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Shelter—An English Burlesque.
By the wide lake’s margin I marked her lie—
The wide, weird lake, where the alders sigh—
A young, fair thing, with a shy, soft eye ;
And I deemed that her thoughts had flown
To her home, and her brethren, and sisters
dear,
As she lay there watching the dark, deep mere,
All motionless, all alone.
Then I heard a noise, as of men and boys,
And a boisterous troop drew nigh.
Wither now will retreat those fairy feet?
Where hide till the storm pass by ?
One glance, the wild glance of a hunted thing,
She cast behind her ; she gave one spring,
And there followed a splash and a broadening
ring,
On the lake where the alders sigh.
She had gone from the ken of ungentle men 1
Yet scarce did I moan for that;
For I knew she was safe in her own home then,
And, the danger past, would appear again,
For she was a water-rat.
Farmhouse Notes.
Swine. —Let the breeding sows and
store pigs have the run of the stubbles.
Pigs intended to be fatted this fall should
now be fed liberally, but should be al
lowed to run in the pasture.
Sheep. Lambs should now be
weaned. Put the ewes in a poor pasture,
and let the lambs have the run of some
second growth clover or other rich grass.
If the weather is wet and the grass
succulent, give some dry food, such as
clover hay, or better still, bran. Ke
move the rams from the flock.
The Sulphur Cube por Squirrels.—
Some time since Dixie W. Thompson
took ns out in his buggy to an outside
lot on which the squirrels had squatted
and taken up their claim and were in
high glee over their possession. He had
with him a large “man bellows,” to
which he had attached aboht a yard of
gutta perclia hose. On reaching a squir
rel burrow,where a colony had evidently
settled, he set this machine down, thrust
the end of the hose into one of the nu
merous holes, threw some shavings,cobs,
and sulpur into the tea-kettle, struck a
match, set the shavings on fire, caught
hold of the bellows,and in a moment the
sight and smell suggested another fire
and brimstone region, for the earth all
around began to send up puffs of yellow
and infernal looking smoke wherever a
squirrel had ever run his underground
road. The precaution had been taken
to cover all the holes with earth before
the 6moke was forced into the burrow.
In one instance the smoke rushed out of
a hole over thirty feet in distance from
the main entrance. It takes about five
minutes to smother a whole colony of
these troublesome pests, and they never
show aa signs of life again. The holes
remained closed and undisturbed, — San
ta Baibara Press.
C/OBNMEAL FOE POULTRY. —With a
great many persons who produce a large
or only a small quantity of poultry, the
feed of chickens, and ail young poultry
in fact, consists solely of line cornmeal;
and this is repeated feeding after feeding
and continued from the very first meal
till growth carries them to a point where
whole corn can be consumed, when the
latter is substituted. Many from false
ideas of economy, delude themselves in
to the belief that corn, and corn alone,
constitutes the cheapest poultry food for
both chickens and adults because weight
considered,its market price is the lowest.
Such persons do not take the result into
consideration. If they did they would
arrive at a different conclusion, as the
fowls analyze the grain fully as well,
practically, as would the chemist. In
nitrogenous matter, an element that en
ters so largely into the composition of
bone and muscle into the growing chick
and the egg of the laying hen, corn is
deficient—its value as food consisting
rather in its fattening qualities. Owing
to the oil corn contains, it is heating in
its nature, and consequently,though de
sirable in cold weather, is to be avoided
in warm. Nevertheless, no one variety
of grain, however well embodying the
requisites of chicken food, can be solely
employed to the greatest profit. Wheat,
oats, barley, rye and Indian corn, if
ground together, will make excellent
feed for any kind of poultry. One bush
el ground and cooked, will make more
eggs and more flesh than two bushels of
grain fed whole. -
A Valuable Vegetable. —Why do
farmers refuse to cultivate that very de
sirable vegetable—the Jerusalem arti
choke? It is true, that once in the
ground it in next to impossible to eradi
cate them. But then a vegetable that
grows so luxuriantly year after year
without the trouble and expense of re
seeding the ground ought to commend
itself to more general favor. It will
produce more than twice as many bush
els per acre as the potato, and neither
rots in the ground nor invites that ter
rible pest, the potato bug. It can be
dug or plowed out at any time when the
ground is not frozen, from September
to June. We advise every farmer to
devote an acre to their production. And
in doing so, we beg of you not to let
your fears of injuring the crop and wast
ing your substance prevent you from
plowing deeply and manuring heavily.
Plant in rows two feet apart each way,
an eye or a bit of the root in a place,
and if your ground is half decent, never
you fear that the crop will not come in
due season and pay you abundantly. It
is the only vegetable but the Canada
thistle that needs but one seed time to
produce a succession of harvests, or
which flourishes all the better for hav
ing a breaking plow ran through its
bed every spring. We have used them
only ufter they have been saturated with
vinegar, while others have gone so far
as to serve them upon the table as they
would potatoes. We have no doubt they
are quite as nutritious and healthy as
the potato. Cattle, horses, sheep and
hogs thrive even better upon them than
npon the potato.
Manners.— Before you bow to a lady
in the street, permit her to decide wheth
er you shall do so or not, by at least a
look of recognition. “Excuse my gloves”
is an unnecessary apology, for the glove
should not be withdrawn to shake hands.
When your companion hows to a lady,
you should do so also. When a gentle
man bows to a lady in your company,
always bow to him in return. A letter
must be answered unless you wish to in
timate to the writer that he or his object
is beneath your notice. A visit must he
returned in like manner even though no
intimacy is intended. A smiling counte
nance is pleasant, but excess of laughter
should be avoided, especially when it is
possible for any one to suppose himself
derided by it. Whispering is always of
fensive, and often tor the reason -that per
sons present suspect that they are the
subject of it.
