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P., Tlie Doctor's Story, i Mrs. Rogers lay in her bed, j Bandaged and blistered from foot to head, Bandaged and blistered from head to toe, Mrs. Rogers was very low,'; Bottle and saucer, spoon and cup, On the tablo stood bravely up, Physic of bigh and low degree; Calomel, catnip, boneset tea? Everything a body could bear, Excepting light and water and air. I opened the blinds; the day was bright, And God gave Mrs. Rogers sonic light, I opened the window; the day was fair, And God gave Mrs. Rogers some air, Bottles and blister*. po*vdors and pills, Catnip, boiuset, rivup aud squills, Drugs and medicines, high and low, I threw thorn as far as 1 could throw. " What are you doing V" my patient t ried; "Frightening Death," 1 eoollv replied. "You are crazy!" a visitor said; I flung a bottle at her head. Deacon Rogers he came to me; " Wife is a comiu' round," said he, " I really think she'll worry through; She scolds me just as she used to do. All the people have poohed and slurred? And the neighbors all have had their word, 'Twas bet ter to perish, some of 'em say, Than be cured in such an irregular way." ^ " Your wife," said I, " had God's good care, And his remedies?light and water and air. All the doctors, beyond a doubt, fWii/Wt hnvf> <>nrf>d Mrs. Rogers without." The deacon smiled and bowed his head; "Then your bill is i.odiing," he said; "God's be the glory, as you say; God bless you, doctor, good-day! good-day !' If ever I doctor that woman again, I'll give her medicine made bv men. ". - . - - . - ? FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH. Tbe fiie burrs cheerily on tbe heart the great logs crackle and flare up tl wide chimney, up which it is n wont to say yon could drive u coach-an< four. I draw my chair nearer to i with a shiver. "What a night!" Bay. " Is it still snowing ?" asks my wif who sits opposite to me, her books an Bp^work on the table beside her. " Fast. You can scarcely see a yai ^ before you." wS5?v Heaven help any poor creature c the jnoor to-night!" says she. gv MjWho would venture out? It begs : ? MiowinK before dark, and all the peop! about know the danger of being b ^Sighted on the moor in a snowstorm J;ui jL ua>o nu\j ? li *" frozen to death hereabouts before now My "wife is Scotch, and this pleasai Jfouse in the Highlands is hers. "S\ ?re trying a winter in it for the fin time, and I find it excessively cold an a"somewhat dull. Mentally, I decid T that in the future wo will only grace with our presence during the shootin TOJuon. Presently I go to the windo an^ look out; it has ceased snowin and through a rift in the clouds I see star. "Itis beginning to clear," I tell m wife, and also inform her it is half-pa: 11 o'clock. As she lights her candle i tho side-table I hear a whining an scratching at the front door. "There is Laddie loose again," saj she. "Would you let him in dear?" I did not like facing the cold wine but could cot refuse to let the poor an mal in. Strangely enough, when nnario^ fVin dfirr nnrl PftllAd llim. li urui" ~? > wouldn't come. He runs up to tt door and looks into raj face with dum entreaty; then he runs back a fe steps, looking round to see if I am fo lowing ; and, finally, ho takes my cot in his mouth and tries to draw me on "Laddie won't come in," I call out t my wife. " On the contrary, he seem to want me to go out and have a gam of snowball with him." She throws a shawl around her an ^ comes to the door. The collie wa here before we were married, and she i almost as fond of him, I tell her, as sh is of Jack, our eldest boy. "Laddie. Laddie!" she calls; "com in, sir." He comes obediently at he call, but refuses to enter the hous>, an Eursues the same dumb pantomime h as already tried on me. "I shall shut him out, Jessie," I sai "A night in the snow won't hurt him; ^ and I prepare to close the door. "You will do nothing of the kind! she replies, with an anxious look, " bi ^ ybu will rouse the servants at once, an follow him. Some one is lost in th 'snow and Laddie knows it." I laugh. "Really, Jessie, you ar r- absurd. Laddie is a sagacious animal it*i no doubt, but I cannot believe he is p clever as that. How can he possibl know whether any one is lost in th snow or not?" "Because he has found them, an oome back to us for help. Look at hii now." I cannot but own that the dog seem restless and uneasy, and is evidentl endeavoring to coax us to follow him he looks at us with pathetic entreaty i: L. his eloquent eyes. "Why don't yo . believe me?" he seems to ask. ' "Come," she continues, "you kno^ you could not rest while there was possibility of a fellow creature wantin y your assistance. And I am certai Laddie is Dot deceiving us." What is a poor hen-pecked man t do? I grumble, and resist, and yiek *\s I have grumbled, and resisted, au yielded before, and as I doubtless ofte shall again. -'Laddie once found a man in th Fi-tW before, but he was dead," Jenni says, as the lnirries off to fill a fias with brandy, and get rer.dy som r blankets for us to take with us. In tl meantime I rouse the servants, VhAv aro all English, with the excel ' * tion of Donald, the gardener, and I ca see that they are scoffingly skeptical < Laddie's sagacity, and inwardly dii " gristed at having to turn out of thei warm beds and face the bitter winter blast c* " Dinna trouble yoursels," I hear ol \Z, Donald say. "The mistress is rigl I" enough. Auld Laddie is cleverer tha r, mony a Christian, and will find som< S . thinw in the snaw this night." "Don't sit up, Jossie," I say, as vi start; "we may be out half the nigl on this wild goose chase." " Follow laddie closely," is all tl h* answer she makes. The dog spriDgs forward with a jo; ous bark, conetantlv looking back to se if we are following. As we paf through the avenue gates and emerg on the moor the moon struggles for moment through the driving cloud - and lights up with a sickly gleam th snow-clad country before us. " It's like looking for a needle in bundle of hay, sir," says John, th coachman, confidentially; " to think c we should find anybody on such a nigl as this. Why, in some places the sno' is more than a couple o' feet thick, an * it goes agin' reason to think that dum animal would have the sense to com k-' home and ask for helo." " Bide a wee, bide a wee," says ol L*i Donald. "I dinna ken what yor English dogs can do, but a colli* * though it has na been pleasing to Pro1 idence to give the creature the gift i speech, can do mony mair things tha them wad deride it." *41 ain't a deridin' of 'em," says Join " I only sajs as how if tbey be so ver clever I've never seen it." " Yo wull, though, ye wull," says ol Donald, as he hurries forward aft< Laddie, who has now settled down int a swinging trot, and is taking his wa straight across the loneliest part of tl bleak moor. The cold wind almost cuts us in twi and whirls the snow into our faces, near] blinding us. My finger tips are b coming numbed, icicles hanging froi my mustache and beard, and my fe< . and legs are soaking wet, even throng my shooting boots and stout leath( leggings. The moon has gone in again, and tl light from the lantern we carry is bare] sufficient to show us the inequalities i the height of the snow, by which ^ are guessing at our rath. I betrin t ?N wish I had staid at heme. " Lhumv propose, mats la femme dispose," I gig 'to myself, and I begin to c rasidi whether I may venture to give 'ip tl - search (which I have undertaken pure] ; to satisfy my wife, for I am like Johi and won't believe in Laddie), whei suddenly, I hear a ehout in front of m and see Donald, who has all the tin been keeping close to Laddie, drop c his knees an d begin digging wildly in tl 4 snow with his hands. We all rush fo: 1 ward. laddie has stopped at what a; pears to be the foot of a stunted tre and after scratching and whining for moment, sits down and watches, leavir the rest to us. What is it that appea when we have shoveled away the sno? T A dark object. Is it a bundle of ragi * Is it?or, alas! was it?a human beint We raise it carefully and tenderly, ai wrap it in one of the warm blank? with which my wife's forethought had provided us. " Bring me the lantern," I say, huskily, and John holds it over the prostrate form, of not as we might have expected, some* stalwart shepherd of the hills, but over that of a poor, shriveled, wrinkled, ragged old woman. I try to pour a little brandy down the poor old throat, but the teeth are so firmly clenched that I cannot. " Get her home as quickly as may be, sir; the mistress will know better what to do for her nor we do, if so be the poor creatare is not past help," says John, j ! turning instinctively, as we all do in j | sickness or trouble, to woman's aid. So we improvise a sort of hammock j of the blankets, and gently and tenderly i the men prepare to carry their poor, I I helpless burden over the snow. " I am afraid your mistress will be in j bed," I say, as wo begin to retrace our j SIL'I'S. "Never fear, sir," says Donald, with j a