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ot whiuu ut it tklilu-top in which » disc ui plat« glaxa covers an effective grouping of beautiful cards, the date being placed in the center of the top. Now and then a gentleman wishing to make a coetlv present to some lady whom he knows will not accept the usual gifts has a large Christmas card painted to order by some skillful artist, a painting which may he framed, and so form a choice bitof home decoration, and yet be something which she cannot refuse, since Christmas cards, bonbons and flowers are something which any gentleman may with propriety offer to any lady friend.
American Wheat Fields.
story of the sad decline of wheat-grovr-I ing in Genesee County, New York, has i often been told. Whatever the decline may have been, sound practical farming, with a touch of science in it, is today getting fair results there—20.81
The Old Year.
S IE IE ,
Thk poor editor tires himself
vain endeavor to fix upon a get something for Christmas.
NEW TEAK’S CALLS
i& l*»*|»fatar <'n«< or*At* frr siauirota — 1 Sir
S)«>Ey« Palm* Aljo'tt
uu*i
4atfnl Maul*.
With Now Year's Comes the custom o. making calls. For many reusons tluenstom is n popular one. the chief being that it f.lToidi a sort of li.dauce sneet, «. W speak n day in w'-i h busy men ma pay up arrears to s oioty ai d m which ladies may recast their visitng lists f .
the year.
As to how to do the thing up in shin there are many opinions prevalent in I society circle.i, hut where the reception is to be !'n yrand lounr the rooms art darkened with closed blinds and drawn curtains, the gas is lit and the hostess and her friends rtceive in full evening dress. Flowers decorate every availnoh point, white wax candles burn in gill sconces- and artistic candlesticks. Ac economical fashion which is steadily growing in favor, is to hire plants in p.itV for the occasion. To these are add-d a basket of cut flowers, which are distributed in vases about the room with excel-
lent effect.
The table, however, is the objective point in the scone, and no puins is spared to make it iu atti active in app aranee as possible. 'the d .mtiest Uaiuusk, tm finest cliiun, t ie most sparkling glasscr and huudsoinest plat ■ are displayed on
Tee ear is passing away. The ienctlieniug huliwi and the low-lying sun warn ns that tho year is drawing to n close. How quickly time files ! It seems but a little while since wo had'd it as tho New, and welcomed it with ringing bells and smiting faces. Tim Happy New Year wo culled it. and its nr.y hours were one long i cation of bright festivities and joyous revel. With its spring-time camo bursting bud end dainty L allot, sunshine, sweetness an I perfume; warm, wooing winds and wild hursts of bird-song. No spring-time was ever so beautiful—no year sold. ssed. The brilliant bloom of summer ! Its fullness; its fervor; its piculy ; its
place to | warm, golden days ; its billows of IT ns
i and abundant f.ullage bad known no ! rival. The gorgeous lints and l.-afv ( pageantry ; tl.o garnered haiw ds and soft, me iow Laz:i an 1 dreamy hush of its blissful autumn—no your had ever known tho like! So we drift'd down the tide of lime. By uud by there came n vague i i-nso of something g.-ue —some- I thing grieved for. But in tliis, work i day | world, no one ever stops to mis i c iy- * thing until i: is lost forever ; an 1 when the autumn faded, we were startled to find the frost and 1 light- the trial of dentil—over all we love 1 end cherished. And nature, silence crowned, awaited the ending of a life lived out, the folding of tho bunds from which the ta k h .d dropped away forever, and the putting
away of n sVttT d crown.
The Oid Year ! We murmur the words » as of a strange tongue, nud wonder can i this bo tho snow-draped vision that came to us with a pomp and pageantry of a king but a few mouths ago? Now, | faded, feeble — no, not fallen ! — the
MONEY SAVED!
