nuiDs of string.
Finn- ! wlmt wonilrons Kont; you "'iijj
All day lutnir in tlie old trim tree,
FiiMi-lini; firth wi'h me!-'ly,
liirds of fiin'.-;!
Jovoiif liii r ; of co i j;, iliat dies
frudtlt'iily, t-wrif l you rire
On the wing.
Wine olii bar'1. who thrilled the north
With their lava m t i rut-n of yum,
learned from bird their myn.ic lure.
Ily the froih
Of the m on n I .iln H'.reamt" they heard
Secret marvel lv aeh bird
ttabbied furtti.
When the oouthland nionnrcha ante,
e'oiiiicil-tlirntic'l. with dire fear vext.
And the fooihcayt-rn perplexed,
l'lirti-uiB t'rtat
Sought they from the bird that flow
Overhead, from them they drew
Word of fate.
Ah! what rapt urea beat and blend
I'nd'-rneath tlmae winea of "Told!
t't.uid I like the a.ers of old
Comprehend !
Could I hut traiixlate your lava
W ondroux ruinr I'd i-iti" like days
Without end.
Strange old leijenrin come ai'ain
Ah a chnn from lip uiiHeeu
SSt iids ibroueh pot hi--, arch and rcrcen
Its retrain
I.ei;nrlt of ibe crow-hi 1 1 ;.iiihI.
And the Chrint ti)ot the rood
Stretched in piiiu.
I i r y that rnlea above
The wild wiiHlet of cea and flame.
To tneu'i even revealed liecatn.j
A" a din e.
Tearniiiu iu that r.-ntl' -iiii-e
droQili-M eireufth but Hiruitles
Ti uilerest love.
Hark T I hear a mystery d at
T!iriiiiLh all life! t meaning thn'lH
Lore! tile breath that veil and trills
K mm your throat-.
Hv- the poet Hon! ih In t.
The divine wi riilill"'. ;tiifd
Of thUHu lluUn.
I'oeti! birdn of Hprin-.'! i" footh
All l!ie t-eu-oii.' are your nprin.
All your wm' are i-rex.ijriiij;
(It the truih
(if the beauty that t-hall bloom
Whin thii world fhall rea-tniine
Im lost youth.
-Con.'tantina t'.. Itruukt. i't Horn' JO'i rii tl.
THE L.TE A. T. MKWAKT.
my
her
the
elul
she
Ir w:w sm after the: terrible epidemic
nt 'yellow-fever that he (stabl bhed him
self as a dry-goods mi-reliant in the frame
building ut 1 5 roadway aud Cliuiuhers
street. His cash capital v.as betwt ti!
$ I,'J(.H) mid fl, r(-0. His store was final I,
being only Iwentytwu feet wide by thirty
deep, and was next loor to the establish
ment of ihe then 1'aP.ienis llmifanti, who
kept the most trefiuented variety store of
the day. Jt v. as at this time that he mar
i icil 31iss Cornelia Clinch, who survives
him. The yountr couple lived in one
sin ill room over the store, anil the wife
took: cure of the domestic arrangements
while the husband attended to his busi
ness below. Without mercantile experi
ence aud possessing no advantage but his
own. unaided detei niinatinn to sueceetl,
3Ir. Sii' uit started boldly on what proved
the road t fortune. No vi'iniir merchant
ever worked harder than he. From
fourteen to eighteen hours every day he
gave to his business, lie was his own
Itook-kceper, salesman and porter. He
kept a small stock of goods, which he
purchased for cash, ch icily.
Mr. Stewait was a regular attendant at
auction sales, and his purchases were in
variably sample lots, lie had these goods
taken to his store, and after the business
of the day was over he and his wife care
lully assorted the sample lots and brought
order out of contusion. Every article was
carefully examined ; gloves were redressed
and smoothed out, laces pressed free
from the creases that careless bidders had
twisted them into, and hose wete made to
look as fresh as though they had never
been handled. Every article was thus re
stored to its origiual excellence. The
goods were then arranged in their proper
places on the shelves of the store, anil
being o tiered at a lower price than that
charged by other retail dealers in the city,
the' had a ready sale. Even at the low
price the profit was great, as the goods
had been purch;ied for a mere tritle. For
six years Mr. Stewart continued his busi
ness in this way, acquiring every day a
larger and more profitable trade! It is
said that when he entered upon his busi
ness lie knew so little of its details tlia'. he
w;is sometimes sorely embarrassed by
trifles. Once, it is said, he accosted the late
"William llecchcr, I mm whom he bought
many goods, as follows:
"3lr. l.ecchcr, a lady came into
store to-day and asked me to show
some hose. 1 did not know what
poods were, and I told her that I
not keep the article. What did
want?"
Mr. Heedier laughingly showed him a
pair of stockings, and the young merchant
was convulsed with merriment. While
yet in his first struirirles in his little
store, Mr. Stewart found himself called
upon to make arrangements to pay a note
that would soim become due. He had
neither the money nor the friends from
whom he wished to borrow it. He marked
tlown every article in his store far lie-low
the wholesale price. This done, he had
a large quantity of handbills printed an
nouncing the sale of his entire stock of
irootis to be elici ted within a given time.
He scattered these bills throughout the
city, and it was not long before purchasers
lK-jian to Hock to his store. 'I hey lound
the best goods in the market at a lower
price than they had ever lie to re been
offered for in New York, and every one
sent his friends to avail themselves of the
opportunity.
The little Broadway store was rilled all
day, and long before the expiration of
the period' tlxed upon for the duration
of the sales, Mr. Stewart's shelves were
empty and his treasury was full. He
paid his note, and laid in a fresh stock
of goods. He was fortunate in his pur
chases at this time. The market v:is ex
tremely dull and money was scarce. The
energy, industry, patience and business
tact displayed by Mr. Stewart in these first
years of his commercial life yielded
their sure reward, ui iu lss his little
store was no longer large enough for the
large and fashionable trade that had come
to him.
Three new stores had just been tree'ed
in Broadway, between Chambers and
Warren streets, and he leased tne- smallest
of them and moved into it. It was a
moth st strut tute, three s-ories in height
and thirty feet deep, but in it i;e was able
to keep a larger and more attractive stock
of goods and his business was greatly
lH-netited by the change. After four
years in this store he moved, in to a
two-story store in Broadway, between
Murray and Warren streets. "Soon after
occupying it he was compelled by the
grow th of his business to add twenty ieet
to the depth of the store and to add an
other story. A year or two later a fourth
story was added, and in 1!7 a tiflh story.
His trade was now with the wealthy and
fashionable class ol the city, and he had
surmounted all his early difficulties and
laid the foundation of a magnificent for
tune. The great crisis of lfc37 found Mr.
Stewart a prosperous and rising man, and
in that terrible financial storm, while
other men were becoming bankrupt, he
was coining money. He always watched
the market closely, so that he might profit
by any sudden change in it. He marked
clown ail his goods as low as possible, and
began to sell at cot." Everybody com
plained of hard times, and all were glad
to avail themselves of "Stewart's bar
gains." In this way he carried on a re
tail cash trale of 4,000 a day in that
fearful crisis. Other merchants were com
pelled to send their goods to auction to le
sold for what they might bring, and Mr.
Stewart attended all their auctions reg
ularly, purchasing the goods thus offered.
These he rapidly sold, realizingan average
profit of forty percent. It is said that he pur
chased $0.000 worth of silks in this way,
and sold the whole lot within a few days,
making f 20,000 on the transaction. He
made a fortune in that crisis.
Mr. Stewart was strictlj' just, but not
a generous man in his tk-alings. lie
always kept his own wrd scrupulously,
and required others to do the wme. It
he promised to pay a dollar, he
paid a dollar, and if a man
promised him a dollar, nothing less
than the dollar would satisfy hini. Hence
he got the reputation of being hard and
exacting, and consequently was rather un
popular. He was also a strictly truthful
man. He never told lies, nor akcd any
body in his employ to tell then. The
foundation of his business success was the
reputation whiclj hjs establishment
out his plan of
Having once
was decided aud
If l.e foresaw a
gained at an early day for describing
goods exactly as they were, offering them
at the lowest price intended to be ti.ken,
and then making no deviations. When
he tirst opened his store it was the cus
tom of sellers and buyers to chaffer over
their transactions. The dealer asked more
than he iutended to take, and a long de
bate followed. The result was, that timid
people, women and young persons, were
very glad to find a place where they coul l
look at goods, ask prices, and then have
nothing more to do than to make up their
minds whether to tike them or leave them.
