Ilotv to Sweep u lioom. To sweep and dust a room properly is an art, and like all hue arts has a right method. Well done it renovates the en tire room, and the occupant takes posses sion felling that "all things have become new." It, is not merely a performance to be done by hands, but a work into which taste and judgement, in other words, brains, must enter. Are these closets opening into the room to be sweept? Ar range the shelves, drawers or clothing preparatory to sweeping day; then let this be the the lirst to be swept. Cover the bed with solid sheets, as also all heavy articles that cannot be removed: lirst, hovever, having carefully dusted and brushed them. Remove all the furniture that can easily be set in the hull or the ad joining room, having lirst dusted it;then, taking a step-ladder, begin to sweep or brush or wipe the cornice and picture cords and pictures. Draw the shades to the top of the window or, if there arc in side blinds, dust them carefully. Open the windows. All the dust left in the room now is in the carpet or air, and the current of the windows will soon settle it. Now begin to sweep, not toward a door or corner, but from the outer edges of the room toward the center, where the dust will b> taken up with a sin ill brush and dust-pan. Go over the room once more—this time with a dampened broom; that removes the last bit of dust and gives the carpet a new. bright appearance. Replace the articles of furniture as soon as the air is entirely free from dust, un cover the rest and the room is new and clean. All this seems an easy thing to do, but there is not one in a hundred will fol low out the details. Some will sweep the dust into the hall, or from one room to another, and then wonder why their house is so soon dusty again. Others forget eoniice and pictures: while a third class will do all but using the damp broom, which is as the finishing touches to a pietu re.— Chicago Alliance. If the parents could realize how the young are moulded and governed by their own conduct t hey would labor hard to se cure at least the semblance of self-govern merit when in their children's presence. We have known ladies to scream, or lie come almost convulsed, if a big bug or worm was found on or near them; or lose half the pleasure of a summer in the country through such weakness because of the busy insect life about them; afraid to touch a rose lest a tiny neat little worm or a rose bug should have sought, food and shelter among the leaves. When mothers betray such weakness it is not necessary to see their children to understand tha- it will be their tendency t> be equally foolish. Now and then one more sensible may be found in a family where the children are brought up to see such weakness daily manifested by the mothers. Or, 011 reaching the years of maturity, the germs of self-control or true presence of mind, that have been choked and dwarfed by the mother's weakness, but, fortunately, perhaps, kept alive by the father's teachings or their own inherent strength, may develop all the nerve and self-control necessary to make a noble eh iracter. "You see, boss, dar's a nigger libin tip my way who ought to bo tooken car' ob," said an old darkey to the captain of the central station. "What's lie been doing now?" "Waal, salt, las' fall I lent him my ax, au' when I wanted it back he braced right up an' refused to gib it up an' tole me dat possessliun was nine pints of law.', "Yes." 4 Well, de odder day I sent do ole woman oher, an' she borrowed liis buck saw, an' when Julius come for it I tole him .list like lie answered me, an' stood on my dignity." /Well." I had nints o' law, didn't 1?" "Yes." "An, how many pints on de law composed of?" "I don't know • xactly." 44 We11, dats what bodders me, fur dat nigger saw dem nine pints, sliet up 'lis lef eye fur me, pitched de ole woman oher a bar'l, an' walked off wid his saw an' my snow-shov el to hoot! Kf I had nine pints, he inns' liev liad oher twenty, an' ebon den lie dkln' half let himself out," — Detroit Free Press. N" w JOB PRINTING OFFICE. We respectftdly invite public attention to our OOMI'UKTW JOB HUNTING HOt'SK! Corner Main and Pine streets, over the Music Store. I COMMKKOIAL HUNTING AND I'M AM H.KT WOliK A HHX'LU.TY. : LKTTKJT, NOTK ANI) BILL UI£AL>H, KNVKLORKB, TAOS Neatly executed on the shortest notice. BUBINKSS, I'AHTY ANI) DARLING OAIUI6 jwiiiteit to order. 1 I ALVOHU A BON. Vertical * Feed. As usual, the Vertical Feed Sewing Machine took First Pre mium. at the late county Fair. 1331. THK CULTIVATOR 1830. .VNI> Oomi ti\y < jreti t lenui n. The liest. of the A(iRICU r/rUIIA LWK KK LI Bv>. It In UNSURPASSED, if not UNEQUALED, for he Amount and Variety of the PRACTICAL INFORMA TION it contains, and for the Ahllity and Extent of Its COHRKHPONDRNCB —in the Throe Chief Directions of Fann Crops mul Frouessos, Horticulture and Fruit-Fro wing, Live Stock and Dairying— while it also Includes ail minor depatmeut* of rural interest, such as the Poultry Yard, Entomology, Bee-Keepjng, Given house and drapery, Veterinary Replies, Farm Questions and Answers, Fireside Reading, Domestic Economy, and a summary of the News of the Week. Its MAKKKT REPORTS are unusually complete, and more information can be gathered from its columns than from any other source with regard to the Prospects of the Crops, as throwing light upon one of the most important of all questions— When to Buy and When to Sell. It is liberally illustrated, and constitutes to a greater degree than any of its contemporaries A LIVE AGRICULTURAL NEWSPAPER Of never-failing interest both to Producers and Con sumers of every class. The COUNTRY GENTLEMAN >S published Weekly on the following terms, when paid strictly in ad vance: One Copy, one year, $2.50; Four Copies, $lO, and an additional copy /or the. year free to the tender of the Club' Ten Copies, S2O, and an additional copy for U year free to the tender of the Club. For the year 1880, these prices Include a copy of the ANNUAL REGISTER OF RURAL AFFAIRS, to each übrfcriber—a book of 144 pages and about 120 ne gravings—a gift by the Publishers. All NEW Subteribe.ru for 1880, paying in ad vance now, will receive the paper WEEKLY, from receipt of remittance to January let, 1880, with out charge. 49rSpecimeu copies of the paper free. Adddress, LUTHER TUCKER & HON, Publishers, Albany, N. Y. pOR THE PRESIDENTIAL YEAR. " TUB: LEADING AMERICAN NEWS PAPER." THK NEW YORK TRIBUNE FOR 1880. During the coming Presidential year The Tribune will be a more effective agency than ever for telling the news best worth knowing, and for enforcing sound politics. From the day the war closed it lias been most unxious for an end of sectional strife. But it saw two years ago, and was the first persist ently to Proclaim the new danger to the country from the revived alliance of the Solid South and Tammany Hall. Against that danger it soughtto rally the old party of Freedom and the Union It began by demandingtthe abandonment of personal dislikes, and set the example. It called for an end to attacks upon each other instead the enemy; and for tin- heartiest agreement upon whatever fit candidates the majority should put up against the common foe. Since then the tide of disaster has been turned back; every doubtful state has been won, ami the omens for National victory wore never more cheering. THE TRIBUNE'S POSITION". 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