Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1879 — Page 4

AB AULDEB’B GOAT. BY JOHN W. HATTON. Ab Aulder lived a lonely life, for he could not agree With kith nor kin, nor friend nor foe, so cross and mean was he: But Abner had a weakness for dogs and goats and cats. And as often as he ate himself he fed the mice and rats. 11c loved his horses, cows and sheep, but most of all a goat, Called Billy, whom he oft declared had sense enough to vote. If Billy was so very wise ’twas Abuer made him so. For cyerywhere old Abner went the goat was sure to go. He taught the beast to fight the boys, and drive them from the place, Ami laughed until his sides were sore at many a frantic race. Full many a boy went limping home to nurse his wrath and pain, But never loitered thereabout nor pestered Ab again. And when a peddler chanced that way, to vend his wares, 'tis said, Ho paused without the gate awhile, to feel of Billy's head— Which was as hard as any stone—he felt its hardness, tio, For Billy spread him on the ground and banged him black and blue. A Bible agent came one day: a pious man was he. But Billy chased him out the yard and up an apple tree, From which the man of tracts made trucks, in haste to get away, When Billy left him for » ipell to munch a wisp i f hay. And when the mm ot lightning rods came down to Aulder’s farm, Old Ahner said the goat was tame, was sure he meant 110 harm; But ere the pedd er drew his breath, he thought bis spine was riven By something like a thunderbolt, as fast and fiercely driven. Now all the neighbors shunned the place; old Ab was left alone. In health, in sickness, all the same, none heard his jdaintive groan. He almos’, died when sick one day—none tried his life to save; But all agreed that Billy should go with him to the grave. They'd “ kill that goat” when Abner should “ pass in his checks,” they said; Home favored torture-all agreed to kill the creature , dead. Now Billy had grown cr sg of late, for want of exercise: He hated everything that moved, his master, too, despjs d. But Abner loved him all the more, the meaner he behaved, And chuckled at the mischief done, the money ho had saved. lie swore if Parson Brown would come that way to sing and pray He'd pay bis salary fora year, and 4 plank it down” next day. But Abner know the parson wtpild as lief a whaling go. bike Jonah, as to meet old Bill, and take his head in tow. The wicked shall cot live, 'tis said, but half three sore and ten, liut Abner had grown pretty old, and very gray, in bin ; And the goat was sure tho devil’s own, if goats are owned below, And all agreed where Abner went the goat was sure to go. Hard by, a bridge of logs was built, across a chasm deep, And to this bridge old Ab would go to meditate and sleep. Now Ab had bought s one strychnine and soaked it well in corn To dose a llock of turkeys that belonged to Mrs. Dorn. The poisoned grain he placed with care upon a corner shelf; No creature knew the secret dire, okeppt old Ab himself. Then Aimer hied him to the bridge to take his noon-day sleep, While billy eyed him f”om atar, so plump, and fat, and sleek. He thought how funny it would he to pounce him in the roir: For Al» had learned him all these tricks, and he should have his share. The neighbors found old Abner dead, down in the gulch below; “The goat! The goat!” tho farmers cried, “old Billy now must go.” But Billy had forestalled his foes; he'd eaten of the corn His wicked master had prepared upon this fatal morn. MOHAI.. Those who delight in giving pain will soon or late be found Caught in the trap, for others set, as they go sneaking round. Columbia, Mo.

OLD-TIME REMINISCENCES.

