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v. ';-. ' *_.v ^ _ '.•:'7;v;;^-/' > *«MTICA1, AOBICVLTVBE. It y a fagot et fagot.--Moticre. The farmer through the freshly-furrowed land . Strode to Mid fro ; and at each step his hand ^ Took from a sack and aoath rod on ths plain Handful*, to loft and right, of wheaten grain. _ " What is he doing ?" asked a child, whom then - Hie tutor had led forth to bresthe the air Hetween two lee»onf> of arithmetic. "Just what thon see'st him do," the tutor, eicfc Of the child's frequent questions, peevishly Replied t« thia one--" mowing his field." " Why?" " That he may reap." "What?" "Corn," the tu- t'.r said, "To Blake for thee, chi'fl, Mack, unbuttered brad WheQ thou haat misbehaved ttyself." The """ ftomewhat abaahed; but alill unreconciled * To alleot ignorance, paused, blushed, and then " la Bowing difficult ?" he aakcd a^ain. To whitfh i».xt (juention, vainly ojpre than once * Keiteratcd, not the least response The tutor Utigaed. Some days afterward, Hiytogrione about the garden-swart, Thi* child npon the gravel, with a stake Plucked from the shrubbery, <ontiived to ««*« Small nuinic furrows; Laving filled (far lack Of any other more ujiproprwte sack) " floest Kaiid hie piilow^cttto A atoleti vrizo; and, stfewmg o'«* each I Oravyd in the gravel by hia tiny apud, * Mandfulg of nand he Bowed 'twixt heap# of mild. art thou do:ug, Paul ? a pretty men! 8pai.inK my gravej-wa kg T Iu Brave distress ii? j 1t'l*H chiding voice appealed soi>bing: u Father, let lue bow my field '.n At snoto ft field," the father, laiffhlus. IHat doet thon hope to reap, Paul ?" " bread," The child repliej. The father laughed again. lay little Paul, thou eow'st thy field in vain ; By sowing .and expect not to reap corn." ^ hoy hunjf down hia head, with face forlorn; _ * But I had nothing else to sow," said he. The father fell into a reverie. He was a siotenman; or men called him an, 1 be field of Time with fruitful eead toaow Wag nis profession. He had labored lata And early in tie service of the Htito. Between the office and the Parliament H'HrtayB antl nights industriously spent Haa left the deep furrows wherein Tuno . y .«*avnr. «UWT;III & UI1U rnineu On lue own forehead. Nothing but gray hairs. <sraf,e habit#*, barren honor, joylera strife. Grew in the laded ftfJd of hi** own life, Aral, for the tir*t time in that life, thin day. Pained by the night of h*B o>ru child at play, Tbe peneive father asked hiiiifieff : 44 Alaokl What have I in the bottom tif my sack ?" Oweii Meredith, in St. James' Gazette. LIFE Awoue THE MORMONS. A lady who has lived many years in the Mormon Territory gave alSew York Sun reporter the benefit of her ol>sorva- tions while in Salt Lake City and other places in Utah. She said: ."A Gentile myself, I never lost curi­ osity regarding the peculiar institution. On and on I have lived twenty years among the Mormons. I like the people and I like tlieir religion, for polygamy is a religion with them. I do not, of course like this form of their belief. They are a cheerful, jolly set of folks, their wor- Khip more nearly resembling that of the Methodists than any religion known to us. They do not soare you cut of your senses with threats of eternal damnation and hell fire. Even in church, if any­ thing funny is said, you are at liherty to laugh, acd are not considered to have offended the proprieties. They are gen­ erous, open-handed and whole-souled, as a general thing, and nowhere on earth for I have traveled far and observed much, and know whereof I speak do women uphold each other so much as the Mjormon women do. They have a sympathy and a' charity for each other that women elsewhere would do well to emulate. " Although weman work in the Terri- t<*y, their work is seldom of a character to increase wealth, and, as each wife must have her separate rooms or house and a stipulated allowance to live upon, it can readily be seen that polygamy was an ingenious device to keep men from amassing wealth. I remember well a case in point. The editor of a certain paper was allowed to live in peace and happiness with his only wife until the growing influence of the journal and the emoluments therefrom attracted Brig- ham's attention. The editor was in- iormeA one day th& he had too long neglected the religious rites of the church--that he must take another wife. The editor did not want to, and, as may be supposed, neither was his wife anx­ ious that he should. But there was no resisting Brigham. It must be done. The wife and the hu&and were tenderly attached. They desired to keep their means for the education and future main­ tenance of their only son, but their pri­ vate wishes availed nothing. A young girl was selected as the second wife, and a wing was built to their house. The wife fell sick with grieving and with jealous torture. As sh« lay for weeks on her bed she could hear the hammer­ ing going on, and listened with the same feelings that acondenmed man hears the erection of the scaffold on which he is to be executed. But being a true Mormon, and believing like her husband that he was only performing a religious duty, 6he prayed for resignation and submis­ sion. She succeeded so well that she - was able to attend the wedding, and give the bride away, as it were, but after that matters did not work well. Although the fh»st wife tried hard to keep the peace, the second wife was a virago, and jealous of the love that the husband had evidently not transferred. " For some time the two wives lived, one in one wing of the house, the other in the other. They would meet in the back, yard, common to both, but without speaking. After the birth of a son to the second wife, her temper, because she could not entirely supplant the first wife, became so unbearable that