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Mr system of rtmwberry culture in
then ret pUoe U in the manner of prepar
ing the ground and netting. Take well
rotted manure from the stable, cover the
ground thoroughly, then plow under uud
pulverize thoroughly. Mark off your
ground in rows four feet apart for gene
ral cultivation, set the planta two feet
apart; aet in August if the ground is
damp enough, then you will have fruit
the next season. The first season is the
trying time for young plants. They
should Ije thoroughly cultivated anil
hoed the whole season, to keep out all
grass aweeds. Do not stop just us
harvest commences, thinking they will
tehe care of themselves the rest of the
fceaaon, but continue the work as late a*
pQalev, pigeon grass, etc., trouble. You
will find you will be well paid in fruit
the next scasou by so doing. Mulch
•lightly with leaves or coarse straw, or
what is better, chin manure. Early in
the spring take the hand and brush awuv
the manure just enough to allow the
* nt to come through, the balance will
p the ground moist, and will insure a
d crop of fruit, unless the earth should
[>me verv dry.
The varieties recommended for general
cultivation, are Wilson, green prolific.
Col. Cheney, and CftStent seedling.
For early fruit set tbt Duchess; late the
great American. Kentucky and cham
pion. For profit I prefer the Crescent,
as it ripens earlier tnan the Wilson, lasts
longer .Yields double,and from one-fourth
to tme-halflarger, is best of all, will keep
nut the grass and weeds more thorough
ly than auy other varietv. It will give
the mostprofit from the least amount of
labor. Tnev yielded this season over
14,000 quarts per acre under ordinary
culture. For late varieties would
recommend the champion, Kentucky,
Ool. Cheney and great American. This
last named variety took the first premium
for the ten largest and the one largest
berry at the New York Horticultural
society, June 20, 1878, being
largest variety yet cultivate
the 1
•oil, which slowly become* soluble,
there is good reason to believe that every
well-kept dairy fHrtu becomes gradually
richer in phosphates every year.
Kiwi el Top-D retain* MHUlsSi.
Tin* Industrial University of Illinois
has made experiments, of applying ma
te grasses at different periods of the
year, which we take pleasure in laying
Indore our readers us follows:
“ On a small timothy meadow, on good
r ralrie soil, five plats', each forty rods
mg, by two rous wide were laid off.
here w as little apparent difference in the
.pint*. Four of those plats received com
paratively light coating* of barnyard
manures at times indicated below. The
applications varied in quantity, the first
pplied being the most rotted; two appli
cations were quite “strawy.” The grass,
■ut Juue 25th, 1878, just before ’
blooming, and weighed when well dried;
Plat No. 1, top-dressed August 1st
" What alls the world T" the f
••And why dot* death walk everywhere?
And why do leer* tdl anywhere?
A nd eklea have clouds, and soul* hare ssrsf*
And thus the poet eanf, and sighed.
wrong would
end tu night,
Id vex e right—
tit he tu sad.
And k he saug—and
Thro* li!» rerr grandest rhymes
Moved a mournful inon.rtone—
Like a ihadow eastward throws
V rout a sunset—Uke a moan
Tangled in a Joy-beU's clduiea.
•• What ails the world?” he sang, and aaked -
—but all I
«to any ttralu,
.i list refrain—
With famous or f«irgutL-n hands,
j .ut up thru lyn in til tbs Itrag
ember, 2,COO pounds;
8, i
plication, 2,010; No. 4. top-dressed
February. 2,07*0 pounds; So. 7*. to
dressed April 20th, 2,115 pound**."
In a
whatbgi
irious fact
produet
ASH XOTIA.
nt discussion of the pr
n-ing
the
circumference. Of the new varieties, we
have thq .Sharpie**# originated in 1875
by J. K. Sharpies*, of Pa. This variety
was sent to the Paris Exposition, measur
ing 12$ inches in circumference. Next
comes President Lincoln, 11$ inches.
Forest rose, Essex-beauty, pioneer, Cen
tennial favorite, and *rea jacket are
varieties well worthv of trial.
Will Btrawberry culture pay? It will.
No crop you can raise will yield as large
profits for the outlay as the strawberry.
—[Prairie Farmer. ’
qiiMM.
The high price that this fruit brings in
market should induce at least the at
tempt to grow more extensively than we
see it tried. The borer, one of the chief
trouble*} ?n some places, should not deter
the people from planting, as this is easily
kept off. The blight also can be controlled
to some exteut by letting the trees grow
bushy, and planting one or two trees near
the house where the soap suds of the wash
days could l>o thrown around the trunk,
would almost insure a crop of fruit. In
the East we had no trouble in growing
them on any go<*d soil, but the finest ever
grown on our ground was on trees near
the drain from the kitchen, and one tree
^Xthat^rtood near the well, the pump of
which was usefLbv a number of families,
and the waste water flowed over the roc
all summer. This thing of wet feet for
trees and vines depends verv much upon
the subsoil; if porous and the water can
sinkawav and never become stagnant the
trees will flourish. The quince in par
ticular is partial to deep, rich, moist soils
and it is in such situations that they
yield the finest fruit.
