Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 8, Number 16, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 15 July 1886 — Page 4

THE NAPPANEE NEWS. WIU H. HOLDEMAX. NAPPANEE, sss: INDIANA The House ox the Marsh ; —OR—THE MYSTERY OF THE ALDERS BY FBOBEKCI WASDES. r CHAPTER XXlX.—Continurd. I snnk down upon the floor beside her, ami she put her thin wasted arms round my neck and kissed me without a won!. And the three men quietly (est the room. "Oh, Mrs. Ray-ner,” I whispered, “it for you!” “Not so terrible to me,” she whispered back, wearily. “I have known it for years—almost ever since I married him. But don't talk about it any more, said she, -glancing furtively round the room. "He may- be in the house at this moment; an if they might search and watch for months, but they would never catch him. But he will make us suffer—me—ah, and,.you. too, now. You were so unsuspicious, yet It must have been you who set Laurence Reade upon the track.” "Net of Mr. Kayner. Oh. I never thought of such a thing!” I whispered, shuddering. And I told her all about my suspicions ot Tom Farkes, my visit to the call, my letter to Laurence and all 1 ■aid in it. “Mr. Reade has shown energy and courage,” said she. “But he will suffer for it, too. Yon don't Know that man yet. He will never let Laurence marry you. Even if he were in prison, he would manage to prevent it.' 1 Laurence then came in and told ns they had .failed to capture Gordon or any of the others. He would return with the constables and sleep at the hall but Maynard and two officers Would remain at the Alders to keep watch. Then he said, very gently, to Mrs. Ravner: “Will you forgive me for the blow I have innocently brought on you?” “ It is no blow to me.'’ said she, raising her sad eyes to his face. “That man—my husband—would have got rid of me long ago, but that he hated violence'and dreaded it. Every thing shortof that he has tried.” she whispered: “and it is not my fault that mv wretched life has lingered in spite of him.” ■ u ■ Laurence ground his teeth. "The wretch!” he said, in a low voice. “But he shall pay for it now. I'll ransack the whole world till we have unearthed him.” “ You will never do that,” said she, calmly. “He dares too much for that. He is no coward to lie in a corner,” j she went on. with a sort of perverse pride in the man for whom every spark of love long since dead. “Hfe will brave you to your faces and escape you all. But you have done your best. You are a brave man, Mr. Reade. Yoa would help me if yon could. Goodnight.” She Shook hands with him and left the room. He turned to me quickly. “ You must both leave this place,” said he. “The long-continued sufferJ ing has almost turned that poor lady’s brain. But she is safe from that vile wretch now: and you, too, oh, my darling, thank Heaven!’’ '1 hero \Sas a tap at the door, and the voice of the elder detective said: “Are you ready, sir?” “All right,” said Laurence: and then added, in a voice for me only: “I’m not ready a bit. I should like to stay and comfort you forever. Take care of your poor little wounded arm. Good-night, good-night, mv darling!” I awoke next morning feeling ill and arose with a hot, aching head and with my arm paining me not a little. The doctor called during the forenoon and at once ordered me off to bed. Laurence told me, in one of the little notes he kept leaving for me all day long, that it was expected that Mr Rayner would brave ever)- thing and return to the Alders sooner or later, if only for a flying visit, and that, in consequence, the search of the house which must take place was to be postponed, and the place watched, with as much caution as possible, from the outside. By letting the life at the Alders go on as usual, it was hoped that he might be lured back under the impression that he was not expected to return there. Laurence had telegraphed tomv mother to tell her that I was quite safe and the journey put off, in order to allay her fears about me. Mrs. Rayner brought one of these notes up to me late iu the afternoon. In addition to her usual pallor, she had great black rings muter her eyes and, in answer to my inquiries, she confessed that-she had pot slept all night. “I have something to tell yon,” she whispered in my ear. “Mrs.’Saunders drinks, and is not a proper guardian for Sarah. She is afraid of Mr. Rayner; hut last night, knowing he was not in the house, she was in nearly as excited a state as her patient, and was veryrough with her. Sarah's room is nearly opposite mine, and I opened my door and heard what sounded like a struggle. Maynard, who was in the room next to the dressing-room, either did not hear or Hid not like to interfere. But now he Is gone; and I ought to be used to terrors, but I am afraid;” find ■he shuddered. “Surely there is nothing to be afraid of if you lock your door, Mrs. Rayner?” “I have no key. Will you leave your door open and the door’at the foot of the turret staircase? I know yon must not leav£ your bed, but it will be some comfort to know you are within hearing-” I promised, and that night, when Jane came up to my room for the last time, I made her leave the doors open when she went down. The sense of being on the alert made me wakeful, and two or three times during the night I rose and stood at the top of my staircase, listening. And the third time I did hear something. I heard a faint cry, and presently the soft shutting of a door, then steps in the corridor below, and whispering. I crept half way down the Stairs; the whispering continued. 1 got to the bottom, and recognized Sarah’s voice muttering to herself. I would rather have again faced Gordon with his revolver than this madwoman; hut I was ■o anxious about Mrs. Rayner that after a few minutes spent in prayer I ventured out from the doorway, and found Sarah crouched in a corner muttering to herself. The wretched woman started up on seeing me, but, in.-tead of attempting to approach me, she hung back, moving her still bandaged head and her one free hand restlesslv, and saying: “—l’ve done it—l've done it. He'll come back now. I've done what he wanted. He. can marry the Christie girl now.” W ith a terrible fear at my heart I dashed along the corridor to Mrs. Rayner/ room apd went straight in. The atmosphere room was sickly and stifling. I went up to the bed. Mrs. Kayner was lying with a cloth over her face! I snatched it off. It was steeped in something which I afterward learned was chloroform. Thank Heaven, she was alive! —for she was breathing heavily. I rushed to the two windows and flung them wide open, pulled the bell-rope until the house echoed,’and -fcoved her arms up and down. The cook and Jane came in, terribly jdsnued In their PighUgowns, I left

