Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1879 — Page 4

In the graveyard on the hill BY PAUL M. BUSSELL. I am sad at heart to-night, And my splr t finds no reat, For I miss the one who’s gene To the region of tho blest. And when I am ell alone, And tho evening air is still, Then I think of her who lies In the graveyard on the hill. When amid the festive throng I performed my chosen part., Though I sang the merry song, • I was Bad, indeed, at heart; Fot my truant thoughts would ro, Where is peace and all is still, To that little grass-grown mound In the graveyard on the hill. I was young when first the sod O'ert at lovely form was laid; I was youDg and I was gay Ere that lowly grave was made. But my hopes of bliss are gone. And my mind doth wander still To that little grass-grown mound In the graveyard on the hill. Often when the evening shade Hath o’erspread the thirsty ground, And the weary zephyrs made Their last solitary sound; While the cheering moonlight shone Over vale and wood and rill, I have mused beside that mound In the graveyard on the hill. But I know that there’s amend To these many years of pain, And I know that summer’s sun Ne’er will shine for me again. But contented I will rest Where is peace and all is still, By that little grass-grown mound In the graveyard on the hill. Abinoton, Mass.

C HRISTOIHER CRINGER.

A Christinas Story of a Miser anil fils ■ Turkey.

BY MARGARET G. H. REYNOLDS.

Christopher was a miser. We all know what that means, for this little planet of onrs is prodigal of the animal. He had tho identical tight lips you would expect to see on a man of his type. His nose was generous only in size, for speculation and hard-bargain-ing were written all over it. His small, greedy eyes were always stealing side looks, as if on the alert for unwary game. In a mean little shanty, standing bare and cheerless on one of the bleak heights of tho town, he lived quite alone, with no companion but his money and his thoughts. He had never married, being possessed of a mortal dread Of matrimonial expenses; his days were invariably passed in cheating whom ho coaid, and planning how, by “ hook or crook,” to increase his gains; his evenings in counting the costs and gloating over his possessions, and his nights in dreaming .that he was robbed or the bank had failed. No one of his acquaintances ever attempted to ask Crinqer for a penny; they would as soon think of scaling the moon as overcoming his shrunken-hearted avarice. Strangers might innocently alight on him with a charitable subscription list, and Cringor, bound not to lose the opportunity of saying a good thing for himself, would declare, with the look of a martyr, that he had half the poor of tho neighborhood on his hands, not to mention the small fortunes customarily paid in at the church gatherings, whereupon the stranger in question would take bis loave, scrupulously refraining from pressing such a charitable soul. It was comihg pauic time; never were there promises of a harder winter. The poor went about the street with scared faces, and tho rich held fast to their income, and tried to make it do double service.

9towed away in a miserable attic lived ouo of Oringer’s tenants, a poor widow, with an only child. Her hands were worn thin from tho washboard, and her form, once, no doubt, robust and well-shaped, now emaciated, drooping, and covered with scant rags. “ Poor creature! hers is a bitter lot,” sighed the neighbors as she passed. “ May the good God look to her needs.” Cringer was this woman’s brother, and she his only living relative. Nevertheless, if she failed in promptly paying her rent no more mercy was likely to be shown her than to any other of the struggling tenants. So the sad time came when she began to tremble, for consequences. There was no use in looking around the room for anything to sell. Not a bit. A pittance would buy the bed of straw, the broken stool, and the one cup and, saucer. As for lamps or oil, those.were luxuries of the sweet long ago. “ Come, Wilhelm,” she half wailed, pinning a blanket fragment over the child’s shoulders, and lifting him in her arms; “we’ll go to Cringer; there’s nothing else to be done; and, after I tell him how it is, if he wants to turn us out to die in the snow, why, let him;” adding in an undertone, “I don’t know but it would be as well, after all.” Down went her furnished form, step after step, descending feebly the dark, narrow stairs, tho little hungry child clinging frail and wild to her neck. Cringer was just sitting down to his gruel when the rap sounded on the door, and echoed with startling clearness through the silent house. “ Save the mark!” said he, “ this may be some forward beggars wanting something to eat, which, thanks to my good sense, I have no notion of obliging them with,” and scowling his brows together ho strode down the stairs and opened tho door with an angry jerk. When be saw his sister and the pincliod-visagcd little child crouched shivering on the threshold his jaw fell, and threatened never to take its proper shape again, for he half guessed the cause of her visit. “Well!” ho said, in a voice like crackling thorns, “wliat’s the matter now?” “I can’t walk another step, Christopher,” panted the freezing sister, “you’ll have to help me up the stairs. I walked the way against the cutting wind; I shouldn’t wonder if I were going to die,” and her teeth chattered dolefully as she looked despairingly around her and tried to rise. “If she dies,” thought he, “th ore’ll be tho funeral expenses to pay; of course, for appearance sake, if nothing more, I’d have to undergo cost of burial.” “Well, get up!” he bawled, “why don’t you get up?” “Christopher, you must carry Wilhelm; I’m all kind of numb and feeble,” she snid, witli a half moan, firmly believing she hadn’t another ton minutes to live. On hearing this, Cringer, after delivering a small volley of grumbling epithets, and consigning the child to foreign regions, hoisted it under his arm, meal-bag fashion, and proceeded to push its mother on before him, with a grip that made her beseech of him to be gentle. The heat of the room wasn’t much to boast of, but it revived the mother and child, while Cringer, seemingly utterly indifferent to their presence, sat in dogged silence, his hands over the grate, which contained a few coals, carefully surrounded with ashes to prolong their life. The clock ticked lonesomely through the cheerless room, and the gnarled branches of a tree, that seemed to straggle over the dismal roof in sheer pity, tapped peremptorily on the frosty panes Cringer looked up startled, and met Gretchen’s joyless eyes. “I can’t pay my rent, Christopher,” she said at last. “So I’ve come to tell you that it isn’t my fault. I’ve traveled many a weary journey, my brother, in search of work, but always, always in vain;” and here her voice faltered, and a convulsive sob stifled fur ther utterance. “There, now, if you’re to bawl,”

