Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 34, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 January 1885 — Page 4

PIKE com DEMOCRAT. Published Every Thursday. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA.

FAREWELL TO THE OLD YEAR. Farewell, OH Tear, farewell to you; You've been for many a day A friend most tried, a friend most true— And as we bid you our adieu, VTe give our heartfelt thanks to you, **' And speed you on your way. We've had full many a merry time Since first we met, Old Tear. You’ve sung for us the Christmas rhyme, And rung for us the Christmas chime, And many a Joy at Christinas time You brought with hearty cheer. You crowned the woodland banks with bloom Of roses red and sweet— You gave the violets tlielr perfume, Hipencd the cornfield's tasseled plume. Ami filled tho mill-wheel's running Hume, To griud the golden wheat. You brought the yellow daffodil To blossom in the spring— Strewed cuckoo-flowers on every hill. And cat-tails by the rippling rill— „ And taught the lonely whip-poor-wlU His vesper song to sing. You turned the ivy's green to red, The maple leaves to gold— Purpled the clusters overhead, And showers of ripened nuts you shed, When fallen leaves lay thickly spread Aboye the forest mold. And if you gathered some fair flowers That blossomed on your way, You bore them to a fairer clime, Where neither cold, nor care, nor Time Could blight them in their golden prime, Or toijcn them with decay. And ah! you brought. Old Year, Old Yearl One tiny baby flower * To nestle on Its mother’s breast, And close its blue eyes into rest. When song-birds seek their cradlo-nest At twilight's shadowy hour. And now, Old Year, farewell to youl We grieve to lose you so— You’ve been a friend both tried and true, And as we bid yon our adieu, We give our heartfelt thanks tojou, And sigh that you must go. —Helen Whitney Clark, in Demomt’s Monthly. M’CABSeY’S scoop. The “Mercury’s” Groat Sensation - and- Its Sudden Collapse. About two years ago I was managing editor of the Daily Mercury, a journal yet in its infancy, which was published , in the pretty little City of N-, a bustling place of 75,000 or 80,000 inhabitants in the Mississippi Valley,. The aforesaid journal was started with abundant capital and with the express purpose (in addition to reforming mankind and thus placing its founders’ names among those of the wise and famous of earth) of crushing out of existence the Morning Item, a. paper __-881 CftsUgnilVTSfcrreir tc as "our esteemed morning contemporary,” or to which we applied some other equally appreciative term that we were sure would carry on its face our belief in its being the veriest falsehood. Our bated rival was doing a good business we were not, a fact patent to all of ns, even down to the office boy and "devil.” We had been working hard to secure a share of the patronage bestowed on it, and our failure to make any material progress in that direction may have added somewhat to our enmity for fhe Item. However, the stockholders, who were amusing themselves by supplying the weekly deficit which the book-keeper’s statement of the Mercury's. business regularly exhibited, had, unbounded faith in the ultimate success of their enterprise, and had instructed the manager to spare no expense in adding " taking” features to the journal. All that was needed, they solaced themselves, was to be thoroughly prepared for emergencies, and astbnthc public on the' occasion of the '*”fh the fuftness and promptness witn which the Muraery would supply the minutest details, borne such piece of news- must come to light ere ft>ng, and to distance all competitors would be to bring our paper into notice as one of great enterprise, tv it 1* l-» .v a ♦ L . , .. —! . - .. .. At 1 I and the start thus^jriven would finally , place “it on the top pmtiaele of journalistic success. One night, as the hands on the big clock over my desk warned me that there barely remained three hours of darkness, as the presses in the cellar clanged and clattered over the last . edition of their daily grind, the drowsy -office boy handed me a card. It was Considerably soiled, a id had written on it in a nervous hand, in pencil, “T,. MeCarley.” I began to feel sleepy, and muttering anathematizations on politicians in”general and Irish ward politicians in particular who woukl make ' calls at such an unseemly hour as this, I hurriedly cleared oft' my' desk, and putting on hat and coat, preparatory to going home, went into the outer office where the caller had been told to wait. I found a young Irishman, but not a vtard politician, as I had anticipated. I , pride myself somewhat on my ability to read human nature, and I think I never met a face that impressed “me more favorably than the one 1 saw before me then. A high forehead, with clearly cut features; a large mouth and long upper lip, which indicated his nationality even though his name had not done so; an abundance of light-brown hair pushed well back; a pair of ns honest and intelligent eyes as I ever saw stowed in a skull; an erect, lithe figure, which showed his motive temperament and prepossessed me gteatlv jn his favor, all went to make a man who would instantly attract attention in any place, and who would command

