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Shelter--An English Burlesque. By the wide lake's margin I marked ber lie? The wide, weird lake, where the alders sigh? A young, fair thing, with a shy, soft eye ; And I deemed that her thoughts had flown To her home, and her brethren, and sisters dear, As she lay there watching the dark, deep mere, All motionless, all alone. Then I heard a noise, as of men and boys, And a boisterous troop drew nigh. Wither now will retreat those fairy feet? Where hide till the storm pass by ? One glance, the wild glance of a hnnted thing, She cast behind her ; she gave one spring, And there followed a splash and a broadening ring, On the lake where the alders sigh. She had gone from the ken of ungentle men! Yet scarce did I moan for that; For I knew she was safe in her own home then, And, the danger past, would appear again, For she was a water-rat. Farmhouse Notes. Swine.?Let the breeding sows and store pigs have the run of the stubbles. Pigs intended to be fatted this fall should now be fed liberally, but should be allowed to run in the pasture. Sheep. ? Lambs should now be weaDed. Put the ewes in a poor pasture, and let the lambs have the run of some second growth clover or other rich grass. If the weather is wet and the grass succulent, give some dry food, such as clover hay, or better still, bran. Remove the rams from the flock. The Sulphur Cure for Squirrels.? Some time since Dixie W. Thompson took us out in his buggy to an outside lot on which the squirrels had squatted and taken up their claim and were in high glee over their possession. He had with him a large "man bellows," to which he had attached about a yard of gutta percha hose. On reaching a squirrel burrow, where a colony had evidently settled, he set.this machine down, thrust the end of the hose into one of the numerous holes, threw some shavings.cobs, -and sulpur into the tea-kettle, struck a match, set the shavings on fire, caught hold of the bellows,aud in a moment the sight and smell suggested another fire and brimstone region, for the earth all around began to send up puffs of yellow and infernal looking smoke wherever a squirrel bad ever ruL his underground ro:id. The r>retailtinn bad boon takpn to cover all the holes with earth before the smoke was forced into the burrow. In one instance the smoke rushed out of a hole over thirty feet in distance from the main entrance. It takes about five minutes to smother a whole colony of these troublesome pests, and they never show an signs of life again. The holes remained closed and undisturbed.?Santa Baihira Press. Corn meal for Poultry.?With a great many persons who produce a large or ouly a small quantity of poultry, the feed of chickens, and all young poultry in fact, consists solely of fine cornmeal; and this is repeated feeding after feeding and continued from the very first meal till growth carries them t > a point where whole corn can be consumed, when the latter is substituted. Many trom false ideas of economy, delude themselves in to the belief that corn, and corn alone, constitutes the cheapest poultry food for both chickens and adults because weight considered,its market nrice is the lowest. Such persons do not take the result into consideration. If they did they would arrive at a different conclusion, as the fowls analyze the grain fully as well, practically, as would the cbemist. In nitrogenous matter, an element that enters so largely into the composition of boDe and muscle into the growing chick and the egg of the laying hen, corn is ' deficient?its value as food consisting rather in its fattening qualities. OwiDg to the Ml corn contains, it is heating in its nature, and consequently,though de sirable in cold weather, is to be avoided in warm. Nevertheless, no one variety of grain, however well embodying the requisites of chicken food, can be soiely employed to the greatest profit. Wheat, oats, barley, rye and Indian corn, if ground together, will make excellent feed for any kind of poultry. One bushel ground and cooked, will make more eergs and more flesh than two bushels of grain fed whole. A Valuable Vegetable.?Why do farmers reluse to cultivate that very desirable vegetable?the Jerusalem artichoke? It is true, that ODce in the ground it is next to impossible to eradicate them. But then a vegetable that grows so lnxuriautly year after vear without the trouble and expense of reseeding the ground ought to commend itself to more general favor. It will produce more than twice as many bushels per acre as the potato, and neither rots in the ground nor invites that terrible pest, the potato bug. It can be dug or plowed out at any time when the ground is not frozen, from September to June. We advise every farmer to devote an acre to their production. And in doing so, we beg of you not to let your fears of injuring the crop and wasting your substance prevent you from plowiug deeply and manuring heavily. Plant in rows two feet apart each way, an eye or a bit of the root in a place, and if your ground is half r ecent, never you fear that the crop will not come in dne season and pay you abundantly. It is the ODly vegetable but the Cauada thistle that needs but one seed time to produce a succession of harvests, or which flourishes all the better for having a breaking plow run through its bed every spring. We have used them only after they have been saturated with vinegar, while others have gone so' far as to serve them upon the table as they would potatoes. We have no doubt they are quite as nutritious and healthy as the potato. Cattle, horses, sheep and hogs thrive even better upon them than n r?An u^rvu hil |/vianv. Manners.?Before you bow to r lady in the street, permit her to decide whether you shall do so or not, by at least a l^ok of