Pike County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 22, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 October 1883 — Page 4

"" w -rs*——-rr-r PIKE mm DMttdlT. PubHslioa Kvery FridayPETERSBURG, - - INDIANA. ON THE BRIDGE. ’upoves *uo uuiii’U MUA reuwil'U Klt'HIIR But never stars frtiono hall ns bright As Elsie’s eyes that summer night. Around her taper waist an arm— Her gnnant hobln’s—gently lay; In place and hour therelurked a charm f- That owned no kinship to the day. Familiar sounds upon the gale Were softly wafted to the ear. And from the darkness of fhe vale ‘ „The lore-lorn mavis fluted clear; But scooter than the song ne sung, Thu words that trembled on her tongue. The shadows deepen In the dell; Weird bats athwart the water play; And on the fitful breezes swell The village ohurch-bclls far away. Through all the windings of the glade. The stately trees, like phantoms stand; Whilst Love was leading man and maid Far onward into fairyland; And neither had on earth a part, Save only in the other’s heart! Anon, from yonder wooded ridge. The cold moon climbs the blue expanse, She glorifies the rustlqbridge. Her beams upon the brooklet dance; She Softly winds about the twain The radlanoe of hor liquid light. As though, for lovers, she would fain Create a fairer day from night. Her silvor signet—nothing loth— She 6ets upon their plighted troth! —Chambers' Journal. ' U ONE OF THREE”

I K JESSE rOTHERGILL, of “zvw n’dfltkt*irto. PARABLE. 1 “ Here are three breast-knots,” said a wise man to a maiden who was passing his hut. “Choose quickly which you will wear through life.” The maiden looked at the knots, and took one of them up. ‘‘I will keep this, and wear it,” she said. “Why that?” asked the sage. “True, s it is not the worst. This titfsel affair would have given you no satisfaction; but it is not the best. This with the tiny diamond in its folds is the best. The one you have chosen has but a little steel button with a sharp point, sometimes you will hurt yourself with it. Take rather the third—this With the diamond.” “I will have this,” said the girl, clinging to her first choice. . “But why?” * “Because I like it-the best.” “Why so?” “ Because I do,” answered the maiden, pinning the knot on to her breast, and going away singing. The sage, with a cynical smile, withdrew into his hut. “ Always the same old tale,” he muttered. “ With man and maid alike, ‘I likeitbest.’ ‘And why?’ ‘Because I do!’ It g,ows monotonous.” k. _ CHAPTER I. [ ' MARGARET BARRINGTON. ' It was a fine afternoon in the middle of May. The sun shone brightly into a light, large, gayly furnished room, evidently the boudoir or private sittingroom of a woman of means, if not of very cultivated taste. Cultivation, refinement, educated taste, were, indeed, most conspicuous by their absence from all the arrangements of this room. Everything hi it looked as if it had cost a good deal of money, but there was eveiy where an odd mixture of the vulfar and elegant—incongruities which ere and there almost attained the relative heights of the sublime and the ridiculous. There was a velvet car^_pet, light in its general effect, brilliant and varied of hue; it had a dazzling blue ground, adorned with medallions of drab, more like tea-trays than anything else; garlanded with flowers of every hue, and of species both ktjown and nhknown to scientific classification. It was a carpet which would have caused a latter-day votary of blue and white china and neutral tints to tear his hair and wail aloud. It was the kind of carpet which challenged the beholder to ignore it if he could, with a triumphant consciousness that he could not. High artistic authorities inform us that the carpet should lie the least striking thing in a room. In this case, it was the most striking one. Possibly that was one reason why its owner had chosen it. She was a person who did not love the beauty of retiring- . ness in any shapo or form. This was abundantly testified, not only by the carpet already mentioned, but by all . the rest of the furniture of the room. The hues were, in all cases where it was possible, lively, and, so that monotony might not pall, they were varied. Colors and shapes and styles were massed together in a bold and daring ' way which had at least the merit of a defiant originality about it—an origimdity which defied conventional ideas of fitness.

