IART tlTTI.K ORES.
t eomotlmee look beyond the gateways golden.
When sleep comoe silently,
And there within the Savlor'a urine anfblden
The little onee t aee
The little ooei that In the ulari tiro olden
. Were kaesed by yon end me.
I aee no longing In their tender facoa ;
; Vpon their dimpled cheeke
. No touch of car hae left lte fearful trocoa,
No pain for pity tpeake
TheJ laugh and sing In happiest of plocoa.
Through all the Sabbath woeka.
1 wonder If aa4 their ( leefal tinging
Perchance) they erer mlae
mother'e loft eareaa around them ellnglnj ,
fier freaaent, leTln klaa ;
Or V they wait ner omtot for the bringing
Of yet a sweeter bUaa.
And then, when ilaep hot Bed, and with It dreaming,
I lie with open eyei,
And Weep to find ae real a thing was seeming,
In sorrowful enrprlto,
Till through tne darkneaa there doel come a gleaming
from out the amlllng aide.
And aottly then a roloe ealth to my weeping,
" 'Twaa not a dream yon had,
Tonr little onea are aafe within my keeping,
Bo wherefore, then, be aad t"
And e'er my heart a holy joy cornea oreeplng,
That makoa me atranaoly glad.
I
THE EARTH AND THE SUK.
Exceptional Phenomena of the Present
Season The) Son's Connection with the
Earth.
An eminent scientist addresses the
following letter to the N. T. Ktening
Pott :
In your editorial article yesterday on
The Wrath of the Elements" you rofer
to the previous occurrence of the unusual
phenomena experienced d firing the pres
ent summe-, and quote from Cowper's
Task " to show that similar ones ap
peared in 1783 that is, eighty-nine years
ago. The simultaneous recurrence of
these phenomena must suggest, even to
the unscientific mind, that they are pro
duced by a common cause, and scientific
men have done much towards establish
ing this simple induction as an ascer
tained fact. The common cause to which
all investigations unmistakably point is
the sun, the periodio variation of whose
spots meets a sympathetic response in
the electrical conditions of the earth.
For the benefit of the unscientific
reader it may be well to explain 4in a
word the nature of sunspots. The sun
is supposed to be a solid body, enveloped
in an atmosphere of incandescent metal
lic vapors, called the photosphere, from
which we receive our light and heat.
This (caseous envelope, instead of being
uniformly spread over the surface of the
sun, is at times broken into immense
chasms, at the bottom of which parts of
the solid war of the sun are visible as
black spots. The cause of these spots
and their relation to terrestrial phe
nomena have long been the subject of
deep investigation with astronomers,
and the results of these investigations
are likely, at no distant day, to have an
important oearing on the duties of our
meteorological roporters.
Butwithout anticipating those reftnUs,
it is especially interesting to know what
has been definitely ascertained in regard
to certain aspects of a body with which
our own planet is so intimately connect
ed. I shall quote only the most trust
worthy authorities, and thence draw
such conclusions as may seem pertinent.
THE SCW A VARIABLE STAR.
Here I quote from the interesting lit
tle astronomical work of J. Norman
Leckyer, the editor of Nature : " Some
spots cover millions of square miles, and
remain for months ; others are visible
only in powerful instruments, and are of
very short duration. There is a great
. difference.in the number of spots visible J
minimum period, when none are seen for
weeks together, and a maximum period,
when more are seen than at any other
time. The interval between two maxi
mum or two minimum periods is about
eleven years. New, as we must get less
light from the sun when it is covered
with spots than when it is free from them,
we may look upon it as a variable star,
with a period of eleven years."
CATJSB OF SUNSPOTS.
Here I quote from the works of Pro
fessor Norton, of Yale College: The
sun's spots are for the most part develop
ed by or ii some way connected with the
operation of a physical agency exerted
by the planets upon the photosphere.
This remark able fact has been conclusive
ly established by the observations of
Bchwabe, Oarrington, Becchi and others ;
and especially by the detailed discussion
to which all the reliable observations
upon the spots made during the last one
hundred years have been subjected by
Professor Wolf, of Zurich. The planets
which exercise the greatest influence are
Jupiter and Venus. The planetary
agency is directly recognised in the
rigination of the spots on the part of
the sun surface brought by the rotation
nto favorable position. It is
lso shown by the dependence of the
epochs of the maximum and minimum
of spots upon the positions of the planets,
especially of Jupiter and Venus.
EFFECTS OT SUNSPOTS UPON THE EARTH,
We have just seen that the variations
01 the sunspots are accompanied by cor
responding variations in the supplies of
light and teat received at the earth
from the an ; but more important re
sults are noticed. To continue the quo
tation from J-iOck) r ; " it is also known
that the magnetic needle has a period
of the same length (eleven years), its
greatest oscillations ccurnng when
there are most sunspots. Aurora) and
the currents of electricity, which trav
erse the earth's surface, are affected by a
similar period."
This is sufficient to demonstrate the
existence of some connection between
the solar spots and the electrical condi
tion of the earth ; and when it is re
membered that electricity and magnet
ism are themselves but imperfectly
understood, no one will wonder that the
precise nature of this connection re
mains unexplained. Mr. Schuster, ef
Manchester, also remarks i Nature
upon the close coincidence of the years
in which the wine crop of Germany has
been unusually good and those in which
there m a minimum of sunspots.