recognition. "Excuse inv gloves" is an unnecessary apology, for the glove should not be withdrawn to shake hands. When your companion bows to a lady, you should do so also. When a gentleman bows to a lady in your company, always bow to him in return. A letter must be answered unless you wish to intimate to the writer that he or his object is beneath your notice. A visit must be returned in like manner even though no intimacy is intended. A smiling countenance is pleasant, but excess of laughter should be avoided, espeoially when it is possible for any one to suppose himself derided by it. Whispering is always offensive, and often for the reason that persons present suspect that they are the subject of it. Tbe stages of Darwinism are said to be Positive, tail; comparative, tailor; superative, tailless. An Old Mystery.?A case of enterprise on the part of a London newspaper reporter has recently ccme to light, which reflects more credit upon the industry and ingenuity of its originator than on bis hon esty. Our readers may possibly remember reading accounts ot a discovery made in London in 1857 of a carpet-bag containing human remains, which discovery caused great excitement aDd furnished material for numerous articles under the title of "The Waterloo Bridge Mystery." All the detectives of London were at work on the case, and all were thoroughly baffled. Lately the matter has been brought into norice again by a British soldier stationed in In lia avowing himself to be the person who threw the sack with its contents into j the river; but as his story was found to i disagree with the statements published in the newspapers at the time of the discovery, it was conjectured that the soldier had lied about the affair in the hope of being sent home to England. Tue revival of the subject, however, has had the effect of bringing out a letter from an old subeditor, who writes to the Birmingham Gazette that the whole affair was the result o; a scheme concocted by an impecunious penny-a-liner in order to supply material for an exciting newspaper article. The human remains contained in the sack weie procured by the reporter from a dissecting room, and the sack was let down from Waterloo bridge by a confederate, who was disguised as a woman. The trick succeeded, the originator of the scheme was first on the ground with the news, and all I An/Inn troc enf QfTAfr K\* flip rilTTI'irC TV*)l ipli XiVUUVU l? ac OV V U^Vp VJ uv t uiuviu f( MIVM gained currency in regard to the "horrible mystery," which has never been explained until now. About Bridging Joists.?A great many bui.ders omit bridging joists, simply because they have never been able to understand and appreciate the advantage of such a practice. It is not uncommon to see pie?es of boards nailed between the joists of every floor, abont midway from the joints where the joists are supported, as a substitute for bridging. The object of bridging joists is to give stiffness and solidity to the floor after the boards are [aid. Pieces of board as wide as the joists, extending from the other near the middle, iu lieu of bridging, will give but little stiffness to the floor. When the bridging is done by nailing pieces of thin plank, or pieces of small scantling between every two joists in the form of the letter X, any superincnbent pressure applied to any one joist will be sustained, more or less, by two joists on each side of it. Hence, when a person walks across the floor, the joists of which have been bridged, his weight will be received by five joists instead of one, as wonld be the case were the joists not bridged. When the joists are properly bridged, a floor will sometime spring and vibrate to such an extent, when one walks across it, as to give 4 tremulous motion to every article of furniture in the dwelling. When the, joists are not bridged, the wall or plaster | beneath will frequently be broken loose from the lath in places, as that large patches will fall to the floor. jtakmimu.?rarmers na\e seen naiu times tor a few years past, and a higher range of prices will not hurt us. The lesson that we, as farmers, have to learn is not to be discouraged, but to keep on the even tenor of our ways, studying how to improve our farms, to cheapen the cost of production, to raise such crops and keep such stock as are adapted to our soils and situations, to sell when we can get reasonable prices and be content with profits, and not rush into every new thing that for the time being is bringing an extravagant price. There is seldom a year, when a good, steady going, enterprising, intelligent farmer who works his land thoroughly and improves bis stock has not something to sell that affords a good profit. If pork is low. wool is high ; if beef is cheap, wheat is dear. If corn can not be sold for what it costs to produce it he knows that in well ventilated corn cribs it will keep for any length of time. r*? 1 . iT 1 . .V. i.1 ^onie years ago i was onereu corn m me streets of Bloomington, 111., for ''nine cents cash per bushel, and ten cents in trade." In less than two years I was in Illinois again, and asked the price of corn in the same neighborhood, and was answered "one dollar and- ten cents per bushel." Of course such fluctuations are demoralizing. But we must make the best of our situation. ? Agriculturist. Had The Buffalo.?Buffalo Bill will weep when he reads in a Western paper of Daniel Otto, ot Osborne City, Kansas, who, while chasing the buffalo recently, wounded the animal with his pistol,when the infuriated brute turnpd upon him. Flight was impossible, so Mr. Otto seize 1 the long hair on the shoulder of the butfalo and mounted him. While seated on the animal's back, he reloaded his pistol and put the load right in the back part of the front shoulder. This brought the ' buffalo to his knees and sent Otto whirl1 ing about ten feet over his head. Gathering himself up, he looked around, and there sat the butialo on his knees gazing ... v:._ :.i. _? f'. 