Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1876 — Page 7

Jefferson's Marriage.

The affair wan quite a little comedy in some aspect*, and ended, as all comedies should, with everybody made happy. “Belinda” had lieen married many years, and her old admirer was approaching thirty, when he met with a young lady qf twentytffo who produced a atrqiu Impression upon him. She was a little above the medium height, slender, but elegantly formed. A fair complexion, with a delicate lint of the rose, large hazel eyes, full of life and feeling, and luxuriant hair of a rich soft auburn, formed a combination of attractions which was eminent* ly calculated to move the heart of a youthnil bachelor. In addition to all this the lady was admirably graceful j she rode, danced and moved with elegant ease, and sang and played on the harpsichord very sweetly. Add still to these accomplishments the possession of excellent good sense, very considerable cultivation, a warm heart, and a considerable fortune, and it will not be difficult to understand how the youthful Mr. Jefferson came to visit very frequently at the lady’s residence in the county of Charles City. It was called “The Forest,” and the name of the lady was Mrs. Mary Skelton. She was a daughter of John Way les, an eminent lawyer, and had married, in her seventeenth year, Mr. Bathurst Skelton, who, dying in 1768, left his young wife at nineteen. As the three years of mourning began to expire the beautiful young lady found herself besieged at “The Forest" by numerous visitors. Of these three were favorites with the fair Mrs. Skelton, of whom Mr. Thomas Jefferson, was one. The tradition runs that the pretensions of the rivals were decided either by the musical accomplishments of the young counselor or by the fears of his opponents. The tale is differently related. One version is that the two unfortunate gentlemen encountered each other on Mrs. Skelton's door-step, but hearing Jefferson’s violin and voice accompanying the lady in a pathetic song, gave up the contest thenceforth and retired with-. out entering, convinced that the affair was beyond their control. The other story is that all three met at the door, and agreed that they would take their turns. Jefferson entered first, and the tones of the lady in singing with her companion deprived the listeners of all hope. However this may be,;it is certain that the beautiful widow consented to become Mrs. Jefferson; and on the Ist day of January, 1772, there was a great festival at “ The Forest.’ - Friends and Kindred assembled from far and near; there was frolicking and dancing after the abundant old fashion; and we find from the bridegroom’s note-book that the servants and fiddlers received fees from his especial pocket. It snowed without, but within all was mirth and enjoyment, in the light and warmth of the great log fires, roaring, in honor of the occasion. Soon after the performance of the ceremony, the bridegroom and his bride set out in their carriage for “ Monticello,” where Jefferson had commenced building in 1769, just before the destruction by fire of his patrimonial house of “ Shadwell.” The journey was not to end without adventures. As they advanced toward the mountains, the snow increased in depth, and finally they were compelled to leave tlie carriage and proceed upon their way on horseback. Stopping to rest at “Blenheim,” the seat of Col. Carter, where they found, however, no one but an overseer, they left it at sunset, resolutely bent upon reaching Monticello that night. It was eight miles distant, and the road, which was rather a mountain bridle-path than an honest highway, was encumbered with snow three feet deep. We may fancy the sensation of the newly-wedded bride at the chill appearance of the desolate landscape as she passed along through the snow; but she was a woman of courage and good sense, and did not care for inconvenience. It was late when they arrived, and a cheerless reception awaited them—or rather, there was no reception at all. The fires were all out, the servants had all gone to bed, and the place was as dark and silent as the grave. Conducting his wife to the little pavilion, which was the only part of the house habitable at the time, Jefferson proceeded to kindle a fire and do the honors. On a shelf behind some books part of a bottle of wine was discovered; and this formed the supper of the bridegroom and the bride. Far from being annoyed or discomfited by their reception, however, it only served for a topic of jest and laughter. The young lady was as light-hearted as a-bird, and sent her clear voice ringing through the dreary little pavilion as gaily as she had ever done in the cheerful drawing-room of “ The Forest;” and thus the long hours of the winter night fled away like minutes, winged with laughter, merriment and song.— Harper'i Magazine for July.

A Calcutta Story.

