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SONG OF THE FOURTH OF JULY. Revere, SWEET were the lanes with laurel. And mallow, and •ploy bay, I And bronzed were the fields with fallen grain That early July day— But the air was lift with, trouble— -... For the gallant Paul As he rode through the dusky night to tell That "the British were almost here," Had sounded a prelude, to eeho Dow* the (air Colonial ooast. To call from the peaceful farms and fields A sturdy, dauntless host— And now there had gathered, swiftly. In the town of tho Quaker, Penn, With a steadfast purpose in their hearts, A band of earnest men. There was Hancock, the brave, the darinfc And Jefferson, tho wise Franklin, the prophet of honest thrift, And Morris, with kindly eyes And they framed a Declaration, That pleasant summer day, Which neither Prince, nor Queen, nor sword, Has ever snatched away And the hard-pressed soldiers brightened, And through long months fought on, Until kingly sway o'er their wide land ceased, And their right was grandly won 1 Can we sing of tbem too proudly, This early July day, Who out of servitude and shame, So bravely made a way? Nay—honor, praise and blessing Supreme'to them be given, Our grand old "Continentals," may Their land be long unriven By conflict, and with reverence Their names be spoken, ever. While patriots and freemen live, And nations stand together! —Helen Chase, in Good Housekeeping. EZRA GALLUP. An Interesting Fourth of July Episode. [Written for This Paper. WISH it might be done," said Nahum Jones. "It's very easy to wish that," observed Solomon Ripley. "But it can't be." "Certainly we can't doit," concluded Silas Nelson. So the three Btood at pause, dolefully consenting that the thing which in all I right and propriety 'ought to be could not bo. Their re marks, as given above, came at the close of lengthy discussion of the subject, and having reached this unprofitaDle finale, there was a brief silence. Nahum Jones whittled a stick, Solomon Ripley drummed on an empty box with his finger ends, and Silas Nelson softly whistled "In the Sweet By and By." It was a hot forenoon in the village of Crammond, which lies somewhere east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio. The long, dusty street, shaded by patriarchal elms from the glare of the Bun, lay very quiet and stilL Few figures could be seen along it« length except these three who stood in front of Jones' general "country store." Mr. Ripley was a farmer who had just rid den into town for the doing of divers er rands connected with practical agriculture, and Mr. Nelson was the teacher of the vil lage school, and had some leisure in this time of summer vacation. All three were alert, brisk-looking young men, who talked and acted as though they had something to do in life, and were zeal ously trying to do it. Their meeting at this place on this morning was a chance one, and their discussion also came about in a chance way for as Ripley alighted from his \£agon to enter the store, Jones stood just outside the door, and Nelson, happening along after mutual "good mornings," re marked that Fourth of July would be along next week—whereupon sprang up a debate upon the practicability of having a public celebration in Crammond. It soon ended, as wo have seen, with an unanimous vote in the negative. But the subject being an interesting one, the young men hated to give it up so easily, and were about to make regretful remarks about it, when a subject of much greater pres ent interest appeared and drew all their attention. A young woman came along the broad walk, presenting, with her neat summer dress and ribbons, with hat and sunshade to match, and her sweet face under the hat, a picture of the kind that the world everywhere, in and jut of Cram mond, pronounces charming. The young men suspended their talk and looked re spectfully at the passing vision. Their hats were lifted together the vision gave them a little smile, and was immediately lost to sight around the corner. The young men were bachelors, even to Ripley, who carried on the farm with no other housewife than an elderly female relative. The three were warm friends, who were in the habit of exchanging mu tual confidences and the fact that each had cast covetous but hopeless glances upon Eudora Gallup was no secret It may seenvstrange to some that there could be such a tripartite friendship as would admit of the exhibition of unsatisfied heart hunger of this kind yet that was the fact, and as such we record it No other person was in hearing, so they continued to con verse, but with a change of subject "That wasn't much of a Bmile," said the storekeeper, "but what there was of it is to be divided among us, I suppose." "Of course," said the teacher. "Precious little encouragement do any of us get in that quarter." "Either from father or daughter," added the farmer. A slight groan came from the teacher. "Whtft is it, Silas?" the others asked. "Out with it tell us your experience." "It isn't much to tell if I am correctly in formed, the same thing has