[them with Mrs. Rayner, while 1 ran 1 down-stairs for some brandy. There was some on the side-board in the dining-room, I knew; and I wai returning with it when 1 caught sight of a man in the gloom at the end of the passage leading from the hall. He had come from Mr. Rayner’s study and disappeared in a moment in the darkness. It was impossible to recognize him, but I could not doubt that it was Mr. Rayner. Where was he going? Was he going to escape by the back way? Did he. know the house was watehed? I made a step forward, anxious to warn him. but he had already disappeared, and 1 dared not follow him. ; I crept up-stairs, too much agitated to be of any use any longer; but happily Mrs. Rayner was already recovering, and the brandy restored her entirely to consciousness. With cook’s assistance Sarah was persuaded to return to her room, where Mrs. Saunders was found in a drunken stupor. As cook refused to watch there during the remainder of the night, the best we could do was to lock the door. Happily no harm came of this, and afterward Mrs. Saunders managed to keep pretty sober. This woman having been sent by Mr. Rayner, assumed about the same authority that Sarah had exercised iu the house, and suggested that Mrs. Rayner remove to her old room in the left wing. The poor lady came herself to my room to tell me of this. “Why do you go back if you don’t wish to do so, Mrs.-Rayner?’’ I asked. “I expect it is by "Mr. Rayner’s orders,” she whispered. And, mv strongsuspicion that he was in the house acting like a spell upon me, I said no more. But I was curious to know what was the mystery that hung about that bedroom iu the left wing which no one was allowed to enter but Mr. Rayner and Sarah; and I resolved that, as soon as I eouhl I would try to induce Mrs. Rayner to let me go in there. As I lav thinking of the strange and horrible events which had occurred I could not believe that Mr. Rayner was all bad. How could a man who was so kind have no redeeming qualities? And 1. who had never received any thing but kindness at his hands, had brought this calamity and pursuit upon him. A possible means of communicating with him occurred to me. In spite of the doctor's prohibition, I sprung out of bed, got my desk, and wrote a note asking his forgiveness, and giving him a full explanation of the way in which, in all innocence, 1 had written the letter which had led to this pursuit ot him. I told him the house was being watched, and was to be searched before long, and begged that, when he had got away, he would find some means of letting me know he was in safety. “I do pray for you every night and morning. I can't forget all yoar kindness to me. whatever you have done, and I don’t wish to do so,” I added as a last thought in a P. 3. And then I put on my dressing-gown, and, when I heard nobody about, slipped down by the back staircase to his study, where I put the note, directed simply to “G. Rayner, Esq.,” just inside the drawer of his writing-table and crept guiltily up-stairs again. That day Sarah was removed to the county lunatic asylum and I never saw the poor creature afterward. At four o’clock in the afternoon I insisted upon getting up and being dressed. I wanted to see Mrs. Raynef to learn if she had heard of Sarah's departure. I heard she had gone to her old room in the left wing, and, having taken the precaution to wrap a shawl round me before entering that long, cold passage. I passed through the heavy swing door, the very sight of which I hated I was opposite to the store-root* door, when it was softly opened, and, without being able to make any resistance, I was drawn inside by a man's arm. I looked up, expecting to sec Mr. Rayner, and was horror-sticken to And myself in the arms of Gordon, the man who had shot me. “Don’t tremble so,” said he. “I meant to do for you before I left this house; but this has saved you.” And he showed me my letter to Mr. Rayner. “Do you know where he is?” I asked, eagerly. “No, ma’am,” said he, in his respectful servant’s manner; “but I should say that he is on his way to America by now, where he meant to have taken you.’’ “Me ? America?” “Yes, ma’am. Miss Haidee was to have been left at Liverpool street station, and brought back to the Alders.” ‘•But I wouldn’t have gone.” “I beg your pardon, ma’am, but I don't think your will would have stood out against James’s—Mr. Rayner’s. And, if this letter had not shown you to be loyal to him, I would not have left you here alive. I may take this opportunity of apologizing for having once borrowed a trinket of yours while you were staying at Denham Court. But, [ as it was one which I myself had had the pleasure of assisting Mr. Rayner to procure from Lord Dalstou’s, I thought it wisest to pull oft' the little plate at the back, for fear of its being recognized by Mr. Carruthers, in whose i service I was when I was first introduced to Lord Dalston’s seat in Derbyshire.” “My pendant!” I cried. “It—it was real then?” “Yes ma’am. I had to remonstrate then with Mr. Rayner for his rashness in giving it you; but nothing ever went wrong with' him--daring as he is—till you came across his path, ma’am. I have nothing to keep, me here now, ma’am; so I shall be off to-night; and, if you care to hear how I get on, you will be able to do so by applying to my late master, Mr. Carruthers.” He led me courteously to the door, bowed me out, and shut himself in again, while I went, trembling and bewildered, toward Mrs. Rayner’s room. I knocked at the door. At first there was no answer. I called her by name, and begged her to let me in. At last I heard her voice close to the other side of the door. “What do you want. Miss Christie?” “May I come in, Mrs. Rayner? I have something to tell you.” “1 can't let you in. Can you speak through the door?” “No, no; 1 must see you. I have something very important to say about Mr. Rayner,” 1 whispered into the keyhole. “Is ho here?” she faltered. “No; he has gone to America,” J whispered, “ r s She gave a long, shuddering sisrh. and then said:— “I—l will let you in.” She turned the key slowly, while I trembled with impatience outside the door. When I found myself inside the room which had been a mystery to me. for so long, noftSnrg struck me at first but a sense of cold and darkness. There was only one window, which was barred or, the inside; the fog still hung about the place and the little light .there had been all day was fading fast, for it was five o'clock. But, as I stepped forward further into the room, I drew mv breath fast in horror. For'l became dtware of a smell of damp and decay; 1 felt that the boards of the floor under the carpet were rotten and yielding to my feet, and I saw that the paper was peeling off the wet and moldy walls, and that the water was slowly trickling down them. “Oli, Mrs. Rayner,” I cried, aghast, “is this your room—where you sleep?’! “I have slept in it for three years,” said she. “If my husband had had bit will, F would have been my tomb,” 1 [TO AZ COXTIMWXD.]