The Very intensity of the heat from
which we nave suffered during the sum
mer is clearly attributable to the culmi
nating power of the sun's rays. The
phenomenal brilliance of the recent
auroras may be attributed to electrical
disturbances from the same cause, for
the aurora is now generally recognised
as an electrical phenomenon ; while the
thunderstorms which have proved so
destructive are only another manifesta
tion of the same disorganization. The
cloudbursts, waterspouts and hurricanes
can only be referred to the capricious
ness of the heat and the electrical dis
turbances. But all these things happened eighty
nine yearl ago. The sua at that time
was in the same condition in whioh it
is now, having gone through the com
plete list of its changes eight times in
the interim for 89 is almost exactly
divisible by 11, giving us the quotient
8, Doubtless theso same phenomena
have recurred, though in a less marked
degree, every eleven years since Cowper
wrote. Gibbon remarks upon the sim
ultaneous appearance of comets, earth
quakes, famine and pestilence in the
Roman empire during the reign of Jus
tinian, and refers the depopulation of
some of the fairest parts ot the globe to
that ill-omened period.
So far 1 have made no attempt to ex
plain the connection of comets, earth
quakes and meteors with the other phe
nomena, but this seems no difficult task.
Comets are only planets of long periods
of revolution, and our skies are never
afflicted with meteors except when the
earth is crossing the track of an innu
merable host of minute planets, which are
probably the remains of some large
planet broken into fragments and flying
together in a very large orbit. Now,
when these comets and meteoric bodies
are in the neighborhood of the sun, is it
not natural to suppose that they may
co-operate with the planets Jupiter and
Venus to aggravate the solar disturb
ances and to intensify tho corresponding
terrestrial phenomena?
I shculd be at a loss to find any con
nection between the earthquakes and
the other phenomena, but fortunately
Professor Zollner comes to my reliof
with a new theory of terrestrial magnet
ism, which, however, it is woll to take
turn, grano. One part pf this theory is,
that the general phenomena of terres
trial magnetism are related to the cur
rents of the inner liquid mass of the
earth, and that whatever affects these
currents, as, for instance, volcanoes, re
acts immediately upon the magnetism
of the earth.
Now, if earthquakes and volcanoes af
foct the magnetism of the earth, why
may not violent disturbances ot tnis
magnetism, vice versa, produce volcanoes
and earthquakes, by disturbing the
equilibrium of the inner mass of tho
earth. In fact, it would seem as if
Professor Zollner's theory was produced
solely to explain this coincidence of
earthquakes with the other phenomena
which have been the objects of your at
tention. We have then not only a simple ex
planation of the phenomena which have
been recently witnessed, but a valid
reason why they must have occurred
before in the Bame manner at regular
intervals. It is to the sun that theBe
terrestrial manifestations are duo, and as
that luminary yields up his secrets to
tho thousands ot importunate astrono
mers who are daily questioning him,
these and many other things now but
imperfectly underatood will be made so
plain that he who runs may read. Upon
meteorology the results must be most
decided. To charts of wind and cloud
there will be added a knowledge of the
lightning, when and whence it cometh,
and, the important question, whither it
goeth.
Our almanacs may hereafter be made
out fer general use, not for one year in
advance, but tor ten, and it there is any
reliance to be placed upon Professor
Zollner's theory it seems plausible, at
least the prediction ot a tidal wave
may cer.se to be the humbug and canard
it was universally -pronounced to be a
yc-ur ago.
The Best Society.
"No company, or good company,
was a motto given by a distinguished
man to all his young friends. It was a
motto he had always endeavored to fbl
low as far as lay in his power, and it was
a very wise one.
Another man, of high position in the
world made it a rule to associate with
high-minded, intelligent men, rather
than with fashionable idlers ; and he
said he had derived more intellectual
improvement from them than from all
the beoks he ever read.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton often
spoke of the great benefits he had de
rived from his visits to a particular fam
ily. Their words and example stimu
lated him "to make the most of his
powers. " It has given a color to my
whole life," he said. Speaking of his
success at the university, he remarked,
" I can ascribe it to nothing but my vis
its to this family, where I caught the
infection of seli-improvement.
Surely, if our visits have such an in
fluence upon our characters for life, it
should be a matter of serious importance
to us in what families we allow our
selves to be intimate. Boys and girls
form attachments very easily, and often
with very little forethought. In this,
as in all things else, you should not fail
to take advice of those who are older
and wiser, and never, never chooso for a
mend one against whom you have been
warned by those who dearly love you.
There are people whose very presenee
seems to lift you up into a better, high
er atmosphere. Choose such associates
whenever it is in your power, and the
more you can live in their society the
better, for both mind and heart. " He
that walketh with wise men thrill be
wise ; but a companion of fools shall bo
destroyed.
Hired Mourners.