What is their extent? Can any other | Nation show a greater breadth in the j golden grain? Within three years a | prominent statesman gave to France
the leading position in wheat produc- ; bushels per acre on an average, or 715,- | /• , i j tion. Yet the United States has ranked i 6 « bushels on 34.387 acres This ex- 01 1110111 ill
the wheat-growing Nations of the world in quantity for half a dozen years; area, for a period twice as long. Thirty years ago the area did not probably much exceed 9,000,0110 acres, or the breadth of wheat now to be found in three leading -States. Twenty years since the area had increased to nearly 16,000,000 acres, and in ten years more
—Christmas Cakes and Christmas Candies, whole car-loads
>nu reeds the yield of the countiesof largest . hit* ^pf re K Kt,! production in any part of the
WE IK'S.
MONEY MADE
THE FINEST
Pianos
If it be urged that wider areas would ! Overcoats, Overcoats, Overcoats afford a fairer comparison, take the j at wholesale prices at the Trade Emeight counties which exceed a produc- p 0r j„ m F, a Hays. 3t24
tion of one million bushels each, and , — -
find the average yield exceeding twen j For holiday presents, you can not
Vr.,rTT.r. ,,.,7.■'‘-.T ty-one bushels per acre. There are do tielter than at Goodbars’as their stock to about 2U0U0,(M)1 he great advance, s J 0Venteea count U uf t , iat grade in is perfectly immense. 4t.'J4
has occurred within ten years, the most Michi nd the ave rage us twenty of it w.thin five, under the stimulus of bushed. Indiana has but four ••mill-
high prices caused by increase of a I j ona j re '> counties, and they average | ^
prosperous population and an extraor- 1 ei htt , en bu3hel8 Thirteen countiesin 4 „
dinary foreign demand Illinois, ranging between one and three ,1 ° V ^ SCHOOL Ihe census (in its first comit, which millions p ro d uc i n g nearly twenty-two .. /"si j i ^ > xvill corrections will not materially change) million bushels, average eighteen and tJl I ISlllldS 11031, \\ 111
1879 no less
which is equivalent
—Teachers wishing
. - - - million bushels, average eighteen and i , producing in the year 0 ne-third bushels. So far as the pres- * than 30,487,06.') acres. . , , . .j S. I
acres,
nearly -50,000
cut census furnishes evidence, it is with few exceptions in the direction of
square miles, or the entire superficies , declining productiveness from Ohio to
And
of the Mate of
grown in every State
the Union, but is by no means equally
. “ ^ . . declining productiveness trom unto to ,y -’ 1 ctoov Illinois. I nis grain is the Kocky Mountains. The patchy dis-1 ij j state and lerntory of tribution of wheat areas within each CtllllllCS ill
find the largest and best assortment of
Organs
distributed, either through the great geographical sections or even through-
•2t:r>
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IN THE MARKET,
Young American Girls in Italy.
It is said that the city officials w ill give '’Old Nick'’ the freedom of the city and allow the 3 clowns accompany him
! to tho Opera House, Dec 14.
—— — no,
whirling leaflets settle upon his bier, and over all is written “Deatn.” Klowly, silently, trailing great drops of blood over forest and prairie, ho has battled with time. In his youth, ho brought us lavishly of flor/ers* and sunshine ; grown wiser of our needs, he poured prodigal gifts into the lap of the husbandman, and the world laughed with joy at hjs bounty. To the heart of childhood he brought lessons of love, of hope, of mercy ; to youth, the tires of laudable ambitions and dreams of success ; to manhood, the golden harvest of industry, of strength, of endurance ; to
areas
State is not less marked or instructive! than the broader belts upon the Na-
. i ■>- i tional map, but its consideration must
; out ouo of the great wheat-producing 1)e deferred.-7. 7f. Dodfje, in N. Y.
1 States, first as to large districts: The Tribune
Seaboard and Gulf Cotton States, nine ‘ . ,
in number, furnish but 6 per cent, of
i the wheat area and 3 per cent, of the j I produce—2,176,251 acres r.nd 13,068,- | .. i presume you found Italy overrun Our $1.50 Fur hat for men is equal to -98 _ bushels—approximately three- with young American girls who were »$•).00 bat sold by other house. F. A. fourths in Noith Carolina, Georgia and | provided with slender purses and di- jUys 3t34 Texas. It is not so much a lack of aphanous voices, but who expect to as-1 ‘ I suitable soil or favorable climate that a tonish tho world with their operatic A one wantjnf!: acompatent
brillianc) ? house-keeper, for a small family, will •• Yes, I am sorry to say that I found | p| eage inquire at the residence of E. hundreds and hundreds there, and Rhoades, Ins. agent, College Avenue.