The stages of Darwinism are said to he
Positive, tail; comparative, tailor; super
ative, tailless.
An Old Mystery. —A case of enterprise
on the part of a London newspaper report
er has recently come to light, which re
flects more credit upon the industry and
ingenuity of its originator than on his hon
esty. Our readers may possibly remember
reading accounts of a discovery made in
London in 1897 of a carpet-hag containing
human remains, which discovery caused
great excitement and furnished material
for numerous articles under the title of
“The Waterloo Bridge Mystery.” All the
detectives of London were at work on the
case, and all were thoroughly baffled.
Lately the matter has been brought into
notice again by a British soldier stationed
in In lia avowing himself to be the person
who threw the sack with its contents into
the river; but as his story was found to
disagree with the statements published in
the newspapers at the time of the discov
ery, it was conjectured that the soldier
bad lied about the affair in the hope of
being sent home to England. Tne revival
of tbe subject, however, has had the effect
of bringing out a letter from an old sub
editor, who writes to the Birmingham
Gazette that the whole affair was the result
oi a scheme concocted by an impecunious
penny-a-liner in order to supply material
for an exciting newspaper article. The
human remains contained in the sack were
procured by the reporter from a dissecting
room, and the sack was let down from
Waterloo bridge by a confederate, who
was disguised as a woman. Tbe trick suc
ceeded, the originator of the scheme was
first on the ground with the news, and all
London was set agog by the rumors which
gained currency in regard to the “horrible
mystery,” which has never been explained
until now.
About Bridging Joists. —A great many
bui.ders omit bridging joists, simply be
cause they have never been able to un
derstand and appreciate the advantage of
such a practice. It is not uncommon to
see pieces of boards nailed between the
joists of every floor, about midway from
the joints where the joists are supported,
as a substitute for bridging. The object
of bridging joists is to give stiffness and
solidity to the floor after the boards are
laid. Pieces of board as wide as the
joists, extending from the other near the
middle, iu lieu of bridging, will give but
little stiffness to the floor. When the
bridging is done by nailing pieces of thin
plank, or pieces of small scantling between
every two joists in the form of the letter
X, any superincubent pressure applied to
any one joist will be sustained, more or
less, by two joists on each side of. it.
Hence, when a person walks across the
floor, the joists of which have been
bridged, his weight will be received by
five joists instead of one, as would he the
case were the joists not bridged. When
the joists are properly bridged, a floor
will sometime spring and vibrate to such
an extent, when one walks across it’, as to
give a tremulous motion to every article
of furniture in the dwelling. When the
joists are not bridged, the wall or plaster
beneath will frequently be broken loose
from the lath in places, as that large
patches will fall to the floor.
Farming. —Farmers have seen hard
times tor a few years past, and a higher
range of prices will not hurt ns. The
lesson that we, as farmers, have to learn
is not to be discouraged, but to keep on
the even tenor of our ways, studying how
to improve our farms, to cheapen the cost
of production, to raise such crops and
keep such stock as are adapted to our
soils and situations, to sell when we can
get reasonable prices and be content with
profits, and not rush into every new thing
that for the time being is bringing an ex
travagant price. There is seldom a year,
when a good, steady going, enterprising,
intelligent farmer who works his land
thoroughly and improves his stock has
not something to sell that affords a good
profit. If pork is low, wool is high ; if
beef is cheap, wheat is dear. If corn can
not be sold for what it costs to produce it
he knows that in well ventilated corn
cribs it will keep for any length of time.
Some years ago 1 was offered corn in the
streets of Bloomington, 111., for “nine
cents cash per bushel, and ten cents in
trade.” In less than two years I was in
Illinois again, and asked the price of corn
in the same neighborhood, and was an
swered “one dollar and ten cents per
bushel.” Of course such fluctuations are
demoralizing. But we must make the
best of our situation. — Agriculturist.
Had The Buffalo.— Buffalo Bill will
weep when he reads in a Western paper
of Daniel Otto, ot Osborne City, Kansas,
who, while chasing the buffalo recently,
wounded the animal with his pistol, when
the infuriated brute turned upon him.
Flight was impossible, so Mr. Otto seize!
the long hair on the shoulder of the buf
falo and mounted him. While seated on
the animal’s hack, he reloaded his pistol
and put the load right in the back part of
the front shoulder. This brought the
buffalo to his knees aud sent Otto whirl
ing about ten feet over his head. Gather
ing himself up, he looked around, and
there sat the buffalo on his knees gazing
at hjm with no friendly look, but one
more load finished him.
A Car Trick. —Francis the Chief of a
Carlist band, recently executed a brilliant
manoeuvre. He was being hotly pursued
by the troops when Frauds stopped the
train which was on its way to Reus, made
all the passengers get out, aud installed
Jiis own men very comfortably in their
place. The conductors could make no re
sistance, and the Bix hundred carlists
quietly arrived at Reus, to the utter as
tonishment of the inhabitants, who were
expecting a very different sort of passen
gers.
Five or six roughs insulted Wapt. John
Stephens at Carsouville, ten miles from
St. Louis, and he knocked one of them
down. The ruffians then attacked him
and beat and kicked him to death.
Ballon and the Shipping Laws.
The Seamen’s Exchange, says a New
York paper, affords a pleasing contrast to
the dingy little offices from which sailors
have been shipped at this port from the
beginning of the history of the city.
