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- t; COTTON. ? Tis born of the burden of Toil ( From the strength and the speed of the plow, t springs from the heart of the soil, , And the seeds that are glorified now, , In the soft-furrowed fields of the South, It rules o'er the realms of the grain, i Tis green through the gloom of the drouth, ] 'Tis fair through the fall of the rain. 1 With blossoms of purple and white. I With leaves that are vernal in hue, Tis fed by the air and the light, Tis nurtured by sunshine and dew; , It springs from the breast of the earth, Tis rife with rare color and heat? , In marvels of magical birth, i Tis king o'er the corn and the wheat: 1 The procreant pulses of May Beat under its ripening boll; j And later it lives in the ray i Of the light that illuminates its soul. ( Twas known in the land of the Ka-t, Through ages long silent and dead: ^ With wonders of whiteness increased, ] . x To the warmth of the South it is wed. Tis gathered from valleys and hills; In opulent bales it is bound; With orient beauty it fills Vast acres of affluent ground. Though planted in darkness and gloom, Tis safe in the dust of the sod; jt arises in splendors of bloom. , It awakes at the whisper of God. Oh! lift a large jxran of praise, J As strong as the tides of the sea! 1 Through lengths of laborious days ' And conquests of Commerce to l>e, ' This plant from the heart of the soil, In the pride of its purified fleece, With triumphs of glory and toil 1 Shall reign in the rapture of peace. j ?Wm. II. Hayne, in Home and Farm. j ELIZABETH'S OPINIONS. ; H'MI T t *^7q, ? 111, i lllll mi i;i,m. aim |uvn,i Mrs. Dnnvers, quite forgetful of the soft ' balls of many-colored worst eads in her ; lap, rose hurriedly to meet her husband. "I had a very, very, very important letter } to-day?from London!" 1 "From London. Fan ? I did not think : that you knew any one in London." 4'I was three years in a London board- * ing-school, sir! Do you think it is only ' men who make bosom- friends at school \ J John Lawrence and you were chums at j school, and are ridiculous about each j other yet; I suppose I can have a school friend too." "Nonsense, Fan! Davjd and Jonathan 1 have no sisters. Women get a husband, ? and then there is an end of 'my darling . *' Angelina/ and 'my darling Fanny.' " 44Her name is not Angelina, sir, and 1 she always calls me Frances. If there is 1 one thing Elizabeth detests, it is nick- s names. She used to say, 'If your name :l is Frances, don't allow any one to call Si you anything else.' She is <juite a re- !1 markable woman, Will, i assure you." "And her name is Elizabeth ?" "Yes?Elizabeth Atkinson. She is 11 very rich?very rich indeed ; and I r thought. Will dear, if I could get her to be baby's god-mother?she's an old maid. * Will?she mitfht leave baby something, ; you know.'' j "You mercenary little mother! You would lay the weight of those two f dreadful names upon baby for the sake r of a possible legacy? Elizabeth?Atkin- ? son - Danvers. The little mite could not 1 bear it, Fan.'' a "We would call her 'Bessie,' Will; her godmother would never know. Bessie is pretty: don't you think so!" "No, I do not think so. Iam for calling her Lily, or Violet, or Grace, or * something flower}- and pretty." s "I never knew a girl called Lily that s did not grow up fat and red, or one called Violet that was not loud and vul- ? rar. or one called Grace that was not ill- 1 tempered and gawky. Now. there is h something very stately about Elizabeth." ? "And very likely baby will grow up a little fluttering, frizzly-haired fairy, all J curves, and ringlets, and ribbons." "I am ashamed of you, Will, talking J about your own dear, darling little J daughter in that way. And after all the trouble I have taken to select a proper 1 godmother for her! And Elizabeth so . delighted, and coming all the way to J New York to see her goddaughter, too, 1 and everything else. I must say I ex- ^ pectcd more appreciation from yo1**?ill. !l Lilian Morris *?l^ iere this afternoon, x and she of course opposed Elizabeth. I 1 expected that. She is all for those horria Saxon names, like Maud, and Elfri- 1 da, and Bertha. But a man of the world ^ ?a sensible man like you, Will! I am ;j astonished." ' "Oh, don't scold. l"an. I think Eliza1 AH?1 * nn/1 oo CO T* u*ft r?u11 IUCIU , ami, ?o JVU ot?j } " v vwu vui* i . her Lizzy." "No, Will, I never said Lizzy. Lizzy, 1 * indeed! I said Bessie." , "Yes, dear, Bessie. Ibegpardon." 1 "And I shall write to Miss Atkinson * to say that we will have- the christening !l in May, if that suits you, Will." "Yes, yes: that suits me very well. ? John and I are going to the Adirondacks r. in June, but it will be all over by that time" c " All over, Will! I must say that is 1 not flattering to baby." " " I dare say baby will be glad enough J r^.-y to have it all over. But is this lady really coming here??to New York?" ' 'She is really coming. I was going 11 to ask you about refurnishing the blue 0 suite of rooms for her." " Why; they were refurnished when ? we were married, two years ago, and 11 nobody has used them but John Law- 1 "And he smoKes. Elizabeth is very j: sensitive on that subject." * For a short time Will held his ground about refurnishing; but after Fanny shifted the point of attack from her rock- * ing chair to his knee, the resistence grew 11 fainter and fainter, and finally the weak ^ husband not only agreed to the carved (? \ oak furniture upholstered in rich wood ' I colors, but also professed to see the neccs- 1 f ?ity for looking after the carriage. !' C "That Mrs. Lorimer has had hers lined 1 ? wifli nun%lft cntin Will nn/1 ic r/?allv . "..uu-mp.,... ,,,.,..,,,,,,, , ^ ^ an effective background for light hair," skillfully suggested Fanny. ' And I am ??.' ' so sick of those gray horses! Can't we 1 have bay ones, Will? They are more ' English and stylish." So the oak furnishing, the new carriage- j f - tining, and the bay horses were deter- ' * - mined on, and, what is more, Will Dan- J vers had no sense of having suffered a de- ' feat. 'Will Danvers heard a great deal of Miss ' Atkinson between March and May, and < 1 was allowed to read specially wise and j lofty paragraphs in her letters, lie nf- ' fected a great admiration for the lady, 1 but, in reality, he was quite sure she ' would prove a tremendous bore. "But j W. * John and I can get out of it." he reflected; "thai is one comfort. And if she man- ! ages 10 put Fan under her thumb, she is utti lam .that's all I don't believe Fan will give i.i?much; I never knew her do it. I'll bet twenty dollars they have a civil light before a month is over, and that Fan come# ?ut ahead." In a week after Mi^Vtkinson's arrival Will had mCKjjLfiiMi-rflis opinion. IlerappearancP"sTJlft not formidable?quite the contrary. Indeed, she was so petite, so appealing, that Will had not | ^ at first thought it necessary to guard one of his prerogatives. But gradually he found himself abandoning his dearest rights. "Miss Atkinson was not well; j^___would Mr. Danvers kindly breakfast ^*55S*tI?ne, and allow darling Frances to have a quiet talk and a cup of tea with her?" Mr. Danvers politely consented, and in a WCeK Hie lavor nau uccumca cumuiu, aim Mr. Danvers breakfasted alone as a matter of course. It was the same in everything. Miss Atkinson took possession of his wife, his child and his house. Her cool, calm, authoritative way was irresistible, and she delivered her opinions with such an air of settled conviction in their infallibility that few cared to dispute them. " She was really sorry to bnd so much to disapprove of in New York society, and she knew how to pass it. over; but it was her nature to speak the truth, though it was often a very disagreeable duty." And even Will gave her the usual ^fjjfctredit for this unpleasant characteristic. in just her honest, straightforward nature thai makes her say this kind of thing," he said to John Lawrence one | night; 44 but I wish she was not so fond of 'plain truths.' Fan is made to see J faults in me she never would find out by herself." "'Plain truths!'" answered John, spitefully. "I have always noticed that tnese people who are so fond of ' plain troths "never feel callcd upon to tell pleasant truths. I have always refused < to meet the lady, Will, because I like women who are not above nice little , hypocrisies to please lis; but I declare a - woman who proposes to accompany us | ! into the woods, and turn our private ' pleasure into a public picnic, must be a i character. I'll go home with you tonight and see her." " Oh, John, thank vou. I shan't feel 1 so helptas against Fan and her then. < : . . fSSur V u-/A. -...:? ? 