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Farm, Garden and Household. Top Dressing Grain and Grass Crops or Winter.?A correspondent says he sowed a orop of rye seeded to grass and got a large crop ol both by top-dressing the field in winter ; when that part of the field tjiat was left undressed failed almost entirely under the influence of an early drought. But he says it does little good to top-dress sward-bound grass unless there is rain enough to wash the stubble matter through the thiok s?d. White Hairs on Horses.?A correspondent of the Massachusetts l*oughman, recommends the following remedy for white hairs on horses, which appear on spots galled by the saddle or harness: " Take a piece of lard large enough to give the place a thorough greasing; rub the same with the hand until it becomes ? hot, repeating the operation three or four times, and the white hairs will soon come out and hairs of a natural color take their place. I have tried this on l.~ t - 1 1l ?c?ciai nuint'o uuu x ijcvcj nutw it \aj fail. I think the best time to do this is in the winter, before the new coat starts." Keeping Milk fb?m Souring.?The Southern Farmer says that a teaspoonful of fine salt or" horse-radish in a pan of milk will keep it sweet for several days. Milk can be kept a year as sweet as when taken from the cow by the following method : Procure bottles, and as they ure filled immediately cork and fasten the cork with pack thread or wire. Then spread a little straw at the bottom of a boiler, on which place the bottles, with straw between them, until the boiler contains a sufficient quantity. Fill up with cold water, and as soon as it begins to boil draw the fire and let the whole gradually cool. "When quite cold take out the bottles and pack them in sawdust in hampers, and stow them uway in the coolest part of the house. Meal as Feed.?We have fed a great deal of corn and cob meal to both horseB and cows, and never discovered any injurious effects from it. #ur own opinion is, nowevef, tnatit does not pay to grind cobs wiA the meal to feed to' horses* We had rather feed the corn meal alone with hay or steamed straw; but we had rather have the corn and cob meal for milch cows. We believe the distension of the stomach which is produced by feeding the ground cob with the corn meatus an advantage over feeding clear meal. Some dairymen claim that milk is largely increased by feeding boiled cobs to cows. We once heard a farmer of considerable experience say that he believed sixteen quarts of boiled cobs equal to four quarts of corn meal as a milk-producing feed. Kxllxno Poultry.?An exchange says the easiest, quickest and best way to kill n fowl is to open liiwbeak, and then, with a pointed and a narrow knife, make an incision at the back of the roof, which will divide the verterbra?, and nutiiin ?1.J-1 vw%Miv .Utuivuiuw UCUVU , iuicr Willl'U hang the fowl up by thn legs till the bleeding ceases ; then rinse the beak out with vinegar and water. Fowls killed in this manner keep longer, and do not present the unsightly external marks of those killed by the ordinary system of wringing the "neck. In this connection we wish to impress on our readers the importance of special care in dressing poultry for marki t. The difference m price will more than compensate for the trouble. Also, don't send in poultry in poor condition ; holiday customers all look for and will take only fat birds. Clover Hay Cut with Green Timothy.?Harris Lewis, the great Herkimer dairy man, says that green timothy cut with clover in bloom, if well cured, mukes the best hay for milch cows. He calls the timothy dried grass. George Geddes says the believers in old pastures and old meadows and the natural grasses very much dislike his testiinonv in favor of clover hay as being worth more than the best meadow hav, if it is only cut early and well curea. Boussingeuclt's farm experiments show that seventy-five pnunds of clover hay cut in lull bloom aud well cured is worth as much as oue hundred pounds of ordinary meadow hay. Uie reason why clover hay is not better estimated is that ^ when sown with timothy farmers generally wait for the timothy to ripen before the field is mowed; others do not cut clover until it is dead ripe to save the labor of curing. I have found that a little slacked lime will prevent clovre from burning in the mow, even if not thoroughly (Tried. Some farmers apply suit, but tliis only creates moisture and increases the evil. Winter Work on the Farm.?P. T. Quinu, Ess.'X Co., N. Y. says: A heavy fall of snow about the holidays is a most fortunate occurrence, and one that is always turned to a profitable account in getting ready for the spring work. The heaps of fann-yard manure that have been accumulating far months back, are now hauled out to the different fields, and thrown in piles, with a farm sled, at about one third less expense than if wagoned. Distances from the furinyard, when eight loads of manure is a day's work for a man end a team, 12 can bo rnoro easily made in the same time with runners with less fatigue to the horses. It has been my rule for many years that bv the first of Junuurv. the area for caeh crop is mapped off, and no chauee in allowed to pass, between now and the first of April, to get everything in readiness, for an active and timely spring's work. Located near n large city, where there in always a ready sale for cabbages, potatoes, and this kind of farming, to attempt to carry on the business in a slip-shot way, better far to sell out, and go West, and raise corn and wheat, where less capital is required. To grow cabbages, potatoes and onions with profit, heavy manuring is the first step toward success, and where from 40 to 70 two-horse loads of manure are applied to every acre cultivated, one can readily see how little chance there is for men and teams, having nothing to do at any time from December nutil April. Besides hauling manure on fair days, on wet days, the farm implements are carefully examined and put in g?od repair, ll>ng before they are needed in the Spring. For the past dozen yeai s, the teamsters ut odd monieits, mend all their own harness, saving in this way from ?