Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1879 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. RENBBELAER, - - INDIANA.

COURTSHIP BY TELETHON When gentle wind* of leafy Jane went sighing thiougb the trees. And tuneful nolee of happy birds were Hosting on the breeze, . , . . J) A most eccentric bachelor sat in an easy chair. The sily'ry threads of honored gray shown plainly in his hair; He lived in modest we-lth and style, a quiet. Yet for onijo’v* he often sigbod--a true and lovA score ofum™ hi might have joined in wt»llock's holy bin Had he been less than what he waa-a very bash ful man. For years he had a maiden wooed, a maiden bright and gay, Who lived in a lovely country town, some dozen miles away. And every week for many months, ooms snow, or raig, or shine, Away he’d hie with ardent love to see his fair divins; Embarking strong in manhood's power, his valor mounted high. To speak and ease the heart which burned he surely now must try; But when in blissful presence of the one be loved, so fair, illis courage failed, aud back he’d go in anger _ and despair. Thus, long he sat in dreamy mood, with thoughts afar away. While on his lap m crumpled state a morning paperlay; Across the neatly-printed page the sun in brightness shone, Displaying clear a paragraph about the telephone. The balmy galea of many springs had blown from sunny South, Since he had sworn that ne'er he'd ask except by word of mouth. A sudden thought I Oh, happy thought! "What could I ask for more ? 111 build a line,’ said he with zeal, “ right to her cottage door.’* How odithe freak, the line is built, then proudly he doth stand Examining the rubber tubes with one in either hand; ."Now quick the little crank be turns which rings the distant bell, 'That she may listen earnestly to what he has to tell. Though now beneath his own slate roof, and she is miles away. He trepiblea as he ponders on the words he has to say; A tell-tale blush of basbfulness o'erspreads his sunbrown cheek. When words, come on the mystic wire in female accents sweet. The time had come for him to speak, and pallid was his brow, As to the tube lie placed his lips, his passion to avow; At last he stammered out the words—" I—love—you more than life. And this fond heart 1 pledge to thee. Oh! Susan, be my wife. 'The deed is done which seals his fate; he listens long in fear, 'Till finally the " Yes, dear John,” comes thrilling on his car, . . . Not long till bo with tearful joy calls Susan all his own. And now in sweetest union they each bless the telephone. W. 11. Partons. In Journal of the Telegraph.

A RUSSIAN “FIRE-WITCH.”

Rather less than a year ago, during the spring season, at E , pleasantest of Garman watering-places, three persons, who seemed to be inseparable ( companions, walked daily together in the grounds of the KursaaL One was a beautiful Russian girl, Idi Koratine, who was always attended by her brother, an ex-Colonel in the Czar’s Army. The third member of the group was a young English officer. Captain the Hon. Charles Guerdon, of the Eighteenth Lancers. It was evident to all who observed this gay youngster that he was deeply in love with his Russian friend’s sistea. Was she in. love with him? On this pOintGuerdon himself could have made no satisfactory answer. He had been ordered to E—— by doctors to recruit his health after a hunting accident, and had made the acquaintance of the Koratines at the hotel table d’hote. They were persons of high birth, in affluent circumstances, ami of very pleasing manners. Count Koratine, who was not more than thirty, had seen a good deal of military service, had traveled was the most companionable of jnen, always ready to join in any amusement, to chat or to listen to others, Helpiite won Charley Guerdon’s heart by his horsemanship (for he had two or three splendid animals and rode every morning with his sister) and also by his bright manner at the ecarte table, for he played any stakes you pleased, without caring whether he won or lost. As for Ida Koratine, she was the most delicious of girls. Tall and graceful, with the fair wavy hair and pink complexion which bespoke her Lithuania)! blood, she had large dark eyes, at o|ce grave and soft, and a little mouth which Could smile with exquisite sweetness. Ida was, like most high-born Russian ladies, a capital linguist, speaking Engjish and French with faultless accuracy, and with just a slight foreign accent, which lent piquancy to her talk. She was, moreover an accomplished pianist and singer; so was her brother. Sometimes after dinner the Koratines as they called him for fun, to come to their apartments tp take a cup of Caravan tea, and then, at his request, they would sing him some of the ballads of their country. Koratine played' on the zitta, or Hungarian guitar, Ida on the piano, and the Count’s well-trained baritone voice blending with his sister's pure soprano made rare melody. Their Lithuanian songs were pervaded by a dreamy sadness which grew upon the Englishman, making him fall into long reveries, during which he was glad that there were no candles in the room, but only the spring twilight that veiled his emotion. After every one of Ida’s songs, Charley Guerdon became more ana more in love with her, though he gradually discovered that she had a few strange, ungiriish tastes, which at first pleased him Tess than her piano playing. She was a deadly pistol shot, and practiced every day with her brother at a target which had been set up in an alley of the hotel garden for their convenience by the landlord. The rapidity with which the brother and sister loaded, the cool quickness of their aim, their unerring precision in making patterns of crosses or lines on the cards at which they fired, filled the Englishman with surprise the first time he witnessed thefr performances. “j«ay. Miss Ida,” he remarked, “it won tdo for me to quarrel with you. You Would very soon call me out and pink me,” }* Oh, we are not practicing for duels,” laughed Ida. “# e have SoftZ 1“ °. u . r J country and a girl should know how to protect herself.” The peculiar way in which Ida emphasized the word “wolves,” and the light that kindled for a moment in her she spoke, ought to have arrested Guerdon’s attention, but they did not. He had noticed, however, that the Koratines appeared to have a mystery in their lives; they avoided all ailus ions-to- the motives which bad induced Count Koratine to leave the army, and they expressed radical or Nihnst opinions rather curious to heak from person? of their station. Ida seemed to be much mote of a revolutionist than her brother. She often '• Sb.

