Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1882 — Page 4

THE COUMTEHSIOM WAS “MAHT." BY MABGABZT ETTOIGE. T»m near the break of day, but ■till The moon waa shining brightly; The west wind u it pasted the flowers Set each one swaying lightly: The sentry slow paced to and fro A faithful night-watoh keeping. While in the tents behind him stretched His comrades—all were Bleeping. Siow to and fro the sentry paced, His musket on his shoulder, But not a thought of death or war Was with the brave young soldier. Ah, no! his heart was far away Where, on a Western prairie, A rose-twined cottage stood. That night The countersign was “ Mary.” And there his own true love he saw, Her blue eyes kindly beaming. Above them on her sun-kissed brow, Her curls like sunshine gleaming, And heard her singing, as she churned The butter in the dairy. The song he loved the best That night The countersign waa “ Mary.” “ Oh, for one kiss from her!” he sighed, When, up the lone road glancing, He spied a form, a little form, With falt’ring steps advancing. And as it neared him silently He gazed at it in wonder; Then dropped his musket to his hand. And challenged: “ Who goes yonder ?” Still on it came. “ Not one step more, Be you man, child or fairy, Unless you give the countersign. Halt! Who goes there?” “ ’Tis Mary,” A sweet voice cried, and in his arms The girl he’d left behind him Half fainting fell O’er many miles She’d bravely toiled to find him. “ I heard that you were wounded, dear,” She sobbed; “my heart was breaking; I could not stay a moment, but, All other ties forsaking, I traveled, by my grief made strong, Kind heaven watching o’er me, Until— Unhurt and well ?” “ Yes, love.”— “ At last you stood before me. “ They told me that I could not pass The lines to seek my lover Before day fairly came; but I Pressed on ere night was over. And as I to d my name, I found The way free as our prairie.” “ Because, thank God! to-night,” ho said. “ The countersign is ‘ Mary.' ”

“JUST LIKE A MAN.”

BY ROSE TERRY COOKE.

•‘They ’do beat all!” sighed Mrs. Peek, as she wiped her face earnestly with a spotted cotton h andkerohief, and set her spectacles aloft on top of her cap border. “ I summered an’wintered one on ’em nigh on to fifty years, and the* was things he done’t I don’t see into up to this day. Beside, I had sons, and darters’ husbands as well, and they’re al! of a piece; tarred with the same stick, as Lias used to say.” “ Well,” spoke up Miss Patty Brinkly, a vivacious maiden lady, stopping to thread her needle, with I Kith elbows on the qmlt-framo and her thread and needle stabbing at each other nearly half a yard away from her straining eyes.' •• I hain't never had no such experience, thanks be to praise ! Pa used to say if I had ha’ married anybody I’d have killed ’em or ran away from ’em, and I dono but what I should.” They had something to be thankful for, then, as well as thee, Patty,” dryly rennrked Aunt Marcia Blinn, the only lady of the Friends” persuasion, as she called it, cl whom Oakley boasted. “Well, they re queer anyhow,” resumed the Widow Peck. “ Ther’s no ’counting for ’em; they’ll up and do things you wouldn’t no more expect of ’em than anything; and as for bein’ protectors for women-folks and all that, which folks tell about in books, my land! Lias Peck would ha’ died more’n forty times es I hadn’t ha’ had dry things for to put onto him when he came in soakin’ wet out of the crick, or after a pourin’ rain. As ’twas, he died o’ rheumatiz’t he took along o’ floatin’ saw logs down to the mill in a spring freshet and never coming home to dinner, but working all day in them damp clothes. I gave him pokeberry rum, an’ a hemlock sweat, and two hull bottles of Gumption’s Ginger Bitters, besides a rubbin’ of him powerful with camphire, before I sent for thS doctor; but it stuck to his stomick and he went off like a snuff. But that ain’t here nor there ; as I was a sayin’, for nigh onto fifty years I’d put his flannel shirts into the front left-hand corner of the bottom drawer in the m’hog’ny bureau in the bedroom, and every Sunday mornin’ reg’lar, when he was cleanin’ up for the meetin’ he’d hoi lor out ‘ Lurancy ! where’s them flannel shirts o’ mine?’ Now that’s so!” concluded the disconsolate widow, wiping her eyes, and adding in a stage aside —“But I’d give consider’ble to hear him holler that again ! ” “ And they hain’t got no memory,” put in Miss Patty, who had at last coaxed needle and thread to an amicable understanding, and was quilting away with zeal and discretion, as every good quilter knows how. “I never seethe time when they wouldn’t forget things. I’ve tailored round quite a number o’ years, and I’ve had an eye on ’em, as you say. Tbeie was Silas Buck, I used to tailor for his folks consider’ble; the* was him and three boys and the hired man. Well, I’d get out o’ linen thread, say, and you can’t no more make overhauls with sewin’ cotton than you can with spider wetjs, and Mis’ Buck she’d say, ‘ Silas,’ says she, ‘Patty’s all out o’ linen thread. When ye go down to the store after them rake-tails I wish’t you’d fetch up a hank o’ black and a hank o’ brown. Now don’t ye forget it I’ And Silas he’d laugh, he was just as clever as a basket o’ phips, and he’d say, ‘Til fetch it mother;’ but he wouldn’t! ’nd I set an’ set a waitin’ for’t, and fin’lly put on my bunnit and walk a mile down to the Corners for to fetch it myself; then he’d say, ‘ Cousin Patty’—you see we called cousins because his father’s second wife was sister my Aunt Sophrony’s husband —‘ Cousin Patty, hain’t you got them overhauls done yet?’ and I’d sorter bluster ’nd say, ‘ Cousin Silas, I ain’t no more able to make bricks without straw ’n the Isr’elites was for Pharo’, and you didn’t fetch me no thread yesterday!’ and then he’d haw, haw, right out, he was real clever, but land ! so shiftless. That’s just a case in p’int, so to speak, ye know; just one time, but you can tell by a little what a great deal means, and, as Mis’ Peek says, they’re all alike.” “Thee doesn’t think women folks are perfect does thee, Patty ?” queried Aunt Marcia, in her calm voice. “ Well, I dono as they be; I dono as I said they be, but you can gen’lly tell where most of ’em ’ll fetch up, and you are kinder fit and prepared for what they will do, and specially for what they won’t do. Sometimes they’ll disapp’int all your calculation, but then you can fall back on Scripter, and see’t they was made to be the weaker sect; though, if ’tain’t really lawful to say so, I own I always did have as poor opinion of Adam as ever was; to be a tollin’ how ’twas Eve made him eat the apple, when he done it the first time askin’, but ’twas just like a man ! They keep a doing of it to this day, it’s forever an’ always ‘ the woman tempted me.’ ” “Thee remembers, doesn’t thee? the Scripture says, ‘the woman being deceived was in the transgression.’ It hath always seemed to me kindly in Timothy so to speak of her as to lay the blame on the enemy. ” “That ain’t neither here nor there,’ answered the logical and undaunted Patty. “I ain’t tryin’ to make light of Eve’s disobeyin’, but I do say Adam was real mean to get behind her ; he was able to say he wouldn’t, I guess, jest as well as she was, but he didn’t no more’n she did. I was a readin’ somewheres, t’other day, about an old French feller, a Judge or somethin’, Judge of a P’lice Court, I expect by the tell, and whensomever they fetched a man before him that had been- took up for a misdeed, no matter what ’twas, he always asked, ‘Who is she?’ lettin’ on as though a woman was to the bottom of every wrong-doin’. Clear Adam ! And that’s what I fault ’em for.” “Well, they be queer.” Mrs. Peek again took up the fruitful theme. “Sary, what waa that you waa telling

