Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1878 — Page 4

THE HEBHAID AND THE OCTOPUS. BT CHARLES ?. RUSSELL. There was a mermaid beneath the eea, By her papa kept in a locked abyss— Yet in spite of the cruel old merman, she Foil deeply in love with an octopus— A slimy, grimy o«topna ! A green, unrhymy octopus I The sou of a terrible outtle-flsh! A quivering, shivering octopus I He’d savsgo eyes, and dreadful strength In his horrid beak that cocked up was— And tentacles, thirty feet in length Surrounded this wonderful octopus! This mighty, bite) octopus I This snappish, flghty octopus ! The son of a terrible cuttle-fish I A quivering, shivering octopus 1 There wriggled in an electric eel— On the mermaid’s lips he shocked a buss! Hald she, “The magnetic thrill I feel, Hut you’d better look out for my octopus! He’s a fngbtlul, spiteful oc*opus ! Yet a most delightful octopus! The son of a terriblo outtle flah I A quivering, shivering octopus!” Quoth she to her nurse, an old mermaid, “Although the old man has locked up us, A wav I know, and I’m not afraid To escape to my darting octopus ! My beautiful, dutiful octopus 1 And a very suitable octopus! The son of a terrible outlie-fish 1 A quivering, shivering octopus 1” Hhc called a eye one, that In Broadway I’m certain would over have knocked ft Ijus, But it only carriod her, sulky, away, Ho she might elope with the octopus I “ Audacious, rapacious octopus!” Cried the nurse. “ Oh, good gracious! octopus! The son of a terrible cuttle-fish ! A quivering, shivering octopus!" And now in their weedy, coral bed They lie In du'cisximig noctibun — At night she’s embraced and in day-time fed By the numerous arms of her octopus! A curious, furious octopus I A quite injurious octopus ! The eon of a terrible cuttle-fish ! A quivering shivering octopus I —Scribner for May.

THE OLD INN.

“ No, Ned, I will never give my oonHent to your marrying her. She is your inferior in every way, both by birth and social position. It shall not be said that a Feversham married bonoath him, if I can help it.” Old George Fevt rsham was a retired banker, wealthy and most aristocratically brod. In his opinion, povorty was a crime unpardonable, and the poorer class were cared for less by him than even the dogs that bayed in their kennels near Ins stables. That his one son Edward, the spoiled heir to all the banker’s wealth and hereditary estates of Feversham Place, should stoop from his exalted position to select a wife from that circle so far below him. was an idea not to be tolerated for an instant. Feversham determined to nip it in the bud, and the sooner the better. ~ Ned listened to his father’s stern tones in respectful silence; but when he had finished he said, quietly though firmly, “I am not of age, sir; therefore, in this matter, filial duty compels me to obey you. But when the year is up, if my iove loves mo, I shall make her my wife, regardless of outside opinion.” The old man’s brows gathered blackly for a moment, then he smiled. “ Young men are apt to change their tastes in so long a time as that,” said he; “ therefore lam content. But, as you have marked out your course of conduct as soon as you attain your majority, the one year that intervenes belongs to me, and I desire you to spend it in travel. You shall start as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made,” Ned bowed, tmd left the room. Miss Allonby was the daughter of the Allonby sos Wolfdeu—a queer, uncauny place, quite in keeping with its owner, a hideous huuchback, who, with his vixenish wife, was the terror of the neighborhood.

How so horrid a couple could have produced such a graceful and altogether lovable and lovely a creature as Svbel was a question often asked, and pondered over not a little by those who saw the remarkable family. Not the slightest resemblance did the girl bear to her reputed parents. She was small as a fairy and dark as a Spaniard, with big, shining, starry eyes, and long, glittering masses of ebony hair, that floated unconfined over her shoulders. It was on one of her wild rides, when mountod on her black horse, Bess, that Nod had seen hor first. She was in the act of leaping her horse over a bristling fence, when her skirt caught upon a stake, and she was thrown headlong into the ditch. Like the gallant gentleman he really was Ned rushed to the rescue, and, draggiug her from the slimy waters, was rewarded by receiving thunks from the prettiest lips he had ever seen. After this Ned managed to meet her regularly every day, and it was not long ere the young gentleman made known his growing passion, to find himself an accepted lover. As Nod was too wholesouled and high-toned a fellow to keep his attachment a secret, he acquainted his father with a knowledge of affairs, fully expectiug to receive from him a God-spoed iu his wooing. The result was anything but pleasant; but, ns it could not be helped, ho swallowed his chagrin, determined, however, at the end of the year to return and claim his bride. .So, with one last passionate parting with Sybel, Ned went away on his travels. The first six months passed draggingly, and found him, with two brother tourists, exploring the picturesque scenery of Scotland. Along its winding streams and quaintly beautiful landscapes Ned dreamed and whiled away the days that intervened between himself and the appointed time of his return. But there was something in store that he did not expect. One afternoon, in turning a sharp angle in the road, the young men came suddenly upon on old ruin, standing in bold relief upon a rock, at whose base flowed a turgid stream that emptied its waters in a deep, dark tarn in the glen below.

