Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1879 — Page 4

•farewell at the last day. BY C. L. MARION. Dreams have been through all t’ e ages— Dreams strangely vivid have been dreampt By bards, lovers and by sages, Whose fancies seemed from naught exempt That would grace historic pages; Ur. through odoity, earth would tempt. Yet my recital of an uncouth dream May be, wi hal, not fit poetic theme; And some may smile, but if I tell That earth 1 fancied passed away, It strangely may the awe impel That hearts will feel in their d smay. When o’er this worl I a voice shall swell To warn us of tie judgment day— The day when every human soul shall know It< eternal fate—.he fruits of what we sow. D re shapes w< re mine in dreamland formed; It seemed life’s work had ceased to be, And o’er earth’s surface blindly roamed Poor mortals in deep misery. The waters skyward madly foamed, As rose the dead from out tie sea, Then calmetl the ocean back again and left Them stand who long of lite had been bereft. Of awful sigh's that e’er were seen Upon the earth or down beneath, It was this host in dismal sheen, So ghastly clothed in shroud* of death. Though dead, there came from lips between A gust that gave apparent ureath. Heaving bosoms and causing eyes to gleam As passed the dead ashore from off the stream. And slow they moved through doubtful light, For all stem d chaos. I saw no sun; There shone no moon, nor stars on height; All seemed like earth when first begun, As, through pale beams that vexed my sight Marched living and the dead as one To judgment, ’lore a Judge in justice dressed; By whom, condemned were some, and others blest. At once, when each had learned their fate, Forth a radiance bu st from high. And souls were doomed to separate, Severing every earthly tie. The blesse I passed the gold n gate. Toward their home b yond the sky; While some were not allowed a heaven to share; How th sc unfortunates moan d in their despair! Beloved ones claiped each other tight; The partings Ailed my heart with filings; A pious woman on the right Deplored her ton’s earth y failings; But Satan claimed him to his might, Heeding not that mother’s wailings. " ives and husbands of each other were bereft; Dear ones on the right, dear ones to the left. Forsooth, it seemed a sorry thing For souls that last adieu to speak— Farewell, ’twas not like here we sing, Which doth but last a day or week; But theirs did untold anguish bring, As touched white lips a bloodless cheek, 'To seal the truth that they must Sep rate. Sinners wept; the blessed were happy in their fate. Though this a dream, ’tls apt to rule when t at great day shall dawn in truth. Ye mortals, in the vestibule Of that great < hurc i beyond this youth, Prepare your souls while on Ood’s stool; (For after death there is no luth); Lost from those you love you're cast forever Upon the 1 ft, o’er thatjlarkling river I Bloomington, 111.

A BANK-NOTE, IN HALVES.