about Thomas an* them letters t’other night?” “Oh, me!” said Sarah Beers deprecatingly, but with a laugh that lit ner pale face and sad eyes; for Sarah was a typical New England woman; careful and troubled about everything; a coward physically, a heroine mentally; afraid of her very shadow, but doing the bravest things, with her heart sinking and her joints trembling all the time, because duty or affection called her to such service. She married Tom Beers, a bright, strong fellow, full of fun and reckless daring, and devoted to Sarah, but entirely ignorant of her daily anxieties and terrors, for she was as reticent as she was timid, if she thought she could save anyone—much more any one she loved—by such reticence. “ Oh, tell on’t, Sary; ’tain’t no harm ; we all know Tom sets by ye like h» life. He wouldn’t do nothin’ to plague ye, if he knowed it, no more’n he’d cut his head off; but that letter business waff Bo exactly like men-folks.” A chorus of voices echoed the request. There were only about ten people at the quilting—it was the regular sewingcircle meeting of Oakley—so Sarah consented.

“Well; ’tain’t much to tell,but if ma wants me to. You know Tom’s horse is real young and kind of skittish, and if there is one thing above another I’m afeard of it’s a horse.” “Bless your soul and body,” put in her mother; “I never see the thing yet you wa’n’t afeard of, Sary, horse or not. ” “ Oh, I know it, nA, but I am awfully afeard of a skittish horse; Tom, he don’t really sense it, and he says Jenny ain’t ugly, she’s just full of play; and I s’pose she is; she’s knowing as a dog, and I give her a bite of somethin’ every time he fetches her ’round, and she knows me real well, but she will jump and lash out and shy sometimes, and it makes me just as weak as water, so’t I I don’t never drive her es I can help it.” “ You don’t mean to say you ever do drive a creetur when you feel that kind o’ way toward it?” queried Miss Patty, sharply. “ Why, I hev to, sometimes, ye know; there’s oft-times a dav Tom can’t leave the hayin’ or harvestin’ or plantin’, or something, and there has to be things fetched from the store, and no way to get ’em except I go for ’em, so Tom he jist tackles up and I go for ’em; he don’t really mistrust that I’m scared, and I don’t never tell him that I be ; what’s the use ?” “ Well,” said Miss Patty, with a snuff no type can express, and Sarah went on: “So week before last Auut Simons writ and said she was cornin’ out to stay a day or two before she went back South, and she was goin* to fetch Joe, that’s her oldest, along with her ; she wanted for to have us meet her at the station, but she said she shouldn’t come if it rained; she’s got dreadful weak lungs; but she’d telegraph if she wan’t coming. Well, Wednesday morning, the day she set to come, it did rain, sure enough, and seeing there was a donation party to get up, I sided my work away early and walked over to the Center, for I knew I should find all the folks I’d g t to see to home. I’d just got ready o start for home about noon-time, and I bethought myself to step into office, for I knew there’d be a mail for the creamery, so I got a double-handful of letters and papers and set my face toward home, when who should come up but Tom in the buggy. “ ‘ Get in,’ says he, ‘ I’m a-goin’ to the station.’

“ ‘ What for ?’ says L “‘Why,’ says he, ‘they hain’t sent no telegraph, so they’re comin.’ “‘But it rains,’says I, ‘and Aunt Simons said she wouldn’t come if it rained. ’ “ ‘ Well, says he, ‘ I obey orders and break owners; she said she’d telegraph if they wan’t comin ;’ and how do you know but it didn’t rain there?’ “So I got in and put the mail down into the seat, and he driv like Jehu, for we heerd the train whistle ; and says I, ‘Oh fc Tom ! don’t drive up the hill to the station, I’m afraid Jenny’il be scared.’ “He laughed a little. ‘ I’ll bet she wouldn’t be half so scared as you,’ says he ; ‘but I’ll leave you to the foot of the hill, and, if they come. I’ll holler down to you, and I’ll get in and go up to t’other station and put ’em into the hack that waits there, for there can’t four ride in this buggy; and you drive along up to that station, and then I’ll put you into the hack with Aunt Simins, and I’ll take Joe along o’ me in the buggy.’ So sayin’ he jumped out, for we was there, and run up just in time to catch the train. I didn’t have a thought that they’d be there, but they was, and he called out, ‘They're here, drive along.’ I knew ’twas the quickest way to take the road alongside the track, but the ’Tuck train was due, and Jen is skittish, but I thought I’d ought to, so I drove along ; there wasn’t no train, but right in the road, where I couldn’t turn nor back, I see two loose bosses—and, if there is a thing that puts lightenin’ into Jenny, it’s loose bosses. I tell you the shivers run down my back, but I knew the only chance was to go so fast she wouldn’t think about shows ; so I jist lay the whin onto her, and she sprung to and went by them hosses quicker 1 Well, the hack was going over the bridge, but I oatched up with it, and Joe he got out with Thomas and took the buggy, and I got in with aunt. Tom had got to go up street to get a can for the creamery. I called out to him as we went off: “ ‘Look out for your mail on the seat,’ and we drove along. But we hadn’t gone a half a mile before Tom he came tearing along and stopped the hack.” “ ‘ Where did you put the mail ?’ says he. “ ‘Why, on the seat of the buggy,’ says I. “ ‘No you didnt’t ! ’ says he ; ‘there wasn’t nothing there but papers.’ “‘ I guess I gave you the letters, then. I sort of thought I did,’ says I. “ ‘ Well I havn’t ’em anyway,’ says he. ‘ Look in all your pockets, Sally ; they ain’t in mine.* So I looked and looked, but I hadn’t a letter. I knew I hadn’t, but I looked to suit him. Then I thought how I drove by the side road, and I told him I guessed they’d jolt out of the buggy wheif I driv so fast. “ ‘ Dear me ! ’ says hs, ‘ I must have those letters to-day. I’ve got to ; I’ll go back over the side road and see if I can see or hear anything about ’em. ’ So he turned round. I tell you, I felt real bad; I couldn’t think anyway in the world what I did with them letters, and I see he was worried to death. After we got to the house and Aunt Simons was fixing herself upstairs, he drove up with Joe.