All about London, says an English
correspondent, you see advertised " cheap
tunerals. xou can be shrouded, coma'
ed, and buried, with four mourners, for
about twenty dollars. Of course these
mourners don't know who you are, what
you are, where you came from, or where
you are going to, but they will look as
if you were the last friend they had or
expected to have on earth, with a yard
of black crape dangled and waving from
their hats like so many pirate flags ; and
when you are covered up, they will ad
journ to the dearest publio house, and
over their porter and cheese prays for
some one else to die as soon as possible,
with cash enough to be mourned over,
No cash here, no mourners. All these
professional mourners have red faces and
bottle noses, black suits, second-hand,
well inked at the seams, and black gloves
one-third too large. The friends and
relatives within the carriages have all
the semblance of woe on them. The last
appear contented, and many never enjoy
a ride in a coach save on such mournful
occasions. Who ever saw any one shed
tears at a city funeral P If you would
have your friends "weep not for me
when I am gone," die in the metropolis.
Tears are for the country, along with
dew, flowers, sunshine, snakes and hop
toads.
About -5,000 steel shuttles tor sew
ing machines, embracing twenty pat
terns, are turned out monthly by the
Billings and 8pencer Manufacturing
Uompany. ot Hartford, Uonn.
Being Sociable.
Some people display a wondorful tact
for unsociability. It is not so much by
their silenoe, their modesty, or their re
serve, as by a peculiar disposition they
manifest an indefinable atmosphere in
which they envelop thomselves so as to
repel the advances and resist the invita
tions of others. Indeed, those who say
little and listen muoh and well are al
ways popular in society. It was Miss
Edgeworth who, after talking with
oharniing and incessant volubility to a
aeat mute tor an hour, remarked that
he was one of tho most intelligent and
interesting persons she ever met. Often
times those who talk most have least
real sociability. Their gabble hides
their utter want of social feeling and
personal sympathy. Their prattle is
purely selfish, mechanical, and cold.
Volubility and vacancy seem to be nat
urally related te each other, and often
times the tongue is the substitute for
thought instead of its organ. Socia
bility and loquacity may exist in the
same porson ; but generally the one
who talks the most thinks and feels the
least.
True, sociability is a matter of senti
ment, of mind, of character, rather than
of words. It comes from a surplus of
sympathy, of kind feelings, of personal
regards, of contagious interest in things
and thoughts. It is the overflow of the
generous and kindly qualities of the
heart, those which knit us most closely
and tenderly to others, and the family
to which we belong. All real interest
in others, all quick and generous sym
pathy, all desire to communicate with
others, and share in their experiences,
and participate in their life, enter as
constituents into a truo sociability . It
is the humanity in us in communica
tion with the hum unity without us
which makes the charm and sweetness
and value of social intercourse. The
hard and selfish nature is unsocial. The
proud, vain, self-seeking temper destroys
sociability, i'eople who care only tor
themselves may run against others ev
ery moment, but their contact is as pure
ly mechanical as the attrition of logs in
a river, or pebbles on the beach. The
talk which comes from no kind impulse
and no kindling regard, but is manu
factured by will merely becauso it is ex
pected, is as destitute of social quality
as the bellows which make a breeze
when pressed ; and the talk made to dis
play the speaker's wit or cleverness or
earning is exhibition but not conversa
tion.
A great deal of the calling and twit
tering and my-dcaring have no more
real connection with sociability than
the flowers and feathers on a woman's
hat have with her head. They are pure
ly artificial, and tacked on by the milli
ner. There is a vast deal of social mil
linery, however, which passes for Na
ture s handiwork j and people are otton
praised for their fine social qualities
merely because they are adepts in the
art of saying pretty nothings by the
hour, and exhibiting themselves in other
people a drawing-rooms in an entertain
ing way. And, en the other hand, those
who are eminently social in nature and
spirit are often condemned as unsocia
ble because they say littlo, and do not
care to exhibit themselves and turn
their hearts inside out for other peoplo
to admire. Perhaps they are deficient
in the graces of cultivated society ; they
may not have the gift ot rapid utter
ance or sparkling repartee ; they may
find it hard to intrude their thoughts
and feelings upon others while more
variable natures make the air vocal with
their incessant buzz. But behind their
reticence, and beneath the disguise of
modest and unattractive ways, are all
the elements of the truest sociability,
which it requires but the least penetra
tion to discover and the fit occasion to
bring out.
Being sociable requires something
more than ceaseless chattering and gad
ding about. It requires the culture and
expression in all proper and helpful
ways ot those thoughts and sentiments
which are unselfish, generous, sympa
thetic, and human. It means a pervad
ing interest in others and the general
good. It means a pervading interest in
others and the general good. It means
the lively commerce of mind with mind,
and communication ot heart with heart,
by listening as well as by speaking, by
large receptivity as well as generous
giving. And this sociability is just
what is wanted to redeem our social in
tercourse and make our coming together
helpful, stimulative and ennobling.
Church Attire.
