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AFOOT-HOLD. BT AJflU 0. BBAOKKTr. -,-ilv M«mer that OTO«M« tbe sea nntc»rri« one traveler more, •J, a little time, out on the sboreleM sea, *Ib«n Hie counted when leaving the shore. mown far away from his mate where ihe Rings, B? the pitiless sen bound gale, Lost, and plytoK hl« patient wlngg Till heart and ooursge fail, ,„t mj fh« shoreless. unknown main, Blinded"with salt white spray, Died with the endless, waving plain, geared by the lengthening waj Lo,t on the tea, and no land_ln tight Through the heavy and misty air Struggling on through the dark and light To terror and mute despair Till on tbe horizon a cloud speck Clears to the mast, like a tiee, Clears to tbe solid and groand-ltke deck, And he follows it wearily, And clings and crouches, a welcome guest. An eager and tremulous bird, With the green and blue on his neck and breast By his heart's hard panting stirred. Xben came pity, and food and drink to th.e brim, And shelter from wave and oold Bat tbe quick head droops, and tbe bright eyes dim, And the story all is told 1 Pitiful comfort, yet oomfort still Not to drop in the hungry sea. Reeling down out of the empty height To that terrible agony. Bitter and hard to be driven to roam Between tbe Bea and the sky. To find a foothold and warmth and home, And then—only to die I Yet it was harder, God He knows. Who counts the sparrows that fall, For the birds that were lost when the wild winds rose, When the sea and the sky were all Wben the sky bent down to enfold tbe sea, And the sea reached up to the sky, And between them only the wind blew free, And never a ahip went by I —Harper's Magazine. A From Harper's Weekly. SLEIGH-BELLE. Harold Brown's sleigh dashed mer rily up to Harold Brown's door, and at that moment (she was the soul of punctuality) out came Harold Brown's only sister—a little woman wrapped in shawls and veils and worsted things from head to foot. Come along, sis," he shouts and then, without waiting for her to "come along," he jumps from the sleigh, reaches the top of the stoop in three strides—he's a tall, broad-shouldered, dark-skinned, blue-eyed fellow—catches her up in his arms as though she were only a bundle, and in the twinkling of an eye she is snugly stowed away among the buffalo-robes. Crack goes his whip. "G'lang, Ned!" cries Harold. "Ned" tonnes his head and paws the ground an instant to set the sleigh-bells ringing properly, and off they go. Are you warm asks Harold of the bundle at his side. "Almost smothered," answers the bundle, in an indistinct voice with a •light lisp. That's right, my darling," says the brother, who adores his pretty young sister—the only one left him of four. "I should tear my hair in wild despair if you caught cold. Mind you don't, for if you but sneeze once, be it the tiniest sneeze that ever wae, home you go." Never fear Har," rejoins the obedi ent small woman. "I promise, upon my word and honor, not to sneeze. I'd choke first. Ah! here we are," she continues, aa they turn into Fifth Avenue and take their place at the end of a line of sleighs, big and little, the largest of which stands unoccupied be fore the handsome and brilliantly light ed house of Albert Lee, merchant and millionaire. "Yes, and here are all the rest," Bays Harold, adding, with a slight inflection of Bcorn, "excepting the Lee people. Of course it's the Princess Alberta who is keeping us all waiting"—forgetting, in the most man-like manner, that he bad only that moment arrived him self' "Shenever was ready when she was a little girl, and I suppose she hasn't reformed in that particular, now she's a big one." Big Pf repeats the voice from the ^mufflers why, she isn't a bit larger than am." Well, she's a year older, anyhow, and ought to know better,"repliesHar old: but I haven't the slightest doubt she stopping to fiirt with some one, or two, or half a dozen of her numerous admirers, utterly regardless of the fact that I—that is, you—to say nothing of forty or fifty others, more or less inti mate friends, are freezing outside. Dan Van Rensselaer is buttoning on her gloves, or Will West is fastening the straps of her overshoes, or some confounded nonsense or other. Cora, it's my opinion that girl flirted in her cradle, made faces at her old loves and smiled on the new. Alberta !'—and she won't let any any one soften it to Berta,'" he went on, apparently warm ing with his subject—" what a ridicu lous name for such a mite! for mite she iB, and mite she'will continue to be, for all her scornful looks and haughty ways," Oh, Harold!" exclaims the veiled voice, with as much indignation as is possible under the circumstances. "How unjust you are! She's not naughty—she's not scornful—she's lovely 1 She came to me htmlf yester day afternoon—and I happened to know all the other's had written invita tions—and begged me to join her sleighing party. It's to be a real old fashioned affair,' she said,' and I want my real old-fashioned friends to come.'" "Extremely condescending," inter polates Harold. "And aa for her name, she had nothing to say about that, as yeu, if you have one grain of common sense must be aware—no more than you did about yours. And she'd rather be called Bertie,' a great deal only her papa insists on 'Alberta,' and conse quently, like a good daughter, ahe in Bute on 'Alberta,' too. He wanted I boy when she was born to be called Al bert,'—that's his own name, you know and when a girl came instead he said no girl should interfere with nis plans, and he named her 'Alberta,' which is almost the same thing. And it'B just as well he did, for he never had an other child, girl or boy." Pity the boy hadn't come," grum bles Harold. "For shame, brother!" exclaims the litue woman, party unfolding the veil that hides her dimpled chin and