“ ‘Sally,’ says, he, ‘do look over your pockets again for them letters; I expect there was a S3OO check in one of ’em and we can’t afford to lose it.’ I was just ready to cry, I tell you, but I overlooked the pockets again; they wan’t there, and he said there wasn’t any sign or bearin’ of ’em on the road. I felt as though I should give up, when he turned and went out of the door, but just as he swung the gate to he hollered ont : ’ ‘Sally I Sally ! ’ and I run. ‘ I cavef’ says he, laughing ; ‘ here they be in my own pocket; you give ’em to me.’ “ Sure enough I did, but he put ’em into a pocket he didn’t use for letters ordinarily, so he never looked there I and there wan’t no check at all in any one of ’em. “ I guess you was mad ? ” queired Miss Patty., “Well, I was a. little, stirred up, I don’t deny; I - set right down and cried quite a spell.” “ Wan’t that real mean Mrs. Peek asked of the audience with a tone of fine scorn. “Did thee wish thw thee’d neve?

seen thy husband ?” asked Aunt Marcia of Sal ly The anviona face flushed and the sad ey “ ASt I M»cia, I shouldn’t know how to live without Tom any way m this mortal world!” And the clear voice broke down aa if the thought of such a contingency was too much. . Aunt Marcia smiled. “ I expect there is faults in all human creatures. ‘Male and female created He them,’ though ; and we can’t set out greatly to better the Lord’s plans. We couldn’t really get along, thee knows, without menfolks, and they could not without us; but I expect if thee could hear them talk amongst themselves, Miss Patty, thee would hear, quite frequent, ‘Just like a woman.* ” Miss Patty could not deny it.

ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.

The Annnal Reunion at neirolt. The Society of the Army of the Potomac convened at Detroit on Wednesday, Juno 14, and was called to order by Gen. Charles Devens, Jr., its President Gen. Andrew AHumphrey, U. 8. A., was elected President so the ensuing year. The other officers were reelected. The various army <xrps represented in the Army of the Potomac held corps reunions durinz the afternoon. First corps elected Gen. E. G. Bragg President; Second, Col. N. 8. Church, Ithaca, Mich.; Fifth, Gen. James MoQuade; Sixth, Col. James H. Platt; Ninth. Gen. John G. Park, U. 8. A.; Twelfth, Oapt W. W. Bush, Lockport, N. Y., who claims to have been the first emisted man in the War of the Rebellion; Nineteenth, Gen. H. E.-Paine, Wisconsin ; Oavalrv, Gen. W. Wells, Vermont Gen. Francis A. Walker sent a letter accepting the position of historian of the Second corps, and Gen. Hindu, of Wisconsin, made a ro-i-ing speech to his old comrades, whom he had come 3,000 miles to see. At the meeting of the Ninth corps, Gen. E. E. Sprague, of Massachusetts, read a beautiful tribute to the memory of their late President, Gen. Burnside. Gen. Sheridan was received with deafening cheers by the Cavalry corps, and made a brief speech, expressive of kind regard for his old comrades. The reception in the Music Hall in the evening was a grand event. The auditorium was beautifully decorated with mementoes of camp life, interspersed with the rude engines of war. Gov. Jerome welcomed the veterans of the Army of the Po'otnac. He said : “ I shall not linger long in the grateful duty imposed upon me of giving you a welcome to the State of Michigan. Wo recognize in you the surviving coworkers in one of the greatest periods of our history—illustrious agents in tha. accomplishment of a mighty triumph far transcending the ordinary exploits of arms. You are conspicuous witnesses to the truth, never represented at the military reunions of nations aeross the Atlantic, that a free republican government by the people knows how to take care ot itself. It was your fortune to have been placed in the foreground of the conflict. It was the Army of the Potomac tliat began the war, and when its fighting was done the war had ceased. The rebel Army of Northern Virginia, defending the rebel capital, represented in the eyes of the world the idea of organized hostility to the Union. The Army of the Potomac, protecting the capital of the nation, and striking directly therefrom at the hearts of its enemies, represented in the eyes of the world the idea of organized loyalty to the Union. You saved Washington, ’and you captured both Richmond and its defenders.” The Governor then dwelt upon the long services of this great army, and bid it a warm welcome to the State that had furnished 90,000 men to the Unioii army, and whose representatives were found with the Army of the Potomac from the first crossing over the Long bridge into Virginia to the fall of Richmond, and whose dead strewed every one of that army’s battle fields.

Mayor Thompson, in a brief, but cordial speech, welcomed the veterans to the hearts and homes of the citizens of Detroit General Devens, on behalf of the Army of the Potomac, mi de a brief but eloquent response. John Boyle O'Reilly, of Boston, then read h’s poem, entitled “America,” which was a very neat production, indeed, and was received with great applause. Gen. E. 8. Brager, of Wisconsin, was then introduced, and delivered the oration. This was an elaborate defense of Gen. McClellan’s organizing ability and military skill, was high in its praise of Fitz John Porter and strong in its incidental condemnation of Gen. Pope and Secretary Stanton. Tracing the history of the Grand Army from the first to the last, he closed in these words: “ Oh, my countrymen, the Army of the Potomac was the army of deeds worthy to live in history. It fought more pitched battles and lost more men on the field than any of the armies* of the United States, aggregating a grand total of 93,856. It was often repulsed, but never with dishonor. Broken, it rallied again ; driven back, it returned vigorously to battle. As the sturdy oak on the mountain side, stripped of its limbs and riven with thunderbolts, refuses to bow to the storm, but, conscious of its strength, lifts its head in grim defiance to the elements, so this grand old army, shattered, worn, with thinned ranks, bleeding sons in every hospital, its dead strewn on scores of battlefields, bore to the front her battered, blood-stained banners until the sun of Appomattox gilded them with the luster of a final victory. In its vocabulary ‘ there is no such word as fail.' Proud is the record of any soldier of whom it may be truly said : ‘He was of the Army of the Potomac.’ ” The close of the address was greeted with great applause. The audience then loudly called for Gen. Grant, who was on the platform, who acknowledged the compliment, but declined to speak further than to express his gratification at being present with his old comrades in arms, and to declare his belief that volunteer armies were the best in the world. They feught for love of country, and not because they were hired. Sheridan also declined to make a speech, but expressed gratification at meeting with old friends. Speeches were made by ex-President Hayes and Gen. Sickles, and the exercises of the evening closed.