<o0 to $75 a year, beside the inconvenience of sending broken harness away from the farm, and the trouble of getting them back. Then the crops, stored in the Fall, have to be disposed of before the Spring. In " doing this when the wagon goes to the ity with a load of cabbages, turnips or potatoes it returns with a load of manure, this plan is kent un the whole year. A Detroit paper terms the text beok grievance a tax on knowledge. It alleges that the expense to each scholar in Detroit for books used during the whole school course, from the primary to the high school, is 813.13; for the high school course it is $38.94, I Water as FueL A large number of citiiens, by invitation, visited tbe brass foundry on Fre- i mont street San Francisco, says a Lowel paper, for the purpose of witnessing f some experiments with a new fuel re- f cently invented. They were shown into j t tbat portion of the establishment occu- t pied by the furnaces, and in one corner {< found a brick furnace some eight feet 1 long and six feet high. On the top of < this was an iron tank holding about ten 1 gallons, which was filled with crude [ f petroleum. From this tank a pipe about j i an inch and a half in diameter, led into ;1 the side of the furnace. A small jet of oil, not larger fhan a small goose quill, ' was permitted to flow out of this tube ; 1 a light is placed beneath this jet, and < it immediately ignites. Another pipe, ; about an inch in diameter, leads from a ] steam boiler stationed some fifteen feet | i away. This pipe leads a small jet of ,1 steam upon the burning oil, and the < moment the steam strikes the oil the oxygen in the water is set free and 1 ignites with a tremendous roar, genera- 1 ^ing in a very few moments a most i white heat. < From this small source the entire j i chamber of the furnace, which is some j two feet by five feet, is filled with flame | so brilliant and dazzling that one cannot gaze on it for more than a moment at a i time. This flame possesses all the heat i of an oxvhydrogen flame, and beneath its fierce power the hardest metals melt 1 in a few moments. Tbe inventer of the j apparatus by which the elements of : heat, which'natura so generously pro- i vides, can be ultilized, is a very modest ; inn, saying that he did not want to j bring his discovery before the public until he hod fullv demonstrated that it | would do all he claimed for it. He *ays ' that the coat of the furnaces will be onlv a nominal sum ; that they will be within the reach of every one who owns I a quartz ledge, while the amount of oil : consumed in twenty-four hours will not exceed ten gallons, at a cost of $2. The doctor has every confidence in > his discovery, and declares his ability ; to furnish fuel for a voyage of one of the Panama steamers to and from : Panama for the insignificant sum of two hundred dollars, while the entire quantity will weigh not to exceed .twen- : ty-five tons. He further says that at an expense of five dollars per day, he can ; run furnaces that will smelt one ton of ore every thirty minutes. If only onehalf of what is claim el can be accomplished, the discovery will prove of incalculable advantage to the mining interests of the Pacific coast, and will ' create a revolution in steam travel throughout the world. Angora Goats. The Angora goat is receiving consid| erable attention from stock-growers in , California, and a correspondent of the | Pacific Rural Press thinks that " goatraising will be a larger business than sheep-raising in a few years in your ! state; and, as I have a life-long ex- | perience in mohair business and in An- : gora goat raising in my countrv (being a nutovc of Angora, in Asia jtfinor), it may benefit your countrymen, who dewx'qa trnnfu in criveliem a few i ouo w ??7 hints on how to commence crossing An- | gora bucks with common native goats , and produce the beet mohair-bearing goats: " First of all, the goat-raiser must see that the common goats he gets are ?f the right sort, with large bodies, short legs, strongly built, healtliv and young, with as short and smooth hair as possi- , ble, say like the hide of a well-groomed horse. Their color must be black, or black and white, or all white. "No fawn-colored, common goat should ever be put in any flock of mo- : hair-bearing goats, for a reason un- I kuown ; but the goat-raisers of Asia j Minor know that the cross ef black goats will produce the mo3t bright, long, tlujkly-^rown, and good quality of mohair, Next to that black' and white, j and next to tlpit all white. Goat kids i an bear mohair of fair average quality; 1 but fawn-colored goats will take a lifetime of crossing to bring them to bear i flue mohair. A Burning Hill in Ohio. Three miles from Bainbridge, Ross county, Ohio, is located a hill of considerable altitude, known as " Copperas Mountain." Out of the top of this j mountain issues a constant stream of : smoke, while on its summit and general ; j surface the vegetation has withered and ' died, until the whole hill presents a j barren, sterile, and desolate aspect, blasted as if by a whirlwind of fire. It i is hplifivpd that the entire interior of the hill is a masB of ignited combustible 1 matter, and that the fire is and has been spreading with considerable rapidity. { The theory presented to account for it, is that on or about the 1st day of last I October the party to wlioip the land be- j longs was buriug brush on the hillside, and that the flames communicated to inflammable matter?probably crude J oil, coal, or other combustible sub- j stances?contained in the geological j formation of the hill. The quenching of the fire is { course impossible, from its situation, and how soon, if ever, the