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FARM, GAIIDEX AM) HOUSEHOLD, Item* of Practical Interest. At least half of the trees whioh bear frnit every year would be benefited by having half the fruit taken oil as soon as it is well set. The overbearing of a tree will in a few years destroy it. As the time approaches when spring work commences, it would be well to re pair gates, get your fence in good order, train vines over your outbuildings, and put shrubbery along your feDces. Get as much verdure in sight as possible, and if you are able to make your build ings and fence white, all the better. Seeds that grow on limestone land 6hoald be changed every few years for those which grow on barren or gravel land, and vicc versa. Such an exchange proves beneficial. By continuing to sow ono kind of seed all the time, the crop will become inferior in quality. In regard to live stock it is the same. Breeds should be crossed as often as practicable. Gardeners should attend to the follow ing rules in making flower beds : Avoid placing rose colored next to scarlet, orange or violet. Do not place orange next to yellow, or blue next to violet. White relieves any color, but do not place it next to yellow. Orange goes well with blue, and yellow with violet. Bose color and purple always go well together. When drying off cows after the regu lar milking has ceased, the udder should be frequently examined at intervals of a iew uays, ana any miiK wmcu una col lected should bo removed. If left un attended to to, serious injury may be in flicted upon the udders, such as the loss of teats, shrinkage of the udders, etc., thus impairing the future usefulness of oows. Household Hints. The best plan t-o remove grease from wall paper is to lay several folds of blotting paper on the spot, and hold a hot iron near it until tno grease is ab sorbed. All salted provisions must be watched and kept under brine. When the brine looks bloody, or smells badly, it must be epalded, and more salt put into it, and poured over the meat. For cleaning tinware, nothing better than common soda can be used. Damp en a cloth, dip it into 'soda and rub the ware briskly, after which wipe dry and it will look equal to new. A cool and dry room is indispensable for a storeroom, and a small window over the door, and another openiDg out doors, give a great advantage by se curing coolness and circulation of fresh air. Unbolted flour should be kept in kegs or covered tUDs, ana always do Kept ou hand as regularly as fine flour. It should be bought only when freshly ground, and only in moderate quanti ties, as it loses sweetness by long keep ing. To make delicious graham rolls take one pint of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of salt and stir in graham flour to form a thick batter. Mix this at night and in the morning have your roll iron smoking hot; pour in the batter and bake in a quick oven. Molasses, if bought by the barrel or half barrel, should be kept in the cellar. If bought in small quantities, it should be kept in a demijohn. No vessel should be corked or bunged, if filled with mo lasses, as it will swell and burst the ves sel, or run over. It is best to have a store closet open from the kitchen, because the kitchen fire keeps the atmosphere dry, and this prevents the articles stored from mold ing, and other injury from dampness. Yet it must not be kept -warm, as there are many articles which are injured by warmth. To make a single cup of chocolate, or a greater quantity by a like course and proportion of ingredients, grate a des sertspoonful of chocolate; dissolve it in half a cup of boiling water; bring to boil a cup of rich milk, stir in the chocolate when thoroughly melted, boil up three minutes, pour out and serve. How to Cook Salt Fiah. To make salt fish agreeable it requires a great deal of soaking. Therefore it should be obtained a few days in ad vance. Put it in a pan with plenty of cold water and change the water often. To boil it, place in a drainer in a fish kettle, cover it with water; when it boils sKim it; let it simmer tuiaone. a mien: piece from a large fish will require half an hour, and a thin piece twenty min utes. Xhe minute it is out of the water egg sauce and boiled parsnips should be served. Another way of cooking salt fish ia to make it into a pie. Boil four good sized potatoes and one large parsnip, unless you have thom left from the previous day. In that case, use those, mash them by rubbing them against the side of a basin with a wooden spoon, melt half an ounce of butter in half a pint of milk; add a saltspoonful of salt, pour it into the potatoes, and mix them into a smooth paste, then lay half of it on a dish. Spread it over evenly, pull out the bones, take ofi the skin and divide about half a pound of cold salt fish into flakes; sea son it well, parsley, mustard and pepper; add a little egg sauce. Lay the fish upon the potato paste and cover it with the remainder by spreading equally over. Make it smooth by pressing the knife over it. Pat it into a moderate oven and bake for tweffty minutes. Winter Pruning Apple Tree*. "Niagara" asks the Times if there be any objection to pruning apple trees of ten or more years' growth at this time of year. Will the freezing of the cut edge of the bark by expansion separate the bark from the wood, and thereby delay the healing process ? Reply.?Apple trees may bo pruned now without any danger. In Drunincr off large branches great care should be exercised. If there are more than one or two limbs to be taken off a part of them should be left until next year, so as to spare the tree as much as possible. "Where the limb in falling might tear the bark the lower side should first be cut with a broad chisel and mallet, and the saw used on the upper side. The cut should be made close to the stem, so that there will be a smooth wound, without any stump sticking out. There will then be no sprouts and no dead wood to rot, and the wound will gradu ally heal, the bark finally growing over it. There is no danger to be appre hended through freezing of the bark. The training of an orchard should b? such in its youth that in its old age no large branches should need to be cut away. To do this only sonje study and care need to be exercisc d. Paying his Bent. A curious Dractical ioke was recently played in Paris on a too importunate landlord. A police inspector was sitting in his bureau when a well dressed gen tleman brought in another man, whom he held by the collar and who appeared to be foaming with rage. "M/ l'ln specteur}" said tho former, "I bring you an unfortunate madman who comes and disturbs my house. I am ignorant of the nature of his malady, but I find that tho fit takes him at regular inter vals of three months, beginning about the fifteenth. Take every care of him, I beg of you." The lunatic struggled rmrJ rftr>rr?ft<Vherl his cnmrmmon. bfhnv. ing with such violence that the inspec tor ordered him to be placed in confine ment. On official examination, how ever, the lunatic was found to be per fectly sane and the unlucky victim of a practical joke. He had merely called to claim tho rent from his tenant, who probably owed his landlord a grudge, and thus paid off his score. The Difference, An Englishman at Chicago writes the following : What first strikes the stran ger is the unaccountable difference be tween the co3t of living in America and the prices of the first necessaries of life. An average head of cattle can ba bought hero for $25, would cost as much as $90 or 8100 iu the old country. A hog cau be bought for ?9 or $10, or at retail for about nine or ten cents a pound, one third of the English price. The same is