Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"WHOLESALE FARMING. A ?T>*i?-fv T!'"t!&nt5'l Acr^ Wheat Field? Ship?!rcTIir?*eTrnin Loads a Day?How the Dairjinple Farm in Run. A Fifgo (Bd-O'a) letter says: I stood this u orn ng at the center of the largest farm in ihs world ; the largest j yieee < f tc-rrito:y ever cultivated under i the direction of a. single jr>vn. As far j the eve con'd reach, north, south,! east or west, there was nothing visible 1-nt the bluest of blue sky ; the reddest of red bams, the great awkward-lookinc* thrfshers, with iheir smoke-beg:imcd (ngices beside them, the whirries: haiTesters and miles after miles of wheat. We ssked for Mr. Dalrymple, and he cane cows irorn some room above, a i leader, q ret-looking man, with a pen 1 ei:i::d hi- ear, whom you would judge ^o i.-c u s 'rooimaster or a clergyman at sirV. His hands were soft and white ?more accustomed to the book or pen thm the plow?and his face, where it was not covered with beard, was not burned so much as mine. He met us cordially, invited us to spend the day and dine, and suggested that he would have a team hitched up to drive us over "the place." I noticed he always called it "the 1 it pisce. In the meantime I asked him a few questions. The first one was as to the vield this year. "It was a late spring," said Mr. Dallymple. "At the time when we were usually putting in a crop the place for miles aroucd here was covered with water from the melted snow, and von could have sailed a boat over a field where now there is wheat that will vield thirty bushels to the acre. I feared at one time that the crop would be a failure. but am very positive now that the average per acre will not be below twenty bushels." "Have yen sold your wheat?" "Our plan is different from the ordinary method. "We are seeding about three train loads a day to Duluth." "How many bushels is that?" "About 30,000 bushels. We load a vessel at Puluth every two days and send it to Buffalo, where ifc is sold on its arrival at the market price." "What will your crop amount to?" "I am expecting about 600,000 bushels. Besides that we have about 90,000 bushels of cats, which we keep for our "Do yon keep stock enough to eat up 90,000 bushels of oafs?" !Mr. Dalrymple smiled pleasantly and remarked i'::at 800 horses and mules ate up a good many oats. "Sow much does your crop cost you ?" ' It costs us about SG an acre to produce a crop when we u;e our own stock and pay our men by the month, but when we hire men and teams by the day it costs us about $8 an acre." ~ - "What do you pay your men ?" "We t)j.v a month for regular hamls, and >V2 per day for extra hands during harvest." "What amount of machinery have yea going to-day ?" "Two hundred self-binding harvesters and thirty steam threshers. These two ^ hundred harvesters cut an average of 2,800 acres a day, and the threshers tam out about SO,000 bushelsacay. As fast as it is threshed we bag the wheat, cart it over then to the cars, empty the sacks, and sernl away three train loads daily." ' Where do you keep your men?" "If yon had been here at five o'clock this morning you could have seen S00 men at breakfast. We keep quite a hotel, with forty cooks." Mr. D.tlrvmple explained at length how this enormous business is conducted. The 30,000 acres under estivation are divided into five divisions of 6.000 acres each, under superintendents, who are responsible directly to Mr. Dalrvmple, the command er-iD-ciuef. Each of these regiments are divided into battalions, with a foreman or major, who has charge of 2,000 acres. Under him are three companies, each having a captain, and cultivating a section, which is 640 acres of land. Each superintendent plants his crop and harvests it, reporting from time to time to Mr. Dalxvmple, who directs and oversees tho whole, but spends the greater part of his time at the office, planning and calculating for the best results from the smallest outlay. The superintendents are responsible for the good order of their meD, stock and machinery, and there is a decided rival ry between them as to which can produce the biggest crop. When the plowing commences in the spring the men go out in gangs, each taking 610 acres, tinder the direction of a foreman, who rides along on horseback to see that the work is done properly. Everything is done in military style. It is a battery of plows, insteid of artillery, and before sorting they all draw xip i:i line and thoroughly incna^foil }iv tl>p {Vrrpmsin and machinist. to see that they are in good order. The plows are all doubled and drawn by four horses. At the word of the captain they start, and go round a field of 640 acres, which is exactly four miles in distance. *cn or twelve plows abreast. At the end of the furrow, eight miles, the plows are left in the soil, themen mount their horses and ride to headquarters for dinner. After the horses are fed they remount, return to the plows and go around the (>40 acres two or three times more before supper time. At the close of the day the Worses, plows and 1 arne^s are inspected again, and if any repairs are needed, the blacksmith, sadcler cr farrier make them during the i ight. (P^^ng time an!t during*the' haivfs^'*^^' fclf-bindipg harvesters throw tl.< bun cues os r;pe Praia upon me ground, where they are picked up and placed in large shocks to await tho wagons which transport their., to threshers, which are always placed as closely as possibly to the ears. After threshing the straw is carried away and burned. It sounds very large, but it is nevertheless a fact, that the plows and harvesters regularly made a trip four miles long without stopping. A farrow eight miles ia length :a considered a very fair morning's work, but ten miles is nothing for an afternoon's diversion. As near, the center of the farm as is ^^?->rC'nien? a- store-house is placed, in h v$e of a commissary and book-keeper. Each day the superintendent of a division is? ties requisitions for supplies of . seed, or food, or machinery, and these are served v.von tho storekeeper, who keeps a double entry set of ledgers for each, and at the end of a day's threshing the crop returns are made to him, t?o that Mr. Dalrympie, at any time by examining the books?, can ascertain the expenses of even* division and the crop is has produced. This year it is expected that the 30,000 acres t; ill produce 000,000 bushels of grain. The cost of production averages $7 an acre, or ?210,000. The \rhea> is sold at an average net price of 81 per bushel, therefore the profit of Mr. Dairy m pie's little garden ISSi, -svhich is said to be a poor year, iviii i-o the difference between $216,000 a:id S600.000. or th? trifle* of ?890.000 : more than 200 per cent, upon the entire investment. .There vrill be ratnr.il inquiry in the connection as to why steam is cot used instead < ? horse-power. I asked Mr Balrymple. He said: p. "We have experimented with steam, but have not found it practicable except iu the war oi' stationary engines ; and again oats are cheaper than fuel. Wood is very scarce. Coul costs us from $10 to sl'j a ton, whereas our oats cost us practically nothing. We sow and reap our cuts, between times, when the men and stock would otherwise