Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1877 — Page 4

THE OLD CLOCK. Oh, the old, old clock, of the household stock, Was the brightest thing and neatest; Its hands, though old, bad a touch of gold, And its chains raDg still the sweetest. Twas a monitor, too, though its words were few, Yet they lived, though nations altered ; And its voice, still strong, warned old and young, When the voice of friendship faltered. “ Tiok, tick,” it said—“ quick, quick to bed, For ten I’ve given warning; Up, up, and go, or else, you know, You’ll never rise soon in the morning.’ A friendly voice was that old, old clock, As it stood in the comer smiling, And blessed the time with a merry chime, The winter hours beguiling ; But a cross old voice was that tiresome clock, As it called at the.daybreak boldly, When the dawn looked gray on the misty way And the early air blew coldly; “Tick, tick,” it said—“ quick out of bed, For live I’ve given warning; You’ll never have health, you’ll never get wealth, Unless you’re up soon in the morning.”' Still hourly the sun goes round and round, With a tone that ceases never; While tears are shed for bright days fled, And the old friends lost forever ; Its heart beats on, though hearts are gone That warmer beat and younger ; Its hands still move, though hands we love Arc clasped on earth no longer ! “ Tick, tick ” —it said— •’ to the churchyard bod The grave hath given warning : Up, op, and rise, and look to the skies, And prepare for the heavenly morning.”

WHY HE DIDN’T.

f‘But, Judge, you never told me why you did not marry Mihh Van Horn. We all thought that matter was settled, but suddenly we were surprised by the news that you had married a stranger in the city, and Helen Van Horn was loft disconsolate. I wonder what lias become of her ? She must have married well, however; she had a lino chance to choose, for there was scarcely a good match in the city that was not at her command at one time.” “Yes, yes,” answered the gentleman addressed—Judge Hume, a distinguished, handsome, intelligent-looking man of about 45 years of age; a successful lawyer, who had some years before been raised to the judicial bench almost by acclamation— “ no woman could have married better than Helen Van Horn. Why I did not marry her is a short, simple story, not without a moral; and I will tell it if you care to hear it.. I have never told it before, even to my wife, ludicrous as some of its phases are. So take a cigar—you will find it a good one —and hear how, possibly, Helen Van Horn is not Mrs. Hume to-day. “ You’ knew her father,” began the Judge, “and will remembor that lie was reputed to be very rich. However, it turned out, upon his death, and after his debts were paid, that there was left a mere pittance for Helen, obliging her, the petted child of fortune, to live with extreme economy ever since.” “Do you mean to say that she has never married ?” asked his guest. “Married !” repeated Hume ; “no indeed ! and in that may lie seen the moral of my story to which I referred. But do not let us anticipate ; let us begin at the beginning. “ One evening, going to fulfil l an engagement with Miss Van Horn, as the servant ushered me unannounced into the parlor, I found her engaged in an animated conversation with a singularly handsome young man, who, I saw at a glance, might readily become a formidable rival, and I felt for the instant a sharp pang of that uuamiablo, disconcerting passion, jealousy. But as my entrance had been unobserved, l was able to recover myself before saying, in my blandest manner, ‘Good-evening.’ 'The gentleman started,'and stiffly returned my bow. As for Helen, with BulVuscd cheeks she saiu, ‘ Why, Mr. Hume, I did not hear you at all; you are absolutely as gentle as a lamb. ’ “ Somewhat angry id. her satirical tone, I observed that she was engaged in conversation and probably did not hear me enter, and added that I had called to attend her to the gallery to see the picture she was anxious about,. “‘But really, Mr. Hume,’ slit' said, somewhat confusedly, looking from the stranger to me, ‘ 1 had entirely forgotten all about it, and so promised Mr. Churchill here to accompany him to see ‘ Richelieu ’ to-night.’ “ I glanced toward the stranger and lie returned the glance with a slight frown on his face. Miss Van Horn continued, ‘ But oh ! I beg your pardon, gentlemen, I had forgot ton you were not acquainted with each other. Mr. Hume, this is my friend, Mr. Churchill, of Richmond,’ and she carelessly fell back into the chair, from which she had half risen for the moment. “ ‘ I am sorry Miss Van Horn has so treacherous a memory ; but I hope, Mr. Churchill—with your approval—can be prevailed upon to defer his engagement, for I assure you the picture is a rare gem, and well worth seeing. ’ I persisted in this because 1 had become slightly roused by the indolent way of receiving the homage paid her, and tnere seemed to boa, gleam of triumph in the face of my rival. ‘ ‘ The young man looked at me gravely, then silently turned to Miss Van Horn for some expression of her wishes. He was evidently very much displeased at my interruption of their tete-a-tete, and was sufficiently interested in the lady to be seriously ruffled by my seeming rivalry ; lie was not altogether pleased witn the fact that she seemed so careless with respect to her engagements, which diel not accord with his standard of women. He was a well-educated, comely young man of good fortune, accustomed to be well received by women, and yet as he afterwards told me—ho could not help for the moment some apprehension that the lady s choice lor the evening might go against him, for you knew 1 was called quite a lady’s man in those i lays.

“ As for Miss Van Horn, slio sat, meanwhile, demurely toying with a large tassel suspended from the arm of her easy chair for a moment, as if in deliberation, then exclaimed : ‘ Really, I.am sure it must be very wrong in me to be so thoughtless, is it not?’ Hero a captivating smile illuminated her beautiful features and parted her bewitching lips,, just discovering the pearly teeth between them, and she added, ‘ Will you not settle the question, gentlemen, between yourselves ?’ “ The matter must be arranged in some way, and, as I was the most intimate friend of the family, and my rival a. comparative stranger, I was about to magnanimously withdraw my pretensions and leave the held, when suddenly there was a loud ring at the front door, and Miss Van Horn startled to her feet with the exclamation : ‘Ah, that must be Mr. DeStulfus ! what an unfortunate, thoughtless girl I am, for I do believe I am engaged to go to the opera with him to-night ?’ ' “ That quickly settled the question in dispute between Mr. Churchill and myself ; and with a common impulse we both rose to our feet, smiled at each other pleasantly, and, with a mere hurried ‘ good evening’ to Miss Van Horn, I stooped for my hat, which had fallen from my hand in my surprise, and struck my head against the corner of the piano. IVH-. Churchill rushed into the hall almost upsetting the diminutive De Stultus, whom he met, the very picture of effemmancy and ultra-foppishness

“Descending to the sic}ewalk, where the brilliant equipage of De Stulffcs met bur view, avc both simultaneously burst into a laugh that seemed to break the ice betAveen us, for Ave walked off together for several squares. As I complained of a severe pain in my eyes from the bloAv I had received, my companion said, ‘ I hope Mr. Hume will pardon my recent rude persistence in my fancied engagement with our fair acquaintance, and let us be good friends out of sympathy for the denouement. As we are here at my hotel, let us enter and drink to the good fortune of Mr. De Stultus. ’ “ I gladly accepted the invitation, and we were engaged in a pleasant conversation, when a loud noise was heard in the street, mingled with the cry of a woman in distress.