happened to each of you. I called at the house, and the old hunks came into the room, and Baid: 'Well, sir?' I told him I would like to see Eudora, and he bluntly told me that my visits there would not be agreeable, and A YOUNG WOMAN CAME ALONG THS BXOAD WALK. he wanted them stopped. And I stopped them." Jones and Ripley exchanged glances that Indicated a positive fellow-feeling. Nelson observed, and was in a slight degree com forted. "Well, it *u8t be very mortifying to Mlwa Gallup," said Jones. "Yes, but not near as much so as if she cared for either of us." "Who does she care for?" "They say the new minister manages to walk with her a good deal on the street, and—" "But he don't go to the house?" "No, indeed! I guess he's been warned of old Gallup's aversion to those of his cloth." "Well—speak of—you know what Here conies the new minister himself." IL He cama along at a nimble pace, a tall, red-cheeked, large-eyed young man, dressed like a clergyman and acting las lit tle as possible like the conventional type of that class. He stopped and shook hands with each of the three friends, and began to talk to them in a hearty, cheery way. "Glad to meet yon all What's the news? May I know what yon three are talking so earnestly about?" l*Xw—pert of it, Itaat," said Jones, with a wink at his companions. "We were talking of getting np a Fourth of July cele bration." "Excellent idea! The day ought always to be observed in an appropriate manner. What can I do to help along with it?" "Nothing, air: The fact is, we have con cluded that thqre'8 no use to try it here in Crammond." "You astonish me," sald^Mr. Wager. "I have been settled in two places befog coming here. Each was smaller than this but eaoh observed oar National holiday with gfceat enthusiasm. What's the matter here?" The farmer and the merchant looked at the teacher. "It is not," said the latter, "that there is fay lack of patriotism In Qrammond. here is little wealth here, as you have learned, but the people are naturally liberal and open-hearted. But for some yean past they have been chilled and discouraged by the wretched example of that old hunks on the hllL" "Of whom?" asked Rev. Mr. Wager, ele vating his eyebrows. "Ezra Gallup, ol course." "Ah! I've heard something of him. Go on and tell me more." "He's the richest man in the town—the richest man in the county. They say he's worth a million." "Every cent of it," put in the merchant "Has mortgages on half the town. Income so big that he is troubled to invest it And he's the meanest old Sliylock out Escapes every public burden he can Bwearsdown his taxes, extorts compound interest, and as for charity or givino any thing away, he'd think you crazy to ask him. So you see the people have fallen into what I may call an exasperation of temper over the situation. They won't give from their humble means when old miserly Gallup escapes every thing with his great riches. This is the reason why we can have no Independence Day doings here. The first man and each man we might go to with a subscription paper would say: Take it up to Gallup."' Mr. Jones and Mr. Ripley nodded emphatic) assent to every assertion. "Has he been asked to give to public ob jects?" inquired Mr. Wager. "Not lately what would be the use? His hard heart has been well known for years nobody would think of asking him." "I propose to give him a chance," said the minister, decidedly. "I am not old in the ministry or in knowledge of human nature but I've known very hard shells to be soft ened by the proper means. If you will add me to your committee, I will go around with you and solicit to-inorrow. We will begin with Mr. Gallup, meeting here at nine o'clock." The others were amazed, and at first un willing but as they found that the minister was firm and in earnest, they finally agreed. "It'll be great fun, any way," said Jones. III. Ezra Gallup, sitting on his broad and shaded doorstep with his pretty daughter by his side, did not look in the least like the traditional miser. He was portly in body and rubicund in face, but with a se vere chin and little, twinkling eyes. He loved to acquire and to enjoy, but was not willing that another soul, save his beloved 'WAIT," HE SAID "HOW MUCH DO YOU WAST?" daughter, should share the fruit of any of his gains. This was his character in a nut shell it was the refinement of selfishness. His wife, a delicate creature of sentiment and feeling, had died when Eudora was a child, saying that she hoped there was a world where larks and doves did not mate with barn-yard fow£i. "Dora," exclaimed Mr. Gallup, "who are those men coming up the walk?" "They are the new minister, pa, and Mr. Jones, Mr. Ripley and Mr. Nelson." "What the devil do they want Ivret I'd like to see—" "Good morning, Mr. Gallup," said the minister, a little in advance of the others, and tipping his hat to the daughter, who seemed surprised but not displeased to see him there. "These gentlemen and myself are a committee soliciting subscriptions in aid of the proper celebration'of Independ ence Day in Crammond. We—" You have come to the wrong place. I never give any thing to anybody." "We are sure you will make an exception in this Instance, sir. If you mil head the list with a reasonable amount we shall have no difficulty in getting five hundred dollars subscribed. The people all seem to wait on you." 