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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.