Consciences aro much more readily
put at ease in the matter of church'
going than they once were. Mrs. Jones
loses sight of hers in the fact that her
rid bonnet will look shabby beside Mrs,
Smith's new one, although Mrs. Jones's
bonnet was very pretty and becoming
the Sunday before, iler daughter Ara
bella does not attend the evening ser
vice unless invited by Mr. Augustus, for
the reason that Mr. Augustus's coat is
always of " elegant fit," and his gloves
a " delightful color," and he holds the
hymn-book in such " a graceful way ;"
and, vice vena, Augustus invites Arabella
because she is " stylish and " fashion
able," and the " other fellows of his set
wi'l envy him." If you do not believe
this, et.ttid at your window some fair
Sabbath morning while the church bolls
are ringing, and watch the passing
crowd. There is the same pitiful mock
ery from beginning to end. The color
of the dress, the multitudinous trim
mings, the hump at the back where the
waist terminates all the deformities of
fashion in silks and laces are imitated
by the poorer class in cheaper materials,
and Bridget drapes her shawl in exactly
the same way as does her mistress. Join
the crowd, and you will hear as you
pass along that " Mrs. U. has a new silk
of the loveliest shade, that it is made"
but you hurry on, and hear that " Miss
G. has worn the same dress all the sea
son ;" that " Mr. P. has a new diamond
pin ;" that " he is paying attention to
Miss M.;" and that "Miss M. is not
stylish ;" and bo on ad infinitum, were
you not at the church door. Chicago
Pulpit.
The Value of Time. To show us
the worth of time, God, most liberal of
all other things, is exceedingly frugal
in dispensing with that ; tor lie never
gives us two moments together, nor
never grants us a second till be has
withdrawn the first, still keeping the
third in his own hands, so that we are
in perfect uncertainty whether we shall
have it or not. The true manner of
preparing for the last moment is to
spend all the others well, and ever to
expect that. We dote upon this world
as if it were never to have an end ; and
we neglect the next, as if it were never
em
to nave a beginning. xeneitn.
Tho Meat Famine in England.
Food is the ultimate measure of pop
ulation. Malthus holds that population,
increasing geometrically, will always
keep pace with the supply of food ', and,
in spite of his crotchets, the marriage
check philosopher is a shrewd thinker
on all matters relating to economical
scienoe. Indeed, England at this time
is presenting, in a modified manner, the
phenomena he contemplates. In that
country there is a beef-famine. The
agricultural laborer seldom eats beef ;
and it is one of his misfortunes that be
has learned to live on baoon and potatoes
without complaining. It is the handi
craftsmen and their families who are
undergoing the pressure of scarcity.
Since bread became cheap in England,
the artisan classes have increased in
geometrical ratio. Their wages have
been sufficiently good to command for
thorn a Bhare in the luxuries of life ; and,
for twenty years, the skilled workmen
of England have realized the traditional
idea as to beef-fed Englishmen. But a
check on their prosperity has now come
in the article of meat. Beef and mutton
cannot be imported into' England as
grain is imported ; and the farmers,
forced out of the monopoly of wheat, try
to make another of cattle and sheep.
At their bidding, but as a consequence
of tho rinderpest, Parliament has re
strained tho trade in live-stock with the
Continent of Europe; and all the pasture
lands of Ireland, the moors and dales of
Scotland, and the meadows of England,
will not produce sheep and oxen in suf
ficient quantity to satisfy the require
ments of the people of the three king
doms. As for the tinned beef and mut
ton from Australia, Englishmen of all
grades turn from it with something liko
disgust, in spite of the proans of tho
doctors, the superintendents of lunatic
asylums, and the governors of convict
prisons. The result is, dear meat in
England meat at twenty-five cents per
pound, or, reckoning New York values,
forty cents ; and women's meetings from
the Humber to the Tees to denounce the
butchers, and to bind themselves to buy
no more beet until it is again from ten
to fourteen cents per pound. The hus
bands support their wives.
The men, who have compelled their
employers to advance their wages and
to reduce their hours of work, are now
also endeavoring to prevent the neces
sary operation of the law of scarcity.
They will fail; but England has no
cause tor tear. Famine is not imminent
in the land, and cannot be while bread
stuffs are abundant. In truth, this out
cry for beef is a sign of a new era of
plentiful food. Bread-riots mean star
vation and England has had too many
of these ; but dear meat only indicates a
privation that is not intolerable.
The worst that will happen to Eng
land in consequence of it is, that it will
induce more of the better class of work
men to emigrate to America and Austra
lia ; and we shall so far gain by Eng
land's loss. Yet there will be a remedy.
Civilized nations cannot imitate the
cannibal Maoris, and, when they have
no oxen, open shambles for " long-pig ;"
but, with unbounded pasture-lands on
this oontinent and in Australia, there is
no reason why either the Old World or
the Hew should lack a sumciency of
animal food. Some better and more
satisfactory method of meat-preserving
is possible, and an English project for
shipping live cattle from Buenos Avres,
in steamers specially built for the trade,
has a good prospect of success. The
problem is to bring the abundant meat
there is in the world to the men and
women who are hungering for it. It is
not surely an unsolvable problem, and
the man who solves it will not only rank
among the benefactors of his kind, but
will open for himself an inexhaustible
source of wealth.
English Ivy in Rooms.
A writer thus speaks of the winter
decorations of rooms with English ivy
the best of all house plants, perhaps
though many give the preference tor a
single specimen to the Calla Lily.
ibe use of English ivies for the pur
pose of decorating living rooms is more
extensive every year, and cannot be too
highly recommended. ueing very
strong, they will live through almost
any treatment ; but study their peculi
arities, and manifest willingness to
gratify them, and they will grow with-
out stint. Most houses are too hot for
them, as indeed they are for their own
ers. .Neither plants nor peoplo should
have the average temperature over 65
degrees Fahrenheit. Take care not to
enfeeble your ivies by undue heat or
excessive watering, and you will find
they will not seem to mind whether the
sun shines on them or not, or in what
position or direction you find them.