rosy mouth, that she may speak with great s' er effect. How can you wish that there was a great stupid young man instead of that dear, sweet girl? for she is a dear, sweet girl, tUougfr^ou, I can't for the life of me see why—neither can 1' Fred—choose to be angry with her." "I didn't wish for a great stupid young man' in her place," explains Harold, with a short laugh. That he would neoessarilly have been 'great and ?name, second, she wouldn't have been antonly child, as she is now. petted and Indulged in every whim and fancy, until she imagines herself a queen am *Uthe world her slaves." "You said 'a ments ago," says rincess' a few mo* jly, ra, demurely And" perhaps she wouldn't be smll- tog on that grinning idiot, Dan Van Rensselaer-they say she's going to marry him, his fortune (quailing her own, and his great-great-great-grand father having been one of the very first Dutchmen that landed on these shores —and turning away from the fellow Bne has known from her infancy, and who has—Whoa, Ned, keep still! Why in the deuce don't she and her train make their appearance? They don't make their appearance, and Cora begins to talk again. Harold you wrong Alberta indeed you do. It is you that are foolishly proud, not she. When she went abroad she left us rich when she came busk, she found us poor and yet she haa only been home two days when she thought us out. And how did you re ceive her? In the coldest manner and then raved and swore when she was gone—you needn't contradict me: I distinctly remember two very wickea words you said—because she didn't rush into your arms and kiss you at meeting, as she did at parting three years before. Can't you understand, you horrid, Bplendid old boy, that what is just allowable in a girl of fifteen would be highly improper in a young lady of eighteen? And you've only called upon her once since her return —once in six long months and pray what did your lordship do on that oc casion? Scowled and growled and snapped at Louis Vance in such a ferocious manner that he told my Fred—poor Fred! what a pity they're taking'count of stock to-night!—he ill count of actually thought," with a little chuckle, you were losing your senses. And what's more, Mr. Harold Brown "—and the dimpled chin is thrust forward de fiantly—"i think, and so does Fred, that it's your duty to apologize for the way you behaved that evening. And I don't believe she's engaged to Dan Van Bensselaer at all. That was only a rumor that floated over here from Paris, and I see no reason why you should accept it for the blessed truth any more than you do the thousand and one idle reports that are always floating about. And, Harold, if you really love her, why don't you tell her so? Fred told me the moment he found out. But there! I sha'n't talk any more it's no use." "It is not," declares Harold, with emphaais "for unless, by some un forseen turn in the wheel of fortune, she become as poor as myself, and I don't believe the wheel contemplates any such turn, I shall never speak of love to Miss Alberta Lee." Rude, obstinate, wretched boy!" scolds the little sister "I wash my hands of you. If you insist upon be ing unhappy, be so. Not another word do you hear from me to-night, for my breath is all frozen on my veil, making it stiff and uncomfortable, and ~'ve reason to think, notwithstanding my promise to the contrary, my big brother, I'm going to sneeze. My darling," cried the bfg brother, fumbling in his great coat pockets, I've another sky, or moon, or cloud, or whatever you call it, here—bought as I came along for fear—" Har," interrupts C«ra solemnly, "if you wrap another thing about me, even if it be the finest gossamer, I shall cease to breathe and she twines the veil she had unfolded about the lower part of her face again, and re lapses into silence. Here Bhe is—and time, I think," Bays Harold, his blue eyes flashing with no less pleasant light, aa a laugh ing party ran down the steps of the Lee mansion and crowded into the empty sleigh. And, thunder and Mars! that infernal Dan Van Rensse laer is at her side. G'lafcg, Ned!" sav agely. And away they all start, laugh ing, singing, and shouting as only young people sleigh-riding on a fine moonlignt night, can laugh and sing and shout. An hour's ride, and then a stop of an hour or two at an old-fashioned country hotel—would there were more of them [—for a dance (thesole music for which was furnished by a very old vio lin, played by a still older darkey, who, the dance ended, proceeded to display hiB musical skill with much rolling of the eyes and stamping of the right foot, by performing a composition of his own, the theme being the Queen Bee's Visit to the Garden of Roses," and the m^Btnoticeable point in which was a hum-um-um," commenced pianis simo, crescendo to fortissimo, and then diminuendo until the Queen Bee flew away again) and a supper. At the supper an enormous turkey presided, flanked by crisp salads, broil ed quails, and the various pies of the country but he, the turkey, didn't pre side long, for he was soon reduced to much less than a skeleton and then the sleighs were brought from the sta ble, and the heads of the horses, noth ing loth, turned homeward and the ood-natured landlady and the red naired chamber-maid, and Dan Van Renselaer and his chums, had all they could do in the way of searching for ar ticles of wearing apparel, and helping on jackets, and holding shawls and cloakB, and tying veils, for at least fif teen minutes. Hurry up," at length shouts some one from the outside, "if you want to get to the city before the moon turns her back on us and down staire they go pell-mell, helter-skelter, anJ jump and tumble, and are lifted into the sleighs again. Harold Brown grasps hia own partic ular charge from tbe group as they reach the roadside and carefully