Mr. Stewart also had the reputation of
paying the lowest market rate of salaries
to his clerks. This was paitly owing to
his shrewdness, and partly owing to the
fact that he was constantly overwhelmed
with applications for situations. Having
only to pick fioin a great number who of
fered themselves, and who were anxious
for employment on any terms, he
found it eay to secure clerks at salaries
far below those that many other employ
ers were compelled to pay. But whatever he
promised to pay was paid punctually and
fully. And in the course of his .long
career it has never been alleged against
him that he ever defrauded man, woman,
or child of a cent. At the same time he
require 1 of all the fullest performance of
the duties that they undertook, and a very
slight failure was in his eyes sufficient
cause for dismissal. As an illustration of
his business tact, it is mentioned that on
opening his great retail store he instructed
his clerks to pay particular attention to
the poor woineu whoentered at the Fourth
avenue doors, his object lieing to break up
the Bowery trade. And he did it effectu
ally. Mr. Stewart's great peculiarity ius a
business man was his familiarity with the
minutest details of his own affairs. He
carried everything in his own head down
to the petty articles in tin: Yankee notions
depaitment. He knew how much slock
he had of every kind of goods, just what
each cost, tmd'where it 1 ty in his ware
house, lie rarely consulted any one in
regard to his transactions. He would ob
tain such tacts tis he needed from his
bookkeepers, and think
operations by himself
made up his mind, he
igorous iu execution.
lo-s, he hastened to sell as soon us possi
ble, and ofien while people were hesitat
ing he had his money in hand, ami, when
a lu.thcr fall came, he replaced his goods
I '.t urn. li l,.a lb in bo c.il.l tliem for Tt
was much the same when buying for a
rise. He did not wait for the highest
price to be reached before purchasing,
but took the tide at its turn.
Mr. Stewart s property is variously esti
mated at .t'JO.OOO.OOo to 10;OO0,O00. The
opinion of the best judges is that it was
not far from '2,(K!0,0!0.
Mr. Stewart usually breakfasted at
eight o'clock, his meal ordinarily con
sisting of plain bread, a bit of fish, an
egg and some oatmeal porridge. Then
he was driven down to his retail estab
lishment, where he spent two or three
hours, walking through every part of it,
asking the salesmen the prices of goods,
in order to ascertain whither they w ere up
in theii duties, and observing ho.v affairs
were carrit d on. Then he went down in
bis carriage to his wholesale store. There
he read his letters and transacted business
until six o'clock. For many years he was
accustomed to dine at Delmonico's, on
the oppoMte side of Broadway, but latter
ly he dined at home. Getting an inter
view w iih him was very much like tret
ting access to the Prime Minister eif En
gland. He was to be seen only at the
down-town store, and, on the visitor's en
tering, the tloor-wnlkcr near the dixir
would tirst inquire that visitor's business.
It he said that he wanted to see Mr. Stew
art, be was asked what he wanted of him,
and if it was anything that a subordinate
could attend to, he was turned over to him.
If he still insisted upon seeing the great
man himself ke was allowed to go as tar
as the toot of the stairs, where another
Cerberus was in waiting, ail unless he
could be satisiied that it was worth while
disturbing Mr. Stewart, the visitor was
turned back. Ofien a message came
down which would enable the business to
be settled by a simple j es or no. f not,
the visitor was allowed to go up the stairs
t.nd wait again, w ithin sight of the glazed
inclosure w here Mr. Stewart sat, aud in
due time wassutnmoned intohis pre-sence.
Though courteous in manner, Mr. Stew
art wasted no words, and anythii.g like a
bore was summarily dismissed. And in
no other way could' he have got through
with the immense number of calls that
were daily 'nade upon him.
.Mr. Stewart was, iu the true sense, a
philanthropist. At the time of the great
laminc in Inland he sent to his suffering
countrymen aship-h-ad of provisions. In
this he took a coutse unique and perfect
in itself, and illustrating one of the pow
erful characteristics of the man. First
he si -light foi a ship to charter. A Brit
ish vessel was offered and refused. He
wantexl a ship of his own country, an
American ship. Such a ship was found,
new, in fine order, with tin American
Captain and an American crew, and was
at once chartered. He then ascertained
thpftmount of the fortune he brought from
Ireland, and added the interest thereto,
and there was a very considerable sum
which, in his view, he owed to Ireland,
aud he resolved to pay the debt. The
vessel was laden entirel- with both neces
sary and costly provisions, and w ith the
American flag floating at the foremast she
entered the harbor ol Belfast. It wnsone
of America's contributions to Ireland, and
was so intended by the giver. The arri
val of that vessel and the distribution of
the valuable cargo among the suffering
poor, produced a profound impres
sion. But the enterpri.-e was not
yet complete. The t.ge.it in Bel
fast was directed to advertise for
young men and women w ho desired to go
to America, and a free passage was given
to as manv as the vessel could carry, tlie
only requirement being that the applicant
should In- of good moral character and
able to read and write. A circular was
issued by Mr. Stewart himself, and sent
to his ni'iiK-ro'is rriends, stating the fact
that he exp cted a large number of young
persons, and asking cniplovnu nt for them.
When the vessel reached the harbor ot
New York, places hail been found for al
most every one of the new emigrants.
Just alter the Franco-Prussian war lie sent
the bark Hunter, containing IS, tB2 barrels
of Hour, as a gift to the suffering French
people. His gift of $"i0, 0(H) to Chicago,
and his subsequent gift of another ."0.000
are fresh in everybody's memory. In 1S!7
Mr. Stewart went to Paris as one of the
representatives from the UnitedStates tothe
great vYorld's exhibition. He was Presi
dent of the Honorary Commission ap
pointed by the Government.
His nomination to the office of Secretary
of the Treasury, and the refusal of Con
gress to amend the law so that he might
take the office without abandoning his
private business, are of too recent date to
require recital here.
It is well know n that Mr. Stewart was
extremely superstitious. The slightest
incidents or accidents became to him im
pressive eimens. The fact that he caused
an apple woman who for many years
vended her. edibles on the sidewalk in
front of his wholesale store to be removed,
stand and all, to his up town store, under
the impression that her presence insured
his prosperity, is well authenticated. A
lady whose acquaintance he made just
previous to the opening of his new store,
warned him not to sell anything there
until she had tirst purchased something
in the store, and on tlie opening day,
early in the morning, she called and
liought nearly if -J 00 worth of goods, prin
cipally Irish laces. Years afterward,
when Mr. Stewart was in a foreign land,
he learned that she was living there in
reduced circumstances. Her husband had
squandered her fortune. Mr. Stewart
sought her out and gave her an elegant
suite of apartments, and afterward settled
upon her a handsome annuity. He sup
ported her during her life in comparative
luxury, because he believed her earlv pur
chase in hi3 new store had brought him
luck.
The first money earned by Mr. Stewart in
this country is said toliave been paid to
him by Isaac F. Bragg, who had a school
in Koosevelt street in or 122, and
who employed Mr. Stewart as his assist
ant. Mr. Bragg still has in his posses
sion Mr. Stewart's receipt lor $30 earned
as assistant teacher. Mr. Bragg, who is
nearly 00 years old, says that Mr. Stewart
abandoned his school because he was of
fended at being asked to make collections
for his employer after school hours. Mr.
Bragg gave him a recommendation to a
paper house, but before Mr. Stewart be
gan his clerkship he received intelligence
from Belfast of the death of a relative who
had bequeathed to him a stock ot nry goods.
The young merchant went to Ireland to
look after his windfall, and view ing New
York as the best market, he brought his
goods to this city and opened his first
small store. X. Y. Pun.
FACTS AM) FMiUKES.
SfXTEK.x of the forty-seven States and
Territories have no laws legulating the
rate of interest.
The 20,0 0,000,000 matches manufac
tured in the United States annually re
quire 2:30,000 cubic feet of the best pine
lumber. Mr. Marsh.
Matrimony is on the decline in Mary
land. Tlie Baltimore Gazette notes with
sadness the fact that the past quarter shows
a record of only 5'JG marriage licenses is
sued in the city, while the corresponding
record of last year showed a total of h'XJ.
In 18-")0 the value ot the pine packing
boxes made in the United States was
000.000. and in lsJTO they were valued at
$3, 200,000. The value of the material
made into woodenwarc in the United
States increased from $ l:3'S,!0() in iy"0 to
$1,000,000 in 1ST0. The value of the ma
terial converted into agricultural imple
ments in the United Slates in l.s."i() was
only S.(i0,000, while in 1X70 it had
reached the enormous sum of $7:3,000,000,
of which the forests must have furnished
$20,000,000 worth.