flic New England of tho South, and tho Necessity for Its Development. BY W. W. Ah I trust my readers are by this time aware, I am not writing merely to amuse those who chance to honor me with their attention, but with the hope that what is hei-e set down bearing upon past and existing conditions of the South may serve to draw attention to what in the end may subserve the advantage and prosperity, in some degree, at least, of both sections. I jmrpo.se to deal to some extent with the substantial resources and attractions with which the South is really so richly endowed, if, perchance, some may turn to these advantages, and, sooner or later, reap good returns from them. Let me remark, then, that most undoubtedly the poverty, and resulting ignorance and simplicity, of the mountain districts—because prosperity, and resulting wealth, in most cases means education, books and a thousand different enterprises—came largely of the unfortunate start made two-thirds of a century ago, and not from lack of resources in the country itself. The first settlers believed implicitly in the pleasures and profits—whatever they were of the chase, and, so long as they could raise corn enough to furnish bread for themselves and feed for their stock, they troubled themselves but little beyond this, their meat, until hogs and cattle become a substitute and necessity, being gotten “ out of the woods.” Placed in these rich and well-wooded and watered valleys, excepting now and then a small peach or apple orchard where fruit of the best kind might be made to yield a superabundance, they thus existed for half or two-thirds of a century, the world, somehow, never having let its daylight stream in upon them. And yet, all through that region, . where only the traveler on horseback or on foot could make his way, coal and iron are everywhere “cropping out” from tho hillsides, in a manner that would, make unlimited fortunes for New Lngland with the same conditions. Tho truth seems to have been, that the advantages for living could be had on far too easy terms. And, in illustration of this, let me give ah incident, tho leading features of which might be multiplied indefinitely. On one of my many jaunts through those valloyft, I came upon one so exceedingly charming in all its belongings that a friend of mine along could only utter exclamations of pleased surprise. The occupant of the one habitation in it was evidently the “monarch of all he surveyed.” With his picturesque log cabin, located on a small eminence in the middle of the valley, behind him was a fine peach and apple orchard, while a little further off was a rustic mill turned by the beautiful stream that noisily bowled its way downward, while upward toward the tops of the hills that shut in this little paradise waved the arms of great forest trees, cottonwood, oak, and others, that seemed to bend over the place protectmgly to shield it from tempests and all else that might threaten it. Cleared und ricli fields in ample supply completed the picture. I have said above that life and its comforts here were had on. too easy conditions. Stopping to get breakfast and our horses fed, the good woman of 1 10 ,, house, to “give us something to do, she said, “while she was preparing the meal,” brought forward some plates ot tho most beautiful honey in its white comb I was ever fortunate enough to A nd she added, “the bees had left that rich hive of honey the day belore, and she couldn’t think of a single reason for their doing so—but was completely puzzled.” Weil, it was not long before an admirable breakfast was smoking on the table before us, and then, in the eourse of conversation, we learned that the family*were doing their best to dispose of their beautiful place for the purpose of moving to Missouri. Alas,” I said to the good woman, “ I didn t believe there was any ‘ vale of content’ in this worjd, whatever the

poets might sayfor I could no more understand why they could think of leaving their present beautiful home, for any far-away place whatever, than she could understand why the bees had left their hive with its ample supply of honey, to go winging their way in search of some fancied better home. Well, the poor woman hung her head for an instant, as 6he stammered sorrfe half-way justification for the proposed flight, enough to convince me, however, that I had only made her merely unhappy, perhaps, and I left, quite convinced that the example set by our far-off progenitors, in showing restlessness in whatever Eden located, was still and always would be a characteristic of their descendants to the very end; that that Adam and Eve were not all who had been located discontentedly in pleasant places. One strong and controlling reason why, in all the past history of emigration and settlement of the whole country, the rich valleys of Kentucky have been so much overlooked was that the range of rough mountains, extending almost from the Ohio river to Cumberland Gap, compelled trains of emigrant wagons to keep on southwest clear to the last-named place, as to the only point where this tremendous cape could be “doubled;” and,once through the “Gap,” then before them lay a feasible road to Central Kentucky, Middle Tennessee, and, indeed, to the whole West. And if, comparatively, a few in these early times diverged mountain wards from this great leading pathway to richer lands, they were those who especially liked hunting for its own sake; and who, in the mountain districts, would be sure of sport not to be found for any length of time in a more agricultural district. So it was, then—as I have said in the first portion of this chapter—the mountain ranges and valleys were in the outset peopled with those who transmitted their unthrifty ways to their descendants; and hence, whatever the native resources of those fine valleys, they have largely remained undeveloped to this day. But—the query is worth entertaining—is it indeed the case that because the great tides of emigration, assisted by railroads and other potent agencies, have swept past this great mountain region on both sides, to find homes in the far West 4 —is it so that this section will be overlooked and neglected to the very end? Will there not cornea reaction; a desire to look up desirable places nearer home? and, making of this mountain region with its unbounded water power, its mineral wealth, its iron, and coal, and copper, and lead, and salt, a true New England of the South, develop it to better conditions and results than hitherto it has been fortunate enough to experience? Blessed especially as its residents are with good health, and this to a degree excelled by no other region on the continent, all this should awaken public attention to its advantages, and cause some more of our people to benefit by them. And in regard to what has been here said of the mountain regions of Kentucky and Tennessee—indeed of that whole scope of country in the headwaters of the Big Sandy and New rivers on the one side and the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers on the other—much the same reasons exist for making infinitely valuable to the people of this coxmtry for homes the mountainous region of North Georgia, and the sections of that character adjoining. In that naturally favored hill country, it was declared by the Clierokcos when they were made to abandon it for the lands west of the Mississippi, “a man was never sick or sorry;” and at present it is-encouraging to know that every year public attention it getting somewhat more drawn to it, the chief attraction being its mild and healthful climate, which supplies favorable conditions for many who find it impossible to live in the severer climate of the North. But there are potent reasons why the people of the South themselves should turn to the development of that portion of their territory, which, after all, has more elements of real power in it than anything offered to them besides. The mountainous region of the South is emphatically the white man’s country. And bearing in mind that the two greatest elements of power known to this or any age are iron and coal; that these are the agencies that in the end make nations rich and respected, and this consideration alone should make the fortunate possessors of such elements of strength eager to make the most of them. The great mistake that the South has made in the past was in entertaining the belief that the agricultural, or, as some of her political oracles fondly termed it, “the patriarchal condition,” was that which was most desirable—that which would most certainly give her empire and greatness—not reflecting that iron commands not only gold, but everjthing else almost of which it is the representative. Fear, it should be borne in mind, however reluctant we may be to acknowledge it, is too often in this world a constituent or condition of respect; and we may say of cannon foundries and ship-yards that, although these may not lay the world under tribute as does cotton, they compel that tribute of respect, without which cotton, money or anything else may be comparatively valueless.