1 Irjjt Half. Wet and dreary. It is midwinter; the scene is Kirklington, on the London and Northwestern; the time, 10:45; just after the night mail has flashed through without stopping, bound for Liverpool and the North. The railway officials—-pointsmen, signalmen, porters, platelayers—are collecting preparatory to going off duty for the night. “Where’s Dan?” asks one of the crowd upon the platform. “I saw him in the hut just after the 10 :45 went through. Can’t have come to any harm, surely ?” “No; he said he seen something drop from the train, and he went down the line to pick it up.” And Dan had picked up something. It waa a basket, a common white wicker basket with a lid fastened down by a string. What did it contain? Refreshments? Dirty clothes? What? A baby —a child half a dozen weeks old, no more. A pink and white piece of human china as fragile as Dresden, and as delicately fashioned and tinted as biscuit of Rose Pompadour. “Where did you come across it?” asked one. “Lying on the line, just where it fell. Perhaps it didn’t fall; perhaps it was chucked out. What matter? I’ve gut it, and got to look after it; that’s enough for me. Some day maybe I’ll come across them as owns it, and then they shall pay me and take it back.” “Is there nothing about him ? Turn him over.” The little mite’s linen was white and of fine material, but he lay on an old shawl and a few bits of dirty flannel. All they found was a dilapidated purse, a common bag-purse of faded brown leather. Inside was a brass thimble, a pawn ticket, and the half of a Bank of England note for £IOO. “ What good’s half a bank-note to you?” “Half a loaf’s bettor than no bread.” “ Yes, but you can eat one, and you can’t pass the other. Won’t you catch it from your wife? How’ll you face her, i Dan? What’ll she say?” “ She’ll say I done quite right,” replied Dan, stoutly. “ She’s a good sort, God bless her.” “So are you, Dan, that’s a fact. God bless you, too,” said more than one rough voice in softened accents. “Perhaps the brat’ll bring you luck, after all.” * * * * ♦ Winter-tide again six years later, but this season is wet and slushy. Once more we are at Kirklington, a long, straggling village, which might have slumbered on in obscurity forever had not the Northwestern line been carried close by it, to give it a place in Bradshaw and a certain importance as a junction and a center for good traffic. But the activity was all about the station. All the permanent officials had houses and cottages there; in the village lived only the field laborers who worked at the neighboring estate, or sometimes lent their hand for a job of surveying on the line. The poor folks had a gruesome life of it—a hard, hand-to mouth struggle for bare existence against perpetual privation, accompanied by unremitting toil. A new parson—Harold Treffry—had come lately to Kirklington. He was an earnest, energetic young man, who had won his spurs in an East-end parish, and had now accepted this country living because it seemed to open up a new field of usefulness. He had plunged bravely into the midst of his work; he was forever going up and down among his parishioners, solacing and comforting, preaching manful endurance and trustfulness to all. He is now paying a round of parochial visits, accompanied by an old college chum, who is spending Christmas with him. “ Yonder,” said Treffry, pointing to a tnin thread of smoke which rose from some gaunt tree into the sullen wintry air, “yonder is the house—if, indeed, it deserves so grand a name— the hovel, rather, of one whose case is the hardest of the hard ones in my unhappy cure. This man is a mere hedger and ditcher, one who works for any master, most often for the railway, but who is never certain of a job all the year round. He has a swarm of young children, and he has just lost a wife. He is absolutely prostrated, aghast probably at the future before him, and his utter incapacity to do his duty by his motherless little ones. Jack,” said the parson, stopping short suddenly, and looking straight into his companion’s face, “I wonder whether you could rouse him ? If you could only get him to make a sign, cry or laugh, or take the smallest interest in common affairs. Jack, I believe you are the very man. You might get at him through the children—that marvelous hanky-panky of yours, those surprising tricks; a child takes to you naturally at once. Try and make friends with these. Perhaps when the father sees them interested and amused he may warm a little, speak perhaps, approve, perhaps smile, and in the end give in. Jack, will you try ?” Jack Newbiggin was by profession a conveyancer, but nature had intended him for a pew Boudin, or a Wizard of

