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$j$gentg fflaratltalcr I. VHW SOKE. tditor wd PuMfchtf. McHENRY, - - ILLINOIS. A WOMAN is under sentence of thirty- five years' imprisonment for selling li­ quor at .Rutland, Yt., that period being $omp9£ed of, 200 different terms* for a like number of offenses. A PBOVIDENCE woman found that whipping did not subdue* her son, and •o she made him drink a quart of dish* water. As he was still obdurate, she bupied his tongue with a red-hot pok­ er, and he succulnbed. He is now in a , hospital and she in jail. - ' y- * A SAN FRANCISCO editor was so both­ ered by a lot of young girls urging him to buy at a San Francisco church fair that he darted in among them trying to kiss them right and left. Unluckily he caught a homely elderly maiden lady, and an advocate of woman's rights, and, before he could recover himself from his horror-stricken position, had imprinted a kiss upon her virgin lips. He was arrested, and, after paying a $100 fine next morning, exclaimed: "No .more fain forme!" V /- I'.. PUBLISHERS have their grievance# as well as^other people. A representative of this class told the New York corre­ spondent of the Philadelphia Press that he found authors difficult persons to deal with. Some of them were sharp, . and drove a hard bargain; others got advances on unperformed work, and then were reluctant to comply with the terms of tlieir agreement; and fiballv, still others are downright dishonest and impudent, and refuse to do the work that they have bargained to perform. • SOME years since, when Dickens was reading "Pickwick"' in this country, one of his hearers out West asked one of ifickens' agents if he liad really been listening to Air. Dickens. "Certainly, that was Mr. Dickens," was the reply. "He who wrote 'Pickwick?'" "Yes, the same." "Then you just tell him," said the man, "that he knows no more about Sam Weller than a cow .knows about pleating a shirt." The London Spectator admits that the criticism is just, and that Dickens, in his readings, did not do justice to the Sam of his own creation. " A GOOD lady in Gait, Canada, who went out to attend church service on a recenf Sunday evening, took from a closet before starting, as tho sky looked like rain, a garment which she supposed to be her dolman. Kneeling in her pew, she cast the wrap which she had brought over the seat before her. As she did so she perceived with horror - l.hftt the wna a pair of her hus­ band's trousers, and, hurriedly jerking them under the seat, she left them there until the <\Jpse of the service, when she managed to smuggle them home again without being detected. "THE Devil a Personal Being," was the subject of a sermon delivered re­ cently in Baltimore by the Rev. Dr. Leyburn. He told his congregation that the devil tempted Eve 6,000 years ago; thsJfflTlfe devil and his family of an­ gels ])Md a well-ordered vworld of their owtf, which they ruled over with abso­ lute sway; and asserted his belief in demoniacal possession. He had him­ self met men, respectable men, who at times were evidently so possessed, show­ ing a preternatural intelligence and ac­ tivity in the pursuit of evil. "The dev­ il," said the Doctor, "sometimes gets "•^"Silto churches, producing disgraceful Wrangling and dissensions." IT was only two years ago that Maine was overrun with gold and silver pros­ pectors and speculators. Wildcat min­ ing companies by the score were estab­ lished, and thousands qf dollars spent in the endeavor to squeeze the precious grate; feeling no heat, he applied hi^ nose to the grate and smelt of it. It' was cold as ice. With his tail curled between hiB legs the dog trotted out of the room, not even casting, a look at the party in the roonk* *^7^ BSo YE'RE an American," said ttie amiable Carlyle to James T. Fields. Mr. Fields admitted the sin. "Ah, that's a wretched nation of your ain. It's all wrong. It always has been from the vera beginning. That grete mon of yours--George -- your grete mon George was a monstrous bore, and, wants taking down a fe»\ hundred pegs." "Really, Mr. Carlyle," replied Mr. Fields, "you are the last man in the world fron%whom I (should have ex­ pected such an observatidtt^/Look at your own book on Crpmwell! What was Washington but Cromwell without bis personal ambition and without his fanaticism?" "Eh, sir," responded Car­ lyle, "George had neither ambition nor religion, nor any good quality under the sun--George was just Oliver with all the juice squeezed out." Mr. Fields might have retorted that Carlyle was just the old, bigoted, American-hating Dr. Johnson with all the juice squeezed out. • JOSEPH N. DOLPH, the new Senator from Oregon, was born in New York in 1835, of respectable parentage. His