I have said that the hill region is the white man’s country; and this 1 ecause, while he must in the very nature of the case leave cotton and rice and sugar culture to the colored race, he himself > —could he blit realize it—can do with these mineral treasures what the other race can never do—can develop power! And, although what I am going to adduce may be deemed but a trite or hackneyed illustration, yet what other country on tho face of the whole earth, save England, has been able, upon almost the basis alone of the two simple elements of development indicated iron and coal—to make almost every other civilized, or even half civilized, nation pay a money tribute to her to the extent annually of more than $2,000,000,000 ? Whatever nation wants money goes to her; and the obligations, consequently, that appear at the London Stock Exchange comprise, perhaps, four or five hundred millions of dollars, on which we alone as one nation pay interest ; and this, along with the bonds of Egypt, Turkey, the South American states, all far-off nations, indeed, besides those, including to a greater or less extent all the nations of Europe. Intelligent labor, let it be noted, does not, as a general thing, seize upon a hoe, and, under the blazing sun of the Gulf States, undertake to develop the cotton plant; neither will it wade in the rice swamps for a meager wage. But intelligent labor builds cotton mills, and, taking the raw material supplied by a different grade of labor, spins it, weaves it, colors it, adds an hundred fold value to it, and reaps a proportionate reward. In like manner, it seizes upon the crude material of the mines, and out of it fashions engines to pump, to grind, to hammer and saw; it constructs locomotives to carry to remunerative markets the raw material supplied by its less-intelligent co-worker of the fields and forests; and, demonstrating as all this does the place for the white man of the Soifth to occupy, if he desires progress, wealth, power, and with these the world’s profound respect, what hinders him from yet seizing upon it to begin itr earnest that true advancement too long postponed, and yet not too late to realize? And, in taking this view of the case,