the North. He waS more than half a professional by the time he was full grown. In addition to the quick eye and the facile wrist, he had the rarer gifts of the suave manner and the face of brass. He had even studied mesmerism and clairvoyance, and could upon occasion surprise his audience considerably by his power. They entered the miserable dwelling together. The children —eight of them —were skirmishing all over the floor. They were quite unmanageable, and beyond the control of the eldest sister, who was busied in setting out the table for the mid-day meal; one other child, of 6 or 7 years, a bright-eyed, exceedingly beautiful boy, the least—were not nature’s vagaries well known—likely to be born among and belong to such surroundings, stood between the legs of of the man himself, who had his back to the visitors and was crouching low over the scanty fire. The man turned his head for a moment, gave a blank stare, then an imperceptible nod, and once more he glowered down upon the fire. “ Here, little ones, do you see this gentleman? he’s a ccnjuror. Know what a conjuror is, Tommy ?” cried the parson, catching up a mite of 4 or 5 years from the floor. “ No, not you; nor you Sarah; nor you, Jack ” —and he ran through all thier names. They had now ceased their gambols, and were staring hard at their visitors —the moment was propitious. Jack Newbiggin began. He had fortunately filled his pockets with nuts, oranges and cakes before leaving the parsonage, so he had half his apparatus ready ,to hand. The pretty boy had soon left the father at the fire,.and had come over to join in the fuo, going back, however, to exhibit his share of the spoil and describe voluminously what had occurred. This and the repeated shouts of laughter seemed to produce some impression on him. Presently he looked over his shoulder, and said—but without animation : “ It bo very good of you, sir, surely ; very good for to take so kindly to the little chicks. It does them good to laugh a bit, and it ain’t much as they’ve had to make ’em lately.” “It is good for all of us, now and again, I take it,” said Jack, desisting and going toward him—the children gradually collecting in a far-off corner and comparing notes. “You can’t laugh, sir, if your heart’s heavy; if you do, it can only be a sham.” While he was speaking he had taken the Bible from the shelf, and, resuming his seat, began to turn the leaves slowly over. “I’m an untaught rough countryman, sir, but I have heard tell that these strange things you do are only tricks; ain’t it so ? ” Here was, indeed, a hopeful symptom! He was roused, then, to take some interest in what had occurred. “All trick, of course; it all comes of long practice,” said Jack, as he proceeded to explain some of the simpler processes, hoping to enchain the man's attention. “That’s what I thought, sir, or I’d given you a job to do. I’ve been in want of a real conjuror many a long day, and nothing less’ll do. See here, sir,” he said, as he took a small, care-fully-folded paper from between the leaves of the Bible; “do you see this?” It was half of a Bank of England note for £IOO. “ Now, sir, can any conjuror help me to the other half? ” “How did you come by it?” Jack asked, at once. “ I’ll tell you, sir, short as I can make it. Conjuror or no conjuror, you’ve got a kindly heart, and I’m main sure you’ll help me if you can.” Dan then described how he bad picked up the basket from the 10:45 Liverpool express. “There was the linen; I’ve kept it. See here; all marked quite pretty and proper, with lace round the edges, as though the mother loved to make the little one smart.” Jack examined the linen; it bore a monogram and crest. The first he made out to mean H. L. M.; and the crest was plainly two hammers crossed and the motto, “ I strike ’’—not a common crest —and he never remembered to have seen it before. “ And this was all ? ” “ ’Cept this bank-note. This was in a poor old purse, with a pawn-ticket and a thimble. I kept them all.” Like a true detective, Jack examined every article minutely. The purse bore the name Hester Gorrigan, in rude letters inside, and the pawnticket was made out in the same name. “ I cannot give you much hope that I shall succeed, but I will do my best. Will you trust me with the note for a time ? ” “ Surely, sir, with the greatest of pleasure. If you could but find the other half, it would give Harry—that’s what we call him—such a grand start in life; schooling and the price of binding bim to some honest trade.” Jack shook the man’s han J, promised to do his best, and left the cottage. Second Half. When Jack Newbiggin got back to the parsonage he found that his host had accepted an invitation for them both to dine at the “ Big House,” as it was called, the country-seat of the Squire of the parish. They were cordially received at the “ Big House.” Jack was handed over forthwith to his old friends, who figuratively rushed into his arms. They were London acquaintance; no more; of the sort we meet here and there and everywhere during the Beeson, who care for us, and we for them, as much as for South Sea Islanders, but who gre t us with rapturous effusion when we meet them in a strange place. Jack knew the lady whom he escorted in to dinner as a gossipy dame, who, when his back was turned, made as much sport of him as of her other friends. “ I have been fighting your battles all day,” began Mrs. Sitwell. “Was it necessary? I should hwe thought myself too insignificant.” “They were talking at lunch of your wonderful knack in conjuring, and some one said that the skill might prove inconvenient—when you played at cards, for instance.” “A charitable imputation! With whom did it originate?” “Sir Lewis Mallaby.” “ Please point him out to me.” He was shown a grave, scowling face upon the right of the hostess—a face like a mask, its surface rough and wrinkled, through which the eyes shone out with a baleful light, like corpsecandles in a sepulcher. “Pleasant creature! I’d rather not meet him alone on a dark night.” “He has a terrible character, certainly. Turned his wife out of doors because she would not give him an heir. It is the want of children to inherit his title and estate which preys upon his mind, they say, and makes him so morose and melancholy.” Jack let his companion clatter. It was his habit to get all the information possible about any company in which he found himself, for his own purpose as a clairvoyant; and when Mrs. Sitwell flagged he plied her with artless questions and led her off from one person to another, making mental notes to serve him hereafter. It is thus by careful and laborious preparation that many of the strange and seemingly ten-