The second and last day of the reunion witnessed a grand procession in honor of the veteran guests. The streets were everywhere lined with thousands of people, and the appearance of the most prominent soldiers was greeted with great applause. Grant, Sheridan, Hayes, and Sickles were, of course, the chief attractions. Thb procession was a mile and a half long. In the afternoon two steamers gave the guests a ride on the Detroit river. The exercises closed with a banquet at Music Hall, where the menu cards were in the form of a canteen, opening on a hinge. ExPresident Hayes responded to the toast, “Our Country;” ex-Gov. Austin Blair to “The Volunteers ;”.Gen. Sickles to “The Army and Navy,” Gov. Jerome to' “The State of Michigan,” and Mayor Thompson spoke for the city of Detroit.

THE GREAT STRIKES.

Pittsburgh, Pa., June 14. It is two weeks since the ironworkers struck, and they are as determined and enthusiastic as at the beginning. The manufacturers, on the contrary, show signs of uneasiness, which is interpreted to mean that they are weakening. The starting up of the mills at Cincinnati and other points is against tbern, as it draws trade from the citv which may never return. This is part of the plan of the strikers, who think it will force the Pittsburgh manufacturers to. resume sooner than they would under other circumstances. The coal strike continues. Strikers at Robbins’ works are to be evicted to make room for colored miners. There may be trouble before this is accomplished. Cleveland, Ohio, June 14. Nearly 1,300 men went to work in the various mills of the Cleveland Rolling-Mill Company at Newbury yesterday. This is a greater number of men than has been at work at any time since the attempt to start the mills a week ago, and the strike may be considered as virtually at an end.

There was a serious disturbance at Cleveland between the union and non-union workmen. Over 1,200 of the latter quit work in the evening ilt the Cleveland rolling mid, and were escorted by policemen through Wire street, which was lined on both sides with strikers and their wives and children. At the elevators there commenced a shower of stones and cinders, which was kept up for three blocks, Police Captain Hocher being seriously hurt When the workers had been placed in the street-cars, the police arrested several ringleaders in the assault. Business has been resumed in the Wabash Rolling Mid at Terre Haute, Ind., prices to be governed by the Pittsburgh scale.

Silver Jewelery.

Silver jewelry has taken, or been given, another freak of extraordinary eccentricity. Silver is now fashioned to represent spiders and members of the bug famil not only in form, but in color, and very beautiful they are, if bugs possess that cliaracteristic> The report that devotees to fashion ar® wearing live bluebottles, cockroaches abd June bugs on hats and bonnets, where they are chained and allowed the freedo nos its surface, is considered an unreliable one, and without any foundation. Still it is maintained that in New York, or at least

in Spain, which h too far away to allow ua to investigate, thta freak of fashion is to be seen. If any ono wishes an ornament of this kind there is no lack of accommodation. If a skilled man with a lasso will call upon us wo will put him on the track of some long-loggers already ebonized and polished. It may not be easy to find a jeweler to mount him, unless he has ridden a broncho or a mustang taken wild from the plains. Silver ornaments have taken other forms true to nature. Flowers tuid leaves are formed in natural colors. Their comparative inexpensiveness and beauty make them favorites with many buyers. But this kind of buying is lundered by the weather. They appear most lltting’on -new suits, and, as such suits are to be bright colored, these ornaments will add and be lulded to. Sil-ver-headed canes are in style yet, but the newest design in canery is the cop-per-beaded and those headed with ancient ivory, or ivory stained to appear as old as tliat carried by Glaucus (if he carried one) in the streets of Pompeii, on that ash day fatal to him, in the year 79. One of ihe Jhrger manufacturers of silver and other ware is now producing elegant punch-bowls and tea-pots in copper.— Providence Journal.

THE IRON HORSE.

A Heim me of the Raihvsy Construction of 188*4. [From the Railway Age.] Early in the beginning of the present year the impression began to prevail that the construction of new railways in this country had for a time practically ceased, the result, it was believed, of a natural revulsion from the furore for extensions which had characterized 1881. That year, it will be remembered, was poted for the construction of a far-greater railway mileage than any previous year in the history of tio countrv, aggregating between 9,000 and 10,000 miles. This seemed to be adding to our railway system at an excessive and unwarrantable rate, and it was assumed that a marked decrease would ensue. Thus far, however, this year, these predictions have not been justified, but, on the contrary, strange to say, the mileage of new roads already completed is far greater than during the same period for any previous year, and considerably more than twice as great as that for the first five months of 1881 even. To show these remarkable fifcts we have taken pains to obtain information as nearly complete as possible of the progress of track-laying on each road in the country, from which we have made a summary by States, and present in the following table a statement, so far as we have it, of the miles of track laid in the United States during the five months from Jan. 1 to June 1, 1882, giving also the number of lines concerned: track laid from jam. 1 TO JUNE 1, 1882.

State or Territory. No. Lines. Miles. Alabama. 2 13.50 Arizona J Arkansas 2 121.00 California 2 78.00 Colorado. 2 253.00 Dakota 1 12.00 Florida 2 61.00 Georgia. 4 131.00 Idaho 2 43.00 Illinois * „92.00 Indiana SIB - ? 0 . lowa 207.50 Kansas 5 116.00 Louisiana 1 24.00 Maryland. 2 9.50 Minnesota 3 32.00 Michigan 1 ?J- 00 Mississippi 2 14.00 Missouri 3 48.0 J Montana 1 68.00 Nebraska 2 138.40 Nevada 1 15.00 New Jersey 2 9.00 •New Mexico 1 6.00 New York 10 149.79 North Carolina 1 63.00 Ohio 9 '203.71 Oregon 1 59.00 Pennsylvania 6 71.79 South Carolina 2 48.00 Tennessee 4 4 UK) Texas 10 734.00 Utah 1 50.00 Virginia 4 92.00 Wisconsin 4 81.00 Wyoming 1 14.00 Totals in 36 States and Territories. 120 3,180.19 From this table it will be seen that during the past five months tracklaying has been in progress in thirty-six States and Territories upon at least 120 roads, and that within that time no less than 3,480 miles of new railway have been added to the United States. These figures, moreover, are necessarily incomplete, as quite a number of roads have not yet responded to our inquiries for information, and on a number of others tracklaying had but recently commenced. Although, as has been said, construction during 1881 was remarkably rapid, yet at this time last year only about 1,500 miles of new track had been reported, or less than 45 per cent, of the aggregate for the present year, and not much more than 15 per cent, of the total laid in 1881. A similar rate of construction. for the remainder of this year would show the prodigious total of about 23,000 miles for 18854, but, of course, no such increase is now possible. That railway construction has by no means been suspended, but that, on the other hand, an enormous mileage is to be added, is indicated by the large number of companies recently incorporated, as well as by the fact that preliminary work is in progress on many other lines which have not reached the stage of tracklaying. By running through our own files since Jan. 1, we find that we have referred to no less than 225 companies either newly incorporated or in process of construction, these being in addition to the 120 covered by our table of tracklaying, and in addition to the others on which tracklaying is in progress but has not been reported. We believe it safe to say that there are at least 350 lines, covering at a moderate estimate a total of 25,000 miles, upon which work is now either in progress or is proposed to be commenced during the present year! Of course, some of these projects may"not speedily be undertaken, and a financial revulsion would put a temporary stop to many lines now under construction; but if the coming harvest throughout the country is good, and business does not experience a serious set-back, it is not unlikely that the mileage of railways constructed during 1882 will nearly equal the remarkable record of 1881.