“Suddenly starting to our feet we rushed forward to render assistance. The first object that met onr sight was Helen Van Horn, covered with mud, but hapgily more frightened than hurt.. De tnltus was also in a wretched plight, but too much engrossed, as might be expected from such a creature, with his own mishap, to give the least attention to his associate in misfortune, whom he left to struggle to her feet unaided, and to make her way to the sidewalk, where she hysterically explained how a truck, against which De Stultus’ carriage had been carelessly driven, had left them stranded in the muddy street, fortunately and marvelously, however, without broken bones. “Churchill called a carriage and we escorted the wretched demoiselle back to her residence, at the door of which we congratulated her upon her lucky escape, and bid her ‘good night.’ “Mynew friend then proposed that we should at once drive to the opera, where he hoped we might meet a party of his friends, to whom he would be pleased to introduce me, and in whose society we-would find surcease for our disappointments in regard to Miss Van Horn. I assented. Churchill's friends were met as he had promised, and among them were two beautiful sisters, so attractive that they speedily drove all thoughts of a mere handsome girl, superficial and spoiled, like Helen Van Horn, out of the head of Churchill as well as my own. A charming evening at the opera ripened into a serious attachment on the part of Churchill and myself for these sisters, w'bioli ended in our marriage, and no > ue ever had juster reason for saying, ‘ There i» a divinity that shapes ->nr ende, Hough hew them how we will,’ than I have ! And now you know why I did not marry Miss Van Horn, and also how two men, for a moment about to be made enemies through the reckless, . unscrupulous coquetry of an inferior, heartless woman, by a happy stroke of fortune became friends and brothers. “As for Helen Van Horn, she still lives in single blessedness, and upon the memory of her many conquests, finding her chief gratification for some years past in recounting the various eligible offers she had refused, including always Churchill and myself among her rejected suitors. A heavy speculation, into which De Stultus had been beguiled about the time of Miss Van Horn’s triple engagements for the same evening, resulted so disastrously for him that her doors were at once rigidly closed Upon that admirer, who disappeared like a quenched meteor from society. Meanwhile occurred the death of old Mr. Vau Horn, which, ns I have said, left the daughter no othor attraction than mere physical beauty, that had now become so used that it ceased to please marriageable men, and she was no linger able to make three engagements for one evening. “ Hers, indeed, has been a life of lost opportunities. ”

HOW TO ADVERTISE.

The Views of a Successful lousiness Alan. At the recent semi-annual meetiug of the National Association of Stove Manufacturers, in Detroit, Sherman S. Jewett, of Buffalo, President of the association, made an address which was remarkable lor its sound sense and, business-like utterances. From the many good points in his speech we select a few paragraphs on “ aclvertising. ” They are all the more valuable to tradesmen, merchants and manufacturers because they are the utterances, not if a newspaper publisher or an advertising solicitor, but of a business man, a man who looks upon and uses advertising solely as an aid to his business, and who, with a business man’s caution and good sense, selects only the best possible system, the system which will most thoroughly advertise his business and bring him in the surest returns. Business men should read Mr. Jewett’s views : “The tawdry lithographs so ireely used by manufacturers neither express good sense nor. good taste; they Buffer even by the comparison with the comic valentine, for although the latter is essentially vulgar, and frequently a hurtful missile iu the hands of a foolish or malicious person, it means something—it has about it some touch of humor—it tells for what it was designed—but the stove manufacturer’s valentine—l mean his red and yellow lithograph, lias no redeeming qualities about it. At best it but announces the thoughtlessness or want of dignity of its author; and if it does not hint with a certain degree of p< sitiveness at the probable inferiority of his wares, it is less injurious than 1 have been inclined to regard it. “ Fence advertising cannot be too emphatically condemned—to characterize it as vile is scarcely to do it adequate justice. It is primarily objectionable because it brings the manufactures we wish to advertise into doubtful company on the public highways ; and every prudent business man must know, if lie has given to liis advertising the careful attention it deserves, that the money devoted to papering fences is utterly wasted. The showman who expends SIOOIOOO a year in glittering and gorgeous illuminations illustrative of liis exInuvetless zoological resources and arenic wonders, has warrant for his monopoly of the boards, in the fact that a large proportion of his patrons is made up of those who, with open mouth and staring eyes, prosecute their studies in the shadow? of the fences. But the same manager, you will observe, employs

other means by Avhich to reach the public— appliances upon which he relies for his best effects. His business requires him, by one method and another, to reach every class of the community, and printer’s ink is made to render a varied and invaluable service at whatever cost. I know a gentleman Avho expends $150,000 annually for advertising, but you cannot find his name on the fences ; lie is the best advertiser in the country, but there is nothing comical or grotesque about his way ®f doing business. Now, the members of this association who patronize the fences are overshadowed by the great showmen and are compelled to keep company with the small vendors of thin nostrums, the proprietors of some three-legged calf,' directors of a fat woman, the patentee of some A’illainous bitters, or the compounder of pills that are warranted to cure all the ills that flesh is heir to. I have seen the names of good firms brought into this disagreeable relationship, and have felt sorry for them. Those in want of any of the products of our factories are not influenced by this sort of advertising. “ The glaring poster neither inspires confidence nor conveys the information the public desire; and if we would make the best possible use of our money in giving publicity to our claims as manufacturers, we should patronize able and responsible neAvspapers. The newspaper is immeasurably the best medium open to our trade: the most liberal and expert advertisers testify to its value; and in the employment of its columns Ave Avould find a means of escape from the wasteful, undignified and ineffective methods to which so many now resort in their eager desire to secure attention and patronage.”

His Luck.

A youth of six years, on returning from church inquired of his father if those who engaged in silent prayer on entering the church, all made use of the same words. His father was unable to inform him, but asked what led to the inquiry. The boy replied that he overheard the prayer of Mr. X., who, on bowing his head, made use in an audible voice of the folloAving words : “I wish to Heaven I had bought a barrel of flour before this cussed way broke out, Always my luck.” ‘ 17