ons feats of the clairvoyant conjurer are performed. When the whole party had assembled in the drawing-room after dinner, a chorus of voices, headed by that of the hostess, summoned Jack to his work. There appeared to be only one dissentient, Sir Lewis Mallaby, who not only did not back up the invitation, but when the performance was actually begun was at no pains to conceal his contempt and disgust. ’ The conjurer made the conventional plum pudding in a hat, fired weddingrings into quartern loaves, did all manner of card tricks, knife tricks, pistol tricks, and juggled on conscientiously right through his repertoire. There was never a smile on Sir Lewis’ face; he sneered unmistakably. Finally, with an ostentation that savored with rudeness, he took out his watch, a great gold' repeater, and unmistakably yawned. Jack hungered for that watch directly he saw it. Perhaps through it he might make its owner uncomfortable, if only for a moment. But how to get it into his bauds. He asked for a wctch —a dozen were offered. No; none of those would do. It must be a gold watch, a repeater. Sir Lewis Mallaby’s was the only one in the room, and he at first distinctly refused to lend it. But so many earnest entreaties were addressed to” him, the hostess leading the attack, that he could not, in common courtesy, continue to refuse. With something like a growl he took his watch off’ the chain and handed it to Jack Newbiggin. A curious old-fashioned watch it was, which would have gladdened the heart of a collector; all jeweled and enameled, adorned with crest and inscription—an heirloom which had probably been in the Mallaby family for years. Jack looked it over curiously, meditatively, then, suddenly raising his eyes, hie stared intently into Sir Lewis Mallaby’s face, and almost as quickly dropped them again. “This is far too valuable,” he said courteously; “too much of a treasure to be risked in any conjuring trick; an ordinary modern watch I might replace, but not a work of art like this.” And he handed it back to Sir Lewis, who received it with ill-concealed satisfaction. He was as much pleased, probably, at Jack’s expression of possible failure in the proposed trick as at the recovery of his property. Another watch, however, was pounded up into a jelly, and brought out whole from a cabinet in an adjoining room; and,this trick scccessfully accomplished. Jack Newbiggin, who was now completely on his mettle, passed on to higher flights. He had spent the vacation of the year previous in France as the pupil of a wizard of European fame, and mastered many cf the strange feats which are usually attributed to clairvoyance. There is something especially uncanny about these tricks, and Jack’s reputation rapidly increased with his new exhibition of his powers. Thanks to his cross-examination of Mrs. Sitwell at dinner, he was in possession of many facts connected with the company, although mostly strangers to him; and some of the hits were so palpably happy that he raised shouts of surprise, followed by that terrified blush which not uncommonly succeeds the display of seemingly supernatural powers. “Oh, but this is too preposterous,” Sir Lewis Mallaby was heard to say quite angrily. The continued applause profoundly disgusted him. “This is the meiest charlatanism. It must be put an end to. It is the commonest imposture. These are things which he has coached upon in advance. Let him be tried with something which upon the face of it he cannot have learned beforehand by artificial means.” “ Try him, Sir Lewis, try him yourself,” cried several voices. “ I scarcely like to lend myself to such folly, to encourage so pitiable an exhibition.” But he seemed to-be conscious that further protest would tell in Jack’s favor.

“ I will admit that you have considerable pow’er in this strange branch of necromancy if you will answer a few questions of mine.” “Proceed,” said Jack, gravely, meeting his eyes firmly, and without flinching. “ Tell me what is most upon my mind at this present moment.” “ The want of a male heir,” Jack replied promptly, and thanked Mrs. Sitwell in his heart. “ Psha! You have learned from Burke that I have no children,” said Sir Lewis boldly, but he was a little taken aback. “ Anything else?” “ The memory of a harsh deed you now strive to redeem.” This borders upon impertinence,” said Sir Lewis, with a hot flush on his cheek and passion in his eyes. “ But let us leave abstractions and try tangible realities. Can you tell me what I have in this pocket?” He touched the left breast of his tail-coat. “ A pocket-book.” “Bah! Ca va sans dire. Everybody carries a pocket-book in his peoket.” “But do you?” asked several of the bystanders, all of whom were growing deeply interested in this strange duel. Sir Lewis Mallaby confessed that he did, and produced it—an ordinary morocco leather puise and pocket-book all in one. “Are you prepared to go on?” said the Baronet haughtily to Jack. “ Certainly.” “What does this pocket-book contain ?” “Evidence.” The contest between them was a I’outrance. “Evidence of what?”

“Of facts that must sooner or later come to light. You have in that pocketbook links in a long chain of circumstances, which, however carefully concealed or anxiously dreaded, time in its inexorable course must bring eventually to light. There is no bond, says the Spanish proverb, which is not some day fulfilled; no debt that in the long run is not paid.” “What ridiculous nonsense I I give you my word this pocket-book contains nothing—absolutely nothing—but a Bank of England note for £100.” “Stay!’’ cried Jack Newbiggin, facing him abruptly and speaking in a voice of thunder. “It is not so—you know it —it is onjy the half!” And as he spoke, he took the crumpled paper from the hands of the really stupefied Baronet. It was exhibited for inspection—the half of a Bank of England note for £IOO. There was much applause at this harmless and successful denouement of what threatened at one stage to lead to altercation. But Jack Newbiggin was not satisfied. “ As you have dared me to do my worst,” said Jack,‘/listen now to what I have to say. Not only did I know that there was only the half of a note, but I know where the other half is to be found.” “So much the better for me,” said the Baronet, with an effort to appear humorous. “ That other half was given to—shall I say, Sir Lewis? ” Sir Lewis nodded indifferently. “ It was given to one Hester Gorrigan, an Irish nurse, six years ago. It was the price of a deed of which you—” “ Silence! Say no more,” cried Sir Lewis in horror. “ I see you know all. I swear I have had no peace since I