be idle. The c -.st of horses and mules is no greater than the price of machinery, the wear and tear is less, and during the winter 'time we send our men and horses to the ^"""lumber regions, where they more than p iv for themselves. Eight hundred thousand dollars raised for Foreign Missions during tfce past! yoar by fifteen Women's Boards spsaks out with safScier^ p'oqnsnee and force f to render any cd. l--?i -narks superflu-; BEAUTY tfARKS. i Unnttrnctive Face* ?Iade Fa?cinatine by Artificial Dimples?Steam that Deface Trauaiormt'd lino S?potH tbnt Beautify. <;>7o, sir, I will not give you a word about the dimples, if you wish to place my name in connection with it. It ba3 been done before, and I am adverse to i newspaper notoriety," savagely retorted ; a physician a* a New York JSTews re1 porter introduced himsef and the object | of his mission. '-But," outbroke the surgeon, as he ! cast a smiie of confidence toward the : invader, and a larger smile, without ; dimples, spread over the reporter's countenance, "I will give you all the ! facts if you agree to not mention my j name. I do not wish to make a specialty of dimples; and if it becomes i publicaly identified with my name j through the press, I might- spoil my : best surgical and medical practice.'' ; Agreeing to his demands, the physi j cian then told all in relation to tiie manufacture of dimpls. i "You sec," he commenced, sfter throwing himself comfortably back in j an easy arm-chair, "Airs. L>. about j ivro weeks after hc-r engagement to her i present husband, became the victim of j a small abscess on the very middle of | her right cheek. It looked remarkably i repulsive, and to some might create the ' impression that it would end in disfigJ uring her pretty face for life. She came , to me to have it removed. I began the operation and soon had it completed. ; but at this time one great obstacle presented itself, to the young lady's i great sorrow. She woiiid have a small scar on her cheek, which would always appearlike a pisthl-shofc wound. She told me her intended had not seen her since she had the abc-ss, and as he was not to come back until a few days before their wedding, if he beheld this | scar it might hurt his feelings very i much. I told her nothing could be I done, but a few minutes after she t smiled about some remark I made, and ! then I noticod tho scar in her cheek 1 sunk in the folds of the skin, and with | the exception of a little puckering, appeared exactly like a dimple, and, int deed, added to make her face the more i agreeable. "I then concluded if the slightroush I flesh conld bo removed around the i scar by a simple operation, so as to cause it to disappear ficm view and sink ; into the folds of the skin and face more properly, it would then be turned into a re.il artificial dimple, as good and perfect in every respect as one naturally set there. Oi course the operation was performed on both cheeks, the lady being under the influence of an an;cs* thetic. I carefully watched developments and had the young lady call with her mother to see me regularly, and in i a short time I found the dimples frere | an emphatic success." "How is the operation done?" interposed -writer. "A slip of muscular tissue is removed i from the main muscle of the cheek between the masseterand the zygomatic major muscles. After administering the anossthetic, a keen-edged little in strument is brought into requisition, and with this the delicate but deep ini cision is made which finishes the ope| ration. "After this young lady got her dimple, I almost immediately had like calls from several ladies who had mole i marks, burns, and other scars on their i faces, which they desired to have removed and replaced with dimples. Some or tuem i reiusea no operate upou. ! " They nearly all desired to have the dimples to make them better looking. I told them they could never have their faces changed after having-dimples put in, and that they would stay in forever, but these -ftarnirigs only made them more anxious. When I first commenced work on the dimples I expected to hear : no more about it after Mrs. D.'s case, I but she has told me since that everyone | who knew she never had them before annoyed her almost to death to find out how she got them. i "Then I had a call for a very beautiful womao on Madison avenue, whose ' features were as perfect as an idea statue. I begged of her not to nave the J operation performed, as already her face i was beautiful without additions. She i said her face was growing too full, and . unless she had dimples in her cheeks : she would have a face looking bloated. ; Her point was well taken, and it was decidedly true, her face was getting too i round to retain its charms to full beauty, | and more so when she smiled or laughed. I made the dimples, and when the lady now laughs, her beaming hazel eyes, mouth of fine teeth and I pretty dimples give her a look that at once facinates and creates intense admi! ration. She must have long studied her need of dimples, for they make a 7ast advantage in her appearance. ! "How much does it cost for a pair of I dimples V "Well, it's according to the trouble ?for soke it might be done for twentyfive dollars, and others may be fifty or | one hundred." "Is there any chance of dangerous j trouble to some of the muscie3 of i the face that might result ic permai nently disfiguring a person for life ?' "Well, I cannot say there is; if there *?as, a physician would bo taking : desperate chances in his business, and, - #? ji _ a. _ p xt 1 T I m iaci, tnai is one 01 ine reasons way jl myself do not "wish to strongly advocate the dimple operation, and do not inj tend to allow it to become a specialty with me." The reporter left the physician, ; promising if ever he was shot through . botk c&eeks by a cannon ball to call i-T^rs^^nSergo the operation at halfprice. ^ The Incas. Perhaps some of tbiS2.c,f- remarkaV.le ; of ancient dwelling-places are the mined homes of the lncas,still scattered i about on that great continent which, by j a straDge misuse of terms, we call the : New World. In these vestiges of palaces j and large cities, on the worn stcnes of ! grand and massive monuments, lies the I undeciphered history of that motley empire, in which fragments of surround lug rautjfe) cuiiquereu uv me incas were j mixed up in a high degree ; for, before the waves of Spanish invasion surged ; over Peru, there were no pages of his: tory to turn back for a faithful picture' ; of the national life; no possibility of i tracing the successive steps which led the Incas from their early seat of civilization to the shores of the Pacific ocean. Tradition says that the first honie3 of the Incas are to be found on the shores and islands of the sacred lake, Titicaca; : and among the ruirs there many objects of interest in geld and silver and ; pottery have been discovered. Some of . I the few rare specimens of pottery present fair representations cf tbe people of those far-off times, which show that they were identical in feature with their descendants of the present day. But at the period when this racc ot' kinrrs are lirst met with in history, thoir empire extended for two thousand live hundred