< respect ior ms intelligence ana power without ever having spoken a word. His story was soon told. i. A ^ native of the Emerald Isle, where inis family yet lived, he had received a good education, ■ and on reaching a proper age had been sent to London to take a course in surgery. There he had been attracted to journalism, and learning shorthand, had finally Secured a position on one of the prominent London newspapers. There he worked a year or more, when, thinking to better his prospects, he had come “to the States,” as he expressed Jt. He was a too thorough Bohemian to "be long contented any one place, and so, after knocking about . from one to another of the large cities in this country for three or four years he had determined to return home” and was literally worldrfg his way thither when he reached N-without money and applied to ns for a position. An important State election was to be held within a few months and t thought to myself : “Here is a chance to utterly distance the Item; they haven’t a stenographer on their force, and with this "“lellOw to fnrnish us with verbatim reports^*! speeches diming the campaign excitement we can show the public what enterprise is.” After consultation with' the manager and listening to his own pleadings for a position, “even as a space man,” I hired him in the latter capacity, telling him the place would probably yield him but little for a few weeks; but that as soon as the Gubernatorial canvass began we would give him all he could do in his specialty, and that ne could then make up for the time In. which he was able to ao but little. He trent to work the next evening and gave good satisfaction. The assignments, however,.that I was able to give him we re unimportant and the wages he made the first couple of weeks were barely sufficient to pay his board; so email, indeed, were they th8t I hardly expected him to stay with us. But that shrewd face of his, as ire aftewards explained to ourselves in recounting the affair which I am about to relatebmdinnlimited resources in his fertile and “smartness” of a * " We did not think oft

;ourse, but saw It plainly in the light of i later developments. I One day, when his stay was length- i sning into its third week, he failed to j make his appearance at the office at ] the usual hour iu the afternoon, and I I supposed that he had gone to pastures i aew. I was mistaken, though, for i when the last mail was brought from i the office at night it contained the following, written in short-hand, which 1 Severn of us who had a smattering of the art, after infinite trouble, finally deciphered: “I>EAitP-: I've struck pay dirt, sure! I was passing that aristocratic old mansion of Welby's on Stanley avenue this morning when a servant ran out and yelled to the stablejxjy to ‘go fo’ the doctor, chile, quick: ole man's Weedin' to def! O! that Mis' Julei’ The }>oy addressed evidently did not hear, for ho did not make his appearance. You know, before I got into the newspaper business, I took a course in surgery in London, and. in' the servant's scared look and ‘oh! that Mis’ Julo!' my reportorial instinct scented news; so I turned back and went into the house, telling them I was a physician who had just arrived in „ the city with ■ tho intention of establishing myself here: that, in passing the house, I heard tho servant instruct the boy to go for a doctor iu haste, and, thinking tho case might be an urgent one, had come in and would be glad to serve them, if I could do so, until their regular physician arrived. They took it all as straight goods and I soon had the old gent as easy as could be expected. Then they told mo all; only daughter Julia had bech left at the seashore for a few days in charge of friends—dashing {rambler makes a mash—an elopement with a ■ bridal tour to Canada—old folks prostrated with grief, the excitement and shock causing the old man to have a hemorrhage—'and won’t you just stay and care for my husband until he entirely recovers?' asks Mrs. W.; 'we don’t want this to get into the horrid newspapers, and if you'll stay not another soul need know it. We'll make her leave that trretch and send her to Europe, and. if possible, try to remain respectable yet. Now, won't you stay?’ 1 remised to remain for a few days, anyway, t's a big sensation and I’ll work it right from here, as far as the thing has developed. 1 will write it up and drop the copy on the lawn under the east front window; send some one there at eleven to-night to get it. 1 will stay here incog, and put copy every night at same place as long as 1 can work the thing to advantage in that way. TheWelbys have just arrived home and probably hadn’t ordered any of the pai>ers sent to the house yet, so they won’t get onto our scoop and set about investigating how it got out—at least uutil 1 get out of this. We will give no patnes, and thus prevent the other papers from doing anything more than rehearsing our aeeount from day to day. I write this in short hand, which will • prevent any one from reading it if it miscarries, and, ready to mail, throw it on the sidewalk from the window, hoping it will be picked up and posted and thus reach you. : If It does, don't tail to send for copy to place named to-night. “ McCauley.” “If s ti ten-strike for Mac!” exclaimed Jim, the society reporter, “ and if he works it right the old Mercury will have to whack up handsomely on it. It’ll make no less than three columns if he makes the most of it.” 11 sent Watson, the Police Court re-' porter, to the place and at the time indicated in the letter,. and he returned about midnight with the copy. It filled nearly four columns, and we head-lined it in a style that would haVe made the proprietor of a mining camp journal forever hide his face in shame, almost exhausting the resources of the job office we were running in connection with the paper. The following will give the reader as good an idea as to what a feature we made of the scoop as can be conveyed in ordinary body type: “ A SENSATION INDEED. “ An Event That Will Shake Polite Society FROM CIRCUMFERENCE TO CENTER! The Komaxtic, though Lamentable Elopement of a Well-Known Helle! A Gambled Who Held a Full Hand of Hearts, and, Playing fob High Stakes, Won ! The Couple inCanada A waiting a Reconciliation, Which Seems Far from ISeing Consummated! Full Particulars of k Most Interesting AfF.uiCaTHE Mercury, as Usual, Ahead of ALi. Its Contemporaries!” We got. ont a large extra edition on the strength of the affair and the way it sold made the manager’s face radiant. The evening papers only mentioned the matter, and that, too, sarcastically, plainly showing tlWir interest in it as well as ho\y piqued they were at their inability to find out even who the parties referred to were. We knew, though, and greatly enjoyed their discomfort. All names had -been left ont and the other papers, as well as individuals, who had opinions concerning who thg, lady was,-found themselves totafly- fn make inquiries anij thus the mystery surrounding the matter constantly increased. The next night Watson again went to the Welby residence and got another mass of manuscript giving;# detailed account of the family's negotiations with the runaway couple. There was also a letter from McCarley saying he was living like a lord; the old gentlemen required but little attention and he was spending most of his time in the library reading and writing. The old folks had taken a fancy to him and said he should not leave the house until Welby, whom lie had “treated so successfully,” his wife said, had entirely recovered. It ended: ‘Till; stay hsre as long as there is any news to be had. The old people are so broken ujf over Julia’s escapade that they hadn't thought of sending for a newspaper yet, and I don’t think they will for a few days—when they do I'm out of here!” The second day's installment of the “great sensation,” as the newsboys yelled it, created almost as great an interest as the "first, and the Mercury's circulation amounted to astonishing figures. The thing continued thus for four days. Mae made the most of ^ery point, and after the fourth - day’s batch of news had been printed^ there was something Over one hundred dollars coming to him on his work. The other city papers were sorely ehagrined over their failure to get even the slightest clue as to whom we were talking about, and pretended that there was nothing in the affair iat all—that it was only a a clever scheme to perpetrate on a confiding public a gigantic hoax. We knew who the persons were, though, and wc could afford to laugh at and pity our less enterprising rivals. Oh, yes!