There lived in Calcutta a lovely girl of seventeen, who was engaged to a man she was much attached to; her father, however, did not approve of the match, and was anxious that she should marry another man, who had proposed to her some time before. This second lover, backed up by the father, was most in his attentions, and ultimately hoped tp wjn the girl, who, on her part, djsliked' him intensely, and declared she would only marry the man she was engaged to, ana no one else. All of a sudden the girl disappeared, and though every search was made no intelligence could be gained of her, nor was there any apparent reason for her mysterious absence. Suspicion fell on botli her lovers, especially on the one whose suit she had rejected, for it was w’ell known he was highly incensed agaihst her for her indifference toward him. They were botli arrested and imprisoned, albeit they declared their Innocence, and also their sorrow and astonishment at her disappearance. It was ascertained that she was last seen alive going to tlje“t4uk” with her pitcher to draw water, and that she had never been seen since. On this it was decided to have the tank dragged, -which was accordingly done. The first time they found nothing; however, they tried again. On this occasion they feft something veiy heavy in the net; presently they saw the huge head of an alligator, and soon after heard a tremendous splash, which broke the net and allowed the animal to escape. They immediately commenced making another net of extra strength, and one not likely to -be broken by the alligator. When it was finished they dragged the tank, and this time they did so most thoroughly, but to their amazement nothing of the alligator w’asseen. “Where pan it be?” they exclaimed; “ surely we were not deceived, we all saw it; and yet if it was in that tank we must have caught it.” Someone proposed that they should drag the tank from the opposite side. This they did, and their efforts were crowned with success, for they captured the alligator, and brought him safe to land. He was of monstrous size, and a most ferocious monster. Inside of him they found no end of gold

and silver liangles and native ornaments; some of them were rectrffilwffFby the he-' reared father qs belonging to his poor daughter, for fliey wt* tlteMme she worn on.«ie evening she was last seen walking toward the tank. The grief of her friends on this terrible discovery canter better imagined than described. She must Itave put down her pitcher ipto the d-ater, quite unsuspicious of danger when she WU seized by the monster and in a moment dragged down. Not a soul knew the existence *f the alligator in that tank. It was the only one there, and had the habit of hiding under a shelving of rock on one side of the tankr ■ This accounts for its not* being captured when the tank was dragged on so many occasions. Hob' this monster got into that tank’ and where it came from is a question for naturalists alone to answer. I have heard, though I cannot vouch for the truth, that alligators have been known to travel great distances at night. Tills animal must have walked straight through the populous‘City of Calcutta to the tank unobserved. — Calcutta Sporting Magazine. ,

Our Flag.

Every nation has Its flag. Every ship in foreign waters is known by the colors she shows at her peak. The French frigate hoists her bunting ofjhree vertical stripes, red, white and blue; the English man-of-war shows a red flag, with the crosses of St. Andrew and St. George on a blue union in the upper left-handed corner; and the Austrian, a double-head black eagle, on a yellow ground—every nation with a name and a place, having its own appropriate symbol. When we were colonies of England we sailed and fought under her flag. Twenty years before the Revolution, when we were at war with the French and their Allies, the Indians, many a brave man in some hot skirmish with Indians would have welcomed the sight of the red flag of England—it would mean aid and comfort when sorely pressed. But the time was coming when he was to hate it as much as he had hated the French colors. The time was coming when the sight of it was to mean oppression and tyranny to him, and pvery feeling of his nature would be roused against it. Every child knows how we finally labelled; it was nothing less, and, to England, our George Washington was merely a leading rebel. It was a bold proceeding. We were thirteen little States, fringed along on the Atlantic coast, with the unbroken forest behind Us, aid among the great family of nations we had neither place nor name. We were like the last m-w boy at a public school—we had t<> fight to obtain due respect from all the great,old nations who were looking on. Qf course we had no flag; we bad to earn that, too. For a year or soom' privateers carried the Massachusetts State flag. It was better, they thought, than the English flag, at any rate. The field was of white bunting; in the middle a green pine Oree, and on the opposite side the motto: “ Appeal to Heaven.” Washington, in his character of Gener-al-in-Chief, commissioned several privateer schooners, and they all carried this flag. ’ *' J ' The Alfred was one of the few large ships we had, and she carried the pinetree flag, and beside that, one with thirteen stripes, in red and white, but with no stars; while on the stripes was coiled a rattle-snake, with the motto, “ Don’t tread on me.” The rattle-snake being found only in America, there was,’ of course, a peculiar meaning in this emblem. In the early part of the Revolution, some of the South Carolina regiments carried the palmetto tree on their flag. That was a very good symbol, and the State yet koeps it on her coat of arms, though it grpws everywhere in the South. The palmetto logs at Fort Moultrie were found very good things to receive cannon balls when that fort was besieged by the British in June of 1776. . There was this multiplicity of flags, because we did not clearly know what we were. No nation had acknowledged us as belonging to their great family yet; in fact, we had not quite cut loose from England, yet we were fighting her with all our might, and it seemed absurd to be under her colors. In the fight at Bunker Hill, the flag planted in the corner of that famous’redoubt was of blue bunting, with the cross of St. George in red in the corner, and a pine tree, that same pine tree, in the upper right-hand quarter of the cross. Our army at Cambridge celebrated New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, 1776, not as the Chinese, by firing crackers and illuminating lanterns in the evening, nor yet by making calls, but by unfurling for the first time in an American camp the flag of thirteen stripes. But even then we had not declared ourselves independent of Great Britain, and this flag had the British union in the corner, and the crosses of St. Andrew and St. George. Finally, on the 14th of June, 1776, Congress, which met then in Philadelphia, settled upon our style of flag. “It shall have,” said they, “thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, and the union of the States shall be indicated by thirteen stars, white, in a blue field, representing a new constellation.” It, was not until about forty JWSRgo that it was decided to add another star for every new State as it joined the Union. So that the constellation as it is now, with nearly forty stars in it, has grown a good deal from the original thirteen. But the sfripes still remain the same in number, to remind us of the first little band of States who “ fought it oitf” against Great Britain. — Kate Foote, in St. Niclwlto for July..