miles, and included the present states of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and part of Chili. It was traversed by the two great mountain ranges of the Cordilleras. A great portion of this vast i kingdom was practically unhabitable. On the plateau of the Despoblado, wf.ivh lit s far above the limits of eternal snow, between the mountain ranges, there is 110 trace of human habitation, excepting small huts of refuge built by the Incas on the main road between the northern and southern parts of their dominions. And in the desolate regions around the lake Uinaye the only disf^Qf"nroc ova lrvrmnr>*vra_ ble chu?;>as or burying towers, which stand singly or in groups upon the desert plain. "Round or square, these tombs are solil structures, with one cavity at the base, entered by a narrow j hole in the side. Some 8re in ruins; a few as perfect as when first completed ; many, doubtless, as completely vanished as the ashes they were meant toc.ver.? j Chambers" Journal. ! One may ride through twenty contiguous mile." of orange orchards in Los Angelos, Cal. 1 ; RELIGIOUS READING. Circuin?rantlal Evidence. The Rev. }Ir. Christopher once called on an aged class leader, and after hav-; ing prayer with the family said : "iirother, how is it you have been a church member so long, and yet are not. a converted man ? " " Are you my judge ?" " I know by your fruits. You have i " Do vou know that I have no familv worship V " "Yes, I know it." ' Well, it is true, but I would like to j know fvho told vou." No one told me, but I knew that had yon been in the habit of having j family worship, that cat would not have jumped out of the window, frightened, j as it did, when we knelt to pray." The test was true in that case. The brother confessed that he had omitted family worship because he did not wish : to binder bis workmen. He was touched with the reproof and immediately set up an altar, and years afterward testified that he had found it profitable, even financially, to acknowledge God in the house. Since he had made his religion real in his daily life, his workmen had become industrious and faithful. j So we come back to the truth of the old statement, " Prayer and provender hinder no man's jourcey." Religions News and Notes. During the spring months of the present year,two Presbyterian missionaries, Messrs. Leyenberger and Corbett, baptized two hundred and fifty Chinese in the villages of the province of Chan! tung. Dr. Thomas, who was oil trial at Chicago for^heresy, has been convicted | of charges of disseminating ideas contrary to the doctrines of the Methodist : religion. The case will now go to the i conference. The Congregational Church of Argentine, Kan., which was blown down a few weeks since in a terrible gale which swept over that place, has been rebuilt through the liberality of friends in Kansas City. I The Rev. John Hemphill of San Francisco is being tried for heresy in upholding the views of Mrs. Sarah B. o /i/ini-iri /-if "Pnl-\orf Ct TnCAl*. VUU^Oi, U VUH^.U ? o ? soil, who conducts three kindergarten schools in that city The proposed Missionary Conference at Constantinople bas been abandoned on the ground that the publishing of re1 suits of missionary labor in the Tuikish Empire might caxise the Government to j become more intolerant. The American Home Missionary Society in fifty-five years has received and disbursed $9,630,035, or an average of upward of $161,000 a year. Last year more than one-fourth of the additions to the Congregational churches in : the country were gathered in at the home missionary stations. The whole number of accessions reported by the Soeietv since tho year 1828 has been 297,692. There are nov 10,000 Protestant Christians in Mexico. The Presbyterian Church began its vork there in 1S72, U!iu now claims 4.000 members. The Methodist Episcopal Church sent rais! sionaries in 1878, and has "ow 337 members in full connection and 3V'S on probation. The Protestant Episcopal Church has3,500 members. Thelirst introduction of the Bible into the country was by the soldiers and chaplains of the United States airny in 1817. At a Sunday school convention held ! in Liverpool, England, recently, in con: nection with the Wesley an Methodist Conference, it was stated that tho Wes leyan Sunday schools of Great Britain i have more than 4,000,000 scholars ; that seven of the members of the House of t Commons are presidents of Sunday | school unions, and further, that Lord j Melbourne, the present Lord Chancelj lor, is a Sunday school teacher. Their j connection with the Sunday school adds higher honor to these men. I A Feature of Insurance. The principle of insurance is to be ; extended in London in such a manner as to render the necessity for medical i assistance as slight a burden as possible to poor people. The Metropolitan Pro, vident Medical Association has been formed for the purpose of accomplishing this end, and the following plan I has been adopted : Districts will be selected in various parts of London, those where the need is greatest being taken 1 first. Koomy and healthy premises will be taken, cheerfully decorated and furnished, and supplied with a good stock of the best of drugs. Arrangements will be made with three or four qualified medical men in each neighborhood to act as the medical staff, and ' a dispenser will be engaged. The medical officers will arrange to see patients at certain published times, care Viainn +<jl-Qn moTriViora en oil Tio to get advice in the evening, so as to avoid loss of worktime, and when a : member is too tin well to goto the dispensary he will be attended at his own house without extra charge. In urgent cases members will be seen at any time by any doctor of the staff, in addition to this, a dentist will be connected with each branch, who will tx tract teeth, etc., free of extra co&t, a small fee being charged for filling only. ; No extra charge is to oe made for mtct| icine of any kind, and it is also proposed : to furnish surgical appliances aud skilled nurses where they are required, i The monthly payment for members will bs fix pence, and for a whole family one shilling. The necessary capital to put the system into operation is furym'.