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, y f. ? :-. U l THMQJKNAfi. 3fp WEDNESDAY, AUG. isss: Xiterci it tie PcsieSso, Cjknfca, llet.. a: leeDsd dies Bitter. HER QUANDARY. If usinjr she sat in the moonlight. Sat thinking of-exquisitfe things, Besting her face upon a hand That flashed with beautiful rings. Wistful and pure I thought ehe seemed. Nearer to Heaven than men have dreamed. O love, could I share In your thoughts? " "Frank, dear, you would not understand." "I know too well I am rough and dull, Only one of the coarser band ; . But it you would let mo try," I said. Sighing, she Eadly shook her head. And I saw that pitying glanee. And the far-off look in her eyes, "If you were only a woman, Frank I For a man, when he hardest tries, Can never'be made to feel or 6hare Buch anxious doubts as now I bear; "If you weronly a woman, Frank, un- " O sweetest, no. Though coarser and dull, X love the pure and beautiful." AlTday I've thought ofiiothing else, I waked and thouphtflll night. What should I do if J were wrong? Yet stilt I think Em right." You can't be wrong." " Well, think so, dear; But then men' tastes are rattoe&queer. "You can'Jv3udge as a woman could." ' ' I know. Celeste, but let me try." "Well, Frank, then tell me honestly. If you were me which would you buy. That hat jwt like my suit we bow, Or tome sweet tiling in lace and strawT " Harper's Bazar. m m MR. HALL'S MISTAKE. Miss Carson came to Chicago before the great fire, or, as she always ex pressed it, the "great conflagration." She kept boardere, and the struggle Ehe made to at least come out even at the end of the month gave her face a pinched and worried expression which her blandest smile could not wholly ob literate. Her boarders were five in number and were all gentlemen. Mr. Hall, an old bachelor of fifty, had boarded with Miss Carson for sixjyears, though he threatened to leave on an average of once a week. Mr. Wilkina, Mr. Crane "and Mr. Stowe were salesmen in a' largo -dry-goods house. They occasionally pre sented their landlady with gloves, hand kerchiefs, or tlie latest thing in neck wearin return for-which kindness she darned their sinkings and replaced missing buttons. Last, though by no means least, for he was six feet tall, there was Mr. Fay, a young lawyer who had taken a room immediate- under the mansard roof, and who spent most of his evenings reading ponderous volumes that lus landlady declared made her head ache even to look at. At first Miss Carson was inclined to weave romances about Mr. Fay. He was so handsome, so quiet and reserved. Was he somebodj' in disguise, or was he Buffering from an unrequited love? As months passed on, however, and noth ing startling was heard concerning him, he ceased to think much about him, merely regarding him as a rather un acciuble young man totally wrapped up in his studies. Miss Curaou made it a point to always show a ready sympathy with whatever interested her boarders. If Mr. Stowe told her that the White Stockings had beaten the Hostons, or some other thrilling item of news con nected with the National idiocy, she would exclaim: "I am surprised!" or "What a pit-!" with an interest that was only equaled by her ignorance of the great American game. One cold winter evening the landlady did not appear, as was her usual cus tom, behind the coffee-urn at the dinner table. "Old girl sick?" asked Mr. Wilkins of the company in general. "No," replied Mr. Crane; "she has gone to the Twenty-second street depot to meet a little girl, her niece, who is coming here to live." "If she is going to take a child to raise that settles it with me," growled Mr. Hall, in a deep bass voice. " I shall leave at the end of the month. What is that in front of you, Stowe? A meat pic of course! Meat pie is an in vention of boarding-house keepers to save scraps. Miss Carson says she never gives us hash, "but she cither puts it between crusts and calls it meat pie, or she adds onions and calls it an 'Irish stew!' " "Arose by any other name would smell as sweet," observed Mr. Wilkins. "To-morrow will , be Sunday," conjLb' tinuedMr. Hall, " and that 'means codtspfei fish-balls for breakfast. Will somebody full me t,lA m.l.rSt.'l. Uifntnnn V tu ui& tut; ivsuui.i;kiuu uimccu uuuuxp balls and Sunday "morning, that t0fy should appear Regularly on..that particu lar day. Is thercany creed that-ipsists on codfish-balls for Sunday .bjpifast?" As no one volunteered arfTTnswer to this question Mr. Hall finished his din ner with the remark that he hoped soon to take his meals where he would be served as a gentleman ought to be, and not be fed like a tramp. Miss Carson's boarders were rather surprised to find her niece a full-grown Joung lady instead of the little girl they ad expected to see. It would be a difficult matter to describe Flo Sheldon. She was not a beauty. Her nose was a trifle "tip-tilted" and her mouth a little too large, though her teeth were white and even; but her eyes were the glory of her face. They were large, dark and