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fA QUEER DKOYE, How the Fn* Seals of the Behrlnir Sea Currnled and Driven to the Killicz Grounds. The method followed by the natives of St. Paul's and St. George's islands, rvflf f.Tia A1 ?uu utooaa WAOLOJ ii-i wuo far seals, is curious. During the summer season the seals frequent the shores of these islands and gather on the beach in vast numbers. The younger male or bull seals are the only ones that are killed, and they are found assembled by themselves away from the breeeding rookeries. The natives go down to the beach in the early morning and quietly surround a group of 100 or more seals, getting between them and the water. The seals are then alarmed with shouts and cries, and terrified, flee inland along the only way left open. They are driven in this way to the killing place near the village on the shores of the island. Driving them is a very easy olf V?/\n rrV* foVfto mm?m ..q; MAk^vU^U iU UAA&3 UU^JLU OVyUlU time te accomplish the distance; but they blunder along, stimulated by the cries of their captors. The old bull seals that may be in the drove are apt h to show fight, but if they do they are f allowed to drop out of the crowd, as their skins are worthless. The young ones are as easy to drive as a flock of sheep. The seals, when finally driven upon the flats between the east landing and the village, and almost under the win dows of the dwellings, are herded there until cool and rested. The drives are usual 1 j made very early in the morning, iiir. ?St the first breaking of day, which is L30 to 2 o'clock of Jane and July of these latitudes. They arrive and cool off on the slaughtering groands, so that by 6 or 7 o'clock, after breakfast, the able-bodied male population turn out from the village and go down to engage in the work of slaughter. The men are dressed in their ordinary working garb of thick flannel shirts, stout cassimera or canvas pants, over which the "tarbossa" boots are drawn. If it rains, they wear their "kamlaikas" made of the intestines and throats of the sea lion and fnr seal. Thus dressed they are armed with a club, a stout been made particularly for the purpose at New London, Conn., and imported here for this special service. These sealing clubs are about five or six feet in length, three inches in diameter at their heads, and the thickness of a roan's forearm where they are grasped by the hands. E-ich native also has his stabbing knife, his skinning knife and his whetstone. These are laid upon... the grass convenient, whenths-wofk oi bj&SiBg-efuisof&mg tSe seals down is ^ in progress. This is all the apparatus which they have for killing and skin "When the men gather for work thej are under the coatrol of their chosen foremen or chiefs; -usually on St. Paul, divided into two working parties at the village, and a sub-party at northeast point, where another salt house and slaughtering field is established. At the signal of the chief the work of the day begins by the men stepping into the drove, corraled on the flats, and driving out from it 100 or 150 seals at a tima, make Wu&i they call a pod, which they surround in a circle, huddling the seals one on another, as they narrow it down, until they are directly within reach and under their clubs. Then the chief, after he has cast his experienced eye over the struggling, writhing kauticle in the center, passes the word that V 3 1- _ 1 V'Xi. 3 i.1 L Buca aau suuu a iseiu is uiuien, uau Luaii such and such a seal is too young, and that snch and such a seal is too old. The attention oE his men being called to these points, he gives the "word strike, and instantly the heavy clubs come down all around, and every one that is eligible is stretched out stunned and motionless in less time, really, than I take to tell it. Those seals spared by the chief now struggle from under and over the bodies of their insensible companions and pass, hustled off by the na+.TVAA "Ka^Tr t,n rpa. Than tnA oar casses are skinned, and the pelts pre* pared for shipment. The common or popular notion in regard to seal skins is that they are worn Jby those animals just as they appear when offered for sale; that the fur seals swim about, exposing the soft coat with wh?ch our ladies of fashion so delight to cover their tender forms during inclement winter. This is a very great mistake. Few skins are less attractive than the seal skin when it is taken from the creature. The fur is not visible; it is concealed entirely by a coat of stiff overhair, dull, gray, Lrown and griz ziecL is ta&es ?nree oz tnem to mase a lady's sacque and boa. Fitting them for the market is a tedious, costly process, requiring great skill. V- : As the summer "wanes the seals forsake the islands, and old and ycnng take to the sea, and it is supposed Bpend their intervening months, until next season, on the fishing banks of the jp|: ' North Pacific. Some yew Arithmetic. I A merchant bought four barrels of sugar, seven barrels of molasses and two barrels of meal. Find what per cent, of barrels he mixed with his coffee? A beggar met two boys; one gave bim seven cents and the other gave him eight cents. Find the name of the third boy who hit him in the ear with a snow-ball ? If one insect has six legs and another insect has seven, how many hornets ? * * J- _ * n .1.1 does ic case to nic & dot out oi we oia roan Sabin's orchard ? In one field there are eight sheep; in another field there are seven horses. How many men will it require to properly conduct a village dog-fight? A county officer on a salary of $800 per year purchased two horses for $1,600; a carriage for $4u0; a set of silver for ?200; four silk dresses for his wife at i$6U eacn, ana played poser to ine time of $180. How much did he save out of his year's salary, and what is the county going to do about it ? If a young zaan owns a little cane, a rat-and-tan dog, a pair of lavender pants, three flash neckties, a frail mustache and a flirtation handkerchief, what will it cost to board six idiots at a first-class hotel for a year ? A bmeau weighing sixty-eight pounds is to be carried up a flight of stairs twelve feet high. What little power must be exerted to the square foot to get it half way up? A._bureau weighing sixty-eight pounds Kas'been tnsrsred half-wavtiD a flight of stairs twelve feet high. "How fast"must the old man travel to get to *he foot of the stairs and take his boots off before the old thing smashes him ? Among the plajers in a poker-room are three merchants, two alderman, four clerks, two lawyers, one butcher and one grocer. A raid is made by the police and all are captored. Find how many of them " dropped in to see about I selling the poser man a norse. A plumber is called upon to mend a leak in a water pipe. He sends an employe who surveys the leak; another who conrts the servant-girl; a third who has forgotten his