-.Ka/I q />Amr?ontr or.rYinACiizl , 11 C.Vi. IJJ Cb OtVoA ^V/J-LXj|^V?J^VA of public-spirited persons, including, ' among otliei ^istin^isned^^aca^^the j Duke of Westminster, thG Duke of BecP i ford and the Earl vt Iterbv who will j charge a fair raw K-r iiiu i tiien : money until the establishments become ! self-scpporting. Thus this admirable project, which is designed to lift a great burden from the shoulders of poor people, and which may bo expected to produce an important effect upon the public health, is neither a charity nor a snecnl&tion. I C ? Short Words. We must not only think in words, but we must also try to use the best words, and those which ia speech will put what is in our minds into the minds of others. This is the great art which those i must gain who wish to teach in the i school, the church, at the bar, or through the press. To do this in the j right way they should use the short j words wiiich we learn in early life, and ! which have the same sense to all classes j of men. The English of our Bible is 1 good. Now and then some long words i are found, and they al^ajs isuri the ; verses in which you find them. Take! that which says : "0 ye ulceration of j vipers, who hath warned you to flee | from the wrath to come 5 " There is one icngwora wmen ougin not to oe m jc i ?namely, generation." In the old version the old word "brood" is used. ; Read the verse again with this term, and voit will feel its full force: " 0 ye viper's brood, who hath warned von to | flee from the wraih to come?" Crime! sometimes does not lock like crime when ir is set before us in the many folds of a long word. When a man steals, and we call it a " defalcation." we are at a loss to know if it is a blunder or a crime. If he does not tell the truth, and we are told that it is a case . of " prevarication," it takes us some time to know just what we should think nf it mo-ri Trill orror r-lioot Viimcolf into wrong-doing, nor will he be at a loss to judge of others, if he thinks and speaks of acts in clear, crisp terras.! It is a good rule, if one is at a loss to know if an act is right or wrong to write j it down in a short, straight-out Eng-1 lish.?Horatio Seymmir. Sitting Bull is horribly ugly. An : officer showed him a looking-glass the other day which frightened the old man , so that he rushed up to headquarters and surrendered sis times in ten min- j utes. Took Three Throws. There is always a cro*d around the! place on Griswold street where you can J throw three balls at the doll-babies on i a wooden ruck and earn a cigar made of j cabbage-leaves and old fly-paper for, every one you hit. An excursionist was : pianiung down ms niciues tnere yester- ! day and rearing his coat tip the back in j a vain attempt to -win a cigar, when i along came a little old man with a pipe- j stem voice and a plug hat which mnst j have been at least twenty years old j when the war closed. In addition to j carrying a face as wrinkled as a spring j bed, he was cross-ejed and inquisitive, j ' What on airth is going on here?" j he squeakingly inquired as he pushed j into the crowd. The game was ex-1 plained to him, and he continued : "Say, git about a million of them 1 cigars out here, for I'm the boss thrower of this state! I've been huntin' this town all over for sunthin' to catch on j | to, and heie she is. Boys, give me room to spread out!" He removed liis coat, put down his ! hat, spit on his hands, and away she : went. A man standing over by the ! postoffice felt something strike his hat ' and hit the wall behind him, and his ; confusion raised a cheer. "How many of them babies did I crush?" inquired the old man as he j reached for the second ball. I "You must throw straight ahead, not ; off sideways," explained the man in ' charge. ' Straight as a bee-line, and Ltic gees to knock down a fnll thousand!' This time a man to the lcti, Icli u cannon ball hit him in the stomach, h.na he sunk down and let the crowd biing : out water, brandy, lemonade an a * : chunk ot ice before he would reco\e* "How many cigars that time?" asiita ; the old m n, as lie spit on his hands foi ! a fresh ball. "Say, can't; yon see the babies?" de: manded the owner. i :<See'em? You bet I can, and this : time I'm going to clean ont the pastnr' i or bust." j "Why don't yon throw straight I ahead?" "I do." "Well, you look out. Here, move j over to the right. There you are." "You bet I are! Now, then !"* He bit the brick wall to the left, and i the ball came back and hit him in the ' fiAar? with a which could be ' heard 200 feet. j "Who did that?" he yelled, as Uk. hopped around and listed the air. "You did! Say, you can't throw any ! more." ! "Why not?" i "You can't see straight." "That's another! I want them sey; enteen cigars I won." j It wa3 not until the crowd sided | against him that he would give in, and I he then went off with his coat on his I arm, muttering: "See straight! Why, them 'ere three ! throws knocked down more'n 400 babies ! and I know it, but they clawed off to ! saye the cigars. It's a good thing for j that crowd that I hain't got my old I clothes on to-day ?"?Detroit Free Press. I ? IKnlin'Atr DAKI^AV,? in aj JIVJ/WC1C 4 U VlilUVAUlUl Mrs. Pratt, while traveling in a stage j between Randolph and Trackee, had I the enjoyable an Aj impressive experience j of capture by a stage robber. There , were three men, two ladies and two ! children in the party besides the driver, \ who were* taking in the mountain scenI ery and expatiating on the climate, | when a masked man, decorated with a i double-barreled shot-gun, which was at ! fall cock, and with a sword bayonet ! attached at the muzzle, a revolver and I a hatchet, stepped out from behind a ! tree standing by the tr. ck, and com! manded the driver to halt. His per! suasive command vas obeyed, when he | told the driver to throw out the express , box and open it. The driver replied i that he couldn't as it was chained down j and locked. This was ' 'too thin" for | the party just then in command, vho j made a show of compelling obedience in a summary manner, and the drive?^ ; got the box out. The robber directed ! the inmates of the stage to get out and | stand upon tbe other side of the road, | which they did. The driver then, under I instructions, broke a large rock upon i the treasure box in trying to break it ! 1--^ --l j:? 4.1,? I open, out uvo buwcbunig liic iuuuci | threw his hatchet to him, and after conj siderable effort with this he succeeded ; in getting it open. The driver was i then directed to bring the box tinder a | tree by the roadside, which he did, and i then returned, under orders minutely ; given, to the stage. The robber then ; coolly but cautiously laid down his gun | by the side of the box, and getting down j upon his hnees took out what coin ! there was and went through the letters j and papers with the utmost coolness ! and deliberation, not appearing to be in I ii-- i l l r\ . ? ????? j me ie<i5b liurry. ruining auiuw tvru Chinese checks, he swore in a foreign j dialect and said : "These checks I can j make no account." Eaving abstracted ; ?272 in coin and papers, he kindly re! placed in the bos all the papers and articles he did not want and permitted j the driver to take it into custody again | and the passengers to resume their i places in the stage. He then said politely: "Good evening to you all/1 ! and ordered the driver to drive on, ; while he left the road and passed over I the hill, stopping to see that the stage passed quickly along without instituting measures looking to his apprehension. The passengers were not molested as to their valuables, which was fortunate, as there were a number of fine gold watches i in the party, besides several hundred | dollars in money.?Sacramento Union. Golden Sea-^'and. On the seacoast round Cape Commereil, British Columbia, exist deposits of i sand which, black in appearance on the ! surface, are found on examination after ' dig'gi^~arTCtv-kcc5fierto befallot"Sp_ecks j of gold. A handful of the sand wask^ j ed m a saucer displays numerous eparkj ling grains, which are pure gold, so fine I in tiny scales that they are popularly i called "float gold." The existence of | the gold has long