Everything is new and clean about its
spacious halls. On tbe first floor is the
reading-room and the savings bank. The
second story is almost entirely occupied
by a fine, airy lecture-room. On the
third, which is all in one room, all the
work of shipping seamen upon American
vessels is to be done in the future.
At one o’clock a few afternoons since,
about 300 sailors were present, and busi
ness was transacted with great celerity
by Captain Duncan’s employees. Con
versations held with several sailors showed
that there was a variety of opinions among
them about the working of the law,though
most of them favored it.
One middle-aged man said : “ I am an
American and a married man. I don’t
spend my whole time at sea. lam a rig
ger by trade, but can get no work at that
now, so I want to go for a short voyage.
I think that somehow the boarding-house
keepers or runners get in here and shove
their men—who owe them money—in
ahead of us. I have been here three
days. In that time four vessels have
taken on crews, but I got no chance.
There was one for Cow Bay, two to
Demerara, and one to Martinique. When
the crew for one of the Demerara vessels
was shipped, I applied at the desk, but
some men who I knew were not sailors
pushed three sailors up and got them
taken in preference to me.”
“ Do you think those pushing the sailors
on were boarding-house keepers or run
ners?”
“I don’t know; but they were not
sailors.”
Application being made to Captain
Duncan by the writer for an explanation
of this mystery, he said that the idea of
others being pushed forward was doubt
less a hallucination. He asked :
“Did the man say the Captain was
choosing men foy himself?”
“No; an order was sent to your ship
ping-master and the men he took were
young Germans.”
“Ah; that probably explains it. Cap
tains running short voyages in small ves
sels, having so few sailors, are very par
ticular about them. Active young Ger
mans are in great demand; they are thor
ough workmen and more docile than
native Americans. The order was prob
ably tor Germans; the shipper recognized
a squad of them near by and took them
in preference to the American, who wa9
thus led to imagine that he was slighted.”
“Is it not possible that some of your
own runners are beginning to take bribes
already ?”
“ Scarcely; I have given them distinct
ly to understand that any one found
making anything but his salary out of the
business would be discharged. Several
men refused to take the work on those
terms.”
“ What is the work of your runners?”
“ One thing they have to do is to hunt
up sailors when there is a deficiency of
any sort. Another branch of their work
is to see that sailors shipped at this office
get on board safe and sober. Then they
take the captain’s receipt for them.”
Another sturdy-looking sailor said he
had no objections to offer to the institu
tion, except that he feared it might be
the means of bringing down wages. Said
he in broken English :
“ Some boarding-house keepers first
rate men. They never robbed me. 1
alwajs drew my own money and paid my
own way.”
An official questioned about the foun
dation for this man’s fears, said the new
institution was likely to raise wages by
putting into the hands of the sailors the
money that had been previously filched
from them. There is a Landlords' Asso
ciation, which meets at Botanic Hall.
This Association lias really been of some
use to sailors, because, being always on
the lookout for money due them, they
had aided seamen in maintaining high
wages —had, indeed, fixed prices. But
the bad men among them had largely
counteracted this usefulness. These men,
caring only that sailors should get large
advances, would willingly see them shipped
for $lO a month, if the advance was high
enough.
“But if the Landlord’s Association has*
helped sailors to get high pay, how can
the office help them to get higher?”
“ In the first place, the ease and rapid
ity with which men are disposed of will
natura’ly keep the supply down, and
small snpply always stiffens prices. Then
the thirty two scattered shipping-offices
of the city, which were bound to keep
going winter and summer, would often
force men to go under rate, to cut out
competitors. If the landlords could keep
watch of all these offices, and keep them
from beating down, they will have no
difficulty in watching the rates of the one
office.”
An elderly German sailor was next
questioned. He liked the new office very
well; he had seen the plan carried out in
Liverpool. A boarding-house keeper had
warned him against coming to the Com
missioner, but he told him, “What for;
don’t I want to get a vessel ?”
Captain Mount, of the schooner Susan
Wright, came to the desk just then for a
crew, and was loud in praise of the office.
This was the best thing of the kind he
ever saw. Generally a captain knows
nothing of his crew until they are aboard,
but it is worth a man’s while to come
and pick his own men out of this big lot.
“ [ have had trouble enough with those
old offices. Last year I ordered a crew
from one of them ; waited ten days, and
none came. Then I sent to another office
and got a crew right down. The first
shippers hearing of this, sent another,
libelled the vessel when she got back,
and it cost me 8160 to get rid of them.
I’ll stick to this office as long as I live.”
Much has been written of late about
the mysteries and miseries of Hailor life in
this oity. The public have been made
familiar with the “ Neptnnes” or rnnners,
who get $1 besides wages for every man
they bring to the landlords; also with
the sailor lawyers, who trump up charges
of maltreatment against captains, and get
from SSO to S3OO hush-money from most
of the victims—the money going, one
third to the runner, one-third to the law
yer, and one-third to the boarding-house
keeper, leaving nothing for Jack. It has
been estimated that 60,000 seamen ship
annually from this port, and that $600,000
per annum has been illegally taken from
them. The new Board proposes to pro
tect the sailor on ship and shore from all
the sharks that beset him. The officials
will see that he gets his money; he will
choose his own boarding house; will pay
25 cents instead of $lO or sls for a situ
ation. In short, the intention is that no
loophole shall be left through which his
enemies may attack him.