The building was long and low, with a slanting roof, over which two tall, narrow chimneys rose grimly upright, like sentinels keeping guard over some deserted field of carnage. The windows were short and wide, and the doors heavy and deeply set in massive frames, suggestive of strength and long-con-tinued endurance. The casings and sills upon which once had been the deep coating of dark-green paint were now faded, and the old building wore an air of gloom and desolation not often seen in these modern days. Over the entrance-way still hung a faded sign, which creaked and groaned dismally in every gust of wind, proclaiming that tho queer old structure was once known as tho ‘ ‘ Allonby Inn. ” The name aroused Ned’s curiosity. “By Jove ! I’ll make a sketch of this rookery,” oried Dahlgren, who was a kind of amateur artist, and delighted in putting on canvas the queerest of landscapes, aud all other odd bits of quaintness that came under his notice. “ This must bo that old concern our host was talking about that rumor says has a ghost. There s three of us. Suppose we explore the ‘ castle grav?’ ” continued Dahlgren, lightly. "Agreed 1” they cried. Ami, Ned turning the knob of the door, iu an instant they were in the gloomy old building, ami gazing curi ously into its privacy. The paper was peeling away from the walls, and hung in long strips that rattled myteriously ; and the dust, the gathering of years, started up in thick clouds, as the audacious feet stalked d liberately through the long-fcrsaken rooms. At the end of a carridor, up stairs, they came to a barred door. It yielded to their united efforts, and they entered a large bedroom. In one comer stood a high-] ost bedstead. A wash-stand occupied the sp|tce near the grated window; and a carpe , worn and moth-eaten, covered the floor. Dark red stains covered the sheets, yellow with age, aud the pillows were

stiff and hard, and with that same reddish color. Ned shuddered. “Blood!” said Frank Ormsby, who was studying for the medical profession, and, therefore, wae qualified to speak. An inner door suggested more mystery; which, upon entering, proved to be a bedroom similar to the one they had just left. But there were no stains on the bedding; and, finding nothing, Ned followed his companions down the stairs, who now clamored for an investigation of the underground regions. “ There must be something in the cellar; I’d take my oath to it,” Frank said, emphatically. Bo the great trap-door was lifted; but the intense darkness hid whatever was there, and they agreed to go back to their host’s, and return the next day with torches and everything that they fancied they would need. “I dinna ken what ye maun find, my gude lads ; but there’s na nion in these parts that wad gae there,” said the host. “ Why so ?” asked Ned. The good Scot shook his head. “ The dead walk there, and wi’ their screeches in the wee sma’ hours drove the gude mon, old Hugh Allonby, awa’ ayant the borders o’ his ain land. I mysel’ hne heard the screeches o’ the returned spirits, as they shrieked and groaned with awfu’ cries at ‘Allonby Inn. ’ Fifteen years ago old Hugh heard muckle cursing and hammering on doors ; an’, nearly dead wi’ fear, the man fled ayont Scotland into England. Since then naebody has lived there, in that uncanny place, and now the goblins hold high carnival in the old ruin.” But the more they heard, the stronger became their resolution to explore its reputed mysteries ; and so, early the next morning provided with torches, crowbars, and a pickax, the three young men returned to the haunted house. Ned lifted tho trap-door and swung the lantern down into the darkness below. The light flickered brightly up, revealing, with a ghost-like radiance, a flight of narrow iron steps. Ormsby took the crowbar, and was first to descend. A damp, musty odor filled the walled room. The lantern flared np suddenly with a steady, bright glare, and the faces of the three adventurers looked oorpse-like in their pallor. Ned shook off the fear that had come on him, and walked slowly over the hard floor. A pile of earth was heaped up in one corner; and near the iron stairs he stepped upon something that grated with a harsh, crunching sound under his feet, and a gust of fine, peculiarsmolliog dust filled the air. He seized the lantern, and brought its *rays to bear upon the spot. A shudder ran through his frame at what he beheld. There, on the damp floor, lay the glistening bones of a skeleton; its fleshless hands still grasped a leathern substance, and the skull seemed to smile mockingly at him as he bent over it. An iron lamp, rusty with age, stood near the remains ; and the glitter of a diamond sparkled upon one of the bony Angers. Ormsby stooped and raised the skeleton, but the bones snapped apart and fell with a dull rattle to the floor. The leathern substance it had clutched so tightly proved to be a pocket companion. Ned opened it, and a shower of coins ran out like a golden stream. Inside it was a portrait.