why should not the two races work onward in entire and cordial harmony ? more especially when never before in the history of any nation were two lines of occupation both essential to general progress more distinctly marked out, or each as could be more consistently made to refrain from interfering one with the other. Progress for the whole means progress for every individual, if the latter be earnest and industrious ; and, for once leaving more to itself that barren field of politics where thousands quarrel for months that one may get some paltry office, turn to an earnest development of resources which, ultimately meaning substantial power, will in the end enable them to command what hitherto they may have been satisfied to wrangle for or solicit. To quit these questions of political economy, with which I trust I have Dot wearied the reader, I would note that, in the past, the chief product of many of these mountain districts were gaant, “ razor-backed” hogs, which, seldom fattened there, were collected in droves every fall, and with infinite patience driven to the corn-fields of the East Tennessee valleys, the Hiawassee and others; and, turned loose in them to riot and destroy at will, would in the end take on fat enough to make them acceptable and salable to the planters, lower down, of the Carolinasand Georgia, when driven thither finally. The method in vogue was to purchase the field of standing corn at an agreed price, the hogs to gather as much of it as they could. And, perhaps, a harder set of chaps for any sort of fun that offered could scarcely be found anywhere than these same hogdrovers. On the cars comiDg from the coast to Atlanta city on one occasion, a gang of them had —as it were—taken possession of the car of which I was an occupant; and all night long they kept up a constant uproar of coarse witticisms and stunning guffaws, hideous to listen to, yet impossible not to laugh at. One of their dramatic performances was travestying a Methodist “ anxious meeting ;” and carried out in the most reckless and even impious manner, with prayers and hymns, one could but know that their opportunities had been complete to have educated themselves to everything that was better. Interrupted in their sport by the announcement of supper, one of them, a great six-footer, on his return to the car uttered a most characteristic declaration: “ Boys, that was a splendid supper; I was eating for fifty cents, but they only charged me a quarter! ” Besides the considerable amount of hogs that the mountain districts of Kentucky furnished to the lowland consumers, great numbers of beef cattle found a market thence, on foot; while Central Kentucky and Upper-Middle Tennessee furnished in the same manner great droves of mules for the cotton fields of the Gulf States, and fine horses for all sections. Speaking of horses —something that, more than hemp or tobacco, perhaps, might be called the great staple of Kentucky—the moral code in regard to trading is represented as remarkably loose, every horse-buyer, or trader, being accredited and complimented with smartness enough to take care of himself. “All fair in a horse swap,” appeared to be the beginning and end of any rule governing the matter, so that whoever presumed to hope for much, if any, speculation out of these sharp traders was as likely as any way to find his hoped-for balance on the wrong side of the ledger. The “ sharpest practice” that I remember of becoming acquainted with in this line was boasted of by the fellow who was the principal actor in it, and happened in this wise: Being the owner of a very fine horse whose only and marked deficiency was that he had a regular “ rat tail,” he had failed in all attempts to dispose of him on that account, until accident suggested and threw in his way the means of supplying the want. A neighbor having lost, a fine horse who happened to have a large flowing tail, it occurred to the roguish horse-trader that, if he could somehow appropriate for his own steed that desirable member, it might be made the means of accomplishing to advantage the long-deferred sale. Acting upon this idea, he carefully separated it, leaving nothing but the hide, to which of course the hair clung fast, and this he strained over his own horse’s stump, sewed it tightly, and then hurried off to find a purchaser. This he accomplished without delay; and the ibuyer, much pleased with his bargain, took him home and put him in a stall. The next morning early he was summoned to the stable by the noise made by the horse, who was kicking the sides of the stall in the intervals of looking backward as if in distress; and after a good deal of investigation into the cause for the trick was performed so neatly that it quite baffled him at found the rawhide of the false tail had shrunk, and, sewed strongly, was pinching the poor horse so unmercifully that ho couldn’t stand still. Believed of it, there stood his neighbor’s rat-tailed horse; and when directly afterward the scamp was charged with it, of course he did it, he said, unblushingly, indeed with hearty peals of laughter, as if it was the climax of good jokes, winding up his confession with the received axiom, “All fair in a horse swap;” and that he expected his neighbor to “trade on his own judgment ,” as he himself had done. Of course the cheat didn’t get into the courts; it was too novel and too acute, “too good” for that; but the victimized pocketed his loss, relying upon getting even with the successful trickster some day in the future, or, at least, making himself “square” off of somebody else. Chicago, 111.

Packing a Trunk.

“ The man who takes over ten minutes to pack a trunk is a dolt 1 ” said Mr. Bowerman, as he slammed down the lid and turned the key. Mrs. Bowerman had been at it just seven days and seven nights, and when her husband went up stairs at 10 o’clock she sat down before the open trunk with tears in her eyes. “ You see how it is,” she explained, as he looked down upon her in awful contempt. “ I’ve got only part of my dresses in here, saying nothing of a thousand other things,' and even now the lid won’t shut down. I’ve got such a headache I must lop down for a few minutes.” She went away to lop, and Mr. Bowerman sat down and mused: “ Space is space. The use of space is in knowing how to utilize it.” Bemoving everything, he began repacking. He found that a silk dress could be rolled to the size of a quart jug. A freshly-starched lawn was made to take the place of a pair of slippers. Her brown bunting fitted into the niche she had reserved for three handkerchiefs, and her best bonnet was turned bottom-up in its box and packed full of underclothing. He sat there viewing sufficient empty space to pack in a whole bed, when she returned, and said he was the only good husband in this world, and she kissed him on the nose as he turned the key. “ It’s simply tho difference between the sexes,” was his patronizing reply, as he went down stairs to turn on the burglar-alarm. When that wife opened that trunk! But screams and shrieks would avail nothing. A Canadian girl carried a twentyfoot ladder 100 yards, placed it against a burning house, and —well, she did not put out the fire. She fell backward on a man and nearly killed him.