1'he L'lDtbrmhtn of April 8 contains an
exhaustive review of the lumber product
of the Northwest for the season of 1X75,
showing also the eiiiantity of logs and
lumber on hand at the beginning of the
present year. The production and sup
ply left over are shown to be as follows:
Xo.ff. Ivmhcr
Xo. ft. lumhtr ami loijMon tin nil
! rni in lsTS. Jan. 1. IsT'i.
Michigan 2.7lW-.lwt l.:).T7.4!'!
Vicoi;iii l.iuiii.fti .'. 0 .M W. I.'nO
Mn:t:i! 'ota St -'.'.xM.lTl v.17 o a o m
lliKsipsipjii l;ivt-r.. '.'.'I, Is7.l0) .,1-',711, u
ToUl 4.117.10 J.U5') 2.-7-I.41J I'.I'J
The pr xluct of the season eif 1871 was
1,220, l:5'.),()S:J fret, and the supply of lum
ber and logs m hand Jan. 1, 1S7.), was
2,1S7,021,27:) feet.
The New York World furnishes some
interesting and instructive figures con
cerning tlie comparative outlay for post
age in several named cities. Taking nn
average of twenty-two cities with the high
est postal receipts it finds that the citizens
pay an annual ;vr enpita of $2.01 for post
age. Boston pays the largest sum, amount,
ing to $!)."i 1,2X1 gross, or $:5 X0 per head.
New York pays $:3.1t! and Chicago $:.o:5.
The Brooklyn jer oipita is only forty-two
cents; but un average of the jiopulation
and the postal receipts of Brooklyn and
New York Miow that the 7vr o'P't't is
$2.:jt for the entire population. This is
less than that of San Francisco. $2.x:? ;
IndiauaiMilis, $2 XI, and Pittsburgh, $2.52 ;
but it is gnaterthan the receipts at Al
bany, $1!)1; Rochester, $1.00; Provi
dence, $1.71), and Cincinnati, $1.X5. The
more Southern cities do not patronize the
Post Office to the same extent. Baltimore
pa's $1.2X per capita : W ashington, $1.50;
Louisville, $1.50; Philadelphia, $1.4:1;
St. Louis. $1. -:?; Kansas City, $1.20, and
New Orleans, $1.00, being the lowest av
erage. The Detroit otlice receives $2.:51
ifr r.ipita; Cleveland $2, and Milwaukee
$1.01.
The .Motind-Btiililers.
The St. Louis lljmbUnin concludes a
lengthy article relating to the Mound
Builders as follows:
We have thus grouped some facts con
cerning the Mound-Builders. From these
facts we may reasonably infer:
1. That the Mound Builders had an
organized autocratic government. In which
the individual was merged in the State,
and thus their rulers could undertake anil
complete the great works, the remains of
wl ich are found in this age.
2. The Mound-Builders were a labo
rious people. Nothing but the united la
liorofmany thousands of men could ac
complish such great works as have sur
vived thelevclingintluenceof timethrough
thousands of years.
;i. The Mound-Builders were not no
mads, but had fixed habitations.
4. They were numerous and gregarious,
dwelling in populous cities, as attested by
the grouping of the mound.
5. The Mound-Builders were acquaint
ed with many of the practical arts ot civ
ilized life. The- smelted copper,
wrought stone, molded clay into useful
forms, built houses, reared mounds,
which, like those of Otohim, Uxnial, Pa
lenque and San Juan Tectihuacan, were
no doubt temple-crowned in the distant
past. They manufactured salt, made
cloth, and had vessels fitted for man
uses. They cultivated the soil, raised
cern, melons, pumpkins anil squashes, and
subsisted in a large degree on the frui'sof
the earth.
We know not how many centuries may
have rolled away since the most recently
built of their cities became waste and des
olate. Many centuries we know must
have elapsed since the last Mound
Builders were expelled or exterminated
from the Mississippi Valley. Only relics
of the most durable character have been
found.
Vast and splendid cities built like an
cient Sardis, of canes and rushes and
other perishable materials, may once
have covered the plains around the tem
ple mounds and about the citadel walls,
all traces of which have passed away. In
the construction of some of the pyramidal
croups of mounds in the Yazoo country
the lalmr of many thousands of men must
have been called into requisition through
many years to complete the work.
There is no evidem c that any of the
mounds were ever constructed as the
foundations of dwellings for the people.
The pyramidal mounds of the Mississippi
Valley are similar in form to the teocalis
of the region further south. On some of
those we know that temples were erected.
Li the ruins of Chi-Cheu, Yucatan, there
is a pyramid of hewn stone surmounted
by a temple which must once have pre
sented a splendid appearance. In the
valley of the Mississippi materials were
abunuant for the construction of light
buildings. In ntny of the localities once
densely jHpulated by the Mound-Builders,
no stone could be had. Of course no
structures of wood could survive the lapse
of so many ages. So the cities and hab
itations of the Mound-Builders have all
vanished, and in the undisturbed quiet of
many centuries giant trees and tangled
vines usurped the spaces once worn
smooth by the pattering feet of thronging
myriads of men who have utterly perished
from the earth, leaving no memorial. of
fheir arts behind them.
Chinese IMcnic.
A recent letter from Virginia City,
Nev., says: From Virginia City to
the Sutro tnnnel a road has been built
across the hills for the accommodation of
the Tuunel Company. Since the road
w as built, various habitations have sprung
up along its borders. The county hospital
is reached by this road, likew ise the habi
tation of ' Old Kentuck," a hermit, who
lives, with his donkey and dog, in a hut
alxuit three miles from Virginia and a
like distance from Sutro. "Kentuck" is
certainly a cuiiosity, but the great
curiosity of the neighborhood is the
Chinese cemetery, in the sage brush, just
east of the county hospital. I have often
been struck by the bare and eleserted ap
pearance of the place as I passed along
the divide between the two towns, but
was never more forcibly impressed with
its weird and somber characteristics than
on a certain clear and terribly cold mid
night in February, as I guided my jaded
horse through the mountainous snow
drifts and wondered if ever any one saw a
Chinese ghost! This afternoon I had oc
casion to pass over this grade, and my
curiosity was aroused by the spectacle of
a wagon-load of Chinamen directing their
way toward the Chinese cemetery. I
could not believe it to be a funeral, for
there was nothing to indicate a corpse,
but to satisfy my curiosity I followed
them. Just as they arrived at the ceme
tery I looked toward Mount Davidson and
saw the snow whirling on its crest; before
I arrived in the midst of the Mongolians
a blinding, stincicg snow-storm w as upon
us. It came directly liom the southeast,
driven by a fearful gale of wind, and for
half an hour it raged as I never saw a
snow-storm rage before. The Chinamen,
nothing daunted, commenced unloading
the wagon of its treasures, a whole roast
hog, p'ates of rice, bundles of cigarettes,
white biscuit sprinkled w ith red sugar,
preserved ginger, liquors and fire-works
and bundles of light brown bits of paper
inscribed w ith Chinese characters. One
of the heathen spread out a roll of paper
to the four quarters of the compass, and
laid them on each grave, keeping them in
place with a stone; another grasping a
handful of sticks about as large in cir
cumference as a match and a foot in
length, lighted them, and placed them at
the head of the graves. Others took
bunches eif tiny candles and placed them
lighted on the graves, the whole crowd
keeping up the most incessant chattering
all the time. "Hi, ya! Hi, ya! gou-a-wa;
teya" seemed to my uneducated under
standing the burden of the song. Then
a bundle of fireworks were set off amid
loud hurrahs. "Without further ceremony
they squatted themselves on the ground
and the feast commenced. My distin
guished friend and laundrytnaii.Su Wong,
politely requested me to join in the feast,
but 1 believed I could wait until I reached
Virginia City. The fact was I was not
hungry. The joss-sticks continued to
burn and the Chinamen discussed the
baked mcc.ts of the many funerals, ami
tic storm increased in fury every moment.
Finally tlie feast was completed a little
quicker than is usual on these occasions,
I judged, and, gatheiitig up the rem
nants, they replaced them in Ihe wagon,
and all returned to Virginia. In
former times they used to leave the
remains of the banquet in the cemetery,
but the Piute Indians, without the fear oi
the Mongolian deity before their eyes,
were wont to gobble up the daintiesassoon
its the Chinamen were out of sight.