'Let them wait and be You're a minis ter, ain't you? Nice business lor you to be engaged in—begging money to spend in fire-crackers and such foolishness." "A minister ought to take an interest in every thing that tends to humanize and broaden the people that he dwells among. When I heard that the anniversary of our Nation's birthday had not been celebrated for years in Crammond, I resolved that it should be this year. We can't afford to do without the lessons that it teaches! The young people must know all about the day, and what makes it glorious. We must fulfill grand old John Adams' prediction, when he said: 'When we are in our graves, our children will honor it They will celebrate it with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires and illuminationa On its annual return—'" "Bosh!" growled Mr. Gallup. "John Adams never said that It's one of Dan Webster's silly flights. But I don't care a button. I won't give you a cent for this purpose not a cent, sir! Do you hear?" "Yes," replied Mr. Wager, warming to his task, "I hear, and have got more to Bay. You have been described to me as a selfish, soulleBs miser, and I fear there is too much reason for the opinion. Now, 1 have a duty to do as a servant and minister of God, and I shall do it fearlessly. Miserable man! 1 warn you that His wrath will Burely over take you ere long for your cruel selfish ness. You are but His steward and agent in the possession of vast wealth just as surely as you continue to withhold it where it ought to bo freely given. He will smite The' spectators of that extraordinary scene said that there was something so terrible in the minister's tone and manner as he uttered this warning that they trem bled themselves. But Mr. Gallup, they said, appeared badly frightened. His fat cheeks turned pale, and he shook in his chair like a pudding in a bag. Was notthis the one thing needful that had never been tried upon him? He had been ooaxed, teased, argued with and begged but to have the wrath of an offended God held over him in this way—ah! that was dif ferent! "Wait," he said. "How much do you want of me?" "Fifty dollars," replied the ministor. Mr. Gallup took the paper and went in. He returned in a moment with his name written down for the amount named and his check. "Many thanks, sir," said Mr. Wager. "We hope you'll attend the whole per formance," remarked Jones, finding his voicc with an effort "We had laid out a liberal programme for the day, conditional on your heading the paper, and now we'll put it through. Exercises on the green in the morning singing of National airs by the school reading the declaration by Mr. Nelson oration by Rev. Mr. Wager splendid fire-works, all the way from .Cincinnati, at night You must not miss any of It, sir." "And a brass band, too," added Mr. Rip ley, "if we have to send fifty miles for it" IV. It is not for us to dissect the heart of Ezra Gallup and analyze the power that had softened and changed it in a moment We go our ways through life, influencing others for good or ill, but we never know the extent of that influence, and how much weal or woe we hare wrought In this la* stanoe 1« happened that the effect pro duced became widely known, iQd then -men said thai there must always have been .some element of the human in Ezra Gallup waiting for the skilled hend that could bring it forth to the light, His astonished daughter was further as tonished by his request made the following morning that she Would attend the cele bration with him. He remarked upon re turning home that ..afternoon that Mr. Wager seemed different to him from other ministers, and that his address was a very fine effort They also attended the grand exhibition of fire-works that, night, which, on .account of its novelty in that Vicinity* the whole surrounding country came to see.' The crush was tremendous, and Mr. Gallup, finding some difficulty in taking care of hia own fat person, made no objection to his daughter accepting the minister's protec tion. Two years later, when Eudora accepted the same protection for life, and a largo party attended at the Gallup home to see the ceremony, Jones, Ripley and Nelson came also. "Why, to be sure," Baid the latter to his companions in a corner, "there was fear in it at first conscience awakened at last, I suppose. But it's grown to something dif ferent now. Wager's influence has entire ly changed the old man. Look at his chari ties and his munificent public spirit! He has really learned the luxury of doing good." JAMES FRANKLIN FITTS. PATRIOTIC POEMS. A Fourth o' July Song. The jolly old Fourth o' July is here, Hurrab! hurrah 1 We welcome it gladly, the King of the Year, Hurrah! hurrah! 