accordion; a fourth to look after the other three. He sends a bill for $4.12. At this rate, how loDg will it take the plumber to secure a mortgage on the City Hall ? A asks B for a loan of $5 until Saturday. Six months later B reminds A that he has not returned that " V" yet A denies that he ever borrowed a red cent of B. and offers to punch his head lor msuisxng mm. uina wnat x> loses. A tramp gets two kicks at one house, ^ a cold pancake at another, and a bite from a dog at a third. How long will it take him to get into the Work-house for sixty days? Thirteen Mexicans cro??s the Kio Grande into the United States on a pleasure excursion. They conclude to invest in a drove of Texas cattle. Threenf tT>o rmmhfiT toaae with acci dents and remain permanently on this file, while another fifth feeJ hurt about gjLV something. What is the exact numbei |??, of those who got home without feeling Bpi tny thing in particular ??M. Quad. Hp^" ' An exchange thinks no shares pays so well as plovr-shares. This may be PgS;. c rrect, but most people who hold fe:i" shares won Id be willing to trade em of? for bank sharer. - , it ' THE BANS OF ENGLAND. A JoarnnllBt Visits the Greatest Financial Institution in the World. In his notes on his recent English tour.Howard Carroll,the New York journalist, says: Thanks, too, to one of these same policemen we may cross safely through the mass of whirling and rambling and rattling carriages from the Royal Exchange, and "merchants' walks," and the house of "Lloyds" to ml. "I- mr 3 31. ?i ? ins oiu iauy in j-nreaaneecue street, so called by her London children, and known to other people as the Bank of England. Until some other corporation can boast a capital greater than ?14,550,000 perhaps they may be permitted to call their favorite, as they do now, 'the richest old lady in the world.' ?ne Dans is a low, long structure, wmcn coverg eight acres of ground, aDd in which there are employed a thousand persons, managers, clerks, messengers and porters, whose combined salaries amount to about ?225,000 a year. It is a private corporation or business, not a department of the government, as many people suppose. It has existed, for nearly 200 years, having been founded in 1691 by a shrewd Scotchman named William Patterson. Ab now arranged, the business of the concern is managed by a governor, deputy governor, and a board of directors consisting of twentyfour members. Of these eight go out of office annually, but they may be and generally are re-elected term after term. It is stipulated that the governor must be a proprietor of the bank stock to the amount of ?4,000, and that the deputy governor and directors shall own stock a- ii i -? r?n t\r\c\ J r?."? ? lu uie vaiue vi auu x:ospectively. So well is the bank managed th?t the dividend upon the stock is seldom less than seven per cent., a high Tate in England, and one share of the par value oi ?100 can usually iind ready sale for ?200. Aside from its privilege of issuing notes payable on demand?crisp, fresh, beautiful notes they are, and good in all parts of the civilized world-the Bank of England has from tne government tne additional advantage of beinjr allowed to manage the national debt. To secure the note issue, as may be stated by the way, there is never less than ?15,000,000,and sometimes as high as ?25,000,000, in gold bars and silver, besides other securities, in the bank vanlt. Every bar of the gold weighs sixteen pounds and is worth about ?800. To protect this great treasure at night a company of militia is employed. For the management of the national debt, which now anioiuitSLtojSSOO.OOO.OCO, the bank receives ?200^(KJD^vear, a comparatively small commission wi*?JL.it is remembered that out of it mast be paid the expenses of keeping the mar.y accounts connected with the colossal dei^. the ? 3-* 3 i. - -i- t 1 J .<l,? pay id g ox aivxaeiioa iu its uoiucxo, c^c collection of the income tar levied npon it, and the transfer of stock. And all this vast bnsiness, in addition to the other affairs of the baak, is conducted with so much system and care that losses or error are almost unknown. In the paying office,the telling-room and the rotunda, millions upon milions are handled every day, great heaps of gold are shoveled about a3 though it -was so much sand, and piles upon piles of * 1 - - 3 J oans-cotes ara counteu aau suiteu. about with the rapidity of ihe wind. Yet 30 well trained are the clerks, and so delicate the weighing machinery, that a light coin or a false no ;e is never passed into the bank. That nothing is stolen from it is due in great measure to the vigilance ana fidelity of tho3e quiet-looki.ig beadles who all day long sit so silently at the doors. As we pass out they are sleepy and listless apparently as when we went in. but lev. a suspicious character or a professional thief enter, and their eyes will ^ Alii ?r* ir? a never ieave mui uxi ixo ia iu wc o?iot? again. In short it is no exaggeration to say that the Bank of England is the most carefully watched and guarded money institution in the world. A Lesson in Hamility. I don't know as it is much of a story, but the telling of it one hot May day brightened us all up in a wonderful manner. We were discussing a wedding we had attended that morning, and were criticising the appearance of the bride, when Aunt Gratia, who had been busy at her sewing, asked: fTH/l mn avat V> ?>? ? nf a weddinfr where no one looked at the bride V 4'Such a thing would not be likely to happen, unless it was at an asylum for the blind, only patients admitted," said MabeL "It might have been the couple who were married under the window in OUUILLkJ YVCaiUUi) Mbiu T UOt "We never heard of such a thing. Did you, Aunt Gratia? Was it a real wedding, or is it only a conundrum ?" "The wedding to which I refer was in a church, and the seats were all filled, for it was a general invitation. It was a floral wedding. Being the seven teenth of June there was no lack of material, and as the Sabbath-school scholars took the matter of decoration in hand, there were plenty of helpers. The huge wooden ark of the cone try meeting-house was transformed into a bower of beauty. The girls were all dressed in white gowns looped up with roses, t *? ? 