questioned the Englishman about his country's free Institutions, and listened with a wistful eagerness to his confused explanations, for constitutional law was not muob- studied in the Eighteenth Lancers, and Charley Guerdon was puzelod to define in what his birthright of liberty consisted. Now-and- thefr 4da betrayed to® unguardedly her love for political conversations, and then her brother would interfere with a joke and caress, which always checked her, tor every word of his was law in her eyes. Guerdon had been struck and touched from the outset by the whole-hearted affection whioh the brother and sister bore to each other. They were orphans, and up to her brother as a hero, as an infallible being? a demigod, and her mere manner of clinging to his arm when they walked, of orightening when he spoke to her, of putting up her forehead to be kissed w hen she wished him good-night, revealed the extent of her devotion. Now it naturally occurred to Charley Guerdon that so excellent a sister as Ida Koratine ought to make a perfect wife, so that when he had known and loved her about a month he began to ' hint timidly at a proposal, but she always parried these advances merrily, as though he were joking. If -he sulked, she smiled at him with irresistible archness, and sung him a ballad about a miserable Russian peasant who had fallen in love with a Lorelei, or wator-witoh, who persisted in asking him at the end of every stanza whether he could change his nature and live under the water with her. “Well, but you are not a Lorelei, Miss Ida.” Guerdon exclaimed, impatiently, when he had heard this song twice. “Perhaps I am a Pyrie, though,” she answered, with a smile. “ What is a PyrieT' “A fire-witch, in the modernized form, a girl who delights in fire-arms, shells, petroleum ana other horrid engines of revolutionary warfare,” saying which she laughed with rather forced % Guerdon made no answer, but honed that time might work for him. It thus befell that he remained two months at E— r, seeing Ida every day, and he was just beginning to feel dispirited by the consciousness that his suit made no progress when unexpectedly he received a summons to hurry back to England on account of his elder brother’s illness. As the younger Son of a Peer, Charley Guerdon might be said to have "expectations” in case of hts brother’s death; but he loved him too well to think of that, and was on the contrary sincerely grieved at the news. He hastened to pack his traps and then said good-bye to the Koratines. He found them both in the garden, looking sad. for he had sent his servant to apprise them of what had occurred. Ida especially was pale, and there was just the slightest quaver in her voice as she said: “ Good-bye, Capt. Guerdon; we are sorry to lose you.” “ But I shall return,” he replied. “ I hope my brother will recover, and then I shall hasten back to E . You will still be here, will you not?” “ Perhaps,” she anwered, evasively. “ Well, but you are surely not going to leave E just as the summer season is beginning. Let me go away with the hojJe that ;we shall meet again.” • “Perhaps,” she rejoined, anew. Then, as if to take the chill of despondency out of her words, she plucked a branch off a tree and handed it to the Englishman. “Take that to your brother, and let it carry health to him,” she said. “ I have the superstition of flowers, so you see 1 am not quite a Nihilist.” Guerdon took her hands, and, at an approving sign from hpr brother, drew her to him and kissed her on the brow. It was a chaste and hope was rekindled in his heart as he gave it.

