. - "MUTUAL ENMES."
ET W. C BBTABT.
Dear ties of siutoal oocnt bind.
The children of our feeble race. .
And if onr brethren were not kind,
Tuia earth were bat 1 weary place.
We lean on othara aa we walk
Life's twihgbt patba with pitfalia strews
And tar ere as idle boaat to talk
Of treading that dim path alone.
Amid the snare misfortune lavs,
- Cneeen, beneath the atepa of all. '
Blest ia the tore that seeks to raise
And stay and strengthen those who fall.
Till taught by Him who, for our sake.
Bore every form of Life's distress.
With every passing year we make
The anm of human sorrow less.
f'lawers for the Pd.
When life is over, its battles fought,
its hopes, and fears and Borrows ended,
and no more need nor opportunity re
mains for human cheer and friendliness
to kindle the glazed eye or thrill the
heart that has ceased to beat, then the
elegant casket is provided, and the
sweetest and costliest flowers are heaped
around. Their language is eloquent of
tenderness and sympathy, speaking
more than lips or tears cau utter of gar
nered affections and surrendered ties
and broken hopes. As the funeral hour
arrives, how many friends apiear;
every room is crowded by an unwonted
presence. More flowers are bro't ; their
lerfiiiiie loads the air with a heavy
sweetness, and when at last the narrow
hearse receives it occupant, loving
hands still cast in the flowers, the last
sacrifice the heart can offer.
It is all well. Who shall forbid the
flowers? Who shall desecrate the best
sentiments of humanity by crying.
"Why all this waste" And' yet could
those eyelids move, could those eyes
behold the friendly crowd, that marble
fare feel the dropping tear, would not
that oft discouraged heart have great
surprise in knowing that so many really
cherish such regard ? And if the flow
ers could speak, would they not ask:
"Why did not you scatter us beforehand
aloug'tbe paths of the living? Why
not have suffered us to tell of your af
fection while the ear could listen; to
delight the admiring eye when it could
appreciate? Why not oftener, before
this ,iave nlled the house with the fra
grance of your kindly sympathies? You
came to the funeral and your coming
was no pretence. . You really cherished
that departed friend in your heart of
hearts. - But how little he knew of it !
In the hurry of your secret love you
have passed him by on the other side,
and have gone on, forgetful of the sor
rows, and trials, and discouragements
and weariness which your presence
and your sympathy might have allevia
ted. Why should' we waste our fra
grance on the dead? Should not our
beauty and our sympathy be shed rather
upou the livingwhose hearts are sad
and sore, and whose weak hands are
weary with the cares and toils of life?"
Such might be the question of the
flowers, if speech were granted to them.
And a higher and more authoritative
voire has said : "As we have opportu
nity, lot us do good unto all men, espe
cially unto those who are of the house
hold" of faith." Our opportunity is
time. Death closes each avenue of use
fulness, and shuts each door of service
that stood 0en before us. If we have
love and sympathy let us show them
now. Let our flowers be scattered
along the paths of the living, rather
than on the coffins of the dead. Let
them be used to bless hearts that are
torn and broken, rather tlian wasted
over those w ho are gone beyond the
need of our sympathy anil the reach of
our approval. I-ct our care and love
be for those whose tears are past, and
whose sorrows shall return no more.
The living claim our love.
ties ia Friendship.
One reason for the disbelief in friend
ship between the sexes is, that its con
tinuance is miscomprehended.- Friend
ship is ordinarily thought to be the
strongest attachment between men, as
love is between men and women If
the feeling be of two genders it 's called
love, because it has been so called, which
is supposed to be a finality. The opn
lar mode of arriving at truth is to give
a-thiiig a muiie, and rtick to it in lite
face of refutation. Persistence, with the
multitude, has every advantage of philo
sophy. Men love" each other; so do
women; ono? ncn ind wttineu are the bet
frit . Thus it has been from the first,
"and will be to the last. Sex is not de
termined altogether by philosophy ;tem
leraineut more nearly settles it. Many
men are masculine and feminine to each
other; many womeu likewise. If love
were piwsiMe between the sexes aloue,
they might le, and often are, represen
ted by the same sex ; so that regarding
love as the only natural affectiou of men
for women, or of women for men, it
might lie rechristened friendship, and
the acceptance of the postulate thus en
forced. But style them what you may,
and notwithstanding their indistinction,
love and friendship are different, albeit
not obedient to gender. Sex, we know,
enters into material as well as animated
nature, and is, as we hold, indcieiident
of corpnrality. In friendship, not less
than love, sex has its part. Whether
two men or women be friends, one is
masculine and the other feminine one
to the other, as much as when man and
woman are friends. Therefore friend
ship between the sexes is more natural,
because physically comfortable, than
between members of the same sex. Then
the relation is more clearly defined,
better established, less exposed to exter
nal influences. Disguises are not needed ;
resumptions are superfluous; the har
monies are preserved ; the form answers
to the spirit.
In all genuine friendships the positive
and negative are combined so subtly,
often, as to be barely perceptible, but
acting fully and freely nevertheless.
The positive portrays the masculine,
and the negative the feminine in the
chief concerns of life, though they shift
under different influences. There were
never two friends even when they
were strong, but who were not positive
to each other; although in words, mas
culine and feminine. Patroclus only
symbolized the woman to Achilles;
Hephestion did to Alexander, Jonathan
to David; Alva to Philip II.; Shelley
was feminine to Byron. Louis the XI V.
toMaintenon; Charles VII. to Jeanne
D'Arc; Leicester to Elizabeth ; Petrarch
to Laura; Antony to Cvsar. Ca-sar him
self was masculine to everybody except
to Cleopatra; Napoleon Bonaparte was
masculine to his marshals the entire
French nation . A man may be
masculine to one man and feminine to
another. A woman may he masculine
to her husband and feminine to her
lover. Sex varies with the nature it is
brought in contact with. Feminine
souls are constantly getting into mascu
line bodies and feminine bodies growing
about masculine souls.
In every close relation where one and
one, in defiance of arithmetic, make one,
. there must be a controlling mind fre
quently controlling so gently, so invol
untarily, as to render control insensible.
The controlling mind is positive. When
ever two positive natures, be the sex the
same or different, come in contact, they
rebound, and in any attempt to cohere,
jar so perpetually that the rest is se
cured solely by separation. Hence many
men positiveuess should be man's pre
ogative admirably adapted to friend
ship, cannot be friends to each other,
. they demand too much and grant too
little, by the impulse of their being, for
the required complement of a condition
so exacting. Friends can gain in abund
ance, but Friends blessed with a measur
able quantity of negation. Such as they
cherUh mutual esteem an oblique way
of expressing self-respect and like one
another beyond a clashing range. They
re the centers of circles, not to be
pressed by social revulsiou into any part
of the periphery. On them may be built
ideal which the dawn of verity will not
topple down.