1.1? as a me dojb wore ruses m wio uun?uholes of their vests. Every guest cairied a bouquet, the old people and all, and children scattered flowers in the briaes's pathway as she walked from tier childhood's home near by the church. There had never been such a display in that town before, and it wasn't done tor style at all, but just because everyone loved t he minister's daughter and wanted to have a finger in her marriage pie; but after all this parade no one looked at the bride." Aunt Gratia smiled, and went on complacently with her sewing, while we all broke in afresh: "Did a sudden darkness cover the land?" "Perhaps there was a prevailing eyedistemper at the time." "Did eome fan-loving youngsters throw pepper in the eyes of the guests V "Oh, I know! Something happened at. fTia -porv fthnrnh dnor to Dfevent the ceremony being performed. How romantic I" ''Wrong, all of yon," said Annt Gratia. "It was as perfect a June day a3 ever slipped into the abyss of time. Every one was open-eyed with eager expectancy. And the ceremony came off according to the programme. I know, for I was there myself and heard every word." ' 'Oh, Aunt Gratia! how can you be so tantalizing?'' ' Do tell us, aunt, we give it up." J So the dear old lady, having threaded her needle, took up the story again. 11 When the bridal party were entering the church, and the organ was playing a wedding march, a low, clear, cniiQisa voice pipeu. up. "Oh, do just look at that mouse right on the pulpit cushion 1" "Everybody heard it and looked; and everybody felt obliged to keep watch, for they all knew the silly little bride was mortally afraid of a mouse, and they imagined the consternation should the bright-eyed nibbler jump or fall upon her bare white shoulders and arms as she stood there almost exactly beneath him. The little thing behaved with all possible decorum, however, in spite of their forebodings, and after the holy words had been spoken which made the young conple one for life, the mnsic 8truck Tip and the mouse ran back along the railing and into his hole in the platform." "Oh, dear me !w "How funny; and you saw it, aunt T "No, I didn't; I had something more important to attend to." "Oh, Aunt Gratia, it was your own wedding, was it not?" "Yes, dears; and it was a lesson in humility to me that I have always remembered; for there, when I had every reason to consider myself the center of attraction, and was as self-conscious as possible, I found afterward in this most important event of my life I was entirely eclipsed in the eyes of all my acquaintances by a tiny long-tailed mouse." Chicago has the largest Hebrew population of any other city of equal numbers in the world. Hna^-u: V* j Life in China. J Family ties, blood-relationship, and filial respect and affection are strong in I China. The father is not held responsi! ble for his son's debts, bnt the sen is responsible for the debts of his father, j He is botind to support his father, if ! necessary, until he gets married and | has a family of his own to support. If i he abuses his father?and even should j the latter become dissipated and seem i to deserve it?the law punishes him, I and not only is he punished, but his ; neighbors living on all sides of him are fined, for not interfering and preventing the ill treatment. There are no newspapers in China. Every town has its market, and two markets are held daily?morrfng and evening. All events of impo-tazse are bulletined in the markefc-plac: every day at the expense of the municipality. There is no mail system in China. If a man wishes to write to a friend in a j distant place, he mnst wait until he | finds some one going to that place, and intrust his letter to him for delivery, in such service there is no surety^ of j the letter reaching its destination. This Is realized bj Chinamen in this conn try, who get only a very few of the letters sent them by their friends, while their letters in turn frequently miscarry. There are no liquor saloons in China. The people drink spirits made from rice, as well as gin, and, among the wealthy, wines, liquors, brandies, etc., are nsed; but this use of spirits i3 mcBtly during meal time. Tippling is tinknown in China. If a man wants to drink, he can buy his liquor at the grocery store and take it to his house for use'. No license to sell is required. Any dealer can sell it freely. During' my stay of eleven months in that country, says a writer, I did not see ai. intoxicated person. Rice, meats of various kinds, poultiy, and fisb, are the staple food. A man can live on fifteen cents a day in China ?twelve for meats and three for rice. All classes use rice, which is the main article of food in the kingdom. There is no such thing as courting among young people in China. The bride and bridegroom never see each other until they are about to become man and wife. Their courting is all done by their parents. Let us suppose that you have a son and I a daughter of marriageable age, and we are friends. TT 1-11 4.^ | iuu wu iu? buaii juu wituii iaj %rvua I eon married, and ask if I am willing to ! give my daughter to him. I say yes, I have seen your son and like him, but you have not seen my daughter. Bat you hire a female broker to go and inspect my (laughter, which she does for a consideration. Indeed, this is a regular business, and many make a good living out of it. She visits my house, sees and talks with my daughter, finds that her feet are eo small that she can hardly walk?that absurd custom of deforming the feet is still very prevalent in China?and returns and makes a most flat:ering-report. Then you and I come together, and I sive you a written paper embodying my consent to the union, while you, in like manner, signify yonr approval, and give me the paper signed by yon, and the engagement is completed. You then cause a great number cf sweet cakes to be sent to my daughter from your son, and these are given around to our friends as an announcement of the betrothal of our daughter. The marriage itself may not take place for a month, six months or a I year after the engagement, according to agreement. There is no religious ceremony of marriage in China. A friend of the bridegroom's family? nsnallv a man of resoectabilit? and do sition?is chosen, who reads the marriage ceremony from a book, which binds the couple; who, before that time, had been strangers to one another, 1;o live together during life. It is rare indeed that these marriages turn out unhappily. Recognizing the Criminals. While in their earlier days the Australian colonies were far from a paradise to the incorrigible convict, that period | was, on the other hand, the golden age of British convict life to those who had the sense to recognize their opportunities. To-day a man emerges from the great penal servitude prisons of Milbank, Dartmoor or Portland with the world all before him, bnt very far from being able to choose what he will do in it. In fact, unless the Prisoners' Aid society comes to his assistance, he is in great danger, however well intentioned, of relapsing into crime from sheer want. But the ticket-of-leave man thirty yeare ago found an active demand for his services. A comfortable maintenance was within reach of aB, ' ' 1 i--* 3 U1- J Willie many ODiameu cunsiuerttuie anu some even great wealth. But to a "lifer," however successful, there was a forbidden paradise. He must not return " home.'