During the ceremonies I asked Su Wong
what it all meant, and was told it was "a
yearly feast of the ilead, to keep the devil
away." However, this may possibly be
it fiction, for Sing Ho, slyly nudging me,
whispered: " Su Wong tellee lie allee
same Melican man. We have picnic!"
l,ord Maeaulay's Wonderful Memory.
At about the age of twelve young Ma
ieaulay was sent to a private school at Lit
tle Siielford, a village in the immedia'e
neighborhood of Cambridge, where begot
on with his studies wiih extraordinary
rapidity. His memory was wonderful.
What he once read was never forgotten,
and he had the capacity for taking in at a
glance the contents of a printed paper. As
a child, during one ot the sessions when
the soeial duties devolved upon Mr.
Macaulay, he accompanied his father on
an afternoon call, and found on a table
the " Lay of the La-t Minstrel," which he
had nev, r before met with. He kept hiin-s-
lf quiet with his prize while the elders
wete talking, and on his return home s it
down upon his mother's bed, and repeat-d to
her as many cantos as she had the pa'ience
or strength to listen to. lA one period of
his life he was known to say that, it by
some miracle of vandalism all copies of
"Paradise Lost" and ''Tie Pilgrim's
Progress" were destroyed oil' the face of
the earth, he wouid undertake to repro
duce them both from recollection when
ever a revival of learning came. In 1X1:3,
while wailing in a Cambridge coffee-room
for a postch.usc which was to take him to
his school, he picked up a country news
paper containing two stub specimens of
provincial poetical talent as iti those days
might be read in the corner of any weekly
journal. One piece was headed ' KetleC
tions of an Fxile," while the oilier was a
trumpery parody on the We Hi ballad
' Ar hyil y nos," referrin g to some local
anecdote of an hostler whose nosu had
been bitten ff by alilly. He looked them
once through and never gave tlietn a
thought for forty years, at the end of
which time he repeated them both without
missing, or, as f ir as he knew, changing
a single word.
II is extraordinary fa.'iilty of assimilating
printed matter at tirst sight remained the
sam through life. To the end he re id
books fiister than other people skimmed
tliein, and skimmed them as fast as any
one else could turn the leaves. "He
seeme 1 to read through the skin," said
one who had often watched the operation.
Macaulay was not unpopular among
his fellow pupils, who regarde 1 him with
pride and adinira'ion, tempered by the
compa-sion which his utter inability to
play at any sort of game would h ive ex
cited iu every svhool, public or private
dike. The tone of his correspondence
during his school years indicates that he
lived almost exclusively among books.
" Life and Letter of lxrd Macaulay."
The Agricultural Ant.
"Wonderful stories have been told of the
intelligence of various species of the ant
inhabiting different parts of the globe,
but we doubt much if fiction ever con
tributed to them more than they really
posses. The ' Ag' L ulUr al Ant," of
Teras, is fir from be nga myth, although
vou may never have happened to find it.
The late Dr. O. Lincieuni, a man note!
for his scientific attainments, and a resi
dent of Texas for some twenty years or
more, studied the habits of various spe
cies of ants very closely, and to him we
are indebted for the history of the "Agri
cultural Ant" ( Myriitira 3fU t 'tricn). In
a communication to the Smithsonian In
stitute in 1X71, be says:
' In lXlx, the year I camcto Long Point
(Texas , there was but one agricultural
ant city wiihin a mile of the plaee. This
was situated in a nearly barren little spot
on the top eif an elevation underlaid with
stratilie'd sandstone. Here tLere was but
little grass and weeds to interfere with
their seed-collecting labors. The ant rice
whiib they so carefully cultivate was
flourishing in a regular circle near the outer
border, but inside of the pavement. There
were little patches of t ie s i ne grass skit
tered abeiut on the little glade, which had
doubtless been planted there by some ex
perienced ant, for it had been neatly
cleared of all other vegetables; in fact,
cultivated by thein."
I r. Lincieuni then proceeds to give a
minute description of all their operations
in regard to planting, keeping clear of
weeds, and finally harvesting and storing
the crop in holes made in the ground for
the purpose. If the stored grain happens
to get wet during the heavy rains it is all
taken out and spread in the sun to dry, for
our little agriculturists know that moisture
will cause it to sprout preiu iturely or be
come moldy and rotten. There are other
equally interesting aud intelligent species
ot" ants inhabiting Texas, but we have? few
such careful an 1 scie-utilic observers as
the late Dr. Lincieuni; hence our meager
knowledge of this cl iss eif insects.
USEFUL AM) SUKUESTlVfc.
Cuke fou TeKrriiACHK. Take a lump
of lime as large as a hickory nut, put it
in a quart bottle of water, and rinse the
mouth with it frequently.
To Pkocuke Sleep. Twenty grains of
carbonate of soda, taken the last thing ou
going to bed, will frequently procure
sleep, when all sedatives have failed.
Exchange.
Fou Soke Eyes. Take two tablepoon
fuls honev, teaspoonful salt, tincture of
balsam buds, one tablespoonfu!, teaspoon-
ful gum pine. Make a paste and put it
over the eyes. A thin cloth to go on the
eyes first. CW. Rural Sew Yorker.
To grow very early table-beets they
must be transplanted "from the hot-bed
early in May. The main crop can be
sown in the open air about the middle of
April. The best varieties are Early Blwd
turnip and Long Blood red beet; the lat
ter is also the ticst table beet during the
year.- J). V. Richmond, in Ohio Farmer
A veky common reason for the failure
of muck, when used as an absorbent or in
compost heaps, it is claimed, is that it has
alieady taken up all the water it can hold
It should, therefore, be thoroughly dried
before forming into compost heaps. In
building the heap place muck and ma
nure in thin layers and use about twice as
much muck us manure.
The 11 ime of an Argand burner pos
sesses the greatest intensity of light when
the quantity ot air is supplied at such a
rate as to bring the llauie just beyond the
smoking point. When more air is sup
Plied, tlie flame becomes more and more
pale, bluish and less luminous, while
with a great excess of air, it burus w ith
almost no light, like a Bun-eii burner.
Makkino 1 sk. Take one dram of ni
trate (lunar caustic), dissolve it in a glass
mortar, in double its weight of pure
wa'er. This forms the ink. Then dis
solve ine dram of salts of tartar in erne
ounce of water, in another vessel; this is
the liquid w ith which the linen must be
previously wetted, then allowed to dry
and afterward to be written on.
Tit katment ok Bi'iins. In the treat
ment of burns in the Charity Hospital,
New York, when of a superficial charac
ter, a preparation consisting of wo parls
of collodion and ene of olive oil has been
found to be very efficacious. When the
burn is ot an extensive character, gaso
line proves of decided benefit. The ad
vantage of gasoline is that, it is of the
right consistence, and does not become
rancid.
To sepa it ate honey from wax, put
honeycomb and till in a tin pan upon a
moderately warm stove, addiug a table
spoonful of water to each pound of honey.
Stir occasionally w ith a piece of wire un
til the contents of the pan are in a liquid
condition. Do not allow boiling to be
gin, llemove the pan from the fire and
set it aside to cool. The cuke of wax, to
which all impurities will adhere, may
then be carefully lifted oil wiih a knife.
KrierttJie American.
"Lately my brother-in-law," writes C.
Ballet, of Troyes, France, in tlie Illustra
tion JottiriiU ' lieing very much dis
turbed in his sleep by mosquitoes, took it
into his head to place a young plant of
Eucalyptus in his bed room over night.
From that moment the insects elisappearcd
and he slept in comfort. I have been fol
lowing his example, with the same result.
Planted in pots the seeds will germinate
in two weeks, and line young plants will
have grown for next summer's use.
Tenkek-Footei) Houses. An old man
who had much experience in handling
and deviling in horses for more than halt
a century, said to me recently that he had
never known a horse to get tender footed
that was kept loei.se in a shed and yard; or
in a, box stall ; that turning and treading
with their fore feet in the manure kepi
them constantly moist and soft. His
theory appeared perfectly reasonable to
me. I have no box still, but I use shav
ings for bedding, and every morning,
with a large shovel, I move the wet shav
ings under the horse's forward feet, and
then the last thing at night cover these
with dry shavings for him to lie on. He
also remarked that he never knew a flat
footed hors ' but that was a good worker.
Cor. Lire Stock Journal.
The Secrets of -Making ienna Bread.
A Fierce Encounter.
A Paris correspondent gives the par
ticulars of a remarkable duel between two
French noblemen, which recently took
place on the Belgian frontier. The quarrel
appears to have originated in a fashionable
draw ing-mom. A Count and a Duke
were discussing politics, and the conversa
tion became so hot that the former lost his
temper, and so far forget himself us to
strike his noble opponent a blow on the
face. The latter did not reply, but sought
his friends immediately afterward, and
swore to them that he would never see; his
family again until he had washed out the
insult withthe blood of his adversary.