EflMts or MRoaring Orchard*.
To cultivate an orchard is like culti
vating any crop—it benefits it, increasing
the fertility, and serving as a mulch *
dre »th if the surface is mellow. But
J manure may be substituted for cultiva
tion with good effect. The benefit in
cither case is derived from the surface
without disturbing the roots. This is
necessary to prevent harming them, the
point being to reach the roots with the
required nutriment, and manure will do
this in all cases, whether grain or era
is grown, if enough bo given for bol
trees and crop. Now, the most desirable
thing in an orchard is a rich turf, kept
smooth and green by frequent cutting
as with a lawn. I care not how neai
the surface the roots may be, the nearer,
the more is the grass covering needed—
coolest of all mulches. It is wanted to
protect from the drying winds and the
jays of the sun, as also from frost and
severe changes of temperature,which cul
tivation fails to do. 1 have obser
ved one thing largely, and cannot
be mistaken about it, which is that where
enough enrichment is given to grow a
thick turf and maintain it, it is certain
evident that the trees also get their sup
ply if the roots arc near the surface, if
running well down, as in deep, rich soil,
cultivation has little effect. Top-dress
ing* therefore, will answer the purpose of
enrichment. But let it be sufficient to
provide the necessary growth of the trees
irrespective of the grass, which of course
will also bo benefited, and to a full ex
tent from necessity as the manure passes
down, and the excess thus reaches the
roots of the trees. Where the soil is
deep and rich enough to support the
trees, of course the surface can be kept
ermanent
__ i orchard
mental, the tree* arranged and trimmed
to suit fancy, or swine or sheep can Ik*
turned in to keep down the grass and
pick up the fallen wormy fruit. I see
no necessity for cultivating any orchard
when the result can be secured equally
well without, os it may, and in a more
pleasant way. It is grass instead of the
naked ground, and manure is only ap
plied as needed. This all has to be done
additionally to cultivation in most cases
to meet the demands of the trees. A
lawn* in order to maintain a perfect
green, requires top-dressing, which helps
also its trees. So with an orchard. In
both cases where the ground is deep and
rich, manuring may be dispensed with.
After a thick sod is established, mere
clipping goes on a great way towards
maintaining the growth. It is only in
•hallow or poor soil that additional en
richment is required. Concentrated
fertilizers, such as bone dust, guano,
gypsum, etc., may bo used. They are
easily applied and not offensive. Oc
casionally a coat of fine f> well-rotted
manure may need to be given, which
should always be done in the fall.—]F
G., in Country Gentleman.
Fertility of Dairy Farms.
Much nonsense is circulated in regard
to the rapid low of fertility of daily
farms, by reason of the carrying away
of the phosphates in the milk. Now
four to five pounds of phosphates,
which near ‘ " * k - 1 ——
lime. Ofl
phoricacid. JWP
—ilk contains but seven and one half
pounds of phosphoric acid, which may
be taken as the yearly consumption, in
this way, of each cow.
As wheat bran contains 29 per centum
of phosphoric acid, it needs only that
about 2n0 pounds of bran be fed to each
cow yearly to replace the draught upon
the soil. There afe few dairy cows that
C«d lees than this quantity of bran or
feed equivalent to it, and it la pret-
littlr, if any, phosphoric
m from the noil of the
rxu. on the contrary, to say
of tbs natural supply in the
•ped thut the
straw has become
iu that country more important than
that of the wheat. This is not
because the yield of wheat, in pro
portion to the straw, isle^ than formally,
out it is due to the fact that straw is now
*> extensively used in chopped food for
animal*, and enters into many manu
factures, that there is a demand for all
that is raised, and it brings agtwxl prior.
This is true to some exteut in our older
farming sections, and especially iu those
towns near large cities where a consider
able demand exists for wheat straw.
Mr. Bernard uses sawdust in his cattle
tables, and says he prefers it to straw
I think he can make no aceouut of the
manure. Sawdust is certainly no Who*
fit to the manure, although it may Ik*
au absorbent of doubtful merit. 1 pre
fer clean bright straw eut up short. It
is warmer than sawdust, and dt>os not
cling with such a tenacity to the animals*
sides. Immediately after the stables arc
cleaned, a good sprinkling of plaster acts
as au excellent absorbent of the liquid,
and most valuable deodorizer.
The celebrated English farmer. Aider-
man J. J. Mcclii, of Tiptree Hall, has
but six acres of permanent picture, and
yet manages to keep as an average 200
sheep, and from fifteen to twenty head
of cattle. AU food is cut up, no roam
ing at large is allowed, and supplemen
tal food is invariably given. Tin* sheep
are always within iron-hurdled folds,
removed morning and evening.
Good Cultivation.—Mr. Littledale,
who has a farm on the Mersey, % opposite
Liverpool, England, keeps eighty-five
cows and fifteen working horses on the
produce of eighty acres of land. One
acre of land to support a cow is con
sidered a small pattern in America. This
fact show* what thorough cultivation
will do.