-' This prohibition became, some thirty years ago, intensely bitter in the otherwise sweetened cup of a notorious criminal. All the joys c>f life became as nothing when this was denied him. He offered the government to pay $500,000 fine for a remission of nis sentence, but was informei ii.. J:;J mat outs ^(jvexiiuiciiu iuu uui sou par dons. At length, so intense became his longing to revisit former scenes, tha t he started for home without leave. Over twenty years had elapsed, and he felt coiiuaced that no one who would " pescb" ""onld recognize him, and findir / one seemed to do so he grew JlV ? . 1 resolved to " have his fling. S he /ent down to the Ascot races a .ouche and four. By some misch:-^- nis postilions madeablui der and got into the way of the royei cortege jost as it was coming at-the course. The gray-haired inspector c-f police "rode up to s^t matters straight, and his eyes met tnose of the ex-convict with that glance of recognition which says: f< I've seen yon before, old boy, and under very unpleasant circumstances, too/' He was, in fact, the very constable who, five and twenty ye irs before, had arrested him. The ex-convict did not stay to see the races, and was back at Sydney to report himself, as he had to do once a year in due time. The case has been recalled by the excellent memory d *? " -3? .1 _ P XT T7.^T_ U judge JBeueaiCDj 01 ixew a oris., wuu, equally to the surprise of the secret service officers and of the prisoner recognized Daniel Eossa, convicted for counterfeiting, as one of a gang convicted before him for the same offense seventeen years ago, when $30,003 of counterfeit was captured. A Bottle's Long Yoyage. In the autumn of 1879, the young son of M. de Bille, the Danish minister to the United States, on a voyage from Copenhagen to the Sandwich Islands, threw overboard in the Atlantic ocean a Dot lie CCUULLLU1K a IV mo brother-in-law, an officer in the Danis h navy, then stationed at St. Thoma:;. The bottle?an ordinary soda-water bottle, tightly corked?was set adriit in the latitude of the Cape Verde Islands, with no idea, of course, that it wonld reach its destination. The experiment being the mere fancy of an idle moment, it was forgotten before the voyage was over. Two years had passed when last October, the Danish of Pnor'rt "Plata Ran Tkrirrnncrrv V/UUOU1 OU JL, UV.AVV Jb 4MbM) VMM. V ?-..Q^; | Mr. G. A. Zeller, walking one day in ! his garden on the sea-shore, observed \ a bottle thrown up oa the beach by the ] surf. He picked it np and fonnd thai; ] it contained a message, the writing of j which could still be read, though it wa s mnch faded. Mr. ZeUer is a German j and conld not read it himself, but nn- ! derstood the language well enough to \ know that it was Danish. Accordingly he sent the bottle and its contents to : the editor of & newspaper at St. Thomas who happened to know the officer to whom the letter was addressed, and | who had not loug since returned to 1 Denmark, He sent it to his address in Copenhagen, where it arrived a few , weeks ago. The bottle had been 1 carried by the Gulf Stream across the neean to the West Indian islands, about I 2 500 miles. Said the leader of the train-robbers as ! he boarded the Pnilman car: "Don't: disturb the passengers, bnt seize the i porter. He's got all the money in the j , crowd by this time!" I - r -r.? i "WELL-KN0W5 PHKASES. " *' _ ^ " * ? *a Rota Orf?? liow me r o 11 o w i u ? m s ^-ui? .? ?? - - ?? . mated. Hurrah.?This word, which is eo : frequently shouted, in this country e - j pecially, originated among the Eastern i nations, where it was used as a war-cry, j from the belief that every man who ; died in battle for his country went to j heaven. It is derived from the Slavonic j word, "Hurraj," which means "to j Paradise." "What Are You Giving Me??This j oft-repeated expression?indicative of j disbelief?which has been added to the | vocabulary of slang, has noles3 a sourcf I than the Bible. It may be found it i the thirty-eighth chapter of Genesis. A Cat May Loox at a King.?This , saying is said to have the following | origin: When Charles IE. was fleeing, j in disguise, from England to France, ; he was sitting on deck directing tbe conrse of the vessel, when one of tho eailors filling his pipe near by. blew some of the tcbacco in his fase. The I master of the ship ordered the marine I to go further away from the "gentle- j man," when he, grumblingly, replied, j quite igrorant as to the quality of the j passenger : ''A cat may look at a king." j "Sweet Bt-JlKD-By."?This popular hymn was th9 work of two men?Joseph P. Webster, now dead, who composed the music, and Dr. F. S. Bennett, at the present time a resident of Richmond, 111., the author of the verses. The two wrote a hymn-book in 1874, and "The Sweet By-and-By" was one ol the pieces jointly produced for it. Th;suggestion came from a chance remark by Webster, who was habitually despondent, that all would bo weli "by-ana by." Bennett at onco made th" rhvmAsr and Webster brrracht trxlC' I music out cf a fiddle, which was hi. customary aid in composition. Th<? hymn-book had its day, and is forgotten ; but this one tune is put into everj new publication o! the kind, and has * sale of about 10,000 copies a year ir sheet form. Dr. Bennett sajs that heand Webster were not orthodox Chris tianfl when the hymn was written, and that he is now even a less believer. As Dead as a Hebuisg.?This es pression has a Bimple origin. The her ring, which when fat is called j "bloater," die3 immediately upon it.removal from the rea. It wants air, and can live only in salt water; where as eels live a long time after leaving itnative element Swimming so near the surface, as it does, the herring require* much air, and the gills when dry canno! perform their function?that of breathing. Grog.?Admiral Vernon, the name after whom Mount Vernori was named? was the first to requixe his men to drink their spirits mixed witii water. In bad weather he was in the habit of wzlking the deck in a rough grogram cloak, and hence had obtained the name of "Old Grog" in the service. Such was; the name applied to rem and water. Limbo ob Lbibus.?