triumphant glance at John, "themisI tress will be up and waiting for us. i She kens Laddie dinna bring us out in ! the snaw for naethiug." "I'll never say noxight about believ- | ing a dog again," says John, gracefully i striking his colors. " You were right, ! and I was wrong; but to think there | should be such sense in an animal j passes me!" As we reach the avenue gate I dis-! patch one of the men for the doctor, j who fortunately lives within a stone's throw of us, and hurry on myself to prepare my wife for what is ccming. She runs out, into the hall to meet me. , "Well?" she asks, eagerly. "We have found a poor old woman," I say, "but we do not know whether j she is alive or dead." My wife throws her arms around me j and Rives me a great hug. "You will find dry things in your ! dressing-room, dear," she says,and this is | :h the revenge she takes on me for my skep- j ie ticism. The poor old woman is cav- > iv ried upstairs and placed iu a warm : :1- bath under my wife's dv oction, and be- ! t, fore the doctor arrives jlie lias shown | I some faint symptoms of life; so my | wife sends me word. Dr. Bruce shakes j e, his hea l when he sees ber. "Poor old i id soul," says he, "how came she out on ; such a fearful night? I doubt she has I d received a shock which, nt her age, she will not easily get over." in They manage, however, to force a few spoonfuls of hot brandy and water in down her throat; and presently a faint le color flickers on her cheek, and the j e- poor old eyelids begin to tremlde My j wife raises her head and makes her le swallow some cordial which Dr. Brace has brought with him, and lays her! it back among the soft, warm pillows. re " I think she will rally now," says 1 st Dr. Brace, as her breathing becomes ! d more regular and audible. " Nourish- ; le ment and warmth will do the rest, but j it she has received a shock from which, I 1 g fear, she will never recover." And so , w saying, he takes leave. g By-and-bye I go up to the rcom, and a find my wife watching alone by the i aged sufferer. She looks at me with j iy tears in her eyes. "Poor old soul," 5t | she says, "I am afraid she will not rally 1 it | from the cold and exposure." d I go round to the other side of the j bed and look down upon her. The aged 8 ] face looks wan and pinched, and the j scanty gray locks which lie on the pil1, low are still wet from the snow. She i- is a very little woman, as far as I can I judge of her in her recumbent position, le and I should think had reached her alie lotted threescore yeai-3 and ten. b "Who can she be?''I repeat, won- ; w derinrrlv. " She does not belong to I 1-1 any of the villages hereabouts, or we ^ should know her face, and I cannot ; t- imagine what could bring a stranger ? to the moor on such a night." 8 As I speak a change passes over her e face; the eyes unclose, und she looks inquiringly about her. She tries to d speak, but is evidently too weak. My wife raises her aud gives her a spoonful is of nourishment, while she says, soothe ingly: "Don't tiy to speak. You are among friends, and when you are ? better you shall tell me all about your!r self. Lie still now and try to sleep." d The gray head drops back wearily on e the pillow, and soon we have the satisfaction of hearing, by the regular resr piration, that our patient is asleep. <" "You must come to bed now, Jes- 1 sie," I say. "I shall ring for Mary, : and she can sit up the remainder of; ^ the night." ^ But my wife, who is a tender-hearted e soul and a born nurse, will not desert her post, so I leave her watching and : e r>n)(fni.w nlmmKni. I 1CUIC IV JLU> 0\JXlKlklj vartuwvx. ' When we meet in the morning I find j s that the littJe woman has spoken a few ' y words, and seems stronger. "Come in j 8 with me now," says my wife, "and let j , us try to rind out who she is." We find her propped into a reclining posture j II with pillo s, and Mary beside her, I feeding her. 8 "How are you now," asks Jessie, \ bending over her. l' "Better, much bettor, thank you, a i good lady," she says, in a voice which u j trembles from age as well as weakness; ? i "and very grateful to you for yourgood71 ! ness." a I hear at oncc, by the accent, that she ^ is English. " Are you strong enough 11 to tell roe how you got lost on the moor, j and where you came from, and where i P yon are going ?*' continued my wife. " Ah ! I was going to my lad, my poor i lad, and now 1 doubt whether 1 bhall n ever see him more !" says the poor soul, with a long sigh of weariness. (e "Where is } our lad, and how far have k youcomo?" "My lad is a soldier at Fort George, lp and I have come all the way from Liverie pool to see him, and give him his old mother's blessing before he goes to the }' Indies." And then, brokenly, with long ? pauses of weariness, the little old woman tells us her pitiful story. :r Her lad, she tolls us, is her only re>s maining child. She had six, and this! the youngest, is the only one who did j not die of want during the Lancashire ; ^ cotton famine. Ho grew up a fine, | n likely boy, the comfort and pride of his j jm mother's hc-art, and the stay ot ner declining years. But a "strike" threw ,e him out of work, and unable to endure u the privation and misery, in a fit of des- j peration he "'listed." His regiment, ie was quartered at Fort George, and he ! wrote regularly to his mother, his let. ters getting more cheerful and hopeful ,e every day, until suddenly he wrote to jg say that his regiment was ordered to j ,e India, and begging her to send him her a blessing, as he had not enough money [g to carry him to Liverpool to see her. ; e The aged mother, widowed and child-! j less, save for this one remaining boy, ! a felt that she must look on his face once \ e more before she died. She begged from ^ a few ladies, whose kindness had kept, (t her from the workhouse, sufficient v money to carry her by train to Glasgow, i and from thence she had made her way, j h i now on foot, now begging a lift in a i [e j passing cart or wagon, to within a few ; miles of Fort George, when she was (| caught in the snow-storm, and, wanderlr ing from the road, would have perished ; in the snow but for Laddie. 7- My wife is in tears and Mary is sob- 1 d' bing audibly as the little old woman i ,n | concludes her touching and simple story, j and I walk to the wiudow and look out : i. for a moment before I ask her what her i y ; son's name is As I tell her we are but j a lew miles from Fort George, and that j d I will send over for him, a smile of ex-: ;r treme content illumines the withered ,o i face. y j " His name is John Salter," she says, ie I "He is a tall, handsome lad. They ' | will know him by that." a, | I hasten downstairs and write a [y | h ort note to Colonel T eeman,whom I e- ! know intimately, infor jng him of the on ' circumstances and begging that he will st i ailow Jchn Salter to come over at cnce, h and I dispatch my groom in the dogjr cart that he may bring him back without loss of timo. ie As I return to the house after seeing |y him start, I meet Dr. Bruce leaving the n house re " Poor old soul," he says, "her trou;o ' bles are nearly over; she is sinking fast. ie j I almost doubt whether she will live till h her son comes." ir 1 " How she could have accomplished ie j such a journey at her age, I cannot ly understand," I observe. a, "Nothing is impossible to a mother," q, answers Dr. Bruce; " but it has killed e, her." ie 1 go in, but I find I cannot settle to >n my usual occupations. My thoughts ie are with the aged heroine who is dying r- upstairs, and presently I yield to" the p- fascination that draws me back to her e, presence. a As Dr. Dr Bruce says, she is sinking ig fast. She lies back on the pillows, her rs ! cheeks as ashy gray as her hair. She j ? clasps my wife's hand in hers, but her j? eyes are wide open, and have an eager, j? expectant look in them. id " At what time may we expect them T ts whispers my wife to me. " l "Notbefore four," I answer, in the same tone. " He will be too late, I fear," she says, " she is getting rapidly weaker." But love is stronger than death, and she will not go until her son comes. All through the winter's day she lies dying, obediently taking what nourishment is given her, but never speaking except to say, "My lad, my lad! God is good; He will not let me die till he comes." And at last I hear the dog-cart, j lay my linger on my lip and tell Mary to go and bring John Salter up very | quietly. But my caution is needless; I the mother has heard tho sound, and ! with the last effort of her remaining strength she raises herself and stretches out her arms. " My lad! my lad !" she j gasps, as with a great sub he springs ; forward, and mother and son are clasped j in each cth<?r'? arms once more. For a moment they remain so. Then the little woman sinks back on my j wife's shoulder, and her spirit is looking down from heaven on the lad she i loved so dearly mi earth. She lies in our little churchyard un- j der a spreading yew tree, and on the stone which marks her resting place