Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 38, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 January 1885 — Page 4

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT Pul>U»hed Every Thursday. PKTKRSBITRO.- - - INDIANA ALONE. ii „ IThe Are flits on the walls And ^titters on the fane: Lo! Memory's wand recalls Tho happy past again. ! I sit alone. A tender welrdsome light O'ereasts the fading grecu, r Amid the leaves’ sad flight And Autumn’s guidon sheen 1 roam alone. Alas! the wild winds sweep O’er winter’s bosom white, I j ko moans of rostloss sleep Or hollow souuds Of night. 1 sigh alone. li. The hyacinth doth peep Aud spring-time lilies bloom. O’er dearest ones asleep IVlthin the dreamless tomb; I weep alone. The distant church-bell sounds O’er fragrant meadows broad •And silent sleepers’ mounds; All puss to worship God. 1 go alone. Soft doth the music steal Out o'er the flow ring sod, No grief these sloepers feel .forever more. O God, I am alone 1 » —T. B. P. Stewart, in C'umt£. A STRANGE THEFT.

The Dodge by Whioh a Shrewd Detective Was Outwitted. Several stories of crime, taken from the note-book of a celebrated English detective, recently on a visit to this country , have already appeared in these 1 columns!. Many others related to the writer are still untold, and among these the following is perhaps the most inter- ■ esting. It is written almost word for word as taken down from the lips of the narrator: “There had beeu a big robbery of jewels from the country residence of Sir George M., in Warwickshire, on December 23, 1867. The residence of Sir George" was about four, miles from Leamington and about two from Warwick, and stood in a small park with many trees. The entrance to the park was at the east end corner, and the drive was somewhat circuitous. The house was a lWge irregular building, and at Christmas it was always filled with guests. "On this oeeas'on many visitors came a week before Christmas Day, and there was, of course, the usual round of amusements. Oil Christmas Eve there was to be an old-tirae/dollilication, and representatives of tbe west people in the neighborhood were to be there. It was an oeeasiba when the ladies of the family vjere expected to look their best, and some very valuable jewelry was to be exhibited on their persons. “During the afternoon of December 23d the jewelry, was brought from its Usual depository and displayed in Lady M.’s apartments. Much of it was very old, including a magpifieent set of diamonds of great value, presented to the first Baronet’s bride by Charles I. The chief feature was a stomacher, consisting of ope immense gem of great purity and beauty, surrounded with a circle of garnets and emeralds alternating. The actual value of this ornament was, of course, very great, but the family set a value ppou it which could hardly be represented in figures. “This piece"of jewelry was laid on a cushion placed on Lady M.’s bed, and was gazed upon with great admiration by her frieuds and visitors. The beds room was upon the second floor, and could be entered iu two ways, both leadiug from the gallery which ran round that part of the dwelling where the main stairway was, and below which was the great hall or entrance-room into which the main door opened from the grounds. One door opened from this gallery into Lady M.’s dressingroom, which ‘opened again into her chamber, and another door opened from the gallery into a small anteroom, which iu turn also opened into the chamber. “After inspecting the jewelry Lady M.’s visitors retirejp^and employed themselves until dinnertime, according to their several tastes. Lady M. ami one of her two daughters remained in s, the room aud put away the jewels. Miss Julia, the daughter, seeing the ease for the stomacher lying closed upon the bed,, and. supposing her mother had restored the article to its depository, placed the case in a cab’net where it was usually kept, remarking to her mother at the time that she had done so. “When the case was opened the next day, the inside appeared as it usually did. Several layers of wool covered the contents, but, on removing these nothiug' was found but a handful of silver pud copper coins. I was! not there, of course, to witness the scene, but one may easily imagine what it was like.. What preliminary steps they took I don’t know, but that same evening I received a telegram at my house in Bays water, requiring my presence at Scotland Yard. There 1 was directed to go at once to the residence of Sir George M. I packed my portmanteau, took all my stylish clothes and a few of those inconsiderable things which indicate a modern swell, and went down by the London* Northwestern to Lexington. I received the telegram at about six o'clock, and I was at Leamington by nine. Taking a carriage, I drove straight to Sir George M.’s. It was a lovely night, and he received me at the door.

■ ‘Mr ueorge, 1 said, ’X am an intimate friend, whom you were expecting, and my name is Brooke. ’ “ 'That will do capitally,’ Sir George replied,; and I was shown to a room. There I put on my dress suit, and after a brief talk wnth my host,who explained all as I have already related it, I went down and was introduced to the guests. Lady M-had received the cue and saluted me as an old friend, as did also the daughters. “I looked around among the guests —who by the way had been kept in complete ignorance of the robbery—and i took stock of them. That night I , didn't sleep much. I lay awake thinking. Sir George had put me in posses- i sion of all the facts and I had quietly inspected Lady M.'s apartments and ail ] their surroundings. I regretted that I had not brought with me a yottug ! Scotchman named Watson, who had been nay assistant for two or three years, and was a very shrewd, intelligent fellow. Next morning I telegraphed for him in cipher, and instructed him to come on as my servant. He arrived the same afternoon and soon made himself at home in the servants’ hall, where he admirably sustained the character he had assumed. “ No w, as you may well understand, I had no easy task on hand. I had been a subaltern in a regiment of foot, .' and serred in India, so that it was no < trouble to me to associate with the class of persons I met at Sir George’s. I i made myself as I have reason to know, : very agreeable, and was soon on excellent terms with everybody in the I house. There was no doubt in my mind that the robbery had been per- < petrated by some one in the dwelling. ( It was equally clear to me that it; had 1 not been accomplished by a domestic. My instructions to Watson were to be- 1 come intimate with the servants of the visitors, and toleara as much as he could ] of the antecedents and habits of their 1 master#. 1