No time was lost in arranging for the
meeting, which took pbwe next day. The
combat was of the bitterest description.
Bef- re they had fought long the DuKe was
woundeel in two places, in the arm and in
the chest. With the blood streaming
from his hurts he continued the conflict.
though hardly able V
erect. When aliout
use
-maintain h'r
to succumb frmn
weakness, he summoned all his strength
fr a final attack, and succeeded in strik
ing his adversary a mortal blow, from the
effects of which he instantly fell dead.
The Duke then staggered forwaid, an I,
bending over the dead man. steeped his
handkerchief in the bloud that had flowed
from the fatal wounds. After rubbing
the gory cloth on his face, he turneil to
his friends and said: "i pontile this
handkerchief to you, that you may hand
it to the Duchess" my wile. Tell her ti
place it among the marriage gilts of our
daughter ; it is the dowry of her fathe r
the purity of his name."" Scarcely La i he
utteie-d these words when he, to, expired,
going iuto eternity with a suiile upon his
face, produced by the sentiment that Lis
honor had been sutis.led
One of the most practical and useful
weuks w hich has recently emanated from
th-.' (tovernment printing office, at Wash
ington, is Prof. E. N. Horsford's report
on the subje'et of Vienna bread. Prof,
llorsford was a member of the I'nited
Slates Scientific Commission tothe Vienna
Fair of 17:5; and the present book is the
result of careful and exhaustive research,
the aim and object of w hich was to uneaith
the secret of the world-famed lircad pecu
liar to the Austrian capital. There is
something very appetizing in his descrip
tion of tin; Jut iter Scu'Uiel. as the bread is
there tcr.iud. It is "a smooth, irregularly
rounded small wheaten flour loaf of uni
form weight. It presents a rich, reddish
brown crust and a delicately shaded yel
lowish, almost white, interior. It is al
ways light, evenly porous, free from
acidity in taste or aroma, faintly sweet
without the addition of saccharine matter
to the flour or dough, slightly and pleas
antly fragrant, palatable without buitcr or
any form eif condiment, and never cloying
upon the appetite."
The reverse, the Professor might have
added, on one hand, ef the dyspepsia
breeding, doughy compound which passes
for bread in many a country home, and ol
the attenuated, alum-treated, tasteless loaf
which is pi od need in many a city bakery.
It seems, however, that these gastronomic
aiiominations are not nevessary evils, and
that, despite the repeated efforts which
have been made to imitate Vienna bread
out of Vienna, which have uniformly
failed, a way does e-xi-t of producing it
in all its delicacy. And that way is very
simple, as the reader will see by the fol
lowing :
The first requisite is to procure as good
Hour as the Vienna bakers have. Hood
flour can only be made lrom pure sound
wheal, anl by good milling. This means
in general flinty wheat reduced by the
process of high or half high milling, and
a selection of the products of the milling,
not to exceed erne half the total weight of
the wheat ground. (Jood fresh middlings
flour, Prof, llorsford says, would compare
favorably with ihe average Hungarian
flour used in Vienna.
The next requirement is fresh pressed
L yeast. This is already made in the
L nited States. It is not ilimcult to manu
facture, since it is made by skimming the
froth from beer mash in active fermenta
tion. This contains the upper yeast,
which must be njicatedly washed with
cold water until only the pure white yeast
settles clear lrom the water. This soft
tenacious mass, after the water has been
drawn off, is gathered into bags, ami sub
jected to hydraulic pressure until there
remains a semisolid, somewhat brittle,
dough-like substance, still containing
considerable water. This is the pressed
yeast, which will keep for eighty days in
summer and for an indefinite' time on ice.
For use it should b ot'ri'cent preparation
and swe'i-t, so that it will yield only alco-
j hoi and carbonic acid as products of fcr
; mentation.
j Next follows the very important opera
j tion of mixing. Into the middle of a
j 7iuc-lined trough, about two and a half
j feet wide and eight feet long, semicylin
i elrical form, the Vienna baker empties his
j flour sacks. Then, into a pail holding
j about five gallons, equal parts ol milk and
' water are poured, aud If It to stand until
the mixture attains the temperature of the
; room, between 70J to tsir' Fall. It is then
poured into one e nd of the trough and
i mixed witli the bare hand with a small
; portion of the i.our to form a thin emul
I ski:i. The press yeast is next crumbled
i finely in the hand, and added in the pro
S piTtion of three and a half ounces to e very
I three quarts of liquid, and then one ounce
' of salt in same proportion is diffused
through the mixture. The trough is now
! covered and left undisturbed tor three-quarters
of an hour. Then follows the
; inceiiporation of the flour from the neigh-
boring heap; and as this is the last of the
ingredients, we may write the recipe as a
, wheile, thus: Flour, eight iniunds; milk
; and water, three quarts; pressed yeast,
; three aud a half ounces; salt, one ouuee.
! The mass of dough, being left quiet for
! two hours and a half, becomes a smooth,
tenacious, puffed mass, of yellowish
! color, which yields to indentation without
rupture and is elastic. It is now weighed
into pound masses, and each lump is then
cut by machinery intotwclve small pieces,
each eif three-quarters of a inch in thick
ness. Of each one of these, the corners
are brought together in the center and
pinched to securethem. The n the lump
is reve rsed and placed on a long dough
board for further fermentation, until the
w hole batch is ready for the oven? Be
fore being introduced into the latter, the
rolls are again reversed and re-stored to
their original position, having consielera
bly incre-tised in volume, to be still farther
enlarged in the oven to at least twice the
volume of tin! original dough. In the
, . . , . i' . i. .. i
oven thev ele ne.i touch cacu oiuei, .inu
the baking occupies about fifteen minutes.
To glaze the surface' they are touched in
the process ol iiaking wun a sponge
dipped in milk, which, beside imparting
to them a smooth suriace, increases tne
brilliancy of the slightly reddish cinna
mon color and adds to the grateful aroma
of the crust. No peculiar form ot oven is
required, the only necessary point being
that the recepta'cle shall bo capable of
maintaining a temperature of about 5i)
degrees Fahrenheit. Beirut itk American.
Next we inquire into the length of the
staple; and if we find that the wool on the
iibs thigh and back, approximates rea
sonably in length to that of our standard,
we again declare the shee p, regards
le n'dii of staple, true ami even. V e next
desire to satisfy ourselves eif the density
of the fleece; and we elo this by closing
tin hand upon a iieirtion of the rump an 1
of the loin w ool, the fleece at these points
hein" usually the thtnuesr, anu launv ;
and if this again give satisfaction, we sig
nify the fact by designating the wool
' even" as respects density. Now to sum
marize these separate examinations; It
you find the fleece of nearly equal fineness
from the shoulder to the thigh; of nearly
equal length at the shoulder, rib, thigh
and back; and of equal density at the
shoulder and across the loins you may
conclude that you have a nearly penect
sheep. Toronto Globe.
Recent Discoveries In Switzerland.
A kepokt drawn up by the chief local
antiquaries on the remarkable discovery ot
the place of the sepulture near Acutchatcl
of the lake-dwelling Swiss race, gives the
following results: The tombs found may
be classed as of the stone-cist variety, al
lied in character to the dolmen, butdiiler
ing from it in having been formed from
the first beneath the natural surface of the
earth, id'ter the custom of our graves.
They were not quite long enough to re
ceive the bodies of adults stretched out.
I and it is probable that these were inferred
j in the siting posture much practiced else
I where in pre-historic days, and propped
by the large pebbles which were Luiud m
numbers in the cavities. The height ot
the adults was. if anything, lather below
that of the Swiss of the present day, and
Ihe skulls present no real typical differ
ence of foi in from those of the latter, ex
cept that the forehead is more contracted,
or, as it might be more correctly said, 1 ess
developed. The actual discovery of the
admixture in these tombs among the same
set of remains or bronzed ornaments with
those ef the pierced teeth of carnivoia
gent rally assigned to the age of stone has
a double importance. It proves conclu
sive ly that the notion of some antiquaries
I hat cremation was every where a charac
teristic eif the bron.e age!, as opposed to
the simpler interment used in thai of stone,
is not universally true. It aiso establishes
the fact of the gradual passage--in Swit
zerland, at any rate from the one e ra to
the other, aud so makes it doubtful
whether a hard-and-fast line can really be
drawn between the two anywhere.