roared the affectionate brother, “I want to see no more of yon; if there is anything I hate more than another, it is to see a woman make a cry-baby of herself. It ’pears mighty strange that other folks find enough to do ; look at the tenant on the same flat with yourself. She pays her rent up fair and square; how is it that she gets along and you can’t?” # “She is more fortunate than I am, Christopher, that’s all,” said Gretchen, rising, the hot tears falling on her thin rags, and now and then making wet, starry spots on the miser’s floor. “I thought I would come and tell you any how, that you might know it wasn’t my fault. Good-by.” And, drawing her thin shawl about her, she took her child once more in her arms, and, eager to escape from a place which held no welcome for her, slowly, sadly moved toward the door. “ You’re sure,” said Cringer, following her to the threshold with a sadden fear that after all she might die and put him to expense. “ You’re sure you are all right, eh ? That is, you don’t feel particularly sick or anything of that sort?” The sister paused in wonder at this anxiety manifested for her health. Neglected as she had been, it sounded like sweet music to her to be questioned with such apparent solicitude. Nevertheless when she looked at her brother’s hard face there was something there which took tho value from his words, and caused her to say, although her limbs were bending beneath her with weakness and her heart seemed icy and bursting: “I am quite well, Christopher, or soon will be.” “ Well, 1 won’t press you for the rent at present, but of coarse you must expect to pay it soon’s you can, to help me along with my taxes; good-by; good-by t’ ye, Gretchen,” and ho closed the door upon her with a smile that frightened her, and peeped after her through the windows, and watched the snow fall about her and her child until they disappeared from sight, and then ran his haud nervously through his wiry hair and shambled back to his gruel. Somehow, as night fell, her large dark oje3, wild with the hollowness of hunger, haunted him, and the little spent Wilhelm’s wail seemed to fill the lonely room. He rose from his chair and shook his shoulders and paced the crumbling, jagged apartments restlessly. A long, dark mahogany cupboard stood in one corner, and by way of escaping from his present guilty state of mind he unlocked it, and lifting from its shelf a sting.y-looking vial raised it to his mouth, and took from thence a draught of brandy.

“Ah!” lie said, as lie smacked liis lips and laid it down, “that warms mel that rejoices me! but I mustn’t grow fond of it; oh, uo,” shaking his head, “no, no,it costs money.” He was about to close the cupboard again, when his eye, kindling with savory reminiscences, rested on something. It was the skeleton of a leathery old gobbler that had followed him for years, and which, when too aged to walk, he had killed and made a meal of, with a view of lightening his butcher bill. He lifted it now between his lingers, and, after carefully examining it to see there was nothing left to pick, threw it on the hearth, determined when morning eame it should help to light the fire. Then he locked his cupboard, put the key carefully under his pillow, and sat dowu before the grate to think of his money, and how much he was out by his sister’s unpaid rent bill. Then he began to wonder if she had got home sale, adding aloud, “I’ve done my share in not pressing her for the rent; she’s lucky not to bo on the sidewalk to-night instead of under a warm roof. Yes, it stands to reason, it must be warm; warmer at any rate than outdoors would be, even if she hasn’t a fire; well, if she haven’t, that’s her look-out. I don’t_see why I bother myself thinking over it. If I never existed she would have to get along without me, I suppose.” In this strain he continued for some time for the purpose of easing his conscience, which never before seemed to start up and reproach him as now, when suddenly Uie air around him appeared to thicken to a black mass, and rising iu the midst stood the gobbler, stretching its long skeleton neck, over which a thin life-like skin drew itself until it Covered the whole body. Cringer started and shivered as if something cold had been poured down his back, especially when the gobbler began to bristle with piu-feathers that shone like sharp needles of fire aud stalked toward him, flames spouting from its big round eyes. “You know me, Cringer!” it said in a tone that would admit ot no denial. “ I have the honor, indeed,” said Cringer, thinking it best to be polite, whereupon he bowed meekly and rubbed his hands with a ghost of a smile, as he edged stealthily away, with one eye on the door and the other on his visitor. “That’s no go, Cringer; come back and sit just where I found you,” said the gobbler. “ Oh, certainly, by all means,” trembled poor Christopher, still backing toward the door with a succession of respectful bows tl-at threatened to tumble him. “ I would be happy of your company indeed, were it not that business calls me elsewhere, business of <jreat importance, upon honor.” At which overture the gobbler poured forth a wild, ridiculous laugh that caused Cringer to leap in the air with terror and sent mocking echoes resounding through every corner of the tliiu old shanty, adding, “ What’s the business' 1 The poor, I suppose? Maybe you’re going to will them your gruel. Come, old fellow, get on my back!” “Your back 1” bawled the miser, “I—l think I’ll do very well where I am.” At this juncture his barnyard friend took a threatening stride toward him, and bristled all over in a way that made poor Cringer shake in his*shoes. “Is not my back a fine one? I think (here the gobbler rubbed his toe slightly up the side of his nose), I think, if my memory serves me, there was a time when you liked my back very well, eh, boy ?” “Your Honor,” faltered the miser, thinking to flatter his old friend by high titles, “your Honor’ll admit you were pretty well advanced in years, and likely to die soon. I didn’t eat you out of ill-will or anything of that kind, I’ll take my oath on’t. Of course—” and here he experienced a sudden qualm of the limbs. “I hope, of course, sir, you’re uot making that out as a reckoning against me?” “There’s reckonings enough made out against you,” the gobbler said, significantly. “Ask me no more questions, but do as I bid you. Get on my back.” Cringer was quite certain now that, to use his own expression, “ ’twasallup with him.” Believing in the all-powerful agency of money, and that even the spirit of a dofunct gobbler could be influenced by it, he sank on his knees, overcome by the extremity of his feelings, and besought his visitor to take a shilling and call it square, but the latter, before Cringer could recover his breath, straightened up, and, with a fierce plunge, mounted the distracted miser on his back, which, instead of being warm, as it appeared, was ominously cool, and flew with him through the roof, and up into the clouds, from which sleet and snow -were thickly falling. “Well,” paid the gobbler, taking

breath and balancing himself in the air, “how do you feel, Cringer?” “Oh, what an uncharitable question!” gasped Christopher, convulsed in voice and limb with the cold. “Then you wouldn’t like to be without a fire, eh!” and the gobbler lifted his foot and gave Cringer’s whisker an insinuating pull. It had frozen all around his mouth into bristling icicles. “Of course I don’t like the cold,” whined the miser, getting as angry as he dared; “don’t you see the state I am in? Is all this torture because I eat you, ’cordin to the custom of my country ?" Here he began to tremble with such violent chills that bis cocked hat and blouse flew off, until quite shelterless he st iod in the blast, and then, seized with new wonder, exclaimed: “It strikes me your Eminence bears this cold quite stoically!” “Ob, I don’t feel it,” said the gobbler, with a complacent look of comfort that caused the miser a pang of envy; “I never willfully made anyone cold when I lived in your world, you know; that’s why 1” “Indeed,” said Cringer, with as thoughtful a look as his shivering visage could command, “that is to me a new idea;” but his meditations were soon broken in upon by a sudden flight of the gobbler’s, who plunged him through the elements, circled over a range of buildings, and, like a flash, flew down a chimney, through which neither smoke nor heat was emitting. Alighting in the fireplace, he bid Cringer peep through the crack of the fireboard. “I can’t,” said Cringer; “everyone of my whiskers are tamed into sticks of ice.” “Obey!” reiterated the gobbler, in tones that made Cringer tremble in spite of himself. “ Whose house do you see ?” “Mine, sure enough I”gasped Cringer, growing interested; “my tenement block, as I’m alive.” “Listen awhile, and tell me what you see ?” Cringer pressed his face so close to the fireboard that his sharp nose protruded through the crack, and he had hard work to pull it back again without losing its top. Circling around a cold hearth were a poor woman and three little children, her husband half reclining some distance apart on a meager pallet of straw, his cheek, pale and emaciated, resting on his Band and a look of suffering in his eye that would touch the hardest heart. “They are every bit as, cold as you, Cringer,” said the gobbler, drawing his formidable bill uncomfortably near Christopher’s nose, as if dying for a peck at it. “Not quite, your Honor,” was the mock apology. “There’s uo icicles hanging from them.” “They’re cold for all that,” said his companion, irately. “As you please, my Lord,” accompanied with protestations of obedience to whatever opinion his gobblersliip might think proper to venture. “Listen to what they say,” was the next command, delivered with terrible emphasis, and this is what Cringer heal'd.