true with bread and vegetables. Yet living here costs three or four times as much as in Englafd. There must bo evidently something utterly wrong in the very basis of the social and economi cal organization. THE QUESTION OF SILYER. iw the United States Treasurer Consider It?Not Ready to Commence! Paying 1 Out. Mr. Foster, of the United State Duse appropriation committee, learne* Dm Senator Sherman that there wasni ison why the secretary of the treaaur; onld not immediately begin the sub tution of subsidiary silver coin fo tctional currency. This fact Mr. Fos r communicated to the committei xen it met, and Secretary Bristow wa guested to appear before the commit 3 immediately, and answer why, wit! arly $14,000,000 of silver ou hand, h ould ask the committee to perpetual e printing bnreau by providing for i ficienoy for the remainder of the fisca ar amounting to nearly $500,000. Mr istow admitted that the amount o ady coin was nearly 814,000,000, bu id that unless Congress should tab e responsibility of ordering the carry g into effect of a law passed a yea o, he did not care to do it. He sai< i must take into consideration th itus of our credit abroad, whethe ere would be a demand for our fou d one-half^ per cent, bonds, whethe i bad a sufficient amount of silver t< gin the redemption of fractional cui ncy, -whether it would stay in circula m if put out, and -whether gold wa :ely to remain at a price that woul< stify the substitution of silver for pa >r. He admitted that the resumption ws gave him plenary power to act im ediately. The chairman, Mr. Randall, asked th cretary if it was not fair to state wh; > hesitated to carry out a propositioi law whioh imposed the oost, principa id interest, of five per cent, bonds t ocure silver bullion, while at the sam ne he was asking the committee t lposean additional burden upon th :ople by continuing the issue of frac and currency. TTi/i rorvl 1 n/-l fliot iin wwh **n jljliu uw*vw?ij uiau uu ncto uu adynow to issue silver and discon iue the printing of fractional oui ncy. The secretary, in answer to the resc tion of Mr. Saylor, of Ohio, askini tiat amount of gold there is actually i e treasury not obligated, replied tha e actual amount of gold o-vrned by th ivernment and available for the re mption of specie payments, after de icting the amount of gold certificate itstanding and all other obligation is, on the twenty-fourth day of Febrc y, $13,341,423.76. The actual amouu silver bullion in the treasury is $14, 3,618.70. When Secretary Bristow -was befor ie House appropriation committee, i ply to the question: "Why do yo >t issue silver instead of fractional cm ncy, if you have so much silver o ind?" he proposed to the committe lis conundrum: " Supposing I shoul jgin the issue now and it should prov ltUlULU) HUCiO nuuiu VUV XigUVillU rike ?" This remark means that th easury is not in a condition to begi le substitution of silver for fraction! irrency. Trouble at the Grave, Joseph Walz, of Catskill, N. Y., we mged on the first of May, 1874, for tl .order of Hermann Holcher, an Alban sissors grinder. The prisoner's violei jmeanor just before the hanging, ? osely resembling insanity that expei ienists could not decide that it we ignecf, culminating in the murder < barles Ernst, his keeper, so aroused th habitants of Catskill that they coul irdly be restrained from lynching hin tiey waited, however, but followed th >rpse with suuh marks of detestatio at the father, aocepting the advioe c iends, buried Joseph's body on his ow rm. Anselm Walz, the father, wa :ereafter pointed at as a disgraced mar id, unable longer to endure his neigh >rs' scorn, he determined recently & 11 his farm and join another son who i nng in Tennessee, n : ~ r? .rearing uiau tuo puxuimotu ui uuj xar j ight desecrate his son's grave, th ither asked to be allowed to reinter th >mains in the Catholio cemetery i efferson, two miles east of CatskilL Father O'Driscoll, who was a faithfi ttendant in the doomed man's cell, an ho led the procession to the gallows, le parish priest of Catskill. He was e loroughly convinoed of Wals's insanil lat he does not hesitate to call the han| ig ]"u iicial murder. Thus believing, 1 ansented to the interment of the mu erer's remains in consecrated grounc iut even the influence of a father coi ;s8or was not equal to quieting the ol ;ctions of parishioners. They cou] ot brook the thought of having the allowed -dead desecratcd by the buri f a murderer in the same cemetery i 'hich they lay. It is not probable that Father O'Dri oil intended to have the fact general nown. Anselm WaLz having obtaine le priest's permission, ordered tl ravedigger to dig the grave. Thi inctionary was so indignant at the ord< iat he refused to comply, even whe le priest reiterated it. He preferred i ilk with the parishioners first. Th* :e generally laboring people, and the ly that they will move their dead froj le cemetery if the murderer's corpse i oried there. The romor that the bishop of Albar as already decided to permit the inte Lent of Walz in the cemetery is premi ire, although the priests expect that I a Bis answer. Should the bishop t acide, they will bury the body in tl imetery, despite the protests of tl irishioners. A Iiailraad Case, ' A somewhat remarkable case has ju 3en decided in England by Chief Jn ce Coleridere and two of his assooiate man bought a first-class ticket fro; ondon to Scarborough, and on tl ick of it these words were printed Issued according to the company igulations and to the conditions in tl me tables of the respective compani< rer whose lines this ticket is available, at the train did not start at the tin mounced, and failed to make its adve sed connections. The passenger lo l6 train ho wanted to meet at Leed id, finding he would have to wait tlirt duts for anothtr, procured a spocii ain to take him to his destinatio] hich he reached an hour and a quarto iter the time he was due. He paid f< le train and then sued the company fc le extra expense. The county cou ecided that the company must pay f< ie special train, and n<jw on appeal tl igh court of justice has reaffirmed th ecision. This court decided that a rai ay company is bound to carrv Dassei era according to its time tables," and 3sponsible to them for losses sustaine y all unnecessary delays. This d ision, rendered by the most eminei idge on the English bench, will hai reat weight in the United States i ell as in England, and will form an ir ortant precedent. Very Careless. An anecdote, recently, of an instant f honesty on the part of one of the ne) j appointed sweepers of the rooms in tl Fnited States treasury where money minted, who found some money on tl oor and returned it to the treasure ave rise to a conversation upon the car issness of people generally and led le statement by a geutleman presei lat one of the men in authority in hiladelphia trust deposit company to im that he would be clad to be allow* ) give one hundred thousand dollars 1 10 company annually to be entitled I [1 tne sweepings of the floor?in oth ords, to nave for his own the piecioi apers, stocks, coupons, etc., the depot irs left on the floor This was the r lit of this officer's actual knowledge < 10 rcaelessness of the customers I Always in Session. The Petersburg (Va.) Index says couple of women of this city went oi ito Chesterfield oounty to settle son ifficulty between them, and the oi ho got whipped came to town ai >ok out a warrant against her opponen ; happened that just at the height < io fight a magistrate of Chesterflei assed by in company with two dete vo^ to search out some importai Latter. He commanded the peace, ar io of the women, seeing fit to abuf im, he had her