[Lat. "Limbus,'' a border.] A region supposed by som6 of the old scholastic theologians to lie on the edge or confines cf hell, Here, it was thought, the sonls of just men, not admitted into heaven or into purga- ; tory, remained to await the general resurrection. Such were the patriarchs and other pious ancients who died before the birth of Christ. Hence the "limbo" was called "limbus patrum." According to some of the schoolmen there was also a "limbus puerporum'' or "infantum," a similar place allotted to the sools of infants dying unbap- i uzeu. lU 'Uiese wuo auucu,iu yu^uiiH opinion, a "limbus fainorum," or fool's paradise, the receptacle of all vanity and nonsense. Jack Eetch.?A han|;man or exeoutioner, commonly so called from one John Ketch, a wretch who lived in tha time of James II., and made himself universally odious by the butchery of many brave and noble victims, particularly those sentenced to death by the infamous Jeffreys during the "Bloody Assizes." Halcyon Days.?Halcyone was the wife of Celyx, and the latter having met his death by drowning, Halcyone cast herself into the ses, with the dead body, and both were transformed into the kingfisher bird. The animal lays its eggs on rocks near the sea in calm mid-winter, and the "halcyon days" are therefore seven days before and after the winter soletice. ? A Bone to Pick.?It waa an old marriage custom in Sicily for the bride's father to rive the bridegroom a bone, saying: "Pick this in order to show how yon can manage a wife, which is more difficult than picking a bone." This is ; o oommrsn oTTilfl-naHnn ? Vint thflnraetice i of throwing bones io dogs is a cuwe ! natural method of accounting for the I saying. A Train Robber's Cftiifrssion, The confession of John Land, the * Missouri train robber, is in substance i that he ia a well-digger by trade. He j was approached by two men who proposed the train robbing to him. Ee : thus continues: " As near a* c?n judge, it was a lit- | tie after 8 o'clock when got np, took down my rifle, and, slipping ont in my sock-feet, got away -without rousinr any of the family. Upon arriving tt the cut I gave the signal agreed upon. It was answoied. and I stepped forward 1 and was met by Tesse Jamc-s. All the ! members of the old gang were there? j sis of thom?and Armstrong snd Deerdaff, whom I knew before, and who i had joined the regular gang a shore time before ; but I was the only ono of the neighborhood boys who had got there. Shortly after Creed Clwpm^n and John Bugler pave ihe siga&l and _ ,-11? T?i,v, I C3XH013) ZCU1U Wliig vua ia?-uv ; alono. Pxelty scod the train was heard j coming, and Jesse said : 'Boys, we who ] are older hands at the business will j stop ihe train, go through tho cars, and j get what there i3 there. You fellovs run along the outside and fire fifteen or twenty apiece to scare tho pa330Eg?s.' Jesse stocd upon a pile o: rocss on the track swinging a lantern, and the train came to a stop within a lew feet of the obstruction. Captain John Bulger and 1; -- ?U. HJV3G1I BGUOU <Jll lilts suum o;uo *. * uu*. i track, while John Mott and two others were on the other side. The first thin;? they did was tc break into the express car. We all had nr. white masks, and as I began at oncc lire, and the excite- I ment rose, I c;id r.oc notice who it wa& ! who went into the cars. Before -we had been long at work I saw a man comc from the trail-, with a lantern and star, to run east. John Bslger called out: " Look there, what does that mean ?' Creed Chapman at once fired at him, followed by Bulgor. I took the third I shot. Just then somo one called oni i from the train, 4 Don't shoot him, ho is going to flag the freight.' Af'^r the men in the cars got through ihey cam6 | to the head of the engine and were jciued by these o' the north side, and then all c? thsm came oyer and j riued us on the south side. We ail started eff togeiter, went through the wire uce, and wez>t due soath. for eorne distance, when wo were haitcd by Jesse Jamen, who said: 'Boys, it i3 trt iltit men wVio cive?s this sway. uguuxi vv ..... n - - ? _ # Go to your homes as though nothing had happened, and n.eet me on the east fork of the Blue next Wednesday night ?one week f,:om that night--and we will divide equally.' We then separated, and I went home and to bod without disturbing the family." Eeginning with the robbery of tho Liberty bank in 1866, this band hss plundered fourteen banks, as many railroad trains, the cashier's office of the T?.?,coo n*f.t? to-r <rrftnnrl?s in hroaddav. jixauovw v.iy ?? ** ? ? , ( and numerous stages. Ko lees than twentv detectives and sispocted neighbors have boon assassinated. This record has not been made, hoF3Y?r. without tho loss oi fourfesa lives on the j part of the ontluws, and tha ment oi abo-*U twelvs more. Frank James and Ommings are the ojjJ* j ores left at large. A doctor at Brhznoa.'] sa^it that if por-ple will tiko a bsth in hr-t rrViiYy and rooX Kilt .irice a year thay vill nsv^r ca,tch a Cold. Until ftoinebo ly had tried thw nex r*ai?rty -re would ?tyrook to ths old md roliibla Ds? Ball's Coagh Syrap. s/ ZAJS.H, fcrABDIr^ AAH HULSLttUliU. A Weak-A need Colt. "Weakness of theljnees in a young horse after having been driven a few miles is due to the bafr-k tendons being overworked. These either lose their proper tension cr become contracted, cansing the knees in either case to tremble and eive way. / The remedy is to apply stimulating and astringent lotions from the knee,'downward on the back of the leg, and'to let the colt rest for a few weeks ; a laced bandage on tfc.e leg below the knee might be useful A Usefal Table. To aid farmers in arriving at accuracy in estimating the amount of land under cultivation, the following table is given : 6 yards wido by 95S jards lone contains 1 acre. Id yards wide by >ards long contains 1 acre. 2o yards wide by 242 yard" '"ng contains 1 acre. 4-0 yards wide Uy 121 yards Ions contains 1 acre. Si j urds wide by 6; ?> yards Iour contains 1 acre. 70 yards wide by CS^yards ;odk contains 1 acre. 2l'0 feet wide by 198 feet long contains i acre. 4-10 feet wide by 92 feet lonR contains 1 acre. U'J leet wide by 3G9 feot lon^ contains 1 acre: f)il 'cet wide br 726 lect Ions contains 1 acre, l j) leet wide by o63 feet long contains 1 acre. 240 feet wide by 181^ feet long contains 1 acre. Purifying Rooms. To purify a room, set a pitcher of water in the apartment, and in a few hours it will have absorbed all the respired gases in the room, the air of which will have become purer, but the water utterly filthy. The colder the water is, the greater the capacity to contain tnese ga3es. At ordinary temperature a pail of water will absorb a pint of carbonic ! acid gas and several pints of ammonia. The capacity is nearly doubled by reducing the water to the temperature of ice. Hence, water kept in a room awhile is unfit for use. For the same reason water frcm a pump should always be pumped out in the morning before any of it is used. Impure water is more injurious than impure air. Soots for Cows. In Europe, says the American Cut enter, the carrot is grown to a great extent for feeding cattle in the winter months. Roots of some kind are led the winter through to cows. An Iowa raiser of Jersey cows says he is accustomed to feed carrots, of which he usually_raised six hundred bushel s per acre. Uarrots id crease tne flow oi mil* and improve the appearance and quality of the butter. Beets are preferable to carrots for increasing the flow of milk; the milk, however, which is produced from beets is not as good for butter. The breeder mentioned above has found it difficult to raise his calves on clear Jersey milk, and advises the feeding of thai which has been skimmed. I