FARM AND HOUSEHOLD California Wood Chopperv. II is in the logging camps that a stran ger will be most interested in the east; fur there 4 will see and feel the bigness of the redwoods. A man in Humboldt county got out of one tree lumber enough to make his house and barn, and fence in two acres of ground. A schooner was filled with shingles made from a single Area. One tree in Mendocino, whose remains were shown to me, made a mile of railroad ties. Trees fourteen fea in diameter have been frequently found and cut down ; the saw logs are often Split apart with wedges because the entire mass is too large to float in the narrow 'and shallow streams, and I have even seen them blow a log apart with gunpowder. A tree four feet in diameter is called under-sized in these woods; and so skillful are wood-choppers that they can make the largest giant of the forest fall just where they want it, or, ,s they say, they "drive a stake with a tree." The choppers do not stand on the ground, but on stages raised to such a height as to enable the ax to strike in where the tree attains its fair and regular thickness; 1* the redwood, like the se quoia, swells at the base, near the ground. These trees prefer steep hill sides, and grow in extremely rough and broken country, and their great height makes it necessary to fell them carefully, lest they should, falling with such enormous weight, break to pieces. This constantly happens in spite of every precaution, and there is little doubt that in these forests and at the mills two feet of wood are wasted for every foot of lumber sent to market. To mark the direction line on which the tree is to fall, the chopper us nally drives &stake into the ground a bur. deed or a hundred and arty feet the form base of the tree, and it is actually com mon to make the tree fall upo i this.stake, so straight do these red woods stand, and so accurate is the skill of the cutters. To fell a tree eight feet in diameter is called a day's work fur a man.— Harper's Maga zine. Fanning to Ads - untage. —o— I have known two kinds of industri onstarmers. Ido not include the slug— gish and negligent. But of the real hard workers, there are two distinct classes. They both rise with dawn and work aft er dark, and are worthy of success ; bat one class fails for want of proper thought and management. 'I hese will put their energies into one piece of work and neg lect other things which need them more. I knew one man who was so intent on fi .- fishing a piece of board fence, that he worked hard at it at the very time that the weeds in his root crop grew from one inch high to ten inches, increasing the labor of cleaning out at least ten fold, and reducing his crop about one half. Another buys costly tools and lets them rust and rot in the fields because he is so busy with something else, although the labor of housing would be a mere noth ing. Another builds a costly barn, and uses up his means for manuring, caltiva ing and draining, when cheaper things would have answered. Another works a wet field year after year at great cost and inconvenience, and with small nsult , because he is to busy to underdrain it. He does everything at a disadvantage. Very different is the course of the good manager. He looks at all his work—has it mapped out before him—estimates ac ourately the labor to accomplish each job, and the time when it should be 'done to prevent loss, and then goes on systemati cally. It does not require genius - to do this, but common sense, and for the farm er to keep his wits about him. This is what makes a man practical and slimes fnl. Now for the Serd It is a good time and a good plan at this season of the year to be oh the 10t..k -out for seeds for the coming season and to prepare (if it has n•st already been done) such seeds as one products himself cleansing and assorting it for the seeding . Then the selection of new seed—of seed of new grains and roots—should be a part of every farmer's business these months. Grass seed, seed _grains, and vegetables ca. be bought