4ti '*?. Poor Fan! She hates the woods, and can't endure a dinner without entrees and dessert; yet this English woman has absolutely persuaded her that she is looking dreadfully ill. and that nothing but i mire natural life will save her from consumption " To say that Jolm' Lawrence had no curiosity about Miss Atkinson would be false. He had heard about her continually for a month; she was always loing or saying something which eoutradicted Ids ideas of what a woman night to do or say; so that going home ivitli Will was not committing himself to my great act of self-denial it was a lovely June evening, and just lusk, as tliev entered the parlors. They ivere euiutv. and tlicv walked through hem on to a balcony latticed with vines j :hat overlooked the little plot of city garden. Miss Atkinson was standing in :he very center of a small lawn. She ivas quite unconscious of any observation, and John stayed by an imperative [notion Will's first movement to announce their approach. '4 Let me look at her," tie said, in an agitated whisper. As she stood there in the June twilight die was worth looking at. A woman ibout twenty-eight years of age, of the most delicate type of English beauty. Her small, slight figure was exquisitely obed in fawn-colored silk and grenadine. She had a pink rose at her throat, and mother in her hand, but, even as they ooked at her, she dropped it from her istless grasp. For a moment she regarded it pitifully, and then there passed >vcr her face an expression 01 sum nope- i ess sorrow or weariness that Will was piite startled, and turned to his friend: "She does uot look very bad-tempered low, does she? Why, John, what is the natter? Do you know her?" "I cannot tell, Will. Either I know ler, or have been dreaming about her 'or eleven years, that's all."' Half an hour afterward they were siting side by side in the gas-lit parlor. Every trace of sensibility had left Elizabeth's face. The womanly melancholy hat had made her so lovely in the twiight garden had quite vanished. She vas now only a keen, clever little woman. But somehow John felt sure that she lad assumed a character, and was play ng up to it. ''She is a clever actress, ind enjoys interpreting her role; but vhy she chooses to do so is a question." \nd from this evening forward John liawrence fell as completely under the pell of Elizabeth Atkinson as Fanny lad done?with this difference: Elizabeth soon became aware that in this case ler slave was also her eonuuerer. Will was disgusted with the whole losition. lie took a couple of servants md set off to the Adirondacks without folin. who did not now want to go tisling. He seemed, indeed, to desire 110thng but to idle away the long summer lays in Fanny's garden or parlors. Xeccsarily Elizabeth and lie were often left ilonc, and it was a noticeable thing that ittertlienrst two wccksoi tafirjiitjuiinuince they found nothing to dispute ibout in their interviews. Elizabeth sat juietly rocking and pretending to sew, nd John watched her and pretended to cad bometimes they gianrea at eaen otner. ometimcs they said a few words, but fohn was really gaining a silent victory, rhen there would be days in which Elizaw.tli rr-lwllcf] amiinst this frrowintr uower iver her, and at such times she resolutely efused to leave her own room; but such truggles onlv left her more weak and mprcssionable. John conquered by his bsence as surely as by his presence. The first really hot weather had sent the )anverses out to their country home?an Id stone house among great pine woods -and John spent most of his time with hem. But not one word of love did he ay during those charmed weeks of hot uinmer-tide. They wandered through he pines, and played witn the baby, and ailed down the river in the cool mornngs and the moonlight nights, and John aid nothing beyond the pleasant courteius words of an intimate acquaintance, n those days Elizabeth was often very rcary. "I must wear my mask," she hought; "he must not know how really l eak and tender I am. Once! ah! once? ! Jut what did it bring me? Contempt. f women snow tney nave a neurt, me\ nvite a betrayer." It was the last day of August, and Elizabeth was to return to England early n September. It had been a still, hot; xhaustive day. Fanny had a bad headiche, John was in the city, and Elizabeth vas slowly walking her little namesake o sleep in the darkening parlor. Bvnd-by John came home, and sat down. Clizabeth smiled faintly at him, and coninued her monotonous walk and lullaby, ohn followed her every movement. : rhen the child was asleep, ana sne was t'UVllljr LIll* IUUUJ. lie stood betore her, all his soul in his ace. "You will come back, Elizabeth? want to speak to you." It was the first time he had ever called ler Elizabeth. She knew what lie wanted 0 say, and yet she answered, almost in i 1 whisper, "I will come back." : He was awaiting her return with the greatest impatience. Now that he could 10 longer withhold speech, he was eager or his opportunity. He met her as she ntercd and drawing her passionately oward him. said: " Oh, Elizabeth, you nust not leave me now. I have loved oil, darling, loved you and sought you, or eleven years." "Oh, John, I love you, too! Hut you ' nust know the truth: I have loved some >ne else the greater part of those eleven i cars?some one who oaseiv won my hildish heart, and then left me to such lopeless misery as makes me tremble yet o think of. I was a simple, loving, i omantic soul, and he thought it but a loliday to take all the glory out of my ife. and all the trust out of mv heart." "Are you sure of that, darling?" 'Quite sure. He left me in Koine one ir.st of November; I never saw him again, ;nd he never wrote me :i line." "He whs killed three days afterward, learest, in a pass of the Apennines. Pherc was a long letter to you in his ocket. but it was unfinished and had no iddress. i have it here. Will you read t?v 'No, no, John: it is too late now. fou knew Stephen r" ' He was my dearest friend. "We were raveling together. I knew that he was leeply in love with a young English girl, >ut he was very secret and jealous about his matter. I did not care to irritate lim with questions, for he regarded the subject as too sacred a one for common :onvcrsation. Sooner or later I was sure ic would give me his confidence. Alas! tie had only strength after he was stabbed :o whisper some words which were quite inaudible, and explained nothing. The brigands who had attacked us suffered me to redeem my friend's body and ray own life, and 1 kept as a sacred trust and relic the letter lie had intended for you, and your picture. The lovely face gradually became a dream and a hope to me; 1 sought you all over hurope; I have not found you now only to lose you, have I. Elizabeth?*' She answered first by a passion of tears and sobs. It was a gracious rain, and washed away all the sense of wrong that had imbittered so many years. It was just, also, that she should first give tribute to the memory of a lost and wronged i love. John understood the feeling, and shared it. After all, it was a short sor row, lroni which was to spring lor xncin long years of confident joy.?Jl/irjier's We< i hj. He Saw His Girl. '*I)id you sec your girl last night ?" asked a friend of a young fellow who had been out calling the evening before, when; tin? old folks didn't like him. Well 1 should ejaculate to remark." "Everything went well, eh V "I should enumerate the particulars." " See any others of the family V " Yes, the old lady and the boys." "Didn't vou see the old man ?" "No." " You had a nice time, did you ?" "Not exactly: the old gentleman Kicked me clear over the fcnce." "Kicked you over the fence! I thought you said you didn't see him." <?\V<>1I I /U/ln'f- ci*#* him Thilt's hflW he got in his work. Do you suppose if I had seen him I would have hung around und pleaded with him to kick me ? Is'ot much. I would have mosied lively. He performed the ceremony before I saw him, and after the job I didn't feel any particular desire to see him or anybody else but the doctor. See him ? You bet I didn't see him."?Chicago Neir*. The statistics of the universal postal union for 1881 show that the United btates ranks first in the number of postoffices with 44,512; Great Britain takes second place with 14,018, Germany lias 11,088 and France 0,158. Japan, with 5,094 offices is far in advance of Russia, British India, Austria, Italy and Spain. Switzerland lias one postoffice to every 085 inhabitants, and the United States one to every 1,126. The Russian and Princess Louise are ;he favorite shapes for fur-lined cir:ular$. rr : -..f r-i S10RIES OF THE WAGS humorous tales taken fbom the FUNNY PAPERS. Brother Gardner oil Female Suffrage? >'ot a Kliylork?IBe Wanted I'cncc? Wanted Daughter**?The Ilad Hoy. UK WANTED PEACE. Tlie Sultan?So, you, an American, do sire a commission in my army? Applicant?Yes, your highness. The Sultan?But why do you wish it ? Applicant?Mv physicians have prescribed change of scene and rest. The Sultan?Why; what have you been doing lately? Applicant?For three years I have been the directorof an Italian opera company, with four prima donnas and three tenors. ? Ph Utitli Iji/lid Cull. r.nOTHKIt C. AKDNKIt OX KEMAI.E SCFFJt.UiK. Brother Gardner, of the Lime Kiln club, is down on female suffrage, and expresses - " * - il.!. e ..A. Ins opinion ol tlie movement 111 imsiasuion: Take tie movement from its ineepslnin twenty y'ars ago to de present date, and it has neither included one true woman. It has heen a movement mapped out an' followed by a class of males an' females who have somehow kept el'ar of idiot asylums, an" yit who doan' know 'null to i)e lunatics. To de wife an' mother?de true woman <>f de fiahside?I grant homage an' reverence. 1 class her second only to de angels of heabcn. To de female who imagines that de Lawd created her to he sutliin greater dan a woman, I grant do same respects as to a man, an' gin her de same chance to stan' up in a crowded kyar. 1 doan' want to meet her. nor talk to her. nor read to her. She' am a mighty poo' woman an' a slim sort o' man. UK WAS NOT A SIIYI.OCK. A day or two ago a man who was at the Central flepot to take a train suddenly cried out that some one had stolen his valise, and he began such a hullabaloo that everybody had to be interested. "1 sot that 'eresachel right down thar" and stepped to the door." he explained to Officer Button, and when I returned it was gone." "Well, you should have been careful. We are not responsible for such losses." " You ain't, eh? Whar's the president T ' Out of the city, sir.'' " AY Lars the general manager? ' lie's sick abed." " Whar's the superintendent?'' ''Won't be here till 4 o'clock." ' Wall, now, somebody's got to make good that loss or about a dozen men will go to the hospital for six months apiece!" ' What was the value?" " Fifty dollars and not a cent less!" ' What were the contents?" "I had twelve shirts, a new suit of clothes, an overcoat, and lots of other things." "Was it a carpet-sack?" ' She was." "One handle gone and the lock broken?" " Yes, one handle was gone, and I had her tied with a string." "Is this it?" asked tnc omccr, as ne took the baggage oil a bench not six feet away. " Great snakes! that's her!" chuckled the owner. In handing it to hint the string broke, the bag flew open, and out rolled two old shirts, a pair of socks, and live or six paper collars - all there was in it. " Then these are the duds you wanted i $. ?