arrested and punishc l the spot by a good whipping. Many Years Agr*. , A correspondent, telling of the way t in which they played poker in the West w years ago, relates a couple of incidents: s I shall never forget the hand that was J played between Judge Puterbaugh and 0 Ool. Tanzy, five or six years ago. I y don't know what either of them had, i - but both had all their money on the \ r table, and Col. Tanzy, drawing a check < i- out of his pocket, filled it up, and said : < b "I raise you, sir, $50." Judge Puter- J s baugh gave an anxious glance at his *i r hand, and being satisfied with its con- 1 1 tents, apparently, called for a bank check 1 9 himself, and, rapidly filling it up and < b throwing it upon the table, said : " I 1 a see your raise, sir, and go you $200 \ 1 better." "Iam sincerely grieved at the . circumstance," the colonel replied, "but - f I must play my hand;" and, calling for i t another check and filling it up, he went i 3 the judge a thousand better. "Oh, ' - that's a mere bagatelle," remarked the i r judge; " I have a check hefe for the bal- 1 1 jinrtfl nf thfi monev in the world, and I I o guess you can't raise me above that." i r That was a settler, and the judge took r the money; but I don't think I ever en r joyed myself so much as when the col 3 onel's and the "Judge's checkB were taken - down to the bank the next dav, and both were found to be quite worthless. The s judge was very fond of a quiet game of 3 draw, and when he oould dfcne in on 11 i- two pair didn't care whether his judicial a circuit was attended to or not. At the i- capital one night there was a big pot on the table, and it came down between the e judge and a member from the sawlog re y gion. They both seemed to have good a hands, and after the preliminary betting ] A the judge raised his antagonist twenty ' o dollars?all the money he had before : o him. o " I see that raise," exclaimed the saw e log man, nervously shoving his cards to s- gether, "and go you this pocketbook better," producing an old leather wallet it with fifty or a hundred wraps about it. < i- "Oh, you do, do you?" said the > judge, suspiciously eyeing the battered receptacle of wealth. " Well, then, I h am forced under the circumstances "? reactang down into ms overcoat pocKec and producing half a dozen brand new wallets?"to go you five pocketbooks better." Both men got their pistols out about that time, and the delicate matter of examining the pocketbooks was re ferred to a committee of three of the by standers, who reported that there was nothing in any of the wallets, when the judge and the lumberman cordially shook hands across the board, and the game went on. Mechanical Theory of Cyclones. Among the treatises on the mechani cal theory of the movements of air in revolving storms, both hurricanes and tornadoes, but few have such practical value as that of Colding, published in Danish in 1871, translations of which have reoently been prepared by Hann, of Vienna, and Abbe, of Washington, by means of which the English-reading public is introduced to a series of novel investigations into the flow of liquids, which form a very acceptable addition to our knowledge on the subject. Ac cording to Colding, the laws governing the movement of water may, with cer tain restrictions, be applied to the movement of the air, and after having as an engineer for many years success fully Btudied the currents of rivers and oceans, Mr. (Holding has applied his re sults to the study of a few hurricanes. The mathematical formulae by which he has endeavored to show the relation be tween the velocity and pressure of the air and the dimensions of the whirl wind, are apparently deducted in a not very rigorous, but sufficiently approxi mate manner. On applying them to the actual observations taken in con nection with the hurricane of 1837 (the so-called Antiguan hurricane), and also to the hurricanes of the twenty-first of August, 1871, he finds that the formula a a A^oowofmna Trnf.V* a JL C^iODt-U LD VUO VUOVXTtawvuv nAMU m v*w gree of accuracy probably within the errors to which the observations them selves are likely to be subject. The simple principle according to which he is able to calculate the nature of the final shape of the surface which is shown whenever water is allowed lo flow out of a bowl through a central hole, consists in this, viz.: that when the rotation is onoe established in the water, each particle describes a circle about the central axis, whose radius is such that the pressure of the water above the moving particle exactly coun terbalances the centrifugal force due to its circular rotation. In the case oi the atmosphere we have, instead of a well defined surfaoe, a series of surfaces of equal pressure, and the centrifugal foroe due to the circular movement around the hurricane is counterbalanced by the pressure of the atmosphere at that point. Unfortunately, Mr. Coldirffe seems not to have taken account of the force due to the rotation of the earth on AT i ics axis, rus equaiioiia, uittrtuuiu, uppiy to tornadoes, and to the central portions of hurricanes, better than they do to the exterior portions of large storms. The Spring Fashions. Cashmere associated with silk, a fash ion journal tells us, will continue a fa vorite combination for spring costumes, cashmere having lost none of its old favor. Black will be the most popular color for these suits, as it oonforms to the accessories of the toilet, whatever colors they may introduce, and is there fore both convenient and economical. The most fashionable costumes, how ever, will be of dark shades of other oolors, as blue, green, eto. Knife plaiting, still so much used, promises to remain, at least through the season, one of the varieties of trimming. Cashmere suits for the street are to be completed by a small mantelet, held in to the waist with a belt fastened underqpath. Polonaises are constantly growing in favor, especially those cut after the princesse model. Basques and over skirts are also coming out in new pat terns, though modistes insist that they must soon give way to a new order of things. The Lutetia overskirt is among the latest This describes on the right side a rounded apron, while the left falls in a deep poin reaching almost to the bottom of the underskirt, and is crossed diagonally over the right side, giving the efl&ct of a double apron. The back shows two scant puffs, supplemented by a deep flounce, and the left sido is or namented by one of the long parasol pockets. A l?ng tight-fitting basque, in cuirasse shape, known as the Aspaaia, is designed for two materials, one for the sleeves and the rest described in tho front, and another for the remainder of the garment. The roma sleeve gives a coat sleeve of graceful design; it fits closely at the waist, and is ornamented with a very deep puffed cuff. This pat tern is especially appropriate for cash mere and thin goods. Side plaiting, still much used, re quirae a length three times repeated, and shirring only half or one-third more than tho single length, according to the fullness desired. One-third more is enough for the fullness which is gathered up at the sides in shirred overdresses, the front breadths of walking skirts, or for velvet flounces. Shirring, which jjliuuj murco iiua^iuu in n aiiiiuuiL trim ming to make, is really quite simple, merely gathering repeated at regular intervals. The Army In R^serre. The aggregate number of organized militia in tho United States, according to the latest returns received by the adjutant-general of the army, is aa fol lows : *:? Now York 19.4131 Pennsylvania .,.10,583 Massachusetts... 6,696 Now Jereey 3,838 Iowa 2,G10 New Hampuliire. 