“It is a gloomy prospect for us, Marcel,” the wife exclaimed in a trembling voice. “I expect every minute to see Cringer after his rent; ’tis due to-day, you know.” “Yes, I know,” said the husband, dreamily. “Ho has no heart, yon know, even for liis own poor sister,” she went on; “but, oh, freezing and starving here as we are, I would still choose our lot before his; no one to love him in life, no one to mourn him in death—no one to find it possible to speak a word in his praise; the poor trembling at sound of his step, and rejoicing at liis departure; the very dogs of the street are shy of him, who has no word of kindness, or no gentle act for either man or beast.” “’Tis sufficient that God sees all, dear,” tho husband said, taking one of his little children’s hands between his and trying to rub some heat into it. “Riddle me this, pa,” said tho little one, cheered by the warmth infused into her puny palm. “ What is it, come whether at night or morning, is sure to come with a greedy warning?” “Cringer!” shouted the children, clapping their hands and dancing around, that’s Cringer! “Now, listen to rue, pa,” said another; “who is it that, let him come night or day, every one’s glad when he goes away?” “Cringer!” shouted the children again, in clamorous chorus. “Cringer! Oho, Cringer, of course!” “ My turn next,” cried another. “ Who is it that, when at last he’ll die, will make for-the worms a stingy pie? ” “ Cringer 1 Cringer ! Although if I were a worm,” said one, “ I think he’d taste awful bitter to me, ’cause that’s how he looks.” “ Yes, and he’ll have nothing to comfort him, anyway, for his spirit will have found out by that time that ’tis hard to get to heaven without a pass.” “ Well, who is to blame but himself?” said the oldest, “ he’s been making the bolts all his life to bar himself out; ’twould be funny enough if a miser should be let into heaven among all the angels, and all the good saints who have labored so hard in this world to get inside the gates of a better.” “Children,” said the father, “it is your duty to speak well of the foolish old man ” This remark created a general outburst of laughter. “Speak well of Cringer 1” they all cried in a breath. “ Why, paj we couldn’t do that unless we made something up;” and immediately they cuddled closer together, and Cringer could see they were still having a delightful time comparing notes as to who could make the best rhyme over him. In the midst of fit all their mother was folding a thin shawl about her, and, after rubbing her blue hands together, took from its place on the mantel a small mirror, and, hiding it under her arm, half whispered, “Oh, provident God, grant I may be enabled to sell this; for he dies before my eyes in need of medicine, and my little ones, poor things, famishing! famishing!” Then she hurried away on her errand, the wind flapping her scant rags about her and cutting her limbs with its sharp edge. “You could prevent that, Cringer,” said the gobbler, flying with him still further up the chimney, and bidding him to look once more through the fireboard. “What d’ye’see now? ”he asked. Cringer, with falling jaw, shook from head to loot. “What d’ye see? ” screamed the gobbler, fiercely; “answerme.” “Death 1 ” gasped Christopher; “she is dead, and little Wilhelm cold and stiff beside her! ” “Who is dead? ” demanded his stem companion. “My sister; ah! poor Gretchen!” and a hot tear melted the frost from his eyes as he gazed. • “Your own flesh and blood, Cringer; that’s pretty hard, eh?’’and up chimney again swooped the gobbler into the shrill blast; but, somehow, although he suffered as before, Cringer felt he deserved it, and kept his mouth closed on complaint, when suddenly his companion shook him off his back, and he found himself tumbling through spa-'e, flinging out bis arms with terror-strick-en yells, and trying in vain to catch at

something for support, while continually before his eyes floated a beautiful vapor, which gradually developed -into a figure with drooping, sorrowful head, and sweet, mournful eyes. Softly it raised its shining finger and pointed to a blank scroll and idle quill, over which it seemed to preside. • Son,” it said, with a glance of reproach that pierced the miser’s heart, “Tam Charity 1 Through your whole life you have not placed it in my power to write on yonder scroll one act to recommend you, and yet I only await your command.” At that moment a loud crash resounded through the shanty, and Cringer found himself in the narrow limits of the coal-box at the hearth, his legs in the air, and his head buried in ashes, into which rather undesirable position he had fallen from his time-honored high-backed arm-chair. Scrambling to his feet he glared around. There lay the skeleton of the old gobbler where he had pitched it, and there, sure enough, he was under his own shanty roof. “ Then it was only a dream after all,” he faltered, in a voice that could scarcely control a whisper. “ Sure enough it was only a dream,” he added, shambling over to the window and looking out. “ Yes: there’s the snow and the sky and the old well and henroost.” Suddenly he staggered back, catching at the old arm-chair for support. “ What if it should be so after all!” he gasped, “ and she dead, and the little one stiff and cold beside her, and I, wretched man, the cause of it!” Snatching his cocked hat and slipping himself into a great shaggy coat, he rushed precipitately from the house, and those who knew his slow, calculating step paused in wonder to look after him as he hurried breathlessly on his way. Gretchen had managed to gather a few cinders from a neighboring ash barrel, and was hopefully trying to make them glow on tho hearth over which little Wilhelm crouched, when Cringer softly opened the door and stood in their midst. The sister, on seeing him, gave a desolate shriek, and ran toward him with outstretched, gesticulating arms, crying: “ Don’t speak! Don’t speak! Don’t tell me you have changed your mind and are going to deprive us of shelter. Oh, Christopher 1” and she flung herself on her knees at his feet, choked with tears and sobs. “Am I not your own sister? Think of our mother looking down from heaven on this act; think of her, if you never have before since her death! For her sake!—for her sake! Look at the cold winds, licw they whistle and moan 1 Oh, Father of Mercy!” and she caught her spent hands above her head, and turned her imploring eyes to heaven, “ soften his heart!” Then, running in wild distraction to the hearth, she caught Wilhelm in her arms and, holding him under the eyes of Cringer, continued, in the incoherence of agitation: “ Why should he suffer? Oh, Christopher, let his innocence plead for him; drive me forth, if you will,. but give my poor babe a resting-place!” Her voice faltered, her face became deadly pale; long-continued suffering here had its climax. She sank into a sw’oon—helpless, despairing and literally stricken with woe. And Cringer, who all this time had stood before her in a state bordering on stupefaction, on seeing the terror his very presence created, caught her up in bis arms, crying out with heartbreaking pathos: “Ah! poor sister,am I then too late?” It was many weeks before Gretchen again awoke to consciousness. Rut when she did at last recover, it was to find herself surrounded with every luxury, aud to meet in Christopher a ten-der-hearted protector, who not only proved a Lord Bountiful to herself and Wilhelm, but to every one of his poor tenants. “A miracle! A charming miracle, surely!” everybody said; and Criuger looked on an<i enjoyed the commotion. One by. one the grins of avarice disappeared from his face. His neighbors hailed his genial smile with welcome, ayd, instead of “Old Cringer,” he was called, with avowed respect, “ Mr. Cringer.” His shoulders straightened up as if they had got rid of a disagreeable load; his form grew buoyant and young. His heart, no longer cruel and cold, reflected its love and charity in his now candid, happy eyes; and evening after evening, as he sat by his sister’s side in the home of comfort he had provided for her and her child, and looked on the joy and contentment in their faces, he had reason to hope that the Angel of Charity no longer mourned over her blank scroll, but was filling him out a passport for a better world.

