Pike County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 12, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 August 1882 — Page 4

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT. Published Every Friday. * PETERSBURG, r- - INDIANA. THE PRINCE OF PEACE. Death sent his messengers before; Our Master comes apace." they cried. “ Ere night ha wilHSe at thj dow. To claim thy darling from thy side.” I drove them forth with curses fell; I drove them forth with jeer and scoff; Not all the powers of Heaven or Hell, Combined, should bear my darling off. 1 armed me madly for the fight; My gates I bolted, barred and looked; At sunset came a sable knight. Dismounted at my doors and knocked. I answered not he knocked again; 1 braved him sole, I braved his band; He knocked once more; in vain, in vain| My barriers crumbled ’neath his hand. I rushed Into the breach; 1 stood. Dazed with the flood of ebbing light, * A victory oser senseless wood Adds scanty glory to thy mlghtl A stronger champ.on guards-those walls— A human love, a living heait; And while each earthly bulwark falls, It stays thee, awful os thou art!” My saber shivered on his mail, ■ ■ My lance dropped headless at his feet; I saw my darling's cheek grow pale, I saw her turn my foe to meet. He passed—my lips alone could move; * Mad words of passion forth I hurled; “ They lied who sa d that God was lovo. Who lets a tyrant rule the world.” He gathered her to his embrace. While yet I raved in my despair; He raised his vizor from his l’aoe, I looked, and saw an angel there. Such conquering love, s tch mercy rare, „ Such Heavenly pity in his eyes. Assurely Love Divine might wear. When He assumed our mortal guise. He bent above her dear dumb lips— Mine own, whom I had loved too well— And struggling from life’s last eclipse. They smiled Ttrpeace ineffable. Awestruck I watched, he raised his head. And then, in tones like summer's breath, “ Am I a thing so vile,” ho said, “ I, whom ye men call shuddering death?” And sword and targe aside I flung. Forgotten wrath, and loss, aud pride; To his departing feet I clung, “ And me, too, take me, too," I cried; Without her, alt is blank and black. With her, and thee so fair—mo, too,” The solemn voice cams ringing back; “ Not yet, for thee is work to do." The sunset sank from rose to gray. His accents died away with It, And from my soul, as from the day, The glow and glory seem to flit; And ’midmy stronghold’sshattered strength, I knelt alone, yet not alone. Death's angel left me hope at length Through tasks fulfilled to reach mine t own. . —Alt the Tear Hound. MISS LYDDY’S WEDDING GOWN. •‘Oh, missus, missus! Somefln’s done happened!" * Blank horror and dismay were depictedupon the lace of my small African, as she stood upon my threshold with upraised hands and eyeballs that seemed starting from their sockets. Her pause was one of preparation, for with tho innate consideration of her race she sought to break the news gently to me, but the burden of it wa3 too great for her, and with the next breath she exclaimed:

“JJem pigs done chawed up Miss Byddy’s weddin’ gown!” . “ Glory,” I exclaimed (she had "been liiously christened Gloriana), “Glory, now did it happen?” “Dunno!” said Glory. “’Fears to me dem pigs has got "Satan in ’em. Guess dey’s ’scended from de ole lot what run down a steep place inter de sea. 1’ 11 .go an’ fetch ye a piece.” . She sped out and instantly returned with a tattered shred of India mull that had once been white, and still bore some resemblance to a gown. Poor Miss Lyddy! This was all that remained of her dream of wedding splendors. It was too pitiful! I felt at once that the bonds of good neighborhood had been irretrievably broken, and that Major Hawthorne must be made aware of this last and worst depredation of his unseemly pigs. But who would break thenews to Miss Lyddy? “ Glory,” said I, “ where is she?” “Gone over to de buryin’-place to ’tend to de aneesters,” answered Glory. Poor, faithful soul, even in those last days of her maidenhood, with the vague terrors of matrimony and the still more appalling responsibilities of unsaved heathen souls hanging over her, she did not forget the ancestors. Long lines of Ludkinses lay buried in little sunken hillocks in the family burying-place, which lay just in sight of her sittingroom window. She herself was the last of her race, and until within three weeks it had seemed that the only fate which awaited her was to live but her little Bpace under the ancestral roof-tree and then take her place in the silent ranks of those who had gone before. But a * change had come! It came in the person of a returned missionary from the Micronesian Islands, who had buried the first and second partners of his joys and sorrows somewhere under the palm trees of those tropical lands, and had come back to the scenes of his youth to recruit his health, serve the cause and look up partner number three. He met meeting: He called the next afternoon and was Invited to stay to tea. He accepted the invitation, and the next morning Miss Lyddy came into my room—for I. too, domiciled under the Ludkins roof-tree for a consideration— and with much hesitation and many faint and delicate blushes informed me that she had promised to share the future lot of the Rev. Nehemiah Applebloom, to take care of his Six children and sustain and support him in his arduous labors among the heathen of the Micronesian Islands. I was struck dumb with amazement “Miss Lydia,” I said at length, “have you duly considered this project. Her thin figure quivered and her white face, that had yet a delicate remembrance of youth in it, grew tender with feeling. j' * “Yes,” she said, “ I think I have. I have always had * presentiment that I should marry a minister or a missionary.” Admirable ind pathetic faith! “ And Mr. Applebloom says he knew the moment he set eyes upon me that I was ordained to be hi3 wife; so you see It is not the surprise to .either of us that it is likely to be to our friends. " I knew then that her mind was fully made up, so I demurred no longer, but. lent myself at once to a discussion of the wedding, which I plainly saw was what Miss Lyddy desired of me. “You wifi be married in church, I woman’s missionary

guppuser “ O, no,” said Miss Lyddy, with Eantle decision. “I am the last of the udkinses. All the Ludkinses have 9 been married at home. I will go out from under my own roof-tree. If I mustseem to forsake the ancestors”— % she paused to regulate a little choking in her throat—“I will at least not forsake the traditions. I shall leave a little money with the parish clerk, that he may see that the graves of my dead are kept in order, as I always have loved to keep them, and I hope they will forgive my departure; but 1 will at least go as a Ludkins should. It is my .desire to be married in my grandmother’s weddinggown.” Miss Lyddy’s voice trembled, and there was a humidity in her eyes, at which I did not wonder, for it was much like a funeral, after all. “I thought, perhaps," went on Mias Lyddy, “if I brought the venerated relic to you, yon would tell me if anything were necessary to be done to fit it tome. I don’t care for the fashions, you know, and my grandmother, as I remember her, was about my height, but still, you know—some changes might be advisable.” “Certainly,” I said, “do bring it to me. I should so like to see it.” “ It is sprigged India (she called it Ingy) mull. My grandfather, Captain Simon Ludkins, brought it heme from overtkesegs. J’Jl bmg it,"