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Around the Farm. Six quarts of soot to a hogshead of water makes a serviceable manure for watering forced plants—as well as for most bulbs, flowering plants and shrubs. —American Garden. My experience in planting com has been that more can be raised per acre where there is but one stalk in the hill than where there are six; better two than five; three than four; that is, three stalks per hill give the best yield. —Prairie Farmer. About seven years ago Mr. Stratton began to plant eucalyptus trees near Haywards, Alameda county, Cal. He is now selling railroad ties, telegraph poles and firewood at handsome figures. One-fifth of the trees are left standing for future use.— Pacific Rural Press. The First Food fob Chickens.— Just, before the chick breaks from its narrow cell, the last of the yelk is taken into the stomach, which gives it the strength to make its own grand effort for freedom. This foot! will certainly last twelve if not twenty-four hours after it is free. During that time no other food is needed ; only rest is required for the little stranger after its exhausting labor. —Poultry World. A Suggestion to Gkape Phunebs. — A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer gives as the results of liis experiments with grapevines that it is of the greatest advantage to prune them so as to have the main arms ns long ns possible. He has trained some to a length of twentyfour feet, and purposes letting them grow longer. The advantages are that much less summer pruning is required when there is no time for it, they are more easily protected in winter, and they bear more and larger bunches than vines set closer together, cohering the same extent of trellis. In France a gentleman owned a grand country estate ; surrounding ljis mansion were orchards containing fruit trees of all kinds that could bo acclimated, about three acres iu plums, which were healtliy-looking frees, blooming each spring, but none of the fruit coming to maturity. He became disgusted find turned the plum orchard into a chicken vard, leaving the trees for shade. To liis profound astonishment the next season the trees were fairly breaking down with ripe, full-matured fruit. The poultry had accomplished what man had utterly failed in—successfully battling the curculio. Ventilation of a Smoke-House.— But little ventilation is needed for a smoke house ; a smoldering fire that will make a dense, cool smoko is what is wanted. If there are any openings needed for the admitting of air, to sustain the necessarily slow combustion, they must be very small, and may be at the bottom instead of at the top, where smoke only is wanted. Flies must be kept out by all means, and, if any ventilating openings are made, cover them with fine wire gauze, and provide something to close them with when the tire is not used. To protect the meat the house must be quite close and dark. — American Agriculturist One pound of corn is equal as food to about three and three-quarters pounds of potatoes, or eight and one-half pounds of cabbage, or to eleven and one-half pounds of white turnips. Analysis gives the nutritive value of corn to be, compared with that of oats, as 70 is to 60. An average of several tables takes tlie value of a given quantity of oats to represent 100, while the value of the same quantity of com would be 95, weight being identical in each case. In practice, one bushel of com is equal to two of oats for fattening, but oats arc altogether better for the growing animals than com. Standing Water. —A very important work is to let off any water that accumulates upon the surface. This requires constant attention, and the use of a hoc or a shovel. Whether there is a crop in the ground or not, it is equally necessary to do this thoroughly, else the soil is soaked and dries very slowly. The amount lost through water remaining upon fields would each year buy for every farmer who permits it a good paper and more books than he could well study in a year. Barn-yards, especially, should be freed from water ; the wash from the* roof should be carried off before it has soaked through the manure and dissolved out all the valuable parts of it.— Canada Journal.

About, the House.

Currant Pie. —Four table-spoonfuls of currants, five of water, four of sugar, and one of Hour, will make one pie ; bake in two crusts. Lemon Cake. —Four cupfuls of flour, three cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of butter, one cupful of milk, live eggs; season with lemon. To Clean Collars and Wristbands. —Grease the soiled parts before wetting with any kind of fat or dripping ; let them remain a few hours, or over night; wash with soap in hot water. They will become wonderfully clean. Coooanut Cake. —One cupful of butter, two of sugar, four eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, two of cream tartar, in one cupful of milk ; one grated cocoanut should be .mixed with flour and the whites of the eggs-.,beaten to a stiff froth. Flour enough should be used to make it as stiff as pound cake.

Hoav to Paint Woodavork.— ln painting woodwork, a priming coat followed by a dark coat, such as chocolate or purple brown, and finished oft’ with'a coat of common varnish, is cheaper than, and as durable as, four coats of common color; it looks better, is more readily executed, and bears avu slung well.— Economist. How to Preserve Ice.— During illness ice is generally needed in the sickroom. The following method of preserving it is highly recommended, and is certainly worth trying: Cut a piece of flannel about nine inches square, and secure it by ligature round the mouth of an ordinary tumbler, so as to leave a cupshaped depression of flannel within the tumbler to about half its depth. In the flannel cup so constructed pieces of ice may be preserved many hours, all the longer if a piece oi flannel from four to five inches square be used as a loose cover to the ice cups. Cheap flannel, with comparatively open meshes, is preferable, as the water easily drains through it and the ice is thus kept quite dry. When good flannel with close texture is employed, a small hole must be made in the bottom of the flannel cup, otherwise it holds the water, and facilitates the melting of the ice. Placed in a cup of this kind, two ounces of ice has been known to last for nine or ten hours.

Shocking Tragedy in England.

A remarkable case of cold-blooded and premeditated wife-murder is exciting the English public almost to a point of lynching the perpetrators. In 1873 Louis Adolphus Edmund Staunton, then a youth of 24, and earning £1 a week, formed the acquaintance of Miss Harriet Richardson, ten years his senior, the daughter of Mrs. Butterfield, and niece of Lord Rivers. The lady had £1,400 in her own right, and a reversionary interest in £2,000 more. She had never been strong in her intellect, and just before her marriage to Staunton her friends made an unsuccessful effort to secure her confinement in an asylum. From the time of the wedding her mother saw her but once before her death. She was completely isolated from her family, who knew nothing of her until they heard of the birth and death of a child. After death she was found to be terribly emaciated, and an autopsy demonstrated that she bail been slowly starved ty death. Her husband, lpef brother,

and a woman who had been living in the same house were promptly arrested, and during their preliminary examination before the magistrates it was found necessary to guard them carefully to protect them against the multitude, who boldly threatened them with execution without any sanction of law. The magistrates found them guilty of the capital offense and bound them over for trial. There seems to be no doubt that Staunton deliberately married and murdered a harmless idiot, whose only fault wsb the possession of a little money, after which the brute lusted.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

There are 100,000 Germans in Texas. Spring-showers —Clerks showing new goods. Short nails make the tiuger tips grow broad. Fresh butter is now following fresh beef to England. Never apologize for a long letter; you only add to its length. Retiring early at night will snrely shorten a man’s days. Alabama is now pelling iron iu Pennsylvania to good profit. Immigration from Russia brought us 5,959 individuals last year—mostly Mennonitics. There has been so much rain in lowa this spring that the graßßhoppers wear India-rubber boots. The debt of New York city is over $160,000,000, and growing at the rate of $2,000,000 a month. Mrs. Cox, of Holderness, N. H., 101 years old, is now enjoying for the first time in her life the delight of whooping cough. The Philadelphia Zoological Society has a collection of 10,730 animals, composed in part of 405 mammals, 500 birds and 102 reptiles. Wagner recently told M. D. Conway that if ever he came to the United States it would be to make his home here. He thinks seriously of it. Two colored men, formerly slaves, and so illiterate uutil ten years ago that they could not read, are successfully editing a Missouri paper. The New Hampshire newspapers are engaged in trying to discover the person who lias the largest hand in the State. A womtuj thus far has the honor. Twenty-bight Chinese boys are on their way to English and French naval colleges. Japanese example has evidently told even upon Chinese anti-Eu-ropean feeling. For the erection of a monument to Linnseus 36,000 crowns have been subscribed. The monument will be unveiled on January 10, 1878, the hundredth anniversary of the death of the naturalist. The orator of class-day at Brown University this year will be a colored youth named Irman Edward Brown. He was chosen by the vote of his classmates. The honor is esteemed the highest one that can be gained in college. Several new fragments belonging to the Elgin sculptures in the British Museum have been lately discovered in excavations made on the south side of the Acropolis at Athens. The identification litis -been made by means of plaster casts forwarded to the Museum. V/ Massachusetts railway superintendents arc about adopting the practice of requiring all passengers to enter the cars at the front ends and leave them .at the rear ends. The object is not only to save time, but to avoid crowding and consequent liability to accident. -/ A Paris showman, whose daughter was recently married, presented to his son-in-law, as her fortune, an elephant that danced a fandango, a camel that went down on his knees with its head to the east at sunset., a dog that reckoned up accounts, and two canaries that played cards. A man in prison stretched his hand through the grating of the jail door in Liberty, Mo., recently, and married a young lady on the steps of the building. He had been imprisoned a year for obtaining money under false pretenses. The bride returned to her home and the groom to his cell. California is losing its reputation as a land of pure delight. The thermometer lately cut some queer capers. It waltzed from 102 to 105 in the shade. Remembering the enthusiastic praise of tho equality of the climate aw r ay off at the Golden Gate, this thermometrical attitudinizing makes us perspire and doubt.

