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THE SILENT MARCH. When the march begins In the morning And tho heart and tho foot are light When tho lings arc all a-flutter And the world la say and bright. When the I ngles lead the column And tho drums nro proud In tho van. It's shoulder to shoulder, forward, marefc! Ah! let him lag who can! Tor it's easy to march to music With your comrades all In line, .And you don't get tired, you feel Inspired. And life Is a draught divine. When the march drags on at evening And the color-bearer's gone, (When the merry strains are silent That piped so bravo In the dawn, tVhc:i you miss tho dear old fnUowri Who started out with you, Whin it's stubborn and sturdy, forward, march! Though the ragged lines arc few. Then it's hard to march In silence. And the road has lonesome grown, And lite is a bitter cup to drink: But the soldier must not moan. Ard this is tho task beforo us, .v tusk we may never shirk, In t' gay time and the sorrowful time We must march and do our work. We must march when the music cheers us, March when tho strains are dumb, plucky and valiant, forward, march! smile, whatever may come. For. Whether life's hard or easy. The strong man keeps tho pace, Por the desolate march and the silent Tho strong soul finds the grace. ?Margaret E. Songster, in Chicago In? terior. I JACKIE'S ??HGMfJ. I I - I BY A. O. BRAZIER. 5 I. HPHE garret was squalid to u degree. J_ It was dark, dirty and wretched, and the thin streaks of light which lil tered in through the tiny, dust-choked skylight only seemed to heighten the darkness and increase the misery of the place. Iti was a small, square room, with no furniture except a couple of broken chairs) a grimy table and a broken packing ease, and it seemed a place scarcely lit for habitation. Yet 0:1 the floor there were coarse straw mattresses, and on one of them, with his weary face turned up to the dismal skylight above, hi}' a boy. lie was only a small boy, but his face was like an old man's, and his limbs were shrunken and dwarfed and thin. lie lay looking up into the face of a man who bent over him. "I shall be all right by and by, dad," he said, in a weak voice. "I shall be nil right as soon ns the sun creeps up a hit ard I can get out. Don't worry, dad. PVaps I shall be able to do some? thing soon. PVaps I could make some boxes or something if I could sit up a bit." Two big tears came down the man's cheek and fell on to the boy's hand, lie 'turned away hurriedly and began walking to and fro across the garret. "I must get the doctor to you some? how," he said, more to himself than to the boy on the bed; "if 1 fetch him by force he must come. It's no good put? ting it off any longer." He locked at his sou and shuddered ns he thought of the change a year of misfortune had made in him. "Xo, r,o," said the boy, with the thought fulness of an old man; "wait a bit. I may be all right to-morrow." The man plunged his hand into his pocket and sighed. With twopence be? tween them and starvation, what was the use of fetching- a doctor who would order eggs and milk for his boy? What v. as the use cf anything except to sit and otare at the skylight and starve? John Endleton was a man who had once been in a good position. Only a y< or ago he had believed himself to be out of the rcaeli of want, but misfortune had overtaken him, his bank (had failed, he had lost money in a hundred differ? ent ways, ill luck had followed him and he had fallen from bad to worse, until nt last lie found himself with his ten rear-old son in an East end slum, penni? less, heart-sick, hopeless, with sickness overtaking them, with no prospect of anything better than a hand-to-mouth existence and with a criminal?a gaol bird?a common convict for a com? panion. John Endleton was a proud man. It was his pride, perhaps, that had led him to refuse good berths that he would have been, thankful for now, and he bated the man who shared their gar? ret. If he could have afforded it?if he could only have made sure of the neces? sary pence?he would have rented the rntire room in order to keep his boy from contact with the man; but he had reached such a hopeless stage of his existence that he was thankful if he found himself able to provide one de? cent meal a day, and he was obliged to tolerate him, although his xcry pres? ence seemed poison. He hated his coarse ways, his bad face, his evil breath, and the thought th?t he was within almost a yard of his son made bim shudder. Jem Rrookcr was the leader cf a gang. There was no hotter known criminal In Ihe whole cf London than he, and he was proud of his reputation, proud of his wickedness, and proud even of the lime he had "done" in Portland prison. He was foul-mouthed, bad-tempered r.nd had been convicted of numberless crimes; but for some reason litle Jackie Endleton interested him. In the early morning when he stag? gered up to the garret half drunk the light of the thin, white face on the dirty mattress sobered him. The touch of the boy's hand dragged back his memory through a thousand dirty by? ways to the fresh country where, when he was a small lad, he had played with Jiis sister in green fields under blue skies. Something in the boy's eyes re called h'.s mother. Something, too, in the droop of the little Ups reminded him of her as he had seen them last, when she had been dying with shame for her son. And the big, gaunt man, whose heart was black with crime, who jb?d resisted the overtures of mission ?eries and sneered at prison chaplains, found himself suddenly overcome by a [jittle ten-year-old boy who was dying jof starvation in a miserable garret, ne [scoffed and swore at himself as he did It, bnt it became a regular thing for him to bring oranges and sometimes grapes his return to the garret at night. And John Endleton hated it. He re? lented it fiercely and shrank back when .'