Dress, Dry Goods, Extravagance.—
Merchants, tradesmen, mechanics, labor
ers and all classes, says the New York
Herald , work intently from morning till
night, more to pay for the extravagance
of dress than for the mere necessaries of
life. How many of our men are kept at
the mill of snxions toil, and even to the
breaking down of their health, to pay for
the dry goods extravagance of their fami
lies. Nine-tenths of the conversation of
women, whereverj_they may be, and a
great deal of their time are devoted to
this subject. It seems to be the sum of
their existence. With all our wealth,
industry, and natural resources the nation
is getting deeper and deeper in debt every
year for dry goods and other luxuries,
and for dry goods especially. All the
gold we extract from the earth, and more,
is drained from the country to pay the
balance of trade against us. Our cotton,
corn, flour and other products do not die
charge our foreign indebtedness for im
portations. The interest on our securities
held abroad can hardly be less than sixty
to eighty millions of gold. And with all
the money and wealth of labor that immi
grants briDg, onr fifty thousand or more
American absentees in Europe, mostly ol
the rich class, draw probably an equal
amount from this country. Should we
be surprised, then, that we cannot get to
specie payments, or that gold should even
rise ? Evidently more economy is needed.
At Saratoga.
How about the Brown’s Boys ? says Eli
Perkins. “Well, there are some no-ac
count Brown’s Boys here. They squeeze
along on a §1,200 a-year clerkship in
New York, without hope or chance of
promotion. Indeed, they are only kept
in this position by suffrance and through
the influence of friends. They dance, are
good looking, and, of course, carry off the
nicest girls in the hotel. No one asks
about their brains. Their heels are all
right, and they make nice beaux. This
ends the matter, and the daughters float
around with them, while their parents
are in an agony of excited suspense all
the time. It is amusing to see the Brown’s
Boys come their economical dodges. On
a ball night they will be very devoted to
some young lady till it gets to he time to
go to the hop-room. Then a friend (?)
wants to see them, and they disappear
only to show themselves after some good
fellow has paid his $8 to take the young
lady to the ball, Brown’s Boy generally
dances with the young lady through all
the round dances, and finally accompanies
her and her generous escort down to the
parlor after the ball. “ Won’t you join
Miss Brown and myself in a champagne
punch ?” inquires the generous fellow.
“A—l don’t mind it I do. .It would he
refreshing,” and so the Brown’s Boy gets
his girl and his champagne, too.
How They Fakm in Arizona. —“Do
you know how they carry on agriculture
down there ?” asked the Judge. “There
was a fellow who hired himself out as a
farm hand in Arizona, and the first day
his master told him to cut some wood.
So he asked for an axe, but the farmer
said, no we don’t cut wood with an axe,
here;” and gave him a sledge hammer to
knock and break off the mesquit which
they burn down there. The next day
John was ordered to cut some hay, and
was looking about for a scythe when his
master said, ‘We don’t cut hay with a
scythe down here,’ and gave him a hoe to
chop down the woody stalks with which
they swindle the horses there for hay.
The third morning the farmer called his
man to come out and plant corn. John
looked for a hoe, but his master said,
We don’t plant corn with a hoe out here,’/
and gave him a- crow bar with which to
punch holes in the ground wherein to
drop corn ; and John left the country in
disgust at that kind of farm work.”
Let Him Go.—The Bangor Commerda
is responsible for this : “ A few miles
from the Katahdin Iron Works is a log
cabin in which some meat was stored;
but a large bear who happened round,
fearing that it would spoil before eaten,
thought he might as well have a taste for
himself. Accordingly he cautiously ap
proached the hut and tried to push the
door open, but tailing in this he went to
the windows, which were closed by shut
ters, and removed one from each side of
the cabin, for the sole purpose no doubt
of making sure his retreat, for if attacked
from one window he could then jump
from the other and so escape. He then
went and took a piece of meat and de
parted as he came. This game was so
cleverly performed that the owners of
the cabin, who were oonoealed in the
bushes near by, let the old fellow depart
in peace.”
The Louisville papers tell a curious
story about a nepro woman who was bit
ten by a dog thirty years ago, and has
been subject to convulsive fits about
twice a month ever since. She is per
fectly harmless, but when the fit, is on
she lies on the floor doubled up like a
hoop, aud barks for twenty minutes to
gether. Her bark cannot be distinguished
from that of a dog.
A man and his wife at Keokuk were
lately arrested for selling liquor on Sun
day, when it was discovered that they
had an arrangement of religions views
excently adapted to their business. He
said that he was a Seventh Day Baptist
and observed Saturday as a day of rest
and devotion, and hence claimed the
right to carry on his business on Sunday.
The wife, on the other-hand, belonged
to the Reformed Dutch Church, and had
no scruple to attending to the shop on
Saturday.
Write to Charles W. Hasslf.r, No. 7
Wall Street, New York, for a copy of his
Weekly Financial Report. *
Mistaken for Bandits.— Thomas
Carroll, of San Jose, Cal., while riding
near that city saw two men whom he
supposed to be highwaymen. He
shot one of them dead, and made the
other a prisoner. An investigation
showed the victim to be Henri Pattel, an
inoffensive French florist, who with a
companion in the same business was go
ing into the mountains near Almaden to
gather flowers. Carrol has been com
mitted for trial on the charge of man
slaughter,
For Bites of Mosquitoes and other
Insects. Burnett’s Kalliston neutralizes
the poison almost instantaneously.
There is a great rivalry about the
Arizona diamond-field. A second min
ing company, said to be the original
discoverers, has already been incorporat
ed, with a capital of $10,000,000; and yet
a third is being formed.