Like some pale and geit'ie ghost she rose then and went to a Jroreau drawer and nnrolled from folds of linen that smelt of lavender, the fiir, frail irelio of Mrs. Captain Simon Lr dkinq’ wedding state. It was fine embroidered, mdu, the undoubted product of Indian looms. “It is lorely,” I sail, “and so well kept that it will he jufit the thing for you. Will you try it o if We can tell then just what it’need .” Miss Lyddy proceeded to disrobe herself and put on ,the spider-net gown. As she did so, the changes in fashion’s mandates became only too evident. It had no waist to. speak if, and just a little lace-trimmed puff for sleeves. Miss Lyddy was evidently surprised. She had not thought of this. I knew well what the troubled loo i upon her face meant, and I pitied liar maiden sensibilities. Could it be lossible that her frandmother, Mrs. Captain Simon Lndins had ever worn sueh agown as this? She said not a word that could indicate the depth of her mortification, but her face was -a study for a i artist. “There must be sleeves,” she murmured, after a few moments of silent and embarrassed contemplation. “Yes,” I replied, sheerfully as my constrained gravity w raid allow., “And you might have a fichu and a flounce on the bottom.” She looked down. She had nof .before realized that the skirt of the tjenerated relic lacked a 'all quarter of a yard of touching the f oor. - “However could they!” she ejaculated in an undertone, liut she quickly recovered herself md looked up to me cheerfully over hei spectacles. “How ingenious ym are!” she said,with an air of sweet relief. “I knew you: would help me out.” We went out together and bought the requisite mull that day, but when wo came to put it beside the “venerated relic”, of Mrs. Captain Ludkins it was evident that time' hat so enriched-the color of the latter that the two were most unfortunately unlike.

‘•we can lay it (jut on the grass,” I said; “these June„ci<ws are just the thing for it, and as .it will be evening nobody will in the least notice.” Again Miss Liddy t miled gratefully, and declared that my suggestion should be carried out in the most faithful manner. The Kev. Nehemiah Applebloom—“a lovely name, don't you think so?” said Miss Lyddy, and she blushed and smiled like a school-girl in her teens— had but a short furlough', and the marriage -was to transpire tjje next week, so the relic was put out t9 bleach forthwith. It had already baetjuponthegrass three days, and nights, and been religiously watered by Mass Lyddy at morn and noon and dewy eve, and the next day it was to be taken up early and put into the dressmaker’s handsifor the necessary alterations, when tlieoreadful event occurred with which this narrative opens. “ Glory,” I said, “do jrou keep watch, for Miss Lyddy when she returns. Say nothing about what has happened unless she misses' the gown from .the grass. In that case tell her that I thought it was bleached enough and took it up to' dry, and you don’t know where 1 have put it I am going out now, but if she asks where, tell her you don’t know.” Glory was faithful, and had beside.* the natural craft of her race, and I knew that she could bo trusted. As for me, I swiftly donned ray bonnet and set out to find Major Hawthorne. It was a bright June evening, and my walk through the meadow and the grove that skirted Hawthomdeau would have been a delightful one if I had borne a mind more at ease. The Major was a gentleman by birth, but lie had lived out his fifty bachelor years in a gay and careless way that had seemed to set the gentler part of creation at defiance. In the lifetime of. his parents Hawlhorndeau had been a beautiful estate. It still retainid many marks of wealthy and cultivated owneiship, but it was sadly run down, as the home of | a bachelor is apt to be. The grove, 1 which had once been the pride of the place, was grown up to brush now, and the sere leaves of many summers’ growth rustled under my feet as T walked through'it At one point, coming suddenly around % thick clump of undergrowth I heard k chorus of tiny snorts and the scampering of numberless hoofs, and I knew that I had invaded a haunt of the Major’s last agricultural freak, the very “brood of Berkshire pigs that were the source of all my borrowed woes. Away they scampered, their snouts well raised in the air, and each with a curl in its tail that seemed too ornamental to be wholly the product of nature and to justify the village rumor that the Majors own man put those tails in curl-papers cyery night They had the air?of spoiled children, every one, and were evidently the Major’s pets. But tliai. didn’t matter; they had ruined Miss Lyddy’s wedding gown, to say nothing of a dozen other aggravating exploits which da not belong to this story, and I was determined to have satisfaction out of their owner.

I found the Major -sitting oil his piazza with an after-dinner look upon his handsome, good-humored face. He rose to greet mo; with an air of oldschool politeness, dashed with a faint wonder that I, a woman, should hare had the hardihood to approach a place so little frequented bv women. “Good evening, Miss Grace. I am happy to see yon. In what can I have the honor to serve yoti?” He had read my face apd knew that I had come on a mission. “Major Hawthorne,” J said, paying no attention to his offer-qf a chair, “I have come on a very painful errand.” “ Sit down, madam,” said the Major, politely. “I cannot possibly permit a lady to stand on my piazza. I ought, perhaps, to ask you to walk in, but it is rather study indoors this evening.” “No,” I said, “1 will sit here, if you please.” To tell the truth, indoors, as seen through the window, had not the most inviting look, and I was glad to compromise. “You have, no doubt, heard”— plunging, in medias ref—“that Miss Lydia Ludkins is aboutlo be married.” “Married! Miss Lydia! No! Hadn't heard a word of it,” said the Major, jn. genuine amazement. “ Who is the fortunate man, pray?” “The Rev. Nehemiaji Applebloom, a missionary to the Micionesian Islands, who has come home to recruit his health and find a wife.” . *■ “I know him.” said the Major. “ Saw him down at the station—a long, lean, lank individual—j&st fit fbr his vocation; no temptation whatever to cannibals! But what the deuce is he going to do with Miss Lydia? * What will Balaam’s Comers do withonfrher?” “Balaam’s Corners must do the best it can,” I said—I fear a little sharply— for my mind was Mill in a most aggressive state toward the Major. “ They aro to be married next week, and—” “What will become Of the ‘ancestors?’” interpolated the Major, in whom surprise seemed to have gotten the better of habitual politeness. “O, she has made arrangements with Mr. Crow about that.” “Just like her! Dear, faithful girl.” The Major had all his life loved all the sex—not one—ancl I was pot to be beguiled by this show of feeling. “She hadsset her heart upon being married in her grandmother’s weddinggown.” * “Old Mrs. Captain Simon? I remember her well. A mighty fine woman. She never would have gone to the ends of the earth with a missionary. It’s the or&ziest scheme I evej heard of.” ? I began to fear I should never get to HIT errand.