A queer case of action on contract lias been instituted at Cattaraugus, N. Y. A young woman, the plaintiff, sets forth that her father, the defendant, promised her SSOO commission if she would procure him a Avife. She did it, and he married the Avoman, but noAv refuses to pay up, declaring indignantly that he did his oavu courting. Six car-loads of fine blooded stock were scut from Kentucky to the Government of Japan recently. The stock consisted of six thoroughbred stallions, tAvo thoroughbred fillies, two trotting stallions, three trotting mares, one Clydesdale stallion and mare, seven bulls, nine heifers and twelve head of Jersey cattle. Carefully culled statistics are adduced to show that the chances of life are longer in France than elsewhere in Europe. Of a million inhabitants who reach their 60tli year, Italy has 71,602 ; England, 78,010; Holland, 76,984; Sweden, 78,187; Denmark, 86,657; Belgium, 88,432; France, 101,495. Great Britain has the best show of centenarians. , Tiib Czar and his eldest son, tlie heir apparent, have no fixed allowance of pay. They take Avhat is necessary for their expenses out of the rents of the crown domains and out of the treasury, the sums taken from the latter being termed “ indemnities. ” All the other members of the imperial household have their allowances regularly fixed, and are not permitted to go beyond the limit. LIFE. Ali, this mystery, so rife AVith mysteries, this life! AV’ho can know it V Prophet nor poet, Nor prince nor peasant. This terrible present; Of all that has been, sum and history; • Of all that shall be, source and prophecy; This living past, present futurity; This was, and is, and Shall be so— He may not know. AVe ?—we are but men. Alone God sitleth, on his throne. Amen ! — R. R. Rowkcr, in Scribner for July.

Central Africa.

Those who have attained maturity may recollect seeing upon maps of Africa a large blank space in the center, indicating a land unexplored and unknoAvn. Of late yearn explorers have pierced its mysteries, and ascertained that this region of great equatorial lakes is one of the most populous and fertile of the earth, and that an immense plateau, among mountains crowned with eternal snow, is watered by great streams proceeding from them, and offers climates of various degrees of temperature. This inviting land is, however, the abode of savages, who are at perpetual war with each other, and who mutually cause a destruction of human life computed at hundreds of thousands a year. At least 40,000 slaves are also annually captured there, for use upon the continent, or for shipment elsewhere. Tlie International African Association, headed by the King of the Belgians, desires to commence the civilization of tlie country by establishing stations for scientific observations and for the use and protection of travelers ; and branches of the association have been formed in several European countries.

“ GERANTS.”

A Curious Adjunct of the Parisian Newspaper. [Paris Cor. New York Times.J An editor or liis gerant, usually a man of straw, is fined from 500 to 2,000 francs. If there is any imprisonment with the penalty, it is taken by a poor devil who receives five francs per week for taking the risks, and a support for himself and family while in prison for articles he did not write, and which lie never read. This system of having substitutes iB a very convenient one for journalists ; it is a penurious system in so far as the administration of justice is concerned. A friend of mine employs his concierge to act as gerant for his journal, pays him $1 per week when all goes well; S2O per week when in prison. This miyu is capable of reading a newspaper, but he could not write a single line correctly, and has no more idea of orthography than a child. The other day he had to answer for a brilliant article in his journal. “Accused,” said the Judge to the humble, cringing individual before him; “you recognize your guilt—you confess to your responsibility for this article ?” The accused replied that lie did. lie regretted the form of the article that he had published, but he was the only person responsible for it. '‘ Unfortunately, ” said the Judge, strongly emphasizing the word, “ unfortunately, the law compels me to accept this fiction. You are only a straw man.” “ Oui, Monsieur le President,” ho responded, humbly, “je suis homme de pnille, mais jo suis le seul rcsponsable. ” He had learned his lesson, and repeated it in court; the court was bound by the terms of the code to submit to this fiction, openly characterized as such, and openly confessed. This system is the result, anomalous as the idea may appear, of the journalistic practice of dueling. Some years ago the leading journalists of Paris found themselves involved in so many “ affairs” that their business waer interrupted. Often they got a coup d’epee which laid them up for weeks. One day a witty journalist hit upon the famous plan of employing the best fencing master of Paris to sign his articles. When challenges came, they were referred to the responsible party, who always punished his man, and who soon settled all the difficulties of his journal. Others followed the example, and took into tlicir employ young men with fighting qualities, or ex-army officers, who knew how to handle* a sword, if not a pen. In the end the journalists found that the system could be just as well applied to tlicir little disputes with Dame J ustice. The law required a responsible signature to each journal, and hence recognized the signer as responsible. From this to employing an ignorant and needy individual to sign these was but a step, and the system of gerants now prevailing was inaugurated. In a majority of cases it is the paid gerant who goes to prison, while the paper pays the fines and expenses. The real authors of incriminated articles are seldom reached.

The Business Outlook.

If we can bridge over this year, remarks a contemporary, the future is full of promise. In all directions we see causes for rejoicing. We have passed the worst, and better days arc dawning upon us. Everywhere confidence is takiug the place of doubt, and a better feeling is manifest in business circles throughout the length and breadth of the land. - The New York Herald says : “ The country stands at the threshold of a period of great prosperity, and it will grow rick. During the next four years it would require very extraordinary efforts to prevent the American people from making up the losses of the past and becoming once more the most prosperous and happy nation in the world. ” At no period in our history as a nation has our foreign trade been so largely in our favor as at present, and yet there is an increasing demand for all the products of our manufactories and our soil. The Iron Age says : “ The outlook for merchant iron is better than it lias been for months. We do not speak at random, but from actual observation and information gained from a visit to most of the prominent markets, both East and West. In the West, especially, there is a decidedly better feeling. A large number of the Pittsburgh mills are refusing orders unless they can get 2-10 c better than they woidd take six months ago. This is not only true of Pittsburgh but of all parts of the West.” Business is beginning to revive at the South. The rolling mills and cotton factories of Georgia are in operation, and new ones are in process of construction. Soon a cotton factory in Atlanta will be completed, and when the power is turned on the music of 20,000 spindles will be heard. The rolling mills of Tennessee, after a death-like silence 1 of years, are again in motion. Looking ahead we see the bow of hope spanning the heavens,.and away beyond we see the dawning of the most prosperous period we have ever had.