SHOCKING CALAMITY.

A terrible calamity occurred at Indianapolis the other day. Through the center of the city is a small creek called Pogue’s run, which in dry seasons is little more than a mud puddle ; but,' in the event of a sudden and heavy rain, the extent of country which it drains makes it very dangerous. A tremendous rain-storm, during which two inches of water fed, swelled this stream to an unprecedented height, and flooded the northern part of the city, inflicting a pecuniary damage amounting to several hundred thousands of dollars. The most terrible thing in connection with the flood, however, was the dreadful loss of life. There was a frail, half-rotten bridge spanning Pogue’s run, near the Union depot. The water reached almost to the floor of it, and was running very fast. On this were at different times from fen to twenty-five spectators watching the flood. They were several times warned that this was not safe, but paid little attention to this. Finally, when the flood was at its highest, the bridge gave way, precipitating twenty or more persons into the water. Many of these were young girls who worked at an adjoining factory, and nine of these were saved by bystanders. The remainder went through the tunnel, which is a square in length, and strangely enough three of these were rescued alive. Tho dead bodies of eight persons were taken out within a few hours, and it is believed that the list of drowned will reach a dozen.

Science and History. M. Ihnan has, in. an interesting passage of his own autobiography, given it as his belief that a century hence mankind will study very little else than physical science. The time, he thinks, will come when the historical sciences will be thrust into the back-ground; nil that they have to teach will be known, and men will feel comparatively little interest in their own past. On the other hand, the more they know of nature the more there will be to be known. Chemistry anil physiology offer inexhaustible fields for research ; and the truths which they reveal will prove more and more interesting to mankind. It is very difficult to say what men will think or do a hundred years hence; but it seems likely enough that this will be the tendency of study. Certainly, even now, the men of science are becoming more and more important factors in the life of all of ns. They are little by little winning the fight against disease ; they are giving us facts, and enabling us to found our beliefs on the sure ground of knowledge. Their influence must surely become greater and greater as time goes on; for humanity always reserves its highest honors for those who teach it to know.— London Times. * South Australia has a population of 279,866. Its debt had grown from 81L--000,000 in 1878 to nearly $50,000,000 in 1881,

LIVE STOCK CENSUS.

By * recent bulletin of the census office at Washington, the statistics of live stock in each of the State* and Territories show that there were on farm* in the United States, June 1, 1880, 10,867,081 hones, 1,812,982 mules, 903,.970 oxen, 12,443.693 milch cows, 22,488,590 other cattle, 85,191,156 sheep and 47,688,951 swine. The figures of Illinois and adjacent States are as follows : MISSOURI. Hones 467, 7 if> Mule*..; 192,627 Oxen 9,020 Milch cows M 1,405 Other catt1e1,410,51)7 Hbeep.1,411,29$ Swine«, 553,123 / lowa. Horace 792,822 Mu lee 44,424 Oxen 2,506 Milch cows 851,187 Other cattlel,7ss,Mt Sheep 455,359 5wine6,084,316 Illinois. H0ne*1,028,082 Other catt1e.1,515,063 Mule* 123,278 Hhrcp’.,067,073 Oxen 3,340 5wine.3,170,206 Milch cow* 805,013 KANSAS. Horse* 430,907 Other catt1e1,015,933 Mule* 64,800 Sheep 499,671 oxen 16,789 8w1n*...1,787,969 Milch cow 418,333 ARKANSAS. Hone*..... 140,38 Other oatUe 433,392 Mule* 67,082 Sheep 246,767 Oxen 25,444 5wine1,565,098 Milch cow* 249,407 DAKOTA. Hones..... 41,670 Other cattle...... 88,825 Mule*. 2,703 Sheep 80,244 Oxen 11,411 Swine 63,399 Milch cow *',572 INDIANA Horae*.’ 691,444 Other cattle 864,846 Mules 51,780 Sheepl,loo,sll Oxen 3,970 Swine. 3,186,413 Ml ch oows 494,944 MICHIGAN. Horses 378,778 Other cattle. 466,660 Mu ea 5,083 5heep2,189,389 Oxen 40,893 Swine. 964,071 Milch cow* 384,578 MINN*? OTA. Herpes 257,282 Mules 9,019 Oxen 86,344 Milch Cows 275,545 Other cattle 347,161 Sheep 267,598 Bwiuo..k 381,415 MONTANA. Horses 35,114 Mules... 858 Oxen 936 Milch cows 11,308 Otbercatto 160,113 Sheep 181,277 Swine 10,278 NEBRASKA, Hor es 204,864 Mules 19,999 Oxen 7,234 Milch cows 161,187 Other cattle...... 500,129 Sheep 199,463 5wine1,211,724 WISCONSIN. Horses 352,428 Mules 7,136 Oxen 28,762 Milch c0w5....... 478,374 Other cattle 622,005 5heep..1,336,807 5wine.1,128,825

The Mule.

This is a Mule. He feels sick. Do not pet a Mule because he feels sick, for he may make you feel sick. The Mule’s Tail is short and,slim. He cannot brush off the Flies with his Tail. His Ears are large and long. He can brush Flies off his Tail with his Ears. With his Ears he can fan himself, too. His fore Legs are quite short. His hind Legs are ex-ceea-ing-lyjong. Many nat-u-ral-ists have tried to meas-ure tin Length of a Mule’s hind Legs; but have only sue ceed-ed in having their own Legs measured. A wise man has said “ there are some Things in Nature past finding ©ut.” This is one of those Things. It is safer to play with a Mule’s Ears than with his Tail. It is safer to play with a Can of Ni-tro Glyc-er-ine than either. Dear Chil-dren, if your Pa-pas have Lots of Money, do not let them buy any Mules with hind Legs on to cel-e-brate Fourth-of-July with, for Mules with hind Legs on are apt to go off sud-den-ly, and remove Your Sweet Young Soul from Life’s pleasant Scenes.— Yonkers Gazette.

Justice Rendered in a “Trade-Mark” Case at Bombay, India, April 14th, 1882.