family, however, were not overburdened with wealth, and he removed West to Michigan when a young man, where he successfully worked on a farm, taught school and read law. He emigrated to Oregon, the "farthest West," in 186§, and soon afterward became law-partner of John M. Mitchell, under the firm name of Mitchell & Dolph. He took all the law business when Mitchell was elected to the United States Senate. His law firm is now Dolph, Bronaugh, Dolph & Simon. The firin stands very high, and is the law adviser of all the railroads in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Mr. Dolph is President of the Oregon Improvement Company, Presi­ dent of the Walla-Waila railroad, a Di­ rector of the Oregon Railroad and Nav­ igation Company, and also in the Ore- g6n and Transcontinental Railroad Company. He has amassed considera­ ble wealth in the last five years through fortunate land speculation. His in­ come is in the neighborhood of $90,000 a year from rents and law practice. Mr. Dolph is a man of strong religious convictions, being a deacon in the Bap­ tist Church, of which denomination he is a leading member. * Tile Draining. fc reference to the proper place to begin laying tile for underground drain­ age, wlvgtjier at the upper end or at the outlet. Dr. Furnas writes to the Drain- aye and F.irm Journal: if the drain is dug, has a good bot­ tom, and little or- no water in it, I care but kittle which end I beiin at, but if I can hive my choice I will always begin at the upper end. If the bottom is bad, with considerable water, needing some leveling up, we must begin at the upper eijd. I think no fixed rule will apply. v ,or. inf,tftnop. a long drain may not be finished before a flood or freeze would seriously injure it. Under such circumstances,, I would lay the tile for each day's work and thus save what I have, for by all means do not allow the banks to freeze and crumble and fall in, or the bottom wash out and become uneven. J.u digging and laying a drain in sections great care must" be taken to prevent anything from getting into the tile that might be the means of stopping it up. A bit of perforated tin or coarse screening--*! piece of old wheat riddle will answer. I have often used small stakes driven in the earth against the end of- the tile to good purpose. A V." \ Fatten Own of yellows has made .its appearance on the trees. I state this circumstance to show what may l>e accomplished. *• The spread of diseases of fruits re­ sulting from insect depredations and lOther causes might be checked, if not ,©iwlicated. A little attention on the- -Jwli^ved by the application of mustard, part of all fruit-growers in tliis direc- To\ctire sneezing plug the nostrils tion would accomplish very beneficial with cotton wool. The effect is iustan- resnltsA. As IOUT as men see the fruits rotting on their trees, or on the ground beneath them, producing contagion, without removing it; as long as men behoid the insects destroying roth fruit and foliage, and make no effort to de­ stroy them: as long as fruit-growers continue this indifference about tlieit fruits and fruit-trees, so long will the deteriorat on of fruits go on. Perhaps nothing short of legislation can bring about the necessary change for their restoration.--Prairie Farmer." DOMESTIC ECONOMY. SUGGESTIONS OF YALUE. To CLEAX and polish tortoise shell use a drop or two of sweet oil, and rub it in thoroughly with the ball of the thumb. SILVER in constant use is kept nice and bright by washing it every day in warm soap suds and drying it with*old To TAKE the brown discoloratfons off of cups in which custards are baked, rub with damp, flannel dipped in the best whiting. \ RED ANTS may be exterminated with sprigs of wintergreen or ground ivy; wormwood will serve the same purpose for black ants. COMMON hydraulic cement mixed with oil, forms a good paint for roofs and' out-buildings. , It is waterproof and incombustible. SOAKING calico just previous to the first washing in a strong solution of either salt or alum is excellent to pre­ serve the color. To KEEP cheese moist wrap it up in a linen cloth dipped in white wine. This not only keeps the cheese moist, but improves the flavor. CHLORIDE of lime sprinkled about a place will drive away the rats, mice and insects. Bits of broken glass and plas­ ter of paris will effectually stop up rat holes. t • To CLEAN chamois skin, wash it in cold water, with plenty of soap, and rinse thoroughly in clean, cold water. Chamois-skin gloves cleaned in this way are as good as new. To RAISE the nap of velvet, cover a hot flat-iron with a wet cloth and place .the velvet tightly over it. The vapor rising will raise the nap of the velvet with the aid of a light whisk-broom metals from the rocky ribs of