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Thoughts for the Month of January. f t The farm year coifncides pretty closely I with the civil or legal, and the beginning if of a new statute year, affords a natural 1 and convenient occia3ion to examine what I progress has been made and in what di- I rections the indications point for the a future. During the last fifteen years I very great changes have taken place in t our agriculture-changes both practical f and theoretical. We have entered upon I a new era. Its dawn began before the war, when Mr. David Dick son and a few others in the South firmly grasped the idea that soihe were impoverished by the i exhaustion, not of all, but of a few of their ingredients, and that these could be chei)ly and profitably proctred and ap plie in coininercial articles, the supplies of which were abundant, and the bulk is so small as to admit of ready application to the soil. The destriction of slavery gave a great impulse to the new idea because labor becanie a cash commodity, an11d inl ibisencie of coiputlsory process, a very (ear one ; and the necessity of sup plemeiting it by fertilizers and by labor saving implements, forced itself upon the attent on of farmers. The views and practices of Mr. Dickson, published in this journal, in forin of letters, dIiring the years 18G7-68, gave shape and form to the new policy, and awakened a won derful degree of thinking lald experi inenting among the farmers of the South. So great was; the interest developed that the circulation of the Cultivator ill creased in twelve nionthis from tinder three thousand to over fourteen thousand copies, and we found it necessary to issue a seiarIte edition Of the "Let teir" them sel ves. Encouraged ai(d stimiltted by fresh hopes, the farmers seized the iel idea anid pushled it, in nunily inistances, wildl, extravagatntly ai(i ruinously. The proper coiilitions inider which con cetirated clemical fertilizers should be applied the best paying quatntities, the best com)bintatioTis antd proportions--these pin0611ts had not beenl Vet filly settled, and there was, in the e'i*y nattire of things, inich groping inl the dark. That many mistakes should be iade was iatural ai'd to be expected. The his(orv of this imveiment reseblIes that of all great dis coveries. discovery of a great prin eiple oir law is fo1lowed for imay years with an iufolding of its bearings or prae tical applicttions. Theoretical stigges tions have to be verified by trials, by Fats, by experimeit anrd experience. Tiine is rettisite for this; in agriculture a loig time. because it takes at least a vearI to nu'o an experiment. For the last tenl yeat rs this work lhis been going (iln ; thtoit-uisans of watchfil eyes have been scrutintiizinig the evi'cts oi yario4us cro p( of cnuuiercial fertilizers--thou sands(5 of sent i t ive pockets belh ind those tees have sitititatted and1( stinieined their vitsioni, and1( we may confidenttly assert hat out fariers, ini the~ last ten' years, htave mtadie dleided prges if not in the miiat ter of' new anid startlinrg dilscoveries, in e xpl~t in rg and dlevelo ping the c heii eati fairmuing inauigurated in the cotton States lby Mr. D ickson inuntediately aifter tile wair. On)ue of the muost recent phases of that p rogtess hats been thle extensive sutppholt ing oif thle costly aunoniated fertilizers by the cheaper aid~ phosphates compost edl with (cottonl seed antd animal muanu tre. iNow that we have reached a point where we can look b~ack and~ obtatin a clear view (if the field, it senms mlarvelous that cot ton ratisers shoul ever haive patid a cent for anunoin, w'hien thei r cotton seed colil titir1isli sitch amttple siippl ies of that suibst ttnee. A fatiriner wilo pit rchases ant nultally teni ti inso~ f ammontli iatted fertilizers, pays for about E;00 lbs. of amminoinia ; at cash pr'ices, say $120. Now, thle ten tons at 150) lbs. petr aicre will manuore 1 33 nert*(s, which would reaidily average a half bale to thie aere ; or say 65 bales. For e ve:y bale there is I ,000 lbs. (if cottont seed, or inI thle ease sutpplosedl, 65,000 lbs.; anid at thte low estimate oif two per cent. of ittrogeni, they wvoul contain 1,300 lbs., equIiv~atlen t to over 1,500 lbs. of am mionlia, or two anid a half times as mutch. as in the t en tonis oif fertilizer. What folly to waste or misuse this athntndant supply, v anid then buy the saone airticle at exhiorbitmuit time