“Eh I what in the deuce—” He gazed at the portrait earnestly. It was a round, sparkling face, with dancing eyes and glossy waves of purplish-black hair. The mouth was small, and a saucy smile, half sorrowful, half sad, lingered on the crimson lips. “ Sybel, for all the world !” cried he, in astonishment. Touching a spring at the back of tlio case, a lock of dark hair fell out, and a yellow slip of paper, on which were written the words, “ Sybel, wife of Leonard Ashmore, Bart., Ashmorelands, England.” There were a package of letters and a broken seal ring, and, lastly, an unfinished diary. “Let us go back, gentlemen,” said Ned. “ I feel that a wise Providence has placed it in our power to unravel a dark crime. Lot us return to the outer day and read this diary, which, perhaps, will give us the clew to this horrible mystery.” They returned to the inn, and, in the stillness of their private parlor, Ormsby opened the leaves of the moldy journal. The first part was merely jottings of incidents occurring in the travels of a gentleman, and sketches of places visited and people seen ; then there was a blank, after wbioh came the startling words, “ Walled up alive 1” “I, Leonard Ashmore, Baronet, of Ashmorelands, England, being of sound mind, and knowing that 1 am for ever buried from the outside world, and feeling that in a few brief hours I shall cease to be, write herein the particulars of a hideous orime, having faith that some time this record will come to light, and the perpetrators be punished. Be it known that I, Leonard Ashmore, Baronet, and Lord John Willoughby, of Willoughby Hall, England, came to our death at the hands of Hugh Allonby, keeper of the • Allonby Inn,’ Scotland. We were returning from a short trip taken for the benefit of my health, and that of my little daughter Sybel, who accompanied us. We stopped on the 10th day of June, 18—, at Allonby’s for the night, and occupied adjoining rooms. I was tired and weak, and retired early. Willoughby declared he distrusted our host; but I smiled at the idea. Lord John carried a leather bag filled with guineas, and the innkeeper accidentally entered his room as Willoughby placed it under his pillow. Allonby begged pardon, and Willoughby got into bed, after fastening the door. About 2 o’clock, I heard a heartrending moan. I tried to rise, but for a moment oould not do so. Again that groan, and, dragging myself to the door, I beheld Allonby carrying my murdered friend down the stairs. The blood was running freely from a stab in the breast, and his night-shirt was crimson with gore. With a sort of horrible fascination I crept on after the innkeeper. He went down—down— down into the dungeon, and I—l followed him on. I saw them dig a grave in one corner of this horrible room, and then, wi«h his wife’s help, he threw the body into it. Then they both went to work, and the dirt fell with a dull, heavy thud into the grave. Finally it waa done, and a long mound of fresh earth lay heaped in the corner. When it was done, I sank back in the shadow of the iron steps and groaned, faint with horror. The guilty couple glanced hastily around, but did not see me, and they ran up the steps, and I heard the door close with a heavy jar. Now, I have exhausted my feeble strength in attempting to open the great door. I have screamed until the sound of my voice has become a terror. The pangs of thirst and hunger warn me that if help does not arrive shortly I shall beoome like that still, inanimate thing beneath yonder heap of earth. I fear for the fate of my child, and by the light of the fast-dying lamp I beseech and pray you to whom this MS. may fall that you leave no stone unturned to learn her fate, and bring to justice Hugh Allonby and his wife, whom I here solemnly charge with the murder of Lord John Willoughby, of Willoughby Hall. Here, in my living tomb, by the grave of that murdered friend, I bid the world a last farewell.” The journal dropped from Ormsby’s hand, and he sprung excitedly to his feet. “ We must act, gentlemen, and that immediately, I shall offer a reward for Allonby s arrest, and send telegrams to Ashmorelands and Willoughby Hall.” “Bo still I” said Ned, putting his hands to his head. “ Here is Hugh Al-. lonby’s address; have him brought to justice as soon as possible. The Baroaet’s daughter ig Jiving 'vyitfe them as

their own child; so it will not be difficult to find her. In the meantime, the widow of the murdered Lord must be apprised. lam positive that Lady Ashmore did not survive the disappearance of her husband a year. I remember the hne and ory made at the time.” Lady Willoughby arrived on the fifth day, and with a few friends went down into that gloomy dungeon where so long a time the murdered body of her husband had slept that last sleep. Two handsome coffins contained all that was left of those so dear to the living. The day that Sybel was reinstated in the house of her fathers saw the innkeeper and his guilty wife hanging on the gallows. Retribution, though late, had come to them at last. v ****** A year later, and the old church bells rang ont a merry wedding peal, and down its wide, old aisles filed a wedding party. Standing where the broad beams of the son shone on them through the stained-glass panes, and where from the altar the sublime perfume of rare flowers that carpeted their wav filled the air with fragrance, the white-haired priest bound them together, and Sybel, daughter of the Baronet of Ashmorelands, became the wife of the banker’s heir.

“Love, Joy, Peace.”

During a long run of “ Uncle Tom ” in on Eastern city, the family of the gentle Eva went to housekeeping; and, during the occupation of the elder forces a small boy—brother of Eva (the Eva on this occasion being Miss Lulu Prior) —strayed away and was lost in the strange city. Moving was suspended and hunting commenced; but the child was not found. Audiences must not be disappointed, however, and so the poor little sister was forced to array herself for her part, w&sh off the tears, and try and forget that her little brother was lost. But, during the evening, the runaway was found, and the parents, to relieve their little daughter’s mind, took him directly to the theater. The death scene of Eva was on; Topsy, with her apron on hor head, crouched on the floor. SeeiDg ont of a corner the recovered youth, Topsy said in a whisper: “ Hold young Nebuchadnezzar up.” Eva lay on the couch—St. Clair bent over her with the question: “Whatdo you see, Eva, darling?” To which the dying child was only to reply: “Love—joy—peace,” and fall back dead upon the pillow. Just as Eva raised her head feebly, lifted her hand, and commenced the broken sentence, she spied the resound brother. With a cry of joy, she extended her little arms toward him, and broke out: “Ob, see see, he’s found! he’s there, and I never thought to see my little brother sgain;” then, recollecting her part, she gave a great gulp of fright, fell back spasmodically to the studied words, and cried out, “Love ! —joy ! peace!” and dropped her head upon the pillow. The scene was never more affecting—sobs were beard on alj sides. The speech was so heartfelt that the audience felt sure it was part of the play—that the dying Eva was supposed to have a vision of a lost brother, waiting on the mystic shere for the launching of the little life leaving this—and many of them, no doubt, feel cheated to this day of a clever point by the cutting down of Eva’s death speech to the words, “Love!— joy ! peace!”— Cor. Neiv York Graphic.

Slovenly Manuscript.