Beat ing her in his sleigh, heaps the heavy robes around her and springs in him" self. Hundreds of silvery bells jingle to ether in pleasant discord the old arkey whose Queen Bee had never'ex tracted so much honey with an "m" from the garden of roses before, flings his battered hat in the air, and shouts hurrah, and then seizes his old violin and plays "Hail, Columbia," aa though every note was a soldier of 1776 and away they speed for their homes once m"How lovely she looked to-night," begins Harold, after a five minutes' silence. "You needn't speak, toad After that warm room and the dance and the supper, it is more, necessary than ever that you should be careful. All I ask of you is to listen As a lis tener you can't b$ Mirpassed, although as a talker, like most women, you are apt to get thingB a little' confused. But don't go to sleep, for that is an insult I can't and won't stand. Did you ever see such hair?—spun gold! And how charming she—wearsklpart in a wreath about her pretty head, and part floating free over ner pretty shoulders. Blondes! There's only one blonde in the world, and that's Alberta Lee. Her skin is like the snow with the moonlight on it and being beautiful because she is so fair, I suppose it wouldn't be fair in me to even dream of her turning Brown. Hi, Ned. Good heavens! the intelligent brute heard (hat dreadful attempt at a joke, and tried to run away. So-o-o, old fellow! won't do it again. And she never No reply. "Cora, I say!" Perfect silence. .when we spoke to me, Cora, And were boy and girl tog^tEer many a kiss from that sweet red mouth unreproved, and she used to call me 'My Harold.' Let me see —that must have been eight years ago. And then, as she grew older, she grew more shy bnt I was 'Harold' still, often 'dear Harold,' until her father, who shows what an idiot he is, in spite of his years, by encouraging that greater idiot, Van Rensselaer, made that lucky hit in Wall Btreet, and the whole fam ily went abroard to learn how to play the aristocrat to humbler friends at home. It's true I didn't go near her to-night. There are too many around her. The rose that all are praising is not the rose for me.' Ana the aance I should have liked to have danced with her, the dance we danced together in the long ago,' she gave to Louis Vance the very man I came near knocking down one evening at her house, for taking her picture from her album and putting itm his breastpock et, with some silly, spooney remark about his heart. How her mother glared at me as I snatched it from his hand! and she said with a cool drawl, Pray, Mr. Brown, what is it to you Deuce take her lovely, exasperating, bewitching impudence! She will know what it was to me, the golden-haired, lily-white little hypocrite! I suppose she'll marry that Van Rensselaer"— and he muttered something which didn't Bound like a blessing between his teeth—" or some of his set, not one of whom is worthy to hold her fan, the bonnie wee thing,' as our old Scotch nurse used to say," breaking off with what in a woman we would call a hysterical laugh. I say, sis, are you asleep? You needn't say a word, my butterfly just shake your head." The worsted things and veils that formed the butterfly's cocoon moved slowly from side to Bide. All right, dear. I feel as though I must talk of her to-night, and to whom can I talk but you, my darling ?—my little sister, who has never withheld her love and sympathy from me, God bless her But, Cora, if any poor fellow had loved you all his life long, and you had led him to believe for many years that you returned his affection, and then, growing richer, as he, through no fault of his own, grew poorer—if you turned away from him and smiled upon those who were only hiB superiors in wealth and position, I'd disown yon. Mouse of ny life, I would indeed!" But suppose the poor feliow' never told his love when we met after along separation?" whispers the mouse of hia life." In words, you mean Pshaw There area hundred ways in which a man tells his love, and a woman knows every one of them by heart." "But suppose," in another faint whisper, "that when she returned from abroad, she found him a man so much less manly than the youth she had left that he could stoop to believe that be cause he had become poor, as the world goes, she could forget the happy, hap py days they had spent together, and —and cared for each other} Suppose that he lent a ready ear to silly reports about her—one, for instance, that she was engaged to be married to that idiot Van Rensellaer ."Cora!" You tormenting little thing"—shak ing her gently with his strong right hand—" why don't you answer me? I won't give you a kiss for a week if you don't. There's something uncanny about you. Where's your lisp? You had one a short time ago you know you did. Cora!" "My name's Alberta, please sir and the veil that had hidden her face flew aside, and a long tress of golden hair floated out and brightened the night. The reins fell from Harold! hands. Alberta caught them skillfully. 