the Pii*el To MAKE first-class mucilage, get one Tree State. The IllillOS Of SlllllVftH Alin^A m ovaltin ntirl 1A CherryfieloMjouldsboro, Tretnont and Blue Hill happroved to be total or partial faiiuresrHo^*the 100 mining companies duly incorporated eighteen j to dissolve, months ago,V^ot one has paid a single A GOOD frame for cooling pies dividend. The speculators, who have I cakes is made of strips of py«Tancfeov- shrewdly feathered their nests at the fed with 6au.f wire, such as is used J I for sieves. At each end blocks are expense of confiding stockholders, are.j fastened for feet tp raise the frame from ounce of gum arabic and 10 cents/ worth of gum tragacanth; put lialfxM each in tA^jde-mouthed bottle and cover with a gill of water, and set in a ^varm corner of the stove two or three hWrs the only ones who have profited by'the boom. ICELAND is the Ultima Thule of Eu­ ropean civilization, and this may ac­ count for the exaggerated style in • which the by no means unusual poverty of its inhabitants is spoken of by those whose knowledge of it is merely hear­ say description.. We are told that there is.no famine in the island and no ex* traordinary destitution among the Ice­ landers. No doubt the inhabitants of this cold and desolate country find it hard at all times to obtain the means of subsistence; but further than this there is no truth in "the alarming stories that have been circulated. So little is real­ ly known about Iceland >£hat any infor­ mation which reaches us concerning it is seen through the magnifying glass of the imagination. the table so that the air can circulate freely beneath it.. To DESTROY moths in a carpet, take up the carpet, hang it on a line, and beat thoroughly; wash the floor and dampen with benzine, and sprinkle i black snuff in the corners and cracks; turn the carpet on the wrong side and The meat production of the United States could easily be absorbed to the extent of feeding 100,000,000 of popula­ tion. If will never be done so long as the average farmer is content to sell his* grain, leaving the production of meat, beef especially, in the hands of a com­ paratively few, who make a specialty of fattening stock. The same is true in the ca-e of ..sheep, though not to the same degree. But for some reason the Amer­ ican farmer, and, indeed, the American people, "do not take kindly to mutton. The taste should be educated in this direction. In all our hill country sheep should be the most profitable of farm stock, and particularly in the hill re­ gion of the South, where early lambs may be turned off at a low cost, to be eagerly bought in the Northern markets. So swine should be carried to the full capacity of every farm, both North and South. *• • " There is a world's" demand for well- fattened, healthy pork, and always will be. Where the climtte is adapte.l to the growth of Indian corn, the most profitable use it can be put to is in fat­ tening steers and hogs-for market. If the farmer, cultivating from eighty acres upward, would study these meat prbblerns carefully as to the profits iu a series of^ars, taking into considera­ tion the increased value of his farm over that where tue coarse grains were solii, he would not lie long in recog­ nizing the fact that his true interest lay in carrying as much live stock as lor land would feed. Our most wealthy farmers are those who have given their attention to the production of meat, butter andeftheese. They always will be. Instead of pro­ ducing comparatively little more meat than is required for home consumption, our export should be in this direction, rather than in the export of grain. The first course brings the more money, and continuously enriches the soil. The latter policy never madt the farmer rich who persisted in it year by year. In the end he must lay ont all his profits for .fertilizers. while the stock farmer gets his profits as he goes along, and accumulation manure enough year by year to keep hia ««il folly up^oite original fertility. Diseases of Frulta. Diseases of fruits, lik#tthose of ani­ mals, may be classed as contagious, in­ fectious and transmissible. I believe it is through the latter class that most of the fatal fruit diseases have been intro­ duced. If this be true, is it not in the power of human agencies to prevent them? If so, how is this to be done? Bv the selection and planting of healthy seed. Are we doing so? Are not many of us aiding in the introduction and spread of diseases bv planting the seed of diseased fruits? Let us see if this is true. There is a mania with most peo­ ple for new things. New fruits come in for a share, and, if they are said to ripen earlv, they are nought atyer eVeJy? where. This eagerness to obrain new and early-ripening fruits