vuo ui luo principal matures m this ! room was the profusion of tables, little and big, which pervaded it. Just where the uninitiated visitor might reasonably have expected to find a free and open passage to the door, or the window, or the piano, there, without fail, would be planted some rickety, spindlelegged structure, covered with specimens of the latest and most grotesque China • monster or Parisian gimcrack. (They were bought by the lady of the house as articles of vertu: it was her unruly son Tom, and his no less unruly ally, Margaret Barrington, who persisted in calling them gimcracks.) They were a great nuisance to all her friends and ran away with a great deal of her pin-money, and, were universally voted: a bore; therefore, she clung to them with a fondness which only increased as the disfavor of others augmented. She, Mrs. Robert Pierce, was, at this moment of this bright afternoon, alone in the room—a stout, fair, matronly woman, young still, and only promising to be enormous and unwieldy in figure some time. She was dresseu in a kind of tea gown of some flowing white stuff, « la Watteau, which, with its frills and ribbons of blue, suited her. Her fair face wore a somewhat high color, and she threw herself back in a lounging wearily, and clasping her hands upon her knee. “ Oh, ” she murmured, half aloud, "is evciything ready, I wonder? I do wiiib he would come, and relieve my mind about that champagne. I know’ there’s not enough in the house, and if we were to fall short at the last, good gracious!” After a moment given to pc nder ing on the dire possibility, she suddenly started up again in an agile manner, and polled the bell. Then she said, to the servant who answered her su tnmoms: , . " Bring some tea, and tell Miss Barrington that if she is at liberty i should like to speak to her.” With which she again sank into .'tier chair and waited, hor lips moving now and then, as if she mentally apostrophized some loved object. It was not so, howeter, as those who knew her would easily have surmised. Could her meditations have been heard, they would have ran. • “ I suppose I must tragt to his Hs-> membering it, but men are so oareliess. Unless their wives look after them they really do behave like imbeciles in some things. Men and cooks—I don't know which are the worst.” Here a maid came in with the desl red t^a. While she was clearing one of the innumerable small tables before alluded to for its reception, the door was a second time opened, and a young lady entered, at whoso appearance the exIrnsted iwkiug matron in wl chair, and closed

blue nlsed herseli, and testified signs of renewed animation. •* Oh, here you are, Margaret! Come and have some tea. I don’t know what you feel like, but 1 am so exhausted I feel at if I shoul d never come round again. And I do think you might have helped! me more.” “My dear Laura, you know this entertainment is against my principles in every way. How, therefore,' could I help you without perjuring myself? and then, I-know the more trouble such an affair gives you, the more you enjoy “•Well, considering that all the trouble is on your account;-" “ But not at my desire, my dear. I am sure you will not maintain that I asked you to give a ball for my coming of age. Why, .when people are one and twenty, shoul ii they go and advertise the melancholy fact aloud to all their ill-natured acquaintances, who would always have a hold upon them in after years, when perhapsdhey would be glad enough to appear young? lit is simply giving all the gossips you know a handle when they want .to sav ill-natured things.” “Pooh! Stuff! Some people may want to conceal their ago. Heiresses never need. Oh. but tea is truly refreshing. Do take some!” “Thank you,” said Margaret Barrington, with an odd little smile as sho poured a cupful of the beverage out, and carrying it to the bay window, stood in that recess, and looked out while she drank it. She was a considerable heiress, and a grea t many people said she was a beauty. This day she attained her ma-: jority, and entered upon full and uncont rolled possession of her fortune and property. Margaret's mother had died at the girl’s birth. Her father had taken no second wife, and She had lost him when she was thirteen years old.

one nuu uc unu uccu niuuu ui uw wonu, so far as having any near relations went. Mrs. Pierce was Margaret’s own cousin, though many years older than herself. She had been a Miss Cathcart, poor and pretty, and she had at an early age married Robert Pierce, a rich manufacturer of a. great city, whose money was abundant, if his family was doubtful. To' him—Mr. Pierce—and his wife, the guardianship oi! the young heiress had been consigned, not because the lateMr. Barrington considered them the most desirable persons to bring up a young girl—not because he liked their style, or their friends, or their inode of life, but because Laura Pierce was the only relation his girl had, and _ because. With all her foibles, she was a kind-hearted woman, and because Mr. Pierce, if not a gentleman, in Mr. Barrington’s sense of the word, was also a kindly natured man, and away from his home, _ where he was indulgent to weakness, was a keen, shrewd man of business, and honest withal—who would take care of Margaret’s money as if it were his oven. Stringent provisions for the education of the young lady were made in her father’s will}, she had, to use Mrs. Pierce’s plaintive expression, “ enjoyed evert/ advantage” which the best schools, the first.masters, the most accomplished mistresses, could give. She had passed With honor examinations bristling with difficulties; she had imbibed an immense amount of condensed science, condensed art, condensed theory of music, general facts, music a.nd languages. She had never been allowed to go out alone; she had been taken tb hear the most celebrated singers and musicians, to lectures, to concerts, to literary and scientific tournaments; she had been strictly kept aloof from anything like woman’s rights on the -one" hand, and a vulgar flirtation on the othor. With the best intentions in the world, her pastors and masters had employed every energy to make her into a model young lady—a model in a social, a domestic, a benevolent point of view. The Established Church had seen after her morals and' religious belief; she had “learnt” political economy, becanse'she would some day. have an estate to manage; many other things had been done to improve and make her what she ought to be. And with "what result? The result that when, at, nineteen years of age,, she was committed into the hands of her guardian and his wife as a finished young lady, it was found that all her training had not spoiled her; had not been able to prevent her from deciding for herself on many, matters; had not made her less incorrigibly natural and outspoken. She did not altogether believe in the Church of England. She said she did not understand Wagner’s music. She said she thought there was ft" great deal of truth m.. what the woman’s rights ladies said for themselves. She said she did not see any harm in a flirtation. She said she did not believe that her first duty was to be sure she married a man who would look after her money and take care of her. She said she was not going to many any one at all until long after she was twenty-one—until she had tried whether she Could not look after her money for herself. She said many other things of a like nature, not loudly, but with a very soft, delightful voice, and with a smile at onoe sort and bright. Moreover, she said she did not eare much about girls, and she thought it must be because she had never known anything but girls. She had no special friend to whom she wrote daily half a ream of paper, and called it a letter. She had stnick up a great friendship with Master Thomas Pierce, the oldest hope of her guardian, and Laura, his wife. Thomas and his sisters adored her. She had early gained from Mr. Pierce the soubriquet of “The Incorrigible,” and ho had called her by it ever since. ‘

