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^ 0 l arm> garden and household. Farmers* Club Questions and Answers. Does rye make good fodder? . Rye for fodder makes probably the best early feed that can be grown, but care must be taken to out it before it gets ripe or stock will not relish it. Can fruit trees be grown successfully hi wooden troughs ? Very prolific dwarf trees may be produced in wooden troughs in the open air. As in |>ot culture, so in these troughs, the roots are restricted and an early fruitful condition secured. Farmers who have plenty of land have 110 need for t adopting this mode of culture, but persons in <*ities have furnished considerable fruit in this way. In latitudes where apricots and nectarines nave not time m ordinary orchard culture, an arrangement of this kind on the sheltered 6ide of a garden fence has been introduced with profit. In what proportions are these troughs or boxes made ? They are usually made with twelveinch-wide boards for sides and bottom, nailing the sides to the bottom to guard against roots protruding into the soil beneath ; these may be of any length ; the * trees are generally set about three feet apart. Can anything be done at this season to assist in bringing back a good even growth of grass to a lawn that has become thin ? Yes; give it a top dressing of good stable manure at once. Let it be well laid all over the surface, and have a care that the manure is well rotted. As occasion offers during the winter it should be broken up and manipulated with an iron rake. The object is to distribute it evenly over the entire surface, so that it will settle down and moisten the good roots. When spring opens the rough strawy portions, if any are left, should be removed, otherwise it will interfere with the proper keeping of the surface. Why are not liquid manures more generally used on farm crops ? The expense of their application on a large scale prevents the extensive use of liquid manures. Their value in floral cultivation is acknowledged by all. In the pot culture of plants, where the amount of soil is limited, when judiciously applied liquid manure is of vast sendee. Much harm, however, may be occasioned by its indiscriminate use. Healthy and well rooted plants, such as are well sup pned wiui liungrv roots out grow siowiy for want of nutriment, as orange and lemon trees, etc., for years in the same pot or tub, are greatly benefited by its application. For what crops are ashes specially beneficial as a fertilizer ? Ashes are among the best of fertilizers for onions. For this crop they should be strewed along the rows, lengthwise, and the cultivator then rim between them, or else lioed by hand. Applied to Indian corn, a handful to each hill, immediately before a rain storm or just before a crop is hoed, ashes give good returns. For vines in tliejgarden they are also desirable. Ashes applied to grass lands just after the first crop of hay has been taken off is said to have a fine effect. Housekeeping Department. Cement for Glass. ? Take quicklime, whites of eggs and old thick varnish ; grind and temper well together, and it is ready for use. Doors Creaking.?To prevent the creaking of doors applv a little soap to the hinges, or take lard, soap and black lead, equal parts, and apply. Covering for Jars.?A good waterproof paper for covering jars used in preserving, etc., may be made by brushing over the paper with boiled linseed oil and suspending it over a line until dry. To Clean Gold Lace.?Gold lace is easily cleaned and restored to its original brightness by rubbing it with a soft brush dy>ped ia roche-alum burnt, sifted to a ver\ fine powder. Ink Stains.?The best means to remove ink stains from hnen or any white material is to immerse the spot in milk and keep it t lere until the ink disappears, changing the milk when it gets thick. VifnvnrnfT.T.T Pr-n-nrvrj "R?vil twn ounces of vermicelli in a pint of new milk till soft, with a little cinnamon; when cold add a quarter of a pint of good cream, five yolks of eggs, a quarter of a pound of butter and a little sugar; bake it. Milk Lemonade. ? A pound and a half of loaf sugar dissolved in a quart of boiling water, with half a pint of lemon juice, and a pint and a half of milk added, makes a capital drink. Jelly Rolls.?Three cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of butter, five cupfuls of flour, one cupful of milk, five eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, two of cream tartar; bake in thin sheets, spread with currant jelly, and roll when cold, or in round, thin cakes, and spread, laying three or four cakes one upon another. Quince Cakes.?Boil quinces till soft enough to pass a knife through, drain the fruit on a sieve, peel them, scrape and extract toe core; pass the pulp through a sieve, and boil with an equal quantity of powdered sugar till the mass easily separates from the saucepan. Put into molds, and keep for some days in a warm place. Staffordshire Beefsteak. ? Beat them a little with a rolling pin, flour and ? * * '11 _ P season, tnen irv witn a snceu onion 01 a tine light brown; lay the steaks into a stewpan and pour as much boihng water over them as will serve for sauce; stew them very gently half an hour and add a spoonful of catsup before serving. Apple Marmalade. ? Take four pounds of cooking apples; pare and core them, put them in an enameled saucepan with about a quart of sweet cider and two pounds of castor sugar. Boil them until the fruit is quite soft. Squeeze it through a colander, and then tlirough a seive. Put away in jars covered with oiled paper and made perfectly air tight. Very Warm. One of the United States marshals at Boston?a man whom all citizens of that small town wifl remember?was a wit of dry aud quaint sort. "When on his death-bed one of his friends appeared to comfort him. "Well, colonel," said the