11.. I^^l. v.?? i ai mill mm uu lncuui) jwn, uui uuc more load finished him. A Cak Thick.?Francis the Chief of a j Carlist band, rece illy executed a brilliant ; manoeuvre. He was being hotly pursued by the troops when Crancis stopped the train which was on its way to Reus, made all the passengers get out, and installed his own men very comfortably in their i | place. The conductors could make no resistance, and the six hundred carlists | guietly arrived at Reus, to the utter astonishment of the inhabitants, who were expecting a very different sort of passengers. Five or six roughs insulted Capt. John Stephens at Carsonville, ten miles from St. Louis, and he knocked one of them down. The ruffians then attacked him and beat and kicked him to death. Sailor* and the Shipping Laws. ^ The Seamen's Exchange, says a New T York paper, affords a pleasing contrast to t the dingy little offices i:rom which sailors t have been shipped at this port from the c beginning of the history of the city, f Everything is new and clean about its ( spacious halls. On the first floor is the t reading-room and the savings bank. The j second story is almost entirely occupied ] by a fine, airy lecture-room. On the 1 third,* which is all in one room, all the f work of shipping seamen upon American j vessels is to be done in the future. t At one o'clock a few afternoons since, t , about 300 sailors were present, and busi- j t ness was transacted with great celerity 1 by Captain Duncan's employees. Con- < versations held with several sailors showed * that there was a variety of opinions among f them about the working of the law,though ] most of them favored it. ? One iniddle-aged man said : " I am an American and a married man. I don't spend my whole time at sea. I am a rig- ] ! ger by trade, but can get no work at that ( now, so I want to go for a short voyage. i I think that somehow the boarding-house j keepers or runners get ip here and shove ( their men?who owe them money?in ] ahead of us. 1 have Deen nere tnree t days. In that time four vessels have ] taken on crews, but I got no chance. ( There was one for Cow Bay, two to ] Demerara, and one to Martinique. When 1 the crew for one of the Demerara vessels y was shipped, I applied at the desk, but t some men who I knew were not sailors t I pushed three sailors up and got them j taken in preference to me." i " Do you think those pushing the sailors , on were boarding-house keepers or run- f ners?" y " I don't know; but they were not j sailors." I Application being made to Captain ( Duncan by the writer for an explanation ( of this mystery, he said that the idea of j others being pushed forward was doubt- \ less a hallucination. He asked : t " Did the man say the Captain was t j choosing men for himself?" y ".Mo; an order was sent 10 your snip- J ping-master and the men he took were t young Germans." { "Ah; that probably explains it. Cap- \ tains running short voyages in small ves- f ' sels, having so few sailors, are very par- t ticular about them. Active young Ger : mans are in great demand; they are thor; ough workmen and more docile than : oative Arnericaus. The order was prob: ably tor Germans; the shipper recognized ' ! a squad of them near by and took them 1 in preference to the American, who was * thus led to imagine that he was slighted." 1 "Is it not possible that some of your [ | own runners are beginning to take bribes 1 j already ?" "Scarcely; I have given them distinct- ? ly to understand that any one found r making anything but his salary out of the * business would be discharged. Several 1 men refused to take the work on those terms." 6 "What is the work of your runners?" 8 " One thing they have to do is to hunt up sailors when there is a deficiency of any sort. Another branch of their work f is to see that sailors shipped at this office 15 on/1 or?Kt?r tliav I ^ i L UH UUttiu caiv auu ovwt. * uvu v.?vj take the captain's receipt for them." s Another sturdy-looking sailor said he ( had no objections to offer to the institu- * tion, except that he feared it might be ' I the means of bringing down wages. Said ( ; he in broken English : " Some boarding-house keepers first- ' rate men. They never robbed me. 1 I \ always drew my own money and paid my * | own way." 1 An official questioned about the foundation for this man's fears, said the new 1 institution was likely to raise wages by * putting into the hands of the sailors the money that had been previously filched from them. There is a Landlords' Asso- ' ciation, which meets at Botanic Hall. ( j This Association has really been of some y 1 use to sailors, because, being always on ' i the lookout for money due them, they ' ' had aided seamen in maintaining high ' i wages?had, indeed, fixed prices. But s the bad men among them had largely * : counteracted this usefulness. These men, I I caring only that sailors should get large 1 1 advances, would willingly see them shipped for $10 a month, if the advance was high * I enough. ' " But if the Landlord's Association has > helped sailors to get high pay, how can < .i a:? i.?l? *1. t Hie OlliCe lieip IIICI11 VU III^IICI t "In the first place, the ease and rapid| ity with which men are disposed of will 1 nuturaUy keep the supply down, and : small supply always stiffens prices. Then | the thirty two scattered shipping-offices 1 of the city, which were bound to keep going winter and summer, would often force men to go under rate, to cut out i competitors. If the landlords could keep watch of all these offices, and keep them from heating down, they will have no difficulty in watching the rates of the ono I office." An