In a Boy’s Pocket.

A noise one day breaking" the silence 'bt the school-roop, the offender was swiftly brought to justice and his spool confiscated. Another and another noise from the samedelinquent—this time a flic. Reflecting that economy of time might be .useful in tha case, I desired Master George to bring’ me all he had, and' reluctantly, there was poured forth such an unending stream of treasures’that I despatched an assistant for the saucer of a flower-pot in which to place them. A list is in order. A rubber ball gnawed at one side, four yards of twine, three peewees, two slatepencils, a piece of soap, a copper, six board-nails; a pickle, a flsh-hoWc, a bun, a letter which had once been pink, but ndw, alas!—five lozenges, a top, a doll’s boot with the handle in it, a gold stud weepingly confessed to be “My Mammie’s,” a patent lock, key attached ; a piece of gum with tooth impressiota, a leaf from a speller round a treacherous piece of tar, two-kite-knqbs, a scissor, « watch-key, a pipe-bowl colored and scented after the latest epicurean styfe, a shoe-string, a whistle, four scarlet beans, an inch doll, two bobbins; an Irishnin’s jackknife, a lampwick, three piece! of rainbow coal, five jackstones, a photograph, a tack-hammer, a ring, a smllct leg, a metal toe, a rabbit’s tail! Tfttal, sixty-five!— From a Teacher'« Letter.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—RUatable Graham bread can be made by making a sponge of white flqur at night, in the morning add two tanlespoonfuls of molasses for each loaf, and make it gs thick with Graham flour as you can stir it with a spoon. Fill your pans half full; let them rise till full; have the oven pretty hot at flrat, and cool it off after the crust has set. A great deal of Graham bread is baked to death. —Hie editor of the Hural World, and who is good authority on such subjects, ■ays: A corn is a bruise of the sole of the foot, producing extravasation of blood, and in a majority of cases is the result of faulty or neglected shoeing. The treatment consists in removing all pressure of the sltoe from off the seat of the corn and its contiguous parts. A bar shoe answers the purpose best when properly adjusted. —The green outer husks of walnuts contain a yellow brown and remarkably fast dye, which is well suited for dyeing woolen or cotton materials, staining wood, etc. Wool thusdyed requiresno mordant, is very soft to handle, and not like that dyed with vitriol. The shades of color obtained are from bright to dark brown. The husks may be simply kept dried till used, or packed moist in tubs, by which means their coloring power is further increased. « —My attention was drawn to notice the amount of corn-cobs that are thrown away daily, from feeding one pair of horses., The cobs looked so clean and nice it does seem as though they were made to do a farmer more good than to add to the bulk of the manure heap. Being of rather a speculative turn of mind I tried a little experiment with a few cobs, by pouring over them a small amount of coal oil, and then put them in the cook-stove to see what the effect Would be. I was entirely satisfied that I had produced an excellent fuel. They furnish a kindling cheaper, and equally as good, than the patented article sold in the cities and towns. Farmers who have to haul wood long distances, and then prepare it for use in the busy seasons of the year, will find this hint of value. I think it would be better to let the cobs lay awhile, after pouring the oil over them, before using.— Cor. Prairie Farmer. —Where all other means have failed to exterminate bedbugs, sulphurous acid gas has succeeded. Take everything out of the infested room, plug up all the windows tightly, close all chimneys, arid empty about one ounce of powdered Sulphur on a pan of hot coals, placed in the middle of the floor. Shut the doors tad cover all cracks; let the sulphur bum as long as it will. : When the room is large it is a good plan to fasten a bit of tin tube to the bottom of the pan, and to this connect enough small rubber pipe to lead out of the nearest door. By blowing into the end of the pipe with the bellows, the sulphur Mill be caused to’burn more quickly by the draft created and to give a denser smoke. After the sulphur has burned out, paint all the cracks in the floor and around the mop-board with a strong solution of corrosive sublimate, and treat the furniture tothe same before replacing It. We liaVe seeji a room frightfully infested completely speed by this plan.— Scientific American.