been known, but the | difficulty has been to find a means of ; successfully and economically extract| ing it. Several machines have been ! tried, but without success ; and after | several failures the experiments were abandoned and nothing has been done I iur sumc jfins. new vuuiure is, I however, about to be made with a ma chine invented by a San Francisco com| pany, whiehpromis. es to be successful. Tliemachine consists of six drawers of layers of plates,'.covered with amalgam. Each plate has holes punched through it about a qxiarter of an inch in diameter. The gold bearing sand is "dumped i in" on the top plate, the water being ! turned on. The action of the water i sets the sand in motion and with the gold it passes through the holes. The sand fulls from plate to plate, leaving behind it the loose, free gold, which attaches itself to the amalgam; and by the time the sand has reached the sixth i plate it is accompanied by very few : grains of gold that have successively I escaped attachments to the amalgam on the previous five plates. The process I is simple, but it is reported to be sue- j cessful and to more than pay expenses. | Short-Hand in Miniature, "Wonderful things may be done in snort-hand. On a postal-card on view ' at an exhibition in Germany there had ; been written, in a German system oi short-hand, thirty-five thousand words, j Subsequently Mr. Hnrst, of Sheffield, i England, the publisher of the "Phono- j graph,1' a short-hand magazine, offered ; prizes for miniature short-hand. The j system was to be Pitman's, the writing . to be legible to the naked eye, and to ; be on one side of an English postal- j card, which is considerably smaller i tban a German card- twenty-fire thou- j sand words on the former being equiva- j lent to thirty-three thousand 011 the; latter. The first prize in this competi-; tion being awarded to G. H. Davidson, ! whose postal-card contained thirty-two ; thousand three hundred and seventy-! three words, including the whole of j Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer," ' an essay on John Morley, and half of ] Holeroft's "Boad to Ruin." <r ' T / ?? mn?TTTTTTT WAR5I BLOOD AS A DRl>~K. A Strange Scene at i he Biz Slaushtei Hou?c la West PhlliKtvlnhln. ^ "Am I blood-thirsty? Wei], I should think I am. Water is too thin. No, 1 never killed a man and drank his blood. Whoever told yon that -was mistaken. Animal blood is gccd enough for me,'1 A middle-aged, round-faced, jollylooking man nttered these somewhat cannibalistic words with great complacency as he mounted the steps of the West Philadelphia abattoir in company with three ladies and a reporter. He was a blood-drinker, and was accompanied by his wife, her sister, and a yonng lady friend who were, with the exception of the latter, also addicted to the bowl of gore. Inside the abattoir 2 long row of patient, meek-eyed cattle, ; in iron pens, awaited the slayer's ax, : TT'l-i-tlo ovrknr?rl VvncTr Ivrif/VViora ctnn/i ?Y U.J.XV (UVU11U CUU k/UCJ VUUViiVAW WWVVV an idle group of men and boys. At the Schuylkill end of the great room at elevator rambled up and down, carry ing refuse and hides to unknown depths beJow; red-handed workers swarmec about the pens with ugiy-lookingknives removing the skin from the dead ani mals with great rapidity, a stream o blood and water traversed the center o the floor and fonnd an outlet through cement conduit near the elevator, auc pools of clotted blood around the stall; proved hidden pitfalls to the unwar] visitor. The old gentleman, whose utterance: have been quoted, pulled three silve: cnps from a capacious pocket and lec the way to a pen in charge of a burr man, who bowed politely to the ladie; and gave orders to Hans, an assistant to knock on the head a fine white stee. that was .gazing placidly through th< bars at the carcass of a dead companion Hans seized a heavy killing implement half sledge-hammer and half ax, ant mounted the pern above the animal'; head. The unsuspecting steer fctooc ; with his head half upraised, in gfcoc position. Hans crept along a beam nn til directly above the animal's back Then he dropped on one Jsnee an< swung the heavy ax above his ,.3ad The burly man said "Now!" and dowi i came the implement of death with i i crash between the steer's eyes. The animal dropped in his track lib a weight, giving a few spasmodic kicks Hans jumped to the floor, shoved bad the heavy iron door of the pen an< fastened a rope and chain to the crea ture's hind hoofs. The rope was hatJe< tant by means of a derrick and shaft and the steer was swung clear of tb< floor. Two boys grasped the legs an< held the body steady, while a butcher his arms bare to the shoulder, stoo< ! ready with a sharp knife. He glance* at the blood-drinkers with their cnps. ! "Ready," said he. and at the word h ! plunged the knife into the animal1 i throat. A crimson stream gushed fort) J and splashed t-) the floor. The blood i drinker stepped quickly forward, ?Llle< j the three ctips with the warm fluid an< * banded two of them to his wife and he I sister, retaining one in his drippinj | fingers. ! "Your health, ladies!" exclaimed th gallant gentleman, as he tossed off th< draught of blood with great enjoyment The ladies were more deliberate, sip ping the beverage as though it wer tea or coffee, and evidently regarding it as a pleasant summer drink. Th I cups were refilled twice and ernptie< ' with great relish. The young lady re i fused to taste the blood and regardei I the whole affair with decided and ill concealed aversion. Feelings akin ti disgust were portrayed on her face a her friends removed the crimson stain from their lips with white eilk hand kerchiefs and expressed themselves a well satisfied with the result of tb morning's excursion. "I don't see what you can find nici about that horrid blood, I'm sure," saic she, in accents of horror, "and I wish ! hadn't come with you at all." "My dear girl," expostulated th? round-faced man, "you don't kno\ what you are talking about. Bloo< is the staff of life. "Without i how long do you suppose I would live I Cl 1 Wk wl T? T A ihOT?A ino kJlJLLLpijr JiU tlUJU. X UOCU I.