Cheeky Highwaymen.

A recent telegram from Wyoming says: “The stage from Deaclwootlwas stopped near Cheyenne river, and both the treasure-boxes were taken. The passengei-s were not molested. The road agents sent word by the driver to the managers of the stage line to send them a pair of gold scales, .as dividing dust with a spoon was not always satisfactory.”

“ The Sure Witness.”

“The nineteenth century is the age of novels,” remarks a literary historian—he might have added with equal truth, “and novel impositions.” Studied politeness has been passed off on us for native refinement, the forms of devotion for its essence, and speculation for science, until we look askance at every new person or thing, and to an assertion of merit, invariably exclaim, “Trove it!” In brief, Satan has made himself so omnipresent, that we look for his cloven foot every where—even in a bottle of medicine. Imagine a lady, having a complexion so sallow that you would deny her claims to the Caucasian type if her features did not conform to it, purchasing her first bottle of the Golden Medical Discovery. The one dollar is paid in the very identical manner in which Mr. Taylor might be expected to purchase a lottery'ticket after his experience with “No. 104.163,” with this difference, his doubt would be the result of personal experience, while hers would be founded on what a certain practitioner (who has been a wholo year trying to correct her refractory fiver) has said concerning it. At home, she examines the bottle half suspiciously, tastes of its contents carefully, takes the prescribed dose more carefully, and then proceeds to watch the result with as much anxiety as a practitioner would count the pulse-beats of a dying man. She takes another dose, and another, and shows the bottle to her friends, telling them she “ feels better.” Her skin losesits bilious tint, her eyes regain their lustef, her accu Boomed energy returns, and the fact that she purchases another bottle is a sure witness that she has found the Golden Medical Discovery to be a reliable remedy for the disease indicated. The lady wisely resolves that in future her estimate of any medicine will be based upon a personal knowledge of its effects, and not upon what some practitioner (who always makes long bills rhyme with pills) may say of it. Dr. Pierce is in receipfof letters from hundreds of the largest wholesale and retail druggists in the United States stating that at the present time there is a greater demand for the Golden Medical Discovery and Purgative Pellets tlian ever before. In affections of the liver and blood they are unsurpassed.

For a Good Breakfast or Tea,

you have often to make rolls, biscuit and such delicacies, in about ten minutes. It’s easy and certain with Dooley’s Yeast Powder, the best of them all. Troubled housewife, here is one cause of your annoyances swept away. Full weight and the best material are the watchword of the manufacturers.

Rheumatism Quickly Cured.

“Durang's Rheumatic Remedy,” the great Internal Medicine, will positively cure any case of rheumatism on the face of the earth. Price, $1 a bottle, six bottles, $5. Sold by all druggists. Send for circular to Helphenstine & Bentley, Druggists, Washington, D. C. The Pond’s Extbact Co., 98 Maiden Lane, N. Y., publish a small book free, telling what the people use Pond’ll Extract for, besides being good for paip.

Revive the Drooping Energies.

'When the physical energies droop, revive them with that safest and most active of tonics, Hostetier’s Stomach Bitters. By a timely use of this salutary and agreeable medicine you will save yourself from positive disease; for, be assured that the languor and loss of strength and appetite which troubles you is in fact the precursor of some malady of, perhaps, a serious nature. Appetite, tranquillity of the nervous system, and pristine vigor, will assuredly be restored if tbe Bitters are used systematically, and the alimentary disturbance, which in nine cases out of ten gives rise to debility and nervousness, be entirely removed. Regularity of the bowels, active biliary secretion, the expulsion of impurities from the blood through the kidneys, are also among the beneficent effects of this admirable restorative. Thirty years’ experience proves the Graefenberg Vegetable Pills to be tho mildest and most effective medicine ever known for tho complete cure of headache, biliousness, liver complaints, nervousness, fevers and diseases of digestion. Sold everywhere; price 25 cents per box .Send for almanacs. Graefenberg Co., New York. Send sl, and fifteen cents for postage, and get the Chicago Ledger for one year. Tho Ledger is the most successful, in fact the only successful, literary paper over published in tho Wost. Tho above price is merely nominal for such a valuable paper. Address The iAslger, Chicago, 111. Information worth thousands to those out of health. Self-help for weak and nervous sufferers. Facts for those who have been dosed, drugged, and quacked. The new Health Jour nal leaches all. Copies free- Address, Electric Quarterly, Cincinnati, O.

Hofmann's Hop Pills cure the Ague at once.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beevks 9 00 @l2 50 Hoos 5 10 @ 5 75 Cotton 12t,@ 12' Fuoun —Superfine Western 5 50 (<i. 5 75 Wheat —No. 2 Chicapo 1 57 @ 1 58 Corn —Western Mixed 55>7@ 50 Oats—Western Mixed 51 @ 55 Rye—Western 74 (it, 75 Pork—Mess 14 25 @l4 10 Lard i 9 @ 9} '’CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice Graded Steers..... 6 25 @ 6 50 Choice Natives 5 50 @ 6 00 Cows and Heifers 2 50 @4 00 Good Second-class Steers. 4 00 (a, 4 25 Medium to Fair 4 50 @ 5 25 Hoos—Live 4 00 @ 4 ‘.•5 Fi.our—Fancy White Winter 9 00 (n 9 50 Good to Choice Spring Ex.. 7 60 @ 8 00 Wheat —No. 2 Spring 1 40 @ 1 41 No. 3 Spring 1 20 @ 1 20 ConN—No. 2 40 @ 46f Oats—-No. 2 04 @ 05 Rye—No. 2 00 @ "02 Barley—No. 2 00 @ 05 Butter—Choice Creamery 18 @‘ 20 Eggs—Fresh 11 @ 12 Pork—Mess 12 85 (n 10 00 Lard 83 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 1 1 47 @ 1 49 No. 2 1 42 @ 1 40 Corn—No. 2 40 @ 47 Oats—No. 2 01 @ 05 Rye—No. 2 07 @ 68 Barley—No. 2 09 @ 71 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red Fall 1 80 @ 1 80 Ct)RN—No. 2 Mixed 44 @ 40 Oats—No. 2 05 @ 07 Rye 02 @ 60 Pork—Mess 10 00 @l3 40 Lard 8 oft 9 Hogs 0 40 @ 4 60 Cattle 4 00 @ 0 50 CINCINNATI. Wheat—Red 1 85 @1 98 Corn 50 @ 60 Oats 40 @ 45 Rye 08 @ 09 Pork—Mess 10 20 @l3 30 Lard 8 J.-;@ 10 TOLEDO. . Wheat—No. 2 Red Winter 1 92 @ l 95 Amber 1 99 (a; 2 01 Corn 48 @ 62 Oats—No. 2 : 00 @ 40 DETROIT. Flour—Medium 8 00 @ 8 50 Wheat—White 1 90 o 2 15 Corn—No. 1 51 @ 52 Oats—Mixed 40 @ 42 Rye 75 @ 80 Pork—Mess :,.14 00 @l4 25 EAST LIBERTY, PA. Hoos—Yorkers 5 00 @ 5 05 Philadelphias 5 0.) @ 5 15 Cattle--Best 0 25 @ 0 50 Medium 5 50. @ 0 00 Sheet 4 09 @ 5 50