sick man, despondently, "I'm going. I sha'n't be alive an hour from now.". The <>nlnmO f?lt of the invalid's feet. " Xon sense," said he, "your feet are warm. No man was ever known to die when his feet were warm." "Ugh!" said the dying man, sharply. "What about John Rogers !". Boors Silver Plated Ware.?It has been said that three-fourths of all the professed triple xxx, double refined, etc., plated silverware is but a sham ; simply white metal with the slightest kind of a washing of poor silver. Moral?Don't buv^it, even though'manufaeturers claim to have taken first premiums p.t all the fai r* J FARM, HARDEN AM) HOUSEHOLD. Hni?:iiK Lnrtfe Cro;)* of Corn. S. Jx Oane^ Vinelaiul, X. J., who represented himself as an honest inquir* r after the truth, asked permission to propound to the farmers' club the agricultural conundrum, viz.: Why do not some of the members of thought tell how to raise a large crop of Indian com instead of conjuring up unintelligible and nonpractical formulas for making fertilizers which will not return the proprietor as much money as he expended in purclias mg tne cnuie chemicals i It requires not only com formula, but a vast amount of hard-fisted industry, to raise a satisfactory growth of corn. Before one can produce a bountiful crop of Indian com the soil must be fattened, especially a soil that has been impoverished by injudicious management. Chemists write on agricultural topics. It is a tedious process to improve land of ordinary fertility so that it will yield one hundred bushels per acre, If the soil is thin or run down, it must have large quantities of barnyard manure worked in; clover or maize, or both, must be plowed under, and the plow, harrow and roller used to turn up, tear in fragments and crush to fine afoms the entire seed bed. Little by little the productiveness of the laud will increase by these means; then, when it has been brought up to the point of yielding forty or fifty bushels of shelled corn it will be safe to apply chemical fertilization; f( r every dollar expended for the required elements will be the means of producing more than tlirice its value in the increased yield of corn. A member added that sufficient plowing enhances the fertility of the soil in a great degree. Especially is this true with cornfields. The more frequently the ground is stirred, if done carefully, so as not to injure the roots, the more rapid will be the growth and the more abundant the yield. Farmers who have tried it affirm that if land is plowed as soon as a crop of grain is taken off, then ftfrnin in a month or six weeks, and still again in tlie early winter, plowiug a little deeper every time, the benefit to succeeding crops will be equal to a coating ' of manure. The more finely adhesive soils are pulverized the more readily they appropriate and impart to the plant the nutriment supplied them, whether it is gained fronrthe atmosphere or from fertilizers applied; consequently the policy of frequent plowing as a preparation for the growth of a large com crop was i urged by this member. In green manuring of laud he advised the plowing in of rye as very advantageous. The grain should be plowed in about the time that the rye has attained its full growth, but a little before blossoming. It should b3 rolled down flat first, so as to be readily covered. This process enables the land to be quickly supplied with a large amount of valuable plant food in the organic and mineral elements gained, nearly equal in value to a good dressing of guano. Regarding artificial manure for the corn crop, the member referred to Professor Cook's experiments; the deductions from the results gained by him were that the muriate of potash, applied at the rate of one hundred pounds per acre upon soil of an excellent character, is very effective and may be profitably used; that any other fertilizers tliau potash salts cau be used only at a loss upon j a corn crop grown upon soil in good condition; that even barnyard manure may j be used to excess, and therefore unprofitablv, when the soil has been brought by previous good culture and fertilizing up to a certain standard of productiveness; tliat the direct application of barnyard manure to the corn crop is not so effective as applications well incorporated with the soil; that a decaying clover sod furnishes abundant ammonia for a full crop of corn, and, finally, that a previously manured clover soil is the best of all preparation for a corn crop. The Ilonsekeeper. Macaroons.?Blanch and Dound eight I ounces of almonds in rose or orange flower water; beat the whites of eight eggs; then mix with two pounds of sugar sifted with the almonds to a paste; lay a sheet of paper on a tin and put the mixture on with a spoon. To Cleanse the Head.?A dime's worth of pulverized borax, dissolved thoroughly in a pint of water. Cleanse the head, especially the partings, once a week, afterward rinsing with cold water. Will keep the head very clean, and impart a glossy look to the hair, especially if each application is followed by a vigorous brushing. Harrison Pudding.?One and onehalf cupfuls of chopped suet, one cupful of molasses, one and one-half cupfuls of chopped raisins, one cupful of sour milk, one teaspoonful of s<xla, one teaspoonful of cream tartar, or two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, sifted through the flour thoroughly; spices, and stir as thick as for pound cake, and boil three liours. Sauce made of egg, sugar and cream, or any other rich recipe. Apples in Rice.?Scoop out the cores and pare very neatly half a dozen good sized apples; boil them in thin, clarified sugar; let them imbibe the sugar, and be careful to preserve their form. Make a marmalade with some other apples, adding to it apricot marmalade and four ounces of rice, previously boiled in milk, with sugar and butter, and the yolks of two or