Wheal Notes.—In comparing the
prices of wheat now with those of the
last 17 years it should be borue in mind
that the present rates are in specie, while
the former rates were in depreciated
greenbacks. The crops of 1864, 06 and
*67 for instance, brought unusually high
prices, averaging in Illinois, according to
the Illinois crop report, $1.55, $1.98 and
$1.97 per bushel respectively, while the
present crop has been selling for
about 87c. But in July, 1S64. a dol
lar greenback was worth only 3S.7
cents, so that $1.55 a bushel amounted
onW to 60c. in coin. At the same date
in i860 the soft dollar was to 66c. specie,
and $1.93 amounted only to $1.28^ in
hard money. In 1867 the greenback dol
lar was equal to 71 e.. and $1.97 was
about $1.41 in coin. Moreover, the crops
of the two last years were very short, so
that what our farmers gained by high
prices they lost by scant sales.
The produce exchange of New York is
S rcparing to adopt the cental system in
ealingin agricultural produce. Instead
of 8,000 bushels of wheat, the present
boat-load, they will buy 4,800 centals,
and instead of 10,000 bushels of oats,
thev will trade for 3,200 centals. Biua
will also be raised or lowered by tenths
of a cent instead of by quarters and
eighths, sis at present. The system is al
ready in practice in California, and its
adoption here will greatly simplify busi
ness transactions.
“Arnold’s Gold Medal Wheat it ap
parently our best cropper here,” writes
- r. . r* t> Tho-"“
fron
. „ , . . ... divided by 209,9 is the quotient; if di-
1 the phosphates in the milk. Now v ijed by 9, the quotient contains
,000 pounds of milk contains about product contains two 9’s. One
Professor C.
Columbus, Ohio. “Next come Velvet
Chaff and Silver Chaff. Wo are much
pleased with the latter on account of the
stiffness of its straw, baldness of its
grain, and its freedom from disease.
The Clawson has ranked third in the list
this year. Its straw seems to lie growing
softer, but its grain appears to be improv-
ig in its (louring properties.”
In Illinois the acreage and yield of
spring wheat have declined greatly this
year. In twenty-two counties not an
acre of it was sown; in eleven counties
less than fifty acres were sown, while
seven more counties have had less than
one hundred acres apiece. Only three
counties produced no winter wheat.
The total quantity of spring wheat is
estimated at only 3,376,41)0 bushels,
while the winter wheat is put down at
42,041,252 bushels.
Careful calculations by two of Eng
land s best agricultural statisticians,
Thomas 8cott and Arthur H. Savory, go
to show that English farmers cannot
continue wheat-growing nt the market
prices of the present season. Their
figures show that the average cost of
home-grown wheat was $1.47} per
bushel, while the price of it was only
$1.21.
The English Board of Trade makes all
its returns of agricultural products by
weight, iu cwts. of 112 pounds, so that
each cwt. of wheat equals two bushels of
06 pounds each, while the ordinary Eng
lish bushel of wheat contains 61 pounds.
The acreage under wheat in Great
Britain for the last three years has be on:
1877, 3,168,040; 1878, 8,218,417; 1879,
2,890,136 acres.
In view of recent heavy rains in Eng
land, tho Mark Lane Express predicts
an early advance in the price ot bread-
stuffs.
Mathematical Cmioslty.
1 Ohio Suit Jouroft I. ]
Mr. Joseph Jamcn-on, of this city, has
had tlie leisure and ingenuity to study
a lt the following peculiar arrangement
1 figures:
The year 1881 will be a mathematical
curiosity. From left to right and from
right to left it reads the same; 18 divided
by 2 gives 9 as the quotient; 81 divided
by 9 and 9 is the quotient. If 1881 is
hoar —Ml first roared lu song—
They fain would ring the world t«
And so the) chant iu countless
A* uuuy the » uvea of sear.
And iu ihw l.routhisns* of the hi
Yet even when they siug their U
•* iTuino th*»u
jteft harm have broken strings
d >w» oti the light of si
he greeted minstrel oin|
g la incomplete.
rjam-
rhyme
1 jKrfoct sound,
:ke*l by the poet’a feet.
" What ails the world?” basing! and sighs—
No answer cometh to hU cry—
He auks the earth and uks the sky—
The echoes of !u» son* pass by
Unanswered—and the |*oci dies.
SIIK UIDX’T UIKAX TO TELL
Yea. my Ups to-night have spoken
Words I Ktid they should not speak;
And I would 1 could recall them-
Would 1 had not been *> weak.
Wore it n.lue to llvengnin.
AH the strength of iu u-uiptaUon
Would appear tu me in vain.
True my lips have onl^ uttered
1 am happ? when Inside him,
i when wo are apart;
Th-ugh 1 listen to his praises
Always huger than! should,
And I would not. could not, twin
Would uot f..r the w. rid offend
l Would have him k» .w 1 liked h
knew her value, and still held aloof.
The result?"
Second Speaker.— u Aw, there can be
but one, you know. Erekinc would
never thluz of marrying the girl, and
the Camancho is too sensible to expect
It, I should say.”