the un­ lucky editor implored Young to grant him a divorce. After that the second wife went to what is popularly known as the bad. The husband iaduced her to give the child into the keeping of the tirsfc wife. The two boys have been reared as brothers, and no other wife has since disturbed the harmony of the little household. " One singular thing in Mormon fam­ ilies is the perfect good feeling which ih- variably exists among the children. They never quarrel, as step-sisters and brothers do in the States, for they are e*rly taught that tlieir rights are equal and respect them, their tommou father taking eare to show no more favoritism among his ehfldren than among his wives. I was often amused at these same Mor­ mon children. They would come in and say : 'Mother, Polly So-and-so is going to be married to Mr. What's-his name. She's going in fifth, or ninth, or eleventh,' as the case might be. "Another thing that struck me as «trange was that all Brigham's daughters are lovely and most pronounced blondes, with golden-tinted hair, heavenly-blue eyes, and cream-and-roses complexions, all tall, well-built girls, vhile their vari­ ous mothers were of all shapes, all sizes and complexions, and had every shade of hair and eyes. " The Mormons believe that those who dk» not practice polygamy are wrong, nnd not they ; and they, especially the women, are fond of inveighing against the immorality of the States--the flirta­ tion and worse of Gentile wives, and the unfaithfulness of Gentile husbands. I have often had them say to me : 4 How selfish are you Gentile wives ! You get married to one man. You find him a good husband, a good provider, and a good father. You know that the women in the world outnumber the men, so that there are no longer men enough to go round, and yet you will not share that good provider with another woman, al­ though you know he would make her as happy as he has you, and so many a poor woman has to go without any husband «t all, because you are too selfish to di­ vide himup,' " Neither falsehood nor concealment w necessary to a Mormon. Number 1 is taken into his confidence from the be­ ginning, and her eon sent respectfully requested to every subsequent marriage is a formality never dispensed with. Until she is too old to hold her own at fill, she is the head and ruler of the bevy of wives. Ifivery wife is given so muah and no more of the husband's time and money, tlius preventing jealousy and dispute. He spends a week with one, a week with another, or less time if his wives be many. If he takes a fancy to f emain longer than the allotted time woe be to him, for all the other wives rise top as one united injured woman, and make it lively for him. You see, it may tot always be practicable for one wife to make a husband toe the mark, but a dozen, more «r less, find it no trouble whatever. "I was in Salt Lake City during the whole Ann Eliza episode. I have since heard her lecture, and was amused at the way she distorted facts. She was a thorough Mormon, ambitious and in- triguing for power. She wanted the glory of being one of Brigham's wiveq, supposing that as she was young and prepossessing she could win his oft-won heart and reign supreme over his vast ^states and many wives. She therefore made him proposals--strictly honorable, I am bound to say, since she divorced her husband to do so--but, after having been sealed to countless women, ana having let! to the altar eighteen blush­ ing brides, to wed the fair Eliza did not have for Brigham the charm of novelty. Besides he was enamored ©f Amelia, and was wooing her. "They have a sort of confessional, in the sacred precincts of which they may safely confide their desire to marry a certain man, who is thereunon informed of the wish by the pious go-between, and the gentleman can hardly refine. Of all men Brigham was bound to prac­ tice what he preached, and, as Anv Eliza would not take no for an answer-- and " no " he did say to her I know for a certainty--she became the nineteenth wife. At this time all the remnants of love the poor old man had to give were lavished on Amelia, who had not wanted him, but had been talked into the mat­ ter by her relatives. He made Eliza's honeymoon as brief as possible, and hurried to Amelia. Eliza says in her lecture that she Was banished to a wretched little place in the country, or words to that effect The truth is that, like all the rest of his wives, she was given a choice of residence. She se­ lected a pretty, little, well-stocked farm about four miles from Salt Lake City. There's not a lady in New York> but would be pleased to own such a place. "Ann Eliza made a great complaint of never having anything to wear but a calico dress. I never saw her in anv but a silk of the best make and material. In Utah, as elsewhere, ladies wear calico when about their work. There are no drones in the great Mormon hive. FJiam. struggled hard for the office of queen bee, but there is no such sinecure. She was so nettled at Brigham's infrequent and quite ceremonious calls that she took a dislike to her farm, and thought that if she were to get within the citv limits she would get more chance at him, so she teased and tortured him un­ til he gave her a house in town. It was a very comfortable, commodious dwell­ ing, very roomy, and well adapted for a boarding house. " By this time the Gentiles had over- th run the Mormon tartnesses, and where the American goes there the boarding house follows. The nineteenth wiia. could not become the power behind the throne, so Bhe resolved to open a board­ ing house. Brigham thought it beneRth the dignity of his wife, infinitesimally speokiug, to keep a boarding house, but she pestered him so he consented. He had married her to get rid of her, and, not succeeding, he thought