induces per­ sons, desirous of making money, to de­ vote their attention to producing them. It is a well-known fact that the diseased specimens of fruit ripen first (if they ripen at all). These first ripen­ ing specimens are Selected for planting, and, by repeating the operation a few times, extra earlv- ripening fruit may be obtained, but oft­ en so diseased as to be entirely worth­ less. Unfortunately, because of their /•arly maturity, trees of such are propa­ gated. Showy pictures are made of the fruit, which is given some^-pleasing name, and the trees are sold at exorbit­ ant prices. The idea of obtaining peaches that will ripen in this latKude by'the fourth day of Julf "takes," and the trees of such are quickly bought and plan'ed. In due time the owner is rewarded with a crop of rotten peaches; if not rotten, little, toitgli, dry speci­ mens not fit tr> putin a person's mouth. Nature has its law of production. Any vioi.'.t on of those laws must produce inferior articles. I do not wish to be understood as charging all fnit-produc- ers and tr. e-propagators with selling worthless varieties. I know gentlemen ener.ged in the business, who, after dis­ covering a variety to be worthless, would dig up the trees and destroy CAD-CRUMBS FOR PASTRTMANY puddings that are commonly baked in a crust, such as cocoanut, potato, apple and lemon, are equally good and wholesome, made by strewing grated bread-crumbs over a buttered pie-plate or pudding-dish to the usual depth of crust; pour in the pudding, strew an­ other layer of bread-crumbs over the top and bake. * BREAKFAST PUFFS.--They may be made on baking day by taking up a lit­ tle dough, pulling out to the thickness of doughnuts; cut two and one-half inches in length, drop in boiling lard ahd fry like doughnuts; to be enten with butter, like biscuit. Some cooks work into the dough a little butter and let it rise before frying in the lard. They are delicious with coffee for break­ fast. - STEAMED FISH.--Place tail of fish in its mouth and secure it, lay on a plate, pour over it half a pint of vinegar sea­ soned with pepper and salt; let stand in refrigerator, then pour off the vine­ gar, an<i put in a st^inier over boiling water: steirn ^wentvminutes, or longer if the fish is very larg^when done the moat easily parts lrom the bone): drain well, and serve on a napkin garnished with curled parsley. WHITE FISH.--Take a white fish, steam until tender, take out bone-', and sprinkle with pepper and Salt. For dressing, heat a pint of milk and thick­ en with a quarter pound of flour; when cold add two eggs and a quarter pound , of butter, and season with onions and parsley (very little of each); put in the baking-dish a layer of fish, then a layer of sauce, till full, cover' the top with bread crnmbs, and bake half an hour. A LUNCHEON DISH.--Chop the lean of cold roast beef or steak very fine, separating it first from all the fat; neatly fill a pudding-dish with cold macaroni; in the center put chopped beef, carefully flavored with salt, pep­ per, thyme and, if to your taste, a little cooked tomato. Pour stock or gravy beef And macaroni, cover with THE FAMILY DOCTOB. Remedies for Common A PINCH of common table salt disolv- ed in water will relieve a bee-sting. PAINS in the side are most promptly effect is instan taneous. BKOKEN limbs should be placed in a natural position and the patient kept quiet until help arrives. IF an artery is severed, tie a small cord or handkerchief tightly above it until a physician arrives. " SEVEN or eight successive applications of the white of an egg will pi-ove a most efficacious remedy for a burn. A GOOD powder of snuff which will cure catarrh is made of equal parts of gum arabic, gum myrrh and blood root. BURNS and scalds are immediately re­ lieved by an application of dry soda "Covered with a wet cloth, moist enough to dissolve it. • To CURE earache, take a pinch of black pepper, put it on a piece of cot­ ton batting dipped in sweet oil, and place in the ear and tie a bandage around the head, and it will give almost instant relief. IF your hands are badly chapped, wet them in warm water, and rub them all or tt ree guests. His pretty daughter ccnei up from the beach, first ont of <'1H> ivurf. "Oh, papa!" she exclaimed; "T \n« nearly drownded!" Papa, turn­ ing pathetically to 13s friends: "By the povtrs, gentlemen, do you hear that? I hnve spent more than $5,000 on that girleducation, and to-day she was nearly ' drownded!'" t'- - * ---: : w The Modern Plow» ' Standing high, ay, very high among the improvers of the American plow, is the name of the late Jethro Wood, born in 1774, in Dartmouth, Mass., of Quaker parents. Jethro being the only sou. In his boyhood he molded a plow from the metal of a pewter