I fire will reach a point where it can be controlled, can only be conjectured. At Eresent there is no danger to be appre- J ended to property in the vicinity. a . A New Gunpowder. The latest issue of the Journal of the Society of Art* contains a notice of a novel description of gunpowder, pos- | sessing extraordinary projectile power, which is said to have been recently adopted by the Prussian artillery. It is composed of a certain proportion of nitre and sawdust, and in this state can be kept in store without fear of explosion. To render this composition explosive it is necessary to add a sufficient quantity of sulphuric acid to make it cohere, and when dried it is ready for ! use. This composition has certainly ; >i.lviintnce of cheapness, combined i with extreme simplicity ia its manufac-; tare, and is said to leave but little resi- ! due after being fired. But us nearly I everything, from bread to mahogany j tables, has at different times been made j from sawdust, and turned out a failure, we do not feel sanguine as to the result 1 of a scheme for making gunpowder 1 from thut material. Opera Cloaks.?The circular cloak ' is still the favorite for the evening : dress, says a fashion journal. Some of , these are made of white fancy cloth, dotted with pink ar blue infts of wool. A deep pointed hood is lined with white j' silk or satin, and finished with a heavy end and tassels. A cloak of pale salmon Thibet cloth, was trimmed with two bias folds of white silk. Above the folds a small silken coid was festooned j with white silk buttons. A deep white fringe was placed upon the bottom. The hood was pointed and trimmed to ' correspond. Many opera capes are 1 richly embroidered with white or oolored silks, although the former seems to j be the most elegant. Farmer Crumple's Croakings. " This cold weather shrivels a follow xp so!" "Yes, Tim, it does; bat .does it ihrivel you up more than it does your itock ? Why don't you keep them in lie stable such a day as this ?" said I o Tim Brown, one morning about 11 j'clock. His cattle were standing about lis barn-yard, without the shelter of ;ven a good board fence, and Hie wind whistled across the half-down rail fence ibout the yard, and the snow cut a nan's face like knives, as he faced the trind. " Oh, cattle won't be as healthy to itand iu the stable all day ; they want o get out and stretch their legs; it Iocs them good." " So it does you, Tim ; but after you tiave 4 stretched your legs ' in the morning, I notice you don't stand out beside the barn all day, when you can snuggle down beside a good fire." I mention this for the sake of saying that there are too many men who forget that brutes can suffer,'and who do not seem to know that the little, almost costless, comfort that they ciyi give them is not only appreciated but paid for?that it is naturally economy to give this comfort. Of course I've croaked about this before, but I couldn't help recurring to it again, reminded of it by tlie frost on the window panes, and the thankful consciousness that everything is snug in the Crumple barn. Somehow it makes me feel happier and more contented. Then I thougnt I would TALK ABOUT TIM BBOW. He is a representative farmer?that is to say a representative of a certain class. He is one of those farmers who require a ten-acre lot to turn a common farm wagon around on (if he has a team hitched to it), and yet will putter a whole season on a two-acre field. He has about as much comprehension of the possibilities of farming and a farm life as a hen has of a problem in Euclid. He turns his cattle out into the cold at a certain time of day, because he was always used to doing so ; it's a habit; and what has once been adopted must always be practised by him. There are no "short-cuts" in his life, He will make hills to his potatoes as big as a bushel basket, and do it all with a hoe. He plants his corn, year after year, on the same piece of intervale. He waits till the foliage is killed by frost before ho cuts up the stalks ; and as soon as tho fodder is thus destroyed, hurrah boys! he goes into it, and with great care 6ets it up in stocks and binds it. H6 never grafts an apple tree, but grows what he calls " cider-apples," which he rarely gathers until after the first snow, and then picks them up with mittens on his hands and hauls tliem off, half or quite frozen, to the cider-mill, four or five miles away. He never has more wood cut, winter or summer, than will last the family one day. Ho goes into the woods, cuts down the most con venieut tree be can find regardless of the fact that it may be too valuable to cut, rolls one end of it on to a bob-sled, and hauls it to the door, then he commeuces at the butt, and chops and Bplita it up as the family requires it? and sometimes it is required when neither he nor anyone else is by, when the kitchen fire must be fed by " picking up chips." So it goes. And thk s all prelkniuary to - a PEEr r.:su>E the house. Five boys?great big, burly, boisterous fellows, full of the vitality which belongs to their class?are there ; three girls, kind-hearted, active, fun-loving, untutored, and with the affectation which only accompuhies conscious ignorance!. All these with a mild, spiritless care-worn mother upon whom all make the most exacting demands. And there is not a paper taken among them! The boys whittle, trap, hunt, skate, go U school when they please, pluy cards, and range nil over town at will. The girls help their mother some, read sickly novels, go to dances, spelling schools, parties, sleigh-rides, Ac., and are constantly wishing for and devoting themselves' to some excitement that will relieve them of the monotony of a home which is not one of comfort, culture, refinement and pleasure. Its tasks are onerous. There is little or no love-light in it; none of the delicate courtesies and attentions which brothers should bestow upon sisters and sisters reciprocate ; no