<) for?" queried the officer. ,4No, sir!" was the indignat reply. " I should have taken the money for loss of time and damage to my feelings. I'm no Shy lock, sir!"?Detroit Free Press. WANTED DAI CWITEHS. ' Now that we are engaged,'' said Miss Pottleworth, "come and let mc introduce you to papa." "I believe that I have met him," replied young Spickle. "But in another capacity than that of son-in-law." "Yes?er, but I'd rather not meet him to-night." ':Oh, you must," and despite the almost violent struggles of the young fellow, he was drawn into the library where :i large, red-faced man, with a squint in one eye, and an enlargement of the nose, sat looking over a lot of papers. "Father," said the girl. "Huh," he replied, without looking up. "I wish to present to you ?" "What?" he exclaimed, looking up and catching sight of young Spickle. "Have you the impudence to follow me here? Didn't I tell you that I would see you to-morrow?" "Why, father, you don't know Mr. Spickle, do you?" "I don't know his name, but I know that lie has been to my office three times a day for the past week with ii bill. I know him well enough. I can't pay that bill to-night, young man. Come to my olliec to-morrow." "I hope," said Spickle, '"that you do not think so ill of me. I have not come to collect the bill you have referred to, but?" " The deuce! Got another one ?" " You persist in misunderstanding me. I did not come to collect a bill, I can come to-morrow and see you about that. 1 U-Illjilll 1 jUWJIV^U IW Win WClll^AAlVI , and have been accepted. Our mission is to acquaint you with the fact and to ask your consent to our marriage." ' Well," said the old fellow, "is that nil ? Blamed if I did't think you had a bill. Take the girl, if that's what you want: but say, didn't I tell you to bring the bill to-morrow '?" ' Yes. sir." " Well, you needn't. Our relations are different now. Wish I had a daughter for every bill collector in town." TlIK HAD 1IOY AN1> Ills 1'A. ' Hello. Hennery," said the grocery man to the bad boy, as lie came in holding his sides to keep them from bursting with suppressed laughter, "what has occurred to cause a pious young man to l.-mjrh in tliat worldlv manner? You must try to cultivate a long. mournful countenance, and learn to sijjh and look sick when you are the happiest," and the grocery man weighed out a couple of pounds of buckwheat flour for a hired girl. "Has your pa joined the police force? I saw him driving a lot of hogs to the pound yesterday." "That's what I am laughing about," said the boy, as lie put an apple on the >tove to bake it. "I'a has gone to the pound after the hogs this morning. You see, I have been taking lessons in painting and drawing, and the other day I surprised ?m by showing him a picture of a blue cow, with a green tail and old gold horns, and he told me he never saw anything more natural, and he advised me to turn my attention entirely to animal painting. i>.'. v. f...... i,??, ?i,? it.w.L* . .. .X.. j..- ...... ... .. .. ... .... ..... ^ . lot. and every day lie turns them out in j the alley and lets them run, and takes I them up when they come home. The hoys are I a rye white ones, regular beau- j ties, and jia thinks thinks about as much of them as he does (f me. Well, pa told me to yo and turn the hoys out yesterday, and I took my paint brush alony and before turniny them out I painted l.laek spots all over the hops. Vou never see a lot of speckled hoys, where the spots were put on any better. The hoys looked at each other kind of astonished, and I turned them out. In the afternoon, pa went out to the pen and beyan to call, 'poiy, poiy,' and the piys came runniny up the alley. Pa saw the stranyc hoys cominy, and he yot mad and drove them out the alley, and then he called for his piys ayain, in a muscular tone of voice, and the speckled hoys came ayain. a little slower, and secminy to wonder what ailed pa. They acted as thouyh they felt hurt at beiny received in such a violent manner. Pa met the speckled hoys with a broom, and he run them down the alley ayain, and the hoys stood olT and looked at him as though they thought he had the jim-jams. You'd a dide to see pa drive his own hogs away, and talk sassy, lie got a pail of swill and called the hogs again, and they came on a gallop, and then pa called a policeman and they drove the hogs to the pound. I didn't see pa last night, hut the first thing this morning I told him I had taken his advice, and turned my attention to animal painting, and that I had painted spots on our white hogs, and made speckled hogs of them, and that speckled hogs were worth a cent a pound more than white hoirs. Well, na didn't faint away, but when it all came over him, that he had drove his own hogs to the pound, he was so cross he could have hit a nail. But ho didn't say anything to me, 'cause I 'sposc he didn't want to discourage my artistie ambitions, but he has gone down to the pound after the hogs. May be the rain has washed the spots off, and the man that keeps the pound will not let pa have white hogs when he left speckled ones there. However, I didn't warrant' the hogs to be fast colors, anyway. Do you think it was wrong to put spots on the hogs?"?Peck's Sun. Cheese ns Food. Cheese serves two purposes. It is food unci it promotes the digestion of other food. As food it is the most nutritious of all alimentary substances. This is shown by the figures given by Dr. Frankland as the result of a long series of careful experiments with ali mentary substances. Food is the ma- j tcrial which produces force in an animal, or rather which enables the muscular system of an animal to exert force, and it is valuable and effective in proportion to the amount of force which it enables the muscles to exert. I)r. Frankland's experiments were conducted on the basis of the weight of a certain kind of food which would enable a man of Kilt pounds weight to raise himself 10,000 feet. Tie found that 1.15 pound of cheese in this respect was equivalent to 1.28 of oatmeal, 1.31 of tlour. 1.:{:] of pea meal, 2JM of bread, of lean beef, 5 pounds of potatoes and 8 pounds of milk. Thus cheese is the most useful of all these foods. Butter has the equivalent ratio of 0,09:}, but butter can hardly be considered as a food, because it is wholly deficient in nitrogen and is a carbo-hydrate only, and therefore wholly inadequate to repair the waste of muscular tissue. But although j* ?L.;m dlCCSC varies III Jl!? CUIUIIWUiUU, <?.-> nnmi, half-skim and full milk cheese, yet it varies lint little in its fond value, because when the fat is deficient there is an excess of casein or nitrogenous matter, which is directly available in the animal system for the production of heat or force, and even fat, ns well as of muscular liber. The following table gives the composition of some kinds of cheese in common use: = . 5 > i a s 9 = , >5 i ? 3 r* a* ' ~ : : : a American factory 27.29 25.87 35.39'6.21 5.22 Knjjlish Cheddar 3(1.32 28.18 35.53 l.fiCU.31 Kn^lixli Cheshire 32.59 2C.OGj22.51 4.53 4.31 Knulish Wiltshire 39.22 34.2i|l9.26 2.2S 5.02 Common ekiin 39.43 30.37 27.OSjO.22j2.96 (iruycreskim 40.00 31.50.24.00'1.50 3.00 Parmesan (nkim) 27.50 44.0Sll5.9ri 0.09 5.72 Camcmbert 51.94 18.90 21.05 4.40|4.71 Brie 45.24 1S.4S 25.73 4.94 5.61 ltoouefort 34.55 26.52j36.14 3.72 5.67 It is seen that they vary considerably, but yet that ail kinds are very rich in nutritive elements, and make a nearly perfect food. In passing it may he noticed how the acid curd of the Cheddar is produced at the expenditure of the sugar of the milk, and how the skimmed milk cheese develop in the curing a considerable quantity of fat. This last-mentioned point is more closely connected -with the secondary purpose of cheese as food than might be suspected. The rennet used in making the cheese conveys to it some of its own peculiar property of coagulating and digesting casein. Cheese itself may be used in making cheese, as do' will raise a new batch of do'. This digestive property is able to convert albuminoids (casein) into the elements of fat in the stomach, and so it docs undoubtedly in the cheese. And the curing of a skimmill Mionon uV-ilfnllv r?nml lifted. ell riches it in fat and brines it up in a very slightly inferior conditon to that of a fail milk cheese. This same digestive property is excessively developed by long curing, and exists more largely in the more highly flavored cheese; the flavor being produced by the decomposition which increases the digestive activity. Cheese of this kind is not used as food strictly, but as a condiment to aid digestion of other food. It is used as fruit is, at the end of a meal, nominally as a relish, but really as a help to digestion. The production of this active agent of digestion by the curing of cheese is one of the skilled arts of the dairy. "Without it cheese does not fulfill its complete use and purpose, and it may be, and no doubt is, a sufficient reason for the comparatively small domestic consumption of cheese and its general neglect as a staple article of food; that American cheesemakers do not know how to thoroughly cure and refine cheese and develop the exquisite flavors and the accompanying digestive properties for which foreign varieties of cheese are so highly estimated. ? The Dairy. The Capital of the Sandwich Islands, Hawaii, being wholly volcanic, looks like a fortress ninety miles long, built up by the genii. "Yet, dreary as it is. or seems