three eggs; put them into a dish for table, surround it with a border of rice and marmalade and bake it. To (Jet Itid of Quack (.'russ nnd Thirties^ To destroy qiutck grass of any of the different species to which this term is applied, the ground should be plowed and harrowed thoroughly and the roots picked off the surface. Any left will grow again. Potatoes, corn, beans cr other hoed crops should be grown and kept cultivated and weeded thoroughly. There will be little quack left after three clean hoed crops have been taken. Thistles may be destroyed by plowing lightly, so as to cut the stem but not the roots, and then growing crops that are cultivated continually. He Didn't Want to Embarrass Things. " I would like to be present at your party," replied a stylish Chicago tailor to a fashionable society lady, " but 1 do not think it would be best." "And why not, pray?" inquired she. "Well, I'll toll you," said the tailor, growing confidential; "I'm afraid if I should attend I should meet so many young fellows who owe me money for the clothes they have on that it would came embarrassment, and perhaps mar the . happiness of the occasion." The woman grew thoughtful, and seemed to lose interest in her prospective soiree. A married woman, now an inmate of a poornoiise in Illinois, has brought suit against her father and brother, who are wealthy, to compel them to support he \ She was once the belle of her vioiuity, and aiter a short time of married . life was dewrtad by hor husband, THE ASHTABULA DISASTER. What CmtM'ri It?Three Point* of Importance l)i*niM?<-<l. * The testimony concerning the Ashtabula calamity is confused and to a certa'n extent contradictory. There are three points of importance : (1) Whether it was suspected beforehand that the bridge was weak, the suspicion arising from known faults in its construction; (2) whether the iron used in the bridge was of good quality; (3) as to reprehensible iirtrrWt iii rmffintr nnt the fire. On the UV(,1W? last of these points the inquiry is likely to he thorough. A great (leal of feeling has been aroused upon this point at Ashtabula. The witnesses testify to the abundance of means for extinguishing fire. There was plenty of water and hose, a steam pump with steam up was at hand, and finally a fire brigade was there before the fire had reached its height. The excuses made for neglecting to couple the hose and turn on a stream of water are lame and unsatisfactory. It is not necessary to ascribe an indifference or a malice that would be fiendish to the men who are responsible for that neglect; they were simply incompetent, aud lost their wits in the emergency. It is not certain that any lives could have been saved if water had been turned on aud the fire extinguished as soon as was practicable; but, unhappily, there is still room for a suspicion tliat all who were buried in the wreck were not dead when the firemen concluded not to extinguish the flames. The fact that cries were no longer heard from the wreck seems to be deemed satisfactory on this point by some of the witnesses; but it certainly is not proof that there was no life there. Mr. Lyons, one of the survivors', believes that many lives could have been saved if water had been promptly turned on. In any event the early extinction of the fire would have been of immea'surable service in enabling the dead to be identified. The excuse is that the rescuers were wholly busied iu helping the living, aud spared no effr.vt in assisting the sufferers. As to the construction of the bridge, the evidence is not only indefinite ; it is contradictory. If half the minors about it are well founded, the bridge was from the first utterly unfit for its purpose. It is reported that for two years after it was built, the company kept false works under it to give it an appearance of safety. Residents on the line say that the insecurity of that bridge has been a matter of common talk for years. At one time there was a current belief that a pier was to be built to sustain it at its center, and there appears to have been a dispute as to its safety between its architects when it was erected, the one who first designed it believing that it was weakened by a change of plan. All this needs to be thorouglily sifted before the blame can be laid where it belongs. In respect to the iron used for constructing the bridge, the testimony is meager. The circumstance tliat it liad borne the testing load of six locomotives will doubtless be brought as evidence of the original strength of the iron. There is some reason for believing that part of the train was off the track. If this can be proved it w ill go a long way toward explaining the sudden breaking of the iron. If it cannot be proved, the inference must be that the iron was of inferior quality. The experiments of Prof. R. H. Thurston of the Stevens Technological Institute tlirow much light on this feature of the case. His apparatus, afterward used by a commission appointed by the government to test iron and steel, has revealed many peculiarities of the metal when under strain, that have previously been little noticed. It would take too much space to present here the technical details, but a few of the results obtained by testing for varying temperatures may be summarized. The experiments rather poiut to than prove the assertion, that if the iron is of the best, low temperature does not render it more liable to break with either a quick blow or a steady weight. If it is not of the best, it will still bear a steady weight (such as six locomotives) quite as well at low temperatures as at moderate ones, but when exposed to a cold near zero of Fahrenheit it will yield more readily to the strain of a sudden blow. The impact of a moving railroad train on the rails is far more hke a sudden blow than like a steady weight. The experiments are yet incomplete, and