xet margarct, as sue stood in the window, silently sipping her tea, and so allowing me time for this long digression, dia not look .a very incorngible person, or s, very bad person in any way. Indeed, one was particularly struck with the womanly softness of all her traits—a softness tempered by a certain fire, bu t which never for a moment disappeared. She was indisputably a beautiful creature; tall, and formed on the lines of a Juno rather than of a Hebe, none of her features, taken separately, could be called handsome; but the lout ensemble was charming. When she smiled, a sunny, generous smi le, one quite- forgot that her face was more broad than oval; one pardoned ibo irregular shape of her nose, because no other nose would have been suited to the rest of her face; and there was no possibility of disputing the beauty of her red-gold hair, of the true Titlanesque hue, or of the curious, luminous, golden-brown eyes, which were enthusiastic, but neither dreamy nor shortsighted. She was taller, more amply formed, more richly colored, than most English gills of her age, and with thin southern luxuriance of life and vitality there was mingled also some Southern haste and impetuousness. She had never mado herself anything but agreeable and amiable in her guardian's Rusehold, but both Mr. and: Mrs. Pierce considered that Margaret had maqy. “ odd” ideas; they were both somewhat apprehensive as to the use she bright make of her fortune and her liberty. She never treated them to any wild schemes; but they had an intuitive suspicion that her views as to the use of mopey differed from theirs—and Would be more likely, for instance, to take ti e shape of founding a scholarship than of giving a bull. As to her real and serious views abou t life—if she had any, which they doubted—they knew nothing. . f “ Yon ought to feel yourself a veil y happy girl, to-day!” observed Mrs. Pieroe, presently. “Why, it wonder f” “ Most women (and men, too,} would tell you the same thing. You know per. fectly well, why.” ” «I wove ft young mv, I

should fuel very happj. I should have a career before me then—at least I would make pne.” “ You have a much ileasahter career before you as it is -—” “ I wonder whatP’’ ••Thai, of a happy wife and mother." •• Really, Laura, you exasperate me sometimes. That Is stupid of me, I know. It simply shoire that we don't a;free, I am not going to marry at present; and if I wen, it does not follow that I should be n happy" wife and mother. I might nevir be a mother at all, and if I were, my children might be b id. Ten to one, my husband would be bad-" ; V “Not if.you were guided in your ehoice by the wishes of your friends." Margaret shrugged her shoulders, again smiling with s. dubious expression. . • “You are already admired,” pursued Mrs. Pieroa;.t‘I might almost say, beloved.” “ You might almost stiy many curious things.” “I do know that if you were any one else, I should give you some advice,” said Laura, plaintively. “ Consider me someone else, and give me the adviee." “I should say,'look at me,” Mrs. Pierce said, solemnly. * ‘rWith pleasure. ' What lesson am I to derive from the. contemplation of so charming an( object? Do you advise me to get a gown like yours, or-” “ Look at me! When I was eighteen Robert proposed to me. My aunt,with whom I lived—since dead—and whom I consulted, said: ‘Do not hesitate; accept him.’ Did I hesitate?” “I should fancy not,” said Miss Barrington, her mouth grave, her eyes filled with au elfin light. “Nat for a moment.. I accepted him; and see the result!’*' • “I can see many results. Which do you wish me mast particularly to