cheaper for cash now than two months hence. Besides there should be an eager search for infor mation as to the Merits and adaptation of new things to one's own needs and local flies. This can only be obtained by in quiry through papers devoted (in whole or in part) to give agricultural informa tion, wherein farmers exchange their opinicne and experiences relative to what- I ever is new or called new under the eau. This is a hint that may be acted upon without wisdom. flow to Make Fence Poste Last. A correspondent of the Western Rural says : I dtacovered many years ago that wood could be made to last longer than iron; in the ground, but thought the pro cess so simple and inexpensive that it was not worth whAtigraaking any etir about it. 1 would as soon have poplar, basswood or ash as any other kind of tim ber fur fence posts. 1 have taken out basswood poses after having been set sev en years, that were as sound when taken up as when they were first pat in the ground. Time and weather seemed to hare 1.0 effect on them. The pools can tie prepared for less than twoeenisapi e ee. Fur the benefit of others I wilt give the recipe : Take boiled linseed ;Aland stir it itr pulverized charcoal to the eousist ene y of paint. Pnt a coat of this Over the tirril•er. :MO es.• Mit TrPti HUMOROUS. Confidential. We hear a good story of a man who went to the frontier to aeo a friend. The family consisted of the husband and his two grown sons. The good old lady was the only one of the family who did not take some of the "Oh be joyful." Sitting by the fire a few minutes, the old man tipped him a wink, and the visitor follow him out. Stopping by a tree, he took out a long-neck bottle remarking : '•I have to keep it hid, for the boys may get to drinking, and the old woman would raise the deuce." They took a drink and returned to the fireside. Soon Tom, the elder eon, asked the visitor out to see the colt, and taking him behini the barn, pulled out a flask remarking : "I have kept this bid, for the old man will get drunk, and the deuce is to'pay." and they both took a think and returned Soon Bob stepped on the visitor's tr e and walked off, the visitor following. As they reached the pig pen, Bob drew out a good-sized bottle, remarking : "Yon know the old man and Tom will get drunk, and I have to bide ihis." The vtsitor concluded he could not drink confidentially with the whole fam ily, and started for home. A Bud Mule. A farmer in this county, says a North Carolina paper, has a mule so awfully contrary that he can do nothing with it,. Put him in harness, and it is hard to say which way he will travel. Pot a saddle on him, and he appears to doze; but try to monit him, and he will all of a sod den kick every way, straight out, straddle bug, with all four legs at once. As to eating, he will eat anything from his feed trough up to a wooden saddle. The own er took a notion to have him shod, but he kicked out the blacksmith shop and re turned home. The owner tried to kill him some time back, so he tied his ears with a trace chain and rode him for six consecutive days and nights, as hard as he could under whip and spur. The fact is, he nearly killed himself in the effort, and bad to be carried up stairs to bed, and his firm belief was that the mule would die that night, but, to his astonishment, the next morning he found that the mule had kicked to death a Chester hog weighing 300 pounds, bit a phee out of his horse's shoulder, ate up a saddle, blanket and bridle, tore down the fence and was splurging about more del.