The War on Cut Worms.

I am fully persuaded that there is no more sure way to ward off cut-worm injuries than to enter into partnership with the birds, in which it shall he the duty of the party of the first part to plow the land early in the fall, so that bluebird, robin and grakie may have a cut-worm feast before leaving for mote genial climes. Deep harrowing will aid the party of the second part, while a repetition of the same as early in the spring as the season will permit, will insure a thanksgiving repast of the same nature. I feel very certain that from this cause, and not freezing of the larvce, has originated the unquestionable fact that fall plowing is an advantage. When unprotected larvae can survive a temperature of thirty degrees, as proved in the winter of 1874-75, we may be slow to credit the freezing method of destruction. Our early spring birds are much put to it to gain sufficient food for themselves and brood, and with the opportunity will become chief abettors in cutworm destruction. That the three birds above named do merit loudest praise for such valuablQ service, I have personal proof. The only method to supplement the above measures when they are not adequate to remove the evil, with our field crops, is digging out by hand and de. stroying. This is by no means so tedious a procedure as would be thought at first, as by passing along the corn-field early in the morning the cut stalk will reveal the whereabouts of the night marauder, which, by digglug around the stub, may soon be found ana crushed. As this plan implies the loss of at least a single stalk to a larvae, it would be very well in planting to practice the advice of the poet: “ Two for the blackbird, two for the crow (they have earned them), two for the cut-worm and four to grow.” This advice will be all the more pertinent if the corn is to be planted after late plowed greensward; I need hardly say late, as our wet sprjngs usually necessitate late spring plowing. If our farmers will heed the Above, and give the good-by to all those qpiack remedies which obtain annually an unmerited place in our periodicals, such as salt, plaster, etc. (though all fertilizers which promote rapid growth are always to be commended as aids hi tlie work of insect destruction), this cut-worm evil will soon assume less importance.— Prof. Cook, in Michigan Farmer.

Ignorance in Farming.

One of the greatest drawbacks to successful farming is the presence of the unknown quantity —ignorance of the exact condition of tilings, in value, weight and measure, concerning our products. We often produce at a loss, Ail account with each crop would decide the matter. If, after a few trials, it costs more to produce than a crop will sell for, its cultivation should be abandoned. Many continue to produce from year to year at a loss, aimply from the want of a little calculation. The unknown quantity in weight and measure subjects us to great loss m buying and selling. A stack of hay came to my notice recently. The seller estimated that it would weigh a ton and a half. The buyer preferred to buy by weight. It weighed 1,850 pounds—quite a difference in favor rtf die buyer. There is no doubt that a great deal of hay changes hands every year on a basis no nearer the truth than this. Loss enough is soon made in this way to put in and maintain a hayscale, even in a small neighborhood. The same thing is true in regard to live stock. Dealers can judge much more accurately than farmers, and are much less liable to be cheated. Farmers are much more liable to fail in buying than in selling. If we pay too much in buying, it makes an up-hill business all the way through.