FARM NOTES.

.Fall and Spring Setting.— “l have repeatedly tried both fall and spring setting, but much prefer the latter. With the former I have sometimes been very successful, but with the latter have never had a failure.”— J. M. Smith, Wisconsin. Cayenne Pepper on Cabbages.— “ On the county farm we have cabbages entirely free from Worms. The exemption is attributed to the use of Cayenne pepper on the young plants after setting. We have a German gardener, who suggested the plan, and appearances indicate its efficiency.”— A. Strader, Elmira, N. Y. Cure for Canker. — 48 1 have tried the following for sore throat, canker of the mouth and tongue in fowls, and found it the best thing I ever came across. Take one ounce of Tilden’s bromo-chlozalum, and add four ounces of water; with a feather wash the bird’s mouth and throat twice a day. It will cure in six or eight days.”— Sarah J. Ridley, New Orleans. Hog Cholera.— Dr. D. N. Kinsman, Professor of the Practice of Medicine in the Columbus Medical College, has been making an elaborate study of this disease, by which, he states, 20,000,000 are lost annually in the United States. He concludes that the affection is a specific, contagious disease, peculiar to the species, and always accompanied with extensive peritonitis. It is not, as has been claimed, any form of anthrax or typhoid fever.— Medical and Surgical ttepofter. To Clean Brass.— lt the brass is very much tarnished, use a little oxalic acid solution. If spots are imbedded, rub them ogt with a little pumice-stone; then wash with water and dry. Mix rotten-stone with sweet oil to a paste, and rub it over the whole surface of the brass with a cork until it assumes a greenish-black color; then wipe off completely with an old cloth. Next rub over with lampblack until thoroughly polished, using a soft, smooth cork. This gives an excellent result, and repays all the extra trouble that it causes. Land Plowed Dry. — “l know by trial that plowing land when it is very dry is nearly as hurtful as when it is very wet. But my experience is with heavy clay, or land in which clay is an important constituent.' Such land, when plowed dry, breaks up lumpy, and subsequent rains do not dissolve the lumps. The same effect might not be noticed in the different soil of St. Lawrence county, yet it is my opinior that there is never a more suitable condition for plowing any soil than when it has enough moisture to cause the furrows to fall loosely from the plow with no appearance of packing, and no

lumps.”— WiUiam Armstrong, Elmira, n. r. How to Medicate a Pig.— At a recent meeting of an English farmers’ club, Prof. Mcßride spoke of the difficulty of administering medicine to a pig, which you are sure to choke if you attempt to make him drink while squealing; halter him as you would for execution, and tie the rope end to a stake. He will pull back until the rope is tightly strained. When he has ceased his uproar and begins to reflect, approach him, and between the back part of his jaws insert an old shoe, from which yon have cut the toe leather. This he will at once begin to suck and chew. Through it pour medicine, and he will swallow any quantity you please. Protecting Plants in Winter. —Pits dug in the ground and walled up, say to the depth of about four feet, are excellent as a means for preserving tea and Bengal roses, carnations, and other half-hardy things over winter. In the bottom, in a sou containing a good proportion of sand, the plants may be hilled in pretty thickly, or the pots plunged up to the rim. Here also plants such as cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, etc., for early use, may be heeled. They must be kept from hard frost by a covering of grass, and hay or mats, and have ventilation in fine weather, or when it is not freezing. A little care will thus enable you to winter successfully many plants, both for the vegetable and flower garden. Poultry Farming.—No other business connected with agricultural pursuits seems so attractive as poultry farming. Even those who fail in the business and retire from it aver that they are certain they could succeed in a new trial, their mistakes having taught them how to succeed in future. This may be true, but it is noteworthy that they do not try again. Still we have almost daily inquiries, especially from young men, as to tho possibility of making a living from poultry; to all of which we are forced to give Unsatisfactory replies. The profit in ponlt-y lies in keeping small flocks. From such it is easy to make an income of $ 1 from each hen annually, even after buying food. But no account must be taken of the waste and damage done to crops, nor of the value of the free foraging done by the fowls, and these amount to a considerable sum if figured up closely. Then accidents are to be taken account of. For instance, the writer once kept a flock of thirty light Brahma hens, which did well for three years and paid excellently; but the unfortunate introduction of a cockerel from a distant yard brought a prevalent disease, of which every bird died, leaving one brood of motherless chicks the sole survivors. This may be taken as an example of the uncertainties of the business, -which are increased in proportion as the flock is larger. A flock may be kept as an adjunct to a more important business and to take up spare time, and, in that case, barring accident, may be profitable. But it may be taken as a certainty that not more than one per son in a hundred who have tried it has ever succeeded in keeping a flock of several hundred fowls in profitable condition. If one thinks he is born to succeed? let him try; he may possibly become a shining example to show others the way to success.

Fat Men and Thin Men.

Two clubs have been recently started, both under one roof, in the Frankfurter Strasse, Berlin, one of which has received the name of “ The Fat Club,” while the other rejoices in the no less significant title of “ The Thin Club.” In the club house common to both societies there has been constructed two test doorways—the one generously wide, the other thriftily narrow. To these doorways the candidates for election, respectively, obese or attenuated, are ceremoniously conducted, after they have registered a vow to abide uncomplainingly by the result of the orde»l awaiting them. Should the would-be member of the Fat Club be found capable of passing witli ease through the wide doorway his disqualification is thereby proved beyond repeal. His rejection is politely signified to him, with the merciful intimation that when he shall have waxed somewhat fatter he will be permitted to “try again.” The text applied to the exiguous candidate is exactly the converse of that to which fat aspirants are subjected. If he cannot slip through the doorway constituting the fatitudinal standard of membership he is informed that until he reduce his exorbitant dimensions to the prescribed limit he must resign all hope of being received into the emaciated bosom of the “Thin Club.”

Rouse Up

The fiver if it is dormant, and avoid a train of evils which must otherwise ensue. Among anti-bilious medicines none rank so high as Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. It speedily banishes those pains in the region of the affected organ, the yellowness of the skin, nausea, vertigo and sick headache, which attend a bilious attack. A bilious subject, after a brief course of this capital liver stimulant and invigorant, finds lliat his tongue is no longer furred in the morning, his breath is grown sweeter, a hundred inexplicable sensations no longer make his life miserable, his bowels have acquired the steadiness of a well-regulated piece of mechanism, and he can eat with a hearty appetite and j:ood digestion. It is because the Bitters assist nature in her efforts to bring back the disordered fiver and bowels to their normal condition, that it accomplishes such remai kable cures.