among that number were many, very
many, in the direst distress. My at-! tention was attracted to them by their i
J result so unpromising is seen, for forty 1 bushels of wheat per acre have been grown in this belt, and there are more than twenty counties in Texas well I adapted to wheat culture, and suitable soils in all the other States. It is because cotton dominates the cultivation
cause couon uoiuinaies me cuiuvauon letters askinir for assistance
breatl'of a'far^e ^a'rtioiTof ^e^popula^ ' The time will come when much
At lowest prices and on the most liberal terms, for sale by
lion.
more wheat will be grown there. New England is scarcely noticeable in wheat production, with 79,000 acres and 1,227,137 bushels—225-1000 of ono percent, of the total area, and 2G7-1000 of one per cent of the product. It is seen that that rate of yield—15.6 bushels—Is above the average for the country, which is nearly thirteen bushels. New York and Pennsylvania, in the Middle States and Virginia and Tennessee, in the Southern, neither ad-
them out to see what could be done for them. The state of affairs I discovered was something terrible. I can not go into all the details, but I will tell you so much as 1 can of the trne state of affairs in musical circles in Italy into which American girls penetrate. 1 made it my business to talk with them, to investigate the truth of what they said,
and If
— A large lot fresh Citron, Raisins and Currants for Christmas cakes, just re-
ceived at
•>t3f> VVEIKS.
the occasion, while the skill ot tun con- ! »K®» tlie sweet assurance that they were
fectioacr is culled to do its inmost. As for the refreshments, great latitude is allowed. Thus, in one house the table may groan under u sumptuous collation, wluie in another cold turkey and tongue, biucuita, sandwiches, a bond of chicken a dad or pickled oysters, togeth r with trait, coffee and the cost unary cake and vine, will comprise the tall ot* fare. In many honses wine is omitted altogether.
one day nearer the Golden Gate—one
long step nearer home.
O! dying year, how many bonsehold idols lie shrouded in your silence ! How many sweet, broken dreams and bright jMjssibilitics lie with your fnllon leaflets ! How many noble resolves, lost opportunities, wasted energies and i aiued hopes sank into the eternal vastutss of your
perished hours !
afldlood taste demands that coffee shad j Many a warm, hot eful life whose be fiirnisind everywhere for gentlemen, radiant morning sky gave promise of a wiu> do not take'wine. Indeed, wlnl. I noontide and who dreamed ot the failiuo to offer reireshm.-nts to any life s great drama only as u fairy revel ^ liuw Itnrtvtvl /Aitf /1 * i < ui*. l.-.a.v.
sylvania, with 1,445,384, is the only Eastern States with a breadth of a million acres, and is the twelfth in rank, standing next to Nebraska in area. California and Oregon are prominent
A musical experience extending through states in wheat culture that do not a period of ever IO Vuni'*. enables me quite show at their best in 1879, having to make a judicious selection ot all aiti- six percent, of the aggregate area and cles in my line of business. I buy all eight per cent, of the product. In a my goods for CASH, and pay no rent— good year it should be a tenth of the owning the building I occupy—and can [ crop. We now come to the central area
then made an investigation of the When you come to town, don t musical schools and theatrical agencies f ail t0 give Goudbar & Son a call. 4t34 of Italy to enlignton mvself further on certain points The average American A lsr(re gtock 0 f Jeans, Flannels,Cash-
vance nor retrograde perceptibly. Penn- money^ being umkr the^iippre'ssion'that ® C J, C * A V !\ rn8 and Iil#nket can be j®.“ nd - -< ■ 8hec * n live * oa ,, mere ujtmnce. that:* F ' A ' lU J s ’ jt34
the best masters teach for little or noth-
Christmas cakes made to
order at
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ing, and that she will breath in musical | Ki e f cr ' 8
genius and dramatic talent by merely j ' breathing in the balmy air of Italy. Eor Cnristmas toys don't forget to She finds when sho gets there that it examine the stock at the Trade Emporcosts much money and more time toget ium. F. A. Hats. 3t34. even a decent musical education than j - her purse will allow, but she studies! None can compete with Goodbar
UNUSUAL BARGAINS!!