This is one great cause why many fail to make anything in feeding and handling stock. From considerable experience in weighing stock for othiera, I have found that the greater part fall short In weight from the estimate.of the owners; some come very far short. Not more titan five per cent, ’exceeds die estimates. Horses estimated at 1,100 pounds generally weigh about 1,000, Loaas of hay called a ton quite often weigh only 1,200 or 1,500 pounds. Those who estimate the number of tons by the number of loads are often veiy much deceived, and in’selling think they have been cheated, because the scales failed to show as much as they expected. Weighing will remedy this. The pound' avoirdupois is a known quantity; after ascertaining the exact number, we are in a condition to go forward without making mistakes in our calculations. Another unknown quantity is in failure to know the number of acres under cultivation. A farm which had been taken up when the country was new, and occupied by five successive generations of the same family, had a twenty-acre lot. On the death of the first member of the family the farm was sold. The twenty-acre lot contained but fourteen acres by actual measurement. Here were five generations of heroic workers deceived in the amount of work actually done, all the while supposing that they . were cultivating six acres more than there really was. If the yield came up to what the increased acreage should produce, it did not matter so much. But the probability is that they were as far from the truth in the yield as in the acreage. I once bought a tract of salt marsh said to contain six acres. The surveyor made less than four acres, much to the disgust of the seller, and to the detriment of the reputation of persons who' had gained a local fnotoriety for big days’ work done thereon. Traditional “big days’ work” often owe their existence more to some errors in calculation than to the amount of work really done. There is uncertainty enough attending the business of farming, from unfavorable seasons, and causes over which we have no control. without being subjected tp loss in those we can remedy. We suffer loss from buying and paying for what we do not get; by selling what we do not get pay for, and in many other ways in which the unknown quantity affects us unfavorably. We should endeavor, where it is in’ our power, to eliminate it from our business.—Cor. Country Gentleman.

Keeping Milk and Batter in Cellars.

Milk or butter may be kept in a cellar the bottom of which has been grouted, and with good .respite, if proper attention be given to ventilation, drainage and temperature. When the ground is not of a character to afford natural drainage, drains should be laid so as to carry off all accumulations of water liable to occur at any time at the bottom of the cellar, and this should be done before grouting. By so dampness from the floor is avoided, as well as impurities from stagnant water under the grout. If milk is to be kept in the cellar for the purpose of getting the cream and for butter-making, means must be taken to have the temperature of the" room as low as sixty degrees Fahrenheit. Unless some one of tlie devices now' in use for reducing the milk to a low temperature be employed, such as - the large pan system, where flowing'water is carried under the milk, or where tlie ice system and its modifications are adopted, there should be good ventilation to carry off stale air or noxious gases, as milk absorbs taints that will prove injurious to the butter. We have seen excellent results from milk cellars having grouted floors, tlie walls being nicely plastered with waterlime cement and the floors made smooth and level with the same, and presenting the appearance of an immense block of stone. We should not advise butter and milk to be kept in the same apartment. A butter cellar should always be kept by itself. It should-be properly ventilated and used for no other purpose than for keeping butter. And so with the milk cellar; it cannot be used for storing vegetables, or for the meat and, soap barrels, or for fish and other family provisions. Milk and butter are dainty aristocrats in their nature. They are extremely fastidious about codling in contact with filth and anything having an unsavory odor, as such contact speedily demoralizes them; and when they once become tainted, they go on from bad to worse, apparently having no disposition or power for reformation. So the dairyman should be careful and not introduce them to bad company. — Rural New Yorker.

The Wrong Woman.

