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AK KPISUOK.
BT BARTON GREY.
And bo the hour comes at last
When an the dream is over.
The distant, passion-haunted past,
The rapture of the lover !
I could not tell that I would change
That fair and fragrant fancy.
And yet, ah, me ! who counts it strange
That time should kill the pansy 1
Our love was but a summer flower,
A thing of rings and posies;
A frail, sweet bud that bloomed an hour,
Then died-like other roses.
I dreamed I ne’er had seen a face
So exquisitely tender,
And all my life to your dear grace
Bent down in frank surrender.
And now what need of vows and sighs,
And passionate pretenses,
To us who are so sadly wise
In lordship of the senses?
It wag—lt is not—let it pass—
Though there has gone forever
The image from the magic glass,
The ripple from the river.
Your life shall flow above this shock
Iu truer, steadier fashion.
With just that quiver o’er the rock
That marks a buried passion ;
And if I sometimes look behind,
It will not be in sorrow,
For to the heart the heart is kind
Love's Eden blooms to-morrow !
THE MISSING FINGER JOINT.
It was my visit to London since I
had taken up my abode and entered on
the practice of my profession as a so
licitor at Southampton.
In London I had a very dear friend,
my old college chum, George Dickson ;
and as lie was the only person I knew in
the gteat metropolis, of course I lost
no time in looking him np. Three years
had passed since our last meeting ; but
ten could scarcely have produced a
change more marked than had taken
place in the appearance and manner of
my friend.
Our first greetings and friendly inqui
ries over, I longed, yet forbore, to ask
the cause of my friend’s melancholy. I
felt sure, in due time, of being made
the confidant of the secret, provided no
motive of delicacy prompted its con
cealment.
That evening, in my room at the
hotel, George told me his story. He
had formed an attachment for a young
lady, whose graces of mind and person
he portrayed with all the fervor of a
lover’s eloquence. She had returned
his affection ; but her father had op
posed his suit, having set his heart on
the marriage of his daughter to a
nephew of his. This nephew was a
young surgeon, of profligate character,
my friend assnred me—but that may
have been prejudice—who had long,
but unsuccessfully, wooed his cousin,
to whom his proffers were as repugnant
as to her father they were acceptable.
Some months since, Mr. Parsons, the
young lady’s father, had gone into
Hampshire on business, accompanied
by his nephew. At Southampton he
had been seized by a sudden illness,
which terminated fatally in three days.
On the day preceding his death he
had executed a will (which had since
been proved by the depositions of the
attesting witnesses), containing a solemn
request that his daughter, to whom he
left the whole of his estate, should ac
cept the hand of his nephew in mar
riage, coupled with a provision that in
case the latter offered, and she refused,
within a specified period, to enter into
the proposed union, the entire estate
devised to the daughter should be for
feited to the nephew.
To sacrifice her fortune to her heart’s
choice would not have cost Julia Par
sons a moment’s hesitation ; and noth
ing could have more delighted George
Dickson than so fair an opportunity of
showing how superior his devotion was
to all considerations of personal advan
tage. But her father’s dying request,
in Julia’s eyes, was sacred. It had
surprised and stunned her, it is true;
for, in their many conferences on the
subject, be had never gone beyond the
moat kindly remonstrance, and had
never even hinted at anything like
coerc : on.
Young Parsons, the nephew, had not
the magnanimity to forego his ungener
ous advantage. He might have been
content with his cousin’s fortune alone,
but his right to that depended on his
oiler and her rejection of an alliance
which she felt in consequence bound to
accept. The brief season of grace,
which she had been compelled to beg
even with tears, had already almost
passed, and a few more days would wit*
ness the condemnation of two lives to
hopeless misery.
At the conclusion of my friend’s nar
rative, in which, for reasons that may
hereafter be developed, I felt a peculiar
interest, I prevailed upon him to ac
couqiany me to a place of amusement,
to which I had previously procured
tickets.
When we reached the theater, the
performance had already begun ; but
we succeeded in finding seats which
commanded a fair view both of the stage
and the audience.
In a few moments George touched
my elbow.
“ Observe the gentleman nearly op
posite, in the front row, seated next
the column, leaning his arm on his
cane,” he whispered.
I looked in the direction indicated,
and saw a face whose striking resem
blance to one I had seen before caused
me to start with surprise,
“ Who is it?” I asked.
“ Eldridge Parsons,” was the reply.