the boarding house would quiet her. She took in isome Gentiles who backed her in open rebellion, wrote her lecture, and started her lecturing. This was the inner life of Brigham and Eliza. Could she havp stepped into Amelia's place, she would have done as that very long-headed lady tias done, and the world would never have heard either her wrongs or her lecture. " As a general thing women are woced in Utah the same as elsewhere. At the same time there is a class of girls who c ast about and pick up a husband for themselves. When I say a husband I mean a husband, for they prefer to see how a man treats his wife and the style in which he supperts her before they marry him. They don't care to experi­ ment with a single man. They select a man of wealth, and by means of the con­ fessional of which I have spoken, or otherwise, it is made knowu to nim that he must marry a certain girl. It is only just to the Mormon women at large to say that this sort of girl is in the minori­ ty. Polygamy compels her to remain respectable in spite of herself, for no­ where is a lapse from virtue more con­ demned than among the Mormons, and the infidelity olf a wife is punished by the loss of caste and complete .social banishment. A woman can only be married to one man at a time. Divarcc is within easy reachi but to the husband de facto and pro i> m. she must remain true. A case occurred within my knowl­ edge which, though painful, had its amusing side. " A man had a wife. Both believed polygamy was right, but when the hus­ band put it into practice and brought home a younger and handsomer bride, the first wife found it hard to bear. There are certain tilings very galling about this Mormon custom. Hie first wife is expected to treat the ijew-comer as a welcome guest, and if not in good circumstances she must resign her sleep­ ing-apartment to her--there's no humil­ iation spared the supplanted wife. She must not only get down from her throne, but she must place her rival upon it; all of which the wife did of whom I tell you. She set her teeth so hard that no mur­ mur * escaped them, and became what Mormon women all think the Lord in­ tended they should be, martyrs. The second wife was a pretty, addle-pated little creature, who had only married Mr. Black for the sake of a home, with­ out caring for him in the least, while the first wife loved him devotedly. All went quietly for a time, till Mr* Black attained the grand object of a Mormon's ambition. He was given what they call a mission ; that is, he was sent abroad to proselyte. In nis absence the two wives lived together, and the second wife attracted the attention of an inferi­ or man. "The first wife was all amiability to the second wife, especially when the in­ ferior gentleman called. She discreetly withdrew, and never seemed aware that the two had fallen madly in love with each other. So matters went on until the return of the mutual husband. Wife No. 2 found a confession obligatory. The husband eould not have been more astonished if the heavens had fallen, and raved more about a wife's shame and a husband's honor than Othello himself. What was to be done? A husband's honor must not be tarnished, a wife's the outraged husband speedily divorced her, the inferior gentleman refused to make an honest woman of one who had publicly been pronounced the reverse, apd, driven from pillar to post, the poor creature became an outcast, and so con­ tinued until her child became a beauti­ ful and sturdy boy. Taking him t>y the hand one day she went to wife No. 1, and implored her to take him ana rear him properly; 'out do not separate us,' she said; 'give me shelter too, aud I will be your Servant, your willing, uncom­ plaining slave, until death." And so they all live together, the mother in the kitchen, the son in the parlor, hardly daring to speak to each other, the divoreed wife the hard-driven menial of the woman whose equal she once was, an<! the husband, though toJeratiag her presence for humanity's sake, never per­ mitting her to speak to him. "At almost the first dinner I was in­ vited to in Salt Lake City I was intro­ duced to a genUeman. We will call him Jones. I %as also introduced to two ladies nuraed1 Jones, but it did not oc­ cur to me until I was told afterward that they were both married to him One was pas.se, proud and stately in bearing and appearance. The other was young, very pretty, and seemed to shrink" at the sound of the other's voice. She flew to obey her commands, which consisted of orders to wait on Mr. Jones. 'Emma,' she would say,' hand George this, hand George that; get George's ha*, get George's cane; fetch George's gloves, etc.' " As I have said before, the first wife is mistress of all the others, and they are forced to obey her as abjectly as slaves. Emma was the second wife of Jones, and the wife ruled her with a rod of iron. There was no tyranny she did not inflict upon her, no mean, mer­ ciless grinding under foot that she did net exeroise. Jones left them to fight it out. So hideous was the first wife's treatment of the second that she finally went crazy, and had to be confined in an asylum. Mrs. Jones the first urbanely gave Mr. Jones i»ermission to bring home any number of young and pretty wives, but at latest dates he had not availed himself of her kindnees. "Fighting it out reminds'me of a young fellow who had a pretty young wife, but soon began to pay his address­ es to a joung lady. He took the lattor on a little excursion, on which, as it happened, his wife had gone. They met, and, as the wife had no intimation of what he was contemplating, she began to make a scene, just'as a Gentile wife would. He hurried both ladies into a room in a rustic hotel on the pretext of talking it over quietly. As soon as he got them there he