'Tis well," she said, that in those by-gone days you taught me how to drive." For one moment her lover gazed at her in open-eyed wonder. Then he gasped, Great heavens! what a fool Thank you, Mr. Brown," Baid the fair one with a smile. Not you, Alberta—thunder and Mars! no, but me, myself—to be so near and yet so far. What a consum mate—" Skip the hard words there isn't the slightest need of them," interrupted Alberta mischievously. Cora thought she would like to ride in such a sleigh, and I hadn't the heart to refuse the child. Hope I haven't intruded, Mr. Brown? And now, as we're turning into our own street, you'd better take the reins again." Alberta Bertie sweetheart, say something kind to me before we part," he pleads gasping both the reins and the little hands that hold them. What shall I say, Mr. Brown He bends hia head and looks earnest ly in her face. "Say 'Harold' first. Harold," she repeats, with a saucy smile, and then wrestling her hands away, she sinks back and leans back on his shoulder, which droops to meet it, anH goes on in a softened voice: "I'm not engaged to Dan Van Rensselaer, whom you, with'charming consistency, call an idiot for being in love with me and my papa, who is the dearest and best papa in the whole world, in spite of your impertinent remarks about him, cares nothing for wealth and position, compared to my happiness, and I my self, 'lily-white little hypocrite' to the tontrary, haven't the slightest objection to turning Brown, my Harold." God bleas you dearest!" Yes, yes, but don't kiss me just now, please. We're at our own door, and the light of the street lamp is fall ing full upon us, and there's dear old anxious papa peeping out, trying to climpse of his catch a glimpse of his only Bon and Heiress." Good-night," "good-night," re sounded from every side as each par ticular sleigh started for that particular place to which its particular party be longed, with the exception of the sleigh in charge of the horse called Ned. That remained in front of the dwell ing of the princess," while its happy owner, with Cora, his little sister, who had suddenly appeared at his side on one arm, and Alborta, his pretty sweet heart, on the other, ascended tne mar ble Bteps. Papa," called out Alberta, as they entered the hall, Mr. Harold Brown has been behaving in a dreadful man ner. He has called me all sorts of namees, abused me most shamefully to my face, actually shaken me, and worst of all, declared he wouldn't kiss me for a week. Send John to look after Ned—poor horse he isn't to blame —and to en demand that you demand an explanation." AT HOXB OR ABROAD, get Dr. J. H. McLean's Strengthening CordiaP and Blood Fmifier, recognised all over the World as the best tonic, invigorator and purifier of the blood. For pony asd weak c&ildrs or delicate females, an absolute necessity Dr. J. H. McLean, 814 Ohestnnt, 8t Loni A MOTHIRMI JOY. BZ BOW mm**. Her dress was ope'di berbosom btw, oung head wis nestling there, band o'er throat and And bis yi One little Was wond*riiu, while the other to rest Was near theneart that loved him best. Her face was bright and glad with joy, For he was hers, her own, hei boy And kisses fell like failing rain TTnnn his face, again, sgsia. With love ao great, was almost pain I of go Around her finger, while she tola Her own heart dreams already old. Dreams long and sweet, untonch'd by fears, Not e'en o'ercast by shade of tews How he would live to love ber so How she his every thought weuld know, Nor he one Instant oause her wee. How be would long live by her side, And ever bring ber gladness, pride, And how his mother's heart would beat Witb jo and exultation sweet. Should great success his efforts meet. Bhe was smiling, so was he. And with bis baby love 10 free, Hia little hand lay gently presi'd Upon his mother's snow white breast: And that light touch her heart caress'd. His lips and eyes were half unclosed, While thus he smilingly repoaed And Ot to ber whst happiness Can equal moments such as this— Opening gates to heavenly bliss! AGRICULTURAL NOTES. Planting Corn in Drills. Among the experiments of the Kan sas Agricultural College last year, was one having for its object to ascertain the relative values of the two methods of planting corn—in hills and in drills. Four plats were laid off across a portion of the field very uniform as to the char acter oi its soil. Each plat contained four rows of corn, the rows being three and a half feet apart. In the first plat the corn was planted in drills, in the second in drills after the common fashion again, the third was planted in drills and the fourth in hills. When the corn was about six inches high the drilled plats were thinned out, leaving the stalks aa nearly as possible ten inches apart in the rows the plats in hills were likewise thinned out, leaving the same number of stalks in every plat throughout the experiment. In cultivating the plats care was taken to give each the same treatment, and be yond thinning, hoeing once and culti vating twice, no special treatment was given the plats. The corn was husked November 11, and the weighings showed for the drilled plats a yield of seventy one bushels per acre, for the plats in hills sixty-two and a half bushels per acre, an advantage in favor of the method of planting in drills of eight and a half bushels per acre. By the bushel" of corn mentioned in these experiments is to be understood in every case seventy-two pounds of ears. To Make Hens Lay. A writer in the Ohio Farmer gives the following method for making hens lay: Put two or more quarts of water in a kettle, and one large seed pepper, or two small ones, then put the kettle over the fire. When the water boils, stir in coarse ground Indian meal, until you make a thick mush. Let it cool an hour or BO. Feed hot. Horse raddish chopped fine, and stirred into mush as prepared in the above directions, and for results we are getting five to ten eggs per day whereas, previous to feeding we had not had eggs for along time. We hear a great deal of com plaint from other people about not get ting eggs. To such we would warmly recommend cooked food, fed hot. Boiled apple skins, seasoned with red pepper or boiled potatoes, seasoned with horseraddish, is good for feed— much better than uncooked com. Corn, when fed to the hen by itself, has a tendency to fatten henB instead of producing the more profitable egg-lay mg. A spoonful of sulphur stirred with their feed occasionally will rid them of veimin and tone up their systems. It is especially good lor young chickens or turkeys. Out of a flock of ten hatched last