“ The nephew of whom you spoke ?”
The same,” my friend answered.
“Does he resemble his uncle?” I
was on the point of inquiring ; but just
then the stranger drew the glove from
his right hand, and I saw that the first
joint of the middle finger was wanting,
a circumstance which, for sufficient
reason, absorbed my attention.
“ Do you know the exact date of Mr.
Parsons’ death ?” I asked when we had
gained the street at the close of the per
formance.
“ Yes,” said George ; “it was the 23d
of December. His daughter received a
telegram from her cousin, announcing
the fact the same day. But why do you
ask ?”
“ I have a reason which may or may
not prove a good one,” I returned ; and
stating that I had business engagements
for the whole ef the next day, I parted
with my friend, promising to meet him
on the following evening.
Next afternoon found me at the abode
of Mr. Parsons, the surgeon.
“Mr. Parsons. I presume?” were the
words with which I accosted the gentle
man I had seen at the theater.
“Yes, sir.”
“You may not remember me, Mr.
Parsons, but I believe we have met be
fore.”
“I beg your pardon, sir, for not recol
lecting the occasion.”
“You were in Southampton last win
ter, were you not ?”
“ I was,” he answered, with some em
barrassment.
“lam the solicitor on whom you called
to take a dralt a will.”
He turned pale, but made no reply.
“I saw a record of that will at Dr.
Commons’ this morning,” I resumed.
“ and ”
“You speak of my uncle’s will,” he
hastily interrupted.
“And yet,” I continued, “ you said
it was yours when you applied to have
it written. You represented yourself
as desirous of executing such a docu
ment preparatory to embarking on a
perilous voyage. The paper was drawn
in accordance with your instructions,
leaving the date to be filled in at the
xme of signing. Your locks were gray
andi a, l a n d lookeand old
tpr°- ÜB V° haV |- a marr iageable daugh
7*’ *>nt y°ar disguise was not perfect.”
10 the mut ilated finger.
What do you mean !” he shouted in
a defiant tone.
“Simply that your uncle’s signature
to thaw will is a forgery!” I answered
rising and confronting him. “He died
on the 23d of Deoember. Your own
telegram to that effect is in existence.
It was on the 24th, the day before
Christmas, that you called on me to
prepare the document now on record as
his will. The inference is plain ; you
undertook to manufacture this spurious
testament after your uncle’s death, and
wishing to clothe your villainy in legal
form, you procured from me the re
quired draft. You, or someone at
your instigation, simulated the signa
ture of the deceased. The witnesses,
who have since perjured themselves
in their depositions, were procured in
some manner best known to yourself
“Enough, sir,” he ejaculated, placing
his back against the door ; “you have
shown yourself in possession of a secret
the custody of which may prove
dangerous !”
“ I am not unprepared for your
threat,” I replied. “In the first place,
I did not come here uuarmed ; in the
next, I have prepared a full written
statement of the facts to which I have
alluded, with information, besides, of
my present visit to yourself. This
paper will be delivered to the friend to
whom it is directed, unless within an
hour I reclaim it from the messenger,
who has been instructed for that length
of time to retain it.”
His face grew livid. His frame quiv
ered with mingled fear and rage, and
his eye gleamed like that of a wild
beast at bay.
“What is your purpose?” he ex
claimed in a voice hoarse with sup
pressed passion.
“ To keep your secret while you live,”
I answered, “ on one condition.”
“ Name it.”
“That you write instantly to Julia
Parsons, renouncing all pretentions to
her hand, and absolutely withdrawing
your proposal of marriage.”
After a moment’s pause, he hastily
penned a brief note, which he submit
ted to my inspection ; it was quite sat
isfactory.
“Be so good as to seal and address
it,” I said.
He did so.
“I will see that it is delivered,” I
remarked, taking it up and bowing my
self out.
When I met George Dickson that
evening, his old college look had come
back. He had great news to tell me.
The next thing was to take me to see
Julia; and it is needless to tell what a
happy evening we three spent together,
and a happy marriage followed not long
after.
Eldridge Parsons, I have just learned,
emigrated for Australia, on board the
London, and went down in that ill-fated
ship.
Hospital for Sick Animals.