Nathoo Mooljce, a resident druggist at Bombay, India, offered Pain Killer for sale, an imitation of the genuine Davis Pain Killer. Mr. H. Ballentine, agent of Perry Davis & Son, entered suit against him for pirating on the Trade Mark. The case was called on the 14th of April. The court found him guilty of pirating the Trade Mark “Pain Killer,” and fined Mooljce 500 rupees. Everywhere at home and abroad has Perry Davis & Son sustained their rights to the name of Pain Killer. No man with money about his clothes should ever retire without having a woman with him, a wife, of course, to frighten off the burglars. A reformed thief yesterday told us that a burglar, would sooner enter a room containing four men and twice as many revolvers as one having only one woman in it—for neither the men nor the revolvers can squeal like a woman.— Kentucky State Journal. Sixty per cent, of the mechanical energy converted into electricity and applied to a Faure storage battery has been reconverted into work on discharging the battery.

Brightest Intellects Suffer Most.

Young men who have led a life of dissipation and excess, reform ! Give tone to the stomach, regulate the liver, strengthen the urinary organs, relieve those dull pains in the limbs, rid yourself of that feeling of nausea, nervousness, languor and debilitv, by using Dr. Guysott’s Yellow Doek and Sarsaparilla, then will you experience a genial warmth and awakening life, in place of that dead feeling of decay, and dyspepsia, urinary sediment, weak kidneys, etc., no longer undermine your constitution. Delay is dangerous. Ask your druggist for it. e An Austin teacher was instructing his class in natural history. “To what class of birds does the hawk belong ? ” he asked. “To the birds of prey,” was the reply. “ And to what class do quail belong ? ” There was a pause. The teacher repeated the question. “ Where does the quail belong?” “On toast,” yelled the hungry boy at the foot of the class.— Texas Siftings. It’s very provoking when the editor writes it “ Meeting of the masses,” and the compositor, when setting it up, puts a space in the wrong place and makes it read “Meeting of them asses.”—Kentucky State Journal. A gentleman writes : “I suffered for years from weakness of the urinary organs, and was fast approaching consumption and a premature grive. I happened to hear some one say that Dr. Guysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla was good for dizziness and bad blood. I tried it and have beenmade well.” The Chinese seem to be as hard to regulate as the Mississippi nver. Like the father of waters, the Chinese are of a dirty, yellow color, and go wherever they please. The Mississippi, however, has the biggest mouth, except when the Chinaman " sjniles. The Mississippi river ‘has been obstructed with dams, but a great many people think a Chinaman is not worth a curse.— Texas Siftings. ? The Arabs are so polite that when a thief robs a man he not only apologizes, but hopes the victim will find some one to try his hand on.. Kidney-Wort cures piles. It has a soothing and healing action that w very potent Bkown— “So old Tightfistis very sick ! Have they given up all hope?” Fogg—“Yes. all hope.” Brown—" Very sad, isn’t it?” Fogg —“ Very sad. They did have strong hopes until yesterday, but now they fear he is going to get well.”

Warner’s Sate Kidney and Liver Cure.

Mrs. Bowline (watching the dancers) —“Ab, but see what a pretty figure young Chisel, the sculptor, makes on the floor.” Mr. Twitchell (a rival sculptor who chanced to overhear) —“So he does; but it’s a deuced sight prettier figure than he can make out of marble. ’ Attentive : “Ido so like to talk to you,” she says softly, in a pause in the conversation, •beaming on him and sighing. “ Why?” asks the unsuspecting youth. “ Because,” she answered gently, “ because you are all ears.” • i Hint for mammas. An old lady who has several unmarried daughters feeds them on fish diet, because it is rich in phosphorus, and phosphorus is the essential thing in making matches. Every lady who shops by mail should send five 8-cent stamps for a copy of Strawbridge & Clothier's Quarterly. The present number contains 1,000 engravings, illustrating the new fashions, and four pages of new music. Strawbridge & Clothier, Eighth a»u Market streets, Philadelphia.

THE SPRING GRAIN.

JHM Repart of Use National Depart* ■eat of Agriculture. The June crop report of the Department of Agriculture at Washington represents an entire area of 1,561 of the principal counties of the United States, and includes aU but a small fraction of the breadth of prominent crops. The area in cotton is 27.1 per cent, less than tn 1881. A large number of returns say that with the recent fine weather cotton is improving and Jives some assurance of a better report for uly. The largest deficiency i* in States horded ng on the Mississippi river, where plantinc in overflowed districts was not entirely finished the Ist of June. The area sown in spring wheat has decreased apparently about 12 per oeirt. The comparative average of the Northwest is as follow*: Wisconsin, 86 ; Minnesota, 88 ; lowa, 82; Nebraska, 90 ; Dakota, 102. The condition of winter wheat to still very high, averaging 100. Last year in June it waa 76. Taking the winter and spring areas together, and assuming a continuance •of the present conditions, a yield exceeding thirteen bushels per acre would result in an aggrmte exceeded only by the product of 18w). The Southern harvest is safe. Northern winter wheat ha* few risk* to encounter, but spring to still an uncertain quantity. The corn acreage cannot be given until July. A large increase in area to reported in the South and in the Northwest, but in half the States planting was not finished on the Ist of June, and in large districts the plant had made no show above ground. In parts of the South early-planted is In tassels. Planting to everywhere late, the plant to small, and not of average vigor or color in consequence of cold and wet weather. The increase in the area of oats to nearly universal, and amounts to an average of 7 per cent The average of condition to 10L The harvest promises to be very large. There is an increase of 1 per cent in the arsa of barley. Average condition, 90. • The condition of clover and spring pasture has improved, and ranges very high tn the South »ud fair to good in other sections.

"THREW AWAY HER NUPPORTEH.”

Dn. Piebcb : A neighbor of ours was suffering from “female weakness," which the doctors told her could not be cured without a supporter. After considerable persuasion my wite induced her to try your “ Favorite Prescription.” After using one bottle she throw away the supporter and did a large washing, which she had not done in two years before. Jamxb Miller, 4,246 Jacob Street, Wheeling, W. Va. Glass balls and clay counterfeits have been successfully substituted for live pigeons at shooting matches. Now why cannot somebody bring forward equally merciful and efli jamons proxies for the pugilists and base-ball player*'? We congratulate the pigeons, but why shonld not this immunity be extended also to men ? Boston Transcript.

WOMEN AND HER DISEASES.

is the title of a large illustrated treatise, by Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y„ sent to any address for three stamps. It teaches successful self-treatment. Apropos of the announcement that bustles are again coming into vogue,, this conundrum, with its answer, presents itself. In what respect docs a bustle differ from a rich man about to become bankrupt ? The one is better off before, and the other is better off behind. Yonkers Gazette. If your lungs are almost wasted by consumption, Dr. Pierce’s “ Golden Medical Discovery ” will not cure you, yet as a remedy for severe coughs and all curable bronchial, tiiroat and lung affections it is unsurpassed. Send two stamps for Dr. Pierce’s large pamphlet treatise on Consumption and Kindred Affections. Address World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. The small boy of Newburyport treats of giants as follows in his school composition: “A giant ii a very large, strong man, and they have him in the circus. He is the tallest man on earth excepting God.” In view of the results es Arctic exploration, we are forced to believe that the North pole is one of those things that no fellow can find out.

