Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1878 — Page 3

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JOHN, JUN.

John Basil Ximines, Greek merchant, 'of Mincing Lane, London, was in trouble. Not financial trouble, for the old house stood on a firm foundation; and no one knew this better than Sam Postlethwaite, confidential bookkeeper of the firm, and the trusted friend of the Greek merchant. Therefore, when he saw John Basil in so anxious a mood, he resolved to know and to share his annoyance. “Master,” he said, “you’re in trouble. What is it?” “John, Jun.,” was the prompt reply. “ He takes no interest in the business, and if he comes to the office, grumbles and blunders till we are glad to see him leave things. You know it is so, Sam.” “John, Jun.,wants'an object to work for, sir. If he thought the firm was in trouble now, he would be full of energy and interest. No doubt of it, sir.” “ He has lost interest in everything; hunting, yachting, shooting, travel, everything is a bore.” “Any ladyinthe easeP” “There is a governess at Sir Thomas Oakes’l don’t like—a tall girl with red hair, and a wonderful figure and color.” Why don’t you like herP” “She is poor; beside, John is to marry Leanora Zeiton. I bought the estate with that view. The two united will make the finest in Middlesex. You can put them together in a ring-fence.” “ If you have told John, Jun., this, he will never marry her.” “ I have said nothing to John yet. Zeiton and I have talked over the matter, but tho girl Leanora is yet at school.”

“The two men sat thoughtfully a few minutes, and then Sam Postlethwaite made an astounding proposal. “John Basil,” he said, decidedly, “if you wish to make a man of your son, give up the business to him awhile. You so to Zante for a year or two, and let im feel his feet. Put him in your place. I will see no harm comes either to him or the business. Drop a few hard words about Zeiton before you go; it may help your plans for Leanora.” And naif an hour’s further conversation made the old clerk’s plans clear to the father. That night he said to his son, “John, there are serious changes in hand. I must go to Zante, and the business in Mincing Lane will need your severest attention and industry. It is a great charge for a young man, but Sam says I may trustjou.” John rose at once to the occasion: “To be sure you may trust me, father. If the old house of Ximines is in danger, I will work for it night and day.” “John, thank you. You make me very happy and-hopeful. If We tidethings over this year, we may not only keep our standing, but also add greatly to our influence. And, John, don’t let this placo run down. I don’t want Zeiton to get the better of me in this matter; but don’t have anything to do with them —nothing whatever.” John readily promised. The next day his father left for Greece, and he went at once to the front in the daily fighti n Mincing Lane. He was a man suret o fail and weary in small routines, but n whom great trusts developed great resources and untiring energy; and Sara made him believe that the very existence of the house of Ximines depended upon his personal oversight and influence. It was about a year after his father’s departure for Zante that Sam said, one warm evening in June, “Mr. John, you had better run down to the country and see after the place. A change will do you good, and now that you have got the better of Zeiton about those olives, there is nothing pressing for a week.”

So John wentto the country, resolved to lie and dream under the blossoming lilacs, and throw all care away. He was fully carrying out this intention one warm, sunny afternoon, when he heard a little stir of oonversation, and the rippling music of girlish laughter. This side of the garden adjoined a little wooded park, through which ran a rapid brook famous for its excellent trout fishing. As it was strictly private ground, he wondered who were the trespassers, and quietly moved aside the foliage to look. The picture that met his view was a very pretty one. Upon a rocky elevation, shaded by a drooping birch, stood a beautiful girl, with a fishing-rod in her hand, and at her feet reclined the splendid-haired woman whom he had known as governess to the daughters of Sir Thomas Oakes. She was reading, while her charge whipped the babbling waters with a grace and skill John, Jun., had never seen equalled. John looked and wondered and admired. He knew the governess, and had one? been half in love with her beauty, but now he thought her hardly wqrth looking at in comparison witn her companion. Who could she be? His recent contact with life had taught him to be prompt and self-reliant, and he soon decided that it would be a very agreeable thing for him to join the ladles upon the rocks. There WM a little wicket further down. He opened it and at once faced thd intruders. There was no retreat for them, even if they had wished bile, butthe-gareroesa was gladto: seedier old admirer. She same to him with outstretched hands, and the little maiden with the fishing-rod stood in beautiful and blushing confusion. Then he heard her name—Leonora Zeiton—and for a moment his father’s charge Hashed across his mind; but in the next he had looked in Leonora’s face and forgotten it. r

