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AN EARTHLY PARADISE.
Tli© Beautiful Iftlnnri of Rock Thin in a
Wlldei'ncfts of Flower*, Plant* find
Fruits—How the People of Nassau Live.
A letter from Nassau, in New Provi
dence, one of the islands in the West
Indies, says:
Eight out of the sea, four hundred
and fifty miles from the Florida coast,
rises a huge rock, twenty-two miles
long by seven miles wide. It is the
smallest of the Bahama islands and is
called New Providence. It is the sec
ond place where Columbus landed on
liis voyage to the Western world, and
the only town of note in the Bahamas
marks the spot. Nassau even at this
season nestles in a wilderness of flow
ers, plants nnd fruits. There is not n
tree, shrub or flower that thrives in any
warm climnte which does not grow
luxuriantly there. Isaiditwasa rock
upon which these beauties grow nnd
blossom, and over which a never-ending
summer breeze blows the seeds of
health by tempering the warmth of a
tropical sun until it strikes a happy
medium where all season is summer
and mankind basks in an atmosphero
practically invariable twelve months in
the year, and trees, shiubs and flowers
thrive in chaotic profusion all the year
round. How contrary this is to what is
known of nature in the frost land, and
yet how cruelly true of what is seen
bore every hour in tlia year.
Tlio ocean throw up this mighty rock
“ whon nature played with hills to show
lior strength and greatness over man.”
It is a calcnreous rock of coral, soft and
pliable to the mechanic’s hand, filled
with shells nnd sand nnd spit upon by
the ocean until cementod with its brine.
The surface in places rots, forms a thin
soil, and in this and wherever a crack or
crevice is found the gayest flowers
bloom. Thoro is not a bit of fancy in
this. It is the truth homely told. To
describe its inhabitants would bo to
parade before you a mass of colored
men, women nnd children, cheaply but
nontly dressed, barofooted nnd bonnet-
loss, but happy and polite. Out of a
population of 1C,000 rnoro than 12,000
are nogroos and unusually intelligent.
Bhinhig out from this darkness is now
nnd then a native wliito face, intelligent
and healthy, and at this season numbers
of foreign faces, which look ns if in
search of health. The houses aro as
neat as tho people, and nil of them are
smothered in flowers nnd shrubbery.
In almost overy yard, as well ns growitg
wild, are cocoanuts, oranges, guavos,
sofadillos, mangoes and all sorts of
fruit hang, in all stages—bud, blossom,
half-grown and the matured fruit. Tho
drivos over tho town and through the
island are superb, smooth as a floor and
of solid rock, lined on either side with
tangled sweeping vines, stunted trees
nnd flowering plants. Tho oleander
towers its high head among tho more
pretentious tropical plants, while our
modest morning-glory, so dear to our
childhood, peeps out from behind tho
loaves' with tho dew resting upon its
purple lips to bo kissed away by tho
morning sun. No tongue can toll or
pen writo of tho beauties, either of land
or sea, which aro everywhere visible.
The island makes a beautiful picture as
you approach it from tho ocean, rising
as it does from tho water's edgo by
gradual incline to tho height of 200 or
300 foot, overy foot of tho way up show
ing the tropical plants, flowors and fruits
at their best.
The climate and surroundings aro as
near perfection as ono ought to oxpoot
to And upon this earth. Tho surfaoo o
tho island is rolliug, and what soil thoro
is is very rich. Tho bulk of vegotation
seems to spring from tho solid rock, and
actually does from tho cracks and
crevices. Wherever room is found a
root creeps iu and the lime in the stone
feeds it. This lack of soil and tho
necessity of removing solid stone to aid
vegetation prevents much cultivation of
the soil, and there aro very few vege
tables grown in a climate especially
adapted to their production. Fruits
aro the principal staples, and upon these
the natives live to a very great extent
All tropical varieties grow in abundance,
nnd are remarkably rich nnd nutritious.
Every variety of fish is taken in abund
ance, and enters very largely into the
domestic economy of the natives. The
chief industry of the island is sponge-
gathering.
Dangerous Sketching.