“Now, let me go back aud tell you something which happened the first night I was at Sir George’s. I am naturally as well as professionally of an inquisitive turn, so when all had retired and the house was still I arose and opened the door of mv room. I may tell you that the first thing I did on lining shown to my room on my arrival was to oil the lock and hinges, so that the door would open without noise. I had pursued this course ever since one of the best laid schemes I ever concocted was frustrated by the grating of a key in a lock. Well, I opened t he door noiselessly and looked out ,The long corridor reaching from the central gallery to the left wing lay before me; a very faint light was flung from a lamp at the head of the stairs. As I gazed without any particular object, wondering, however, behind which door the secret of the robbery lay concealed—for I was certain that sonie one of the visitors was the thief—a white figure emerged from a room between me and the gallery. I stepped back and closed the door. Then I listened. Some one approached my door and paused. I could hear the soft footfalls cease. Nay, I canid hear the breathing of the person who paused and evidently listened at my door. Then the footsteps departed. I opened the door and saw the figure in white walking with downcast head toward the gallery. It vanished in the doorway from which I had seen it coine. Was I suspected, aud was this the thief? Had she come to reeonnoiter and lind

oui winn i w as aoout." Had her restless and guilty spirit intuitively fixed upon me as the one being in that dwelling whom it had to fear? '•Next morning I tried to select the door out of which the figure had come, and through which it had disappeared, but in vam. At breakfast I glanced around to see whose face gave signs of disquiet or anxiety, but all appeared gay and careless. “After breakfast I went into the smoking-room and conversed with one and another. Then I went to my room, having, as already said, telegraphed for Watson. After an hour spent in thought I took a stroll throtigh the park. Tho air was frosty and bracing. The sun shone bright, and I war beginning to collect my thoughts and decide on some course of action. Where to begin was the question. As I sauntered down the avenue I heard a footstep behind me. It drew near, and presently I found Miss Gertrude, or more properly Miss M-, Sir George’s elder daughter, alongside of me. I bowed and made some re- i mark about her being alone. “ ‘Oh,’ she said, 'I am going to visit two or three of my pensioners, for whom I have a few small presents.’ “I observed that she held a leather bag in her hand. After a few further remarks between us, she excused herself and hastened on. Whom did she remind me of as she passed away? When I reached the gate and glanced along the road toward the village, Miss M-was out of sight, the roau taking an abrupt turn. I walked on in the direction she had taken for no particular reason, and soon came to the village. It consisted of two rows of small unpretentious dwellings, with one here and there more humble than the rest. I was already approaching the very last dwelling, a low thatched cottage at the corner of a lane leading to a farm-house in the valley, when Miss M-came forth from tire cottage and turned toward me. She no longer carried the bag and had her veil down. She stopped a moment and asked me which way I was going. I know not exactly why, but I resolved to deceive her, and replied I was going to see where the lane led, pointing to that which ran by the cottage., She said it would take me to a large poud where the village children were skating. Theu she hastened away. As I looked after her the figure in 'white came to ray mind. “1 turned into the lane and-went a few steps and then paused, for I heard a step on the other side of a thicket hedge which separated the small yard at the rear of the cottage from the lane, I ueered through the hedge and saw a tall, strongly-built man of about twen-ty-five, stauding with a meerschaum ,in his mouth, from which ho was sending forth volumes of smoke. He wore a sealskin cap, hai sandy hair and a full' fawn-colored beard. A heavy peajacket covered his body, and his legs were encased in breeches and long hoots. He was a bold, handsome-look-ing fellow, evidently very powerful, Iu a few minutes he knocked the ashes from his pipe and entered the cottage. 1 went back to the highway and walked on toward Warwick. In a very few minutes my friend of the cottage passed me at a brisk rate. In his left, hand he carried a bag—the bag which 1 had seen in Miss M.’s hand when she passed me in the park. , “ You may be sure that this excited my curiosity. Who was this man whom Miss if-had evidently met bv appointment in the cottage, and to whom she had confided the custody of her bag? Furthermore, what did that bag contain? 1 quickened my pace, and the stranger and myself entered the station at Warwick at. the same moment. He bought a ticket for London, and I did the s..me. In ten minutes the train came in, and the stranger entered the car. I followed him. He kopt the bag on his knee in the grasp of hs hand >4! the time. Leamington was only two iStiles away, so I had not much time to think if I intended to do any thing there. The train, I knew, would stop seven minutes there for refreshments. “As tho speed slackened, I placed my hand on the ann of the stranger and said:

“ ‘incuse me—I’m an officer, and I want to know what you have in that bag. There was a robbery of jewels at Sir George M-’s yesterday, and I know that a lady from the house was in communication with you an hour ago and gave you the bag.’ "The stranger grew pale and appeared as though he would spring on me and crush me. As the train stopped, he a'lanced through the window. Then he fumed to me and said: “ ‘You may take the bag if you will let me go.”, *‘ ‘But are the jewels in it?’ I asked. “ ‘Look,’ was the reply. I opened he snap and under a silk handkerchief here sure enough were the precious ;ems. “ ‘Get out,’ I said, ‘and we will talk about it’ “He stepped from the car, and I folowed him with my hand on the bag. kt the same moment he released the >ag, which I clutched. ' Then he said: “ ‘You see that stout well-dressed gentleman with the white hair and n^rsachc? He is the principal in this thing. Let me speak to him.’ “I warned him not to attempt: to escape, and ho Jaughed at the idea. He walked up to the gentleman he had minted out and greeted, him cordially, fho gentleman returned his greening with equal warmth. 1 had my revolver n my overcoat pocket, and I placed my land upon it ready for use, if needful, ['he gentleman beckoned a porter who ]uittcd the station. In a minute two >olicemcn entered. The gentleman and he officers spoke together, and the next uoment approached me. “My man of the cottage followed hem closely, and, pointing to me, said: “ ‘I charge this man with the robbery if diamonds from the house of Sir Jeorge M. He has them now in his tossession. “The gentleman, seeing the officer lesitate, said: “ ‘This is Sir George's son, and he las followed this man from the neighlorhood of his father’s house. Arrest lim on my authority as » Magistrate.’

“For a time I was almost d unbounded at this man’s audacity. I protested, however, that 1 was an officer, and that I had been summoned by Sir George from London to investigate the robbery. I told Colonel Wyse, as I found the gentleman was named, all tho particulars, but it was all in vain. Colonel Wyse directed the officer to lock nie up, and ordered the jewels to be delivered up. Sir George’s son, mind you—I doubted his being any thing of the sort —look the bag, saying that he would return home with the jewels and set the minds of his parents at rest, and be back by three o’clock in the afternoon, for which time my examination was set down. “Of course my accuser failed to appear, and Colonel Wyse felt constrained to allow me to go. * I returned immediately to Sir. George's, and soliciting a private interview in the library, tola the whole story. He stood leaning on the mantelpiece and never spoke once. Suddenly his arm fell and he dropped to tho floor in an apoplectic fit. He never rallied, and was dead before the morning. “I found that Sir George’s only son had incurred his father’s displeasure by miiiiy evil courses, ending in his dismissal from the armv. Nevertheless he was his father's heir, and was at once summoned by telegraph. By noon he arrived, and m the new Sir George M. I recognized my stalwart friend of the cottage and the*railroad train. He entered the hall carrying the very bag whose contents I knew so well. “The guests wore, of course, leaving as fast as they could get together their things, and I was about to step into a carnage, when the butler said that Lady M. desired to see me. I went with the messenger, and found her ladyship in her private parlor. “ ‘Mr. Brooks,’ she said, ‘we have found the missing jewels. In fact, they were simplv mislaid. Yon have had some trouble, and must not go unrequited.’ “Thereupon she handed me £150. As we sat in the train Watson told me all he had learned in the servants’ hall. Young George had gambled away a fortune left him by an aunt, and had become so involved that he had to resort to the usurers. After that he pro

lively recent introduction, its effects upon the carriage and gait and upon the anatomical development, especially of growing children are already quite marked. These obvious physical effects are inherent in the muscular action in* volved in the use of this form of skate. Unlike the ice skates, there is no gliding movement, nor are the opposing muscles ,of the lower extremities equally exercised, iu the constant successions of side thrusts which make up all there is of exerc'se on roller skates. When to this is added the fact that the jiraetice may be, and is by many, continned throughout the year, while iceskating lasts only a few weeks at a time with long intervals between, it is easy to see why so many youths of both sexes are acquiring the peculiar gait of a Micmac Indian or Hudson Bay voyageur in the snow-shoe season. Exam*, inatiou of the ankles of the majority of the children who clatter among 'the smooth stone sidewalks of our residence streets will reveal a thickening of the ligaments of the joint, and an undue development of the muscles and tendons of the outer side, which point to the condition of one of the common kinds of club foot —and in which the subject walks on the inner ankle. The results are patent even to the non-professional eye, and are therefore proper topics of comment in the columns of a news journal _ But there is another class of evils arising from the continuous use of roller-skates which is of a much moreserious nature, and to which only the merest allusion may here be made. The eare of tho health of future mothers is the especial sacred charge of those who know, by personal experience, how profoundly that health may be affected by some apparently insignificant cause during adolescence. There is sufficient reason for the belief that the form of exercise in question is capable of producing both structural ana functional disturbances Of a lasting nature.— Chicago News. •

Russian Justice. The question has often been ashed whether in Russia men receive impartial justice or not. 1 shall mention two eases which came under my own observation. The landlord of my house entered an action to recover the sum of 92,000 owed for goods to that amount delivered. Both parties bribed the Judge, but the landlord was the most lavish, and he affirmed that he paid 9760, after the decision in his favor, on condition that ho received the other 91,260: his offer was accepted and he paid the amount after waiting two years for his money. An Austrian fentleman was robbed at a hotel where e was stopping of property to a considerable amount. The servants were all examined by the police and one was selected as the probable thief. The hotel proprietor well knew the honesty of this man and gave him a character which would have exonerated him from the charge. But no, the police determined that he was the thief, and actually Dogged him to the comfortable number of 800 lashes. Scarcely was this received before the true thief was discovered to be quite another person; the poor servant, instead of being consoled for the severe flagellation he had received, was sent out of the city in order that the business might be for gotten.—London Telegraph. —It is claimed that England and France can make a better grade of fine paper than this country on account of the quality of the water, which is here injured for paper-making by frequent changes in temperature. Acting upon this idea experiments are about to be made in Florida, where the temperature is more equable. If successful, it is said a large mill, especially for the manufacture of finer grades of stock, will bo built there by Massachusetts capitalists. —A silver half-dollar is the only admission ticket recognized at the New Orleans Exposition