"Buchupaiba".

Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney, Bladder- and Uijnary Diseases. sl. Druggists. Send for pamphlet to E. 8. Wells, Jersey City, N. J. Thousands of infants and children die at this season of the year from Cholera Infantum or summer complaint. This f< arful disease can be cured by Dr. Winchell’s Teething Syrup, which never fails to give immediate relief, even in the most severe cases. Sold by *ll Druggists. For dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of spirits and general debility, in their various forms; also as a preventive against fever and ague and other intermittent fevers, the “ Ferro-Phosphor-ated Elixir of Calisaya,” made by Caswell, Hazard A Co., New York, and sold by all druggists, is the best tonic ; and for patients recovering from fever or other sickness it ha* no equal Eilert’s Daylight Liver Pills are a reliable remedy for biliousness, headache, constipation and liver diseases, and are the best preventive of fevers known. Sold by Druggists. The Frazer Axle Grease is the Standard Axle Grease of the world. Use it and save your horses and wagons. One greasing will last two weeks. Preserve your harness by using Uncle Sam’s Harness Oil, which closes the pores, keeps out ‘dust or dampness, making it soft and pliable. Sold by Harness Makers. Over 200,000 Howe Scales have been sold, and the demand increasing continually. Borden, Selleck A Co., Agents, Chicago, 111. Horses, cattle, sheep and hogs are cured of distemper, coughs, colds, fevers and most other diseases by Uncle Sam’s- Condition Powder. Bold by Druggists. Tby the new brand, Spring Tobacco.

HOW TO SECURE HEALTH. It is strange any one will suffer from derangements brought on by impure blood, when SCOVILL’S SARSAPARILLA AND BTILLINGIA, or BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP, will restore health to the physical organisation. It is a strengthening syrup, pleasant to take, and the BEST BLOOD PURIFIER ever discovered, curing Scrofula, Syphil tic disorders, Weakness of the Kidneys, Erysipe'as, Malaria, Nervous disorders. Debility, Bilious complaints, and Diseases of the Blood. Liver, Kidneys, Stomach, Sk n, eto. BAKER’S PA)n PANACEA cures pain in man and beast. DR. ROGER’S WORM SYRUP Instantly destroys WORMS.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beevesslo 00 916 00 Hogs 725 A 8 25 Cotton 12X9 Flour—Superfine. 8 80 @ 4 65 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 128 @ 1 29 No. 2 Redl 41 9 1 41 Corn—Ungraded 75 9 78 Oats—Mixed. Western 58 9 61 Pork—Mees2o 00 921 00 Labd 11x9 12 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice Graded Steers 7 60 9 8 60 Cows and Heifers. 825 9 5 25 Medium to Fair 670 9 750 Hogs. 4 50 98 60 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex.... 6 75 9 7 25 Good to Choice Spring Ex. 650 9 7 00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 1299 180 No. 3 Spring 1 20 9 1 25 CORN—No. 2 69 9 70 Oats No. 2 50 @ 51 Rye —No. 2 68 9 69 Barley—No. 2. 94 @ 95 Butter—Choice Creamery 23 9 24 Eggs—Fresh 17 9 18 Pork—Mess.2o 50 ’921 00 Labd • • T - ~•• “X MILW AUK EE. Wheat—No. 21 31 9 1 82 Corn -Nor 2 69 9 70 Oats-No. 2 49 @ 50 Rye—No. 2. 68 9 69 Barley—No. 2 78 9 79 Pobk—Mera 20 50 921 00 Labd UX® iiy ST. LOUIS, Wheat—Na 2 Redl 20 9 1 21 Cobn—Mixed 70 9 71 Oats—No. 2 49 9 50 Ktk 74 76 Pobk—Mera 21 00 @2l 25 Laud 11x9 liu CINCINNATI. Wheat 1 84 9 1 86 Corn 74. 75 Oats 52 9 58 Byr 71 @ 7 9 Pork—Messa.2l 00 @2l 50 iabd iix® up. TOLEDO. Wheat—Na 2 Bed 127 ®1 28 Oobn 74 @ 75 Oats 66 9 M DETROIT. Flour—Choice 6 26 9 9 00 Wheat—Na 1 Whitel 27 9 1 28 Corn—Mixed. 72 ® 74 Oats—Mixed 60 @ 52 Bablby (per cental).... 2 00 ®220 Poke—Mera2l 00 @2l 60 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—Na 2 Red.l 24 9 1 26 Cobi&—Na 2 78 9 74 Oats 66 ® 66 EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle—Best 8 00 a 860 Fair 7 00 9 7.60 - Common 6 00 @ 650 Hogs 7 70 @ 860 Sheep 3 00 9 625

O PMI sh One flollar (postage stamps or currency) WpN 11 in letter at our risk, with sizs of shoe usnW wi" W lady worn, for a pair of our (very thin) Magnetic Cork Insoles and descriptive catalogue With testimonials of marvelous cures obtained Without Taking Medicines with Magnetic Appliances. NeCeld Feet, Nervousness. *c, when Insoles are used. C O i,’»llFVtata'Bt^Vohta^ ,NKTOf<

PERRY DAVIS’ Pain-Killer Si SAFE AND SURI REMEDY FOR Ftheumaffsm, Neuralgia, Cramps, Cktera, Diarrhoea, Dysentery. Sprains AKD Bruise*, Scalds, Toothache AND Headache. FOR BALE BI ALL DRUGGISTS. fcIfTERS