sssfis •It out on the grass to £££%'.&&& I'm that the old Captain brought home from India himself. How well I remember him in my boyhood! A jolly soul! A granddaughter of his go off to the Cannibal Blands to be eaten up by savages! I won’t have it!” “ Her heart is set upon going,” I continued. “ The wedding-gown was put out to bleach, and this very afternoon those little Berkshire pigs of yours— they are a nuisance to the whole neighborhood. Major—trampled and rooted it to pieces, so that it is utterly ruined." hlftftlf rAfiosalof*’ eoirl fka c Little black rascals!” said the Major, with a chuckle behind his neckcloth. “‘And I have come, without her knowledge, to tell you of it, .because I w$s sura that, under the circumstances, a gentleman of your breeding would fern in honor bound to make some reparation to Miss Lydia.” The Major 'mpsed and looked at his boot for a monrent in silence. “Miss Grace,” he said at length, “I thank you for the service you have rendered me in this matter. Will you have the goodness to say to Mis9 Ludkins, with my compliments, that I shall do myself the honor to wait upon her tomorrow morning at ten o'clock, to adjust this unfortunate matter? I beg in the meantime that she will give hersell as little solicitude as possible, for though I cannot restore the ancient and venerated dry goods. I will do the best that is possible under the circumstances to make the loss good.” He bowed over my hand and the audience was evidently concluded. Was 1 satisfied? No, indeed! What woman would not have felt wronged to be left at the end of a mission of disinterested benevolence in such a state of doubt and uncertainty as this? But I was obliged to go home nevertheless, and wait as patiently as I could for the stroke of ten next morning. Glory had been in hearing when the message had been delivered to Miss Lyddy and she. too, was on the watch. At last she scudded in from the hedge, her ivories all a-glisten, and her eyes wide open and full of a rather incomprehensible mitth. “ He’s a-comin’,” she said; “and such a sight!” At that minute the gate clicked and up the walk strode, indeed, a most astonishing figure. The Major had gotten himself up in a continental suit, which he must have fished out of the unknown depths of the ancient attics at Hawthorndeau; black velvet coat with lace ruffles at the wrist, knee breeches, white satin waistcoat, slippers with shoe buckles, powdered wig and cooked hat. He was six feet tall, portly and well formed, and he looked every inch a Signer of the Declaration at the very least. He was followed by his colored man, who carried a large brown paper parcel. “ He’s come a-courtin’, missus,’’ said Glory; “ ye can see it in his face.’' I had not the instinct of Glory, and doubted; but what his errand was I was dying to know. But he disappeared into Miss Lydia’s parlor, and I was left outside to temper my impatience as best 1 could: Presently Glory entered on tip-toe.

"Missus, missus," she whispered. “De do’s swung open jess dec leas’ crack, an’ its jess opposite de big murror, an’ if ye come out here in de hall, ye can see it all in do murror as plain as day, an’ it’s a beep better’n a play.” It was a temptation, but believe me, dear reader, I resistedit. Only as Glory ran back to her peeping, I followed to pull her away and send her out of doors—that was simply my duty—and there he was full on his knees before Iter, and she with that rapt seraphic look, upon her face which no woman ever wears except on the most vitally interesting occasions. But Glory disposed of, 1 went back to my sewing and waited S3 best I could the conclusion of the momentous interview. The Major came out-at length as smiling as a May morning, leaving the brown paper parcel behind him. It was very still in Miss Lydia’s room for a quarter of an hour, and then she, too, emerged from her retreat;. Spread over her hands was a gown of cream-col-ored brocade embellisned with the loveliest roses in full bloom, with blue for-get-me-nots trailing here and there among them. It had an ample waist, elbow sleeves, and a train a yard and a half long. “My dear Grace,” she said, “theMajor has brought me his mother’s wedding gown to be married in.” “ It is beautiful,” I said; “but who is to be the bridegroom?” She smiled as angels do, and looked afar; a delicate flutter of pink hung out iin her cheek to deprecate her recreancy, as she whispered m a tone of gentle but consummate triumph: “ The Major himself! Didn’t he look grand in his knee breeches?” “And Mr. Applebloom?” “ Ma'jor Hawthorne will adjust that matter.” “That mater,” indeed! She spoke as though it were alreadv as remote from her as the pyramids. “ I congratulate you, Miss Lydia,” I said, growing formal, for she had behaved shamefully. “Don’tblame me,” she murmured. “Major Hawthorne declares that he has loved me since I was a child, but never thought himself worthy of me (the gay deceiver!); and Mr. - Applebloom, you know, is only the acquaintance of a day.” I wanted to ask her how she had disposed of her presentiment, but I did not dare. Major Hawthorne subscribed fifty dollars to the Micronesian Mission and sent Mr. Applebloom elsewhere to look for a wife, and the verdict of Balaam’s Corners was that he had done the handsome thing. ’Fore goodm ess!' said Glory, “ef dere wernrt a clar’ relation between dem pigs an’ Providence den I- don’t know nothin’.” Miss Lydia took the same pious view of the matter, and made the Major the most dainty and dignified of wives.— Our Continent.