slipped out, locked them in, and gave orders below that no one should let them out or pay any attention to their cries for assistance. -y/w< joyed himself, but the women fought and stormed and went into hysterics and fainted and recovered and finally got awfully hungry. In vain they showted and begged to be released. Then they wept and made up, and when the husband came and demanded through the keyhole if they were good friends and would like something to eat, they both said ' Yes ' meekly to all his questions. Then he unlocked the door, and they went and had a cozy little din­ ner together, and when he married the young lady they we»e all happy ever after. " While old men invariably select young Women as wives, they often make a concession to a daughter and marry her mother at the same time, to as not to separate them, and a young man will often take a mother and grandmother along with the daughter. Literally, in Utah men frequently marry a whole family. A wife getting old is often glad to have her husband marry a daughter by another husband, so that the origiual wife may not be ousted from her privi­ leges and a oomfortable home. "It is a custom out there to call a weman after her husband's first name, in order to distinguish her. For instance, the wife of John Young is called Libbie John, and not Mrs. John Young. "The first emigrant women were grossly ignorant. Those born in Utah in the present generation are educated and refined, quite capable of thinking and acting for themselves. What with the newspapers brought into the Terri­ tory, the railroads tempting them to travel, and bringing in hosts of strang­ ers, the Mormon women of to-day have facilities for enlightenment equal to those in New York city. Tli<; young girls generally are refusing to accept po- iygamists as husbands, and wives are beginning to appeal to the law to pun­ ish their bigamous partners. The best class of men are willing to drop out of their religion its one repulsive feature, and would prefer to send to the seat of Government some man who is not a po­ lygamic. " If the Mormon people are not perse­ cuted into an obstinate and prolonged continuance of polygamy it will die a natural death, and w thirty years hence there will not remain a vestige of it." The Romance of Exploration. Few novelists have so exciting a story to tell as that which Col. Prejevalskv borings home with him. He has been traveling m regions which no European foot had trod before him. While the threatened storm between Russia and China was growling on the frontier, he was pushing his way among the unknown territories ol High Asia persistently and undismayed. He ha« wandered through forests that arc bright with the plumage of blue pheasants. He has explored the Tibetan highlands, where the peaks are said to rise 10,000 feet above Mont Blanc, and the very rivers flow at levels higher than the summits of all but the loftiest of the Alps. Chinese potentates have come within an ace of beheading him. Tartar horsemen and Mongolian brigands have fled before the unerring aim of his rifle. Natives have spread the legend that his eyes could pieroe fathoms deep into the earth and charm ©ut the precious stones which iay be­ neath ; and the best opinion that these tribesmen ever held of him was that he was a well-disposed wizard who flew about at night. And, after all this ad­ venture, his hope of reaching the mys­ terious "star-spread sea" still-stands for the present baffled. From the snows of the Tibetan mountains flow two of «the greatest rivers of the earth, the Yangtze and the Yellow river, the main arteries of the Chinese plains- Even to the people who dwell upon them their sources are but vaguely known. They arrrive upon the horizon of exact knowledge as mighty rushing waters break from the mountains. To humbler origins Prejevalskv has been unable to trace them. When he struck the Yellow river above Gcmi he found it already a broad stream, clearing its way swiftly to. the east through a deep ravine cut sharply out of the rocky table land. At frequent intervals as the ex­ plorer pushed along its banks with hia string of mules and camels he was checked by cross ravines, in the bottom of which tributaries rushed to the river. "We would be marching over the un­ broken plain," he says, " when all of a sudden a fearful chasm would tlireaten us with yawning throat and the passage would cost untold fatigue to men beasts." He found, in short, that the project of following up the Yellow river was impossible. Nevertheless he still believes that the source may be reached some other, time by starting further west, and there is little reason to be­ lieve that Bussia, which for two centu­ ries past has been dlstiuguished for the energy which she has devoted to the work of geographical exploration, will not long allow his services to remain unem­ ployed.--New York Herald. HAPPY FRIENDS, [Prom the Jackson Dally Patriot.] Rev. F. M. Winbnrne, pastor M. E. Church, Mexia, Texas, writes us lollows: 8everal months s St. Jacolis Oil. Retaining two bottles, I distributed the rest amoi«r frLunds. It is a njost excellent remedy for pains and aches of various kinds, especially neuralgia and rheumatic affections. Pork and Beans for One. A lady on a Central railroad train, after depositing numerous bundles in the rack overhead the seat, hung her umbrella on the oord connecting with the air-brakes. A newsboy passing through the car noticed the snspended gingham, and politely informed the in­ nocent owner that she must remove it. " What's that string for if it ain't to hang tilings on ?" inquired the old lady, as she dropped the umbrella into the seat. The boy answered, in all earnestness, "It's to call a waiter when you're hun­ gry," and passed ou. Some time after there was vigorous pulling of the air-brake oord, and the train came to a standstill. The con ductor rushed up to the old lady, and in a tone of amazement exclaimed, "What's the matter ?" "Bring me a plate of pork and beans," drawled out the ancient female with the umbrella, not in the least aware that she had stopped the train. An explanation followed, and the joking newsboy did not venture forth from the baggpge car during the remainder of the trip.