I have the misfortune to have a manuscript before me at this moment that would fill thirty of these pages, and yet from beginning to end there is no indication that it is not to be read at a single breath. The paragraph ought to be, and in all good writers It is, as real and as sensible a division as the sentence. It is an organic member in prose composition with a beginning, a middle, and an end; just as a stanza is anorganic and definite member in the compssition of anode. “I fear my manuscript is rather disorderly,” says another, “but I will correct carefully in print.” Just so. Because he is too heedless to do his work in a workmanlike way, he first inflicts fatigue and vexation on the editor whom he expects to read his paper; seoond, he inflicts considerable and quite needless expense on the publisher; and thirdly, he inflicts a great deal of tedious and thank lets labor on the printers, who are for the most part far more meritorious persons than fifth-rate authors. It is true that Bmke returned such disordered proofs that the printer usually found it least troublesome to set the whole afresh, and Miss Martineau tells a story of a Scotch compositor who fled from Edinburgh to avoid a great living author’s manuscript, and,, to his horror, was presently confronted with a piece of copy which made him ory, “ Lord, have mercy! Have you got that man to print for ?” But most editors will cheerfully forgive such transgressions to all contributors who will guarantee that they write as well as Burke or Carlyle. Alas, it is usually the case that those who have least excuse are the worst offenders. The slovenliest manuscripts come from persons to whom the difference between an hour and a minute is of the very smallest importance. This digression is to be excused, partly by the natural desire to say a word against one’s persecutors, and partly by a hope that some persons of sensitive conscience may be led to ponder whether there may not be, after all, some moral obligations even toward editors and printers.— John Morley, in Fortnightly Review.

More Than a Year Without Food.

The London News says : “The female anaconda in tlie Zoological Gardens was tom from her home in South America some time in 1876. She was carried across" the ocean in a narrow box, which caused her great discomfort, and may possibly have impaired her digestion. In February, 1877, the anaconda was consigned to her English abode, but she refused to be comforted or to take anything to eat. The dainties which . have the greatest charm for her, live birds and ether animated trifles, were, happily for them, exhibited in vain. She persevered in starving herself resolutely, not to say sullenly, and we do not learn that food was thrust upon her perforce. A few days ago she recovered the taste for living, and gratified her friends by slaying and swallowing an unfortunate duck. She may now do very well, for appetite comes as we eat, bat her prolonged fast of at least a year might prove trying to most serpentine constitutions. It would be interesting to know whether the anaconda’s weight has varied at all during her unexampled performance.”

The Functions of a Postmistress.

It seems to have just been discovered why an elderly maiden lady is not the right kind of a lady to put in charge of a postoffice. ThePostoffice Department has recently been compelled to seek the resignation of tho Postmaster of a small town on the West Penn railrord, Pennsylvania, because the Postmaster, who is an elderly maiden lady, has felt it her duty to open letters addressed to the young ladies and gentlemen of the neighborhood to find news which she couldn’t get in the local papers. Hereafter she will have to look through keyholes or something of that sort, in order to get any happiness out of this dreary and exacting world. Most large country houses in Great Britain and Ireland are now brilliantly lit by gas made on the premises, and so are several large country hoiiseg jo this country. ' 1 J “

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Around the Farm. Grathd horse-chestnuts, mixed with ten times their Bulk of water, will expel worms from the. soil in pots. over the Northwest, for slteg ont fruit trees, strawberries, entrants, raspberries, asparagus, and all permanent plantations intended to remain lor years. Every moment is now of value to those who wish to grow good fruit in after years. Wooden floors are objected to for poultry-houses by The Country, for the reason that they tend to cause the birds to become dock- footed, and, what is of more consequence, absorb and retain dampness from the droppings, and so prove a source of cramp and other ailments. Planting Peas.—ln light soil, for the main crop, they shonldbe planted much deeper than is the common practice. Try this experiment, as we have, and satisfy yourself. Plant some four, and some six, and some eight inches deep, and we think you will be satisfied that thoso do the best which are down five to seven inches. They are less liable to mildew, and they bear longer and more seeds.

Seedling Potatoes. —If you wish to raise new sorts, remember that they can be raised very easily, by starting them early, and treating the young plants the same as you would tomatoes. If well cared for, each of the best should produce a good yield of fair-sized tubers in the first year—we mean that there should be found six to eight pounds of tubers to the plant. —Rural New Yorker. When seeds, either in the cold frame in pots or pans or out-of-door seed-beds, come up too thickly, it is well to out off the first leaves with sharp pointed scissors rather than pull them up, which deranges the soil and interferes with the delicate roots of those that are to remain. The tiDy plants are, at this stage, dependent upon the first leaves for life. The same may be said of radishes, lettuce, etc., whioh, sowed too thickly in rowß, have to be thinned ont. Chickens a Remedy foe Insects.— For pickles, do not be in too much of a hurry to plant cucumber seeds very early. When the weather gets warm and settled the young plants grow fader. Arrange the matter so as to have several coops of chickens scattered around among the plants. If you have no chickens, borrow some, for there is no better remedy to keep away the insects than plenty of young chickens a few weeks old. No one who has ever tried it will be satisfied to give up this plan. — Moore's Rural. As soon as we discover aEy symptoms of gapes among our chickens, we know that there are worms—very small red worms—in their wind-pipes, and we give them camphor in their drinking-vessels strong enough to make quite a taste of the camphor. Then, if any get the disease quite badly before we discover it, we foroe a pill of gum-camphor down the throat, about the size of a small pea, and the fumes of that dose will kill the worms. No kind of worms can live in camphor—hence, oamphor must be a powerful vermifuge.— Poultry World. No medicine is such a complete specific for lice and other parasites on animals and fowls as the dust, and finest dust that can be procured, coal ashes being excellent for the purpose. Nothing is more preservative of the health of animals than dust, and in summer, when it can be procured by them without the aid of man, they always do best. It should be well sprinkled and freely scattered from the bead to the tail, along the backbone, using an abundance of this most excellent and cheapest of all cattle medicine.— Prairie Farmer. Rules fob the Care of Sheep.—l. Keep sheep dry under foot with clean litter. This is more necessary than roofing them. Never let them stand or lie in the mud or snow. 2. If an ewe loses her lamb, milk her daily for a few days, and mix a little alum with her salt. 3. Never frighten sheep if possible to avoid it. 4. Seperate all weak, thin or sick sheep in the fall from those that nro strong, and give them Bpecial care. 5. If any sheep is hurt catoh it at once, and wash the wound with a healing lotion. If a leg is broken, bind it with splinters tightly, loosening as the limb swells. 6. If a sheep is lame, examine its foot, clean out between the hoofs; if unsound, apply tobacco, with blue vitriol boiled in a little water. 7. Shear at onoe any sheep commencing to shed its wool, unless the weather is too severe. Keep none but the best, and see that they are properly attended to.