bright; thevwero shaded oy long curling lashes; they were such al luring, provoking, bewitching eyes! " I have always mentioned Flo as my 'little' niece," said Miss Carson at the breakfast-table. "I can scarcely real ize that this tall young lady is the little girl in short dresses 1 parfed from five years ago. Ah, well! I have changed a great deal in that time myself." "Not at all," said Mr. Hall, with a sudden and most unaccountable attack of politeness. "I assure you you look as young and as er er rosy as you did six years ago. Time has not put silver threads among the gold, or er, er trifled with your appearance in any way." This was true. Miss Carson's hair was drab, and her complexion matched it. Time could make no start ling change in either. A gradual but very perceptible change qame over the house after Flo's arrival. She was a very industrious girl, and knew how to employ her time. The curtains were looped less primly, the Sartors had a more comfortable, home ke appearance, while -delicate pud dings, flaky pies and delicious coffee showed her acquaintance with the culi nary art, "You are certainly the personifica tion of youth, health and happiness combined, Miss Flo," said Mr. Fay, as he found her late one afternoon singing gayly as she was spreading the clotli for dinner. " It does one good merely to look at you." " Thank you; pray continue to look at xae then, by all means; As to the first observation vou made, I can say that I deserve it. 1 am young, I am certainly healthful, and I am very happy, for to aightlam going to the opera. When von learn that I am fond of music, and that I never saw a real opera in my life, you will not be surprised to hear that I can scarcely keep from dancing with glee, as well as singing." ' Tour parents do not approve of that kind of amusement, I suppose?" Oh, that was not the trouble. We live in the country, and my father could BOt afford to take his six daughters to a oity merely for a pleasure trip. 'You have no idea how glad I was to get my aunt's invitation to come to Chicago, sad how much I enjoy myself when I est down-town. It is stale to city peo fc.X qPOf. but I likejte watch the) roa, to SfMiy u sammamt to notice the rarious expressions. Why, even the noses are a study," she con- 1 tinned, laughing. " Did you ever look aoouxyou in a bireuirror uuu uw " variety of noses? The insignificant little nose, the sharp prying nose, the sly hooked nose, and, as Dickens says, the 'composite or mixed nose.' But you must not stay here or I hall never get my work done in time to dress for the opera." She appeared at the dinner-table in her best dress, a black silk with knots of scarlet ribbon at her throat and waist Her black hair was wound in heavy braids about her head in a most becom ing style, and a rich color dyed her cheeks. Never had she looked so pretty, and Arthur Fay realized for the first time that he would like to woo and win his landlady's niece. " But thoughts of love and marriage were not for him, and he must put them aside. As soon as dinner was over Mr. Fay went out for a moodv stroll and a smoke. When he rAtiirnnd Flo wasatolavin? an deoni pamment wiiile aimptowe san . --., latter was doubtl&Sf to be utfWBstf to the opera. Probably mis was tne cause of her excessive happiness that afternoon. Mr. Fay resolved to seek his room and forget his unpleasant thoughts in hard study. Mr. Hall stood at the foot of the stairs with an opera-n:la-s under his arm while he strove to draw over his fat hands a pair of pale lavender kid gloves. :"What an insufferable puppy Stowe is"' said Mr. Hall, in a confidential growl. "He knows that Miss Flo is foing to the opera with me, but he eeps her there playing in order to show off that wretched voice of his. Why, he howled for a mortal hour last night and kept her pounding away for him all the while. Confound these gloves! Why don't they make 'em fit the human nana ana not in uie snape of a bird's claw? Hero comes Miss Carson; perhaps she can button 'em for me." That lady smiled obligingly and made several ineffectual efforts to make the glove meet across about two inches of Mr. Hall's swollen palm. "I am very much afraid the gloves are too small," observed Mr. Fay, coolly. "They are not," snapped Mr. Hall. "Are tlTey, Miss Carson?" "Oh, dear, no, not all," said Miss Carson, faintly, as she tried to make the obstinate button meet the still more obstinate button-hole. "Well, then the hand is too large for the glove; something is evidently the matter," said Mr. Wilkins, who had appeared on the scene a few moments before. "Why, how strange I never thought of it!" exclaimed the landlady, drawing from her pocket a bunch of keys, at tached to which was a small button hook. "Trust a woman for helping a fellow out," said Mr. Hall. Miss Carson smiled and redoubled her efforts. "Ah, I have sighed for rest!" sang Mr. Stowe from the parlor. Suddenly Mr. Hall gave vent to a prolonged "o h!" which sounded like a false note in Mr. Stowe's song. " You have dragged