*-' XIUT v juo such a horror of blood-drinking as voi have, but I was compelled to get ove it. I was nearly dead with consump tion, and was so thin that two of m wouldn't have made a decent, well-reg ulated shadow. I went to a doctor an< he* says: 'You must drink blood.' Say I, ''Drink what ?' not quite comprehend in^ what he meant. Says he: 'Yoi must go out to the abattoir every morn inland driuk of the blood that now: from a slaughtered animal.' I lookec at him sort of dazed and finally tolc /lio if T -frio/1 if. (Vnn1! UiUilA TT V V4XU ?L J. A W4.AWV* -AW* AWV* A die if you don't,' said he, 'it's blood o: deatn !' Afterdne deliberation I thongh I preferred biood, and blood saved m; life. | My wife was sick, too, and I persnad^d her to drink blood with me. A; a restklt we both got well and hearty She L&S grown young again, and I hav< blos-c)ped ont from a walking skeletoi to a sqlid weight of two hnndred anc fourteen. | "Now, there's my wife's sister," con tinned he, tnrning to that lady; "sh< was that far gene with disease that w< had to <|arry her here on a Stretcher She tooR sick at the smell of the plac< asu&woldn't bear the sight of blood We brought her here three times befor< she would taste it, but at last she ven j. 3 i. ,1 _i._ | lureu lu iry luiu sue sucueeueu ju gcv ting a teaspoonful down her throat. I tasted so much like warm milk to he: that she had no trouble thereafter ii drinking blood with the rest of us Look at her now?as fresh and healtir as you could wish and not troubled witl consumption in any of its forms. Bloo-: is the medicine for yon, every time You don't need a doctor and have n< frightful bills from the drug store. I costs you nothing but the journey to th< abattoir and that you wiJl enjoy whei yoa are gaining in health and strengtl every day. ?Tum'. ers of people visit the abattoi: '^daiiy to take advantage of the health gi^ngliquid. MaD" are in the last stage 0f consumption and are fighting deatl in the last trench, while others, havin: acqui^d the habit, visit the abattoi: occHsi\onalb* for a social glass of blooc with a? invited friend. The dangers o contracting animal diseases aie small The ca^le are almost invariably vounj and heathy and the blood sweet anc I rich. Butchers are a healthy, vigorou j ciass 0f. men, owing, in a great measure i to their well-known fondness for bloo< j and ratf meat. They claim that if i person p?eat beefsteak why should hi not drinlf- blood, emphasizing their ar gnment 1*7 pointing to their own robus I bodies. ; The Flower oi iflft noiy triiusu There is,at present in the conserva tory of Gormen Gate park an attractioi of nnusuaB. interest. The Perhteric Ktala, or Ghost flower, which re cendy conim^nce^ to bud, has within r few days bloaSCmed. In the center o the blossom o" extraordinary plan is, iu miniatuM figure of a dove the color being.0* snowy whiteness, ex cepticg the vpngs, which are tingec with brown, ini^? attitude of drinking from a little m^ite font. The large: petals of the floVer.^end about the remarkable figur<F. ^ike an 0T2I framt around some ji^ece of delicate waxwork. The plan* 110 ? the east wing of the coi;servafor7 *s a remarkabh i ??Vhe stock on whict -large ^.-cuiuicu, ? - are the blossoms qeing five and a hall feet tail, anP having fifteen well-defined ljttds?another stalk, growing from th(?frme bulb, being five feet tall and havi^W^elve buds. This remarkable plan^Bp continue to put forth blossoms j^Brom six weeks to two months, whe^B^parent bulb will die, leaving two that will, if properly cared stalks and bloom on nes^^^^^Bue day in August next year^^^^^Bent blossomed on this. this extraordinary plant ^his city from the Isthmus o^^^^^l^here it 13 very common, the^Mj^^H0^1"'2? it " El Espiritn Santo/^^B^^R7 Spirit. Its growth depends the soil in which it is pIanted^BB^Bemreratnre of the atinosphe^^^HBp> moist temperature being' nec^^B^Bcauqp ^ to bloom.? Son Fran BIRXED OUT. ! j A Thrilling Adventure in Sombern India. ; ^ The following is from Edwin L. ' 11 Arnold's "On the Indian Hills | I was busy writing, and the evening j i being cold and wet, and fever still har-g- ^ ; ! ing about me, on that eventfnl day I ^ ' 1 had made a fire in the stove in my lit-' j tie hut, the chimney of which passed up '' through the thatch of the roof. The : ( ' ! dinner was standing ready on the table !' i ! i-u. i i ; ' | uau me iump was uuruiiig i ' i but, as the next day was mail day, I j ! I wrote on and on, absorbed in my occu j pation. The temperature of the room j, ' j suddenly increased very rapidly, and a i ^ " | sort of red glow came on the paper, j ( 51 which I remembered afterward, but at ! 1 the time thought little of. ' However, the heat became so notice- ; i able that I at last started up to attend j ' I to the stove, which I supposed was tbe 5 culprit; but to my dismay and aston- j j 1 ! ishment, directly my eye* ^ere raised, \ i I saw the whole roof of mv hut already j! 5 I in flames, and burning fi^/cely under a ' I! strong wind which was blowing through ; ? ! the trees outside. "What followed was i " j very brief and decisive. My "boy"! (| was just coming round from the kitchen i ' f | with a dish of curry, but when he saw ; 1 | this astonishing sight he stood spell- i 1 j bound for a moment, and then down | s j went the carry and he flew to the big ! f bell hanging on a tree close by, and j rang a peal which brought the coolies j; 3 swarming up the hill in a dusky, jelling j r crowd from their "lines." * Half a glance showed me it was im- | ? possible to save the hut, for it was now ; 3 well alight, and the strong wind in> creased the flames every moment, while c the nearest water was at the bottom of 3 the hill, and I knew well that before v>e could collect chattels and organize - a fire brigade it would be all over. So ^ 11 proceeded to save what was possible. s | The estate books were got out first, ? ! -!/>?> n !<->* nf tv*tr f\nrn xtViiaTi will VTALiX Ob IV/ U V/i V ?? *13 umwm - --. , ^ bear tlie marks of the jung e mud, j " into which they were thrown, as long as j they last; and then I unlocked some ! ' drawers and salvaged several parcels of j money. By this time the place was j 1 like an oveD, and burning " fore and j a | aft," and the wild looking crowd ofj coolies outside'were yelling and danc- i g ing about, quite at their wits' end. One old woman rushed bravely in, j 1 and, making for my sleeping compart- ! ^ ment, seized a blanket and pillow, j which she gripped tight in her dusky | 1 arms and carried about with her for the j '? rest of the time, being much too excited 1 5 j to put them down anywhere. Fired j j by thi3 example, some coolies made a | '? rush into the porch. Unfortunately my j ^ door opened outward, and in the scuffle i it banged to and was kept hard shut in j my face by the great ciowd outside, of j e j whom the men nearest the door were j 8 pressed close against it by the others 1 2 further away. In vain I kicked and j - shouted; it was shut firm, and the dense ; ^ yellow smoke was blinding me and get- ; j ting down my throat. At length I j r j called out to the head native " maistry," ) * who I know was outside, " Jowra maist- i I ry, knock some of those fools down, ' e | and clear my door." 0 ! Then there came the refreshing j ! " Whack, whack," of his stick, and the j " I crowd parted and the door opened, but' 3 | not too soon. Already the flaming mass J ? 1 on the roof overhead was rocking on | 6 : the slender uprights which supporteds I * j it. Any moment it might fall. The j " 1 last 1 saw of the interior of my poor j * , hut was the ready-set table; the lamp j -1 still burning placidly in the thick yellow j 3 j smoke, the white tablecloth on lire in j 5 j twenty places, and big flakes of matting j s j falling, smoking, to right and left. J * j Scarcely had the door opened and freed i s me, when I heard the sharp crack of j 5 I my revolver which hung up loaded at! j the head of my bed, and the bullet! 3 i whistled overhead. * | The pistol had become red hot, and j ^ I now, added to the general confusion by j j falling to the ground, and every now ; e | and then leaping up and firing a shot! 7 I promiscuously into the crowd. This re- j 1 I minded me of my unfortunate guns, J k! which there had been no time to save, i ? i and they, in turn, reminded me of a ! fc | new, unopened five-gallon tin of kero- j 1 ; sene oil which stood in my bedroom. 