The illness of Charley Guerdon’s brother turned out to be a serious affair. It lasted more than six weeks, and during that time Charley was unremitting in his attendance at the bedside. In such spare moments as he could snatch, he wrote several times to the Koratines, and once he received an answer from the Count with a postscript in Ida's hand; but after that he got no more replies. Charley had never been a newspaper reader, and the world might have gone all wrong without his hearing anything about it. He sometimes glanced at the Field, or at one of the military periodicals to look for army promotions, but into the Times he never dipped, and thus he was-kept from learning the grim reason which prevented his Russian friends from writing to him. He was not fated to ascertain it for k long while, for when Lord Guerdon became convales- > cant his crisrwL him off on a yachting cruise and Charley accompanied him. Charley spent two full months sailing over the seas and receiving no news, till at length they put in at Cadiz and landed. It was in this city that Lord Guerdon, perusing a batch of Londont papers one morning, while his brother sat at the open window looking odt listlessly Over the waters of the Tiarbor, exclaimed: “I say, Charley, didn’t you tell me you had a friend called Count Koratine P” “ Yes. What of him?” answered Charley, turning round with a sudden flush. “ Why, your friend is going to be beheaded for an attempt to murder- Read that!” Charley rose, doubting whether he was awake. He took the newspaper, and with reeling senses read the accoimt of an attempted politicaTassassination about which ail Europe had been talking for the last three months, An exalted personage—one of the half dozen who hold the destinies of in his hands —had'come to E——, and had peen shot at by Count Koratine. Arrested on the spot, along with his sister, the Count was now proved to be the head of a widespread Nihilist and Socialist conspiracy, His bullet had missed its aim, but as it had killed person who sat beside his intended vi< - tim, he was to be tried for his head, an t the Countess Ida, too. , “ I mqst leave for Germany tWB day,” faltered Charley Guerdon, as the paper fell from his hand. He was so hoarse that he could hardly ulateHis brother gazed at him with consternation. “ Great heavens!” he said; “ you don’t mean to say this girl Is anything to you, Charley?” “one is everything to ine,” was the younger brother’s answer. Two hours later Guerdon had left for Cadiz. • ♦ . ♦ *, ’ • The trial of the Koratines had taken ! place at D , and Ida had been acquitted, but the Count was sentenced to death. Guerdon heard this as he Journeyed, and he reached D——on the eve of the day appointed for the Count’s execution. His first Step was to repair to the Central,Police Office and inquire

where the Countess Ida lived. Ho was informed that she was lodging in a small house near the prison, with two servants, but that she was under orders to quit the Kingdom on the morrow. The Englishman hastened to the house indicated with all thadnat of travel on him. It was past midnight, but Ida received him at oncy. He found her writing by the fireside in that dismal parlor of her lodginghouse. She was dressed in deepest mourning, and her features, blanched by her grief and long sojourn in prison, were as those of a statue. But she held out her hand to Guerdon as if nothing much had happened since they had parted, t ' “ Give me no condolences.” she said interrupting the Englishman as he opened his mouth to speak. “I suppose you come to me as a friend." “Can you doubt it?” he faltered. “ Oh, Ida, God knows what I have suffered on hearing this.” “I want you to render me aservice,” she said, not heeding his remarks. “ You are the only friend I have on earth pow? You must go and witness my brother's execution; then come back and tell me what is the last thing be did before dying. I wanted to go myself, but they would not let me. The execution takes place at seven, in the prison, and you must contrive some means of getting in.” Guerdon hesitated, but a beseeching look from Ida nerved him. “Would you refuse me this?” she asked, sadly. “ My brother on the scaffold will make a sign which is intended for me, and on which the whole of my life may depend. I must have somebody there to see it.”