The positive and negative, the mascu
line and feminine element, bjiBK essen
tial to sterling and lasting "friendship,
it simplest and fittest form is between
man and woman. Between the sexes
there is no direct rivalry: their field of
activity lie asunder, and rivalry is tne
sapper of man' concord with man. We
bear much of generous rivalry ; but on
examination the generosity lessens and
the rivalry increases. Rivalry long
continued among men must end in suc
cess for one and comparative failure for
the other. He who succeeds may be
magnaminous; but to him who has not
succeeded magnanimity looks like pat
ronage. Xo proud individual spirit can
quite forgive Itself for failure, from
whatever cause ; and inability to forgive
ourselves geeks vent in condemning
others. Such spirit, to be broad, must
be among the first: must govern the
opportunity for mastership. Galaxy.
- Tate Manic riherharefe.
In a somewhat extended experience,
we have had many occasions to speak of
the earth Iv discords that enter into our
heavenly harmonies. The question of
Church Music refuses to oe seuieu.
There are so many tastes to he consulted
in it, it is so complicated with economi
cal questions, it is so overloaded with
theories it presents so many difficulties
of administration in its simplest forms,
that a church may be accounted happy
which can go on one or two years with
out a row or a revolution. Nothing
seems to be learned by exerieiice, as in
other departments of human effort and
enterprise. Churches pass through musi
cal cycles. They begin, jierbaiw, with
eongregational singing; then they rise
into a volunteer choir; that fades out,
or rebels, and then comes in a paid
quartette of professional singers; then
a volunteer chorus is added ; then comes
another revolution, and the church goes
back to congregational singing, from
which point it starts on another trip
around the cycle. . Over, and over, and
over asrain. there' are churches that -do
just this, are doing it now, and promise
to do it many times more.
In the adjustment of this matter if it
shall ever he adjusted there are certain
facts which must betaken into considera
tion. First, that nrusic in a city church
can never be managed as it is in a coun
try church. The popular singing school
in the country, where amusements are
few , is a practicable thing. In the city,
where life is full, especially at that sea
son of the year w hen rehearsals are
practicable, it is next to impossible to
get people together for sufficient prac
tice. A volunteer choir, made up from
a city congregation, is one of the most
difficult things to maintain that can be
imagined. The rehearsals always come
in the evening, when everybody is tired
or engaged; and, without rehearsals,
even tolerable singing is not possible.
Congregational singing, without rehear
sals, is worse than that of the volunteer
choir. . If an attempt is made to unite a
volunteer chorus w ith a paid quartette,
it is soon ascertained that the more im
erfectly trained voices are added to
professionally trained voices, the more
is the quality of the music depreciated,
though the volume of sound may be en
larged. The grand, practical difficulty
is that all non-professional singers in a
citv church have no time to practice
their art together. The business en
gagements of the uieu.and the social and
religious engagements of the women,
are such as to render the necessary re
hearsals utterly impracticable. -
This ought not so to be, perhaps; but
it is so, and it is one of those established
facts that must be looked squarely in the
face, in any cometent handling of the
question. Some churches have learned
that the best war for them to do is to
nut their hands in their pockets, and
bring out money enough to pay for their
music, aim nave someootiy wnora mey
can hold responsible for it. Undoubtedly
these churches eet along with the least
difficultv. and have the best music. We
hear a great deal about the congrega
tional singing in Mr. Beecher's church,
but Mr. Beecher's church is enfirelv
exceptional ill its circumstances. In the
first place, it has a lai ge ana weii-piayea
orsran. that is capable of leading, and
almost of drowning, all the voices in the
house. In the second place, it has a body
of professional singers, and, in the third
place, it gives a certain seat to the
volunteer singer in the choir, in a
church w here getting a seat is a difficult
matter. Willi such a leading, auy con
gregation can sing. With such a motive,
any choir can be steadily filled and
maintained. Mr. Beecher's church can
not he mentioned in any general dis
cussion of the matter.
We could get along well enough if we
had not so many theories to adjust.
"Let the people "praise thee," say the
advocates of vohi nteer, or con gregat ioual
singing. This hiring people to sing our
praises is verv offensive to many.- The
theory is well enough, or would be, if
the people would sing, or would tike
the pains to learn and rehearse; but
they do not. Volunteer choirs would
be well enough if they would observe
the conditions necessary to exi-ellcnce
in their performances; but they will
not. There is another theory, and, for
the life of us, we cannot see the flaw in
it, viz.: that it is just as legitimate to
hire a band of professional singers to
lead us in our praise, as it is to hire a
band of professional men to lead us in
our prayers. Circumstances compel us
to the adoption of this theory whcther
we rebel against it or not; and those
churches that have settled down upon
it have the rare privilege of being at
peaee tijoii the question. Scribner.
Ortarla awl Beereew ef IavesiUewm.
A century ago what a man discovered
in the arts he concealed. Workmen
were pnt upon oath never to reveal the
process used by their employers. Doors
were kept closed, visitors were rigo
rously excluded from admission, and
false operations blinded workmen
themselves. The mysteries of every
craft were hedged in by thick set
fences of empirical pretensions and ju
dicial affirmation. The royal manufac
tories of porcelain, for example, were
carried on in Europe with a spirit of
jealous delusiveness. His Majesty of
saxony was especially circumspect.
Not content with the oath of secrecy
imposed npon his people, be would not
abate bis kingly suspicion in favor of
a brother monarch. Neither king nor
king's delegate mightenter the tabooed
walls of Merssen. What is erroneously
called the Dresden porcelain that ex
quisite pottery of which the world has
never seen the like was manufac
tured for two hundred years by a pro
cess so secret that neither the bribery
of princes nor the garrulity of the oper
atives ever revealed it. Other discov
eries have been less successfully iruard
ed fortunately for the world. The man
ufacture of tinware in Europe origina
ted in a stolen secret. Few readers
need to be informed that tinware is
simply thin iron plated with tin by be
ing dipped into the molten metal. In
theory, it is an easy matter to clean
the surface of - iron ; dip it into a bath
of the boiling tin and remove it en
veloped with the silvery metal to a
place for . cooling. In practice, how
ever, the process is one of the most dif
ficult in the arts. It was discovered
in Holland, and guarded from publicity
with the utmost vigilance for nearly
half a century. England tried in vain
to discover the secret, until James
Sherman, a Cornish miner, insinuated
himself master of the secret and
brought it home. The secret of manu
facturing cast steel was also stealthily
obtained, and is now within the reach
of all artisans.
