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GRANBIR. A nuißcuhu* Ixxiy,a nm«uvo head, A num to value the longer h<«". • A man to remember when (lead. I wish you might aee him (Amke <!riwi«Mr«“ you plenmO, . While be whiff*, and he whews, And 1 road news. .way; And what have they stolen this time, my lad? The raiwah, they thrive like ‘ piuley ’in penne - Bad works. boy, bad- very had I ’ Then for that ludicrous perch of the eye While the pipe gets a slide To the other Hide, Where be puffn it and pooba. Keeping up With the news. A character! When he liegins. “ I tell ye, sir”— Tis worth a whole book of your modem talk; Then the silence after his “ say;" The solemn shuffle of his walk And tamping of Ips cane. You may put it down Whea yon see that frown' And the dim gray eye lights unusually clever, He's about to settle some subject forever. He's so complete From his head to his feet. Inside and out so made to keep! There's no one feature before the rent; Ho makes you laugh and he makes you weep. He stops the holo in your soul; He softens the tough And levels the rough 'As ho snoozes and smokes • —— And preaches and jokes. His children and wife Have gone to the bettor life. And not a companion is loft; But “They’ve only the start—that's And yon never would think him bereft; He wears the calmest face on the farm. And with a genuine stamp or joy Often declares he’s “ young as a boy P’ Still ho smiles and he smokes Between sermons and jokes. A grand old man, -AflfcBuilt after the olden plan; A muscular body, a massive head. A man toypine the longer he lives, A man to" remember when dead. Years yet may he limber his cricks, This iieaateM old son of the past; And may! be the last While he Whiffs and he whews. To listen, or read him the news. —John Vance Cheney, in Sunday Afternoon,

MRS. BARNEY’S SERMON.

Strangely enough the cellar-stairs preached it—wit least they contributed that very important part—the applica<fon. Sister Searls had furnished the text in the Scorning, then the sermon might have gone on from firstly to forty-seventhly without Mrs. Barney’s notice, had it not been for the cellar stairs. Mrs. Barney was hurried that day—she was always hurried—and it was warm and uncomfortable in the sunshiny stove-heated kitchen, where she was hastening to and fro, and growing fretted and tired without slackening her speed. Nealie, standing at the ironingtable, was tired also. “ There’s so much to do,” she said, wearily. “I don’t see why we need to do baking and ironing both in one day. It makes such a crowd, and we could have left one for the morrow.” “To-morrow will bring work enough of iUk own*” answered Mrs. Barney, quiche. •* Beside, if we should get the work all out of the way the first of the week, a whole day to rest in would be worth something;” .» “ But then we shouldn’t take it for resting iust because it would be a wheie day, and something else could be crowded into it,” murmured Nealie, to whom one hour now looked very inviting and that possible day in the future very uncertain. The mother did not answer and the young girl’s Ind moved more slowly over the damp , muslins as her gaze wandered away to the hills where great trees were throwing cool shadows. How pleasant the shade and greenness were! The desire to bring it nearer suggested another thought to Nealie. “Some vines would be so nice at this window, mother, I could jplant them if you would let Tim dig a little spot out there.” “ Yes, but if we ever get the house fixed up as we want it, wo shall have shutters at that window.” “ But we don’t know when we can do that, and the vines would be so pretty now,” urged Nealie. “Pretty? Well, yes, if we had the whole yard trimmed and laid out as it should be. 1 hope we-shall have it some day; but a stray vine here and there seems hardly worth fussing over when we can’t have the whole done.” Nealie sighed, but was silent, and presently Tim came in with an armful of wood. “ Neqlie,” he said, pausing near her table, **if you’d just sew this sleeve up a little;* The old thing tears awful easy, and I just hit it against a nail.” lie spoke low, but Mrs. Barney’s quick oars caught the words. . “That jacket torn again, Tim! I never saw such a boy to tear things to pieces! No, Nealie can’t stop to mend it now, and I can’t either. I’ve been intending to get you a new one, but there seem much chance to make anything new while you contrive to make so much patching and darning on the old.” Mrs. Barney shut the oven door with a snap. Tim was the hired boy, kindhearted but careless, and he was rather discouraging. Board and clothing sometimes appeared to her a high price for his services. “ Hurry now, and pick some currants for dinner,” she said Tim took the tin-pail pointed put to " him, but did not hurry as he passed with clouded face down the walk. The thought of a new jacket would have been pleasant a few minutes.before, but it had suddenly lost its attractiveness. The boy drew his bushy brows into a scowl, and, as soon as he was out of sight of the house, threw himself upon the grass and began his currant-picking in a very leisurely style. Then it was that Sister Searls drove up in her rattling old buggy, with a horse that was, as Tim said, “ a reg’lar old revolutionary pensioner.” . “If I can’t have fine horses and carriages I can take a deal of comfort with these,” was always Sister Searl’s cheery comment upon her equipage." She had an errand at Mrs. Barney’s and had stopped on her way to the village. ~~ A’ plump, nosy-faoed little woman she was, not young, only that she belonged to the class of people who never grew old; neatly dressed, though it was but that old poplin made over, Mrs. Barney wondering a little that she should have taken the trouble, when she surely needed a new one. “ This room is too warm to ask anyone to Sit in,” she said, apologetically, placing a chair for her caller just outside the door. “ When we are able to’ have the house altered to suit us, 1shall not have a stove hero in summer?’ “In the meanwhile you have this nice cool porch. What a pleasant Elace it is,” said Sister Searls, »giyYes, if ope had time (o enjoy it,”

