Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1880 — Page 4

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THE KING'S PETITION Ax Eastern Kins, of ancient time, wboae lineaaeta untoia,, Called boca bta sons about him when Im wm growing old. And Mid: “ Sbarnne, my youngest, and yon, myboM Ydase, Give me your youta and beauty, and take my mournful age. “I caaaot rule my people, I bare no peaoa ar For lime's Infirm distress— now all my time I ouce couldwave my scepter hfgfc, nor raffled be by care; But now the slightest burden is more than I •an bear.” But be who waa the eldest replied: “Not I, tn truth. I know no radiant jewel so precious as my yowth. For, now the blue, horizon stands beckoning before; The joyous vjew entices. Bo do not me Implore.” The Klar looked sad and moody at such a stiff reply. And thought how into a whirlwind his own youth fleeted by. But wished him ail he hoped for, though feeling very tore. To think tbe years behind him would come not any more. Then fair Bhayone. the youngest, gold-haired . and hazel-eyed. Beloved of ail the household, drew gently to bls side. And said to him: “My father, I lore you well, tn truth. 1 Here, take tbe s-ifts you long for—my beauty and my youth. “I know ibe future glistens, I see its fields of blue: But ail that shines before me I proffer now to you. Your wise career Is more to me than Time can well unfold, Bo you shall be the young man, and I will be the old.” Then King Jajati thanked him, and wished him health ahd Hiss. And printed on bis forehead a father's tender klm: _ But death eifme on, and. dying, ho said; “My deirShtyone. * I go where youth is endless, and leave to you my throne." / O! better far than riches, or kingly power, In »Kth. Bhines forth the golden kingdom we enter on in youth; For nevtr ruled a monarch who would not give, with joy,. His wealth and power and glory to bo once more a boy f - —Jud Benton, in Jf. F. Independent.

READY TO BE A POOR MAN'S WIFE.

“My choice is made, sister Belle. Give me your approval.” The elder sister looked at a couple of open letters lying on the writing-desk before which 'the speaker sat, her cold, gray eyes softening a little as she re- •• If you tell me‘which of the two you have chosen 1 can answer you.” •* You ought to know without being told,” Stella laughed. “Clarence, of course.” Belle Lawson looked serious. “Stella,” she said, “I'm sorry. Not that I bear Clarence Henshaw any ill will, but, child, you are e not suited to be a poor man's wife. Remember you are proud, ( and have been reared in ease and comfort? Follow my advice, and marry Henry Lakeman?’ Stella shook her head. “No, Belle: I wouldn't marry Henry Lakeman if he* was a hundred times richer than he is.” She slipped a picture into its envelope, with a long glance at the view it imaged. “It's a lovely place,” she' sighed, “and I-would like to live there.” The sister was watching, and stooping, kissed the smooth, white brow, while she said: “Don’t be too hasty, Stella. If you covet this pretty home of. Henry Lakeman's, accent it.” “ But I love Clarence Henshaw. I prefer a cottage with him to a mansion with Henry.” Miss Lawson turned to the window with a sorry look. Some sweet dream of her own girlhood was in her memory, perhaps, but she held it worse than folly to indulge in regrets. Love, in her estimation, was no balance in the scales for wealth. “ Stella,” she continued, very gravely. “ I have acted the part of a mother for many years; my wish has ever beep that you form a wealthy marriage. You love luxury, you enjoy display, and I am not say ing too much when Ladd that you worship beautiful apparel. Henry Lakeman can give you all of these’. Clarence Henshaw cannot. As his wife you will be subject to all manner * of privations; be content to live in a common way, stint and economize and manage the best you can. How long will that suit a girl of your tastes? Think well of it. I shall let you have your own choice in regard to marriage.” “ My mind is made up,” Stella responded readily. She took up the view, slipping a letter into its envelope while she spoke. “ If I favored his suit, I was to keep jit, sister Belle,” she continued, touch- ' ing the edge of the wrapper to her rosy lips, and sealing it with i. heavy slap of the hand. “I do not, you will observi I will never be sorry, I know,” she murmured, turning the envelope to look at its superscription. •_*’ Your happiness is within your own grasp, Stella. lou 11 recall my words some day.” An.d with a stately gait Belle Lawson left her. ,«■. Stella ran lightly up the stairs to her own room and touched the bell in great haste.,. “ You will oblige me by mailing this at once, she said to the servant who answered her call, handing him this very envelope, “and,” she said, smiling and blushing, “ be careful of this,” putting another letter into his hand “ Leave it with no one but the person to whom it is addressed. Mind! ’ she called, as he turned to obey. “There’ll be no mistake Miss,” and that night a perfumed note lay on Clarence Henshaw’s pillow,’ and he, foolish fellow, was transported to the upper heaven of delight over its contents. Three months later they were married. Thev were a happy and hopeful couple. The life upon which they had entered was like a new and unexplored country, but Clarence meant to work hard, and fek little or no doubt in regard to their future. He was equal to any undertaking, in his own determination, . that would promote his wife’s happiness, and, as to Stella, she would , do anything to help her husband. He had been a head bookkeeper for many years, and had the promise of something a little better yet the coming season. So the first few months of their married life ran smoothly. They rented a house in a pleasant part of the city, kept a servant, and Stella wore the pretty clothes which had been provided at the time of her marriage, and wondered why sister Belle had such funny notions about marrying a poor man. But toward the close of the first year of their wedded life his firm was said to be under heavy liabilities, and the anniversary of their marriage found the house bankrupt and Clarence out of a situation. He applied at this and that place, but month after month slipped by and he found no opening. ' They moved out of the house and took cheaper rooms in another part of the city. By this time their funds began to run low, and Stella wanted something new for her wardrobe. Already she had beguflTo show signs of discontent. *‘.l shall find something by and by,” the husband said, bravely. It was at this trying time that a little >p««k W humanity was put iate Stella's