■ Judge Pitman is one of the Directors of the public schools. Last fall the Board advertised for a female teacher, with instructions to applicants to call upon the Judge. A day or two afterward Mrs. Pitman advertised for a cook, and on that afternoon an Irish girl called at the house to obtain the place. The Judge was at perch at the time, and when she entered he mistook her for a schoolmistress, and said to her: “Did you come about that place?” .v-” Yes, sir,” she answered, “O, very well, then; take a seat and I’ll Turnover a few things in-order to ascertain what your qualifications are. Bound Africa.” “ If you please, sir, I don’t know what you mean.” “1 say bound Africa.” “ Bou—bou—begorra, I don’t know whatye’re referrin’ to.” “Very strange” said the Judge. “Can yowtell me if ‘amphibious’ is an adverb! or preposition ? What is an adverb ♦” '“indeed, and you bother me entirely. -I never had anything to do with such things at my Ustplace.” “ Then it must been a curious sort of an institution,’! said the Judge. “ Probably yon can tell me how to conjugate the verb '‘io be,’ and just mention also what you know about Herodotus.” “Ah, your Honor’s jokin’ wid me. Be done wia your fun, now.” “ Did you ever hear of Herodotus?” “Never once in the wholecoorseof my life. Do you make it with eggs?” “This is the most extraordinary woman I ever encountered,” murmured the Judge, “ How she ever associated Herodolus with the idea of eggs is simply incomprehensible. Well, can you name the hemisphere in which China and Japan are situated ?” “ Don’t bother me with your ftinnow. 1 can wash the China and the pans as wey as anybody, and that’s enough now isn’t it?” “ Dumb! awful dumb! Don't know the country from the crockery. I’ll fry her once more. Name the limits of the Tropic of Capricorn, and tell me where Asia Minor is located.” “I have a brother that’s one, sir; that’s all I know about it.” “One? One what?” ' . “ Didn’t you ask me afther the miners; sir. My brother, Teddy works wid ’em.” “And this,” said the Judge, “isthe

kind of person to whom we are asked to intrust th? education of youth. Woman, what dSF’jfai know? fohat kind of a school have you been teaching.” “ None, sir. What should Iteach school for?” - ’ • “Totally without experience, as I suppotted,” said the Judge. " Mrs. Ferguson had a governess teach tho children when I was cookin' for her.” “ Cooking! Ain’t you aschool-teacher ? What do you mean by proposing to stop cooking in order to teach school? Why, it’s preposterous.” “ liegorra I came here to get the cook’s place, sir. and that’s all of it.” “Oh, by George! I see now. You ain't a candidate for the grammar school after all. You want to see Mrs. Pitman. Maria, c<me down here a minute. There’s a thick-headed immigrant here* wants to cook for you.” And the Judge picked up his paper and resumed the editorial on “ The Impending Crisis.”—Jfoa: Adder, in N. Y. Weekly.

Scheck's Sea Weed Tonic.

Ik the atmosphere experienced here during the summer months the lethargy produced by the heat takes away the desire for wholesome food, and fieqnent perspirations reduce bodily energy, particularly those suffering from the effects of debilitating diseases. In order to keep a natural healthful activity of the system we must resort to artificial means. For this purpose Schenck’s Sea Weed Tonic is very effectual. A few doses will create an appetite and give fresh vigor to the enervated body. For dyspepsia it is Invaluable. Many eminent physicians have doubted whether dyspepsia can be permanently cured by the drugs which are generally employed for that purpose. The Sea Weed Tonic, in its nature, is totally different from such drugs. It contains no corrosive minerals or acids; in fhet, it aMlsts the regular o;>eratlons of nature and supplies her deficiencies. The Tonic in its nature so much resembles the gastric Juice that it is almost identical with that fluid. The gastric juice is the natural solvent which, in a healthy condition of the body, causes tiro food to tie digested; and, when this juice la not excreted in sufficient quantities, indigestion, with all its distressing symptoms, follows. The Sea Weed Tonic performs the duty of the gastric Juice when the latter' is deficient. Schenck’* Sea Weed Tonic sold by all Druggists. r >