How to riant a Tree. To those unacquainted with treeplanting the process seems very much of a mystery. Yet there are but a few things necessary to success. A tree should be taken ont of the gronnd with all tho roots possible. If many roots are cut off in digging, there must be a corresponding thinning of the branches as a compensation. The roots must net be allowed to dry. A tree with its roots exposed to a drying air can no more live than can a fish out of water. The next thing is the planting. The hole should be large enough to take in the roots as the? were before. Good fresh soil should be on hand?not fresh manure, that is injurious?and the soil pressed and trod in very firmly around the tree. This firm treading brings the soil and th9 roots close together at once, and the small roots soon commence to draw a supply of moisture from the ground. After planting, a mulching of leaves, manure, or similar material may be placed around the tree to its advantage. After this the tree should grow. Gardes Seasoning: for Food. Many people have the idea that a finely flavored dish must cost a great deal; that is a mistake. If yon have untainted meat or sound vegetable, or even Indian meal, to begin with, yon can make it delicious with proper seasoning. One reason that French cooking is much nicer than any other is that it is seasoned with a great variety of herbs and spices; these cost very litttle. If you would bay a few cents worth at a time, yon would soon have a good assortment. The best kinds 3re sage, thyme, sweet marjoram, tarragon, mint, sweet basil, parsley, bay leaves, cloves, mace, celery seed and cnions. If yon will plant the seed of any of these first seven mentioned, in little boxes on your window sill, or in a sunny spot in your yard, you can raise all you need. Gather and dry as follows: Parsley and tarragon should be dried in June and July, jasfc before flowering ; miat in June or Jcly; thyme, m&joram and savory in Jaly and Augnst; basil and sage in August and September. All herbs sbouid be gathered in the sunshine and dried by artificial heat. Their flavor is best preserved by kcepiag them in air tight tin cans, or in tightly corked glass bottles. Cliiclis fn tiie Garden. It is a very excellent practice to place newly-hatched broods in an inclosed garden that the older folks do not have access to. Confine the mother hen in a coop, rvhich may be placed in the shads of any small fruit tree or bnsh. *? * ? ' *l 2 -3 .1! L as chicks require soxc &au ueuuaie xuuu | at first it is difficult to feed them if their coops ere placed where the rest of tho flock can pillage freely. The London Gardener's Chronicle speaks of the valuable service of little chickens in the garden as follows: 'J? bey run about, i doing no harm, their little bodies and J feet leave no impression on the soil; | they do not scratch, seem never dissat-: isfi.ed, but find pleasure only in the pursuits of food or in basking in a warm co;mer in the sun's rajs. While in this 6tage of infantile innocence the little creatures can in the garden perform a va?t amount of good. Their little eyes spy out and little bUls gather myriads of insects that are not c-asily visible to th? human eye. Perhaps owing to the vevy minute nature of the food they gather, arising from their characteristic voracity, they are almost always roaming about and doing useful work. Meanwhile the clucking and actions mother may be kept'secure in a bottomed coop, Wiucn, removed nere ana mere in tue garden, will allow the chicken3 to enjoy fresh feeding each day. VTJien to Cut Grain. Home of the correspondents of the Now England Homestead are going fot Superintendent Sanborn of the Collego Farm for claiming that grass should not be cut until it is in bloom in a very shtirpway. One of them says:?"After reading Professor Sanborn's writings I must say that I am very much astonished th&t any practical farmer, and certainly a professor in a State college, should advocate the cutting of grass in bloom, or a, few days subsequently. I have bad fifty years' experience in cutting and feeding hay. Many seasons muc'a ~.Z ii tmh /?r?+ lo+rt Dnr TYroqcni.. U1 TTCfcO VUU ivu AUWVI v crop gives the best satisfaction of any I ever fed, and four-fifths of it was cut in June. From my experience I am satisfied that 1,500 pounds of timothy cnt one week previous to bloom will make more butter, beef or mutton than 2,000 pounds one week subsequent to bloom. Nine tons are cut too late where one is cut too early. There was an article in the Homestead, I think two ? -* ? ?- ?4 ?? f A V?a yV&LE U JLlWi'u ?>UXU-L jJ<- x wiju? wv/ the experiments of a German chemist with grass, claiming that if cut while green 88 per cent was nutriment; when ! in blossom, G2 per sent.; aad when seed is fully formed or ripe, thirty-one per ' cent, nutriment. I am no chemist, bat think that article worth more than bdt ' other I ever read. If that is near a fair representation of the value of grass in the different stages, Professor Sanborn *.3Tnf?aHn? ilio -nrr,<ito. nl millions ifl the Middle and Eastern States, 8nd I hope he will recent and be converted froai the error of hia wajs. Permnrono# of lUansre*. At a late meeting of tbo Eltnir* (N T.) Farmers' Club, by S-.o Hu*bari<3m*n, the diecuMion tarafirft t>p?n the length of time dnrmcr ^hich * coaling of manure will b^ntSt Biiccimsfre crops. One speaker s&idth?t it was j impossible to ?ar her aian of a Heary f T t covering of manure is taken np by any single crop. The benefits are sometimes distributed over several years. The uncertain element in computing the value of manure is this distribution through successive crops. Besides, .there is something to be credited to the action of manurs in releasing fertility latent before its application?the changed condition that permits crops to appropriate what was already in the soil, but not avauauie wiiiiuuu unuuxc. an application of manure shows plainly through several succeeding crops. As a rule, he doubted if a good dressing i3 more than one-third appropriated by the next grain crop. Another said that cabbage would take all the elements contained m a dressing of manure, and the next speaker declared that though it might take all the elements it could appropriate, there would be something left for wheat or oats or corn?elements that cabbage cannot use. The best crop of wheat he ever raised "was on land that came into his possession after it had been used steadily for oats so long that the crop had ran down to twenty-two bushels to the acre. He fitted that land for wheat, and got forty-four bushels. The oats had exhausted elements that went into their composition, bnt without manure there was something left for wheat. W. S. Carpenter, a member of the club, says: "Manuring heavily is like eating a great deal. I take a gTeat deal of food, bnt to balance the account I must work a great deal. If I fail to do that, there is a penalty?sickness. I may eat and work, but, without work, aairrr mndnvof/a oafincn io Viptt.OT t.Tiftn '"J W-.W.