“ I will go then,” muttered Guerdon, hoarsely. He went, and was back with Ida at eight the next day. Heaven knows what he felt and what he looked like; his appearance struck the Russian girl speechless for a moment. But she did not weep; hers w’as the sorrow that sheds inward tears all a life long. She questioned the Englishman with a glance, folding her hands over her breast as if she were waiting an order. “He kissed the crucifix,” said Guerdon, in a low voice. Ida sighed. “ Then I am to abandon the work of conspiracy, and to lead a new life,” she answered, bowing her head. “Thank you, Capt. Guerdon; and goodby. lam going to Strelechtzki, where the plague is, to act as hospital nurse.” “Oh! let me give you a home, Ida,” the Englishman answered, feeling all his love well up in a sob of anguish. “No,” she replied, with a wan smile and a shake of the head; “ you could not brave tbe world’s prejudice by saying that you were proud of my brother, as Z gm. Tn ma he is a martyr who died for his country. We look at these things differently to what you do. Let me be alone to mourn my brother. Good-by again, and forgive me.” “Good-by,” Guerdon moaned, as he raised Ida’s hand to his lips. He felt that the strange girl was right, and that there was a gulf between him and her. But he would have given worlds to bridge it.— London Week. ””

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Mr. Tilden weighs only 110 pounds. —The health of Archbishop Purcell is fast failing under his financial troubles. Of late he has been attacked with fainting spells. —President Angell, of Michigan University, says that one of the Professors of Mathematics at that institution, who is known all over the world, went to school only six weeks, and, while the oxen were resting at noon, did his first mathematical work upon a plowshare with a piece of chalk.

—Of the eccentric traits of Mr. Sothern, the actor, this story is told: He objects to his dog forming new acquaintances, so be fastens two very sharp needles to the 'dog’s nose, leaving the ends projecting about an inch. When a strange dog rushes up to “shake noses” with him, he gets a thrust which sends him away howling. —Mr. E- L. Smith, the telegraph manager at Topeka, Kan., who was imprisoned because he refused the State Legislature's demand for copies of messages sent from his office, has received from President Green, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, a letter formally thanking him for his course and inclosing a reward of $250. —Mark Twain went to Paris pn a short self-granted leave of absence from Germany, where he is “studying”, for the wedding of Frank Millet, the painter and war correspondent of the Daily News. His wedding-present was a couple of logs of nre-wood prettily bound together with pink silk and offered as “ the costliest thing I could find in Paris.” ---ThrCbarieston Ncwss-sys that Senator Hampton is improving steadily, but the physicians in attendance upon him agree in the opinion that it would be exceedingly imprudent in him to go at this time to Washington. The same paper is authorized to state that “in case any emergency should arise calling for the voice or vote of Senator Hampton, he will, whatever the cost to himself, go instantly to Washington and be sworn in.” —Adjt. Noble, of the Second Michigan Infantry, lost his sword and his fife at the fight at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1868, and his sister has just recovered the sword after searching for it diligently ever since. It was captured by Capt H. H. Moseley, of an Alabama regiment, who discovered the name of its owner by letters found on his body, and last winter advertised it in a Detroit newspaper. The sister heard ot the advertisement and, addressing Capt Moseley at Marion, Ala., received the lo?t weapon with a very gentlemanly letter from its captor. —The impulsive generosity of Col. Alston, who was murderea in the Georgia State Capitol, a few days ago, is disclosed by the annexed story: A few years ago fib was on a Georgia railroad train bound for Augusta, when a woman with three children, in abject poverty, entered the cars and asked the conductor to pass her and her children without the usual fare, telling him her circumstances, and saying that she would certainly starvq unless she could reach her friends. Of Bourse the oejjductor had to tell her that she would be put off at the next station. Alston heard the story and polled out his purse; out he had not money enough to pay the poor family's fare, and so pawned his watch for the remainder until he could reach Augusta and borrow it. \ I -f; -— y i •. i | Soak good r'adtsh-seed In water for twenty-four hours, then put them in a bag and expose them to the sun. Germination will commence >in a .few hours. The seed must then be sown in a yell-manured hot ; bed and watered occasionally with lukewarm water. Treated in this way, radishes may be grown in a very short tiine.— Exchange.