Indeed, so much they will do of them
selves to render a room charming, that
we would rather have an unlimited
number of them to draw upon than
anything else in nature or art. Do you
wish the ugly plain doors that shut off
your entry from your parlor to be arched
or curved, like those in the drawing
rooms of your richer neighbor ; buy a
couple of brackets, such as lamps for
the burning of kerosene are sometimes
placed in, and screw them on the sides
of the door. Put in each a plant of the
ivy, the longer the better ; then train
the plants over the top, against the sides,
indeed any way your fancy dictates.
You need not buy the beautiful nor the
costly pots the flower dealers will advise ;
common glazed ones will answer every
purpose, for by placing in each two or
three sprays of Coliseum ivy, in a
month's time no vestige of the pot can
be discerned through their thick screen.
Consumption.
The census returns for 1870 give val
uable information in regard to this fatal
disease in our country. Cold and near
ness to the bea are specially favorable to
its development. The New England
States average about twenty-five per
cent, of deaths from consumption ; that
is, one in every four deaths is from this
disease. New York is a .little less
twenty per cent.; Illinois, eleven per
cent. ; Colorado eight, and Utah only
Bix per cent. ; California, on the Paoifio
coast, increases to fourteen per cent.
Going from north to south, the ratio
of deorease is about the same as from
east to west. Michigan shows sixteen
per cent, of deaths from this cause ; In
diana, fourteen per cent.; Tennessee,
twelve per cent.; Alabama, six, and
New Mexico only three per cent.
Contrary to the general belief, Min
nesota has a large percentage of deaths
fourteen nnr nnr.t. But this is nartlv
due, no doubt, to the large number of
consumptives who go there too tar gone
for recovery. New Mexico, by the stat
istics, is the best place for all of deli
cate lungs. Their chances of reoovery
will be more hopeful there than else-where.
AQBICULTVJtAI
SmrTLEBS Systems. The losses
which most reduce the farmers' profits
are those which arise from missed oppor
tunities, badly laid plans, want of prep
aration for possible contingencies, and
other failures resulting from poor busi
ness habits. The husbandmau above all
other needs to take thought for the mor
row. Harvesting, supply of tools, seed
and other necessary things, should be
considered beforehand. Perhaps the
most serious pecuniary wounds a farmer
thus inflicts on himself arise from want of
preparation for changes of weather dur
ing the growth of his crops, their har
vesting, or tor the u inter care of his
stock.
Scientific farming in its best sense is
neither more nor less than farming on
the basis of tho best possible plan. The
first application of method is in choosing
a rotation of some sort ; the next is 'in
choosing the best rotation for the soil or
circumstances of the farmer and the
farm ; and the next in so planning the
work and stocking of the farm that the
original laying out and cultivation of
the fields, preparing and applying ma
nure, and growing and using the crops,
that one shall pave the way for the
next ; and the last one shall give an op
portunity for the soil to regain some
thing of what it has been all along giv
ing up to tho harvester. All this requires
not only a practical knowledge of agri
cultural labor, but a knowledge of what
other farmers are doing, and the best
way of applying labor ; and this requires
reading and study.
Fat and Forty. A fat lamb of 40
pounds is worth in May in any Eastern
market flu. ft at lambs do not come
ready for market in the month of May
by accident, it is your calculating
farmer who makes money in this way,
and just now he is taking a long look
ahead. He is selecting hearty ewes in
good condition, theso he will feed well
and regularly, keeping them gaining a
little until the time of dropping their
lambs, when he may count on having
mostly twins, well-nursed, and which will
grow rapidly and be ripe for the butcher
at the time when they will bring the
highest price of the season. But this is
trespassing on the ground of Mr. Ged
des and he has already discussed the
subject wisely and well.
Regarding barn basements, The Ver
mont Farmer expresses the opinion that
when properly constructed they may be
of great value for some purposes, but
that very few of them can be converted
into suitable stables for cattle. The
reason for this is that proper ventila
tion is very difficult, ii not impossible ;
that, as a natural consequence, the air
becomes damp and filled with poisonous
vapors, which in a measure paralyze
every -function of the body. The flesh
of beef cattle in this condition is un
healthy food, and the milk of cows is
exceedingly impure and injurious.
The editor of the journal mentioned
says he has had frequent occasion to
observe the effect on cattle of the re
moval from stables entirely above ground
to those in basements, and in every in
stance the growth and improvement in
condition was impaired if not stopped.
He further remarks that he has seen
animals wear their old coats all summer
until September, in conBcauence of be'
ing tied in theso objectionable depths
for four weeks in spring ; and, in con
clusion, he quotes Jurian Winne, so cele
brated as a skillful leeder of sheep, who
invariably observed that a lot which
occupied a certain loft in a shed always
throve better than those in shelters more
confined.
The Southern Cultivator contains the
statement of a Georgia husbandmau
who by rotation of crops, turning under
green crops, and composting with his
stable manure what he can gather from
the woods, yards, and fence corners,
has greatly increased the fertility of his
fields, making each acre pay in its pro'
ducts for the fertilizing and labor be
stowed upon it. He says some farmers
still continue the scratch system, going
over a great extent of worn-out land to
get three or four bushels of wheat to
the acre, while he has proved by the
proper preparation of a few acres that
30 to 3G bushels may be had from the
acre. He promises that if the extended
scratching system was abandoned and
the stakes drawn into a small area, the
space within them well manured and
cultivated, every farmer might have his
crib, bam, and smoke-houso filled, and
he would be independent of the corn
and bacon of tho Worth-West.