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. —The Texas public school system is •aid to be the finest in the land. —The highest priced pew in Graoe Church, New Yorjc, is S3,000 per year. —A Dartmouth Sioux Indian sophomore's native name is Wiyobpeyatawicasta, but he passes as Charles A. Eastman. —Public schools in New York City cost $4,000,000 last year. The number of pupils taught was 271,000.—N. T. Tribune. —At a recent examination fois teachers* certificates at Sonora, Cal., there were seven applicants—six women and one man—and all failed.—San Fran* cisco Chronicle. —Rev. J. H. Vincent, the ‘'Bishop of Chautauqua,” urges his brethren in the Methodist Church to more vigorously protest against the dance, the theater and the card-table. —The Episcopalians of Charleston have started a Church Burial Association, in which the membership costs a dollar a year, and insures a hearse, coffin, carriage, and grave in/case of death. f —In some parts of Minnesota one can travel a hundred miles and find none but Swedes, and some of their congregations number over a thousand. They also have s^Sjeral missions among the Finns.—Chicago Herald. —The number of educational institutions, public and private.in the colony of New South Wales, including the University, is 2,315, with 4,543 teachers and 189,983 students and scholars, the average annual cost exceeding 30s. per head of population. This does not include technical classes, schools of art, etc.

—Dr. August Hjalmar Edgren, Professor of Modern Languages in the Royal University of Sweden,-has accepted a similar position in the State University of Nebraska, and will enter upon his duties there about April 1. He Is a veteran of the war of the rebellion and a Yale graduate, and for some years taught modem languages at his Alma Mater. _ —In this country poor scholars sometimes act as hotel-waiters during the ‘ vacation to make -money enough for [ next term, but their energy does not ' compare with that of a young Russian Jew, now studying chemistry at Berlin. Too poor to carry on his studies un- ; aided, and too proud to receive help, fhe has got employment in the night , brigade of street scavengers, and works , away briskly for a small wage.—Troy Times. —The Journal of Education very forcibly urges the necessity of the “motherly” relation between a woman teacher and her pupils. It holds that the normal schools, while inculcating knowledge as to scientific methods of instruction, should impress upon teachers the all-importance of that quality in a teaeher which wins the trust and love of the pupils. “The one thing needed," it says, “is the mother-habit, for the most implacable, relentless, fatalistic force that can be let loose in the schoolroom is the ‘scientific’ woman in whom the gift of motherhood is left out," WIT AND WISDOM. —Yer kin often cheat do ole man easier den yer kin de boy. De ripes’ pear is de saftest.—Arkansas Traveler. —“Can you tell me what maksjs my face look so funny?” asked Fenderson, looking in the glass. “Nose, sir,” was Fogg’s laconic reply.—Boston Transcript. . —What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly that it leads to a performing manhood.—N. Y. Tritmne. —When a man tells me that his passions are very strong, I simply advise him to mix them with his morals, which are apt to very weak. Then, you see, he strikes a good average.—Burdette. —The best thing to give your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to a child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. —“Lend me your ear a minute,'" remarked Mrs. Brown to her husband the other evening. “Will you give it back to me?" he inquired with mock anxiety. “Of course I will, you idiot! Do you suppose I want to start a tannery?” She got the ear.—,V. Y. Graphic. “—A Mott street Chinaman has renounced draw-poker. He sorrowfully relai 3S his experience ns follows: “I get flo acee, bet five dolla, nobody clum in; I get tlee kingee, bet ten dolla, nobody clum in; I get flo flushee, bet fifteen dolla, evly son of a gun clum in.”—N. Y. Sun. —An English magazine contains an article entitled: “What Dreams Are Made Of.” As the author fails to mention mince pie, pickled pigs’ feet, fruit cake and several other indigestible things, it is evident he has tackled a subject upon which he lacks information.—Norristown Herald. —“Do you know anything about an old story connected with this building?” asked a reporter, in search of a “haunted house,” of an old lady. “Yes, in- ■ deed, she said. “There used to be another story on it; but the roof blew off, and so after that we made it a twostory house.”— Golden Days. —“Where did you get this French Bible?” asked Smith, taking up a book from Black's tabic. Black—“French Bible! I haven’t got any French Bible. The only Bible .1 have is the one you have in your hand. Had it ever since I was married.” Smith (holding up the book)-»-“What do vou call that but* French?” Black—“By gracious! so it is! Funny I never found It out before?” Boston Transcript. —“How are you, old buffer?” said the tender to the railway-car. “Do not .couple me with any such language, you sooty little wretch; you have been drinking on the road again,” replied the car. “Don’t get off the track and break me up so, it was only a tender remark; you know you are always following me all over the country,” retorted the other. “1 have a great mind to speak to your tootcr on the locomotive there,” said the car.. The locomotive, who had been quietly smoking, fired up at this as if it was about to join in the raillery, but the belle of the train began to wag her tongue, and the engineer pulled them all out of the depot so suddenly that the locomotive felt its head light. — Boston Commercial Bulletin.