Ir. Sclicnck' Standard Kemedle.
Tim ptnndurd remedies for all disenin-g of the
nnj.'s .ire Si hknck's l'ci.MosicSvr.i r. SciiKSf k's
Ppa Wekd Tonic and SViirNCK's Manku.ikk
Pii.i ii. n nil. it taken before the luuf ore destroyed,
a i-'ie i!v Clin; is etlected.
'lotln-e three medicines Pr. J. II. Schenrk. of
I'liil:iile!;i!ii, owes his unrivaled luccess iu the
treati.ii-iit of pulmonary diseases.
The l'tilmoiiic S rn;i ripens the morbid matter
In the hiiiirs: n;itiiie thrown it oti' by an easy n
j eotiii :;tiou. for when the ptileym trniat cr is ripe
a s!i :lit couth will throw it off, the patient has rest
and iht. lmi.i begin to heal.
To fimbiu the Pulmonic Pyriip to do tbl,
prh.-ni k'n Mnndrrke Pilis aud Schenck'a Sea
SVeeil Tonic nnir-t be freely ued to clene the
sionuK-h uurt liver. Pcheni k'n .Mandrake l'illn act
on th- liver, removing all obstructions, relax the
gall-1. bidder, the bile starts freely and the liver in
aeon relieved.
Si lu-nck'f) Sea Veea Tonic f" gentle stimulant
and .".ltemrive; the Hlk.ili. of u hirh it i composed,
mixr? with the food und prevents pouring. It a
eifis the digestion by totiii fr up the imiitch to a
healthy condition, f-o that the loud and the Pul
monic Sj nip will make rood blood ; then the Iims
lieal. and the patient will purely get well if care id
. taken t i prevent rie.-n co.u.
j All who -tish to consult Dr. Prhenck. either per
I tonally or by letter, can do fo at hi principal of
t fire, corner of Sixth and Akcu Srs., f'hiiud-iphia,
' en-ry .Vntiday.
Si hi iu k medicine ar cold by all druggieU
; thro1i-hout tin; country.
Catahrh is a common disease so com.
moil that snuffing, spitting, and blowing of
the nose, meet us at every turn on the -trect.
i Your foot slips in thes,- n.i--ty ili.-iliaries on
the sidewalk and in the public convevntiee;
; anil it liisiuirt'ealiJe odor, coiitaininut inir t tie
i breath of the afflicted, renders them oMeii
: five to t lit- i r associates. There is the highest
t medical authority for .-.tat ing that with fully
one-lialf, if not two-thirds, of those a!tl ii ted
with Consumption of the Lungs, the disease
idiiiinrnccs as Catarrh in the nose or heat!,
; (he next step being to the throat and broti
1 eliial tubes hitly to the lungs. How im
' p. -taut then to give early ami prompt at
; tctitioii to a Catarrh ! to cure this loath
: Fomc disease correct the system by ti.-ing
; lr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery ,
i which tones it up, i lcmi.-cs the blood, and
t heals the diseased glands by a specific in
j I' , icc.ee upon them : ami to assist, Use Dr.
( Sage's Catarrh Itctiiedy with Dr. 1 ierct's
j Nasal Douche. This is ihe only way to reach
; the upper antt back cavities' where the tlis
i charge comes from. No danger from this
treat incut, and it i pleasant to use. The
! two medicine's w ith instrument are sold by
dealers in medicines.
p n a 3 r? i LArsD3.
enrt 'ir a.'.ift im I'l.S I' 4 I, ' A It II n I.n4 i'"ir'r
8. A St. K. . . I'' i!:s . ' oi. e..i. m, 1 tf-r.r H.V.i,
e ; f - ' I iair. a ii ( kiki ..r M
V",T I A -ENT3 VAtlTrrj f-rtn.r
, iirin l?.ooU '! terl(. e.ivn Vnunc's
TV 'If No. It). ;i0.crO'ii' ! il.
irx Alt To ICii. rinr Si. Co., l'n( .. . -
Xuuii er, i,... hi. c.u. i ni.ii. ou.u, iutLi,.d. v.
Culture of Hoot ('reps.
One of the agricultural mb-takes of this
country is the small amount f root crops
grown; in fact, the majority of the fann
ers of the West grow no root crops tit all
for their stock. ' 1 loots are of great advan
tage el u ring the fall, wilder and spring
months whin stock are ki'pt on dry feed.
Especially oar horses should have a mess
of carrots" often eluring the winter months.
These dumb servants that sire so useful,
should have the bet of can-, and never
receive cruel treatment nt our hands.
In the New England states, roots are
universally grown for stock feed by all
the best farmers and others of that section.
It pays there, for no people lok after the
almighty dollar closer than the New En
glanil farmers. Turnip culture is said to
be the sheet anchor of Kritisii agriculture,
although they are ranked among the least
nutritious ft' our vegetables. They can
be grown very cheaply if the right method
is used, and are good for sheep and useful
tcr either stock. The best roots for stock
fe e'ding, however, arc the long, yellow ami
Belgian white carrots ; the most profitable
are "the sugar and mangle wurtzel beet.
These roots contain considerable sugar,
and are relished by all kinds of stock ;
besides, they can be fed without cutting,
are easily grown and harvested nt small
expense." They require some care in
storing; should not be put in too large
heaps, for they :i;c liable to heat.
These ditlercnt root crops can be grown
on a variety of soil under favorable cir
cumstances. The best soil, however, is a
new, rich, sandy loam, or other new land
where we shall not lie troubled with many
we eds. Old land will require- a heavy coat
of manure. '1 he best mc'hod is to prepare
old land the year before, by summer tal
lowing, he ivy manuring by yarding the
sheep ir cat'le. if possible, at night.
1 lei') plowing and good cultivation will
kill all the weeds and grass with most of
the weed seeds, which will render culti
vation comparatively easy next, season,
and a heavy crop can be grown at small
expense.
I we 11 remember my first experience in
carrot culture, w hen the weeds elrove me
from the field, and learned me this lesson
that no person should attempt to grow a
root crop in a careless manner. This
crop must have the best cultivation to
make it pay. 1 tune grown large crops
of carrohs and beets tit small expens-. by
the following method : I'ow deep hue in
the fall, which will pulverize the soil and
kill Ihe wire-worm and cut-worm. Ab ut
the first of .May plow the hind again, and
harrow and roil it well. 1 luring the fore
part of this month, on a dry day, make
light ridges with a one-horse plow, two
feet apart, for carrots, two and a halt feet
apart for beets; press down the ridge and
sow immediately with a machine. 1'ut in
plenty of seed, lie sure vou have good
sctd; the way to know that is to grow
your own
Kutahagas can be put in about one
month later, by the same method, and a
good crop e-an lie grown, of lirst quality,
which will answer well to feed late in the
spring. Nearly all the cultivation of
these crops is done wi'h the horse. 1
have a one-horse cultivator, cutting one
foot wide, with which most of the work is
done. Sometimes use a light one-horse-plow,
throwing the soil to or from the
plants, elepending on circumstances. They
must receive goou cultivation, and the
weeds must be kept down. The way to
do this is to stir the soil tif't: n, iust as the
weed seeds tire sprouting. Never let them j Mini of the bcr.t furniture corning to our
show their heads above ground, for thev i market is from the well-krown Incise e f
will soon become master ot the situation
ALL ABOUT CSARDENING.
T"T IV'tlie t'-r : i f r Mir'. In "UII I 'S ti .
IIF.N .M A I' l. 1 . I '.I l; Iu,1' 'll'i' ti . Q
UlKli.S nil tin P'i'' '. t. S"lit i .(..!. I ."or In loin,
.7.11. l:M I'. -M ill i.i. in i. It .i itfo-il, ill.
and Flower KZ JCLj JtLi J )
Mfe'ita:iyiii' Free. IIOYKV V !.,
Ill State trt t, CIicH(o, III.
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L. s.JC 1 1 K i. !r 1'. I i-it I., L.t-ti rrrrl remain
r-nr inrli'':' until h'M lo-il Hit l.L-hl. N'.-tlilm.- Iik
Ihnn i" li.-lore fi:-r-l lil Am--. i t. 11. ir1iirptsliU !