to get everytldng about the place in just the right order. .that tdoa’t Mve time.” “Take time, Sister Barney, take time!” said Mrs. Searle, smiling, but earnestly. “Make the most of what you have while you ■ are working for something -better. Don’t crowa out any little sweetness you have to make room for some great pleasure that’s farther off. You see,” she added, blushing a little, as if her words needed .excuse, “ it’s something I had to learn myself, years ago—never to trample on daisies in a wild chase after the roses. The roses I haven’t found, but the daisies have been enough to make the path bright.” Mrs. Barney looked upon her in some perplexity, as she took her departure. She had listened with onenaif her mind on the loaves of bread in the oven, and the other half did not fully comprehend what had been said. “ Daisies and roses! I don’t see what any sort °I a flower has to do with wanting a new kitchen! But there! 1 suppose ministers’ wives, even if they are only country ministers’ wives, hear so much talk that it comes natural to them. Bits out of old garment, like as anyway. Dear me! I don’t get much time for poetry in my life! I’m sure of that. How Tim does loiter!” Tim, meanwhile, had sauntered out from among the bushes, and was engaged in untying the old horse that Mrs. Searls had fastened as securely as if it could be induced under any circumstances to run. He was moved to this act of jgallantry, partly because he really likea the cheery little woman, and partly because he heard Mrs. Barney’s call, and was in no haste to go to the house. “That will do, thank you, Tim,” said Sister Searls, nervously anxious to expedite his steps'in the way of obedience. “ I think Mrs. Barney is calling you.” “ Yes’m; she most always is,” answered Tim, philosophically, pausing to arrange the harness with painful deliberation. “ But, my dear boy,” urged Sister Searls, reading something in the knitted brows, “ you really should try to please her and help her all you can, you know. She is kind to you.” “Oh yes, she’s kind! Only when I see one of her kindnesses a coming I dodge; it generally hits a fellow hard enough to be uncomfortable,” responded Tun. Then, having relieved his feelings by this statement, his conscience pricked him slightly, and ha added: “ You see she’s always in such a hurry. She can’t come and bring’em; she has to pitch ’em.” Mrs. Searls meditated as she drove down the country road. “Well, I never thought of that before, but 1 do suppose that’s why the Bible speaks of the Lord’s ‘lovingkindness’ and * tender mercy’ —because there’s so much kindness in the world that isn’t one bit loving, and so much mercy that is only duty and not tenderness. I’ll tell Josiah that.” Fox it happened that while the good minister pored over his books and studied Ideology, his wife, going here and there, studied humanity. And though he epoked Mis own sermons, his life often seasoned them. The baking was done at last, the currants picked,. .and Mrs. Barney's dinner ready. “For the bounty bestowed upon us may we be. duly grateful,” luujynured Hr. BRtileW, with head bowed low over his plate. Ths W remarked that he was tired of a steady diet of ham and eggs, and didn’t see why they couldn’t nave a little variety. “ You would see if you had to cook in the hot kitchen, as I do,” responded Mrs. Barney, more shortly than her wont. “ I’m glad to have whatever I can get most quickly and easily. When we have a summer-kitchen we can begin to live as other people do.” “ If we ain’t all old as Methuseler,” complained Master Tommy, in an undertone which was perfectly audible. “Anyway, the chickens will be if we can’t have any cooked till that time.” He had sniffed the odors of the baking on his homeward way from school, and, settling his juvenile mind upon chickenpie for dinner, had been grievously disappointed. Warm and weary with the morning’s work, the questions and suggestions fretted Mrs. Barney. She felt wounded and aggrieved, too, as she moved about silently after dinner. No onq seemed to see that she cared as much for things nice and comfortable as did the others, she said to herself. She cared far more, indeed, since she was- willing to do without much now, and work ana plan for the sake of having things all that could be desired by-ana-by. How many present comforts and conveniences she had foregone for that! Those very cellar stairs, toward whose dark tortuous steps she was tending, were an example; they could scarcely be more illy-ouilt, or in a more inconvenient place. Mr. Barney had wanted to remove them; but she would not allow him to incur the expense because a second removal might be necessary when the house was thoroughly rearranged. No, she had preferred to submit to the’ discomfort all this time. Too long a time it proved, for even while she meditated an insecure board slipped beneath her feet, plunging her down the narrow stairway against the tough stone wall, and then upon the hard floor of the cellar. One swift moment of terror, the crash of dishes that fell from her hands, a flash of excruciating pain, and then she knew nothing more. She did not hear Nealie’s wild cry from the room above, nor see her husband’s pale face as he lilted her in his arms. When she returned to consciousness a strange voice—the physician's—was saying: “No bones broken, though it’s a-won-der her neck wasn't, falling in the way she did.” Slowly she opened her eyes upon a confused mingling of anxious faces, wet cloths ana bottles of arnica and camphor, and gradually she comprehended what had happened, and her own condition—not dangerously injured, but bruised and lamed, with a sprained ankle that would keep her a prisoner for some days at least. It was a sudden pause in her busy work—an enforced rest. She scarcely knew how to bear it for a moment, as she remembered all she had planned to do, until a second shuddering thought suggested that she might have left it all forever; then she grew patient and thankful. Yet it seemed strange to be quietly lying on the Jounge in the boat room, the room that had been kept so carefully clpsed to preserve its furniture until an addition to the house should transmute it into a back parlor; to waioh through the open door only a spectator, while Nealie flitted to and fro in the kitchen beyond, spreading the table for tea. How good the children were that evening, and how thoughtful her hus-