my whole palm through that button-hole, I think. Here, let me try it." He gave the glove a vigorous wrench and split it across the back. Mr. Hallsaid noth ing. He probably thought he could Lnot doMhe sutriect justice. J He made.:a i.. - - - r - little ball of , the gloves openeuthe door, and 'threw them with aUplris strength to the strefctafter wJKeii he went to hTrroom for-a 'fresh pair.' " Old Hall is crazy about that girl," observed Mr. Stowe to Mr. Fay that evening. "I don't blame him, either. She looked stunning to-night I shouldn't mind taking her myself." " Perhaps Miss Sheldon would object to being taken by you," returned Fay, haughtily. &i? It was true that Mr. Hall wa&unlove. Almost the firsF'glanco of FIos eyes had ("captivated him. . Usually quite careless in his dress, jbeow became very partirolar. HgnPSfew awaythe soft felt hax he had Hitherto worn" for comfort, and bought a low-crown felt with a stiff brim turned up with satin. As sack, coats were worn short, he or dered the shortest that could be made. He wore light blue and crimson ties and the latest style of collars and cuffs. He could not see why Flo Sheldon would refuse him. He had twenty thousand dollars well invested and a handsome house on Prairie avenue. He was neither young nor good-looking. ut surely Flo was too sensible a girl to are about the mere nersonal appear ance oi a man ot property, and, better still, a man of intellect. He was so sanguino that he even hint ed to his tenant that he might want the house on Prairie avenue himself by the 1st of May. ?S." Auntie," said Flo, the day after the opera, "Mr. Hall is desperately in love." "in love!' exclaimed Miss Carson, making a great blot on her account book. " Yes, and with you," continued the niece. "With me?" murmured Miss Carson, blushing. " Anybody would know it," said Flo. "Doesn't he make every excuse to be where we are? Didn't he go to church twice with us last Sunday the first ser mon he had heard in years? " He took mo to the opera just to please you. To court the whole family is an. old trick of lovers. I am the only member of your family that he knows, and he wants to get me on his side. It is evident that Mr. Hall has become con vinced of the fact thathe can't live with out you. Accept him, auntie. He would be the prince of uncles." The more Miss Carson thought over Flo's words the more firmly convinced he became that the girl was right, so true it is that the wish is father to the thought Mr. Hall became jealous of Mr. Stowe, of Mr. Wilkins, of Mr. Crane, and mad ly jealous of Mr. Fay. That the latter was the handsomest man in the house he could not deny, and Mr. Hall hated him bitterly. Finally matters came to a climax. Mr. Hall peeped into the parlor one evening when he knew Flo and Fay to be there alone. He heard the word "Darling" he saw Mr. Fay kiss her hand! It was enough. He went to Miss Car son with the whole story. It was im proper, it was shocking. Who knew anything about Fay? Who knew that he had not a wife already? Miss Car son agreed with Mr. Hall as a matter of course. She was severe with her niece for the first time. "What do you know against Arthur FayP" ased the girl. "Well, nothing definite, but Mr. Hall does not like him, and " Flo's eyes flashed. Mr. Hall's med dling was uncalled for, she said, and When his advice was seeded, she would let him know. After this she snubbed her elderly adorer unmercifully. If he ventured a remark she answered so curtly that his breath was almost taken away. Mr. Hall became wretched. He re solved to lay the whole case before Miss Carson. With her aid he might yet win the wayward girl, who perhaps after all was only flirting with Fay. He- found his landlady seated at the dining-room window pensively darning a 'stocking. "Miss Carson,1' he said, drawing a chair to her side, "I want to speak to you about something that has laid on my heart for the last four months." Miss Carson's hands trembled so much that aha could scarcely hold her darning-needle. "You are a shrewd woman." he re- "Tou can not be bknd aa t -UVi faaaaM aZL3 the object of my attentions to your miece." She tried to speak, but the words died in her throat She made an effort to thread her needle. Anxious to en gage her whole attention, Mr. Hall took her hand and uttered a sharp ex clamation as the needle pierced his thumb. " Flo suspected this," whispered Miss Carson. "Ha! She did? What did she say?" Oh, she liked you very much then, but lately " " Oh, ! know I have been a fool, but with j'our consent I shall yet be the hap piest man in Chicago." "And I am the happiest woman," she murmured. " Oh, Mr. Hall, or Jacob, I suppose I ought to call you now. I shall do all in my power to be a good wife." In her agitation she covered her face with the stocking she had been darning and wept. There was an awful silence. r. Hall s tonjnie was paralyzed. Vas an awful dream? Or was he going ad? "You must excuse me," said Miss Carson, wiping her eyes. "But the news of Flo's engagement and