Risks of Athletic Work.

What risks, then, does the youth run who puts in two, three or more years at severe athletics, frequently, either when practicing “on time” y in his various races, doing his very utmost, and coming in at the end thoroughly exhausted, and “ with nothing left in him?” If, either by inheritance or years of vigorous exercise before his racing begins, he starts into it with a sound andstrong body, is carefully and thoroughly trained for each contest, and takes an ample interval of rest between his races, not racing every afternoon for a fortnight, for instance, as in the English “ bumping” races, and if the distance covered is not greater than men of his caliber have uspally raced over w ih impunity, he probably does not run much risk of bodily injury or of shonening his life. How one lacking csie or two of these requirements fared in a sudden and severe test of his strength and endurance may be seen from tbe case of one of Dr. Morgan’s patients, not a university man: “He was compelled to carry a heavy sack of corn for - a considerable distance without having the opportunity of taking rest on the way. He was struggling to reach the end of his journey, when he suddenly felt something give way within his chest; he experienced a rush of blood to the head, and fell down insensible. One of the valves of the left side of the heart was torn from its attachment. * * * Death approached with rapid strides.” The doctor hints that this man’s heart was not previously healthy, speaks of a case where an aneurism of the heart was in-

duced by the exertions of a boat-race, but says intemperance was the cause, and asserts “ unhesitatingly that whenever by reason of some violent strain an accident occurs, either to the heart itself or to one of its great vessels, that heart was not at the time in a perfectly healthy state.” It may be said that men who have been intemperate seldom turn athletes, but one of the fastest scullers America has yet produced had, not a great while before his best race, been notoriously intemperate; while the stroke oar of a winning crew, in a hard race near New York City, in 1877, had some time before had delirium tremens. The carrying of the sack of corn was probably not harder work than is frequently done in a boat race. Tha writer once carried a 150-pound man on his shoulders around the Delta at Cambridge, said to be a third of a mile and forty yards, and did not find it as hard as the last mile of one or two stiff races, or that he was ever the worse for it. But how is one to know that his heart and lungs are free from defect, and that he has strength and stay enough to risk his racing with impunity? His family physician —or, sometimes better yet, any physician who has made heart and lung disorders a specialty—can easily determine the former, just as many physicians did determine it in the war, and rejected men from the army, or as the examining physicians of the life-insurance companies determine now, and admit or reject every day. As to the latter, long and careful preparation; then racing over a short distance, then over longer, until the desired length can be done without distress, aniThe finds that between efforts he is none the worse for them—these will aid him to a conclusion. If before any youth could row or run a race he were compelled to be examined as to his organic fitness by some competent physician, and summarily rejected if there was any weakness; if, in addition, some person equally qualified to supervise made sure that before the contest was entered on adequate preparation was had, it would go far toward reducing the physical risk to a minimum, if not quite doing away with it. But so long as half-grown, half-developed youths can go into hard rowing contests with no better qualification than just because they wish to, and fellows plainly weaker even than they can run helter-skelter ih sharp and trying foot-races, and against formidable antagonists, with great crowds to egg them on, so long there unquestionably will be risks for the persons so injudicious. And this, with the frequent distraction from one’s duties, and with one more thing, the only partial development which any one sort of racing brings'—for pot yet has the single exercise been discovered which brings into play all or nearly all the muscles of the body—these are probably the chief, certainly amopgthe chief, risks one incurs in turning athlete. Not a few men have managed > to safely pass each; but if the experience of every athlete could be frankly and fully told, there is too much reason to thinkthat the large majority, however they may have escaped' the first, have generally failed to avoid the other two. And if in the platte of these alluring but frequently hazardous contests, daily vigorous work could be done which would let the man stop when he was reasonably tired, and before the risk begins, instead of keeping on to exhaustion, and if that work could be so chosen as to build up parts now weak, and to daily for a brief period give the heart and lungs and all the muscles alike hearty but not straining work, there is little doubt that instead of interfering with more important duties, it would aid in fulfilling them; that instead of neglecting some muscles of the man and developing others abnormally, <it would symmetrize him, and make him strong all over; and that he need never fear permanent injury, because he had done nothing to invite it.— William Blaikie, in Harper's Mayor sine for May. Let me ppbllsh to the sheep-raising world a remedy against the destruction of sheep by dogs which was given me a short time since by a highly respectable and valued friend, himself an extensive wool grower. It consists simply in placing on one sheep in every ten of the flock a bell of the usual size for sheep. The Instinct of the dog prompts 'him to do all his acts in a sly, stealthy manner; his attacks upon sheep are most frequently made at night while they are at rest, and" simultaneous jingling of all the bells strikes terror to the doge; they turn their tails and leave the sheep, fearing the noise of the bells will lead to their exposure. The ratio of bells may be made to vary according to the size of the flock.— Richmond Whig. The Mormons havq planted a colony of 150 believers on the Little Colorado, Arizona. They are provided with machinery for a complete woolen mill, now being erected. They have saw-mills to build their houses and improvements, flour-mills and sugar mills, also a tannery, flockii of sheep, seeds and farming implements, with food to last till harvest, and with no Jack of capital to attest an earnestness that knows no failure. ——■ »<— —. Therm are about forty’female physicians in Philadelphia in full practice-