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Oitfitlri'nl 1 ". llliin f
ii'.-r.cn!i I'r i-f-1-iiik - Mnfct i,,ti;'iiri
i cut mi'; i-i! it-ie jil'-l mtp r vr nil -rt-il
S-i ! t'ermtr m-rui: c:n-i'lr
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w..'v-gt;?j an m
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AOMNTS WAlVTIin
For Oil Ih'-i uti'l I. ';'" l'm-i'i- '-i u "ii-n. oi.1-!r.
a vc:ir. iu;il 1 he iist.f'il i "'"I'M t-.i'tfia-- tic. I w m
I- I - t.i i-k h mi I'd', .im i" 1 - ii -' 'ii'l-"i ii t tm
Vmii nt l.-n . iim-' ii'''"!" n! u tl. r lit I', o mi-lri-Ki
ill li'irlw il f . . -: . I -1" 1 1 lit! ,. I l.r.,;i, 'x.l In . ;mi1 a
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II. A. I'.Kol l.s 4. e o.. ri'i il If- M'il.:. i .. O.a i.
HEALTHFUL AND ELIGIBLE HOMES
In a PScasanl Climate.
(;... !. j-'-'iihi-' f"r I "' '"''"' .lTfin'''. .''ov, .t, W.xrrt,
jt ;.. ! rn i ' .-, ''.. u ;, l. In "sCil i' nr.!,
H'l-li-i-M .1 Hi il-.ii. '. i "' ''. ' ii V:.i..iin,
Hiil wt-uri'faiii,i!ili-l "I ii- i.il'lc ! -riti.il i. mi. f i
?7 r T !i lit rntrd Florr-! Cnrnlnzn for 1 Vjg
i .-. l ; . . . 1 1 -t ... 'i i' r t
Iiiu iim i "' in r ii. ill- Wai ri n St., li'iMoii. Ma.
REVOLVERS gyQ
Snnt ;tt; 1'" I 'iirtii'l""- fir, i't'! I. Nli'KI C 'l "1.
i.-.'T-1-...t,,.., ' .!. I'-u '-rtt i I '"! r .
VI'I I- ii HI N VH ti ;. Il ii lltilt. III.,
('.'. I.-vrl.. ril l-t. ! Mc '.irTTii. k ill.-iKl. 1. tl. li .1 jld.
Garden
Flower
FRESH AND RELIABLE. C.Ttaloue Free.
KIMi iv stVAt.i:, 77 Mil bl.. Clucagw.
i i
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Wi l!ir- .lut purrhi"-'! l.rni
i. . 4 fi r. ' in. I'tini.nHii' Tr'Hii
Mc4-V?if; 4 ( ' un !.: -;. ii. wK.
I ' 'W'" iil I .!. t licm nt II..' lurk'n.
! f'K. ' i' ".J !. i' lo.m r.iii'iy me
I t'-:- -yf '? -' -tf 1 1- it n't.-i.-il. I it in "( !
: H?'?.",' s..r.1 nt t .."" iin i' 'i
I 1 V't A-t--' r .1,-r ...i-itt.Tiv. i r ' i' D
p";'ti!.ni'ii .v: t frr.
REED'3 TEMPLE OF MUSIC,
: -t t i in in v -iiui i i, im "
j-l i:l ll.'-t iiui -...'I !' 1 "' It In r''ir letter. ) K.
lAI-H'I-V'-I'I"!' Vffii.tmt. A prn.fiiiil (cit.ln to
. :i'l i.' e!-c f tlie H i ! : il '...'.. "V fir e-i n' ii-
t'-r-l. f.i'lliUlif C M Inn I.-. :' i l c;i..if. l il , nr., Il-I'1-.-i.e.
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ft.; 1 Hiirn f:.: Ml i n. i.-r,.ili!!:L-. v:iriii'i x, jm. ihlniiK',
)it .-"inn. in,:. .:ii..-n.,. :. i'i i i t.-, m-i uu-i. Muii.
ti'.. Ml i If. ; el A ., in!" 1-. .Vi. t-, ; .,; 1 1 ii i-
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f:. 'I :. .'' rin -! . V'. I J H T.T i.imI 1 rn'-per'. i.n.li.. jil,
I ' i tr-'I r:l. im..'. '.'"i. I Inl'i n inelit nf Mi huhv, i .. I .utile
to e! . !-:.. M. 1 l.'i-tnlnff Cnli iilni.T, '.'. II. tm"
t-l.i" r. .-. I;..;;i!ej m.,! ,j .1 .., -.. uf
t.i.'.kseilen ,.r y niltll. JhMsK llAStl & CO.. 1.9
Kmsiiu St. N. Y.
nOOUiLLARD WAGON.
mm
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trl'l'itc i. - ellt j
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KAH M
JKElGHf,
Si'-BING,
I.i. bl Wrmif
:-ti4y f arnaz-s, Etc
A. 1 CKil i'I.L. It I .
r-t.niii lt ml, I nd.
Turnips are grown hist on new haul, or
by bretikinir up un old, rich pasture. Do
this the hist of .lane and harrow an l roil
the land well. If ;i light coat of line ma
nure or wood ashes, c.mld be put on, so
much the better. S.w broadca.-t and
brush in wiih a light I'lii'-li'ir-e brush. If
the seed is good. In: careful not to put em
too much. Tin y require one good hoe
ing, and perhaps thinning e.ut. A large
crop of good turnips e an, in this way, be
greivvn at a small expense. The early
strap leaf is tlie best vaiicty.
First-class vegetables of the above
named varieties are nl.vays in demand,
and can be sold in market tor :i goid
price. A small amount sold will more
than pay the expenses of cultivation,
leaving the main crop for stoe k feed ing.
I always believe in making things pay as
we go along.
Iloitcn A: Ilileiretli, 'JT and '7 -stiite s're-t,
Chicago. Their gcioJ-' are reliahle, ami th"M'
who have delt with them siv their t.ti.'cs
are he low other houses in tin city
Thrsoval. Gardner L. D. " I hnd
puttered for a long time with Liver Dinease,
anu found SIMMONS' KKUULATOIl to en
tirely restore :nt. My wife and daughter
were cured by the same remedy from e.liill.'
and fever.'
Ask jotir druiigist :or "Ir. Sykes' S 11 re
dire f ir C.itnrrli," or s'i d Ten ( 'en s to Or.
C. K. Sikes, I t E. Madison M., Chicago, .
FOR 31,00, POSTPAID,
In ori-T tlint tvryTiy mny l riiHl'll Ui take this
g-f.it Story I'.tmily Nwp;ip-r, we haro dft-wrniin!
to otT.-r it tili J.in., K7, f.r 1.f p.t paid. It in Xbm
LARGEST, HANDSOMEST, BEST,
nil .n t. iii-Iv circnl.itil Newpapr In tti Wr-r-t-btiDd
money ilcii-ea
thk i.FnrsRW. cmrAuo III.
fM shN uem in, iv
" I'.iv.ii it." Ye!!..-' P lit. I'm ft in tint rlil.
Earliest Most Productive.
Pt-' i i th i circular fi '. S.m! sLi'iip tor lump!-.
t ?-se, (i r.r ma), .m - ..r nrrnA
GU!iii;. FLii:i: nan ocfcUo
Rustic Work, Implements, Sec.
inm o. piiMrr Tr, . st..
US413 w OriCMUS, iik
t. III.
Pi;. Mm s. Prof. Chem., certifies l'rtisina's
White Wii t 'ine.':ir to le i tire ami li.il. siiMie
Ann'tiettir finpart nut !)-t ii
t;. n t .f eiiil.'.r. n iimkin r linle
hi tlie i .i a ii l.i.o: ;iiui -lio.
Tinip t ik.-n h'miiii i n ilai.
SI LY Kit 'I 1 1'S
are an .-M'fileTii ieiin.iy never
kiiim n to fail.
Jiulging Wool.
Many farmers have been annnyeil, when
silling their wool to t: n I that the acute
and practicei! eye of the wool-buyer has
elelecteil the fact that their sheep have
been alloweil to run ilown in e-omlition u
some time iluring the growth eif the lleccc
They are half inclineii to think that the
buyer is merely trying to elepreciatc the
'-utility of the wool, so as to run elown the
price. As a matter of fact, however, there
is noilefee t which renders wool so useless
for certain classes of manufacture- as un
evenness eir break of continuity in the
thickness of the fiber and there is no
detect more common, and nothing that,
year by year, touches the- sheep-grower
more severely in that tender part of his
anateimj-, the pocket. However good the
wool in either respects, the keen eye of the
buyer singles out t In: ih feclive wool, and
down goes the price of it. And it is not
mere fancy that regulates the price, f r
the uneven wool will break at the we;ik
places eluring the first process of manu
facture. Some persons suppose that this uncven
ness of fleece is hcredita-ry in certain ani
inals and perhaps uneveiiness may bp
made hereditary by generations ef ill
usage and neglect. Hut as the w ool of an
eniire- flock is found to be uneven erne
year, and not so in anothi r. it shows that
management has inoie to do with it than
heredity.