band was, coming to her side again and again to talk dr food to hrtTWHff not found much time for talking or reading together these late years, she and David; she bad always been so busy when he was in the house. She had dreamed of a leisure time coming, though, when they should have many evenings liko this, except the illness or accident coming to mar her plans, or of death suddenly ending them. But it flashed upon her now how many loving words and offices and daily enjoyments had been crowded out of their home and in that brief retrospective glance she understood the meaning and the earnestness of Sister Searls’ entreaty. “ Why its all kind of real nice and e— if you wasn’t hurt,” declared my, unable to express his enjoyment of the pretty room, and the unusual family gathering any more clearly. Tears gathered in the mother’s eyes, but she had found her clue and meant to follow it. She had ample time for thought in the days that followed, when she was only able to sew a little, now and then, on garments for Tim, or look over seeds for Nealie’s vine-plant-ing; and slowly but surely she learned her lesson, and brought it back to health with.her —to gather life’s pleasantness as God sends his sunshine—day by day. — Kate W. Hamilton, in Interior.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—The bite of a black spider caused the death of a Norristown (Pa.) child, two years old, a few days ago. —The sun caused a false alarm at New York, the other day, an automatic telegraph wire running under a skylight being so heated that the thurmstadt was affected as if by fire. —Evidently organ-grinders have no rights whatever in this country. One of them found it necessary, at Pottstown, Pa., the other day, to compel a woman to pay for the music she had listened to by pointing a pi&tol at her head. —A young Sacramento lady a year ago commenced using arsenic for her complexion and bleaching her hair. After a few months she began to complain of terrible headaches, and has finally been sent to Stockton a hopeless lunatic. —A boy named Crowley, an inmate of the New York Juvenile Asylum, dreamed the other night that he was struck by lightning and killed. He related the story at the breakfast table next morning. In less than an hour after, while playing ball, he was struck by the bat ams killed instantly. —Miss Lida Hutton, sitting on a porch at her home at Avondale, Ohio, on the 4th, suddenly fell dead, as was at first supposed, from apoplexy, Igit an examination of her body disclosed the fact that a bullet had entered her breast and passed out at her back, kill, ing her instantly. It was not* known where the shot came from. —The Conneotieutese are well known to be an ingenious and economical people. Unfinished houses are by law exempt from taxation—a circumstanc# of which a resident of Cos Cob has availed himself to leave up the scaffolding rodhd his house and a window unfinished. In this condition he has occupied it for years, defying the baffled Tax-Collector. —Samuel. Craig, a ship rigger, by the aid of ropes looped and knotted, climbed to the apex pf the Bunker Hill Monument on the 4th, and placed a small American flag on the lightning rod. This feat was accomplished some years ago by Joseph Till, who was aided, however, by a platform, while Craig simply depended on the lightning rod and a few ropes. —The Scranton (Pa.) Republican of a recent date, says: “Recently there was quite a rivalry among the dealers in milk, and the result is a great reduction in prices. Five cents a quart seemed the standard figure, but even this was beaten-by a dealer who started selling it for four cents, and established a regular route. He secured a brisk business, and among his customers was Mr. Fritz, the harness-maker, who bought a dollars’ -worth of tickets, A day or two after there was a commotion in the household. A lizard was seen swimming about in themilk-pitch-or. The thought thaf somebody might have swallowed the reptile, which measured about an inch and a half in length, made the matter all the more exciting, and the milkman was speedily advised of the circumstance. He explained the presence of the reptile? by the fact that he kept his milk-cans near the spring for cleanliness, and the lizard went in to get a drink of pure four-cent milk.