'Tis the happiest holiday under the sun To the merry American boys— The day of alljdays for frolic and fun. For bustle, commotion and noise. For jolly old Fourth o' July we cheer, Hurrah! Hurrah! To true-hearted youth 'tis the day that is dear, Hurrah! hurrah! A happy procession, we march through the street. Keeping step to the beat of the drum. Of laddies so merry, and lass'es so sweet. With hearts all a-flutter, we come. From the house-top and turret the ruddy flags By, Hurrah! hurrah: And all in gay greeting to Fourth o' July, Hurrah! hurrah! Then, nt night, there's the fire-works, bright in his pra se, So tho Year ought to deem it not strange If we wish be would take all the common place days. And give Fourth o' Julys in exchange. —M. Tbayer Reuse, in GokUn Days. Ring Out, Ye Bells. R'ng out, ring out, ye merry bells, And let the deep-mouthed cannon roar. Each patriot bosom swells. The glorious Fourth is here onoe more. When light descends what joys are his! The hissing rocket cleaves the skies. Hark! hear tbe roman caudle flzz, Bebold the red and blue lights rise. Now, whizz! z-z-zip! bang! torpedoes crash And split tbe fretted ear of night re-crackers jump, toy-plstola flash, Mid exclamations of delight. Now blaze the barrels smeared with tar. Slow matches pass from hand to hand. And salve and stickiog-plaster are At druggists' 8torcsiu great damand. —Boston Budget. The Aftermath. Alas! when the day has gone by How heavy and heartfelt the gh. As the bills ail come in For the lire-works and din, And we llnd the fun costs mighty high. And the boy, as with pain he is tossed O'er his pillow, then reckons the cost Which the day's sport imposed, In bis both t'cs closcd And the linger or two he has lo3t. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. Reflections of Desolate Mull on the Lone ly Street of an Ohio Town. "Gone!" The word came with a deep groan from the lips of the desolate man who stood on the lonely street and looked about him. The beams of the setting sun shone with a yellow glow on a peaceful village nest ling in a lovely plain. The modest spires oi the churchSs glittered in au atmosphere free from smoke, and not a sound came to the ear of the solitary man, whofte brain was throbbing and whose heart was burst ing with a sense of his strango and un earthly isolation. "Under a sky of unsurpassed beauty," he cxclaimed, "in a land where oven win ter in its most savage mood breathes mild-' ly, in the favored garden spot of a great State, amid fertile valleys and vine-cla^ hillsides whose vegetation is already leaping into life in response to the creative energy of the vernal sunshine, can it be possible that I have lived to sec such a scene as this He paused a moment to kick a wandering and. lonesome-looking dog that was sniffing about him in an abjectly inquisitive and apologetic manner, and again his voice rang plaintively out amid tho weird soli, tude: "Where are they all? Where are my friends, my neighbors, the companions of my youth? What mysterious calamity has swept over this once happy place as with the besom of—you here again, you miserable hound? Get out!" He drew his hand tremblingly across hia pallid brow, and once more bis voice smote the air: "They are not here! They are gone! Great snakes! Of course they're gone! Whero are ye, friends of my childhood O familiar faces that filled the horizon ol hope in my maturer years and framed the radiant vision that my ambition bodied forth, where the Dickens and Tom Walker do you hang out now?" With these words he took afresh chew oi tobacco, pulled his hat down over his eyes, gave one farewell glance up and down the deserted and voiceless street, turned his back on the home of his childhood, and de parted forever. He was the only human being in that beautiful Southern Ohio town that had not gone to Washington with a petition forau office!—Chicago Tribune. Carious Facts. As Arizona hen that inadvertently hatched out a brood of ostriches died of disappointment when she tried to cover her young at night, and found that her wing was about large enough to obscure the vision of her eldest son's right eye. Of the two hundred gold-beaters in New York, not one is a woman. The same is true of the wife-beaters. There is a man in Washington who thinks the sayings of his first boy, now two years old, are insufferably stupid. An Omaha man who swallowed a dollar forty years ago died a few days since, and the post-mortem examination divulged the presence of fifty-eight dollars and sixteen cents in his stomach. The doctors are now computing the rate of interest for record in the medical archives of Omaha. A Boston paper claims to know of a young girl living on Beacon street who does not wear spectacles or eye-glasses and who has never written a poem. A retired pugilist up In Vermont has de clined to open a saloon, preferring to earn his living as an expressman. Nothing so extraordinary has been met with in New England of late years. William Elks, a Michigan cashier now In Canada, left a counterfeit ten-dollar bill be hind him when he departed. Horace Moody, of Pineville, Ga., has a copy of London Punch, in which there is not a single old joke. It is suspected that it is not genuine. A Brooklyn Chinaman, Chin Bill byname, does not keep a laundry or a Joss-house. Van Pcyster Hicks-Worth, of the Hecla. met Club, is aVery curious person. He has no respect whatever for tho Prince of Wales, considers it bad form to ogle women from the club window, and is not a victim to the cane-sucking habit.