/? ru Rrookcr approached the bed and looked down at Jackie's face. As the winter passed ?*"Mhe spring Jackie seemed to grow weaker instead 'of stronger, or.d nt last, with a solitcrj' smiling- in his pocket, John Endleton Vet off in desperation for a doctor. If [anything happened to the boy he would Jiave nothing to live for, and the jthonghi $eeme4 to choke him. But he 'knocked at Ihe doc'tor'g door without success. The doctor was busy*?--too busy .to attend to him until night, and when Slight came he had forgotten all about it, ami Jackie In}' in n half fever, moan? ing ::r.d loosing restlessly from sido to side, while Endleton sat over him with :r:ige<it his heart. ', When, towards morning, Jem mount? ed the creaking stairs in his usual half idrutiken fashion and staggered into the ^rarret. he found Endleton sittinc bv [ the side of the mattress with Iiis face in his hands. A pale moon sent a shaft of light on to the bo.v's sleeping face, and it looked white and drawn and cold, as if already the shadow of death lay upon it. Jem stopped In di -nken surprise. A stupid grin crossed his face. He stared and waved Ins arm wildly in the air. He tried to speak, but his voice was hoarse with brandy, and the figures of the boy and his father danced before his eyes by the dozen. He muttered some words?Indistin? guishable and meaningless; and, col? lapsing suddenly, he tumbled down on his mattress and huddled himself to? gether in a drunken sleep. When he awoke a gray dawn was peeping slowly in through the small square of glass in the roof and every? thing In the dingy garret appeared un? real and lifeless. The boy on the bed seemed scarcely to breathe. Jem raised himself on his elbow and looked round, und some remembrance of the last night's scene began to pass through his mind. He looked, and It seemed to him that John Endleton had never moved. The moonlight had gone from the hoy's face and the dawn had come instead, but John Endleton was rtill sitting there, huddled up on the floor with his face buried in his hands. Jem lifted himself slowly frojn his mattress and stretched himself with a big yawn. Then he looked again at the two in the corner, and after a minute got up and went towards them. "Ain't the little 'un well?" he asked, clumsily. "Wot's up with 'un?" John Endleton stirred impatiently. The sound of the ex-convict's voice seemed to rouse all his hatred and dis? gust. He looked round with repulsion upon his face, and Jem, seeing it, shrugged his shoulders and sneered. "Oh, well, if ye're so mighty hinde pende.nt an' 'aughty, why don't yertotf lodgin-'s in th' Grand? A-course if yer don't want no 'elp I don't care. Only I thought," he added, brutally, "as th' chap's a dyin' like, as yer might want somethin' for Mm." John Endleton started and looked down at the boy, with his wan face, with his thin hands and faltering breath. For a moment it seemed to his excited imagination that the boy had Leased to breathe, and he leant for? ward hurriedly and with trembling fin? gers pulled back the sheet. "He's all right! He's not dying!" he exclaimed, eagerly. But at the same time it "was borne upon him that un? less he had nourishing things to eat, and those quickly, there would be no hope of ever pulling him round again, and the thought stabbed his heart with sudden bitterness. He t urned to the burglar. It was pos? sible that Jem could help him. Jem might know where to get help, or woi'k. or even charity; but Endleton's pride still stood up in arms, and with a de? termination to have nothing to do with him he turned away. Jem, with a fierce eneer on his lips and a burning hatred in his heart against Endleton, turned away, too. Xot a finger would he lift?not an inch would, he stir?not if the boy was dying fifty times over! As he turned ho caught sight of Jackie's pallid face lying on the dirty pillow. "Oh, Lor', wot a little bloke it is!" he thought; and then he went out, stum? bling down the stairs, swearing to him? self?a man apparently without the faintest hope of a better life, without knowledge of anything' except things evil, and yet with one clean spot in his black heart. II. Detective ITartly, prowling through the East end in search of such thieves ar.d transgressors as he might with dignity escort to the "lock-up," was turning a corner, when he suddenl}' be? came aware that cn the opposite side of the street a familiar and not exact? ly pleasing figure was ambling along at a rapid rate, with something peculiar in the bulgy appearance of his coat. "There's that Crooked Jem again," said the detective, to himself. He cast U suspicious eye at Jem's pockets, pulled nt his eyebrow?which was a way he had?and then beckoned to a policeman to follow him. "When he was within an inch or two of the said pockets he. suddenly clapped the unsuspecting Jem on the shoul? der?so suddenly that Jem's jaw fell, imd he made an abrupt, half undecided movement as if to flee from the wrath of the law. "Now, then," saidi Hlartly, severely, "none of thai. On with the handcuffs. And, Snaith, you come here end take his arm." Jen looked frcm one to the ether in something like dismay. "i ain't done nothln'," he expostu? lated. "Well, we'll see," said the detective; "and you'll remember, if anything is found on you, there are three years off that last job that you've got to finish." Jem's face grew dark. His hands fidgeted strangely after his handcuffs, niul if it hadn't been that he was a hardened, hopeless criminal one might almost have fancied