rates. phates has, ini good mieatsuires, putt a1' end( to thle rinotus policy. Bitt the best. re sitlts have not yet been reachied. The wholle cot toni seed do1 es not1 presen t thle best formil or conit iion for a fertilizer thte eneasing hull shuts up1 the kerznel too closely ant securely. If crutshied t hey atre decidedly imiipr'oved, lbuit cot ton seedl nu-cal is bietier still. Th'is is the formt in whiich it ought to bei used, atiau it caninot hie (loulbtd thIat I.in the fuitur ie thle miieal will stuppl at th e wVhole seed almnost en tirely fori fert ilizinrg purposes. Before t Itus enni lhe doine, however, cotton seed (oi ilmills will have to be estabili hted at suitable poin rts atll over the cot tori Sta'te.. T~his is eminenly dv(esi rablle. At present priecs, thle gro ss produ t s of a ton oif cot toni se dI, att the miillIs, is niearly $23.0 as follows: .0 35 gallons erude oil, a t30 cts. a gail . ..91 0.50 22 p)ounds lint cotton, at 8 ets. . . . 1.76 75~0 pounds cake, att $2 .00 a toin . 7.50 1,0(0 piounds hulls, at $7.00' a tont . . 8.50 Toltal--..-.-.............. ....$23.26 Or~ $11I.50 to (eery ha he (fit Cotton, as thIere is abhouit I ,000 poun rds seed pro duted( to every bale Io'f lii. D educlt inri onle-foulrth oif the seed for planting pur poses, the seed( of thle crop of 18p79, if cairried1 to the mlIills, wld't ( ha ve v iehled, t he gross amout of $49,593,750, near tly half of which, (ir $20,187,500, woul'd have (come from the sale of the oil. The meal or eatke, huhlIs, etc., it is citimed, pay all the expenses of the mills ; there wnmid( have been, therefore, a cleatr gain to the country of over S20,000,000 in ad-| dition to the profits from1 the ?ale of lint Thie above is, howvever, a st rittly gen- f eral atnd conlnercial view of thei mat terf --the farmer. however, has a persoinal anrd spe'cial iinte rest in it. A bove we ( htave assumiid that the farmer sells all hiis , seed to the mills except those reserved for planting putrposes. If we stopped -ii right ther-e, it is clear that his lands u would be .rapidly .impov'erished by this fi heavy drain upon its foa til izing elements. tl To prevent this, he must buy back from si the mills the cake and the huills from his n seed. If he enin geut these, transportion hi at same price he sells~his seed for, he will be gainer, in that those substances will contain all the fertilizing teleent4 (if the e eeding stock and for manure. Contra y o a wide-spread belief, the oil has very ittle value as manure. At present prices or which seed are bought and cake and Lulls sold, a farmer would lose quite Leavily. We see from the New Orleans )emocrat of recent date, which contains full and interesting account of the cot on seed oil industry in that city, that he net price of cotton seed to the farmer Lt present is from $6.50 to $7.00 a ton. From that ton he should buy back 1,000 >ounds of hull and 750 pounds of cake, vhich are the quantities respectiv ly nelded by a ton of seed. At the mills it piesent prices, these would cost him 1,000 pounds hulls, at $7.00 a ton. .$3.50 150 pounds of take, at $20.00 a ton. . 7.50 Total....................$11.00 That is to say, he has to pay $11.09 at the mills for the same inanurial elements that he sold for $7.00. From the farm er's standpoint, it is clear that the price paid for cotton see(l is too low, or those for hulls and cake too high. Witi a proper adjistment of these, the oil mills would be a great and very profitably in dustry to the count ry. At present they are very doubltfil blessings. Not only do the farmers w 0 sell seed and buy cake lose )y the operation, but in poiit of fact the greater Iortion of the cake mnade is sold to British and Northern farmers for stock feed, and a regular drain upon the fertility of our fields is being (constantly made. The increasing appreciation a d uitili zation of cot ton seed as a manure, not only for grain, but in conjunction with phosphiate , for cotton also marks a very decided advance in the system of clieni ical farning (luring the last ten years. In addition to his advocacy of chemical fertilizers, Mr. Dickson was very largely instru mental also in iitrodumiing the 'sweep" as an iniplement of cotton cIil ture, for econoimzing labor. Modifica tions of it in the shape of "heel scrapes'" have since been made, and ''cultivators." walking and riding (embodying the s:aime idea as that underlying the sweep, to wit: shallow