responsibility of x “I am the happiest mi? a,. Clarence exclaimed, caressing wife ana’ child. “The very happiest,” he repeated again, kissing the baby boy. “ Let pride go to the dogs, Stella,” be added, remembering that now his responsibility was greater than before. “ They want workmen on the new city halt l*n take my hammer—it will give us bread.” .She ought to have been contented, ought to have thought with pride of the man who would thus brave the world’s opinion. He went out in early morning, and came home late at night, as other workmen did, his handsome face glowing with love. But the very thought that her husband was brought down to the level of a common laborer hurt her. Sister Belle had said that her tastes were luxurious, and she wanted a pretty home now, and fine apparel for herself and baby. The people of the world in which she had lived had never to count on their money to know if they could buy a new dress.X She had never been taught to make the best of whatever circumstance you may'be placed in, and why should she now? The little privations she endured worried and vexed her, and in a little while the sweet-tempered woman grew moody and down-hearted. She became careless in her dress, and, instead of the cheerful little wife he used to see, he found a gloomy woman and disorderly house. But he never complained. “Stella is homesick,” he would say; “and the care of baby is too much for her. I must make some money,” and his hammer rang with redoubled enemy. Yet every day her discontent grew more apparent. The place and the people were so repulsive to her refined and sensitive nature. “

“ How can you expect me to live among such surroundings, Clarence?” was her appeal when the husband begged her to be of good cheer. “It's cruel in you, she sobbed. “I want to be back again in the old home, among my own friends.’,’ The warm glow came to his face, and he drew her tenderly toward him without a word, but there was a look piteous to see in his handsome ejes, while his resolve was to work still harder. To conquer fortune, however, requires sturdy strokes. There came a day, later a little—“for some days must be dark and dreary”—when it did seem that matters had come to a crisis. The City Hall was finished long ago, the Odd Fellows’ building completed, and the last stroke had been given the new church. Clarence must look for something new. Jennie who had minded Freddy for two or three months, had to go, and all the household cares fell upon Stella's hands. They had moved froth place to place since Freddy's birth, hoping to find a house with which Stella would be content. “But those people are all alike,” she said, “and I may as well be in one glace as another,” was her reply to larcnce, when he suggested that they move into a new block. It was unwomanly in her to say this, she knew, the moment tbe words escaped her lips, and she thought to run after her husband and beg his forgiveness, but just then Freddy caught at her dress, causing her to spill the water she was pouring into the tea-kettle, which only increased her vexation. “ You cross little troublesome thing!” she exclaimed impatiently. “ Take that!” laying her hand heavily on the little bare shoulders. “I'm aiok to death with having you always hanging to my skirts.” With this she let 'fall the earthen pitcher she held in her hand, and dropping into the nearest chair, burst into hysterical weeping. Freddy, with the prints of her fingers still red on his neck, toddled to her side, and tried to climb into her lap. But she pushed him away crossly, with—“Go play with your blocks and horses; 1 don’t want you near me;” and her hand was raised* to lay on the rosy ch< e'c.

“ Don’t do anything you’ll be sorrv for by and by, Stella,” Clarence said, coming into the room just then. Something in his face stayed her hand just on the moment, and she rose to her feet, flushing with shame and anger. “ I thought you’d gone down town,” she replied, 'sharply. “Oh, dear! if Td minded sister Belle, I shouldn't have been here. She was right. I had no business to marry a-poor man.” “You're not quite yourself this morning, Stella,” and his eyes were full of unshed tears as he caught sight of the red marks on their baby’s neck. “Do you suppose I can endure everything?” she cried spitefully. “You arc nervous and tired, dear. Come here,” and he put out his hand to clasp her. She glided from him and went into the adjoining room. Something wet fell on the baby's head, and he pressed him closely to his bosom, as he caught the sound of her sobbing. , A “I have heard of something new this morning, Stella, and I’m going to New York by the next train.” He tried to say it cheerfully. “ You are always hearing of something new,” was her quick reply, “but what does it amount to?” “So 1 am hoping for something better, and think I have found it now.” He rocked kreddy to sleep, put him into his crib, then went to the door of his wife’s room. “ Are you going to kiss me good-by, Stella?” he asked, opening toe door very softly. “ I may be gone a day or two.”

“No,” she replied coldly, “you’ll be back soon enough.” “ I will come as soon as I can; but I might never return, you know.”' “ See if you are not back as soon as you can come, with the same old story.” Clarence turned quickly, but she saw Uie look on his face, and never forgot She heard him cross the room, and knew he bent over Freddy’s crib, and kissed the little sleeper again and again. “He’ll come back to me before he really goes,” she whispered to herself, starting up and going toward the door; but a turn in the street hid him from sight when she reached the window. He had gone, and for the first time without kissing her good-by. “Well, we ve been married long enough to be done with such nonsense,” she said at last, by way of consolation; yet there was a terrible ache at her heart, and she secretly wished she could throw herself into her husband’s arms and tell him how sorry she was for it all. She sat quite still until Freddy awoke, then with a cry of terror she ran across the hall to the nearest neighbor, with “Please come, Mrs. Wilson, my babv’s dying.” J Mrs. Wilson came, for though rough of manner she was kind of heart. “ He’s in a fit,” she said, the moment her eyes rested on the little sufferer. “Bring me some water; quick,” she called. “ and help to get off his clothes.” Ste Ila obeyed. “Hold him so,” was her command, putting him into the bath. “ I will run home and get some medicine. Such women as you ain’t fit for mothers,” she continued, returning with her hands full of bottles. Freddy,” cried Stella, dropping

where the old make their own . J ;; “ I never understocks Belle is the only motoer^j"-^^——— and her advice was never poor man.” “ So you keep finding fault and complaining when your husband is trying in every way to make an honest living. It is a wonder that you haven't driven him to drink long ago.” “ But my husband is a good man.” replied Stella, warmly, resenting the last part of the speech. “He has shown himself to be a good man.” The woman said it in good faith, wrapping Freddy in soft flannels, and administering a quieting potion. She had been watching the movements of this oouple ever since they came to live in the house. “My baby will get well, wont he?” was said pleadingly, and the poor thing sobbed again as if her heart would break. ; “Yes, indeed.” “ And you will stay with me through the night?” forgetting she was one of those people.” “ I'd stay with you a whole blessed week,” replied true-hearted Mrs. Wilson, “ if I could make you a wife worthy of your husband.” “ Tell me what I shall do and I'll do it faithfully and willingly, and without complaining.” AU through the long night hours, while Freddy lay between life and death. Mrs. Wilson worked over him bravely, and told to the girl-mother chapters in her own life experiences. There were passages over which Stella wept bitterly, and when morning dawned, giving back the child from danger, in place of the fickle, unreasonable woman, there was one ready to meet life’s work with a firm purpose and strong heart. She tidied up each apartment, and instead of going about in a dowdy wrapper, put on a fresh dress, arranged her hair becomingly, and changed the pucker about her mouth for her own rosy lips. “You’re a pretty little thing,” Mrs. Wilson told her, when she had fastened a knot of blue ribbon in her blonde hair. “See after baby, now. * Til look in every now and then through the day, and to-night will come back to you. Your husband will be here to-morrow morning!” “Yes,” replied Stella, with a bright look in herieyes, “he will be here by ten o’clock.”