was tempted so sorely ahd so weakly felt But lam prepared to make all the restitution and reparation in my power, unless, unhappily, it is already too late.” Even while he was speaking his face turned ghastly pale, his lips were covered with a fine white foam, he made one or two convulsive attempts to steady himself; then, with a wild, terrified look around, he fell heavily to the floor. It was a paralytic seizure. They took him up stairs and tended him; but the case was desperate from the first. Only just before the end did he so far recover the power of speech as to be able to make full confession of what occurred. Sir Lewis fead been a younger son; the eldest inherited the family title, but died early, leaving bis widow to give him a posthumous heir, the title remaining in abeyance until time showed whether the infant was a boy or a girl. It proved to be a boy, whereupon Lewis Mallaby, who had the earliest intimation of the fact, put into execution a nefarious project which he with care concocted in advance. A girl was obtained from a foundling hospital and substituted by Lady Mallaby’s nurse, who was in Lewis’ pay, for the newlyborn son and heir. This son and heir was handed over to another accomplice, Hester Gorrigan, who was bribed with £IOO, half down in shape of a half-note, the other half to be paid when she announced her safe arrival in Texas with the stolen child. Mrs. Gorrigan had an unquenchable thfrst, and in her transit between London and Liverpool allowed her precious charge to slip out of her hands, with the consequences we know. it was the watch borrowed from Sir Lewis Mallaby which first aroused Jack’s suspicions. It bore the strange crest —two hammers crossed, with the motto “ I strike ” —which was marked upon the linen of the child that Dan Blockit picked up at Kirkington Station. The initial of the name Mallaby coincided with the monogram H. L. M. Jack rapidly drew his conclusions, and made a blood shot, which hit the mark as we have seen. Lewis Mallaby’s confession soon reinstated the rightful heir, and Dan Blockit in after years had no .reason to regret the generosity which had prompted him to give the little foundling the shelter of his .rude home.

An Old National Pike Stager.

Another survivor of the old “pike’ is Samuel Nimmy— a patriarchal African, who “ played tambourine ” for Gen. Jackson, and drove on the road for many years. He is an odd mixture of shrewdness, intelligence and egotism. His recollections are vivid and detailed in point of names and dates, although he is 86 years old, and he describes his experiences in a grandiose manner that is occasionally made delicious by solecisms, or sudden lapses into negro colloquialisms. He lives in a comfortable cottage at Hagerstown; the walls of his parlor are hung with certificates of membership in various societies, and with various patriotic chromos; the center table is loaded with books, principally on negro emancipation and the events of the civil war. He continues a narrative in formal phrases and measured sentences for a long time without hesitating, and then, perhaps, a name slips him, and he murmurs, “Billy, Billy, Billy; Tom, Tom, Tom; Jack, Jack, Jack,” until the elusive cognomen is caught. West of Cumberland the road was bordered by an extrordinary growth of pines, the branches of which were so intermeshed that they admitted very little daylight, and from its prevailing darkness the grove was called the “ Shades of Death.” Uncle Sam Nimmy and others declared that on the most effulgent day not a ray ever penetrated it, and that it was absolutely black, which is a piece of picturesque exaggeration. It was very dark, however, according to the statements of more exact observers, including Mr. B.F. Reinhart, the well-known painter, and it afforded a favorable opportunity for highwaymen. “I had a very keen team, sir,” says Uncle Sam—“a very keen team, indeed; and nobody knows more about a horse than I do. I drove that team, sir, nine months without the least sickness to the horses, and I flatter myself that we had some rough service.” The flattery that Uncle Sam applies to himself is immense. “Well, sir, one night as I was driving through the Shades of Death with a few passengers; it was darker than usual; it was Cimmerian— Cimmerian, sir; and one said to me, ‘ Don’t you hear the sound of horses walking?’ I listened, and listened, and listened. I did hear the sound of walking, and seemed to see, although it was so dark, several figures in the wood. Some one then opened the pistol case and examined the weapons; the flint had been removed from each pistol, and about that time, sir, my hair began to get curly. The passengers didn’t like the way affairs were looking, and I thought that if big men were scared there was no reason why a little one shouldn’t be scared, too.” Uncle Sam is very diminutive; and, after acknowledging his trepidation, he repeated, in a manner of great candor: “I admit, sir, I was scared, and I just assure you, gentlemen, that I made every horse tell until we came to a tavern. But I wasn’t naturally timid; I was puzzled as to how the flints came out of those pistols, and we could never unravel the mystery. I’ve had a varied 'ife, sir, and always took an interest in general travel, to see if anyone was bigger than I was. I started a company of volunteers in the war, and then started a lodge, and bought up all the blue cambric there was in town for sashes? We had a parade, and Hagerstown’s never seen the like since she became a tavern. Next I started the Sons of Freedom, and came in contact with the law, because it was supposed we had an under-ground railroad in hand. I was vindicated, of course, and was as big as a dog at a hogkilling. I was born on the 29th of August, 1793, and I am just as bright as I ever was. I’ve been frozen on the box, but never allowed anybody to compose upon me; can’t jump as high as I used to could, and that’s the only difference between me now and twenty years ago. Gentlemen, I make you my most humble obedience,” he said; and as we left he called after us, “Don’t forget the date—Aug. 29, 1793.” W. H. Rideing, in Harper’s Magazine.