cup, to which he harnessed the house cat and experimented 'In the flower garden, but the old-fashioned Quaker whipping he received from non-resistants by profes­ sion had a tendency to check any imme­ diate attempt at further experimenting in inventing plotf castings from the pewterware from the family dresser. His aim and chief study was to invent a new inold-ljonrd which from its form should meet the least resistance, and which should be constructed, share and standard, of cast iron. In his effort to give form to his ideal lie used wood and his jack-knife, and was constantly whit­ tling, day in and day out, until his ^ neighbors deemed him mad, and gave over with Indian meal; do this several * be soubriquet of the " whittling wet the seams and edges well with ben- them Such men are an honor to their THE last dog-story is told by a Geor­ gia paper, the Americus Rejniblican. It is to the effect that a family in that town, having a false grate in one of the zme and press with a hot iron, and the moths will no*longer trouble you. To MAKE a fire and water-proof ce" ment: To half pint vinegar add the { same quantity of milk; separate the j curd, and mix the whey with the whites °f five eggs; beat it well together}, and j S»ftf lntON^t a sufficient quautitV- ̂ f quick- ! lime, to convert it to the consistency t>f j a thick paste. Broken vessel*\memled with the cement never afterward sepa­ rate, for it resists the action Of both fire and water.--Prairie Farmer. MANY handsome hair-brushes are spoiled by careless washing. TrV the following plan; Comb out the brush; have ready a basin of warm water which has a teaspoonful of ammonia in it. W ith the face downward, dip in the brush, but do not lot the water touch the wood or ivory back; then rub the bristles with a little soap, and wave the brush to and fro through the fluid; when leansed, dip it into cold water; times, and then in the water used to wash off the meal put a teaspoonful of pure glycerine. I AN excellent liniment for toothache or neuralgia is made of half an ounce each of oil of sassafras, and oil of origanum, one and a half ounee of tinc­ ture of capsicum, and half a piut of alcohol. Apply to the face on a flannel cloth. ONE of the simplest and best reme­ dies to be given to children troubled with worms is poplar bark. Plivsicians use it with marked success. It can be bought at ahv drag store. Take a little pinch of the bark--as much as you can hold on the point of a penknife-*and give it before breakfast. It has a clean bitter taste and any child will takeHt. CROUP, it is said, can be cured in one minute, and the remedy is simply alum and sugar. The way to accomplish the deed is take a knife or grater, and shave off in small particles about a tea­ spoonful of alum; then mix it with twice its amount of sugar, to make it palatable, and administer it as quickly as possible. Almost iustatancous relief will follow. TREAT flesh wounds in the following manner: Close the lips of the wound with the hands, hold them firmly to­ gether to check the AQW of blood until several stitches can be taken and a bandage applied; then bathe the wound for a loug time in cold water. Should it be painful take a panful of burning ILLINOIS JIElfS. A QCISCT party, in a recent , _ __ the Illinois bottoms, killed 536 dudes. THF.Y have given up the unprofitable Herdic coach in Galesburg. PORK is so scarce in Peoria that thtf butchers find it impossible to supply their customers. r € A QUINCT flour mill is 6^000 barrels behind orders, although having a .ca­ pacity of 500 barrels per day. AFTER paying all expensies, the Han­ cock County Agricultural Society has m balance in its treasury of $1,369.87. IT is estimated that the sale of apples will bring as much money into Southern Illinois this year as the purchase of corn took out last. A NEW building for the tile factory at Clinton will soon be erected, with capacity of six kilns, or twelve miles tit tile a week. SIGNAL lights are to be placed opt every switch between Peoria and Pekin, as a precautionary measure against i running trains off the track when J switches are left open. A MAN named Somers, aged 45, dis- I appeared from Peoria the other day | with a woman named Yallandinghain, I aged 42, who was the mother of his own | wife, aged 20. | FLORA HCSTER, aged 28, and living at | Roodhouse, Green county, drowned het* | self in a shallow pond on her father^ property. She was rendered insane by )f a sister. LUMBER dealers at Peoria report ' ^Epoms of the house, placed some red pap€r~ behind it to give it the effect of i afterward shake, rub the frame, and let -- /~V 1 "I .13 A1 1 3 •!» A 1 tyiafloQ flrv 111 nil* /\*l n WA fire. One cold day the house-dog came in from out doors, and, seeirig