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY. —Talmage has preached thirty years and has lost but one day, and that through sickness twenty-four years ago. —Brooklyn Eagle. —Representative Symes, of Colorado, has such a heavy voice that he is known among the Indians of his district as Talking Thunder.— Chicago Inter Ocean. —Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the English astronomer, has come to America to live. His home is to be in Missouri. He will write a systematic work on astronomy. — tit. Louis Post. —An English dramatic critic, writing of Irving as Mephistopheles and Miss Terry as Marguerite, says that the hitter’s face is as full of heaven as the former's Is of the other place. —William Aimison, of Nashville, Tenn., the new President of the International Typographical Union, was twice elected to the Legislature while setting type upon a Nashville paper. He is about fifty years old. His father was a Frenchman, his mother a Greek, and he was born at Marseilles. —ln the death of Mr. Edwin P. Whipple Boston loses a truly original man, ami otie whose most brilliant side never shone in las writings. He could never pen down in black and white those flashes of wit which eorruseated in his conversation and made a half an hour with him an epoch of exhiliration.—Boston Beacon. —Mrs. Mary B. Willard, of Evanston, 111., and late editor of the UnionSignal, the organ at Chicago of tho Woman's Christian Temperance Union, is now residing in Ber.in, Germany, where she has opened a home-shool for American young ladies for instruction in the German and French languages, art, literature, music, etc.— Chicago Journal —A correspondent of a Boston paper asked for a selection of ten choice books and received tho following reply: First on the list the Bible, then Shakespeare, Longfellow's poems, Tennyson’s poems, “The Language and Poetry of Floweis,” “ Daring Deeds of the Bine and the Gray,” the works of William Carleton, “ Don Quixote,” “The World of Ice,” “The Dead Alive.” —Frank Mayo, the actor, who has made fame and fortune as Davy Crockett, has a most extraordinary aversion to the play, and declares that he will not appear in it again, unless compelled by poverty to do so. Mr. Mayo wants to be a tragedian, and is, indeed, an excellent actor, but the critics always insist that his Hamlet and Othello talk like Davy, hence his disgust.— N. V. Sun. —Dr. Munford, proprietor of the Kansas City Times, who was shot iu a street-ear and badly wounded the other day by an infuriated lawyer, has had some experience in the same line. He entered the Confederate army when a youth, and in one of the battles of the Southwest was terribly wounded. For years he was no better than a living skeleton, but good nursing and surgery saved him. and he finally took up journalism in Kansas City. He Bought the Times when it was in a bad way financially, and he has built it up to a profitable property. Chicago Tribune. —A reporter fresh from England was recently assigned by tile city editor of a Boston paper to report a lecture. This is the way he “fixed” a quotation from Tom Moore: “The reverend gentleman announced it as his opinion that the world is in the nature of a fleeting show, given for the delusion of man, and proceeded to remark further that vthe smiles of joy. as well as the tears ®bf woe, shine deceitfully in the one case and flow deceitfully in the other. There is, he said, nothing true but Heaven.’ ’J HUMOROUS. —Peter the Great was crowned one fine morning. What time was it. The beginning of a reigny season. —“Pa,” said a five-year old son, “t an a rope walk?” “1 think not, my son,”' answered the father, “but it might if it were taut.” —Texas Figaro. —A young actress writes her name “Katharine Kynder.” Tiiys looks kind o’- queer: but yt ys nobody’s business yf she dykes yt that way.—Norristown Herald. —A wag seeing a heavy door oft - its hinges, in which condition it had been fqr some time, observed that when it had fallen and killed someone, it would probably be hung. —An experienced housewife in a long article tells “how to save your dishes from being broken.” It is unnecessary. All you have to do is to put them away and eat off tin dishes. —“Pa, what does nobby mean?” “Stylish, my dear.” “Well, then, pa, your nose must be very stylish, for grandma says you have got the knobbiest nose in town.” —Texas Siftings. —“I feel like mother earth,” said a defeated candidate to a friend the morning after the election. ‘-How is that?” asked his friend. “I have been flattened at the polls,” was the reply. —ln the midst of a stormy discussion, at which Douglass Jerrold was present, a gentleman rose to settle the matter in dispute. Wavipg his hands majestically, he began: “Gentlemen, all I ■vyapt is common sense.” “Exactly,” interrupted Jerrold; “that is precisely what you do want.”— N. Y. Ledger. —The said doctor is said to havo vainly paid his addresses to a lady who preferred to marry a Mr. Quincy. “Mo.” said he, on subsequently meeting her, “it seems you prefer a sore throat to Byles.” “Indeed I do,” was her answer, “for, if there had been any thing worse tiian biles, surely the Lord would have troubled Job with ’em.”— Boston Post. —Small boy (who has been reading “The Demon Plumber, or the Boy Clown”) —“You have walloped me, father, but I swear to you that ere another moon has waned. I will wreak a fearful.vengeance on all your accursed tribe. Ha, ha! The boy clown defies you.” (And so saying he skips out of the woodshed and climbs over tho fence.)— Chicago Rambler* —“I see,” said Mrs. Follinsbee, looking from her paper the other evening, “that they say Modjeska has a lot of perfect sticks supporting herthis season.” “That is entirely appropriate,” repiu and the Colonel, with a diabolical orin. “How is that?” “Why, she is a 'po!e herself, you know.” Mrs. Follinsbeo was so indignant that she didn’t speak to him for all thedev^ning. —The Comet. —A lady stood patiently before a receiving cashier’s window in a bank, the other day, but no one took notice of her till she attracted the attention of the money-taker by tapping with her parasol on the glass. “Why don’t you pay attention to me?” she asked, ’petulently. “Urn sorry, ma’am: but we don’t pay any thing here. Next window, please,” was the polite response. Anxious to Please. “Got any eggs to-dav, Mr. Coldcheese?” “Yes, sir, plenty of them.” “Are they fresh?” “Fresh, sir, as the flowers that- - ahem!” “Then I don’t want any.” “Don’t want any?” “No, sir. I'm going to a lecture tonight, and I thought if I could run across some stale eggs--” “Stale, sir! There hain't an egg itj that barrel that \vais laid this veaiv”— Philadelphia Call,