Col. Colman of 2'he Rural World, who
thinks if there were no passionate men
there would be no balky horses, advises
that tho young colt be given over to a
little boy of good temper. Let the child
play him ; hang around him ; lead him
with a baiter; as soon as he is strong
enongh, get upon him, and let him walk
about at will and that horse will need
no "breaking," but will come to his
work like a rational creature, as he is,
But when he is suffered to run perfectly
wild until he has attained his growth
and strength, and then approached with
halter, saddle, and bridle, he is terrified,
unmanageable, and frequently the
"breaking" results in breaking his
spirit, his constitution, or -his neck ; or
he refuses to be subdued, and only yields
obedience to force, remaining always
balky and vicious.
Mr. S.-H. Spencer asks what will de
stroy or drive the cabbage worm. Fine
ly dry slacked lime, spread over the
plants, would be a good application, or
the lime might be slaked with water in
which some carbolio acid has been dis
solved. But the white butterflies with
small round black spots on their wings,
should be caught aud destroyed. This
would be prevention, which is always
better than cure.
This, The Western RuraV$ creed for the
farmer, is surely not a bad one : Honesty
ot purpose in your inner lite ; probity
in your every day transactions ; Intel
lectual cuLure for yourselves and child-
ren, and strict business management in
your everyday anairs.
No plant yields anything like as much
nutriment from the same extent of soil
as the banana. Baron Humboldt esti
mated that it returns 20 times as much
as the potato and 119 times as much as
wheat.
a ieue fiCTUEE. now many men
there are who have ground and ground
to make money, that they might
happy by-and-by, but who, when they
have got to be fifty or sixty years old,
have used up all the enjoyable nerve
that was in them ? During their early
life they carried toil and economy and
frugality to the excess of stinginess, and
when the time came that they expected
joy, there was no joy for them,
Beecher,
A Sea.ShcHBathihB-.TuW.
When our little boys and girls have
Been sea-shells a loot in length they
probably have considered them very
arge indeed. Hut what would they say
to Bhells so large that they make excel
lent bathing-tubs for grown-up men Y
in the seas near the Molucca islands
the enormous clam called Tridirna is not
rare, and it is the shell of this clam that
the natives of tho Moluccas use lor bath
ing or washing tubs. They are very
handsome shells, and when polished are
often taken to Europe, and used as fonts
in churches, or as basins for goldfish in
ornamental grounds. The flesh of the
Tridama tastes something like oysters,
and is much prized by the Molucca
Islanders. One Tridama will make a
meal for twenty persons, and the shell,
which has to be cut with an ax from the
rock to which it grows, is so heavy that
it makes quite a good load for a horse.
Hearth and Home.
If you want information in regard to
Railroad Bonds,'write to Charles W.
Hassler, No. 7 Wall Street, N. Y.
New York Wholesale J
BUTTER State, flne firkin I
WpstArn
CHEESE State factory
UUIO uo.,
Ffirm rinlrv ...
COTTON-Ordlnary...
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Low to good middling...
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Limed. ,. u ., ... ..
TLOCn-Supertlni. ...
Extra to fancy Stat?
Uhio round boop
Kxtra amber
Fprlnir wheat ,
Kxtra Genesee
SU Lonifi double extra
Coax Mial Western & Jersey..
Bntndvwine....
G RAIN Conn Western
Southern
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Canada.,...
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VBEiT Western No. 1 Spring....
Do. No. I do
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Bacox
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Timothy
Flaxseed
WOOL-N. Y., Pa., O. ind Mich...
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Texas and California
BEEVES Best,
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Common to lair..
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SWINE-LI re
Dressed
The PoisoNMOJfGERS who advertise
compounds of Fluid Fire and pungent
alkalies as " balsamic medicines, " safe
and harmless tonics, and " genial lnvig.
orants," are w,orthy of being classed
with the old Barnegat who kindled de
ceptive beacons, in order to deooy mari
ners to inevitable death. But a time
camo when the lures of the coast bandits
failed, and a time has come when the
venders of Bittered Alcohol fail to im
press the reading publio with a belief in
their tactions.
It is due to that conscientious and
able physician, Dr. Joseph Walker, of
California, to say that he has largely
contributed to this desirable end, by
providing tne world with a Tome Uor-
rective and Anti-Febrile Vegetable
preparation which accomplishes all that
s mendaciously promised on behalf of
the alooholic nostrums. His California
Vinegar Bitters prepared from botan
io prodactions, now for the first time
employed in the pharmacy of civiliza
tion, is the leading tonio in every state
and Torritory of the Union. The fact
that this wonderful elixir contains no
alcohol, no mineral, no dangerous ele
ment, is one of the cause of its immense
popularity ; another is that as a stom
achic invigorant, blood-punher, altera'
tiro, anti-spasmodio and anti-bilious
medicine, it is as far ahead of every
other preparation as Temperanoe is
ahead of Drunkenness.
Remedy for Asthma. We think wo
are benefiting our readers when we in
form them that a relief for Asthma can
be found in using Jonas Whitcomb's
Remedy.