The famous Belgian artist, Verboeck
lioven, lately deceased, used to visit, in
1855, the menagerie of Martin, in
Ghent. Ho was there watching and
sketching the movements of tho wild
beasts, chiefly lions. The proprietor of
the menagerie, noticing the artist’s
work, asked him for some of his sketches,
allowing him in exchange free admis
sion at any time. One day the artist
complained of tho iron bars of the cage
hindering him from obtaining an exact
view of the big lion, called Nero. Mar
tin jocosely suggested Verboeckhoven
should accompany him next morning
into the lion’s cage. The artist accept
ed at once with great delight. Now,
the proprietor immediately informed
the Grand Duke of >Saxe-Weimer and
several prominent citizens of the young
artist’s intention, and they did not fail
to be present. Martin led Verbo'eck-
hoven into .the cage of the lion, which
received the unwonted visitor with a
loud roar, but allowed himself to be
quieted by Martin and peaceably lay
down. Verboeckhoven proceeded to
draw the animal at leisure. On his
leaving the cage he was accosted by the
grand duke, who congratulated him
and expressed a desire of buying the
drawing just made. Verboeckhoven,
however, declined parting with it, but
requested the gland duke to certify on
the margin of the picture the event he
had just witnessed, which was done.
The Far West and the Moon.
Mr. Eiohard A. Proctor, the astrono
mer, writes : During my recent jour
neys across the Western States (from
Kansas City through Denver, Cheyenne.
Ogden und San Francisco, and back to
Cheyenne and Omaha through St-
Joseph to Kansas City) I was much
struck by the singular resemblance be
tween the configuration of tho North
Amorican continent and that of the
moon’s surface ns seen with good tele
scopes. Tho journey from Missouri to
the Rocky mountains is usually consid
ered monotonous (so much so, indeed,
that ono station near the western border
of Kansas has received tho suggestive
nnme Monotony). But I found these
widespread plains (not strictly level but
slightly undulating), covered with prairie
grass, as impressive in their way as tho
Rocky mountains themselves. (The
undulntions, let me note, resemblo those
of n sea crossed by two or more serio
of wide and gentle undulntions.) The
rise from Kansas City to Sherman, 8,234
feet above tho sea level, is so gradual as
to be almost imperceptible, except near
Sherman, and tho aspect of the country
changes much lesH than ono would ex
pect. Tho chief change in the character
of the more level parts arises from the
difference in tho character of the vege.
tation, tho prairie grnss being roplaced
at n higher lovcl by buffalo grass, nnd
that in its turn at a higher It vol by sago
brush. These broad, undulating regions,
gradually slanting upward to the foot of
ho Rocky mountains, strikingly ro-
somblo tho groat so-called ‘ seas ’ on
tho moon, bordered by ranges of moun
tains, beyond which lie tho regions of
grent volcnnic craters. These lunar
seas, with their prevalent dark tints,
are among tho most striking features of
tho moon’s surface, nnd, rightly ap
prehended, indicates a former condition
of things on tho moon rosombling that
now prevailing on tho earth. They
hIiow that tho moon, though now arid,
had onco seas such As our earth has at
present. Tho slow processes of change
by which tho lunar seas woro turned to
dry land are taking placo now, though
on n larger scale (but oven more slowly),
on the earth. Tho lunar surfaco much
moro nearly rosombles that of the now
world than that of Europe, Asia, Africa
or Australasia.
A $10,000 Beauty.
It is announced that Miss Annie
Pauline Scott, of Monongahola City,
Pa., has been chosen among sovoral
thousand competitors to bo tho queen
of beauty in Foropaugh’s show this
season, and has been, or is to be,
awarded tho prizo of 810,000 offered by
that enterprising showman. A descrip
tion is not amiss. Miss Scott possesses
a form tall and shapely. It is not the
airy, fleecy, filmy, othoreal nothing that
Olivo Logan nseribos to Sarah Bern-v
linrdt, but a realistic, tangible form.
Were Hiram Towers again selecting his
model for that American masterpiece of
art, “Tho Greek Slave,” ho could
travel over much territory and find no
better form than Miss Scott’s. In car
riage hIio is at once easy and graceful.
Her face in some rospocts reminds ono
of the Into Adelnido Noilson ; it is as
fair as tho lilies, and tho cheeks aro
tinged with a dolicato pearly pink.
Her features aro strikingly regular and
classical, and of tho Grecian type, save
perhaps, tho nose, which curves slightly
from tho aquiline nnd verges upon what
is generally termed tho Amorican fomi-
nino nose. Her lips aro full and ex
pressive, of a bright vormillion tingo,
and whon sovered by a smilo reveal a
double row of teeth that aro typical in
their regularity and dazzling whiteness.