from the sea, it is really full of green pastures, on which feed wild cattle, the descendants of those brought in by Vancouver, and owned by ranchmen, to the tune of ten and fifteen heads apiece, in runs of twenty miles long. It must have been sad to stand by and see a forest burned up like so many matches, and another with tin; trees snapped ofT at the surface of the fire-flood, the portion, imbedded in the lava being burned to dust, and leaving a series of pock-marks on the hardened surface. One night in 1852, it seemed as if a solitary star was shining on the side of MaunaLoa, at a spot afterward found to be 4,000 feet below the summit. After the second evening it seemed to die away, but soon burst out again with amazing splendor, no longer a star, but a column of fire seven hundred feet hiirh by angular measurement, and from two hundred to three hundred feet broad, which was visible one hundred miles oil, and the asnesand charred leaves from which, covered the decks of approaching ships. The lava stream was visible thirty miles off; and in twenty days there had been thrown up a cone a mile round at the base and four hundred feet high, which is standing to this day. The weird beauty of the colorchanges was something past 1? lief. Issuing white-hot from the crater, the lava changed first to light, then to deep red, then to glossy gray, with shining black patches, every tint miermingico in constant movement, and a very cataract ol sparks falling from the fire pillar. In 1885 there was a yet greater erup tion, from which the town of Ililo narrowly escaped. One strange episode was when a cataract of lava poured over a precipice into a very deep rock-basin, in which a big ship might have floated. The water was all driven of! in steam, the basin filled up, and the precipice changed into a gently sloping plane. Months after it was a hideous sight to see this lava stream, about fifty miles from its source,sluggishly twisting about in vast coils, whose lustrous metallic cMmul u'ilti twl cVmivintr the uncoolcd stream below, while evennow and then the glistening crust which hung ever this lire-stream caved in just as "cat's ice" breaks and shows the water underneath it. A Remarkable Cave. An article in the Cmturi/ is a description of Devonshire, entitled "The Fairest County in England," by Francis (Seorgc Heath. Of Kent's cavern, in the vicinity of Torquay, a remarkable cave, consisting of a great excavation in the Devonian limestone, the writer says: It is entered by a narrow passage some seven feet wide and only live feet in height. The central cavern, which is almost (500 feet long, has a number of smaller caverns or corridors leading out from it. Its farther extremity is terminated by a deep pool of water. In the bed of this cavern modern research has been rewarded by some deeply interestf lllla fiKILIIinl ...l?*fl. mi; nim uvnip, \nn uk: vii^iiiui muubottom of the cave is a bed or layer of considerable thickness, in which are contained strange mixtures of human bones with the bones of the elephant and the rhinoceros, the hyena, the hear and the wolf, intermingled with stone and Hint tools, arrow and spear heads, and fragments of coarse pottery. The animal re; mains testify to the presence in the ancient forests of liritain of beasts of prey which long since have become extinct. Speculation may be exhausted in the endeavor to account for the curious intermingling in this cavern of the remains of human beings and of wild animals. The place may have been used for shelter successively by man and by the lords of the forest; or, as the presence of the rude wen 110ns of man micrht seem to indicate. the boasts of the- field may have been brought into this natural recess as trophies of the chasc, and their flesh and skins used for purposes of food and clothing. Nothing less than the most persevering and enthusiastic search could have discovered the interesting remains which, for a vast period of time, had been buried in this retreat; for the fossils were covered by a thick floor of stalagmite which had been formed, there can be no doubt, by great blocks of limestone which had fallen from time to time, extending over a very lengthened period, from the roof of the cavern, and had become cemented into one mass by the perpetual percolations of lime-water from above. That heart must be dead to all things lovely which could daily move among a grouj of children, aiding them to grasp the fruit upon the tree of knowledge, withovt feeling his soul kindle and grow warm within him at their earnest endoavors in the sweetness and in'nocence of chi ldhood. .... .... A PALACE FOR HIS HOME HENBY VZLLAHD'S MAGNIPICEITT BESIDEHCE 117 NEW YORK. A Colowal liiiihlintr .Tlodelcd after an Italian Palace? It* Exterior and Interior, and its Cost. A New York letter gives the following decription of the residence of Ilenry Villard, ]>resident of the Norther Pacific railroad Ilenrv Villard, the railroad magnate, has nearly completed his new residence, or more properly residences, on Madison avenue. The colossal structure occupies an entire block, having a frontage on Madison avenue of 200 feet. That part which he will occupy is on the corner 01 r my-iiiM. m iuuu im n^iua^ is sixty feet and its depth 100 feet. The otlicr wing -will lie perfectly similar except that it is divided into three houses, and between the two wings is a court eighty feet in width and seventy-three feet in depth. That portion of the building back of the court extends back forty feet beyond the wings and is a double house of itself. In the center of the court will be placed a magnificent fountain, around which will be a broad drive, and in each corner a grass plat. Each house will communicate directly with the court. Mr. Yillard's house and the two center houses are completed, excepting the interior, while the walls of the remaining wing are up to the second story. The exterior of the great building is more grand than beautiful. It is the result of a combination of Roman and Florentine architecture, plans of the Cancelleria palace at Iiome and the Farnez palace being copied by the architects. The material is lielleville, N. J., sandstone, the light grayish amber stone of which Trinity church was built. Everything is massive, and there is little attempt at ornament. Huge blocks of stone arc piled upon one another and overtopped by a heavy cornice of the same material. The wings arc three stories in height, beside the basynent and attic stories. From the sidewalk to the ton of the cornice the measurement is sixty-eight feet. The basement and front story are rusticated and the others nlain stone ashler, with the angles strengthened by rustication. The front of the two center houses is supported by five arcades, with heavy columns of polished Jonesboro granite. Dutch tiles cover the roof. 1 he wiioie cneci is severe ami ui^umcu. Entering the spacious portal of the Villard residence, your correspondent found himself in a magnificent reception room, fourteen feet by twenty-eight in depth. Everything here was in inlaid wood, floor, ceiling, walls and columns. On either side opened the drawing-rooms. They are each 19x28 feet, and are being finished in mahogany, inlaid with light woods, sntin wood and maple being noticeable. Between the pilasters will be hung rich embroidered stuffs. The predominating tones arc a light, roddish brown, and a light yellow. The drawing-rooms and reception room arc so arranged that they can be thrown into one spacious aparimeiu n<u mui m nimn?uu . twenty-eight in depth. From the reception room a hall fourteen feet in width and forty-two in length leads to the music room. Aladdin's lamp never revealed a hall more magnificent. It is entirely in mosaic. The material is yellow Italian marble. The floor is in chaillon marble in small picccs woven into beautiful designs. The mantel is a masterpiece of the sculptor from an Italian design, and the whole apartment was executed by Italian artists in the style of modern Pompeian palaces. The hall is spanned by three semi-circular arches in Sienna marble with sculpture by Louis St. Gaudiens. A vestibule in the same design leads out of the hall back of the drawing-rooms. The music room is the chef d'eeuvre of the decorator's art. It is a diminutive theater forty-eight by twenty-four feet in dimension and thirty-two feet from the floor to ceiling, extending to the third story. It is in the style of the Francis I. room of Fontainbleau palace. The colors arc white and gold. A wainscoting eight feet in height in curved pine surrounds the room. The ceiling is an eleptical vault, and every detail shows the skill of the artist. Between the music room and the vestibule, marble stairs twelve feet broad lead to the upper stories. Again the tone is yellow. An elaborate renaissance ceiling spans the stairs. The elevator way occupies the remaining space. 1 " -I-- i?Ai.r..ni Across tlie nan arc uie mam uiuun.iuat- i room and (lining r'vun. which pan be | tnrown into onu apartment twenty by sixty feet in size. Carved woods again replace the marble. The room is executed in English oak inlaid with white mahogany. The ceiling is divided with beams cased with English oak, and the carved friezes, three feet in width, are inlaid with lloral designs. The two mantles art; of red Verona marble, and arc copies of those which Mr. Mead was sent to Italy to select, but which arrived in a somewhat damaged condition and were presented by him to the museum of art. Here also St. Gaudiens' skill is seen. The upper stories are in keeping with the splendor below, although, of course, not so elaborate. The general style is Italian renaissance. The furniture will be especially magnificent. That of the drawing-rooms will be upholstered and of colors harmonizing with the decorations, the reddish brown tone predominating. It was designed by the architects who executed the rooms. The other houses will be finished in a style becoming their pretensions, although nothing like this. The cost of the building unfurnisned will lie an even million dollars. Of this the decorating of the drawing-rooms cost $.10,000; the dining-rooms, $20,000; the hall, sjtfO.OOO; and the music-room. $'20,000. As much more will be expended on other work in the latter room a year hence. To finish the interior of Mr. Villard's house necessitates the expenditure of $230,000. The upper floors are now about completed and the c u..w/. 