music, reading, sympathy? really no home atmosphere! And yet some people think it strange that FARMERS' CHILDREN DO NOT STAT AT HOME. Tins is just what I am comiug to. This is the kind of education two many young men and women receive on our farms. This is the way they are taught to love farm life. This is the material of which too many farmers (so called) are made. This is the sweet pastoral life of which poets sing. This is the road many farmers take to reach the usurer, and in a direct line beyond him are mortgage foreclosures and 41 change of base. This is what diives hundreds of Bastern men into Western pioneer life. Of course it is all right such should be driven heuce. It is a blessing to the neighborhotd whence thev remove. But it is a very sad thing, Sir!?very sad! For out of just such management or mismanagement iH born misery, suffering, vice! This is propagated from generfttiou to generation! The inheritance, unfortunately, too often clings to the inheritors. There is missionary work for every intelligent fanner to do iin such families. No good farmer can afford to have such neighbors! He can better afford to spend .<100 each year in providing them with the Rest papers, magazines, and books : he can better afford to spend time stimulating the pride of such boys and themselves to take an interest in improved agriculture, and im teaching them methods that will be profitable to them ; he can better afford to .encourage his own daughters to cultivate the friendship of such girls, with u view to lifting them - * *?i - - I-*/- r out OI hUC 11 P.u uuuieon mt- mui one ui purpose, refinement, nail self-respect. The truth in, fellow-farmers, it is this neighborhood association, this disinterested (apparently) interest in our neighbors' affairs, thut is one of the best and wisest investments we can make, if wo would enhance the value of our own property and give to ourselves and our neighbors the stability and security which urc essential in ull well-ordered society.' We haven't any right to mind our own business in such matters ; hesides it is not profitable to do so. I don't advise meddling, mind you! I don't advise arrogance and an ostentatious display of superior wisdom and knowledge. That will not pay, because it will result in no good etiect. But un exhibition of a kindly fellow-feeling, svmputhy, neighborly interest in each others affairs, a disposition to rejoice with those who rejoice, and sympathize with those who are unfortunate, and " help them out" with manly heartiness and good will, will do 'more to raise neighborhood society and neighborhood argriculture "up to grade" than any other policy I have ever seen tried. It is easy to tame a colt or a kicking cow with kindness and good food. It is easy to fasten a pig so he cannot get through under a fence and do mischief. It is easy to keep chick* ens about one's door, and out of the neighbor's garden, by feeding them; abundantly there. You can do about any-1 thing you choose with any ouimal if | you give humane treatment; and the j human animal iB no exception. Ac- j cordingly, I suggest that these young i human colts be tAmed and harnessed ; J the kicking cows be kindly handled and j fed with the food they are starving for ; the pigs be fed and fattened ; the chick- I ens coaxed to roost at home by this ; same policy we apply to our brutes. Why not ? Inteui]>erance and Life Insurance. In a case recently tried in Ohio the question how far habits of intoxication or habitual intemperance go to the invalidation of life insurance policies | came up. The case came up upon a j writ ?f error from an inferior court on j the claim that the verdict, which was ! against the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company for the amount of the I policy, was against evidence. One of the stipulations in the policy was that "if the insured should die by reason of intemperance from the use of intoxi-1 eating liquors, the policy should be j void and of no effect. Another stipu-' ! lation was that "if any of the declarations signed by the insured in his application should be found in any respect untrue, the policy should be null and voidin which case all previous payments paid thereon and all profits should be forfeited to the company. The nolicv was dated in May, 1868, and the insured died in January, 1869. The physician's certificate attributed death to congestion of the brain, the general symptom of which was great prostration of the nervous system, caused by oold and derangement of the excretory organs and over-stimulation. The defence was that the insured, at the time of effecting the insurance and until his death, was addicted to intemperance, and died from the excessive use of intoxicating liquors. In the course of the trial the following easily recognized definitions and divisions into classes of the victims of drink were brought out: " Those who use intoxicating liquors at all may be divided into three clnsses. ; The first drink sometimes and upon oc! casions as it were more by accident than | otherwise, but in so exceptional a manI ner that no one can say they have any I habit in regard to such use. They can ' stop at any time, even taking the gloss ; from their lips in tho midst of the feast. Whether such drinking injures the health of those who indulge to this extent no one can tell with certainty. It 1 is obvious this class would not be emI braced in the terms of the policy. "A second class acquire a constant I appetite for the use4of intoxicating I liquors, and a regular habit of using ; them, so that the whole system is kept ! under the immediate influence of alco! holic stimulants. This class would b? i within the prohibition of this policy. } "A third class acquire a constitutionally nervous appetite for alcoholic liquors that really amounts to a disease. Such persons may remain sober for a mouth, three ?r six months, or even a year at a time, and refuse to taste