A Wonder !

In most of the papers may be seen an announcement of a mew rubber boot, made by tho Candee Rubber Co., of New Haven, Ct. This boot marks a new era in the manufacture of rubber goods, and is called the “95 l’er Cent. Sterling,” to denote its high quality, and is covered by no less than seven patents, all owned by the Candee Co.! One of the boots, split to show its exact character, is on exhibition at the stores, and shows an article for genuine service that is seemingly indestructible. The Company warrants these boots three months, although there is abundant testimony that the boots will stand six months’ hard wear every day. The “ Candee ”is the largest rubber goods company in the world, tnd its warrant is equal to a bond. One of the patents referred to covers a binding for the top of tho leg, in which are engraved spaces for every day and month in the year, so that the storekeeper can punch out the date of sale, and so fix beyond dispute the duration of the three months’ warrant Altogether, it is the most wonderful boot that has yet appeared.

Economy in Fuel.

Especial attention is invited to the advertisement of the Walker Heat Multiplieb, in this is ue. Any device which saves fuel is a national blessing, particularly at this season.

Wanted. Sherman & Co., Marshall, Mich., want an agent in this county at once, at a salary of sllO per month and expenses paid. For full particulars address as above. What tortures are infl'cted by a disordered liver. Pains in the right side and under the right shoulder blade, headache, nausea, indigestion, costiveness, unpleasant taste in the mouth and low spirits are among its indicia. Besides, the saffron tinge it imparts to the skin is the reverse of becoming. But Db. Mott’s Vegetable Lives Pills speedily dispel the symptoms by remedying the disorder which produces them. Sold by all Druggists. Fob one cent purchase a postal card and send your address to Dr. Sanford, 162 Broadway, New York, and receive pamphlets by return mail, from which you can learn whether your liver is out of order, and, if out of order or in any way diseased, what is the best thing in the world to take for it We confidently refer our readers to the card of Dr. C. R Sykes, in another column. Dr. Sykes is an old resident of Chicago, a regular graduate, honest, honorable and responsible, and, as a physician, takes first rank in bis chosen specialty of catarrh andits complications. Moke than 30,000 Cabinet or Parlor Organs are now sold in the United States yearly. The best are those made by Mason & Hamlin, who have taken highest honors at all world’s expositions for twelve years, and are the only American makers who have taken such at any.

Fob Bn irritated throat, cough or-cold, “ Brown's Bronchial Troches * are offered with the fullest confidence in their efficacy. They maintain the good reputation they hare justly acquired. 25 eta a box. Get Lyon’s Patent Heel Stiffener applied to thoae new boots and they will never ran over, and will last twice as long. Toung men go west. Learn telegraphy. Address R. YaunmME, Manager, Wis. 0. Gilbbrt’s Linen Starch is the best made. Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobaooa 51.455.50 PROFITS Us SO DATS. (IS in legitimate Stock Speculations in Wall St. pays immense profits. Pamphlets explaining everything sent free. HKATH A 00., Brokers, 1257 Bro dway, N. Y. Bssfhters, Wires and Mother*. DR. MARCHISI’S UTERINE CATHOLICON will positively cure Female Weaknes-. such as Falling of the Womb, Whites, Chronic Inflammation or Ulcer- tion of the Womb, Incidental Hemorrhage or Flooding, PainfuL Suppressed and Irregular Menstruation, Ao. An old and reliable remedy. Send postal card (or a pamphlet, with treatment, cure' and ceitificates from physicians and patients, to HOWABTH A BALLARD. Utica. N. Y. Sold by all Druggists—sl 50 per bottle.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves *7 50 @lO 00 Hogs 4 45 @ 4 75 Cotton 18&@ 13J6 Flour—Superfine.... 510 @ 575 Wheat—No. 2 1 39 @ 1 51 Corn—Western Mixed 61 @ 63 Oats—Mixed 48 @~ 50}$ Rye—Western 91 @ 92 Pork—Mess 12 50 @l3 00 Lard '. 8 @ 84£ CHICAGO. Beeves -Choice Graded Steers 4 50 @ 5 00 Cows and Heifers 2 20 @ 8 25 Medium to Fair 375 @ 4 00 Hogs 3 76 @ 5 20 Flour —Fancy White Winter Ex... 660 @7 00 Good to Choice Spring Ex. 5 75' @ 600 Wheat—No. 2Spring 125 @1 26 No. 3 Spring 1 11 @ 1 12 Corn—No. 2 40 @ 41 Oats—No. 2 34 @ 35 Rye—No. 2.». 75 @ 76 Barley—No. 2 90 @ 91 Butter—Choice Creamery 30 @ 33 Eggs—Fresh 21 @ 22 Pork—Mess.... 12 75 @lB 75 La® o MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No.l 1 24 @ 1 25& No. 2 1 23 @ 1 24 Corn—No. 2 89 @ 40 Oats—No. 2 34 @ &5 Rye—No. 1 75 @ 76 Barley—No. 2 77 @ 78 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red Fall 132 @1 33 Corn-Mixed 37 @‘ 38 Oats—No. 2 38 @ 39 Rye• •• ••••••••»••••••••*• Pork—Mess.. ...13 00 @l4 00 Lard 7)6® 1% CINCINNATI. Wheat 1 29 -@ 1 31 Corn 41 @ 43 Oats 36 @ 38 Rye 86 @ 88 Pork—Mess 13 00 @l4 00 Lard 7&@ 7M TOLEDO. Wheat—Amber Michigan 1 34 @ 1 35 No. 2. Red 1 34 @1 35W Corn—No. 2 42 @ 43 Oats—No. 2 36 @ 37 DETROIT. Flour—Choice 6 50 @ 7 50 Wheat—No. 1 White .. 1 33 @ 1 34 No. 1 Amber 1 30 @ 1 32 Corn—No. 1 47 @ 48 Oats—Mixed 36 @ 37 Barley (per cental) 1 20 @ 1 50 Pork —Mess 12 50 @l3 00 EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle—Best 5 00 @ 5 15 Fair 3 80 @ 4 80 Common 3 25 @ 3 60 Hogs 3 80 @ 4 25 Sheep 3 00 @ 475