November, we have lost but one. They have been fed cooked feed mostly, and are growing finely. Mellow Soil Around Trees. Unless the surface of tne ground iB mulched around young trees over an area of six to ten feet in diameter, the ground should be kept clean and mel low. Every farmer knowBthat a hill of corn or potatoes will not amount to much unless cultivated, and yet there are many who will neglect to give the same care to a tree that is worth a hun dred hills of either of the former. In rich soil trees may grow rapidly without cultivation, and no amount of gra«s or weeds will retard them but there are other things besides these to be looked after. If the weeds and grass are allowed to grow up around the stem of ap^le, peach, or quince trees, the bark will be come soft near their base by being shaded, and thereby in a suitable con dition for the reception of eggs which will eventually become peach or apple borer. Take any dozen young apple trees in sections where the apple borer is abundant, and allowed a por tion to be cooked with weeds, and the remainder well cultivated, and then watch the result. From our experi ence, we believe the chances are nine to one in favor of those cultivated be ing exempt from this pest.—National AaricuUurid. Steaming Foad far Sheep. The practice of steaming food for cattle has passed from the reigion of experiments to that oi well ascertain ed fact. It is settled beyond question, that in cases where a sufficiently large number of cattle are kept, it is a ma ter of substantial economy to cut and steam all coarse, damaged or inferior forage, corn fodder, hay that is slightly mouldy, and even straw, cut an,* steamed, with a slight admixture of bran or meal, have proved to be quite as good for stock as the best hay un cooked. But few experiments have been made in this direction with sheep. Mr. Arvine C. Wales, of Ohio, commu nicates to the Country Gentleman, a de tailed report of his praotice in feeding 1,500 sheep with cut and steamed com fodder. After describing his method of raising the fodder corn, he says: The stock now being fed requires about three tons of dry feed per day. The cutting is done by a No. 6 Cum in ins cutter, and it is so arranged that the out feed as it falls from the cut ting machine is carried to and placed in the tanks, wet up with the necessary quantity of water, and mixed with bran OE meal by machinery, so that when the outting is done the feed is ready for the steam. Three s?,en in an hour and a half can cut three tons. With the present boiler capacity, it takes one man four hours more to steam it. The cost of fuel for cutting mixing, Bteaming, pumping water, etc., is about five cents per ton of dry feed. The cut feed ia much more easily and rapidly distributed to the animals than long .feed, It is shoveled from the tknira down into the wagon with side boards, that stand below ihe bottoms of the tanks, and earned to iihe sheep folds. The racks are made to aocom- modate twenty sheep, and this number is fomldto nwd about two bushels of oat feed. The feeder has two two bushel baskets. While he is carrying one to the rack, the boy fills the other. In this way a man and a boy can feed and care for 1,600 sheep. The fodder is eaten up clean, a few joints and soiled nieces only being left, but not one per cent, is wasted. All the advantages claimed for feed ing steamed food to cattle and horses— the economy of feed, the increased healtb, thrift and comfort of the ani mals—are found in an equal and degree in the feeding of sheep. The effect is shown in the wool, which is of a length, clearness, style, and particularly strength of staple rarely found on sheep wintered on dry feed. There is no jar, or tender place in the wool indicating the point in the growth of the fiber where the sheep changed from green to dry feed. All the wool buyers observe this- and the wool, it is believed, commanded a higher price than any other clip bought from first hands in this or any of the adjoining counties. It is not claimed that the steaming of feed adds to its nutritive elements. Bat as the pulverization and stir ring of the soil promote the growth of plants by making the plant food more accessible to the plants, so the steaming of feed makes it atoncemore palatable and more readily digested and assimilated by the animals, and per forms the same office for their food that cooking does for ours. He concludea with the significant re mark that" the wetting and steaming puts the summer back into it again. Honsohold Matters. OAT-MEAL FOOD.—The steam-cooked oats and wheat save hours of boiling and avoid all trouble, as the directions how to cook them in every style are on the packages. HOT-WATEK GINGERBREAD.—Stir to gether one cupful of molasses, one large spoonful butter, with ginger or spices to suit add a little flour pour on two teaepoonfuh of soda one half cup aul of boiling water stir it in, and add flour to make pretty stiff batter. CIDEB JELLY.—Soak half a box, or one ounce of gelatine in a quart of sweet cider for ten minutes add a small eupful quinceor crab apple jelly chop fine and place the pan over the fire until all is dissolved then add a email cupful white sugar, while hot. Strain into metal moids, previously oiled, to prevent its sticking. SPONGE PODDING.—One-fourth pound each of flour, butter, and sugar, one quart of milk, 12 eggs mix butter, flour, and sugar together, add to the milk, and boil until it thickens when cool add first the yolks of the eggs, then the whites, beaten to a stiff froth. Place the pudding dish in a pan partly filled with water in the oven and bake near an hour. For the sauce, three lourths cupful butter, twocupfulssugar and one of wine. Mix butter and sugar to cream, add the wine, a spoonful at a time, and put the dish in a pan of hot water to dissolve. This makes a light delicious pudding. THAT NASAL TWANG, it is Catarrh cure it at once, before it shows on yonr face, by Dr. J. 