The Medical Press and Circular says:
“ The Brown Institution in the Wands
worth road is a curious feature in Lon
don at present. Lime dogs, sick
horses, and donkeys form the out-door
patients of this hospital. It was estab
lished by a gentleman who died twenty
years ago, leaving over £20,000 for this
purpose, bequeathed to the Chancellor,
Vice-Chancellor, and fellows of the
university of Condon for the purpose
of establishing and upholding an insti
tution for investigating, studying, and,
without charge beyond immediate ex
penses, endeavoring to cure maladies
distempers, and injuries which any
quadrupeds or birds useful to men may
be found subject to. During 1873 there
were about seven thousand animals,
chiefly horses and donkeys, receiving
treatment at the Biown Institute. Many
of the horses, it was found, were the
property of rich proprietors, so that
the trustees have lately restricted the
benefits of the charity to the poor.
Hence last year not more than four
thousand animals attended as out
patients. Of these 800 were dogs, and
among these about twelve cases of
rabies. The endowment of the charity
gives only some £9OO a year, which,
after all expenses are paid, leaves noth
ing for the purchase of diseased or in
jured animals or their carcasses for the
promotion of science. ”
Meteoric Stones.
One of the most rational theories,
based upon chemical and physical data,
yet propounded concerning the nature
and origin of meteoric stones, is that
which attributes the light emitted from
such bodies not to incandescence, but
to electricity or some other cause.
This theory also asserts that the noise
attending their fall is not that arising
from the explosion of a solid, but that
it is by concussion of the atmosphere,
arising from the rapid motion of the
body through it, or in part due to the
eleotric discharge; that meteoric show
ers are not the results of fragments
from the rupture of one solid body, but
the separation of small and distinct
aerolites that have entered our atmos
phere in groups; and, finally, that the
black coating is not of atmospheric
origin, but is already formed when
these bodies enter our atmosphere—the
fact being well known, in respect to the
latter, that observers at a distance often
see these bodies in a luminous state,
while those located where they fall do
not perceive this luminosity.
Colonel Rice’s Trowel Bayonet.—
The reports of the experiments made
by officers of the army with Colonel
Rice’s trowel bayonets have just been
published in pamphlet form at the na
tional armory, Springfield, Mass. It
appears that five hundred trowel bayo
nets were made at Springfield aud
served out to the various companies of
the third United States infantry, sta
tioned in the department of the Mis
souri. After a given number of exper
iment* the officers sent in their reports
on the subject, und it was found that
the colonel and two captains were not
in favor of the weapon as a substitute
for the ordinary bayonet; while the
lieutenant colonel and all the other offi
cers (nineteen) were in favor of its adop
tion, some of them testifying quite en
thusiastically in its favor as a field in
trenching tool, Subsequently a board
of officers assembled at Springfield to
examine the weapon, and upon their re
commendation the secretary of war or
dered the manufacture and issue to the
troops of ten thousand trowel bayonets.
The report is accompanied with excel
lent illustrations of the new arm, the
various species of handles which have
been recommended for this and other
bayonets, plans of field intrenchments,
with cnntrasting pictures of soldiers
“m the open” aud “in trench,” and
much other interesting matter.
Wheeler & Wilson’s Sewing Ma
chines.
We call attention to the Wheeler &
Wilson advertisement in our columns.
This well-known Company has the
most advantageous facilities for supply
ing the public with Sewing Machines,
on as favorable terms as the business
will allow. They warrant all their
work, and it is a matter of impor
tance to the purchaser to deal with a
Company whose position and perma
nence give assurance that their guar
anty will be fulfilled. They have
agencies and offices throughout the
civilized world, for furnishing needles,
thre .and and other necessary supplies,
and have an established reputation
for reliability and fair dealing.
Here is an instance of Scotch thrift:
A man sent to jail for larceny was per
mitted to write to his wife, and this is
wliat he wrote : “Dear wife—if they
keep me in the gaol, make them put
you in the poor-house.”
Corn as an American Staple.
From the Rural Southerner.
In good seasons we raise something
over one thousand million bushels of
corn in the United States ; and allowing
as high an average as twenty bushels
per acre, more than fifty million acres
are planted to this crop. In the south
and west very little pains is taken to pre
vent the washing of corn-ground, when
the crop is growing, or for several years
after, if allowed to rest. This is a
great error in farming. At the last
working of corn, a fine-tooth harrow
should be used to make the soil fine,
clean and level, to prevent water run
ning between the rows. Instead of
permitting the ground to lie naked, or
grow up in weeds, it should be seeded
at once with clover and grass seed in
the standing corn. The new crop will
not grow to do any harm before the
corn is ripe ; while the fall growth will
shelter the otherwise nakedness of the
recently-tilled land prevent surface
washing, and recuperate the depleted
soil. All know, or at least ought to
know, that olover is a renovating plant,
and that neailv all corn-ground needs
some amendment.