Beautiful Red Hair. 1 In cutting np an oak tree in Maine a lock of red hair was found so far inside the tree that it is estimated the hair was put in the tree 240 years ago. It was Sibly cut off and put in there by a live girl when red hair <vas out of and a red-haired girl v^as laughed at and twitted about the sanguinary color of her head covering. We are not 240 years old, but can remember when a red-headed girl was a burden to herself, because her hair gave her away. A young man had to have a good deal of independence who would escort a red-haired girl anywhere, and the girls invariably became old maids. It would have been apic-nio to those girls if they could have lived about these days, when a girl with beautifhl red hair is considered about the sweetest flower in nature's garden. Now that we remember it, the red-haired girls always were good looking, and smarter than ohain lightning. and it is a confounded shame they didn’t come into style years ago. They jugrnot cutting off their hair and burying it now days.—Peck's Sun. —The Rhodes brothers had an insurance policy on their mother’s life at Bradford, Fa. She was in feeble health, and the prospect of her early, death led the sons to quarrel beforehand over the division of the money. When they began to fight, the spectacle so affected Mrs. Rhodes as to bring on an attack o! heart-dise%?e; and sue dropped dead,— Chicago limes.

Injuring Inserts. There are few things more humiliat- “£ to humanity than the sense of man’s helplessness before very small insects. Tigers or wolves we can exterminate easily enough, if we really set ourselves to work at it; rats, mice and weasels we can keep down somehow. But before the Colorado beetle or the seven* teen-year locust we are practically almost resourceless. And before the phylloxera or the hop-fly we can hardly do more than look on regretfully witn folded hands. Yet it is some consolation to reflect that what seems at first sjfrht a useless and purely ornamental science can help us to some extent in dealing with these infinitesimal pests. The only wav to conquer them, if way there-be at all, is to learn their whole life-history; to know them in the egg, in the larva, in the pupa, in the full-, fledged insect; to crush them in every, stage with whatever weapon the subtleties of ohemistry or mere ingenious brute force can suggest; and to do nothing which can in any way give them-' a single extra chance of life.. Nothing, in' fact, could bettor show the intimate interaction and reaction of knowledge and .practice than this interesting study. On the one hand, no means can be devised for getting rid of injurious insects except by a thorough scientific acquaintance with their origin and metamorphoses; on the other hand, no such careful observations on particular life-his-tories have ever been undertaken, probably, except with the stimulus of some Practical advantage to mankind in view. hus science and agriculture both gain by the conjunction. Even butterflyhunting has its special commeroial uses, when the butterfly turns out to be the parent of the gooseberry caterpillar, or to lay the eggs from which a warm sun will hatoh out the destructive cabbageworm. Many of these observations help to bring out the minute interaction which often obtains between different. parts of the organic balance; so that if ye want to exterminate a particular insect, we must sometimes begin by encouraging or repressing some seemingly unconnected bird or plant. For example, botanists have long known that wet seasons are particularly favorable to charlock, and that after two or three such seasons the fields, unless diligently weeded, are yellow all over with its bright blossom. But charlock is apparently the native food-plant of turnip fly, from which the insect spreads easily to the cultivated turnip—a closely allied artificial form; much as the Colorado beetle, originally parasitic on a solanum in the Rocky Mountains, took readily to the richer food of the venr similar potato vines, as soon as extended tillage began to approach its natural habitat It is only by such careful observation, with practical application of the results, that we can hope to outwit our insect foes; for the lhore widely any particular crop is grown, the more generally can its natural enemies spread and survive. Even in England, where hill and dale, copse and hedge break up the tilth, and where small fields of various staples are habitually much intermixed, the insects can easily migrate from patch to patch of their special food-plant: while in -America, where the same crop sometimes covers hundreds of square miles together on the unfenced and unbroken plain, locusts and army worms can march straight across country, day after day, in regular battalions.— SSf. James' Gazette.

Growth of Colts. In order to winter a colt well, and have him come out a fine, showy, sturdy animal in the spring, particular attention must be paid to his growth during the first summer and autumn. If the mare’s milk is at all deficient to keep the colt in good fieshand thriving steadily; it is best to have recourse at oneo to cow’s milk. Skimmed npilk answer# very well for this purpose, especially if a little flax-seed jelly, oil or cotton-seed meal, is mixed with it. A heaped ta-ble-spoonful, night' and morning, is enough to begin with, when the colt is a month old. This can be gradually Increased to a pint per day, by the time it is six months oid, or double this if the colt be of the large farm or Cart Horse breed. Oats, also, may be given as soon as they can be eaten. Begin with a halfpint, night and morning, and go on increasing, according to the age and size of the animal, to four quarts per day. These, together with the mem above, should be supplemented with a couple of quarts of wheat bran night and morning. The latter is excellent to prevent worms, and helps to keep the bowels MP> good condition. Colts should not be permitted to stand on a plank, cement, paved or any har& floor the first year, as these are liable to injuriously affect the feet and legs. Unless the yard where colts run in the winter has a sandy, or fine, dry, gravelly soil, it should be well littered, so as to keep their feet dry. Mud, or soft, wettish ground, is apt to make tender hoofs, no matter how well bred the colt may he. One reason why the horses in one I district grow up superior to those in another in noof, bone, muscle and action, is because it has a dry limestone Or siliceous soil. When the mare is at work, do not let the colt run with her; and if she comes back from her work heated, allow her to get cool before suckling the colt, as her over-heated milk is liable to give the foal diarrhoea. —National Live Stock Journal. Hop Statistics. fleW York State has 9,765 growers of’hops, who cultivate 39,072 acres in the crop, with a product in 1879 of 21,628,931 pounds. Next comes Wisconsin with 2,317 growers, 4,438 acres in the crop, and a product of 1,966,427 pounds; then California, with 89 growers, 1,119 acres, and 1,444,077 pounds production: W asbington Territory, with 55 growers, 634 acres in hops, and a crop of 708,S pounds; Michigan, 433 growers, acres in the crop, and a product of 266,100 pounds; Oregon, 70 growers, 304 acres in the crop, and 244,371 pounds product. Of the New England States Vermont takes the lead, with 214 growers of hops, 265 acres under the crop, and a yield of 109,350 pounds; Maine comes next, with 141 growdrs, 219 acres in hops, and a crop of 48,214 pounds; then New Hampshire, with 54 growers, cultivating 56 acres, and securing ,23,955 pounds; and Massachusetts, with 82 growers, 23 acres in hops, and a yield of 9,895 pounds. Only eighteen States raise hops for the market, and of these, five raise less thifo 10,000 pounds each.—N. T. Times.