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Stewart considered it good policy, and undoubt edly it paid him, to spend many hundred thousand dollars in advertising his goods, yet nobody questioned the excellence of his merchandise. The grand secret of suc cess lies in offering only goods which pos sess merit to sustain themselves, and then through liberal and persistent advertising making the people thoroughly acquainted with their good qualities. Men do not suc ceed in amassing great fortunes,^ establish ing thriving and permanent business, and founding substantial institutions like Dr. Pierce's Grand Invalids' Hotel at Buffalo, which cost over two hundred thousand dol lars, unless their business be legitimate, their goods meritorious, and their services which they render the people genuine and valuable. Dr. Pierce does not attempt to humbug you by telling you that his Golden Medical Discovery will cure all diseases. He says. If your lungs are half wasted by consumption, my Discovery will not cure you, yet as a remedy for severe conghs, and all bronchial, throat and lung affections, I believe it to be unsurpassed as a remedy." The people have oonfidenoe in his medi cines Decause he does not over-recommend them, and when tried they give satisfac tion. His Medical Adviser, a book of over nine hundred pages, illustrated by two hundred and eighty-two engraving*, and bound in cloth and gilt, is offered to the people at so moderate a prta ($1.50 post paid), that it is no wonder that almost one hundred thousand have already been sold. His memorandum books itfe on every druggist's counter for free distribution. A MEAN Burlington man has planted some grasshopper eggs in his wife'8 pet flower-bed. He wants to see how she will act when they begin to sprout. VEGETABLE PULMONARY BALSAM, the great New England cure for Coughs. Colds and Consumption, Cutler Bros. & Oo.'s Bos ton, only genuine OONTJNDRUN for St. Valentine's day WAS ST. VALINTIN* A VARNISH MAKSB? THE MARKETS. WKW TOBK. Brar CATTU*—Fair to prime. 16 00 910 00 Hoe»—Live 6 25 0675 8H««f—Fair to prime.............-™ 4 78 O 6 50 OOTTOH—Middling- 12x FLOUB—Spring extra 00 0 8 0u WmuT—So. 2 Xllw&akee Spring. 1 47 OOBM—Western— 69 A 60H OATB—Western— 50 55 RT»—Western 88 89 Bablkt—Weatein.......80 86 POBK—Mess....—015 90 LAID 10X CHICAGO. OATTLB—Choice to extra prime. ...15 00 Medium to choice......... 4 80 (VIMWMI |O MR 2 85 How—Live 5 25 SHOP-Live, good to choice 4 50 BTTTSK—Good to choice.. 21 Kaa»—FiMh 13 FLOUB—White Winter extra 5 50 Spring extra..- WHXJLT—Spring No. i Don*—No. 2......... OAT#—No. 2....—.—... Bn—No. 2......—...... ABUT—No. 2.....—.. POM—Meas, new. T.tan 9Js am,WA«rKBB. 0ATTL»—Cfaoloe to extra prime—16 00 Mediant to choice...—— 4 00 Camxaan to ®alr_ 2 78 Hose—lire 5 25 8HUP—Live, good to oholoe... 8 75 Burro—Choloe.....——.—— 18 Rw -Ttfh 18 Flora—^White Winter extra.—— 6 00 Spring extra... WHSAT—Spring No. L... spring No. a.. Own—No. a, old., OATS—No. s... Bro-No. i.~ BABUET*"eNO. liiniiwmwiWHw tOBt-1 LAID.. Ii Congress had employed as much •dentifle skill in the arrangement of its Reconstruction Policy" at the close, as the War Department did in the beginning of the war, in arranging for tbe mannfactnre of what was called Sheridan's Cavalry Condi tion Powders for the use of the cavalry horses, no doubt the nnioa would have bean restored long ago—Exchange. WE noticed in one of our exchanges this week the statement of Dea. Jno. Hodg kins, of South Jefferson, Me., whose son was cured of incipient consumption by the use of Johntm's Anodyne Liniment. We refer to this at this time as tending to corroborate the statement we made last week in rela tion to this Liniment as applied to con sumption. THB CAUSE.—A vitiated Btate of the blood is th« primary cause of rheumatism and gout and the terrible raking pains and aches are merely the secondary conse quences, which it is in vain to attempt to cure by external applications. The only reliable external remedy is Durang's, which takes hold and cures immediately. Get your druggist to order it. Coughs and Colds. Sadden changes of weather are sources of Pulmonary and Bronchial affections. Take at OBce "Brown's Bronchial Troches." let the Gold, Gough or Irritation of tne Throat be ever so slight. DIZZINESS, headache, pain across the eyes, inflammation of the eyes, cspioas watery dischargee from the eyes and nose, are symptoms of catarrh, ban ford's Rad ical Cure for Catarrh will at once core these symptoms. MusicB ooks fcr Reed Organs (?3.50) Is universally known as one of rare mer it, both in the instructive coarse, and the well chosen airs for practice. nrT7C0 cpunni OAN New York. MUSTANG I N I E N WHICH BAH STOOD THE TEST OF.40 TEABS. THEBE IS WO SOKE IT WELL NOT HEAL, HO LAHENESS IT Will NOT CUKE, NO ACHE, NO PAIN, THAT ACTUCTS THE HUMAN BODY, OB IIOOT OF A HOBSE OB OTHEB POMES. TIC ANIMAL. THAT IX TO ITS MAGIC TOUCH. O ACHK. HO PAH. AFFLICTS THE HUMAN BODY, OB THE OB8- $55£$77p.Q*to° led Catal&gue free FOB EEED ORGANS, CLARKE'S NEW METHOD FOR PARLOR ORGAN. DlIUO OunUUL The^ale of more than 80,000 copies Is the best proof of its great popularity. EMERSON'S NEW METHOD FORGAN|D (82.50) is the work of two distinguished musi cians, and is equal to the best. onnT'c cpunni FOR THE CABINET OR- nUUI 0 oUnUUL (,ti.