The Umbrella for Flirtation. There is one particular in which the umbrella, as the girls hare all learned, is far superior for flirtation purposes to the handkerchief, or the glove, or the fan, or any other article that a lady usually carries in her hand. If she sees the dude coming with a look of wanting to flirt in his eye, and sho happens to be with her mamma, she tilts the umbrella between her and her mamma, so that that correct body can not see the dude, who always passes, if he is skillful in the art, nest to the girl and not next to the correct mamma. Then, with the umbrella as a shield, the girl casts a quick glauce at 'the young dude, at coquetry and triumph mingled. She passes on and brings the umbrella to a plumb line and looks innocently at her correct mamma by her side and asks demurely: “What were you saying, mamma, dear?'* The umbrella in the hand of such a girl is a bonanza.—Sait Francisco Chronicle.

USEFUL ANP SUGGESTIVE. * —Fine stock and a well kept farm are wire indications of prosperity. —ButterScotch: One cup of molasses, one cup of sugar, one-half eup of butter. Boil until done.—Detroit Post. —Feed the slobk early in the morning, as stirring around warms up their blood and dispels the chill of the night. — Western Rural. —Says the Commissioner of Agriculture, the current production of agriculture of the United States with fair prices can be but little short of $4,000,000,000. —A putrid carcass polluting the air of a pasture will spoil not only the milk of the cows running there, but also the entire contents of the vat into which the tainted milk is poured at the factory.— Chicago Tributte. - —Marble C’andv: Four cups of maple syrup: boil until it cracks in water, and just before taking from the fire put in a piece of butter the size %f an egg. If preferred waxy, do not let it cook so long.—Exchange. —Fifty years ago the average weight of beef cattle was eight hundred pounds, but now it is fourteen hundred pounds. This increase is due to the introduction of thoroughbred stock, careful breeding and better feeding.—Albany Journal. —Change of seed on the farm is an important feature in successful crop raising. Both vegetable and cereals do better if changed every few years, and winter is the time to look up approved varieties so as to have them ready in the spring.—Cincinnati Times. —A correspondent of the New York Tribune says farmers do not realize how great is the shrinkage in farm products by holding over. Potatoes will shrink seven barrels in one hundred by storing till spring. Grain loses from five to eight pounds per bushel, and hay about one-third in weight. —A farmer says that if you want tc fatten a horse that is hidebound give him oue teaspoonful of the following once a day in wet feed: Saltpeter, fout ounces; crude antimony, one ounce; sulphur, three ounces; pulverize and mix the whole together. Dose, a tablespoonful once a day in a bran mash.— Savannah News. —Batter Pudding: One and a hall cups of flour, one teaspqOnful of bak-ing-powder, one teaspoonful of salt, a quarter of a cup of butter, three eggs, one pint of milk. Sift flour, salt and powder together; rub in butter cold; add eggs and milk; stir all well together; pour into a butter-mold and steam one hour.—The Household.

TILLAGE. It is Sot Honan bat the Means of Rapidly Consuming It. “There Is nothing new under the sun.” A hundred years ago there was precisely the same fuss made about tillage of .the soil as a method of extracting fertility from it as there is being made to-day. There is nothing new either in the presentation of the old matter, and it is simply the bare fact that a farmer or two, for the sake of making a novel sensation in the agricultural journals, have been claiming great and unusual results from exeat lent tillage of the soil, and in relating their experiences have been arguing that manure is of secondaiy consideration as compared with the plow and harrow and cultivator. As with almost every one-sided view of a question, this is partial and illusory, for tillage is one business and manuring is another, and yet one is quite useless without the other; both being indispensable to each other and to good and successful farming. No intelligent farmer doubts the usefulness and necessity of thorough tillage; but only a very unreasonable and ignorant one would doubt the usefulness and necessity of thorough manuring. There has been a time when some farmers have thrown away manure as a burden to be cast off as quickly and easily as possible, but that period has passed never to return, and the same farmers are now eager to purchase manure and fertilizers, knowing by experience how indispensable these are. But at the same time there are many fanners who do not perceive clearly how tillage without manure, or manure without tulage, are wholly incompatible with good and successful farming. Manure is the food of the soil, tillage is the function of digestion, whereby the digested food is prepared for plants, absorbed and assimilated and so changed to cellular tissue, of which the plants are built qp. There is an analogy between the process of feeding plants and that of feeding animals, the soil serving as the stomach by which the plant food is prepared for the crops which feed upon it. This will no doubt be readily perceived and acknowledged by every intelligent reader. Then it follows that not only must food be supplied to the soil in a fit condition for the use of the crops, but the soil must be prepared by thorough tillage for the reception and the digestion of the plant food that the roots may absorb it into their circulation and assimilate it into their sub stance.