it is not fully known how far each of the impurities of iron?such as sulphur, phosphorus and silicon?takes its share in thus reducing its power to resist a blow. But accepting these valuable experiments as far as they go, one fact seems unquestionable : no railroad bridge made of inferior iron is safe in cold weather. The question must be pressed home : Was or was not the bridge at Ashtabula made of the best of iron??Xcw York Tribune. Washington Gossip. A Washington letter says : Just now the favorite solution of the Presidential complication is to hold a new election next fall, and to allow the president of the Senate, whoever he may be after the fourth of March, to administer the office uri ittfpt'hn. This is to be brought about, according to tlie gossip of the lobbies and cloak-rooms at the capitol, by the Democrats in the Senate debating the questions arising in the progress of the count until the clock strikes the hour of noon on March 4, when it is claimed the whole operation of counting the votes necessarily ceases. Then the Senate is to proceed at once to swear in its new members and elect a presiding officer. By the time this is accomplished a message will be received from the secretary of State announcing that there is a vacancy in the office of President of the United States. The newly elected president of the Senate will take the oath of office before the chief justice, who will, of course, be in waiting with his gown on, and he will then jump into a carriage, drive to the White House, and set the wheels of government in motion. The feasibility of this method of settlement is asserted by the Democrats, who say that unless the Republicans should again set up the abandoned claim of the right of the president of the Senate to count the votes there is no way in which a declaration of the election of Hayes can be arrived at against their opposition. The Senate has 110 rules to limit debate, and now that the joint rules are abrogated, there would be nothing, they think, to keep them from talking day and night to kill time and prevent the completion of the count. The Cost.?A fowl that costs twelve cents a pound dressed will cost sixteen when undressed, or in other words the dressing costs four cents, and a nine 2>ound four ounce fowl, dressed, will when not dressed weigh seven pounds nine ounces, so that a dressed fowl will weigh a pound and a lialf loss when undressed. The hats which the ladies pull down over their eyes are known as the " What's matter with you ?" \ A Western Case. i i A certain Major Fletcher, temporarily residing at Kecsauqua, Iowa, a man i with a wife and family but of a rather 1 immoral straiu of life, seduced a re- I spectable girl named Lizzie Blown, whom j he carried away to St. Louis. There she t gave birth to a child, and there Fletcher c i deserted her, leaving her at a hotel, without money or friends. Through shame she concealed fier name, and it was only j after the most anxious search that her relatives discovered her and brought her home, ruined in character and broken in health. An indictment was brought ( i by the grand jury of the county against 1 her betrayer, and when the case came on 1 for trial the girl and her brother appeared in court as witnesses. Xpung ] [ Brown armed himself with a revolver, t but did not appear to have made up his mind to commit any violence. Howsoever that may be, after he had sat in the 1 court and heard a motion for a change of 1 venue made, argued and granted, the j sense of the infamous wrongs that his t sister had suffered and the inadequacy of i the satisfaction which the law's delays ( were frustrating, came over him vividly, and lie walked out iuto the clerk's room, making a great effort to control his emo- j tion, and declaring his intention of get- , ting home at once. He had never seen i i Fletcher, who at the moment walked i into the same room, and Brown, suspect- * ing who he was, walked over to him and J abruptly inquired: "Is this Major Fletcher ?" " Yes, sir," was the answer, j and the speaker was instantly stretched < on the floor with a bullet in his brain, 1 and was dead within three minutes. His < murderer was arrested, as a matter of 1 form, and was straightway set at liberty ( under $5,000 bail. I] FOUR MONTH* FOIt A DOLLAR! ! j St. Nicholas for January, with its cherry greeting on the cover, its exquisitely beautiful ' frontispiece, the wonderful variety in its pages, and its FUN FOR THE NEW YEAR, Will charm everybody, both old and young. Among the more notable papers will bo found a " Letter to a Young Naturalist." by William Howitt, the poet, and the " Stars for January," by Prof. Proctor, the astronomer. ST. NICHOLAS FOR JANUARY Will also contain a paper by Horace Scudder, "Great Grandfather's Books and Pictures,' with facsimile reproductions from the " New England rrimer " and Webster's old "Spelling i Book." "Budge's Visit to the Centennial," by the author of "Helen's Babies," and "The Modern and Mediaeval Ballad of Mary Jane," with silhouette drawings by Hopkins, will be found amusing aud entertaining. Besides "HIS OWN MASTER," by Trowbridge, There are shorter Stories and Poems, Rhymes and Nonsense Verses, Historical Sketches, a Fairy Tale, Comical Pictures, rages for Very i Little Folks, etc. In short, this is the New j Yeab's Numbeb of that magazine, of which the j London Daily News said : " We wish ice could point to its equal in our oicn Periodical Litera ture.11 Send one dollar for a trial subscription, beginning with the November number, with Wilb'am Cullen Bryant's "Boys of my Boyhood," and the New Year's number, with William Howitt's " Letter to a Young Naturalistand the February number, which will have "A TALK WITH AMERICAN BOYS," By Tom Hughes, that earnest, honest, strong hearted Englishman, who is known all over the world as " the friend of Ou