—Puck. It Burt Bis Feelings. Kansas Tramp-Mister, could you do a little something to assist a poor man} Stranger—You don't look as though you were unable to work. You ought to' be ashamed of yourself to go around this way. You are a disgrace to humanity. Why don't you go down to the river and take a bath and try to earn a living) K. T. (pathetically)—Take a bath. Ain't it enough to have to drink the stuff.—Mer chant Traveler. THB critic is the barber of letters. He lets his own face go, and live* by shaving other men. OF GENERAL INTEREST* —-A recent arrival at Castle Garden expected to find hia uncle, who Uvea in Alaska^ awaiting him. —The wealthiest colored man in the South is a New Orleans sugar planter named Marie. He haai an income of |40,000, and is a cultivated gentleman. —The once fighting Modoc Indiana have become industrious farmers in the past twelve years and half of them have professed Christianity. —A Wisconsin lover wrote to his sweetheart: "There is not a globule of blood in my heart that does not bear your photograph." —A colored man, on trial for rob bery in Washington, instructed his at torney to challenge every negro on the jury. He said he preferred to en trust his case to white men. —A farmer in Huntingdon County, Pa., caught an owl and put it in his barn to fight his rooster. The owl fought, and the rooster did the best he could, but when the battle was over tbe rooster was dead. —A Kingston (N. Y.) minister mar* ried a couple one night recently, and when signatures were asked to the certificate it was found that neither the bride, groom, best man nor brides maid could write their names. They all signed by making marks. —A Georgia colored man is very fond of alligators as a food product. He captures the saurians, and, after duly preparing them, cures them as he does his hams. In his smokehouse at present five or six of these reptiles are hung up undergoing the smoking prch cess. —At one of the cross-roads in Brazil, an idol carved from the wood of an orange tree was placed for the Indians to worship. On one occasion it was noticed that an old red man omitted to perform his act of obeisance. On be ing commanded to kneel he stubbornly replied: "No I knew him when he was an orange tree." —A Washington woman, prosecutor in a late assault and battery case, who called the court's attention to th« marks on her face, the result, she said, of the beating she had received, almost fainted when the judge ordered an offi cer to closely examine the injuries. He rubbed a handkerchief over her face, when the marks instantly disap peared, having been made with paint. The case was then dismissed. —A trader at Americus, Ga., boasts of having a remarkably smart wife. Although he has been married ten years, she has never asked him for a dollar and he has never given her any money. He generally borrows from her, and she makes more than he does. She sells all home products, such as meat, lard, chickens, wood, hay, etc., and beats his store. He does not buy any thing but sugar, coffee and a lit tle rice, as he Uas every thing else to sell off his place. —At a recent fashionable wedding in New York tho father of the bride wore a broad grin as he walked up the church aisle with his daughter. During the ceremony he chuckled sev eral times, and at its close he broke into au unmistakable laugh. As he is a prominent citizen of un impeach able sobriety, and is known to have the tenderest regard for his fiunily and for this daughter in particular, many were somewhat scandalized by such an apparent breach of decorum. At the wedding reception the good gen tleman solved the mystery. He had suddenly remembered that the last time he had been inside of any church was when he was himself married in that very edifice. —Gum chewing, according to recent reports, is the prevailing mania in Albion, Neb. The disgusting habit has become so general that parents and preachers inveigh against it, but co no effect. During services in church last Sunday the dominie deli 3ately insinuated that the congrega tion looked like a corral of munching cattle, so industriously did the jaws wag. While the preacher was round ing an eloquent peroration on tho oeauties of the echoless shore, a mighty yell rent the rafters. It came from the paralyzed jaw of a Mr. Cato, who had been suddenly smitten with lead colic, caused by chewing adul terated gum. Cato was taken home and the congregation dismissed. Next day a ton of second-hand gum was plucked from the pews and dumped into the raging Beaver. AS REAL ESTATE DEALER. Ihe Father of His Country In the Bole of a Business Man. "Say, why don't you call attention to Washington as a real estate agent?" "Was he much