1,134 Louisiana 826 California 2,538 Rhode Island.... 2,04? Wisconsin! 1,737 Maryland. 1,253 Vermont 626 Wisconsin 228 Arkansas 11,700 South Carolina.. 6.049 Ohio 4 030 Illinois 3,271 Kentucky H53 Maine 875 Mississippi 855 Connecticut.. . 2,434 Kansas 938 Tex&a 1,276 Michigan 1,084 Virginia. 493 Minnesota 160 These returns arc. all for the year 1875 except aa regards New Jersey and Michi gan, -whose latest reporteyirfi dated 1874 No returns have been rOTeived from any of the other States. The aggregate of the figures above given is 89,963. Practiced coasters in Nevada are using a sled with bu one runner. THE FRIGATE CONSTITUTION. k Reminiscence of the War of 1812?How the Old Venae! Escaped Capture by the British?Portions of the Tessel to be Ex hlblted at the Centennial. There is at least one interesting and important circumstance connected with the career of tbe old frigate Constitution luring the_ war of 1812 whioh has es japed the historians. The exploits of the American navy during that war com menced with the escape of the Constitu tion from an English squadron. On the twelfth of July the frigate, completely 3quipp?d and well manned, left the r li 1__ 1 1 XT XT 1 uuttttttpeiuiu utiy uuuuu iur now JLur&. On the seventeenth Bhe discovered the British squadron, consisting of the 1 Africa, sixty-four; the Guerriere, Shan aon, Belvidera and .Solus, frigates, with 1 i brig and a schooner. The Belvidera was within gunshot; the day was calm 1 ind spent in towing, maneuvering and firing. On the morning of the eighteenth | i light breeze sprung up, when the Con stitution spread all her canvas, and, by outsailing the enemy, escaped a oonflict, which she could not have maintained with any hope ?f success against a force so greatly superior. The chase was con- : tinned sixty hours, during which the whole crew remained at their stations. Ail the officers of the British squadron applauded the conduct of Captain Hull, and though mortified at losing so fine a 1 ship, gave him much credit for his skill and prudence in managing the frigate. 1 On Sunday, the twenty-sixth of July, 1 the Constitution arrived in Boston har bor. On Tuesday, the twenty-eighth, Captain Hull came up to town. On his landing and reaching State street he was received by his fellow citizens with re peated huzzas. The captain, in accept ino> f.ViA mmnlimfinfarv tributes of the Bostonians, paid a handsome tribute to the services of Lieutenant Morris (after ward commodore), and also to the men comprising the Constitution's crew. At a time when the wind was very light the sails of the Shannon were all furled, and the boats of the squadron were all put to tpw her directly to wind ward toward the Constitution; at the same time Captain Hull was "kedging" his ship forward faster than the enemy was able to advanoe by towing. He had gained a considerable distance before the enemy, who constantly observed him with their glasses, perceived the manner in which he was leaving. They then " kedged " in their turn, but not with the same rapiditv, owing probably in some measure to the precaution observed by Captain Hull, when his boats came home, instead of making them fast to the ship, of hoisting them up at the da vits. Tliifl maneuver of "kedging" a Bhip at sea, in twenty-five or thirty fathoms of water, was an ingenious and novel experiment. It was first sug gested, it is understood, by Lieutenant (afterward commodore) Charles Morris. The matter of " kedging" is probably not generally understood by the average individual, and even to seafaring men the manner in which it was employed in the caso of the Constitution was an in teresting novelty, and a circumstance which well illustrates the truth of the old adage, that "necessity is the mother of invention." When a vessel becomes becalmed, and circumstances render it desirable that progress should be made, even in the absence of a wind, kedging is resorted to by taking the anchor in a small boat and carrying it a long dis tance in the direotion desired, and throwing it to the bottom, a line or haw Ber connecting it with the vessel. The ; anchor once fastened to the bottom is to some degree almost permanent, and by hauling in the line on the dock of tho vessel, the ship is thus moved in the di rection of the anchor. The anchor is then taken up and again carried forward, and the same process repeated, and thus slow but steady progress is made. Of course kedging in this manner is not to be resorted to unless the water is suffi ciently shoal to allow the anchor to be easily bottomed, and this was precisely the misfortune which presented itself in the caso of the Constitution. The ene my's ships?half a dozen in number? although becalmed in a like manner, were somewhat lighter than the old frigate, and by towing and rowing some small progress was made toward over hauling and capturing the Constitution. It can be well surmised that the situa tion on the American vessel was a very grave one, and unless progress was made an engagement, and perhaps the capture of the snip and crew, were imminent. It was in this emergency that the inven tive genius and prompt action of Lieu tenant Morris and his brother officers and men secured to the American navy a bloodleBB but important yictory, which history failed to record.' Three huge parachutes, which -could be readily opened and olosed after the fashion of an umbrella, were immediately rigged up from some canvas, which was fastened to a framework of iron, and by an in genious manipulation the old frigate was ' kedged " along at a rapid rate until a friendly breeze sprang up, and then she was bo far in advance of the British ves sels as to be enabled to distanoe them in heading for the friendly port of Bos ton. These parachutes, fully twenty five feet each in diameter when spread, were carried forward in small boats, then spread out and thrown into the water, being connected with the frigate by hawsers. The resistance which these liUVOi UUJJLIlYiUIUCB UliUIUCU 111 1/ilO WttlrOJL when the crew pulled on the lines was snoh as to allow the Constitution to kedge along in a manner so rapid as to mystify the officers of the British ves sels which were pursuing, and it is, therefore, not strange that they spoke in complimentary terms of the ingenuity and skill of the commander and officers of the Constitution. In view of the fact that the billet head of the old and renowned frigate is to be one of the features of the Centennia^i hibition, why would it not be well that the anoient curiosity should be display ed side by side of these noval parachute contrivances which probably saved the Constitution from falling into the hands of the enemy ? That their usefulness and importance at the time specified is not exaggerated is ascertained from the fact, that wnen, years afterward, Mr. Morris, who was the father of Dr. Wil liam B. Morris, of Oharlestown, was ad vanced to the rank of commodore and was in command of the Oharlestown navy yard, he gave speoial orders that that they shonld be carefully preserved. This order was received And attended to by Master Sparmaker Edward Harding, who has been hofting the same place dnring a period of almost fifty years. A few years ago there was a call lor the novel contrivances, and upon their sin gular history being developed two of them were sent to the naval academy at Annapolis, Md., by Captain S. B. Lnce, and the other is still at the Oharlestown yard in charge of Mr. Harding. It seems that there would bo a singular ap propriateness that the one in Boston should be forwarded to Philadelphia with the old frigate's billet head, and the suggestion is respectfully submitted to the secretary of the navy. Deceiving