HOME, FASRM AND SARDEN.

'—Lemon Cheese Cakes.—Take one quarter of a pound of butter, one pound of loaf sugar, six eggs, omitting the whites of two. Use the juioe of three lemons, with the grated rind of two. Boil t<> the consistence of honey, stirring it all the time. —Sponges.—ls a sponge, after haring been useu a week, Is then put away to thoroughly d?y, and another useu for an equal time, the soft, flabby and worn-out sponge reoovers its texture. Sponges treated in this way outlast three ordinary sponges. —Qften Children accidentally swallow boiling water, or inhale steam. This accident is very dangerous, as the throat swells, and the sufferer is in danger of being suffocated. Send for the medical man immediately. Meanwhile, if it can bo procured, let the pt£ tient suck ice constantly, and apply a strong mustard poultice to the outside of the front of the throat.— Western Rural. —Potato Soup.—Pare and soak in water two hours ten good-sized potatoes; boil till soft enough to strain through a colander; while hot add a quarter pound of butter; boil three pints of milk, and turn by degrees upon the potatoes, stirring it perfectly smooth; add one large onion, chopped very fine, a few blades of mace or parsley; boil fifteen minutes; split and toast six crackers, and put into soup. —Leaving farms to an overseer or drivers has “ played.” No man will go on the farm and have th*e ; work done so well as the owner hiniself. His eye should supervise everything—the feeding and watching of stock; the taking care of tools and machinery; the sharpening of plows; repairing of fences, in fact, all matters pertaining to the farm must be looked after by him. — lowa State Register. —A brass kettle may be used for cooking with safety if thoroughly well scoured before being used. The scouring should be done with fine bath brick and afterward with hot water. No acids, such as vinegar, should be used in cooking in a brass kettle. When the kettle is done with for the time, it should be scoured and put away in a dry place, where it will alwajtp be ready for use after simple washing.— N. Y. Herald

—Rioh Light Waffles.—Put half a pound of butter into a clean strong cloth and pound it till quite soft, then take it into a dish and beat with a large si 1 ter fork till it becomes a thick cream. Beat the yelks of six %ggs to a stiff cream, and stir in them half a pound of flour till smooth, then add the beaten butter and half a pint of rich, sweet milk. Beat ajl well together, adding the beaten whltes of the eggs the last thing, and bake.— Christian Union. —The dairy-maid ranks next to the cow in the butter business. As the best farm in the world will not make good returns unless it has a skillful manager, so the best herd of cows does not insure the best butter. It has been said that half the milk of the country is damaged in the process of making butter. This seems a large estimate, bus when we reflect that more than half the butter brought to market is below the No. 1 standard, the estimate must be considered below the truth.— N. Y. Times. —Horses.—As the coat begins to loosen, the skin is often irritable. This may be corrected by giving in the food daily one ounce of an equal mixture of sulphur and cream of tartar few Good grooming with asofutiru sh and a blunt curry-comb should not be neglected, if the gums are swollen, rub them with a corn-cob, dipped in powdered borax. Cleanliness is a great preventive of disease. As the weather becomes. warmer, more oats, rye or barley, and less corn may be fed. An occasional feed of cut ruta-bagas will be useful. — American Agriculturist.