--Albany Journal. Db. Bittle, in a lecture to his meta­ physics class, wa* once speaking of the shrewdness of children's replies, tlieir perplexing questions, etc., and said to us: "You just try asking some child why the sun doesn't rise in the west." When opportunity favored, I tried the experi­ ment I said to a bright little girl: "Who made the sun?" "God." " Where did He make it rise? " "In the east." " Well, can you tell me why He didn't make it rise in the west ? " " He wanted that place for it to set at," was the ready reply. Thi unprecedented demand for Dr. Boll's Cough Syrup has bad the effect of bringing oat nnmerona similar remedies ; but the people are not so easily induced to make a trial of the new article when they value the old and reliable one --Dr. Ball's Cough Syrup. A boat Hornet*. Old Jerry Greening, the hunter, says that on one occasion he shot a bear and was going to drag the earcass home, when he discovered the bear had just been robbing a yellow jackets' nest and was still oovered with the fiery little in­ serts. "'F that b'ar hed only been wounded I'd a waltaed right in an' fixed 'im," said Jerry, " but a couple o' them cussed little hot-tailed critters came arter . me an' I skipped, an' I didn't dare go arter thet b'ar '» two (lays." Hornets build their nests high up in the branches of trees or fasten them to the rocks. But as cute as these insects are the bear is more than their matcli. A bear discovers a hornet's nest far out on a limb beyond his reach. He climbs the tree, breaks the longest branch he can get, and, holding it in his fore paws, hits the nest until it drops to the ground. Sometimes he dauces or stamps on tlio limb till the nest is shaken off. Should the nest be on a rock the bear goes up to the top of the ledge above it, where ho gathers stones aud sticks and rolls them down the side of the rock till one hits the nest and sends it tumbling to the ground below. The hornets appear to know what has caused their ruin and all remain in the fallen nest till the bear appears, when they attack him. "A hornet's sting," says Jerry Green­ ing, " is 'bout's stroug 's a whack from a sledge-hammer, an' one hornet *11 knock a bull down, buf their bite won't raise a lump bigger"n a buckshot on a b'ar, an' the shaggy critter thinks its fun. He'll stan' on his hin' legs au' square off with his fore paws jest as ef he were a boxin' with somebody, only he's durn keerful t' keep his eyes shet Then he'll lav down au' roll over 'em jest ez if he didn't keer a cent for 'em. Once't I seed a she b'ar knock a hornet's nest bigger'n a half-bushel basket off 'n a rock an' pick it up an' tuck it under her arm an' walk off with it ez cool ez if 't were one o' her cubs."--Correepotul- ent Philadelphia Time*. the family doctor. _ Poison from bees, hornets, spider- bite?.' etc., is instantly arrested by the application of equal parts of common salt and bicarbonate of soda, well rubbed in oh the place bitten or stung. A standing antidote for poison by dew, poison oak, ivy, etc., is to take a handful of quicklime, dissolve in water, let it stand lialf an hour, than paint the poisoned parts with it. Three or four applications will never fail to cure the most aggravated cases. Thb food of the eye is lights as air is for the lungs, bread forthe stomach, and as the tins of the fish pre-suppoee water. To shut ourselves up a dark, rooms, with or without weak light, is simply suicidal. Weak eyes, indeed, are the acoompaniment of dark rooms, stained glass and gas.--Dr. J. U. Han- etford. Bbst tor Hbabachbs.--Dr. Day says, in a late lecture : " Whatever l»e the plan of treatment decided upon, rest is the first principle to inculcate in every severe headache. Rest, whieh the busy man and anxious mother, cannot obtain so long as they can inanagS to keep about, is one of the first remedies for every headache, and we should never cease to enforce it. The brain when excited as much needs quiet and repose as a fract­ ured limb or an inflamed eye ; it is ob­ vious that the chances of shortening the seizure and arresting the pain will de­ pend on our power to have this carried out effectually. It is a practical lesson to keep steadily in view, in that there may lurk behind a simple headache some le­ sion of unknown magnitude which may remain stationary if quietude can be memtained. There is a point worth at­ tending to in the treatment of all head­ aches. See that the head is elevated at night and the pillow hard, for if it be soft the head sinks into it and becomes hot, which with some people is enough to provoke an attack in the morning if sleep has been long and heavy." SiiBBP for Chtldrkn.