A California Mining Story.

Not many miles from Shasta City is the gulch of which the following mining story is told. It is a pretty deep ravine, with rocks shfewing all the way up the sides. Gold in paying quantities had been found along the stream, but it seemed to disappear a few feet from the channel. One day, whilst a gang of busy men were toiling in the stream, a stranger, evidently green at mining, came along and leaned on ragged elbows to watdi, with protruding eyes, the result of their toil. The miner nearest him took out a five-dollar nugget, and anxiety overcame the greenhorn. “ S-a-a-y,” he asked, “where can I go to diggin’ to find it like that?” The hardy miner stopped his work, and giving the wink to all the boys, so that the joke should not be lost, pointed up on the barren rocks where no gold had ever been found. “ Ye see that rough lookin’ place?” “ Yes, yes," said the new hand. “Well, that it is rich. Jes ye stake out a claim, an go ter work, an when we finish here we’ll come up, too.” Then the new hand thanked the honest miner; and the boys all grinned appreciation of the joke. That afternoon they was a solitary figure picking away on the slope, and every time the miners looked up they roared with laughter. But about the next day the greenhorn struck a pocket, and took out something like SBO,OOO in a few minutes. Then, Innocent to the last, he treated all around, and thanked the miner who sent him jro there, and took his money and went down into the valley and bought him a farm. Then the unhappy miners arose, leaving their old claims end dotted that hillside for days. But there were no more pockets anywhere. The whole thing reads just like a traditional fairy story. But then I saw the gulch- Much more unbelievable things have happened tn the mines.—Ban Francisco Bulletin. - A PVNBTRR challenged a sick man’s vote at a city election on the ground' that he was an ill legal voter. ■ Ths annoyance occasioned by the continual crying of the baby, at once ceases when the cause is (as it should be) promptly removed by using Dr- Bull’s Baby Syrup. Trice, 25 cent* pv bottle.

HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

—Vaal Broth. —Stew a small knuckle in about three quarts of .water, two ounces of a little salLand a blade of mace, tin tne liquor is half wasted away. —Cosmetics. —ls ladies would oat meat but once a day, pickles but once a month and sweetmeats never; if they would bathe freely in cold water, and live as much as possible in the open air, they would not require any otnor cosmetics. —Rice Waffles.—To one cupful and a half of boiled rice add two cupfuls of flour; mix it with milk. The batter must be rather thicker than pancake batter. Add a little salt; then beat twp eggs very light, and stir them in the last thing, giving it a good beating. Bako in waffle-irons. —Fried-Lettuce. —Chop lettuce very fine, and, if liked, the tops of two or three young onions. Add two wellbeaten eggs and a little salt, put a piece of butter the size of an egg into a fry-ing-pan, and when melted pour in the mixture. Turn when of a light brown and serve with or without vinegar. —Lemon-Syrup.—Squeeze the lemons; strain the juice carefully lest any pulp should remain; to one pint of juice add two pounds of sugar; set it away till completely dissolved, stirring it occasionally; then bottle it. One or two teaspooniuls of this syrup stirred into a glass of water will make delightful lemonade. —The Philadelphia Farm Journal goes for a man who cuts firewood in Harvest time, but advises the good wife to stick to cobs, chips, old broom handles, buckets, etc., until the last sheaf of oats is in the barn. Come “West, young man,” where coal is mined from under a soil whose surface, tickled with a hoe, laughs with golden crops. If not, cut your fuel when the snow flies. —Prairie Farmer. —The following is a good recipe for making poor man's pudding: One cup of water, one cup of molasses, one teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of soda; stir stiff and steam three hours. The sauce for it is: three-fourths of a cup of butter, one cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of flour. After it has cooked a little, stir in four well-beaten eggs and a tablespoonful of vanilla; or, prepare a vinegar sauce.— N. Y. Times. —lt is a fact first observed and made known by an English farmer and agricultural writer, Mr. John Hannam — recently deceased —and widely confirmed by many experiments during several years past, that the later stages of the ripening process diminish the proportion of flour arid nutritive value of the wheat. The time to secure the best grain is when the kernel is still soft enough to be crushed, but is comparatively free from moisture, and breaks into meal between the thumb-nails.— American Agriculturist. —Mr. Mechi, that accomplished farmer, says in a letter to the Gazette, a quarterly journal edited by the students at "the Agricultural College, Cirencester, Eng.: “Many a worthy and even wealthy English farmer, now advanced in years, laments Hie want of that education and enlightenment which was not available to him in his early days. Education cannot give brains, but it can cultivate and improve them; and even the barren mental fields gain by cultivation. Ignorance in agriculture is not bliss, it is unprofitable."

Selection of Wheat for Seed.

.There is a reason why the production of grain in the Western States has not reached the perfection which attended the growing of stock. The farmers have not considered the importance of good parentage, nor have they given any attention to the matter of selecting commensurate with the importance of bur grain crops. This season there will be an immense yield of wheat. The price will be very low, and to the farmer who gets but fifteen bushels per acre, there will be scarcely any profit, and even his labor will be poorly paid for. On the other hand the man who secures thirty bushels per acre will have the margin of whatever this extra fifteen bushels will bring him, less the extra cost of handling, which will be very slight. This extra yield is worth more to a farmer in wheat than in root or potato crops, because the expense attending the gathering and marketing is a very slight addition on account of the increased yield, and be the price ever so low the extra yield is nearlv clear gain. • This margin, to be sure, depends largely upon character of soil and quality of tillage, but a very important element is often lost sight of, and that is the pedigree of the seed. The man who would consider another demented to put a valuable cow in a herd containing a scrub bull, even if there be in the herd never so good bulls of her own kind, because of th* losing chance, accomplishes this sjme piece of folly each year with his wheat crop. He takes the rye and cockle out of his seed, to be sure, but leaves the kernels produced from roots bearing one stalk and a short head with these from roots bearing fifty stalks and long heads. . It is a well-estafclished fact that a single jheadof wheat away from all others does not fill well—in other words, a crop is produced in a field of wheat largely by cross fertilization. The importance. then, of having seeds from stalks well fertilized—that is, fertilized by the male element of good heads from good roots—becomes an important matter. This <j*n not be consolidated in wheat as perfectly as in cattle and horses, but it can be so far managed as to create a tendency toward better seed with each generation, and tow is the time to begin. Select first from the largest stool, because the chances are that, with a good many heads together, the fertilization was from the same plant, and as the plant itself is a good one, in choosing from it the promise is'for a good resultant, By going through a wheatfield, in a little while one can secure the cream of the field, which, if planted by itself another year, and perhaps the short heads and poor roots taken out, will certainly give a quantity of seed that will increase very materially the produce of an acre. Every farmer cannot go at work upon crossing wheat artificially, with success. This requires peculiar knowledge and skill; but not one but can, by using his best judgment in selecting, increase the value, in three years, of his crop, by 25 and perhaps 50 percent. This is no theoretical estimate; it has been tested and found to work. We wish also to suggest in this connection, that in preparing for a grain-, show at the State and county fairs, let a good bundle of the grain be shown, not a single handful oCa dozeh heads, but a generous bunch; showing head and stalk, in connection with the cleaned grain- Thia ia a good work