Boys or Girls ?

A lady who had much experience in teaching both boys and girls, speaking of the extraordinary obtuseness of a certain pupil, said: In’ a physiology class, this young lady of 15 inquired, with languid surprise : “Is there not a straight passage through the from one ear to the other?” ‘ “ A somewhat natural conclusion,” the teacher commented, dryly, “if she had ever watched the processes of her own mind.” “ Which would you prefer teaching,” asked a visitor, “ boys or girls ? ” “ Boys, infinitely,” was the prompt reply. “No boy, for instance, would ever have asked such a question as that. He would long before have investigated the subject with a lead pencil. Not, probably, in his ovrTi jars,” she added, meditatively, “ but in his younger brother’s.” Columbus, Ohio, has a chicken that is furred instead of feathered.

FARM NOTES.

Store potatoes in a dark, cool place, and in shallow bins. A better understanding is needed between farmers and millers. Take the topmost ear of corn for seed, and select it from those stalks which bear the greatest number of ears. If strawberry beds are to be protected this winter, it is of importance that the material used should not cover the soil with seeds. Probably straw or even the sheaves and small stalks of corn are as good as any thing that can be used. Mr. Vick says that every farmer should have a supply of willows for binding bundles of trees. For binding cornstalks, straw and for many other purposes, they will be found of great value when their utility is once known. The hens at Rural Grounds are all confined in picket inclosures—ten to an area of about thirty feet square. We give a teaspoonful of ground bone or bone flour every two or three days mixed in their food. We have never yet found a thin-shelled egg.— Rural New Yorker.

Hebe agriculture is pulling the nation out of the Slough of Despond and all its financial difficulties; in England a revival in manufactures is promising to help farmers a little and the country a good deal. We are a nation of “farmers ; England a nation of mechanics and shop-keepers. The present prospects are that we shall have a surplus of from 160,000,000 to 175,000,000 bushels of wheat for exportation; and that the wheat-import-ing countries in Europe will require from 280,000,000 to 300,000,000 bushels, so that there is a fair margin for the surplus products of other nations also. Pick grapes when fully ripe and during pleasant weather. Leave them under cover for a week or so until dry. Pack in shallow boxes, six inches or less in depth, a foot long. Cut out all imperfect, decayed, dry or green berries. Pack as closely as possible without injuring them, and then nail on the covers. Then they should be placed in a cool, dry room. For hedges we know of no more ornamental and effectual plant than the Japan Quince. Choose the white, rose and deep-red for colors. This will bear pruning to any desired extent while its leaves are of the greenest and firmest of textures. In early spring, no other hedge would equal it in beauty. It is very hardy, and, though net an evergreen, of course, its bare blanches in winter can scarcely look more dreary than the lifeless-brown color of Arborvitaes. Growing Strawberries in Winter. —Strong plants from runners that appeared early in the summer, and which are now in six or seven-inch pots, can readily be made to fruit in any greenhouse or warm plant-room, where they can get plenty of sun. Keep the plants in an open shed, where they will be exposed to the frost and can still be kept dry, unfit the latter part of December; then they should be thawed out, the upper two inches of the soil scraped off and replaced with well-rotted manure, and henceforward treated as growing plants.