“Died in Europe,” “died in Denver,” and so on, is the news received by friends at home daily, when in most cases an early use of Hop Bitters would have saved the occasion for such sad news. See other column. Don’t Get- the Chills. If you are subject to the ague you must be sure to keep your liver, bowels and kidneys in good free condition. When so, you will be safe from all attacks. The remedy to use is KidneyWort. It is the best prevention of all malarial diseases that you can take. See large advertisement. IT DEVOURED THE LIFE. A Happy Escape from a Painful Deadi, with All Its Attend ant Sufferings. How Vigor, Energy and Hope Were Restored After Disease had Partially Consumed the System. Testimony Bearing Upon the Nature of the Trouble and Plan of Relief. Welcome News to All Sufferers from Catarrh, Deafness, Throat Troubles, Bronchitis and Consumption. Read, Remember, Rise, Resolve, and Recover. Dr. C. R. Sykes, of Chicago, was for 24 years a sufferer from Catarrh. So bad did the diseaso finally become that physicians refused to prescribe for him, and his case was considered hopeless, from Cousumption, into wh'ch it had developed. As a last resort he attempted treatment with a remedy and upon a basis wholly his own, and the result was a complete cure! Realizing the remarkable nature of his recovery, he has given the remedy to the public for nine years past, and the nnmber of remarkable cures effected is simply wonderful. From the infinite number we can only mention a few, among them the following: Miss Annie Green, of 88 Larrabee-st., Ohicago, came to Dr. Sykes for treatment after having vainly tried Colorado and numerous physicians. Her palate was entirely gone, and a hole as large as the end of the thumb was eaten through the veil above. A hole was also eaten clear through the nose. In addition to this, her lungs were Weak and sore; she had a bad cough, and no appetite. By six weeks’ treatment the holes in the palate and nose were completely healed, the breath was sweet, there waa no cough or soreness of the lungs, and she had gained 22 pounds in flesh. Mrs. Nancy Mitchell, of Juniata, Neb., has just made the following statement: .1 came to Chicago from Juniata, Adams Co., Neb., and Eut myself under Dr. Syke9’ treatment for a Cancerous ! atarrh, which had eaten a hole through the root of my mouth as large as a 25-cent piece, and had then eaten through into my nose, and actually destroyed more than one-half of my nose, removing two large bones. It had also eaten clear to the corner of one eye, and to the ridge above my nose, but left the lower end of it sound. Both my nostrils were aB raw as they could be; and now, after only two weeks’ treatment, my recovery has been so rapid I am sure in a short time to be entirely cured. The unusual nature of these cures would seem impossible were they not substantiable by numerous others. They are not only wonderful, they are also permanent; while the great feature of it all is that the medicine can be used at home, and is available to all. The remedy is known as “Dr. Sykes’ Bure Cure for Catarrh,” which, with his insufllator, all complete, is sold for the low price of $1.60 by the Doctor, at his Laboratory, 169 East Madison-st., Chicago, 111., and by all Druggists. Office consultation free. Book of full information by mail for 10c., well worth sl. Don’t suffer any longer when you can be so readily cured.

dJ7O a week. sl3 a day at heme easily made. Costly Ifc Outfit free. Address True & Co., Augusta, Me. VOUNC MENirwm;! ■ month. Every graduate guaranteed a paying situation. Address R. Valentine, Manager, Janesville, Wia. MABON& HAMLIN CABINET ORGANB Demonstrated beet by HIGHEST HONORS AT ALL WORLD’S EXPOSITIONS FOR TWELVE YEARS? Jj*- • At Paris, 1867: Vienna, 1873; Santiago, 1875: Philadelphia, 1876; Paris, 1878; and Grand Swedish Gold Medal, 1878. Only American Organa ever award* ed highest honors at any such. Sold for cash or installments. Illustrated Catalogues and Circulars, with new styles and prices, sent free. MASON A HAMLIN ORGAN CO., BOSTON, NEW YORK, or CHICAGO. On 30 Days’ Trial. We will send our Electro-Voltaic Belts and other «fi C * S Appliances upon trial for 30 days to those unicted with J\ ervou.% Debility and diseases of a per* *onal nature. Also of the Liver, Kidneys, Rheumatism, . . y s * s » Ao. A eure cure Guaranteed or no pay. _ Address Voltaic Belt Co.. Marshall. Mich. p*y™BAUj| Croup^li SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS $66 MARK TWAIN’B NEW BOOK! The Tramp Abroad. GOOD TIMES FOR AGENTS AHEAOI Prospectuses for this universally looked for Book now ready. Speak quick and secure territory. "A word to •As wise is euffleient." Apply to K. V. UaCKLY, S* So. Oml M., Oktesye, IR.