every thing connected with it rather upset me to begin with, and this coming, too, was too much." " Flo's engagement!" said Mr. HalL in a voice so hollow that it startled him. " Yes, they have been engaged ever since the night you saw them in the parlor, but Flo would not tell me be cause she says I m as unjust to Mr. Fay. There has been quite a change in Mr. Fay's affairs. He was quite poor and was obliged to cnd a part of "what money he made to support his widowed mother. The same da' that he pro posed to Flo he had received a letter stating that a fortune had been left him by an uncle in Philadelphia." "Mr. Hall waited to hear no more. He seized his hat and lushed from the house. His tenant w:is waiting at the office to sec him. "You intimated that you wanted the house, Mr. Hall, but 1 called for a definite answer before "I don't want the house, I am going to leave Chicago. I'll make out a lease for live years if afternoon." you like. Call this Left alone he buried his face in his hands and reflected deeply. Whether he wished it or not, he was engaged to Miss Carson. He tried to remember just what he had said, but could not re call his words. Possibly in his confu sion he had proposed. Well, she was a good woman, and might make a better wife than her niece. He remembered how kindly she had nursed him through the rheumatism two years ago. Yes, it was all for the best. . He went to one of the large stores on State street and bought a handsome piece of velvet for a dress. "She shall have a pair of diamonds to wear with it," he said, with a chuckle. His tenant called in the afternoon. Mr. Hall told him that he had again changed his mind. The tenant left, deeply disgusted. "Elizabeth, I really meant what I said this morning," he said, as he laid his presents in her lap. "Do you suppose I doubted Jacob?" "No, no; of course not'i Here cot Flo. Give a kiss to youisuncle thai to be, and forgive me for,meddling i your affairs, lou see Pvas so devoted to your aunt that I 4j" 3 "I understand." rejlied Flo, wSh a ronajislTsmile.TOfcMiWO Tribune. Alligator Leatn" - Alarge variety of pocket-books, card cases, hand-bags and other articles made of a peculiar mottled leather was seen in a Chambers street show-case. A long narrow piece of the same kind of leather hung over them. It was round ed at one end and tapered away to a point at the other. Two flippers pro jected from each side of it. "The use of alligator skins seems to be increasing' the reporter said to the proprietor of the show case. "The increase is astonishing," he re plied. "Twelve or fifteen j-cars ago alligator leather was tanned as a curi osity. Few articles were made of it. About four years ago, however, the manufacture of alligator leather began in earnest. First a few shoes were mado of it, and the manufacturers of such goods saw there was something in it. It is a peculiarly beautiful leather. There are no two skins marked just alike, and it follows that no two articles made of the leather can be alike. The natural color of the leather is attractive, aside from the beauty of the markings. It finishes soft and flexible. It is con ceded that Americans tan and finish it in a manner superior to the best work manship of the old country. Here is. a pocket-book; American alligator skin forms the outside; American calfskin the lining. Any judge of such goods will say that it is by all odds the hand somest as well as the best leather of the kind in existence. Sixtv dollars a doz en for such goods, small as they are, is a low price. "While the beauty of alligator leather is its chief characteristic, its durability is of hardly less importance. These gripsacks of alligator leather will out wear their owners, no matter how youthful. With these two things in its favor, it is no wonder that the salo of alligator leather is increasing." "How many alligators were slaugh tered to satisfy the demand last year?" ''Not less than half a million." "How do you get the skins, andhvhere do they come from?" "Most of them come from Florida and the other Gulf States. The alligators are shot with rifles, and the negroes have almost a monopoly of the business. When an alligator crawls out in the sand for his after-dinner sleep he falls a vic tim. The negro gets from fifty cents to one dollar apiece for alligators. The hunt is carried on so vigorously that the reptiles are beginning to grow scarce. Laws will have to be enacted eventually to protect them during the breeding season and when young. "All sizes from two to eighteen feet in length are now killed. The choice skin is six feet long. There is as much dif ference between the six-foot skin as there is between a calf skin and an ox 'hide. The skins are packed in lime for two months to remove the horny scales. The remaining process is much like that for any leather. It takes four months to prepare a skin. There is a tannery for alligator skins in Brooklyn." "Has any one developed an imitation of alligator leather?" "The frauds are in using imperfect skins. No