that his under lip trembled. "Well, I'm blowed if I ever tries ter cheat th' gallows agen," was his vague and ungrammatical remark, and then they marched on to the police station. There, inside the bare room with its wocden benches and square desks, with the dingy green ledgers and musty pa? pers, Detective TTartly proceeded 1o turn cut the unhappy Jem's pockets. As he did so his eyes first opened in astonish? ment, then screwed' up in bewilder? ment; and finally he looked as if he had suddenly been confronted with the rid? dle of the Sphinx. Out of the depths of Jem's capacious pockets he turned on to the table a chicken, a tin of soup, some eggs, a packet of sweets, a sticky piece of can? died peel, aud last, but not least, a bottle of port. "What's the meaning of this?" said the detective, sharply, feeling vaguely that seme trick was being played upon him. "What is it ? A picnic, a card par? ty, or what? Apparently you're in a new line." "Oh. yes," said Jem, sullenly; "I've stole 'era all." And after that he made no remark. He sat staring at the stone floor, with his ccarse hands clasped to? gether by the handcuffs, and with a strange, almost baffled expression on his face. "I'll tell yer wot," he said, raising his head suddenly, "if ye'll cum wi' me I'll show yer the bloke as put me up ter this job. It's straight?no kiddin', an' I swear as if yer docs I'll cum back quiet?I swear I will. Yer can bring ? Snaith with yer an' some more 'coppers' ! if yer like?I don't care." The detective looked at Jem in silence I for a moment. Something about the case struck him as peculiar. It was not like Jem Brooker to steal eatnbles when better things were to be got with the same risk, and he felt a desire to know what it meant. So, with a fine disregard for the rules and regulations of her majesty's prison, he bundled Jem and Snaith into a cab, and with another policeman on the box they were driven to a small and filthy court a short distance away. There t'hey all three mounted the dreary stairs 1o the dingy garret, where John Endleton sat with shaking shoul? ders watching his dying son. At the sound of footsteps he raised his head and looked round. With sud? den astonishment he saw that Jem was handcuffed. ITc saw the policeman and the detective, and then Hartly stepped tnto the middle of the room. TTe looked-round expectantly. "Well," he said, "what now?" lie had expected to find perhaps half a dozen roughs. ITc had hoped that Jem might have given him some valuable in? formation?some clew that he had been unable to pick up himself; and now all that was to be seen was a man and a sick boy. "What do you mean by this?" he de? manded, turning to Jem, and the thief pointed with his manacled hands to the bed. "There's the little cove ns started, me on this," he said, and Hartly snorted impatientby. "Look here, Jem Brooker," he said, "you won't make things any better for yourself with trickery. Now, what's the reason for this fool's errand ?" Jem stood up. '"That's t" meanln' of It," he repeated, still pointing to the bed. "Ut's the little bloke there as set me on it?'im as is d'y iu* for things to eat. There 'c is. S'elp me, that's wot I done it fur." Hartly turned round sharply and looked at the boy. Then he stepped across the room and iicercddown at the wan face that was blue with cold and pitiful with hunger, and all at once he became aware that there was a strange .silence in the room, and when he looked again he saw the father staring breath? lessly into the boy's face. He saw It only dimly before him, and then it faded away to a picture of his own son. Some vogue astonishment at Ilrooker's behavior passed through his mind?he had never expected to lind a heart under the man's rough exterior? and then he strode suddenly across the room to the tot) of the stairs. "I say, Harris?Harris!" he shouted. "Go back to the station at onec and get those things thai are on the lublethero. Hurry up, now. Bring the port and the soup, and you'll find n cup and saucer In the cupboard. Be quick. You'd bet? ter take the cab; and, oh, I say, bring a corkscrew!" Then he went back and calmly un? locked the bnndbuffs on Jem's wrists. To-day Detective Hartly is not quite such a hard man as he was. He has a great belief in the humau nature, and even In the tender-heartedness, of the greatest criminals, and sometimes he will cite the instance of a man whose heart, cankered with evil nnd hedged In by viee, was reached only by the small fingers of a child.?Tit-Bits.* rVlAINL tJArtlvctto. Tiioy iMnst fie Ingenious, MoHqultO I"roof, auil All Around Handy Men. The word "barker" as it is used in the Maine backwoods signifies a man who is master of a profitable trade. The city barker is a man who is hired to rehearse the dazzling events in the line, of dime museum freaks, but on up-river barker is a muscular, mos? quito-proof man whose life's business is to peel the bark from hemlock trees nnd put it in shape for use in the tan? nery. Last week a down-river employ? ment agency sent more than 1,000 barkers to this town and beyond, all of whom will work from now until September, and will get $2.50 a day wich, rain or shine, for all the time they are in the woods. In nddition to this they will receive board and lodging and free transportation to and from their work. When it is remembered that the best lumbermen get but $22 a month, and trained pulp mill men?acid mak? ers and digesters?can be had at $1.25 to $1.50 a day each, without board, the wages demanded by the barkers seem princely and out of proportion to the kind of labor they have to perform. In old days, when hemlocks were as plentiful as gray birch, and every farmer had his