--If you would preserve your children from wasting dis­ eases, do not stint them in their sleep ; chlorotic girls, especially, and weakly babies need all the rest they can get If they are drowsy in the morning, let them sleep; it will do them more good than stimulants and tonic sirups. For school children in their teens, eight hours of quiet sleep is generally enough, but do not Restrict them to fixed hours ; in mid-summer there should be a siesta- loftier in every house, a lounge or an old mattress in the coolest nook of the hall, or a hammock in the shade of the porch, where the little ones can pass the sleep-inviting afternoons. Nor is it nec­ essary to send them to bed at the very time when all nature awakens from the torpid influence of the day-star; sleep in the atmosphere of a stifling bedroom would bring no rest and no peasant dreams. But an hour after sunset there will be a change ; the night wind arises and the tainting land revives; cool air is a febrifuge and nature's remedy for the dyspeptic influences ef a sultry day. Open every window, and let your chil­ dren share the luxury of the last even­ ing hour; after breathing the fresh night air for a whily, they will sleep in peace. --Popular Science Monthly. WorklagneB. Before yoa begin your heavy spring work after a winter of relaxation, your xytttem needs cleantdug and strt ngtheuing to prevent an at­ tack of Ague, Bilious or Spring Fever, or soma other spring sickueea that will unfit yoit for a season's work. You wiil save timf, much sick­ ness and grt'at expense if you will use one bot­ tle of Hop Bitters in your family this mouth.-- Burtomgtoii Ha*ck-Eye. Population of the Wert. At the beginning of the century the population of the great West, which is now about 20,000,000, was a little more than 50,000. The following interesting table shows the growth of that popula­ tion : Per ctnU <>f Year. /topvtotfori. Iticreetne. A Great River in Alaska. The San Francisco News-Letter says. When the late Mr. Seward purchased Alaska from the Czar, he was not awaro erf the fact that he was getting with hi». countless fur-sealai fisheries, mines, and ice-bergs, one of the greatest rivers in the world, and now almost demonstrated to be of greater volume than the Missis­ sippi. Such a stream is the Yucon. The vast region it waters remains as much a terra incognita as the Congo. In fact, while the latter has been onc^ explored-- by Stanley--from tho point where Livingstone turned back dofljn to the Atlantic Ocean, and by Livingstoaie from its extreme sources to where Stan­ ley's explorations began, no traveler has ever yet seen the npper water of the Yu- ooh or has been able to enlighten the world as to its length or its soured, or the region it drains. Here, then, is an opening for enter­ prise and ambition, more fruitful ol promise than anything as yet unrevealed in Africa or the Arctic Sea, and probably less dangerous. That the country con­ tains mines of gold and silver, we may readily conjecture from the fact that sueh mines exist on all sides of it. The river is navigable for hundreds of miles. It is free of ice from June to September. Its banks are flanked below with Indian villages. Its waters are filled with fish for the support of human life, and its woods with game. The mountains in which it rises are unknown to white men but, as they are generally believed to be stored with that sort of treasure which led to the rapid settlement of California and to the expansion of commerce on the South and Central Pacific, there is the strongest sort of temptation on the part of thousands to see them, test them, and dig them up, if the treasure can be found. The Government has many vessels lying idle and uselessly rotting for the want of action. Why not fit one of them up for a two or three years' cruise on this great unexplored river of the North ? The discovery of gold mines there would lead instantly to a large migration from all parts of the world, and in a few years contribute millions to tlie commerce of the Southern Pacific States and Territo­ ries. AGENTS WANTED $72 B A WEEK. CISadnjrat homes&*i|ymade. Coatljr outfit tree. Addrora Trve A CO., August*, Me. IO \V.\<JES, BumniPr and winter. Samples free. National Copying Co., ituu Wwt 'Madison-si., Cuicago. tflQQ * TPar to AjrenU and exnenaaa. SA Outfit AddresnF. SWAIN AlX)^Augu»t*,Me. » week in yonr own town. TVrms and |S outfit free. Address H. HaiXKTT A Co., Portland, Me. f l A S T T P R K M f T ' S T ® . -- S a m p l * a n d t e r m a free. Monthlt Nation. Warren, Pa. DlCA'fi ^^IIDST for Consumptiontnalto • • VP C9 W V fl Ka tlie best oougU medloin*. ftK t A $9(1 P6; hom«- Samples worth 9A free. •8 "" Address Stinson A Co., Portland, Me. A WA>TKI> for the Bert and Fastest-J\ Selling Pictorial Books and Bibles. Prioes reduced n per ct. National Pudlubimq Co., Cnicaco* jUL »Cnicaffo* j YLAXB FARHN.f? to per Aor*. Snort winter*, breezy summers, healthy climate. Wiefree. H. PiCHAMHKKS, FedertlsbvgTMd. HffARl jnx shoi Catalogue $350 a Moirrn -- Areata WmM t 75 Bsst-Selltn* Article* In tha world'- a tr-n playi-M. JAY BKONSO\. Detroit, Mlak. 7MJ MJ A YKAIt and expense* to jf jf agents. Outfit Free. Address p. m m O. V1CKERY, Augusta. Maine. YDUMfi MFN ! Bamatoto$100a lUVHII IflCHnwinth. (»raduate* guaranteed p&i- hlg o&oea. Address Vauuitims Bhos., JanesTllle.Wls SDCHTfi VIAIITm ̂ ever; city or town. Norsp-nacn 1 o nun I ClliUl required. Address, with references. Garden City Urain Exchange, Chicago, 111. IJAKKIAOK AREACT.--All correspondence XM. Ktr > tlv confidential. For particulars address, with staiup, S. T1LLSON, Ouawa, Iowa. FN Cards C'ENTHwiliiead set of four of handsomest ^rench Cards ever used for advertising purposes, of attractive designs for S c#»nt« upwards. Large Centers for Scrap Books, 10 ct«. Stamps taken. Summit MINKHAI. SruiNG Watkji, 304 Broadway, New York [From tlie Clinton (Iowa) Herald.j Jamks Ui'ti.eu, Esq, clerk of the Rox* bury Car|>et Co., Boston Mass., employing eight hundred hands, in a late communicn. tion concerning the admirable working of an article introduced iflto the factor}-, says: The fmnous Old German Remedy, 8t, Jacobs Oil, ltns effected several cures among our men, who have been badty hurt in working iu the f'setory, and they pronounce it a success every time. Wanted to See Her. Ther other night Bickles went home and found his wife particularly retro­ spective. She talked of the past with a tear and looked to the future with a sigh. "Oh, by the way," said Bicklos, as he sat on the side of the bed pulling off his boots. "I saw a gentleman down town to-day who would give a thousand dol­ lars to see you." '4 Who was he ? Does he live In Little Rock?" " I don't know his name." "IU warrant that it was Oliver Gregg." "No." " Then he must be George Weather- ton." "Guess again. I might know his name if I were to hear it." "Oh, I do wish I knew !" said the lady, exhibiting exoitement "Was it Oscar Peoples ? " " Guess again. I remember his name now*" " Harvey Glenkins. "No; his name is Lucas Wentwing." " I don't know a man by that name. Why would he give a thousand dollars to see me ? " "Because he's blind."