Accident in s Sulphur Mine. The Qazetta Pienumlese reports a terrible accident in one of the sulphur mines at Caltanisetta, in Sicily. The rope by which a wagon heavily laden with sulphur was being drawn up an incline out of the “Tutnminelli” pit suddenly snapped. The wagon thereupon ‘ commenced descending again, and, there being no, possibility of stopping it, the wagon rushed at a tremendous speed to the bottom of the pit, and was instantly dashed ‘ to pieces. Owing to the high friction the brimstone burst into flames, with the-most distrous results to the miners, who were at work at the time. . As soon as the lire was extin guished there were no fewer than thin teen dead bodies taken out of the pit, the victims having all been suffocated and burned to death. There were, in addition, upward of thirty miners who had received injuries, chiefly burns of a more or less serious character. —In.the Boston market Maine, Vermont and Canada horses are said to bring twenty-five per cent more than Western horses equally bred.

USEFUL ISO SUGGESTIVE. . —One pound of oilcake, rays a distinguished French chemist, is equal to three pounds of corn meal, nine pounds of bran or ten pounds of hay. —Spiced 'Currants: Take three pounds of sugar, add a pint of vinegar, three tablespoonfuls of cinnamon and two of cloves. Add six pounds of fruit and boil twenty minutes. Excellent served with meat.—Rural New Yorker. —This is the season df the year when the farmer loves a drink of good, pure water. Do not forget that animals, including your hot chickens, thrive on the same innocent beverage. Healthy fowls cannot he raised on filthy water. —N. Y. Herald. —Broadcloth when worn may have a new face put on it by the following method: Kip up carefully, brush thoroughly, lay on the right side a cotton or linen cloth wrung from cold water, and pass a hot iron over the cotton, remove and press the broadcloth on the wrong side. —Pickled Beets: Boil very tender in quite salt water, skin, slice and place in an earthen pot or any convenient dish. For every good-sized beet allow a thin slice of onion, a tablespoonful of grated horse-radish and half a dozen cloves. Cover with cold vinegar. They will not keep over a week.—Aural New Yorker.

—H.he American wonder or premium gem peas sown in August will, if they escape mildew, make a fair autumn crop. Much every way depends upon the weather for success, and from our own experience we prefer August to ■July. Mold from the woods makes- a very nice fertilizer. The ground should be finely and deeply pulverized.—N. Y. Herald. —To Cure Nursing Sore Month: Mix together a teaspoonful each of pulverized alum and borax, half, a salt spoonful of pulverized nutgalls and a tablespoonful of honey (sugar will answer the purpose); pour over the mixture a teacupful of boiling water; let it settle, and with a clean''linen rag wash the mouth four or five times a day, using a fresh bit of linen every time. This will cure sore mouth in mother and child.— N. Y. Tribune. —Chicken Cholera: When you give medicine for this disease be careful that the water the fowls drink is pure. We give a plenty of green food, chopped and made palatable by mixing with other edibles. If you see a thick-skinned fruit on the ground break it, so that the bird may get at its best part, or at least be tempted to try it The Poultry World prescribes equal parts of peppermint, laudanum and camphor—five ' to ten drops of the mixture every day. „ Flax. . Some months ago we published an article upon the growing of flax for fiber, and it was and is a subject of considerable importance. But it receives but comparatively little attention, for there is a very prevalent disposition to shirk the labor necessary to produce an article that manufacturers can use. To do this requires a greater degree ol care and the adoption of more thorough methods than the majority of the farmers seem willing to give or adopt The production of seed alone appears to be sufficient to satisfy the most of those who grow the crop. In the article we published, and to which we have referred, it may be remembered that mention was made of the fact that at one time a company of eastern capitalists erected a flax mill in a section ol the West in which there was fifty thousand acres annually uuder flax, but that the enterprise bad to be abandoned. Now to one who is inexperienced, it would be supposed that such a section would guarantee the success of a flax mill. There was the mill and there was the flax. Yet the - undertaking was a failure. And why? Because the farmers of that section would not grow flax for the fiber. The company said the farmers Would neither puu the flax, Iceep the straw straight or treat it as it deserved—that they seemed to be content to raise flax fbr the seed only. In thus doing, or rather in thus not doing, the farmers of this section certainly did not act in accordance with their own Interests. Ono of the great drawbacks to the cultivation of flax for the fiber, is the want of market in many sections. The business of manufacturing, whigh at one time assumed considerable pro

portions, has declined, as is well known, and a market for the fiber is not always accessible. Bnt in this instance the market was brought to the very door of the flax grower, and it is nearly unaccountable that he did not take advantage of it. It is ' estimated that the neglect to grow flax for the fiber upon tno one million of acres devbted to the crop in this country, entails an aggregate loss of about twentyfive millions of dollars, a sum, as will be admitted, of sufficient importance to attract attention to the subject of flax growing for the fiber. The time is coming when we shall not be satisfied to suffer this annual waste, and in the meantime, the inquiries which frequently come to us, in reference to flax growing for seed, are noted, with interest, because they indicate that there is an increasing interest in flax culture and that beginners are getting themselves into a pathway that will sooner or later lead to handsome rewards. After awhile, in this great fertile West, where crops grow so luxuriantly, with a minimum of care and labor, we shall learn to economize by a more thorough system in the growing of all crops. Now we are wasteful. We spread out over to many acres, and lose the interest upon the value of a great deal of our land, in that we do not force our farms to yield more. Gradually there is a reform progressing in this direction. It is true the progress is very slow, and thorough reform will probably never be established, while there is so much land that we can almost have if we will simply occupy it But the American farming population is too intelligent to permit reckless waste- to go on, even if there are strong temptations to do so, without a steadily increasing effort to check it*, and as a part of this effort, the conversion of flax fiber into value, will come. If the flax growers of the country will make it a point to produce fiber that is fit for the mills, the mills will not be long wanting. Flax needs a good soil and a dry one. If it is naturally inclined to be wet it is folly to attempt to grow flax upon it, without first thoroughly draining it. Usually a good wheat soil is good flax soiL It is an exhausting crop, and the soil ought to be new to it. The ground should be thoroughly prepared, and the sowing done in the spring as soon as the sou ft reasonably dry and warm. The quantity of seed will differ according to the purpose for which the crop is grown. If the production of seed is the object, about a half or three-quarters of a bushel to the acre can be used; if the fiber is wanted, about a bushel and a half. When a small quantity of seed is used, the plants send out large branches, which will produce many seed-bolls, but the fiber will not be very good. But when a larger quantity of seed is used, a larger number of plants, of comae, are produced, the plants grow straight and tall, and produce a good quality of fiber, but not much seed.— Western R uraL —There are now upon the Skagit River, Washington Territory, about twenty logging camps, which are putting info the water from 1,000.000 to 1,500,000 feet of logs per month, and new camps are constantly being added as trade and settlement progresses up the river. There is an immense body of timber on this stream, much of which is still quite easy of access