the pa­ per in the grate, lay down before it to* receive the heat as it cafiie from the fire. Feeling no warmth, he raised his head and LpoLed over his shoulder at the the bristles dry in the air or in a warm room, but not before the fire lest the back should warped or become un- glued. ' A WOODEN Indian repre> about as much as a live iv sents science. tv icco jre- proiession. Fruit diseases may be spread by in­ oculation--budding and grafting, or when pruning. The bacteria, or fungus matter from the diseased tree, may be carried on the saw or knife t© the healthy Siies, and in this way all the trees of the orchard become diseased. When trees are affected by diseases that are transmissible, either in the seed or by inoculation, the only safe method is to dig them out ahd burn them, roots and branches. About twenty-five years ! ago, I discovered a pe ich tree in my orclnrd affected by the yellows. I commenced digging about the roots, and pruning the branches of the tree, with the hope of getting rid of the dis­ ease. My labor proved ineffectual, and in a few years every peach tree in the orchard became diseased. I had prob­ ably carried fungus on the saw to the healthy trees when pruning. Deter­ mining to ̂ prevent a further spread of the disease, every tree in the orchard was taken up by" the roots and burned, and the land cultivated for a number of years. Every sprout or tree coming upon the land was dug out and burned. About ten years ago, the land was again planted with sound,healthy peach trees. They grew rapidly, and no sign over beet and macaroni, cover bread-crumbs, over which pour two ta- l)ar 111 ™ie sm°ke. ble-spoonful8JS4>f melted butter, and MILK and lime water is said to prove bake half an liotir. , _ < beneficial in dyspepsia and weakness of QUAIL ON TOAST.--Dry-pick thmn, the stomach. The way to make the singe them with paper, cut off heaok, lime water is simply to procure a few and legs at first joint, draw, split down lumps of uuslacked lime, put the lime the back, soak in salt and water for five in a fruit car., add water until it is or ten minutes, drain and dry with a slacked, and of about the consistency of cloth, lard them with bacon or butter, thin cream; the lime settles and leaves and rub salt over them; place on broiler the pure and clear lime water at'the top. and turn after dipping two or three A goblet of cow's milk may have six or times into melted butter; broil al>out eight teaspoonfuls of lime water added twenty minutes. Have ready as manjH-with gdod effect. Great care should , slices of ^#<^red not to jgetj ̂ ie lime water too "strong; pour off without disturbing the precipitated lime. Sickness of the stomach is promptly relieved by drink­ ing a teacupful of warm water with a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it. If it brings the offending matter np all the better. * Pneumonia. Bronchitis is an inflammation of the ihucous membrane of the bronchial tubes; pneumonia is that of the sub-' stancc of the air cells and bronchioles --the minuter ramifications ending in the cells. If the bronchial tubes, with their larger divisions, may be likened to the trunk and branches of a tree, the bronchioles and air cells may be " likened to its twigs and leaves. Pneumonia is essentially a fever which specially affects the lungs, as . typhoid fever specially affects the glands of the intestines. It more commonly attacks the lower lobe of the right lung, and may be confi^e/4-^o it, or may extend successively to the~miildle ahd the up­ per lobes and to the left lung. The phy­ sician can easily ascertain its location and extent. The lobe attacked is first engorged (congested) with blood; this the first stage of the disease. It then becomes solidified: this the second stage. The third is that of convalescence, or of death. In convalescence the exuded matter, which has filled the cells and bronchioles, is absorbed, and the lungs resume their function; in fatpl cases suppuration takes place. The attack generally begins abruptly with a chill and shivering, followed soon by pleuritic pain. The matter expect­ orated is at first rather scanty, but later becomes sticky and of a rusty hue. The time from the attack to convales­ cence, or death, varies from a few days to about three weeks. In some cases, persons have died almost instantly from suffocation, having been previously well. The most common exciting cause is exposure. It is tusbro prevalent and more fatal at the south, especially among the colored people. In this latitude its chief prevalence is in the winter and spring months, but especially in May. Recovery is the rule, if the disease is upcompifcated, and the patient has A fair constitution, and is not enfeebled. Love and Romancek