TAKE SIMMONS’LITER REGULATOR For all Diseases of the Liver, Stomach and Spleen. Ji is eminently a Family Medicine; and by being kept ready for immediate resort will save many an hour of suffering, and tunny a dollar in time nnd doctors’ bills. After Forty Years’ trial it is still receiving the most unqualified testimonials of its virtues from persons of the highest character and responsibility. Eminent physicians commend it as the most EFFECTUAL. SPECIFIC for Constipation, Headache, Pain in the Shoulders, Dizzinksh, Sour Stomach, bad in the Mouth, Bilioub Attackb, Palpitation of the Heart, Pain in the region of the Kidneys, Despondency, GIXNIM and foreboding* of EVIL, all of which are the offspring of a diseased Liver. IF you foel Dull, Drowsy, Debilitated, have freiJUent . Headache, Mouth Tastes badly, poor APPETITE, and Tongue CoATED,you are suffering from Torpid Liver, or “ Biliousness,” and nothing will cure you bo speedily and permanently. The Liver, the largest organ In the body. Is generally the seat of the dUoaso. and if not Regulated in time, great suffering, wretchedness and DEATH will ensue. SIMMONS’ LITER REGULATOR. Armed with this ANTIDOTE, all climates and changes of water and food maybe faced. As a Remedy in MALARIOUS FEVERS, BOWEL COM PJ MINTS, RESTLESSNESS, JAUNDICE, NAUSEA, it has no equal. MANUFACTURED ONLY BY J. H. ZEILIN & CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA. Frlco 81.00. Sold by nil Urtigglsis.

THE novelty and exceptional strength of its perfume are the peculiar fascinations of this luxurious article, which has acquired popularity hitherto unequaled by any Toilet Soap of home or foreign manufacture.

CASHMERE BOUQUET TOILET SOAP.

WHITNEY & HOLMES ORGANS. The Finest Toned and Most Durable Made. Neiv Styles. New Solo Stops. Warranted Fire Years. Send for Price-Lists. WHITNEY & HOLMES ORGAN CO.. QUINCY. ILL THIB NEW ,<g23®BSSS&JELASTIC TRUSS P*d differing:from all others,lc w|th Sr,r Adjusting Bali in center, adapt* Itself to all poaig§ tion* of the body, while the bail i*» H SENSIBLE nS the cup presses back the in* U TJ TRUSS JB testines ju3t an a person Wjp £Y would with the finder vi itb Hfcbt presarc the HernU ia held •ecnrely d Hf on<! uixht. end y radical cure certain It la eaay dlamblc and cheap. Pent by Circular* fre*. ECCLEBTON TRUSS CO.. Marshall. Mich

HEADACHE. Dll. C.W. BENSON’S CELERY AND CIIAMII.iIILK PILLS arc prepared expressly to cure SICK HEADACHE, NERVOUS HEADACHE, DYSPEPTIC HEADACHE, NEURALGIA, NERVOUSNESS, SLEEPLESS. N E>S, and will cure any case. Oltlce, 106 N. Kntaw St., Itnltiiiiore, Hid. Price, 5C!., postage free. Sold by all druggist* ana country stores. REFERENCE:-Howard Bank. Baltimore. Bid. Florida Homes The most Elevated. Fertile and Healthy Locations; close to Railroad and Chicago Colony. 40 acres or more only 81.2.1 per acre. Kerry Settler it de lighted. Send stamps for views, maps and Information Bmixti.p T. Smith * Co.. 202 LaSalle St.. Chicago AIA X AAP A DAY SURE made by W* 111 tn W"1 |% Agents selling our Chromos, •k 111 111 Nk m *| Crayons, Picture and Chro til I U I U IIJX gj mo Cards. 121 samples, w ™worth 81, sent, postpaid. tor 85 Cents. Illustrated Catalogue free. J. H. UUFFOKD’S SONS, Boston. [Established 1830.] DCNC inN.Q Procured,or NO PAY, for ■ Es II %9 ■ lIW every wounded, ruptured, accidentally injured or diseased Soldier. Address Col. N W FITZGERALD. U.S. Claim Att’y, Washington. D O (rfe PAAN Made by 17 Agents In Jan. 77 with "4 M my l:i new articles. Samples free, ip VVUI Address C. Jf. Linington, Chicago, j

THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY GENUINE “VIBRATOR” THRESHING MACHINES OONtISTIKS or Complete Ilprue-Power Establishments, with 24-lnch, 28-Inch and 32-inoh Cylinders, and 6, 8,10 or 12-Horse-Powers to match. Two Styles of mounted Horse. Powers; onr improved "Triple Gear” and Improved “Spur Speed” (Woodbury style), both kinds mounted on 4 wheels, and special sizes made for 6,8,10 or 13 Horses. Complete Stcnm-Power Outfits s onr unrivaled “ Vibrator" Separators, made expressly for Steam-Pow-er, with 33-inch Cylinder and 44-inch Separator, or 36-inch Cylinder and 48-inch Separating; and Cleaning parts, with all the other parts proportionately capacious and full of “ businessalso, our matchless Steam Thresher Engines, of our own make, beyond rivalry in Power, Durability, Kasy Firing. Beauty of Design, Perfect Workmanship, Elegant Finish, complete in everyHetnll, spd in all respects s fit companion for our oelebrated Steam Separator. Onr “Vibrator” Separator "alone," made expressly for Steam-Power, and to match to any and Ml other make of Engines, also, perfectly adapted to go with any and all other make of Horse-Powers. Four sizes, ranging from 24 to 36-inch lengt h of Cylinder, and 36 to 48-inches width of Separating parts. Tbe World-Wide Reputation of our matchless “Vibrator" Threshers for rapid threshing, perfect saving, admirable cleaning, no wastage, cleanliness, economy in repairs, durability, ease of management, and a general superiority in various other respect*, is now fully established and generally recognized. The Acknowledged Head and From of Grain Threshers, and especially superior if grMn be damp or wet, while for Flax, Timothy,and like Seeds,no other machines can truthfully claim any comjiarieon. The Genuine “Vibrator” Thresher* ARE MADE ONLY BY NICHOLS, SHEPARD & CO., BATTL.B CREEK, MICH. They, or any of their regular authorized Dealer*, furnish Illustrated Pamnhleta and Price-List*, and full pfcrttoulara. free, on application. U 1 ft NITED STATED