TflV lHfißiifiiiifaflthMi ■ntwfMrffMM iiu rift stamps;. TOT Pig or Rabbit. 10 inch, 35c—all SLOO. Cannot break. K, MATHBB, Drawer 522, Chicago. Save this. BANDINSTRUMENTS II YlUsed and recommended by V l*r OB H*ll the leading Artiste, V. I n ATaifii.r. &nd Band Leaden, ... and a.ooo bands of this country. Cstafogues rive description and prices of every kind of Leraiaa-nllver and Brass Band Instruments, and other Musical Merchandise; free on application. Special Inducement! to Band Teacher! JULIUS BAUER & CO., 18* and 18* Wabash Aveaae, CMca«a, 111. Pond’s Extract, for all Pain, eto. While other preparations have secured a temporary popularity, the Extract has kept the oven tenor of Its way. Pand’s Extract, the marvelous vegetable Pain Destroyer, has a career of thirty years aa a standard medium. It has made a groat reputation. Try It! Pond’s Extract. Why suffer from the acute pains of Headache. Earache, Toothache and Neuralgia, when Pond’s Extract will afford you Immediate relief 7 Pond's Extract, for Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Inflammatory Pain, etc. For years has had a medical standing, and acknowledged in medical writings. Pond’s Extract, for Inflammation, etc. Wo wish those who bear of the Extract for the first time to ask some friend about it. They invariably praise. Pond’s Extract. “ The Vegetable Pain Destroyer.” There is no pain or ache it will not abate, no bruise or burn it will not extract the agony from. Pond’s Extract. In cases of Headache, whether Bilious or Nervous, bathe the head for a few minutes with the Extract, and the pain is gone. Pond’s Extract, for Pains, Aches, Cuts, etc. Its power is supreme over ail disease that comes within its range. It never fails. Try it onoa. Pond’s Extract, for Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Burns, and all Inflammation. Ita wonderful curative influence is long maintained. $C i n icon per .day at home. Samples worth $5 free. <PO to qU.U Address Stinson A Co- Portland, Me. ®TRCTII IS MI6HTYI •r yo t»r future husband or wife, initiate as } roof nasa a, (It* tint a and place where yoa Will flint Meet, and thodote of nsarria^a. AUrara. Prof. MARTI NR*. 4 ProriZoa Bi. t Bsoloa, Mm, ftewashalnf We will pay Agents a Salary or 9100 per month and expenses, or allow a large commission, to sell our new ana wonderful inventions. We swan what we sav. Sample free. Address SHEEMAN A CO., Marshall, Mich. EAR DISEASES ■ Dr. 0. K. Shoemaker (the well-known Anral Surgeon >f Reading, Pa.) gives all his .time to the treatment of Deafness and Diseases of the Ear at his office. His spesess has riven him a national reputation, especially nn Running Ear and Oatarrh. Call or send for his little hook on the Ear, its Diseases and their Treatment—dree to all. His large book (350 pages), price 89.00. Address Dr. C. E. SHOEMAKER, oral Surgeon, Reading, Pa, “GENERAL GRANT by Hon. .1. T. Headley, the great descriptive author, A complete and brilliant history of his “ Tour Around the World”—splendidly illustrated—together with a full and authentic history of bis entire Military and Civil Career. IF" A million people want this book to-day, ICCIITC UffillTCn Here Is the beet chance of Audi I O ITABICIIs your life to make money. Beware of Imitations by unknown authors. Our agents are sweeping the field because they have the only Book worth buving. Send for proof. Also circulars and terms to RIIBBARD BROS.. Chicago, DL BEATTY obcan BEATTYEIAIAB Jew Organs X 3 stops, Bset Golden Toogne Reeds, s«ri '3 knee swells, wslnnt ease, w srnt’dfl years, stool A book .'JewPianos.stool, rover*hook. 5143 t08*55. Before row boy be stirr to write bip. lllumwlcA Kewflpsprr sent VrOG Address DANIEL F. BEATTY, Wsahbigtos, New Jersey. Agents wanted for a tour ROUND THE WORLD BY GENERAL GRANT. PRICE ONTXiY *0 This is the fastest-selling book ever published, end the only complete and authentic History of Grant’s Travels. Send for circulars containing a full description of the work and our extra terms to Agents. Address NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., Chicago, 111. sTTTJSIT OUT s BELLS OF CORNEVILLE. A handsome and complete edition of the “ Bells of Corneville,” by Planquette, is now ready; and as tbe music, tbe acting, scenery and costuming are quite within the reach of amateurs, it is sure to be extensively given and enjoyed. Pretty, lively French village scenes, contrasting with events in the haunted castle, make a spirited combination. Words unobjectionable. Price $1.50. WHITE ROHES, the new Sunday School Song Book, by Abbey and Munger, bids fair to be one of the most successful books of its class, as it is undeniably oca of tbe sweetest and best. It will pay to buy one, if only to sing from at home. Price, 30 cents. VOICE OF WORSHIP. (L. O. Emerson.) $9 per dozen. THE TEMPLE. (W. O. Perkins.) $9 per dozen. NEW METHOD FOR SINGING CLASSES. (A. N. Johnson.) (6 per dozen. Tbe above are our three newest Singing School Books. The first two have a full set of tunes for Choirs. See full lists of New Sheet Music every week in the Musical Hecord. That is the way to keep well informed of all new issues. Mailed for 6 cents. Wait for these books (almost through tbe press): TEMPERANCE JEWELS. J. H. Tenney. AMERICAN ANTHEM HOOK. PARLOR ORGAN INSTRUCTION BOOK A. N. Johnson. OLIVER DITSON & CO., Boston. C. H.Ditson&Co., J. K. Oltson <Si Co., 843 Broadway.N.Y. 922 Chestnut St. Philo. Q-L aVonan A > a CompleteWorksand Dr. Foote’s QuaKSpoarc S Health Monthly, 1 year for 81. Sample com free. Murray Hill Pub. Co., 129 E.2BtbSt.,N.Y a Montn ana expenses guaranteed to Agents. ip 1 i Outfit free. Shaw A <3o„ Augusta, Maine. QQQnnA YEAR. How to Make It. Mom Agei ire 3>OOUU<*»<**' UOE dt TONGE, St. Louis. Mo. BEAUTIFUL SCROLL HAW DESIGNS, by mail, 10c and stamp; worth 75c. Greatest bargain ever offered. ATCHISON PATTERN Co., Atchison.Kansas. KIDDER’S PASTlLlES.^mlttoweuffo. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■Charlestovni, Mass. AT I nAV AT UfllAC Active men wanted to Ip/ A Uni HI nUHI Lt supply a real want of the million. Outfit free to good agents. Send green stamp for particulars. N. L. STONE, Potsdam, N. Y. S77IAT EAR and expenses to agents. Outfit Free. 9111 Address P. O. VICKERY. Augusta, Maine. nm PAY—With Stencil Outfits. What costs 4 cts. sells rapidly for 50 eta. Catalogue free. Pill S. M. Spencer, 112 Wash’nSt,Boston,Mass. Alllllll Morphine Habit Cared In 10 IIPIIIP to 20 day*. No pay till Cared. 1 Wlwl D R - J- Stephens, Lebanon. Ohio. (hi n f n <6l ftflfl Invested In Wall St Stocks makes thill I (hi 111111 fortunes every month. Book sent v AU 10 S'LVW free explaining everything. Address BAXTER A-00.. Bankers. IT WaU St., N. Y. Barney & Berry’s tr catalogue sent Free. AMa an a mb AfldrßM C W ATFC BARNEY A BERRY V 9 IVPM 1 fcOs Springfield, Mass. (tIiQC profits on 30 days’ Investment of £1(1(1 914fi0 in Erie R. R., October 18. vIUU Proportional returns every week on Stock Options of MO, 950. 9100, 9500. Official Reports and Ciroulars.free. Address _ T. POTTER WIGHT A OO- Bankers, 85 Wall Bt, N.Y. Af| ITT Iff HABIT & SKIN DISEASES. 1 11 tr I 11IVI Thousands cured. Lowest Prices. Do not A miUfall to write. Dr.F.E. Marsh, Quincy, Mich. a YOUNG HAN OR OLD, If you want a luxuriant Moustache, flawId# whisker*. a heavy growth at hair om W . bald hsads, or to thiukra, rtrsngthen and invigorate the hair aay whara, <**•’ t ha \ hvmhvggtd, but »«nd only BIX cents Ter the k Great Spanish Discovery that baataever 4 yet failed. Addreea, Dft. GONZALEZ, • Box 1640. Boston, Mam. ft mover (nils. jHHr 1 -iSTO AGENTS The easiest book to sell ever known! Crtrleton’s Hoaseholtl Encyclopaedia. A Treasury of Knowledge. A book of Condensed Information on every subject, each in one short paragraph. A Whole Library, alphabetically arranged in one volume. The only renlly useful Handy Encyclopaedia ever printed. Beautifully illustrated, $250. Sold only by subscription. Terms, Ac., address G. W. CARLETON «fc CO., Publishers, N. Y. City. WRY mifffl List of Medicines there are nontt I 111 ■llftJ L* that are equal to HUNT’S I 111 I n n REMEDY for curing Dropsy. ■ Ass A lull Bright's Disease. Kidney, Blad ™ der and Urinary Complaints. TIrVTAT 11 HUNT’S REMEDY nll I_ L oures Excessive Intemperance 11i| General Debility, Gravel, Dia ■ V AAV JUJU betes. Pain in the Back, Side or Loins, and all Diseases of the Kidneys, Bladder and Urlnary Organs. Physicians pre. scribe HUNT’S REMEDY. Send for pamphlet to WM. K. CLARKE, Providence. K. L SPTASELINE:!!: This wonderful substance Is acknowledged by phystdans throughout the world to be the best remeoyala* covered for the cure of Wounds, Barns. Bheumatlsm, Skin Piles, Catarrh, Chftl. olalns, dec. In order that every one may try it, it Is put up in 15 and 25 oent bottles for household use. Obtain it from your druggist, and you will find it superior to anything you have ever used. IVim WARNER BRO'S CORMfi«|m HI roceived the Highest Medsl «t the recent PARIS EXPOSITION, orer »ILsinrrltsu competitors. Their W FLEXIBLE HIP CORSET jmWrfmM (120 bonesi is wakrantkd not to break Mnr nFm. down over the hips. Price tl.J.n. Tbetr uIU I I/ Hi iIiSSBBP 118 sort an(l flexible end coutein* no \ (11111 HI I I bones. Price by mail, $1.r.0. \uw 111 LT Forflale bjr elllesding merchenU. WARNER BROS., Broadway, N. I, S££SS!SSR is ths Old Reliabls Concentrated Lye FOR FAMILY SOAP-MAKIHB. IT IS TULL WEIGHT AMD STREW GTS. The market Is flooded with (so-called) Concentrated Lye. which is adulterated with salt and rosin, and woo* make toap. SA VE MOMET, AMD EOT TRM Sapoimifieß MADE BY THE Pennaylvania Salt ManuPg 00., '■nm nrLPnra