About noon ol the fino day from the time] McCarley first stumbled on .his scoop, a boy with a message was awaiting mo when I arrived at the office. It proved to be from Mac, and I opened my eyes considerably when I read it. Like the first letter received from him it was written in short-hand. “Dear P—I've got a clew to the most sensational thing that has yet come to light in connection with this Welhy 1'iucas. Nothing deflnito yet, and it will take considerable bribery of the servants to get at what 1 want. Please send by bearer all the money due me so that I will not be hampered if I liud liberality in this direction necessary. I write this in short-hand, and it will be impossible for the bearer to And out what 1 send for; so if you put up the money in a package so that he will not suspect what it contains, ho will return with it all right. “McC.” 1 put up the money as he requested and the boy made off with it. s That night, as usual, Watson again went to the Welbv house, and from the note we received in the morning we anticipated something intensely interesting. 1 had given orders to the foreman in the composing room to hold several columns of space until we got McCarley’s copy. When Watson returned I never saw a look of more profound perplexity or dumbfounding chagrin than was depicted on his face. “I have crawled over every foot of that front lawn,” said he, “and not a page of copy coxdd I find. I even knocked at the door of the house and thought I would try and see Mac himself on some pretext or other, but I could rattle no one up.” We were surely in a piekle now, and the conversation that took jplace during the next hour concerning the subject! am afraid^ McCarley would have considered far from complimentary to himself could he have heard it. It would hardly have been the thing, either, to reproduce it here to be read by people who are unacquainted with the peculiar livid and sulphurous character which makes the language of printers, and I regret to say sometimes editors and reporters as well, of such pronounced force. There was nothing to be done under the circumstances, however, and consequently the only thing the Mercury of the next morning contained in reference to the all-absorbing topic wu an.

tern I had hurriedly written stating hat there were no new developments n the case that we were yet able to five the public; but as soon as our rejortier had time to follow up a starting clew which he had ran across, we bought we would be able to furnish >ur readers a piece of "news concerning he affair which would create more inerest than anything yet printed. This l wrote on the strength, of the note we tad received from McCarley when he isked for the money due him. We were lot a little mystified »t our failure to lear anything from him as we had ex-, lected; but we supposed the next day would explain the cause of his leaving is in the dilemma he did. Such was :he case and the letter a late mail wrought us follows: ; ' “ Es Route Home. Sept. 4,18*2. “E earP—l-played the Jfcreurva scurvy trick. • I have no apologies to make, though, is “necessity knows no law;-’ but my conicier e© is yet in such a state of preservation ■hat I feel I must explain the Welby matter fully ami save you any further trouble that it wculd otherwise cause you. The first two > I worked for you I cou Id get outo uotliihr l ut five line items, and, as you are aware, I liaidly made enough to pay my board. I had to have money, and so concocted that elope ment of Wclby’s daughter out of the whole cloth—an artistic, journalistic lie,which at this distance appears to me only as a right Rood joke. 1 put up at a little saloon (the dull-minded proprietor of which gave me all the information I needed about the family) about a square from the W-residence, and here I evolved the thing out of my mammoth brain in a little back room, which I left only once u day to throw my MS. on the lawn at Welby$. They are all in Vermont, where they have been all summer, and, as we pave no lu.mes, they will be no woirse for the pleasure aud profit they have unconsciously yielded mo. 441 jarotf my money o. k. yesterday, and when this caches you 1 will be fast lessening the distance between N-and the paternal roof. “W ith kindest regards to yourself and all the boys, and trusting you will forgive mo for the trick I have played vou, I bid N-and the Meivnry a joyous, a last tai! tin! i “toCCARLBY.” No language of mine can adequately describe the anger and consternation which the reading of this epistle caused in the Mercury office. No one so tliorougtly appreciates artistic lying as a newspaper man; but when carried to the extent MeCarley’s genius had carried this, it was more even than oui‘ blun :ed sensibilities coukl stand, and I would certainly have given up the keenest pleasure to have stood by and seen some horribly sevens punishment inflicted on him for the trouble and mortification he had caused us. Suffice it to say the Mercury died peacefully about two weeks after the departure of our brilliant friend. The assignee had one mournful meeting with the creditors, and, with all the earnestness of a man who feels that oil his is the side of a mighty truth, convinced them of the utter impossibility ofj paying even one per cent., with assets consisting entirely of blasted hopes! Our great sensation was not mentioned i again after the paragraph referred to above appearid. and the momentary prominence wo had gained through it Was followed by jeers and hoots from rival journals and the public; in a few short days to buy a copy of the Mercury came to be looked upon as an unpardonable crime against society, and as it sadly bade this unappreciative sphere adieu, at least in the eyes of its projectors, the last remaining hope for the world’s salvation was gone forever.—LB. Far sons j in Detroit Free Press.