The feeble and emaciated, suffering from dy.pep.lx at todgestion in any form, are advised, for the sake of their own bodily and mental comfort, to try Hostetter’s Stomach Bitter*. Ladle, of tbe most delicate constitution testify to its harmless and it* restorative properties. Physicians everywhere, d.sgustcd with the adulterated liquors of commerce, proscribe it as the safest and most reliable of all stomachics. tW For sale by all Draorist* and Dealer* generally. ffiOfl per day at home. Samples worth $5 free. $0 VO «PaU Address Stinbon A Co, Portland,Me. CARD. —A handsome act of CARD* for ollectors, 3c stamp. A. E. Babcock, Rochester, N.Y. a week in your own town. Term* end $5 outfit «PDO free. Address H. Hallett A Co., Portland,Me PnnciimnflvAC Send your name and address to 8. B. UOnS UinpilTcS ALLEN, 166 State St., Rochester,N.Y. S7nAWKHK. sl2 a day st home easily made. Costly <P / A outfit free. Address TBUE A Co., Augusta, Me. Vfill AID MEM If you want to hum Telegraphy ta a lUudU IvILIV few months, and be certain of a sit. nation, address VALENTINE BROS., Janesville. Wla. finilßßffi Horphlne Habit Cured in M IBwlllnM to'4o<lnr». Nopn.v till t'uied. Vb I WSwI Db. J. Stephen*. Lebanon. Okie. (DCKlJu'l A MONTH- ACENTS WANTEO-DO best selling articles in the world; 1 sample/r,«. VlWlwtF Address Jay Bronson, Detroit, Mich. free. THE AULTMANA TAYLOR CO.. MauafislA.O. nPIiIMA.^’TXEATING I U iVlspeedy cure SENT FREE. Da. J Q w ‘ ■ tforvM xw.P.O.Box IM,Chicago,lU. PRINTERS, BTATIOMKU AMD CAVJL VASBERB can handle to advantage our Fine Advertising Cards, Folders, Fans, etc. A set of samples, $1.50. Money refunded on purchases amounting to $1560. O. E. MORRELL, 17 Warren St., New York City. llinEC’ IHPROVED HOOT HEER. U I ww B w 25c. package makes 5 gnllons of a do- || !■■■■ V 1 cioua, wholesome, sparkling TemperI I ancs beverage. Aak your druggist, or sent by mall for 2Sc. C. E. HIRES, 48 N Dels. Aue., Phllada. A REMARKABLE OFFER! To introduce good* and aecure future patronage. any one sending me 32 cents and the addresses of 10 of their acquaintances will receive by return mail an elegant SAVE YOUR CABBAGE Palmer's Plant and Vine Protector is a sure protection for all plant* and vines against destructive insects. This Powder is warranted non-poisonous. Ono pound is enough for an ordinary garden ; Tour pounds for an acre of cabbage. Bold by dealers generally. 1 Ib. 25c ; 23tj lbs, 50c; or sent to any address prepaid on receipt of 45c for 1 lb, 90c for 2W lbs, by Palmer Plant A Vine Protector Co., Sole Props. A Manfrs., Rockford, 111. Send for circular. One Dollar A YEAR. The Best Story Pnpvrin the West. 4H column* '•f or g nal and choicely-selected reading matter, printed upon large, plain type Issued Weekly, and mailed to any address in the United States, postage paid, for One Dollurn Year. Every new subscriber gets a premium. Send fouample cony. Address CHIC AGO LEDGER, Chlcngo, IIL an 1 will completelv change the blood in the ent>re system in three months. Any person who will take one pill each night fnml to 12 weeks m»y be restored to sound health, if such a thing be possible. Sold everywhere, or •ent by mail for 8 letter stamps. 1. •JOII.VKO.N’ A, CO., Boston, Mnea.* formerly Bangor, Me.

USE NONE BUT THE THE GREAT w I fl Me SOLD BY ALL GROCER ' 4s/ ""PFMN'A.'SALT MF'G.CO.PHII f

MAKE HENS LAY. . An English Veterinary Surgeon and Chemist, now * n „ thi ? oonnt . r J r > ’*»'» tbi t most of the Horse and Cattle Powders sold here ant worthless trish. He Ssys thst Sheridan’s Condition Powders are absolutely pure and immense's vslunble. Nr,thing on e»>Lh will make h< ns lay likeShetid n’s Condition Powders. D<»s. one teaapoonful to one pint of food. Sold everywhere, or sent by mail for 8 letter sumps. 1.8 JOHNSON A COBoston, Mass , formerly Bangor, Me. Knapp’s Ext of Roots For Making Root Beer. A delicious rammer drink. Druggists, Root-Beer Makers and Families will find this Extract the best and cheapest in tbs market. Put in bottles at 25c, 60c, 8 I RO, 82.50, and half and gall, osns at $4 and $8 each, which make respectively 10, 25, 61,200, 400 and 8 0 gala, of beer. Bold by Druggists. Depot, 362 Hudson St.. New York. MORRIBON. PLUMMER A 00., Agents, Chicago.

I.— a ■ 1* ESPOSIZIONE MUSICALE IN MILANO, | flk ■ ** Motto it Palrotlnto di M. M. la Rfflna, • | ML I Palazzo Del R. Conservatprio. 1881. AT THE GREAT ITALIAN MUSICAL EXPOSITION, gecentlv closed nt Milan, waa probably the MOST EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION OF MUSICAL IBTRUMENTS, old and new, ever brought together; fully illustrating the great prog<e-s which has been mads and present high excellence in thia department of manufactures. After exhaustive examinations, testa and comparisons, extending through a period of several months, more than 250 Awards were mode of medals and diplomas, in rsoogniti n of degrees of super-excellence attained in the various depart ments of mu ioal art and manufacture. For REED INSTRUMENTS, including Organs and Harmoniums of all descriptions, European ■ and American, THE CRAND SILVER MEDAL, Being the only highest award in this department, was conferred upon the

MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS. Their manufacturers value this extraordinary dMHnction the more highly because of the importance of the occasion, especially as an INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPETITION IN A COUNTRY SO PRE-EMINENTLY MUSICAL. The Mason A llsml.n Organs were honored by especial exhibition Imfore the Royal Court by OARJX) DUCCI, of Rome, and warm commendation from their Majesties tbo King and Queen. At all the great WOKIJPB INiffirtTKlAL EXPOMJTIONN for fourteen years these Organs have received the HIOHEHT HONORS, being the only American Organ, which hace received each al any. IMDDL VCMCIITQ During the year just closed this Company have introduced improvements of llYlrnU VCm Cll 10. greater value than in any similar period sinoe the introduction of the American Organ by them, twenty years since. Cl CCANT &TVI CQ are now received from their factories dally, anrparalng In capicity and excellence CLCURn I O I ILt O anything which has before been produced, and certainly worthy to be ranked with the vbby rntui musical instkumknt; in thk wobld They are in omm of solid black walnut, mahogany. saw KBONIZED, Ao., at net caeh p> lore. 8240. 8330, 8330. 8300. S4SO, • >7O, BS4O luid %DO.>. nnnill an OTVI CO including, also, the most valuable of the recent Improvements, and adapted to all rUrUL’HI O I ILCO, uses, public and private, In plain and elegant caaes, are at 822. 830. 8 >7, SOU. •72, •S 4 SOO, *O3. *BO. 8102, SIOS to 8200. nud up. PAYMENTS TbM f Or 6 Arn •° ll * or 01>b or e **y payments, or will be rented until rent A NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, with net PBICB-ÜBTS and circulars, will be sent free to any one desiring them. Cer alnly mo one ehonld bny or real <rsy Organ without having teen three circulars, irAicA contain much «ac/u< information abort Organe. MASON A HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO CO., 164 TfWOBt Ste Mt. BO8TQN; @ RaH Hth Street (VtOop StJ.), NEW YORK 1149 Wabash 4y»»V. CHIOAQQ,

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