are inscribed the words: "Faithful unto death." Our Laddie has gained far- j spread renown for his good works, and | as I sit finishing this short record of a tale of which he is the hero he lies at j my feet, our ever watchful, faithful j companion and friend. ? Chambers' Jour- j A Boiling: Lake. Professor Henry A. Ward, formerly j of the University of Rochester, N. Y., is writing letters touching his travels in ; New Zealaud, some of which detail j singular experiences. In his last he says: I came from Auckland by j steamer south for 125 miles along the east coast to the town of Tamanga. I hired a twenty-ton cutter and started to visit the sea volcano. Wc :ailed all night and at daybreak we had before us a great mountain of black scoria, S30 | feet high, from the top of which, with j much force, went white clouds of vapor I to a height of fully 2,000 feet. Reaching the shore it was not easy traveling, for in places the black pebbles of the j heanh wflre all astir with water belling | up through them?water so hot chat a misstep might scald the foot senously. At this poiut the crater wall has been broken down almost to the sea level and we could look into the great hollow island. The crater is circular, a full mile in diameter, and hemmed in by walls many hundred feet high and very precipitous. The crater floor was an uneven plain of volcanic ash and scoria, with many little fumaroles or blow holes, through which hot sulphur vapors came wheezing out, while every few minutes there was beneath our feet a smart trembling and a low, dull rolling roar. The smoke of vapor began to thicken as we went along and we soon found the cause. We were stopped short by a great lake of steaming water, quite filling this end of the crater, and being, as we could see when the clouds lifted, nearly half a mile from either side. The water was too hot to comfortably bear the hand in it, and was farther insupportable to either touch or taste by a strong infu- ' sionofalum and sulphuric acid which bit painfully at any scratch or sore upon j our skin. On "the further border of the ! lake and half around its shore was a row of the most violent solfataras I ; have ever seen. They hail built for ] themselves little pillar-Iiko cone3 from j teu to thirty feet high and a yard or i two in diameter at its base, and through these open chimneys they were trumpet- j ing steam and roaring sulphuric gases j with a violence that was frightful to con- i template, and such demoniacal screech- j ing and din as afflicted our ears, even as I the long distance where we stood. We j dragged the rowboat along the volcano's floor and launched it upon the | boiling lake. The water of the lake j was of a milky opaque cast, but wo J could feel with our oars that it was in j most places not over ten feet deep. Lines upon the shore showed that it daily rose and fell slightly with the tide of the sea outside. In many spots the water was boiling furiously with so-l much froth and foam, while still its heat : was much below the boiling point of j 212 Fahrenheit. These were dangerous J places, the abundant air in the water diminished materially its buoyancy, and \ our boat sank alarmingly low in cross- j ing them. We landed across tho lake ! at one of the solfataras nearest to the | beach and proceeded to demolish it | with our oars. It was a chimney about i two feet in diameter, clay without, and j within it was lined with crystals of sul- I niinr of <1 beautiful straw-vellow, ' splashed with vermilion spots. Pushing in the top of this chimney the frag- , ments would first fsl.' down its throat j and then come flying nut into the air, j with explosions that were amusingly , like a prolonged stentorian cough. True Wealth. The demand to be rich is legitimate. ' Men are urged by their very natures to ! acquire command over the forces about I them. Every man is born for improve- j merit; no individual can stand still, ! either physically, morally, or in the { matters of daily life and business. The ; true man craves advancement, not nec- | essarily in the mere possession of clol- | lar?, but in enlarged knowledge, in- j creased capacity to grapple with the j forces of nature, broadened views of i life and its purpose, greater control over j his own mind and faculties. The man of resources is the man of strength. The successful farmer is one who is rich in experience, in hope, in energy, and in that quiet assurance which enables ; him to deal on even terms with men of every condition. The world is a tool-chest, and that man is richest who can draw the greatest assistance, comfort or happiness from his surroundings. The manly part is for each to do with might and main what he is best adapted to accomplish. Nature requires each man to feed himseif. Each man is a consumer; henco ho should feel it his bounden duty, either to become a producer, or assist .some one else in the legitimate work of production. No person can feel rich or strong or self-satisfied who has nothing to do. A pocketful of dollars would be no compensation for a man to lose his leg or his mind. Money, without the f-kill or training to iise properly, is the merest bauble. A contented mind is a continual feast. Povery demoralizes, yet a man in ! debt is so far a slave. More distress ; arises from inordinate ambition to ' reach too far, to accomplish too much, j to bear burdens beyond the strength j of the individual tiiau irom oilier cau-es. An absolute success in some humble undertaking is far more satisfying to the average man than a perilous chase after castles in tho air. ' True wealth consists in pleasant sur- 1 roundings, and in that state of mind \ which seeks enjoyment and improvem?nt in every legitimate channel. Grand opportunities, brilliant openings are not absolutely necessary to the man who would seek true wealth. Specula- 1 tive eras ruin and demoralize a thousand ; men to one enriched. Many a man has money who is not | rich. He who hoards and hides is not j possessed of true wealth. They should ; have wealth who have the faculty of i administration, who can benefit whole ! neighborhoods by a little timely aid, j who have the power to lead others to j success. The truest charity consists in j helping our fellows to sustain them- j selves, not in making idle paupers of i them. True content consists in com- j paring our situations with those who I are worse off than ourselves, rather ! than instituting comparisons with those few who have superior advantages and possessions. Afrer all, true wealth is commonly an acquirement possessed only by those whose self-control and self-poise are in harmony with nature about them. A >'ew Soporillc. An Austrian chemist is said to have j devised a soporific, of which a few drops sprinkled on the head and face ; will stupefy a man in a few seconds, j He gave it the name of "Tamer," and offered to sell the secret of iis prepara- ' tion to the Austrian government. But j the government has not only refused to [ purchase it, but has ordered the police authorities to formally order the in- ! ventor to discontinue his experiments, ; and to-abstain from using in any way ! his invention or communicating it to j others. Some people don't believe in advertising. We have tried it, however. Yesterday we lost a roll of bills containing about $100. "We judiciously advertised the loss in the paper, offering a liberal reward for the recovery of the money, and before the paper came out we found the kopecks in a pocket that we hadn't "inveetigated.?Laramie Boomerang, THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. t j Chloride of Lime. ] he Cultivator, a French journal, says thut if chloride of lime be spread on i the soil or near plants, insects and ver- i min will not be found near them, and i adds: By its means plants will easily ( be protected from insect plagnes by simply brushing over their stems with , a solution of it. It has often been no- , ticed that a patch of land which lia;5 ] been treated in this way remains relig- j iously respected by grubs, while the unprotected beds around are literally , devastated. Fruit trees may be guarded from the attacks of grubs by attaching * to their trunks pieces of tow smeared 1 with a mixture of hog's lard, and ants or.,1 nlrotwlv in nnssAssinn will uuu ? I rapidly vacate their position. Butterflies. again, will avcid all plants whose ' leaves have been sprinkled over with j lime water. Grafting the Grape. 