About the House.

Lemon Pie, —One and a half cupfuls sugar, two eggs, two table-spoonfuls flour, one teacupful water. Soft Custabd. —Two eggs to a pint of milk; boil .milk; pour hot on eggs (well beaten previously), then return to pail; add two table-spoonfuls sugar, one teaspoonful vanilla; boil until thick. Cinnamon Custabd Pie.— Beat six eggs thoroughly; add three pints of rich, new milk and a table-spoonful'of cornstarch, stirred smooth into a little milk; sweeten ta taste, and sift in a tablespoonful of\ cinnamon. Pour into tins larded with orust and bake. Baked Rhubabb. —Many prefer rhubarb baked when served as a preserve. Cut the pieoes about an inch in length; weigh, allow as much moist sugar as rhubarb, and bake in an earthenware dish; put into the dish in layers; add a mite of water; cover closely and bake. Jelly.— One box Cox’s geletine, juice of three lemons, rind of one lemon, one pint of cold water; allow this to stand one hour and a half; then add two and a half pints boiling water, two pounds crushed sugar, one pint wine; stir gently until the sugar is dissolved, then pour into molds. Habd Custabd.— Five eggs well beaten (reserving three whites for meringue), one quart milk, five table-spoon-fuls sugar, two teaspoonfuls vanilla, pinch of salt; put in a pudding dish, which place in a pan of water in the oven and bake. When nearly baked, add a meringue made with the three whites and two table-spoonfuls brown sugar to each white, and any flavoring. Bake a light brown. Rhubabb Shobtcake. —Two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted with a quart of flour, one-half teacup of butter, two table-spoonfuls of sugar; a pinch of salt and enough sweet mUk to make a soft dough. Roll enough so that when baked it can be split open or roll thin so there will be three or four layers. When done, butter and fill with stewed rhubarb plentifully sugared. Cobn Bbead. —Two cups of Indian meal, two cups of wheat flour, one cup of sugar, one beaten egg, one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls cf cream of tartar; a little salt, and sweet milk enough to make a thick batter. Bake in shallow pans—it should be when done, about an inch in thickness, and eat warm for breakfast. This makes the best com bread ever eaten, according to my taste. Rhubabb Pie.—Stew rhubard; add the grated rind and juice of a lemon, the well-beaten yelks of two eggs, and sweeten with white sugar; line pie-tins with good crust and fill with the rhubarb; bake until the crust is of delicate brown; beat the whites to a stiff froth—it will be necessary to add the white of another egg—and add three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar; flavor with vanilla and spread over the top of the

pies; return to the oven until of s light brown. The eggs and lemon given are enough for two pies.

A FLOATING BEE PALACE.

An Enormoot Apiary Slowly Migrating Up Jh« Mississippi Hirer. [Fran the New Orleans Picayune.] We learn that two barges have been fitted up in Kennerrille, La., for an immense floating apiary. Each barge haa a capacity of 1,000 hires of bees. These will be toyed slowly gp the river during the spring and early summer, passing this city about the first of June, and arriving in St Paul in July; returning,will reach Louisiana in Ootober. But we will let the Picayune give a fall description of the novel undertaking. Mr. Pen in e has been in Louisiana eighteen months studying np the bee business and preparing for the grand onward movement for which he will be ready in a few days. His plan is to start with his bee palaces ana his 1,000 oolonies from Southern Louisiana when the honey flowers are in full bloom, to remain bat a day or two at a landing, and move up each night to another landing and fresh field. He thinks the bees of from 1,000 to 2,000 colonies will take the cream from the country around the landing from one to two miles distant in one or two days. In this manner he expects to move up the Mississippi to St. Paul, a distance of nearly 2,000 miles, where he will arrive about the last of July. Returning, he will halt about two montllß somewhere above St. Louis, and will reach Louisiana with his palaces and bees in. October. It will be his object to take the autumnal flowers at each point in their prime precisely as he takes the spring flowers in Lis advance up the river. He expects his early swarms on his boats to increase his colonies to 2,000 in April and May. The colonies of bees are in hives with movable comb, on the most approved plan of modern hives. These stand in four walls, five hives one above the other, nearly the whole length of the boat, about 250 hives in each line. The walls of the colonies on the right side and on the left side have openings for the bees to come out on the water front. A space of two feet between the hives and the guards answers for a gallery for the bee man to walk on in front of the hives. In the middle of the boat there are two other walls of colonics, 260 hives in each, facing an inner court six feet in width. The bees from these colonies reach the open air through the skylight opening in the roof above the court. Between the first and second rows of hives from the outride there is an aisle three feet in width for the convenience of the bee man in handling the liiyes and the honey. The distance from the barge deck to the roof over the colonies is fifteen feet. The space below decks is ten feet in width and about seven feet high, and is to be used for sleeping apartments, making and repairing hives, handling and extracting honey and putting it in marketable shape. The dining-room and cooking will be on the steamer that tows the bee fleet. To run the steamer and manage the barges and bees from fifteen to twenty hands will be needed. The cost of the whole establishment, barges, bees, steamer and the complete outfit will not be much short of $15,000. Mr. Perrine has been engaged in the honey business in Chicago twelve or thirteen years, and has lately made it a special study. He has dealt largely in California honey. He expects to find the best market for his honey in Europe. Honey in the comb usually sells at about 20 cents a pound wholesale. Strained honey sells at wholesale at 7 or 8 cents a pound, or from 80 cents to $1 a gallon. A gallon of strained honey weighs about twelve pounds. The demand for honey is increasing in the United States, but Europe furnishes the best market for this article. The plan of moving bees to get the benefit of different ranges and fresh flowers has been tried in a small way in some parts of Europe. They are moved both in carts and in boats.