-WW v?. ? 0~ full indulgence. So with land?if manured heavily it most turn off big crops or the farmer who pays the cost will get sick. Give me manure and I will try to get good crops, but I have to try without full supply, for manure cannot be bought at sucli rates as will leave profit in grain crops. Now I must say that my opinions have changed somewhat about the ways of using ,znanure to get most profit out of it, but I have a rule that I can stand by; get the manure in the soil, no matter how, so it gets | in the earth with a little covering. Once I ?*> +V>a c?v?l 4+ in cafe- tVioro is nfthhinc t.n lose. Pile and rot, handle and expose it, and there is waste?waste, besides labor lost. I would rather have two loads raw, than rotted in to one load yes, one and a half loads raw than two rotted into one. For my use the soil will take care of all the value when the rp.w manure is put into it, and it will extract the fertilizing elements, no matter how raw the manure when it goes in. I do not accept the theory that raw manure is not good for wheat. No doubt fine manure is better, but even wheat will stand raw manure in the soil, and if it doesn't take all there is in it, the next crop will get something. I do not believe any single grain crop will exhaust a heavy dressing of manure. Tobacco may do it, so far as I the elements it appropriates are concerned, bnt even after that crop something would be left to support a succeeding grain crop?and tobacco is more exhausting to the land than anything else we raise. Becipe* Tkipe.?To prepare tripe for the table you shonld order it the day before you "wish to serve it; scrape it thoroughly, wash it in several waters until it is perfectly tender; let it drain in a platter all night. Next day cut it in small pieces and fry in hot lard after having rolled the pieces in flonr. To serve with this, make a rich, brown gravy, using a little of the lard in which the tripe was fried. If for breakfast, send baked potatoes, fried apples, and tomatoes with it; the tomatoes may be canned ones, cooked, and with thin slices of toasted bread put in the bot torn of tne iisn. Hoe Cake.?Scald one quart of corn, make with jnst enough hot water to make a thick batter; stir in two large spoonfuls of butter; beat this a little before mixing it with tho butter so it wiil rise readily; add halt a teaspoonful of salt. Thi3 should be baked at least three-quarters of an honr; butter the tins well in which it is baked; serve hot, Stuffed Touatoes.?Choose a dozen large, round tomatoes, cut them off smooth at the stem end, take ont the seed and pulp; take a pound of lean steak and two plices of bacon ; chop them line with tho inside of the tomatoes ; season with a ficdj-chopped cnicn fried, a dessertspoonful" of salt, half a teaspoonfuLof white pepper, as much cayei>iiO'~pepper as you can take on the end of a knife, and a tablesnoonful of finely-chopped parsely; add four rolled crackers, and if too etilT. thin with stock, water or cold gravy; fill the tomatoes with this fcrco meat, packing tight; sift cracker crumbs over the top l.rva fr*- on Tvyii>? in a ttJLJ Lt JLKJX UU *?V i** am M oven. Ceeam Cakes.?"Water, two and onoJialf cupiuls; flour, two cupfuls ; butter, one rupful; fivo eggs; boil the butter and water together ; stir in the flour while boiling ; after it is cool add the eggs, well beaten; put a large spoonful in muffin ring?, and bake twenty minutes in a hot oven. The ? M _ J _ _ LI*:*. ?m.+ w . | cream lor inem is maua lu mxa ?aj . i J Put over the fire one cupful of miik | and not quite one cupful of sugar; one egg mixed with three teaspoonfuis of j cornstarch and one tablespoonfol of butter; when cool, add vanilla to the taste; boil a few minutes only; open the cakes and fill them with this cream. They are easily made and are delicious " Many Months ou a Desert Island. Papers brought bj the Cape mail steamer Baltimore Castle slate that the American corvette MarioD, Commander Terry, arrived at Cape Town from Heard's I>iand, bringing the survivors of the crew of the American bark Trinity, thirty-three in number, who were wrecked at Heard's Island in October, 1880. The Trinity, Captain John L. Williams, sailed from Nov London, Conn, on June 1, 1S80, bound on a whaling and sealing voyage in the Southern ocean, and arrived at Heard'a ' ? - - ^ v a i rsr>r\ rni 1 i_ island on uctoDer z, ioov. jlub uar& anchored on the island, which is uninhabited, and is situated in latitude fifty-three degrees south, longitude seventy-three degrees east. Until October 17 all went "well, but on that day, during a heavy gale, the bark -dragged into four fathoms of water. The anchors had to be slipped and the vessel was beached in order to save the lives of the crew. At the time the weather was intensely cold, and while the crew were being landed seven of them had their limbs badly frostbitten. With this exception the landing was effected without accident. The same night the Trinity floated off o?<3 ttoh hlnwn to sea. since wliicfc: time no trace cf her ha? been found. From October 17. 1SS0, the shipwrecked crew, numbering thuty-five originally, remained on the island until they were rescued. Fortunately, in landing, the crew managed to save some three months' scpply of provisions from the wreck. This, supplemented by sea-elephant, penguin flesh, and penguin eggs, wit* some sea cabbage, formed the diet of the crew. On landing the captain and crew found I anrrsn cmnll Wnn^fiH huts. WLicll had i been placed there by various whalers who occasionally visit the place in, search of sea-elephants. These huts formed a most wolcome shelter. During the sixteen months of their enforced captivity the sailers were engaged in hunting sea-elephants. In the winter season, and, in fact, during' most of the year, the men suffered much from the intense cold, and on January 30.1881, two of tho crow,named Jicrnard Kelly and George "Watson,' while out hrj.