1 The past twenty years I have grafted J and propagated many thousands of grapevines in my greenhouse and in the field; have tried almost every month in the year, and I find April or May the best time, or when tho buds are just , bursting or pushing; then no sap Trill ( trouble or drown out the graft, as is the ] case when the grafting is done in the , fall or early spring, as heretofore recom- ( mended. Such grafting will most sure- ( ly prove a failure. I use no wax; clay ( is much better; but the scions must be ^ kept baik. Graft below ground on j young, thrifty plants. No good grafter ( would ever think of grafting old snsgs , or old trees that ought to be cut down; j and so with old vines that have been j neglected and not renewed, they are no | better than old snags, and it is time j lost to try to improve such self-exhausted and worn-out plants. Nor can grafting be done by every one without experience. No grafter is always sue- i cessful in grafting the apple or pear, i much less in grafting the grape, as it is 1 quite a different process, although quite i simple to ono who knows how.?Canada . Farmer. i Liberal line of Mnnure. i J. Bridgeman, of the Elmira Farmers' \ club, illustrates the value of the liberal { application of barnyard manure by tbo j following story: A story of my early j observation comes to my mind. When j I was eighteen years old my father was j going away from tho farm for a few \ days, and he gave me a task to perform i in his absence. It was to draw out ma- ] nure to a lot assigned. I had a young j associate, Perry Stowell, to help me, j but neither of us knew how closely the j loads should be placed, so we drew j seventy-five loads with a yoke of three? ? ? -U nywI nria linraA -Iq nnf I JCIU'UIU DOCCio UUV4 UUV uw*uv ~ team, and when we had finished it was found that we had put all those big ' loads on an acre and a half. That was more than thirty years ago, but the j ground that was dressed so heavily has in all that time never forgotten the ap- ! plication. If I plow it for grain I get a j bigger crop than from any other like ] area in the field, it brings more corn, 1 more grass; in fact, it feels that manure to this day, although I cannot suppose 1 any of its substance is left. The fact j is it made that aero and a half so 1 much better than other land alongside that bigger crops were a matter of ! course, and the very fact of raising bigger crops implies more refuse matter to decay in the soii and so maintain fertility ' in the first place imparted, in this case,by J the seventy-five loads of manure. There is always a stiller sod, stronger growth : on that land, making it worth enough 1 more to pay for what at the time was considered wasteful use of the manure. American Sheep. It is a reproach to the farmers of i America that we are compelled to import much of the wool with which to make i our necessary wearing apparel. Wo j want more and better sheep than we have ever had before, and instead of this being a market for foreign wool the current should be turned the other way. The best we can do, however, it will be a long time before wo can spare any of our wool in foreign markets, and, indeed, we may feel proud when our production is sufficient to fairly mee the home demand, which it must be remembered is being very materially aug- 1 mented by emigration to our shores, | while upon the other hand there is a corresponding decrease in the demand ; in the countries from which these emigrants come, owing to the same cauge. One obstacle to a more general sheepraising has been the seemingly depressed condition of the wool market for many years. In view of the fact, how- 1 ever, that the losses of sheep dur.ng I the last winter were greater than of any 1 other kind of stock, the gradually strengthening demand at the present time would seem to warrant the general j belief that floekmasters will not have to accept mean compensation for their , labor.?Drovers' Journal, j The So-Cullctl Hog Cholera. If there is any one subject upon which people have muddled id6as it is j that of diseases of swine, and conse- ( qucntly if from any cause a number of | hogs in a herd or neighborhood die iu ( the same week or month the statement , is mado and circulated that "cholera" , prevails. The term ia comparatively a , meaningless one and io made to apply j frt nnv r\t n dn7on GT77?litnmH. H'lien in I reality hogs do not liavo any disease ( that rightly could bo called cholera; i hen 'e when our farmora lose some of j their hogs we hope they will investigate j and see if the loss is not due rather to ] some mismanagement of their own than | to any epidemic. Of course it matters | little to the loser by what name the dis- ( ease is called which robs him of the \ best of his herd, but no man in his j right mind can suppose the hog becomes } sick or dies from mere stubbornness. Some law of nature has been violated, and nature's penalty, disease, follows. , Nature points unerringly to the fact J that the hog as well as any other animal requires a variety of food, and no greater , mistake is made by breeders than con- ; fining him to corn day after day throughout the year. For fattening purposes nothing better than that can be produced for the same money is likely to , found, but for healthy, vigorous growth , and making it is far from a perfect , food. It is too 'carbonaceous for bone c ormuscle production, and without these ^ an animal cannot have vitality, activity or endurance. The unvaried use of it causes a feverish condition of the sys- , tem, constipation, suspension of growth, and a general debility which make the j animal a ready and easy prey to other and more malignant forms of diseases. Tho Canadian and Yankee farmers do i 1 not lose their hops from cholera: with j some corn they ie?'d potatoes, pumpkins, i' 1 l.Ll... 1 I 1 waslo appies, vegeiuuxe^, ums, uciine, barley, bran, shorts, millstuff, peas, j etc., a variety that produces a remark- r able growth of healthy hogs at a mini- 4 mum cost. j In the Western States, where farmers raise hogs by hundreds, the most practicable means of supplying a change of feed is to grow clover, beets and artichokes. llightly managed, either of these will yield on r.n acre an enormous quantity of food on which pigs, shoats and breeding animrJs thrive amazingly, , with little dauger of the numerous ail- j ments that cholera i* a handy but non- , sensical name for. Coin is gocd, well ' nigh indispensable, but our farmers ' will be better ofl' when they fully realize that something else is better to raise pigs on.?Kansas Fanner. Keclpen. Spiced Apple Tap.ts.?llub htewed : tart apples through a sieve; sweeten j ! and flavor with maeo or cinnamon; line j soup plates with a crust, till with the 1 apple and lay bars of crust a quarter of an inch wide over the top of the tart. ' Bake till the crust is done. Plain Pudding.?Here is a recipe for a good and simple puddiiig: One pint , of flour, half a cup of sugar, tluee-' quarters of a cup of sweet milk, one tablespoonful of butter, two teaspoon- j fuls of bal ing powder. Bake for twenty j minutes; eerve with any good pudding j sauce. Tomato Soup.?To one quart of water add eight large tomatoes; cut them in small pieces, boil for twen!y minutes, then put in half a teaspoonful of soda; j let it boil a few minutes more, then add about a pint of sweet milk; season as you would ovsters; bread crumbs, sago, barley or rice may be added. Rice Fruit Puddino.?One large tea cup rice, a little warm water to cook i partially; dry; line an earthen basin with the rice; fill up with quartered j apple or any fruit you choose. Cover j with rice; tie a cloth over the top and i steam one hour; to be eaten with sweet | sauce. Do not butter the dish. Household flint*. It is said that if a few drops of oil ' fiEWS OF THE WEE] Caat and Middlo. The National Prohibition Alliance, throt b president, tho Rov. H. A. Thompson, D. to candidate for Vice-President on tho I ibition ticket, and secretary, Mrs. M. McC nd Brown, of Pittsburg, Pa., has issued a < ir a national conferenco of Prohibitionists ew York, October 18 and 19. One of the buildings of tho powder manul iry of Watson, Burrell & Co., at Warren, 1' mtaining nearly a ton of fine sporting powc cploded tho otlior day, demolishing tho bui ig and blowing in tho ends of tho packi juso and of two other buildings filled v, iwrier. Samuel Mank, of Warren, who wai ire put onoe a week into water tanks * mosquitoes will be prevented from breeding in them. If yon have no cellar, bnt have a well, suspend the butter in a tin pail tied to i rape, nearly to the bottom of the well, ind you will have cool, hard butter for it linner. la A paste made of whiting and benzine tnll clean marble, and one made of ia ivhiting and chloride of soda spread and fc left to dry (in the sun if possible) on N the marble will remove spots. A water keg or jug for supplying the t0 harvest men will keep the water much C( cooler if it is wrapped all over in sev- e, sral folds of flannel or carpet. Water ir for the house and ice will keep much j)( longer in the same way. p( If tablecloths, nnpkins and handker- w :liu'fs are folded an inch or two beyond n] the middle tbey will last much longer; it is on tho edges of folds where they tirst wear, and folding tbem not on a p middle line, each ironing, they get a aew crease. ? pi FACTS AM) COMMENTS. W pi ti Of Miss M.iria Mitchell, professor of q, istronomy, it is related that at the time ^ of the appearance of the last comet she had left Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and got is far on her road lo Boston as