- elish than' ever, to find something else meaner to do. "Julius, is you better this mornin'?" No, I was better yisterday, but got over it.' Am der no hopes den ob your dis covery?" "Discovery of what ?" "Your discoery from der convalessents dat futched you on your back." "Dat de pends altogether Mr. Suow, on the pro nostitication dat amplify de disease; if dey should terminate fatally de doctor thinks Julius is a done nigger, shoula dry not terminate fatally, he hopes die colored individual won't die till anoder tlme." An elderly lady who was handling a set of lase teeth in a dental office, and ad miring the fluency with which the doctor described them, asked him, "can a body eat %rah these things ?" "My dear mad ame, mastication can be performed with a facility scarcely equal to nature itself," re. sponded the doctor. "Yes, I know, but can a body eat with them?" said the old lady. "Can't you manage to give my son one of the prizes at the exibition ?"asked a mother of a teacher. "No, madam," was the reply ; "your son will stand no chance; he obstinately persists in idleness." "Oh, but then," exclaimed the fond mamma, "if that's so, you can give him a prize for perseverance I" The Corning Gazelle Bays that there are at the present time but four young men in that town who part their hair iu the middle. One year ago they number ed over twenty, but death and the lunatic asylum and penitentiary have cut down their number to the pi esent figures. A gentleman who takes a business view of most things, when recently asked re specting a person of quite a pectic tem perament, replied, "Oh, he is one of those men wtio have soarings after the infinite and divings after the unfathomable, but who never pay cash." A gentleman, visiting an Irishman, ob served a monster pig strutting about the house, and asked how they got "such a brute up those two stairs." 'May it plase yer honor," said Paddy, "it was never down to be tuk up." "Building castles' In Spain, Mr. S.?" said the landlady to Spencer, who was thoughtfully regarding his breakfast 'cup. "No ma'nue" said Spencer," only looking over my grounds in Jaya." Next to the sweetness of having a fnend whom yon can titist, is the con cenitnce of possessing a friend who occasionally trust you. Wby should Pennsylvania oil counties be surrounded by water ? Because they are ile-londs.- 9eurge Sands saga, "I doh% like money but I do love to spend Young ladies economy—tteser throw away u good match. The iitierest diet—eating your own Macellaneons. BILLINGS STROUD, General' 1 DISURANCE AGENT, 3%lCcristr cols.°. Pa. Capital nepresentod. P 100,000,000 I FIRE, LIFE AND ACCIDENT INCUR RACE Home Ins. Cg., N. Y., Capital and Surplus, $4,000,000 Hartford Fire 1n.., Co.. Capital and Surplus $3,000,000. Liverpool. London & Olobo $20.000.000 Ins. Co. of North America 3.250,000 Penn. Piro Inn. Co , Phila., .200.0e0 National. Phil's. &SKIM . ... . . . Ins. Co„ Stara of Ponn'a 5400,0011 Colon ?donna .. $400,000 Lynamln: Fire $6,000.000 Nerrapinrett, Providence. 6. I. .. 500.000 Merchants' •• 430,000 Clay, - • " Clay, of New Port, Ky. 230.000 " Newtown, of Hoek. Co. 300 000 Alernmanie. of Cie'eland. " 400000 Lancaster Fire One. Co. .• 330,000 Fire Association of Phil*. 2,000.000 liorne istek. Co..Columl,rn 0. Lehigh Valley Fire, Allentown, Citizens Fire Ins Newark. Na . . _ South Side 1133 Co.Plitsborg,Pa." 1.10.C0U Alcmmania of Pittsburg, 400.000 The undersigned le SPECIAL AC/ENT for the follow ing companies for Northern Penneylvartla : Fire Association of Philadelphia. National Fire Ineorance Company of Philadelphia. The Insurance Cu. of the State of Pentleylvania,of Philadelphia. X-a XN • Conn. Ifotsal Life It.. Co., Atnr , tte F.4.lloo ,ooll American Life, Phil's. $4,500,01.10 cicsx-romr±vw. Travelers Ins.Co .Ilartfonl,Capitaland Suzyll42.ooo.oofi Railway Passengers -, t 3150,000. Tbe nndersigned has been well known In ibl•connty.fro tbepast 17years,asi an fasurance Agent. Losses snabdued by his Cumnalnies have always been promptly paid. Offies first door east from Banking Omen of W B. Cooper ZaCo..Turnpikest.biontrose,Ta. BILLINGS ST'AOUTI, Agent. cniattEs 11. smrru. solicitor,. liontro.o. Dee. 24. Om Miner ck Coate DEALERS IN • FLOUR, GROCERIES, and PROVISIONS, MAIN STREET, • ThSointroale, X. Jane 23, 1873.—d. THE INDEPENDENT Sewing Machine ! THE GREATELT IHVEIT OF THE AGE Sews from but One Spool of Thread It has but six working parts: Is nceseless. and seers more rapidly than any filachine In the 31r rhet. Has a self-sating Strais Nthlle It Comblrmo Durability with Beauty and Simplicity.aoo Lan all the Modern Icaprtrrelut A FIRST.CLASS M ACILEYE • A BLACIL WALNUT TABLE FUR 835. 