her Heirs. An old lady in New York claimed she had been robbed of $10,000, all the money she had in the world. The court having some doubts about the matter, ordered her to be searched. The old lady protested and asserted in the moit solemn manner that she had been robbed of all the money she had in the world, but finally consented to allow t?o women to search her. In twenty minutes after the women announced the discovery of nine bank books representing the sum of 812,570 in various banks. Judge Wandell then said that Mrs. Polhamuf, having lied to htm most ogrogiously from beginning to end of this ease, he was compelled to disbelieve her state ment of the robbery in every particular, and to discharge the accused lor want of evidence. Mrs. Polhamuo tried to ex plain that when she said she had no more money than the $10,000 ehe menu b literally what she had said. It is believed that sneak thieves did really enter Mrs. Pol hamus' room?, under the impression that she kept a large amount of money there, aud took what they Jound. Ihe idea thou struck her, it is thought, of circulating the report that she had been lobbed of $10,000, so as to deceive her many heirs, who, she imagines, are ruu jous for her death. , . A BUFFALO STAMPEDE, i i Passing out between the hills, tUe , young fellowB found themselves on a t nearly level plain. Here, too, was a ? dense throng of buffaloes, stretching off . to the undulating horizon. As the two Bxplorers walked on, a wide lane seemed to open in the mighty herds before them. Insensibly, and without any ! burry, the creatures drifted away to the , right and left, browsing or staring, but ? continually moving. Looking back, i they saw that the buffaloes had closed np their ranks on the trail which they ? had just pursued; while before, and on S either hand, was a wall of animals. " We are surrounded I" almost whis- ? pered Arthur, with some alarm. ; " Nover mind, my boy. We can walk ? out, just as the children of Iprael did from the Red sea. Only we have waves 13 of buffaloes, instead of water, to olose * UaU'm/1 am J amaw V?o o moll ^ UCiiiiiU nuu ujjcu uoiuio (uiu mw u ** uu on each side. See!" And, as they kept on, the mass before them melted away in some mysterious fashion, always at the same distance from them. "See! We move in a vacant space that travels with us wherever we go, Arty." "Yes," said the lad. " It seems just as if we were a candle in the dark. The open ground around us is the light we Bhed; the buffaloes are the darkness out side." "A good figure of speech, that, my laddie. I must remember it. Bat we are getting out of the wilderness." They had now come to a sharp rise of ground, broken by a rocky ledge, which turned the herds more to the northward. Ascending this, they were out of the buffaloes for the time, but beyond them were thoosand3 more. Turning soutnward, they struck across the country for the wagon track, quite well satisfied with their explorations. Between two long divides, or ridges, mey UUIXIO upuu U oxuglo iruguu, uuim { covered, in which were two little ohil- 6 dren. Two boys?one abont seven and t the other eleven years old?were playing c near by, and fonr oxen were grazing by e a spring. j. In reply to Mont's surprised question 8 as to how they came off the trail, and j why they were here alone, they said j that their father and uncle had come up ] after buffaloes, and wero out with their r guns. Their mother was over on the j bluff?pointing to a little rocky mass f which rose like an island in the middle fi of the valley. She had gone to hunt j for " sarvice berries." They were left c to mind the cattle and the children. ; "Pretty c&reless business, I should 8 say," murmured Moat. "Well, young- . sters," he added, "keep by*the wagon; * if your cattle stray off, they may get a carried away by the buffaloes. Mind . that!" J They went on down the valley, look- c ing behind them at the helpless little j iamiiy aione m 1110 wiiueruet?j. "A man ought to be licked for leav ing his young ones here in such a lonely place," Raid Mont. Suddenly, over the southern wall of the valley, like a thunder oloud, rose a vast and fleeing herd of buffaloes. They were not only running, they were rush ing like a mighty flood. "A stampede! a stampede 1" cried Moat; and, flying back to the uncon scious group of children, followed by Arthur, he said: "Run for your lives, youngsters! Make for the bluff 1" Seizing one ef the little ones, and bidding Arthur take the other, he start ed the boys ahead for the island bluff, which was some way down the valley. There was not a moment to lose. Be hind them, like a rising tide, flowed the buffaloes in surges. A oonfused mur mur filled the air; the ground resound ed with the hurried beat of countless hoofs, and the earth seemed to be disap iw r?Arronninr* fnvranf fllnao jkSC/UU. ill nun nuTMUVUiQ WA&UUVc V*wv behind the flying fugitives the angry, ?anic-stricken herd tumbled and tossed, ts labored breathing sighed lite a breeze, and the warmth of its pulsations seemed to stifle the air. "To the left! to the left!" screamed Arthur, seeing the bewildered boys, who fled like deer, making directly for the steepest part of the bluff. Thus warned, the lads bounded up the little island, grasping the underbrush as they climbed. Hard behind them came Arty, pale, his features drawn undrigid, and bearing in his arms a little girl Mont brought up the rear with a stout boy on his shoulder, and breathless with excitement and the laborious run. Up the steep side they scrambled, falling and recovering themselves, but up at last. Secure on a bare rock, they saw a lieaving tide of wild creatures pour tumultuously over the edge and fill the valley. It leaped from ledge to ledge, tumbled and broke, rallied again and swept on, black and silent save for the rumbling thunder of many hoofs and the panting breath of the innumer able multitude. On it rolled over every obstacle. The wagon disappeared in a twinkling, its white cover going down in tho black tide like a sinking ship at sea. Past the islandlike bluff, where a little group stood spellbound, the herd swept, the rushing tide sepr rating at the rocky point, against which it beat and parted to the right and left. Look ing down, they saw the stream flow by, on and up the valley. It was gone, and the green turf was brown where it had been. The spring was choked, and the wagon was trampled in a flat ruin. Fasoinated by the sight, Mont and Arthur never took their eyes from it un til it was over. Then returning to their young oharges, they# saw a tall, gaunt woman, witn a jaorror-stncKen iaoe, gathering the whole group in her arms. It was the mother. "I don't know who yon be, young men, but I thank you from the bottom (if my heart," she said. " Yes, I thank yon from the bottom of my heart?and, oh! I thank God, too!" And she burst into tears. , Axthnr, at loss what else to say, re-. , marked : " Your wagon is all smashed." , "I don't care?don't care," said the . woman, hysterically rocking herself to and fro where she sat with her children * clasped to her bosom. " So's the ' young ones are safe, the rest may go to wrack." ' As she spoke, a couple of horsemen came madly galloping down the valley, ' far in the wake of the flying herd. They J paused, thunderstruck, at the fragments . of their wagon trampled in the torn . soil. Then, seeing the group on the rock, they hastened on, dismounted, and , climbed the little eminence. "Great powers above, Jemimyl we 1 stampeded the buffaloes !" said the elder 1 of the pair of hunters. A J 1,. ^ I n.ziy tJApeui/CU tu iioui jljxu nujr tuuu ouo was thankful so long as they -wore all alive. " Yes, and a nice mess you've made of it." This was all her comment. " Whar's the cattle, Zeph?" asked the father of this flock. *. " Gone off with the buffaloes, I reckon, dad," was the response of his 6on Zephaniah. The man looked up and down the val ley with a bewildered air. His wagon had been mashed and crushed into the ground. His cattle were swept out into space by the resistless flood, and were nowhere in sight. He found words at last: " Well, this is perfeckly rediclus."