elderly German sailor was next , tjuestioned. He liked the new office very well: he had seen the plan carried out in Liverpool. A boarding-house keeper had him jiirninst coming to the Com I "D O " j inissioner, but be told him, "What for; ; don't I want to get a vessel ?" Captain Mount, of the schooner Snsan Wright, came to the desk just then for a crew, and was loud in praise of the office. This was the best thing of the kind he ; ever saw. Generally a captain knows nothing of his crew until they are aboard, but it is worth a man's while to come and pick his own men out of this big lot. |I have had trouble enough with those ; old offices. Last year I ordered a crew from one of them; waited ten days, and none came. Then I sent to another office and got a crew right down. The first shippers hearing of this, sent another, libelled the vessel when she got back, and it cost me 8150 to get rid of them. I'll stick to this office as long as I live." Much has been written of late about the mysteries and miseries of sailor life in this oity. The public have beeD made i I amiliar with the " Neptunes" or runners, rho get $1 besides wages for every man hey bring to the landlords; also with he sailor ^wyers, who trump up charges ?t maltreatment against captains, and get rom 850 to 8300 hush-money from most )f the victims?the money going, one;hird to the runner, one-third to the lawrer, and one-third to the boarding-house ceeper, leaving nothing for Jack. It has >een estimated that 60,000 seamen ship innually from this port, and that 8600,000 >er annum has been illegally taken from hem. The new Board proposes to proect the sailor on ship $nd shore from all .he sharks that beset him. The officials vill see that he gets his money ; he will ihoose his own boarding-house; will pay 15 cents instead of $10 or $15 for a situation. In short, the intention is that no oophole shall be left through which his memies may attack him. Dress, Drt Goods, Extravagance.? Merchants, tradesmen, mechanic11, labor>rs and all classes, says the New York Herald, work intently from morning till light, more to pay for the extravagance if dress than for the mere necessaries of ife. How many of our men are kept at he mill of anxious toil, and even to the ireaking down of their health, to pay for ;he dry goods extravagance of their famiies. Nine-tenths of the conversation of ivomen, wherever they may be, and a jreat deal of their time are devoted to ;his subject. It seems to be the sum of ;heir existence. With all our wealth, ndustry, and natural resources the nation s getting deeper and deeper in debt every rear for dry goods and other luxuries, ind for dry goods especially. All the pild we extract from the earth, and more, s drained from the country to pay the lalance of trade against us. Our cotton. ;orn, flour and other products do not dis ;harge our foreign indebtedness for importations. The interest on our secnrities leld abroad can l.ardly be less than sixty ;o eighty millions of gold. And with all ;he,money and wealth of labor that immigrants bring, our fifty thousand or more \merican absentees in Europe, mostly ol he rich class, <Jraw probably an equal inaount from this country. Should we )e surprised, then, that we cannot get to ;pecie payments, or that gold should even ise? Evidently more economy is needed. At Saratoga. How about the Brown's Boys? says Eli 3erkins. " Well, there are some no-ac:ount Brown's Boys here. They squeeze ilong on a $1,200 a-year clerkship in ^ew York, without hope or chance of >romotion. Indeed, they are only kept n this position by suffrance and through he influence of friends. They dance, are jood looking, and, of course, carry off the licest girls in the hotel. No one asks ibout their brains. Their heels are all ight, and they make nice beaux. This mds the matter, and the daughters float wound with them, while their parents ire in an agony of excited suspense all he time. It is amusing to see the Brown's toys come their econom.^al dodges. On : ball night they will he very devoted to iome young lady till it gets to be time to ... A -w aT. 1. TM A*! .1 /0\ jo 10 uie iiup-room. i ilea a irienu \i) vants to see them, and they disappear >nly to show themselves after some good ellow has paid his to take the young ady to the ball. Brown's Boy generally lances with the young lady through all he round dances, and finally accompanies ler and her generous escort down to the >arlor after the ball. " Won't you join tfiss Brown and myself in a champagne >unch ?" inquires the generous fellow. lA?I don't mind it I do. It would be efreshing," and so the Brown's Boy gets lis girl and his champagne, too. Ilow They Farm in* Arizona.?"I)o rou know how they carry on agriculture iown there ?" asked the Judge. "There /? n i i ii* i.? vas ft ieiiow wno nirea mmseii out as a arm hand in Arizona, and the first day lis master told him to cut some wood. >o lie asked for an axe, but the farmer said, no we don't cut wood with an axe, iere;'' and gave him a sledge hammer to cnock and break olf the mesquit which hey burn down there. The next day folin was ordered to cut some hay, and vas looking about for a scythe when his naster said, 'We don't cut bay with a scythe down here,'and gave him a hoe to shop down the woody stalks with which hey swindle the horses there for hay. rhe third morning the farmer called his nan to come out and plant corn. John ooked for a hoe, but his master said. 5Ve don't plant corn with a hoe out here,'/ md gave him a crow bar with which to junch holes in the ground wherein to lrop corn; and John left the country in lisgnst at that kind of farm work." Lei Htm Go.?The Bangor% Conn/urdu s responsible for this : A few miles rom the Katahdin Iron Works is a log abin in which some meat was stored; Tut a large bear who