T.T L 1... INSURANCE COMPANY, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 261, 262, 263 Broadway. —=-*—ORGANIZE* 1810—♦ ASSETS, $4,827,176.52 SURPLUS, $820,000 EVERY APPROVED FORM OF POLICY ISSUED ON MOST FAVORABLE TERMS All ENDOWMENT POLICIES AND APPROVED CLAIMS MATURING IN 1877 will be DISCOUNTED at OJf PItIiSENTATIOIf. JAMES BUELL, - - PRESIDENT. 4 ■■ P" I Are made In all sty les and of every I ■■ EL I description, from the lightest, finest andmiost elegant In use to the henvlest and strongest required for any kind of work; are 1111I eoanled In style. VViIVvRU I workmanship, strength and durability. They received the highest written award at the Centennial Exposition. LI AO Al ETQC 99 I None genuine liHrllllwOOl | unless they are stamped with onr name and Trade-Mark. A liberal in*sr 1 aph will l* o Blven for lnfor ‘ ■ vL E. w W I U mation that will rnnvict any one who sells harness as the Concord Harness that arc not mnde by ns. Extra indues mnnts offered. Send for circulars and price-lists. Address J. R. HILL & CO., CONCORD, N. 11. Or our agents, Messrs. (!. P. KIMBALL A CO., Nos. 370 and 872 Wabash avenue, Chicago. -

Surpasses allothers ior comfort.|

THOMSONS PATENT ;

GLOVE-FITTI NO CORSETS. SThe Friends of this JN RIVALLED CORSET are now numbered by MILLIONS. Vicesaremuch reduced MEDAL RECEIVED IT CENTENNIAL. the Genuine, and are of imitations. ASK ALSO roa THOMSON’S UNBREAKABLE STEEIS. The best goods made, ee that the name of OMSONand the Mark,a Crown,are an every Conet ASteel.

: FITS THE FIGURE PERFECTLY.

WIL HO FT’« A-nti-Periodic , OR FEVER AND AGUE TONIC. For All THscases Caused by Malarial Foinonlng of the lilood. A Warranted Cure! c>. It. mi:NT,A.Y & CO., Few Orleans, Crop's. n?~ FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. A GREAT OFFER ! ! these Hard Tiling dispose of 100 PIANOS A. DUGANS, new and second-hand, of first-class makers, inclndinir WATERS’, at lower price* for ciinli or Inwf iilluieiitH, or to let until paid lor, than ever before offered. WATERS’ GRAND SQUARE and UPRIGHT PIANOS and ORGANS (including their NEW SOUVENIR and BOUDOIR) are the BEST MADE. 7-Octave Pianos, $l5O. 7 1-3 do, 51440, not, used a year. “2” Stop Organs, SSO. 4 Stops, SSB, 7 Stops. SGB. 8 Stops, $75. IO Stops, SBB. 11l Stops, SIOO cash, not used a year, In perfecx order and warranted. LOCAL and TRAVELING AGENTS WANTED. Illustrated CntnloKiies Mailed. A liberal discount to Teachers, Ministers, Churches, etc. Sheet Music at half price. HORACE WATERS & SONS, Manufacturers, 40 East 14th Street, N. Y; “The Best Polish in the World.”

NATURE’S REMEDY7N. flilfllOj ■_The Great Blood ~ GOOD FOK THE CHILDKEN. Boston. Homk, 14 Tyler street,) Boston, April, 1876. j H. R. Stevkns: Dear Sir—We feel that, the children in our Home havs been greatly benefited by the VEGKTINK yon have so kindly given ns from time to time, especially those troubled with the Scrofula. With respect, Mr.s. N. WORMKLL, Matron. Vcgctine is .Sold,by All Druggists. S>v MATCHLESS ~ L™ek, A Light for a Cigar, Cigarette or Pipe can be obtained at any time. No Matches Required. Foreale by GEO. E. 3IAIISHALL & CO., 161 Madison Mt., Chicago, 111. BMOKEBB’ -ARTICLKB ■ SI.OO SI.OO Osgood’s Heliotype Engravings. The choicest household ornaments. Price One Dollar each. Send for catalogue. JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO, SI.OO BOSTOM ’ MASS ’ SI.OO KEEP’S NFIIRTN— only on© quality—The Beet. Keep’s Patent Partly-Made Dress Shirts Can bo finished as easy as hemming a Handkerchief. The very best, six for 5*7.00. Keep’s Custom Shirts—made to measure. The very best, six for SO.OO. An elegant set of genuine Gold-Plate Collar and Sleeve Buttons given with each half dot. Keep’s Shirts. Keep’s Shirts are delivered FREE on receipt of price In any part of the Union—no express charges to pay. Samples, with full directions for self-me/V’surement, Sei\f Free to any address. No stamp required. Oe<fl directly with the Manufacturer and get Bottom •'rices. Keep Manufacturing Co., 105 Mercer St.. N. Y A 3-Cent Pocket-Book! Any agent or canvasser, or any person who has ever oanvaasnd or acted as salesman, or any idle person out of employment, or any iierson seeking a chance to earn an honorable living, can have sent to them a substantial, serviceable pocket-book by simply sending a three-cent postage stamp to the undersigned. The pocket-book eontains two sides subdivided into repositories for bills, moms.ysiJver, postage-stamps and cards. ILend a 3-cent stamp and the pocket-book will be mailed immediately by return mail. Address GF.O. F. MERCHANT i CO., US Monroe Street, Chicago, ILL Ilf a XlTrn Men to travel and take orders of WAN I Lli Merchant.. Salary *I2OO a year VCr nil aim ail traveling expenses paid. Addresa Gem Map’Fg Co.. St. Tonis, Mo ftACAA! y <; ;ir to Agents. Outfit amt a •W 1111 $25 s h'jt 'run -w. For terms ad•PfcMlf ll dress, J. WufthlcCo.. St.Louu.llo. OLD BOUNTY Land WabraHTS bought. Highest oaah price paid by Gilmore * Co., Washington, D O.