Not long ago I heard an elderly wo­ man make this speech to a young girl: "When you live to be my age, you will know how little love or romance, or whatever you call it, is worth." On some temperaments such words fall like frost. Experience is not always a guarantee of" wisdom, the older some people become, thd. less they seem to know. A child seeking protection in its mother's arms, is a better teacher than a person with a hard, morose na­ ture. What do the blind know of the wonders and beauties of earth. What folly for them to affirm that the flower fringed path, the radiant clouds, the star-lit sky aloft, exist but in our im­ agination. The patriot is not led to battle through a base or Sordid motive. If he did not love his country, his wife, his children, would he be ready to lay down his life to defend his home ? Dis­ interested affection exists, and it is that, and that alone, that will give an atmosphere of home to the log cabin or the palace, and woe to the i>er8on who attempts "to found one without it. set down as September % 1819. The neighbors shook their heads, looking wise meanwhile, and called the inven­ tion "Jethro's Folly." They agreed almost to a man that his new plow could never work. One day he induced one of the most skeptical neighbors to make a public trial of the plow. A large concourse gathered to see how it would work. The field selected for the test was thickly; strewn with stones, many of them firmly imbedded in the soil and jutting ujt from the surface. All predicted that the plow would break at the outset. To their astonishment and Wood's sat­ isfaction it went round the field, run­ ning easily and smoothly, and turning up the most perfect furrow which had ever been seen. The small stones against which the fanners maliciously guided it, to test the brittle metal, moved out of the way as if they were grains of sand, and it slid around the immovable rocks as if they were ice­ bergs. Incensed at the non-fulfillment of his prophecy, the farmer finally drove the plow with all force upon a large boulder, and found to his amazement that it was uninjured by the collision. It proved a day of triumph for Jethro coals and sprinkle* upon them common \Vood, and from that time he heard but brown sugar and hold the wounded' few taunts about the pot-metal. Yankee." In pursuit of the curve lie substituted the potato for wood until the fancied ideal was actualized. The manhood of Jethro was largely i ^e death of passed in Scipio, Cayuga County, N-Y*, j LUMBER C an agricultural towpf somewhat famous j larger sales this past year than any pre­ fer its inventors./ j ceding year, and that the demand at The natal day of. the modern plow is j present is as steady as at any time dur-. birds, and serve a bird, breast npwara, - on each slice. APPLE CP.UUTES.--Pare, halve and core good smooth apples; cut slices of bread without crust to fit the flat side of each apple; dust the apj>le all oyer with sugar, a little nutmeg or cinna­ mon. Arrange these on the slices of bread in a pie-plate; bake in a moder­ ate oven. The,apples will retain their sliapfc, and if peeled with care or curved lightly iu shells or other fUnciful de­ signs make a very presentable dish for Sunday tea or hasty lunch, beside be­ ing simple and lvealthy; if eaten with cream they are delicious. % An Officer's Situation. When the Michigan cavalry brigade was sent West to wallop the Indians after the close of the war, one of the companies in the Sixth was commanded by a Lieutenant who was hated by every man in his command. He realized this fact, and lost no opportunity to make it warm for the boys. One evening when the regiment went into cam]) on the banks of the Platte, far beyond Omaha, the Lieutenant rigged uj&i-fish line and slipped off down the stream to try his luck. Rattlesnakes were plenty ont there then, and it was v eil known that the officer had a horror of them. He was fishing away, getting a nibble now and then, when one of the boys stole forward to within ten feet of him and hoarsely whispered: "For Heaven's sake, Lieutenant, don't move hand or foot! There's a big rattler in" the grass behind you!", The officer was a man of nerve, and though he heard every word he made no move. He realized the situation, and after a moment replied; "Can't you kill itV" "No--he's too near you! Ill go to camp for a gun and come up on the flank!" * The officer heard the man crawl away, and he sat like a statue. Tfie fish began to bite, but he dared not move his arms. He saw the sun go down, and the darkness found liim as rigid as a post. When'he had been in that situation' for forty minutes he could stand it no longer. Gathering his breath and muscle, he node a leap into the water, and after swimming and Wading for thirty rods, he climbed out and struck for cam)), as wet as a rat and loaded dow» with mud, The story had gone around the camp and at least 400 men were out to greet his return and question him regarding th< length of the reptile. The officer took sol­ emn vow to make somebody sweat for that t'-ick, but he fell before an Indi­ an's bullet before he had secured his revenge. . . • THE following is given as a iMfra-fide song at a colored camp-meeting in New- Jersey : * * I have a rravtnn father. HE i>rav.