We clip the following from the Troy (N.
OWhig:
Some three months since Dr. R. Y. Fierce.
of Buffalo, N. Y., commenced advertising in
the Whig, an article called " Dr. Sace's
Catarrh Remedy." We believed at that time
it was one of ihe many catch penny arrange
ments te swindle people out of their money.
but during the past few weeks have become
convinced to the contrary. We know of sev
eral prominent citizens who have suffered
from that loathsome disease " Catarrh, " and
they pronounce Dr. fcage Kemedy no bum
bug, and in several instances have been en
tirely cured. We desire to give Dr. Pierce
the benefit of the same.
Loveliness on the Inchbase. A marked
Increase ol female loveliness is the cve-delii'ht
inir result of the Immense popularity which
Hagan's Magnolia Balm has obtained among
the ladicB of America. Complexions radiant
with snowy purity and tinged with the roseate
nue oi ncaitn are commonly met with when
ever It is used. For the sallow and unwhole
some appearance of the face and neck, which
ntteriy counterbalance the ttlect ol any per
sonal attraction the owntr may possess, It
substitutes that clear, pearl-like complexion
wnicn is such a transceudant charm in woman,
and renders the roughest skin as sol taa Genoa
velvet. No one U more netouhthed than the
person rising it at the marvelous trauBfortua
lion which it ttlects in these particulars.
Use less of Doolcy's than of other Yeast or
Baking Powder, as it Is much stronger. Put
up lull weight. Give It a liiir trial. Grocer
sell it.
Disease Kecoll
From the system that has been Invigorated and regu
lated by a eourse of that moat beneficent of all vege
table elixira, Uoatetter's Stomach Bittera. Sneh, at
least, la the Inference we are compelled te draw from
the testimony of thousands ef persons residiag la un
healthy diatrlate, who attribute their escape from the
epidemic and other complaints which prevail there In
the spring and autumn solely to the use of thla great
preteetivo and preventive medicine. M any Western
ana Boathern farmers and planters, as invariably aa
they aow and plant In th aprlng and reap and gather
In th fall, administer It at those aeasons to their fam
illea and employee, and take it themselvea from twice
to three times a day. The demand tor It In th fever
and ague districts bordering on th Mississippi, Ohio,
and Arkansas Rivera la immense ; and wherever th
natural condition are such as to generate Intermit
tent fevers, It la held In the highest esteem, both aa on
antidote to th atmospheric virus wolch provokes
them, and as swift and certain remedy for thoa dls
tressing forms of disease. It la almost unnecessary to
say that this renowned tonic and renovator la now
generally accepted aa a etandard epeclne for indiges
tion, blUOBsneas, nervosa dlatemper, rheumatism,
physical weakneaa and mental despondency, not only
by the public at large, but by all unprejudiced medi
cal men. The vast popularity of th Bittera has of
coarse led to many counterfeit and lmltatioua,
against whleh the community ar reauaated to be on
their guard.
HiVB too a oooob, Cold, Pain in th Cheat, or
Broucbltis f In tact, have you e premonitory eymp-
kLow that relief is witaiu your reach tu th shape of
PS. VflSTAB D4.K.BAM UV VVIL tSISHT, WU1CB, IB
many casea waere nope naa nee,, aae auauutea uu vic-
Wa (rem la yawning grave.
ClIAPPEb ' nim f. . L'
pimples, tins' worm, nlf.rlnm
other cutaneous affections cured, and the
Kin maue son ana smooth by using the
Juniper Tar Soap, made by Caswell,
Hazard & Co.. New York. it. i.
convenient and easily appliod than
other remedies, avoiding the trouble of
tho groasy compounds now in use.
MUalonnrles and others eolouminir in for
eign lands should not fail to tnko with them a
good supply of Johnson i Anodyne Liniment.
It 1 the most reliable medicine for all pur
poses there is in the world.
Contagious diseases, such at haras all, plan,
dor, etc., may Ui prevented by the nee of iAr
idant Cavalry Condition Powrfere. Persons
traveling with horses should take note of this.
As Quiet a a tt-Aaa. or LtoetxiKO doee Cater-
ado ao a ExciLaiOB ILaib Dtb aet upon tae hair,
whisker and mustaches ! no chamtlton tints, hut th
purest Bnven or the moat exquisite Vrowua will be
eTolred.
IK 0X1 TO flVB MITfVTBB. nndlulia. Hnnu.lv. Wan.
raljrla, Lame Back, Diarrhoea, Croups, Spraine, and aU
similar complaints, art rtlitvtd by JrLAQQ lxeTAjNT
KBLiEf, or money refunded.
TO CONSUMPTIVES.
The advert!. or, baring; been permanently cured 01
that dread dlsoaco, Consumption, br a simple remedy,
la anxious to make knotrn to hla fellow eufTcrora the
means of cure. To all who desire it, he will send a
copy of tho prescription used, (free of charge), with
the dlreotlons for preparing and uing the same, which
mey win imu a curb uurb for consumption, asth
ma. BnoNcuiTie, 4.0. Parties wishing the prescription
will pleate address
Rct. EDWARD A. WILSON,
131 Penn St.. Wllliami-burgh . V.
CTAMMKR1KTG Di. White's Tjnltpd Btatea
r? Stammering Institute, 10J East 80th St., New York.