t ww *Jn your own town, in mis and #5 outfit * uu • H- HALI.KTT A CO., Portland, MMna H °' r TO MAKB IT. Something nem 7l ° K% rofreK * CO-Si. Louis, .Ha sl2 termsfree* 1 Agents wanted." Outfit am W I*, termstree. TRUr & pq, Augusta. Mains. Drum VFRw 7shot ® 3oo - 70 styles, ni. Cat.free. jILIULf UlWtßTrus Out, Works,Chicago,lll. S4O FEMTON^a* sT'n”W V^rki $55 8 $77 $b to S2O (I»0 C A A MONTH—AGENTS WANTEDaebest Ms < fill selling articles in the world; onosatnnlo LPUVU Address JAY BRONSON. Detroit™miJk UfRUTPn Traveling Salesmen. 885 ,a month and WUHIV ICU all expenses paid. No Peddling. WW Address Quern City Lam/i Works, Cincinnati, O. REVOLVER FREE! with box cartridge*. Address J, Bown A Son, 136 A 138 Wood-st. Ptttsbvrg • WATER WIIKEI.N! Latest patent. Runspow--1 V erfully with one foot head ; adapted to any height; with a saving of water over any other wheel. Address BARNETT A- CO., Pori Huron, Michigan. will agree to distribute seme of ouroircutank we will send you a CHHOBIO IN GILT r’UAJIK, and a 16-page, 64-column Ulus, paper Fr* r for 3 tnos. Inclose lO ot*. to pay postage. Agents wanted. KENDAL AOo , Boston, Mass "/ 1 A rPII / IT Jf t GtlOlSSof all kinds. 1 will Vy-AX. JL 11 v fill V. send post-paid a Scapular ora Rosary Heeds for 15 cent*; a Prayer llook. 25 cents ; better class goods higher in proportion. Also, any Catholic Book. A large discount on orders sot a dozen. State description of article wanted, and send price in currency or postoffice order, to TV. F. SQ,UIKK, 433 W. 12th street, Chicago. VIOLIN STRIUCS. Genuine Italian Violin St rings, Me- for Banjo or Guitar, 16 and SOo. eaoh, or $l6O add 82 r. 6ox. Sent by maU on receipt ofprioe. Dealer*' Send oard for oatMogue. J. SAJiNC* ERVTmporter of Musioal Instrument* and Strings, 106 Chambers St reel. New Verb■Bpnpnp Is not ea*ilv enrm'ri in these tim**. am W W but-it can bo mmio in three months B B a by nn - v ono ’ *ex. in any ■ M ■ part of the country, who in willing mil S a B I to work *loadily at tho employment O w ■ that we furnish. sfjlt per wook In your own town. You ne«ul not be away from home over night. You can give your whole time to tlie work, or only your snare moments Wo have agents who are making over per day at the bus) ness. All who engage at once can make money fast. At the present time money cannot bo made so easily and rapidly at any other business. It costs nothing to tiy the business. Terms and Outfit fre<*. Address, at once. 11. IIAIJ.KTT Ik (’().. Fort land. Maine. JACKSON’S BEST SWEET NAVY GHEWIN6 TOBACCO was awarded, the highest prize at Centennial Imposition for its> tine chewing qualitie.H, the excellence and lasting character of its aweetening and flavoring. If you want flu* best tobacco ever made, ank your grocer for thin, and she that each plug boars bur blue strip trade mark, with words Jackson’s Best on it. Sold w holesale by all job)K»rs. Send for sample to (A. .1 AC’KSON \Y CO., 1)1 tutul'uel urcr*, retei>burg, Yu. Maize Flour Toilet Soap! Maize Flour Toilet Soap! Maize Flour Toilet Soap! A great discovery ! a new soap compound ! It soothe*, •oftens and whitens the skin, has wonderful healing and superior washing properties,and is equally suited for t*vs bath, nursery and general toilet. It is delightfully perfumed, rind sold everywhere at a moderate price. Kegisterod in Patent Otfice, 1H76, by the manufacturers, MdKKQNK, VAN HAAOKN A CO., Philadelphia. •At Creation*® Dawn the medicinal springs of earth sparkled and bubbled as they do now, but it no qulred the light of Chemical Discovery to enable man to reproduco them from their elements, ns tho Belt/or water haa been reproduced In Tarrant’s Effervescent Seltzer Aperient ttwrtnost effective combination of a pure tonic, a wholesome laxative, a refreshing febrifuge, ami a powerful anti-bilious agent at present known. The immeilinto and permanent relief that it affords in casus of chronic constipation, biliousness, stomach complaint*, nervous depression, fever, rheumatism, dropey, piles, headache, heartburn and flatulency, has become a proverb in every civilized portion of the American Continent. Sold by all druggist*.

Kansas FARMd Free Homes. I

Kansas display of products nt Centennial surpassed (ill other States. It ANNAN I'AlillC K.W. CO. offers largest body of pood lands in It ANN AN at lowest prices mid best terms. Plenty of Gov’t lands FItKE for llotmwtends. For copy rtf ** It ANN AM IHHII* NTKAiI,” address, J-miit Cottnnistiionir, K. I*, ltu\, Satina, Kansas, THE 600 D OLD STAND-BY. MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT. FOR MAN AND BEAST. Established 35 Years. Always cures. Always ready. Always handy. Has never yet failed. Thirty millions have tested it. The whole world approves the glorious old Mustang—the Beet and (Jheapcbt Liniment in existence. 25 cents a bottle. The Mustang Liniment cures when nothing rise will. SOLD BY ALL MEDICINE VENDERS. BABBITT’S TOILET SOAP. public The FINEST TOILET SOAp’ln'thc^World. Only the purest vegetable oils used in its tnanti/arlure. For Upe In the Nursery It has No Equal. WortTi ten tmi66 its cost to every mother and family In Christendom. Sample box, containing 3 i*akc6 of fi ows. each, tent free t<» any a>l dress pn receipt of 75 cents. Adilrers B. T. BABBITT, New York City. IST l 1 or Sale by all Druggist*. 3 “THE SUN. - 1877. NEW YORK. 1877. Triß Sun continues to be the ntrenuoun advocate »•! reform and retrenchment, and ot I in* snbslif nln n »>f statesmanship, wisdom and integrity for hollow pretense, imbecility and fraud in the administration of public affairs. It contends for tho government of tin* pe«»pl>* by the people and for the people, as opposed to government by frauds in tho ballot-box and in the counting of vd unforced by military violence. It endeavors f»> supply readers a body now not far from a million of souls " ;»b the most careful, complete and trust wort by accounts of current events, and employs for this purpose a miiiM f oiis and careluily selected staff of reporters and correspond ents. Its reports from Washington, especially, are foil, accurate and fearless ; ami it doubtless continues to d« serve and enjoy the-hatred of t hose who t hrive b.v pin ndering the Treasury or by usurping what tin* law doo« not, give them, while it endeavors to lieoi* tho fontidorwe ■ f tho public by defending the rights of the people sgfc'iisl the encroachments of unjustified power. .The price of the Daily SUN is .'i.'i cents j> men! b. or a year, postpaid; or, with the Sunday edition, £7.70 a year. The Sunday edition alone, eight pages, £ 1 .‘JO a year, postpaid/ The WEKKiiY Sun, eight pages of W broad col tun ns. is furnished at £ 1 a year, post paid. Special Notice. -In order to introduce The Sum more widely to the public, we will send THE YVKKK LY edition for tho remainder of the year, to dan. I, 187&, postpaid, for Half a Dollar. Try it. Address , THE SUN, N. V. ( itv.

GIVE COMPLETE SATISFACTIONJ

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