uubacr “ That I established myself in life, found a happy home, ana have never had an hour’s real care since.” “ I don’t quite see the point of it. 1 am sure Robert is a good husband—indeed, sometimes I look upon him as an angel; but, you see, no one has proposed to me. And if some one did, 1 already have a home; and I hare no need to have any particular cares that 1 know of. Well, but your further advice? Surely you had something more to say than • Look at me” ” “It is only, dear, that Robert-and I, who have your welfare at heart, and who feel sure that your intentions, at least, are good-” “That is kind. Well?” “We hope you will not do anything—anything that would be peculiar, or compromise your chances afterward.” “Chances!” echoed Margaret, her head suddenly eleivated./ “ I suppose that means that if I do not behave very prettily, I may not find the sort of husband you would think desirable for me. In other words, you and Robert are convinced that I am hopelessly mad in reality; but you hope I shan’t have any paroxysms until I am safely opt of your hands. I am sure, if I were in your place, I should feel exactly the same. What plan would you adopt, if you were me, to keep myself quiet?’’ Mrs. Pierce had been issued into the world minus any imagination, .or sense of humor. She replied very seriously: “Well, dear, if I wore you, I would go and stay some time at Bbckbridge Abliey, and try to become acquainted with some of your own tenantry and dependents. You arc Lady of the Manor, you know. Maurice Biddufjgj& was telling me the other day, that-he should soon be going to his place at Beckbridge, which is really next door to the Abbey, and l am sure he would be too glad tb give.you any advice and help-” Mrs. Pierce’s touching picture of rural life and mutual good will was interrupted by a little, hard, sarcastic laugh on the part of the recipient of her advice. • ■ “ Your scheme is too, too beautiful, Laura. I must think about it. Suppose I talk it over with Mr. Biddulph to-night.” “ I wish you would. AsT said, I am sure he would be delighted.” “ Oh, he is. vastly obliging, I know. ‘Miss Barrington of Beckbridge Abbey;’ ‘Mr. Biddulph, of Beckbridge Hall.’ How well the two names sound together, don’t they?” Laura, though not a humorist, nor a woman of mipd, usually knew when people were really agreeing with her, and when they were only pretending to do so. She replied: “ No, not at all, as you say them. I know it is of no use talking to you. You will listen to no one, though you have seen nothing of the worm, and I-” “Was married at eighteen, and have never seen any thing-but drawing-rooms of well-to-do people since; if you call that knowing the world. As you say, Laura, I have seen nothing of the world. The one object' of my instructors apI*§ars to have been to keep me quite ignorant of it Tom knows far more about it than I do; yet he is not twentyone, nor has he an estate and ah income tb manage. It is just for that reason that, whatever else I do, I will see a little of the world before I—before I think of anything else. Meantime, I hope you won’t imagine every time yeu see‘me open my purse that I am ntojt to dissipate my entire fortune upon some unworthy or absurd object- Credit me with a little of the reason granted to more favored mortals, ■ I pray. There is Robert’s voice below. I hope he is not going to give me advice, for I don’t feel if I could stand it. I shall be too limp to dance a step, if I have any more advice to-niffht.”

Mrs. Fierce, relieved to know that hei husband was in the house, inquired next: “How many dances have you promised for to-night, Madge?” “Dances. One.” “Only one. Is it the first?” ■ * “It is the first.” . “ I think I can guess who will have it” “I don't believe you cun. You may have three tries if you like. Now then." “Maurice Biddulph.”;' “No,” said Margaret coldly and composedly. “No! Then I give it up, I cannot imagine you conferring the favor on any other man.” “My dear, I have not conferred the favor on a man at aV ” “Not on a man! Margaret, what do you mean?”, “Calm yourself! You don’t call Tow a man, I suppose; though I am awaro that he calls himself one, and is under the firm impression that he has arrived at the full maturity of his powers of intellect and of fatal fascination for our sex.” “It is absurd! It will look ridiculous!” “ Not at all. He is nearly as tall as I am. He has promised to put on a pair of white gloves, to part his hair quite straight—if it takes him an hour to do it—and I am to give him a little scent for his handkerchief, and we are to open the ball together. I think It will be a very touching and beautiful sight There’S Robert!” [to bb. continued. J —“Your daughter? It is impossible! Why, yflu look more like twin sisters.” “No; I assure you, she is my only daughter,” replied the pleased mother. And the polite old gentleman spoiled it all by remarking: “Well, she certainly looks old enough to be your sister.”—Rochester (N. T.) Mfe press. . _ —Has the missing link been discerned in the fact that a gorilla can hwa the small-pox?—N. X, OrqpAtc,