bueh «charmed afternoon as that was! John prolonged it by every possible device. He induced the ladies to come into the garden and eat strawberries; then they rambled through the' greenhouses, and got lost in the hazel maze, and forgot the hours were flying, till the governess, in alarm, pointed to her watch, and said there was barely time to reach home before the dinnerbell rung.' Without any definite arrangement, these pleasant meetings occurred every day for a week. John was so deeply in love by this timo that he put Mincing Lade out of his thoughts altogether. He did not write to Sam, and he hoped that Sam would not write to hlriiV at least for a month. But one morning, just eight days after he had met Leanora, there came that disagreeable large blue letter. Sam said s‘ ha ttiust come to Londou at once; everything was needing him; there was an important consignment from Greece, and some Custom-House business which

could not bo managed without his per-1 gonal influence.” This summons, in spite of his disapCtrnent, flattered him very much. let Leattora's governess read it, for John knew that she would talk about It, and he was quite aware that women admire men who carry great trusts, and are at importance in the world. And the governess, in return for the compliment, was very kind that last afternoon to the lovers, so that they found plenty of opportunities to say to each other those few sweet monosyllables that mean so much. In fact, they parted as plighted lovers, and John went back to London with a new sense of Ms own Importance, and a very happy man. Bara looked at kirn quoerly. “The •ountry has done you a deal of good, Mr. John,” he said. “ Yea, Sam; I think I shall run down every Saturday. I found the gardens rather out of order. I can come back Monday.” “Yes, you con,”, answered Sam, doubtfully. The justice of Sam’s “ can” was soon proved. John went to the country very punctually Saturday mornings, but Sam had generally to write an urfent letter Monday or Tuesday to get im back to business again, and at the end of the summer he thought it well to notice this. “ I should think, Mr. John, the gardens are in order now, and I don’t see that you can be spared every week now. Business is very brisk again.” “Sam, I’ll work till midnight if yon wish, but I must go to the country Saturday.” “Then, Mr. John, it is not flowers that is taidng you.” “ Well, Sam, it is not. It is the loveliest little lady in the world—Leanora. Zeiton.” "Mr. John! What ever will your father say P And Old Zeiton! You know how ugly he was about that cargo of currants.”

Next Saturday John went to the country, but he did not see Leonora. Her father had discovered her engagement, and had threatened to send her to a German convent. The governess was full of grief, and could not conceive how Mr. Zeiton had found all out. John remembered Sam—but that was impossible : Sam and Old Zeiton hardly spoke civilly to each other; besides, Sam had professed so much sympathy with Leanora and him. It could not be Sam. But he went back sorrowfully to London, and told Sam that Leanora was to be sent away from him. “ I should not stand it, Mr. John,” said the old clerk; “ I should ask her to many me, and take her away myself.” “But you say the business can’t afford me more than £BOO a year, Sam?” “And if you love each other, and can’t live on £BOO a year, you don’t deserve to live at all. Take a little house in a quiet neighborhood, and ask her to come and share it with you.” Sam’s advice just pleased the eager lover. He was for taking it at once, and Sam did not oppose him, though John might have wondered if he had seen the - face that followed his footsteps. “ The lesson is pretty nearly learned,” he muttered, “It takes an old bachelor like me to bring up a young man properly,” and the good fellow dipped his pen in his ink with a selfsatisfied chuckle. John returned in high spirits. Leanora was an angel, she was willing to be his wife, no matter how humbly they must begin. She was coming to London next day on a visit to her aunt, and would meet him in St Pancras Church next Saturday morning. He would have a special license by that time, and Sam could be witness. Sam said of course he could. But Sam had no idea of doing such a thing. He put on his hat soon after aud went to Alexander Zeiton’s office. The two men did not meet like those who have a chronic quarrel about consignments, but like old friends. They clasped hands, and went together into an inner room, from which soon came sounds of pleasant good-fellowship. Then Sam telegraphed to John Basil Ximines, in Zante, thus: “Send for John, Jun., immediately After this piece of business, Sam was very busy all day, and kept John by -his side. They were eating a late dinner together, When a telegram was brought to Sam, which he quietly passed over to John: “Very important. Mr. John Ximines, Jmi., wanted in Zante at once."