--Little Rock Oazette. A Good lEonsewlfe, > xne good housewife, when tthe is giving her bouse its spring renovaXing, should bear in mind that the dear inmates of her house are more precious than many houses, and that their systems need cleansing by purifying the blood, regulating the ntomacli and bowels to prevent and cure the diseases arising from spring malaria and miasma, aud she most know that there is nothing that will do it so perfectly and surely as Hop Bitters, the purest •nd best ot nwrifcanea.--Concord (If. H.) Pa­ triot. 17 1SOO. #1,006 1810. 293,109 <73 IS'* N58,9o7 1<J3 1H30. 1,610,473 87 1840. 8,4*1 642 1-20 1850 5,68.',418 67 18M. 9,7i5,tWa 74 1870 ia,071,r>21 43 1880 10,131,810 37 That table is a very interesting one. It is one of tho most remarkable feat­ ures in this remarkable age. If Voti Feel Despoadent and weary of life, do not give up; it is not trouble that causes such feelinirs, but disor­ dered kidneys or liver which Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure will invigorate, restore and thus brin^' you happiness once more. A Young lady's "Testimonial." A gushing young lady who purchased a bottle of Dr. Quacke's Health Bitters --none genuine unless tho Doctor's name is blown on tlie wrapper--sent him the following testimonial : "Deab Doctob: I think your bitters are too awfully lovely! After taking half a bottle I could sleep until 9 o'clock in the morning, while ma was getting breakfast ready. My health is now too sweet for anything, aud your delightful medicinc is just too supremely nice," etc. --Xorrintou'n Herald. Euxbt's Extract or Tab axd Wild Chxkbt ha« been used for twenty years, and during that time has saved many very valuable lives. Do not neglect a cough or cold until it is too late. Try thin excellent remedy, and we are sure yon will be convinced oT its merits. Chronio Coughs, and even Consumptives, are cured by following tlie directions. Every bottle is war­ ranted to give satisfaction. Prepared by th« Emmert Proprietary Co., Chicago. Sold by all good druggists. Fob dyktetsia. indigestion, depression of spirits and general debility in their various forms, also as a preventive* against fever and ague and other intermittent fevers, the Fekbo Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya Bark, made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York, and sold by all druggists, is the best tonic, and for pa­ tients recovering from fever or other sickness it has no equal. Uncle Sam's Cojuhtiox Powdebs are rec­ ommended Iqr stock-owners who have used them as tJje best Home and Cattle Medicine to be had. If the animal is Scraggy, Spiritless, or has no appetite, these Powders are an excel-' lent remedy, and every owner of stock will do well to try them. They ase prepared by the Emmert Proprietary Co., Chicago, 111., a very reliable firm, and sold by all good druggists. We are in receipt of numerous testimonials which show that Dr. O. R. Sykes' plan of treat­ ing catarrh is at once reliable and sure to produce the desired result See card in another column. tssnI* WAuCS prentlr €•. see Ueorare SI. Clncln EUROPE £. Teurjee's Toon Send for Circular. MUSIC HALL, BOSTON. Al flOOKN. 10 pares of amis ) SENT . p. U. D FREE with funny things, by droimiiig postal to BROWN CHKMICAL CO., Baltimore, Md. SIX TTaT WASTB *0?IICT! TonntB CTS; WVlfSOM, T*y thr er« fAILfcl). r old. Luiurianl mouawehe, flowing flkera or ft heavy frrowth of hair on hal.t An. or to THirkKS, SlilENi.TltKN and s;i\TE the HAIR an. «ncr* d<;n'l be • ereat Spanish diseo*«r* which ba» NfcVfcR \ KT )>. h*id ONLY 811 U£NTS to Ot. J. <JONZA. UK. Itoa 164V. Uoatofi, Him> Bevtre of all iu4t»uuos. Co\Frm:it.\TK STATES xotkw. Full Set of (4<*nnlne <'on£t'(lertite Ntate* Tr^aMiry from *®nt on ireijit of one i?oH tr. R. 1). M AXN. (ien'l R. R. Tjc et Otiico. No. 4 Houso, Ati.anta, tia. Ivlit 'is nrt ing ; l not ice anil HHiut.ug marked c-uiy w U hf furnistn«ti u tit*. I GOOD FAULT BEHBDT: STRICTLY PURE, AGENTS WANTED REVISED NEW QUICK tosetltha TESTAMENT Now raulu for Ajr^nfu. Mast desirable etli/i*>>,. Low prtccd. StiUumti arc wmtjng-for It. hnn'est xor I'sirdrulnrN Tree. Outfit 50c. Act Addrii&is IIUBU.A Ul> BR Oft?., Chicago, 111. The Hershey SOBOO! S Musical Art HERSHEY MUSIC HALL. CHICAGO, ILL., Stands preeminent amdnc American Mario Schools and affords advnnt iiras eqnu to nny European Conserv­ atory of Music. Send for Circu'nr. l'unils received at any time. H. CLARKNCK E DUY, General Director. Catarrh. Pond's Extractions only specific for this disease, Cold in the Head, &a Our Catarrh Cure as eta.), specially prepared to meet serious cases, contains all the curative properties of Pond's Extract | our Nasal Syringe C25 cents), invaluable for IM la Catarrhal Affeenons, is simple and effect!vs. iSOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. John C. IVIEMURRAY & Co. (ESTABLISHED 1*2X) Majjuvactcke Kvkre Yauihty, IN ALL GRADES, BRUSHES. « £ tUI. STKEKT, Xi:\l l'OltIK, The Frazer Grease is much more durable than any other, and perfectly harmless to the wood and iron with which it comes in contact Bur the diamond bootsand shoes and get your money's worth. Made by Rosenthal Br's., Chicago COUGH SIX SHIRTS FOR SIX DOLLARS! IMnforced Unlanndried Whit** Hhut, AVamsutta or New York Mills; 2.2-0; three-ply. all Linen Bosom, re­ inforced on th<^ sides, vrfaicn protects the bognm from tejirinj? out also jrivinir extra Rtivngth to all pirts of the shirt'. Sizes troiu In ordering, give size of collar worn, floods sent <J. O. D. Address ItONUOlT £11!KT FACTORY, JLm-k ltox ££?