-licg and when crossing a glacier, wore overcome by the cold and vere frozen to death. On the 15th of February, about 5 p. ir., the forlorn' <5<*ohi Al H Knit, nriinc alone the' i coast. Signal* vera mad? to her by jaejjw oi llmVets, er.d the eteaiaer ?hich proved to bo the SJ-aion, st orca made for tliO Miol-orago. Early next raorhin^ to* vrecLrxI n<?rinrir3 vera tracsfeire? t? hv. Bird's Inland is a bleak islwii -?f v-vsanic cr'jrm, and is i : about thirty l^ng by three miles i wide.?Londvn Tvr.es. i t ^Sat A Modern Witch. In this age of intelligence, and beneath the shadow of half a dozen school-houses and churches, one would hardly suppose that there is supersti; tion enough to lead people to regard the sham mummery and clumsy ant:C3 of an old woman as being those of a witch. But such is the fact. There is now living in an alley running into Liberty street a woman who proiesses to be endowed with supernatural power and whose conduct is as gross as it is grotesqv a. She never enters her own house without leaping backward and forward over the sill of her door, and when she goes into a neighbor's house she does the same tiling. She is constantly engaged in incantation when not employed at her ordinary work, and whispers ominously of her power to spread or stay disease. Absurd as these things are, they have produced singular effects on some of the neighbors. A woman living next door to the witch actually believes that her children are more or less affected by her influence, as they have had all the diseases common to children, while other children in the same neighborhood^whom the witch like 3, go unharmed. These ridiculous beliefs and fea*^ are producing considerable excitement, and the witch enjoys her reputation. She anathematizes and blesses such as incur her disfavor or favor, and revels in the fact that she is feared by the ignorant.? Uarrisburg [Pa.) Telegraph. Twenty Years a Sufferer. R. V. Pxesce, SL I)., Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear Sir? Twenty years ago I was shipwrecked on tho Atlantic ocean, and the cold and exposure caused a large abscess to form on each leg, which kept continually discharging. Aftei spending Hundreds of dollars, with no benefit. I tried your " Golden Medical Discovery " and now, in less than three months after taking the first bottle, I am thankful to say I am completely cured, and for the first time in tei.' years can put my left heel to the ground- I am yours, William Bxdeb, 87 Jefferson street, Buffalo. N. Y. Thebe are 6G5 savings banks in the United States, with $900,000,000 deposited by 2,000,000 depositors, the average deposit being $350. Thousands of women bless the day on which Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" was made known to them. 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Price 25 cents. ?*-r? nnrrvii nWCSVlTPI) RTTTTRS liU* Is the best Remedy for Djspepsia, Biliousness, Ma (aria, Indigestion and Diseases ot the Blood, Kid aeys, Liver, Skin, etc. DEOT02FS BALSAM cures Coughs, Colds, Rheumatism, Kidney Troubles, etc. Can be used externally as a plaster. Use RED HORSE POWDER for Horses and Cattle, j ALLEN'S Brain Food-cures Nervous Debility & I Weakness of Generative Organs, SI?all druggists. | SendforCircular. Allen'sPharrnacy.313Firstav.,N.Y. TEE MARKETS. NEW TOBS. Beef Cattle?Prime, live weight 10 @ 11 Calves? Com'n to Choice Veals. 7 @ 10 Sheep 7 @ 1% Lambs 8 @ d% Hogs?Live 7 @ 7% Dressed, city 8%@ Flour?Ex. State, good to fancy 5 20' @ 8 25 J Western, good to choice 5 SO @ 8 75 | Wheat?No. 2 Ked, new 1 42%@ 1 42% No. 1 White, new 138 @1 38% I ~ M fa 93 I itye?aiaie ? w Baiiey?Two-rowed State..... 92 @ 98 Com?Ungraded WestomMixed 81 @ 84&? 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Besf?Extra plate and family. .13 00 @13 00 Hogs?Live 7%@ 8 Hogs?City Preyed 9)s@ Pork?Extra Prime pel bbl... .14 25 @11 75 Flour?Spring "Wheat Patents.. 7 50 @9 00 Corn?Hi.-h Mixed 82 @ 83 Oata?Extra White CO @ 61% Rve?State 97 @ 1 00 Wool?Washed Comb J: Delaine 46 Unwashed " " 30 @ 31 H'ATEBTOW.V (JIASS.) CATTLE XABKrf. Beef?Extra quality 7 00 @ 7 50 Sheep?Livo weight & (f? 0# Lama9 7 @ 8 Hogg, Northern, d. v 8,3?? 8% PHILADELPHIA. Ftour?Penn. Ex. Family, good 6 25 ? G 25 Wheat?No. 2 lied 140 @ i 40 Rye?State 97 @ 97 Com?btate Yellow 69%^ 60% Oats?Mixed ?9 @ 59 Butter?Creamery Extra Pa.,., ii @ Cheese?New York Full Cream. 13 @ 13 Petroleum?Crude 6 @ 7 Refined 7%@ 7J* Indleratlon'a Martyrs. Half the diseases of the human family spring from a disordered stomach, and may be prevented by invigorating and toning that abused and neglected organ with Hosteler's Stomach Bitters. Let it be borne in mind that the liver, the kidneys, the intestine-, the muscles, the ligaments,'the bones, the nerves, the integuments, are all renewed and nourished by the blood, and that the digestive organs are the grand alembic in which [the materials of the vital fluid are prepared- " When the stomach fa.ilo Yvr^tri^Q nnnriqfcmP.nfc for itf dependencies they necessarily suffer, and the ultimate result, if the evil is not arrested, will be chronic and probably fatal disease somewhere. It may be developed in the kidneys in the form of diabetis, in the liver as congestion, in the muscles as rheumatism, in the nerves as para'ysis, in the integuments as scrofula. Remember, however, that each and all of these consequences of indigestion may be prevented by the timely and regular use of that sovereign antidote to dyspepsia, Hostetter's Eittera. According to the Bombay Gazette the total number of cases of cholera during the past yeai was 30,966, of which 14,232 proved fatal. Don't Die in the Home. Ask druggists for " Bough on Rata." It clears out rats, mice, bedbugs, roaches, vermin, flies, nta, insects. 15c. per box. Send name and address to Cr&gin & Co., Philadelphia. Pa., for cook book free. AH Humors Eradicated. Vegetute thoroughly eradicates every kind of humor, and restores the entire system to a healthy condition. Vegpfine. The Barks, Boots and Herbs FBOJI WHICH VEGET12TE IS MADE IN POWDER FORM SOLD FOB 50 Cents a Package.! Vegetine For Kidney Complaint and Nervona Debility. Islkbobo, Me., Dec. 28,1877. Me. Sikvkss?Dear Sir: I had had a Couj?h for IS years when I commenced talcing the vegettne. i was very low; my system was debilitated by disease. I had the Kidney Complaint, and was ver7 nervons? cough bad, lungs sore. When I had taken one bottl? I found it was helping me; it has helped my cough and it strengthens me. I am now able to do mv work I know it is everything it is recommended to be. Never have found anvthing like the Vegetdcz. UB8. A. J. PENDLETON. Vegetine. Dr.W. ROSS Writes: Scrofula, Liver Com pi ai n t, Djspepsia, Rheumati-.m, Weakness. I have been practicing medicine for 25 years, and as a remedy for Scrofula, Liver Complaint, Dyspepaia, Rheumatism, Weakness, and all diseases of the blood, I havfc never found its equal. I have sold Vegetixe for seven years, and have never had cue bottle returned. I would heartily recommend it *o those in need of a blood purifier. DR. W. BOSS, Druggist, Wilton. Iowa. September 18,1878. Each package will make. In quantity, aco oomvtoj Vegetlne Uqjiid, or about three pints, after the Barks, [ Roots and Herbs are steeped. Vesretlne in Powder Form is sold by all druggists and general stores. If vou cannot buy it of them, inclose 50c. in postage stamps for one package, or $1 for two packages, ana I will send it by return mn.il. Vegeiine IsSoldjyall Druggists. MOST FERTILE SECTIONS OF*THE U. S. Garden Plots, 5 to 25 acres, on Long Island, only $25 per Acre by Installments. 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