Peer Aaikora.
A Paris correspondent writes: With
regard to authors who have died poor
it may be interesting to remind you of
what De Lomenie wrote of Chateau
briand, whose statue has just been un
covered at St. Malo. He says no man
ever took greater care of his glory than
the author of the "Genie da Christian
isme," and yet be was obliged to pub
lish the work at a most unfavorable
A miIm MMiflMi vhSrh
rendered success impossible, bat hi
rrMtitnra were imnatient. and Chateau
briand, as De Lomenie says, was
obliged to morUrage his "Tomb," and
tare in the midst of the revolution of
February, and as the feuilleton of a
newspaper, i ne wore in quesuou w
the "Memoir d'Ontre Tombe," Bal
zac was as harassed by dans as Sheri-
a . . t mtnA kaMini m mAnriiMnt :
Sainte-Beuve bad little or nothing be
yond his pay as Senator ; Micneiei aieu
poor. The list is a long one. Victor
Hugo forms an exception; in his ease it
was the publisher and not the author
who was ruined.
The "Bill" Hfnm.
The most astonishing crop the Plains
ever produced was the one of "Bill"
heroes. If an ambitious frontiersman
named William chanced to see an Indian
or kill a few bison, he at once took unto
bis name an addition, and became a
character. But let it not be suposed
be was a hero among his companions.
To them he ever remained plain Bill,
or, at the best, with a Jones or Brown
added, as the case might be. I remem
ber one particular teamster whose name
was William liobbs. He could not have
placed a bullet from bis carbine in a
barn door at one hundred paces. And
yet, without any provocation whatever,
he seized iiKn the word California and
wore it, although that wonderful State
had never, to my certain knowledge,
been favored with his presence. This
man had not been cut out for a hero.
His becoming one was In direct Eola
tion of nature's laws. He was fat, short
of wind, red-faced, and timid as a hare.
As the frontiersmen expressed it, having
never lost any Indians, he could not be
induced by any consideration to find
one. However, by lying in wait for
tourists and correspondents, he often
managed to get business as a guide. He
had donned a suit of buckskin made in
St. Louis, and would state to the gaping
stranger, "My name's California Bill
here; over thar it's 'Pache, on 'count of
my fightin' the tribe." He could not
have told one of the latter from a Dig
ger; yet soon the Eastern papers came
back with thrilling descriptions of this
noted scout and Indian slayer. "Iron
muscles wrapped In buckskin, piercing
eyes, a dead shot at red-skins," and so
forth. And yet I have known this dead
shot to miss, four times In succession, a
bison at fifty yards; and on one occa
sion, having mistaken a Mexican herder
for an Indian, he fled so fast and far
that he lost hat and pistol and ruined
his horse. After this he was fain to go
East and perambulate Broadway in long
hair and dirty buckskin, and be heralded
bv open-mouthed newsboy as "Forny
Bill, the feller what chaws up the Injun
nation." These specimens are also apt
to fall upon some cheap story-writer,
who embalms them as heroes, and gives
them the entree of saloons and hotels.
But when forced back by want to the
haunts of the frontier, the breeches of
skin, broad hat, and swagger are put
away, and the usual garments of the
plain adopted. Out there, where the
poverty of spirit lurking beneath is
known, a lion's skin does not change
the character of the animal borrowing it.
Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill, whom I
met often on the plains, much more
fairly deserved their names. The for
mer I knew first as teamster, then bar
tender, and finally scout. He certainly
knew more about the plains than any
one I ever met. Wild Bill, during the
vears that 1 was cognizant of hisactions
filled at intervals the positions of scout,
saloon-keeier, refugee, aud sheriff. The
number of persons! knew him to kill
was five, three at Hays and two at
Abilene. It seems as if such men as
Bill were designed by Providence to act
as a sort of carnivore for keeping down
the increase of their spccie9. In all of
my residence upon the frontier, during
which sixty-two graves were filled by
violence, in no case was the murder
other than a benefit to societv.
asking; tne Unntm fer Jfoaejr.
When Cardinal Wolsey aked the
House of Commons to grant his master
i;2UU,0tK) a vear for four vears, in order
to carry on his Uovernmeut, that as-
seiuhlv asked to see the accounts of their
last sulisid v. Thev received a very rough
answer; anil, as they declined, in the
absence of the accounts, to vote more
than half the sum demanded thev were
dismissed, and not allowed to meet again
for seven years. Fifty-three years after
ward Oueen Elizabeth, being verv hard
pressed for money, and finding in her
Parliament a yet sturdier spirit than
that which had opposed her father, di
rected Mildmay to produce to the House
or Commons her accounts or expendi
ture, not of right, but "of the Queen's
grace." Stuart Princes failed where
Tudor had not succeeded, and the de
mands and answers between King and
Parliament, from the time of James' ac
cession to the time of the final flight of
his grandson, were but provocatives
to those actions which rendered the
Stuart dynasty impossible in England.
On the one side iiisistance on tbeduty
of the subject to give unconditionally
uxn the demand of a King ruling by
right divine; on the other a stuhliorn
refusal to accept the royal word that
the money would be properly spent. No
body of men liked to lie ordered, as
Wolsey ordered the Lord Mayor and
Corporation of London, to contribute
toward an unvoted tax, lest refusal
"might fortune to eost some of them
their heads." No King, though depend
ing for some two-thirds of his income
iilNin a representative assembly, liked
to be treated as if he had natural tenden
cies toward larceny, or, from his oint
of view, to be told that he should have
no sunsidy nnless he remeuieu some
grievance. "No song, no supper, ' was
a maxim peculiarly distasteful to "abso
lute Kings," whether of the Stuart or
the Tudor school; but the advent of a
constitutional King took away the per
sonal element in the dispute, and gave
practical meaning to the precept that
the King can do no wrong. The Cm
leMjuirary I.'eriew.
Wkta the Chlstswweka ta Wetrk.
About Aug. 15 they commenced to
work in real earnest. Instead of the
playful, careless creatures that lived
from hand to month they became very
busy and sober indeed. Instead of
keeping comparatively near home they
wandered quite a distance forthem,and
filling both cbeekpouches full of corn,
chincapins (dwarf chestnuts) and small
acorns home they would harry ? look
ing, in the face, like children with the
mumps. This storing away of food
was continued until the first heavy
white frosts, when the chipmucks as a
member of Congress once said, went
"into a state of retiracy."