as a real estate man?" "Well, I should say so. Next to his ca reer as warrior and statesman he takes rank as real estate owner and agent. As a business man this was his great hold, and he can be put down as the father of the real estate business as well as of his country." So spoke a gentleman who has read up on the history of the early days with reference to the connection of General Washington with the land business. In a copy of a Baltimore paper pub lished in April, 1773, appears an ad vertisement of George Washington, dated at Mount Vernon. In this ad vertisement he offers twenty thousand acres of land in Virginia on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. The tract is to be subdivided to suit purchasers and sold on very easy payments. Purchas ers need not pay any thing down if they will clear up and fence five acres out of every hundred and plant fifty fruit trees thereon. If this clearing, planting and improving were kept up the rental need not commence for four years after occupancy. The payments were called "rental" so as not to give settlers a claim to the property tUl it was paid for. The advertisement is' a strong and ingenious one in all re spects, and the country is described with a picturesqueness that the best land boomer of to-day would find it hard to excel. Mr. Lund Washington was the agent in charge. Things opened up in great shape, but the commencement of hostilities with Great Britain three years afterward caused a serious set-back. After tho war General Washington was under stood to be engaged in numerous large land enterprises in Western Virginia. In one of these he had associated with him Mr. Fit* Patrick, of Philadelphia, the wealthy brother-in-law of Rob ert Morris, and it proved very advan tageous to the country and exceedingly remunerative to its projectors. Many of the holdings in WeBt Virginia to day are traced back to the Washing ton, Fits Patrick and Morris titlw,—• Cincinnati Real Estate Journal. FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. *'—Agriculture is the life blood of the Nation impoverish this and the whole body becomes weak and nerveless en rich the ourrent and the whole body is strengthened. —The farmer who persists in work ing day after day from four o'clock in the morning until seven or eight at night, and expects his boys and hired ®en to do the same, is not doing justice to himself, to his hired labor ers or to his Creator. —The Southern Cultivator expresses the opinion that it is not best to turn under a green crop or turn over the soil at all in mid-summer, unless the land can be sown at once with a crop that will promptly cover the surface again with vegetation. —One instance of the evil influence of habit is the persistency with which some farmers keep up the custom of killing their hogs at a particular time of the year. Fresh pork is wanted in large markets all the time, and it is often the case that the farmer loses more than the price of the food by keeping a hog three months to wait for killing time. —Salmon Patties.—Cut cold cooked salmon into dice. Heat about a pint of the dice in half a pint of cream or Hollandaise sauce. Season to taste with Cayenne pepper and salt. Fill the shells and serve. Cold cooked fish of any kind may be made into patties in this way. Use any fish sauce you may choose all are equally good. —There are several matters to be considered in sowing the seeds of root crops. The seed must be brought in (Hose contact with the moist earth, either by rolling or treading in with the feet, and it must be in such quan tity that its swelling and germination will force away the soil and allow the little plant to come to the light and air. Hence of all such seeds we sow many times more than should be al lowed to grow, but they are given vig orous thinning.—American Agricult urist. —Self Freezing Ice Cream.—Two quarts of rich milk, four eggs, whites and yelks beat in separately, three cups of sugar, one pint of rich cream, four teaspoonfuls of any flavoring de sired. Heat the milk almost to boil ing, beat the yelk3 to a stiff froth, add the sugar and stir it thoroughly, then add the whites, which have been beaten to a froth, and stir again, then add this little by little to the hot milk, beating it all the time, stir the mix tures steadily about fifteen minutes, when quile cold beat in the cream and the flavoring. —The hog wallows in mud and en cases himself in a shining armor, which suffocates his backbiters. When it dries the mud and the cause of his misery falls off. Horses seem to un derstand that dust is death to their creeping foes, so they roll where they can find dry earth. Hens free them selves from parasites by the dust bath. And cows—who has not seen them throw dirt over themselves? They, too, want the earth, so we might take the hint and store away road dust or dry earth for winter use in keeping our stock free from the tormentors. DECIDUOUS TREES. They Are Much More Easily Grown Front Seed TIIIMI the Evergreen. Deciduous trees are grown much more easily from the seed than ever