The Best Paying Farm Crops.

One of the most common of questions put to those supposed to know, is what is beet to raise on one's farm. Here is perhaps a tolerably successful farmer, or there may be an editor of a highly popular and successful newspaper, and to them comes the question perhaps a score of times a year, What shall I grow to make money fast? It does not seem to occur to these unhappy people that if those they ask knew how to coin money they would make it themselves instead of telling others howfto doit; yet this question, or the substance of it, is of continual occurrence. Young men going to farming, or old ones for that matter, starting on the same road, might as well understand at once that a successful paper, a successful merchant, or a successful farmer, is never made to order. Rarely, indeed, has anyone made money in the exact way he expected to make Ft. There may be the general plan, and this may be carried out pretty nearly as mapped; but the. filling in, the detail, comes after. The one who succeeds, as a general thing, is the one who has the knack of seizing on circumstances quickly as they arise, and turning them togood advantage. The most of these successful farmers, too, are those who fixed themselves tolerably closely to one place. They maymot have acted with the best judgment in locating themselves; but instead of trying to mend this error, undertook to make the best of it. It is almost impossible for any man, lethim be ever so experienced a farmer, to tell at once what nis ground is best fitted for under an experience of two or three years, but when once that knowledge is gained, he can push this more and metre every year; and it is these special superior productions which tell. Beside all this, what-a farmer is going to get for his crops is of as much importance to him as the ability of the soil to bring them to t perfection; and this market-knowledge Is also a thing of growth, which one can rarely ten to another. In brief, the successful farmer is the one who knows how to feel his way. To such an one it is almost impossible to tell what he should grow. He must begin carefully and find out for himself. The best advice to all new beginners at farming is, not to spend all their money too soon. Let no tempting speculator induce them to gq heavily Tn debt. Always, if some cash .in reserve, and never run close on to the last dollar until considerable experience on that particular farm has been had. • Some will say you can never get rich on a farm, if you have no capital of any account, unless you do gd in debt. This to a certain extent is true; but it makes all the difference) whether you go in debt on a mere suspicion of suet cess, as thousands of borrowers do, or whether you wait first until by a little hard experience you see clearly what you can do. — Germcmtovmi Tde.graph. Did a donkey ever die of screening of the braying?

An amusing little episode In conqeotion with the observance of All-Fools’ Day occurred in Boston. On one of the principal thoroughfares two teamsters had left their teapos standing, with the tailboards touching. Two sun-losing clerks in a hardware store in the immediate vicinity conceived 'the idea pt chaining these ■ teams together, Whtoh idea was promptly carried out. Boon the drivers returned, and not noticing what had been done to their teams, mounted the seats and with a simultaneous •• gft”’proceeded to start off. The start; of course, did not take place. One of the looking around and discovering the difficulty, jfet down and undoing the chain, which was worth eight or ten* dollars, threw it into his wagon, and both teams immediately drove off, amid the frantic calls of the clerks to return the chain. As both the teamsters are unknown to the' clerks, it is more than probable that their salaries will be diminished just-the value of that chain.— Worcester {Mass.) Spy.

Workingmen.

Before you begin your heavy spring work, after a winter of relaxation, your system needs cleansing and strengthening to prevent an attack of Ague, Bilious or Spring Fever, or some other Spring sickness that will unlit you fora season’s work. You will save tune,much sickness and great expense If you will use one bottle of Hop Bitters In your faintly this month. Don’t wait. Bee other column.

A Word to the Corpulent.

Instead of regarding obesity as an abnormal condition, many people have erroneously considered It as an evidence of health, ana any agent that reduces fat Is therefore St once suspected of being Injurious. Starting to reason from the false position that fat is an evidence of health, it Js not surprising that they should, very natural!*-, fail Into the error of supposing that an agent possessing properties capable of reducing corpulency would prove Injurious to the health. Ri-a*oning P however, from the rational basis, that an undue deposition of fat, constituting obesity, is not a healthy but a morbid condition, it is quite as natural for us to arrive at the oppositeconclusion, i. e., which Is sustained bv experience an d observation, that the reduction of fat hi cases of corpulency is Invariably followed bv an Improvement of strength, spirits and physical comforts. Allan’s Anti-Fat will reduce a fat person from 2 to 5 pounds a week. Sold by druggists.