The food fathered, we believe, is
consumed in part on their going into
winter quarters, they spending some
time in tueir retreats before commen
cing their hibernating sleep. This be
lief. onour part, is based on a result of
digging out a third nest on the 3d of
November. The last time we noted
down seeing a chipmuck belonging to
a certain nest was Oct. 23. Twelve
days after we very carefully closed the
three passages that led to the nest and
dag down. We found four chipmucks
very rosily fixed for winter in a roomy
nest, and all of them thoroughly wide-
wake. 1 beir store of provisions was
wholly chestnuts and acorns and the
shells of these nuts were all poshed in
to passages so that there should be no
litter mingled witu tne soft hay that
lined the nest. How long this under
ground life lasts before hibernation
really romenences it is difficult to de
termine ; bat as this torpid state does
not conclude until their food supply is
strain obtainable out of doors the chip-
macks no doant, store away sumcient
for their needs throughout the early
spring, and until berries are ripe. Ihr.
Abbott, in Popular Science Monthly. -
An Iowa man confesses that he
prays but twice a year once during
the cholera season, and again when
the base ball season sets in.
ACBICrLTVUl.
A Practical Farmer ox Feewxo
Hons. It appears to me that some men
exhibit less sense in their contempt to
feed hogs than almost anything they
undertake, I have a neighbor, and he
is no green hand at the business, but a
farmer of many years standing one of
those experienced fellow who should
know all about it, and who doubtless
thinks he does that for the past eight
or ten years ha fed his hogs in a little
pen, three or four rods square, without
anything in the way of floor or shelter
bevond what nature has provided
mother earth below and theskies above.
I was looking over his hogs to-day, as
I passed, for the pen is immediately
alongside of the road. The hogs have
no place to go into out of the mud
which is five or six inches deep, per
haps deeper they must hunt out the
corn from the quagmire, into which it
is thrown and make their beds of the
same precious mortar. His hogs are
from sixteen to eighteen months old
and do not weigh 2j0 pounds on an av
erage. Another neighbor, who was
with me, remarked that he did not be
lieve these hogs bad gained a iouiid a
month.
The practice of turning bogs into the
corn field is perhaps, a little better than
this, but still not much better. It's
about Hobson's choice between them.
Now, such ways of feeding hogs do
not pay at any time, aud especially
when corn is from fifty to sixty cents
per bushel. It behooves us farmers to
look into this matter of feeding and see
if we cannot hit upon more improved
and economic methods, It behooves us
to give the matter our most serious
thought and to discover how we can
make the last ounce of pork from a
bushel of corn. If we do not do this
we certainly deserve little sympathy
when we complain of hard times and
high taxes
The practice I pursue Is to grind my
corn, or whatever grain I am going to
feed, aud cook with steam into a sort of
mush, which I feed in troughs, so con
structed as to prevent the hogs from
Setting their feet into the feed. The
est plan is to have a plank pen to feed
in, with good high sheds tor them to go
into out of the storms and not let them
out until fat. That will not be very
long if you have a good breed of hogs,
and feed them regularly .and exercise
good judgment. They can be made to
gain from a ound and a half to two
pounds per day and at this rate will
soon be ready for market.
I should be pleased to hear from
others of mv brother farms on this sub
ject of feeding hogs, for I am satisfied
it is one in wliicn we nave an a very
deep interest, and I am not sure that
anv of us understand all there is in it.
Xatiuwil Stork Journal.
Wekds as Water Pi-rifiers. Mr.
Mechi writes as followers : I had re
cently a striking proof of this. Into
my pond runs a stream of 25 gallons
per minute of fresh water from a drain
which I cut 12 feet deep some 30 odd
years azo. Weeds will grow and thrive
in this pond, and we have annually to
rake out large quantities oi mem.
They look very beautiful as they grow
in the pellucid water, which is used
for household purpose. Said a visitor
to me one day. "If you bad a pair of
swans, your pond would be free of
weeds;" so a kind menu presented me
with a pair, and very soon they cleared
the pond, pulling the weeds up by the
roots and feediii!r on them. My family
were delighted with the graceful swans
and the removal of the weedy obstruc
tions to boating; but although the oiid
was free of weeds, the water was no
longer pure and pellucid, but most de
cidedly muddy in taste, and when the
steam issued from the kettle, tha smell
of mud was unmistakable.-, .Well, no
one thought it could be the swans; but
at last I came to that conclusion, and,
despite family and other remonstrances
returned them to their original owner.
After a short period the weeds re-appeared,
aud. as thev Increased in bulk,
the water gradually resumed its pellu-
cidity and purity.
What the weeds do for the water and
its occupants the laud vegetation does
for the air; men, animals, and oilier
living creatures poison it, while vegeta
tion absorbs the injurious gases, ami
reconverts them into wholesome food
and fuel for man and lieast, tilling the
atmosphere with that precious oxygen
without which men and animals and
other living creatures could no longer
exist. e owe to the river vegetation
much of the purity of water. - It Is ex
cess of impurities from our towns which
are Iteyond its powers of appropriation.
How to Rkdi-ce Bonks with Acm.
The agricultural editor ofthe New York
Tribune gives the following as the liest
way to oerate :
Take one hundred pounds of lone,
twenty-live pounds of oil of vitrol. of
sixty degrees, and six quarts of water.
By means of a sieve separate the ground
Nine into coarser ami liner parts, or
better into three parts "' Hie- use of
two riddles, one of one-sixteenth and
the-other of one-eighth inch holes. Mix
the coarsest portion of bone with the
oil of vitrol in a cast-iron vessel. When
the lione is thoroughly wet, add the
water little by little, stirring and mix
ing well. Let stand twenty-four hours
or until the coarsest fragments are quite
softened, then work in the next coarser
part of bone, let stand another day, and
finally "dry oflT' with the finest" bone.
By this method the acid is made to
send itself w here most needed, ou the
large bits of Imne, one-third of the acid
that would be consumed in the usual
way is saved, and the finest bone which
is line enough for fertilizing purposes,
is used simply to render the mass easy
of handling, and also gets the benefit of
any acid not consumed by the coarser
parts.
Potato Diseask. "Can you tell me
what is good for a blight on potatoes
like the specimen I send you?. The
blight commences near the roots and
spreads up. The field looks as if a fire
had swept over It."
Reply. There is no cure for this so
called "blight." Upon examination
under a microscope the peculiar fun
goid vegetation of the common potato
root is discovered. Doubtless upon dig
ging the potatoes it will be found that
they are infected. If so, upon cutting
into them black spots will be perceived.