A FATAL PET. How M, Pasteur’s Wolf-Bitten Russian l atlent* Received Their 'Wounds. Russain papers publish the following interesting details of the wolf episode that cost Moils. Pasteur three weeks of hard work and the first professional disappointment. According to a correspondent of the Novydi, the brute that caused all the mischief was not a wild wolf, but a domesticated pet, perhaps the most petted quadruped in Eastern Europe. Three years ago a berry-picking boy found him in the woods and brought him to the village of Biely, Government of Smolensk, where the farmer, Stephen Wassiljew, adopted him as com panion to a motherless puppy. Before the end of that summer „ the whelp had superseded his foster brother. He had an ultra canine talent for flunkeyism, and fawned himself into the favor of so many visitors that his owner was repeatedly ottered thirty roubles for the bushy-tailed little sycophant, that licked the hands of every stranger and romped with the village youngsters and billy goats. One of the farmer’s girls was his playmate. At the mere sound of her voice he would start from his couch at the heartstone and scratch and whine at the door till his girl friend entered the kitchen. That young lady was chiefly responsible for the ensuing tragedy. On the 2;!d of February Dushka —“Sweetheart,” as she called her pet—was bitten by a suspicious cur, who forthwith died with all the characteristic symptoms of hydrophobia; but when a dozen of his canine victims were killed Miss Wassiijew interceded for her pet. They locked him up in a barn to await developments. Early the next morning. March 188(>. Dushka mail-” aged to break out, and in the course of that day not less than twenty-eight persons were fiercely bitten, besides a dozen or two who got off with snap bites and torn clothes. At tile very beginning of the trouble the pluck of one heroic Mujik would have prevented all further mischief if his companion had not turned craven at the critical moment Peter Teherkow, an athletic young villager, accompanied by his sister and a young neighbor, was returning from an all-night dance, when they saw the wolf coming down the road in a sort of sidelong trot and with an uncanny leer that made them step aside to give the traveler achance to leave the neighborhood by the straightest route. But Dushka had seen them, and in the next moment made a rush and caught Peter by the breast. •♦•Save yourself, Olga,” the brave. Mujik cried to his sister, as he grappled with the wolf, and then calling on his companion, he clutched the brute round the neck and wrenched his head down till he had pinned him flat on the ground. At that moment a common pocket-knife in the hands of a resolute man could have ended the affair, but the cowardly neighbor had taken to his heels—to protect tlie retreat of the girl, as he afterward explained it, and Peter’s struggle with the were-wolf now became a duel for life and death. Too soon the grip of his fingers relaxed, and in spite of his frantic efforts to maintain his vantage the wolf got his jaws free and began to use them with terrible effect, when at last a teamster appeared on the scene and began to belabor the monster with a long hatchet. The wolf then left his victim ami ’' turned on the new-comer and with two successive rips tore his face nearly off. Minus his cheeks, lips and nostrils, the unfortunate man staggered out of the way and left the ogre at leisure to turn his attention to a third adversary, the Mujik Jaekolen, whom Peter’s sister had in the meantime? summoned from the farmstead. Jaekolen, too, was terribly mangled and had to back out toward the team, trying in vain to cover his retreat with a club, but by this time neighbors with flails and axes came running up from all sides and succeeded at last in routing the apparently 'indestructible monster. But in the outskirts bf the next village the havoc recommenced, and before night nineteen persons, some of them torn almost into pieces, were turned over to the district hospital at Semstow. The village priest of Biely and the game-keeper Niktin Garcewiteh, died on the following day from wounds as desperate as any treated in the field hospitals of modern armies, for the pet of Biely had attained the size of the largest specimens of his tribe. Two more died in the course of the next week, and three of Mr. Pasteur’s patients are now dead or on the point of dying. The Russians, as a nation, are not much given to lynching, their official provisions for retributive justice being rather in excess of demands but at the mass meeting of the Semstow peasants the wretch whose cowardice had cost the lives of so many braver men was denounced in terms which induced him to consult his safety by disappearing* under) cover of the next night. In Western Russia, where even the urox has been permitted to survive, wolves still infest all larger forests, aud tneir whelps are caught and tamed about as often as the fawns of our Southern Alleghanies.— Cincinnati Inquirer. TWO MIND-READERS. A Psychological Interview Between u Bill-Collector and Mr. Bilkins. “Don’t say a word!” exclaimed Bilkins, impressively, as a gaunt, unshaven man entered his office. “Don’t speak: don’t utter a syllable. I have acquired the gift of mind-reading. A mysterious sympathy is established between us. I read your purpose—yon have come here to collect Keen & Blunt's little bill. Is it not so?” “It is. You are quite right,” replied the gaunt, unshaven one. “I, too, have been a miml-reader in jny time. The power is on me now. I know vour thoughts. I can tell you what the Speech you are now framing will be. \ou are going to say: Tam very sorry, but you will have to call again.’ Am I not right?” “Marvelous!” ejaculated Bilkins. “1 can go further,” resumed the prophet, in a lioarso whisper. “You will tell me to come up about the middle of next week.” “Miraculous!” cried Bilkins. “But I have not jet done. I can see into your very soul. You will answer: T have been coming here now every week for the last two years, and it’s high time you settled up.’ ” “You astonish me!” “Yea, more; you will threaten to bring suit against me.” “Just what I was going to do; but I carry my spiritual communion still further. You will say: ‘Sue, and be—blanked.’” “My dear sir, you are inspired. You ought to be a weather prophet.” “ And then, after I give you a little back talk, you will waft me into the street.” “There is no use fighting against destiny,” responded Bilkins, and a few moments later, as th gaunt, unshaven mind-reader collected his remains from the sidewalk, he was overheard to remark that the next time he metaphysician. he would pass him by uunotieed. —Chicago Rambler. ■ —The best way to settle a quarrel is for the innocent one to take the initiative and forgive the guilty one. A quarrel is seldom healed in any other Try iW—Y. Independent.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. —Keep the garden free from weeds. You can not grow a paying crop of vegetables and a crop of weeds at the same time. Cincinnati Times. —Gold chocolate is a popular summer drink. Grind up. chocolate, put iu a little pulverized sugar and pure cream and it is-ready for use with the addition of ice-water. Chicago Journal. —SilverCake: Half a pound of sugar, quarter of a pound each of flour, butter and corn-starch, whites of eight eggs, one saltspoonful salt, one teaspoonful extract oi bitter almonds.