First Speaker.—"1 think you make
a slight mistake there, old fellow. And
if Erskine makes the same—well, heaven
help him. For Anita has a sleeping
Firtt Speaker. — “ There goes Lord
Etrkine s turnout. Bang up, isn't It?
And Anita with him nsuauuL By Jove!
that girl played her cards well. She
fully around her waist, 1, aw, thought
him remarkably wide-awake. Doocid
absurd for a danseuse, you know. What
do you say to a game of billiards?" And
they pass on.
A faint echo from Mrs. Grundy.
“ Why 1 had no idea Anita danced to
night, or 1 assure you, my dear Mrs.
Shallow , I should not Uavo come. Of
course when they all praised her prudence
and all that sort of thing, I never be
lieved a word of it. But one must l»e
niuu»ed. However, the creature has
flaunted this affair .-o shamelessly in our
faces, driving and dining in public,
and all that you know, that really
Bah! let us go elsewhere."
Behind the scenes.—" I say, Mordaunt,
whose coupe is that at the door, and for
whom is it waiting?”
“ Don’t you know? Why, where have
you kept yourself this month of Sun
days? It is Ixjrd Erskine’s carriage, and
it waits —/or Fora's own daughter.
Of ruch men astattint are made.
The stone flung at Anita would not
suffice. The jHx>r dead mother must
come in for a fling. It was "pure
womanly ’’ according to the world’s
judgment.
devil in her that I should not care to
•rouse.”
Second Speaker.—“Aw, that’s iust it.
As you say, old boy, she has a sleeping
devil iu her eye; and on one occasion
when I attempted to pass my arm play-
Do not turn away. I do not wonder
you are tired of * listening to those
mouth-pieces of the world. I will only
ask you to pay one more visit to-night.
To Anita herself. Here we are. Ah!
step back and close the door softly.
]u her snowy tobedc nuit, this danseuse,
" Kota's own mother,” kneels and prays.
Monsieur and Madame Grundy.—Go
ye and do likewise.
Pray the good Lord in Ilis mercy to
forgive your evil hearts and slanderous
tongues.
# * * * *
“Anita, most fascinating of women, I
have something 1 wish to say to you.
I never thought a woman could affect
me as you have done. Day and night
you are in my thoughts. 1 do not seem
to live save when I dm with you. You
haunt me in my dreams I ara unhappy
when I am not with you. Is not this
love, my Anita? And will you not love
me in return?”
"Ah, Ernest, my loved one, have you
not Known long ere this, that thia heart
of mine was all thine own? I could not
drive the glad blood from my cheek as
it leaped there at the sound of your
voice, your footfall, nor the gladness and
joy from
I could,
is thine.
need to be an angel to be worthy your
love and your name—and I am, alas!
but a poor little danseuse! What a
necromancer is love. I used to think
that to be premier danscusc at the Grand
Theater, one had a right to be proud,
that it was a position to work for, and to
glory in. Now I ara o*bnnied of it.”
He does not hear her, has heard
nothing since those words, " I need to be
anjrel to be worthy your love and your
ir lootiaii, nor me giuancss aim
my eyes. And I would not, if
Every word, thought, breath
But,* oh, my beloved one, I
i first attracted
ANITA, THE DANSEUSE.
The prompter’s bell rings, the full
notes ot the orchestra crash out on the
perfumed air, the suppressed hum of
voices aud the soft frou-frou of fans
cease, the great green curtain raises
swiftly, there is a sound ot castinets iu
the air, and Anita bounds on the stage
with the grace and beauty of—Anita
aloue. For there is nothing to which I
can compare her, save her glorious self.
Bather above the medium height,
slender, but not thin. A face that at
tracts and rcpela.
An olive skin, clear “nd colorless,
long, black, almond-shaped eyes, u del
icate, patrician nose, with finely-curved,
sensitive nostrils, lips always a bright
crimson, the upper short and curved
like the old Greek goddesses, hair black
as night, with a purple bloom in its
meshes.
You could believe her capable of
ascending the scaffold to the headsman’s
block, with a firm, unflinching step, and
a smile on her mouth, to save one she
loved, and you could fancy her driving
the steel of her poniard home to tho
heart of that same loved oue should ho
prove faithless.
As yet Anita had no lovers. Admirers
by the score. But when tht^ began to
speak of love she curled her lips scorn
fully, and answered them in words to
match her scornful smile. If that did
not rejK*l them she opened her almond
eyes lull upon them, and in few words
S ave them to understand beyond all
oubt that there was no hope, tnat she
did not wisli to marry. And they slunk
away, wondering how it was that Anita,
who was so bright and quick in all else,
could be eo dull in atlairs o f the heart.
Marriage indeed! But none had tho
temerity to undeceive her.
Her mother'had been dead a year,and
a little over, when our story opens.
Bright, beautiful llosa Camacho. Bho
had not the high-bred, patrician air of
Anita, but she was a thousand times
more beautiful. A fairer skin, a rounded
dimpled form, and a head of dusky gold,
over which all fcfpain went mad.