green trees are. I see nothing in the way of any man raising his own trees from the seed if they be of the decidu ous species. Whilst it is necessary in the culture of any plant or crop for a man to have some knowledge of its special wants, nothing could be more simple and easy than the propagation of deciduous trees from seed. In my expeiience of growing several hun dreds of thousands of them annually, I find no more difficulty than in grow ing so much corn in the drill in fact, the operations are pretty much the same. This is, of course, where the seedlings are raised thickly in the nursery row and are to be removed after the first season's growth. I mark the land one way two and a half or three feet apart, just as one would for drilled corn. The ground should be so mellow that the marker will be set down in so as to make a drill three or four inches deep. I use a rather heavy marker, with sharp, shovel-shaped teeth, and hold it well down into the ground when marking, which, if the ground i9 as mellow as it should be, gives a suf ficient furrow for the purpose. Other ground of a harder texture than mine might have to be marked first and then the furrows deepened with alight" shovel-plow afterward. The drill fur row for such large seeds as the walnut, butternut and hickory ought to be four or five inches deep, while for the smaller seeds, as the maple, elm, ash, box elder and catalpa it need not be over three or four inches deep. It is imperative that the nuts be frozen over winter in a moist condition. Spread them out on the ground for this purpose and cover them with straw or hay and enough earth over this to hold the whole in place. They will then sprout with the first warm weather of spring. Sugar ma ple, box elder, and ash seed should bo treated .in the same way, though quite a portion of them will grow when kept dry over winter. Some plant in au tumn as soon as the seeds are ripe, and thus secure the conditions above n%med without any further care. I have always spread the seeds on the ground during the winter and sown in spring, with invariable good success. Catalpa seed germinates readily and should be kept in a dry condition through the winter. Sow the seeds thickly in the drill as you would peas or other similar crops. Drop the nuts along so that they will almost touch in the drill. Cover such large seeds about as deeply as you would potatoes, and the smaller seeds about as you would corn, packing the earth down over the seeds after cover ing. As a rule they come up quickly and grow rapidly. Some of them will fairly outstrip the weeds. Give clean cultivation all through the growing season. Transplant the next spring to where they are wanted. While most deciduous tree seeds ripen in autumn, there area few kinds that ripen in lato spring or early sum mer. Among these are the soft maple and the elms. These ripen about June 1, and should be sown as soon as they fall from the trees, as they will not keep over. The same is true, I believe, as to cottonwoods, although I have never grown them from the seed. A large number of these seedlings can be jjrown on a small piece of ground. A piece of well worked soil a few rods square will furnish enough for a tree claim or other large plant ing.—W. A. Boynton, in American AfriouUurlsfc RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. "-There is not enough religion in the world to admit of the annihilation o£ religions.. —In 1788 there were 37,000,000" Protestants in the world, there are now 134,000,000. —The growth and popularity of re ligious clubs whose main object is the promotion of social intercourse is one of the interesting signs of the M""* —A paper prepared by the Maryland State Progressive Teacher's Association shows that nearly 80,000 colored chil dren in that State are deprived of public educational facilities. —The American Seamen's Friend Society received the past year $27,833 and disbursed $84,971. Its missionaries have labored in many lands, and it& libraries have been accessible to over 850,000 men. —When Dr. Wells Williams went to Canton, in 1833, there was only oo»s Chinese convert, and the penalty for toaching foreigners the Chinese lara guage was death. Now there are 33w 000 converts. —It is said that the Friends have 40| missionaries in Japan under their care. Thoy are also doing missionary work: in Constantinople, Roumania, and on Mt» Lebanon, and in Roumelia. Mada gascar, Zululand, India, and China. —The growth of the Christian En deavor work in Colorado is wonderful. In Denver, Colorado Springs and Pu-' eblo, during the past three years the societies have doubled and redoubled, while the smaller towns throughout the State have their full quota of socie ties. —The American Baptist missionary union met in Boston recently. The re port from the European' work brought out the startling statement that in Italy 20,000,000 out of the 30,000,000 popula tion can not read. The union in its seventy-five years' work has expended $8,870,403 for mission work. —The religious condition of tho French people to-day is thus described by the Rev. A. F. Beard: "You can put the Bible in every house in Paris and no one has the power to stop you. You can preach the gospel on the corner opposite the prison and there will be no danger. Thirty years ago the po liceman would have arrested you. Now he protects you. —The higher education of women is Advancing everywhere. The Cherokee nation lately dedicated their new fe male seminary at Tahlequah with groat .