— Philadelphia Call. ' —A little glue in limewash for outbuildings and fences is a good thing, because it makes the lime adhere, '‘but it is bad for trees; hence limewash for trees is better without any such addition. — Exchange. —Cup custards are easily made and handy in an-emergeney. Break an egg into each clip, add a heaping teaspoon of sugar and a trille of salt; flavor to suit the taste, and fill nearly full with milk. Set the cups in a kettle or pan of hot water (or a .steamer) and steam till done.— Western Rural. —A cold, damp soil, with a hard impervious subsoil, is not suitable for a garden, and before it can be properly utilized should be well drained. 'For garden purposes, if the drain has been laid, the trenching system is best for such soils. Anv method that permits it to rid itself of surplus moisture, and allows the air and heat to enter, will be beneficial.—A’. Y. Heral l. —“Apples,” says Secretary Russell, who is quoted by the Xc'w England Farmer , “are good food for horses as well as for other animals that are not kept for hard Work, but if apples are fed in the country to horses that are to be sold ,in the spring the animal’s teeth will be so blackened by the fruit acid that the veterinarian inspectors will very likely pronounce them decayed, and the horses consequently worthless or unsound.” —Tenderloin of Pork: The pork should be rubbed with butter and broiled on a hot gridiron. Garnish with slices of lemon and serve with sauce Robert. The sauce is made in this way: Mince an onion line and fry it brown in butter; add half a cup of vinegar and half a cup of hot water or stock;,, boil a few minutes and strain; now add a teaspoonful of brown flour and one of mustard, seasoning with half a teaspoonful of salt and a little white pepper. Boil until it thickens.— Boston Budget. —Corn Starch Cream Pie: One pint of milk, scalded, two tablespoonfuls corn starch, three tablespoonfulssugar, yelks of two eggs. Wet the starch with a little cold milk. Beat the eggs and sugar until light, and stir the whole in the scalded milk. Flavor with two teaspoonfuls lemon. Line a pie plate with pie crust and bake. Fill with the cream and cover it with frosting made of the whites of the two egg3 beaten with two tablespoonfuls sugar. Set in oven a few minutes to stiffen.— Toledo Blade. CONSTRUCTION. Some Points to Be Tnketi Into Consideration by Ro id Supervisors. Evenness in the surface of the roadbed is essential to a comfortable and durable road. The common fault is to tliro'T up the center with a plow, and, perhaps, dump piles of dirt with the scoop here and there, leaving it to be leveled down by wear of teams passing over it. The result is a roadbed made up of humps and nntdholes, which can never be made into a good road by hauling on gravel, as the gravel will be thick in some places anil thin in others; anal, though the surface of the ground be finished evenly, it will settle unevenly, and the low places in the road-bed hold water and the gravel settles more there, anil is by degrees forced into the soil by travel. This point of finishing up the road-bed at time of grading it. so that the surface is even and true to guide, and so water will not stand or gather at any place short of the gutters,, is essential to a good, lasting road. Neglect in securing this, entails evils which can never be corrected so fully by increasing the amount of gravel as to prevent the tendency to uneven settling of the road. This evenness of surface in grading once secured, the foundation is laid for a good road. It remains only to be evenly covered with enough clean gravel to prevent cutting through or sinking unevenly. This means several things, and the amount of gravel required depends, first, on the quality of the graVel; second, oil the kind of soil and completeness of drainage in road-beds and third, on the kind and amount of travel on the road. Hence, it is hard to fix the thickness of gravel; good judgment must settle that. First as to the gravel. This varies in quality in every stream and every gravel-pit. Material which is mostly sand with a few stones mixed ill as big as one’s double fist is unfit to use on a road which has had a first-class roadbed and gutters made. A good, firstclass road can not be made from such material. It may for a time not cut into ruts or get muddy and sticky, but it never will pack evenly and marie a smooth road. The jolt over a stone pitches,the vehicles so as to soon cut out a hole, great or small, where water will gather and facilitate the Work of grinding out holes near the big stones. It is a misnomer to call' such material gravel. This stuff is not tit to even put in the bottom of a much-used highway, for sooner or later the stones will appear to cause jolting and gouging out holes in a road which, without the presence of such obstructions, would wear evenly and keep smooth and solid. The best gravel has no stones larger than a hen’s egg, and is free from dirt, and has no more sand among it than will barely fill tlie interstices between the pebbles. Clean gravel free from dirt and stones will pack uniformly, make a smooth road, and last indefinitely. This, then, means that when teams are hauling gravel, it is the duty of the supervisor to see that one team does not bring a load of sand and loam and the next of coarse gravel, and thus make the gravel road-bed of so unequal texture that it will never pack evenly anil will soon wear more in one place than another, and be full of holes in a short time. Roads made in this careless way cost about as much as those made well, and will not wear half so long and never will be a comfort to the community using them. I know of a road that I built twelve years ago, that has had heavy hauling of gravel and stone beside the common use of farmers hauling grain ant,li wood and logs, and yet it is free from ruts aud has no holes. Near it is a road made seven years ago by a supervisor who never takes time to do any thing thoroughly. The latter road has b n twice dressed with gravel, while tlie former has never had any dressing with gravel in twelve years. The well-built road cost no more per rod than the poorlybuilt one, except the increased care of the supervisor to see that the grading was properly done, and the gravel was good and of uniform quality and evenly spread as fast as dropped from the wagon. The trne economy in road-building, like all other work of a public nature, is to build thoroughly ami honestly. The Cheap Johns among our road and bridge builders are the chaps who in I(ie long run cost our counties vast of money.—Cor, Ohio farmer.