lime will soften the horns that have stood the attrition of red-hot sand for half a century. Those skins do do nof wear well between the scales. There are other imperfections in the skins. The demand for colored goods helpsJout however, as the colorin maJEWoTlxsffiun9VnpeJjB, tidffijT WheBpK wanWPalligaB tide of anv kind chose the uncorored Siods, pay a fair price, and you will get e cheapest as well as the handsomest and best" N. Y. Sun. The matter of scouring foreign im migrants for South Carolina has bee? placed in the hands of the State Com missioner of Agriculture, who propcsel to make a vigorous effort to attract set tlers. The Charleston News says: "We want good foreign settlers, who will aid in developing the resources of the State, improve the condition of labor, and, while growing rich themselves will con tribute to the general welfare of the commonwealth. The immigrants who have remained in the State long enough to feel its advantages are well pleased with their xparicnee, and, as rule, ro doing woli-' M Coal-Oil Johnny's Luck. A letter from Harrisburg, Pa., says: William McNulty, better known as Johnny Steele, or " Coal-Oil Johnny," who made a large fortune during the oil fever, and squandered it almost as fast as he made it, turned up in this city on the Fourth. He said that he had come to the capital to celebrate, and that he was at present working in Mc Cormick's mills, in New Cumberland. He pulled out a bundle of papers from his pocket, and handing one of them to an auditor said it was a claim to the Continental Hotel, in Philadelphia, for which he paid $480,000 in his wealthy days. He asserted that the hotel would again come into his possession. The paper reads right enough, and bears the ear-marks of age about it. He further said that he was prospecting in New Cumberland, sinking shafts for copper and iron. He showed some ores which he said came from the shafts in which he was experimenting. He expressed his confidence that he would become as wealthy as Vanderbilt yet. Being asked where his family was, he said that they were in Wayniert, 'and added that he recently sent them $25, 000. He had been up in Williamsport, he said, about six months ago, and hap pened to be at the Crawford House. Somebody was talking about a packago containing 25,000, " left there by a fel low named 'Coal-Oil Johnny,'" about '65 or '60," to remain there until called for. He went to the bank and suc ceeded, after some difficulty in estab lishing his identity, in obtaining the" money. "Coal-Oil Johnny" is still quite attractive in appearance. His face is pleasant and genial, and well browned by the sun and weather. His eyes are blue, and he wears side-whiskers in the English fashion. His clothes arc old fashioned and much too heavy for the weather. Bundles of papers hung loosely out of his pocket. He is now about thirty-nine j'ears of age and pos sesses considerable intelligence, being able to write his name legibly, a feat he could not perform in the days of his prosperity. He is hunting for evidence to get back some of the money which was illegally taken away from him. When the oil fever broke out in Northern Pennsylvania, about twenty two years ago, McNulty owned twenty acres of land in Venango County, which he had cleared for himself. Strangers came one day and began to prospect around the neighborhood. What was ordinary in appearance to him was very extraordinary to them. The pe culiar look of the water was a familiar thing to him. He had seen the sight often and did not mind it. To the strangers it was hidden treasure. The more they looked over the farm the more they wanted it. This led to ne gotiations and McNulty woke up one h morning to una nimseii ine possessor of $8,000,000. His farm of twenty acres composed the heart of the newly discovered oil-field, and from that time forth he became known as "Coal-Oil Johnny." This turned his head. His reckless extravagances are a matter of histon He scattered money around wherever he went. He purchased the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, fur nished a colored bands with gorgeous suits and soldid silver instruments, bought elegant turn-outs at a fabulous price, used them for a single ride and then gave them away. He traveled from city to city, and wherever he went was followed by a cloud of sharpers, who fleeced him of his wealth. Enormous as his fortune was, it could not stand these drains made upon it, and when it had disappeared " Coal-Oil Johnny" went to work to retrieve his fortunes in a manly way. The story of the past fifteen years, from the time when he took a situation with John Sherry's New York Theater at six dollars per week salary to the present time, is a story of genuine American pluck and pers'everance; and his friends, and ho has many provett anu tneu ioui-weatuer friends, will be glad to know that he is once more on the road to prosperity. A Young Lady as an Itinerant Jeweler. " Have you any jewelry that you wish mended, or clocks to repair or regu