hemlock lot, the bark was peeled in the summer, dried in the fall, and hauled out to the tannery in the winter. This was the method fol? lowed for more than a century. As the hemlock was driven back to the borders and the tanneries still demanded more end more of the tannic acid, various substitutes were tried, including yel? low birch, oak, sumac and sweet fern, but none proving so good as hemlock, new efforts were made to secure what the trade demanded. At a time when hemlock was very cheap, a Maine syn? dicate, which Included Senator Eugene Hale and ex-Gov. D. F. Davis, bought up about nil the available growth lu the state, nnd no sooner was the deal completed than the price of tanning material began to go up by bounds. The market would have been cornered and most of the tanneries been forced into bankruptcy if somcbodj' had not discovered that the remote hemlock bark, which was so far in the woods that its cost of transportation would hinder its removal, could be boiled down and the tannin condensed so that three cords of bark could be put Into an ordinary barrel. This discovery enabled n pair of horses to carry more tannin thnn ten teams had been able to haul, and gave the tanners another chance for their lives. Beginning in a small way, the extract works increased in size and number until most of the hemlock in Maine is shipped in barrels, as is molasses or kerosene. The business of the Maine barker is the direct outcome of this change. Not only must he know how to fell trees and peel bark, but he must be a skilled cooper, who can split and shave staves and hoop poles, put them together and insert the heads, and warrant his bar? rels to be firmly made and water-tight. Living for months many miles from a highway or a railroad, he must be a carpenter nnd blacksmith as well as a cooper and bark peeler, and if he has any other trade or knack of doing work it all counts in his favor and tends to increase his pay or prolong his job. There are scores of farmers-and lum? bermen in Maine who get along as best they maj' for nine months in tho year and rely on what they get from bark? ing for their spending money and lux? uries. Owing to the Introduction of "extract," hemlock bark is as cheap to? day ns it was ten years ago, and the men who bought hemlock growth hop? ing for a rise in price are waiting until no more extract can be mpde before offering to sell. They aspect that time is coming when they will own all the hemlock in the United States, but meanwhile they fear some new tanning process will be discovered which does not require hemlock. For these rea? sons the bark owners are not wholly happy, while the barkers continue to enjoy themselves.?N. Y. Sun. Clear Cane or Suicide. Mawson?That was funny nbout Liley's dog. They say it committed sui? cide. Muggs?Yes; it came into my yard .while I was sitting there with a gun In my hands. ? Philadelphia North American. ?While the populationof France re? mains nearly stationary, theconsump^ i iion of tobacco increases by leaps and bounds. During 1600 the French con? sumed over 20,000 tons of tobacco. . j THE FARM KITCHEN. How '?Vater May lie Pumped to It from U Distant AVcll. It frequently happens that a fanner's family is obliged) to depend for n water supply upon a well or spring at somedis tacce from the bouse. When such n supply Is on lower ground the labor of tarrying water is considerable. This may be avoided by placing a pump in the kitchen, to discharge over the kitch? en sink. Such an arrangement gives good satisfaction, while it is new, but l wearing of the valves, causing it to leak air, be it ever so little, will empty WATER FOR THE KITCHEN. tht. whole pipe of water, and. the time and trouble required to "fetch the pump" will make the thing practical? ly a failure. To overcome this a well pump must be used, bringing the cyl? inder near the bottom of the cellar. Then let tlie suction pipe turn upward, ns shown in the illustration, and pass jut through the cellar wall a little high? er than the top of the cylinder. This will cause water always to remain in the pump and' thus secure the pipe from becoming empty. With this arrange? ment water may be drawn under ground to where it is needed from a distance of ten or twenty rods without difficulty, except that it must be from a point not more than 25 feet lower than the pump cylinder. If the kitchen is subjected to freezing temperature in the w infer the pump may be protected by making a small hole at "a," thus per? mitting the water to escape down to that point when the pump is not in use. ?Charles 12. Benton, in Practical Farmer. SAVE YOUR FIELDS. If You Do Not Toed Your I.nnd It Will Refuse to Feed You. "Why do you feed your horse?" If that question were asked the average farmer he would doubtless answer: 'Von are a fool; I feed him to keep him ilive and able to work." But if the question were asked: "Why don't you feed your land?" the average farmer would not be so ready with his answer. Vet the one thing is no more important than the other. If it is absurd) to be able to work and produce results hav? ing no material to be converted iivto strength, it is no less so to expect land !o produce crops continuously without having new supplies of plant food'with which to make them grow. No soil is inexhaustible. While there are large accumulations :>f plant food in some localities, con? tinuous cropping and the leaching and washing caused by rains will in time deplete and exhaust them. It is better lo feed the land before it is starved. It is easier to keep a horse fat than to fatten n poor one; and it is easier to keep land productive than to take that which is dead' poor and make it 60. A lorse that