Her eyes aro largo and full, of a dark-
brown color. With varying emotions
tlioy chango their hue ns often as sum
mer clouds, too, if for no other reason
than that they nro soft and shadowy.
Her eyebrows nro most delicately
curved, and her long, sweoping eye
lashes add intensity nnd at times a half
melancholy languor to the orbs over
which they koop sentinel. Her hair,
which is long, wavy and abundant, is of
a glossy black and possesses that silky
texture which is such a pleasant con
trast to the usual dead ebony wo so
often meet. Ono cannot look at such
hair, and seo tho golden sunshine rip
pling through it, like faiiies playing at
“ bo-peep,” without realizing by a sin
gular association of ideas, Lizzie Hoxam,
the child of Dickens’ fancy. Altogether,
Miss Scott is an ideal picture of fair
femininity, gifted with glowing charms
and robust health. She is tho niece of
John ltynn, a coal miner, nnd they
abide in a rather dilapidated house.—
Exchange.
How a Chinaman Takes an Oath.
See Wah is a Cliineso laundryman in
Buffalo. The other day ho caused the
arrest of a woman on the charge of rob
bing him of 8100. When he came to
give his evidence in court it was
uecessary that he should be sworn, and
ho took the oath according to the form
of his native land —by cutting off the
head of a rooster. His testimony as
interpreted was as follows:
I lost my money; I am certain this
girl took the money; I am not mis
taken; if I am mistaken I hope to have
my head cut off ..s I cut this chicken’s
head off; if I am not telling the truth I
hope to die as hard as this chicken
will; if the woman lies she will die as
hard as the chicken does; God knows
who is right.
The joke remains to be told. The
court sent one of its attendants to procure
the fowl, and supposing the Chinaman
would swear upon it or by it he bor
rowed a favorite gamecock of a dog and
game fancier. When the bird was re
turned minus its head the owner
launched out into very indignant an
athemas on the head of the heathen
Chinee.
CURRENT NOTES.
Few persons have any idea of the
land that has been given by tlie govern
ment up to the present time in aid
of railroad building. In Illinois the
amount has been 2,595,053 acres ; in
Iowa, 6,795,527 acres; in Mississippi,
2,062,240 acres; in Alabama, 3,579,120
acres ; in Florida, 2,300,114 acres ; in
Louisiana, 1,678,720 acres ; in Arkansas,
4,878,149 acres ; in Missouri, 2,985,160
acres, in Michigan, 4,712,480 acres; in
Wisconsin, 4,808,436 acres; in Min
nesota, 9,902,041 acres; in Kansas,
9,370,000 acres. Besides this vast
amount, 159,485,76G acres have been
given to the Pacific railroad corpora
tions, making a grand total of 215,303,-
807 acres, or over 335,000 .square miles
of land given by tho United States
government in aid of railroad construc
tion.
An intelligent writer in tho English
Fortnightly Review gives his impressions
of “ American Politics.” Tho writer
evidently has an ndmiration for some
things American, particularly tho peace
ful way in which a presidential election
is carried on. Says the writer: “ None,
I am confident, could pass through tho
great Northern cities during such a con
test ns that which was decided at tho
close of last year without being struck
by tho general courtesy, tho invincible
fair-play allowed to political opponents,
an.l tho regulated enthusiasm of the
mass of tho people.’’ The sight of 50,-
000,000 deciding who their rulor should
be by tho deposit of their ballots, in a
peaceful way, nnd yet in a way thnt was
decisive and concurred in by tho
defeated party, seemed to bo a note
worthy thing.
An international exhibition of power
and work machinery for trades and
dairy purposes is to be hold in Altona,
near Hamburg, North Germany, from
August 18 to October 17, 1881. Tho
object of tho exhibition is chiefly tho
improvement and development of tho
smaller trades and tho dairy. It will
consist of four groups: 1. Power ma
chines for trades; 2. Work machines
and tools for trades; 3. Products of
trades manufactured by the machines
und tools of 1 and 2 ; and 4. Machines
nnd implements for dairies. Tho chair
man of tho local committee is H. G.
Nothnngol.town deputy of Altona. Forms
of application may be had at tho offices
of the committeo, Konigsstrass 116.
Ground nnd wall rent for exhibits range
from two to ten marks a square motor.
Though specially designed to revive
tho now depressed "smaller trades” of
North Gormany, this exhibition may
offer some attractions for American
manufacturers of trade tools, imple
ments and machinery.