-'■"■r*"1—*'"■ .. — The TTIt of the Pertf. We have always entertained the belief that the fool of mediaeval times was a doll fellow, in spite of the Immortality he has won with the help of literature. We do not feel as if we could get along without Touchstone or Wamba, and yet were we to come face to face with counterparts of the originals they would doubtless prove terribly insipid and tedious. Still we always prefer the professional fool to the amateur fool, just as we prefer the professional actor to his amateur imitator, one leading reason being that the former aims to give effect to the studied, fancies of others, while the latter expects to make a reputation upon unstudied essays at witticism of his own. Animation,sprightliness, a lively fancy and crispness or quaintness in the methods of expressing even commonplace ideas are always welcome to any well regulated social cirde. But the more it can be distributed the better it b lik ely to wear, and the less likely are vanity and silliness to become prominent. At every railroad station, m every picnio party, upon every summer steamboat, one sees little knots of people that seem to have surrendered to a single individual the responsibility of entertaining the party. If the individual thus tacitly selected has some exciting experiences to relate or some valuable information to impart, and bis or her hearers like to take in that sort of thing upon a summer day, letting the sceneiy flit by unnoticed, or the fish and berries remain unmolested in brook and on bush, it is not for others to complain, and certainly we have not a word to say. But that is not the kind of entertainment that is being dispensed in most cases. The wit of the party is holding forth. He wears a smirk of sweet selfconsciousness ; enjoys the belief that he is a person of distinction in his circle, and means to justify the reputation that he has, or thinks he has, if it bores everybody within hearing distance except his little convention of admirers. He catches on to little bits of suggestiveness all around him. He can wreathe a pun around a spittoon, or murder a poet on a mountain, and he will never stop as long as there comes at intervals to his grateful ears the guffaw or the giggle, that needs very little priming after it is once started. The man or woman who is thoroughly impressed with the idea that he or she is a fountain of wit to -be played on all special occasions, if not oftener, is in immiuent danger of becoming a nuisance. They should see whether the fountain has a head high enough to justify this lavish expenditure of mental brilliants, as rare as diamonds, or whether they are not cheap imitations brought up by a force-pump. Even too much of pure wit is over-stim-ulating. A continuous stream of sham wit is positively and quickly nauseating. —Boston Post. —In London has been founded a national society for the suppression of juvenile smoking. One of the leaders in the movement is the eminent teetotaler, Dr. Benjamin Ward Richardson. Letters in approval of the society’s aims were read from the Earl of Aberdeen, Mr. Samuel-Morley, and others. Dr. Richardson said the use of tobacco by the young was a grave and increasing evil, and that the effects of it on them were destructive both to mind and body. He was convinced'-tbat the need for the society was large land real. - •» « «■ -— —Thirty-one murders have been committed in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, since 1875, and there has been but one hanging during the same period.—Louisville Courier-Journal. The Beet Way. The best way to increase the appetite, assiS* digestion, cause the food to assimilate properly, and the absorbents to tike up nourishment, Induce full and regular evacuation, produce easy expectoration, and stop decay of the lungs, heart, liver, urinary and digestive organs and purify tbe blood, is by using that Queen of health called Dr. Guysott’s YelloW Dock and Sarsaparilla. Leading physicians recommend it as a true strengtheuer, a sura reviver and perfect health renewer. It is composed of harmless yet effective vegetable tonics and will not harm the most delicate, being especially adapted to enfeebled constitutions and infants.

Mr boarders shall have “the fat of the land,1’ she said, as she receipted for a tub of oleomargarine. A piitsician writes: “For ail diseases affecting the blood, liver and kidneys, brain and nervous system, there is no combination prepared for general use more beneficial than Dr. Guysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. I recommend it frequeatlyin my practice.” Why then remain a crabby dyspeptic and nervous sufferer 1 Why not be strong, healthy and robusU_ i_ 8. J. P., Chattanooga, Tcnn. i “I have a valuable ben that will insist on sitting on stt eggs. How can I prevent her doing s6!” We have referred your letter to our poultry critic. He says there are many ways to prevent your ben from engaging in sedentary pursuits on a capital of six eggs. He suggests that you add another egg—or that you use the eggs, in a oust aril pie, but he says if you want a dead sure thing boil the hen.—Taras Siftings. $200.00 Reward Will be paid for the detection and conviction Of any person dealing in bogus or imitation Hop Bitters, especially Bitters with the word Hop or. Hops in their name, that is intended to cheat the public, or for anything pretending to be the same as Hop Bitters. Th* genuine has a cluster of Greeh Hops (notice this) printed on the white label, and is the best medicine on earth, especially for Kidney. Liver and Nervous Disease*. Beware of all formulas or recipes of Hop Bitters published in pacers or for sale, as they are frauds and swindles. Whoever deals in any but the genuine will be prosecuted. Hop Bitters M’p’o. Co., Rochester, N. Y. The Boston Transcript recommends kerosene oil to take the smell of onions out of the breath, but doesn’t state how many barrels are necessary. _ Personal. J The Volta c Belt Co., Marshall, Mich., win ■end Dr. Dye’s celebrated Electro-Voltaio Beits and Appliances, on trial for thirty days, to men (young or old) who are afflicted with nervous debility, lost vitality and kindred troubles, guaranteeing complete restoration of vitality and manhood. Addiess as above. N. B.—No risk is incurred, as thirty dan trial is allowed.