? 7\Jit*hnJnQ frw Afrrmh His Choice. A pretty anecdote is told of Qaeen Victoria and Mendelssohn. A short time before his death the great composer visited the quoen. He sat down at the piano, and played accompaniments while she sang somo of his songs. Wiicn Mendelssohn roso to go, Victoria warmly thanked him for tbo pleasure he had given her, and said: "Now what can I do to give you somo pleasure ?" expecting him to mention some gift of honor she could confer upon him. Mendelssohn at first declined to mm'ion anything, but when her majesty iu< i ', ho frauldy l;old her that ho was j. ! of little children, and that ho desLi ?l 10 see the royal children in their nurseries. The queen mother wan much pleased, and kindly led him through the nurse ries, aud tbey spent a pleasant hour talking ia a friendly way abont their children. TOE CASE OF SECRETARY BELKJTAP. 'he Story Told by Caleb P. Marsh Abont the Satlerahlp?The Amount Paid. The following is the statement mode >y Caleb P. Marsh before the United Itates House committee of investigation elative to the" charges against ex-Beere ary of War Belknap : in reply to your question I would tate that in the summer of 1870 myself nd wife spent some weeks at Long Jranch, and on oar return to New York Irs. Belknap and Mrs. Bowers, by our nvitation, came for a visit to our house; Irs. Belknap was ill during thi* visit ome three or four weeks; I suppose in ? sequence of our kindness to her she elt under some obligation, for she asked ae one day in the course of a conversa ion why I did not apply for a post radership on the frontier; I asked what hey were and was told that there were aany of them, very lucrative offices or >ositions, in the gift of the secretary of rar, and that if I wanted one she would ak the secretary for one for me; upon ay replying that I thought such offices lelonged to disabled soldiers, and, he idea, that I was without political in luence, she answered that politicians ;ot such places, etc.; I do not remember aying that if I had a valuable post of hat kind that I would remember her, rat I do remember her saying something ike this: "If lean prevail upon the ecretary of war to award you a post, you ausfc be careful to say nothing to him ibout presents, for a man once offered tim $10,000 for a traders hip of this kind, tnd he told him that if "he did not leave lie omcene wouiu juok mm uuwu buuih emembering aa I do this story, I pre ume the antecedent statement to be oor eot; Mrs. Belknap and Mrs. Bowers re urned to Washington, and a few weeks hereafter Mrs. Belknap sent me word to some over; I did so; she then told me hat the post tradership at Fort Sill was racant; that it was a valuable post as she inderstood, and that she had either isked for it for me or hadprevtiled upon he secretary of war to agree to give it o me; at all events I called upon the secretary of war, and, aa nearly as I can emember, made application for this post >n a regular printed form; the secretary laid he would appoint me if I could )ring proper recommendatory letters, md this, I said, I could do; either Mrs. Belknap or the secre tary told me that he present trader at the post, John S. Svans, was an applicant for reappoint nent, and that I had better see him, he >eing in the city, aa it would not be air to turn him out of office without ome notice, as he would lose largely on lis buildings, merchandize, etc., if the >ffice was taken from him, and that it fould be proper and just for me to make ome arrangement with him for their jurchase if I wished to run the post ayself; I b~w Evans and found him farmed at the prospect of losing the J AAA* T fnof. aairl that. a. irm of Western post traders, who ilaimed a good deal of influence with he secretary of war, had promised to iave him appointed, but he found, on coming to Washington, this firm to be mtirely without influence; Mr. Evans irst proposed a partnership, which I de fined; and then a bonus of a certain >ortion of the profits if I would allow lim to hold the position and continue he business; we finally agreed upon >15,000 per year; Mr. Evans and mvself rent on to New York together, wnere he contract was made and executed, phich is herewith submitted (paper narked A-): during our trio over, how >ver, Mr. Evans saw something in the irmy and Navy Journal which led hi o think that some of the troops were to >e removed from the fort, and he had iffered too large a sum, and before the sontract was drawn it was reduced by agreement to $12,000, the same being aid quarterly in advance. When the first remittance came to me -say probably in November, 1870?I ent one-half thereof to Mrs. Belknap, lither, I presume, by certificate of de >osit or bank notes by express; being in Washington at a funeral some weeks iter this I had a conversation with Mrs. Bowers to the following purport, as far \B I can now remember, but must say hat just here my memory is eiceeding y indistinct, and I judge in part, por laps, from what followed as to the de ails of the conversation ; I went up itairs in the nursery with Mrs. Bowers o see the baby ; I said to her : " This shild will have money coming to it be ore a great while;" she said: "Yes; -he mother gave the child to me and old me that the money coming from rou I must take and keep for itI laid: "All right," and it seems to me I >aid that perhaps the father ought to be jonsulted ; I say it seems so, and yet I ;an give no reason for it, for, as far as I mew, the father knew nothing of any nonoy transactions oecween me motner md myself ; I have a faint recollection >f a remark of Mrs. Bowers that if I lent the money to the father thit it be onged to her, and that she wotdd get it inyway. I certainly had some understanding hen or subsequently with her or him, or when the next payment came due ind was paid I sent the one-half thereof o the secretary of war, and have con oTtKafanfialltr fmm fhaf. /lav fnr yard to the present time to do the iame ; about, I should say, a year and a rnlf or two years after the commence nent of these payments I reduced the imount to $6,000 per annum ; the rea son of this reduction was partly because )f the combined complaints on the part )f Mr. Evans and his partner, and part y, so far as. I now remember, in conse quence of an article in the newspapers ibout that time reflecting on the injus ;ioe done to soldiers at this fort, caused oy exorbitant charges, made, necessary >n the part of the trader by reason of th payment of this bonus ; to the best of ny knowledge and belief the above is a irue statement of all tho facts in the jase, and as complete as I can remember jccurrences of so many years ago. Question by the chairman?State how ike payments were made to the secre tary of war subsequent to tho funeral of !iis then wife, which yon attended in Washington in December, 1670, wheth ar in cash, bv check, draft, certificate of deposit, bonds, or by express or other wise. Answer. The money was sent ac cording to the instructions of the secre tary of war, sometimes in bank notes by A.dams' express; I think on one or more Dccasions by certificates of deposit on tha National Bank of America in New; York; sometimes I have paid him jn Now York in person; except the first pay ment, in the