is sti] strong enough to as? similate his food' can soon acquire his normal strength; he only wants aplen? ty of good food. Land that will grow ;-rops of uny leguminous plant will, if the same are plowed! under or fed off in the field!, in a short time recover enough tone to produce profltablecrops .)f other things. But if allowed to run down bo that neither clover nor peas will make a crop, it cannot be economic? ally restored. A word' to the wise Is sufficient; begin this year to feed your land, so that it in turn may feed you.? Rural World. FOR CUTTING STALKS. A Homemade Contrivance That Docs Its Work Well. A cheap stalk cutter is made by tak a sound log, A, about 4 feet long and 13 to 24 inches in diameter. Blades of steel, IJ, 3 feet long and 4 inches wide, edged as in sharpening a plow, are se STALK CUTTER. cured to the log as shown in the cut. The shanks that hold the blades should be set forward so that in revolving the edge will strike the ground perpen? dicularly. A common roller frame is put on and the tongue (C) is fastened behind a cart or wagon, and it is ready for operation. The number of blades to put on depends on the size of the log and the length pieces the stalks are to be cut into. For a log IS inches in diameter 5 blad*3 will suffice. The log must be heavy enough so that the weight will cut through the stalks.?G. W. Waters, in Ohio Farmer. FACTS FOR FARMERS. Flax Is very exhaustive to the soil. Insure j-our buildings against cy? clones. Shallow cultivation of corn should be the rule. Drainage will greatly increase tha value of wet ground. Boots cannot penetrate a subsoil that Is as hard as a etone. The silo will enable the farmer to keep more cows profitably. In sections where c3'clones are likely, a storm cave shows wisdom. Spare the harrow in the early stages of corn growth and spoil the crop. The hired man should be a gentle? man among the children in the home. We do not like the barbed'wire fence and would not have one, while other fencing Can Le hack When the surface bakes after a rain, a tight harrow should be used, whether the crop is up or not. Hailstorms are likely anywhere, and iusurance against them is as necessary as insurance against fire. Eighty ticres, intensively cultivated are better than 100 acres under the too often loose system of fanning.?West? ern PlowmarJ. Our Wealth tu Gras?. Mr. Scrihner, of the department of agriculture, has recently collected some very interesting tacts noout American grasses. He says: "We have better grasses und a greater variety of Ihem nntivo to our soil than we can ever get from Europe." Of clovers we have no less than CO species, all native to the country, and there is an equal number of different "blue grasses," be? sides 20 "grazing grasses" and a great variety of others. Yet, Mr. Scribncr says, hardly more than a dozen of all these hinds of native grasses have been brought into cultivation. CULTIVATING GRASS. No Crop Grown on the Average Farm rnj? Hotter. There is no part of farming at the present day so much neglected' as the meadow, and there is no crop grown that pays better. The general idea of the farmer is that the meadow docs not require any cultivation or care. "The meadow," he says, "is all right. I seeded this field three1 or five years ago; but I cannot see why I get so light a crop." It is quite plain you have hsen rob? bing the land for three years and re? turning nothing. Worse thnn that; you have allowed the moss to creep in nnd smother the roots which you have robbedof their natural sustenance, with? out returningjanything to them ordriv ing off the moss from the root-bound grass. What kind of a corn crop would j-ou get if you did not cultivate it ? To insure a big crop of hay cultivate it. Haul, during the month of December, say from six to eight loads to the ocrc of barnyard manure and spread It while hauling as evenly as you can with n fork. Then a6 early as you can gel on the meadow in March, or as soon as the frost is out and the ground dry enough to get on with a team, tak&a good har? row und drag it thoroughly, and then cross-harrow it. You will Imagine you nrc going to ruin your meadow, but you are simply loosening the roots nnd giv? ing them, a chance; nnd when harvest time comes you will find you not only did not injure your meadow, but great? ly increased your crop of grass, and nlso improved j'our ground. This mat? ter of cultivating grass is not n mere "theory." It is a principle, proved to be correct by actual trial with profitable results. In 1SS2 Josiah Bagley, of Se? rena, from n six-aore meadow took 12 loads of hay, with no after-crop. The following season he manured nnd cultivated the same six acres substan? tially as outlined above. Some of his neighbors laughed at him; but about the 10th of July, 1SS3, he cut 10 loads of grass from these six acres, and in the last of September out n second crop of nine loads. Ho says: "I am an advo? cate of cultivating grass."