and broad'mrface furrows.) are rapidly bving introduced. Cheinical and mechanical nprovements have tlius kept alreast, and cotton cu ture 1ha1s reached a degree of perfection little dreamed of twenty years ago. In this connection ve must not fai to mentiol the great improveient in cotton seed, brought about by judicious selection and breeding. It is no mean factor inl tihe production of the extraordinary cotton (rops recently ma(le. We point to these large rops as an illustration of how nuci can he done in agriculture by ear iest, well-directed, persistent eflorti, gui led )y iitelligence and aided b)y science. [t enlivens and stimulates our hopes f. r .he future of agricultLure. W'hat has ieen done for cotton can 1he done for >ther crops algo. It only remnains for. mr farmers to realize andi( feel the im portancee of raising other crops, and sim lar resumlts may confidentlyv be auntici pated. Aniother marked feature of progress, in the last decade, haus b~een the exten ive substitution of oats for corn, as stock feed. This is pre-emninently a move in the right direction. Oats require less labor than corn. Oats are inmade by the winter rainus--corn is cuit off by the droughts of summer. Oats arrest the washing awvay of the soil and sup~ply it with humus, a matter of the very first mp jortanuce in a cotton 'ounmmtryv-corn does neither, but helps on the hoss of soil. A rotatioii of cotton and oats, followinmg (eachi other im regular successionl, is an admiirable one ini every respect ; we cani suggest none better for thme cottdin States. Anmd as January is an excellent nmoiith for sowinig oats, we urge the reader to sow down in oats a large part of hiis cot ton fieldls, which have been run downm by long and~ continuous cotton culturie. But we must stop--thle subject is too extended for a single article. Allow us to add, that having perfected cot toni cul ture to a (degree that it is almost imipo's sible to pick the crop that (enn lhe mnade, let us now dlirect our energies in a simi. lar miainner~ to pierfecting our food crops. This is <ur great needC~, this~ is the weak point in our a griculture.--Southiern Cuil tiavator. Energy the True Mark of G5eniums. Ralph Waldo Emerson, in one of his lectures, describes with the clear sweep of a painter the vital necessity of en ergy and labor to even the most gifted. In the present day of steam and punctu ality, the lazy man, no matter how ex traordinary his acquirements, must al ways fall behind in the race of human life. Ho says : "Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. There may be epics in men's brains, just as there are oaks in acorns, but the tree and the book must come out before we can measure them. We very naturally recall here that class of grumblers and wishers who spend their time in longing to be higher than they are, while tey should be employed in adlvancmug themselves. These bitterly moralize upon the injustice of society'. " Do they want a change ? Let them change--who prevents it ? If you are as high as your faculties will permit you to rise in the scalo of society, why should you complain of men ? It is haod that arranged the law of precedence. Implead him or be silent. If you have capacity for higher station, take it--what hinders you? How many raen would love to go to sleep and wake up Rothechilds or Astors!I " How many men would fain go to bed :lunces and wake up Solomons I You reap what you have rown. Those who iow dlunce seed, vice seed, laziness seed isunally get a crop. They that sow Wind 'ena a whirlwind. A man of mero 'ca >acity undeveloped,' is only an organ zed day -dream with a skin on it. A lint and a genius that will not strike re are no better than wet junk-wood. V~e have scripture for it, that ' A living og is better than a (load lion.' If you 'onld be seen, shine. " At the present day, eminent position 1 any p)rofession is the result of hard nwearied labor. Men can no longer y at one dash into eminent position; iey have got to hammer it out by, moady and rugged blows. The world is o longer clay, but rathor iron in the ands of its workers." A N effort made for the happiness of oth rs lifts us above ourselves.