, USEFUL ABB SCTKESTITB. —There Is no better food for chickens than skim milk.—Chicago Journal. —A writer in the Pi-airie Farmert after extended experiments! is con* vinced that wheat is generally sown too deep. —The advantages of having early-ma-turing corn have never been so well demonstrated as this yew. Bear it in mind iu saving seed for next year.—Exchange. -Hickory-nut cream cake is made of two teacups of sugar, Half a cup of butter, one cup of thru ore am, three'and a half cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls off baking powder. mixed, with the dry flour, three eggs, the whites and yelks beated separately, and one large cupful' of the hickory nuts chopped or broken in small bits.—N. Y. Post. —An agricultural writer has found salt sprinkled on a manure heap an excellent application both for summer aMk winfbr. He says: “ In warm weather it attracts moisture and keeps the manure from flre-fanging or burning from excessive fermentation. In winter it keeps the heap from freeing solid, and at any season it makes the manure more soluble.” —Jenny Lind Fuddling: Peel ten qi twelve good tart apples and slice them very thm, or chop fine; grate sevefST thick slices of dry biread, or rub them through a colander; place in a puddingdish, well-buttered, a layer of apple, with plenty of sugar and grated lemoiJ^ peel,.or powdered cassia; then a layer of bread crumbs, with bits of butter scattered all over it; fill up the dish in this way, and bake for three-quarters of an hour; serve with whipped cream.-^* The Household. —A favorite way to cook potatoes now is to boil them in their jackets until they are tender, and then dry them off in a hot ovep. Sweet potatoes areexcellent also cooke(l In this way. Of

vyuiov v«io ujuai UV in&tU IU ICIllUTC the potatoes from the boiling water as soon as they are tender. There is novegetable that gains -snore by being pfGt pared with due attention than the potato, and the difference between a soggy, water-soaked potato and one that iff properly cookedjis jpreater than many women seem t.6 know. — Chicago Journal. ' —A correspondent of the Country Gentleman finds coal ashes 6f benefit. His unusual experience will be read with interest. Of them he observes: “While I am slow to praise or condemn,! Can not, after long trial, refuse, to say a word to their credit, at least on my soil, which is; rather a tenacious clay; and I the more readily doit, for every one says: ‘What a good garden Von have!’ and another wifi say: ‘You have the best garden I have seen;’ and when I tell them my only manure is eoal ashes, either spread broadcast at once or composted with weeds -and the refuse of the house, night-soil, ete.j they will hardly believe me.” Harvesting Apples. - Winter apples designed for long keeping should not be harvested until they have developed color and flavor natural to the ripe fruit. On the other hand, the fruit ought not to be allowed to remain on the trees until over-ripe. Winter apples should always be handSicked; no knocking off or shaking ouln of the fruit must be practiced when it is to be packed and stored. Varieties of apples that ripen irregd* larly ought to be gathered accordingly. An important point is to harvest apples in dry weather only, for frUit free from atmospheric moisture when taken frqm the tree, other things being equal/ keeps longest. Once gathered, the apples should be protected from sun and storms until they are assorted and finally packed. ' Growers differ in their methods; some cart the fruit to barn or fruit-liouse, where the packing is delayed until cold weather. Others do the packing in the orchard. A plan very often adopted is to employ two sets of hands at time of harvest, one for picking the apples and the other for assorting and packing immediately in barrels. There is no possible doubt about the importance of assorting apples according to variety, size and quality. If not carefully sorted and graded the qualify of the whole barrel will be affected and its keeping properties impaired. It is also important that the fruit be packed closely, especially where it is designed for long transportation;* it is better to pack mil, even with some jamming, than risk the apples moving about with rough handling. Some of our most successful farmers have found the following to be a convenient and satisfactory mode of packing apples: Take out one head from a clean barrel and begin _ packing by placing a tier of a pples with their ends to the closed head of the barrel, then fill up without, bruising the fruit and shake down thoroughly and fill the barrel so full that the hear! must bo pressed in with a lever. The head and hoops are then nailed and the barrel turned over, and on the head not opened the. name of the variety in the barrel is plainly marked. Apples packed in this mannor show attractive face. It ought to be borne in mind that in order to give satisfaction to the consumer and create a demand for the same mark of fruit abother season, the apples should run uniform throughout the barrel. It does not pay to fa,ce the package with fine specimens and end with that of inferior quality.