late?" It was a. young woman neatly dressed who asked the question at the front door of a house on Taylor street re cently. The mistress of the establishment re membered that she had a brooch with a in lacking and handed it over to the tinerant jeweler to operate upon. Her actions showed that she was an adept at the business. In a neat box, about fifteen inches long and five high, were ranged a full kit of jeweler's tools, including a spirit lamp and blow-pipe. A new pin was speedily attached to the brooch and turned over to its owner. "How much is it?" "Twenty-live cents," was the reply. Having paid the amount the inquisi tive lady of the hoijse asked the travel ing jeweler whether she had much work to do. "Oh, plenty," she answered, "lr some houses I am kept nearly a da overhauling clocks and doing little odd jobs of mending. In some places 1 have fixed as many as ;i dozen clocks." "Do you have much regulating oi clocks to attend to? "You would be surprised if I should tell you how many people there are whf do not know how to make a clock rur faster or slower. But there are ver many. There are some people, too who have expensive clocks who do no care to tamper with them, and in sue? places I am always asked to look afte them." "How do you manage to make ro airs where it is necessary to dril loles?" "Oh, that is simple enough. I hav drills and a small lathe that Icanattacr to a sewing-machine, and there if scarcely a house now that does not pos sess one of those useful articles." "Are there any other ladies engaged in the work you are?" "Not in this city that I know of. But I expect that there will soon be plenty 'of competition, as there are many young girls learning the business at the East. But we can all find plenty of work, I guess, as there is an awful amount oi breakage in jewelry, and we can, il worst comes to worst, always work foi less than men with big establishments and high rents to pay. San Francisct Chronicle. James and the Pears. "James!" " Yes, pa." "There were seven California pears in that cupboard. Six of them are gone. Do you know anything about ft?" "I never took one of them." "Sure?" "Certain, pa. Wish I may die, if" " You wicked, bad boy; how often have I told you never to use such an expression. Here comes ma; let us see if she knows anything about it" Mamma says she saw James take at least five of them. "You little rascal! How dare you tell me you never took one, and here's only this little one with the grub-eaten side left?" "Oh, pa, don't hit me. I said I didn't take one of them and and 'and that's the one I didn't take." sW ville Argus. m A man has died after eating J apple. It is fair to say. howfrer, he ate the pineapple fohy-aaa. i wnen ne was a dot. i bune. A Xeglected Crop. Considering the ease with which It ean be raised and the active demand that always exists for it, buckwheat is neglected to a greater extent than any grain produced in this country. In 1881 thts entire amount of buckwheat produced in all the States and Terri tories was only 9,486.200 bushels. The largest crop ever produced was in 1880, when itamountoflto 14,617,535 bushels. This crop was produced on 822,802 acres of land, and was worth $8,682, 488. About four-fifths of this crop wat Etroduced in the States of New York and nnsylvania. Scarcely any was raised In any of the more Southern States, and very little south of Ohio. The greatest field reported was in Maine, where it averaged twenty-five bushels per acre. It readily sold at 1 per bushel to local millers. Considerable was imported from Canada,, where the value of the crop is better appreciated than it is in this country. But a small proportion ot the article sold in city markets as buckwheat flour is pure, or true to name. It is generally a mixture of the meal of white corn and various kinds of inferior Hour. Millers and dealers often state that it is impossible to pro cure grain enough to supply the demand for buckwheat flour. In all Northern towns buckwheat cakes are held in high esteem as a breakfast dish. The use of buckwheat in thts country is limited, as fanners generally do not raise it and the Hour is not kept for sale by local grocers. Farmers and country millers would do well to take advantage of the demand for genuine buckwheat flour. It will sell readily in town and country at the price the" best quality of white winter wheat flour commands, if it is put up in bags weighing from twenty five to fifty pounds. By judicious man agement the salo of buckwheat flour could be greatly increased in all parts of the country. Buckwheat is an excellent food for fowls of all kinds. It is alo a very good food for hogs and sheep. Bee keepers can not afford to be without a field of buckwheat. The blossoms fur nish a large amount of honey at a time when little can be obtained from other sources. Soil is not impoverished by raising buckwheat upon it as it is by raising most kinds of grain. The plants !roduce a very dense shade during the lottest part of the sea.on, which greatly