guest is ivj. ar.icd m a cut direct, it is a decided bre. eJi of etiquette to in.si-.t on u glass of wine. Where a gentleman him u hundred and titty or tuiuv culls to pay during tlie day lie cannot take wine at every house without becoming maud in, to suy t ie icust, before hiv i st is hu t
|n uhed.
At the more iiifonaul r.'.vp ions,where daylight is admitted, the Indies wear merely liainlsom.' utt unoou toilets, with Into rto uu ami flowers on the corsage mnl m tho Lair. Fur matronly ladico tfelvet is tho luvorito dross for receiving culls on New Year's Day. The cesolo ifclvots uro jcet 'i r. d 1 ic those when eoljr. .I .iro.-s s uro elm..on, but for iduck plain velvet is in. st used, and is kmiueii with t.ie • .v-coior. .1 uppliquo Tklvet and . I.onin ■ ... ...s • wi;t. solid jot colored bend ornaments. A collier, dulls and sale-jmckots of this clieinll jnpiique in tulqi [i.itterus, sliowing cardlnal, oi.vo a..d mauve tints, trims n Mack velvet bas.juo, v.iii.o two rows ol .the tiiaimmg uiv doivu the front, or . is
as panel.
E Feather fit is are .'lioscn for elderly ladies, while i, i.so oi painted silk uro pro mrredtoryoiingoria.es. White ostrich ■Ini:u s wall umber she J sticks ure uniong ti.o liauuHoiimst fm.s ot the sou ■on. 1.0 v sl.pjKus or iiutf-higli shoe- I Ihe color of Uio dress ure worn with silk Mucking* of tne brine color. The eoiffJ are is us low ins the contour of the head Mid tiio fare will permit, ami tho flower, or jeweled ornament are worn in s small
[ofTfiMei'
iW^n a cornu, if worn, rutut be very low * 1 m the k n ■ n ii .i. i i in 11,,
, top ol tne head.
Siime so many ludi.s receive in full [drees, many gentlemen, especially rims. ' who pay tluir culls in carnages, w. s.i lull .i 11 I r ;... ,.i t, .luaj' i'ityot tliose wno do not piofeAs to 1)0 [strictly society men, prefer morning dies-, sticu ms is worn to fashionable blank lasts, luncheons and to morning
MBMdllgH.
TUE .'AltO BASKET. Th fashion of luuigiug u liaskot st the do.n-boll to recoiv cards, is a favorite Olio an.ong ludns who for one reason orauotner find it inconvenient to open their houses to callers on New Year s Day uml who yet w.sh to know who ■ would have eahed had they done so. iTtMir “ basket rw. ptmns, i.s tin y ure styled, are regarded ns something «.! a | hand by the callcis. Never ]>erhaju> lias any innovation met , with more eord.al welccuu than t!;e > u* tom of lu'iuiing Christmas and N.w
lias tmrned it-elf out on your bosom, j discouraged, despairing. Many l.v. s, ] I too, have gone out, leuvi.only a blot | and sta n, over whose memory hangs the I j tatti-red pall of doubt, distrust and tears; ' I and all adown the Old Years pathway | we find the gravis of the loved and lost. Over tho gray year’s palsied limbs we ) weep tears of tenderest regret. AVe can- j I not forgot tho gratified ainoitions, the ! dreams realized, tho many good gifts that came with its coming, which can i never more lie taken away ; the longings | mti yearnings winch even its prodigality I could never satisfy; the le-.sons of faith, I of hope, of charity, taught us so kindly I —ami wu turn away with reluctance t oiu tlie faded face of tno dead. Blessed indeed, is the heart which cau say touight : 1 have done what 1 couid foi tho good of my kind.” Let not tlie comug year pass into tlie old without having added something to the good of hu-
manity ; without having mode some I c'/ ir..^; lieart hsopier, some life sweeioi-for yout! 0 ' ‘ 1 ’ having lived. To homo, it is given tod. , Violin*, (IniUns
—to mingl* in tho active sudthe real . toothers, simply to wad, and their work shall Le given them. But pitiful indeed • L-.lliu ide whicii holds only withered leaves and failed flowers. And when tin 1 l.rodig.tl scarlet of the sumac ciumj alibli whiten beneath tlie fierce, gusty ivn.da of winter, and tlie wierd minstrels of rbo northern liglit sLail shout theii wild ravings aimut our homes of plenty, r.meiul.er, “thu poor y« have ulwayi whu you,’ end to e-ach and all strive tc bring, a.- w.-ii as wish, “ A Merry Chris-
’naa ulid I* Hunnv New Year.”