Poultry Vermin.—There are many recipes for driving vermin away from poultry and houses. The inventors of these are shrewd ; they know that people are naturally indolent in both body and mind; that they never guard against invasion, but wait till the enemy is upon them, and then buy up all the new-fangled nostrums, kill all the lice and half-kill the hens and chickens, and at once begin to do some tall crowing. All poultry vermin delight in moist or damp places; in fact they can’t live anywhere else. That’s the principle. Now what does it suggest: Why, the suggestion is obvious; don’t have any damp places, and that means a dry chickenhouse, a dry earth floor to it, a dry roof, no manure allowed to accumulate on the floor or under the perches, because that is always damp, and absorbs dampness from the air. Build two chicken houses—one in a low, damp, ill-ventilated place, the other on a high, dry, sunny, airy spot, and let your flock choose; the most miserable old hen “ that ever was” knows better what she wants than the most dignified, dandyish, intellectually civilized poultry-fancierthat thehen-fe-verhas ever produced. Remember, a wa-ter-tight house, a ground or sandy floor, plenty of sunlight and fresh air, and your children will have to go to college to learn the entymology of the henhouse, instead of brushing vermin off of every egg they bring to the housekeeper.—Rural New Yorker.

Frightful Story from the Arctic Ocean.

Capt. Sands reports a frightful story from St. Lawrence island, in the Behring sea. Almost the entire population of the southeastern end of the island has perished of starvation. A party landed from the Collins and were horrified to find 250 corpses in one field. The living had carried the dead away from the huts unjtil at length, overcome themselves, they in turn died in the huts, and so remained. Everywhere the scene was frightful. One little girl the Captain speaks of seeing stiff in death, with her head resting on her hand, while the body leaned over the remains of a whale. Mr. Sands attributes the starvation to rum. Nearly every “trader” goes to the Arctic loaded with it, and so long as the liquor lasts the natives will not go fishing. Then it is too late, and starvation follows. On the northwest end of the island about 200 natives are still alive. He says that revenue steam cutters are of no use to stop the traffic. The “traders” see the smoke, and get out of the way, or get rid of their contraband liquors before, they can be reached. A sailing vessel of 100 tons, he says, could end the traffic. - -New York Herald.

A Dancing Rooster.

Not very far behind the story of the hen that hatched alligators is this story of a dancing rooster, told by the Alabamian, of Wetumpka, Ala.: “We learn from Dr. T. B. Whitby that Mr. Samuel Spigener, living hear Buyckville, entertained him recently with a dancing rooster. Mr. Spigener called up his crower and offered him some dough provided he will cut a ‘ double shuffle,’ which the fowl proceeds to do, to the merriment of the crowd. We have seen a dog churn butter, but we take off our hat to the Buyckville chicken that dances.”

The False Notions

Exist in the minds of many otherwise intelligent people as to the requirements of a disordered stomach or liver. The swallowing of nauseous and powei ful drugs is the way to encourage, not to cure dyspepsia and liver complaint. Nor can a constipated or otherwise disordered condition of the bowels be remedied by similar treatment. That agreeable and thorough stomachic aperient, Hostetter’s Bitters, which is the reverse of unpleasant, and never produces violent effects, is far preferable to medicines of the class referred to. It infuses new vigor into - a failing physique, cheers the mind while it strengthens the body, and institutes a complete reform in the action of the disordered stomach, bowels or liver. Appetite and sleep are both promoted, uterine ana kidney affections greatly benefited by its use. It is indeed a comprehensive and meritorious preparation, free from drawbacks of any kind. The Montreal Witness ia annoyed because Montreal cabs are decorated with such American emblems as the eagle and the stars and stripes. Uncle Sam is good enough, thinks the Witness, but the Queen is better.