86cosatis 1M7r423. 311:a. TUE INDEPENDENT SEWING A..CIIINEC" Dec. 24, 1573. Bit,ltamton. N. Y EAGLE COAL IrARD! At Coon's Crossing, (Terminus of the Montrose Railroad.) T3lae Meat Cc)zia Ever offered to the people of Montrone and Vicinity. Raving had long experience to the butanes., the ander. elgned guarantee eetiefartion every time. Coal as free from !flair and dirt could be desiring. PRiCES—Terms Cash: Eoa, S4.T. STOVE, f 4 Cur.vcr-r. I I.SO 0. D. STEBBINS & CO Feb. 11, IRA.- Ir. INT .10 1;717 .1E" .IFL. M In Lanesboro. HOBERT & MAIN, b'vthZ are prepared N r aEOli Makin BlacismilhlßE : FROM A WHEELBARROW TO A COACH. REPAIRING IN ANT PART OP THE BUSINESS will receive prompt attention. HOBERT fit MAIM Lanesbortr. Po., Oct. 15, 1813.-tf. Marble Works J. H. DAnAcs. I 0 S. Harem. I H. G. BLAssmo. —O-- BIMGILAMTON MARBLE WORKS. [EerrAnzusioto 11 1540.] BARNES BROS. & BINDING 9 DEALERS L 4 AND MANUFACTURERS OP 4mtrican parblrs, AMERICAN AND SCOTCH GRANITES, Marble and Slate Menne°, Chenango St., Near Depot, May 14.1825. • BINOHAITTON. N. Y. BINGHAMTON MARBLE WORKS. ALL KENDS OF MONUMENTS. DEADSTONES, AND MARBLE MANTLES, MADE TO ORDER Also, SCOTCH GRARITES on hand. J. PICKERING & J. PICKERING, e 126 Court Street, G. W.UPESEREAE. 1.• Q. r. ratowx. Dinglusmtan, N. Y Clothing, etc. NEW STOCK OF Hai WINTER DRESS GOODS Shawls, Oloakings, Flannels, Blankets, etc NEW FALL STOCK OF MILLINERY GOODS Ladles' and Misses' Trimmed Hats, VELVETS, RIBBONS, Era NEW FALL 4 WINTER STOCK HEM MIN tUITRINE BOYS'. YOUTBS'. AND MENS C/CIWILPIAZPriII Si'I7XTEO. NEW FALL CASSIMERES, COATINGS. Bad Nrostirages, run CUSTOM WORK NEW STOCK OF Hato coo Capes. FALL STOCK OF LADIES', MISSES Boys' and Men's MERINO WRAPPERS & DRAWERS. NEW FALL STOCK LazaciZors' cssaci. FURNISHING GOODS IVENT CARPET'S AND OIL CLOTHS All the above rpm ib large variety at lite rare of Guttenberg, Rosenbaum 8 Co., )t. N. 1.,M511.:ER, Idanatr.l,l; Yurtspet liostrose, F.pt. 24. 1*,.. THE BOTTOM Has Fallen Out of DXY GOO fa, . -AT- C. B. PERRY & CO.'S, BINGIIAIITON, N. Y An Immense Stock Just Botght from THE GREAT FAILURES of New England, at prices CHEAPER THAN EVER BEFORE KNOWN Hinglarnton. Noe. 12. 1873 -If. R. 17.1E7 PL 3ER. Irr 11", Would UII attcutiou to Mu New Stock of FALL AND WINTER GOODS, Now on pale, In new D 27 cOOODa L LADIES' DRESS GOODS, BLACK AND CO wOll ED ALPACAS, \/ NEW STYLE OF PRINTS, SHAWLS, WATER-PROOFS, FLA N NELS, BALM OR AL, AND 1100 P SKIRTS. VELVETS, HOSIERY, HEAVY WOOL GOODS, CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, PA PER HANGINGS. BUFFA LO AND LAP ROBES, FURS. HATS AND CAPS; BOOTS A-+l3 SHOES, HARDWARE.IRON,N A HA STEEL, STOVES Am; GROCERIES, ETC. In great variety, and will be sold on the most favorable terms, and lowest prices. H. BURRITT. New Milford, Jan. 28th. 1874. v RECKHOW £ BROTHER. • - • • __ General tradertalrers DEALERS TN ALL KINDS OF COF FINS, CASKETS, ETC., C2I , It.ZIELT 131EINID, Pozuck.'ft ALL ORDERS rnomPTLY ATTENDED TO Itzczewit Bao A nril Pf3.ISMI. If Drugs and Medicines, Dr. ACWalker's California Vinegar Bitters'Are n purely Vegetable preparation. made chiefly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, the medicinal pro perties of which are extracted/ therefrom without the nse of .11c.iltol. The quest:ton ivralmost daily •• What is the ena:4l of the nn 11 1 para. , .. sneers, of Vrsvo so BlT rests? ' Onr :1114aTr i that thet r 11105 e the cance of dtse a,o. nivi the patient refs,- ers his health. flex are the prat blood purifier nu I a life-giving principle, a o , rft rt Renovator and Invicr,rator of the sy-tern. Never beton , in the hi-tore tLeanrld h as a medicine been .s- na p o sti d e ,l the iemarkaltle qualities of VINEr, kit Prrrros in healing the sick of every d :sense men is heir to. They ,re a gentle ParLato., well no a Ttude, relieving Congestion or In.. flaallaat ital of the Liver ad VI: eeral Organs, in Bilious Itis.