Hank Bobbery in Colorado.

The Pueblo (Col.) Chieftain relates how the banking house of the Messrs. Banks, in that town, was robbed : Mr. H. N. Banks slept alone in the building. He retired to bed at about 10:30 o’clock, and was awakened between 1 and 2 o’clock, and, on opening his eyes, saw, from the light of a dark lantern, two disguised men on either side of his bed. Both had white cloth over their faces. One held a cocked six-shooter at Mr. Banks’ head, and the other pointed a formidable bowie-knife at his heart. The large man said, “ Make no noise,” and then the two gagged Mr. Banks. They jammed a knotted handkerchief saturated with ether into his mouth, nearly strangling him, and bound it in plaie with another handkerchief. The small man then went into the front room and pulled down the window curtains. On the return of the small man from the front room he said, looking at Mr. Banks, “He’s asleep.” This the other denied, and, shaking the prisoner roughly by the right shoulder, said, “Be quiet. Don’t speak a word. If you do I’ll kill you.” The two then took Mr. Banks between them and marched him to the safe, ordering him to open it. The safe is locked with three combination locks, all locked on different combinations. He opened two of them, and, when he came to the cash chest, he hesitated whether to open it or take the chances of being shot. The big man said, “ Open that money-chest.” Mr. Banks took another look at the cocked revolver and then obeyed. The robbers helped themselves to all the bank-notes in the cash-box, and then examined the large pocket-books containing valuable papers. In a small box in the safe they found a gold watch and chain, but they deemed it prudent not to take it. They stole, altogether, about $5,000 in money. After their examination of the safe, they escorted Mr. Banks back to his bed and tied him hand and foot. They crossed his hands behind his back and securely bound them with a leather strap half an inch wide, and then tied his feet together and to the bedstead with a stout cord. On their departure one said, “ Don’t utter a noise ; if you do I’ll come back and kill you.”

The Dividends of the Bonanza Kings.

The Consolidated Virginia Mining Company yesterday deolarod its usual monthly dividend (No. 44) of $2 per share, aggregating $1,080,000, payable on the 13th inßt. This brings the grand total of dividends paid by this company since May, 1874, up to $39,960,000. The California Mining Company also declared yesterday the usual monthly dividend (No. 24) of $2 per share, aggregates $1,080,000, payable on Monday, the 15th inst., making the grand total of dividends paid since May, 1876 (twentyfour months), $25,920,000. Up to date the Consolidated Virginia has paid in dividends $74 per share, and the California S4B per share, and the grand total of dividends paid by both companies is $65,880,000. — Virginia City {Nev.) Enterprise. How to Make Monet.— Twenty-five cents’ worth of Sheridan’s Cavalry Condition Powders, fed ont sparingly to a coop of fifteen hens, will increase tte product of eggs more than one dollar in valne in thirty days. Don’t Foeget that the country is full of tramps and thieves, and that you ought to be provided with a weapon of defense. See advertisement in another column beaded ,I Do>’t Forget It,”

A Pen Picture.

A few months, or even weeks, since, her pallid countenance was the very type of ruddy health—the delight of the school and the pride of the household. She was always welcome wherever doty or pleasure led her. Diligent, punctual and exemplary in the class-room, obedient and loving at homo, she won the hearts of all. But alas I those glowing cheeks and lips are now blanched by consumption. The voice onoe so in laugh and song is feeble, husky and broken by a hollow oough. Let ns approach her conch and gently take her bloodless hand in our own. Do not shudder because of its feeble, passionless grasp. The hand once so warm ana plump shows its bony outlines, while the oords ana tortuous veins are plainly mapped upon its surface. The pulse that bounded with repletion, imparting beauty, vivacity, health and strength to the system, is delicate to the touch. The enervated heart feebly propels the thin, soanty blood. Must we lose her while yet so young and so fair ? No. There is relief. Bat something more is required than the observance of hygienic roles, for enfeebled nature calls for aid and she must have it. Administer this pleasant medicine. It is invigorating. It allays the irritable cough, improves the appetite ana digestion, and sends a healthy tingle through her whole being. The blood is enriched, nerve ns power increased, and the heart bounds with a new impulse. Her face brightens—the blood is returning, her voice is clearer, and her requests are no longer delivered in that peevish, fretful tone so deadening to sympathy. Her step is still faltering, but strength is rapidly returning. Let us take her out in the warm, life-giving sunshine. In a few weeks she will go without our aid, and be able to Join her companions in their pleasant pastimes and feel her whole being ‘‘ warmed and expanded into perfect 'life.” The change is so great that we think she is sweeter and nobler than ever before. And the modicine which has wrought this transformation we Jflok upon as a blessing to humanity, for there are other loved ones to bo rescued from the grasp of the insidious destroyer. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery has raised her. It will raise others.