By running fifty million acres, more
or less, iu corn every j ear, with much
washing and little or it > restitution, we
most certainly fill our country with
sorry-looking old fields. The intelli
gence and good sense of every farmer
should condemn the practice, and try
to change it for the better. A great
deal of southern laud is planted in
corn which is too poor to produce more
than from seven to ten bushels to the
acre. What is to be done with such
ground, to double its fruitfulness ?
We answer let it rest in clover and
Herd’s grass, with one or two hundred
pounds of gypsum to the acre. Plant
much lees surface in corn and cotton,
and manure that.
We have so many fields in the south
that require additional fertility that,
instead of doing our best to make corn
and cotton at once, we should do our best
to raise the raw materials out of which
these great staples are formed. To per
form all the work on a field that ought
to give a harvest cf thirty or forty
bushels of corn per acre, and gather a
little crop of Jess than ten bushels, may
be honest farming, but it is not wise
farming. Some ot the essential ele
ments used by nature in farming corn
are lacking in the soil, in an available
form. If these cannot be supplied by
the cultivator, he should try to find
something better to do than tilling poor
soil in corn. Of all the labor perform
ed in the United States, this is the
poorest paid to individuals and the
public. Practically, it makes poor
land poorer still ;while poor people are
apt to become about as poor as they
can be. It is unpleasant to write about
poverty, or even think about it. But
when a curable malady is fastened upon
a friend and his family, although the
task may be unpleasant, it is better to
go to their relief than to shun them.
The owners of poor laud iu the south
are not half so poor, nor so sick of
farming as they imagine. They simply
use their farms in the wrong way.
When corn ground is thin and unprom
ising, they plant a double quantity to
get the bushels they want; looking to
corn alone for an income. This mis
take throws away full half of their
labor, and helps kill the old plantation.
Stock it full with calves that will be
come good cows in two or three years ;
when one hundred calves that cost three
dollars a-head, will become worth thirty
dollars a-head, or three thousand dol
lars. Don’t be afraid that well-raised
young cows will not sell. They will pay
fifty percent, interest, and keep them on
your improving farm. Such land and
stock will give an easy fortune.
A Miser’s Methodic Madness.
Baltimore is called upon to mourn
the death of an elderly miser who,
in his journey through this world, had
spent little else than his life. There
was method in his madness, for surely
a miser may be said to be mad. A
short time before bis death, he informed
a friend that he had U'sver given away a
cent, norspentone when the expenditure
could possibly be avoided. Four years
ago be married a third wife, and though
she was young, aud he wa3 in his
dotage he had entire ascendency over
her, compelling her to work in a factory
and turn over her wages to him. He
assumed the whole responsibility of the
household, and, under his penurious
management, nothing went to waste.
Some six years ago he purchased a
cheap pine ooffiin. and stored it in his
tenement, biding patiently the day when
he would need it for his final wrap.
Shortly before his death, he told his
wife tlist his funeral expenses must not
exceed $lO, and to that en i he directed
that his body be carried to his grave on
the shoulders of men, instead of a
hearse. Learning, however, that the
mode of conveyance would cost at least
sl2, he decided upon the employment
of an express wagon, which could be
had for the purpose for about $5.
Finding that a barber’s tariff for shav
ing a corpse Jwas something more than
his charge for the same service to a sick
man, he sent, on the night before his
death, for one of the razor craft, who
did the work to the oil man’s satisfac
tion. The widow was mindful of her
deceasfd lord’s injunctions, and the
total expenses of the funeral were $8.75.
The miser left property valued at $30,-
000, the result of pinching himself and
family through a long series of years.
By his will it was divided between his
wife and a son by a former marriage.
W’olseley on American Generals.
Major General Sir Garnet Wolseley,
the hero of the Ashantee war, who at
the head of a British army vanquishe 1
the sable legions of King Koffee, has
been conversing with a correspondent
regarding American military chieftains.
During the time of our civil war he
visited the United States, and, desirous
of seeing the fight from a Confederate
stand point, broke through the northern
lines at a deal of personal risk. He
came in contact with many of the nota
ble leaders the southern army. Gen.