1 urnJ i iw; m .im> in^. The structure when completed will be the most magnificent residence building in the country, fur surpassing the Vandcrbilt houses. It is the first attempt made to reproduce an Italian palace in America. Henry Villard's house is a palace, in fact. A Convict Paradise. Across the bay, and almost within sight of this city, says a San Francisco letter, is SanQucnfin prison, more appropriately designated as the "convict paradise," and a paradise it is, indeed. The prison buildings are situated nn the water front, and inland rise picturesque hills covered with verdure throughout the year, which add considerably to the bcautv of the landscape. Inside the yard and outside the gates {lowers and rare exotics grow in profusion all the year around. The convict, as he goes to and from his prison cell to work each morning and evening, treads his way with lock-step down through graveled walks, surrounded on all sides by fragrant plants and flowers, and when, after his daily task is done and he is locked in his cell, he can peer through the wicket in his prison door, and. if he be anything of a lnver of luitiire. e:in almost force t that he I is ;i social outcast in ira/.ing on a lovely landscape, made more beautiful by the changing tints of the sun as it dips into tin* ocean. Tiring of this the unfortunates can look into the large garden on which the cells front, and enjoy the perfume oT (lowersor watch the birds Hit from tree to tree. Such are the surroundings of the convicts in California's principal penitentiary, and it is not at all strange that "crooks'' too old to longer ply their peculiar business do a job hunglingly in order to be returned there " It's nice to lie a ' con ' here," said a hard-looking old customer whom 1 met at the prison a few days ago. He is tmdcrgoiug a life sentence forhighwav robbery. and made ' no bones " of the fact that he had done time in several Hast era prisons. "It makes me shudder soir.c" 1>" niintiiillnil it'1 win 1 litnlr (if a winter I once served in the Illinois ' pen' :it .loliet. It was so cold I almost froze to death, and, great C:rsar! how they does work a poor chap there, es pcciallv them as is put in the quarries!'' The fellow looked contented and happy, and the fact that his clothing was striped did not bother him a bit. He concluded by saying he was content to die there, and if he was to be turned loose tomorrow lie would commit some crime in order to be returned to the home of his choosing. (Jnarrelmg. If any thing in the world will make a man feci badly, except pinching his fingers in the crack of a door, it i? a quarrel. No man fails to think lsssof himself after than he did he before; it degrades him in the eyes of others, and, what is worse, tends to blunt his sensibilities, and increase his irritability. The truth is. the more peaceably and quietly we get on, the better for our neighbors. In nine cases out of ten. the better course is, if the man cheats you, to quit dealing with him; if he slanders you, take care to live down his slanders. Let such persons alone, for there is nothing better than this way of dealing with those who injure us. - -i;> _____________ FASHION NOTES. Dress and hat must match in color. Tartans and gay plaids are much used for house-dresses. Gendarmes blue, under another name, is becoming popular. Bone buttons are to be had in every color and shade to match the dress. Velvet bands worn around the throat arc ornamented with a diamond crescent. In Paris fur is used extensively this season for all kinds of costumes, even for ball dresses. Lace for dress garniture comes this season in four widths to match, and a favorite kind is the escurinl lace, which is exceedingly effective when velvet is employed in its designs. White dresses, so popular in Puris. will be worn here. These will be m:ule of wool and silk, also satin and velvet. White plush will also be employed in these toilets. A favorite style of trimming is hand-made embroidery. The choice of the season is divided between the French wraps and English coats and paletots. The first-mentioned arc dolmans and long cloaks of rich material, elaborately trimmed; the latter are tailor-made and more severe in style. Buttons are no longer a conspicuous ,.r !.? Tlmv fr>r thn IL'UlUItr Ul II1U UIWO. x 11V.J ^vmv *w* most part in two sizes, usually flat and round. There arc pearl buttons in several colors; there arc also enameled buttons, and buttons carved with quaint deviccs or set with riveted steel points. Brides' dresses arc decorated in profusion with orange flowers alone or mingled with white roses, white jessamine and lilies of the valley; all these flower decorations being put on in clusters, chaplets, sprays and garlands, or strewn all over in separate sprigs. Little girls' dresses for indoors are no longer of white muslin or linen, but of white or bright colored wood, cut with low square necks, which arc filled with shirred or plaited yokes of white, pale blue, pink or amber satin, while the sleeves are made long, and of the wool which forms the rest of the costume. Blushing Monkeys. Mr. Darwin remarks the fact noticed by Mr. Sutton, that the face of the macacus rhesus when much enraged grows red. Mr. Darwin himself saw the face of this monkey redden when attacked by another monkey, and he also adds that the " seat puds" also seemed to redden under the influence of anger, although he could not " positively assert that this was the ease." My monkey, Jenny, blushed more distinctly. A red hue shot over and obscured the normal yellow tint of the skin of the face, and I noticed that the "scat pads," occasionally also grew redder. Another curious fact conccrning this monkey's behavior when enraged / nnaiufnd in tV>o vnrintinns shfi fivhibited when she was irritated by myself and by another person. If irritated by another person, she shook the cage and chattered, while her face flushed like that of a human being in anger. If, on the other hand, I had occasion to reprove her. she darted down to the bottom of the cage, lay down, and, as often as not concealing her face in the straw. The analogy between that ineffective or suppressed rage in a human being, which is shown by the person throwing himself down on the ground? a feature seen familiarly in some children ?and the behavoir of Jenny under my reproot, appears to me to ue too exact 10 escape notice. Paddy, the Capuchin, on the contrary, when enraged or frightened, used to retire to a corner of the cage and stand on his head, uttering, meanwhile, the most plaintive cries in the wellknown shrill and musical voice of his race. On one occasion, when a servant hud allowed Paddy to imbibe nearly half a glassful of champagne, he showed his alcoholic dissipation by standing on his head and vainly endeavoring to emit his familiar cry. Dr. Darwin mentions the case of a young female chimpanzee who, when enraged, "presented a curious example to a child in the same state. She screamed loudly with widely open mouth, the lips l>ein<r retracted so that the teeth were fully exposed. Slie tiirew nerarmswnuly about, sometimes clasping them over her head. She rolled on the ground, sometimes on her back, sometimes on her stomach, and bite everything within her reach. '*? Gentleman"1* Magna inf. Canes. The manufacture of canes is by no means the simple process of cutting the sticks in the woods, peeling oil the bark, whittling down the knots, sandpapering the rough surface and adding a touch of varnish, a curiously carved handle or head and tipping the end with a ferrule. In fhe sand flats of New Jersey whole families support themselves by gathering nannebcrry sticks, which they gather in 1 the swainps, straighten with an old vice, steam over an old kettle and perhaps scrape down or whittle into size. These are packed in large bundles to New York city and sold to the cane factories. Many imported sticks, however, have to go through a process of straightening by mechanical means, which are a mystery to the uninitiated. They are buried in hot sand until they become pliable. In front of the heap of hot sand in which the sticks are plunged is a stout board from live to six feet long, fixed at air angle inclined to the workmen and having two or more notches cut in the edge. When the stick has become perfectly pliable the workman places it on one of the notches, and, bending it in the opposite direction to which it is naturally bent, straightens it. Thus sticks apparently crooked, bent, warped and worthless are by this simple process straightened ; but the most curious part of the work is observed in the formation of the crook or curl for the handles which arc not naturally supplied with a hook or knob. The workman placcs one end of the cane firmly in a vice and pours a continuous stream of tire from a gas-pipe on the part which is to be bent. When sufficient heat has been applied the cane is pulled slowly and gradually round until the hook is completely formed and then secured with a string. An additional application of heat serves to bake and permanently fix the curl. The under part of t he handle is frequently charred by the aetion of the gas, and this is rubbed down with sandpaper until the requisite degree of smoothness is attained.?American Merchant. Santa Clans. The history of Santa Clans?a