“A Square Meal.”

We are sure our readers will thank us for calling their attention to the very handsome advertisement of the Excelsior Manufacturing Co., of Bt. Louis, as it would be useless for ur to try to say anything in favor of their Grand Charier Oak Cooking Stove. The very word suggests the thought of a well-cooked meal followed by easy digestion, vigorous hoalth, and a desire to have and to do plenty of real work, to say nothing of the comfort of a happy, oontented household.

If You Have Never

Used Dooley’s Yeast Powdeb, get a package the next time you buy bakiDg powder and test it. After a few trials we are confident you will give it the preference over all others. It is absolutely pure: every package is strictly full weight, ana it never fails in making rolls, bread, biscuits, cake, corn-bread, waffles, muffins, and all similar articles, deliciously light, good and wholesome. A “ Young Man from tlie Country,” Suffering with rheumatism, applied to a Chicago druggist for Da. Hebndon’b Gypsy’s Gift, but the druggist, wishing to clear out some of his dead stook, prevailed on him to take "‘something just as good,” but it proved good for nothing. Don't l> t ’em serve you so. After you have read all of the important news in this paper read the advertisements, and the “ Don’t Fobget It” advertisement in particular.

Does your Heart ever seem to stop beating and you feel an almost deathlike sensation ? Do you ever have sudden pains in the region of your Heart, or does your Heart ever palpitate V that is, does it double its pulsations? If you have any of these symptoms we should pronounce it unmistakably Heart Disease. • Do not negleot it; it is but a forerunner of worse that will follow. Among the many forms of Heart Disease ar9 Palpitation, Enlargement, Spasms of the Heart, Stoppage of the action of the Heart, Trembling all over and about the Heart, Ossification or Bony Formation of the Heart, Rheumatism, General Debility and Sinking of the Spirits. To cure this dangerous disease we offer you Dr. Graves’ HEART REGULATOR, a preparation indorsed by thousands who have tried and testify to its cures. Send your name to F. E. Ingalls, Concord, N. H., for a pamphlet containing a list of testimonials of cures, etc. For sale by druggists at 60 cents and $1 per bottle. Wilhoft’s Anti-Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic. —This invaluable and standard family medicine is now a household word and maintains* its reputation unimpaired. It is indorsed by the medical profession, and prescribed daily in hospital service. Why? Because, after years of trial in the worst malarial districts of the United States, it has proved itself j. positive antidote for all diseases caused by malarial poisoning of the blood. Wheel t ock, Finlay & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. Fob sale by all Deuggistb. Mothebs I Mothers !! Mothers !!! Don’t fail to procure Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Byrup for all diseases incident to the period of teething in ohildren. It relieves the child from pain, euros wind colic, regulates the bowels, and, by giving relief and health to the child, gives rest to the mother. It is an old and well-tried remedy.

CHEW

The Celebrated “ Matchless” Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. The Pioneeb Tobacco Company, New York. Boston and Chicago. Worth Knowing. —One thirty-five cent bottle of Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment will effectually cure bronchitis, inflammatory sore throat, sore lnngs, bleeding at the lungs, chronic hoarseness, hacking cough, whooping cough and lame stomach. Don’t Forget It —That you ought to read the advertisement so headed in another column of this paper. Thbee Dollars. —Bead $3 advertisement. “ A Fabmeb’s Son or Daughter.” See Adv’t.