and practices and battles and starves | & Son on Queensware. Their stock is
D 1. . * , , , , . 1 along, writing cheerful and encouraging always complete in every department. for this reason alone give to my custom- Iving between the lakes and the Ohio | letters home for fear friends and family j Xo seconds and thirds palmed off for ers the advantage of Kiver,_ and in the valleys of the Missouri will recall her, and struggling for very i firsts with them. 4t34
and Upper Mississippi. Here are ten \ fife all the while in Milan or some such States and one Territory. The ^ c jty. Injudicious friends have told her other twenty-eight States and eight; that she will be another I’attior Nilsson Territories reported in the census ; an d she lings and cherishes this mistaken have a little less than one-third | idea with a fond delusion and ambition of the whole breadth of wheat, ! a t first, and witli a dull dread of the
and less than three-tenths of the pro-1 reality and a tenacity of despairing! either in cash or groceries,
duction. They have no surplus, with j purpose under pinching starvation as
the exception of two Pacific Mates and funds run low at the last, that is piteous F’ 1 ' 10 b °y 8 at, d 8 irls nee d have no one Territory, and most ot them are to witness. Tears have come and gone, j f<?ar9 of “ 01 d Nick,” who will be here compelled to draw upon this central and she lias been the usual rouud of Bee. 14. He is tame, and only comes to granary to supplement their own de- the masters, each of whom has taught amuse the old and please the children. ticiency. It had in 1879 about 24,000,- , her for a while and kindly bade her go 00O acres in crop, and produced over | home; that she will never do anything Vftll Willlf fo
382,000,000 bushels, very nearly four- great! But Mary is under a fascinating! ►
teen bushels per acre. This was 137,- ; delusion, and she seeks those who will ikiulrix lkiiv r *1 000,000 bushels more than the yield of j buoy up her hopes. She falls into the 1 a
——F. A. Hays is selling the genuine Hartford boot at $ t 50. llow is that? 3t84 — —The highest market price paid by Goodbar & Son for country produce,
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this district in tho good wheat year of 1869. an increase of seventy per cent. This fact accounts for the possibility 1 of the exportation of 180,000,000 bushels of that crop which were actually
sent abroad.
There is another fact that may contravene a popular impression. It is frequently assumed that the soil of the old States is wearing out, that wheat culture is moving westward, because
hands of less scrupulous musters. S<> 1 »,. j nirx / , i- •> she goes on from bad to worse, till she j 1111111 ^ * imx. 1“ finds herself penniless in Milan. Now - tVllil 0‘ll\0 <v O to
VVEIKS.
gation of facts. As a rule the poor girl I — nnos in the end that she has little hopes I wagons at Kielers. •It-B of obtaining public success; and I sav ,, : T~. ~ , , that she is too often set upon by a cur- i * ^ or su P® r,or fitting cloaks and tain unscrupulous set of men infesting d ^" ,ans of 11 and e « mine > ho large stock thp.sp who will flf» h11 in th«ir A. Hays, which is uGinGr sold at
comes tlie worst phase of tlie whole affair, and what I am about to say I say ; •>< as truth, after the most careful investi-
I also keep constantly on hand a
of the latest and be.-4
supply
power, under promise of engagements, whosesale prices,
to lead iter away where her associations
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When he arrives,"Old Nick” will
intin, (iiiilnr and I 'iolonri llo SI riiiji*,
.\[n*ie Folios <V Foils.