Keeent discoveries have greatly enlarged our knowledge of the mutual action which goes on between the soii and the decaying organic matter which it may contain. A vast and almost infinite field of life and action is now known to exist in the soil which it vitalized by the oxygen of the atmosphere, and in which a process of nitrification is continually going on. A world of invisible germs are constantly seizing upon the particles of organic matter, consuming them, converting the inert nitrogen in them, by means of atmospheric oxygen, into nitrio acid, which then combines with the various alkaline substances and forms nitrates upon which plants can feed, and whjch are converted into the nitrogenous matter of the cellular substanoe within the plants. It is clear that this action can only go on with a vigor proportionate to the porous, fine and mellow condition of the soil. This cdodHibn can only be produced by tillage. Tillage, then, is indispensable to the decomposition of organic matter* in the soil and to the production of indispensable nitric acid and its combinations. Tillage, then, is only a means; it furnishes no matter or substance, nor ' does it act in any way of itself; it only enables the atmosphere to act upon what it finds in the soil and to convert it into plant food. Thus of itself, and without a supply of material that can be acted upon, it is exhaustive of the fertility 6f the soil, as it increases the consumptive processes of the Boil without pnmding anything to be consumed. The soil is thus rapidly worn out by tillage, and the more so as the tillage is more thorough and perfect This explains why thorough tillage is productive and why it has led some persons to believe in the delusive misleading and dangerous opinion that “ tillage is manure.” Of course it increases the productiveness of the soil, but only by drawing upon its reserve. And if any fanner should be so misled as to depend crops and neglect to provide manure in exact proportion as he tills his soil more thoroughly, be will all the sooner find his soil to be exhausted and the end of its productiveness reached. Tillage is a good thing. So is a good appetite and healthful exercise to a man. But tillage must be supplemented with adequate and proportionate food, just as the man's physical exercise and good appetite must, or starvation will ensue. Therefore tillage is not manure, but simply the means for rapidly consuming it.--,V, y, Timtt. upon tillage for the increase

CONCERNING DOGS, A Few Btaurln Thereon by One of Faekt Observing Ksturml ats. No home is complete without a dog. Many a man has a dog that has no home, but very few men have a home and no dog. A home without a dog is just about as sad as a dog without a home. When you go home at n'ght you like to be welcomed by j our dog, who scampers to you acres the oilcloth and barks with delight, and jumps on you with unbounded glee, and leave h's foot-marks on every square inch of you, from your boots to your hat. You always apprec'ata the affection of your dog, because you know it springs from the heart and is genirne. You know that the dog means evervthipg he barks, and that every jump is impregnates! with s neere love. Yon know that he is not getting on the good side of you for a seai-skin sacque, or a dozen pairs of imported gloves that button awav up the arm and back to the collar-bone. As he springs upon you and tries to lick your faee, you know it is not because he thinks the parlor requres new lambrequins, or because he would like a box at the opera. The dog is a great comfort in the house, lie keeps burglars and tramps away, and keeps away himself When he thinks he is go ng to’be whppcd. He is handy to have around the table to cat up the fat that you can not eat yourself. It seem-, strange that a dog has to be cha ned to be kept from running away from home, when it is impossible to drive him away with profanity and br;Cks. Unfasten him, and beat him and kiek him, and throw coal at him, and drve him off the premises, and what is the result? Why, the result is that inside of an hour you will find him sound asleep on the hearth of the kitchen. There never was a greater lover of home than the dog. He is perfectly happy at home, ansi he always makes himself at home. He will sleep on anything that is soft, it doesn't make any d ffereuce to him whether it’s a doormat, u crazy-quilt, or a velvet dress. You can find his hair on every square inch of dry-goods in the house, except tbe curt a ns, and he would sleep on them if he could. He likes every, piece of furniture in the house that has a cushion on it. no matter whether it is Eastlake or East New York. The dog-nevergets sick of home; let take him away from home, and he will get home-sic"k.—Ji. K. Mint lit: rick, in Puck.