TO CONSUMPTIVES. The advertiser, haring been permanently oared of that dread disease, Consumption, by a simple remedy, is anxious to make known to bis fellow-sufferers the means of cure. To all who desire it, he will send a oopy of the prescription used (free of charge), with the directions for preparing and using the same, which they will find a sure Cube for Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, Ac. Parties wishing the prescription will please address Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON. 194 Penn Street, Williamsburgh, N. Y. The (Greatest Discovery of the Ago is Dr. Tobias’ celebrated Venetian Liniment 1 30 years before the public, and warranted to cure Diarrhea, Dysentery, Colic and Spasms, taken internally; and Croup, Ohronio Rheumatism, Sore Throats, Cuts, Bruises, Old Sores, and Pains in the Limbs, Back and Chest, externally. It has never failed. No family will ever be without it after onco giving it a fair trial. Price, 40 cents. DR. TOBIAS’ VENETIAN HORSB LINIMENT, in Pint Bottles, at One Dollar, is warranted superior to any other, or NO PAY, for the cure of Colic, Cuts, Bruises, Old Sores, etc. Sold by all Druggists. Depot— IO Park Place, New York.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $8 GO @lO SO Hoos 3 80 @ 4 00 Gottoh Fi,oua—Superfine 4 40 @ 4 80 Wheat—No. 2 Chicago 124 @1 25 Oonn—Western Mlxod 52 @ 63 Oats—Mixed 35 @ 36)tf Kte—Western 73 @ 74 Pork—Now Moss 9 75 @lO 12Jtf I-*Rt> 7 @ 7* CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice Graded Steers 6 00 @ 5 25 Choice Natives 4 60 @ 4 90 Cows and Heifers 300 @ 3 75 Butchers’ Steers 3 50 @ 3 90 Medium to Fair 4 00 @ 4 40 Hoos—Live 2 50 @ 3 55 Floor—Fancy Ahlto Winter fi 00 @ 7 00 Good to Choice Spring Ex. 6 00 @ 5 40 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 112 @1 13 No. 3 Spring 1 06 @ 1 07 Conn—No. a 41 @ 42 Oats—No. 3.,.. 2fl @ 28 Rye—No. a 19 @ 60 Barley—No. a 47 @ 48 Hotter—Choice Creamery. 23 @ 25 F.ooe Fresh 7tf@ 8 Pobk—Mess 865 @ 8 75 Lard MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 1 1 19 @ 1 20 No. 3 1 14 @1 15 Cork—No. a 40 @ 41 Oats—No. 2 26 @ 27 No. 1 69 @ 60 Barley—No. 2 57 t* 53 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 3 Red Fall 117 @llß Corn—Mixed 38 @ 89 Oats—No. 2 26 @ 27 £*■••••• 59 @ 60 Pork—Mess 9 05 @ 9 15 Lard 6V@ 7 fooe 3 10 @ 8 45 Cattle ... 2 85 @5 10 CINCINNATI. Wheat—Red 1 is @ 1 32 Corn 42 @ 43 Oats 28 @ 81 * IE -- ™ ® 61 Pork—Mess 9 00 @ 9 25 hAao 7 @ TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 1 White 133 @1 36 No. 2 Red 1 27 @ 1 28 Corn 44 @ 45 Oats—No. 2.. 28 @ 29 DETROIT. Flour—Choice White 5 60 @ 6 00 Wheat—No. 1 White 1 28 @ 1 29 No. 1 Amber I 25 @ 1 26 Corn—No. 1 43 @ 44 Oats—Mixed 29 @ 80 Barley (per cental) 1 05 @ 1 40 Pork—Mess 9 90 @lO 00 EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle—Best * 5 00 @ 5 25 Fair 4 60 @ 4 80 Common .'. 3 45 @ 4 35 Hoos 2 50 @ 4 10 Sheep 3 00 <| 6 00

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Homes ljliesota. Mmesotas&f^^s Dollars. THIItTY-FIVE MILLION bushels of Oats, Corn, Rye, Barley, Buckwheat and Potatoes, worth over Twenty Million Dollnrs. Poor hundred and Five FI.OUllINlii MILLS. Fifteen hun. dred and eleven Run Tlfinillini °*" Stone. The Greatest Milling Coun MP|j||||l I try in the World. The best Water Power ! * UlallU lj n the United States. One Hundred nnd twenty thousand Horse Power at St.. Anthony Falls alone. FIVU HUNDRED MILLION FEET of lumber sawed. OHEATH VSII for choice WHEAI' JjANItS. Immense Immigration in Unit 1878. Nothing like It ever known. Twenty Pill Three Hundred Miles of ltuilrond. * andevery trnin crowded. Land offices besieged with threngs of spplicsnts. Wisconsin, lowa and Kansas also coming. Wo invite the world into the EMPIRE STATE OF THE NORTHWEST. Twenty-Elve Million scree of land awaiting settlement. 1 Ann Free Homes, Free Schools. Fret Lands. I H j j Pnmphlot of Eighty Pages with a fine AU I I • Mutt will be sent, post-paid, to EVERY APPLICANT everywhere, to every country, the world over. Apply to JOHN W. ROND. Kec’y of (State Hoard of Immigration. St. Paul. Minnesota

# Letter from Rev. John I cannot but regard the discovery of Fellows' Hypophosphites as a matter of devout, thankfulness to a benign Providence. 1 have used it myself, and also recommend it to others, and Invariably found it to be of essentialbenefit. In bronchial and other cbest affections, In arrest ing Incipient oensumption, and in lessening the distreeeing symptoms of this disease In Its hopeless stages, as well as in cases of nervous debility, in giving tone to the system, it is undoubtedly a valuable remedy. J. McMURRAY, Methodist Minister. Newport, N. 8. The fit. John Trleqraph says: " The Invention of Fellows Hypophosphites has become one of the valuable industries of tho country, unique of its kind, and a credit to the Dominion of Canada.’’ Power of .Speaking Restored. Newash, Ont., D. C., March 36,1870. Two months ago my son lost his voice. None of the Phyejoians could do him any good. I obtained a bottle of Fellows’ Compound .Syrup of Hypophosphites. and, strange to say. my aon’s voice was restored two hours alter taking the second dose. JONAS FOTHERINGILL. RUPTURE Cured without the Injury trustee Inflict, without surgical operation, by Dr. J. A. Sherman’s iLkmedocs, at his P™"® h gffice, fi South Fifth St., St. Louis, Mo., wharo he wIU be during the next 4 weeks. Principal Office. _ Brcadway.N.Y. Book, with photographic Ilk* nesses before and after cure, milled for IQcents. PIANOS & OttGMS&JsSgI close out present stock of 500 New and Second-Hand Instruments of five first-class make™, ftdJy warranted, and at prices that DEFY COMPETITION for thU oU« of Instruments. AGENTS WANTED for WATERS SUPERIOR BELL ORGANS and PIANOS. Illustrated Catalogues mailed. HORACE WATERS A SONS, Manufacturers and Dealers, 40 RostFonrteenth SL, New York. Also. General Agents for SHONINGER’S Celebrated PRSkIUM ORGANS.

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