tho yield per acre is dwindling. Our these cities" who will do all in their
English cousins have adopted this consolatory view, and express surprise that
wheat should continue to pour in upon 1 will be such that she will be morallv de-1, , , . them. It is a great mistake. There- stroyed. Even if she has a good, but | ! n,,I, P t ][ | ar0UDd and W1 * dumpty at the 1 verse is the fact, as to the most pro- j not great voice, she can probably gain Bp era House Dec. 14. gressive and advanced of the older j no public appearance except under two j r T,, “j . States that grow wheat. I will admit conditions—she must buy her way in 1 —- 1 IlC lcir{J0Sl SI O0K that seasons vary; that in 1879 the Ohio 1 or she must submit to the demands ol | .. ® _ . Valley had good crops and the country those influential friends of the manage- Ol (*illHll( k S <111(1 (*<ll\0?'
beyond the Mississippi not quite so ment whose word is law at tho theaters. ,
I good. The fact stands, nevertheless, j This is plain speaking; but I tell you |U (oWlt <l(
that in a series of years the Ohio Valley j my investigations, the stories and tears j
Xr I’lns l llva' Frrils, French Harps, and
Piano Stools in
produces more winter wheat per acre | of poor girls who came to me in Italy
ccordcons, iritn ))<dcid thnn does the northwestern spring | and told me their sad tales, made me
wheat region. The four States—Mich- vow that I would open my mouth and igan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois—pro- ; speak of this through the land when 1 1 uuced about 180,000,000 bushels on a came home. I would say to mothers i little more than 10,000,000 acres, or 1 whose younjj; daughters are leaving
home with delusive drea
W EIKS.
Wine on View Year’s Day.
Jeorge H. Butler, who knows whet
(
is to drink even to excess, writes as Ld
lows of New Year's temptations : “it is j n’ilh sill,
quite the social cheese to get drunk on New Year's Day. Of course no gentle- I man ever g< t« drunk. I mean they get ' unduly flushed with wine, and towards j evening begin to leave their gloves, huts, ; overcoats and canes in all sorts of odd | places. These fashionable merry makers, who start out in the morning with 11 1 vi- iting list, never intend to get drunk : but you remember, Mr. Editor, what the old English admiral called the three most 1 beautiful objects in nature—a beautiful | woman in full dress, a ship in full sail, ' and a thoro’brcd racehorse. Now, when after, say your tenth or twelfth call, at each of which a lovely woman, sometimes a bevy of them, radiantly bright, glowing with delicately shad'd color; with alabaster shoulders, white arms, tapering lingers, expressive eyes, and seductive speech, offer you a glass of bub-
about seventeen bushels per acre.
i Hair-clulh and Mohair plnsh „ Thc spring wheat States-Wisconfin.
■* Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and the
Piano Covers <d Rubber and Territory of Dakota—produced 110,- .. . .....' | (W)0,000 bushels on an almost equal area, \Oj elolh heo id itn 111/ embroidered > nearly 10,000,000 acres, or about eleven
I’iaiio :icul I'diuiiiirt* I’olisG, Good second-hand Pianos and Organs
for rent.
EMANUEL MARQUIS, One Door South of Postoftice, GREENCASTEE, INI).
(Years cards. Every season th«y ;,r<* * j bling, sparkling champaigne, what’s a more artistic amt bciiutilul, furniing. in-i fellow got to do ? Of course the eonse- ' dee<i. in tho present pussiou tor pic-ty 1 queneo is a headache the next morning, ca<ds, an agrocable sou vouir of the donor but what human being with the blood and the day. Abroad New YewrV ouiu-1 and brains of a man wouldn't risk a luit-
W^-cittlly are mode the cover for m o. elegant gifts, tha card 1'oi ming tlie li; ut tire casi' which bolds tne gift. Here also Aieh oases may Is- had concealing .1 1 c
eh cases may tst had ooneealing 1 ■v kdrchiaf, a bit uf jewelry or other cosil, trifle. But Uie cards in themselves ar< dHsirable. the most costly of them
really works of art.