-"?J. E. Por? ter, in Prairie Farmer. To Destroy Wasps' Nests. A very simple and effective plan of Jcstroying the nests of the wasp con sists in saturating a piece of soft rag, attached to a slender stick, in turpen? tine, and then thrusting it into the passage to the nest, stopping up the hole with a piece of turf. It kills every wasp, and there is no necessity what? ever for digging them out. Use thor? oughly good turpentine, for when it has lost much of its strength it will fail in its action. Such a remedy as this is safe, and quite as good as the dangerous preparations so often adopt? ed. One or two tablespoonfula of pul? verized cyanide of potassium put into the nest at any time of the day forms a good remedy. If quietly dune the In? gress of the insects is not in the least disturbed. They enter readily, but never return. To Prevent Potato not. When potatoes are already infected with disease there is no way to make them sound; they will rot sooner or later. Before putting potatoes into the cellar they should be looked over care? fully and all affected ones removed, as a rotten tuber is apt to destroy all sound ones is touched. Air-slaked lime is sometimes used tosprinklc overa bin of potatoes to absorb moisture nnd thus checks tiic spread of disease. Keeping in a cold, dry cellar would have a like effect. It is well to sort over potatoes a few weeks after they are stored, remove the rotten ones and prevent furtherrot ting.?Journal of Agriculture. Barometern on tiie t'arm, The farm is full of barometers, all more certain than the best almanacs ever concocted. Before the rain comes the dog is la/.y and wants to sleep, the cat washes its face, and the horses are restless and easily frightened. The geese are noisy, the poultry seek their roosts, ants are in a hurry and skurry laying in supplies, spiders crowd to? gether on the wall, toads and snalia nnd slugs are on the garden paths and birds cry "weet, v.ect," the frogs croak, nnd peafowl become very excitable end talkative. Made and Merit Maintains the confidence of the people in Hood's Sarsaparilla. If a medicine cures you when sick; if it makes wonderful cures everywhere, then beyond all question that medicine possesses merit. That is just the truth about Hood's Sar Bnparilla. We know it possesses merit because it cures, not once or twice or a hundred times, but in thousands and thousands of cases. We know it cures, absolutely, permanently, wheu all others fail to do any good whatever. We repeat arsaparilla Is tlie best ? in fact the One True Blood Purifier. ijj?_ d:ii curenausea,Indigestion, HOOG S KtllS biliousness. 26cents. FOR SALE Thoroughbred Shropshire Buck Lambs, Price $10.00. these lambs are gilt edge in breeding and style. Pedigrees can be seen by applying to GEO. W. GILLESPIE, at Tazewell, Ya., or to R. K. GILLESPIE, Pounding Mill, Va. Wanted?An Idea Who ean think of some Bimple thing to patent? Protect vour ideas: tliey may bring you wealth. WritajiOHN WEDDEUBURN & CO., Patent Attor? neys. Wanlilnffton, n. C. for their $1.800 uriie offer Mil new list o? one thousand lavcutlouu wasted. _ STOP, WOMEN! You Are Asked to Consider an All-Important Fact. You Can Talk Freely to Mrs. Pinkham, But It Is Revolting to Tell Your Troubles to Any Man. ?' ? In addressing Mrs. Pinkham you are confiding your private ills to a woman?a woman whose experience in treating woman's diseases is greater than that of any living physician?male or female You can talk'freely to a woman when it is revolting to relate your private troubles to a man?besides, a man does not understand?simply because he is a man. Many women suffer in silence and drift along from bad to worse, knowing full well that they ought to have immedi? ate assistance, but a natural mod? esty impels them to shrink from1 exposing themselves to the qacstions and probably ex ' animations of even their fam? ily phyisician. It is unneces? sary. Without money or price } you can consult a woman, ? whqse knowledge from actual /experience is greater than any ~ I local physician. The follow? ing invitation is freely offered; - accept it in the same spirit: P%<?JTty MRS- PINKHAM'S ^STANDING INVITATION. # Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass. All ^fettcrs?are received, opened, read and answered by women only. A womarr>can freely taHc of her private illness to a woman; thus hasdbeen established the eternal confidence between Mrs. Pinkham and/the women\pi America which has never been broken. Out of the vast volume of\ experience which she has to draw from, it is more, than possible/ tin-it she has gained the very knowledge that will he^p your case. She asks nothing in return ex? cept your good-will, and her advicefhas relieved thousands. Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very foe-lish if 3he does not take advan? tage of this generous offer of assistance.?Lydia E. Pinkham Medi? cine Co., Lynn, Mass. You Need Another Fl&t, Something different from what you bouglnt. earlier?something for 2 change thai is chic, stylish and just suits the season. Wc have just the thins-?-not too ele gant, but just dressy enough, and it doesn't cost much. If you need a hoi weather hat, a dainty finish for your summer suit, we have it.' An ex.'uninatior of our stock shows we have too manv hats'on hand, and to reduce uVw ant also to give our customers a bargain Une ncelled in Tazewell. Wc Shall (!ut the Prices on Them Exactly One-Fourth. Then a $3 hatwill coal you only ?2.25 r.iul a S2 hat will cost you only ?1.50 a $1 hat only 7.")^, the rest in the same, proportion. Do Not Lose This Opportunity. TAZEWELL MILLINERY CO. SHELLY BUILDING,. Tazewell, - - Virginia. E. D. BROWN, Proprietor. Board and Lodging by day, week or month. Meals at all hours at 25e. Table first class. J. W. WALL, HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER TAZEWELL, VIRGINIA. Sip and Carriage rainfing a Specialty, Perfect tit guaranteed in every instance. Prices reasonable. Central ? Hotel, (Near Courthouse Square) TAZEWELL, - VIRGINIA. SURFACE & IHITE, - - Proprietors, Livery Stable attached. Good Sample Rooms. Table fare the best. Nice Bed? rooms, etc. VIRGINIA: In the clerk's office of the circuit court of the county of Taze? well on the 7th day of July, in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Ninety Seven. Samuel B. Thompson, plaintiff, vs. Trespass on the case. F. .1. Kimball and Henry Fink, receivers of