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Tie Min of the Lmliw Is an eleineetery treatise on the LoeonMlvw hHmb - in the form of qaestteas and answers. Tbe book Oom-> tains tot pages aad SO eagnvinga. Including W M>.l page plates of different styles of locomotives. No popular treatise on tae tocumonve'ln the XnglMb « language gives so clear, simple ud oomplete n «tescrlpHon of the construction and working of the loco- - motive engine, aad no work of any kind, bowevereas- * tensive, gives so fall an account of modern Amerkw practice In locomotive construction, and of the latan* > scientific discoveries which have application to the operation of the locomotive, especially those relattsta to eombuallon, heat, etc., al! of which the author law . endeavored to make plain to thooe who have not avam* the rudiments of a scientific education. Tne principle* of operating and details of eunuffso- • Uon are so clearly explained as to enable any IntHMgent person to thoroughly understand them. Ytar book is written without the use of technical terms off BDStrusr mathematic) calculations, and le lntmff.il ; for all classes of readers. Address TH* RAILROAD OAZETTFL '» Jackson Street. Chtcmpcs “THEmUTWr WITHOUT OHB FAILUBB OA BSJBOnfIB This Is the tenons Threshing umcbinsfitaßtata■ewapt the field” aad created «ucb a rmohiteminMta trade, by matctsmss Grau-Ba vim ab» Mun ten no prtndplM. THE KNORMOUB WASTAGE of grainy co AcariMNte otter tittles of Threshers, can be SAVED by ~ TIMOTHY, MILLET, HUMGABJAW like seeds are threshed, separated, cleaned and assn* as easily and perfectly as Wheat, Oats, Bye or Ibri*. AN EXTRA PRICE is usually paid for re*. nußseeds cleaned by this machine, for extra cleusKaaan. IN THE WET GRAIN of 1876, these wen - v —p. Hally the ONLY MACHINES that could m with mR* SXXMS'tf 1 “■ , ALL OBAIH. TIME u. UOHST - .T tions, such as “Endless Aprons,” “Raddles,” “Pickers,” etc, are enlirelg diepeneed with; Has Maa-one-half the usual Gears, Belts, Boxes, and JbnraA; . easier managed; more durable; light running ;no tart lyrepairs; no-dust; no “ litterings ”to clean up; Wrte troubled by advene winds, rein or storms. FARMERS and GRAIN RAISERS who are mafirt. in the large saving made by it will not employ fate rior and wasteful machines, but will Mt as Mb* improved Thresher doing their work. FOUR SUBS made for 6,8, 10 and 13 Boas . Powers. Abo a specialty ot and made gxmseLY rob steam powxa. TWO STYLES OF HORSE POWEBS, Ma: aur toproved “Triple Gear,** and our “Spur (tttM - bury Style), both “ Mounted ” on /oar wheels. IF INTERESTED in Threshing or Grain W tilr-r. - apply to our nearest Dealer, or write to US Sir YBaato Stylre^kta,'Terms &) te* 1 " 1 ° 6 '* partiCTllKn *' aixw - - JNdboto, SAepderd Cta, BATTLE CRBHSvXKKt Wlfil Lai I ' I I'M I ')'* 'J_ ' illtf Reed & Sons' Organs— New Style*. New Improvements. Terms of Payment: 02101*11, remainder filO monthly; or, KG csh. remainder *25 quarterly. Catalogues with full explanation sent free. JtXJBVn TKMI‘VK w Mv/trc, ote Vem Buren Mt., Chlcwmw. . (Cut thia out and inclose la your letter.—K. L.) He Enemy of IMsetoetythe Foo<«S Pain to Man and Beset,. la «to GrandOU MUSTANG eosting »5e., IJOc. or 11.00, hanwrten ■aswndß the IUS wYahwsnan beln«,an«l restwrodl •» -r—-a t— —n— t — r] rn r-t —itr*, it gnaw f FOCUME £> i' The American Remedy. POSITIVELY CURES KAeiswswMnsn, Netsrsilgia. tteeert Urer (•mplaint, l»u"l>epnia ana ffeunMefia tf'eakneimt. Remove, nervousness, purifies tter blood and strengthens the whole system. We hsMte hundreds of tesflmoulal* from person* wholiavsfiert CURED of all the above named disease*. It Is LT VEGETABLE, has never before been aArertML Its Virtue has been thoroughly tested, and wejnsaaatee satisfaction or money wRI be refunded, “.stlsss nlals sent free upon application. Price *» perbsrtlsu containing medicine which, taken according to dtnssUow, lasts three weeks. Sold by all Druggist*. » IbAAU NICHOLS AGO.. 18 Moaroe St., Chicago. HALF A DOLLAR ? Win Pay lor the CHICAGO LEDGER W For the Next Half Year. A. N. K. S. 7. *£« ' mmm tottw pMSRs