She was a danseuse, like Anita, and it
was whispered— there was a rumor—
Bah', who that has beauty escapes
•lander? And Rosa was very beautiful,
and a danseusc.
Anita’s father died when she was an
infant, so she was vdd, and the death of
her mother left her quite alone. To her,
her mother was an angel, and her death
left Anita desolate.
Anita comes before them to night, her
beautiful limbs bared to tho knees, a
short silken skirt of red, a black velvet
bodice, narrow comb at the back of her
dusky head, a face vail thrown in true
Spanish fashion over it, one red rose at
her breast. She bends low, and smiles
brightly to their applause, and then her
lithe form sways gently, gracefully, to
the rhythm of the orchestra.
When the dance is finished, she is
deafened with applause, she is showered
with bouquets of ueautifal flowers. She
stoops to gather them, when from a
private l*ox on her right, a bouquet all
of roses, red rose s, her favorites, is tossed
to her, striking her lightly on her breast
ns it falls.
bl„o-«yea Englishman. . ^
Anita gathers them all hastily, and
The Novel of tho Fotaro.
IXavtffe ASmlisar.]
in literature an as plainly
defined as those in art, and the modern
novel, the creation of the cheap prinb
ing-press, has attained its climax and
is gradually waning, if not towards a
complete disappearance, at least to
that subservient position in letters
from which it should never have arisen.
Its evanescent quality is seen in the few
books that ever attain to the dignity
of a position on the library shelf. They
are essentially "summer reading;” they
belong to tho swift speeding railway
train, to a shady corner on a steamboat,
to the hammock under the trees; and
when they are onco read they pass into
the hauos of anyone who chooses to
pick them up, or as fair prizes for tho
Dutlcr or the cook or fiually to tho
dust-bin and the kitchen fire. Let a
man of means start out now to form a
library, how many recent works of fie*
tiou would ho choose for the pluce of
honor upon his shelves? Everything
that is made too common palls upon
the appetite, and there is where tho
son ation novel has met its fate. There
is undoubted genius iu all branches of
literature, but it is not exhaustless.
Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot. Victor
Hugo, Dumas, Charles Beade, Thackery
and a few others did marvelous, and in
sonio cases, most honorable work, but
when will they live again in others, or
their books be imitated? A great novel
may be a kindly dish, but we should
turn away nuuscatcd even from salmon,
if fed constantly for a month on red
herring. That there has been a terri
ble decline in our literary provender in
the lino of romance is plain. They are
stupid rehashes of worn out subjects;
they distort love, violate the probabili
ties, give common sense a black eye and
turn life into a pantomime. What will
the coming novel be? The new era has
hardly opened and while we are waiting
for it there is a large republication of
old standard works, many of them of ex
cellent quality and which are fur better
worth reading than modern trash.
They belong, however, to the past, and
can only fill an interregnum. Circum-
•tauccs seem to be tending to something
even more realistic than what we have
had, because more fuithful to nature
aud to home. The novel of the past has
put all its characters on stilts—hereafter
they are likely to walk on the ground;
they have worn doublet and hose- now
they will come to us dressed in the fash
ion of to-day. Novels, like pictures,
must have coloring; they must
bit of life here and a bit there,
exact record of the daily existence of
our Darbys and Joans would be us
tasteless as soup without seasoning, but
we may hope to find hereafter, whatever
may bo the frame work, those charms
and beauties which, born of a correct
taste and artistic skill%ball largely deal
with the world as it is, and present to
the mind thoso ideal existences which
the young may read without bavin]
their passions excited and their ideas o
humanity distorted. Let the lessons of
literature be sound and Wholesome and
there will be little to ask for.
name," fell on his ear. Cun she bo
blind?
lie glances at her face. Oh, the brigh t
halo that love had flung round itl leu.
it is dear she thinks so, that he has laid
at her feet the proud old name he bears,
ami with thut smile on her lips and iu
licr eyes, he cannot undeceive her.
That night, as Anita steps out on hei
balcony, at the Palace Hotel, her own
name, in the voice so dear to her, falls
on the, listening ear.
“Anita you refer to, uo doubt. Now,
see here, old fellow, don’t make any mis
take. There is no better, purer girl in
the world than Anita—not among y.
people oi my own.
by her beau!
7 , whieh is incomparable,
knew her better, by her
own intrinsic merit—and, I confess, were
it not for my father, who would cut ino
ofl with a shilling were I to make such a
netailiance. I would marry her to-morrow
As it is, it is out of the question to
marry her; quite impossible equally
impossible to give her un. The crisis!”
Anita gropes her way blindly through
the open window into her apartment,
whispering, softly:
“ Impossible to marry hor. He said
that—'impossible to marry her l’ Then
it is time for thee to die, Anita.”
And they find her there the following
day, a poniard up to its hilt in her
young heart, her eyes wide open, aud
wearing a look of horror, an awful smile
on the sweet dead mouth.
Thus died Anita, "Rosa’s own
da u^hter.”
The Common School the Farmers’ Hope.