The best course to pursue would be to
mow off the whole of the diseased potato
tops, leaving the roots in the ground
until it is convenient to dig them. 'If
the potatoes are diseased they should
be dug at once and disposed of before
they begin to decay, or placed in heaps
in a dry cellar and abundantly sprin
kled with fresh dry slaked lime in fine
powder through the heaps. The dis
ease is caused by the late wet weather,
and will probably be prevalent on
heavy soils or moist lands.
It is most convenient to dig muck
late in the summer, when the swamp is
in the dryest condition. Straight
ditches should be dug, aud the muck
thrown out in heas on one side, where
it will drain. The ground on each side
of the ditch will dry considerably by
early winter, when the dried'muck can
be hauled to the barnyard for bedding,
or be mixed with the manure from the
stables. By working In this way, the
muck is dried and the swamp drained
at the same time. -
Fotrlt do w4 like to step down into a
honse before they fly up to their perches.
The floor of the house should be .some
what above, and not lower than the
the ground outside. Just outside the
fowl-house there should he either pitch
ing or gravel, otherwise the birds soon
tread notes and cause puddles that
would convey tilth into the interior.
Cot.D frames must le ojiened every
day, except when cold storms occur,
when the sash may be raised a few
inches at the back.
aciraTiFic.
Economy in the Ute of FueLlv a
paper on economy in the use of coal,
lately read before the Royal School of
Mines Berlin, the following synopsis
of interesting historic facts is given:
The progress in the economical con
sumption of fuel ia the last "0 years
has been enormous, and has been ef
fected in great part by metallurgists ;
and here again we hnd the scientific
men taking the lead. In the economi
cal application of the heat developed
by fuel, the Bessemer process is enor
mously effective, not more than 10 lbs.
of coal being requisite for the produc
tion of 1 cwt of steel from pig iron by
this method, while in the older process
still in nse tor fine qualities of steel,
3.j0 lbs. are needed- Siemens, by mak
ing the heat which would excape
throngh the chimney of an ordinary
furnace warm the fuel and the air ne
cessary to combustion, obtains an
economy of two thirds the weight of
fuel. It was Falter de Fanre, an ac
complished Bavarian metallurgist, who
first made practical uses of the eases
which formerly escaped in immense
quantities from the tops of blast fur
naces : and the enormous blast engines
the hoisting engines, pumps and hot
blast stoves even the roastiug kilns of
such establishment now-a-days require
no f ueleicept this long neglected waste
product, ltischof, another German
engineer and metallurgical author,
was the first to produce gas artificially
for smelting punioites. and this was
certainly oue of the greatest advances
ever made in our art. By first turning
it into gas. fuel can he much more per
fectly consumed than in the solid form,
and hence can be made to give us as
in the Siemens furnace, in which only
gas is used, a much higher temperature
than is practically attaiued by the com
bustion of coal in fhe ordinary way;
but perhaps the greatest advantage of
gas is that substances, in general
scarcely regarded as fuel at all, ran be
employed for the pnxluction of gas
with the most brilliant results a mat
ter of the greatest importance, espec
ially in a region destitute of true coal
like California. Lnndin, a noted and
thoroughly educated Swedish metal
lurgist, has taught us how to produce
gas from wet sawdust, entirely with
out preparation, of such power that
wrought iron may be melted with it,
and the great ditlieulty is to find any
material infusible enough to answer
as a lining in the furnace where it is
consumed. Some idea of the impor
tance of these improvements will he
had from the fact that the economy in
fuel effected in England alone, in the
year 1872, as compared with 171. by
the progress made in the introduction
of more perfect apparatus represen
ted more than 4,0U0,UUO tons of coal.
Moisture in WalleoXcic BHihling.
- Regulations in regard to the fitness
for occupancy of dwellings, especially
new ones demand a certain degree of
dryness, and the questions as to. what
the amount ot moisture in a wall at
any particular time may be, and as to
what state of dryness is required by
considerations of health, have been
much discussed. In a particular place,
a certain period for drving new build
ings, dependent npon climate, material
of construction, and style of architec
ture, may become to be fixed by expe
rience, as necessary, but the direct test
ing of the walls as to the amount of
moisture in them has been untrust
worthy. In view of these facts a num
lier of experiments were made bv Dr.
Giassgeu, under the diiectiou of Prof.
Pettcnkofer, for the acenrate determi
nation of the amount of moisture
present iu walls at any time, and a
method was finally found that gave
satisfactory results. Portions ot the
plastering, taken from different parts
of partition walis, were tested. The
free water and water of hydration of
the lime were determined separately.
the former by drving sifted iqiecimen
in a Licbig ft drying tulie, in a current
of air, freed from carbouic acid, and
the latter by passing a current of rar
Itonic acid over the specimen thus
dried, while' heating it. The general
conclusions from the tests made of a
great number of buildings under va
rying conditions, were that there is a
constant loss of moisture proportional
to the time, and that there is a great
difference between the times of doing
in winter and summer, and of exposed
aud unexposed buildings. Further
tests, however, involving nuuieioiis
details are considered necessary, in
order to answer- the question as to
when a new building may be declared
dry : but it is hoped that the publica
tion of the above method and the de
tailed results may lead to fuller inves
tigation. : ;
Carta a XoH-Cundmlur. A com
pany is said to have recently leen
formed in Paris for the purpose of
testing the non-conducting property of
cork. A nil in 1st of steam pipes at
several-important establishments had
been covered with coik, and it is said
that, after standing some eighteen
mouths, the covering remains intact,
and is as M-rfect a non-conductor as ou
the day it was laid. Although the du
rability of cork hail been proved be
fore, in the ease of buoys, w hich are
partly immersed and partly excised
to the weather, its ability to stand
such high temperature aa those of snr-fa4-es
intensely heated bv steam hail
not before been shown. The lightness
of cork; the readiness' with which it
yields so as to surround cylinders and
pipes ; the facility with w hi h it is put
in its place, taken down and put up
again in the case of inspection or re
pairs of a lniiler or stcam-pie, to
gether with the fact that its non-conducting
power effects a great saving of
fuel, are regarded by engineers as
greatly in its favor for the onter coat
ing of steam vessels.
Sitro-Glyceriue is formed by the ac
tion of nitric acid npon glycerine at a
low temperature. The process consists
essentially in the Mot mixture of glyc
erine with the acid: everything being
packed iu ice throughout the opera
tion, and then in washing the nitro
glycerine from the excess of acid with
water. During the process irritating
fumes are given off in large quantities.