A fooling of alarm provails in Europe
concerning tho plague historically known
as tho “black death,” which is on the
incroaso in Nedjid, and has brokon out
at Kufn, ninety miles south of Bagdad.
Fears nro eutertained thnt tho terrible
pest may extend westwnrd and attnek
tho inhabitants of European countries
During tho fourteenth century the black
death spread over Asia and Europo and
committed grent ravagos upon human
life. At different periods during tho
succeeding three centuries it invaded
Wostern Europe, and provod to bo a
frightful scourge. It last attacked Eng
land in 1605, and 68,596 of London’s
half million of population wont down to
death before its conquering march. In
1720 it destroyed nearly half the popu
lation of Marseilles, while in 1771 il
swept off about 100,000 of the popula
tion of Moscow. This pest has swept
like a foul miasma over Asia, Northern
Africa, and Europo from Naples to Arch
angel, and oven to Greenland, where it
smote tho Esquimaux by thousands. It
is because of thoso facts that Europeans
grow alarmed at the slightest sign of its
reappearance in their countries.
With many of the settlers of tho
Northwest the past winter has been a
prolonged struggle for existence against
the elements. A German farmer two
years ago took up 160 acres of land
near Big Lake, Dakota. Last year he
raised wheat on sixty acres, getting
twenty-five bushels to tho acre, and re
ceived §1,200 for it. Laying in what he
considered an ample supply of fuel out
of these proceeds, ho set his house in
order for the winter. Two other fami
lies decided to leave their own houses,
and to lodge with him ns a measure of
mutual protection and comfort. Very
soon the ample supply of fuel was nl
consumed, and the three families had to
bestir themselves to keep from freezing.
They dug railroad ties and telegraph
posts out of the deep snow and burned
them. After this source of supply had
been exhausted, the two families that hud
quittod their own houses wore compelled
to take part in tearing them down ; and
the woodwork sent went the way of tho
other fuel. Next followed the furni
ture. A neighbor named Becker finally
harnessed five strong horses to a sleigh
to force his way to the nearest railway
station for a load of coal. Ho was caught
iu a snowdrift, and two days later was
found frozen stiff in his sleigh, his dog,
dead, lying upon him, and tho five
horses standing dead in their tracks.
His body was taken to his family, nailed
up in a box, and placed in the grain
loft, to be kept there until the ground
should thaw sufficiently and allow of his 1
burial. Another family of the neighbor
hood was saved from starvation by mak-
ng soup of an ox-skin.
Tiie popular vorilict is generally the right
ono, anil concorning Dr. Burl's Couou Syrup
the people havo long sinoe decided that it is the
best cough remedy ever introduced.
RELIGIOUS READING.
Waste of Material.
There is a good deal of waste of ma
terial in our daily life, concerning which
the best economists are little troubled.
Our Savior told his disciples to take
no thought for the morrow; the morrow
would take thought for the things of it
self. The divine wisdom declared, that
sufficient to the day is the evil thereof.
But we, forgetting that tho heavenly
love is pledged to guard us from dis
aster and that the heavenly promise is
that our steps shall be guided, insanely
endeavor to carry the burden of a^week,
a month, a year or a lifetime in an hour.
We waste our strength in trying to do
more than God is willing thnt we should.
Hero and there we come to a turn on
the road and we dread to go forward,
for 'wo know not what of danger, of
difficulty or of sorrow may be just out of
sight. Querulous and complaining, we
pause and question Providence, though
clear and sweet abovo our waves of
trouble sound the waves of comfort,
“ As thy day shall thy strength be.”
Another reckless waste is found in tho
intensity of feeling wo spend over tri
fles. An expected letter fails to come.
A storm delays our journey. Tho friend
we looked for is detained from visiting
us. Somebody has borrowed a favorite
volume and neglected to bring it homo.
A servant is exasperating or careless. A
little child is perverse and contrary. A
dish is broken. Tho cup of coffee is
upset on the-tablo cloth. Tho clothes
do not got dry, and the washing is likely
to be around tho wholo week. An ac
quaintance, hitherto cordial, passes us
with a hasty bow. A friend misunder
stands our motives. There aro a hun
dred littlo things in overy life—nay, in
overy day—that, if allowed, may disturb
our composure and give us distress. Wo
waste our resources in feeling too keen
ly tho trifles which should bo met with
philosophical firmness, or better still,
with Christian patience.