benelits the hoil. The crop can be sown and harvested at a time when other annual crops require little or no attention. Not infrequently a good yield is obtained from an inverted sod on which a crop of grass has been grown and cut the same season. It I often practical to rafce a good crto of buckwheat on land that was too wot to plow and sow early in the season. It may often be raised to advantage where corn or small grain was drowned out. It is the general custom to sow buck wheat on poor land that is very poorly prepared. If a farmer has some land that is too poor or too wet to prepare for any other crop he is likely to sow buckwheat on it. It is the general opinion that any kind of soil, prepared in any sort of a way, will produce a paying crop of buckwheat. While it is true that it will grow on inferior soil that is poorly prepared, it is also tnie that more and better grain can 1 e pro duced on good land that is well pre pared as for othpr grains. In this lati tude it is customary to sow buckwheat from the 1st to the 10th of July. It will be ready to harvest before the oc currence of frost. It may be cut with a sickle, cradle, mowing-machine or common scythe. It is easily thrashed with a hand-flail. If hens are allowed to run over the land after the crop is harvested they will pick up most of the grains that have fallen from the stalks. Chicago Times. m m Transplanting Trees in Japan. Before transplanting trees, two pieces of paper or cloth are tied to the branches on the east and west, or north and south sides of the tree, so that it may be planted as it stood before in re lation to the sun. Particular care is taken in removing the tree. Large roots which extend so far into the ground that it requires a great deal of labor to dig them out are cut off at certain points, cither by the saw or any other cutting implements, fibrous roots being carefully protected. The spot where the trce'is to be planted is dug a little larger than the roots absolutely require. If the tree is large, two or four strong osts or stakes of convenient size and ength arc set about it before digging, and are connected by one or more hor izontal slats. Too stem of the tree is wrapped in straw matting, and tied firmly to the horizontal slats. Where two horizontal slats are used they are fixed to cross each other at the point where the stem is tied. The tree is thus in a suspended condition, there fore though wo dig around the roots quite deep, it may not only be prevented from falling down, but its fibrous roots, which would otherwise be injured more or less by the heavy pressure of the whole tree, can be save' to alarge extent. . After havinsr removed the tree to tin desired place, particular care is taken in covering the roots well, and also in watering, especially if the soil is rather light Press the dirt,which is thrown into the hole a little at a time, firmly around the roots, taking care at the same time to set them in their natural position as far as possible. On the contrary, if we throw in dirt upon the roots all at one time and carelessly, all the roots, large and small, are crowded together in one mass, many of which will be injured, even if the tree is not killed. This is especially true of those trees whose roots are rather stiff, as, for instance, the Persimmon trees. After the tree is planted it is examined from all sides to see that it has been planted straight, and then it is tied to -three posts which are so set about it as to pro tect it from the wind. The tree is gen erally planted not as deep as it stood in the previous place, but earth is heaped around it to some extent above the level of the ground, it being believed that by thus doing the roots may get more warmth than they could other wise. February is generally considered the best time for transplanting trees in Japan, though some hold the opinion that November is better than any other month for that purpose. As a general rule, however, it is believed that any tree may be 6afely transplanted just at the time when its leaf buds begin to show a little green color. Other things being equal, never transplant trees be hind the proper season, though the earlier planting may do no harm to the plant. After planting make a sun screen which should be taken away rainy or cloudy days. At planting wa tering is considered important. Spread ing a little wheat bran on the bottom of the hole before nlantlnsr the tree is said to make it grow vigorously. S. Araka tea, in N. E. Farmer. m A drove of four thousand sheep, lately from California, and all raven ously hungry, were driven recently into a canyon forty-five miles from Eureka, Nev., for feed, when, after eating greedily, all took sick. They seemed crazed by what they had eaten, and the whole flock staggered and. ran about, bleating sometimes piteoualy. In a day and a half all but one hundred and twenty got well and fell to eating again as though nothing had happened to them. Chicago Times. To keep flies off gilt frames befl three or four onions