions, Tet ter, Sa!t-li'hemii, ll'oUhcs, Spots I'itiiples, Pustules Hoils Carbuncles Iinff-worms Scald-head, Sure L'yes Krysipel.n, Itch, Scurfs, Discoloration of tho ."skin. Humor and Diseases of the Skin of whatever naino cr i-iUCire, are literally lii "l and carried out of the system ia a bhoi t tiino by tho use of theso Diner. Pin, Tape, and other Worms, lurkhijr in tho Fyttein of ko many thousands are cliectually destroyed and rono'ved. 'o fiystcni of medicine, no verindujres, no an thelniir.itic will free the pysteia from worms hk3 theso Hitters. For Female Complaints, in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of wo manhood, or tho turn of life, theso Tonic Hitters display fo decided an influenco that improvement is soon perceptible. Cleanse the Vitiated lllood when ever you lin l its impurities bursting throupli tho ckin in Pimples, Eruptions, or Sores; cleanse it when you lind it obstructed and sluggish in tho veins; clennso it when it is foul ; your leelings will tell you when. Keep tho blood pure, and the health of tho system will follow. It. II. McDOXAI.O & CO., DTifrcriHts and On. Art 4., Sun Frincinco. California, unci cor. of WMshinirton ami Charlton St.. N. V . Sold by ull iJruKjrl.t IX ltrr. 325 ADay Yes, $23 OO ft dT fmaranteed nslni? on Well Auger and Drills in eooa territory. nighest testimonials from the Governor of Iowa, Arkansas and Dakota. All tools war runted. Two weUt 80 foot dp can ho bore.l in ono day, and ono -well will furnish water sufficient for 100 bead of cattle. - Isplendidl 'work for winter as well as summer. Descrip tive catalr.frne free. County rights for sal. AUUreMi Will AUU JUi CO., bu Vuuit, Uv. 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