A very lnrgo wasto of time and of
foi’ce comes from tho habit of postpon
ing necessary effort. By-and-bye, wo
sny, will do ns well as tho present time
for this nnd thnt engagement. And ro
our work gets ahead of us, and wo never
overtako it. They who look steadily
after tho present moment, utilizing it
and grasping it with its appointed task,
aro surest of harvesting their sheaves in
goldon hours of glad fulfillment and joy.
— Christian Intelligence!\
RoIIrIou. New* anil Note*.
Hon. Oliver Hoyt, of New York, lias
given another 81,000 for tho Wesley
Monumental church at Savannah, Ga.
He had given 82,000 before.
At Mark’s Creek, N. C., tho Presby
terians support their church out of the
proceeds of cotton grown on little
patches of land set apart by each family
for tho purpose.
It is said that tho United Presbyterian
is the only missionary society in Egypt,
It has established mission stations in
almost every town from Alexandria to
Osseau on tho first catoract of the Nile.
Tho 1,743,000 mombers of tho Meth
odist Episcopal church raised last year,
for bouovolent and congregational pur
poses, the sum of 813,552,045, which is
about 88 for each member and proba
tioner.
Although England territorially is but
littlo larger than tho State of New
York, it has thirty-two bishoprics, nnd
tho larger dioceses are being divided.
In this State tho Protestant Episcopal
church has iivo bishops.
Tho American Sunday-School Union
has planted 121 Sunday-schools in tho
Indian Territory. Next year they aro to
havo a Sunday school camp-meeting of
ton days in August, nt Atoka, in the
Cherokee nation, when a largo gather
ing of full-bloods, who are averse to
meeting in houses and among strangors,
is anticipated.
[Monilovi (Wig.) ButTalo Co. Hcralil.]
Nolions of the First Settlers.
Mr. W. II. H. Arnidon, one of the first
settlers in tho town of Gilmantown,
Wis., and ono of the most industrious
and hard-working men in the county,
has been very severely troubled with
rheumatic pains during tho past few
years, so mu eh at times that ho was dis
abled from performing manual labor.
Learning of the wonderful cures effected
by tho use of 8t. Jacobs Oil he procured
a few bottles, anil experienced immedi
ate relief. Many others of our acquaint
ances have used it, nnd express them
selves as highly gratified with the relief
it has afforded them. This king of
medicines can bo bought everywhere.
Wisconsin has 193 Congregational
churches, forty-one of which are with
out pastors. The total membership is
13,310, 758 of whom were received
during the past year. Nebraska has 123
Congregational churches and only
eighty-one ministers, with a total mem
bership of 3,506, of whom 673 were
added during the past year.
[Cincinnati Irish Citizen.]
Mr. John Miller, of 54 West Fifth
street, tells us that lie was cured by the
use of 8t. Jacobs Oil of a complicated
case of rheumatism of ten years’ stand-
ing. -
According to the official report of the
United States local inspector of steam
vessels, not a life was lost on Lake
Superior last year. This is a wonderful
rocord whon the terrible October
storms aro remembered.
Remedy for Hard Time*.
Stop spenilinf; go much on tine clothes, rich
/ood nnd style. Buy good, healthy food, cheaper
and bettor clothing; get moro real and sub
stantial things of life overy way, and ospocially
stop the foolish habit of running aftor expensive
and quack doctors or using so much of tho vile
humbug medicine that doos you only harm, and
makes the proprietors-rich, but put" your trust
in the greatest of all simplo, pure remedies,
Hop Bitters, that cures ahvayB at a trilling
cost, and you will seo better tunes and good
health. Try it onco. Bead of it in uuothor
column.
In a good cause a child’s arm is aR
strong as a giant’s; in a bad cause a
giant's arm is as weak as a ohild’s.
The original amount paid for what is
now tho richest mine in New Mexico,
said to be worth 8300,000,000, was
three dollars in silver, a little gold
stud and an old revolver.
Over 20,000 men are now building
railroads in Mexico.
Don’t Ponr Alcohol on the Fire, ,
And don't take anything that has alcohol in it
to help inflamed kidneys. Warner’s Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure is purely vegetable,
and acts directiyupon the kidneys and liver.
Prehistoric mining for mica is be
lieved to have taken place in North
Carolina. The old mines are being re
worked with profit.
For over thirty-four years .