Apples intended lor export are permitted tb shrink previous to the final • packing, and the shipments are delayed until crisp, cold weather. There are some growers who practice lining the barrels with papier as they pack the apples in, using, if the weather be cold, sometimes as many as two thicknesses. With this protection it- is claimed that packages will undergo long shipment in extreme cold weather without haV* ing their contents injured. When the packing has been done the barrels for safe-keeping should be stored in a dark but well-ventilated place, and kept at a low, uniform temperature, as near the freezing point oi water as practicable. A low temperature prevents the development of the fungi that cause decay. A few; years ago it was deemed important to keep apples in a dry atmosphere, but nowadays there are numerous advocates for a.somewhat moist air, on the ground that the latter prevents the fruit from shriveling. Scientists claim,, and some of our farmers think their experience has proven,, that while a warm moist cellar is d - cidedly detrimental to the keeping qualities of fruit, a wet, cold one pr£ vents loss of weight and size by evaporation, and consequently is conducive to the preservation of the fresh appearanoe and natuml flavor of the fruit.— N. Y. Wotld. —In the Arkansaw Valley grows a weed shaped like a ball and varying in size from one foot or less in diameter to five or six feet; some specimens being as tail as a man. It grows upon a tail stem, which is, however, stout enough to bear the mass till it has ripened or dried, when a puff of wind will blow it over and snap the slender support. Then it is that e very gust of wind sends it rolling over the prairie, bounding over bushes and rocks with the greatest elasticity and lightness. When the wind is strong and high these tumbling weeds present a most peculiar appearance as they bound, from rock to rock, and in more, than one instance hunters have mistaken them for bisons and felt considerable irritation at the impossibility of bringing them within rank« of thpir pruns.—Chicaao HerqM,

—Huy feverites will be interested to know that Sydney Smith was ateo>» sneezer, la a letter written in 1835 he says: “1 am suffering from .my old complaint, the hay fever, as it is called. My fear is' perishing by deliquescence; I melt away in n,asal and lachrymal profluvla. The membrane is so irritable that light dust, contradiction, an absurd remark, the sight of a Dissenter, anything, sets me to sneezing; and ii 1 begin sneezing at twelve, I don’t leave off till two o’clock, anil am ’ Beard distinctly in Taunton, when the wind -sots that way, a distance of six m!tes.“ Chicago ‘Journal. . --:- Rescued From Agonising Death, New York.—Mr. James White, 11)52 Broadway, formerly chief instructor in Bickel’s Riding School, in this city, said to a newspaper reporter: “ I broke my shoulder, arm and elbow, splitting the socket in fonr parts. Rheumatism set in and 1 employed the best physician. He tried everything, but I grew worse, and at last he said: ‘I have one more thing to try and if that fails nothing can give you relief, and tiiat is St. Jacobs Oil.* I used this great painreliever, and am able to use my arm, free from all rheumatic trouble. I have also recommended the remedy to a number <tf people, and in every case they have been speedily and effectually cured.” - The dude proper parts his hair, his watch-chain and his nanfe in the middle. —Philadelphia News. Young and middle-aged men, suffering from nervous debility and kindred affections, as losa-of-memory and hypochondria, should inclose three stamps for Part VII or World’s Dispensary Dime Series of pamShlets. Address Worm’s Dispensary [epical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. The prominent man in the city is the street sweeper. He fills the pubuc eye.— The Judge. Florence, Ga.—Dr. W. B. Prather says: “ Brown’s Iron Bitters has given satisfaction in every instance I have known it used. ”

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THE FATHER OF FISH-CULTURE. Green** and Some of Hie Varied Experiences* [Turf. Held and Form.] ."How did you ever come to devise this scheme?” “I have been working at It ever since I was large enough to bend a pin.’* The above remark waa addressed to Mr. Beth Green, the veteran fish onlturist, who is known to the entire world, and his reply Indicates the extent of his labors. “When I was quite young,”, ho cbtatinuerk “I would lie on the limbs of tree* ‘ that reached but over the Water eirtiro afternoons watching the movements of the fish and studying their habits. Iu this way I discovered'many characteristics which were before unknown. I saw, a*'every observer must see, tho -destructive elements that are warring against fish, and I realized that unless something were done, the life in the streams of this country would become extinct. To counteract this disastrous end became my life work, and 1 am happy to say I. have seen its accomplishment.” “Were you successful on the start?” “No, indeed. Up to that time all artificial attempts to natch and raise fish from the spawn had failed, and I was compelled to experiment in an entirely new manner. The work was a careful and tedious one, but 1 finally succeeded, and to-day I am able to hatch and raise fully seventy-five per cent, of all spawn.” “ “Enormous! Why, that is a larger per centage than either the vegetable or animal kingdoms produce in a natural condition." “I know it, but we exorcise the greatest care in the start, and guard the little fellows until they become able to care for themselves.” The foregoing conversation occurred at Caledonia, where the representative ot this paper was paying a visit to the State Fish Hatcheries. It has been his privilege to report very many interesting sights within the past twenty-five years, but the view presented here exceeds in interest any thing ever before attempted. ' “ How many fish are there in those ponds, Mr. Green?” “As we have never attempted to count them it will be impossible to say. They extend way up into the millions though. We shipped over three millions out of the ponds this year, and there seemed to be as many afterward as before. Wehavenearlv evera variety of the trout familv and