“Our Weary Days will Soon be Oror,” Bat while we stay, it is pleasant to remember that the Tremont Bouse, Chicago. is still entertaining ite hundreds of guests with that success and satisfaction for which this excellent hotel has long been noted. Tired traveler, try the Tremont The United States Capitol at Washington, the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad of New York, and many of the largest and finest structures in this country are painted with H. W. Johns’ Asbestos Liquid Paints, which are rapidly taking the place of all others for the better classes of dwellings, on account of their superior richness of color and durability, which render them the most beautiful as well as the most economical paints in the world. Samples of sixteen newest shades for dwellings sent free by mail H. W. Johns Mf’g Co., 87 Maiden Lane, N. Y., are the sole manufacturers. It is astonishing with what rapidity ulcerous sores and eruptive maladies are cured by Henby’s Carbolic Salve, an external antidote to unhealthy conditions of the skin which is preferred by physicians to every other preparation containing- the carbolic element It is undoubtedly the finest antiseptic and purifier extant It acts like a charm on purulent eruptions, and has also been successfully used for rheumatism and sore throat All Druggists sell it

The Asbestos Roofing (with white or light gray fire-proof coating) now in use in all parts of the world, is the only reliable substitute for tin. It is adapted for steep or flat roofs in all climates. It costs only half as much as tin, and can be applied by any one. Samples an descriptive price lists free. H. W. Johns Mf’g Co., 87 Maiden Lane, N. Y. To all persons residing in paludal districts Dr. F. Wilhoft’s Anti-Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic cannot be too highly recommended. It has been for years a specific in malarial diseases, but now that the proprietors, Wheelock, Finlay & Co., of New Orleans, give its contents to the public, it should be preferred to any other proprietary medicine. All druggists keep it for sale. The Mason <fc Hamlin Organ Co. have taken the highest honors at all world’s exhibitions for more than twelve years, viz., at Paris, 1867; Vienna, 1873; Santiago, 1875; Philadelphia, 1876, and Paris, 1878; and they are the only American makers who have taken such at any. Sudden changes in the weather are pro ductive of Throat Diseases, Coughs and Colds. There is no more effectual relief to be found than in the use of “Brown's Bronchial Troches." 25 cts. a box. Nothing is uglier than a crooked boot or shoe. Straighten them with Lyon’s Heel Stiffeners, and they wi 1 never run over again The Ladies are all buying Madam Loraine’s Bosom Shapes. See “ ad. ”in another column. Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.

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NEW YOKE. Beevess6 50 @lO 00 Hogs 3 90 @ 4 37 Cotton 10%@ 11 Flour—Superfine 5 25 @ 6 00 Wheat—No. 2 1 40 @ 1 52’6 Corn —Western Mixed 61 @ 62 Oats—Mixed 43 @ 44 Rye—Western 92 @ 95 Pork—Messlo 15 @lO 25 Lard 6*4 @ 6’4 CHICAGO. Beeves - Choice Graded Steers 4 50 @ 5 00 Cows and Heifers 2 10 @ 3 25 Medium to Fair 3 75 @ 4 00 Hogs 3 00 @ 3 85 Floub—Fancy White Winter Ex... 575 @7 00 Good to Choice Spring Ex. 575 @ 6 25 Wheat—No. 2Springl 18 @ 1 19 No. 3 Springl 09 @ 1 10 Corn—No. 2 42 @ 43 Oats—No 2 30 @ 31 Rye—No. 2 77 @ 78 Barley—No 2 79 @ 80 Butter- Choice Creamery 24 @ 26 Eggs—Fresh 14 @ Pork—Mess....lo 75 @llOO Lard 5%@ 6 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 1 1 24 @ 1 27 No. 2 1 19 @1 20 Corn-No. 2 42 @ 43 Oats-No. 2 30 @ 31 Rye-No. 1 77 @ 78 Barley—No. 2 71 @ 72 St’. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red Falll 34 @ 1 35 Cor.N - Mixed 40 @ 42 Oats—No. 2 28 @ 29 Rye 78 @ 79 Pork—Meeslo 25 @lO 50 Lard 5)4@ 5% CINCINNATI. Wheatl 82 @ 1 34 Corn 50 @ 51 Oats 31 @ 37 Rye 90 @ 92 Pork—Mess 9 90 @lO 00 Lard 5-%@ 6 3 OLEDO. Wheat—Amber Michigan 1 37 @ 1 38 No. 2. Red 138 @139 Corn—No. 2 50 @ 51 Oats—No. 2 35 @ 86 DETROIT. Flour--Choice 6 50 @ 7 50 Wheat-No. 1 White 1 38 @1 39 No. 1 Amber 1 35 @ 1 36 Corn—No. 1 45 @ 46 Oats —Mixed 30 @ 31 Barley (per cental) 1 15 @ 1 45 Pork —Hesslo 75 @ll 25 EkST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle —Best 4 90 @ 5 10 Fair 4 00 @ 4 60 Common. 3 10 @ 3 50 Hogs 3 70 @ 4 00 Sheep..... 8 00 @ 4 25

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