THE MARKETS. SEW YORK, July 27,1882. CATTLE—Exports___$13 OU «$15 00 COTTON—Middling...;.. 0 12X FLOUR—Good to Choice. 5 60 0 9 Do WHEAT—No.2Red. lit ® 1 15 No. 2 Spring. 113 a 1M CORN—No. 2. S3 0 84 OATS—Western Mixed. 64 ® 67 PORK—Standard Mess. 21 50 0 22 00 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling... BEEVES—Exports.... 7 25 _ Fair to Good....... 5 00 Native Cows. 2 40 Texas Steers.. 3 00 HOGS—Common to Select.... 7 00 SHEEP-Fair to Ohoiee. 3 00 FLOUR—XXX to Choice.. 4 25 WHEAT-t.No, 2 Winter.. 96 No. 3 “ 94 CORN—No. 2 Mixed. 77 OATS—No. 2..... 49 RYE-No. 2. 70 12)4 7 50 600 4 00 5 75 8 60 4 15 8 00 97 95 78 51 71 '5 75 3 50 24 00 23 0 12 0 21 50 14 121* 35 a TOBACCO—Dark Lngs. 5 00 0 Medium Dark Leaf 7 50 0 HAY—Choice Timothy. 23 00 ® BUTTEIt—Choice Dairy.. 2! ~ EGGS—Choice.. 11 PORK—Standard Mess.21 00 BACON—Clear Rib..... 13)4® LARD—Prime Steam. 12 0 WOOL—Tub-washed,medium -33 ® Unwashed. 23 0 CHICAGO. - . CATTLE—Exports.. 7 25 ® 7 75 HOGS—Good to ohoiee..., 7 50 0 8 75 SHEEP—Good to ohoiee. 4 00 0 4 25 FLOUR—Winter...... 6 00 .0 7 00 Spring. 500 0 700 WHEAT—No.SSpring. 1 27 0 1 28 No. 2Red7. 102 ® 103 CORN—No.2. 77 ® 78 OATS—Nq.2... 55 0 56 RYE. 67 ® 68 PORK-NewMess...:. 21 00 0 21 25 KANSAS CITY. OATTLE-Xative Steers.. 4 75 0 5 50 “ Native Ootvs. 2 50 0 3 70 HOGS—Sales at. 7 00 0 8 00 WHKAT-No. 2. 83 ® 84 “ No. 3.. 78 ® 80 CORN—No. 2 Mixed. ® .... OATS-Xo.2... 34 0 35 NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR-Hiah Grades.. 5 50 0 6 25 CORN—White. 1 IB 0 1 10 OATS—Choice... 57 0 58 HAY—Choice... 28 00 0 29 00 PORK—Mess ... .. 22 00 0 22 25 BAOON-ClearRib ............ It 0 14H OOTTOX—Middling.. .*.. .... 0 1214

CinArs Mesa at calls hta steamship Alaska “the greyhound of the Atlantic.” She it probably bark rigged.—Basis* Transcript. ***“Every truth has two sides; look it both before committing yourself to either." Kid-ney-Wort challenges this closest scrutiny of its lngrednents end Its grand results. It baa nothing to fear from truth. ‘ Doctors may dieagree as to the beat methods and remedies for the care of eonstipstibn and disordered liver and kidneys. But those that have used Kid* ney-Wort, agree that it Is by far the heat medicine known. Its action is prompt, thorough and lasting. Bex* Is so scarce aad high that a gentleman of this city la having a sirloin steak aet for a breast-pin.—Boston Courier. A Smart Man is one who does his work quickly and wen. This Is what Dr. R. V. Pierce** “Golden Medical Discovery” does at a blood-purifier and 1 atrengtbener. It arouses the torpid liver, purifies the blood, and is the best remedy for consumption, which is scrofulous disease of the lungs. Tns Lowell Courier is not surprised that - car wheels are being made ont of paper, as we have had “stationery engines” for a long time. We can assure onr readers, should they require anything of the kind, that WaKeubld’s Blackberry Bals am will cure the worst cases of Diarrhea, Dysentery, or Flux. It j* pleasant to the taste and perfectly safe. For Sale by all Druggists. Toe can’t eat enough in a week to last you a year, and yon can’t advertise on that plan either.—Some Sentinel. Beautiful Women are made pallid and unattractive by functional Irregularities, which Dr. Pierce’s' “Favorite Prescription” will infallibly cure. Thousand! of testimonials. By druggists. Another dynamite mine in Russia. Go East, young man, and blew up with the corn*

Sxtravwgnnce Is a crime; and ladies can not affora to do without Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription,'” which by preserving and restorin ' health, preserves and restores that beauty which depends on health. No mattes how ugly a nose may be, its imperfections are overlooked by its owner.— 1toston Transcript* £f7 No woman really practiceseconomy unless she uses the Diamond Dyes. Many dollars can be saved every year. Ask the druggist. Gnus, like opportunities, are all the more to you alter being embraced. Flies, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, J * ’* ' i on Rats.” crows, cleared out by “Rough on) 15c. The lah-de-dah, cigarette-smoking young man, is now styled third-class male matter. Skihst Mbs. “Wells’ Health Renewer” restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia. $1. The boy who feasts upon dime literature is like cold molasses- He turns out bed. If afflicted with Sore Eves, use Dr. Isaac Thompson’s EyeWater. Druggists sell it. 25c. .Cheaper than blscksmithing—ts Frazer’s Axle Grease. For sale everywhere. Try it. Tbt the new brand, “Spring Tobacco.” S66 A WEEK in your own town. Terms and *6 outfit free. Addx’s H.ilallett & 0<v.Portland.Mo Riling OrchestraMnafc. Catalogneafree.Thompson DA3VKI£ Odell. 78 TremoalSt., Boilon.Main. *825MSSB :1 sample free, K- . Mich. C179 A. WEEK. $12 a day at home easily made. J)l aCdStlj outfit tree, Aadrsw True & Co, Augusta. M& AGENTS WANTED for the Best and Fastestselling Pictorial Books And Bibles. Prices reduced 33 per cent. National Publishing Co., St Louis, Mo. I Ttjds it sentc.oj). anywhere. Whole. 1 sale A Befall. Price-list fret. Goods cuan*. I teed. B.C.Sthkkl.157 WaUaah-av.,Chicago. ft 4a (Of! per day at home. 3amples worth $S Vo *Q iZU fret. AddressStiHsoH &(&. Portland, Me. BAryTA Make bigmoney. Goodatnrniahedto HQ Ln I <9 be paid for when sold. No ca*h needed. Address, Ch M. Jackson, 808 N. 6th St, St Louis, Mo.