many hybrids.” “You speak of hybrids, Mr. Green. What do you mean by that?” “1 have experimented for years in crossing the breed ofthe various fislu an^em still working upon it. We cross the female salmon trout with the malo brook trout, and thus produce a hybrid. Then we cross the hybrid with the brook trout, which gives us three-quarter brook trout and one quarter salmdn trout. This makes one of the finest fishes in the world. He has all the habits of the brook trout, lives in both streams and lakes, develops vermilion spots on his sides, rises readily to a fly, is far more vigorous and fully one-third larger than ordinary brook trout of the same age. The possibilities of development in the fish world are great, and we are rapidly ascertaining what they are.” As the man of news watched the countenance of Mr. Green while he was giving the above account, ho could not but feel that he was in the presence of one of the few investigators who, from a rich and lifelong experience, bring great benefit to the world. Let the reader imagine a strong and stalwart frame, surmounted by a head strongly resembling that of Socrates, and covered with a white, silky beard and luxuriant gjfhy hair. Seth Green, the father of fish culture, is a picture of health, and the reporter could not help remarking so. “If you had seen me the last winter and spring, young man, you might have thought differently,” said the veteran. “How is that? One would think, to look at you, that sickness was something of which you knew nothing.” •‘And so it was until last winter. I went down into Florida in the fall to see wbat kind of fish they had in that State - and Study their habits, and was attacked with malaria in its severest form, and when I came home 1 realized for the first time in my life that I was sick. My symptoms were terrible.. I had dull aching pains in my head, limbs and around my hack. My appetite was wholly gone, and I felt a lack of energy suah as I had ofton heard described but had. never experienced. Any one whe has ever had a severe attack of malaria can appreciate my condition. I went to bed and remained there all the spring, and if there ever was a sick man I was the one.” “It seems hardly possible. How did you come to recover so completely ?” “My brother, who had been afflicted by a severe kidney trouble and threatened with Bright's disease, was-completely cured by a remedy in which I had great confidence. I therefore tried the same remedy for my malaria and am happy to say I am a well man today and through the instrumentality of Yvarnerts Safe Cure, which I believe to be one or the most valuable of med-‘ icines. Indeed, I see it is endorsed by the United States Medical College of New York, and that Dr. Gunn, dean of that institution, has writtep a long article concerning its value.” “ And are -you now as well as formerly?" “ Apparently so. I keep the remedy on hand all the while though, and do not hesitate to recommend it toothers.” “ One question more: How many ponds of fish have you here and how are they divided?” “Well, we have 43 ponds, which are divided up as follows: ’Twenty-two ponds of brook trout, 2 ponds-tfr salmon trout, 4 of McCloud river or rainbow trout, 2 ponds of German trout, 3 of California mountain trout, 2 ponds of hybrids, 4 of one-quarter salmon and three-quarters brook trout, 2 ponds of gold fish, and 1 pond of Carp. Then we have what we call the Centennial pond or ‘happy family,’ consisting of crosses of different fish, Including Kennebec salmon. Land Locked salmon, California salmon, brook trout, salmon trout and hybrids. Th8se fish range in size from minnows to 18-pouad-ers, and in "age from one-and-one-half months to eleven years. I forgot to say. also, that we have a ‘hospital’ pond, which is entirely empty, which speaks pretty well for a community of many millions. Indeed the whole secret of the fish culture can be summed up in four things. Impregnation—using no water. Plenty of food. Plenty of pure water and cleanliness.” The numerous fish exhibitions which are taking place in all parts of Europe and the unusual interest which is being manifested in this subject throughout the world, all owe their origin to the process above described as originated and conducted by Seth Green. It is certainly cause for congratulation to every American that this country produces so many men whose genius brings valu9 to the world, and it is proof positive of the greatest merit that a remedy even with such high standing as Warner’s Safe Cure is known to have should be so strongly endorsed and recommended by one so reputable and reliable as Seth Green.