Frof. Elbridge Gale, of Kansas, upon
the subject or common schools for tho
rural class, writes as follows in tbs J!u-
ral Few- Yorlcr: Much has been said
and written in regard to an improved
culture of tho rural classes. They are
demanding something more than
hitherto, and asserting for themselves
a higher position in tho social scale.
While there are Btcps backward as wall
ns forward in all movements towards a
higher civilization, we may be sure that
tho cud hero sought will be reached.
Agriculture in all its departments must,
years to come, command a higher
Reading from loft to right, is 18, and
reading from right to left is 81; and
18 is two-ninths of 81. By adding, di
viding and multiplying nineteen 9’s
are produced, being one 9 for each year
required to complete the century.
A youno lady was endeavoring to
impress upon tho minds of her Sunday
school scholars the sin and terrlblo
punishment of Nebuehadmv./.ar, and
when she said that for seven years he
ate grass like a cow, she was astonished
bv a little girl, who asked, “ Did he give
milk r
retires, trembling in every limb.
The curtain fulls, the orchestra plays,
the people talk of her, for a moment.
What grace! What beauty! They
never observed until to-night just how
beautiful Anita is; she is always so
colorless. But to-night, when she
gathered her flowers, she was almost as
lovclv as poor Rosa, her mother. And
it wqs all owing to the bright dash of
crimson that came to her cheeks. Why
docs she not rouge? Being a danseuse,
she could do that sort of thing and he
none the worse. What docs it mattei
what a danseuse does? And then thfc
conversation drifts to the play, or a
little bit of scandaL
And Anita! She is pale enough now,
trembling still, nnd with an angry gleam
in her black eves.
“ Is she in her dotage, that a pair of
blue eyes should call the blood to hei
cheeks like that?”
fine rises hastily, strips off the gaudy
skirt and its belongings, and presently
emerges from her dressing-mom, u tall,
slender figure, all in somber black.
As she crosses the stage at the hack,
her manager speaks to her.
"One moment, pleAse, allow me: Lord
Erskine, let me present you to Anita
Cauiancho.”
And the donor of the roses hows loi
before her:
Three months later. The voice o
Mrs. Grundy, or rather Jtfr. Grund.
—and. by the way, why Mrs. Grundy
should afwi
ways gam
e*1it for all the
uiau *** mo punu t* miu
to give high honon to the rural presa
to the associations and societies formed
to promote rural interests, and to agri
cultural colleges, where they all recog
nize the object of their creation, the
more intelligent among the masses are
feeling that they can justly demand
something more for tho children in tho
common schools than has hitherto been
offered them. We ask that the culture
of the common school shall be turned in
some slight degree towards rural and
industrial interests. A more general
diffusion of knowledge relating to agri
cultural and industrial pursuits is de
manded. Our children need culture
that shall impel towards farm life. This
cannot l*e attained by the instrumental
ities now employed.
Hence, we propose that the common
school shall bo made more tributary to
our rural interests. We want an ele
mentary course of instruction in mat
ters, both practical and scientific, that
relate directly to rural life. This should
be wi elementary in its character that
the great mass of our children may ac
quire it by the time they are fourteen
years old. By this means the common
school will, to a certain extent, become
the training school of our agricultural
and industrial colleges. These latter
institutions will then have opened to
them a much wider field of usefulness
ami the possibility of a much more
thorough culture to tlu«o who may enjoy
their advantages.
A LADY with a little boy went into a
well known restaurant the other daj
id after the tv:<» had absorbed fooc^
Some Natural History—The Editor.
“Wbat ferocious-looking animal ii
this?”
“That is the editor.”
“Indeed! Are they very dangerous?”
“Sometimes. When cornered up they
have been known to be quite combative,
uad again they have been knuwn to go
through a convenient back window.
Generally they are mild and passive.”
“When are they the most dangerous?”
“When intruded upon by a book agent
who wants a forty-nve line local tor a
seventy-five cent book, or by a poet with
verses about the gentle spring.”
“Are editors cross to each other?”
“Only when separated by several
blocks of buildings.” «.
“Do they often have fearful combats
with each other?”
“Occasionally when they go out in op
posite directions, and come upon each
other by accident.”
“Are editors ever cowhided?”
“Sometimes the small ones are, but
the big ones are very rarely molested.”
“Do editors eat?”
“They do. It was formerly supposed
that they ate at long intervals and upon
rare occasions but it is now a well
authenicated fact that they
a great deal when they can get it.”
“What kind of food 1 ‘
most?’
iey like the
‘They are not very particular. While
they won’t refuse quail on toast, fried
crab or roast turkey about Christmas
time, they have bceii known to make a
hearty repast off a dish of cold turnips
and a consumptive herring.”
“Can they eat concert tickets?”
“We believe not. Some people have
gained this curious impression from
lalso teachings in early life, but no
authenicated instance is on record.”
“Do editors go free into^hows?”
“They do when they give dollar and a
half locals for a twenty-five cent ticket.”
“Arc all editors bale!, like this one?”
“No; only the married are bald. But
let us pass on; the editor docs not like
to be stared at.
LATENT MARKET QUOTATIONS.