^0)is one of the oldest and best methods. Widely known and used. CLARKE'S $1 INSTRUCTOR WINNER'S NEW SCHOOL -THE THAT DOES NOT YIKLD A bottle coating Ue., He. *r I1.M, haa often sated tbe life of haaaa being, Mid reatored to life aa uefslnesi maay a valuable liorae. NEW WILLCOX A GIBBS AUTOMATIC Latest Invention, ana producing Marvelous Results. Trsde Mark In Ofily madr in the wo* with Automatic Tension and Stitch Indicator, •very machine. SILENT SEWING MACHINE. Send Postal Card for Illustrated Price List, &c. Willcox & Gibbs S. M. Co., (Gor. Bond 8t.) 668 Broadway, New York. REPUBLICANS! DEMOCRATS! CREENBACKERS! AU who wish an able, newsy and fair-minded pa per, representing the best phases of Southern Re publicanism, should read the LOUISVILLE the leading and representative Republican journal oftheSonth. Utdiy UamerdalSlSfe:year, «centsl»r month. Try it one month. Weekly Commercial, neatly arranged, clear ly printed, carefully edited-a capital lamily news paper per year, II for six months. In clabB of lye, fl.M each, per year Clubs of ten or more, ILNeach. One cepy of either edition »ent free, post-paid, to any address. ., An Agent wanted in every neighborhood, to whom we pay per cent, cash commission, or a hand' some and valuable premium. Send for Special Cir cular to Agents. Beat Aivertblag Bfedlam la the Math, rates, and quantity and quality of circulation con aidered. Bate card and cepies of paper free. Address, A. SilsCwiIKD, Manager CQMMCTCIAL, I^MLAVLLLO. KY. TO ADVERTISERS! TtttAT-q to FOSTER, No. 41 Park Row, IM YORK azansBAL AGENTS FOB THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER UNION LISTS OF CO-OPERATIVE NEWSPAPERS. Advertisers desiring to use either of the Lists (not Slessrs. ubliitaed in their own citr) may communicate with BEAL8 A FOSTER direct, as all orders will hereafter pstss tbroush their hands. A. jr. AIKEm, AMrieaa Hewifiwr P»ln WONDERFUL SUCCESS! 25,000 "t tbe CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED. Sold in days. It being the only complete low-price work ('79pages, only 83.30), treating of the entire kMery.inuMl exhibit^ curiMlttca,pratdaya,etc. illustrated and ftl cheaper than anv other everybody vault it. One new nt cleared SSM in weem. S,4HM agents manted. id aeickly for proof of above, opinions of officials, iny and press, sample pages, fnll description, and extra terms. HTTBBABD BROS., LaSalle St., Chicago. fillTIAH Beware of falsely claimed official and faAU HUH^orthles!! ly-oka,-JSead far prooi*. THOMAS' SPECIFICS FOR CHQU WILL PREVENT ATTACKS OT Scarlet Fern, Diphtheria, Oionp, Whooping Oongh. WILL CUES Oolic.Cholera Infantum, Diarrhoea, Dys entery, Infants' Teething, Sore Month, Sore Throat, Coughs, Colds, Influenza, Cro.ip, Whooping Congh, Diptheria, Ear Ache. Ear Discharge, Cholera Mor bus, Griping, I oose Bowels. Bilious, Scarlet, and all other Fevers, Worms and Worm Colic, etc. Pack ages containing 12 specifics sent per mail for S2.25. Canvassers wanted at tl per day and a percentage. Address J. V. THOMAS, Bellefonte, Pa. POMONA HUBSERY SYNDICATE Trees and Plants. Capt. Jack and flreat Anaerlean. tbe best Strawberries. Ten acres of Brandpieine (Susqueco) Raspberries,"yielded last summer *4,338. Send for Catalogue. WU. PARRY, Cinnaminson, N. J. & Prof. Hall's Matte Cmmpmmmrn to the only preparation, one ptckag* of vMch will force the beard to grow thick uid him on the imoothest ffcee (without injury) ia fi diji in every ene, or money eheernuto n* fundrd. S5 cental per package. poetpaMi 8 00 cents. E. W. JoN^nt^fradTMaMi "Combination of Capital." New mode of operating in stocks. Loss IafssilUe. rrollto sure. Explanatory circular sent Fre«. MOKKAN & CO., Brokers, S9Broad St., V. 0. Box T. AGBNT5 W AH TED for the new book, Guarding the Jfmls.a most wonderful book on the Detection oi Postal Thieves by late Chief Special Agent Woodward. Illugtra ted circulars sent free. Address DUSTIN, GILHAM 00., Hartford, Ot., Chicago, III., Cincinnati, O., Richmond, Va. IH THE P.0.DEFT nmni Ur|l87«bot93J»,nsvlee. IllOat.fr—. HtWllLf tnwwTwOTOWomM.gtrto—i,m. BROOM "BAPSK.1T» ent*. ftO Oulftfrts ~.Y. Augn sta.Maiaa. a A A a WEEK. CaUloroe and Sample rill VtUfKLTOS CO.. 1S»aas»nBt .Mew Tori A»AYto Agents. Samplofree. Sajsgs Catalogue. L. VLSTOHH, 11 Dey St., a. I. (10 a day at home. ^IZtei .termsfree. THUE ..its wanted. OotMand CO., Augusta, Malae. ffiOAaDar. HOW TO MAKE IT. BomsMnfutm 9nut OOP!, row no..«. LtmU.M». tC ton For Day at home. Sample* worth sa 3 10 4ZU tree. 8TINSON A CO., Portland, Maine. fi?OOAa month. A-geots wanted everywhere. Address O. PIBRUNG, Ravenswood, III. POPHAM-S OPPPINN Beit A ui worn. ASTHMA PfSvtfUi, T. FQPHAM CO.. MS. Men to sell to Merchants. tM a. inonth__and_ traveling es W A N TED a month and traveling WW AX1 enses paid. Gem Kfg.Oo.,St.Louts, WATVWES. A ureat oen»uou. Sample $3 MOUTH.—Agents wanted. best seU artlclea in the world. One sample free, id reus JAY BHOmOIf, Detroit.Mleh. EPILEPSY or FITS ACbromos cured by Dr. ROM' 1 Epl Remedies. TRIAL PACEAOI SIKT ra! Address, BOSS BB08., BlOHaoW, PCyCMIK matter, how slightly disabled. Ia. LIHIVne creases now paid. Advice and Mrcnlar free. T. MOMIOHAII., Attjr.,7OT8an*omSt.,Phila.,Pa 0ESTT8 WAHTED.—Twenty Ixll Monnted for $1. 3 samples by mail.postpaid.aeo. CONTINENTAL CHHQMQ CO.. 87 Neman St., Hew York i—Men to ao licit ordera lor our goods permanent esiplsysaeati goo WANTED"^' salary. Trt salary. Traveling expenses paid by Company. Union Indnatrlnl Worts. Cincinnati. O. A T\TT!C*—^Heaven to on the Other Bide. I A 111 Pin New Song and Chorus. 30 eta. A I I I A A W "Mutioal Quarterly, 1ft eta. a year, post-paid PEEK A SON,S3 Clinton Place, N. T. «itoiUogoar Chromo^ (M fl S »UPC by ARO u) I U)£ 0 Cnty°,,s* P'l'l,!re *nIChromo Card*. 