Provilence when she became aware of the jomet's discovery. Immediately she liscontinued ber journey and returned -r to Vassar to make a series of observations. For five nighta these were unjualifiedly successful, bnt at midnight J )n tho sixth an apple tree obstructed ^ aer view. Without a moment's hesitc- ^ ;ion, she summoned a man and had the , :reo felled, and continued and closed ' aer work with great satisfaction. The Chinese and Japanese build In nost of their vessels of teak. This wood m ;s very durable, and will stand the water pi setter than any other wood that is used bl 'or sliipbuiidihg. According to the A ttstralasian Shipping News, there lies a it the bottom of Dusky bay a large ves- ti 5el that can be plainly seen in clear ^ ivater. She has been there for centuries, and tho Maois have a legend jf ibeut her. They say that their grand- g( "dt.bors tobl thorn that in their child hood a large vessel sank in Dusky bay; " ihat the crew managed to reach one of the small islands and after living there ' for years died off one by one. Who they were or where they came from the A Maoris conld not say. A diver is said S to have recently examined this mysterious old hulk. He reported that she B is built of teak and appears to be still perfectly sound and firm. 5 Black birch is pressing its claims to succeed black walnut as an ornamental wood. It is much the same color as sherry, and can bo stained so as to look K [ike walnut. Where the land is high ind dry the fiber is firm and clear, but " in low, wet soil it is soft and of a bluish 11 liue. It is already used largely for the a perforated chair bottoms. The Toronto Globe says that it is very abundant in 13 Ontario. It is so solid, however, that 11 it does not float after soaking a few days a! in water, and unless it is so situated as li to be rafted with pine logs it has to be *i dragged great dist ances by horse power, p In consequence of its prospects in su- s perseding walout, it is already rising in ai price. Probably, however, says a West- tl ern paper, its reign will be of short du- ? ration, as the cultivation of black wal- j nut is rapidly becoming a regular in- p dustry. It is regarded as one of the () most profitable of crops?if one can af- jj ford to wait. 8( ir A Marengo (Iowa) girl arose in her ai sleep the other night, walked out of an $ open wiudow 3nd fell twelve feet to the j: ground without being awakened. What a model wife she will make, flev hus- ' band will not bo obliged, when coming '? lnfnfvmn flio In/loro fn tir>fnn Tin tVlft S' stftirB, carefully pull oft'liis boots in the ball and sneak upstairs like a phantom. 1 Ho can bolt light into the house, knock 11 over tie furniture to his heart's con- L tent and get out of his clothes with as much racket as is made at the breaking a' np of a political convention, and all the " time she will slumber sweetly on, li dreaming dreams that cairv a big por- p centage of bliss. Then in the morning tl ho can tell her that he came in at 10 ii o'clock, and that he doesn't suppose she j Lad been asleep ten minutes, and she p will kiss him and tell him how kind he x is to come in real easy and not awake ft] her. Her name is prudently withheld, a] but some young man can secure a treasure by packing up his grip-sack and r going out to Marengo to spend a few 3ays. 0! Notwithstanding what has been writ- (\ Len in English and French books of ti American travel, New York city is at a ti considerable distance from the forests jt in which wild beasts are hunted by men, ^ and sometimes succeed in reversing the ' situation. But in the wilderness of vrater on nearly every side are man-eating monsters which of late have been ( coming up to the piers and gnashing their teeth at the populace. To venture imong them might be as perilous as to IV go unarmed into an Eastern inngle; yet small bojs sit on beer kegs" along the ct Jocks and anxiously angle for them. Several sharks liavo tnus been noonea, nul hauled to dry land through the aid w of robust butchers from the stalls near al by, and their captors Lave made large fr profits by putting small tents over them cv md charging admittance fees. It has tl been a feature of the season's catch that each shark captured has turned out jj to be a man-eater of more conspicuous characteristics and of greater voracity :han any of the others?if the avar- \ nests of its captors have been trustworthy. tl A The family tree of the Vassors will be ci l list of philanthropists. Matthew Vas- pi lar, nephew of tlio founder of Vassar fc :ollege l'or females, atPoughkeepsio, N. Vi iT., alter devoting many yearn of his life b, o its sorvice, bequeathed a large share u )f his property to that and kindred in- c, ititution ? in Poughkeepsie. The college eceives 8130,000, the Vassar Brothers' lome for Aged Men 815,000, the Vassar u Brothers' Hospital 885,000, and the : att-named institution is also mado re- . ;iduary legatee, giving it, probably, a 1 ery large endowment. Theso latter 1 ;bai-ities are the work of the two brothers, who bear the same name as the Vassar brothers of the last generation. Another charity, the Institute for the 50 - . i [r Pouglikeepsie Sciontidc and. .Liiterary 11 tssociation, is not remembered in the ,v ivill, as tlic project was begun after the ?' Till was drawn. The surviving brother, John Guy Vassar, announces that he ?t enounces in advance all legacies under ai Matthew's will, and will erec: the insti- m ;nte as a monument to his memory. 11 This is a rare partnership in good works J(. :he recollection of which will be swee :n men's mouths for many a clay. Do it V.VII. It is not after all no much what a so man does as how ho does it. He may h be a good mechi nic at sawing woof. 0i and as such deserve ciedit. There is a 8, scientific way to shovel gravel that brings about tho beiii resubs with the w least expenditure of energy. What- lt, sver honest occupation a man may i w from^ choice or necessity engage in, \ lie deserves credit in proportion as he j n( docs his Avoik well. It donbtlcs3 calls J CJ for different talent to do some things i [ linn it does to do others; but any man ; who succeeds in getting to the head in j " one vocation, has demonstrated a j probability that ho may succeed in an- | other. Ho has at least earned the right j 8t to try. Ho has shown that he has one j lo of t he qualities necessary to success in any direction, viz., the quality of doing \ well what he is able to do. Ono of the gravest and commonest i mistakes of the young man is the idea I 11 that what he is engaged in is not worth j (il doing well. That idea well stnck to j will beat any man young or old. No ? one gains a right for higher work ex- ! 1 cept by the way of present duty well i ii done. We have known boys everyway J n qualified to become good mechanics | I go through an apprenticeship and , n scarcely know more at the end than at $ the beginning, simply becauso they ; j. were always going to do some other job i t( weli. The present is the one every j tl time. Demonstrate your ability to dc j something well and the opportunity to i s advance will not bo wanting. No man ' I ever rose to respectable distinction n j any other way.?American Machinist. ! 1 It has been found by P. Hoghvn that calomel is slowly changed in the human i system by the action of water and the > temperature of the body into corrosive n sublimato. This decomposition is aided by the presence of citric acid, fi chloride of sodium or sugar. a . orlc in the building, was blown nearly 400 1 id instantly killed. Five thousand barrels of beer and other pr ly worth $00,000 wore destroyed by tire i hiladelphia brewery. Investigation of the Musgravo Alpaca co my's affairs at Chicopee, Mass., shows tl iusgrave, who disappeared, swindled irtnere, Anderson and Dnnn, out of m mn $100,000, Qf\d that vho total loss to rm, through transactions, will amounl 225,000. While making an experimental tost ew elcctrio lights at Union square, Now Yo 10 lifting tackle broke and the lamps plai i a high pole fell on five men below, inflict ital injuries on two men and seriously inj ig three others. The steamboat State of New York, of ew York and Hartford line, while on her i i New York, struck on a shoal of rocks in jnnecticut river, and sank shortly afterwa it not until all her passengers had been aai ,ndcd. Lieutenant B. L. Edes, of Washington, i ieutenant Lyman G. Spalding, of Portamot . H., were out in a boat in Newport (R. lrbor, planting torpedoes to illustrate cans of harbor defense, wlion a sudden oaion took placo and tho two officers ^ lown to fragments. An explosion of fulminato in the Winche: rms company's works at New Haven inju :n persons and blow ont one side of uildiug, The steamer City of Richmond, of the Pi ind and Mt. Desert lino, ran ashore in Pen ?ot Bay, Me. Tho eiity passengers on bo ere all saved. General Butler's son, aged twenty-sc cars, died the other day in Boston. Secretary Robert Howard, of the 1 pinners' association, lias called a trados c ress, to meer, in Pittsburg in