(The workmen resemble skeletons
they are so unhealthy.) When it is at
last washed and ready for use, nitro
glycerine is an oily liquid having a
specific gravity of 1.6. Freshly made
it is creamy white aud opaque. After
prolonged contact with the atmosphere
it clears and becomes of a transparent
amber color. It has a sweet aromatic
taste, and produces a violent head
ache if placed upon the tongue or even
allowed 'to touch the skin, though
workmen and miners who are con
stantly using it soon get rid of this.
At3Q9 Fareuhcit it freezes to a white
crystalline mass. When frozen it can
not be fired, aud it is only safe during
transportation when frozen.
Ute AethriotcoDc is another meteoro
logical instrument, and is designed for
measuring the degrees of cold arising
from exposure uuder different condi
tionsof thesky. A polished metallic cup
or concave mirror is placed npon a
pedestal, and a differential theimome-
ter is arranged within if, so that one of
the bulbs of the thermometer shall be
exactly in one focus of the mirror. The
other bn lb. being not in cither foens
is not' affected by the pulsations, the
effects of which on the cup are concen
trated upon the first bulb, the air in
which being suddenly contracted upon
its exposure to a c'.ear sky, the liquid
in that branch of the stem is caused to
rise. The enp is kept covered with a
metal plate, except at the moments of
observation.
Internal Parasite of the IIoe Fly.
A correspondent of Mature writes that
he saw a small, decrepit honse fly
making its way across a sheet of paper,
when three minute, active finimals ap
parently beetles, tumbled out of it:
they were light brown in color and re
semhledtTiWr in shape, and were of
about the size of a medium pin hole.
For silvering metals 10 parts nitrate
of silver, 10 parts common sail and 30
parts cream tartar may be nsed. moist
en the powder with water when ready
to apply.
MaTBnC.
Hoi skholdIIixts. Before commenc
ing to sweep a room, take out all the
chairs and lisrht nieces of furniture, and
cover up those which cannot be easily
removed. Draw back the window -cur-taius
and Din them up as high as you
can reach, opening the windows from
six to eight inches, both top and bottom,
and then close the doors. Hang cotton
cloths, kept for the purpose, over the
pictures aud mirrors. -ow tne room is
preared for sweeping, and damp tea
leaves should be sprinkled all over the
carpet, especially In the corners; if they
are not to be had, bits of brown paper,
wet with water, can be substituted, but
one or the other should be employed to
keep down the dust. Sweep all carpets
the way of the pile, i ., according as
their breadths are sewed, and not across
them. If the fireplace is in use all the
ashes should be removed from the grate
liefore the carpet ia swept, and, while
the dust settles, the prate and hearth
can be cleaned.. Then fasten a soft
cloth over a long-handled hair broom,
and sweep the cornices and curtain
fixtures, lielore returning the chairs
and small articles to the room dust them
thnrousrly with a painter's lrii-h.
Carved wood-work can be cleaned with
a short hair furniture brush, and china
ornaments with a sort cloth, buta feather
duster is the best adapted to cleaning
raised china and gilded work. 1'iano
kevs can be dusted with a piece of old
soft silk, kept for the purpose.
To make a periietual paste, tike one
ounce of gum tragacaiithorgum dragon.
pick it clean, washing off all siecks and
dirt; then put it into a wide-mouthed
bottle or jar which will hold a quart,
and add as much corrosive sublimate as
will lie ou a three-cent piece. Now pour
over it one and a h-lf pints of cold
water. Kain or cistern water is the liest.
Cover the jar tightly, and leave it till
next day, when the gum will be dis
solved and nearly fill it up. Stir the
mass well with a wooden spoon or stick;
do not use metal, because the corrosive
sublimate will blacken it. Repeat the
stirring three or four times during the
day, and it will form a thick jelly, which
must be kept closely covered, as it will
keep fresh lor auy length of time if only
opened when needed for use. For paper
and many other materials it makes a
strong colorless cement, and, being al
ways ready at hand, it induces the
housekeeper to mend many little things
which would otherwise be" neglected.
To clean lime out of teast4 boil in
the kettle Irish potatoes with the skins
ou. This solteus the lime, which is
easily washed out.
A wash com nosed or a teaspoonful of
powdered borax to a pint of rain water
is excellent for removing dandruff from
the hair.
PrKPARIXJ SfCCOTASH FOR WINTER'S
Use. Take the corn when in it best
condition for this purpose. If too old
uiou the stalk it will be too old next
winter when dried. Juicy, plnmp ears,
when the milk is richest, should be
selected. They may be dried in the
green state or boiled ami then dried. In
either case scrape the corn from the cob
and dry upon sheets iu bright sunny
weather, and finish off in pans iu the
oven or over the stove. When the dry
ing is once commenced the evaporation
should be kept up until it is finished.
Sweet com, soured in the drying is
ruined. The beans will take care of
themselves well enough, but the corn
requires skill to evaporate its water and
leave behind in its kernel its sugar,
starch, and gum. and those essential oils
which lend their charm to the dish of
eo-n and beans. As you are luxuriating
this mouth In that delicious compound,
succotash, remember the dearth of next
winter and lav in a generous supply of
this inspissated article. If green corn
is preserved in cans it must lie cooked
thoroughly for two hours at least, or it
will ferment aud be spoiled. If green
corn Is canned in glass cans, nnless the
kernels are cooked through and through,
the conteiils w ill ferment, expand, and
burst the cans.
Overwork. Health is worth more
than crops more than farms, more than
any other earthly blessing. And once
lost, it is very difficult to regain. Often,
there is no cure, for disease nnd suffer
ing becomes a lite-long condition. hie
of the chief causes of the ill-health, w ith
which so man v farmers and their families
are atllicted, is their habit of overwork.
They sleep too little.make too long days,
hurfy too much, and work too hard.
Work in a proper degree, is a benefit,
but carried too far, it is destructive iu
the extreme. As a people, we are living
too fast, and working too hard. We
break down too early in life. When
we ought to be in the prime of life, we
liegin very perceptibly to fail. We
drive too fast, and worry too much.
Thus, we mis a great deal of the joy
which this life ought to bring, and make
but a jioor preparation' for the life to
come. Still, we should not wish to live
in idleness. Our Maker ordained that
we should toil for our daily bread, and
we ought willingly to oliey this decree.
But we are not called ujioii to make
labor our curse ami ruin, and, in mak
ing it so no man can lie justified.