186 pies, worth $5» *eot p"st*w»id for R&c. iliottrft* J. H. BUFFORD' S SONS. BOSTON, MAS& TM"/~\XT Ij1 Eatilymade with our Stencil and iTllJll Jtli J. Key Check Outfit. Circulars free. N. 4 ARTHUE STArrOBD, 105 Fnlton St., N. T. FITS CURED. mmi SB lamp go )inatnA«a F(?RGAI«^D is an abbreviated but very good method for be ginners. ORGAN (7j cts), is the cheapest, and an excellent easy instruc tion book. HDRAII AT UflUC 'S W S3 cloth UnUAn AI nunc gilt) has 200 well known Keed Organ pieces. •WEither book mailed, post-free, for Retail Price. OLIVER DITSON & CO., Boston. C. H. Dtteon A Co., J. E. Dltnon A Co., 711 Broadway, Successors to Lee & Walker, Philadelphia. The Enemy of Disease, the Foe of Fain to Han and Beast, the SrMMS Old NO CURE, NO PAY. Ad dreas S. H. BOWUETT, Box SO, La draace, Ky. A Tear and Expenses to good Agmta, who are wanted everywhere, in a strictly legitimate and pleasant baBiness. Particulars free. Address J. WORTH A CO.. M. LoaU. Ma. ROSE GROWER'S COMPANION AND FLORAL GUfOG Tells you how to prow Roses, Geraniums. Mailing Plants Specialt** Send for it. A. K. WILLIAMS. Successor*© E. T. TEAS CO.. Richmond. Ind m~V~% TT^T^I SeedJings.KTergreeiistUftrea.HvtMxOrOTa, I tv r.H. one of tbe largest best stocks ia the V. S. Tree, Garden, Flower 4 Herb 8eeds, Bead fsr CT?l?Tl 3 Price LUu, Address H. U. THOMPftO* ft uJjEjI/o BON, St. Fraads, MUvaakae Co., Wk. MEN to travel and sell to Dealer*our new unbreakable glass chimneys and goods. No P*d«llia«. Salary liberal, bnafness permaD«nt. Hotel & travel'/? expense® paid. Monitor Glass Co., 2&4 Main St Cincinnati, O. A. FORTUMJd Can be wade by a few smurt men who can keep their own ceuiicil. Address J. B. CLIABPRAO. Hobofcen, New Jersey. YOU can secure a ft AAA payia* businen. exclusive for your la|I|I]| county, at a small cost. No experience and small capital reouireii. Pleapant ww aI1( honorable, by addressing Jas. T. WlUiamaon, Cincinnati, O. $100. REWARD. $100. THIS MOUSTACHE produced on a smooth free by TM ose OR DVKS'S BEAJU Eu&ra vitboot injury, or will forfeit $100. Frice by mail In sealed package 25 ceots, for three 50 cents* A. LTSMITH & CO., Ag'ts, Palatine* ID. I have sold more dozens of Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup for the past year than I have ever Bold of a similar medicine during tbe same length of time* I have on my shelve® thirteen different cough reme dies. comprising most of those considered staple in this section. WESLEY BULISON, Evans Mills. Jeff. 3o., N. Y. A BOOKfor the BULLION UCniPtl AnVIPC A 40-page Pamphlet on Special HCUluAL AUYluC and Chronic Diseases, Cancer. Catarrh, Bupture, Opium Habit, Ac., SENT FBKX on receipt of stamp. Address, Dr. Butt's Dispenaa ry, So. 12 N. 8th St.. St. Louia. Mo. CHEAPEST ROTARY HANS COMSHELLER IN THE UNITED STATES. Guaranteed tobc the simplest,cheapest.mostdurable, eflective and the best. Buy it. Try it and be convinced. Samples 81.00. Large profits to agent*. Addrew Harrisbarg,Pa. .Family CornsheUer Co. LOCK Box A ». I O I N S I N S 1 Genuine Italian Vieiin Strioga, also for Banjo or Guitar, 15 and20c each, or $1.50 and $2a doz. sent by mail on receipt of price. Dealers! Send card far cata logue. S 4ENGJER, Importer of Musical Instru ments and Strings, 106 Chambers Street, New York. A E S YANKEEI .lie matchless tttmej UM Sketch Paper. Full of entertain ing. and useful matter. 8S.M a year. 8 cent* a copy of Newsdealers. Send cts.Jor 3 sample copies. JONES ft 4 Liberty Sq., Boston, Han. BLADE!CO.,mirth-provoking EMFIjOYM BUT. ANY PERSON of ordinary intelligence can earn a living by canvassing for The Illustrated Weekly Experience iB not necessary—the only requisite Be ing, as in all successful business, industry and en ergy. Send for particulars. Address CHAHl.M CLUCAS CO.. 14 Warren Street, New York. Tbe Beat Trmnawithou Metal Springs ever invented |No humbug claim of a osr atom radical cure, but a guar antee of a comfortable, cure, and satisfactory appli ance. We will take back sad pay fall price for all that denot MMIT Price, single, like cut, #4 for both sides, M. Sen bv mail, cost-paid, on receipt of price. H. JJ—raw which extravagant claims are made. POMBBOT Circulars free. TBUSS CO.. 746 Broadway, New York 'It ffRT-T-q »t Sight." FRANK LESLIE'S HISTORICAL RE6ISTER —0* THE— CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION Is the only complete Pictorial History oftheOenten- IW7 Pearl Street. Sew Tort. AG'TS WANTED FOR HISTORY Sffl^3SCL5SSBffl^&.?S nAim^TAV Unreliable and worthless books CAUliUH on the Exhibition are being circu lated. Do not be deceived. See tbatfkA contains over 900 pages and nearly 0Q fine engravings. A LUCRATIVE BUSINESS. ar WE WANT SOC -IRST-CJLAfr* SEWING MACHINE I.CEM'8, AND 500 MENOFENERCY AKi^? "r' WEAR* THE BUSINESSOFSELC-. ,EW!MOMA CHINES. COMPENSATION ^AU,BOT VARYINC ACCORDINCTO ABii-ip fY, CHAR ACTER AND QUALIFICATIONS OF THE ACENT. FOR PARTICULARS, ADDRESS ttu teg Us Gi GMsasi. 887 829 BBOAJWAT- Her te Orlwa U. A GREAT 0FFER!!^^ra5$ IP1AJTOS A OB® AH®, sew •*. of tnMwBakm, l»rl«*lyg WA KS'»t lower prleea for tadi or IsitslK •n«a or to let uUlfmM fertjuui evCTj^ ,„.-e oferrAW iTn«S SEA3fS ud vPRiewt a£ BEST SAltE. A«EIW WAWTTEP. niy tr sited Cataleftes 9lsdleL A tttaHfr count to Teachers, Mmuters^OhKrehm. te. WMM music at h*ir price. HOKACT WAWM A SONS, JUnnfeeturen aa« Pealera, j» East 14tb Street, Union Ignore, Wow The New York Times says: "Waters' Orchestrtoa Chime Organ" is a beautiful little instrument, slmjriy perfect. The chime of two and one-half «tne belle, and the artistic effects capable of being produced by the player are singularly fine. TCLBO&l OOXPOXTED Of PTJEE COD LIVES OIL AHD LIKE. T* OM and All.—Ar* SaMrisf frtm a conch, cold, asthma, bronchitis or any of the Tan* oas pulmonary troubles, that so often end in con sumption If so, use Wilbor** Pure Cod IAver OUamd Lime." a safe aud efficacious remedy. This is no quack preparation, but is regularly prescribed by the medical faculty. Manufactured only.by A. p. WILBOB, Chemist, Boston. Sold.by all druggtefa. [Established lift.] J.ESTST&00* Brattloboro, Vfc a.«. uu w. W. Washlngton'STot Icago. •JMJ.WERTTATOAROIRATEWA.LTEASMRILSBONTFT fOQ me. H.HAiaarrr*w,swro»o,ii« mmi wuvne