--Mre. 1. Life In Germany. With an outlay which seems miserably small to the American, Germans con trive to lead a merry life. Fine music and drama at cheap prices, tho love of out-door life and the multitude of holi days which allow him to gratify it, a passionate fondness for singing, an abundance of beer, cheap wines and ci gars, will atone, in the German mind, for a great many other deficiencies. As to books, there is no country where they are cheaper or more abundant. Ten thousand new titles are printed every year. In Prussia, compulsory education secures a good average culture. The new eipire is far ahead of us, not only in the organization of its army, but in the organization of its civil ser vice and the conditions of tenure of of fice. Its schools are in many respects superior to ours. We have borrowed its kindergartens and might borrow with advantage son' featuresof its university life. We have adopted its postal-cards. The money-order system is very con venient, the money being brought to your door. And do we not owe an im mense debt to German learning ? As to music and art, we must stand with our hats off. With all its sauerkraut, sausage and beer, there is a charm abiout German home-life that cainiot be ig nored. There is a sweetness of affee tion in the fanily circle, a fidelity to friends, a stability of character and a homely ingenuousness which the most obstinate prejudice can hiardly resist. It is a frank and innocent life, always open to inspection. [St. Louis lepublieanm.1 It is very rare that the HepuIblica consents to editorially forward the in terests of advertisers of what are knowi a.- patent medici nes;, as it does Inot fre q uently fall out that we canI have posi tive knowledge of their ierits. How. ever, we take I)leastire in saying of St. Jacobs Oil, from individial experinient that it is a most excellent remedial agent and as such we can hear tily recon nml il Science in Homeopathic Doses. Coal gas is not explosive except when mixed with a known proportion of com mon air. The humidity of the atmosphere is greater above forests than over non wooded grounis. Engineering has succeeded in putting into steam only alout one-tenth of tho heat realized in the furnace of the boil er ; the remaining nine-tenths are lost. The difference b)etween the highest speed attainable by an ocean steamer at sea in good weather and the rate ob tained during a gale is the measure of a vessel's strength. No sufficient reason has been assigned why sea-goino mail and passenger steamers shou~d not be of cellular con strucetion. Steam is cooled by expansion, while air is heated by compression. (Galveston News.] The Mahdison ( Wis.) lDemocrat, in en dleavoring to trea:t the wounds reived by the candidates for the presidency, wisely prescribes St. Jacobs Oil. Ol~ course we (could not4 expect our 1 worthlm contemporary to (do otherw~'ise thani ree ommiend that famous O ld German Rem edy,-wh ich ''heals all wou nds but thos of, love'' andl so othes all pai ns,-sanv those of political disappointment. ScwrIs-rs tell us that rain-water brings down yearly about twelve p)ounIds of ainnioma per aIcre of ground. Tc supply an equal amount of sulphate of anunonia, at ( cents per p)ound, would cost thme farmer $2.88, and this is, there fore thle nmanurial value of the rain. To this, however, must be added r certain (quantity of nitric or nitrous acid, Father is (Gelting 11ellI. My daughters say, "'low muiich bette father is since lhe used JI p I it ters.' lie is get ti ing well after his long su tli-r ing from ai disealse decla~red inciurabile and~ we are' 5) gladl that. lhe used vou: Bit ters.-A hldy of I loebeter, N. Y. I-r is said1 that to him who goes to laum nine things arc requisite. In the firsi plca good deal of money ; 2d, r goodl deal of patiene ; 3d, a good cause: 4th, a good attorney ; 5th, good counsel Ith, good evidlence ; 7th, a good jury: 8th, a goodJudge ; and 9th, good luck A MODEnN philosopher, having in minc the motion of the earth on its axis al seventeen miles a second, says, that I. you lift your hat in the street to how a friend, you go seventeenm miles barau headed without taking cold. (Gettlng Square With a Buirsted Bank. During the bank mania in the WVest when every little village and hamlet boasted its bank, one of these publiew "accommodations" sprung up in Mount Vernon, Ohio, under thea cognonmn of "' Owl Creek Bank," taikinug its name from a small but beautiful stream pas ing through the village. The affauirs of the institution went on swimmingly for a short time, lbut a short time only. Like all its kindred of money representation, it was declared insolvent. A morning or two after this important fact had come