PARING THE HEELS. 1 A Pernicious Custom Which In the Chief Cause of Contraction of the Hoof. Among the causes of contraction of the hoof is the prevalent custom of cutting away the bars which ofdiharly support the heels and prevent tlleir approximation. This method is directly operative in producing this deformity, which, in some cases, may be considered in the light of local atrophy —diminished nutrition. Diminished nutrition generally results from disorder in the digestive organs, so that contraction of the hoof and indigestion may coexist, although many physicians deny the co-existence of tlie diseases. Contraction of this kind is not apt to occasion lameness, because there is a very low grade of vital action in the parts. But contraction is now) and then the result of deep-seated disease within the hoot'-navicularthr tis and faminitis, for example; the animal is then dead lame while the inflammatory diathesis lasts. Treatment —Contraction associated with inflammatory action of the tissues or cartilages of the foot must be treated ill the same manner as recommended for faminitis: in all cases endeavor to give the frog a bearing on tlie ground, and in ’order to do this the shoe Ought to be removed. A dry, brittle and contracted hoof may be improved by repeated poulticing with soft soap and rye meal, applied cold. So soon as the hoof softens let it be dressed, night and morning, with turpentine, linseed oil and powdered charcoal, equal parts. .A run at grass, in a soft pasture, the animal having nothing more than tips on his-feet, is the best treatment. A very popular notion exists that cow manure has a wonderful effect on a contracted hoof, but filth and dirt of every kind are unfavorable to healthy action. If any benefit belongs to such an objectionable application it is due to the property it possesses of retaining moisture; therefore cold poultices and water are far superior. Clay and most earth placed in the stall for the horse to stand on are far iuferior to a stuffing of wet oakum, which can be removed at pleasure. In order to keep it in contact with the sole insinuate two strips of wood between the sole and shoe, one running lengthwise and the other crosswise of the Toot. It affords considerable pressure to the foot, Ls cooling and cleanly, and is far superior to the above articles. — Chicago Herald. PUSH THE PIGS. The Faster the Growt'i tlie Less the Cost and the Greater the Profit. It docs not pay to keep hogs or other animals after they have stopped growing. Neither does it pay to lpt them stop growing at any period before they have attained their full development. Any such stoppage of growth is not only a dead loss, by consuming food to just maintain the animal in statu quo, but the pig is stunted and will never reach the point of development, in its future growth, which it would have reached had it been kept growing right along all the time. The old-fashioned way of keeping over spring pig-; on half-starving rations, to be filially shut up, foil and fattened some eighteen months after birth, was a most uneconomical one. • Nearly a year's feed went largely to waste* and the hogs were butjittle larger when killed than They might have been made, by judicious feeding, six or eight months after birth. The more rapid the growth can be made, and the sooner something like full development can be reached, the less the Cost and tho greater the profit. The second year’s growth on hogs properly 1 fed and kept is not very profitable. It is much better to start them in February or March and push them for all there is in them until some time in December, wh’enMt will be found that the eight-months’-old shoat is heavier and better than the average eighteen-months'-old hog used to be. This we believe is now pretty well understood, and few pigs get kept over the winter unless they come late in the season or are retained for breeding purpose-. There is an old adage in tfade to the effect that the nimble sixpence is better than the slow shilling. The principle involved will apply iu pig-raising. It is better to grow two crops in two years than to take that time for growing one. The age is a fast one, and farmers as well as other people must study and practice all the true economies.— National LiveStock Journal. DISCOURAGED FARMERS. Some Reasons Why They Should Make the Most of Hard Times. There are hundreds of discouraged farmers in this country. They do not hesitate to advertise their condition. One can hardly blame them. Jfhe world looks dark, indeed, to the man who has lost his courage. Courage is fickle: it is hard to win it back when once it is driven away. It is customary to sneer at the discouraged farmer, and tell him that his failures ar,e his own fault. This talk does no good. It only makes a mau more bitter to say “I told you so” to him. Such men need encouragement and hope, and not sneers. Many a man who lias worked carefully, honestly and wall, finds himself no higher tip the scale of agriculture than he was a year ago. No wonder the long days of drudgery that lie behind him blaieken his prospects now and magnify his obstacles. We appreciate the position of Such a mau, but would beg of him. for the sake of his family at least, to keep his courage and cheerfulness. You owe a duty to your family. The strong must uphold the weak. aomes only through suffering. When you give up, you give every one of your cJhildren a lesson in cowardice. Life is not so bad after all. Your work has not been all in vain. There are plenty of people worse off than you arc. Hundreds of these city people who go about with plenty of money, who never seem to be troubled, have a life-long hunger gnawing away at their hearts. Rest assured that some man envies you your lot. You would not sell your own health or the health of your wife and children for any money. The world is better than it might be. friends. Let us make the best of it. Never get so sour and discouraged that you can not enjoy the good times when they come.