After all it was a long time to wait, she thought. She was so impatient to tell him—and she would kiss him as manv times as he wished. “Yes, indeed,” she exclaimed joyfully, bendingover Freddy’s crib, “ we'll kiss papa a hundred thousand times, Won't we, dear?” “ I do wish Clarence would come,” she kept saying next morning. “ What detains him?” she continued, when the clock was on the stroke of twelve. “What if—’’and her heart lay like lead in her bosom as she recalled the look she last saw on his face. “What if he never comes back!” she murmured, going into her own room. “Mrs. Wilson,” she called, “where is my husband?” In an instant the dear good soul was beside her, resting a hand tenderly on the aching head. True-hearted woman! She shrank from saying it had been a dreadful night on the Sound, and that a steamer had collided with the New York boat. “Her husband travels by boat,” had been her conclusion. Stella caught at her arm, the sound of her voice answering Freddy, and, with the cry she fell. Poor, tired, inexperienced wife and mother! Was the ordeal so ordered? With the help of a neighbor Mrs. Wilson laid her on the bed. “ Run for the doctor.” she said to Miss Williams. “ But you don't know —” “I do,” she interrupted. “Mrs. Henshaw will have a run of nervous fever, and whether her husband is dead or alive, I can't say.” When Stella opened her eyes again it was nearly night She knew no one about the bed, but talked to Clarence, and Freddy and sister Belle. She was going to help her husband now. She could earn money by teaching music, or painting, or “might have a lew pupils in dancing,” she added. “ But forgive me for striking,” and her amis were put up as if to clasp something, when she was dozing again. Late that evening Clarence came in sight of home. Contrary to Mrs. Wilson’s conjecture, he came by another route. He had thought to telegraph, “But Stella won’t worry,” he said “if I am late.” The light faded from his eyes and his face turned ghastly white when he looked into the rooms. “ Both gone?” he groaned, walking from the bed to the crib. “ No, no,” Mrs. Wilson said comfortingly. “ Baby’s better, and your wife will come out of this. All she needs is good nursing and that she shall have,” turning aside her head and drying her eyes with the comer of her apron. What could we do if such as she were not stationed all along the walks of life?” It was painful to listen to the wild talk. “If I might endure it,” Clarence said so many times. When at last Stella awoke from the terrible dreams, her husband was bending over her. “Clarence,” she said very softly at first, “Clarence,” she repeated, putting her arms about his neck, “ if you’ll fo£ give me for striking Freddy, I’ll kiss you, O, so many times!” Foolish fellow! he cried like a baby. “Listen, Stella,” he said, as soon as he could command his voice, “ listen, I did get the situation, and you can have everything you want,” touching his lips to cheek and forehead, “ and you are going to have such a pretty house in Brooklyn!” ? “All I want is your love,” clasping him close, “ and that Freddy get well I’m ready to be a poor man's wife!”— Exchange,

Mysterious Disappearance.

t For some months past, the mysterious disappearance of cats and yellow dogs in Sunbury, Northumberland County, has been the cause of much discussion. Venerable cats that were, so to speak, family heirlooms, would be seen dreamily reclining on Sunbury porches in the afternoon, and, in spite ot every precaution, would have vanished by sunset, as if they were of the famous Kilkenny breed. Local savans wrestled with the problem in vain. The Sunday-school lyceum discussed the matter, and the local papers were filled with columns of communications on the subject—but no light was thrown on the cause. It is all clear now. The County Commissioners’ reports show that over eight hundred dollars had been paid out in a few months for bounties on fox and mink scalps, and returns from several townships show that the per capita amoants paid just about equaled the number of missing pets. Several school districts in remote parts of the county are yet to be heard from. There is much excitement over the discovery.— Philadelphia Press. twenty aeree

K - - j l i,iti Hl |l * niilniitnf for soda. Wfl lodged a wet soil to facilitate evaporation, and roll or otherwise oompress a dry soil to retain it. When hoeing to destroy weeds, be careful to lighten up your own footsteps or you will find the weeds quickly germinate there. The soil being compressed retains the moisture and facilitates germination. King George's Pudding.—One pint of bread-crambe, half pint of flour, teaspoonful of baking powder sifted in flour, a little salt, half a pound of raisins, quarter of a pound of currants, quarter of a pound of chopped suet, coffee cupful of milk, one egg; tied tightly in a bag and boiled three nours; to be eaten with hard sauce. To prefabs stock for soup this recipe will be found useful, as in a family not too numerous enough stock can be made for a “week. Take four pounds of lean beef, cut it into small pieces, slice an onion, saw a hock-bone of beef, remove the marrow, and fry the cut beef and onion in the marrow to a full brown; put fried meat, onion and fresh hock in two gallons of cold water; let it simmer all day; at night strain through sieve, and replace in kettle; throw iu some egg-shell and dear; strain through a cloth into an earthen crock; in the morning skim the stock to remove grease; this stock may be used for vegetables or any kind ot soup; of course it is a rich brown color.— Burlington Hawkeye. Those of you who conclude to be of the score of saving farmers, will keep no idle people about you, nor idle land, nor idle horses; keep everything at work, put half your land in grass, graze with cattle, milk as many cows as your help can easily manage, save and feed well all your calves. Do not keep too many hogs, substitute a few sheep, so that you will get family woolens and summer mutton cheap, raise fall colts from your work-mares; have wintergrass for open weather, and shelter for all animals, feed some roots to young things in the barn, and oat meal and apples to your family the year round; this will keep down the doctor's bill to reasonable proportions; consult old intelligent farmers as often as you can; you don’t know it all.— Exchange. How to Clean Brass and Copper. —The following mixture will be found the best thing for cleaning brass, oopSer, tin, stair-rods, taps, and even winows, and it is quite worth the trouble of making once a year, as the quantities I give will last that time, and the best way is to store it in wide-mouthed pickle jars of glass or stone: One pound whitening, one pound rotten stone, one pound soft soap, one teacupful vinegar, as much water as will make it a thick paste. Let it boil fully ten minutes, and when nearly cold add half a pint of spirits of turpentine. When you use it put very little on a rag, and rub the article you wish to clean well with it until it becomes bright, and then polish with a leather dipped in powdered bathbrick. Unless you use bath-brick it soon tarnishes, but bath-brick preserves the polish.— Cor. N. Y. Times.