NOT WHAT SHE SEEMED. The Other Side of the 'Toting Lady the Men Stared at Through the Window. She sat at a window on a public street, and day after day the croud who p assed saw her at the sewing-ma-chine. The old men mentally remarked that she was a; perfect ladj', and the young men voted her the rival of a June‘rose. If she had raised her eyes to the window she might havturwi the pitying gaze of various -Shld-heads, and the ildndtitt£ glances ^ legions of mashers, out she liever did so. Noses' were wiped and handkerchiefs waved within a foot of the glass, but she hemmed and tucked and gathered and plaited as if Utterly unconscious of the existe nce of the outside world. It is probable that five hundred men glanced into that window in the course of the day, but the sewing-machine never stopped humming pa their account. Tilings had been going oh this way for months when, only the; other day, a widower with a heart full of pity for the unfortunate got himself ; up regardless of expense and boldly entered the place. The charmer was there alone. With s, melting soul he approached the sewing-machine and laid his heart upon it." That is, he coughed, gurgled, stammered and inquired if she wouldn’t prefer to boss a lifteen-thou-sand-dollar brick house rattier than make shirts for seventy-five cents per day. The charmer rose up. She had a short leg. That side of hey face which the public had never seen displayed three moles and a bad sear. That eye which the public had never gazed into contained a squint, and she had .'bad front teeth. She made a grab at a yard-stick and said something about “settling an old duffer’s hash pretty infernally quick,” and the widower broke :;or out doors. His sympathizing and palpitating heart was | left behind him as he went, but the charmer picked it up and followed after him and heaved it into the gutter with the remark: “I’ve just been waiting for a chance to break some of your necks, and don’t j pu put your hoofs in here again if you .vantjto see next spring’s dandelions.”—Detroit Free Pressf

GAS TAR. it Will Make Fence Posts Proof Against the Weather for Years. In tlie manufacture of illuminating gas from bituminous coal, a large quantity (amounting to about eight per cent, of the coal), of a thick, Ijjack, strong-smelling liquid is collected, known as gas tar and coal tar. This is a very complex substance, and by distillation yields several oils, etc., leaving behind a solid pith, called coke-pitch, and incorrectly asphaltum, true asphaltum being a natural' product. Gas tar, as it comes from the gas works, | is used for various purposes, among others, for the preservation of timber, especially fences and fence-pasts, for the mailing of roofing composition, and in laying what are called asphalt walks. We have had complaints that it appeared to be of little valii* i n preserving wood, and several have inquired as to the proper method of using it. It is not unlikely, as (here are different kinds of coal used in gas making, that the tar varies greatly in its properties. In England, where it is much more used than with us. one writer recommends as follows: Three gallons oil coal tar, in an-iron kettle, is set over a slow fire and allowed to simmer for about an hour. This should be done in the open air, as there is danger of its taking tire. After it has simmered for this time, add a handf.il of fine . quick-lime, and stir well together. Remove from the tire, and add a quart of benzine or naphtha, or sufficient to make it work well from a brush. The coal tar thus prepared is applied to fence-posts apd other wood while hot. The writer says: “Two coats will do, and will make any kind of» wood proof from all weather for years.” Another writer advises to make use of the tar as it comes from the gas works, adding enough benzine (from half a gill' to one gill to each quart of tar), to make it work like thin paint. It is to be applied with an old brush to the wood, which should be perfectly dry.—American Ag^‘kuUurisl. —Thei-e will be many new ice-boats on the Hudson this wintef* and lively sports ate anticipated,—Troy Times,