A Mania for Policy. “I guess that old man must have spent over $ GO,000 on policy," sad a gentleman to a reporter, po uting to a gray whiskered, stoop-shouldered, troubled faced looking person, who had just emerged from a susp'eiouslooking “exchange office” on the Bowery, New York. “I knew him in New Orleans,” he continued, “when he was in business for himself, and was worth at least $40,000. To-day he is upt worth a cent. He makes a precarious living as a copyist, and never gets hold of a dollar but what he w.ll invest a portion of it in policy. In his palmy days he would invest hundreds of dollars in lottery tickets; now he often plays a “gig'’ for two cents, and upward. He never patronizes a gaming table, but pol cy playing has been a mania with him for tne past thirty years, and of the thousands he has squandered I do not bcl.eve he ever received one per cent, in return. I have often given him a dims or a quarter. I tell you. th s gambling business—any way you may fix it—is worse on a man than drink.’’— N. I”. Telegram. A State Governed by Women. Among the colonial possess'ons, or, more correctly, dependencies, cf Holland, there is a remarkable little Slate wh:eh, in its constitution and original costume of its inhabitants, surpasses the boldest dreams of the advocates of women's lights. In the Island of Java, between the cities of Batavia and Samarang, is the k ngdoa of Bantam, which, although tributary to Holland, is an independent State. The sovereign is, indeed a man, but all the rest of the Government belongs to the fair sex, the Kingisent rely dependent uponhisSiato council. The highest authorities, mil - tary commanders and ; oldie: s are, without exception, of the female sex. These amazons ride- in the masculine style, wearing sharp steel po uts instead of spurs. Tuev carry a pointed, lance, whieh they swing very gracefully, and also a musket, which is discharged at full gallop. The capital of this little State lies in the most picturesque part of the island in a fruitful plain, and is defended by two well-kept fortieses,— N. Y. Tribune. —-«s e ► — —A veritable upas tree grows in the kevs south of Daytona, Fla, It is called the meanchineel Any one taking shelter under it daring a rain or sleeping under it when the dew falls is sure to be poisoned. One who experienced it.says: “It swells a fellow all up, and makes him feel as if he had been skinned and peppered.-’ A man who began making caues for the New Orleans Rxposition from the wood became poisoned, aud won't touch it anymore.—Chicago Juter-Oeean. U --.— —The froUiil, unreasonable temper, which hnrifiy'anvthingcau satisfy, is all too common; and there also is a critical spirit which, in seeking to do exact justice, estimates adverse qualities and facts so pitilessly thpt in time it unconsciously grows more or less unjust and exaggerates them. The “talent for* appreciation” it not as common a possession as it should be.—CongrtgationaUsl. , THE MARKETS. New y<fRK, January 48, CATTLE—Native Steers..$ 8 40 ® COTTON—Middling. 1134® FLOCK—Good to Choice. 8 70 e WHEAT—No. 4 Ked. 94J4® COKN—No. 2. ® OATS—Western Mixed.. 3634® POltK-New Mess.IS 28 « ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling... 10?*® BEEVES—Good to Heavy. 8 S8 • Fair to Good. 4 80 ® HOGS—Common to Select.... 4 10 ® SIIEEP—Fair to Choice. 2 78 • FLOCK—XXX to Choice. 2 90 ® WHEAT—No. 2 Winter. *8 • No. 3 •• 84«® CORX-Xo. 4 Mixed. 36 • OATS—Xo. 2„. 31 • RYE. 61 • TOBACCO—Lugs. 4 60 • Medium Leaf.... 9 00 ® HAT—Choice Timothy. 13 80 ® BUTTElt-Choice Hairy. S8 ® EGGS—Choice... • POKK-New Mess. 12 00 ® BACON-Clear Kib. 7 ® LARD.. 6J4® CHICAGO. CATTLE-Kxports. 6 00 • HOGS-Good to Choice. 4 58 ® SHEEP-Good to Choice. 3 80 • FLOUR-Winter. 4 00 ® WHEAT-No. 2 Spring.. 80 « No. 2 Ked.. 81H CORX-No. 2. 3834® OATS-No. 2. 76 • POltK-New Mess. 12 08 « KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Native Steers.. 4 W • HOGS—Sales at. 4 20 « WHEAT—No. 2. COKN-No. 2 Mixed. 31*® OATS—No. 9....,. •••!, ® NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grades. 4 20 • CORN—White.r.. .... * OATS—Choice Western. 41 • HAV-Cholce. 17 00 • PORK—Mess. • BACON—Clear Rib. 7\« COTTON—Middling. 10?,® LOUISVILLE. WHEAT—No. 2 Ked. ® CORN—No. 2 Mixed.• :::: f BACON—Clear Rib... • COTTON—Middling... 1888. 7 00 11* 8 75 M* 8634 38 13 73

—About a million gross of steel pens are worn out every year in the United States. What becomes of them? Twenty years ago most of the steel pens used in this country were imported. Now comparatively few are imported, and there arts several factories in the country in which they are made in large quantities. —A huge lemon has recently been picked at Pauasoffkee. Fia. It' measured twenty-four inches in circumference one way, twenty-two inches the other and weighed* four pounds thirteen ounces. __ —The clock in Trinity Church tower, New York, is the heaviest in America. It takes two men over an hour to wind it up.—A", Y. Sun. Col. R. 6. Kino, Baltimore, Md., P. O., writes: For violent coughs, I used Red Star Cough Cure in my family. It is excellent; tt cures.agrees with and benefits everybody. To iccrscui! dollars, my son. vou must have some sense to be fin with.— Burdette. ••It Enochs the Spots,” and everything in the nature of eruptions, blotches, pimples, ulcers, scrofulous humors, and incipient consumption, which is nothing more nor less than serofula^of the lungs, completely out of the systwn. It stimulates and invigorates the liver, tones np the stomach, regulates the bowels, purifies the blood, and builds up the weak places of the hody. It is a purely vegetable compound, and will do more than is claimed for it. We refer to Dr. Pierce’a “ Golden Medical Diseocery.” “Is thjs earth to freeze solid?’’ asks at exchange, It will, we think, be a cold da\ when it does.—Detroit Posh Brow s ’s Bronchia i, Troches for Coughs and Colds: “ There is nothing to be compared with them.”—Per. O. D. Robbins, nation, Jnd. Sold only in boxes. “ He ain’t no violinist, but he can just fiddle a cat off the fence,” was "the way a country chap put it. ••As Good as New,” are. the words used by a lady, who was at one time given up by the most eminent physicans, and lett to die. Reduced to a mere skeleton, pale and haggard not able to leave her bed, from all those distressing diseases peculiar to suffering females, such as displacement, lencorrhcea, inflammation, etc., etc. She began taking Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription,” and also using the local treatments recommended by him, and is now, she says, “as good as new.” Price reduced to one dollar. By druggists. When the cat sees a flying boot-jack he looks upon it as a off-feiiceive hint. Do Ton Want to Buy a Dog? Dog Buyer’8 Guide; 100 pages, engravings of all breeds, colored plates, price of dogs and where to buy them, mailed for lac. Associated Fanciers, 237 S. 8th St.,Phila., Pa. “ Vou can count on me,” as the slow cal eulator’s fingers remarked. Throw Away Trasses when onr new method is guaranted to permanently cure the worst cases of rupture without the use of the kuife. Bend two letter stamps for pamphlet and references. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y. A man is called a confirmed liar when nothing that he says is confirmed. Pike’s Toothache Drops enre In 1 minute,25c. Glenn's Sulphur Snap heals and beautifies. 25c. German Corn Removed kills Corns a Bunions.