A Bitter Controversy.— The temper
ance organs are waging bitter war on the
manufacturers of alcoholic bitters, and
their attacks are resented with equal bit
terness by the latter, who seem deter
mined to prosecute the quarrel to the
bitter end. In the meantime a novelty in
tonic medicines is making immense pro
gress in the confidence of all classes and
conditions of society throughout the
United States and British America. We
refer to Dr. Walker’s California Vine
gar Bitters, and we call it a novelty in
tonics because it contains no alcohol —an
article heretofore considered essential in
medicinial invigorants. The abstemious
portion of the community approve the
omission, and as the new remedy is curing
dyspepsia, biliousness, nervous affections,
and, in fact, a majority of the diseases,
external and internal, which prevail, it is
difficult to see how the more self-indul
gent portion of our fellow citizens can
conscientiously object to it. One thing is
certain : if ever there was what the French
call a “grand success,” the sudden and
continually increasing popularity of the
Vinegar Bitters, deserves that name.
The advocates of temperance point to the
salutary effects produced by this inalco
holic restorative as a proof that spirituous
stimulants are not needed for medicinal
purposes —a position which has been re
cently taken by many eminent medical
practitioners.
Symptoms of Catarrh.
Dull, heavy headache, obstruction o f
nasal passages, discharge falling into throat,
sometimes profuse, watery, acid, thick and
tenacious mucous, purulent, muco-puru
lent, bloody, putrid, offensive, etc. In
others a dryness, dry, watery, weak or in
flamed eyes, ringing in ears, deafness,
hawking and coughing to clear throat, ul
cerations, scabs from ulcers, voice altered,
nasal twang, offensive breath, impaired
smell and taste, dizziness, mental depres
sion, fickling cough, etc. Only few of the
above symptoms are likely to be present
in any case at one time. No disease is
more common or less understood by phy
sicians. The proprietor of Dr. Sage’s Ca
tarrh Remdey will pay §SOO reward for
a case of Catarrh w r hich he cannot cure.
Sold by Druggists at 50 cents. 608.
The purest and sweetest Cod-Liver Oil in the
world is Hazard & Caswell’s, made on the sea
shore from fresh, selected livers, by Caswell,
Hazard jfc Cos., New York. It is absolutely pur
and sweet. Patients who have once taken it
prefer it to all others. Physicians have decided
it superior to any of the other oils in market.
— Cora.
A great many people have asked us of late,
“How do you keep your horse looking so sleek
and glossy?” We tell them it’s the easiest
thing in the world ; give Sheridan’s Cavalry
Condition Powders two or three times a week.
—Com.
A gentleman in the eastern part of the State,
who was about having his leg amputated on
account of its being bent at right angles and
stiff at the knee, heard of Johnson’s Anodyne
Liniment. After using it a short time his leg
became straight and is now as serviceable as
the other.— Com.
If you want comfort wear the Elmwood col
lar.
If you want style wear the Elmwood collar.
For sale at all Gents’ Furnishing Stores.
H. H. Shufeldt & Cos., Chicago, alone in
America distil IMPERIAL GIN by the Hol
land Process. Send for circular.—Com.
Vegetable Pulmonary Balsam. “ Doubtless
the Best Cough Medicine in the World.”— Com.
The People’s Stamp of Value.—The Govern
ment endorsement which legalizes the sale of Plan
tation Bitters, is not the only stamp affixed to
that famous Vegetable Tonic. It bears, in addition
to that official sanction, the still more valuable
stamp or pcblic approbation. This inestimable
voucher of its rare properties as a Tonic, Correct
ive and Alterat ive, is of much earlier date than
the Government credential ; for millions of sick
persons had pronounced it the Grand Specific op
the age long before Congress thought of taxing
proprietary medicines. It is unnecessary to repeat,
in detail, the properties of this wonderful Vegetable
Invigorant. The best relerence that can be offered
to those who desire the full particulars of its virtues,
is the General Public. Ask those who have tried
it as a remedy for dyspepsia, constipation, bilious
ness, intermittent fevers, nervous debility, rheuma
tism, sea sickuess, low spirits, or loss of vital power,
what Plantation Bitters has done for them, and be
governed by the response they make to your inqui
ries.—l Com.]
a True Balsam.— Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of
Wild Cherbv is truly h Balsam. It oontains the bal
snmic principle of the Wild Cherry, the baltnmic prop
erties ofter sod of nine Its insredients are all balsamic.
Couglis. colds. Sore Throats. Bronohitis, and Consump
tion speedily disappear nnder its Balsamic influence.
— Can.
IN ONE TO FIVE MINUTES, Headache, Earache,
Neuralgia, Lame Back, Diarrhea, Groups, Sprains, and
all similar complaints, are relieved by Flagg s Instant
Or Money Refunded. — Oom.
AS QUICK AS A FLASH OF LIGHTNING does
Cristadoro’s Excelsior Hair Dye act upon the hair, whis
kers and moustaohes : no chameleon tint.”, bnt. the purest.
Raven or the most exquisite Browns will be evolved.-Com
iSpeoial Notices,
■(evolutions Never Go Backward.