any ; j intoxicating drink, and then go upon ! what is called a * spree' of great in- 1 x 1 fr\r* n lntiorpr nr Ji ! U'Utfliy, Ulid iui i* . shorter period, usually until prostration ' and sickness, and often delirium, com- j pel cessation, and terminate the Hpree. When beginning or in the midst of such ! periodical debauch no earthly consideration or persuasion can arrest the course of the subject, or induce him to stop drinking. In this he is strikingly different from the first class referred to. ' "There axe two varieties of spreers. The one is boisterous and seen everywhere; the other, conscious of his self-1 degredation and disgrace, hides himself I from observation, so as not t| bo seen | and have his condition and habit known, and few, except his family and intimate acquaintances, may know or suspect him." ! The Court was satisfied from the evidence that the insured, though an honest and efficient business man, was a "spreer" at the time that he effected this insurance, and continually up t* the time of his death, which no doubt was caused by a heavy spree. Upon this finding the Court held that the verdict against the company was against evidence, and the judgment was reversed. Meeting of Long Sepuruted Brothers. Some ten years ago two brothers left 1 ' - - T"-? ?-i ??i n?i;_ I tneir liorae in llUIIUls uuu mm W? vnu! fomia. The elder was a man of most I steady habits, who had received a most i thorough business education in his na; tive State, and who had made up his I mind to prosper in the new country lie ; had chosen. The other was inclined to i be dissipated, and had figured in so ; many scrapes at home that he stood in ! very* bad odor in his village. Thebrotlij era lived together for some time in San , Francisco, while both looked for situ: ations. The younger brother, however, fell into bad company and bad hubits, ; and after a few months they became ' separated. For ten years they did not meet. To; ward two o'clock in'the morning of last Christmas, the gentleman of the house, the elder brother, heard a noise below stairs, .and moving quietly out of bed, stood at the head of the stairs to assure ! himself that his suspicions of burglars i being in the house were correct. The j gleam of a candle in the parlor assured ' him, and returning to his bed-room and arming himself, he crept down stairs to ! capture the t'lief. He had proceeded j so cautiously that the burglar was not I aware of any one stirring in the household, and when he reached the parlor i door he saw a man endenvoring to pry | open the buffet where he kept his Bifi ver. Leveling his revolver at the thief, j lie shouted, " Stop, or you are a dead man:' and lie nan ine uurgiurcuuipu.-i.c: ly nt his mercy. * The "jimmy " dropped from his nervous hands, and the gentleman was ad: vancing to secure him, when, to-his in; finite horror, he perceived that it was I his younger brother whom lie had thus I detected in'the act of crime. Both stood : motionless for a moment, and then the | unfortunate wretch, dropping on his i knees, cried out: "As God is my I judge, Robert, I did not knew that you lived here!" The other believed him, and bidding him sit down, asked him what could have led to the commission pf such a crime. 'Twas the old story. Linnor and evil companions. That night the would-be burglar slept under the roof of his forgiving brother, who, when he told this strange story, declared with tears in his eyes that he intended to- save him, if possible, and was going to give him employment in ' kis store. December 28 was the coldest day ?t New Haven, Conneeticnt, in ninetyI three years. Living Yerj Cheaply. Young men often write to ua stating the amount of their salary, or profits, and asking if it is safe and prudent for them to get married on such an income. We have endeavored, in reply to such inquiries, to inoculate the doctrine that | the point of first itnportance in regard , to income was to keep the expenses in ] the right relation to it; that with good management, people can live pretty well on moderate incomes; and that those who moke more than they spend are, in a certain sense, always independent. In the following communication, which has be<?n addressed to us, we have a fair statement of the experiment of marrying and supporting a family oh a comparatively smnll income: " To the Editor of the Ledger: I frequently notice in yoirf paper letters of inquiry from young men wanting to i know whe^er thev are in a position to support a wife. T?hey commence generally by stating the amount of salary they receive, which is often above a thousand dollars, and inquire of you j whether you think they, with this small j salary, as they call it, can maintain a wife. Now to all such inquiring young | men I would give aiy experience. Up I to^he time I was twenty-four years old I was nearly the only support of a | widowed mother. At that time she died. I felt discontented and lonely after her death, aud I came to tne ccnclusion to get married, and did so in September, 1866. At that time I was J receiving 8500 salary for my services in a country store. The next year my salary was raised to 8600, and at n? time has my income averaged more than 8766.50; and yet with this small amount I have managed to furnish a six-room house comfortably but plainly, and have a balance of 8905.88. Some might say that I have lived meanly; but I have not. I have uever deprived myself or family, having one child, of any of the necessaives of life, and I will guarantee any of my neighbors will say that myself and family have always dressed neatly?and comfortably. I commenced this system of saving soon after I was married by takiug live shares in a building and ipan association, and as my salary was increased I increased my stock in the association. And if any young man will do the same thing, he will soon tind himself in possession of a few hundred dollars, and will hardly know where it came