\$25 Every Day Cati be «*uilf made with «Ur [ Well Augers & Drills ^ One uta and or e horse required. W# One inaa and one horse fcQolred.We * r makers of the Tiffin Well* Kuck-I?rillinfi Machine. h!

S.0QH1S £ STM«H. TifOa, OHIO. MAKE HENS LAY An English Veterinary 5urgeon and Chemiat,now — __-# tk. lTn_. traveling in this conn try. Bays that most of the Horse and Cattle Powders sola here are worthleastraah. He says that Shoridau’s Condition Powders are absolutely pure and immensely valuable. Nothing on earth will make hena lay like Sheridan's Condition Powders. Dose, one teaspoonfal to one pint food. Sold everywhere. er sentoy mail for eight letter stamps. L S. JOHNSON & CO., Boston,Mass..formerly Bangor, Me. Parsons' Puecativk Pm B Pmut make new rich blood.

It to the concurrent testimony of the public and the medical profession, that Hostetters Stomach Bitters to a medicine which achieves re•nlts speedily felt, thorough and benign. Beside rectifying liver disorder, St Invigorates the feeble, conquers kidney and bladder complaints, and hastens the convalescence of those recovering from enfeebling discs. Moreoverttls the grand specific for fever and ague. Tor sale by Druggists and Deale is generally.

DR. JOHN BULL'S Smith's foie Syr! FOR THE CURE OF FEVER and AGUE Or CHILLS and FEVER. The proprietor cf iMr celebrated medicine justly claims for it a superiority over all remedies ever offered to the public for the SATE, CURTAIN, SFEEBY and PERMANENT euro of Ague and Fever, or Chills and Fever, whether of thert or long .tending, He refer, to the entire Western and Southern country to hear him testimony to tho truth of the assertion that in no eaeowhatever will it fail to cure if the directions are strictly folio wed and carried out. In a great many casey a single dose has been snffieientfer a cure, and wholo families have been cured by asingla bottle, with a parfeet restoration of tho general health, it it, however, prudent, and in every ease more certain to ears, if Ite use is oontinued in smaller doses for a weak or two after the disease has been checked, more especially in difflcult and long-standing oases. Usually this medicine Will net require any aid to keep the bowels in good order. Should the patient, however, require a cathartic madioino.after having taken three or four dost* of tike Tonic, a sins’* dose of BULL’S VEGETABLE FAMILY FILLS will ha sufficient. The genuine SMITE'S TONIC SYRUP must have DR. JOHN BOLL'S private stamp on each bottle. OP.. JOHN BOLL only has the right to mannfsetnro and sell the original JOHN J. SMITH’S TONIC SYRUP, of Louisville, Ky. Examine well the label on each bottle. If my private stamp is not on each bottle do not purchase, or yon will be decei ved. DR. ffOKW SULiXj, Manufacturer and Vender cf 8MITH’S TONIC SYRUP, BULL’S SARSAPARILLA, BULL’S WORM DESTROYER The Popular Remedlee of the Day. Priscloal OHtre.ihli St- I.OCIgTltLK. KT. AGENTS WANT!!*.

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LINIMENTfor numnn^owl and animal ficah. was first pretnred and Introduced by Dr. Geo. W. .Merchant, In Lockport, N. Y„ U. S. A., 1833, siuvo which time It baa country. When we moke this announcement we do so without fear of contradiction, notwithstanding we ere aware there are many who are more or lean prejudiced against protrietary remedies especially on account of the many bumbugs ou the market; however, we are

piouseu 10 scale inacsuca prejudice ‘luce urn earn against OAKGL1KG OIL. Wo do not claim wonders or miracles for our liniment. bu» ve do claim

it is without an equal. mapuc up In bottles of three sizes, and all we ask is that you gfve It a fair trial, remembering that the Oil put up with white wrapper '(small) is for human and fowl flesh, and that with yellow wrapper (three Eizea) for ani

mainesn. Try a r-otuo. ^ „ As these cuts indicate, the Oil is used successfully for all diseases of the human, foul and animal flesh. Shako well before using-.

Cannot t>o DisputedOne of the principal reason* of the wonderful success of Merchant's Gargling- Oil is that ft la manufactured strictly on honor. Ita proprietors do not, as is the earo with too many, after making

for their medicine a name, diminish its curative properties by using inferior comixnmds* but use tne very best goods to bo bought in the mar

Kef, regardless of cost. * or hair a century Merchant's Gargling UQ has liecn a synonym for honesty, anil will continue to be so, long as time endures. For salo by all respectable dealers throughout tbs

umiea owitcs ana outer counirres.

Our testimonials aaco trom ™ totho present. Try Merchant** Gargling Oil liniment for internal and external use, and tell your neighbor what good It' has done.

lion t lau to iouow uireououa. awp uiu wvu* w«ll onrked.

Bums ana _ Scalds, _ ins. Frost Bites, Scratches or Grease, Chapped Hands, External Poisons, Sand Cracks, Poll Evil, Galls of all kinds. Swellings, Tumors, Swellings, Tumors, Flesh Wounds, Sitfast, Kingboao, Foul Uleers Garget in Cows, Farcy, CrackedT Teats, Callous, Lameness, Horn Distemper, Crownscah, Quitter, Abcess of the Udder, £1.000 RKVVAUD for

sprains ana u rimes. Stringhalt, WindgaUa. Foot Rot i« Sheep, FoundereWFeet, Roup in Poultry, Sore Nipples, Curb, Cracked Heels, Old Sore* Epizootic, Lame Back, Hemorrhoids or Piles, Toothache, Rheumatism, 'Spavins, Sweeney, n Corns, Whitlows, Weakness of the Jotnta, Contraction of Muscles, Cramps, Swelled Legs, Fistula, Mange, Thrush. Caked Breasts, Boils, 4 cproof of the existence

or a oener liniment luan - iuerchant’s Gargling Oil,” or a better worm medicine than “Merchant’! , Worm Tablets.” Manufactured bj pM.G. O. CO. Lockport, N. Y.,tJ. 8.A.

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