Renting Farms.

There are many farmers comfortably fixed, perhaps past the prime of life, and whose wives are not strong, who find the labor of the farm a heavy tax, and who feel that they are slaves tn their business. They have not the strength for labor that they had iu their younger days, and they have fairly earned the right to enjoy the profit of their labor. To such there often comes a strong temptation to sell the farm and move to the city or village and engage in some new business. Such ventures are hazardous, and I think in a majority of case?, bring financial ruin; and if not, the farmer finds when too late that he has escaped one evil to encounter a greater one, and that the care and worry of the new business exceeds that of the old. The alternative to selling the farm is to rent it, and nothwithstanding the objections in the minds of many against renting farms, I believe it can be done to the advantage of both parties. I believe that the most independent farmers of my acquaintance are those who rent yieir land. The objection to renting a farm is, that generally the one- who rents it is interested in getting all that he can from it, and has no interest in either keeping up repairs or fertility. This is undoubtedly the case in a great majority of instances when the farmer does not live on his farm, and gives up the control of it to the renter. I believe that the farmer should remain on his farm, for two reasons, which are the following: First. The man who has had enough energy and pluck about him to succeed as a farmer, does not want to give up all work, as he is not fitted for the business of a loafer, and if he remains on his farm retaining the general oversight of it, he can find enough to keep him profitably employed, and yet not be obliged to take hold of the hard work. Second. He can in this way dictate the management of his farm and keep it from being abused and worn out. As the good farmer is one who will not allow the fertility of his soil to be sacrificed for the sake of present profit, and the system of grain rent gives him the best opportunity to control his land, I greatly prefer grain to money rent. I believe it to be the fairer and better way in the long run, for both parties, giving the landlord the control of his land and relieving the tenant from the necessity of raising a large amount of cash, which comes especially hard in bad seasons. It looks to me to be. the fair method, for in case of short crops or low prices the loss is shared by both parties, and does not all fall on the tenant. Some of our farmers rent their land by the field and furnish no house or barnroom, while others put up a tenanthouse, and as they do not need to keep many horses, the barn and stable-room on the farm is generally sufficient for their own stock and that of their tenants. It is best to have the tenant deliver the landlord’s share of the crop ready for market or consumption, so that the owner of the farm and his family will not have help to board. In my county there is quite an amount of land rented for grain-rent, and although there is no regular rule, it is generally customary for the farmer to take his share of wheat in the shock, and sometimes he takes his corn in the field, and sometimes in the crib. The farmers of my acquaintance who get along best with their tenants, require everything delivered in crib and granary, and allow the tenant some extra privileges to compensate him for his extra labor—the pasturage -of a couple of cows, one or two acres of good land for potatoes and truck, some of the surplus fruit from the orchard. A few such privileges as these will compensate your farmer for his extra labor in delivering your share of the crop ready for market. Above all things have a written contract with a billof particulars, which shall embrace everything between you; then if yon get a man of good principle and who is also a good farmer and tries to please, you can afford to show your appreciation of him by giving him some privileges not

/•Linkled in too bond,” and if he KTion t O h?d^L{ O SVch JT>Zble you to keep hini straight ■» one ye*r,°anfil jVad / tried my tenadt add fodtid JR to be A idan of merit. The fanner <hd keeps his land id i good state b* fertility and treats his tenant according to the principles of the Golden Rdle. will have no difficulty in getting good tenadts, for the farms of non-residents, that are rented continually, soon reach such a condition that any intelligent man would rather take a farm in good condition and deliver the half in the barn, than to cultivate one of these rundown farms, and leave the landlord's share in the field. It is a good way, often, for a young man to get a start, to rent a farm for one-third the crop, the landlord furnishing team, tools and seed. Some of the best and most successful farmers of my acquaintance began life in this way. I think there are many of our farmers who are now past the prime of life, who would make as mncn or more clear money and would relieve their families of a great deal of hard work, if they would rent their land; and at the same time they would be giving some poor man a better chance to become independent.— Cor. Practical Farmer.

Spring Rye.

Spuing rye can be sown as early in the spring as the frost will permit; the earlier the better, since it is a grain which matures rapidly. Spring rye will not yield so large a crop, neither for grain nor soiling purposes, as may be secured from winter rye, though for soiling the former may be grown and cut before any other spring crop. We have known of farmers sowing winter rye in the spring, or so late in the fall as not to germinate until spring, but we recollect no instance where so good a crop was secured as when the grain made a good start in the fall. Spring rye cannot be obtained so early in the spring as winter rye, though the former will be ready to feed as soon as the latter is fed out or becomes too mature for profitable leeding. For plowing under spring rye is as good as winter rye, though of course it can only be done later in the season than would be the case if the winter rye were used. Spring rye comes into bloom about the Ist of June. For early soiling winter rye comes first, next spring rye and then barley. Spring rye matures very fast, and very hot weather injures its value for soiling. Last spring, on account of the hot, dry weather in May we almost lost our spring rye, as it became so hard before blossoming that the cows did not like it The spring was late and it was after the middle of April before we sowed it. We have now a piece of ground plowed and manured ready for spring rye, intending to sow the latter as early next season as possible.— American Cultivator.