half a loai is, no aouot, newer than none, but a newspaper man never gets a chance to loaf at all.—Rochester Post-Ex-press. __ I used Swift’s Specific (S. S. S.) for a bad case of Blood Poison from Malaria,and am satisfied that itsfaved my life, as I was given up to die, * C. G. Spkn cbr, Sup’t Gas Works, Borne, Ga. Home-bound—The bed-ridden patient.— N. l.News. “ Rough on Bats.” Clears out rats.mioe, flies, roaches, bed-bugs, ants, vermin. ISo. A WOMAN’S AFFAIR. Mas. N, H. Shall, the wife of the popular Deputy Sheriff and Assessor of Topsham. Me., writes us on May 15, 1883:. “That she had been severely afflicted during several years with kidney and liver disease, accompanied with severe pains and backache. Haviug tried many so-called cores, and medicines,and doctor's prescriptions, without receiving any benefit, and while seeking for a cure, she noticed the advertisement of Hunt’s Remedy and decided to try It. Having bought a bottle at Mr. Johnson's drug store, commenced using It with such flattering results that she continued Its use, and after nslng only five bottles the Improvement in her health is so marked that she wishes all who are afflicted In like manner to know of this most valuable and reliable medicine; and she most cheerfully recommends Hunt’s Remedy to all, and especially to females who are troubled with the complaints peculiar to the sex. ” A FAMILY BLESSING; Under date of May Iff 1883, we have received the fob lotting Information from Mr. Lorenxo Lombard, of it Charles street, Portland, Me. Mr. Lombard says: “For several years past I have been troubled with severe backache and pains in the side, and when I would lift down I could not rest well, as it seemed im 1 poyihle for me to get Into an easy position; dnd my aches and pains increased constantly to such an extent that! became convinced that 1 had a disease of the kidneys fastened to me, and after having used doctors' prescriptions and many of the so-called cures without getting any beneflt, J was persuaded by a near neighbor, Mr. Jones, to try Hunt's Remedy, as himself and Wife had been greatly beneflted by Uluses, and many others of our acquaintances spoke of its merits In the highest terms. I decided to try it, and purchased a bottle at Nlehol's drug store, and as soon as I had taken afewdosesoftt the pains in my back were relieved, and after taking three bottles my sldeache and lame back are cured, and I can truly testify that Hunt's Remedy is an article of great merit, and will do all that is claimed for It. and I know of many other people In Portland who have found a cure in Hunt's Remedy after all others failed to do any good, and I recommend it to all who have kidney or liver dlaease, hoping that this may be the means of relieving some sufferer who doet not know ft tbcmorltd o*8«urt’» Remedy, ”

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Ths proprietor of this celebrated medicine justly claims for it a superiority over all remedies ever offered to the public for tbo SAFE, CERTAIN, SPEEDY and PERMANENT core of Ague and Fever, or Chilli aad Fever, whether of short or loag standing. He vefen to the entire Westeru and Southern country to bear him testimony to the truth of the assertion that in no ease whatever will it fail to euro if the directions are strictly followed and carried out. In a great many eases a single dose has been euffioient for a cure, and whole families have been cured by a single bottle, with a per, foot restdration of the general health. It is, however, prudent, and in every ease more certain to cure, if its use is continued in smaller doses for a week or two after the disease has been oheeked, more etpeoially in diffionlt and long-standing oases. Usually this medicine will not require any aid to keep the bowels in good order. Should the patient, however, require a cathartic mcdioine. after having taken three or four doses of the Tonic, a tingle dose of BULL’S VEGETABLE FAMILY PILLS will bo sufficient. BULL’S wmvER DR. JOK“‘ SMITH’S TONIC SYRUP, BULL’S SARSAPAfan.*, BULL’S WORMSdeSTROyer. The Popular Remedies of the Day. Principal Office, 881 Hein St,, LOUISVILLE, Kf. Catarr * LY s co ^*2 ELY’S CREAK BALK when applied by tntr finger into the nostrils, will bo absorbed, effectually cleansing the head of Catarrhal virus, causing healthy Belt allays "FEVER cretions. It allays inflammation, protects the membrane of the nasal passages from addition^ al cblds,completely heals the sores and restores taste and smell. A few applications relievo. A thorough. treatment will poMttmlti cure. Agreeable to use. 8$nd for circular. Price 30 cents by mall or at druggists. Ely Lrothers,Druggists,Owcgo,N.Y.

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