fall of 1870, and thrf last, in December, 1872, all were made to the secretary in the modes I have 3tated, unlo38, perhaps, on one or two occasions, at his instance, I bought a government bond with the moneys in my hands arising from the contract with Mr. Evans, which I either sent or hand ed to him. Question by Mr. Blackburn?Can you Btato the sum, in the aggregate, received by you under the contract with Mr. Ev ans, and what portion thereof you have paid to the secretary of war, includjpg the first and last payments, which you have stated were not paid to him ? An swer. I have no memorandum whatever on which to make answer; it is a very simple calculation; the first payment to me by Evans was mado in the fall of 1870, at the rate of 812,000 a year; ho paid at that rate about a year and a half or two years, and since then at the rate of 86,000 a vear; it would aggregate about 840,000, the ono-half of which 11 Ej have disposed of as above stated. ! T1 The Reason.?Charles II. once asked J a body of savans why it was that a live i dJt? fish placed in a bucket of water did not j p<,t( increaso its weight, whereas when a dead ; ?boi flnh was placed therein it becamo henvi-1 or. Many weco the If arued theories i MJ; put forward to account for tho alleged vu< Fact, and it was not till Koino one more j f,*!^ shrewd tliau the rest proponed that tho , ??? axperiraont bo tried that it was found n?i! that tho phenomenon under discussion , ??3} luid no existence except in the imagina- j imc tion of tho witty monarch. | vu'o c?m SurEnscRimoN to a JjETTEr,?The /Vtlant'i (Chi.) Constitution says: A let- ] tor passed through the post-office in this who ;*ity recently ^ith tho following poetical dc,'i i?rintiou: TO 1 is X " H enl not thin for fear of Bhamo? There ih no m'oney in tho name. Truo, it dofb a chock contain, But 'tis for b.\ggage on a train." yjj, 7e frost the time wtll come when ry one will use Dobbins' Electric p (made by Oragin & Co., Phila phia). Its sale is daily increasing, is always the case with articles of rit. Try it. * fhapped hands, faoe, pimples, ring* m, e<rh(iam, and other cntaneona affeo a oared, and rough ekin made soft and >oth, by uiiLng Junepeb Tab Soap. Bo c&ro to get only that made by Oaa well, Hazard A , New York, as there are many imitations te with common tar, all ofwhioh are worth .?P.rtm Where Does it AD Come From, ints\and "quarts of filthy catarrhal dis rgea." Where does it all oome from ? The ions membrane which lines the chambers be nose, and its little glands, are diseased, that they draw from the blood its liquid, exposure to the air changes it into cor tion. This life liquid is needed to build up system, but it is extracted, and the system eakened by the loss. To cure, gain flesh strength by using .Dr. Pierced Golden lical Discoveiy, which also acts directly a these glands, correcting them, and apply Sage's Catarrh Remedy, with Dr. Pierce's al Douche, the only method of reaching upper oavities, where the discharge ac lulates and comes from. The instrument both medicines sold by druggists and [ere in medicines. * portant to Persons Visiting New York or the Centennial. hA nmvn TTMrox Hotel. New York, op do the Grand Central depot, has oyer 850 ele tly famished roams. Elevator, steam, and modern imui ovemcnts. European plan, riage hire id saved, as baggage is taken nd from the depot, free of oxpense. The aurants supplied with the beit. Guests live better for lees money at the Grand on, than at any other first-class hotel. ;es and cars pass the hotel constantly to all ts of the city, and to Philadelphia depot. * SCHENCK'St STANDARD REMEDIES. ia standard remedlee for all disease* of the long* art INCH'S PULMOHICjSlBCP, SCBZHCK'S SKA Wzi.D And ScHXirCB.'S Mastdbaxx Pells, and, If taken re the Ian*a are destroyed, a speed/ core la effected these three medicine* Or. J. H. Schenck, of Phlla bla, owes hi* unrivaled success in the treatment of lonary dtaeases. e Pulmonis Syrup ripens the morbid matter In the ; nature throw* It off by an easy expectoration, (or i the phlegm or matter 1a ripe a alight congh will w It off; the patient haa re?t and the long* begin to i enable the Pulmonic Syrup to do this, Schenok'* idrake Pills and ttchenck's Bea Weed Tonic must be 1/ used to cleans* the stomach and liver. Schenck'* idrake Pill* act on the liver, removing all obstruo - ? ? ?'? ?11 tlu Ml. .t.rf. fr.nl. >rlH Iver 1* soon relieved. henck't Su Weed Tonlo it a gentle stLmulaot and ratlre; the alkali of which It U composed mixes i the food and prevents touring. It assist* the dlgea bj toning up the stomach to a health; condition ito the food and the Pulmonlo Syrup will make good d; then the lunift heal, and the patient will?irely f fell If car* la takon to prevent fresh cold. * 1 who wlah to consult Dr. Kchenok,either personally 8 r letter, can do to at bit principal office, comer of h and Arch Street*, Philadelphia, every Monday. " henck's medicine* aie told by all druggists through- I Jhe ooantry. 1 . t The Markets. ' NIW TOM ' Cattle-Prime to Extra BullockJ 09 9 19 ,mon to Good Texani, h Cows s?Live ,60 00 @76 00 > 08 V 9 083* . 10*0 10* 03*? 08* Drewed, o ou?Middling ir?Extra Western. State Extra.... at?Bed Western.. No. 3 Spring.. 13Jf& "K 6 IB <& 5 eo 8 IB & 6 CO 1 37 & 1 27 1 24 @ 1 28 U n m S ?SUto * 80 ($ 80 oy?Stato......... * 76 @ 1 10 oy-?Malt 1 13 @ 1 ? ?Mixed Western..... 48 @ 'W l?Mixed Western 82 @ 6I# ,percwt 65 @ 1 06 w,percwt. 66 @ 1 10 a....75'??13 $18 olds 04 @ 08 t?Meea 23 CO 023 00 13#@ to* i?Mackerel, No. 1, new 20 00 @28 00 No. 2, now 13'0 @17 00 DryOod, per cwt 4 76 @ 5 76 Horring, Scaled, per box 30 @ 80 oleum?Crude. 08X@08X Eoflned, 14 1?California Fleece 19 @ 32 Texas " 1# @ 28 Australian " 85 @ 88 xr?State 24 @ 40 Western Dairy 91 @ ?8 nt.-i w.fi. no /a *\ft western ieuow,Mi*?.. ^ V9 ?? Western Ordinary...' 18 ? 17 Pennsylvania Hue...,.,.... ? ? ? soa?State Factory 07#@ 14 State Skimmed............ 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One aample free. Address JAY BttONHON. Detroit,Mleh. Men Wanted to occupy positions at the Centen dial Exhibition. Good Salary. Inclose 25c. for storing. American'Agency Oo.. P.O.Box 937. N.T. [JENTS WA*STKD.?Twenty Oxll Mounted Obromos for $1. 2 samples br mail.post-paid^Oo JIKgMTAL OnnOMQ Co.. 37 Nassau St.. New York \ SPLENDID CALLING GAUDS, in tints, I n it ma ann> Inr '^.1 rtJI. Hamnlss tent for a >nt t'ump. j. MINKLBR i 00.. Jfawan, N. Y. Book*. Kurioa* Goods, Sporting Article#, eto. o4-page Book for two 3c. stamps. BALDWIN it 00.. Ill Nasium St., W. Y. Packnsre* Farm Seed*, circular* of Blooded Cattle, Shoep, Hngj, PonltTr, Sporting tJogt, eto., free for 2 ttamps. w. P. Boyp.b. Parlcaahunr. Pa. Ilta of i BlimL VEGETlNEwlll relieve pain, cleanse, parlfy and ' ) sach diseases, restoring the patient to p?rfect Ith after trying different physicians, many remedies, orlng for yean, is It not conolntlve proof, if you are < ffaior, you can be enred ? Why Is this medicine per iling each jrreat cures ? It works In the blo?d, In the nlatlng fluid. It can truly be called the GREAT DOD PURIFIER. The great scarce of dlseoM loato* in tho blood; and no medicine that doea act directly upon It, to purify and renovate, has any ; claim upon pabllo attention. )venty-One Tears of Age. East Mabsiifikld, Aug. 22,1870. Stivers : ear Sir?I nm ?ev?nty-one yoars of Mro; h**e suffer nany years w.th Kidney Crmplaint. W<H>knMS In my | k ami Stomich. I was Indued by friends to try | rVUGKTINK and 1 think It tho be?t mwliclae for j kness of the Kidneys I ?.vtr ??ed. I havo Irled many , die* It this compjalnt, and neyer found so much J sf aa from tho VKUKTIHJS. xi SH-tujRiDou? auu Koratoj the wh