'•’arious uses are found lor holiday cards by tbs recipients, th* most ra v,-
terj at canister range or a yellow fever ship under such an excitement? It was not my Intention to write a temperance lecture when 1 set out, but I sometimes blunder into virtue. Ladies, especially those of you who are mothers and wives, think of it? and then if you will start the men in drunk on the first day of the year, don’t wwfliuii if they remain so
the other 364 da vs.”
! bushels per acre, say two-thirds as much 1 per acre as the winter wheat States east of the Mississippi, where farming ' has variety and wheat comes in rotation. In ten years, comparing the present with the previous census, the in- ! creased production in these four winter wheat Slates amounted to 78,000,000 bushels, ami only 34,000,000 in the 1 spring wheat territory. In ono case improved culture and tile draining i.s ! increasing tlie rate oi yield; and tho ! other, perpetual cropping and pioneer and “ bonanza” farming arc slowly exI haustingthe original fertility of the soil. This is not exceptional, but a rule, i Every State between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean furnishes proof of the fact that low yields result from con- | staut cropping. The county of largest area and production in the United States is Colusa, in Northern California, with 261,381 acres and 4,537,504 bushels—17.4 bushels per acre. San Joaquin, in the same State, has 201,461 acres and 3,527,511 bushels —17.5 bushels per acre. Goodhue County, in Minnesota, with 199.142
uu
Headquarters for holiday goods a Kiefer’s. 3l34 The best rubber boots in town at F. A. Hays’. 3t34 Call and see those moss rose French China tea sets, decorated chamber sets, tete tele sets, fancy plates, Ac., at Goodbar A Son's. -it' 0 ) l
dreams of sunny
days in Italy and an easy path to success: Keep your daughters at home unless you cau give her protection in watchful friends uud an independent income. 1 say to you. mothers, that you are sending your daughters into
temptation that you do not appreciate. Children’s Hoods and knit sacks They will be tried and tempted as you i at F. A. 11 avs. 3t34
can not imagine. My investigations in 1
Italy have led me to believe that your 1 ■■■ —Goodoar & Son have the largest daughters need not go abroad; that we stock of decorated wares ever kept in have good masters here. I think it en- this city. 4(34
tirely unnecessary for their ordinary; musical education. When that is finished then send them to Italy for a short period to receive tho finishing 1 touches and to learn certain roles, and then to return. Before they go you
will have discovered witether their 1“*' 4 ill voices wil warrant that Italian trip. g , ..a Generally you can see for yourself that ))l<ll( <ll
it is a useless undertaking But do not think that an average merit will open |
the stage doors of Italian opera houses. - ..i ■■ n ——.
It will not. And I say this to you on j the word of more than'one, more than
fifty American girls whom 1 saw there, iHERE S MONEY for YO J ^
as many of whom as 1 could 1 sent to 1 their homes in America.” From nn | Interview with Miss Kellogg, in the Sew
York Herald.
--Atmore’s, Mince Meat,the cleanest and
it the Tinted
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Isaac A Kahn
Severe winter weather is being 1
acres, produces 2,415,891 bushels—12.1 | pericnecd at the t ape of Good Hope.
W ill pax lb- lliulicsl rrice
'ash
bushels per acre, while Saint Clair I Snow has fallen in many districts of the j County, Illinois, which has the largest | colony. The face of Table Mountain |■
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x^ouiuy, luiuuis, which nas me largest colony. tne taco 01 tituie mountain T) J TT , p ft-l P IT 1 breadth ia wheat of any county east of j was lately for some hours covered with UGtlU. ilO^Sj L>£ttll6 & IlOrSGSj
the Mississipju, produces 2,959,444 suow.
! bushels on U).712 aeres-twenty bush- ,, -.[At their HenUcriiiK Factory, near the j els per acre, and becomes third in rank -The orange is th-longest lived fruit | ( mi | f , * , f Aroem'istic in production in the Hat of wheat-grow- tree known and isreputedto have riour- ” ’ ......
i tog counties of the United States. The ; ished three hundred years. i
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