Free—31 Portraits—Free.

National Life is the title of a new Pamphlet of 72 paves. It contains the biography of ell the Presid nts of the United States,from Wcufibiffton to Hayes with their portraits (19 In all.) engraved expressly for thlSwork; also 12 portraits of Canadian notabilities. National Life will be sent to any address, by mail, on receipt, of 3c stamp. H. R Stevens Beton, Maps. Chtw Jackson’s Best Sweat Naw Tebaeco.

Tanas. HOP BITTERS, (A Badidne, not a Brisk,) 7 .7 CONTAINS now, ffircvrr, haxdbau, ' • DANDEUON, and ths pvbxht and Bbst Midiclu. QoAUTtaa «r allothu Brrma. . . ,ziTHH ls CURE " All Diseases of the Stomach, Bowels, Blood. Liver, Kidneys and Urinary Organs, Nervousness Sleeplessness, Female Complaints and Drunkenness. M,»0O IN GOLD Will be paid for a case they will not cure or help, or for anything impure or injurious found in them. • - I Ask your druggist for Hop Bitters and free books, and try the Bitters before you sleep. Take no other. Th. Hop Con«h Core and Wain Relief la the Cheapest, H wrest siS'Bttt. Hop Bitters Mf’f Co.. Rochester, K. t. For Sets ty all Z>n<wUa Speaks for Itself, flnucvss UNTvaaarx /V'SJeSSKIx Syracuse, N.Y., Nov. 15,187*. About four yean since, on frex' Mr i- vM building my house, I anak/ertj i lysed a large number of sam9 BflidM fVSri* c P l ** of white lead, and frost C.I JKMWc thane selected the best to be had, with which I painted a WIPxW.Q large part of the house: the Trest l painted with " Rubber Paint, 7 ’after analysing It and CO-’ lindlng tt contained the rubber for which It is named. One rear since 1 found the “pure lead and oil" could be easily rubbed off, and was, In fact, being fast washed oil by the rains, while that pan of the building painted with the Rubber Paint was as hard and glossy as it ess three weeks after first applying It I have since painted the whole bouse with the Bubtier Paint. 1 can. therefore, from both analysis and practical test, recommend the .Rubber Paint in strong terms. X 5. BROWN, Png. of Chemistry and Physics. For prices, terms, etc., address JRVBX3HH. PAXTrir Cleveland. Vhlcagw. St. York. wu’.iH dana’* and Register Are used for ear-marking Swine. Sheep and Cittle. with perfect success. 100 Labels, stamped with yonr name and animal’s number, with Punch and liegisterHftieet, sent by mall on receipt of *4- - Address C. DANA, West Lebanon, N. H. ADVERTISERS J»JESIJUX« TO AfJCACH TheEEADKRS of THIS STATE CAN DO *0 IN TBR ' Cheapest and Best Manner •V APPMSUM* E. E. PRATT, 79 Jackson Street. Chicago, TKIT Chicago Eighteen Dollar PHOSPHATE -AT—#lB PER TON IN BAGS In carload lots at factory, Is made to meet tbetow prices of farm produce. Cost per acre small; increase 3 crops larger ©rottwd Bone, at popular prices, ■ Discount to Dealers, bend for Circulars. NORTHWESTERN FERTILIZIN CO., Bole Kanafhetoren. dhleago. 111. "" 'W'kKI.t.TSTKKLPARSFkKCXWmkJB ■ ktoubr ISM Ms Alito- ■ I for* i»- »ri«l6rtlrcr.l«r tad prictlirt, I ’ to Tnmix Wibh ]{*Mi <X. ChitM*. » Ksf&b&sxfafflussa'sra Inforinatlen tor the People, mammoth site, UtustnUeffl TNTHESagI ■fife Send forpamphWto* providence,B. 1 for substantial fortunm every week, * yields an immense Adams. Brown A Co, Bankers, MASS Broad St, N.X.aty

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