“What am Ito do about Leanora, Sam? What am Ito doP” •< Write to her, and go to Zante at once; there is nothing else to be done.” Sam’s face was so impassive John saw resistance was useless; and indeed Sam was so urgent that be found himself by midnight on the way to Greece. V Very important” his journey might be to the house of Ximines, but very miserable for himself John felt it. Indeed, he was so evidently wretched that his father hurried back to London with bis son as soon as possible. But when they arrived John found that the Zeitons were in France, and would not return till Christmas. There was nothing to do but wait and hope, and he was encouraged by the fact that the houses of Zeiton and Ximines had lately had very large transactions together. Sam drew his attention first to this circumstance, and advised John, Jun., to make a confidant of his father, who oould then ask the old Greek its regular form for the hand of his daughter. This was three days before Christmas, and the letter was sent upon the 28d of December. Before the Ximineses could receive any answer to it, a letter from Zeiton, also dated on the 28<i, came to John “Our lands join, our business is intimately connected; why should not our families be happy together? Come and spend Christmas at Zeiton Hall." The concession, therefore, was as mutual as if it had been so arranged, aud Sam talkeij a great deal about this wonderful unanimity of feeling. But John, Juu., was too happy to have any suspicions, and this happy Christmas visit was only the prelude to that grand wedding which took place three months afterward in St. George’s famous Church, and when the handsome AngloGreek bride and bridegroom wero the theme of every tongue. “ A very suitable wedding, indeed,” said the magnates of Mincing Lane—- “ unites two fine estates ana two old firms.” “ A very handsome, loving couple,” said John Basil to Sam; “ and it is yout doing, old friend.” “ Yes,” said Sam, cheerily, “it is my doing. I have made a good merchant and a good match.”—harper’s Weekly, . ... \ No child can sleep soundly while suffering wJUi Gallo or from Teething. Remove the cause hy, using Dr. Bull's Raby Byrui>. Only 25 cents a bottle. . The right to be nonestr and decent is never taken away from a man..

* AT LAST. Yet gxantod unto thoae whuee lives were lowly, Whuee faith *u Infinite. He had hie vUione, fall of life and meetnen, That opnud like a flower in bia eoul. And piuie him hope lor splendor and completenon « When he attained tho coal. He it retched hie hand to ploek a dainty blotwom That might a wealth of happioy uncart. The thorn pierced through Inn heart. Still young and hopeful, e'en though fate waa He lirmlv walked acroes the deaert land, Joy eparkUng in hie eye* at one bright Jewel That glitteiwain hi* hand. Lo! at hie touch, the gem, erewhile unfolding A wealth of life and oolor. gloomed away In swift eclipse, and left the pilgrim holding A worthless hit of day. “Binoe Love and Joy," he said (poor, patient mortal I) "To me the Mossed ness of bliss deny, I can but wait, and hope to reach the portal Where Peace dwells, by and by P’ j He joumeyod on until the day's declining Brought him at last the pearly gates anesr. And on bis taoe waa seen the glory shining From a celestial sphere. The goal is reached! The door of Heaven uncloses; Karth’s fetter* loosen at each struggling breath; And soon the homesick, lonely one reposes In the embrace of Death. From all the disappointments and denials That were his bitter portion in the past. From all life's cares, anxieties and trials. He baa found nest at last! Weep not that mortal has become immortal; flrlove not that ended is tne unequal strife; Morn shineth only through night's gloomy portal; Death is the gate of Life! —Jotephine Pollard , in N. T. Obteretr.

The Premium Woman.