A rranoixo FfRxrrrRE. In arrang
ing furniture about a room, bear in
mind that it is not necessary to push
every article primly out to the sides, so
that sofas and chairs look as it" they were
glued to the wall. Pull them out; put
a sofa across one corner; stand the big
easy chair in the light, with a liltle
table close by, handy for sewing or
books; leave a chair or two in front of
the sofa; and in general sodisxseof
the articles that the room shall not a
pear as if its owners never entered it
save on ceremonial occasions. Whether
a room is pleasing and cosy or not does
not depend upon the elegance or cost
liness of its fittings. The simplest furni
ture, if tastefully arranged as regards
color and position, often looks better
than the handsomest products of the
cabinet maker's skill.
To close cracks in cast-iron stoves
good wood ashes should be sifted through
line sieve, to which Is added the same
quantity of clay finely pulverised, to
gether 'with a little salt. The mixture
should then be moistened with water
enough to make a paste, and the crack
In the stove tilled with it. 1 he cement
does not peal off or break away, and as
sumes an extreme degree of hardness
after being heated. The stove must be
cool when the application is made. The
same snbstanoe may be used in setting
the plates of a stove, or in fitting stove
pipes, serving to render all the joints
perfectly tight. .
Chloral for Headache. Dr. E. M.
Nolan describes the following cure of a
very painful headache in a lady. He
dissolved fifteen or twenty grains of
chloral in a very little water, and with
the tip of a finger rubbed it npon one of
her temples until she could sensibly feel
the burning and the skin was reddened.
The part rubbed was no larger than a
silver dollar. The pain was entirely re
lieved and remained so. The doctor
has also used this method of applying
chloral for headache with success in
many other cases, sometimes rubbing
on both temples. No permanent sign is
left.
To Ci.ea.x Marble. Take- two parts
common soda, one part of pumice stone,
and one part of finely powdered chalk;
sift it through a fine sieve and mix it
with water; then rub it well all over
the marble and the stains will be re
moved; then wash the marble over with
soap and water, and it will lie as clean
as it was at first.
RoASTixd Poultry. One thickness of
writing or nice brown wrapping paier,
tied around the wings and drumsticks
will keep them from being baked to a
crisp and spoiled.
Cream of tartar rubbed upon soiled
white kid glove cleanses them well.
- raoBocs
Wit hk Lift. A month or two ago
Col.. Bangs engaged a young-fellow
..nut sMidder as sub-editor Of The
Morning Ar.rt. On the day before the
anniversary of Bunker Hill, Bang
-l .i ,.,i,w r he was familiar with
the history of that battle, and Scudder
said he was. So Bangs (old Scudder he
would like him to write Hp a little
sketch of it for the anniversary day, and
Scudder said he would" try. The next
mArninf rim sketch aone&red In 'The
Antn, and attracted a- great deal of at
tention. V nen jsanga saw n, nc -,
Scudder in, and said: " ":
"Mr. ScuddeT, didn't you tell me you
thought you were familiar with the bat
tle of Bunker uiu r - - - -i
Va ir " v " ' x i :C
wdl. if that hr the case. I will be
obliged to von if yon will mention to
nlr what you mean when you say : 'By
4 o'clock the confederate troop were
ready ftr the attack, (ien. Washington
had the catapults put In Hue-' to await
llutir coming, aiul-wlien Napeleon saw
them be drew his- Sword "aiur said
'Soldier!: tweiiTy centurieji.ook down
unon vou f?
No sooner were the battering-rams
leveled against the walls of the castle
than the duke of Wellington sent word
to his mother by Ueu. Butler, that he
would either win or be brought back
uoii his shield. Then ordering his
men to tire at the white of the enemy's
eyes, be awaited the onset w ith that
niaiestic raininess w hich ever distin
guished the hero of Bueiia Vista.
'This was the very crisis of the bat
tle. Joan of Arc, spying tien. Jackson
behind the eotton-bale, dashed, at him
on her snow-white charger, swinging
her ponderous battle-axe over her head,
her fair hair streaming behind her in
the wind. As her steed rushed forward
her hair caught in the bough of a tree,
and. as she hunir there. Senrt. Bates
shot her through the heart with a bolt
from an arquebus. Her last words were;
Itou't give up the ship.'
" 'The duke could stand it no longer.
The Mamalukes had slain all the van
guard. Oen. Sickles had lost his leg
and ret i red on a pension, and the cilemy s
skirmishers, lodged in the top of the
monument, were isiurinir boiling oil on
those who attempted to scale it. Leap
ing from his horse, be shouted, 'Lp.
guards and at them !' and the next
moment, with the glorious flag of truce
iu one hand and his sword in the other,
he hurled his legions upon the lava
beds, crusluog the savage foe to the
earth, killinir. anion z others, the well
known Gen. Harrison, afterwards presi
dent ofthe I nited States.'
"I think we shall have to part, Mr.
Scudder. It seems to me that your
career as a journalist ought to come to
an end right here. I will accept your
resignation.
"And if anyone asks you why you
left The Anjufnt out this paragraph
and say it was because the proprietor
wa afraid he'd murder you when he
read your statement that 'At the battle
of Bunker Xlill the Confederates lost
80,(Hm, and theCarthagenians only 6M,'
and that 'there is no spot in Virginia
that the people hold more sacred than
that bloody bill where the bones of
Cromwell lie with those of Roger Wil
liams, as if they fought against each
other in the cause of the" constitution
and cheap transportation.' point to that
language, M r. Scudder, and your friends
will understand the situation. Good
morning."
The Irish, rightly or wrongly, get the
credit for all the bulls that go the
rounds of the papers. It was an Irish
man who wanted to find a place where
there was no death, that he might go
and end his days there. It Was an Irish
editor that exclaimed, when speaking
of the wrongs of. Ireland : "Her cup of
misery has for ajres been overflowing
and is not yet full !" It was an Irish
newspaier that said of Robespierre that
"He left no children behind him except
a brother, who was killed a' the same
time." It was- an Irish eoioiier who,
when asked how he- accounted for an
extraordinary mortality in Limerick,
replied sadly : "1 can't tell. There are
ieople dying this year who never died
before." It was an Irish handbill that
aunouueed,. with boundless liberality,
in reference to & great political demon
stration in the Dublin rotunda, that
"tidies wirhou' distinction of sex, would
be welcome."
"What's all this talk about the cur
rency and the tive-tw Inties and sivin
thirtieg that I hears about, Mike"
"Why bliss your sowi, don't ye's know.
Pair' It nianes that Prisidint Grant
wants to make the laborin uiui work
from five-tninty in the niornlii till
sivin-thirty in the aveiting.". "Och,
thespalceii ! May thedivil choke him !"