The philosophical theory that the human system when
weakened by disease, oppressive heat, excessive labor or
any other cause, should be toned aiid invigorated instead
of being subjected to the action of depleting drugs, is
gaining ground every day. The introduction of Hoet at
ler’s Stomach Bitters twenty years ago gave a powerful
influence to this common souse idea. As the extraordi
nary efficacy of the Great Vegetable Restorative became
known, multitudes of debilitated invalids turned with
loathing from the nauseous and strength-destroying
potions with which it was then the fashion to drench
the aiok, to this renovating, app tixing. vitalising prep
aration derived from the finest, roots, herbs and barks
placed by botanical research at the disposal of medioal
science. Revolutions never go backward. From that
time to the present, the importance of assisting and re
inforcing nature in her struggles with disease has been
more and more widely and keenly appreciated by the
sick anil the suffering. In tens of thousands of house
holds Hostettor's Bitters are looked upon as the one
thing needful in oases of Dyspepsia, General Debility,
Constipation, NervoUH Weakness, Chills and Fever,
Bilious Affections and all conditions of the body and
mind that betoken a lack of vital energy. When the
quicksilver ranges high, and the aolid fleeh ta resolving
itself Into a den under the fevid temperetnre, thie agree
able tonic Is the best possible safeguard against all the
disorders generated by a sultry and unwholesome at
mosphere. It preveuta end relieves lassitude and lan
guor, and enables the ayatatn to endure with impunity
an unusual amount of exertion. Of all invigorating and
regulating medicine*. It la the purest and moat whole
some.
TO OOS*FMFTIYin.
TO CONSUMPTIVES.
Tbe advertiser, having been permanently cared of tbat
dread diae&se, Consumption, by a simple remedy, is anx
ious to make known to hie fellow sufferers the means of
care. To all who desire it. be will send a copy of tbe
prescription need, (free of charge), with tbe directions
for preparing and using the same, which they will find a
bubb Cube for consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis,
and all tbrost or lung difficulties.
Parties wishing tbe prescription will please address
Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON.
194 Penn, street,. WilHamshnreh. N. Y
The Markets.
NEW YORK.
Bskp Cattle—Prime to Extra.™..l .IS a .18%
First quality 12%® .13
Second .1114® .11%
Ordinary thin Cattle.. .11 Wo .12
Inlenor .08}.11
MilohCowb 3 >.OO a70.00
Hogs—Live 04 %a .00s,'
Dressed .ofl%® .00%
Sheep .05%® 06%
Cotton Middling ,21%a .22
Ploub—Extra Western 6.80 a 7 15
State Extra 685 a 735
Wheat—Red Western 180 a1 80
State 1.80 a 1.85
Rye—Western 74 a .74
Barley—Malt 140 a 1.60
Corn—. Mired Western 63%® .64
Oats—Mixed Western 45%® .46
Hay 1.20 a 1.56
Straw 70 a 1.05
Hops '7l’s 25 a 60—’70’s 18 a .80
Pork—Mess 10 87 ®13.70
Lard B%a .08%
Petroleum—Crude 12% Refined .22%
Butter—State 20 a .30
Ohio, Yellow 13 a .20
“ Fancy 15 a .18
Western ordinary 10 a .13
Pennsylvania fine 20 a .32
Cheese—State Factory 12%a .12%
< Skimmed 8 a .10
Ohio 07 a .10
Egos-State 21 a .24
BUFFALO.
Beef Oattle 4.62%® 6 60
Sheep 4.00 a 556
Hogs—Live 4.f0 a 470
Flour 7.00 a 9.50
Wheat—No. 2 Spring..., 1.48 a 1.60
Corn 62 a .62%
Oats 37 a .37
Bn, ........... . .98 ® 1.00
Barley 70 a .75
Lard 09 a .09%
ALBANY.
Wheat—White 187 a 1.87
Rye—State 85 a .85
Corn—Mixed .62 a .64
Barley—State 1.03 a 1.04
Oats—State 47 a .47
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour— 6.00 alO 25
Wheat—Western Red. 167 a 1.83
Corn—Yellow 61 a .62
Mixed. 61 a .61
Petroleum—Crude 16%refined .22%
oloverßeed.. 900 aio.oo
Timothy 3.60 3.62%
BALTIMORE.
Cotton—Low Middling 20%a .20%
Flour—Extra 4.60 a12.50
Wheat—Amber 1-60 a 1.75
Corn 62%t .65
Oats- 45 ® 46
For Boauty of Polish, Saving Labor, Clean
liness, Durability Sl Cheapness, Unequaled.
REWARE OK WORTHLESS IMITATIONS, under Other
names, hut resembling ours in shape and color of wrapper
intended to deceive.
THE RISISG SUN POLISH IN BULK, for stove dealers’
use, at twelve cents per pound—twenty-five and fifty
pound boxes. “Cheaper than any other Bulk Polish for
nothing.”
THE RISING SUN LUMBER PENCIL.—No Sharpenln
Cheap and Durable—supercedes other articlesforpurposa
THE RISING v sCN lILUK LKAU LUBRICATOR. For axles,
bearings and machinery. Lasts six times as long as oil
alone. 25 lb. and 50 lb. boxes, 15 cents per lb. Try it.
MORSE BROS., Prop’rs., Canton, Mass.
A G E.\ T 8 Wanted,— Agents make mt re money at
/tL work for us than at anything else. Particulars free.
G. STINSON & CO., Fine Art Publisher* , Portland, Maine.
FK. PHO EUTIX, Bloomingdale Nursery, 111; 6( 0
• acres; 21st year; 12 Green-Houses; Trees, Bulbs,
Hedge Plants, Nursery Stock ; 4 Catalogues, 20 Peats
DR. WHITTIER,
Longest engaged, and most successful physician of the
age. Consultation or pamphlet free. Call or write.
Tie Wheat W of America.
HEALTHFUL CLIMATE, FREE HOMES,
GOOD MARKETS.