•ejoicings. The building is three stor ies high, contains more than one hun dred rooms, a chapel and school halls Mid recitation rooms, is steam-heated and supplied with water-works of its BWn, and will have cost, when finished, |200,000. This money comes from the lease of their lauds to the cattle com panies. Why They Lead. Dr. Pierce's medicines outsell all others, because of their possessing such superior curative properties as to warrant their manufacturers in supplying them to the people (as they are doing through all drug gists) on such conditions as no other medi cines are sold under, viz: that they shall either benefit or cure the patient, or all money paid for them will be refunded. The •'Golden Medical Discovery" is specific for catarrh in the head and all bronchial, throat and lungdiscases, it taken in time and given a fair trial. Money will be refunded if it does not benefit or cure. Dr. Pierce's Pellets—gently laxative or actively cathartic according to dose. 25 cents. WIFE—"John, do you delivergrour lecture, 'Is Life Worth Living?' again to-night?" Great Pessimist—"No, my dear I am great ly afraid I have caught a slight cold, and I don't intend to risk my life by venturing out of doors at all this evening." PLUMBER—-"Sir, honesty is printed on my face." Victim—"I don't dispute it, but it has got a very wide margin." fl ni THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled He saw amid the cargo's wreck A box, and, calling, said: "Say, father, say if I may sit Upon this box and wait?" And then without his sire's permit, Down on that box he sate. ARE NOT, they of the genuine Ask for Gentlemen FOND DU FINE GRADES •HOES. era" Calf. Style an* IT VILL SO PEMAWP THKIL tral7i c, m. CO.* Chleaco —In the province of Travoncore, India, Christianity has so far displaced neathenism that one man out of every five ranges himself among the follow ers of Christ "A Bundle of Nervoj," is tor ml* applied to people whose nerves are abnormally sensitive. They TO»tJfthenJtilem with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. After a course of that •W'M. they will cease to be conscious euinerv0U8 sterns, except through agreeable sensations. It will en- 8l6ep ®nd ^gest well, the three meatsfor increasing tone and visor in the nerves, in common with the rest of the system. The mental worry begotten by nervous dyspepsia will also disappear. restaurant)—"Brine me a riutiOM "anrf H1"^ Pf8'sweetened with £../???• i. ghtened with chalk and Waiter (vociferously) "Coffey Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers* Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant crops. Best fruit, grain, grass, stock country in the world. Fullinformationfree. Adrfcress Oregon Immigration Board,Portland, Octgon THE first regiment in New York to ofljer Its services to the Government is said by Colonel Adams, of the Sixty-Seventh, to be the regiment he commanded. 'Tn race Is not to htm who doth the swiftest n». Nor the battle to tbe man who shoots with the loosest gun." All the same a long gun does count, and "the tallest pole gets the persimmons." If you are not satisfied with your equipment for the race for financial success or position in the battle of life, take our advice and write toB. P. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va., and. our word for it they will show you how to get a fresh start, with the best possible chances of winning some of the big prizes. MANT speak the truth when they say that tney despise riches and preferment but tuey mean the riches and preferment pos sessed by other men. MUST not be confounded with common cathartic or purgative pills. Carter's Little Liver Pills are entirely unlike them in every respect.One trial will prove their superiority. SOLID cold thimbles, elegantly carved and frequently set with diamonds, are round none too good for many fashionable home decorators. THERK are people using Dobbinc' Electric Soap to-day who commenced its se in lSGo. Would this be the case were it not the purest and most economical soap made. Ask your gro cer for it. Look out for imitations. Dobbins'. THE wife of a prominent Brooklyn clergy man has a thimble that was carwd from a jjcadHcift01168h° foundon the BixoreoItbe RHEUMATIC Pains are greatly relieved by Glenn's Sulphur Soap. Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents. Sra JULIAN FAUXCEFOTE has made a good impression in Washington. Ho is always good natured and is inclined to admire America and Americans. DON'T wait until you are sick before trying Carter's Little Liver Pills, bnt ge ta vi'al at once. 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