November. An explosion at tho powder mill of Mi rothors, at Summaytown, Pa., complc recked tho mill and fatally injured He wartlcy, the foreman. Wast and Sauth. A terrible hurricane, which resulted reat lose of lifo and immense dostmctioi roperty, has visited Savannah, G&. Tho ado burst over tho city from tho northe nd in a few minutea the placo was in darki nd tho parks, streets and squares wero i orcd impassable by falling trees and hou very wire leading out of tho city was p: atcd, fully one hundred dwelling-hou :ore3 and warehouses lost their roofs and m ad their walls blown in. One houso contain :x persons was blown into tho river and eople wero drowned. Evory person living had Island was reported to be drowi nd thero was great loss of lifo am io negroes on tho rico plantations i the neighborhood of the c ho Georgia Infirmary was wrecked, and atients barely escaped, anumber being brui y fulling bricks and plaster. Tho pilot I [aid of tho Mist camo in collision witl . hooner and sunk, and several tugboats tv ljured. Abousowas swept down the rh nd three of its terrified occupants?1 tokeB and her two children?wero drowr iigineer Richard Fitzgerald, of tho steal [. B. Plant, was drowned. Tho famil; uvid Bon-ens (colored), comprising seven j )?h, wero drowned. A colored woman and >ur children were washed away in their hoi ho ships in tho river broko looso from tl loorings. Several wero sunk and a large ni or damaged. On Tyboo Island, Savanna oncy Island, neatly every house wcj blc ivtiy. One lionso took fire after it fell, c iming Mrs. Georgia Wolffe, her child and rtlo brother. Other dreadful scenes are nrtod at various river resorts. In Savani le depots, wharves, elevators and largo bti igs suffered great damage. Tho Savani Icrninq News building was unroofed, and [ inters setup the paper in six inches of wa lie beautiful trees for which the city is no ro greatly damaged. Easiness was paraly nd over $1,000,000 loss has boon incurred. By the exploding of a saw-mill boiler ampbellsvillo,.Ky., three men were instai illed and threo more injured. Marvin*, the man of many wives and nun: HH forgerias, was arraigued at tho Itichmi "a.) police court the other day, and clair mt he was not tho ninn wanted. Ho was id tied by tha clergyman who married him I iclimond young lady, and by several othi [arvin is charged with having married fourt omen and deserting them ono after anothc Two largo Chicago firms, who have recei ilegraphio advices from about sixty coi wndents stationed at different points in *uth, estimate that tho cotton crop this j ill be below the average. From the date ieir command they estimate that the en op of 1881 will not t-xccod 5,000,000 bales, 500,000 below that of last year. O.v tho day following the terriblo cycl Iiich visited Savannaii, ua., tno ootties bout fifty colored persons were rccove am swamped rice plantations. These, h rer, were only a part of tho persona who if ir liven. At leaat three-fourtha of tho < lll'c re 1 heavily. Many of tho rico plantati i South Carolina also suffered severely. Later reports declare that there haa b 0 massacre of tho citizens of Eureka Sprir ow Mexico. A t.akfie number of wrecks occurred dur le recent atorni aloDg tho Southorn co: mong them was the ahip Sandusky, wh cw of fourteen men wero rescued by a ste; lip after having been without food and wt ir seventy-eight hours. Another wrcc 2S8el was the schooner Lucio Wheat] ouud from Jacksonville, Fla., to Baltim< er crow and eight passengers wero also i led by a passing ateamer. An overcrowding of trade has caused a la umber of business failures in Deadwc akoia. within the past few weeks. IIii.Lsnor.o, Ohio, and surrounding couc as been well shaken by an earthquake she 1 is described as lasting three or four seco; nd causin.tr unite a rattling of windo ishep, etc. M. P. Ezr.r.r, was shot and killed 0110 11 iuth of Pulaski, Tcnn., at night, by Flctc argravc. Ezell was accompanying Dr. i night, who had just been married to II ave's sister, after an elopement. Hargr rcrtook the party, and, announcing his 1 )ae to kill Dr. McKnight, began firing. ' en jumped from fho wagon. MoKni na wounded and Ezell was shot de lie horses. becoming frightened, ran away i riously injured Mrs. Mclvnight. From Washington. All the citizens of Eureka, N. M., ab iventy in number, havo b.en massacred idians. The soldiers pnrss'.og Nana's bs ' Apacho? had fifteen fights with the Indii nee the campaign opened. At Cleveland, Ohio, thirty cars partly loft< ith merchandise, a large planing mill am imbcr yard containing 500,000 feet of lum ere destroyed by fire. Four deaths and damage amounting arly ?15(1,000 resulted from a heavy hui roe at Charleston, S. C. It is slated that tho corn crop in the VP ill nearly equal the averago yield. Fifty-one buildings, comprising tho enl isinena part of Piano, Texas, havo been roved by tho flames, entailing an aggreg as of about $100,000. The payments from the treasury by warn tiring August were us follows : On accoun ivil and miscellaneous, $4,023,053.02; v 5,19-1,073. S2 : navy, $1,438,42'5.78 : iutoric radians, $774,159.89: interior?pensions, ; SO, 102. Total, $18,103,41-1.00. The receipts from customs for August \\ 21,320,530, against $17,511,188 for Aug K80. From internal revenue the receipts ( ig August wero $12,103,431, against $12.3i 33 for the corresponding month of last y 'he total receipts from ;< 11 sources for lonth endiug August wore 727,375, aga 34,622,490 for August, l.yso?an increas; ivor of last month of eve - $4,000,000. jtal expenditures for August, includm;.' :-rest on the pnMie debt, exeee led $25,O0l>,i During August the public debt was red 11 14,181,221.32 ; cash in the treasury, $210,4 83.00; debt less cash in the treasury, $1,8 39,507.43. forelen News l-'ocitTi-em thousand men are at work on fcxicau Central railroad, and soventytiles of track have been completed. Canada's total customs revenue during ucal yeiir ending June 30, 1831, waa } 00,174. *?" ; 1 , ? Ths insurrection ot *he Arabs m Ttmia ccn- ' Su tinnea. A body of 12,000 mounted Arabs attacked the French troops near Hammamet, w but were repulsed with a loss of fifteen killed js and a number of woundod, C( [gk Concerning tho harvest in England a Lou- ai D don dispatch says .hat it is almost rained, ^ Even if tho most favorable -weather set in not h lei- moro t^au half a crop conld be saved. The ,ajj farmers and landlords are in despair, and 0 ^ in hundreds of farmers will emigrate and more &> suffer ruin. The prico of land, already serf- f< , ously depreciated, has gone down during the fc " past fortnight. Prayers have been offered for d ler* the harvest in all the churches In England, jjj' Tok English parliament has been prorogued, b ng. The village of St. Jean Baptiste, Canada, hea ^ been partly destroyed by fire. b 3 at- Tue cit7 of Tchesme and the island of ^ ^eet Chio have been visited by another earthquake, q said to be moro severe than that of last Aprili v op- and the inhabitants aro in despair. s n n. Continued rains in England have been a most disastrous to tho crops. t i\ great stir nag noon cauaea in raris linan- s cial circles by tho disappearance of M. Felix, a jj|g president of a leading bank, the Union Finan- I or6 cir-re. I. 'a stated that ho took the contents of the s-r011K "ox> valued at $500,000. li t to Mr. BnADLAunir, lately ousted from tho ? British house of commons, announces that he 1: itli will attempt to take his seat next ecssion, and 0 irk, calls upon tho pooplo of England to protect ? ced liim against " unlawI'nl violence." ^ ing A Fiiencu count, doscoudant of ono of the ur- oldest houses of tlic Fronch nobility, has been a arrested L-v stealing. ^ the Twenty persons wero injured more or loss ^ vay severely by a gravel train's running into a j, the passenger car near North Hattey, Quobec. ? ird, Of 116 persons imprisoned for causing inccn- j foly diary fires in various parts of Spain forty-five have confessed their guilt. g and London has had a fire which damage I busi- \ ith, uess property to tho extent of about ?1,000,000. ' I.) Fe^ er is fast carrying oft tho Panama canal \ the workmen. Tho hospitals are overcrowded, the fl ox* canal physicians are incompetent and the i ero patients get very little attention. 8 red A Big Meteor. . tl10 The fall of a meteor in the bay near a Goat Island, from the description given c 3rt_ to a Call reporter by various persons on c ob the water front, must have been a sight a * seldom witnessed by man. Hearing ar( that an old fisherman had been on the bay near where the aerolite fell, the re- j 'V0D porter looked him up and got the folic*- 5 ing story: "Yes," said he, "I was near t Eule tViA nlnr>o tvlipn that, matpnr foil onJ ? :on- let mc say right here, I don't want to be there when the next one comes down. ller I tell you what, yonng man, I've been toly in a good many close places in Calinry fornia, fighting grizzlies and standing off Mexicans in '49, but I never said my prayers as many times in a second as I did when that meteor lit for the bay this morning. I was going L jn across the bay to the Oakland flats to 10? set my nets, as I do most every monitor. ing. Well, when I got almost opposite a9t the island, all of a sudden it got so ? 