happened round, earing that it would spoil before eaten, bought he might as well have a taste for litnself. Accordingly lie cautiously ap proached the hut and tried to push the loor open, but tailing in this he went to he windows, which were closed by shutters, and removed one from each side of he cabin, for the sole purpose no doubt pf making sure his retreat, for if attacked rom one window he could then jump rom the other and so escape. He then vent and took a piece of meat and departed as he came. This game was so deverly performed that the owners of he cabin, who were concealed in the pushes near by, let the old fellow depart n peace." The Louisville papers tell a curious ttory about a negro woman who was biten by a dog thirty years ago, and has >een subject to convulsive fits about wice a month ever since. She is perectly harmless, but when the fit is on be lies on the floor doubled up like a loop, and barks for twenty minutes together. Her bark cannot be distinguished torn that of a dog. Ajmai: and his wife at Keokuk were latejy arrested for seliiDg liquor on Sunday, when it was discovered tint they, had" an arrangement of religious views exeentlv adapted to their business. He said that he was a Seventh Day Baptist and observed Saturday as a day of rest and devotion, and hence claimed the right to carry on his business on Sunday. The wife, on the other-hand, belonged to the Reformed Dutch Church, and had no scrnple to attending to the shop on Saturday. Write to Charles W. Hassler, No. 7 Wall Street, New York, for a copy of his Weekly Financial Report. Mistaken for Bandits.?Thomas Carroll, of San Jose, Cal., while ridincc near that city saw two men whom he supposed to be highwaymen. He shot one of them dead, and made the other a prisoner. An investigation showed the victim to be Henri Pattel, an inoffensive French florist, who with a companion in the same business was going into the mountains near Almadento gather flowers. Carrol has been committed for trial on the charge of manslaughter, For Rites of Mosquitoes and other Insects. Burnett's Kat.liston neutralizes the poison almost instantaneously. There is a great rivalry about the Arizona diamond-field. A second mining company, said to be the original discoverers, has already been incorporated, with a capital ot $10,000,000; and yet a third is beiug formed. A Bitter Controversy.?The temperance organs are waging bitter war on the manufacturers of alcoholic bitters, and theinattacks are resented with equal bitterness by the latter, who seem determined to prosecute the quarrel to the bitter end. Tn the meantime a novelty in tonic medicines is making immense progress in the confidence of all classes and conditions of society throughout the United States and British America. We refer tn Dp W a t vpr'r C a i.TFORVIA VlNE oar Hitters, and we call it a novelty in tonics because it contains no alcohol?an article heretofore considered essential in raediciuial invigorants. The abstemious portion of the community approve the omission, and as the new remedy is curing flyspepsia, biliousness nervous affections, and, in fact, a majority of the diseases, external and internal, which prevail, it is difficult to see how the more self-indulgent portion of our fellow citizens can conscientiously object to it. One thing is certain : if ever there was what the French call a "grand success," the sudden and continually increasing popularity of the Vinegar Hitters, deserves that name. The advocates of temperance point to the ?nlutary effects produced by this inalcoholic restorative as a proof that spirituous stimulants are not needed for medicinal purposes?a position which has been recently taken by many eminent medical practitioners. Symptoms of Catarrh. Dull, heavy headache, obstruction of nasal passages, discharge falling into throat, somet'mcs profu?c, watery, acid, thick and tenacious muous, purulent, muco-pnrulent, bloodv, putrid, offensive, etc. Tn others a dryness, dry, watery, weak or inflamed eyes, ringing in ear*, deafness, hawking and coughing to clear throat, ulcerations, scabs from ulcer*, voice altered, nasal twang, offensive breath, impaired smell and taste, dizziness, mental depression, tickling cough, etc. Only few of the above symptoms are likely to be present in any case at one time. No disease is more common or less understood by physicians. The proprietor of Dr Sage's Catarrh Remdey will pay $500 reward for a case of Catarrh which he cannot, cure. Sold bv Druggists at 50 cents. 608. Tni: purest and sweetest Cod-Liver Oil in the world is Hazard & Caswell's, made on the sea snore irnm rresn, seiecieu uvrn", u> i/.wn r,Li? Hazard A Co., New York. It is absolutely purand si reel. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians have decided it superior to any of the other oils in market. ?Com. A great many people have asked us of late, "IIow do you keep uanr horse looking so sleek and glossy?" We tell them it's the easiest thing in the world ; give Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powdf.rs two or three times a week. ?Com. A gentleman in the eastern part of the State, who was about having his leg amputated on account of its being bent at right angles and stiff at the knee, heard of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. After using it a short time his leg became straight and is now as serviceable as the other.?Com. If you want comfort wear the Elmwood collar. 1 If you want style wear the Elmwood collar. For sale at all Rents' Furnishing Stores. H. H. Shi ef.ldt A Co., Chicago, alone in America distil IMPERIAL GIN by the Hol- i land Process. Send for circular.? Com. Vegetable Pulmonary Balsam. " Doubtless the Best (tough Medicine in the World."