Lee he regarded as the greatest military
genius since Napoleon Bonaparte. His
opinion of Stonewall Jackson was one
of unqualified admiration. The cor
respondent says: “ Wolseley appears
to have thought highly of McClellan.
In r organizing the army, says, Wolse
ley, he seemed !o possess ttie wand of
an enchanter. The city of Washington
was saved to the union by the reap
pointment of Gen. McClellan as com
mander-in-chief. There was no other
federal general then prominently known
who cjuld have fought the battle of
Autictam. Wolseley thinks that, if
President Lincoln had refused to ap
point McClellan to the command of the
army in response to the clamorous de
mand of the soldiers just at that crisis,
the latter would probably have marched
to Washington, overturned the govern
ment, and proclaimed McClellan dicta
tor.”
A Speck of W ar on the Mexican Border.
From our Rio Grande exchanges, as
well as from our correspondence, it
appears that no little excitement
exists at prtßent along the line of
that river. Armed men in large bands
are making their appearance on Ameri
can toil, and for what purpose is thus
far mere conjecture. The military at
Ringgold and Brownsville hold them
selv< s in readiness to operate at a mo
ments notice against the intruders, but
up to our latest advices no cause has
been given them for so deing, Inhab
itants along the river feel greatly con
cerned, and trouble is anticipated. To
us it appears as a desperate resolve on
the part of the Mexican Deople to in
volve the United States and Mexico in
a war, and the sooner they succeed the
better it will be for the peace and quiet
of both countries. Bad blood exists
and its fiery heat must be cooled. Out
rages perpetrated upon the Mexicans
by Americans, and vice versa , have so
prejudiced the races and engendered
bad feeling that scarcely any salve will
prove healing but a resort to arms.
Even if it does not extend beyond a
second Cortina war, it must come sooner
or later, and let every one be prepared.
—Corpus Christi Gazette.
Utopias.
While Mr. Buskin, in England, is con
tributing practical good money towards
the establishment of an impractical in
dustrial Utopia, where the steam engine
is to be ignored, the railroad banished
forever, and “ none wretched but the
sick, none idle but the dead,” a Mr.
Lauson, also of England, has published
a book entitled “Ten Years of Gentle
man Farming at Blennerhasset with
Co-operative Objects,” in which he
gives an account of his remarkable and
costly experiment of farming with the
aid of steam ploughs and all other ap
pliances of machinery, together with
ideas both of scientific agricultural ex
periments and full co-operation of cap
ital and labor. His experiment, he con
fesses, was a failure, and has resulted
in sinking thousands of pounds and the
absolute abandonment of the enter
prise.
Nor are we without instances in our
own country of various attempts, with
various degrees of success or failure,
to construct industrial associations
which, in comparison with the general
condition of life, would be denominated
Utopias. Mr. Nordboff has recently
published a volume of over four bnn
pred pages, concerning the existing
communities in the United States, and
included in the volume a biography of
the subject as an aid for those of his
readers who would desire to farther
prosecute its study. His conclusions,
on the whole, are favorable, and yet
Valcour—the latent experiment of the
kind—has come to an untimely end,
and broken up in a most prosaic lawsuit,
in which charges of quite worldly dis
honesty in money matters are made by
both sides.
That Utopias have their use, though
they a.re never practically realized, no
one will doubt to whom the study of
the method of progress is a subject of
interest. As Comte says, in his “Phil
osophy Positive,” “Utopias are for so
cial art, properly so called, what geo
metrical and mechanical types are
towards their corresponding arts. Be
ing recognized as indispensable, in the
least construction, how shall we avoid
their use in the most difficult ? Thus,
despite the empirical condition of pol
itics, very great change is preceded by
a century or two of an analogous
Utopia, inspired by the aesthet e genius
of mankind, by a confused instinct of
its situation and its needs.”
Now, too, that the scientific move
ment of modern society has, in the
person of Professor Tyndall, justified
its U topias of theory under the phrase,
the scientific use of the imagination, we
may safely predict in all departments
of investigation an era of Utopias as a
preluae to the practical changes which
every one in some manner would claim
to be necessary.
The recognized laws of chemistry to
day surpass the wddest Utopias dreamed
of by the alchemists, and though in
their discovery the scientific use of the
imagination played an important role ,
let us remember that it was imagina
tion in the hands of science. The very
definition of Utopia is, from etymology,
that which as yet exists nowhere; as
soon, then, as it does exist it ceases to
be Utopia.