108g light that I thought the wholo electric r light business had exploded right over en~ my head. I pulled for theislandjas 809' hard as I could, for I always had a holy ro3- , ? -Q-1- i--u ? norror 01 making nsii-oaio oi myseit. 8C3* I had not made two strokes when it got any all-fired hot, and I looked around and ^ dnS was jnst in time to see the grandest and i fiv0 terriblest sight these old eyes ever I >011 looked upon. Not teu feot from c ie(^i me the meteor struck the water. It ' onS looked as large as a horse. When it le and struck you could have heard the hissing t iity- almost a mile. I never heard anything t tho like it before. Almost as soon as ii ? ised went under my boat was over the spot, ; joat and the water was bubbling and I ii a steaming as though a young volcano i ero had broken out." "Do you think ? rer, you could find the exact place [ Ira. where the meteor struck ?" asked the re- L ied. porter. "I don't know. As soon as nor daylight came I went back to see how I f things looked, and found a number of s 70 dead fiyh floating around. I think it 1 her was a*10nfc two hundred yards from the island, a little east of south. I was so 19C" badly scared that I can't say exactly." I ieir "How old are you, and what is your ^ name ?" I was born in Maine in 1823, r H and my name is John Small," answered e >wn tho lone fisherman. The reporter called ct on~ upon Professor Hinks at the State her mining bureau. The professor was out re- of town, but it has been reported by ? iah several parties that tho aerolite had been Lid- seen by quite a number of persons. iah Professor Davidson was also called ; the upon, but was out. This is, without tor. doubt, one of the largest aerolites that i ted has visited the earth for some time past. j fi^rnnrism Onll. [Springfield (Mara.) Republican.] ltlv A Prominent Lawyer's Opinion. H In one of our Now England exchanges ! ier- we observe that Win. T. Filley, Esq., a 3n<I Attorney at Law and Asst. Judge Police I netl Court, and late County Commissioner, c cn. was moored to perfect health and ac- | } t tivity by the use of St. Jacobs Oil. He | j; ,re had sull'ercd with rheumatism for years t ' intensely; but by the recent use of the 0 remedy he was, as stated, completely J r" cured, and says the Oil deserves the highest praise. a th? After the Girls. c oar A Colorado editor makes this earnest J |&t appeal. Go West, girls, and comfort "r0 the poor fellows out there: We want ,, or fat and funny girls to make us smile all r over, and lean and fragile ones to hang f ?n0 upon our arms, and petite blondes who of like to show themselves on sunny days, re(l and stately brunettes, so beautiful in ow- the twilight. Wo have mineral enough n l?H' and plenty of coal and oxide of iron. f< Jity The only lack of resources is the potent " one civilizers of their pioneer brothers?the " giris. t> eon !) ,gj)j [Gouvornri'.r (NT. Y.) Herald.] v With great pleasure we can recom- t) in? rnond as a radical euro for rheumatism o jat? St. Jacobs Oil. This wonderful remedy L l08C has been extensively used by a large ,m I number of people who daily testify to lt: ILO lUttl YCIUUD UXXUOUO. 'vCl1 What are the effects of different kinds of intellectual work on the cerebral cir- t )ro- cnlation? This question M. Glev, a j-1 res- French physiologist, Jjas attempted to answer by experiments made upon him- v rsc self. "When he applied himself to a ?v od, subject which he had a difficulty in understanding thoroughly, and had, n itry therefore, to concentrate all his ener- ,f >ck. gies upon it, the rhythm of tho heart nds was far more accelerated than when he wh, took up some matter with which he j was well acquainted. 1 i Jo Yoii Can ho llnppy Her If you will stop ail \our extravagant ami wrong i lie- notions in doctoring yourself and families witli [ar- wi?'?wivo doctor* or humbug cure-alls, that do haun always, ami use only natiirc'a simple rem- j avo fdics for all your ailment-?you will bo wise, i ? mr- well and l-pjipy, ;:nd savo great expense. The pjic greatest lvnieiy for this, the cjrcat, wise and , l'ooi! will tell you, is J top Bitte rs?believe it. 1 II " duo "Piovctiw" in another column. j . ,I1(j T)io bnrbab tree of South Africa may ; ! bo barked or burned out without injury n to the tree, and it continues to live aDd grow fnv fomc time after it is cut down. [ . : rr ?w ^ j p rs '* Mill j I OR n 1^*' the Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, ^ "-I ; Backache, Soreness of the Chest, , Gout, Quinsy, Sors Throat, Swellri:' ings and Swains, Burns and Scalds, 6'ereraf Sodily Iv!i; Pains> <IS). Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosteo IP,'. ; Feet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. Ni> Preparation on earth equals St. Jacobs Oil | ci n sn/'r, sure, si :>)])!< awl Cheap Ulteninl | Kmotl.v A trial entails but the comparatively ! trilting outlnj >.f 50 Cents, nml every vne itnffering j U,p with pain can have cliiup and positive proof of it? j clainn. "vc i Diroctiona in Eleven Lsnguagee. j SOLD BY ALI. DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS i the i IN MEDICINE. is.- A. VOGELKR & CO,. Kaltimore, 3?XT, a. JL? . - ' How Easy It to to Me, " ' * "If I had strength to hold a pen, 1 Aj ould write how easy and delightftd it i to die," were the last words of the fcno1 jlebrated snrgeon, "William Hunter; card ad Louis XIV. is recorded as saving, card ith his last breath, " I thonght dying np0I ad been more difficult." > afte: That the painlessness of death is getl wing to some benumbing influence on t cting on the sensory nerves may be in- jB tl irred from the fact that nntoward ex- the jrnal snrronndings rarely trouble the han{ ying. On the day that Lord Collinfcwood reathed his last the Mediterranean Benf. 'as tumultuous; those elements which aD(j ad been the scene of his past glories b00 ose and fell in swelling undulations g^' nd seemed as if rocking him to sleep. Japtain Thomas ventured to ask if he k /as disturbed by the tossing of the prjE hip. "No, Thomas," he answered, "I Las m now in a state that nothing can dis- 558 arb be more?I am dying, and I am ure it must be consolatory to you and 1 ^ 4 rt/vrt li/\m rtnTnfrtrfoWv ] S 11 LilU L 1UVC LLLC IU OCO LX\J VT tVWiWiWMij mm am coming to my end." In the Quarterly Review there is re- gdi ated an instance of a criminal who esaped death from hanging by the break- [ og of the rope. Henry IV., of France M ent his physician to examine him, who eported that after a moment's sufferng the man saw an appearance like fire, cross which appeared a most beautiful .venue of trees. When a pardon was aentioned the prisoner coolly replied hat it was not worth asking for. Those pho have been near death from drownng, and afterward restored to consciousLess, assert that the dying suffer but ittle pain. Captain Marryatt states that his sen- . ations at one time when nearly drowned /a pere rather pleasant than otherwise, ' The first struggle for life onceover, the 8||| pater closing around me assumed the ES ippearance of waving green fields. It ggj 3 not a feeling of pain, but seems like || inking down overpowered by sleep, in fcrj ho long, soft grass of the cool meadow." fvj Now, this is precisely the condition n ^resented in death from disease. In- BE lensibility comes on, the mind loses |g lonsciousness of external objects, and leath rapidly and placidly ensues from p isphyxia. QpS The Growth of Dlneaae. MS Diaeaaea multiply?beget one another. For Pv nat&nce, in companionship with dyspepsia are [p lsually found bilionsnesa and constipation. A rivial (so-called) indisposition, if disregarded, jfo ;rowa apace, and growing gives rise to others. niua the whole body geta out or order, the Eg lervous system la shattered, and strength Kg ind flesh rapidly wane. Prompt medication, herefore. is of the utmost importance. Among nedicinal means of arresting disease, Hoatet- t cr's Stomach Bitters stands pre-eminent. It :liecks the further progress of all disorders of * lio stomach, liver and bowels, revives the vital ** stamina, prevents and remedies chills and fever, f ncreases the activity of the kidneys, counter- BH icta a tendency to rheumatism, and is a gen- | line stay and solace to aged, infirm and nerv- / ma persons. The article is moreover derived * iom the purest and most reliable sources. Itn Canal locks were known in Upper cou: iJgypt from the most ancient times char mown to history. They were intro- gas luced into England from Flanders in ? .652. | A Mlnlntcrittl Statement. n Rov. C. A. Harvey, D. D., is the popular finan- " :iai secretary of Howard University, and is * pecially fitted to judge of merit and demerit ;n a recent letter l'rom Washington to a friend ^ 10 said: " I have for two years past been ac- 0 [uainted with the remedy known as Warner's j Safe Kidney