Sunday afternoon, while three or four hundred sight-seers were loafing around the entrance to the State Fair Grounds, a lonesome-looking covered wagon, drawn by a faded old horse and driven by a woman, hove in view on the Holden road. It was plain enough that some family was on the move, and it was soon ascertained that the family consisted of only a woman and two children. The wagon stopped as it reached the crowd, and, bending forward to look on every side, the woman briefly inquired: 1 HZH “ Bin a fout here?*’ A boy answered her that the State h air was about to open, and she called to the children under the cover: “ Sam, you wake up, and Mary, you you wake up, for here’s the biggest crowd of folks you ever seen!” No one in that crowd had ever seen such a homely woman. She was crosseyed, teeth out, nose awry and mouth big enough for two. A man in the crowd stepped forward, after a long look at her face, and said: “ Madam, we are offering a premium here for the homeliest woman in America. Do you wish to enter for it?"_ “ How mnch is itP” she asked. “ Two dollars.” “ And how much’ll I have to pay?” “ Nothing.” “I’min America now, ain’t'lP” “Yes.” “ Then sot me down as the woman who’s going to win that two dollars or die! Here, Sam, you hold this hosa while I git down whar’ the jedges kin have a fair look at me!” She got down. The crowd roared and threw up a hundred hats, but she drew herself up and solemnly remarked: “When they, offer a prize on the homeliest woman in America I’m going up to, the head of the class like a fourl«is9 team! Whar’s the jedges?” “Madam,” said the man who had previously addressed her, “you are entitled to the prize. I believe you are the homeliest human being I ever saw. I don’t think you’d look anv the worse if you had one eye out ana was baldheaded.” “ Hand over the chink,” she said, holding out her hand. He placed a two-dollar bill on her palm, and said: “ Champion homely woman of America, accept this premium!” “ You bet I will!” was her healthy reply, and in five minutes she had four or five dollars in change tossed at her. When the shower ceased she made one step from the ground to a seat on the wagon, shook up the old horse, bowed right and left, and said: “Now, Sam, you git baek thar’, and Mary, you git hack thar’, and we’ll drive along to the fust vacant lot and so into camp; fur if I kin take a prize ere before the Fair opens, what kin we hope fur when the performance gits under full 'blastf’— Detroit Free Press.

A Woman With New Shoes.

When a woman has a new pair of shoes bent home she performs altogether different from a man. She never shoves her toes into them and yanks and hauls until she is red in the face and all out of breath and then goes stamping around, but pulls them on part way carefully, twitches them off again to take a last look and see if she has got the right one, pulls them on again, looks at them dreamily, says they are just right, then takes another look, stops suddenly to'sffrooth out a wrinkle, twists around and surveys them sideways, exclaims “Mercy, how loose they are,” looks at them again square in front, works her foot around so they won’t hurt her quite so much, takes them off, looks at the heel, the toe, the bottom and the inside, puts them on again, walks up and down the room once or twice,- remarks to her better half that she won’t have them at any price, tilts down the mirror so that she can see how they look, turns in every possible direction and nearly dislocates her beck trying to see how they look from that way, backs off, steps up again, takes thirty or forty farewell ' hat tost laoh. awful big and never will do in the world, puts them off and on three or four times more, asks her husband what he thinks about it, and then pays no attention to what he says, goes through it all again, and finally says she will take them. It’s a very simple matter, indeed. —Albany (N. Y.) Argus. —fe these day the tty isdessagile, but more persistent. We do not consider the change an improvement—from the bald-headed point of view.— New Haven Register. “How -sleep the brave?” inquires the Chicago Tribune. Nicely, thank you, except when it is oppressively warm; then we lie awake half the night.— Rockland (N. F.) Courier. ~ Mi »—’ 'l' ‘ • There’s son shine for you,” said he, as he saw a dutiful boy polishing his father’s boots. —Syracuse Sunday nmes.

It Is Worth a Trial.