• Mondou(« N. V. ELECTBICU6HTIS C»~NKRVOr.H BEBILITT, Lost Manhood. • n(1 impaired jO.vers cured by MATHEWS® Improved Rleotni-Magnetic Belt and AbsorbenS Pad combined ; si»s of Pad, 7x10 inches--four times larper than others. Do no* purchase any old style Belt® whew you can net the latest-improved for #2. " Klectric Light," a 24-eolumn paper, seat free unsealed; sealed. 6c. D. 8. D. MATHEWS A CO., 431 W. Lake Street, Chieaca. (This enrrarin* represent* the Langs hi a haalth/slaMJ WHAT THE DOCTORS SAY! DB. FLETCHER, of Lesln«ton, MUsanrl. sarsr "J rMoumend your " IStUsass ' lis prafermc* to anfwHMr tiftdioin# for ©ouggrbt arLdl cold».,s DR. A. C. JOIiNSOI^f MtTv*nx», DU writm mi wonderful care® of rimsyip||«B la hi elee# > n i e o f * * I L i s n j g n n l i w i i * * _ DR. J. B. TURNER, Bfountarilto, A1a_ a p physician of twenty-five years, writes: Ifc preparation for ConatunpUon in the world." Fer all Dlieaws ef tha Tkroat, L«oci t PolmonarrOr(Mi«, li will a a •xmUcbi Iteaedy. M AN EXPECTORANT IT HAS NO EQUAL •T CONTAINS WO OPIUM HI AMY ' J. R. HARRIS A CO., Proprletoga^ CINCINNATI, O. FOR 8ALE BY ALL 0RDS6I8T8. Colombia Bicycle. A pormanerl practical road vehicle, with which a peraon can ride thre» mttm as easily as be con Id walk ooa Send 3-cent stamp for S4-p«xci eate- THE POPE MTG CO- 5tt4 Washington St., Boston, Maaa. CELLULOID EYE-CLASSES. Representing tha Shell and Amber. The lightest, hauitsoaiML and strongest known. Sold by Opt'.c'ruu) ana choioest-seleeted Tortci-- The lightest, hand \ by Opt; Jewelers. "Made by tlie SPENCER OPTICAL WVG CO., 13 Maiden Lane, New York, ^BRISTADORO'S Hr»p I»y* is the simr and BEST; it acta in isly .producing themoat nil shades of Black as Brown ; does NOT ST A III the .SKIN, and is en-sily ap> [ RISTABORO'SS,1?^?^^^ erory weli-appolnted tolM for LadyoKrsntlemas. 3eiJ by Druggists tnd acpilatf by Hair-Dreasers. 83 William St, New York, O. N. ORiTTBKTOK. Aft BilforTMeroeiL Worth $*25. For sale for 25 Cents. T! IRESRKRU AN*8 BOOKKEEPIMQ^ iui'ludiiw all blanks needed to make settlements with i unUinw Money refund*Ki if not entirely isfactory. Addtess THE AULTMAN & TAYLOR Manaiield, Richland Co^ O. Iowa For sale by the lowaR.R. Land Co. Cedar Baplds, Iowa. Branch Onlce. Over 1.000,000 AotW of Choice Fiunnnir 1 »*»*»» In the Hear West Farms . SB Randolph Sl, Chicago, Hl|t Please write for oar New Price List, I free to say address.] ContaiBft prices sail deseri ptioms of aH goods I in general ase, emkrac-l iog Dry floods, Clothiig, [ Boots. Shoes, Harness, I Saddles, (tuns. Sewiigl MarbincH. Jewelry, tiro- f ceries, Crockery, Tents, J Tin Ware, Musical In-1 strnments. etc. Samples) 'if of Drv tiooils furnished. No obligation to bay. Satisfactiou guaranteed.) MONTGOMERY WAB0 & C®., f 227 A 229 WafcttbAv.. Chicag*. DEDERICTC'S HAY PRESSES s^nt any whe?eOtt trial to a>r u i n -1 sll othoi- Pieaees cln- customer kiej>i;iK the ouothiitsuite t n'st. No one i i a s e t e r dr.reti show n 1j uny other l ' r o s s , rie.; 'a Press la. known to be beyond ronyjetitioa, and wlU bale with twice tho rapidity of l ny other. The only way 1 nferlor mru-liliios can l>e sold Is to deceive tb»- lnexperlencfNl by ridi ulously false statements, and thus sell without sight or so< in>r, and swindle the purchaser. Working any other Press alongside of Deaertck's always s"l!« the purchaser a Dedcrick: Press, ami all know it too well K> show utv. Addre® for circular, or call n-ul see Presses w!tli P. K. Ded- erlck A Co., Albany, N. y., and No. 1<« West H th8t-. Chicaco, I1L: Tytier & ELulii y, Indiana noils. Indiana; Seiiiijle & Blrse ManTg Co. St. Was. Mo.; 3. H. Heatland & C Q ibu-y, i:i ; Trumbull. Revnolda fc. Alleu, Kansns City, Mo.: Haines Bros. & Co.", Omaha. Neb. ; R. V. To npklns, Dallas. Texas; \T. J. Kitmerl Den"er, Col ; Geo. A. Lowe, Salt Lake City, UUht Price Prew Co., Le&ndxo, C&li^oruia. UBT OF ALWAYS CURABLE BT USO0 MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT, •F MlfMAX F1£&S« Rhetunailsai, Burma and Scalds. Stings and Bite*. Cuts and Bruises, Sprains A Stitches, Contracted Aluacles Stiff Joints, Backache* Eruptions, Frost Bitss, and all external disaMB. aadsrery barter Fccgsnoal use in faiaily, stable and stock yaidiAjto THE BEST OS1 ill or Ajrnuia, §€(wtefresf Sores and dallflt Spavin, Cracks, Screw Worm, 6ni|| Foot Mai, Hoof AM, Lameness, Swfnstjr, PMUftiaMte SpraUM, Strata* Sags Pect, THE MJMNY BAUER MF6. GO., j LINIMENTS »T\ I.ens. MO. Hortetfmtai and Vertical t'-ane Mills, Uuok's Evaporators Improved, Sulky Hay Hakes, '>Vafrans,etc. Skep of Early i Vmder and Kama Ok jNoe r Sugab Cane, warranted and pure, to plant one acre, by luantitie*. by frei^bt or maiL $1; larger quantities, by ir«i«ht or I ib" new book, fully describing \ arieties, Sotl. ! Cultivation, Machinery and Manufacture, free, D| MU. WHEN WRITUtt TO ADVKKTISKKtk please »ay saw ike adveniMSMi In this PmMsr. "Dr. Sykes' Aad "ATnOSPHEBIC IKSUI SURI for Catarrh' INSUFFLATOR" are fast molsltsaWag all •tana of treatment, and proving: that Catarrh !» Just an enraMe an stlwr ta* "" d ten cents to the Doctor for hi* Bsek. It in well worth a Mtah fully hia j^laa of treatment, which Is ao taeipenatvo OMtf it If': Pleaw call ea or addr«*s ---- It explains fuMr hia all wlthua tho reaca of all* ,DR. CL 1L SYKB8, 1«9 atrooi, CH1CA€H»,