to light, a mys terious-looking person, wrapped up 'to 1his eyes mn a cloak, presented himself at thme counter of the bank, tendering some of their bills, and demandedl, in a seri oums manner, their redemption in gold or silver. H~e was told that the bank had neither. He then demanded Eastern "No funds on hand," was the brief reply. " Can you," said the mysterious per sonage, " give me tolerably well execut edl counterfeit notes on solvent banks ? I would prefer them to this trash." This was a home-thrust not to be sub mnittedl to. "Out of the bank, you insulting puppy I" " Hold I I may have made some mis take. Am I right in supposing myself in the office of the Owl Creek Bank?" "Yes, sir." "I have then my revenge for the loss of my money-I have just ahot your President "-at the same time throwing cn the counter, from under his cloak, a large hooting owl. "The Doeters Sata I would never leave my bed. That was three months ago and now I weIgh 190 pounds. I can not write half of what 1 want to say, but Warner's Bafo Kidney and Liver Cure did It all." H. 0. ROURK. Rahiway. N. J. "SkintlaUng." There is no telling whether a Colo rado mine will turn out a bonanza, or " peter out." "A man can't see very far into the ground," said an " old hand," explaining why minig s so un certain. Some sEttlers take to farming, seeing that the mining camps pay high prices for food for thousands of men and beasts. But even farming, though the crops are abundant, has its risks, as the following story, told in Mr. Hayes' "New Colorado," plainly shows: "I was mining up Central City," said an " old timer," " and there came along one day a man with onions to sell. We were glad to get vegetables about there. " Well, sir, I didn't say anything, but I allowed that farming must be a better business than mining, and I had better go into it myself. So I quit my claim, and struck a ranch, and hired a Dutch man at $100 a month to take charge. " Well, my vegetables bogan to come up. And one day, Tim Ewell, a sort of imarketman, came along and stopped to dinner, and I knew Ie was counting the cabbages in one of my fields. "Then says he, 'Joe, I must have those cabbages,' and he offered me $1,800 for the lot, and I took him up, and ho pulled out a bag of gold-dust. But I didn't want it in the house, and I told him to put it in the bank, and give me a check when he liked, and to send for those cabbages any time. "At any rate, there was $30,000 in that crop, and I began to feel tony, tony, sir, I tell you. "And as I was building my castles in the air, the sun was kind of obscured, and I looked up over Table mountain, and saw a queer kind of a cloud. And while I was looking, out came the sun, and the air was full of millions of dia Imond points, just skintillatinq, slkintil lating, sir. "And what was it? Grasshoppers' wings I And they settled down, some inches deep, on my ranch, and out of my $30,000 worth, I had-one hatful of lettuce that was under glass " Answer This. Did you ever know any person to be ill witlout inaction (f 'the Stomach, Liver oi kidneys, or did you cver know One who was well when eitlier was ob structed or inactive ; and did you ever know or hear of any !ase of the -kind that Ji op ]itters would not eure. Ask your neighibor this sanme qunest ion.-Tiics. Scotchinen and Jews. Jews. are to Germany very much what Scotehinien are to England. They comC, they see, they conquer. They invade the country at every 'point ; be gin their career in a garret and termin ate it in a palace. Many of the most successful merchants, lawyers and phly sicians in London are of Scottish extrac tion. Lord Mayor McArthur is an Irish Scot. Dr. Andrew Clarke is a Scott. So is Mr. John Pender, and so are a score of other equally eminent and opulent individuals whom it is unnecessary to particularize. Trhe Scot has an awk wvardly persistent mnannci of standing in the Briton's sunlight and of being the foremost to seize the prizes and the dif ferent good things of life. His nation ality is quite as clearly defined and his instinct is quite as aggressive and pre hensile as in the case of the veritale Hebrew ; he has fewer amiable qualities 1by way of compensation, and lie has in finitely less sense of humor. Yet En glishmen, when they have been hope lessly distanced b~y the canny aliens from beyond the Tweed, try to live in pec and amity with their rivals, and have no more notion of making theohomo coutiecs too hot to hold them than they have of repealing the civil disabilities relief acts. Ini art, literature and~ muon ey making the Israelite can beat the Teuto,1 just as the Scot frequently does r the Briton. Frankfort-on-the-Main, the 'secondl commercial city in Fatherland, is - more of a Hebrew capital than Jerusa ,1lm. At Boun, Berlin, Heidelberg, some of the most distinguished profess ors are of the seed of Abrahiam.