“J wss troubled for many rears with Kidney Complaint, Gravel, etc-; my blood beesme thin; Iwss dull and Inactive; could hardly craw! about, and was ap old worn-out man all over, and could get nothing to help me until I -safe IJep.Biiteia, aednow I am a boy again. My blood aud kidneyi are pll right, and I am as active as a man of thirty, although 1 am ’• seventy-two, aud I have no doubt It will do at well for others of my asm. It Is worths trial." —Father. -- r ♦ •

AGRICULTURAL BREVITIES.

, —Mr.’ Clatkson, the venerablo editor of the Agricultural Department of thb lowa Stale Register, furnishes that paper the following bits of agricultural wisdom: T. ■ If a farmer has a little farm, well tilled and well stookpd, and is out of debt, no matter how It p*ay storm financially, or rain literally, he can, like Noah, sail on serenely. Green corn and new oats aie good for pigs, provided they are fed with »ment. At first, use but little com plenty of judgment; afterward, use more corn and less judgment. We make this bold declaration: The crops on our farms could be doubled, and double the money could be made from our stock, if a wiser system of breeding, feeding and caring for stock were aaopted. Farming is a science and an art which has to be learned. A large majority of the farmers iq the United States have had no agricultural teachers but their fathers, who taught them many errors. And thev generally stick to the errors of their fathers with great stubbornness. After your crop has been raised, it will be wisdom to raise any mortK which may be resting upon the . This will raise a heavy load from your mind and raise your courage and spirits beyond measure. Do not curry favor with tho rich or great. If }ou must do something of the kind, ust curry your cattle and horses. This will do them good, and benefit you also. Prof. Budd gives this advice as to currants: “For the benefit of those who wish to extend their currant plantations, wo will add that early fall is the propet time to put out currant outings. A soon as leaves begin to drop, cut the shoots into sections about six inches in length and stick them in where wanted, at an angle of 45 deg. .with the top bud about even with the ground surface. They will form roots before cold weather sets in and make strong plants the next season. Cuttings of the gooseberry will succeed famously treated in the same manner.” Grasses should be mixed for pastures. In this respect truly, “ variety is the spice of life.” Many men sow a few quarts of blue grass, or clover, or timothy, and think they have prepared for a pasture. A considerable variety of seeds should be sown if we would imitate Nature or supply tire natural appetites of domestic animals. It is not good for man to live on bread alone, nor cows on timothy alone. Beside some grasses are rich and juicy some seasons of the year, and some in others. But the cow, horse, sheep or hog, not only need but desire variety in food. The main reason why old pastures are superior to new ones is the great variety of grasses which have naturally accumulated in the process of years.

Increasing Fertility.

A* well-known English agricultural writer, more than a decade ago, wrote as follows: “ Fertility has been increased by the operation of new processes, and of now implements, by the importation and manufacture of new manures, by the cultivation of new plants and by the maintenance of a large stock of improved animals.” It is the key-note to successful agriculture everywhere. The farmer who buys the best implements for working the soil, always having in view simplicity of construction and consequent economy in cost; who increases the fertility of his soil by green fallows; who makes frass the basis for another crop; who reeds his animals up and gives them the sustaining power toward improvement by liberal feeding from birth upward; who conducts his operations from a business standpoint —this one is the successful husbandman. Workdoes not drive him; he drives his work, it is nonsense to talk about a soil growing poor in the course of five or ten years’ cropping, unless the individual has shamefully mismanaged it. In fact, so far as the virgin soils of the West and South are concerned, deterioration is due more to mismanagement, or to cropping to special crops year after year, than to anything else. The man who plows a clay sou when wet so alters its mechanical structure that sometimes it will take years to bring it back to its normal state. Often in fact, it can never be done. Sandy lands do not bake or run togetner, and from this and no other reason is it that these soils are so happily adapted to recuperation. . Yet these soils are far less rich than the more tenacious clays or strong loams. These latter if plowed when in a friable condition, will remain intact, or nearly so mechanically. It is simply nonsense to talk about the degeneration of the soil. The earth is a great reservoir of fertility. China, the garden of the earth, has been cultivated for thousands of years. Tho cereal yield of England, through improved cultivation, has been advanced within the last forty years two hundred fold. In the East, through improved systems of cultivation, careful rotation and the application of manure, a great advance has been made in the average yield of crops. The same may be said of the South within the last five years. So also in the West, many farmers may be found who have kept the fertility of their farms intact from decado to decade* Yet, as a rule, the lands of the West are constantly decreasing in their average yield. ' This is natural enough to all new countries. The processes are crude and the money crops few. It is. however, a wise policy, as soon as possible, to so diversify the crops thatwproper rotatron -may be secured. This, with plenty of grass and live stock, to eat it, will not only keep up the fertility of tho soil, but make it better and better year by year, rather than worse. —Prairie Farmer.