?Com. The People's Stamp of Value.?The Government endorsement which legalizes the sale of Plantation Bittf.rh. Is not the only stamp affixed to that famous Veoetahlf. Tonic. It bears, in addition to that official sauclion, the still more valuable stamp of public approbation. This inestimable voucher of its rare properties as a Tonic. Correct- j ive and Alterative, is of much earlier date than the Government credential : tor millions of sick persons had pronounced it the ((rand Specific of j the aof. long before Congress thought of taxing proprietary medicines. It is unnecessary to repeat. , in detail, ttie properties or tnis woiun-rmi >egeiaoie Invigorant. The best relereneo that eau be offered to those who desire the full particulars of its virtues, is the General Public. Ask those who have tried it as a reniedv tor dyspepsia, constipation, biliousness, intermittent fevers, nervous dehilitv, rheuntatism. sea sickness, low spirits, or loss of vital power, wriat Plantation Hitters has clone for them, and be governed by the response they make to your inquiries.?ICom.l a True Knlaitm*?Dr. Wistak's Balsam <>k Wii.d CHERRY is truly aBalsam. ft contains the balsamic prinople of (he Wild I 'lie-rv, the bah emir prop oriies ot tar and of nine Its ingredients are nil hnl-nniir. Couch-. ('olds. Sore Thioats. Bronchitis, and Consumption speedily disappear under its Balsamic inlluence. ?t 'om, IN ONE TO FIVE MINUTES. Headache, Earache. N' lirah'ia, Inline Ba'-k. Di.trrhe*. Cnmie. Sprain*, and all similar complsiuts. orr , t?> Klagg's Instant Relief. Or M oney Refunded. ?<\>m. AS OUI' K AS A FI.ASII OF LIGHTNING does Cnsiadoro's Excelsior Hair Dye cf open the hair, whiskers and moustaches : nori?/iefrwi tint -, hnt th?* purest Raven or the most exquisite Browns ?ill h evolved.-Corn Spooial Notices. ItevolutIons Xerer < <> linrkwurct. The philo-opliical theory thai the human system when weakened by disease, oppressive heat, excessive labor or any other cause, should he toned and inviirorated instead of being subjected Jo the action of depleting drugs, p. gaining ground every day. The introduction of Host ?tter's Stomach Bitters twenty years ago gave a powerful influence to this common sense idea As the extraordinary efficacy of the Great Vegetable Restorative became known, multitudes of debilitated inval'd- turned with loathing from the nauseous and strengtn-destroying potions with which it was then the fashion to drench the sick, to this renovating, app tizing. vitalizing preparation derived from the finest roots, herbs and barks placed by botanical research at the disposal of medical cience. Revolutions never go backward. From that time to the present the importance of assisting and reinforcing nature in her struggles with disease has been more and more widely and keenly appreciated by the sick and the suffering. In tens of thousands of households Hostetter's Bitters are looted upon as the one j thing needful in cases of Dyspepsia, General Debility, Constipation, Nervous Weakness, Chills and Fever, Bilious Affections and all conditions of the body and mind t*>at betoken a lack of vital energy. When the qnickeilver ranges high, and the solid flesh Is resolving itself into a den nnder the fevid temperature, this agreeable tonic is the best possible safeguard against ill the disorders generated by a sultry and unwholsaome atmosphere. It prevents and relieves lassitude and languor, and enables the at stem to endnre with impunity an nnusaal amount of exertion. Of all invigorating and regulating medicines, it is the purest aad moat whole* some. J TO CONSUMPTIVES. 1 TO CONSUMPTIVES. \ The advertiser, having been permanently cured of that Iraad disease, Consumption, by s simple remedy, Is anxious to make known to his fellow sufferers the means of cure. To all who desire it. be will send a copy of the prescription used, (free of charge), with the directions for preparing and using the same, which they will find a surf. cure for consumption, asthma, bronchitis, and all throat or lung difficulties. Parties wishing the prescription will please address Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON. ISM Penn. street, Williamshnrgh. N Y The Markets. 5ftw ifork. Bxf.f Cattle?Prime to Extra.?..* .13 a .13>i First qaality 12J^a .13 Second 11 ya ,11)? * Ordinary thin Cattle., .llua .12 D Inferior 08'^a .11 Miloh Cows. 31.00 a70.00 Hogs?Live 01 \a .04 W Dressed ,06%a .06% Sheep 05 06% Cotton Middling 21%a .22 ' Flour?Extra Western 6 80 a 7 15 State Extra 6 85 a 7 35 In Wheat?Red Western 1 80 a 1 80 tl ? State 1.80 a 1.85 Ot Rtx?Western 74 a .74 p< Barley?Malt 140 a 1.60 Corn?Mixed Western 63^1 .64 in Oats?Mixed Western 45^* -46 D Hat 1.20 a 1.56 Ti Straw 70 a 1.05 tt Hops. '71's 25 a 60?'70's 18 a .SO n Pork?Mess 10 87 al8.70 83 Lard 8H? t> Petroleum?Crude 12>i Beflned .2214 tt Butter?State 20 a .30 Ohio. Yellow 13 a .20 it " Fancy 15 a .18 tt Western ordinary 10 a .13 d' Pennsylvania fine 20 a .32 P Cheese?8tate Factory 1214 a .12*4 " Skimmed 8 a .10 n Ohio 07 a .10 ? Eggs?State .21 a .24 ? BUFFALO. 8 Beef Cattle 4.62?4a 8 50 Sheep 4.??U a 5 50 * Hogs?Live 4/0 a 4 70 P Flour 7.01 a 9.50 " Wheat?No. 2 Spring.... 1.48 a 1.50 CORN 62 a .6214 ? Oats 37 a .87 " Bye - 98 a 1.00 ^ Barley 70 a .75 fj Lard 09 a .09J4 " ALBANY. * ?! Wheat?White 1.87 a 1.87 r Bye?State 85 a .85 Oorn?Mixed 62 a .64 Barley?State 1.03 a 1.04 H. Oats?State 47 a .47 PHILADELPHIA. p Flour? 5.00 al0 25 C( Wheat?Western Bed. 1.67 ? 1.83 Corn?Yellow 61 a .62 ~ Mixed 61 a .61 Petroleum?Crude 16J4refined .22% g ClovebSeed. 9 00 alO.OO Timothy 3.50 3.6BALTIMORE. J Cotton?Low Middling 20J4a .20^ Flour?Extra 4.fi(> al2 50 " Wheat?Amber 1.50 1 1.75 1 Cork 6214a .65 0( Oat*. ... ?5 a 46 - For Beauty of Polish, Saving Labor, Clean- ri llness,Durability <Jt Cheapness, Unequaled. < BEWARE or WORTHLESS UIITATI0X8 under other " names, but resembling ours In shape and color of wrapper intended to deceive. I THE RlStXfi SIX POLISH IS BULK, for stove dealers' J use, at twelve cents per pound?twenty-five and fifty pound boxes. "Cheaper than any other Bulk Polish for nothing." THE RISIXG SIS LITIBER PKX(TL.