schoolboy." Subscriptions received by all booksellers. Sold by all newsdealers. $3.00 a year, 25 cents a number. Sciubxer <fc Co., 743 Broadway, New York. Sweet are the uses of adversity. A cross eyed schoolmarm can keep twice the usual number of children in order at once. Cowardly Assaults. When a candidate for high office is so well liked and so popular with the masses as to make his defeat difficult by fair and honorable tight, mean and cowardly men are not wanting who delight in manufacturing lies and slandering his good name. There are also those whose selfishness prompt them to prostitute their honor, pervert truth, and ignore right, for the sake of injuring a competitor in business, whose prosperity they envy, and with whose business sagacity they have not the talent to successfully compete in an honorable way. These thoughts are suggested by the mean, cowardly attacks made upon me and my medicines, by those who imagine their pecuniary prospects injured by the great popularity which my standard medicines have acquired, and the continued growth of my professional practice. Narrow minded practitioners of medicine, and manufacturers of preparations which do not possess sufficient merit to successfully compete for popular favor, have resorted to such cowardly strategy as to publish all sorts of ridiculousreports about the composition of my medicines. " Almanacs," "reoeipt books," and other pamphlets are issued and scattered broadcast over the land, wherein these contemptible knaves publish pretended analyses of my medicines, and receipts for making them. Somo of these publications are given high sounding names, pretend to be issued by respectable men of education and position, for the good of the people?the more completely to blind the reader to the real object in tneir circulation, which is to injure the sale of my medicines. "The Popular Health Almanac " is the high sounding j name of one of these publications, which contains bogus receipts, without a grain of truth in them. Not less devoid of truth are those which have been published by one Dr. L., of Detroit, in the Michigan Farmer, and by other manufacturers of medicines, in several so-called journals of pharmacy. They are all prompted by jealousy and utterly fail in accomplishing the object of their authors, for, notwithstanding their free circulation, my medicines continue to sell more largely-than any others manufactured in this country, and are constantly increasing in sale despite the base lies concocted and circulated by such knaves. The people find that these medicines possess genuine merit, accomplish what their manufacturer claims for them, and are not the vile, poisonous nostrums which jealous, narrow minded physicians and sneaking compounders of competing medicines represent them to be. Among the large number of pretended analyses published, it is a significant fact that no two have been at all alike?conclusively proving the dishonesty of their authors. It is* enough for the people to know that while thousands, yes, I may truthfully say millions, have taken my medicines and have been cured, no one has ever received injury from their use. 11. V. Pierce, M. D., Proprietor of Dr. Pierce's medicines, World's Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y. Itch is unquestionably a cutaneous disease that is known to be prevalent among a populous class of the community. Glenn's Sulphur Soap will cure it The board of health should order a supply of the soap for that purpose at public expense. Sold everywhere. tww rwfontnnV 7 Sixth avenue. New York. VlilVVUwu , Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye, black or brown, 50 cents. Wistar-s Balsam of Wild Cherry. The great remedy for consumption. This well known remedy is offered to the public, sanctioned by the experience of over forty years; and when resorted to in season, seldom fails to efTect a speedy cure of coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis, influenza, whooping cough, hoarseness, pains or soreness in the chest or side, bleeding at the lungs, liver complaint, etc. Beware of counterfeits. Remember that the genuine Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry has'on the outside wrapper the signature of "L Butts;" and the printed name of the proprietors, "iSeth W. Fowle & Sons, Boston." All others are base imitations. Examine the wrapper carefully before purchasing. Electricity, the great vitalizing principle of organic life, is within the reach of all Dr. Collins' Voltaic Flaster is the realization of the dream of medical men for centuries It bsfiisbe* Ptios aud wbss as If by wagf*. AMERICAN : i< NEWSPAPER 'J i $ DIRECTORY j 9 Down tvith Pricos. In these times of general reduction, that man s shrewd who anticipates the wants of the pub ic. Mr. Towers, of the Grand Central Hotel, Jroadway. New York, is the pioneer in reducing >riccK. Others have since followed snit, still his is the only first-class hotel in the city where >no can stop at $2.50 and $3.00 a day. For Throat Diseases tnd affections of the chest, ''Brown's Bronchial Troches " are of value. For coughs, irriation of the throat caused by cold, or unusual exertion of tho vocal organs, in speaking ic rabli: or singing, they produce beneficial remltfc. Vegetable Pulmonary Balsam, the Great Ne\i Jnglaud cure for coughs, colds and constimpion. 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J.ESTBT&00 Brattloboro, Vt. t^"Send for Illustrated Catalogue 1877 Music Bonis for w THE SALUTATION! A Capital Book for Choirs, Singinj Classes and Musical Conventions. In this fin? book will be found the newest and bei Sacred Music by L. O. KMKRSO.V. Good Sinjjin School Course, with abundant excellent material ft practice, including a number of Glees, also Tunes in a the Meters, and a larjre number of fine Anthems. Shoal be in the hands of every Choir member. 