Of the population of Germany nearly nine out of every thousand are blind, in England nine,*in Denmark eight, in Norway fourteen, in Sweden eight, in Finland twenty-two, in Austria live, in Hungary twelve, in Switzerland seven, in France eight, in Spain eleven, in Italy ten, and in the United States fivo. The number of deaf and dumb to every'; thousand of the population is in Germany and Austria nine, in England five, in Denmark six, in Norway nine, in Sweden ten, in Switzerland twenty-four, in France and Spain six, in Italy seven, and in the United States four. The number of idiots to every thousaud of the population is in Germany twentythree, in England thirty-one, in Denmark and Sweden twenty-two, in Norway thirty, in Switzerland twentynine, in Belglui)i fourteen, in Franoe twenty-six, and in Italy and the United States sixteen. ■ This is a knob-seek-we-ons occupation,” he said to his gentle partner; as they sooured around m thud ark fur the door-knob.— Yonkers Gazelle.

Two Noted Grove Bobbers.

Our ruder* will remember the account given In theae column* of the robbing of the grave of the Hon. Bebtt Harrison, In Ohio, last May, the bod? being found In the diasect-Ing-rooin of the Ohio Medical College. Public Indignation justly brands any man as a scoundrel who will rob the grave of the dead. But there are two noted grave robbers In th* country, so far from being the subjects of the people’s wrath, are universally landed lor theirvlrtues. The reason Is plain- Whlletbe former class steal the dead bodies of our loved ones to submit them to the dlesectlng-knlfe, these only rob tho graves to restore the living victims to our heartland homes. Their names —Dr. Pierce’s Oolden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pslleta—are household words the world over. Tho Oolden Medical Discovery cures consumption, in Its early stages, and all bronchial, throat, and lung affectlona; Pleasant Purgative Pellets are tbs most valuable laxative and cathartic. Wilhovt’s Fkvbb and Agu« Tokio.—Tilt* medicine Is used by construction companies for tho benefit of their employes, when engaged In malarial districts. The highest testimonials nave been given by contractors and by the Presidents of some of the leading railroads In the South and West. When men are congregated in large numbers In the neighborhood of swamps and rivers, Wllhoft’s Tonic will I wove a valuable addition to tho stock of medeines, and will amply reward the company In the saving of time, labor and money. We recommend Ittoa.'l. Wlilt BLOCK, Finlat & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. Foh sale ut all Dhuooists.

There’s No Use Talking

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Seth GftXKN l>aa a characteristic remedy for mosquitoes, but one which persons who live near salt water marshes will scarcely find available. He says: •* If eveir man will look over his own premises (If your neighbor will not look oVer his look it over for him) and empty all the water out or cover up all vessels containing rain water, you will not be troubled with them. The wigglers in rain water are the young mosquitoes. I have hatched millions of them and fed them to young fish. One keg or barrel filled with rain water and set in the sun will annoy u whole neighborhood. Lost week the pest made their appearance in my nouse- Yesterday I searched around the neighborhood and did not hunt long before I found a barrel full of rain water and wigglers. I explained it to my neighbor, and he tipped the barrel over, knocked the other nehd out, and said when it got dry he would make kindling wood of it. My advice to all is to ao likewise, and you will not be troubled with the pests.”