The Courtesy of Promptness.

In all the list of popular proverbs, there is none which is neater or truer than the old Latin declaration that “he gives twice who gives quickly.” Nor is it only in charitable deeds that the advantages of promptness are thus manifest; for there is scarcely a line of human conduct in which such celerity as is consistent with prudent action is no; found to be an effective promoter of good results. . But while all are ready to admit that promptness in thought, word and deed is an excellent characteristic, and one which is of great advantage to him of whose life it is an element, too many regard it as a matter within their own concern, and not affecting the interest or the comfort of others. If they choose to be a little dilatory, they confess that they are doing themselves some harm thereby, but declare that it is their own business, with which nobody else need trouble himself. In point of fact, however, a lack of due promptness in one's own actions, however personal and individual they may seem, is quite sure to be a marked inconvenience or discourtesy or positive loss to some one else. In this social world, where no one can live for himself, and where the whole fabric of society is woven with threads of mutual assistance, one man's neglect or failure must work injury to others; and this is specially true in matters of time. If you delay to do your part of any work, you are actually stealing time which does not belong to you, and may be thus diminishing the length of the working life of your friena or neighbor, or of some one whom you never will know. An unanswered letter, an undone errand, an unspoken message, an unperformed piece of work—if such things as these worked injury only to the lazy or forgetful man who has neglected his duty, the loss to the world's good work would still be material; but the injury is far greater because it hinders or destroys that which would have been done by some one else, or many others. And the pettiest men, by their lack of promptness, may impede great works on the part of the world’s best laborers.

Indeed, it may truly be said that, if promptness is not always a characteristic of great men, it is an essential mark of true greatness, and that its lack is a defect, not an eccentricity. As a rule, the most successful and compe.tent persons, in any department of human effort, are those who most constantly bear in mind the duty of undelayed action. It is not the great merchants, or professional men, or statesmen, who are most negligent of the lesser duties of life, in all matters where Juickness is necessary or desirable. hose who are the busiest are pretty sure to be the most prompt, for without trustworthy readiness they could hardly have achieved success to begin with, nor kept it when won. It is the little people of the intellectual world, or the world of business, who make the most fuss about “ not having time” to do this or that. The Department of State, the large mercantile establishment, or the world-famous professional man, returns a prompt reply to your question of business; while it is the cheap cobbler or the cross-roads lawyer who keeps you waiting for a month, and disappoints you at last • A failure to arrange one's affairs with a view to their prompt management is more often due to shiftlessness, or incapacity, or downright wickedness, than to an overwhelming pressure of duties, or to an accidental oversight It was brutality, not greatness, which led Napoleon to leave all letters unopened for six weeks, because in that time nine out of ten would answer themselves. It was mental inertness which made that magnificent failure, Coleridge, leave all letters perpetually unopened and unanswered. Men succeed, or partly succeed, in spite of such neglect of moral duty, but never in consequence of it. It is not well for the most of us to think that our powers in other things are so great as to permit us to imitate that negject of social decency. in the matter of promptness and the keeping of promises, which some celebrated persons have felt themselves licensed to display. No man is too great to be absolved from the duty of courteous promptness, and no man is too small to be aided by its practice.— 8. 8. Times. —A scientific article discusses “What Eyes Are For.” It’s easy. Eyes—great, bright, sparkling eyes—are for the purpose of fooling a fellow into marrying a girl who has a mother and three older sisters, with ever ready hearts and guiding hands to boss your household.—/fae jKwot

American Watches.

The American Watch Company of Waltfctak. deceived last wteejtan big from ike British baa ot conductor*, engineers, staUta mkatart and bthbr employes of the state railroads of India. Thtt is the third largb ofdhr reefeived *3t 1 th y tnpan y t -^ m • ? •4’®® and, London “Jeweller and Metal-Worker,” in Its Issue of January 15, observes, in reference to this order: “The contract for watches, to be used by the officials on the Indian state railways, has again been secured by the American Watch Company. This is the third time Messrs. Robbins AA p pie ton have received this distinction, which is not a barren one, for it mutt be evident to the most prejudiced individuals that the timekeepers supplied on the previous occasion must have given satisfaction, and answered the teats required of them. This is a mortifying fact for Englishmen, especially for those who believe that were msnttfactnrers here to show more enterprise they would be able to compete advantageously in the manufacture of all grades of watches.” —Boston Adtvrfiarr. Professor Otto Bollinger, of the University of Munich, read * paper recently on artificial tuberculosis as induced by the use of the milk of tuberculous cows. He endeavored to demonstrate that the milk of such animals has a contagious influence and reproduces the disease in other animals. Seeing the enormous mortality from consumption, Professor Bollinger believes it to be of the utmost importance to urge upon all classes, and particularly upon farmers, the absolute necessity of taking every possible means of stamping out the disease among cattle. Iceland Moss BlancMange.—Wash the moss thoroughly in several waters and soak it an hour. To a handful, allow a quart of rich sweet milk; put the moss in when the milk is boiling hot, let simmer until the moss is soft, then strain, sweeten and flavor with lemonjuice, and put into wet molds. Serve cold with cream and sugar. Iceland moss cooked in water instead of milk, and made thin enough to be taken as a drink, is soothing and nourishing, and excellent for colds and sore throats.— Prairie Farmer.

An Old Man Restored to Health.

Batavia, N. Y„ Sept. 15,18T0. H. H. Warner & Co., Rochester, N. Y.— Gentlemen: “ For forty years I have suffered with Diabetes, being obliged to void urine as often as once in 80 minutes, and have also been a great sufferer from palpitation of the heart. I am now using your Diabetes Cura, and can truly say, at 70 years of age, that it makes me feel like a new man.” PETER SHOWEMEAN.

Gilt-Edge Butter Maker.