91.3S, or 812.00 per Ooz. THE ENCORE, By L. O. RMERSON, has the same Singing Schtx Course as that in the Salutation, but with a mnc larger number of Glees, rendering it a Glee Book. Alt a fair number of Sacred Tunes. 75 Cti.) or 97.50 per Doz. Either book mailed, poet-free, for Retail Price. OLIVER DITSON & CO., Boston. C. H. DITSON & CO., 711 Broadway, New York, J, ?. DITSON fit CO., I uetarifa to Las i Wa&ua, fhiUi ' Contains : A complete list of Newspapers i ^ " anil other Periodicals in the United 1 States, Territories and Dominion of | . Canada, arranged alpliabetically by F towns, giving name, days of issue, poli- ?! r tics, or general character, form, size, | subscription price per year, date of estab' lisliment, editors' and publishers' names, 1 and | CIRCULATION ESTIMATES. | ! The object or the AMERICAN NEWSPAPER j DIRECTORY is not very different from that of j ' the well-known mercantile agencies which exist '' in all leading cities. The latter keep their sub- t scribers infurmed of the character, habits, repu- | ' tation, business ability and financial strength of ! * persons with wliom they are likely to have bu.-i- " > ness transactions, enabling them thereby to so " ' regulate these transactions as to secure probal.ly 1 1 profitable dealings, or to avoid such as will be I 1 likely to result in ultimate annoyance or loss. A 1 The DIRECTORY conveys the best obtained p information concerning the character and value \ ! r\f nowcmni.rj "If a rvairnno ora bo mon trim I spend money in advertising (a large and ira- 9 portant class), and it is from them that the pub- / e fishers of the DIRECTORY, in their capacity of | r advertising agents, derive their profit and sun port. It is to tliem and not to newspaper puD- 0 fishers that they owe the duty of faithful service. The theory that advertising agents are the i servants of"newspapers, and should advance > , their interests first, is amffhilated by the system ] k long adopted by publishers. almost without ex- J] 1 ccption. of ignoring any idea of protecting the ! so-called agency and maintaining the right to appoint cornrefitors in the same field without - , the consent of those already occupying it. - | As THE MOST IMPORTANT* PORTION OF THE INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY A MERCANTILE AGENCY 1 CONSISTS OF A RETORT OF THE FINANCIAL ] i 8TRENOTH OF THE PERRON ABOUT WHOM INFORMA\ TION IS ASKED, SO 18 THE CIRCULATION OF A NEWS- 1 PAPER GENERALLY CONSIDERED THE POINT UTON j WHIcn INFORMATION WILL BE OF MOST VALUE TO THE ADVERTISER. There are, among merchants, some who deny j the right of a mercantile agency to inquire into , their private affairs, and who decline giving r.ny i information uj)on which a rejxirt may be based; but the mercantile agency does not. on that account, neglect to inane a report It gets from other sources the best obtainable information, and upon this its estimate is based, although it < cannot be denied that the reticence of the party i ! in question is almost always attributed to a knowledge upon his part that a true report } would be prejudicial <o his credit. The report \ i made is, therefore, likely to be less favorable i than it might have been had the information f i asked for been cheerfully and frankly furnished. So also there are among newspaper publishers i some who deny the right of any one to inquire I into their affairs. It has been the policy of the i publishers of the DIRECTORY to omit all in. ; formation about circulation whenever plainly j : and "unequivocally commanded to do so. In I such cases the matter is disposed of by annex1 ing to the reports-the words " objects to stating i i circulation." In every case where the above command is not plainly and unequivocally con- . j veyed to the publishers of the DIRECTORY, i they make up their report in the same manner pursued by the mercantile agencies in estimating * t. the financial strength of a merchant, and, l:ke " the institutions referred to, they decline to re- i e ' veal the sources from which they have obtained . j their information. It is undoubtedly true that no publication of _i j this character is privileged, and tnat in an in] 1 stance where a merchant or a newspaper is . | seriously injured by an unjust or materially iu' | correct report the courts furnish a remedy,"and ' KaOi mnwinnfilA afT,.n/?r nr niriw*lnrr nnliljBlifir ? | will be held responsible "for actual damage shown j i to accrue to an injured party from a report ' | proved upon trial to have been erronres. j This in a liability which the publishers of the i I DIRECTORY cannot escape; it is therefore * I one which they hold themselves at all tin.es ! j ready to meet. The greatest jx)ssible care is taken to make I the DIRECTORY reports correct Every pub| lisher is applied to very systematically. All - | information i? taken in n form which excludes ' any but definite statements which cannot be (.misunderstood, while every effort is made to , protect honest publishers against such as would r ; resort to lying or perjured reports to gain an _ ! unfair advantage. \ I It has rarclv been found that a cause of com- ' - ; plsint has "arisen ngain.-t any report which has i- appeared, iu either of the seven annual volumes - of the DIRECTORY already issued, which has I I I not resulted cither from tlie neglect of a pub, j lisher to respond to appeals for information or an effort on his part to substitute other and | different information instead of answering the _ plain questions upon the blanks furnished for , the purpose from the DIRECTORY office. * The Directory estimates the circulation of no ? ' newspaper until after an application has been >t made to its publisher fo- the actual figures, and T- t sufficient time allowed to elapse for the statement to come to hand had any such been for~ warded. f It is believed that do publisher of a newspaper expresses dissatisfaction with the circulation aot. corded his journal in the AMERICAN NEW8? PAPER DIRECTORY who does not desire to . ; impress ihe public tnat his edition is greater <j i than it i in realitv. ? i * 5, Publishers of newspapers who* desire to furnish the Directory with a statement of circulation are supplied witfi a Diani which takes for granted the following I | conclusions: FIRST. 