butter color Sire. B.tter the gilt-edged color the year round. The lamest Butter Buyers recommend Its use Thousands of Dairymen say IT IS PERFECT. Used by all the best Creameries. Awarded, thelr.tcr. national Diploma at N. Y. Dairy Fair. Ask your druggist or merchant for It; or write to c:is u-tut i t is, wt> at }t costs, who uses It, where to get It, WELLS. RICHARDSON dr CO., Proprietors, Burlington.

4 TONS Chicago, Oct. 19.1879. American Co-Operative Mahufacturiho Co. : Gentleman :—ln reply to the many inquiriee conoerning the working of the ''Walker Heat Multiplier, vm would say; Our firm are using a Heat Multiplier on a coal stove mode by the Chicago and Erie Stove Company, known aa their ** Invincible!” No. 18. In the winter of 1878-79 we heated our store. No. 49 State street <llO feet dee,, 34 feet wide, and 16 feet high), burning only five (5) tons of hard ooal (Lackawanna); the previous winter we did not have a Heat Multiplier on the stove, but burned nine (9) ton. hard ooal (Lackawanna), although the weathernras not nearly so cold aa last winter. The taring of four (4) tone of ooal last winter over the previous winter waa directly attributable to tbe use of tbe Heat Multiplier—all other conditions having been the same. We bave recommended and sold it to many of onr customers, and all who have used it are well pleased and moke substantially the some report as ourselves; some have given orders to have them put on other stoves, ranges and furnaces. , , , We oheertu'ly indorse it as a saver of fuel and heat, and from our tests (as above) snd from observation, and from tbe reports of others who have used it, we ray to the hardware and stove trade, snd the general public, this is a thing worthy your attention, being convinced that investigation will fully sustain the claims of its owners that IT WILL BATE FROM ONE-FQUKTH (J*) TO ONE-HALF 04) the FUEL otherwise requfrt d. „ Very truly yours, SKAVkY 4 CO., Dealers in Stoves, Ranges and Furnaces, 49 State street, Chicago, The Walker Heat Multiplier is the Greatest Economiser of the Age. Will Save its Cost in One Month. Can Be Attached to Any Stovie Without Expense. Price $5 Only. pr~Beat to any address on receipt of price (Express charges paid by us). C - Ilf i tlTm ( Reliable parties in every county in WAN I HI -S 016 West an< * Northwest to intro- ■» "I" * a«SJ } duce and control the sale of this Great Fuel Saver. Address AMERICAN CO-OPERATIVE MFG, CO., LaSalle St- CHICACO. Every agent for a bible, ” Religions, or Art Work, will learn of something that outshines and outsells them alt, by sending hts atldress to WF.BTON HULBKRT, Publisher:Chicago, 111. GOLD WATCHES AWAY* $500,000 worth of solid Gold *nd Silver W*tc hes Silverware. Piano*, Organs, Sewing Machine*, Frenc h Musical, Alarm Clockn,and Jewelry,besides an immense amount of other valuable goods, just for doing us s little favor, which every man. woman, boy or girl can easily do. No money required. All the elegant and co«tly articles to be given away sre fully described and illustrated by engravings, in a book entitled * 4 Tlip fiSoldeii PrijMs” which we will send gratis, and free of postage, to any one in the United States and Canada. Address F. Gleason A Co., 40 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. __ “EXODUS To the beet lands. In the best climate, with the boat markets, and on the best terms, along tile St. Paul, Minneapolis A Manitoba R’y, (late St. Paul A Pacific.) 3,000,000 ACRES Mainly in the Famous RED RIYER VALLEY OP THE NORTH. On long time, low prices and easy paymen s. Pamphlet with full information mailed free. Apply to D. A. McKINLAY, Land Com’r, Bt. U. M. «fc M. R’y, Bt. Fwul, Minn. CHAMPLIN’S LIQUID PEARL Is an absolutely safe cosmetic, possessing the most valuable qualities for beautifying and preserving the skin. II speedily removes Sunburn, Tan, Freckles, Pimples, Bulloivnesa, Blotches, etc., leaving the skin BO FT and FAIR, and adds great beauty to tbe complexion. The pleasantest and most reliable article in use for the toilet. Its use cannot be detected on tbe most delicate skin. Sold by all druggists. Price 60 cents a bottle. Beware of imitations. CHAMPLIN tfc CO., Proprietors. Biiffrilo, N. Y. PLAYS ! PLAYS ! 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First Established I Most Successful I THEIR INSTRUMENT^Jiavc a standard value in all the LEADING MARKETS OP THE WORLD! Everywhere recognized as the FINEST IN TONE. OVER 80,000 Made and in use. New Designs constantly. Best work and lowest prices. Mir Send for a Catalogue. Tremont St., opp. Waltham St., Boston, Hass,

Our latest improved sawing machine cuts off a 2-foot log in 2 minutes. A SIOC PRESENT will be given to two men who can saw as much in the old way, as one man can with this machine. Circulars sent free. W. Giles, 741 W. Lake St., Chicago, IIL CAUTION.—We are stopping all infringements upon our Patents, and have sued ** . \V. Boat wick and Farmers* Manufacturing Co. for machines like ours. We have also eued W. H.C ark, - f b;ar City, Ind., for using and selling said machines. 1" innniPP^'s Piles that l)cliin K > Pile Remedy fails tocure. Gives immediate relief, cures cases of long standing in 1 week, 4UJU caution EvlS scrapper hoe printed on it in black a Pile of S'ante and Dr. /p. Miller's signature, rhila. R 1 a bottle. Sold |B| For Beauty of Polish, Baring Labor, Cleanliness, ‘ to “ , iSSMSSa?;3IS!IS;c-u«.«^ O.N.P. Wo, 5Q TETHER WKITINO TO ADVERTISER*, tv . .please say yon saw the advertisement fas this paper.