$7.50; extra family, $7.75; fancy, $8.00
Wheat—the following prices are miller's
buying prices: Tennessee, ohoice white,
$1.40(0,1.60; Tennessee medium, $1.80<g)1.40.
Corn: Choice white, 70(ai72o; yellow, 07»(^ti7c.
Oats: 47l4(3*50o for feed oats, aud c0s76c for
e si is in demand at 72a76c. (irits,
$4 25.
5.90; fancy, .
red fall. $1.22)4. Corn, higher, 35)*a$5>4.
Oats: 25)4a20c.
LOUISVILLE—Flour: Family, $5.1%,5.50;
A No. 1, t(J.0%0.75; fancy. t6.50<a>7.§0.
Wheat: Red, author and white $1.2al.25.
Corn: Old white, 50c; old mixed, 48c; new
mixed, 42)4c. Oats: White, 34c; inixed3Su
CINCINNATI—Flour: Family, $5.<i5r£0.85.'
Wheat: $1.22(^1.28. Corn: 4%48c. Oats: .83
@35o.
NEW YORK—Hour: Common to fair ex
it 45.75u0.5O; good to choice extra, $8.50a7.25.
'heat: Ungraded winter red, *l.30al.43)4
o. 2 do, $ 1.43a 1.44)4. Corn: Ungraded. Ml
mOOi; No. 2, 01?4a02c. Oats: No. 2, 40c; No.
■J, white 41a42)4o.
eoi'Nrsr prodi'ir.
ATLANTA— Eggs: 14al5e. Butter:Choice
Tennessee, 22)4u25c. Poultry: Large, 18a23c;
hens, 22)4s25e; small sizes. 13al7e. Sweet
potatoes: OOutiSc pet bushel. Irish potatoes:
jd.75u3.00 |** r barrel.
BALTIMORE—Butter: Prime to choice
western packed, 20a22e. Eggs: 21u22e.
LIVE STOI K.
ATLANTA—Choice Tennessee oafctle 8c;
common 1)402)4**; Georgia raised, l)4a2e.
Sheep Se for choice,
CINCINNATI—Hogs: Common $2.75«3.40
light. *x40u3.75; packing, $3.80a4.90; butch
ers, 3.80a3.9O.
pmtviatow*.
ATLANTA—Bulk meat: Clear rib sides.
7c; pork strips, ti.'ic. Bacon: Sugar cured
hums, 10)4u lO-U'c; sides, 8)4c; shoulders, 5%v,
breakfast, 8a8)4c.
BALT1MCRE—Mess pork, Halite. Bulk
meats:]
CINCINNATI—Pork, 11. Lard, 6 20at> 21
Bulk meats: ►boulders, 3)4e; short ribs, 5.90
aGe; short clear 6)4c. Bacon: Shoulders, 4)4c,
elear ribs, 8)4c; clear sides, 8)4c.
NEW YORK—Mess pork, $10 40; long
clear middles, 0.)4; short do 6%a6)4, Lard,
^LOUISVILLE—Pork, 10)4- Lard, 7%a8)4.
Bulk meats: Shoulders, none; clear ribs, tic.
Baeon: Shoulders, elear rib, 8)4; clear
ides, 8)4; hams, 9al0)4c.
roTfeir.
ATLANTA—Middling,10)4e; low middling,
9%i»10c.
NEW YORK—Middling uplands, 11 5-lCe;
Middling Orleans, 11 7-l(!c.
GALVESMON—Middlings, 10)4; low mid
dlings, 10J4c; good ordinary, l0 c -
NORFOLK—Middlings,'10 13-16c.
BALTIMORE—Middlings, ll^e; low mid
dlings, 10)4c; good ordinary, I0%c.
SAVANNAH—Middlings, 10)4c; low mid
dlings, 107-16c; good ordinary, 10c.
ATGUSTA — Middlings, 10)4; low mid
dlings, 10)4c.
A Bloekaidr that Mh« old be Baited.
The egress from the system c
rial through the natural chans
rendered free, without loss of time, when a
blockade is produced by an attack of consti
pation, a disorder which if it becomes chron
ic, is productive of serious bodily mischief.
Jaundice, severe headaches, nausea, dye pep
sia, the usual concomitants of the malady
mentioned, all indicate that the bodily func
tions are materially interfered with. Hostet-
ter’s Bitters is particularly efficacious in
cases of this sort, and renders the habit of
body perfectly regular. It is a medicine
greatly lo be preferred to drastic cathartic**,
which are well calculated to drench, but
unhappily also to weaken the intestines. We
say unhappily, since such medicines are the
favorite resource of many ill-advised per
sons, who resort to them upon the most
trivial occasion, aud greatly to their discom-
■t and injury.
The BuklNt'ss Boons.
One of the best indications of the re
vival in business is afforded by the news
reported of Nelson’s Business College,
if Cincinnati.
The number of students registered for
month of September is over ono hundred
per cent, abjve the average. This pat-
ronago is doubtless stimulated by the
scarcity of ccmoetent clerks and book
keepers, thd demand upon tho college
being greater than the supoly.