in a pint of watlr .and apply with a soft hnsh. CUmtf 'Joturnal. GBAJSTD TRIPLE TRAIN KK.CJU LliSlON TO WASHINGTON, BALTIMORE, HARPER'S FERRY, LURAY CAVERNS; MT. VERNON, FORTRESS MONROE, OLD POINT COMFORT, AND OTIIKU POINTS OK Scenic and Historic Interest FROM CHICAGO OVKK Picturesque g J Q At the ltem:irk:tbl Low R-itr of HALF FARE Or oni regular f-ire for the Hound trip from Chicago to It.tltitnort; and return, SEPTEMBER 10TH. First train leaving Chicago at Sr.'H) in the morn'ng. Second train leaving Chicigo at .": 10 in the afternoon. Third train leiving Chicago at fl: -lo'in the cveniiiir. All theu train. departing from Chicago at such hour as to enable direct connec tion from the tr-iin-, arriving in Chicago on the Chicago. Rock l-landtt Tacitic, the Chicago & Alton, the Chicago, Burling ton Si IJuincy, Hie Wal.ash. the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, the Chi.-agu & Northwestern, the Illinois Central, and all other line from the NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST. NO CHANGE OF CARS OK ANY CLASPS HUM Chicago to Baltimore and Washington. ELEGANT NEW DAY COACHES, Magnificent Palace Sleep ing Cars, Superb New Dining Cars, 3ROYAL TRAINS AND TJhtn iii Time. The Rulliiiiorc & Ohio Company ii:i de termined t o make tin m triple train, the :r.imlet Excursion eeni in railroad anuaN, and to this end will r:ll into play all the t-noi m, uis loomce- ol its gieat system. The date of I he Excursion is most hap pily timed, enabling ail who articipato to attend the ri in irkable series- of ORIOLE FESTIVITIES at itAiri.uoiti;. Embraced in the brilliant and unprece dented programme, is one night of ri paralleled ELECTRICAL DISPLAYS And another night of Wondrous MYSTIC PAGEANTRY! NEVER EQUALED IN THE WORLD. On the Electric Night, Lord Baltimore will arrive in the Harbor of Baltimore upon one of the line-t steadier atloat, and Which will literally be a blaze of electri cal illumination. The Hoyal Steamer will be escorted up the harbor by trom sixty to eighty tug boats, four abretst, and each carrying electric lights in vari ous colors. From all sides of the harbor Fire-Works in great profusion will Ik; discharged Irom special barges stationed for such purpose, and the spectacle as a whole will I e an unprecedented one. Arriving in the city. Lord Baltimore, his Courtiers, llouiehold and Ollicers will be escorted to the City Hall by a most novel Military Parade a thousand sol diers covered with Electric LivhU in different colors; horses with electrical plumes, and the whole city presenting a scene simply indescribable. 0 PAGKATr xMII T, Another remarkable spectacle will be witnessed, and effects produced never before attempted in any city of the world. The parade will be the grandest in ex tent known in the history of Tiiystic pageantry. The costumes, all entirely new, were made in Paris, and beyond all comparison the finest ever imported to this countrv. The unparalleled number of Forty Tableau Floats will be in line, and will be larger and more imposing in construction than ever before known. Some conception of tho amazing extent of the pageant may be gleaned from the fact that upwards ol thirteen hundred men, two hundred and thirty horses, six bands, and six hundred carried lights are required to place it upon the streets. No advance will be made in the usual rates for hotel accommodations, either in Jialtimoro or asbingtou, visitors being enabled to stop in either city, the Balti more and Ohio running FIFTV.M1.UTE TRAILS between tue two cities. Trains run at least ever hour. HARPER'S FERRY la directly upon the line of the B. & O., only a little over two hours' run from Baltimore and one hour from Washington. The old John Brown Fort still stands. As all the parades, displays and Pageants at Baltimore take place at niirht, there will be abundant opportunities to visit Harper's Ferry. OLD POIIVX COMFORT AND FORTRESS MONROE Are but one night's sail from Baltimore or Washington on Magnificent Steamers. Excursionists so choosing can take the Bay Line Steamers at Baltimore, witness the trrand electrical and pyrotechnical display in the harbor, arrive at Old Point Comfort and Fortress Monroe eaily the following morning, spend the day and be back in Baltimore again bright and early on the morning of the night of the great Mystic Pageant. MOUNT YERNO Is but a few hours' ride on the historic Potomac from Washington. Splendid Steamers leaving every morning and re turning during the aitcrnoon. LIIKAY CAVERNS, The most famous of all the subterraueau wonders of tbe country, are readily with in a day's time from "Washington or Bal timore. Special fast Excursion Traias, making tbe round trip, with four hours at the caverns, which are now lighted throughout by Electricity. WASHINGTON, Ever a place of greatest interest to all, never looks more beautiful to tbe ec or offers more inducements for a visit than during the lovely weather always the rule in September. The B. 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