curious mixture of truth and fable?goes far back into the ancient time. Centuries ago a child was born in Asia Minor who received the name of Nicholas. I lis parents were wealthy and of high rank, and desiring to express their gratitude to God for the birth of their son, they resolved to educate him for the Christian priesthood. The child was sober and tliouglitlui, ami wnno yet young uum his parents died, and he inherited their great wealth, lie considered the rieher a sacred trust; he fed the hungry, he clothed the destitute and performed all kinds of good deeds as secretly as possible As a priest he was greatly beloved; as a bishop he continued his benevolence; after his death the church canonized him, and he became one of the greatest of patron saints, being revered as the helper of the poor, the protector of the weak, and as the {special patron saint of little children, who were taught to believe that their good gifts came from him. Saint Nicholas was the name given him by the monks, and this was familiarly changed to Santa Xic'laus, and finally clipped down to Santa 'Clans, who is still represented as retaining his old habits of secret buuevolenee and coining down the chimney at nights, laden with Christmas presents for children. A pleasant fiction it is to them, under the cover of which that charming secrecy concerning the donors of gifts is kept up, though little eyes and ears and minds are keen, and Santa Clans is Muifillv vi.rr ivi.ll known to them as a much more modern personage than old St. Nicholas. Hut the children enjoy the harmless pretense, the mysterious tilling of stockings and the heavily laden Christmas tree. The law stationery business, says one who knows it, is peculiar. You must not only keep ink "in bottles," but bankruptcy forms "on draft." You must be ready to serve ladies with "blank declarations," and deal with folks who "take their affidavits by the quire." " Deeds," not words, must be your i motto; and if you do not pounce upon j your customers, you should at least use "pounce" upon your parchments. Il is ' useless to deny "followers" to any ser- I vanls who apply for them, nor must you dcclinc to keep "ferrets." Yourconvcrsation should be "brief," and if you do not wear a "foolscap," a variety thereof must be on your shelves. If you can comply with the foregoing, you will find the business very "engrossing." THET MltrCTMTD. A. NEW BONO TO AW OLD TUN?. Across the grass I see her pas: She comes with tripping pace? A maid I know?and March winds-blow Her hair across her face;? With a hey, Dolly I ho, Dolly! Dolly shall be mine, Before the spray is white with May Or blooms the eglantine. The March winds blow. I watch her go: Her eye is brown and clear; Her cheek is brown, and soft as down (To those who see it near!)? With a hey, etc. * What has she not that they have got? The dames that walk in silk I If she undo her 'kerchief blue, Her neck Lb white as milk. With a hey, etc. Let those who will be proud and chill! For me. from June to Juno, My Dolly's words are sweet as curds? Her> laugh is like a tune:? With a hey, etc. Break, lireak to hear, 0 crocus-spear! Oh. tall Lent-lilies, flamo! There'll 1x5 a bride at Easter-tide, And Dolly is her name. With a hey, Dolly! ho, Dolly 1 Dolly shall be mineBefore the ppray is white with May, Or blooms the eglantine. ?Austin Dubson, in Harper's Magazine. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Somebody says lager beer is Teutonic. Bill-collecting is easier said than "dun." Why is a great bore like a bee? Both appear best when leaving. "Truth crushed to earth will rise again "?provided the yeast is not sour. ? Texas Sifting*. What is the difference between the North and South Pole ? All the difference in the world. Bob Ingersoll's middle name is Green. Perhaps that's the reason he thinks he will never burn.?New York Journal. The difference between advertising and advertiser is, the former always pays while the latter sometimes does not. The Washington milkmen are not allowed to ring bells, as they disturb the slumbers of the policemen. They might be allowed to use dumb-bells.?Savannah News. " No sir, my daughter can never be yours." "I don't want her to be my daughter!" broke in the young ardent " I want her to be my wife."?New York Commercial. The Connecticut boy who has a third arm growing out of the back will be able to scratch himself between the shoulder hlndes without resortine to the corner of a building. Professor of chemistry: "The substance you see in this vial is the most deadly of all poisons. A single drop placed on the tongue of a cat is enough to kill the strongest man." "We have struck smoother road, haven't we ?:' asked a passenger of a conductor on an Arkansaw railway. "No," replied the conductor, "we have only run off the track."?Arluinsaw Traveler. It is estimated that over 600,000 tons of paper are made in this country every year, and yet the man who shaves himself has to hunt around for over fifteen minutes before he can find a piece that he dare wipe his lather upon. " Oh, no, I don't object to the quality of your butter," said tne customer ro tne grocer. "It's not that, but my wife complains that there isn't enough hair in | it to make a respectable switch, but a good deal too much to make it palatable." The newspaper foreman got a marriage notice amony a lot of items headed "Horrors of 1883," and the Norristown Herald says: When the editor learned that the groom's income was only seven dollars a week, he said it had better remain under that head. "Oh, I'm real glad to see you, Cicely, dear. I'm puzzled to know what to give Charles for a Christmas present." "Has he proposed yet ?" "Why, no ! What's that to do with a Christmas present ?" "Oh, nothing. Only I'm having a piaster cast of my hand made for George. Perhaps he will take a hint, you know." Queer Feathered Wonders. "How's that for a mouth ?" said a naturalist and sportsman to a Cincinnati Entju 'wer reporter, pointing to a mounted bird on the table. The bird was a mottled-brown specimen, about as large as a pigeon, with a mouth that stretched literally from ear to ear. "How about the egg?" asked the reporter, noticing that it was in the bird's mouth. "That's just the point," replied the hirrl mmi. "It's n nierht-hawk. No. they don't cat eggs; but that shows that bird exactly as I shot it, and thereby hangs a tale. Last summer I had an old darkey that I took out coon hunting with me to carry the truck, and one night as wc were plowing through a hard lot of brush I told him to go ahead and hold the lantern. So he did, holding one of these bull's-eye lanterns just over his head. He was about three feet ahead of me, when all at once I heard a kind of a smash, and down went the old fellow, lantern, basket and all. For a few minutes he made it blue there, I can tell you, but finally he got up, swearing something had struck him with an egg ; sure enough, his face was dripping with broken egg, and on the ground we found a nighthawk. She had flown at the light and struck the old man scpiarely in the face, knocking him out. The egg business puzzled me, however. But tlie next day when I was out I came suddenly on to a 6mooth spot, and saw a night-hawk throw herself on her side and begin to go lame. I knew there was something up, and the next minute I made out the nest and egg; but at i he first move I made she darted at it, picked up the egg in her mouth, and flew away. I was determined to see how it was done, so I brought down my gun and shot her 'on the wing, and I found her dead with the egg in her mouth. ' Wonderful ? I should say so. You see the night-hawks are supposed to have little or no intelligence, but this fact shows them to have more than the average maternal affection. But that isn't all. About two weeks later I was out ; again in about the same spot and saw my ; dog pointing. Wishing to make a sketch, if possible, of various birds under point, I stole up on the dog, and for a moment was disposed to give her a clubbing, as I there wasn't a thing in sight only a bed of brown leaves and moss. But as the -? ? ? t * ? i?l GOJJ KCJ)t JIUIUIXU*^ I lU.'Mcu m/atn t nun soon made out another night-hawk, and while I was looking the bird picked up what looked like aniole. and flew heavily away. I brought it down, and in its mouth was a young one about as large as j a mouse. So you see, they c arry off both j eggs and young." A sheep may slip into a slough well j as a swine. The difference is that the sheep dreads a fall and speedily rises from it; while it is a habit with the swine to be unclean, and to love the | same condition which the other abhors* There is no need to give the application. Maryland to the Front. The linn. (>gden Howie, ox-governor of Maryland, president of the lialtimore City Passenger Railway company, :ilso president of the Maryland Jockey club, says: " Moth in my family and in my private stables, as well as those of the City Passenger Railway company, I have for several years used St. Jacobs Oil most satisfactorily.'* Such a statement ought to convince every reader of this paper. Work every hour, paid or unpaid; see only that you work, and you cannot es cape your reward. Whether your work be fine or coarse, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work done to your own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the sense as well as to the thought. No matter how often defeated, you arc born to victory. The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. For several years 1 was troubled with Catarrh, have tried many remedies. Ely's Cream Balm hits proved the article desired. 1 believe it is the only cure.?L. B. ComiiN, Hardware Merchant, Towanda, I'a. I : uttered from Catarrh for ten years; the pain would be so severe that 1 was obliged to send for a doctor. 