Croaking About the Wheat Crop.
Just now is the time to look out for
sensational reports about the “failure
cf the wheat crop.” The wheat crop,
however, it is well to remember, always
begins to fail (on paper) at this season
of the year, but somehow or other the
crop ultimately turns out all right.
Nature thus is kinder to us than
Madame Rumor. It is an old proverb
that the peacli crop usually begins to
“ fail ” during March, long before the
buds are iu blossom ; but as the peach
crop, nevertheless, almost always turns
out an average, the proverb loses its
point.
We are led to these remarks by a
statement we see in the San Francisco
journals, of the 18th, that telegraphic
dispatches had been received there
from New York inquiring about the
condition of the wheat crop of Cali
fornia, and represented that it was
rumored there that it was a complete
failure, naturally creating a great deal
of excitement among dealers. There
was no g.ound whatever for the appre
hensions. The fact is, the latest re
ports from the interior are, on the
whole, favorable for a fair crop. With
moderate rains during the present
month aDd the beginning of April
there is every reason to expect the har
vest of this year will greatly exceed
that of any previous one.
As of California, so of some of the
great wheat - raising sections of the
northwest. Tue cry is already heard
that the severe cold of the past three
months is going to “kill off the winter
wheat.” But the cry is without reason
thus far. There are no signs of killing
anywhere. Besides it should be remem
bered, it is not always the ooldest.
weather that is most fatal to winter
wheat. Extreme variations in tempera
ture are worse than severe cold. Fall
crops are winter-killed by alternate
freez.ng and thawing of the surface in
which the young plants have taken root,
which is equivalent to the removal from
their beds, an) transplanting, as often
as a marked change takes place. Most
farmers agree that two or three alter
nate thaws and freezes during the win
ter would be more surely destructive
to the crop of winter wheat than con
stant cold, even if as extreme as that of
the past winter. — N. Y. Bulletin.
The Railroad War.
Freight Down to Two-thirds o* a Cent
Per Ton Per Mile.
Only 30 cents per 100 lbs. from Chi
cago to New York! Six dollars a ton
for 900 miles, or two-thirds of a cent
per mile ! At this rate, supposing the
actual cost to be the lowest ever attained
in this country, about 4 2 3 mills, the
profit is only one mill per ton per mile,
and in order to earn 6 per cent, iaterest
on the capital, the road costing $50,000
per mile, and two-thirds of the earnings
coming from freight, a traffic amounting
to 2,000,000 tons over every mile of
read, or 1,800,000,000 tons one mile,
must be secured. No road in the coun
try ever has had a traffic anything like
as large, nor has any road ever attained
as low a cost of transportation as six
mills, except in coal. It follows that
the competition between the Baltimore
aud Ohio and the other roads to Chicago
has now driven down the rate* below a
liviDg price, and the roads are doing
their low class freight business at a
loss. The only question now is, which
can afford to lose most?— St. Louis
Democrat.
There is no risk in baying a Mason
& Hamlin Cabinet Organ. These in
struments are known to be the best of
tbeir class in the world. But if the
opinion of a dealer be asked he will
frequently reoommend some other, for
the simple reason that he can get
larger commissions tor selling inferior
instiumenta. *
A Millionaire's Qctaroon Widow.
T. .T. Miiliken, one of the wealthiest
merchants in Sacramento, took for a
second wife a young octaroon. She
was very pretty, well educated, and her
African blood was barely perceptible.
The marriage was disfavored by the
children of the first wife, who would
have no acquaintance with their step
mother. A short time ago Miiliken
died. Having made no will the octa
roon wife could only claim the wife’s
usual share of the property. The
estate was worth about a million dol
lars. The children are contesting her
right to anything, basing their suit on
the fact of Mrs. Miiliken being part
negro, the California law declaring that
“ all marriages between white persons
and negroes or mulatoes are illegal and
void.” The evidence shows that dur
ing the years of Mr. Milliken’s wedded
life with his second wife she was re
ceived in good society, although her
taint of blood was well known, and
that his affection and respect for her
were sincere. The defence is that the
law particularly designates “negroes
and mulattoes as ineligible for mar
riage with white persons, and that the
wife in this instance was neither, being
only one-eighth negro. A decision has
not been reached.
By anew invention it is claimed that
glass can be made into building mate
rial, for house fronts, doors, or pave
ments, superior to marble in durability
and economy.
