The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, December 19, 1883, Image 4
- 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