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Borne Items and Topioe —“All your own fault. If you remain lick when you oan Get hop bitters that never—Fail. —The weakest woman, smallest child, and sickest invalid can use hop bitten with ! safety and great good. —Old men tottering around from Kbetti matism, kidney trouble or any weakness ; will be made almost new by using hop bitters. {3T*My wife and daughter were made | healthy by the use of hop bitten and 1 reo 1 omraend them to my ueople.—Methodist i Clergyman. ; Ask any good doctor if hop Bitters are not the best famllv medicine On earth!:! k Malarial fever. Ague and Biliousness will leave every neighborhood as soon as hop bitters arrive. '• My mother drove the iwralysis and neuralgia all out of her system with hop bitten.”—E<L Oswego Sun.' tSTKeep the kidneys healthy with hop j bitters and you need not fear sickness.” \ j —lee water is rendered harmless and i more refreshing and reviving with nbp , j bitten in each draught —The vigor Of youth for the aged and in* | firm in hop bitters 1! I 1 —“ At the change of life nothing equals 1 { | Hojj> Bitters to allay all troubles incident j- —“ The best periodical for ladies to take monthly, and from which they will receive the greatest benefit is hop bitters.” —Mothers with sickly, fretful, mining children, will cure the children and benefit themselves by taking hop bitten daily. —Thousands die annually from some farm of kidney disease that might have been prevented by a timely use of hop bitters. —Indigestion, weak stomach, irregularities of the bowels, can not exist when hop bitters we used. A timely * * / use of hop Bitters will keep wwhole family * In robust hey It ha year at a little cost, i —To produce real genuine sleep and I child-like repose all night, take a little hop ! bitters on retiring. t3T“ None genuine without a bunch of green Hops on the white label. Shun all the viio.pols* onous staff with “Hop”or"Hops"ln their name

h J. H. M'LEAN’S Homoeopathic Liver and Kidney Batm, Ihe Most Wond-irful \LIVER AND EIDKEY CURE IN THE WORLD. Will relieve and cure a l disease* of f the Liver. Kul ievs and Urinary Organs. such as 1 jin in mat ion, Fever gans. such aa / domination, Fm<riM Irritation of the Bladder, Weak*** * Fain* in the Back, Catarrh qjr th« Bladder. Stone in the Bladder* Female Trouble*, Bright'* instate. Melonc\ol a. Impo e *•», Te'dlUx. Jaundice.

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t or Laryngitis* Bronchitis, Quinsy. Asthma sad Consumption. Dr. J H. M Lean's UR Wise Balm is the only rerneOy that will give sure relieL It has cured Lung Diseases where all other remedies hare fail Mi. Why a ill yon suffer f;-om Thro it and Lung Troubles whensuch a pleasant reftiedy is offered you? For Croup it is a pisilve specific. 1 O'Singers and Shakers the Tar *nk Balm is an abso'n'e necessity. Nothing has e\er been discovered which will gire *uch immediate relief, end It will positively cure Throat Troubles. Don't Delay. Core That Bad Cold! Stop Tkat Cosgh! Those whose Li;nr* mi Throats are sore, hard and dry, w,il realize the s< othincr effact of a single dose of Dr. J. II. M'Lean’a Tar Wine Balm, and k» give all doubling sktptlcs a chance to be secured of Ha wonderful soothing and miraculous virtues. I have pat up Trial Bottles, costing only t.5 cents per bottle. fJvery dealer in the United States should have them. If they Save not, p ease : sk them to asm* for a d *»en as a teat. Every one trying that 25-cent size will b > convinced of the tniraculors benefits they will receive from taking l>r. J. H. Mlsan’s Tar Wine Balm. Cold In your Head, tickling in the nore. forehead and throat; you have Catarrh; get a box of t* J.H. M'Lean's Catarrh S>rrr and tfronce a day, besides taking Dr. J. H. M Lean's Tar W.se Balm to heel your Throat and Langs. Price of Trial Bottles 25 Cents Each. I con send them only by Express. If yoa a IT sea l me $2,011 or that amount in pc stag e-e tun ps, 1 will sand you one dozen, ft eight paid. Large Bottles, which contain six times as much as the2b*cent size Bottlas - - SI OC Or six Bottl s for - - - » • 5 09 After using Dr. J. H. M'Lean's Tar Wine BALM, lat me bear from you. Prepared by e DR. J. H. M’LZAN. Cor. Broadway and Biddle St.. St. Lot'ia, Mo., Propriator of DR. J. H. M‘LEAN'S i «MKim mnKTnrsim w»w»i him krifik.

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