Makes July, Aqgust and Winter butter equal to best June product. Grocers pay 8 to 5 cents a pound extra for butter made with thia powder. Guaranteed harmless. Increases production 6to 10 per cent Reduces time of churning one-half. Sold by druggists, grocers and general storekeepers. Send stamp for “ Hints to Butter-Makers.” Address, Butter Improvement Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Vegetine.—When the blood becomes lifeless and stagnant, either from change of weather or ofciimate, want of exercise, irregular diet, or from any other cause, the Vegetine will renew the blood, carry off the putrid humors, cleanse the stomach, regulate the bowels, and impart a tone of vigor to the whole body. Redding’s Russia Balve is unrivalled for i‘s speedy healing qualities. Price 25c. The genuine Frazer Axle Grease is said to be the best in the world, and we believe it.

THE MARKETS.

New York, March 15.1890. LIVE STOCK—Cattle 17 50 fcSW 75 Sheep 600 & 725 Hogs 475 df. 510 FLOUR Good to Choice 570 @ 800 WHEAT—No. 2 Chicago 141 @ 1 41K CORN—Western Mixed OATS—Western Mixed 47 & 48 RYE—Western 95 & 98J4 PORK—Mees 11 LARD—Steam 765 <a> 770 CHEESE 11 & 14% WOOL—Domestic Fleece 48 80 CHICAGO. BEEVES—Extra 25 25 @ 25 65 Choice 4 70 to 50) Good 435 to 460 Medium 385 @ 425 Butchei s’Stock 260 to 375 Stock Cattle 285 @ 375 HOGS—Live—Good to Choice 400 @ 475 SHEEP—Common to Choice. 450 to 600 BUTTER—Creamery.... 32 @ 38 Good to Choice Dairy..... 24 to 30 EGGS—Fresh 10 to 10% FLOUR—Winter 600 @ 875 Springs , 500 to 550 Patents . 600 to 775 GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2 Spring 1 23%@ 124 Corn, No. 2 ... 38%® 37% Oats, No. 2 31%® 3] % Rye, No. 2 71 %@ 73 Barley, No. 2 75 ® 75% BROOM CORN— Red-Tipped Hurl 5%® 8 Fine Green 6%® 7 Inferior 5 @ 5% Ciookcd 3 ® 4% PORK—Mess 11 45 @ 11 50 LARD—Steam 7 10 ® 7 12% LUMBER— Common Dressed Siding, fl 600 @217 00 Flooring 2410 @ 30 00 Common Boards 12 50 @ls 03 Fencing 13 00 @ 15 00 Lath..... 235 to 28J A Shingios 2 65 @ 2 70 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE—Best 25 CO @ 25 50 Fair to Good .... 420 @ 490 HOGS—Yorkers 450 © 470 Pliflndelphias 490 @ 500 SHEEP—Bek 475 @ 650 Common 4tO ® 450 BALTIMORE. CATTLE—Best 21 53 to 25 02% Medium 3 12% to 4 12% HOGS—Good BCO @ 675 SHEEP SCO to 6.-.0

STOBLACB ®itter s The Bitter* invariably remedy yellowness of the complexlon and whites of the eyes, pains in the right side and under the right shoulder-blade, furred tongue, hlgb-eelored urine, nausea, vertigo, dyspepsia, constipation, heaviness of the bead, mental despondency aad every other manifestation or accompaniment of a disordered condition ot the liver. The stomach, bowels and kidneys also experience their regulating and tonic influence. For sale by all Druggists and Dealer* generally.

GRAEFENBERG VIGETABLL piisisS wrflfcSßhflg Mildest ever known, cure MALARIAL DISEASES, HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS, INDIGESTION and AMR . FEVERS- These I’lkLN Tone up ♦he system and restore health to those suffering from general debility anc nervousness. Sold by all Druggists. gQ Centn Box. 25 CENTS graving*. Complete expUasdonsof causes. symptoms and treatment, tables of W. B. HYDB dt CO.. SI Washington St. Chicago. dimimi M»r»hiaeH*MtCar**tal» OPIUM s.’itasiSsßUia'aK*-