1 had entirely lost sense of smelt. Ely's Cream }3alm worked a miracle. ?C. S. Halleys, Binghamton, X. Y. rCREHT AND BEST COD-LIVEK OIL. from Selected livers, on the seashore, by CasweU, Hazard A Co,, N. Y. Absolutely pure and sweet. PaticnU who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians declare it superior to all other oils. Chapped iiands, face, pimples aud rough Bkiu cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made bj Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York. Good health is the greatest of fortunes: no remedy has so often restored this prize to the suffering as Hood's Sarsaparilla, Try it. Nothing better for Asthma than Piso's Cur? for Consumption. 25 cents per bottle. Thrown Against a Cab. Some four months ago, while doing some shifting, I was thrown against the cab of my engine and my back was severely injured. It affected my kidneys, and I was at the time in such pain that I had to let my fireman take the engine. I found after getting home that my water was affected from the strain and was almost the color of blood. My wife advised me to use Hunt's Remedy, which we had used before for other troubles. I sent to Bissell's drug store for a bottle, and after using it a short time the painB in my back and kidneys were fast disappearing. The second bottle cured me completely, and I can most heartily recommend Hunt's Remedy to the many of my railroad companions that I find are troubled so much with kidney troubles. Respectfully yours, Henby McGinnis, Engineer N. Y. 0. <fc H. R. R. R. Rome, N. Y., Jane 9,1883. I have been troubled for a number of years with kidney and liver troubles, severe pains in back, with loss of appetite and vigor generally. My kidneys were very weak at times, with non-retention of urine, and a brick dust deposit. I took several medicines, but they uxu mo ULLiy u tciu^uiaiy ywu, x wtw iccuiumended to use Hunt's Remedy, and I purchased a bottle in Rome, N. Y.f and fonnd that the first bottle gave me great relief. I had less pain in the back, my water became more natural, passed better and needed less attention, and after using four (4) bottles I tind that it has completely cured me of my kidney and liver trouble, and consider it a wonderful medicine, and have recommended it to many who have found that Hunt's Remedy is all that is claimed for it. Geo no e White, Farmer. Tabery, _N. Y., Jnne 11,1883. Spanish is taught in the public schools at San Antonio, Texas. Thousands testify to the merits of Dr. Graves' Heart Regulator as a cure for heart disease in all forms. It is known from Maine to California. Give it a trial for those distressed feelings. Hay is selling at #80 per ton in Cqpke City, Montana The WenUerNex are immensely strengthened by the nse of Dr. "R V Pi'otva'o "Fo vnrttA PrpcrTinUnn r wViiVh cures all female derangements and giVes tone to the system. Sold by druggists. One vine ia Missouri has produced 2,500 tomatoes. Advice to censnmptlTe*. On the appearance of the first symptoms? as general debility, loss of appetite, pallor, chilly sensations, followed by night sweats and cough, prompt measures of relief should be taken. Consumption is scrofulous disease of the lungs: therefore use the great aniiscrofulous or blood-purifler and strength-restorer, Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery." Superior to cod liver oil as a nutritive, and unsurpassed as a pectoral. For weak lungs, spitting of blood and kindred affections it has no equal. Sold by druggists. ^ T\? "D.,a?/.a'o fwAn^iaa aw /?A?ciimnfmn con/1 X" U1 xJl , x iCi co a vi canujc uu v.wiwuiu|/nwu wu\4 two stamps. World's Dispensary Medical Association', Buffalo, N. Y. In 1r71 Winnipeg's j)opulation wasSoO; in 1882,2o,lxki Do yon ever have acute pains in your left breast extending to your arms, do you ever have suffocating feelings in region of your heart.' If so, you have heart disease. Use Dr. Graves' Heart Regulator, a sure specific, $1 per bottle. Last year 3,:i5:3,0.>rj umbrellas were imported into India. Young and middle-aged men, suffering from nervous debility and kindred affections, as loss of memory and hypochondria, should inclose three stamps for Part VII of World's Dispensary Dime Series of pamphlets. Address World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Texas ponie.s by the car load are being shipped north. A Quick Kecovcry. It gives us great pleasure 10 state mat mo merchant who was reported to be at the point of death from an attack of pneumonia, hns entirely recovered by the use of Dr. Wm, Hall's Balsam for the Lungs. Naturally he feels grateful for the benefits derived from using this remedy for the lungs and throat; and in giving publicity to this s'atnuent we a.v actuated by motives of public benefaction. fnistin? that others may be benefited in a similar manner. Walnut Leaf Hair Restorer. It is entirely dilferent from all others. II j is as clear as water, and as its name indicates is a perfect Vegetable Hair Restorer. ItwiL ] immediately free the head from all dandruff, restore gray hair to its natural color, and produce a new growth where it has fallen off. It does not in any manner affect the healthwhich sulphur, sugar of lead and nitrate of silver preparations have done. It will change light or faded hair in a few days to a beauti^ j ful glossy brown. Ask your druggist for it!* Each bottle is warranted. Smith, Kline & CO., Wholesale Agents, Philadelphia. Pa., and C. N. Crittenton, New York. The Frnzer Axle Grease Is the best in the market. It is the most economical ana cneapest, one oox lasting as long as two of any other. One greasing will last two weeks. It received first premium at the Centennial and Paris Expositions, also medals at various State fairs. Buy no other Dr. R. A. Davis, 1200 Joralemon St, Brooklyn, says: " Physicians generally know no cure for rheumatism and Bright's kidney disease. Dr. Elmore is the first to discover one. His Rheumatine-Goutaline really cures Doth." C'arbo-Iinen. Petroleum sheds its brilliant light, In cot and palace seen; And on our heads its blessing bright, From wondrous C'arboline. One pair ot boots saved every year by n<ring Lyon's Patent Metallic Heel Stiifeners. You would use St. Patrick's Salve if you knew the good it would do you. Danger from Catarrh Depend* upon the amount and extant of the scrofulous Infection. Unquestionably many deaths from con. sumption can be traced to neglected catarrh. There i* a violent distresn, protracted couching spells, th? eyes weep, the nose discharges copiously, and th? head seems about to split. In such cases Hood's Samparilla correct* the catarrh by its direct action in discharging the poison from the blood through nature's great outlets, so that healthy, sound blood roaches the memtr*nea and is wholesome Catarrh in the Head In more prevalent than many aro awaro of, and how .aIU# ha /%hr*infiri hv thfi of Hood'fl Sarsaparilia, listen to tlie following: I have been a sufferer with catarrh tn the head for 15 years. Never having found any benefit from the well known remedies, I resolved to try a bottlo of Hood's Sarsaparilia for my catarrh. I would not take any momed consideration for tho good that one bottle did >ne.?I. W. Iiillis, Chicago, 111., Postal Clerk. 100 Doses One Dollar "I have been troubled with that distressing complaint, catarrh, and have been tising Hood's Sarsaparilia. and find it one of the best remedies I have eve> taken."?-Martin Shield, Chicago, 111. Hood's Sarsaparilia Sold by druggists, $1; six for $5. Prepared by 0.1. Hood Co., Apothecaries. Lowell, Mass. AH OPTICAL WONDER and bnsinc'R. A NEW. original, cheap lantern, for projecting and onlartfinK photovTapha, chromo cards, opaquo picturesand objects. Works like magic. and delights and mystifies everybody. Send for our full nud free descriptive eiretilnr Murray Hill Pub. Co., Box Tss. N. X. City, N. y. I MM"! A HOUSE AND LOT OR $5001 Id ordar to Incraaia oar alrttd? ltrft Hit of jrttrlT m rr.aka th? followlnc IlUrial and m?jnlfic?nt ?ff?r to tui adrautajo o( it at ouca. FOR ONLY CNE DOLLAR known publication, TUB HOTJSUHC numbered rfflpt, which entitles Hie bolder to one of th K3 PRESENT9 to b* f!*en ewey to oor enbicrlbere Ji M| and get your fi Ivnde to Jolu you ; la tbie w?y yem cab c?t ji H LIST OF PRESENTS TO BE H 1 Frown Slone IIcoic * Ut (a H#w York (117(14,000 ] I'. H. (JjTrrdBval Bond 4,000 WmM 4l'.9. ItnmU of 81000 a?<k..... . 4 000 |d| ml. S Grtrtbukaor tiOO*Mk 4,000 ZiOl'.S. " " ?100 " 1 000 <or. *. ? " s?o 41 ?,000 a Klrjant Pqntra Orand Planaa 9600 aatt.... 1.000 II) lloaull'ol j; Mop labluat Orfait $100 auk 1,000 1 fair U< uilfnl n.ich.J Uoraaa 1,000 ? ? 1 Hr*w?lrr ICoad Wacoa uad Pula.... 400 1 ?iaai Silrrr-Iilal- DlaafrSat, 1 placaa... IOO 1 Klrnant Snit I'arlor Farnltara.............. 200 4 Crala' Klrgaat Solid 6ald VatckM 400 10 Laillta' * " * " *00 At?o 93-577 ?th?r oitfal and Talnahla prauntt, ran*l< I 00 OOO valnaMa atil u??ful pinanta. ao that aaahai household axAGAzm All >( til- ato?a rrairnta ?111 ba awanla'l in a fmlr ? aaiieioai rPfiTIVIL Ad I. rs"V884."'iVnVW"VORK"ci'f7.?M do not attend can r.avs presents sent to any part of (lit Unll forwarded by mail to ersry sobacrlber. THE HOUSEHOLD M FAVOItfTE FAMILY HTORY PAPERS of tinted cover, bound, stitched sod cat. ft Is replste with bei p ired u mske this publication ods of the finest in t.ie wo iHpartvunt. faihlon Intert and not/4. It contains $toru$, poem kitchtn, garden, toilet, children's department, 81 Math reading, this publication worth more than the subset iptieo price. REMEMBFK WE MAKE NO CHARGE*" o! the M AG AZI N ?. *u ! aoms eoe is sure to cet a Orant from yourfntvrr patrenaf^* and * tellers yea wlit CET UP A CLUB, 2.W cri|ite. fend 8IO.OO, with u?me of ten friends tod twr|y? numt-ered receipts, thus fWluf you two rr??f ONLY ONE DOLLAR I $5000 IN PRIZES TO A Willi your iubtcrlptioii Mid rtr?t|*t w?iend our CO.\FI to P lrei t ? tti* ?