THE NORTH * rAviixO RAIL
ROAD nWc-o uviu its jnand In Cii ntrill and
Western Minnesota, embracing : 1. The best ot
Wheat Land ; 2. Excellent Timber for the Mill, the
Farm and the Fire: 3. Rich Prairie Pasturage and Nat
ural Meadow, wat-red by clear Lakes and mnning
streams—in a Healthful Climate, where Ff*°* <i ul Ague it
unknoirn.
Grain can be shipped hence by lake to market as
cheaply as from Eastern lowa or Central Illinois. Can
now run through these Lands from Lake Superior tc
Dakota. Price of land close to track, $4.00 to SB.OO pe~
acre ; further away, $2.50 to $4 00. Seven Year*
Credit ; Warrantee Deeds ; Northern Pacific 7-30
Bonds, now selling at par, received for land at sl.lO.
No other unoccupied Lands present such advantages?;
ERB under the New Law (March, 1872,) get
160 acres FREE, near the railroad, by one and two
years’residence. „ . m
TRANSPORTATION AT REDFCEI
RATES furnished from all principal points East t<.
purchasers of Railroad Lands, and to Settlers on Gov
ernrnent Homesteads Purchasers, their wives anc
children carried free over the Northern Pacific Road
Now is the time for Settlers and Colonies to get Rail
road Lands and Government Homesteads close to the
track. .......
Send for Pamphlet containing full information
map and copy of New Homestead Law. Address
LAND DEPARTMENT,
Northern Pacific Railroad ,
St. PATTI.,, JVtixin.. or
23 Fifth Ayenne CorM St.. N. Y.
THIRTY YEARS’ REMEDY!
Diarrhoea, Dynentery, Cholera Horbu,
Sommer Complaint, Flax. Children’*
Teething, and the Great Prevent
ive of A.intie Cholera.
MABUIBE’SJiENNE PLANT.
This extraordinary medicine, the fame of which
Is spread broadcast throughout the country, 1b un
do ihtcdly superior to any remedy ever offered to
the public for the complaints for which it Is intend
ed. We have In our possession testimonials fur
nished voluntarily by Col. Long, late Chief Topo
graphical Engineer Bureau at W ashington; General
Fltz Henry Warren, Gen. Pleasanton and others ot
the army: Fattier I’. J. DeSmet, the celebrated In
dian missionary: also, offleersofthenavy, surgeons,
hospital stewards, commanders of nearly every
steamer plying on the Mississippi and tributary riv
ers, Western Sanitary and Christian Commissions,
army chaplains and others too numerous to men
tion. Likewise highest enconlums of the press,
praising itsvaluable medieinalqitallUeslntlie high
est terms. No other medteiue has such recommen
dations. Wo can also refer to his excellence, B.
Gratz Brown, Governor of Missouri; Hon. I rank
P. Blair, Jr., U. S. Senator, and Hon. Joseph
Brown. Mayor of the cltv of St. Louis, and many
other State officials, for which there is no space In
this advertisement. Agents—McKesson * Rob
bins, Nos. 91 and 93 Fulton st.. New York. Sold by
drusrirists and medicine dealers everywhere.
S. A C. M AGI'IKK, Sole Proprietors.
8 W. corner of Olive and Second sts., St. Louis,
Mo. Price, 75 cent* per bottle.
A GREAT OFFER!!
Horace Water*** 481 Broadwav* X. Y.*
will dispose of One Hundred Pianos, Melodkovs. m>
Organs of six first-class makers, including Waters’-.,
extremely low fnires t'ornoth, 'luring this month ; or will tafc#
from to S2O monthly until paid : the same to let. and
rent applied if purchased. Anew kind of Parlor
Ohoan, the moat beaut if uf style and perfect tom* ever
made, now on exhibition t 481 Broadway Xew York.
A. Wellington Hart & Cos.,
adjusters of claims foe
Insolvents & Bankrupts.
110 Leonard St.. X. V.
*S- References or Highest Character.
Mend tor Cl rout Hr.
/f> tme rw VALUE toKVERYBOIV
1 ■ 1 ■ J-Old or yours, hitcher low.
X a or female, sick orwell,
• 1 rich or poor. Send a threr
3*nt iiostaco -taimi for circular. Address
OOHMON, U A XHi KM A CO.,
St. I.onl*. Mo. Agynta wauled.
The King ot the Body i* the brain; the stomach
ta main support; the nerve* it* msrsengerv; the bowels,
the kidneys and the pore. It* safeguard”. L digestion
■re Ua a Tiol.ut revolt among these attaches of the regal
orsan, and to bring them bank to the duty there is noth
ing like the retaliating, purifying, invigorating, cooling
operation of Tanaasr*Rffirvicboent Seltxeh Ace
went. It renovates the sj stem and restores to beatth
both the body and the mind.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS'
jgf|
No Person can take these Bitters accord
ing to directions, and remain long unwell, provided
their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or
other means, and vital organs wasted beyond tbs
point of repair. „ . „ ,
Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Headache, Pain
in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest,
Dizziness, Soar Eructations of the Stomach, Bad
Taste hi the Month, Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of
the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the
region of the Kidneys, and a hundred other painful
symptoms, are the off-sprlngs of Dyspepsia. One
bottle will prove a better guarantee or its merits
than a lengthy advertisement.
For Female Complaints, in young or old,
married or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or
the turn of life, these Tonic Bitters display so
decided an Influence that improvement is soon
perceptible.
For Inflammatory and Chronic Rhen
mat Ism and Uout, Bilious, Remittent and Inter
mittent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kid
neys and Bladder, these Bitters have no equal.
Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood.