RAISING TREES. Sam* Suggestions for the Calculation of Profits from Forest Culture. From the American Forestry Bulletin we take the following suggestions relating to the interest suggested, because our people have not yet learned its great importance: In discussing forestry matters in this country we must not forget that tha needs of the various sections differ widely, as do also the conditions for successful—we mean financially successful—forestry. The theories of climate and hydraulic influence of tha forest, which have given the first impetus to the forestry movement m this country are now doubted bv few—the few having for the most part an interest inf doubting; the majority accept them on faith, and some few on conviction. But, after all, these considertions will guide only the statesman and the Government. The individual forest owner desires to make, forestry a profitable business; 'he tries to produce in the shortest time the highest rent from the soil which he devotes to forestry. Therefore, unless other considerations necessitate, wheat land should not be given up to forest growth; for whatever may have been said on the profitableness of forest growing,' With some few exceptions forestry, compared with agriculture, -is only profitable on poor soil, paradoxical as this may appear. In all calculations on the profits of forest culture our friends have neglected to bring into use a factor which will place the balance on the wrong side every time, unless due care has been taken to reduce the initial outlay for land, labor, etc., to the smallest amount. In agriculture wc take every year in our crops the interest on the capital invested in the shape of land, labor and seed, and can apply this interest in any way we like, investing it, for instance* in railroad stocks and deriving the interest in dividends thereon. In forestry, unfortunately, the calculation is more complicated,* from the fact that the full returns on our capital can not be expected for 100, 80, 60, or as some advocates of rapid growth will have it, 40 vears from the start of the plantation. If then we begin with a soil the price of which was §30 per acre, on that part of the investment alone, the returns will have to be, taking a rotation of 60 years, §560, to pay interest at five per cent. Mr. Fostgr, of Muscatine, la., calculating for-profit, allows §100 for plantation of one acre. The amount would demand at the end of 60 years, §1,868, in order to cover interest on the investment, or fhe whole acre must have produced §2,400 in 60 years. This amount will be somewhat modified by returns from thinnings during the time of rotation, with compound interest added up to the end, of 60 years. But taxes and the extra profit which any man expects from an enterprise so hazardous as forestry growing, will more than counterbalance this amount. In walnut, at §100 per 1,000 feet, clear of expense, we would have to cut at 60 years 24,000 feet of clear lumber! We doubt whether this will ever be done. Yet we do not mean to discourage forest planting by these expositions; we only want to direct attention of forest growers to the necessity of simplifying and cheapening methods of forest growing, and of selecting such soils as can not be utilized to better advantage for agricultural purposes. Fortunately the demands of forest trees on the soil are very insignificant. Whilst the agricultural crops deprive the soil of its rarest numeral constituents, tree growth makes demand only on .the-physical properties Gf~the same, taking its nourishment mainly from the air. The poor soils, therefore, are those which, in a highlycultivated country, will properly be .devoted to forest growth.

PIGS FOR PROFIT. The Kind of Feed That Is Requisite to Profitably Fatten Swine. For nearly two years breeding pigs and making pork has paid our farmers as well or better than anything else. Grain has been low, and for farmers who grew potatoes extensively it has been possible to keep pigs in growing condition with refuse that would otherwise be wasted, and thus make a largo amount of pork with comparatively little grain. We can not afford to make pork on corn alone, and I doubt whether in the history of Western New York th.ere were eyer three years in succession when exclusive corn feeding to hogs realised to the feeder the market value of the grain. In the ol den times store hogs were allowed to run in clover during the summer, with slops and a little other feed, and then- fattened in the fall on corn in the ear. In this way, by counting the clover as nothing, an apparent profit was figured out, but it did not pay nevertheless. My own idea is that pasture and clover are the dearest feed that pigs can have. If fed otherwise as they should be for thrift, pigs will eat very little clover, and wherever they trample it down nothing else will touch it. They can be fed so little beside as to make clover an important part of their rations, but that is not a profitable way to keep any kind of stock. The gain from pasture turned into pork, with no other feed, is not more than two dollars per acre; more often not half that. We can afford tills in orchards for the benefit of the frnit, but nowhere else. Even in orchards we had better stock so heavily that the bulk of the feed must come from the swill-pail. Few farmers appreciate the value of roots, especially beets and mangold wurtzel as feed for pigs. . The quantity that can be grown on a small piece of ground is greater in amount and more valuable than the grass. Where potatoes are largely grown for market a considerable portion of the tubers will be under sized or scabby, and these are usually of little value. These unsalable potatoes cooked and mixed with mill feed and corn meal will make pork as rapidly as more costly rations of entire grain, and at much less expense. When apples are as abundant and cheap as this year, the poorer fruit can be used in the same way more profitably than it can be sold. One of my investments this fall is a small steamer for cheaply cooking apples, pumpkins, small potatoes and other refuse for the pigs. It has not cost as much as I expected, and I believe it will pay better interest than anything else I have on the farm; because it will enable me to save so much that would otherwise go to waste. I look bacx now with regret to the bushels of potatoes that were fed raw to stock, .doing little good, when at so small an expense they can with a steamer be changed to excellent food for pigs.—Cor. Country Gentleman. " —The most serious problem now demanding solution at the hands of the farmers is how to reach consumers direct with their farm products. Our farmers to-day are not so much concerned in widening the area under|cultivation as in growing larger and better crops on present areas and in securing more remunerative prices for that which they do raise. The middleman exacts by “far too large a percentage of the farmers’ profits for his services. Some practical system of co-operation among the farmers in buying and selling is essential to their success.—N. Y. Ttmes. —Wilmington is said to be the largest city in North Carolina. Its present population is about twenty thousand.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. —All proposed improvements may be leisurely considered at this season,' but io not let that be the end of them. —Dispose of the small potatoes by. boiling and mixing meal with them, snd feeding to the pigs. A better feed Eor fattening purposes is hard to obtain. —Toledo Blade. —Make a study of feeding. The animal which comes out in good condition in the spring has a long wpys the start of one that, from insufficient food, must take a month on grass to get thrifty again.—Exchange. —Hanging plants dry out rapidly. Plunge the pots or. baskets in a pail or tub of water, and after they have ceased to drip, return them to'their places. The water, however, should be of the same temperature as the room. —Oatmeal drink. — Three table spoonfuls of coarse oatmeal put into three quarts of cold water. Boil it for half an hour, and while hot sweeten to taste with brown sugar; strain. It may be flavored with cloves or lemon peel bpiled in it if liked.—N. Y. Herald. —No ground should be allowed to remain unoccupied, even for half a season; if no other crop is desired, put it in rye to be plowed under as green manure. For this purpose potato patches and corn fields need not be plowed,simply harrow the seed in; if it is only covered it will grow.—Prairie Farmer. —Bread Sauce: Pour half a pint of boiling milk on a teacupful of fine bread-crumbs and a small onion, stuck with three or four cloves, a small blade Of mace, a few peppercorns and salt to taste. Let the sauce simmer five minutes, add a small pat of fresh butter, and at the time of serving remove the onion and mace.—Bostoii Globe. —Fried Potatoes: Peel a number of raw potatoes as apples are peeled. Let the parings be as near as possible the same thickness and let them be as long as possible. Dry them thoroughly in a cloth and put them in the frying basket and plunge it ih boiling lard. When they are a golden color drain them well in front of the fire, sprinkle fine salt over, and serve.—The Household. —For citron pudding take Half a pint of cream, one tablespoonfnl of flour, two ounces of sugar and a little grated nutmeg. Mis all these ingredients together with the well beaten yelks of three eggs. Cut two ounces of citron into thin slices, place pieces of it in small buttered molds or cups, fill them with the mixture and bake until the pudding assumes a light brown color. This quantity will make five puddings, which are sufficient for a side dish.— Detroit Post.