le system. Many of my acquaint ed have taken it, and I b-Ilevn It to bo cocd for all complaints for which it in r-*cotnmoad?d. Youra truly, JOSIAU ii. SHERMAN. IEST EVIDENCE te following letter from Riv. E. fi. BEST, P**6-' p.. Church, N'aMjk, Mam., will be read with lntorest ' iiiny physicians. Also those suffering from the same ar.e as afflicted the son of the Rev. V. 8. Best. No { ion can doubt this testimony, and tbero !s no doubt at the curative powers of VEGKTINK: Natick, Mass , Jan. 1,1874. H. R. Stkvens: ar ei'r?Wo ii -.re (?oh1 reason for reearJim your | 3KTINK a mcdicice of t o ?'e?test vaiuo Wo feel red tbit it has beea the means of saving our s.n's { Hh Is n'<w eewn'e'n years ilsgn; for the last two | a h? has suffer (1 I rum Neeroti* of bis Leg, caused Scrofulous affection, ami wai to far reduced that rly all who saw tilm th <ught his recovery impossible. >uncil or able physi ^inss c^u:d give uh but the faint lope of bis over r.ulyinj, two of ?hs norabor decisr. thit.o was bo.ond the rearh of himau remedies, . oven amp'itnti m ionld not sari- him, as ho bad not r enocirh to endure the operation. Just then sre I moncod giving hi-n VEOETINE.and f om th.it i < to the oresi nt he has been continuously improving. j lias lately resumed his studies, tnrown away rutob^s ' cane ami walks nhont cbe?rfully a>id strong. lough there is s'Jll some d s.hsrge -rom the opening i re tiie ltiub was iancel, w? have t'io fullest conn Crf tliit I t a little time lie will be perfectly cnre.1 > has taken oliont ihrw dozen oottl s of VKGR E, Inil iit*<ly uses but little, as bo declare: that he o wo'l to be taking medicine. Roipoctfully yours, E. 8. BEST, Mns. L. 0. F. BEST. GETINE 18 H0I.I> hy ALL DRUGGIST?}. lHAoffOKP41 8?zul for Chrome. CaUIegae. D1UC)J^ J J. H. guTroKD'i Soyg. Boston. Mae? I nmTmn All Want It?thousand* of Urea and 1 P UNtv mllllonsof property sated by tt-fortuaes 1 IT Pi Jl I 0 nude with it-pcrtioalm free. 0. M. uul" * " LumfOTOM * Bna JiirYorkAO^lp**^ PER WEEK GUAKAftTKED to A cent* Male and Female. In their own locality. Terms and OUTHT FREE. Address P. O. 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WISEART'8 FWB TREE TAR CORDIAl. ir1 C V y nil Druggists. Principal Depot, 916 Filbert St., Philadelphia, Pa. Special Notice to Oar Readers* SPECIAL CALL* Jtf AGENTS WANTED To sell the Now Patent Improved ZTE CUPS. . Tuaranteed to be the be*t paying burtneu offered U Agents by any Houte. An tatv and pleasant employment, u# 1j<i vfln<K>f. thi e 'cbrated new Patent Improved sye Cup h for the ' jratiou of liekt brea&a dot an<X >larea in the ev' .ceaof over 6*000 genuine te? imoniai* of' and recommended Of more than 1,000 of b.xt physicians in their practice. Tlio Pi -,t Eye Cups are a ocl^ntiflc and phyaio ogicat diecovcry, and aa AlC. B. WTXTt, M. D., md ffx. Bkatlzv. M. D.j write, they are certainly he greatest Invention of toe aye. Eeod the following ccrtiflcatee: Fkugubok Statioh, Logan Co., Ky_I June <*th, 1873. f )n. J. Hall k Co., Oculiata: Gentlemen?Your Patent Eye Cupa are. In mf fUa arJAOfliil t riiimmi which optical UUHUltm, -j , cience hoc oyer achieved, bat, like all greet Mid mportont troths,.in thii or in any ether branch of icienco and philosophy, have much to contend with torn the ignorance and prejudice of a too skeptical rablio; bat truth is mighty, and it will prevail, and t is only a question of time as regards their general ocepUnce and indorsement by all. I hare in aiy land* certificates of persons testifying in uneqaJv >cal terms to their merits. The most prominrot ihyslclans of my county recommend your Eyu Jups. I am, respectfully. S. A. L. BOVEB, William Bzaxlet, M. D., Sal visa, Ky? writes! ' Thanks to you for the neatest of all Inventions. Ky a'.Rht Is fully rsotored by the ase of yoar Patent 2ye Oops, after being almost entirety blind tat wenty-six years." ? ?: Alex. R. Wteth, M. D., Atchison, Pa., writes i 'After total blindness of my left eye tor foflf yean, jy psralysls to the optic nerve, to my otter arton ahment your Patent Eye Cap* restored my eyeaigbt permanently in throe minuted." . Itsv. 8. B, Falkissbum, Minister of K. E. Sliurcb, writes: 41 Tour Patent Bye Caps ha*# *? ' stored rttr sight, for which I am most thankfol to h*' Father of Mercies. By yoar advertisement I uw at a glance that your invaluable ?ye Cop* per. formed their work perfectly in accordance with ntii-a'.i?1^.1 ?w ),?? f?i the CTM lhat tv*' e sur\-lii|( for nutrition. May God great)? bless you, aucl may yonr name be eushrined in tbo iffecttonato memories vf multiplied thousand* as one of the benefactor* of your kind." Horace D. Duiuxt, M. J)., aay*: " I sold, anil effected future sales liocnlly. Tho Patent Eye Caps, tbey -will make money, and make H fast, too; no small, catch-ncnny affair, bat a superb, number ono, tip-top bnainoa*, promisee, as far as X can see. to be llfo-lODfc" C* Mayor E. C. Eius wrote us, November l#tb, 1809: " I bars terfed the Patent I Tory Eye Cupe. and I am satfaftai they are good. I am pleased with them. They are certainly the greatest imita tion of the age" Hon. Horace Oamr.r, lite editor of tho New York Tribune, wrote: " 1>*. J. Ball, of our ctty. Is a cousclcnUoun and responsible man, who la ln? capable of intentional deception or imposition." Prof. W. Mebbick wriiea; " Truly, I am grate ful to your noble invention. My sight is restored by your Patent Eye Cups. May Heaven bless and preserve yon. I have been using spectacle* twenty years. I am seventy-one years old. I do all ity writing without glasses, and I Bless the inventor of the Patent Eye Cups every time I take up my old teel pen." Asoura Biouneetiq, M. D., physician to Empetor Napoleon, wrote, after having bis sight restored by our Patent'Eye Cupi: "With gratitude to God, ami thankfulness to the inventors, D*. J. Ball & Co., I hereby recommend the trial of the Eyo Cap* (la tall faith) to slland every ooothat has anylro palredefyestehf, Vllevlng' ti I do, tbat a fnee th? ex periment with till* wonderful discovery has proved successful on mer at my advanced period of Ufe? ninety year* of age?-I believe they will restore t'aa rlsloti toNany lndividtral If they are- properly snplled. ADOLPH BIOBKBERG. M. V.'\ . OtmmonuxaUh of lf<uma*uettt, Eueoe, m. Jane 6tn, i#T8, personally appeared Adclph Biorn ierg, made oath to the following certificate, and by Urn subscribed ana rvrorn oefore m?. La-wmkcb ?^3MS5fe lffS ' We, the nnderslgned, having personally known Dr. Adolph B lorn berg for yeaxm, believe him to bo ux hones^ moral man, trustworthy, and In truth md veracity unspotted. His character Is without reproach. M. BONNE V, Ex-Mayor, 8. B. W. DAVIS. Ex-Mayor, i . GEORGE 8. MBRRTT.T. p. jr. EOBEEX JET. TEWKSBdBY.Hj Trees. Header, these are a few certificates out of thou sands we receive, and to the aged we will guarantee roar old and diseased eyes can he made oew; your. Impaired sight, dimness of vision, and overworked^ syes can be restored; weak, watery ?na sore eye* anred: the blind may. See; spectacles be disoUrded; lght restored and vision preferred. Spectacle* ud surgical operations useless. Please send your address to us, and we'win send yon oar book, A GEM WORTH HEADING! A DIAMOND WOBTH 8EEI5Q!1 Saw your Syu and Rutort your Sight I Throw Away four Sptdaelut By reading oar Illustrated Physiology and Anato my of the Eyesight, oflOO pages, tells how to restore. Impaired vision and overworked eyes; bow to curs' weak, watery, inflamed and near-sighted eyes, and all other diseases of the eyes. Waste no moie money by adjusting huge glasses on your hose and disfig uring your face. Book mailed free to any person. 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