They are a gentle Purgative as well as
a Tonic, possessing the merit of acting as a
powerful agent in relieving Congestion or inflam
mation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, and in
Bilions Diseases.
For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter, Salt-
Rhenm, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils,
Carbuncles, Ring-worms, Scald-Head, Sore Eyes,
Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs. Discolorations of the Skin,
Humors and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name
or nature, are literally dug up and carried out
of the system in a short time by the use of these
Bitters.
Grateful Thousands proclaim VINEGAR BIT
TERS the most wonderful lnvigorant that ever
sustained the sinking system.
R. If. iffcDONALD 4b CO.
Druggists and Gen. Agts., San Francisco, CaL, 4
cor. of Washington and Charlton Sts., N.Y.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS A DEALERS.
H U. W->34
tin K 810 A 820 i'C) BILLS sent *s curionty lot
civil SO eta. J. R. SECORD <t CO.. GsrrettaviHe. O.
AGENTS.— 600 per cent profit. Saab Lock. Terns
free. Ten cents will return sample.
A. GRIFFIN. Meshopoen, Pa.
1~ *W Wt AGENTS WASTED to sell Onr
Popular Campa gu Charts and New Map
of Union and World C. P. BRADWAY, Danville, Pa.
J&ghfkdk for brat-class Pianos. No discount N*
tr Agent*. Address U. S. PIANO CO., MC
Broadwav. N. Y.
DR7 WHITTIER, a9 US^ r AS Tt
Longest engaged, and m ostsucceasful physician of tbe
age. Consultation or pamphlet free. Call or write.
AHe Soorten von Erfenissen en Schu’den zullen
spoedig ingezamelt worden doon den Advocat,
J. F. FRUEAUFF,
te Columbia, Lancaster Cos., Pa.
THE LITTLE FLIRT.— I The meaning of all
handkerchief glove, fan and parasol flirtation sig
nals ; an elegantly bound volume ; by mail. 25 cents.
FISHER A DENISON, 98 Nassau St.. New York City.
IThea-Nectar
IS A PURE
1 BLACK TEA.
l Yith the Green Tea Flavor. The
best Tea Imported. For sale every
where. And for sale wholesale only
by the Great Atlantic and
Pacific Tea Cos., No. 191 Fulton
St. & 2 <fc 4 Church St., New York
P. O. Box, SSOtt.
Send for Thea-Nectar Circular.
a? Tte RecoMs of Tests
at LOWELL, Mass., proves
N. F. BURNHAM’S
NEW TURBINE
superior to all others. It gave
’ a higher percentage than any
o'her wheel of common finish. :
Pamphlet and Price List, by:
N. F. BURNHAM , York, Pa
no o vey’c
EAST,
i Powdeß
Try IT, SOLD BY GROCERS
80A1079 PITTSBURGH
Breech-Loading Shot Guns, S4O t-o S3OO. Double Shot
Guns, $8 to $l5O. Single Guns, $3 to S2O. Rifles, $8 to
$75. Revolvers, $6 to $25. Send Stamp for Price-
List. Army Gun*, Revolvers , <pc., bought nr traded for.
MOTHERS! MOTHERS!!
MOTHERS!!!
Don’t tall to procure MRS. WINSLOW’S
SOOTHING SYRUP FOB CHILDBEV
TEETHING.
This valuable preparation has been used with NEVER
FAILING SUCCESS IN THOUSANDS OF CASES.
It not only relieves the child from pain, but invigor
ates the stomach and bowels, corrects acidity, and gives
tone and energy to the whole system. It will also in
stantly relieve
Griping In the Vowels and Wind Colic.
We believe it the BEST and SUREST REMEDY IN
THE WORLD, in all cases of DYSENTERY AND
DIARRHEA IN CHILDREN, whether arising from
tee thing or any other cause.
Depend upon it mothers, it will give rest to youne
and
Relief and Health to Yonr Infants.
Be sure and call for
“ Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup,” I
Having the fac-simile of “ CURTIS A PERKINSf
jo the outside wrapper.
Hold by priimrliil* thronghont the World
ECONOMY IN MOURNINC ! '.
Cheapness! Durability '.
THE NEW PATENT
ALBERT CRAPE
Has been sold for Over Two Years, giving
Universal Satisfaction.
Opinions from Wearers —
“The Albert Crape which I have worn
ei erv day for nearly a year has after i be
roughest usage turned out to be moat ex
cellent.”
•I have been so much pleased with the
wear of the Albert Crape, that I cau
strongly recommend it. '
•i have found the Albert Crape to be a
reallv good trustworthy article,aud much
cheaper than any I ever had.*’
SOLD BY
MILLINERY & DRY GOODS DEALERS
U.-’.'WL.
Bleeding.ltching.or Ulce
rated Piles thatDsßiJiO’*
Pile Rjcmkdy fails to
cure. It is prepared e
The Gettysburg Katalysine water,
Niure > great remedy for Djrepep**. Rh £o“!*' , *“i
Gout. Neuralgia. Kidney. Urinary. Nerroue Haart. and
other Cbronio Dieeaeee, i> bottled and rent direct from
the apring Gettysburg. Penn., to mealids wnereejr
reaiding. Price per .lagfe eeee of two doaen uuMthot
tlea. *B.OO. *6 per eent dteeount m faeor of deiwmen
and phraioiane on water for tlietr ownuse. Medical and
clerical profession muat be certified
Poet matter ar othar rrepomlbt* pereone. Where drug
giita de net keep it. invalid*
check nr Pos-Ofßit money order te 'WHITNEY BROS,
UT South Front Street, Philadelphia. Pa.