SOILING. r« ne of tho Reasons Which Render the System Impracticable in the West. A correspondent writes from Kansas. “I have read with a great deal of interest what has been said in the Bural and Stockman concerning soiling, and I am impressed w'ith the profitableness of the system under certain circumstances at least. But what I would like to inquire is this: Do you recommend it under all circumstances?” In reply we would say that we nave discussed soiling, so far as the West is concerned, more as a possibility of the future than as having any special interest to Western farmers, or the great mass of them, at the present time. There is no need of soiling on the average Western farm. The elements of the necessity do not er.Lit as they do in the; East, where the farms are*smaller, and where it is desirable to make every acre do the best. Generally our farms consist of move acres than we can use to advantage. We are land rich or land poor, as you may choose. The first element of the necessity of soiling is a high price for land. That exists in some parts of the West, but not in the West as a whole. That would result in smaller farms, and with smaller farms we should be under the necessity of changing our methods of agriculture to the end that we might make our land produce more. In most of the West we have the best land in the world for soiling purposes, for there is a fitness in land for the purpose which must never be lost sight of if the system is to be made profitable. There is land that is suitable for nothing else but pasturing, and it would be folly to attempt to do anything else with it Stumps, stones, anti an exceeding profusion of hills and hollows, for instance, invite to pasturage and nothing else. There may be pieces of such land that may be profitably used for soiling, but as a whole it can not be with any marked success. But on level, or comparatively level land that is arable, and worth seventy five, or even fifty dollars an acre, if labor is not too high, it will pay to soil. There is no doubt about it, the sage opinion of fancy dairy writers to the contrary notwithstanding. In the?West labor is so high that it would give many of us a pause, before we entered upon such an undertaking. But as far as that is concerned, we think we have shown in previous issues of the Bural and Stockman that if the conditions exist to make the adoption of the system desirable otherwise, it can be made profitable notwithstanding than farm labor is high. Very often, in different parts of the country, part of a fahn will be very hilly, or otherwise onlv fit for pasturage, while the balance will be good tillable land. On such a farm the soiling system will permit the keeping of double the amount of stock that could be kept if stock was furnished nothing but pasture. The increase of manure would give an increase of fodder, and thus make the winter keep of the increased amount of stock possible and easy. But there is one thing, and a very important thing, for even the farmer who is perfectly situated for soiling to remember. It is not best to make a sudden and radical change from one system to another. Such changes in any direction in matters of business do not work satisfactorily. Many, or; at least, some, have no doubt failed for this very reason, and are now among the few who have given soiling any study whatever, who declare it a barren ideality. The simplest things in life can be performed well by the average man only after some experience. Soiling looks to be easy, and certainly it is not communicated. Yet the majority, should people rush into it suddenly, would fail to achieve the best possible results. It is best to begin on a small scale. If the stock of a form is added to beyond what the pasture will carry, do not add all that experience suggests might have been carried if the system had been practiced until it had become familiarReduce the pasture a little year by year. A good plan to test the merits of the system is to soil mornings and evenings, permitting the cattle and other animals to run on the pasture in the middle of the day. In this way the pastures will be kept in good condition, and the cows will give a good flow of milk, and soiling will recommend itself to the farmer and dairyman. Professional dairymen can introduce the soiling system on a large scale with more safety than the general farmer can, for they are accustomed to grow and' raise fodder to feed when pastures are short. But as before stated, the subject just no^s^M! much practical interest to >■ part of our western farming It is a great question whether w^B not be better off if our fartn^B smaller, and we strove to mak^^K land produce mom But the fact mains that we have any quantity ^ land, and while we have it, such a Systran as soiling is scarcely practical with us.-. Western Burak