FARM NOTES.

Fall Work on the Farm. [From the American Agriculturiat for September.] Apples. —lt does not pay to market inferior specimens; but, in this season of scarcity, it will pay to send smaller fruit, if fair and sound, than in years of abundance. Assort and pack with unusual care. Turnips.— The cultivation of turnips and rutabagas consists of keeping free from weeds, and thinning out to a proper distance. One good root at every 9 inches is far better than two or three poor ones in that space. To have good sound roots of any kind, sufficient room must be given. Buckwheat. —This crop, being easily injured, thould be cut after the first light frost. Low grounds should be cleared first; upon high ground the crop will not be touched by light frosts, and here it may be left later. The grain shells so easily that it should be harvested early in the morning, when moist with dew. After lying a few days to cure, it should be raked up when it is moist. Smut and Rust.— These troublesome diseases of wheat and rye may be prevented by pickling Uie seed. The pickle may be made of strong brine, or of a solution of four- ounces sulphate of copper in one gallon of water. Sprinkle the seed grain, stir thoroughly to wet every kernel, and spread to dry. Either of these will destroy the spores, which are the seed of the parasitic fungi, known by the above names. Beets and Mangels. —Early-sown beets and mangels may be harvested late this month. If left later, the roots may become hollow and stringy. An overgrown root may be large, but its size is no indication of its value. We harvest our eirly-sown mangels as soon as the larger ones become hollow, and find they ripen in the pits as well or better than if left in the ground later. The tops may be led to cows or sheep with benefit. Cider.— While the best cider is made from late-ripening fruit, and in cool weather, the inferior apples and windfalls may be made profitable by making them into cider for vinegar. Even those who have a cider-house, furnished with a mill and press worked by power, find it profitable to keep a hand-mill and press for the purpose of working up windfalls and inferior early fruit, before the cider-making season, on a large scale, begins. Drying Fruit.— The - primitive way of drying apples, peaches, etc., exposed sun and air, also exposes it to insects. Excellent dryers are now to be had, and at a cost which the "increased valuo of the dried fruit will meet in a single season. These dry with artificial heat rapidly, turning out a handsome light-colored product. In drving in the old way for home use, protect the fruit from insects by netting, and provide some arrangement to dry by the heat of the stove in a rainy day. Smut in Corn. — Smut is poisonous, or at least very injurious, and care should be taken to prevent its being eaten with fodder. It is becoming very common in corn. It might be well to pass through the corn-fields with a sharp knife and a basket, and cut eff all the bunches of smut and smutty ears and carry them out where they may be burned. As one square inch of surface may contain 4,000,000 spores of smut, and every spore is capable of producing a smutty plant, it is important to carefully destroy every ball of smut. Pitting Mangels.— ln pitting mangels lifted this month, care must be taken to manage them so that they xvill not heat. If a cool and well-ventilated root-cellar is provided, there can be no safer place for them. In pitting them in the field, we gather twenty rows together, which makes a long heap, not large enough to cause heating. The roots may be covered with the tops, or with straw, held down by a few rails. Afterward these lews may be gathered together into pits and prepared for winter. The Use of application of lime will be found useful upon any kind of soil, at least once in five or six years. It is generally used at this season, with a fall-grain crop. But where lime is employed it will be useless to apply superphosphate, as this combines with the lime, and becomes simple phosphate of lime, which is insoluble. Many farmers who have applied superphosphate without effect may find the explanation in the fact that their soils were filled with lime, which rendered it inert. Late Sowing for Spring Fodder. - It has been usual to sow rye as late as October or November for green fodder in the spring. This is not a profitable practice. The rye comes up very thin and poor, and makes but a light crop. In the writer’s experience, it has been found better to plow the ground in the fall, top- dress through the winter with' fine manure, and as early in the spring as possible harrow in four bushels per acre of spring rye, spreading the manure at the same time with the disk harrow. Unless there is some good reason for the late sowing of rye, it should be avoided. Fall Grain.— This ’month is the time for sowing wheat and rye. From the 10th to the 15th is the most popular time, but it is a question if it is not better to sow earlier. On any but very rich soils, it takes some time for the crop to get thoroughly well rooted and tillered, and, if tillering is not effected before winter, it will rarely take place to any great extent in the spring. As the yield depends on the tillering, the promise of an early-sown crop is better than that of a late one. Exceptions to this rule occur with very rich soils, where an excessively-long growth may be looked for, and the attacks of the Hessian fly must be considered. These hintp, it is obvious, cannot be made to meet every case in a wide range of localities; we give general information, which the intelligent reader will adapt ■to his own circumstances. Fertilizer for Wheat. Every year’s experience proves the value of superphosphate of lime as a special fertilizer for wheat. An experienced wheat grower informs us that he has used 500 pounds to the acre, and that the crop this year has paid handsomely for the outlay. Where a smaller quantity was used, the yield was unsatisfactory. A frequent mistake is made in supposing that, if a certain quantity of fertilizer will have a certain effect, this effect will be doubled by doubling the quantity of the fertilizer. This has led to much waste and loss. The greatest possible effect is produced with a certain quantity, varying according to circumstances ; and each one must discover for himself what this quantity is. In the case above quoted, 500 pounds per acre is the most useful quantity. Others have found it best to use 600 pounds, and others again use only 300 pounds. As a rule, the largest applications may be most safely made on soils well filled with barn-yard manure, or vegetable matter.