If sheep are allowed to git into low
condition, an: neglected, underfed or not
sheltered properly, the pores of the skin
will contract and the wool that issues will
lie eil very tine liber. As soon as the ani
mal recovers a vigorous condition the
pores again open, and a longer and
stronger tiber grows oat. The wool is
thus weaker in one place than in places
on (-sell side of it, and breaks at the weak
place on the sl-glitest strain. No'hing in
duces iincvenness more easily or surely
than want of water. It is a common no
tion that sheep can do without water, or
very little. Ifsuptdiid with roots daily
they will not want much water, but it is
well, and humane, too. that wafer should
.always be in their reai h.
Not only i- it important that the- fiber
should be eve n, but the fleece throughout
should be even as regards length, soil
ness, t'ensity and fineness. A practiced
wtH)i-bu3'e-r gives the following eie scrip
tion of the way an txpcit examines a
fleece : Always assuming that the wool to
he inspected is really a fiue woo, we first
examine the shoulder at the part w here the
fines' and be-t w ol i.; u-ually f'otind. This
we take a- to the standard, and com
pare it with, in turn, the wool from
the ribs, the thigh, the rump and
the hinder parts; -ind the heaier the wool
from these various portions of the un'ruil
app-caches the standard, the better. First,
we scrutinize the fineness ; and if the re
sult be satUfactor, we pronounce the
fleece, in respect to fineness, very ''even."
ImiMlillity am! I'llal'llity -ire
bi'i Ii i mutinied in the
( able Screw Wire
r.iints ani! Stu r : une trial will
riinvnii-c tun : u ilj nnl rip or leak.
Ail lu ar tlie Parent stamp.
3
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FREE!
I a Viiluat-ir
lor ircular..
Kri.' wi v iniicliicfr
i:--rip.- I'-M.k. I'r i io It- k f : .in. i-e-nl
tU AtMresa K. b AKi.hV, l.out-,1, li;i.
The Catechism of tie Locoiuofe
By IJ. N. FORNEY.
N popular trentir-e "n the Incinotlve in ttn l'iii--'i-ti
lni:v:u;iire --iv.'K mi eicar. simple ai.il ri.iupN-te a ili'
m i '. -i inn nt" t lie eiili.it ruct ii in anil w.irk i i v t ! t i n- loi-.i-ini-tit
engine, mid no wnrk nt any kii'-l. binfur e
. i:--:'. r. p: i s su fill nil :ie.-in;iiT nt ni'!et li Ann v. i an
I't arllee 1)1 luriilni .1 i vt' d i :i--t ril'! i. i'l. iiml nf t!.' lul.'-l
n- . nlM'if .ii.-rn cries w tti.-Ii have ii if.ii'-. iii'in t" Tli;
..pi-rai urn of tin I'n-'.ni"! ivi. i-f-pei-i illv t:. .- n In'iiirf
t eii'l'Mit.ili. hear. ele.. n.I. I wlliell tin' Slltt.V.r lei
-m; a i.r. il f. link'' i;ain t" tlinse n hn have lint eveo
the riiiliiiieiiti. .if a i-i n ii.itie eil ii.-M i.:i.
Allure-.
un: n wi.ia i mi i
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AGENTS WRnteil. on n'CiirT or c mint "l in. N'
inesn. AtldrtBS J. 11. Mat---f 4 Ck., Si. Loni:
ill.
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n.- ;.jiil. L. Jijn t it Cu
with run,
1 atau,N. "f.
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Mini liy U.J. Iti-tMf.M.toi,
A 1:1 It I.KS fi.r Aii-ntv
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4 - C:)l 1 ' at leime. SHmnlo? worth ? 1 sent
T' - tr '' tree. STi.os&Co. Purtlaml. M.
fi"! i o ClO per "ay- Pend for CSromo e'atalnme.
iPlt't- JTfJj. H. huflurrt'i Sot.a. B"ituri. liana.
Jj I a Hay at IIothp. AcrWt nr.tn! Outfit md
T Jl itprni. fiif. Adilr." Tl'b'E & CO . Aiiiu.ra.Mi.
ft- lrin -rrT, c'rrntara or lt:.xi'-a
s.tieep. II. iz--, I'ihUiit, Mirui.ir 1 'k"-. .
n nl free for & atampa. -S. P. P.tiv ku. 1 arki-f liuri. I'a.
Tlie Enemy of Disease, Jie Foe of
rain to Man and IJeast,
Is Ihe Ciraii'l Ol.l
MUSTANG
LINIMENT,
V?liriI If . STOOII TIIK Ti:"iT OF 4t
t A ICS. I lll'ltl I - VO ol(K ITH III.
r iimii:i.ss ix ii.i.
Mr 1 iii:,.o Aiiu:. n i'am.tiiat
,ii 1 i.k ts 1111; in -i "v inuiY, mi
1 1 1 - imiiv nt' iioic on u i 111 n
lioMI l( AVniAI.. THATIIOKHMIT
1 I I l,l T I I S IA.IC TOI I II. l.olllr
r '..Hi I ui- 2.Vt-.. At it. tr .(111, li m of" 11 rl
I li I if r ofi in it ii torlrtir. anrl rfitoi tl to
I ire a utl uicfuluru uiaiiy k valuable I101 e.
VBUSWrW'SfRAGRANT
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ISnror'tl f 1 cttttt
KIDDER'S PASTILLES.?;";;,'!:
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All -li.- le-H ali'l -l .lli-la! ii
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l'( li hi', 1 1 I la 11. lie rn si 1 ei-t.
V.
WANTED!
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M-n to "-HI our r'-O'! to
IKA l,l-.U-i. Not" 'UIMi k
fplTTl htll- to IttiTllr. s
riK'nth. and tt,i.tiif it-
Vlif Ins I'nrtla. with vo ir r.smt flnrly
pr.t ii . I. s nt f r . e 1 av Mill t-iylt-n..
Atniti 'nnli-.l. . :i:.i; ! " B'et for
aii.p. A. H. I- u.I r i e'o.. liioi lit.i'. Mix.
'.IOXTII. Asr.-nt want" ! ev-rv-
wtit-rc I'.p.ini'i.' lr.tiortti.e 1111.I elrt-rlai-.
Part'i-uliir-i'-ieiit treo. Ai.lr-M
JOHN W (JK11I i Cel.. t-t loiiK Mo.
i'KK IVKKK dl AUAMKI 11 T( 1
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CENTENARY !V,tV?. R
It Iw ats rliein ail. Kntircly ui- . Pi?t u.n-lTil iii:. r.
S; -.li ii.liilly t lu-i 1 ;t,i. K.KVO AVVNII.lt.
"1'Ulllal EtI." MlTl'AL 1.IKIK eO.. l !iilK... l.L
I la Ml Inri-U Kt Home.
No puiillelty. 1 sine -iinrt. I rrtii
iiuH.r rtk'f. i..' t-i.t:ii'oii:i.e. 5ru
ar-I'uLriaal!t;'.eiJ iuo ti Te.
..:drt Dr. V i.. V..i.-(,a. e.'uli:fy. Mich.
Taad Morpt'.Ee HNt absolnretr and
'J .w.,t.i.. -.... ..I t. 1..... V....
;-'.i.... . mni. j tiu.riijii I' . o. i' f
ty. Send Man for r.artleulart. Pr.
MllviHKI II HUUqIUU ii.vmiii.j
nT3flinr1
1. S H a B N'. 1
- - ''.v.is-J
fllfl
AND ISVIG11TIATFS AP
HARDENS THE GUMS !
It imparts a delightfully rcfr.sl.ing
taste and feeling to tlie month, remov
ing all TARTAR ani SCURF frora
the teeth, ceirirlet. ly arresting the pro
gress i f tlccay, tnl white'ritig such
parts as have become Mark ly i!ecay.
IMPURE BREATH
cauae, by P.a.l Te-rth, Te'.Lncrn, ?p: -;,
or t'atarrh, ia tcutralized Ly '.lie ili:y
u.co cf
W
It is as harmless as water.
One bott';o will last six muntha.
A. K K.
fi 7 n n n wi r
r.. p.
w lil'lTiMi i Ar.T.;.TIi..'tc.
i jti-... .a u t..tv liie .Tut 1 tiM.
i.ti ! 1 ii . 1 tt is "1 . it 1 .