WOMEN AND MEN, The Difference in the Manifestations Sense end Faculty in the Sexes. Not all the virtues are common to men and women alike, without change of function or proportion. For the most part there is as much difference in them as there is in the manifestations of brain power or the natural assignment of the work of the world; and the same virtue changes its name and color as it passes through the alembic of sex. Take order as the first example. The order of a man and that of a woman are different things in manipulation, if the original stuff, the mental “paste,” Is the same. A man "has organization, a woman management; a man of business carries his exactness of arrangement and classification to the point where it becomes automatic, and makes of his workmen unindividualized if intelligent machines, who do what they are told to do and have ho concern with the rest; a good housekeeper is methodical and knows how to clearly define duties and parts, but her power to allow for individual idiosyncrasies is part of her success as a mistress, and no house would go well where, tinder stress, these parts could not be re-ar-ranged and the duties shifted from one pair of hands to another. ' A sailor understands the art of neat storage, a lady’s maid that of deft combination. The original quality is the same all through, but the special workings differentiated by the condition of things, and are not identical; just as a pointer and a retriever are not identical, though the original ancestor is common to both. In the material affairs of life it is for the man to take, the initiative and for the woman to seeond his action. It is for him to endeavor to improve bad conditions, and for her to make the' besf of what she has. The man who would content himself with patiently polishing up a few shabby old spoons, when vigorous exertion would give him dozens more, would be a mean spirited, unenterprising fool who would never gain success because he would never deserve it. But a woman who should leave the spoons she already has, tarnished and useless, because uneleansed, while going out of her way to add to the amount of her already neglected possessions, would be just as far out on the other _side. A woman who should .neglect hei home and children that she might make out of doors the money she could save by personal superintendence \vithin woidd be a mistake; but the man had better go and dig his neighbor’s field for wages than give his time to trimming his own homebushes and cutting his old yews, into fantastic shapes. It is for the man to construct and for the woman to perfect; he builds and she decorates; he gains and she dispenses. We are speaking now of the normal condition of things, not of women Who have to make their: own living in the departments hitherto reserved for men—that is, outside the home, and in those professions which till now have been called specially^ men’s work.—N. ¥. Herald. —Such a day this,” remarked one of the oldest inhabitants (and one of the oldest inhabitants is supposed to know it all)—“such a warm, spring-like day as this is a regular weather breeder.” “What is a ‘weather breeder?’ ” “Why, don’t you young folks know what a ‘weather breeder’ is'when you see it? All old people will tell you that a warm day in winter sits on her nest like an old goose to hatch out ice and snow-— and that's _ what we call a ‘weather ^Breeder.’ ”—Kushvillc World. “I do not like thee. Dr. Fell, The reason why, I can not tell.” It has often been wondered at, the bad odor this oft-quoted doctor was in. Tivas prooably bec&use he, being one of the old-: school doctors, made up pills as large as bullets, which nothing but an ostrich could liolt iwithout nausea. Hence the dislike. Dr. R. V. Pierce’s “Pleasant Purgative Pellets” are sugar-coated and no larger than bird-shot, and are quick to do their work. For all derangements of the liver, bowels and stomach they: are specific. A spark arrester—A pretty girl.—Texas Siftings. f

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The front steps are deserted’ now. The season has passed when she stoops to conquer.—Chicago Tribune. Pike's Toothache DuorS euro lnlminnte,25c. (final's Sulphur Soap heals and beautifies. 25c. G ebmak Corn Removes kil Is Corns a Bunions. A proof-reader’s society in Boston calls itself the ‘-House of Correction.” THE MARKETS. New York, December 29,1884. CATTLE—Native Steers-.._$ 4 SO ®$ 6 05 COTTON—Middling.. 11 K'ffl JUS FLOUR—Good to Choice.. 3 35 ffl 5 00 WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 81 ffl 84 ii CORN—No. 2..... 51 ® 51>i OATS—Western Mixed.- 33 ffl 35 l’ORK—Sew Mess.. 12 50 ffl 12 15 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling.. 10>i@ 1071 BEEVES—Good to Heavy— 5 25 ffl 5 50 Fair to Good.. 4 25 ffl 5 00 HOGS—Common to Seleet.... 3 20 ffl 4 35 SHEEP—Fair to Choice.. 2 50 ® 4 00 FLOUR—XXA to Choice...... 2 45 ffl 3 25 WHEAT—No. 2 Winter...;. 8014® 80H . no. 3 “ ii ® mi CORN—No. 2 Mixed. 32Ji@ mi OATS—No. 2..... 25-i® 25% RYE—Na. 255........ . 46.q« 48 TOBACCO-Lugs. 4 SO ® 10 00 Medium Leaf..... 9 00 ® 12 00 HAY—Choice Timothy . 12 50 ffl 13 00 BUTTER—Choice Duiry. 18 ® 22 EGGS—Choice .- 22 ® 23 PORK—New Mess. 11 50 ffl 12 00 BACON—Clear Rib. 6,si® LARli.62,® e,H CHICAGO. HOGS—Good to Choice.. 4 30 ® 4 50 SHEEP—Good to Choice...... 3 75 a 4 25 FLOUR—W inter. 3 25 ffl 4 30 Spring............... 3 00 ® 4 50 WHEAT—No. 2 Spring. 7131® 72 No. 2Red... 7254® 73H CORN—No. 2. 34?,® 35 OATS—No. 2. 2434® 2474 PORK—New Mess. 10 75 e 10 87.H KANSAS CITY. t CATTLE—Native Steers. 4 10 ® 5 25 HOGS—Sales at. 3 SO ® 4 35 WHEAT—No. 2. 52M® 5iX CORN—No. 2 Mixed.27 ® 27 ‘i OATS-No. 2. .— « 24 NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grades.. 3 40 ® 4 20 CORN—White.» ® 47 OATS—Choice Western... ffl 37 HAY—Choice. 17 00 ffl 18 00 PORK—Mess.11 «>4® 12 00 BACON—Clear Rib...... ffl 7h COTTON—Middling. ffl 10fc LOUISVILLE. > WHEAT-No. 2 Red. ffl 73 CORN—No. 2 Mixed. 39 ffl 40 OATS—No. 2 Mixed... ffl 28K PORK—Mess.. .... ffl 12 50 BACON—Clear Rib. ffl 774 COTTON—Middling.. .... « ?0>,