— Rural Ecu) Yorker. —At ""the funeral of County Clerk Peachy, of Oroville, Cal., who committed suicide recently, a pathetic scene occurred. The father of Peachy,- a man grav-bearded and bent with age, met face to face with his former wife — the mother —from whom he had been separated t wenty-five years. The father resides at Los Angeles and the mother at Oakland. They have married again and have families. Their actions over the body of their boy were sad to behold. The father tenderly stroked the hair of his son and the mother kissed the lips. Both wept bitterly, but neither recognized the other.— San Francisco Chronicle. —There is no mystery about making neatsfoot oil, says the Rural Home. The only tiling necessary is to boil in a kettle as many cattle’s feet and hoofs as can be obtained and skim off the oil until no more rises. From the four feet of one animal a pint of oil is generally obtained and it is well wtirtii the trifling cos'* of tanking it

HOWLING SUPERSTITIONS. Nouxensicitl “Signs” and Their Significance in the JEyes of Silly People. Dream of eggs, sign of money. Dream of snakes, sigh of enemies. If you sing before breakfast you’ll crybefore supper. Dreaming of muddy or rushing water brings trouble. Fixnino a horse-shoe or a four-leaved clover brings good luck. >. If you cut your nails or sneeze on Saturday you do it "for evil.” Siie who takes the last stitch at a quilting will be the first to marry. If you can not make up a handsome bed your husband will have a homely nose. If you spill the salt someone will be “mad" with you uulessyou putsome in the fire. Stub your right s>o. you are going where you are wanted; your left, where you are not wanted. If the rooster crows on the fence, the weather will be fair; if on the doorstop, he will bring company. -c The editor of the Bristol (Tenn.) Fourier has been presented with a strawberry weighing one ounce. If by any chance a mourning hat or bonnet is placed upon your head you will need oue of your own soon. If your right ear burns, some oue is praising you; if your left, your friends are raking you over the coals. If the first Sunday in the month is unpleasant, there will be but ono pleasant Sunday during the month. Returning to the house for a moment after having once started out will bring back luck unless you sit down. A Cockney, speaking of the death of an octogenarian, remarked that he was born at Hayti, and died at heighty-two. When, in dropping a fork, it strikes the. floor and stands upright, it will bring a gentleman visitor; if a knife, a lady. While at the wash-board, if the suds splash and wet the clothes yon are wearing, you will have a drunken husband. If you drop your dish-cloth you will have company; also if you sweep a black mark; or if two chairs stand accidentally back to back. A woman in North Adams, Mass., has dug a cellar this spring for anew house without any help whatever. She quarried the stone like a man. If a baby sees his face in the glass it will be the death of him. If his nails are cut he will be a thief. If he tumbles out of bed it w ill save his being a fool. Break a mirror, sign of death. Death is also foretold by a dog howling under a window; hearing a mourning dove; a strange dove hovering about, or dreaming of a w hite horse. If you see the new moon through the glass you will have sorrow as long as it lasts. If you see it fair ill the face you will have a fall. Over, the left shoulder bad luck —over the right good luck. G. M. I). ~ Walking down Broadway is very pleasant when you feel well, and T lx never felt better than when hisfriend asked him how he got over that severe cough of his so speedilv. “ Ah, my boy,” said T , “(j. M. D. did it!” And his friend wondered what Gr. M. D. meant. He knew it lid not mean a Good Many Doctors, for T K had tried a dozen in vain. “ I have it.” said he, just hitting the nail on the head, “you mean Dr. Bierce’s ‘Golden Medical Discovery,’ or Gold Medal Deserved as my friend J S always dubs it.’* Bold by druggists. John Ruskin wants the sowing-machine to go. Let him put his feet on the treadle and work it, then. We accidently overheard the following dialogue on the street yesterday. Jones. Smith, why don’t you stop that disgusting hawking and spitting? Smith. How can I! You know lam a martyr to catarrh. J. Do as I did. I had the disease in its worst form but I am well now. S. What did you do for it ? J. I used Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. It cured me and it will cure you. N. I’ve heard of it, and by Jove I’ll try it. J. Do so. You’ll find it at all the drug stores in town. There are instances where quail on toast has been followed iu due time by three cents on the dollar. —Chicago Journal. — When the Scalp is annoyed with Dandruff, Glenn’s Sulphur Soap will be found an infallible remedy. Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye, Black or Brown, 50c. To succeed in his profession the physician must have patients. As A hair dressing, Hall’s Hair Renewer has no equal. Ask your druggist for it. The only warranted cure for chills and fever is Ayer’s Ague Cure. An indirect wav of gettiug a drink of water at a cheap boarding-house is to ask for a third cup of tea. Dr. Pierce’s “ Favorite Prescription” is the debilitated woman’s best restorative tonic. Mental gymnastics— Jumping to a conclusion. If afflicted with Sore Eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c. Fold again—Second-hand articles.—7?r linfjton Free l'ress. Bronchitis is cured by frequent small doses of Piso’s Cure for Consumption. An ode to a goat may be .called a nauny versary poem. ~7” THE MARKETS, New York, July 13. LIVE STOCK—Cattle $4 20 % 5 U • Sheep II 0) "> 00 Hogs .... ... 521 f, -L 554 FLOCK—tioo<l to Choice 2 75 (it 5 U Patents ..1 4 .V) ©5 U 0 i WHEAT— No. 2 Ked rt'iw btt No. 2 Spring 8485. rOKN 4K-V" 48 OATS—Mixed Western !.3 © 57 „Kye ii.> © ets PORK—Mess...., 10 50 ©1175 LARD-Steam 3 720© 3 75 CHEESE, , f>V4 7’i WOOL —Domestic 27 © 30 CHICAGO. BEEVES—Extra $5 40 @5 50 Choice 4TO © 4 S3 Good 4 30 (it 4 4) Medium 3 00 ©4 20 Butchers' Stock 3 75 On 4 :kj Inferior Cattle...: HOGS—Live—Good to Choice 4+5 ©4 SO SHEEP 2 25 © 4 25 BUTTER—Creamery 12 >. 13*j Good to Choice Dairy 8 © 10! j EGGS—Fresh 12 © 122, FLOCK—Winter... 4 15 © 4 "0 Spring 3 51) ©4 25 i Patents 425 ©4 75 GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2 HPi >b ttl ’ Corn 371*© 37V,; Oats. ..? 27k© 29 7 Rye, No. 2 tit) © t)'’(i Barley, No. 2 35 © 351-i BROOM CORN— Self-working .... 6 8)4 Carpet and Hurl 7 © 84} Crooked 4 © 5 POTATOES ibbl.)—New 1 35 © 1 80 .PORK—Mess 9 70 ©9 75 LARD—Steam 35) © 3 520 LI MBEK— Common Dressed Siding.. 19 30 ©22 00 Flooring.. 3)1 C 4 ©35 Or)” 4 Cominou Boards 13 0) ©l4 00 Fencing It 01 ©l3 50 l.ath 1 25 © 1 80 Shingles 1 95 © 2 30 EAST LIBERTY. CATT LE-BEST .... $3 25 © 540 . Fair to Good 4 5) © 5 00 HOGS—Yorkers 4 75 © 4 80 Philadelphias 4 90 6s 5 00 SHEEP—Best 4 73 ©5 00 Common 2 50 ©3 00 BALTIMORE. CATTLE—Pest *5 25 (® 8 50 Medium ... 4 75 ©5 00 HOGS •. 550 ©3 00 SHEEP —Poor to Choice 200 © 5 Oil FRAZER AXLE GREASE. Beat in the world. Get the ueutalne. Lv •ry purkage ha* our I’ratle mark and is markVd Frazer’*. SOLI) EVEHI WHtllK. FAMOUS DEVILED CRABS! " A Dr'll with the Flavor of the Ocean Breezes;” Put Im> in tine and. two pound can* by McMenamln A Uaiuptua, Vi. Kept by kudiug growr. everywhere.

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This medicine, combining Iron with pure vegetable tonics, quickly and completely Cures Dyspepsia, Indigffition, Weakness, Impure Blood, Malaria, Cllill* and Fevers, and Neuralgia. It is an unfailing remedy for Diseases of tho Kidney afld Liver. It is invaluable for Diseases peculiar to 'Women, and all who lead sedentary lives. It does not injure the teeth, cause headache,!)* produce constipation— olhn • Iron medicines da, ■ It enriches and purifies tile blood, stimulates the apoetite, aids the assimilation of food, relieves Heartburn and Belching, and strengthens the muscles and nerves. For Intermittent Fevers, Lassitude* Lack ot Energy, etc., it has no equal. t3T The genuine has above trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no other. Mate only by BROWN CHEMIC AL 4D* BALTIMOBI* MBk “ EDUCATIONAL. /T LFSDALK FEMALE COLLEGE. Fifteen mile. Vi north of Cincinnati. Address , , _ REV. L. D. POTTER, D. Dl, Glendale, O. UNION COLLEGE of LAW. Chicago. FallTem beU gins Sept . 22. For circular add. U. Booth, Chicago. UNIVERSITY OF ZZjZjIXOZS. Courses in AGRicrn/rintE; Engineering, Mechanical. Civil, and Mining; CHEMISTRY, NATURAL History; English and Modern Languages, Ancient Languages. Preparatory course of one vear. Women admitted. For information, address SELIM H. PEABODY, LL D. CHAMP AIGN^ILL. H. 30. Y*. BIGKItOW, GENERAL AGENT HARTFORD STEAM BOILER INSKCTIOH AND INSURANCE GO., US. 115 <& 117 Muteok Block. Cklcan. DR. JOHN BULL’S Sill’s Tonic Simp FOR THE CURE OF FEVER and AGUE Or CHILLS and FEVER, | AND ALU MALARIAL DISEASES* The proprietor of this celebrated medicine justly claims for it a superiority over all remedies ever offered to tha public for the BAJTJ&. CERTAIN, SPEEDY and FESMAHEST cure of Ague and Fever, or Chills and Fever, whether of short or long standing. He refers to the entire Western and Southern country to bear him testimony to the truth of the assertion that in so case whatever will it fail to cure if. the directions are strictly followed and carried, out In a great many cases a single dose has been sufficient for a cure, and whole families have been cured by a single bottle, with a perfect restoration of the general health. It is, however, prudent and in every case mare certain to cure, if its use is continued in smaller doses for a week cr two after the disease has been checked, more especially in difficult and long-standing cases. Usually this medicine will not require any aid to keep the bowels ia good order. Should the patient, however, require a cathartic medicine, after having taken three or four doses of the Tonic, a single dose of KENT’S VEGETABLE FAMILY PILLS will be sufficient. USE no other pill. Price, *I.OO per Bottle; Six Bottles for *5. DR. JOHN BULL’S SMITH’S TONIC SYRUP, BULL’S SARSAPARILLA, GULL’S WORM DESTROYER. The Popular Remedies of the Day. Principal Office, 831 Main St., LOUISVILLE, KT.

HOW TO USE . CREAM BALM Place a particle of the Balm into each nostril and draw strong breaths through the nose. It will be absorbed and begins its work of cleansing the ; diseased membrane. It j allays Inflammation and I prevents fresh colds. NOT A LIQUID or SNUFF. No poisonous drugs. No offensive odor.

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