11 r | would have fetched it out, though it j i were red-hot, had there been any chance j e ; of its staying the fire ; but, as it was, I j - I was so disgusted with the loss-of my pro-; 1 ! pertv, I thought it might as well take ! ~ ! " ' " 1 iL . A 1_ _ 1 I 0 | its cnance ana ena up tue xoniasna uy v. i * j grand final firework. 1 j And so it did! The coolies had ' scarcely obeyed my warning and got s ! behind trees, when there was a terrific * I bang which was heard right on top or j 1 ; Bungalow Hill; a great column of j 1 I smoke, flames and sparks leaped right r! up to the tree tops, singing the leaves; ; I and then, dying down, the roof fell in, ; 7i followed by what remained of the walls. - j For a moment everything was brightly 3 j illuminated, but soon the fire went out * J with a sudden calm, and I was aware I i I was standing in my slippers, bare1 | headed, in the rain, which was falling 1 i fast now by the smoking cinders of the I ; poor little house which had sheltered , * | me for ten or eleven months. J j That night I slept roiled up in a I - ; blanket on the floor of L 's bunga-! 1 l,?11 +1iq n mArnilll? I j 11? vr \J1A JLLlAJy iUiU UUW liVAV , after a melancholy search among the j ; ruins for treasure trove?in which. I j 1 fotind rupees and annas fused into lumps, j J nnd only the metal work of my guns re- i : ramining?I co-jfided my sen-ants, my ; : dogs, all my belongings, that could be . ; got together (and the cat, if she could ; i be found,) to the care of my friend ; borrowed a pair of boots and a hat, and, i , mounting my pony, turned my back ; i on the Pardagherrv jungles, meaning to ; I go to Calicut to refit and see a doctor, : ! and, perhaps take a holiday, if he per- j ! scribed one, at that great resort of the I 11 broken-down Southern Indians, the J 3 ! Neilgherrv Kills. i i - ? i: Incoavcnicnce of Being a Hu morist. ! ! Bret Harte's peculiar horror is the j r j poem that made Lis reputation?"the | -! Heathen Chinee." To a friend who once ; s j made a quotation from it in his hearing ; a j he said : "If you love me never men- j ? 1 tion 'Heathen Chinee' in my hearing, j r j If I die young it will be of that miser- j I; able washerman. He i3 my nightmare j f | and my davmare. I cannot get rid of i . i him, go where I will, and he springs up j ? ! like a jack-in-a-box. With some people j I j I have to be polite and listen to all tbev ' s I have to say on the subject ; but I feel' , j that I knoV you well enough to cry out 1! 'spare me!' I am willing and pleased to i a ; talk of any of my stories, and even any : s j other poems are not unpleasant to my ; - j ear; but the Mongolian will kill me ! II yet. Why, do you know, they have ac- j i tuaily set it to music?a frightful dirge! j ! A young lady insisted upon chanting it j ; to me, the other night, and I had to j i listen patiently, instead of following my | -; inclination, which was to tear the music j i j into a thousand pieces, and dance up - - ' * i ? n ^ n I i ! and down on rue Key-ooaru oi me jnuuu. -1 It was enough to drive rue mad. My i i i friends think tbat they are paving me i f | a huge compliment by making constant fc J quotations from the different verses. , I They will poke me in the ribs and say, - ! "That for ways that are dark,'and wink I ! at me as they say, 'His smile it was j | childlike and bland.' I thought I would : i getaway from it all by coming East, but | the pigtaiied nightmare pursues mo." . I The Considerate Tenant. ; ; I Uncle Nace owns several shanties ou I ' I Austin Avenue, that are rented out to I ' l | colored tenants, among them Sam John: ! sin?:. >7is*ht before last Sam knocker j ' ~L P *>/ ?* XI'r\ IrA V) 1 *V? s\11 f. ! | ?(j italic o uuvi, .. w^.v. v^.? of a sound sleep. > "What's de matter ?" said tlie old man ; i sticking his head out of the window. j ; "I jess come ter tell yer dat I can't i get a wink c-b sleep. I lias tor pay yer i [ de rent ob de house nest Saturday." j "Dar's no need ob yer staying awake ' i at nights, and worrying on dat account. 1 ; . ; Dars no hurry about de rent." i "Yes dar is. I jess come ter tell yei j J ; dat I r.int got no money to pay de rent, | : j and I has done moved ray tricks out, so ;! you is bousd to Icose de rent.. Now. ; j you kin stay awake and do do worry in', j . i and I'll go home and do de ?leopinuow. j . ! I has got dat oilers my mind."?Si/tings ; j The citizens of Alaska are moving to | . ; j obtain a civil government and repressn tation in Congress. i ) A Fiery Grave. The Westphalia papers give an ac30tmt of a terrible catastrophe which occurred in the northwestern part of [.hat province on the ISth nit. There lias been for some time in operation in :he neighborhood of Solingen, not far irom Barmen, a strange phenomenon. A. part of the soil of a hilly heath be- i lame excessively hot, so mnch so that j some people living close by availed i themselves of the heat for domestic pnr- j poses. The explanation suggested was j that some inflammable subterranean gas, j or perhaps petroleum, had been acciden- j tally set on fire. Some water had been ; brought to the spot by an artificial j :t>annel; Dut its conract wiin me ua.ru-; ing soil had only produced violent ex- j plosions, which seemed to shatter all' the ground around. Recently some; persons drove out in a carriage from i Remseheid to inspect the" spot. When j arrived at a distance of about a quarter; oi an English miie, they heard a strange rumbling noise, which so terrified the horses that th?y had to alight and send . the carriage back some distance. They ' walked on, discussing the likelihood; of any danger, when suddenly a space of the hillside, about 100 metres square, \ opened, disclosing a gulf of liquid fire j and throwing up flames. The house I where the family mentioned above lived i was at once surrounded by the flames and W3s, before their eyes, swallowed up in the liquid fiery caldron at their feet, apparently feeding the flames. It is known that several persons were in i the house; none were saved, but it has j not been ascertained how many per- j ished.?London Times. Art and Oil. The Norfolk Virginian, of January 16, 1831, refers to the remarkable cure otfpcted by St. Jacobs Oil in the case of Professor Cromwell?known the country over for his magnificent art illustrations?who had suffered excruciating tornjjnts from rheumatism, until he triedthe Oil, whose effects he says were magical. r? 4- 1M.AAWI /?AW woe infrn. JL t iO COiU IUG>V M1WU1 WJIU r i*M3 t"." -,r i duced to this country by Dr. Franklin, He saw a seed on a broom, planted it. and the seeds from this single plant were the beginning of broom corn as an American agricultural product. (Rural New Yorker.) The best people will vote for the best man every time. And we judge by the number of the St. Jacobs Oil constituency, that it is the best remedy for the rheumatism known. Professor Tice, j of St. Louis, among others, says so. Over 100 men in a Colorado town hunted nearly all night for a lost brick- ! bat. It was a silver one, however. " Lies! Bis Lies!" Not so fast, mv friend; for if you would see | the stroacr, healthy, blooming men, women ami children that have been raised from beds ol' sickness, suffering and almost death, by the use of Hep Bitter.