-No Sharpenin | I Cheap and Durable?supercedesotherarticlesfor Durpob* THE KI8INUM X Bl.il K LKAII LIRHICATOK. Foraxlea, bearings and machinery. I.asts six times as long as oil alone. lb. and SO lb. boxes, 15 cents per lb. Try It. I MORSE BROS., Prop'rs., Canton, Mass. AO E.\ TH Wanted.?Agents make mi re money at ~ work for usthan at anything else. Pari iealars free. a t G. 8TINSON A Co., Fine Art PMjrihrr*, Portland, Maine, m FK. PHOE3TIX, Bloomingila'e Nursery, III; WO ? acre--; 21-t year; 12Green-Houses; Trees, Bui.bs, HEDOE Plants, Nursery Stock ; I Catalogues, 20 Cents ? 1)R WHITTIRR *#e pe.\x street, * Dll. IT nil llftR, PUtshunr, Penn. * Isingest engaged, and most successful physician of the g, age. Consultation or pamphlet free. Call or write. ft fftat Field ot Ann' HEALTHFUL CLIMATE, FREE HOMES, GOOD MARKETS, THE SOKTHF"v C RAIL. ROAl) . .o. ,t? j,nil<!s tu C. ntral and . V.'eatem .ISImiesota, rmnnciue : 1. Tlie best ot Wheat Land; 2. Excellent Timber tor tie Mill, the Farm and the Fire; 3. Rich Prairie Pasturage and Natural Meadow, wat red by clear Lakes and tunning streams?in a Healthful Climate, irhrrr Fr?~ tnd Ague i.< unknown. Grain can be shipped hence hv lake to market a? cheaply as from Eastern Iowa or Central Illinois. Can now run through these Lands from Lake Suuerior tc Dakota. Price of land close to track. #4.00 to $8.00 pe- p acre: further away, #2 50 to #4 Oh. Meven Vears < Credit ; Warrantee Deeds : Northern Pacific 7-5IO t llonda, mow selling at par, received for land at #1.10. [ No other unoccupied Lands present such advantages; settlors. NOL.DIF.ltS under the New Law (March. 1872,) get ico ......... 1'RTF near the railroad, bv one and two vents' residence. TRANSPORTATION AT RFDTCE* KATtS furnished from all principal points East tt: purchasers of Railroad Lands, and to Settlers on Gov ern.uent Homestead?. Purchasers, their wives anc children carried free over the Northern Pacific Road Now is the time for Settlers and C< Ionics to sret Railroad Lands and Government Homesteads close to th< track. Send for Pumphlet containing full information map and copv ot New Homestead Law. Address LAND DEPARTMENT, Northern Pacific Railroad, j St. PA.TT.Li, Minn., or !!Finn Inline Cir.ra SI.. K.I. : Diarrhoea. Dynenfery, Cholera Morbai, I .Hammer Complaint, Flax, Children's Teething, and the Great Prevent* Ire of Asiatic Cholej*. MAGUIRE'S BENNE PLANT. This extraordinary ntedlelue, the fame of which Is i pread broadcast throughout the country, is un- i d< htedly superior to auv remedy ever offered to th public for luc complaints for which it is Intended. \\ > have In our possession testimonial--'furnished voluntarily by Col. Long, late Chief Topograph leal Engineer Bureau at \\ ashlugton; General Kit/ Unify w ar m, utn. ricasainonanu outers 01 tliearim: Failicr I*. J. DeSmet, thecrlrbrated Indian missionary: also, office rsotthe na\ y, surgeons, hospital st, wards, commanders of nearly every steamer plying on the Mississippi anil tributary rivers. Western Sanitary ami Christian Commissions, army chaplains and others too numerous to mention. Likewise highest cnconlums of the press, praising its \ alnahle medleinalipiailtiealn the highest terms. No other medicine has such recommendations. We can also refer to Ills excellency, II. Grata Itrown, Governor of Missouri; Hon. Frank P. ltiair. Jr., I*. S. Senator, and Hon. Joseph I' -v>T-;\ .r of the cl^- of St. Louis, and many otic r St ife officials, for which there !s no space In this ad\ ei tiseiin nt. Aoknts?McKesson A Kohhir.s. Nos. 91 and 93 Fulton St., New York. Sold-by druggists and medicine dealers everywhere. 4. ?V C. M AG II It K, Sole Proprietors. S. W. corner of Olive and Second sts., St. Louis, Mo. Price. 73 cent* per bottle. A GREAT OFFER!! Itnracr Waters, 4Ml Itroadwav. X. V.. will dispose of One HrxiiKKi) Pianos, Met ooeov-i ., Ono \ss ot six rir-t-cla-s makers, including Waters'.. . rjirrui'ly bur (>rirt. form-h. If,./ (hi- m'mth ; or will f*M from ft to f20 monthly until paid ; the same to let, s-1fi rent applied if purchased. A new kind of P.irtop Oi:iliV, th< most leant itnf style and jmrfeet ton- i?v-r niiide. now on exhibition at -IS1 Broadway \ev York. A. Wellington Hart & CoT, \I>.TUSTFR8 OK CLAIMS FOR Insolvents & Bankrupts. 110 Leonard St.. N. V. '?V RFFF.RENCE< OF HKinP.'JT ( HARACTF.F. j Mend lor ( Ironlnr. / %/ % VALUR to FVERYBOI V 1 I ll 1-Old oryonrg. hirhnr !o*v. j \?J%^ ^^inale <>r female. pick or well, rich or rioor. Send a three*nt po-tag -f*mn for rircn'ar. Addre?? DOHsox. IIA TX F8 Ar CO., t. J.oul*. MO Agent" wanted. The King of the Body it the brain; the stomach < .t* m.tin support; the nerves itams'aengers; the bowels, t the kidney* and the pores its safeguard*. I digestion r ere tee a violent re vol' among the-e attaches of the regal t organ, and to bring them back to the duty there is notn- a ing like the regulating, purifying, invigorating, oooling c operation of Takaaxt's ejtmtksoixt SiLunt A.px- j mint. It renovates the system and restores to health 5 1 both the body and the mind. c SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS j ^WrfTrjrrrrt #lnl i No Person can take these Bitters accordtgto directions, and remain long unwell, provided ielr bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or iher means, and vital organs wasted beyond the alnt of repair. Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Headache, I'ain i the Shoulders, Coughs. Tightness of the Chest, Izzlness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Had aste in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Pnlpiratiou of ' le Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain In the gion of the Kidneys, and a hundred other painful rmptoms, are the off-springs of Dyspepsia. One Dttle will prove a hotter guarantee of its merits lan a lengthy advertisement. For Female Complaints, in young or old, tarried or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or le turn of life, these Tonic Bitters display so eclded an Influence that improvement is soon erceptible. P"* inflaniniiitorv and Chronic Rheu latlsra and Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Interilttent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kideys and Bladder, these Bitters have no equal, uch Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood. They are a gentle Purgative as well ? Tonic, possessing the merit of acting as a owerful agent in relieving Congestion or Iuflamlation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, and in ilinnd For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter, Saltheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules Boils, arbnncles. Ring-worms, Scald-Head. Sore Eves, rystpclas. Itch, Scurfs, Discolorations of the Skin, [umors and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name r nature, are literally dug up and carried out f the system in a short time by the use of these ittera. Grateful Thousands proclaim VINEGAR BlTEfts the most wonderful Invigorant that ever istalned the sinking system. II. II. McDOXALD <fc CO. iruggists and (Jen. Agts.. San Francisco, Cal., A or. of Washington and Charlton Sta., N.Y. SOLI) BY ALL DRrGGLSTS A DEALERS. H V. * U Wi?4 2 ftf SIO A #40 C) BII.LS ?ent m a curiosity for 9*9 50 eta. J. R. SE< ORI) A CO.. Oarretr-vilie, O. k GENTS.?600 percent profit. Saab Lock. Terms *. free. Ten cents will return sample. A. GRIFFIN. Mpuhopnen. Pa. I AAA AfiEXTS WANTED to sell Our la "wFwF Popular Camps gn Churn and N w Map [ Union and World C. P. BKADWAY. Danville. Pa. j> afeOAA f?r hrst-class Punoe. No discount. No A Rents. Address U. 8. PIANO CO., IM roadwav. N. Y. IK. WHITTIER, Longest engaged, and m oeteuccessful physician of the ge. Consultation or painphletftee. Call or write. 4 He Soorten von Erfeni?sen en Schn'den znllen "u. spoed'c inger.amelt worden doon den Advocat, J. F. FRUEAUFF. te Columbia, Lancaster Co., Pa. rHE LITTLE FLIRT.?The meaning of all handkerchief glove, fan and parasol flirtation sig als ; an elegantly bound volume ; by mail. 25 cent*. FISHER I DENISON. 98 Nassau St.. New York City. UQgUjjjl Thea-Nectar .Vith the Grtm Tra F tar or. The ^rvK^eiNt^MJr- lje;4t fea j m ported. For mite rrrry-rhrir. And for sale wholesale only tW AU(V .A bv the Great Atlantic and Of JBIka mi Pacific Tea Co., No. 191 Fulton l3S [^BSHSKtoJ -st- & Church St., New York ^ Servt for Thm-Srriar Fimtlgr. A Tie Records of Tests jg ;?] at LOWELL, Mass., proves 2 N. F. BURNHAM'S JR. J NEW TURBINE superior to all others. It gave M~v a higher percentage than any o' her wheel of common finish, lye Pamphlet and Price List, bv " ^ BOBttiiiW^F N. K BURNHAM. York, Pa &r^r.v. BOAluai PITTSBURGH Ireech-Loading Shot Guns, $10 to $300. Double Shot inns, $8 to $150. Single Guns, $3 to #20. R tics. $fe to 575. Revolvers. #6 to $25. Send Stamp t >b PkiceANT. Army (run*, flrn .lrrr*. trni'/hi or Ira-tot for. BOTHERS! MOTHERS!! tfAmminn a UIUlfflB!!! Don't tail to procure MRS. WIXKI.O W'S SOOTHING SIRUP FOR CHILDREN rEETHING. Th;s valuable preparation ha? been used with NEVER "WILING SUCCESS IN THOUSANDS Oh CASES. It not only relieves the child from pain, but iuvigortte* the stomach and bowels, corrects acidity, and gives one and energy to the whole system. It will also intantly relieve Griping In the Rowels and Wind Colic. WV believe it the BEST and SUREST REMEDY IN rHE WORLD, in all case* of DYSENTEt;Y AND DIARRHEA IN CHILDREN, whether ari-iug from :e? thing or any other cause. Depend upon it mothers, it will give rest toyourae tnd Relief nnd Health to Your In runts. rte sure and call for " Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup,"? Having the fac-simile of "CURTIS A PKKKINHf >11 the outside wrapper. Hold hy Ikriimrlsts IhroiiKlimil ?he ^Vopld. gECONOMY IN MO~URNINC ! 1 M gS Cheapness! Durabll.ty! fj| THE NEW PATENT ? I ALBERT CRAPEl Has been sold tor Ovet Two Tears, giving H I Universal hatUfaetion. i-4 Opinions from Wearers ' * | J" The Albert Crape wnicn i nn?e van- h e? rrv day (or nearly a .ve?r ha* after < ist H roughest usa?-o turned out to be most ex. tjj cellent." ,_j I bave been so mueh pleased witn ' e I war of tne Albert Crape, that 1 can strongly recommend it ' 1 have found the Albert Crape to be a I rcallv good irusc.vorthy article,and umcn cheaper than any I ever had." *:.> SOLD BY ^ MILLINERY A DRY GOODS DEALERS |i ?r HoMGnilMakwMcaril u r n>. m a n n n reward j a I I I I I a ror nny case of Blind. M 11 I I I I I I Btaeriinfr.ltchiDff.orUWm / I I 1 I I I rated Piles thatDFBrso's % 11 i I i I I i Pile Remedy fails to Ml I I I I I I ear". It i? prepared ex- 8H I ] 1 I I I I preealy to cure tbe Pile* ' tii.uuu ^ rhe Gettysburg Katalysine Water, Nature a great remedy for Dyrpnaa, Rheumatism, rout, Neuralgia. Kidney, Urinary, Nervous Heart, and 'her Chronic Diseases, is bottled and sent direct from he spring at Gett>?bui*. Penn., to invalids wherever . eeidinr. Price per single ease of two doxen quart hot- _j| lee, SP.fO. 16 percent, discount in favor r* clergymen 4 nd phvsieians on water for their own.use. cdiea! and fl lericai profession must he certified by tha nntrest . ~ 'ostmaster or other responsible persona. Where drug- M riata do not V?-ep it. invalids mayenc'qs# a "ertdlwl 3 heek or Poet-Otfice money order to WE!TNI F JE i*. J 37 MBtb front Street, Philadelphia, Pa. r A