Hebbalistio Remedies. —ln former
days, if a member of the household
became indisposed, the family-head,
under. instructions from the gray
haired dame, went to the forest or the
field, to gather herbs or berries, from
whioh were quickly made invigorating
extraots, which ere many days brought
the patient safely around, and saw the
family gathering once more without a
missing member. How is it now?
The slightest indisposition brings the
“family physician,” with his hand
some carriage. He feels the pulse,
examines the tongue, looks very grave,
writes a few lines of hieroglyphics,
charges a big fee, and leaves, only to
return the next day and find his
patient mercurialized sufficiently to be
really sick. A week or two of attend
ance follows, and therein lies the se
cret of “wealthy physicians ” Com
pare the physique of the present age
with the past, and the story is com
plete discard chemicals and
try herbs. If you are ill, try the great
herbalistic remedy, Dr. J. Walker’s
Vinegar Bitters.
The conspicuous triumph of Messrs.
George Steck & Cos., of New York, at
the Vienna World’s Fair in 1873, at
which their pianos obtained the highest
award—the only gold medal—has begun
to yield them substantial fruits. The
increased popularity of the Steck in
struments is noticeable not only in New
York, where their excellence has long
been acknowledged, but throughout the
country, and more especially in those
communities that lay special* claim to a
cultivated musical taste. — Net York
Independent.
Pimples, Krupfi ins, Rough Skin.
The system being put under the influence
of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dissovery for
a few weeks, the skin becomes smooth, clear,
soft, and velvety, and being illuminated with
the glow of perfect health from within, true
beauty stands forth in all its glory. The ef
fects of these medicines which operate upon
the system through the medium of the blood
are necessarily somewhat slow, no matter how
good the remedy employed. While one to
three bottles clear the skin of pimples,
blotches, eruptions, yellow spots, comedones,
or “grubs,” a dozen may possibly be required
to cure some cases where the system is rotten
with scrofulous or virulent blood poisons. The
cure of all these diseases, however, from the
common pimple to the worst sciofula is, with
the use of this most potent agent, only a mat
ter of time. Sold by dealers in medicines.
COVERED WITH ' ERUPTIONS. CURED.
Claveracii, Columbia countv, N. Y.
Dr. R. V. Pierce, BnfTalo, N Y.:
Dear Sir —l am sixty years of age, and have
been afflicted with salt rheum in the worst
form for a great many years, until, accidently,
I Baw one of your books, which described my
ease exactly. I bought your Golden Medical
Discovery and took two bottles and a half, and
was entirely cured. From my shoulders to my
bands I was entirely covered with eruptions,
also 01 my face and body. I was likewise af
flicto 1 i h rheumatism, so that I w r alked with
great difficulty, and that is entirely cured.
May God spare you a long life to remain a
blessing to mankind. With untold gratitude,
Mrs. A. W. WILLIAMS.
Bronchitis or Chronic Sore Throat
—lt is attended with irritation of the bronchial
tubes, which convey the air we breathe into
ttie lunge. This irritation produces gore throat,
hoarseness, coughing, and sometimes spitting
of matter streaked with blood. If it is neg
lected it will extend down to the lunge, and
settles into confirmed consumption. Allen’s
Lung Balsam will he found a most valuable
remedy for curing this disease, and prevent
its running into consumption.
For sale by all medicine dealers.
Price of Tickets Reduced.
The Texas Ileal Estate Drawing, at. Houston,
has been postponed to May 13th, 1875, and the
remainder of the tickets will be sold at the re
duced price of $ 1 each, in order to make a full
and complete drawing. This enterprise is
under the management of an old and respon
sible citizen of Houston—Capt. J. E. Foster,
who will furnish circulars to all applicants.
Texas Enterprise.
Capt. J. E. Foster, of Houston, Texas, has
established an Emigration Bureau in connec
tion with his old established Land Agency, and
will furnish pamphlets and maps descriptive
of Texas to all who wish lo come to the Lone
Star State.
Electricity is Life.—All nervous dis
orders, chronic diseases of the chest, head,
liver, stomach, kidneys and blood, aches and
pains nervous aud general debility, etc.,
quickly cured after drugs fail by wearing
Volta’s Electro Belts and Bands. Valuable
book free, by Volta Belt Cos., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dr. A. Johnson, one of the most
successful practitioners of his time, invented
what is now called Johnson’s Anodyne Line
ment. The great success of this article in the
cure of bronchitis and all diseases of throat
and lungs, will make the name of Johnson not
less favorably, if less widely known, than that
of Louis Napoleon.