from, kc+'des having cultivated a habit of saving which will naturally grow upon a man when once commenced. There are plenty of young men who think, 4 Oh, well, what s the use ? I can't save anything out of my small stihuy when, if they would carefully consider for a few minutes, they would find that they spend dollars foolishly." This letter shews that all depends upon prudent and economical management. If a young couple start right in life, they soon acquire the esteem and confluence of those around them. And the natural tendency of this is to increase a man's business or income. So far as means of support are concerned, married people in the United States can generally obtain sufllcient if thev trv to : and in this respect we have grsiitly tho advantage over the countries of tho old world.?Ledger. Chimin ax.?The almost criminul bluuder of a New York clergyman brought a youthful pair into an embarrassing predicament a few days ago. He went into a neighboring State, and without consulting the law governing such solemn engagements, proceeded to perform the ceremony that purported to unito the man and woman in the bonds of matrimony. After the lapse of a little time the deluded couple awoke to tho consciousness that they ware not legally inun and wife, the clergyman who alone officiated, not being domiciled in that State. A visit to the clergyman in New York, and a repetition of the ceremony there, relieved tho dilemma; but suppose either party in the meantime had repented the choice, would not a serious responsibility rest upon the negligent j clergyman ? A OTT A T iIjENGB I Is extended to tho world to place before the public i a better Cough or Lung Remedy tbau a llc VS I Lt'NG I1ALSam Vkbilt it Hatii No Equal. consumptives, rcadi I I Would you euro that dtatreasing Cough, and < bring bark that healthy rigor till lately planted In i your cheek? If you would, do noi aetay; ior, ere you are aware, It will be too late. ALIEN'S LCKO BALSAM ! Is yonr hope. Is has been tiled by thousands such ' as you, who have been cured ; many, In their gratij tude. have left thPlr names to us, that suffering hu< I inanity can rend their evidences and believe. Don'l i experiment with r.ew and untried mixtures?you , can not afford It?but try at once this Invaluable article. It is warranted to break up the most trom blcsoine C< ugh in a few hours if not of too long I standing. It is warranted to give entire s.itlsfac I Hon In all rases of Lung and Throat difficulties. At I an Expectorant, it has uo equal. I UNSOLICITED EVIDENCE OF ITS MERITS. bead the rollowixo i WHAT WELL-KNOWN DRUGGISTS SAY AB0C1 ALDEN'S LUNO BALSAM. srrixnvielo. Ten*. Sept. 11, l?72. [ Gentlemen:?Shin tts six dozen Ali/bn'm Lrxo BaL' sam at once. We nave not a bottle left In our store, : It more reputation than any Cough medicine wemve ever sold, and vre have been In the drug business twenty-seven years: we mean Just what we say about the Balsam. Verv trulv vottrs, llL'BD A TANNER. Again read the Evidence from a Drnggiat who was i cured by use of the Balsam, and now sells i I largely, L. C. Cottrell. Druggist at Marine City. Michigan, writes. Kept. 12, 1W2: ' I am oirt of Allkx's LCNfl Balsam; send me half a gross as soon as you can,] | would rather bo out of any other medicine In my i store. The Lung Balsam never fails to do good foi I those affilrted with a cough." i * It Is harmless to the most delicate child. I It contains no opium In any form. ' It is sold by Medicine dealers generally. CAUTION. I Re noi deceived. Call for ALLEN'S LrNO BAL i SAM, and tako no other. Direct Ions accompany each bottle. J. N. HARRIS A CO.. Cincinnati, 0., IPCOPSllETORK. FERRY DAVIS A SON, General Agents, Providence, R. I. Sold by all Medicine Dealers. vne CiLZ BY j JOHN F. HENRY, New York. ! GEO. C. GOODWIN & CO., Boston, j JOHNSON, IIOLAWAY A CO., Philadelphia. I Ir is WELL TO GET CLEAR of u Bad Cough or Cold ; the first week, but It it safer to rid yourselfof it th? first forty-eight hours?the proper remedy for th< purpose being Dr. Jaync't Expectorant. Winter in now fairly upon n?, and tlio team* 1 are hatening to the lumber wooda in various j parte of the country. Our advice to every man J who goes to the woode. be he captain, "cook, 1 teameter. or any other man. ie to take along a good etock of Johnson's Anodun* LinimetU ' and Parson's Pnrgatiw Pills. Many months j of labor (in the aggregate) may be saved by ' thie precaution.?[font. ^ Pike's Toothache Drops cure in 1 minute. A Neglected Cough, Cold, or Bore Throat, ' which might be checked by a simplo remedy, like, Brown's Bronchial Troches, if allowed to progress may terminate seriously. , Caw't oo to Church. Wtwnatf Oh I my cough 1 would disturb the congregation. Curs It then with Hale's Hoxet op Horehouvd and Tab, a pure 1 vegetable remedy, unfailing as the Sun and mild and Harmless as the summer air. Crlttenton's, 1 6th Avenue. Sold by all Druggists. \ * Juet taken hie Bitters.?We heard a | I seedy-looking individual with An alarm-; ingly red nose remark to a brother soak-! er that he had " just hod his bitters, bathe did not mind taking another nip." j His remark suggested a train of reflection. How was it, we asked onrselves, that the word " bitters " had grown to i be a svnonvm for gin, whiskey, rum, and otter alcoholic stimulants, to which , it was applied indiscriminately. Bitt- i era, we reasoned, suggested the idea of 1 a healthful tonic, not of a poisonous stimulant; something invigorating to | the system, net an alcoholic irritant, full of fusel oil, producing present intoxication and ultimate insanity, idiocy, or premature death. Moreover, our idea of bitters was totally irreconcilable with "gin cocktails,,r "rum punches," and "brandy smashes," which, we are informed, are sweetened with J sugar and rendered doubly injurious n with essences colored by means of mill- 0 eral poison. This was bitter-sweet ji with a vengeance. We mentioned this * problem to a friend. He solved it by 1 ' " Tin? * eXClRinimgi ITUJp UUU V JUU uuun that most of these bitters advertised as remedies are only drsms in dissuise. Topers know it, if * cm d > cot I m ist make one excepti- a, ho *evi r," he added, "and that's Dr. vValkeb a California Vinegar Bitters; there isn't a particle of alcohol or fermented liqnor in I it, and it is the beit vegetable tonic and alterative in America." j THE WEEKLY SUN, Only $1 a Year. 8 Pages. The Best Family papeb.?The Weekly N. y. j Hun. 8 pages. $1 a year. Bend your Dollar. 