KIDNEY COMPLAINTS. DXBMABB dir THE KUHTBYSrwwwrMMtfia aestte attack at tofiammatien of MtoSr^riSaTtaSrSS ot the back. <mwl thoocc shooting downward: numbuoss of the thigh, vMattlag, usually at first a deep red color of the -iittr. which hiaamea pale and ooloriess as the dhaaee increases, and la discharged very often with pam and difficulty; ooativen-**, and tornedeznvof o<Uc. In chronic diaeaaes of the kidneys the ■qmptncM ire pain in tlabackandumba. dryneat as the skin. frequent urtnaSSiWSWjgjffß SSMStfB 2W3S‘&j«Ba , . , a»STJK regularly and directions Minted, in many cases it nay toke several tattle*, especially cases et long stand tag. It acta directly upon the secretions, cleansing and ■fcrengtheatng. removing an obstroetlons and Import: said tone expressly for this disease. Kidney Complaints. CtNCtNNATL O. March 19, 1877. B. B. SnVKtSi Pear Sir—l have esed your Fegritae for some UmA and can truthfully say It ba* been a treat tv-nent to mej and to those su.Terinz from diseases cd the Kidneyal tiaxs fully recommend tt Respectfully, a H. SMI CH. Attested to by K. B. Asthold. Druggist, Cm act Eighth and conttal A venua ONcnouTL a, April 19. 1877. Ma. RRNnttoai 1 have suffered several yean with the JTuluCv Cooa ptothA and was in iuoed to try I have token several bottles of roar preparation, and I am convinced It is a valuable remedy. It has done me more goad than any other medicine. 1 can heartily recommend it to all Fullering from AMnes CoinpfcrOUe. Youn respectfully. J. 8. McMtLLEN. First Book keeper for NewhaU. G tie k Cn., Hour Merchants. No. 88 West Front Street Cincinnati. O. Feprtffis has rest ired thousands to health who had been long and painful sufferers. VEGETINE PREPARED BY H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists. |f RemedyM JITHAT ACTS AT THE SAME TIME ON fl Hthe liver. U THE BOWELS, R and the KIDNEYB.M l| eombinei action ffit>e» it j Mdcrful power to cure all diseatet. fl Why Are We Sick ■ BecauM we allow these great orffansaa □to become dogged or torpid, ar«fy humors are therefore forcedfS i nto the blood that should be naturally. M ■ □ KIDNEY COMPLAINTS. PR IN ABY II DISEASES, FEMALE WEAK* NESSES, AND NEBVOCS U ■ DISORDERS, | causing free action of these twanAßl Wand restoring their power to throw offl\ MdtscaM. ■itches! 11 stlnationfM 1 Kidneys tPJ eadaches! its 1 ■■ rejoice ing ipoundarufß« f Medicine. 'll order idM *• ’ LJ Kfrisiei, M gtea, Vt. ri My Annual Catalogue of Vegetable anti Flower Heert for IM HO, rich in engravings from photographs of the originals, will be sent f BEE to all who apply. My old customers need. not write for it 1 offer oi.e of the largest collections of veget iblc seed ever rent out by any seed House In America, a large portion of wh'ch w< ri grown on my six teed farms, full riirtclionrfcr culti.-'itlon on eoch packagt. All seed irtirrmlrd to be l.o'.hfreth and true to name; r.o t ar. t hat should It prove otherwise, Z will refill the order qra'.li. The original Introducer of the Hubbard Squash, Phinney’s Melon, Marblebead Cabbages, Mexican Corn, and scores of other vegetables, I invite the patronage ot all who are anxious to hare their teed directly from the grower, freeh, true, and (fthe rerg best strain. NEW VEGETABLES A SPECIALTY. JAMES J. H. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. - . B Offer for sale a large * A ■ quantity of Land In MM 11 F 1 T Southern portion of ■9 Hk A I State, along the line W lit Hl of its Road. Climate Good water. Best crop, of AND tt mild and healthy. Winter Wheat and all kinds MM Mill ■■■ of Grain; Flax. Hemp; Fruit EJ 111 M of all kinds. Early Vegetables Q| HII I I and Beirles of every variety ■ ■ Ww ■ ■ are produced in abundance. _ For full part culars apply to ■ P. BAGGY, Laud ( omVr. ■ I 1M ft Room 11, No. 78 Michigan ■ fi fl |M || X Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL. ■ IgHIY ■* V LIFE THOUGHTS FOR YOUNG MEN. By M. Rhodks, D. D., Pastor of St. Mark’s Kngl Ish Evangelical Lutheran Church, SL Letta. Mo. Contents : Chapter I.—Our Young Men; Chap. IL—Evils to be Sbunned: Chap. HL—Evil ana Its Beristance; Chap. IV.—Peril of Making Haste to be Rich; Chap. V.—Cause* of Failure In Idfe; Chap. VL—Elements of Success in Life; Chap. VII.-Character; Chap. Vm—Duty; Chap. IX.—The Model Young Man: Chap. X.—The Young Man and Che Bible; Chap. XL—lnfidelity or Christianity— Which? Chap. XII —Memories of Home. A book of 840 pages, printed on fine calendered paper and handsomely bound. " The greatest good to the greatest number” Forwarded, postmaid, for 81.50, by addressing the author. No. 2962 Gamble Street, 8t Louis, Mo.

IPiM’a Cure for Con.nmp ■ tiou Lb also the best cough med- M Idne. Do»e small,—bottle ■ large. Sold everywhere. 23c. ■ and 91.00, Warranted to ftrst buyers. ■

C.GILBERTS STARCH

AGENTS WANTED SASIU complete and authentic history of the great tour of gmmmdbwom It. describes Royal Palaces, Rare Cariosities,* aalth and Wonders of the Indies, China. Japan, eta A roll Hon people want it. This is the b~t yonFltfe to mate money. Beware of “ cateh-penuy ” imitations. Send for circulars and extra terms to Agent*. Addrent Natiomsi. Plbi.isuino Co.. Chicago, lU. .Has found Us way into high places. The world over. Medical Journals and Phyrrtdans. give It their highest approval WOQUUCH k CO. on every label.

Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cures all Humors, from totWhla to a EES? EZfk Pl »g>eewlv >»> i K’m P n>le«-| U i« C p<HCTe* in enrin, .*— * ,*****,. elea, tore Eyes, torofuioua tore* and dwellings, White dwellings, Boitro or Thick K **Jf* you* hare sallow color of skin, or rellowish-biowaspets on face or body, frequent headache or dizziness, bad ta«te in mouth, J’S'L®* cniUs nlternated with hot flushes, irregular appetite, and tongue Torpid Liver, or “ BlHouaneaa.'’ As a remedy for all such cases Dr. 1 ieree a Golden Medical Discovery has no equal, as it effects perfect and radical cures. . r „ In the cure of Bronchitis, Severe toughs, Weak Lungs, sumption, it has astonished the medical faculty, and eminent physicians pronounce It the greatest medical discovery of the age. Sold by druggists. \ - No nse of taking the large, repulsive, nauseous pills. These •> PO'ets (Little I’ilD) are scarcely larger than mustard **«*•■« entirely vegetable, no particular care is required while using them. Thev o|>erate witliout disturbance to the UYfthiVV® svstem, diet, or occuiwtion. For Ja end ice, Headache, ••W cXvo/t.Hi Constipation, Impure Blood, rain in the Shoulders, ©WvVs* Tightness of Chest, Diuiuess, tour Eructations front Wk. -Uttie Otant” CMhartto. Stomsrh, Bad Taste in Month, Bilious attacks, rain inTbs Mttts camasua. re>lwß Kidneys, Internal Fever, Bloated feeling abeto Bfrmsr*t. Buell of Bleed to Mend, take Dr. Fierce's Fteasant Purgative FolloM* Km Mrlrugcteto. fttUM mvsnubi amui amwciatmwi w«i mbk ». x» ■

!. clendenen, m. d., ©FFidEi Wtadltodn Siraeit Chicago, TtUU-tS Cancer, Tumors, Etc., By a New anl Scientific Process, Ko Knife srOsostle is used, and patients can reij on tkto treatment wteaettenfuC SEND FOR REFERENCES.