The public are hereby assured,
through the columns of this paper, that Par
son' -< Purgative Pills contain no injurious
principle, but that they may be administered
to children and tUe most weak and shattered
confcitutt"iis in small doses, with great cer
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The best Elastic Truss, warranted the best,
is Pomeroy’s, 744 Broadway, N. Y Get it.
Burnett’s Cocoaine is the best and cheap
est hair dressing in the world.
Go to River Side Water Cure, Hamilton, 111.
Tutt’a Liver Pills act mildly on the stom
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drastic element.
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Wheeleß k WILSON’S
ROTARY-HOOK LOCK-STITCH
SEWING MACHINES.
MORE THAN
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OF THEIR
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MST TTSE.
A QUARTER of a CENTURY’S
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Sr WILSON’S NEW
Vt No. 6 MACHINE must event
ually supersede all others now run
with which it comes in competition
We recommend for it the highest
award which it is in the power of the
Institute to bestow .”—From the unani
mous report of the five judges of the
American Institute, New York, 1874.
The Board of Managers unanimously
approved the report, and recommended
for this machine the Gold Medal of the
Institute.
The Board of Direction unanimously
approved this recommendation, ami
awarded the Gold Medal to Wheeler &
Wilson, the only gold medal awarded
for a Sewing Machine by the American
Institute for many years.
2he Austrian Official Report of the
Vienna Exposition, pronounced it “the
marvel of the Exposition," and added,
“ this universal machine sews the
ht aviest leather harness and the finest
gauze with a truly pearl stitch."
The Grand Medal of Progress ivas
awarded foi it.
What the Leading Manufacturers of
Boots and Shoes say of
WHEELER&WILSON’S
NEW No. 6 SEWING MACHINE.
We, manufacturers of boots and
shoes, are using Wheeler & Wilson’s
New No. 6 Sewing Machine in all kinds
of stitching on our work, and confi
dently believe that it will supersede all
others in this branch of manufactures,
for the following reasons :
1. The work done by this machine is
superior to that of any other in variety,
amount, excellence and beauty.
2. This machine is more durable than
any other of its class, requiring much
less outlay for repairs and renewal of
parts.
3. It dees the cording or staying of
button holes in a most elegant and sub
stantial manner, without the expense of
royalty.
In short, because by the use of this
machine we can turn out superior work
at less cost than with any other.
[Signed by many.]
•JsTlt is fast superseding all other ma
chines for leather work.
WHEELER & WILSON’S
NEW No. 7 MACHINE,
now for tho first time introduced to the
public, rauks in excellence with their
tamous No. 6 Machine, but has some
modilicaiions adapting it to special
classes of work. The Tailor will find
it as well suited to his as is No. 6
to leather work. It might properly be
termed the Tailor’s Machine.
Send for Circular to
Wheeler & Wilson Man’f’i Cos.
44—14th St., New York.
d{* ti> JT PER DAY commission or J3O a wee*
vnjZitt salary, and expenses. We offer It and will
pay It Apply now. G. WthhtrACo, Marion O
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UIILT 4>o. Knife Grinder. Bold by dealers. Cir
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PPTT rpov or FITS cured by the use of Dr. Ross’
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bacre. Heads weigh from 20 to 6o pounds each;
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Japan Peas— 2oU bushels per acre on common
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Chufas —Furnish grazing all summer and food
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Rose Slips— With good roots, of any variety
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to the wasteful and imperfect work of ottw
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of this one, for saving grain, saving tun* gS
doing fast, thorough and economical work J
THRESHERMEN FIND IT highly advantafciuitc
run a machine that has no “Beaters,” "Picker*,"
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to perfection; saves the farmer his thresh bill
by extra saving of grain; makes no “Litter
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to employ and wait for* even at advanced
price** while other machines are “outnt . .
Four sizes made witli 6* 8* 10 and 12
home “ Mounted” Power*, also a spe
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for STEAM POWER* and to Match
other Horse Powers.
If interested in grain rawing, or threshing, write
for Illustrated Circulars ( rent free ) with fail
particulars of sizes, styles, prices, terms, etc,
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Dr. J. Walker’s California Yin.
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Thu properties of Dr. Watkeb’?
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several medical oolic.e3, and having :he espcneoc*
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