for the boys; perhaps by so doing the attention*of otwers may tee'drawn to this matter of selection, and thus a good idfiuenoe got out from this simple work. Fairs are for the education of the people in all matters that promise to increase production aijd benefit the farmer. Here is a chance to drive a wedge.— Detroit Free Press.

Vexation of Different Weights.

A writer in the New England Journal of Education argues in favor of the adoption of the metric system by showing the confusion introduced in weights by the statutes of different States. He Says: People living near the boundaries of a State are constantly in trouble because of these extra laws on weights and measures. A few illustrations will suffice: Twenty-four pounds of dried apples are a bushel in Illinois, twenty-five in Indiana, twenty-eight in Michigan. Of barley—forty-six in lowa, forty-eight in Indiana. Buckwheat—fifty-two in Illinois, forty in Wisconsin, forty-J.wo in Michigan and fifty in Indiana. Broom-corn seed—forty-six in Indiana, and thirty in Ohio. Corn meal—forty-eight in Wisconsin, and fifty in Michigan. Dried peaches—twenty-three in lowa, twen-ty-eight in Wisconsin, and thirty-three in Indiana; while of dried peaches pared—forty pounds in Illinois, thirtythree in lowa, twenty-eight In Wisconsin, and thirty-six in Ohio make a bushel. Blue-grass seed—fourteen in Wisconsin, aneften in Ohio; but of clover-grass seed, sixty in Indiana and sixty-two in Ohio; , while of Hungarian grass-seed—-forty-eight in Indiana and fifty in Ohio; and of millet grass seeds—forty-five in lowa and fifty in Ohio. And the end is-not yet, for of hemp seed fofty-four pounds in Indiana and forty-two in Ohio make a bushel. Thir-ty-six pounds of malt barley in lowa, thirty-eight in Indiana and thirty-four in Onioy while of malt rye, thirty-five pounds in Illinois, thirty-four in Ohio, are a bushel. Mineral coal—forty in Illinois and seventy in Indiana. Oats—thirty-three in lowa, thirty-two in Indiana, thirtyfive in Maine and thirty in Ohio. Onions —fifty-seven in Indiana and fifty-six in Ohio; but of onion tops —twenty-eight in Indiana and twenty-five in Ohio. Sweet potatoes —fifty-four in Wisconsin, fifty in Maine, fifty-five in Ohio. Fine salt—fifty-five in Illinois, fifty-six in Indiana, fifty in Ohio. Turnips—-fifty-five in Indiana, fifty-six in Ohio. So many inconsistencies in the one matter of bushels in three or four adjoining States. A bushel of coal weighs forty pounds bn the Illinois side of the linei but hand it across that line, and it is only 40-70 of a bushel.

The “Unsuspecting” Farmer.