Domestic Thunder Storms.

Not many lovers, I suppose, have found that their wedded life answered quite to the dreams of their courtship—not quite, mine didn’t. Yet who would enter a complaint against heaven because May does not quite match with October? If my experience can be of any use, I think a thunder storm, so it was not to do mischief, may sometimes

clear the atmosphere under the roof about as well as it does outside. And so sure lam of its blessing that when I hear people say they have lived together five-and-twenty years and never had the least difference, I wonder if they havo not Lad a great deal of indifference. It is the lesson we have to learn, too, throngh our saddest and most painful bereavements.— Robert Collyer.

FASHIONS IN FURNITURE.

Tables with the meandering, outspreading legs are extremely fashionable. A beautiful design for a screen is of black velvet embroidered with scarlet honeysuckles. Covers for library tables are in the natural colors of sea-island cotton, enlivened by embroidery of gay colors. Byzantine point is a new, showy cotton imitation, for curtains, that washes well and imitates antique lace to perfection. Chairs with arched back and matching cross-pieces carved, are being polished up and covered with citron or crimson-embossed velvet. The English dressing tables are especially liked in ebony or in ash wood, with square swinging glass very simply framed, small-sized drawers for laces or linen, and a place to rest the feet while the lady sits at her toilet. Piano covers barely cover the top and are made of yellow bronze or else cit-ron-colored silk and bordered with yellow, olive, Sevres blue and crimson worked into a flower pattern of roses, or perhaps tulips and Easter lilies. A lady’s parlor, devised for a brunette, has its walls hung with buttercup yellow, covered with clear white muslin fluted fromftop to bottom; the chimney-piece of black velvet, and the furniture of black velvet with yellow fringe and buttons. Happy are the people who have odd furniture with elephant’s trunks or lion’s heads, for Hindoo models are now coveted. Old families are mounting their lumbering side-boards and sofas with brass and trimming up their bedroom-sets with ash. The low furniture, of walnut, is universal for chambers. The bed is low, with straight head and foot-board, and the bureau has low drawers, with large, square mirror. There is sometimes a dressing-table to match the suite, and often is an odd piece. . Dark-green silk curtains are used in place of white shades to darken the rooms in summer, where inside blinds are used. Two long, flowing curtains of tapestry, plush or rich fabric, bordered across the top and bottom to match tho furniture, are chosen for drawing-rooms or parlors. For small parlors the upholstering is done in plain plush, bordered with wide cross bands of contrasting colors, or else figured stuffs are used of mixed silk and cotton; these are recommended because moths will not eat them, and reps are abandoned because they are alt wool and are soon devoured by the moths. The newest designs for dressingstands have no drawers at the sides. The mirror reaches to the floor. Two marble slabs adorn the sides, and on them ire figures of brass holding “Psyche” glasses. Below and out of sight are sockets, intended for the enormous tapers of ware, which, when lit, give a softened yet dazzling effect. In furnishing a sitting-room nothing is set or regular. All the pieces are odd, with the same color running through all for harmony, but with each piece different shape and color. The sofa and chairs have low, wide seats, straight backs and square corners. With these should be low chairs and rockers, willow, ebony, gilt or lacquer. Batiste curtains are very pretty for the sitting room or chamber. This is a soft muslin fabric in square meshes, like grenadine, and with wide, lace-like stripes; they are trimmed with antique lace, or are bound with colored velours borders. Batiste draperies are inexpensive, and far preferable to Nottingham cr other cheap laces. Mantelpieces are very high, and the effect is good if China, crackle or Japanese ware, especially the grotesque, are placed upon them. The brilliancy of color given in these wares and their originality are very attractive against a somber background. If you line with plaques on the lower shelf there must not be placed any ornaments in front. The “old-time” closet mantelpieces arc being revived. This style consists of a double door introduced into a mantelpiece which extends to the ceiling. The mirror is thus done away with. In the closet thus formed are porcelain plaques, which are fully displayed by opening the silver-hinged walnut doors. These are richly carved and of graceful form.