Oswkgo Starch V> ctory, N. Y.)
OcL 28, 1873. |
H. W. Johns, 87 Maiden Lane, N Y:
Dear Sir—We have several acres ot your
Asbestos Roofing on our buildings. The first
roof, put on fifteen years ago, is in good con
dition, and we prefer it to auy other.
Yours respectfully,
T. Kisoskord A Bonn.
The delicate membrane which envelopes
the lungs und lines the air passages, is ex
ceedingly sensitive, »nd a slight irritation of
it increases and spreads very rapidly. Re
membering this, use, if you are attacked bv
a cough or cold, that incomparable pulmonic
nnd preventive of consumption, Dr. Hall’s
Balsam for the Lungs, which invariably gives
spedy relief and ultimately effects a com
plete cure in all cases where the breathing
organs are affected. Use it in time and pre
vent aerious bronchial trouble. Sold by nil
druggists.
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not imagine. I can assure you 1 go { child luid oaUii, OQ the greund that he
through life with fny ears wide open, j was under ten years of age. It was
and Mr. Grundy .vllsine inorcill-nat ircd I with some difficulty that she was made
gossip of my neighbors in n month than | to understand that railroad rules do not
does madam, his spouse, in a year. apply in rating saloons.
A Wedding Episode.
Tho. following thrilling story, which
lias been prepared especially for the
English market, appears in the San
Francisco Poet: “At a wedding
South Carolina last month nn incido
occurred aptlv illustrating social life in
the United States. The bridegroom,
who belonged to the ‘first Southern
families,’ took exception to the phras
eology of the officiating clergyman, und
remarked: ‘You shouldn’t say those
uns whom the Lord joined together, hut
(hem uns.’ The preacher, who prided
himself upon the ‘high toned’ quality
of his tungunge, quietly dropped jiis
hand into the pocket of his surplice
and interpolated: ‘You list paddle
your own canoe, young feller, or your
trouble’ll begin sune entiff. I’m runnin’
this tea party, I am—as I said before,
my beloved nearers—those uns as the
Ix>rd ’. Just then the bridegroom
made a motion toward his hip, but be
fore he could draw the minister fired
from his pocket, and the young man fell
dead nt nis feet. Instantly the whole
church was filled with hla'zing pistols.
In less than five seconds the only person
left alive was the bride, who hail ducked
behind the pulpit early in the action.
The half-married female gazed musingly
around, and remarked as she started to
home: ‘These self cocking revolvers is
playing the mischief ’round here, and
that’s a fact!’ ”
A Now Language.
The language of postage stamps, in
stead of flowers, has just been invented.
Thus, when a postage stamp has been
placed upside down on the left corner
of the letter, it means, “ I love vow
in the name crosswise, “ My heart is an
other’s;” straight up and down, “Good
bye, sweetheart, good-bye;” upside down
ii’i the right-hand corner, “Write no
more;” in the centre at the top, “ Yes;”
opposite at uic Bottom, “No;” on the
rigut-hand-coriior at a right angle, “ Do
you love me?” in the left-hand-corner,
“I hate you;” top corner on the right,
“I wish your friendship;” bottom corner
on the left, “I reek your acquaintance:”
on u line with the surname, “ucccnt
mv love;” the snmo upside down, “I
am Vngagedat u right angle in the
same place, “I long to see you;” in the
middle at theYight-hand edge, “Write
immediately.”
While this is all very good as far as it
goes, thoso who put a postage stamp on
any hut the upper-right-hand corner of
an envelope, must hold themselves re
sponsible tor all the swearing of the port
office clerks.
IT. W. Johns’ Asbestos Liquid Paints are
strictly pare linseed oil paints, and contain
no water. They are the best and most econ
omical paints in the world. Send for samples
to 87 Maiden Lane, N Y.
Each maker of Cabinet or Parlor Organs
advertises his onn as best. Rut the examin
ations at the great world’s exhibitions have
hat one reMilt. At every one for a dozen
years Mavon & Hamlin Organs have been
found best They are awarded the gold
medal at the Peri* Exhibition this year.
For coughs, colds, and throat disorders,
nse “Brown’s Bronchial Troches,” haying
proved their efficacy hy a test of many years.
26 cents a box.
Young men, go West, learn telegraphy; sit
uation guaranteed. A*1 dress R. Valentine,
Manager, Janesville, Wis.
Prevent crooked boots and blistered heels
by wesring Lyon’s Heel Stiffeners, Can be
applied at any time,
C IS vffifvKoii's tiiH Bweet Nary Tobacco
They cure all diseases of the stomach,
bowels, blood, liver, nerves, kidneys and
urinary organ", and $500 will be paid for
a case they will not cure or help, o:
anything impure or injurious found in
them—Hop Bitters. Test them.—Post.
can be saved every year by the farmers ii
thl" country if they will properly coIot
their butter by using Wella, Richardson
A Co.’s Perfected Butter Color. It gives
a splendid June color and never turns
red.
15 lo $20 gfij
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Because the Mustang pene
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nil pain and soreness and
morbid seereiions, and restor
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