Every day brings us new developments in the swindle business. The “ tricks ” devised to entrap the unwary farmer are both numerous and ingenious. A correspondent tells us that two “nice-looking ” fellows, in a “ nicelooking carriage,” stopped for dinner at the house of an intelligent farmer of his acquaintance, not long since. They made themselves “ agreeable ” during the dinner hour, and succeeded in convincing “ mine host” that they were men of importance engaged in the laudable work of writing up the agricultural resources of the country for a well known metropolitan paper. After dinner they sat on the front porch and quizzed the farmer as to the resources of the district, average yield of crops, etc., etc. The time for departure arriving; they asked how much the bill was. “ Nothing! ”O, they couldn’t listen to that! They were well paid by the proprietors of the aforesaid journal, and could afford to pay their way. They couldn’t think of “ sponging.” They always “ paid fifty cents apiece for dinner and the same for horse feed, making a dollar and a half; hadn’t anything less than a ten-dollar bill,’, which they tendered to the farmer’ insisting that he must take the dollar and a half out of it and give them the change. This was accordingly done, an appeal to the wife’s butter money being necessary, however, before the change could be made. By this time the horse and carriage were at the front gate, and with many kind expressions on both sides, the two young men drove off, leaviug behind them a character for intelligence and generosity, which, had it extended over a Congressional district, would have been all that was necessary to secure them seats in Congress. A few days later the farmer went to town to pay his June taxes, when he found to his unbounded surprise that the bill was a notorious counterfeit, and that the same ten-dollar bills had been “ shoved off ” on no less than three other men in the county. The farmer returned home a wiser but humbler man, and now no inducements are powerful enough to make him entertain travelers, no matter how “ gentlemanly ” they may appear. —Practical Farmer.

The irregular paper which S. Angier Chace, the Fall River defaulter, negotiated during the last four years, amounted to about $3,000,000, more than $700,000 of which was discounted at New Yoffc, and more than sl,000,000 by one Boston .banking firm. He carried in all, after he got fairly started in his stealing, about $600,000 of this Illegal paper. His notes of five, ten, fifteen and twenty thousand dollars were maturing almost every day in the'year, and to meet the notes that were payable in Boston he would extend his discounts in New York, and vice versa. A politician gave this advice to his son-in-law, who was nominated for office: “Lean a little toward everything, and commit yourself to nothing. Be round, be perfectly round, like a bottle, and just dark enough so that nobody can see what’s in ye.”

Factory Facts.

Cloae confinement, careful attention to all factory work, give* the operative* palid face*, poor appetite, languid, miaerable feeling*, poor blood, inactive liver, kidney* and urinary trouble*, and all tbe physician* and medicine in the world cannot help them.unle** they get out-door* er use dance of heatth? sunshine and rosy cheeks in them- None need suffer if they will use them freely. Tbev ooct bat a tiift*. Bee another column. Dr. Wilhoft’b Anti-Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic!—WHhoft’e Tonic has eetabliehed itself •• the real infallible Chill cure. It is universally admitted to be the only reliable and harmleat Chill mediciue nuw Ip use. Its efficacy i» confirmed by thousand* of certificate* of the very best people from all parte of the country. It cure* malartbus diseases of every type, from tl)e shaking agues of the lake* and valleys, to the raging fever* of the torrid zone, Try It I It has never been known to fail. Wheelock, Finlay & Co., Proprieterrij New Orleans. For a alb ry all Dru quistsParticulars regarding Electric Belta free. Address Pulvarmaoier GMV»nto Co- iClbclii. ,0.