-ases. If men will ciijoy cood health, let theta iv,. V' lG SU V.111'11,1 Itt , a I.lt•dicipe, and avoid the 11Se Of 111C0)10:1C iu overy lona. No Person 4n take these 'Bitters according to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not de stroyer" by mineral poison or other means, and vital organs wasted beyond repair. Grateful Thousands proclaim Voinoan 13rrrims the most wonderful Invignraut that ever sustained the sinking system. Bilious, Remittent, and Interimltm tent Fevers, which are so, prevalent in the valleys of our great rivers throughout the United States, especially those of the Mis sissippi, Ohio, Mlssouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Ciunberland, Arkansas, Red, Colorado, Bra zos, Rio Grande, Pearl, Alabama, Mobilo, Savannali,Roanolte,James,and many others, with their vast tributaries, throughout our satire country during the Summer and Au tumn, and remarkably so during seasons of unusual heat and dryness, are invariably accompanied by extensive derangements of the stomach and liver, and other abdominal viscera. lit their treatment, a purgative, exerting a powerful influence upon these various organs, is essentially necessary. There is no cathartic for the purpose equal to Da. J. WALKER'S VINEO LN BITTELB, as they will speedily remove the ,Lark-colored visual matter with which the bowels are loadcd, at the same time stimulating the secretions of the liver, and generally restor ing the healthy func.iona u 1 tae dtgestivo organs. 'Dyspepsia or Indisrest ion, 11-winch°, Pain in the Shoulders, - Cougha, Tightness of the Chest. Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Ba ious At taoks,Palpit:.te m of the Lleart.lntlam• mation of the L . mgs, Pain in the region of the Ki.l.:eys, and a hundred ather painful symptoms, are the 0r,%1,ria,. , s of Dysp,psia. Ono bottle will pros • a better guarantee Of its merits than a he a iv-rtis.,ment. Scrofula, or Ki ng's witite L'lcerA, Neek, Serufulo.t, I,ll.a.o.aatioun, Indeleut Mercurial ALT,etioni, Old bores, Erunti , na of S 1 ,n, Sore Eyes, etc., ia as in i.. 11 constitu too“al Dis,Aaea,ll%.:.REl3 . ll - INEjAN Brrrnns have ,rest ~iiratise rowers in the rauJt intractable canes. For lollainnktiary anti (Ironic. Rhelniatisni. and Intonuith ase. of the Blood, Liver, Ki.ln , ,ya, and Liaddor, these BAtei-a hay,. no e•iu.l l . Such lii,eases are caused 1.. y. VI t !At,' Meehan ii . 3l I)l:l:"..Ltega Persona en gaged in l'aiuts and Minerals, such am Plumber;, T:,pc,sultors, Gold-beat,rs, and Miners, au tiAcy adv„Luco iu life, are subject to parAlyas of the To guard agaiust thin. 1. , ,ae a dose of \Vailizu's Ku 01 Bin. ICS For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Totter, Salt Rheum, Sp A., Pimples, Pus tules, Boils, t Itinspv"ruts, Read, Sr.o Eyes, Scurfs, Disebluraticus of the S.Uri, Humors and Diseases of tho tilidu of whatever name or nature, are liierally dug up and carried out of the s% Awn in a short time by the use of these Bitters. Yin, Tape, and other Worms, lurk ing iL the stxta of so inituy th0n,,,,,15, aro effectually destroycq and reur,ved. No sys tem of medicine, no rem fugue, no antltel rmruttcs, nili freo tho eyetera from worms like those Bittern. For Female Compluints,in young or old, married or t•iugle, at the dawn of NVOIll• anhood or the t irn of life, thee 'Louie Bit ters ,lisplay Lit teldV.l an influence Unit improveamut m soon perceptible. Jaundice.—ln all cases of jaundice, rest assured that your liver is not doing its work. The only sensible treatment is to promote the secretion of the bile and favor its re movaL Fur this purpose use Vpx.aan Brr- TAMS. Cleanse the. Vitiated Blood when ever you find its impurities bursting through the skin in Pimples, Eruptions, or Sores; cleanse it when you Lind it obstructed and sluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it is foul; your feelings will tell you when. Keep the blood pure, and the health of,the system will follow. IL. 0. I,IcOONALD t, CO., Druggists and o