aud Liver Cure, and with its renarkable curative efficiency in obstinate and t; o called incurable canes of Bright's disease in q his city. In some of these cases, which seemed H o be in tho last stages, and which had been '< ;iven up by practitioners of both schools, the a ipeedy change wrought by this remedy seemed t( ;::t little less than miraculous. I am con- 0 rinced that for Bright's Disease in all its stages, i ncluding the first symptoms, which seem so ilicht. but aro so daniierous. no remedy hereto- Cl oro discovered can bo hel-l for oue moment in " ipmparison with this." d At the northern end of the Bay of 5lentv, New Zealand, there was lately ?i een every indication of an active sub- ? aarine volcano. n Can't l'rcncli <>ood. _ No man can do a good job of work, preach a ;ood sermon, try a law suit well, doctor a patient r ir write a good articlo when lie feels miserable ft ind dull, with sluggish brain and unsteady lerves, and none should make the attempt in 5 mch a condition, when it can bo so easily xnd J iheaply removed by a little Hop Bitters. v5ee j 'Truths" and "Proverbs," other column. * To win, work and wait?but work a * joo.l deal more than you wait. ^ Don't Die In the Bonne. |]j[ Ask Druggists for "Hough on Hats." It clears ^ >ut rats, mico, roaches, flies, bed-bugs. 15c. WO] See advertisement of P. 0. Vickery for agents GTh n another column. Mr. Vickery is Mayor of man he city of Augusta, Maine, which is a euro i1?# ruarantee that all will be justly doalt with. sro Veoetixe.? For eradicating all impurities of gmti lie blood from the system it has no equal. Ir FD1 las never failed to cffect a cure, giving tone and trencth to the system debilitated by disease. Wc jiatii Indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration md all forms of general debility relieved by aking Menssian's Peptonized Beef Toxic, the ^,<5] inly preparation of beef containing its entire N. Y mtritious properties. It contains blood-making, orce-generating and life-sustaining properties; Hall 3 invaluable in all enfeebled condit ions, whether Clar lie result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, urer ivcnvork, or acuto disease, particularly if P? esulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, lazard & Co., proprietors, New York. 25 Cent* Will Buy . Treatise upon tlio Horse and liis Diseases. 5ook of 100 pages. Valuable to overy owner if horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent post>aid by New York Newspaper Union, 150 Worth Itreet, New York. vtjf The soft and silky appearance given to the iair by the use of C.utr.oi.iNEj the natural hair estorcr and dressing, as now improved and pi r- hom !>cted, is the suliji-et of general remark by all rho have witnessed its elloeta, ?2 RESCUED FROM DEATH. William J. Cougldin, of Somorvillo, Mass.. says: In ~ lie fall of lHTil I was taken with bleeding of I lie lungs, now allowed by a severe cough. I lost my appetite and topi< esb, and was confined to my bed. In 18771 was ad- ?boi; lifted to tlio hospital. The doctors .?,ud I had a hole j|**L 3 my lung as big as a half-dollar. At one ti:nc a rc- cost, ort went around that I was dead. I;.'ave up hope, page ut a friend told me of Da. William Hall's Balsam ! on the Lungs. I got a bottle, when, t o my surprise, 'J < c, commcnced to feel better, and to-davl feel better ? ' jan for three years past. I writo this hoping every no atllicted with disease i lungs will take Dr. Wit- jq.J iam Hall's Balsam, and be convinced that coxntlTios can ni: cuukd. lean positi-.ely say it has one more good than all the other medicines 1 have Hi iken siiico my sickness. j H WARRANTED FOR 34 YEARS *,] AND NEVER FAILED J"?? entli 0 CURE Cronn.'Spa?ms. Dlarrhrcr., Dvsenterv ajsd will I na Sickness, taken internally, and GtTAli WTI'l.'ii resto Brfectly harmless; also externally, Cuts. I}rnis"i, Sold hronic Rhoumatis;:i. Old Sores, Pains i;i tin- iimb.', , I. f>: and ehe.-t. Sm-ii a remedy is Dit. TOUIAi lorn EXKTIAN LINIMENT. ?5 -'So one once trying it will ever bo without if; ivriiuo physicians use it. 2't Cents Mill liny a Trentiso upon the orse and liis Diseases. Book of 100 pases. Valuable > every owner of horsey. Postage stamps taken. j?J lit postpaid by NEW YORK NEWSPAPER UNION, Sons .>0 Worth Street, New York. chan "cat' tie at V_ eircu egetine. E In tn Corai Abso. L Home in the Celestial City. JES to an Minneapolis Minn., December 18,1878. nurnl r. c t, i on re . R. Stevens. Boston: About nine and a half years apo 1 had a fever; the A._EL " tor pave me some poisonous medicine, drove tho -ie.aso into my leg, and it broke out, and lias been ?1 (J :i two t" ten running sores ever since. I could _ >; leep a fourth of a night once iu six months, and To 1 isri it liianv nights was com,icllcd to pet up and take word iuiii?a piece as large as a pea?to deaden the pain. lures lia\.' tried everything I could hear of: in fact, I J*1!".8 nn i iid out hundreds ot dollars, ami found no tamu lief i: :il I commenced taking Vkgetine, and now e.'?. an ?! o bed at eight o'clock at night and sleep ctreul itil sevio'clock in tho iuornir.jr, and no occasion W}** waken u- .m pain. I was used up, t.erfectly dead Addri wardly, and frequently when I would pet up would n ij 1 dizzy, and have to put my hand on something to S j n ep from fallinp: but since I commenced taking | 3 liKtiN!-: it has ail disappeared, and I leel like a new 11 P' an. My honest conviction is that it will cure my 81 entirely, from the present looks and feelings. I all continue taking Vklktisk, and recommend it all whom I come across: and I hope the man who VB trod need Veoetink into the United States will have I II liomo in the Celestial City. spini. Yours most sincerely. Lr'5''tw. s. leach. ?33 Mr. Leach is a gentleman well lrnown here, and is e owner of the celebrn:*t Turbine Water Wheel, ? $2 Vegetine ? OMPLETELY CURED ME. YOU Newport, Ky., February 2G, 1877. "7~f'| s. H. R. Stevens: Aw Dear Sir?I write to say that seven bottles of your Send! :getine have completely cured me trotn a very i <;| fere case of >Vc<;/?'". of many years' standing. /V s ler trying many medicines and doctoring a great :n pi y al. I am now free ltvm all sores, and can work as 11 as ever, and think the Vkhitune is a god-send, ?bb d no one ought to do without it. I remain, respccttullyvours^^n $10 $51( "eoktine is now prescribed in cases of Scrofula. d other diseases ot the blood, by many of tho best 7t/ ysiciaus, owing to its great success in curing all Vty > seases ot this nature. . . ,. ? egetine is Sold by all Druggists. $72 PETROLEUM JE I Usod and approved by the leading PB g CMS of EUROPE and AMERICA.^, I Tho most Valuable^^^i^^S A ' S (JUTMr nim> DISEASES, EH CATAEEH, EEMOEEHOSS, E Conghi, Colda, Sore Throat,Croup tad Di XrTry them. 25 and 50 c?nt dzea of all < WUJTO MEgii AT THE PHniWITm P ULVKi KUAJL AT TM PABU HTM i ingenious method of secret correidence with prisoners is What is ;m as the postal card trick. A postal is split, thus forming two thin s. The secret message is written a the inner sides of the two halves, r which the sides are pasted toier, care being taken to paste only he edges. A commonplace message ten written upon the outside, and unsuspecting warden into whose is it ' omes hands it to the prisoner. linese mandarins or governors often ence offenders to lie on the gronnd receive thirty strokes of the bamwhile for great crimes men are agled or beheaded. erosene oil, clocks and rifles are the icipal United States exports to Japan. t year the Japanese bonght $1,803,worth of oil. PERRY DAVIS' 'ain-ffiller I WWW ft 8AFE AND SURE REMEDY FOB ^Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Cramps, Cholera, Diarrhoea, Dysentery. Sprains AND Bruises, Bums AND Scalds, Toothache AND II J L- ' MBgy neauaGnB: FOB SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. KIN C 36 JVEERICAN AND FOREIGN >ATENTS iEORGE E. LEMON, Att'yat Law, WASHINGTON, D. C. feronces given to actual clients In nearly every uty lu tlie U. S. Correspondence Invited. Send et or model for oiiinion as to patentability. No go forscrvlceH unlesssnrcosBfnl. Kut'hllub'd 1885. -he IPurent and Best Medicine ever i tad ft. I Acolmblnatlon ot Hops, Buchu, UlanIrakle and Dandelion,withal!tnebetfaod lostclurative properties ot all other Bitten, I iakes\the greatest Blood Purifier, Llw I teg U l\a tor, and Lite and Health Restoring B geut east^o dbcase poeslbly long exist where Hop ittera aro na\e<MoTaried and perfect are their 'he; juid Vigor to the tjodifldlfiflHL To .-.II whoso employments cause irregularlrofthelw welsor\ urinary organs, or who r*? aire an Appetizer^k^onlc and mild Stimulant, lo;> liilUi j are lovtiV?ablc' Without IntOXXo rantrrwliatyourt^ellngs or symptom* re v d.st-asc or ?ilwnent 1* use Hop Bit* .T'. 1-v. i i i.j.tuiitUyoaa?re sick bat If you uly foil '-.-.1 or mlscrahl3,?,lse them at one* t:uay s.ivjyjarlife.lthasB8*T?d hundreds. $COO will l>e paid for a cal?e they will not iiroorlielp. 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