Capital, WfOO.OOO. 50,000 Sham, par value 010 each : market value 00.50, cash. PROSPECTUS OP THE Spring Valley Silver Mining Co., Schell Creek Range, Sliver Mountain District, WRITS PINK CO., MSVADA. Incorporated under the Lain q f Imra, April, 1878. The Company own four mines, containing 4,925 feet (nearly a mile) long, of a I.ARUE Mineral Ledge, a Big Bonanza of rich ore. the Crevice from S to 12 loot wide: a good water-power; 5 acres of a mill site: 480 acres of heavy pine timber land. Worx Done and Kind or Ohe —There are a boarding-house, blacksmith-shop, tools and office; 4 shafts of over 184 feet, with windlass and ladders In place; HSO feet of ttio vein an stripped. AU the work done shows a well-defined contact rein of rich mineral, between limestone and granite walls, carrying Yellow and Gray Araentt/ermw Galena and Silver, averaging from *IOO to *147 per ton of silver and 68 to 80 per cent of Load. 80 tons of ore shipped, yielded *B,OOO. The mines are being worked day and night and have considerable ore out: the ore Is soft, ratify mined, can he picked down and shoveled out crating tti per ton. When levels are run. It will cost *1 per ton to take out ore. The altitude of the mines Is 8,500 feet, and can be worked all the year. The rocks are Devonian Intruded by porphyry, granite, magnesian limestone, black clay shale and quartzite; these are all metalliferous rocks. This Camp Is (Ml miles south of Toano, the shipping point on the Cent. Pac. It. It., with a line natural road all the way, with no hills to cross; 140 miles west of Salt Lake City, and la surrounded by rich mineral camps. Tlio Muncy Creek ConeoiUiated has seven locations, sup|H>sed to be on the taiae rein, on which they have expended *5.000. and have laying on the dump 1,200 tons ore, and have plenty more in sight In the mines—lt cost about *4.18 per ton to mine It. The celebrated Pay-Matter Mine, owned by the Martin White Mill Co., keeps two :!0-ton Furnaces and a2O stampmill Ui operation. Mr. S. C. Beebe, a thorough-going, practical miner and inUl-wriglit, is our Superintendent— Is on Uie ground developing the mines. G< orgo B. Blerbank. Civil ami Mining Engineer, and U.S. Dep’y Mining Surveyor, examined ti e property, reporting very favorsably. 15,000 share* (*150,000) of this stock are being offered to the public at the loir figure of *2.50, In order to Increase facilities for taking out are and the building of a, furnace. This Is a veto valuable property, and we feel justified In recommending It to our friends as a tajr and tn editable Investment for thoir money. Fat flock address the Treasurer. (See financial colums of the Chicago dally papers for quotations.) The Dliectors are Luther Stone, Pres.; M. K. Skinner, Sec.; Aaron H. Oronkhlte, Orlando Curtis. A. P. W. SKINNEK. Treasurer and Trustee, Room 10 Methodist Church Block. Chicago,!U. CkicajEO Scbaoiof Ait ' : ~ 4 '. ’—AND— Drawing and Painting Academy. Oil, Water Colors, India Ink, Painting, Pastel, Crayon Sketching, Object and Antique Drawing, Modeling Sculpture, Mechanical and Architectural Designing. Oil and Water-Color Painting a Specialty. A few pupils can be accommodated at residence of manager. Decorative Art Classes now open. Summer Classes now open. Special terms to Teachers. - — PROF. M. H. HOLMES, _ -,■■■- ■ _ Manager and Proprietor, 1099 Indiana Ave., near 24th St, Chicago.

JflfaiX®y® r Hi!tofe the rATHKR RATHKW BBRKDY. It Is the antidote to alcohol lately discovered. It cures Intemperance and destroys all appetite for liquor, as effectually as the extracting of a painful tooth cures toothache. It builds up the nervous system and Is the most powerful and wholesome tonic known. It also cures all kinds at Fever, Dyspepsia and Torpidity of the Liver. Sold by druggists. SI a bottle. Pamphlet on Alcohol, Its Effects on the Human body, and Intemperance as a Disease, sentfreeon writing to the Father Mathew Temperance and Hanafae'i Co., SS Bond St, N. Y.

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