the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company, a corporation, defendants. The following is a copy of the process in said cause. The Commonwealth of Virginia: To the Sheriff of Tazewell County, ({reeting: We command you to summon F. J. Kimball and Henry Fink, Receivers of the Norfolk & Western Railroad Company, a corporation, to appear at rules to be held in the Clerk's otlice of our circuit court of Tazewell County on the ?rd Monday in July (1S97) next, to answer Samuel B. Thompson of a plea of Trespass on the case. Damages $75.00. And have then there this writ. Witness IL Bane Harlan. Clerk of our said court, at the. courthouse die 7th day of July, 1897, in the V2 >w\ year'of the Commonwealth. H. Bank Habman, Clerk. A copy. Teste: IL Bank Harm ax, Clerk. Chapman & Gillespie, p. q. IV 1S97 IRGINIA: In the clerk's office oi Tazewell circuit court, July ?th, J. H. Whitley and J. W. Whitley, com? plainants, vs. In chancery. I). P. Peery,J.H.Peery,C. H. Peery.W.F. Harman.D. G. Sayers.trustee.E. W. G? lespie.trustee, Frick Company (a corpora? tion), Greer Machinery Co., the names of parties composing last mentioned firm unknown, defendants. The object of this suit is to subject the real and personal property of ?. P. Peery in Tazewell County, Virginia, to sale, to satisfy two judgements of $S9,3t)each, with interest from 19th January, 1897; one of which is in favor of J. W.' Whitley and the other in favor of J. IL Whitley. The above mentioned real property is situate on Stony Ridge and the head waters of Cavitts Creek in said county. And to set aside and annul a deed of trust executed by D. P. Peery, June 8, 1897, of record in county court clerk's office of Tazewell County, deed book No. 40, page 200. And" it appearing from affida? vit on file in said office that E. W. Gillespie, Trustee, Frick Com? pany and Greer Machinery Company are non-residents of the Commonwealth of Vir? ginia, it is ordered that they appear here within lifteen days after due publication of this order and do what is neccessary to to protect their interests in this suit, and that copies hereof be published and posted as prescribed by law. A copy. Teste: H. Bane Haemax, Clerk. (.". W. St. Clair, p. q. rpKUSTEE'S SALE OF VALUABLE HOTfcL AND i J- STORK PROPERTY?By virtue of a deed ' of | trust, dated the "ith day of October, 1896, andduiy recorded in the otlice of the clork of the county court for Tuz'-wcll county, Va., in deed hook No. 38, luiRo. -?:!:;: whereby G. to. Shafer conveyed the real estate hereinafter referred to, and more fullv described in the gold deed, (to which reference is hereby made), to tin; undersigned trustee, to se? cure ninety-five certain negotiable notes of even date With said deed, each in the sum of 8:55.00, and payable, one each consecutive month there? after, to the Iron llelt Buildingiuid Loan Associa? tion, of Koanokc, Virginia; ond default having been made in the payment of the fourof said n,o.tw last due, and !>eing directed by tb,e,said uonetlel arysotodo, the undesigned trustee will, on ?WfcPNKSJUY. AUGUST4, 18U7, AT 4 O'CLOCK P.M., proceed to sell, on the promises, in the town of (.minim. Va., at public auction, to the highest bidder therefor, a certain lot of land with all of the buildings thereon, situated in the town of Graham, Tazewell county, Va., and known as lots 19 and 20. in section 31. of the map of tiruham Land anil Improvement Company, of record in the office of the clerk of the county court of Tuse well county, In deed book L*J, page SOU. Th* said map is known as "Plan udditiuuat to, Plan A, of Graham, Va." This pmnwts was formerly known as the Sur faed Hqtc.1 and .Store Property. Terms, cash, as (q SH?.OO and the costs of executing this trusf balance payable In equal, successive, monthly In? stalment! of jslYOO each, commencing on the 3th day of September, 1897. Purchaserto .?xccu'.e his negotiable notes for said deferred pavments, to be secured by a deed of trust on the p'ropertv sold and to insure the buUdings thereon for the amount of said deferred payments, and assign the policy of insurance to the trustee. C A. McIIigh, Trustee. VIRGINIA: In the clerk's office of Tazen ell circuit court, July 1st, 1897. John P. Gose, trustee, complainant, vs. In chancery. A. Phillipi, H. E. Bailey, J. B. Greever, Thomas Peery, A. St. Clair, J. H. Crockett, K. J. Collins, B. Moore, C. W. Keister and J. A. Greever, trustees, Wartburg Seminarv, a corporation, and A. Phillipi, A. St. Clair, B. Moore, J. A. Greever, J. H. Crockett, C. W. Keister, Thomas Peery, J. B. Greeyer and E. S. Greever, as individuals, together with all the unknown creditors of J. B. Greever, who are proceeded against as parties unknown, defendants. The object of this suit is to ask the di? rection of a court of equity in the sale of Wartburg Seminary, at Graham, Tazewell County, VS., under a deed of trust execu? ted by A. Phillipi and others, trustees, Wartburg Seminary, a corporation, J. B. Greever and E. S. Greever, his wife, to J. P. Gose, trustee, and of record in Taze? well County court clerk's office in deed book No. 41), page 173 ?See; in the payment of the debts, secured in the said deed of trust; and in the distribution of the bal? ance of the proceeds of the sale of the said Wariburg Seminary to the creditors of the said J. B. Greever. And it appearing from affidavit on lile In BSfd office that Ii. E. Bailey, E. J. Collins and B. Moore, trus? tees, and B. Moore as an individual, are non-residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and that the creditors of J. B. Greever are unknown, it is ordered that H. E. Bailey, E. J. Collins and B. Moore, trustees, and B. Moore as an individual, as well