5 Every publisher is either willing or unwilling to have nis cireuletion published in the Directory. SECOND. If any publisher is unwilling to have his circulation published, the publishers of the DirecI tory owe it to their patrons to state why the in, J formation is withheld. This they do by inserting the words "Objects to stating circulation." THIRD. ' If willing to have his true circulation given, a ^ publisher will desire that none but true circulations shall be published for competing journals. FOURTH. That none but true circulations may be published, it is necessary that none but explicit statements be accepted from any. FIFTH. A statement intended to convey explicit information must be so worded as to prevent the possibility of its meaning being misconstrued. SIXTH. That none but true and explicit statements 1 may be accepted from others, every publisher will see the necessity of giving his own in regu lar form, if at all. If one is allowed to vary the form a little, another may vary it more. If i none vary it, all will be fairly treated % SEVENTH. - r The blank is entirely unobjectionable to those 7 who demhe to furnish full and explicit informai tion. eighth. From persons who are not willing to furnish an explicit statement, any other would be worse than useless. NINTH. , To persons who decline making any state- J y ment, the form adopted is as unobjectionable , * as any other. < texth. 1 lt If a publisher makes no statement of circula% tion, it is fair to presume that it is from inditfer- | ? ence or neglect, neither of which ou his part ] Jj \vill excuse the publishers of the Directory for I : imDerfections in their book. For all such cases the editor of the Directory has instructions to estimate the circulation from the best inform a- 1 : tion open to him. i One Thousand Pages?Price, $5.00. ] >i i ? PUBLISHED BY J GEO.P.ROWELL&CO., j . newspaper Advertising Agents,' ; 41 Bark Row New Yerk, 1 4 DDEESS Buaine?a College and Telinrraph Institute, Ka'unaxoo, Mich., for Journ-.l and Penm"'"*h|PO a day at home. Ajrenta wanted. Outfit and * M /J tvrm* free. THUF.i (.'P., Antf-iata. Many. !> 1 a Da/. Employment for all. Cbmrao A 5 Li/Catalogue tree. Felton ACo.,llH>'?**au at..N.Y. Ififi * weak "? 7our own town. Terms and *l?3 outfit >0P free. H. HALLKTT AvX).. Portland. Maine. 5 in <90 !**" day at home. Samples worth ?5 10 free. STUySO.^T A CO., Fir land. Maine. iOfft A DAY to Aaenta. Sample free. 32 P*fC? VCJ?9 Catalogue. LTLKTt^HF.R. t I l>ey St .N. Y. 1RR in <77 Week to Aaenta. Samples FREK. OO 10 91 I p.p. V1CKERY. Augusta. Maine. ^niVPV EMilT wadr with our Stencil and flUil IZl X Key Check Outfit. Circulars FW ln.<> Arthlr starrobd, 105 Fulton St..n?w'or*. ICMCinMQ No matter hour slightly disabled. In* XnolUnO creases now paid. Advice and circular e?- T. McMlCHSfcL, Atty., 707 SansomSt..L Phils.,Pa. MM M UTfn Men to sell to Mercnantv f A HI T p VI a month and traveling If mi I Eif paid. O*mMfg.0o.,St.U?"'?MtS lAVTTfr Made rapidly with Stencil and Key Check n HKT Outfits. Catalogue and aamplea FREE. UUHUl 8. M. Spencer.3?i Waah. St.. Boston. Mass )AHA A Month.?Agents wanted. 30 beet aellkdh I ing articles in the world. One sample tree. FVVU Address JAY BKONSQX, Detroit. Mich. IflUn MILLS for Pumping and KaMilWMa. Of I Mil chinery. Addreac TORNADO WIND* 111 11 If MUX CO.. Em N. Y. Ik ft WATCHES. A Great Sensation. Sample \j% Watch and Outfit froe to Agents. Better than IPlf Gold. Address A. COULTER A CO.. Chicago. hAA J Made by one Agent In 57 days. 13 new la particles. Samples free. Address, PWUT C. M. LI.M.\t<TO.\, Chicago. inn P IT n I Bf?t I?niry Farm inthe West, :Un oALb! I Bargain. H. C. WHKELBB, WanVoran. Ilia \Af IMTCn-H?? to .olicil order*, for our coods: MM An I CU permanent employ mr?M; good nw aalary. Traveling ein. mw? paid l>v Company. Union nduetriul Worka. Cincinnati, O. nmilM HABIT CURED AT HOME. II Mr IIIH No publicity. Time short. Terms modVI IVIfl .rate. LOGO Testimonials. . Dc crib# case. DR. F. B. MARSH. Quincy. Mich. A GKMTS, Twenty 9x11 Mounted Chromoe for LX Kl. 2 samples, post-paid, 20c. Stretched Chronoe, all aizes, at low Dricee. Catalogue free. CoyTIrgXTax. Chbomo Co., 37 Nasaau Street. New York. t>1flc tf'OC * day Sere lunC.e by AgvriU .tllln* our ('bmiioi, I 3 CrayoBt, Picture asd Chroiii.i C?rd?. 125 ?an?1,11 r1", worth |u. tent p ttnaiJ foe M5e. lliu.trv d Catalogue free. J. H. BPFyoRD'SSONfc BOSTON. MASS. |*lB.Ufil)|IQ hVuiilt i*j male and femile, stcsdy J\ UsmI 1? aanptovinewt, business bon-rufilo rI and aleanafc timl Unfarv, Comm:s?iona <>n sJu^ndfineMM paid by tho ECIdPSt Manufacturing Co., CincmnaH, Ohio. P A 151/1?T5 C? or fhelr son* wanted this fhTl ?. L X^XIaJlLJlJXlf^winter, ( 1 or 2 incach Co.) to ac| , A. . a f>(W artic|rl 0f real merit jo the farmer* In their own counties. Buaine** pleasant, p rolls good. Particular* fraa. J. Votm. gt. Louu.Mo. ? Elbow-Boom he market. Splendidly illustrated with many humorous I rawing*. WDl sell at sight. Beet commissions. Agents ranted in every place. Terms and circular* free. J. M. STODDART A CO.. 723 Chestnut 8k. Phils. "The Glory'df America la her Women." W A APPId1!"! -AGENTS to sell my m* Tt .A.Jl1 X Eil/i and very attractive book, 7*? Woman of the Century." A tine chance for first-class sanvasaera; nothing like it; meeting with aplendidsue* e?