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Forlaryncl.tis, Bronchitis, Qulnfy»Asthma and-. Consumption, Br.' J- H* McLean s 'Aar Was Bat u is the only remedy that will give sure relief. It has cured Lung Diseases where all other remedies have fa'l?d -Why will you suffer from Throat and Lung Troubles when such a pleasant remedy is offered you? For Croup it is a positive spec Hie. Fp.‘ Singers and Speakers the Tar \V;ne Balm is an abso.u e necessity. Nothing has ever been discovered which will give such immediate relief, and it'-will -positively cure Throat Troubles. Don't Delay. Cure That Bad Cold! Stop That Cought Those whose Lungs ?n l Throats are sore, hard and dry,--will rca’lze the s oihrng ef.e't of a single dcae of Dr. J. H. M Lean’s Tar Wine IJaim, and to give all doubting sktp'ics a chance to be fs-mred of it* wonderful soothing and. miraculous" virtues, I have pu* ufiTrial Bottles, costing only IS cents per pottle* Every dealer in the United!States should have them. If they have iiot. please i s’c them to s n 1 for a dozen as a test. Every one trying that-‘i-Vcent size will hi convinced of the miraculous benefits they w ill receive from taking Dr, J. H. MXcjn’s Tar Wine Balm* d in your Head, tickling in the nos e, forehead and t: you-have Catarrh; get a box of 1 R J. Ii* M'Cold i Lean's Catarrh S»ufk ami use it once a day, besides taking Dr. J. H. M'Leas’s Tar Wjie BalX to heal your Tbroat and Lungs. Price of Trial Bottles 25 Cents Each, I can send them only by Express. If y«?u will send roe $2.10 or that amount in postage-stamps, I will send you one dozen, freight paid. Large Bottles, which contain six times as much as the 25-eent bizc Bottles - - \ $100 Or six Bottles for - - - *r/~A - 5 00 After using Dr. J. H. M''Lean’s Tar Wine Balm, let me hear from yon. Prepared by DR. J. H. M’LEAN, Cor. Broadway and Biddle St., St. Lours, Mo., Proprietor of DR. J. n. M’LEAN'S WONDERFUL STRENGTHEN*,RG CORDIAL AND SL000 PURIFIER

‘Maryland, My Maryland- «'» * “Pretty'Wires, w Lovely daughters end noble men." “ My farm lies In a rather low and mins' malic .situation, and [ 1 “My wife!” T “Who?* “ Was a very pretty blonde 1” Twenty years ago, became * . |e “Sallow!” “ Hollow-eyed!” “ Withered and aged!” Before her time, from “Malarial vapors, though she made no j particular complaint, not being of the ! grumpy kind, yet causing me great uneast* , ness. • “ 1 . .“A- short time ago I purchased your ' remedy for one of the children, who had a! very severe attack of biliousness, and it oc-; ourrcd to me that the remedy might help my wife, as I found that our little girl, upon re< covery had “Lost!” “ Her sallowncss, a;*d looked as fresh aS a new^Jilown daisy. Well the story is soou told. My wife, tcHlay. lias gained her oldtimcd beauty with compound interest, and is now as handsome a matron (if I no say it myself) as can bo found in this county, which is noted for pretty women. And I have only Hop Bitters to thank for it. “The dear creature just looked over my shoulder, and says * I can flatter equal to the days of our courtship,’ and that reminds me the$e might be more pretty wives if toy brother fanners would do as I have done.’ Hoping you may long be spared to do good, I thankfully remain. C. L. Jambs. BeltsvieIe, I’rince George Co., Md.',) Majr 26th, 1883. f EW None genuine without a hunch of green Hops on the white label. Shi^n all the vile,poisonous stuff with “IIop"or"Hops"in their uuxue.

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One year after date, for value received, 1 pi omixe to pay to the order of the publisher of Illinois A-rrtmtiHrt* the sum of. with interest at 4 per cent per annum after maturity. It is understood and agreed that no part of the principal of this note will be de* manded or become payable (except at my pleasure;, as longr as 1 iemaan a paid-up subscriber to the above named paper. _ (SifmeOy.......j.

900 BOLD WATCHES FREE I WHO WILL SEND THE QUICKEST t to making op the above list of presents, we. decided to reserve 99.000 to be divided equally among the first 900 subscribers received. If you •end 5£cen|s.you will be entitle! to one receipt % oto foi one present, and if vour letter is among the tirst 9UU received you will also be entitled to a beautiful gold watcli The watch is one third »arger than the picture. We will send a printed list of the awards, tree, and all presents Will be forwarded to holders of receipts as they may direct. A list __________ .. t .■•it,....., ...ill l..t mif.li. In T,i,., »• Thfl ’

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