Best Refortmoes. No pay uatiloured. Sendforclrcular.
ALL, COLLECTIONS, OR ESTATKS -
of every kind corresponded about in rubor the Frfneh,
German, or English languages, by J. F. FKCKAUF,
Attorney at Law, Columbia, Lancaster Co., Pa.
AGENTS WANTED. No ra.msy reqalreS In
vanee. Adaross LATTA CO., Pltukargh, Pa.
OLCTIis. 1IJ Papers and Miuratlnea. Want AtreKs.
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which cost 1135.0
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aress
8PT VALl'ABLE-Send three-eent stamp for
rit parliculura, DOBSON, HAYNES & CO.,
St. Louie, Mo.
Mo Fere on caulskc theae Bitter accord
ing to directions, and remain long, unwell, provided
their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other -means,
aud the vital organs wasted beyond the poiut
of repair.
lll-yapepala or Iiiftlareetloti. Headache, Palo
in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Dia
einess. Sour Eructatione of the Stomach, Bad Tasta
in the Mouth, Lilians Attacks, Palpitation of the)
Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the regiona
of the Kidnevs, and a hundred other painful symptoms,
are the offsprings of Dyspepsia. In these complainta
it has no equal, and one bottle will prove a Letter guai
anteeof its marits than a lengthy advertisement.
For Female Conipliiliats, in young or ohL
married or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or the
turn of life, these Tonic Ritters display(SO decided aa
influence that a marked improvement is asou percep
tible.
For Inflammatory and Chronic Rkeu
tnatlain and Gout, liilious, Remittent and Inter
nittent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys
and Bladder, these Bitters have no equal. Such Dis
eases are caused by Vitiated Blood, which la generally
produced by derangement of the Digestive Organs.
They are n Oentle Inrratire aa well a
aa Tonta, possessing also the peculiar merit of acting
as a powerful nent in reiieving Congestion or Inflam
mation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, and in Bilioua
Diseases.
For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter, Salt
Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustales, Boils, Car
buncles, Ring-warms, Scald-Head, Sore Eyes, Ery
sipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discolorationsof the Sitin, Humora
and Diseases of the Skin, of whatever name or nature,
are literally dug up and carried out of the system is a
sliert time by the use of these Bitters.
Grltteful Thousand proclaim Vimbgar Bit
ters the most wonderful Invigorant that ever auataioed
the sinking system.
i WALKER, Proa'r. II. II. McDOHALD A, CO.,
Druggists ana oen. Agts., aan r rancisco mantwi era.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS & DEALERS.
UoneGcnulneunli Rssirncd I, Uctts,
B.HnrcrlM.1
m ii i ryi. i a. vs
The Language of Disease la Paiu. Be
co nd to It wisely by rclnforcintr natnre. Aa admin
Die preparation lor tan purpose 1.4 tarrakt 8 Kvfkr
VISCINT tiBLTZIft APBKIBMT. It IpuU all ftCrld
matter from the bo wo In, regulate the liver, braaua
the nerve. itreniErthens the digestive orrani, dissi
pates unwholesome humora, cools the blood, and puta
the whole machinery of the system In rood werkiur
order without irritatima; any of the dtjlloata Intorual
membranes.
BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
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IS A PURB
BLACK TEA
with the Green Tta FUvor. Tho
best Tea Imported. 'er taie
tvcrytolicrt. Aud for sale whole,
sale only by the Great Atlan
tic and Pacific f ea Co. No.
191 Pulton St., aud lit Church
St., New York. P.O. Box, 5300.
Send for Tlum-Kertar Circular.
ItHWAHIl
For any cs-e of Blind,
Bleeding, liehlne, or Ul
cerated Piles that 1)0-
BlKQ'S PlLB P.BMBDT faile
to oure. It la prepared ex
pressly to cure the Pllea
an nothing eli-e. Sold by
all DruBKi'te. Price (1.M
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A NERVOUS INVALID.
' Published for the benefit el young maat ana ether
who suffer from Nervous Debility, etc supplying TBS
hbab or BLr-00BB. Written by one whe cured him
self, and sent free on receiving a post-paid directed
envelope. Address NATHANIEL MAlt AIR, Brook
lya, N. Y.
DR. WHITTIER, pirBUROH."..
Longest encased, and most successful physician of th
age. Consultation er pamphlet free. Call or writ,
just published tor ben. Jt ofyoung men wh suffer from
Nervousness, Debllttyrdtc., a treatise of 36 pages, for I
stamps; a book of to pages, illustrated, for M ceuta.
$30
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S. Address UvoeOB Kivxa Wia Co., 13
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In toad of plaster. Velt Carpetii pa Vo. Send 8 stamp
for circular and samples. C.J ay. Camdetu N. J.
EVERY GOOD HHSBAND AND FATHER should
send at ouce for our Circular. Kujrebi HT",ihti'
turing Co., 14J fuiton SU New York.
Hosaost, energetic, God-fearing men and women
can have pleatunt, profitable work ; n risk or capital.
Writ is B. L. UutWs, U Llndall St., Boston., liui.
A QBNTS Wanted. Aganta make mor money at
2 work for us than anything els 4. Particular, fiae.
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Septesubet !-,
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