Delicious Ooofcory. bread, and elegant cake, crullers, waffle*, doughnut*, muffin*, ' and griddle cakes or every kind, are always possible to every table by using Dooley's yeast Powdeb. Swiss Aoue Cube will cure when all other remedies have failed in chronic cases. TaturTs KmedTX hg T«tMA^iooo > KIDNEY COMPLAINTS. „ „„ „ Ciacsmfan. Omo, Mareh 17.1577. Mr. H. IL STanm: Dear Sir—l have been a great «uffmw from Kimura COMPLAINT, and after the use of a few bottle* of VEGETINE I and myiwlt entirely cured. I gained IS pound* In flesh while taking the VBOETINE. I will cheerfully recommend It Yours truly, W. T. ARCHER. No. 880 West Sixth etreet. Veaetlnw la Soin by Druggi***. * BIM There is no cure for UH fl m W Hrtlht’e Dtsesee of the Kidney* m ah i _ IIIXT'SHSMSDYraw Vllgnilf those dbeanee. General DeMlMIMI W ttr. mabetro, Pain. In the Hack, nIIM HL or slrt " nrojiey, Gravel. ■ 11111 VW Dlwlnatton and *ll IffiieaiKvi oF Urinarv Organ* are cured by Family Phyalclana prescribe HITNT’tt RI»DY. Send for pamphlet to WM. X. CLARKE. Providence, B. L ANn-HT The CINEAT REMEDY for ooßpmiH bbtoel ALLAN’S ANTI-FAT I* purely vegetable and perfectly harmless. It sets upon the food In the stomach, preventing it* being converted Into fit. Taken In accordance with directions, It wIU reduce a ftrt persaw from two to Ove ynasn/ia pW WfoCk* “ Corpulence 1* not only a disease Itself, but the harbinger of others.” So wrote Hippocrates two thousand years ago, and what was true then Is none the less so to-day. Bold by druggists, or sent, by express, upon reaalptofauo. Quarter-dozen SLOO. Address, BOTANIC MBOICINI CO.* .Proprietor*, Bwjtolo, Jf. » If you are a man of business, weakened by the strain at your duties, avoid stimulants and take HOP BITTERS. If you are a man of letters, tolling over your midnight work, to restore brain and nerve wait*, take HOP BITTERS. If you are young, and suffering from any indiscretion or dissipation, take HOP BITTERS. If you are married or single, old or young, suffering from poor health, or languishing on a bed HOP BITTERS. Whoever you are, wherever you are, whenever you feel that your system needs cleansing, toning or stimulating, without InioxtcaUnp, take HOP BITTERS. Have you dyepepeia, kidney or urinary complaint, dis. ease of the rtomack, bowels, blood, liner, or nerneor You will be cured If you take HOP BITTERS. U you are simply suing, are weak and low-spirited, try It! Buy IL Insist upon It. Your druggist keeps It HOP BITTERS. It may save yowr life. Itkaaresved hundred*. Hap Bittar* MPg Co., Boehreter, Y. f Brain Exhaustion. tStSjT-Ol.C'll'i! tridr'-Ktit;: '.J ; Worth, last twelve months I have tested yellows’ Hypophosphites, and I And that In Incipient Consumption, and other disease* of the Throat and Lungs, for Dlntberlc prostration and Cough following Typhoid Fever, pre valent hero. It u the best remedial agent I have ever used. But for exhaustion of the powers of the brain and nervous system, from long-con. Unued study or teaching, or In these cases of exhaustion from which so many young men suffer, I know of no better medicine. EDW IN CLAY, M. D. Pugwash, N. a, January 14. Testimonial to Mr. Fellow*. We, the undersigned, clergymen of the Methodist Church In Nova Scotia, having used the preparation known as Fellows’ Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites, prepared by Mr. James I. Fellows, Chemist, St John, N. R, or having known cases wherein its effects were beneficial. believe it to be a reliable remedy for the diseases for which it is recommended. James G. Hennigar, Pres, of Conference : John Murray, ex-Pres. of Conference; Richard _ W. Weddall. Alex. W. Nicholson, etc-.etc. IJ WJ ILY "fikiUE KILLSaII the -so FLIES to » room iaTWO-JMkjpQffifo jb w a* hours. 1 /wrr'A ioc. worth ft AVA fifai wiii km rjaui tnorc flies than |io worth of Fly Paper. iTL ’ No dirt, gff j 4, so trouble. EL-i-JK jisj Sold br J.SaHE ; V Evsav- *■ if VHKBB, BoUalcktemdaa co.,Batttl^N.T Graefenberg Vegetable PILLS Baw* boon ackaowledged for ovor Thirty Tear* to bo a certain caro for HEADAOHS, UVSK COMPLAINTS, mHMBBS OP DL rBVEES&rSu^UNDS 5, ThS PILLS aWiMWoat miUnera. and win roatoro hoam ta tbo*o anfonring 1 from GBNBBAL DBBIUTY and NSHVOVSNSSS- Prteo 35c yer Box. Send for Almanac. GraefenbergCo.s6 Reade St. N.Y *•*,000 scree take* 1* fcer nswUre by 01>,000 peepl*. OroU ctiiMic. son, WSMT, and b»HMn< «nt. n. ctety- ASSreu. ». J. till more, Land Cem’r, Salina, Hums. - TMia MW TRUSS NLySUSMF XOGLEBTON TBUBB CO.. CHICAQO OX. ——7 h.’-- W aS kMi of Hu, PWfiFWA»IUNT«I> ALL MIBB' PiLBBp bicoM One to MU Ik>TTI*IS aul Cabeo WiZiSm - If sZXsaIXil * w. &»kU

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