"Stat," he said, h'ts right arm around
her waist, ' and her filer expectantly
turned to him, "shall it be the kiss
pathetic, sympathetic, graphic, oriental,
intellectual, paroxysmal, quick and dis
mal, slow and unctions long and tedi
ous, devotional or what?"' She said that
perhaps that would lie the lietter way.
SrxDAV-ScHiL Teacher: "You all
remember the itassa-'e in the I'.iMe u li,.r
the children got torn to pieces by hears
lor say nig to J-.lislia, tio up, thou la Id
head, go'?" ,
More than usually promising boy.
"Ah, I knows; ami if Elisha had wore
a hat, they wouldn't have kuow'd he
was bald-headed."
A RAGGED little urchin came to a lady's
door, asking for old clot lies. She brought
him a vest aud a pair of trousers, which
she thought would lie a comfortable fit.
The young scape-grace took the gar
ments and examined each ; then, with a
disconsolate look, said, "There ain't no
watch pocket."
A pov-r tri i:.Miii.r.iirk.itB,pi "I
touched the fragrance of her hand."
inis is almost equal tome "jieriiimeil
light" that "steals through the mist of
alahasrpr hinirw " fratri ll.n.u la l.t
thing and the poet takes further advan
tage oi it to reier io "ner sny, reluctant
glove."
"The revisors of the Bible have
reached Isaiah in twenty-eight sessious."
This is very slow work. Old Whaxera,
schoolmaster, reached Isaiah in one
session ; Isaiah was in the act of placing
a crooked pin on the master's seat at the
time.
A Milwatkee max made three unsuc
cessful attempts to blow his brains out,
and then his wife told him : "Don't try
it again, John; you haven't got any.
He goes about now saying that he owes
his life to that woman.
"Tom, Ton seem to gain flesh every
day; the grocery business must agree
with you. What did you weigh last?"
"Well, Jim, I really forget now, hut it
strikes me it was a pound of butter."
"Let us lay our bones together," said
a young lady" sweetly to her companion
atapic-nic; and she held up a drum
stick in a dainty way. But he said :
"No; let ns rather be one flesh."
"Have animals a sense of humor?"
aks an owlish exchange. Certainly
they have. You'll always find that
jackasses are ready to laugh immoder
ately at the poorest jokes.
Mrs. Partisgtox, w ho was every day
nrrvpnfptl from troinrr nut hv a l,m-,
- e -- - 1 -.
said: "This promiscuously concurring
rain is enough tn i rr itr-it. n n rrui
A toi-rist who was asked in what
part of Switzerland he felt the heat the
most replied, ''When I was going to
Berne."
Yorxo vows of everlasting friendship
are foolish. If ever kept, they are kept
by accident not by resolution.
Economizing medicine Taking one
pill twice a day.
Only a matter of form tight lacing.
" Mrs. E. H. Tubman has presented
to the Campbellite Society of Augusta,
Ga, a magnificent church edifice, hav
ing the tallest spire In the South, and
costing her nearly $70,000.
B. p. Enker Bitter Wlaej r
rem
as never been knowa te fail ia the sore af
weakness attended with symptoms ; indis
position to exertion ; lee ef memory ; diS
eulty of breathing; general weakness; hor
ror of disease ; wek, nervous trembling;
dreadful horror of death ; Bight sweata ;
sold feet ; weakness ; dimness ef vision ;
languor ; naiversal lassitude ef the mussu
lar system ; enormous appetUe, with dys
peptic symptom ; hot hands; lushing of
the body; dryness of the skin ; pallid eooa
tenanee and eruptions oa the faccpurifyie;
the blood ; pain ia the back ; heaviness ef
the eyelids; frequent black spots dying be
fore the eyes with temporary suffusion and
loss of sight; want of attention, eta. These
symptoms all arise from a weakness, and io
remedy that, nse E. F. Kdskil's Bitter
Wine of Iron. It never fails. Thousands
are now enioyten health who have need U.
Get the genuine. Sold only ia $1 bottles.
Take only K. F. Kunkel's- Depot and
office. No. 259 North Ninth st, Philadel
phia, Pa.
Ask for Kunkel's Bitter Wine of Iron.
This truly valuable tonic has been so thor
oughly tested by all classes of the commu
nity that it is now deemed indispensable as
a Trnie medicine. It costs but little, puri
fies the blood and gives tone to the stomach,
renovates the system and prolonrs life.
I bow only ask a trial of this valuable
tonie. Pice $1 per bottle. E. F. KUX
KEL, Sole Proprietor, No. 259 North Ninth
8U, below Tine. Philadelphia, Pa.
Ask for Kunkel's Bitter Wine of Iron, and
take no other.
It is sold only in ft bottles, with a photo
graph of the Proprietor on each wrapper,
all other is counterfeit.
Sold by all Druggists.
Tapiwobh Rsmovid Alivi. Head and
all complete, ia two hours. No fee till head
passes. Seat, Pin and Stomach Worms re
moved by Dr. KnsKKL, 259 Nobth Nixth
Stbbst. Advice free. Come, see over l.OUU
specimens and be convinced. He never
fails.
"HArriSEs is tiie Absence or
Pais," says Jean Paul Kichter, and
20 000 ffratefnl patients bless the ANA
KESIS of Dr. Silsbek aa the only in
fallible cure for Piles ever discovered.
It is purely scientific, combining the
best methods of the French. English
and American snrireons, acting as an
instrument, ponltice and medicine, and
not only affording instant relief from
excruciating pain, but performing an
absolute and permanent enre. All
Doctors approve it. Price 1. Sent
free bv mail on receipt of price. P.
Xeusta-dter &. Co., 4d Walker St, New
York.
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353 "Washington St New York.
Principal Depot in !fw Turk for the bast Braoa
MannlsLtarm in tbs United Stales.
' Broom from $2.00 per doieu '
and pward.
Ths fewest ericas am arssswit variety fc be Iniail
snywber.
Ate aa eatlr ae stork of WOOD sad WILLOW
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Brier Wool ana Claj Pipe, tmmry soaps. Vaakeo Bo
liosa, CnUerj, Ac bokms (nsa li to $ per aulL
A fall line ofthe best quality of TINWARE.
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say armastlBc oa the road, orders by Basil will ra
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Lear Tobacco, Cigars, Pipes.
Smoking and Chewing
Tobacco,
OF TilE BE3T BRANDS.
ua 152 TixsxoTnn aveitos,
PHILADELPHIA.
Only Agent for C. S. Solid Top Cigar
Mould.
Cigar Stores can be supplied.
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