as the unknown creditors of J. B. Greever, appear here within lifteen days after due publication of this order and do what is necessary to protect their interest in this suit, and that copies hereof be pub? lished and posted as prescribed by law. A copy. Teste: H. Bane Harman, Clerk. Greever & Gillespie, p. q. V IBGINIA: In the clerks office of Tazewell circuit court, June 23rd, 1897. John C. Freeman, H. G. Peery and John C. St. Clair, late merchants and partners in trade under the firm name and style of Freeman & Co., who sue for the l>ene iit of H. G. Peery and John C. St. Clair, and Alexander Reynolds and F. W. Compton, late merchants and partners in trade under the firm name and style of Reynolds & Compton, who sue for the benefit of Alexander Reynolds, com? plainants, vs. In chancery. John W. Crockett, sheriff of Tazewell county, and as such, administrator of S. A. Dillion, deed., Jennie Hart, A. J. Lovely, Jr.. Jesse lively, Thomas P. Dil? lion, Thomas H. Dillion, Frank J. Dil? lion, Grat C Dillion, L. V. Dillion, J.L. Dillion, Nannie P. Dillion and S. L Dil? lion, the last five of whom are infants, defendants. The object of this suit is to enforce the lien of a judgment in the name of Freeman & Co., against T. P. Dillion and S. A. Dil? lion for |07.48 with interest from July 8th, lS85,till paid.and eighty cents cost.and also the lien of a judgment in name of Reynolds & Compton against said T. P.Billion and B. A. Dillion for the sum of $43 with interest thereon from July 7th,1887,and $1.05 costs by sale of the lands owned by S. A. Dillion in her life time and also the interest of T. P. Dillion therein, and it appearing from affidavit on file in said office that Jennie Hart, A. J. Ix?vely, Jr.. and Jesse Lovely are non residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, it is ordered that they appear here within fifteen days after due publica? tion of this order and do what may be nec? essary to protect their interests in this suit, and that copies hereof be published and posted as prescribed by law. A copv. Teste: H. Bane Harman, Clerk. Chapman & Gillespie, p. q._ VIRGINIA: In the clerk's office of Tazewell circuit court, June 23rd, 1897. S. S. Harman, administrator of J. Howe Bayers, deed., Complainant, vs. In Chancery. David T, Witten, W. W. Werkman, John ' V. Brown and the children of Chas. L. \WUten, deed, and his wife Francis Wit tan, ,who were infants on the 21st day of Ma*ac, 1895, whose names are unknown to the complainant, and who are sued as persons unknown, defendants. * The object of this .suit is to subject acer " tai-i lot of land located to,the town of Po cahoutas, Tazewell county. Virginia, being the game lot conveyed to Jno. A. pvTOv.n , bv W A. McKinney and wife and others, land conveyed by John A. Brown to Charte ' T Witten and by Charles L. \\ itten and wife to David T. Witten, to the payment of So4.S5 with legal interest thereon from ^?tdayof March, 1895, till paid. TKuMt aDoearing from affidavit on Oe m I A^ JffiS that W. W. Werkman, John A. SfflS? children of Charles L. Wit i??deSand his wife Francis Witten, ? mB1" uuk.T:?,?? tnonwe. v-berWvthin.hn^.to after theyappt. / -Uhisprder and .$9 What due publicai. *<5'-1 c- -?n/tetf fb^r interests may be necess. ^tni- ' -?hereof be pub in this suit, and . **t copi?_ 1 by law, fished and posted . prescribeu A copy. Teste: , B>S'E HARMAJf? Cle*. Chapman & Gillespie, p. q. T7TRGINIA: In the clerk's office of Tazewell circuit court, July tJth, Geo. P. Hall, complainant, vs. In chancery. J. H. Richeson, Bird M. Robinson, trus? tee, Holston National Building and Loan Association, H. Bane Harman, trustee, and K. D. R. Harman, defendants. The object of this suit is to sub? ject to sale a house and lot situate near the Norfolk & Western Railway Cos. $2 - --**?uvui ?.-I n?Y. xojrt, and it appearing from affidavit on rile in said office that Bird M. Robinson, trustee, and Holsten National Building & Loan, Association are non-residents of the com? monwealth of Va, it is ordered that they appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do what is necessary to protect their interest in this suit and that copies hereof be published and posted as prescribed by law. A copy. Teste: H. Bane Harman, Clerk. G. W. St. Clair, p. q. VIRGINIA: In the clerk's office of Tazewell circuit court, June 23rd, 1897. Ella F. Hutton,Complainant) , ,y8- Kn chancery S. S. Hutton, Defendant j The object of this suit is to obtain a di? vorce a vmculo matrmwm for the complain? ant from the defendant, and it appearing from affidavit on file in said office that the defendant, S. S. Hutton, is a non-reeident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, it is or? dered that he appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this ord r, and do what is necessary to protect his in? terest in this suit, ami that copies hereof be published and posted as prescribed by law. A copy. Teste; H. Bane Harman, Clerk, Chapman & Gillespie, p. q. VIRGINIA: In the clerk's office of Tazewell circuit court, July 13,1S97. B. Y. Fox, complainant "j ? J8- fin chancery. C. J. Fox, defendant J The object of this suit is to obtain a di? vorce, (( riuculo matrimon? for the com? plainant from the defendant, and it ap? pearing from affidavit on file in said office that C. J. Fox is a non-resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, it is ordered that she appear here within lifteen days after due publication of this order and do what is necessary to protect her interest ia this suit, and that copies hereof be pub? lished and posted as prescribed by law. A copy. Teste: H. Base Harman, Clerk. W. 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