WARNERS [f SAFE REMEDIES

Warner’, So/* JMUa are an immediate stimulus Torpid IJver, and cure <o* iowt“*T»inrr?»<Ba. Materte, Fever awl Ague, and are uaefoDat times in diseases to cause a free and regular actfon,” the Bowels. The beet antidote for all Material fotso*. Price, toeetstaaßox. feS‘andl«eep^^^!«E?c'^ y ««J* tratioa brought on by eXceestVe drinking, over work, mental shocks, and other ‘‘nus«S * 11 rel teves the pains ot •“‘J S- all diseases and is nerEffmEHWllKh er Injurious to the sysPumAagrruil eWw tern. The best of all Nrrviur*. T iTTI ,X J li tPES ßottle- of two slr-est EgCTtriUJaiWrß prices, 5® cis- and gl. eJuAFKJnuKMM JB9R Medicine ercrywkcra. nnnamßaa JeS h> h . Warner & Co. Presrietort. bochesteb, n. y.

TUTT'S PILLS SYMPTOMS OP A TORPID LIVER. IrOßs of Appetite, Bowels costive, Fain in the Head, with a dull sensation in the baok part. Fain under the shoulder blade, fullness after eating, with a disinclination to exertion of body or mind. Irritability of temper. Low spirits, with a feeling of having neglected some duty, Weariness, Dissinesß, Fluttering at the before the eyes. Yellow Skin, Headache generally over the right eye, Restlessness with fitful dreams, highly eolored Urine * CONSTIPATION. TUTT’S PILLS •re eapeclally adapted to such caaea, a single doae effects aarb a dhange of feeling a* to astonish the sufferer. SOLD EVERYWHERE, PRICE 25 CENTS. Office, 85 Murray Street, New York. GEITS Wanftd lew-prlceS History *t /□.RANT’S TOUR IVT AROUND THE X WORLD. 1 Containing the correspondence Of Jolt n Ru». I sell Vomit, to which is added a full account I ot hla receptions from san Francisco to Philadelphia. WH» pages, aoo illustrations only fft.se, printel in taith English and German. Outsells all other editions, because It is the edition the people want Send for Illustrated (Ircular and proof of what »e say. FORSHEE k McMAKIN. 190 W.FlfUiStreet Cincinnati. Ohio. Agents Wanted for the Lire dt Adventures of Bart Chance to T| £rt 1 Tk •YYTAeFamou* mchJey BUu3lO Rapidly I Written by fflmsetf. & GUIDE Tnto is the only authentic book giving a full account of his wonderful career on the frontier; recounting bl* thrilling adventures and hair-breadth escape*: hi* *otvices to the Government as Scout ana Guide. Endorsed by Gen-rat P. H. Sheridan, and highly recommended by the Press making It a rare book for Arents. Address M. N. HIICKLtY, 22 So. Canal St, Chicago, HL

AHORSE POWkM Well Boring and floek Drilling Machin**! Bent Well A ngeraX Circulars Free! LOOMIS & NYMAN. TIFFIN, OHIO. W e givey one money’a worth in Machinery ■ a and Tooln, and don’tg PITIIHMkw ■ell ‘County Kights!” bKgAMflSiSfl A. 'Nc-w, XCxoitiiTg' Book, Bristling with WILD ADVEXTI'HKS. STANLEY IN AFRICA. The only authentic and copyrighted cheap edition. A Tull hist-oryot hla wonderful discoveries in Africa and xnnrveloun journey down the Congo. Now selling faster than any other book in America. For full done: iptlon and terms, a Idreai ■ Jlnbbnrd Brow.. Publishers, Chicago, 111. AGKNTM WANTKB. ■ We guarantee to sell Pianos and Omni during tho next>lxty dais Tower than any other bouse in the U. b. We handle only firstclass instruments, snch stDeckerßros. Matbubtek, Estey and Story A Camp. Wille us for particulars. Mtorydk Camw, 188 A 190 State street’ Chicago. F'CiDmOlwal , c , aus ? tae arrest and conviction of any person frauduletttly receiving subscriptions tor Demorest's Monthly Magazine. We hear of pt rsoos signing a* A. i’. d(, PUtles operating in the Western States without our aatnority, and taking subscriptions , V?JUSIS n J. he re s a >M‘ price of three dollar*. W. JKNNINGB DF.MORI 81’, 17 East 14th St. New Yort. Cr tRO THA T WiLL GROW! % L L I ■ W Teat them! .Buy them! Garden r r | I Manual and price-list fur 1880 ULLUv s; <!38BkBMBBaBB Seed Grower, Rockford, HL TAPE WORM ~ INFALLIBLY CURED with two spoons of medicine in 2or 8 hours For particulars address .with stamp, to • B. EICKHOKN, Na 4 St. Mart’s Place, New YorL HEADQUARTERS 6 ANO 10 CENT Counter Supplies. Send for 4 page catalogue to CABY. FULTON k CO, 29 Kingston Street, Boston, Mas*. Of! TA TheOLDENTaadBEST bU I U Amilfifl Morphia Habtt Cured at Home. 1.090 l|U|||HM Cured. Beware o' 10 or 20 dav cures. VF | U Iwl a Address Dr. MARSH, Quincy, Mich. U * I n Wholesale and retaiL Send forprieeM fl I K list. Goods sent C.O.D. Wigs made to order. ■ ■MIIIe-BURNHAM kiWW.Madlsotut.,Chicago, of address. L FEVANB, Druggist, Dover, Maine. IF YOU ARB SICK, *ldr«M, wllkotamn, the De. A.W. I Ca*»a MBMCIM* Co., AaS Arlx.r, Mich. IT MAT SAVE YOVS LIFK A. W. Cuaais, M. D. tAathor of Cbaee'e Keclpee,, Sap«. WINTEn agents - for "Detectives ot Europe and WAMI LU Amei lea.” Best selling book out State experience. Address The J.Rbnrr Pub. Ca, Chicago, HL a ae*T* wanted for Hlustr’d Life of James Brothers, mcTA.JZSL'g.YBEHI2 COO A WEEK in your own town. Termsand jQOto outfit free AddrlHHalletUiCa,Portland,Ma C7O A WEEK. 212 a day at home easily made. Z Costly outfit free. Addrtt True 4tOo. Augusta. Me. •£ 4. f<)n per day at home. Samples worth AS *9 W fZU frea Address STINSOX A Co, Portland, Ma IUul Catalogue free. UUHw Great Western Qua Worta HtaSatgii, Pa. A. N. K. Mi wi -