Trees and Health.

Everybody knows that trees take the carbonic acid thrown out in the breath of men and animals, separate it into its component parts—carbon and oxygen —give back the latter to be used over again, and work up the former into wood and fruits. It is also coming to be generally understood that forest trees do important service in promoting rainfalls, and in helping to retain the surface-water for springs, streams and general use. It is also known that certain species, planted in malarial localities, help to render the latter healthy by somehow using up the deadly miasma. It would now appear that trees growing near drains carry off the sewage water. A gentleman, whose cess-drain was constructed just like his neighbors’ and in the same kied of soil, had found it unnecessary to clean it out, while the others had to be cleaned out frequently. An examination showed that three large trees, whose roots had penetrated into the vicinity of his second, or waste, cess-pool, were clearly the channels through which the waste all escaped. Whether it was changed into plantfood, as is likely, or was exhaled through the leaves, in either case it was disposed of with equal safety.

Subduing and Avoiding Fever and Ague.

Of all chronic diseases, fever and ague is perhaps the least conquerable by the ordinary resources of medicine. There is, however, a remedy which completely roots it out of the system in any and'all of its various phases. This celebrated anti-periodic is vegetable in composition, and is not only efficacious, but perfectly safe, a thing that cannot be predicated with truth of quinine. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is, besides, a most efficient means of defense against malaria, as it endows the physique with an amount of stamina which enables it to encounter miasmatic influences without prejudice to health. Persons about to visit, or living in, foreign countries, or portions of our own where intermittent or remittent fevers prevail, should not omit to lay in a sufficient supply of the great Preventive, both to avert such diseases and disorders of the stomach, bowels and liver common to such localities.

The Paper-Making Business.

At the present time the United States is making more than one-third of all the paper made in the world. The product is about 1,830 tons daily, amounting to about 640,500 tons per year. There are now 927 mills, representing a capital of $100,000,000. These mills employ 22,000 persons, who draw about $9,550,000 in salaries per year. It is estimated that the entire paper interest, including manufacturing, printing and publishing, furnishes employment to 75,000 persons. Crooked boots and shoes can bemade straight as new ones with Lyon’s Patent Heel Stiffeners. Hold by shoe and hardware dealers.

That Quinine will cure Chills sad Fever is well known. But it is strange that the other febrifuge principles cont&inedin Peruvian bark are more powerful than Quinine, and do not produoe any annoying head symptoms like buzzing in the ears. This fact is proved by Dr. F. Wilhoft’s Anti-Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic, which ri a preparation of Peruvian bark, without Quinine, according to the declaration of its proprietors, Wheelock, Finlay St Co., of New Orleans. Clock-work is not more regular than the liver, the stomach, and the bowels when they are put in order with Dr. Mott’s Vegetable Liver Pills, a supremely effective and safe alterative, cathartic and blood depurent, which promotes thorough bilious secretion, a regular habit of body, sound digestion and nervous tranquillity. It is the best possible substitute for that terrible drug, mercury. For sale by all druggists. Public Speakers and Singers will find “Brown’s Bronchial Troches” beneficial in clearing the voice before speaking or singing, and relieving the throat after any exertion of the vocal organs. For Coughs and Colds the Trochee are effectual. The Mason A Hamlin Organ Co. are producing superb instruments.at very low prices; not much more than prices of poorest 0.-gans. Higliost honors at every world’s exhibition for many years, and two highest aw ir s at the last and greatest at Paris, last year, tell the story of their superiority.

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