-, you would say, "Truth, glorious truth." See" " Truths" in anothc-r column. The millionaire Baron Eirsh Trill gave 820,000 to enable Kussian Jews to emigrate here. "RESCUED FROM DEATH. William J. Coushlin, of Somerville, Mass., says: In the fall of 18761 was taken with bleeding of the lungs, followed by a severe cough. I lost my appetite and flo3h, and was conlined-to my bed. In 18771 was admitted to tlio hospital. The doctors said I had a hole in my lung as bis as a half-dollar. At one time a report went around that I was dead. I cave up hope, but a friend told me of De. William Hall's Balsam kou the Lujcgs. I got a bottle, when, to my surprise, 1 commenced to feel better, and to-day I feel better t haa for three years past. I write tills hoping everyone aiHicted with diseased lungs will take Dn. William Hall's Balsam, and be convinced that consumption can be cciied. I can positively say it has done more good than all the other medicines I have taken since my sickness. WARRANTED FOR 31 YEARS AXD yEVE It FAILED To CURE Croup. Spasms, Diarrhcea, Dvsenterv and yea Sickness, t::kea internally, and GUARANTEED l>erfectly harmless; also externally. Cuts, Bruises, ! ChroDic Rheumatism. Old Sores, Pains in the limbs, j bark and chest. Such a remedy is Ds. TOBIAS' , VENETIAN LINIMENT. ?ir~No one once trying it will ever be without it; over &J0 physicians use it. 2o Cento will Ray a Treatise npon tiic Ilorse and his Diseases. Book of 100 pages. Valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid by NEW YORK NEWSPAPER UNION, 350 Worth Street, New York. THE MARKETS. 4 NEW YOUX. Beef Cattle?Med. Xat.live \vt. 9 (7? 11% Calves?Good to Prime Veals.. 5 (it, Sheep j @ 5^ Lambs 5 7 Hogs?Live. ?Y/'? ~, Dressed, city Flour?Ex. State, good to fancy 6 CO (s. 8 00 "Western, good to choice 0 80 C(? S 50 TVlieat?No. 2 lied 1 o\%<$ 1 5:) 2s"o. 1 Wliite 1 -lo'/./ri. 1 *9,1^ Rye?State 1 03 ? 1 10 Barley?Two-rowed State t-5 (ji SO Corn? UngradcdWestcniJlixea i.-j ^ , j I Southern Yellow 73 Oats?"White State 53;^ Mixed Western 42 45 Har?Timothy P'J & 1 i5 Straw?Xo. 1, Kve ?5 C'i 75 j Hops?State, 1831 20 Or. 23 Pork?Mess, new, lor export...19 75 Oj,%20 00 j Lard?City Steam 12 40 @12 4'J ! 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One of tl.e tno't i'o:;t:jioa of these conii>laiut3 i> T/:ucorrLoca or [ W!:i:e3. which ;>r" hrr.u.rh: on either ??y the rwucc , scrofula in the system. or by sotae affection of the ' ivomb. or even by Keiicr.il debility. For all these ; cotuplaiats, ac<l when danger hs-^ius to threaten ! ivoman at the turn of life, Vsr.zr,rc.-E can be ccinie.?nded without qualification. The ^reat prevalence f these disorders, and their euro by Yecktine, has ' imply shown that the sure alienating a ent remains cc.t yet to be discovered, bat is already known, and a favorte with American ladies. Too Ions has it ; 1 oen the custom to prescribe nauseating anduncer- j i in remedies in place of what is pleasant, efficacious t md cheap. Try Vegetixe. and do not doubt its power . to car." j ju safely through danger and di>';ase. rt Cnfanriirl PJlorlinino?ann Mir?_ ! ""VUiwnix, " vv?. ? W4IIU I?*u . r.ey Disease, Female Weakness* ! Griggsvtixk. I'.!., July 2o, 187j.. TT. n. Stzvess, Eo-tou?Dear Sir: I was aflictcd ] ,-,-ith Heart and Kiln*?/ Disease, and other FomI' i i: >;!. ??* ?.?, and doctored with several physicians and ccivrd no beneiit until 1 tried your veostink, and r tak::i? two l>ottles I was' completely cured, i!i.i have b'-fn a hea'.thv woman ever since, although i am in ir.v u?it!i j-^ar. 1 do heartily recommend it as i s-iSr-udid medicine to all a!H:ett?d as 1 have beer. ,,U I bl?* the day that it Vegetine. PREPARED BY H. E. STEVEN'S, Boston, Mass Vegetine is Sold by All Druggists. \ V Mystery of Vanilla. There was long a mystery hanging over the useful aromatic vanilla. The Spaniards under Cortez found it in use in Mexico to flavtu delicate condiments, and soon learned to employ it; and the dainty in Europe sanctioned its use, and from that^time vanilla reigned supreme. But what plant really produced it was the question. The jealousy of the Spaniards prevented much investi- j gatiou; but it is now imown teat tne I few species of the vanilla are all climb-1 ing orchids; so that, as thej never touch earth, their substance and fragrance are all won from the air and the trees. J*elf-Dcfrni?e. To a criminal neglect of preventive medication may be ascribed a majority of the ailments which affect humanity. I: is a'weli-ascertained fact, resting on the experience of over twentyfive year.-1, that a coume of Hostettcr's Stomach Bitters \vi!L put even a naturally feeble system in such a state of defense that it -will be"competent to resist the most prevalent causes of disease, such a3 the malign influence of miasma, unwholesome water, excessive heat, damp, cold, sudden changes of temperature, etc. Yet there are thousands of persons living in perpetual peril from tne or more of the.-e causes,' who reck'cssly omit ts avail themselves of the absolute protc-c:ion which this famous vegetable antidote affords. Intermittent and bilious remittent fevers, rheumatism, general debiiity, nervous weakness and irregularities of the stomach, bowels and liver, would bo comparatively unknown, if this palatable rarco 1 rt^A in t.V>A /Hatr-i/vf-* where they principally prevaiL There is a yonng- lady in Keokuk, Iowa, who is six feet, four inches tall, and she is engaged to be married. The man who won her did it in these words: 'Thy beauty sets my sonl aglow?I'd wed thee right or wrong; man wants bnt little here below, bnt wants that little?long." Not a JJeverase. . " They' are not a be^ erage, bat a medicine, with curative properties of the highest degree, containing no poisonous drags. They do not tear d. vrii an already debilitated system, bnt build it im. One bottle contains more hops, tliat is, more real hop strength, than a barrel of ordinary beer. 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People who cz tried it were more than surprised by its results. as attested in the speedy and perma nent care of their Stock, and they gladly announced their experience by word of mouth and by the public press, until to-day Farmers and Dealers, Stockmen* and Breeders, the country over, are using St. Jacobs Oil with delight, satisfaction and profit. The others who mistake of t^ie^r thinking that fzfc Stock by a anything is ft&S miserable efeood enough ji fort at econfor a Horse t omy. There is made by are others j who humanely regard the welfare of their faithful dumb creatures, and provide for their comfort wtth good food and shelter, and for their health by a constant supply of St. Jacobs Oil,?the safest and speediest iu relief for Diseases of Horses and Stock ever j discovered. Whenever there appears any ?-7j evidence whatsoever of disease or injury among Animals, they should have the best possible treatment, as it never pays to defer attention to Stock. 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