11H. TOBIAS'S VENETIAN IJNIMENT
lias been warranted to cure Oroun, Colie, Spasm*.
Diarrhea amt Dysentery, taken internally, and Roro
Throat. Bains iu the Limbs, Chronic Rheumatism,
Old Bores, Pimples, Blotches and Swellings, exter
nally, end not a bottle has been returned, many lam-
lltes stating they won In not ho without it even il it
res tin a bottle. Hold by druggists nt ltd and .TO
icuts. Depot, -I'Z.Murrsv Street, Now York.
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK.
Hoof Cattle—Med. Nat. live wt.
Calves—Poor to Primo Veals..
Sheep
Lambs
10 (it
4 y t dt
<J%@
C%ftft
1134
4J4
1/,
8
Dressoil, city
8ftft
Flour—Ex. State, good to fancy 1 71 fill 0 50
Wostern, good to fancy. 5 00 ftft 8 00
Wheat—No. 2 lied 1 21 1 (/?, 1 25*$
N’o. 1 White 1 21V'* 1 22
live—State
1 12
ftft 1 12
Jiarloy— 1 Two-rowed State
S)
(/ft 80
Com -UiigriiiledWesterii Jlixed
03)
iftft 60
Southern Yellow
58
ftft 58
Oats White State
to
ftft 51
Mixed Western
14
ftft 4(1
Hay—Medium to Prime, Tlm’y
1 (10
ftft 1 15
Straw—Look live, per cwt
1 05
ftft 1 10
Hops—State, 188(1
12
ftft 23
Pork—Mess, old, for export...
111 0(1
ftft 18 00
Lard—City Steam
Il 70
ftft11 70
Refined
12 00
ftft 12 Oil
Petroleum Crude
O 1 'ftft 7%
Rcltiiotl
7*
M 7 :, 4
Rutter—State Creamery, now.
18
ftft 82
Dnirv
111
ftft 21
Western 1m. Creamery
20
ftft 27
Factory
HI
ftft 20
Cheese -State Factory
11
4 f/ft lO’i
Skims
5
ftft 8
Western
10
ftft 18
EgRs—State and Penn
HI
ftft 1!H 4
1 2(1 ft ft 1 20
OS (if) 80
87 (it 88
83 00 00
Potatoes—State, bbl Early ltoso 2 25 ftft 2 50
BUFFALO.
Steers- Extra 5 80 (55 fi 00
Lambs—Western 0 00 ft4 o 50
Sheep—Western 0 00 ftc 5 25
Hogs, Hood to Choice Yorkers,. 0 2 ) O'. 0 80
Flour—O’vGrimnd,No, 1 Spring 5 25 ftft 3 75
Wheat—No. 1. Hard Duluth.. ’
Corn—No. 2 Mixed
Oats— State
Barley—Two-rowed Slate..,
BOSTON.
nbef—Western Mcsh 10 00 (it 10.50
Hogs—Live 0 ' 4 ot 7]4
lings— City Dressed 8'q ft ft lljz
Pork—Extra Primo per bbl.... 18 00 r.tll 00
Flour—Spring Wheat Patents.. 7 00 (it. 8 00
Corn—Mixed and Yellow 5!)‘.5ftft iiV/,
Oats—Extra White •Ufi'jfti, 52
Ryo—State 1 10 ft,: 1 12
Wool—Washed Comb A Delaine 18 ft/, 15
Unwashed “ “ 80 ftft 01
WATEltTOWN (HASS.) CATTLE MA11KET.
A Good Account. ......
■ To sum it up, six long years of bed-ridden
sickness and sintering, costing $200 per year;
total $1,200—all of which was stepped by three
bottl’eB of Hop Bitteiis taken by my wife, who
has done hor own housework for a year since
without tho loss of a day, and I want everybody
to know it for thoir benefit.
“John YVeeks, Butler, N. Y.”
The desire of being pleased iB uni
versal. The desire of pleasing should
be so too. Misers are not so much
blamed for being misers as envied for
being rich.
Have Y’ou Bead It ? H, B. Stevens' Book
on Ensilage, the preserving of green forage
crops in silos, giving his own experience and
the practical experience of 25 practical farmers;
120 pages, elegantly bound in cloth; prieo, 50
conts; sent by mail, 00 emits. Address H. II.
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“MijniT Must Reap Its Just Reward.”—
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C. N. OnnTENTON, 116 Fulton street, Now York.
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