--Lon dton W~orld. Stum thanked me for my assistance in a voice as clear andl nusical as if shte had just takenl a t(easp)oonfutl oif Coussen's Hloney of Tar, the 1be(st medicjine in the world for clearintg the voice, (curing e onghts and colds, anid all diseases of the throat and lungs. You had better try it. Price 500. For sale by all druggists. A MEAN householder in Toronto re fused to allowv the bodly of a woman who had died on his premises to be removed for burial unless heo was p~aid $50 for rent and attendance. H~e also presented another bill for $25, alleging that the visitors to the deceased had worn out his carpet. At the request of the offi einting clergyman, a policeman was de tailed to be present at the funeral, with instructions to arrest him if he created any trouble, which lie was prudent entough to avoid1. DAvis BUnTON was returning home from Waco, Tex., in a wagon. He stoppecd at Mills' store at Hog Creek, andl asked the clerk to Bend him out a cigar. The clerk was busy, and sent another man, well known in the neigh borhood. The latter brought out a cigar and handed it to Burton, at the same time presenting a six-shooter to his head and demanding his money which Burton gave up to the amount o S10. The robber was not arrested. .PURE COD LrVER OIL made from iielected livers, on the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard & C'o., Now York. It is absolutely puro and sweet. Patients who have onice'taken it prefer it to all others. P'hysicians haove decided it wuperior to any of the other oils in markiet. rREVENTION excels cure every time. 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A 6090 SAW MILL Our No. I Planttion eaw Mill is designed to be rua - , 10 O42 herse power Agricultaural Engines. With thi 1,GO0 to 4,000 Feet ef lumber an be out in aday. A product 215 to 50 per cent greater than ean be cut with an ywrocating saw mili sa, ord wil be put on too care in Ch cinnati fo the low jorc. of 52o0, and warranted in eror partio,,la,. &4an 'lusa-ate'.ircuirsset''" a frene.* LANE & BODLEY CO., John and Water Sts.. Cincinnati. 0. Literary Revolution. 3 NT Beah fmrly l~0 to p.3s eseI1 Mae. aeourt Buras. Il. Lenartine-a Life of Mary Queeei a-ts lYhos. Nuge' Manliness of 9)riS.- 5 TB Ma ih's iea of aketld.II. a if Manchaus, 0S 'ravelis and jup.sng Adventures. For SIX idnrTribune Bou,lding, New Terk. ~ SAW 11 L R ctb'la' Norah as Erik (red cinsi~ C? Da. J. nT? Sa e I ebanon. Oh Price" """""" $22. BABY BABY CABINET ORGAN--NEW STYLE 109. THREE AND A QUARTER OCTAVES, in BLACK WALNUT CASE, decorated with GOLD BRONZE. Length, Z0 inehes ; height. CS In. ; depths, 14 In. This novel style of tlbo MASON & HIAMLIN CAB INET OIGAES (ready this month) has sufmcicnt A compass and capacity for the performiance, with full parts, of Hymn Tunes, Anthems, Songs, and Popular Sacred and Secular MusIc generally. It retains to a wonderful extent, for an instrument so small, the extraordinary ecellence, both as to power and quality of tone, which has given tho MASON & HAMLI1N Cabinet Organs their great reputation and won for themi the HIGHEST DISTINCTIONS at EVER', ONE of the GREAT WORLIlS INDU&TRIAL EX. 11IBIT1IONS for THIRTEEN YEARS. EvEzY oxz WILL RU FULLY WAnnIaxTED. CASII PRICE $2; on receipt of which it will be shipped asudireeted. 1, ON REcErPT AND TRIAL IT DOES NOT SATISFY Tflg PURCHJAaER, IT MAT B3 RETUENED AND TXU NONEY WILL BE REFUNDED. EIGHTY STYLES of Organs are regularly made by the MASON A HIAMLIN CO., from the DADY CABINET ORIGA.N at P2; to large CONCERT OR. GANS at $900, and upwards. The great majority Are at $100to 200 each. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES, OIROUJLARIS and PRICE LISTS free. MASON & HAM LEN OROAN 0O., 154 Tremont St., DOSTON; 46 East 14th St~ NEW YORK: 149 Wabash Ave.. CHIICAGO. P IE 8,0GoasumptlEm iseals thebetblishmaiann Fr Redn Clqo fo Amteu 'heatrlej Temperan ad Porechratis Juy' WaS Works, WIgs., Beards Charades. Now cataloges dn fee, eonall, z fil ecriptlon and prices. SAMUEL. FRIENCH sos