*. b. b. russell, Publisher, Boston, Mass. employment. ANY PERSON of ordinary intelligence can earn ally nc by canvassing lor ue inusiraiea neeu/. ince is not nsoessair?the only requisite being, as in all tqcomful business, industry and energy. Send for par- ? iculars. Chaa. Claou ?V Co., 14 Warren St. S. Y. JtK A $1007 BE WARD. $100. V "a. Tna 1I0CSTACHR produced on m ftnooth face L V ^HMb'lh4 ?r brici a Biaso Kuxir without M jrBfl Injury, or will forfeit $100. Prire by mail la staled pact axe & mu, tor three SO cents. A. LTsMITH A CO., Agu. Palatine, 1U. ? TRUTH IS MIGHTY! ?WeM3/ V7 f i". ?r * *. ?at % ye* ? MI t niM 11 * i I M>.lll M Wi?. UM?1?W imi km e. ua. m4 ptm.wtmra rm WMS^Hl^Br ?.*? *, imiuum x.mniii an 11,73. Maanwaa.4 Jr a. Win., Mm ^ Prof. Uall't Made Coinpoaad U the only preparation.oo?r package of which W^fP wtli force the beard to prow thick and heavy on the .mootbeat face (without injur?) la 21 d >y. in every mt, or money cheerfully refundi d. V> cent* per package, noatpaid; 3 for )AVK 50 centa- H. W. JONES. Axhland. Mas*. A. BOOK for the MILLION^ ?HI MEDICAL ADVICE Dane.*, Catarrh, Rupture, Opium Habit, etc., SENT FREE on receipt of stamp. Address Dr. Butts' Dupenary, Wo. 12 North 8th Street, St. Lotfto, Ma ffcOKA umwTAnwfrmn Inmtt ? # mh. h^tLwL'DK. rmni inr?MAlfio9?&tfnT^MR^js lai, ?ad livw Ptlh. a MIIMU *R, win rdtot ann. PaaiA)^. B?*m mm* ul IMiml AAxiaa wa* h* aaU, oaiu. AMrwa BE. fTTLU, aZ.ar.?irwA rniu.iA.ijiPtaMM at tmooaim. * This (Jut shows the form of the Sowar Trough Gourd. They hold from 3 to |<l gallons"feach. Twentv-flve cents pays for AElif ?^A * package of the seed, and one of Pansy, Double Zinnia and Striped Pet -nix . WmuMs^^K Price list of Seeds free. j Address, WALDO F. BROWN, Bog 100, Oxpoun. O. PIMPLES, BLOTCHES, And Erupticns on th.e Face, Bo common and so mortifying to pen^ne of e ther sex. quick* y and permanently cured, louring the skin fair end smooth. Address with stamp. CARL HKVP'-tfGKS. of T> . A"oust a. Vmxk. if aiirPTi SALESMEN to travel and sell to M II A All' Dealers oar Unbreakable or Eureka WW Ml Glass I>.mp Chimneys. Monitor Safety Burners, Automatic Extinguishers, Lamp Goods, etc.; X 1,200 R year, hotel and traveling expenses paid to good men. No peddling. No risk. Best selling ^oodt in the American market. _ B. H. ItOBB A CO.. CINCINNATI. OHIO. Touts America Preis Co., {Pl A 63 Murray St., New York, Sa&k - f v uuawmiii iu mn, i. iw immw mil is. mg^kt f cnerxpest and best hiuid and VeidHdw ^U-laklw prtatlng presses. >u*airMlMil.Kb?HllHlMM?ir maAa. QmAQB* W# Mil . WT*U DOLLAR*. Ml iWMPM Mmis KiMiu ?r-?. wnS jmm. It -. Am S* FIVS dollati *7pl?nw0 soLIDait pbdtxt. 1 ' QmUnfrM. 8p$dawBeatrfType,Cuto,*c.t?nctat?J iiMQiit 1000 Piaetkal Reel pes. all tried aad listed. Contributed br ladies of influence and good Judgment In Cbkago and other citits end tov.na. X me to each. 17,OX) sold. Probably no Cook Book has met with as great -.ccria. One of rare value. Has six arth lei on Ifousekecpirj. Says Chicago Tribune: "Should be tlie adopted eoniaoloa of ertry housekeeper." Sold at all IVok-?tore?. SVt page*. $ I 50 postpaid, elotb or oil cloth. J. PRKD.WAttGON'XK, 1'ub. Chicago. POCKET EDITION, Sent Free. FOR 2c. STAMP. / JM The Ee?t Truss without WTe i AH I I *wS|k Metal Springs ever in.ented. age fiW f;,BvUp/No humbug claim of a cerneViJ^w tain radical cure, but a guar-' an tee of a comfortable, se-1 care satisfactory appliA anoe. We will take back and pay full price for all that do not suit. Prioe, single,like cut, ?41 for both sides, 90. Sent by' mail, post-paid, on receipt of price. N. B.?This Truss will cube more Ruptures than any of those for which extravagant claims are mads. Circulars free. POMF.ROY TRUES CO.. 746 Broadway, New York. ?^-SELLING INIMENSEUY^THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED. The Only complete He*ly illuetrated Inc price work,T70 pages, only 92.50. Treats of the entire history, grand / butldingR, wonderful exhibits, curiosities, etc. indorsed by the officials and clergy. 1,500 agents s ppointed in 4 weeks. Report epIcuditiNurcem*. 5,00flsvant> ed. For full pirtic il irs write quickly to IIuBBABD Bhos.. 733 Sansom St., Phila., Pa., A Springfield, Mass. f! A TTTTflY JIf* not decoiv<*?l l'ypreinutarc vxjk \J A A wdoojl? aasumin*; 10 1x3 omenI, etc. A LUCRATIVE BUSINESS. ^ W WE WANT 500 MORE FIRST-CLASS ** SEWING MACHINE ACENTS, AND 500 MENOFENERCY AND ABILITY TOLEARN THE FiUSINESSOFSELLINCSEWINCMACHINES. COMPENSATION LIBERAL, BUT VARYINC ACCORDING TO ABILITY. CHAR ACTER AND QUALIFICATIONS Of THE ACE.4T. FOR PARTICULARS, ADDRESS WiM Sewinfr Machine Co.. CMcap. 837* 829 BSOASWAT, Vtw Tort. cr Slv CrUu lA. A AGENTS WANTED FOR HISTOR* x oENTEN'L EXHIBITION] 1 It oontains 330 fine pngTavir^n of buildings sad icvne* in the Great Exhibition, and is the only authentic ind complete historv published. It treats of the *r*j>d suildinen wonderful exhibit*, curiosities, great event*. IIC, v cry cuoap uu sniiB nv sy(U(. une akc u bdiu copies in one day. Send for our extra terms to Ag?nt* UJ?1 * full description of the work. Addr>?? . NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO.. Philadelphia, Pa. rt A TTrPTAV Unreliable and worthless books op L/xL U X iUil ti.e Exhibition are teinn circulated. Do not be deceived. Seo that the tx?>k you buy oj^taiM B74 pages and 33Q fine engravings. I GREAT OFFER FOR THE HOLIDAYS ! We will darfnff t hose HARD TIMES and the HOLIDAYS to February 1st, dS?po?eo/ 100 i'l ANOS A ORGANS, new and second-hand, / flptprlftM makers, including WATERS',iu lower prices for cash, or Installments, than rrer before offered ?'? Near York. WATERS I;RANDJMH;aRK aad UPRIGHT PIAXOH and ORCHESTRION CHIME ORGAN'S are ;he BEST MADE. -J ?? ?v ^ ? ? iiTnstrated Catnlo*?M Hailed. A lihen l dirronni to T'arhet*, xini*ter'i r*?rrA#?, J'W. : nt hall J prior. IIOK AJ/K W ATFFS A SON'S Ha no- J rnrcuver* nnd Dcaler?,AO Eut 14 th St., Union / gaaif , N. Y. 1 { N. Y. H. U. Wo. g _ TXTHjRt WRITING TO ADVKRTIHKRS