1 The Best Aoricultural Paper.?tho Weekly N. Y. Sun. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send your Dollar. j The Best Political Paper.?The Wei kly n. Y. Sun. Independent and faithful, /galoat Public Plunder. 8 pages. $1 a year, oeud j your Dollar'. ! The Best Newspaper.?The Weekly N. Y. Sun. 8 pages. $1 a year. Sand your Dollar. | Hah All the News.?'The Weekly New York Sun. 8 pages. 91a year. Send your Dollar, j The Best Story Paper;?The Weekly N. Y. Suu. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send your Dollar, j The Best Fashion Reports in the Weekly N. j Y. 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In one to five minutes, Headache, Earache, I Neuralgia, Lame Back, Diarrhoea, Croups, | Sprains, and all similar complaints, are relievf l < by Flaoo's Instant Rbijsf, or money refunded. ? Com. A Talk about Tonics. i The objoct of a tonic la to Increase the olastlclty and strength of the muscular fibre, and to Invigorate the general iy*tem. A* a means of accomplish' Ing these end*, It la expected to Improve the appetite and the digestive power of the stgmach. ' Theae are certainly important considerations; bnt to cure dyapepaia, billioua affectlona, chronic debility, Intermittent fever, and other complaints Involving derangements of the liver, the towels, and secretive organs generally, something more than a 1 mere tonic is required. Hosteller's Stomach Hit. ters may safely be pronounced the beat and most wholesome Invigoraut extant, but the other sporlat medical properties which belong to this remarkable vegetable restorative have as much to do wlththa wonderful results It produces as to Its tonic virtues. For example, it has certain alterative qualities which literally chango the Ipiblt or constitution, re-establishing the healthy functions of the body j without causing any undue evacuation by prespirn. tlon, vomiting, or purging. Its entire effect is to put the whale machinery of life In perfect order, to ! purity all the fluid! Including the blood and the bile, aud not only to operate as an 'antidote todlti ease, where if exists, but so to strengthen, reguIlato and otherwise Improve the condition of the system as to render it proof against the vlcissitedes of temperature, changes of water. Infected Hr, and other predisposing causes of liver and bow 1 disturbances and epidemic disorders. Hence I It I > a medicine for nil seasons and climes?useful biijce to the traveler and the resident tn an unhealthy region, and an Invaluable safeguard against I the physical disturbances which accrue from cold, damp, im-lrmeut weather, as well as against the mental depression which Is apt to overwhelm the weak aud nervous at this somewhat gloomy period ofthcyeur. Hone?t, energetic. Ood-fearlng men and women' can have pleasant, profitable work; no risk or capital. Write to H. L. Hastings, in Llndal St., Bos-I ton, Mass. A New Colony in Kansas! At ' SK1DDY." tii Neslio Valley, on MISSOURI, KANSAS AND TEXAS RAILWAY. Under tho auspl<#s of the NATIONAL BUREAU OF 3IIORATION. WM. P. TOMLINSON, Lecal Agent. i THE AMERICAN COLONIST AND HOMESTEAD JOURNAL, containing maps, with full particulars n? to the Organization of the Colony, the Land*. Productions, ('Umatc, V.'ond. AVatcr. etc., SENT FREE, on npplt 'ation to S. U. WKLl.s, bec'y N. B. of Migration. Broadway, New York. ! 1500,000.00 "How to Make a Fortune!" Only Leisure Hour* Required. $26 to $.'0 per week can be uiude. For full particulars address ; C. S. BURTON, P. 0. Bo : 249. Omaha, Neb. <RI nnn reward t|?J.eV/VSVS For any caae of Blind, Bleed__ _ log, Dcliing, or Ulcerated - i Reward p"'" DR bino'8 pile ; ! A^CWOXU REMEDY fails to cure. It is prepared exp-o sslv to cure the Piles and rotlilng ! ei?o. SOLD BY ALL DRUGQI8T8. PRICE SI. 13II KrjMftT^rTjrflM Uflj 11 * Tg lk MifliVriliHVnaTffiH't'KlliUif.'iU'lVL'fYfliiillT.l I [fP-fflWjlj) THE A-NECTAR 0||B[5OJ BlAGlt TEA i^/sMbkIbS^ *lth ih>- Or# en Tea Kl.#v,.r. The te^iJMCjjtNgJtM^ best tea tmiiorted. For sale I'V. i yulirr.'. And for pj)WH \ wholrsale only by the Oiest cjf jnF\l| Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., Nl. 9 r>niVnu?i " ! Fulton St., ami 2 A 4 Church Jy St. New Yolk. P. O. B"X, WOi Send for Thca-Nectar Circular , Writs fur Large, Illustrated, Dt scrlptlvo Price Lis Double. Single, Mnsile. Breech-Loading Rifles. Shot I Ouns. Revolvers. Pistols, etc., of every kind f<>r men or hoys at very low prices. Quits $3 to $300,|Pistols ' #1 to $16. 1 Dr. Whittier, | " Longest cngnged and most surcessful physician I of the age. Consultations or pamphlet free- Call j or write. i | COS to $100 per Week made easy by any lady. T"" 'JO.OOU sold in sis months. The most wpn| derfully rapid-selling artlcft ever invented for mar' ried and single ladles' use. Addresa, ! MISS WILLI AM8.14'2 Pulton Ht.. V. T. P O. Ro? a**. 1 j n a ATT AOEXT8 and other Canvassers now at III III If work. can learn how to Increase their 111 II III income i>i*a week (sure) without tnterajyj vu fertrg with their regular canvassing by addressing P. N. REED, 130 Eighth St., X. Y. ANY ESTATE DT ENGLAND, . Scotland, Ireland or Wslei, ygmrnUsCtSd by Attorney at Law. Columbia. Lancaster Co.. Pa. i! $1A to tlflKirKo.HSKUSSS <D1U uv-'n.Blalr*Co.8t.Lonls,Mo. APA ?VALUABLE?p"nd three-cent stamp for VQIJ garUciflara. D0B805, QAYKEB A CO., ! OA BACH WEEK<tGE5T8 WAKT^B, P ' Bnslness legitimate. Particulars i (roe. J. WOBTU7BL?Louls, Mo. Box ttBL ^ I Mo Person can take three BUtere accord- M ?g to directions, and remain king unwell, provided beir boot* are not destroyed by mineral poison or other leant, and the vital organs wasted beyond the poi$ f repair. Dyspepsia or Indigestion. Headache, Pain it the Snoulders. Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Dixiness. Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste it the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of the ieart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the regions if the Kidneys, and a hundred other painful symptoms, re the offsprings of Dyspepsia. In these complaints t has no equal, and one bottle will prove a tetter guarintee of its merits than a lengthy advertisement. For Female Complaints, in young or old, nsrried or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or the urn of life, these Tenic-Bitters display so decided an nfluence that a marked improvement is soob percepible. ' For Inflammatory and Chronic Rhtnmatlsui and Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Internment Fevers. Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys tnd Bladder, these Bitters have no equal. Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Btoed, which is generally produced by derangement of the Digestive Organs. They are a Gentle Purgatlvs as well as a Tonic, poesessing also the peculiar merit of acting Tl - - ??r..I >?m in relieving Congestion or Inflam- Jk pvnv..? - _ nation of tbe Liver and Visceral Organs, and in Bilious Diseases. For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter, Salt Rheum, Blotches, Spota.Pimples, Pustules, Bolls, Carbuncles, Ring-worms, Scald-Head, Sore Eyes. Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discoloration* of tbe Skin, Humors md Diseases of tbe Skin, of whatever name or nature, are literally due upttnd en cried out of the system in a short time by tne use of these Bitters. Gantefnl Thousands proclaim Vinigai Bitters the most wonderful Invigerant that ever sustained the sinking system. /WALKER, Prop'r. R. H. McDOHALD * CO., Druggists and Gen. Agta, San Francisco and New York. XT SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS & DEALERS. N V N U?Wo. 3 i. ' MOTHERS! a Don't fall to procure MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTISNO SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEETH 1NG. # ' This valuable preparation bae. been used with NEVER-FAILING SUCCESS EX THOUSANDS OP CASES. It not only relieves the child rom pain, but tnvlg orutra tbe stomach and bowels, corrects acidity, and Svc* tone in d energy to tbe whole system. It will to instantly relieve * Griping of the Bowels and Wind Colic. We believe It the BEST and SUREST REMEDY I* THE WORLD. In all caer* <t DYSENTERY AND DIARRHEA IN CHILDREN, whether arising from teething or any other cause. Depend upon It, mothers, It will give rest to yourselves and Belief and Health to Your Infants. Be sure and call for ''Mr* Winslow's Soothing Syrup," Having the far-simile of "CURTIS A PERKINS" on me omsiae wripi)V[. * Sold by Drugguta throughont tho World. THE NEW 8CALE~ I 27 Union Square, N. Y. 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Mild Climate, Fertile Soil, For Grain Growing add Slock Raising unsurpassed ' by any In the United States. . | rm-AFKK I* Paics, move f?Torsblo terms given, 1 and more convenient to market than con be foiffiB . elsewhere. FREE Homesteads for Actual Settlers, ! The best locations for Colonies?Soldiers entitled I to a Homestead of lit) Acns. | Bend for the New Descriptive Pamphlet, with nqyr { map*- published In English.German, Swedish, Dan* | Isb, mailed free everywhere. Address O. P. DAVIS. Land Cow'r U. P. R. R. Co., I Omaha, Neb. TO Consumptives! . | The advertiser, having Ween permanently enred ^ ! of that dread disease, Consumption, by a simple remedy, Is anxious to intke known to his fellow I sufferers the means to cure. To all who desire it, : he will send* copy of the prescription nard.ffreV of charge.) with nlrectlo, s for preparing and using | the same, which they will Unit a ScaaCcnitforCo*sumetinu. Asthma, Buu.vr.-tirri* and all Throat or I Lung Difllenlllrs. I Parties wishing the prescription will plsass ad* | dress Itcv EDW> rt-? A WILSON. I'M Penn St. Willtamsburgb. N. V. "7 $75~to $250 per "month, O male, to Introduce the OENT'INK IMPROVED UJ COMMON SENSE FAMILY SEW I NO MACHINE. f"~ This Machine wIM stitch, hem. fell, luck, quilt, Z cord, bind; braid and embroider In a most supe* <C rlor manner. Price onlv $l\ Fully llcet'ied and > warranted for live yeats. We will pa?y $1000 for any machine that will sewn stronger.more beau /a tiful or more elaatlc senin than ours.lt makes the Y_ Elastic L"r'k stitch.''Every second stitch can be | cut. and still tho cloth cannot be pulled apart , without tearing. VN r pay it'iiii irnm Vn> w J~j per month and expense*. or coinmtialon from I S3 whtrh tlfrtec that amount ran be made. Address 1 BECOMB A CO., B> ?ton. Mass.. Pittsburgh, Pa., Chicago, 111., or St. Louis, Mo. Bent by mail for 10 centi. E. B. FOOTE, M. D. IjO Lexington Ave., New York City. 263 Receipts 0135 i Bent on receipt of 10 rente. , J Address 1IT. BE.VJAWIX, St. Lottie, Mo I Dr. Whittier, I ' Longest engaged and moat successful physician of H the age. Cossulutlous or pamphlet free. Call or write. #K ? 9f) per day I Agents wanted I All-elisses fl *wu of working people of either eea, young or old, make more money at work for ns tn tbetr spare moments or all the time than at anything #le& Particulate free. Addfeis 0. 8TIN80W 1 CO. Portland, Me. A QEKTS Wanted. We guarantee employment (Or A eJL either sex, at gd a daw. or 9or more a yferljtew wprhs hg Mre. H. B. Btowe, and ether*. Superb PremlumtOTren Awsjl Money made rapidly and eaelly sfwoji for ue. Write and ee^ Particulars tree. WorffiTngton, Puettn d Co.. HartjfadECt. i I