>no etfllniC lo **? mOSt SUbSCrib New York Publishers oa to our respons ?Ot by orUtatry leitrr ; Taiffcr iudii thcuM L? sent by itflai A.ldrwi TAi^] HOUSEHO; COT THIS OUT, IT WILL NOT APPEAB AGAIN. $102740 f TO Tin: CON81 SPEAR-HEAD PLUG G THE ARRAY OF GIFTS WE PROPOSE GIV- 1 ING OUR PATRONS. 1020 Aci'i s of Land In Dakota, KpImi-kaand Kan.^n* 828,800 O? 12 WcbiT si vie2 Grand Upright Pianos 0,600 00 1 IS Kli'pinr Uurd<tt Oruanv S.400 OO 1 1JJO So!:-! tioli!f-:c:ii'WliidlngWa!cIie?, 1 Klein Movmirnt 15,000 OO 1 ."<>!? Tt, wiurm >,'o. ft OsiMIlaMnK Millltl1' Sewing MiU'lllU' S 3C.OOO OO i I l!JO l'. S. Uovt rnmenr Hnnds jrfleach <1,000 OO 1 SO Silver Sfm-Winding Watch'1!), " X Snrlngfl. i'l Movement 2,800 OO ? 15400 Mccrsrliaiim Pipes 4,800 OO 3 2OO0 Five lb. boxes Spear-Head To- C bacco 8,000 OO Total Amount, $102,400 00 PIiAW OP 33ZS' To the consumer sending to our address the greatest m for tin' 10) acres of I.and. To the next, a Weber Style 2 Gi deti Organ Then to the tea next greatest number of'l ags all distributed. Save the Spear-lu ad Tags and retura to u; P. J. SORC & CO., Chew SPEAR-HE A] mrn-mmmLmmmmmmmmmm?mmt '' ' uERmanremEUI POB- PAINRheumatism, We"r^I9Lia,To?S,lShlca* Lumbago, Backache. Headache, Toottaeht, Sore Throat, Barns. Froet ?'? ' AND ALL OTHER HODILY PAIRS Sold by Dro?tiU ?ud D#?l?r< i?ri?hir?. FIB/CMM* tu*. DlrMtlaoa In 11 .3 THE CH.VKLE8 A. VO*iELEB i_ N V NU-49t Though ihsken fa tit FS^ a B fl rBb^ erery joint and flbe? y Ul * V H \ With lew and km, P ~ 8U',MT" -x HI >r billiooj remittent Hoatetter** Storaaeb : ^hi? beneficent aott preme remedy ttm M liver cmnpUint, oca. w de&litr.rbaS&SmL K|stomacha^ ^ggra **ITTEfi^ ^5^?^ -| Pennsylvania Agricultural Works, York, Pjl -2 ^:lird E^ir^ t STEAM ENGINES, fcSSgSS^^^ A. B, FARQUHAR,^ York CatarjrH ELI'S CEEAMfiiLB HRBW" x.1^"^HH"hen applied by the fin int0 tb? nostrils WWiinFAkA RM.W* jBwfil b? absorbed, effectV1C->17i? ^ Ct I Drp CQU'l n,1,7 "leansln* thebe*4 9?2&* w/?l!i" llr Iot cat*rTh*1 *1 . c?o?" B SjkV^o/TC?. 1/1 tAD 1in* healthy secretions. r?*VrrVrD?)w & Jttd^toawiltaw Wx protectstho merabraas V' / ^^Jfror.1 addition*! col da, -%\~3 W y ^n|complet?l, heal* til* feHp fcM sores and restort* tact* KM^B^\CiV^ro.O -/^M nnd smell. A few ap- ^ BH3BkT^V ^plications reUere. A USA j'AoroujA treatmaU iHU ... PRICE SO CENTS. BY MAIL OR ATDRUGGIBIB. , J ELY BIWTHEUS, OWEUO, N. Y. ?vfl!ELM0RE5i' G. 1b the quickest, pluMntMt [% s\&, ?nr^?t una best mnedy for kiansy. < "Vs&i^vvV l>Ter. stomach, bladder and blood \s3| ciseaaes, and only rsal curattw ever Hi, N. discovered for acuta and obiflato . *?> 'c&y_^2JVeZ rheamitun. gout, lumbago. *oUt- ?3 OS^STSs ica, neuralgia, etc. Hu cured hops* jSj leu cues Brunt's disease and dyspepsia in t tub ill forms of rbeumatio disorders in 2 to 13 weela lelleiM inflammatory in 1 day. Can refer to hundredsot relit- : hie people cured who had tried in Tain everything else. Purely botanio, harmless, and nic? to irink, Askfonf druguist to get it; if he declines send to us for tt [iVg _ nothing else. Klmore, Adams <tOo.. lui WUIIsmst..a.Y TOSPECULATQBiS. '/j R. LINDBLOM & CO., N. 6. MILLER&C0. 6 <t 7 Chamber of M Broadway. ' a Commerce, Chicago. New York. ,v GRAIN & PROVISION BROKERS v Members of all prominent Produce Exohanfei In York, Chicago. St, Louis and Milwaukee. We have exclusive private telegraph wire betweenChicago and New York. Will eiecuts orders on oorlodfment when requested. fiend for circulars contimlf particulars. ROBT. LINDBLOM * CO., Chicago. JMiElT (If II cnU'O -? THE BEST.WILbUR iSfl LIGHTNING SEWERf ? Two thousand stitches a minute. Tkeesly absolutely first-class Nfwlo| Bfachlsetn tke world. Sent on trial. Warranted & yean, Send Tor Illustrated Cntalnrne and ClraUr-" B. Agents Wanted. THE WIL?0!T SEW* ISO M ACHINE CO., Chicago or Ntw Tirk. 7: TV T * y This Monthly, ed. Dio Lewis shs i _ , ? before the end of S H f _ __ l |_ 1 theflrttyear..& - 2^3 Monuiiy SsSii can Magazlnea tt? . J.) price is but pefvoar. Larao cash peroentaf* ; 1 is <n?en to agents. jS^nd for i-a-nplo copy and tonne to i ag?nta. KUA.sk SEAMAN, Publisher. I Bible Home, New York*,, H mtJ WHUEALl ?Ll^m7*^( Hi Beat Cough Syrup. Twites good, (a |M Use in time. Sold by drugglata. ?3 I have a positive remedy lor the abora dlaeaaa; tefil ' :~ nse tbomande of caaee of the wont kind and of loaf S | atandlnghavebeencared. Indeed,io strongls myfUta :i i in lte efficacy, that I will aetid TWO BOTTLsS FBEX, t#- . .- J > gather with a VALUABLB TR1UTI8B on thla dJsMwa, t? ; 1 KEHTS WANTED ITnrl?ln a pver invi'nted. Will knit a niir of KtockiAJFI with HKEI, and TOE completein'itfmlmntee. It trill a.lno knit a great variety of fancy work, for whictl there I Is always a ready market. Sena for circular and Unas to the TWOiflBLY KNITTINU MACHINB CO., 103 TEMOSI Stbmt. boston, MASS. FREE to F. a. M. Craphla CJlcni IifTtTlM . . Jf\ of ?n a ndtat Initiation Sc?n? from ?D?wly 1IL1 u I wi $ o/xa^rE??ml?a Tabid, alto, tb? largs a?w-lll?<lral?4 I jf Catalogs of Muonk and goods, wllfc kiNaa i a/vr^'" off,r-of twy '^dwojca w>i': i MuopIc PnblUhor*tadT31 Broadiray,ktwtodfa |n?Jf)?| PRISTIBie PRESSES. f l^y mm national type co. | li All jMPniLA.PA.lw-pageBookMc. Jk TTT'ANTED experianecd Book and Bible AgeoUtB i T * every county. Liberal Salaritspald. AdrtrsM, .1 stating experience. P. O. Box g. g.. Philadelphia, Pa. ' * " -?k in your own town. Terms and ootfl H $00 iree. Address H.Haixett A CO., Portland, Ma. | t.'AMPHon Mile is the best Liniment. PrtceMoente. I \\/'ANTED?LADIES TO TAKE OCB NEW ?? rancywork at th?ir hornet), in city or coonUy, ' jj? and earn MO to 912 per week, making good* tor our rail and Winter trade. Sena 15c. for s&iuple and paiticiilars. Hudson Mfg. Co.. iSI Sixth Are.. N. Y. . j f)| I DTI I BE CURED, few Sfttkod. Send Kill' I IIHE f?rciroular. Db. J. A. House, I1VI I VIIk 120 Fifth Arenne, N. Y. City. -J |f iicio | 2,601 pieces of Music, 6c. each. 20 copies | mW?IW sforjl. lW) Songd, words and music, and * ; 230-page catalogue for 14c. Aild's C. Brebm, Erie, Pa. COLEMAN BusinessCollogo, Newar*, N. J.?Terms $40. Positions for graduates. Write for Oircnlara. fj \ YOUNG ME*JSr,w-S!^?"!^S5iS i Vai.KNTLNE BltOM.. JaneaTllle, wu? w ft PKITH make bushels of money selling tbe niiPM I PaltiMneWonder. .1 samplespo?tWWIbII 1 W p?ld,25c. C. J. D.bilM Buffalo NY (CI. 0OA perdartt home. Samples wortQJ5(r^. T $JI03>4U AddTBM Sxnciox A (Jo.. PortUod. iS. j Phoenix Pkctoual win cuie yourcougu. Pricvabc. ' #79 A WEEK. $ 12ad*j?thomeewiljnude. Ooatly #f fcoctflttroe. Aadreaa Tbpk Jt Oo.. Aoymt*, H?. fSSSI 1ST OFFER mil HIDE 11 ill POBUSHEHS. H f GOVERNMENT BOND FREE. H bicrltwri lo |00?000 tb? litb of Juury, ? ^D| rj raadmr ml tkia UTrr'.litaul who wliiM to m itrr jonr B??? oil onr nbicrlptlon b?k? and forward yen ? ??ar p?it?^r paid nnr oli-MUtilUhfd ud w?U- Kj 1T.r> 3MEAGEA3EX.?>**J Wfl foliowl?f MAGNIFICENT AND tuoiLi mam o. 15, lUi Baad Uia ll?t, tbaa Mod la yoar auncrlptton jgfl anr anbaciiptloa frM for a faw hour?' work. JTu GIVEN OUR SUBSCRIBERS 1 f4 Graft' S?H4 Ma SI rer Wtlckti $400 ? Si U?*t' Ckairlajaa Walrhra tOO HW ft 10 Haantlfal Bollulra Dlaaoad Elnp *00 9M { t Ilitul lllk Dmi fillrrn tOO X BOO R?tatifal IleWI Clotka. $- rack 1.000 JW M *00 I'lotornpk ilhuB!. S3 tack 1,000 U 400 Mltar Patk.t Frail Calm MO SB 400 Ladlaa'and lirnta'PoaLrt lalraa 400 bW 110 Sata 811ifr.pl*I'd Tra Hpooaa 140 1000 t\ 8. Oraa aaacka, $1 aacb liOflft. 1000 llaaailfal Oil Ntlarra Ooo Ui a * if ta talaa from llctntitoSl.COiAck,makloiatntalef id ?verj osa who aabacrluaa will racal?a TH HI 3D for Ooa Yaaraod aw alr(aat Pr?i?al b??14rt. 4 lapardal waaww?*r by a commltt#* choa*n by tha |fl 4D WORD CONTEST TO BE GIVEN 4 bar particular! to be (Iran bar.after. SuiKerliara wbo H|fl ltd Statu or Cauda. Piloted lUti of Uit award* will b? Ef * APA7IMF " '"J" ""NTH TEAR. P9 M vf M Mm llv b Tto# Mafazlna la oo# of tba BJJ1 Ainatlr*. It contalua twenty laijca pacei, with alafant J toilful lllcitratlona aod cholca liscraturt. No expanaa ft ^4 ^ * rit~.tr-,t.A Pitklnm WrJm J j, tluuiut, ftutntict. un/ul information, kouitkold uotei, tk* VSV J tu., tU., la feet every tiling tbet cad be U don* to cj*ke 1 thete pre??ta, the $1.09 la tb* reenter anberrtptlon price HI ^ I Preeeot worth $14,000. OUR PROFIT niuetcome KJfl 4 like our publlcetlon tomncb tuet yon ?lll elweyeteke It g|jl Mt fv? fr(?*4? UJ?Ib 70m md i?nd It.OO lyl nrt six kflcrifll?ii and six a?aib?r?d reor ecqaeintencea, end we will ated twalfe aubecrlpticna pis mmd labierlplltBi FRKE. NBf 1 One Y??r tod ? numbered receipt tbit It worth from Do not mlii thla opportunity. ^H| GENTS lIST or IDEXTUL TKRaS?l>iriw>Mrir$ijOOO " era before Jan. 15th. We refer to any HM ilblllty. U?n<> la iuma of one or two dollir* tin L? ^^9 rr?<! letter er P. O. money order. ?jl> aiAGrAZOTE CO., M 10 Barclay St., New York, m the-enormous AllfPRI amount of f- dyp |?| $102,400.00! Awav? ACTUALLY W W I rwrno nr HEWING TOBACCO! j 'o secure the most equal distribution of the gifts we " have divided the conntry Into districts. The following articles will In; distrained In vourdlstrict tocotl(turners of "Spear-Head" Pltiu Chewing Tobacco,on June 1st, 1884: OO Acres of I.and % 88,400 00 Weber Style? (5rnn<l I'prlght Piano. HVO OO Elegnnt lfurdett Organ 80t> OO O Solid Gold Stem-Winding Watches, ri.Hn Univmrnl. 1.2.10 00 OS \VI!?on No. 3 Sowing Machines.. S,S."0 OO O U. S. Government Bond*. fY> each ?SOO OO :o Silver Stem-Winding Watches, A Snrinisfleld Movement 7flO OO ? l!M> Meerschaum Pipes ... 1 2<JO OO ISO Five Iti. Boxes Spear-Head Tobacco 2,000 00 JTotaMifaiue, - $ 14,300 00 rniBtpriON. umber of " Spear-he.-.d" Tact, will be given a Peed rand Upright l'lano. and to the next, a:i Elegant Unri. ft Gold Wfetcli eaeh, nml >n on.uiull thi:9W (jlfff. arc J 9 from May 15 to Jsmc 1, isfii, and ?et your present. j Mjddletowrs, Ohio0 J b and .Get a Farm! I