« thre • times a dav; * And the angels h'i^t th» winder To lienr mv lather pray. J* the Madras Presidency,, during 1881, £2,025 was paid as rewards for destroying 13f» tigers, 750 pinthers and leopards and* 543 other animals. One thousand three hundred and two per­ sons and 8,938 animals were killed by wild animals and snakes, tigers killing 135 people and 3,328 cattle. The cattle killed by wild animals in the Presidency during the year are valued at £17,876. IVORY white is in such great vogue that satin dresses of this shade are no longer confined to full-dress entertain­ ments, but are imported for visiting costumes. ing the season. ALDF.BMAN JOHN SEIBERT, of Pekin, took, through mistake, a large swallow of chloroform instead of whisky, which was in a similar bottle, at his residence. It was lively at his abode for some time i trying to keep him awake. j WHILE John Tueker and Joe Polan were fighting at Clinton, Bill Andrews, a p bystander, received a stab in the fore- j lieadfrom a pocket-knife in the hands of Tucker, part of the blade breaking off in his head. The wound is not fatal. | BY the explosion of a charge of dyna­ mite at Moline Andrew Larson was killed. He was struck by a sixty-pound rock, which had been hurled a distance of 140 yards. The victim was at din­ ner, and was picked out of a crowd of workmen about him. ' SORGHUM making is over it Meadows, McLean county. There was not as much made as in former years. The Meadows mill made a little less than 800 gallons. Four mills within a few miles of Mead­ ows broke down. The molasses has sold at 65 cents a gallon. ROBERT WHITNET, a 19-year old son of Nelson Whitney, living at East SL Louis, went home drunk and fired sev­ eral shots at his father, who had re­ proved him for his conduct, whereupon the latter beat hhn over the head with a bed-slat, inflicting injuries from which he died soon after. The father has been arrested. THE removal of his plaee of residence from Kentucky to Illinois by Judge Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court, is explained by that gentleman, who says; " When I was appointed to the bench and assigned to the Illinois circuit, Sud iiavr 3»uw bevu to that circuit, I felt that I ought to move into the circuit to which I was assigned. I could in that way be more convenient to the business of the law­ yers of the circuit during the vacation. That is the reason for the change." THERE was a grand total of 14,672 cars of live stock recieved at the Union stock-yards during the month of Octo­ ber, or 175,549 head of cattle, 339,361 hogs, 64,906 sheep; 3,297 calves and 1,046 horses. This was about 10,000 head more cattle than was ever before re­ ceived in one month, and 24,004 more than were received in October, 1881. In the arrivals ef hogs last month there was a falling of of 130,149 as compared with the corresponding period last year, while in sheep there was gain of 22,338 he&d.--Chiciigo Tiniest IT is stated on the best authority that a great dry-goods firm is forming in Chicago, to go into business in January next, and that the parties have applied to Mr. Martin Kverson for his re­ cently-completed building on the north­ east corner of Wabash avenue and Adams street/ It is also stated that the new firm will have interested with it the leading dry-goods firm of New York city, Messrs. Arnold, Constable & Co. The object is to carry a stock equal to any in Chicago, and directly compete with the leading firms here.-rr Chicago Times. MR. MA8T, of the firm of Mast, Foos & Co., of Springfield, Ohio, has pur­ chased for $20,000 a half interest in the gas well which was discovered at Bloomington about two months ago, and will organize a company to utilize the product of the well for lighting and heating purposes throughout the city. The product of the well is definitely ascertained to be a half-million cubic l'eet per day of nearly pure hydrogen gas, which is already proven to be excel­ lent for heating and lighting purposes. AT a recent banquet of the Illinois Pharmaceutic d Society, in Chicago, Mr. E. S. Baldwin"'said: "On entering a modern drug store you walk boldly up to the bemustaclied and bejeweled clerk, nnd, if you know your business, and it is a temperance town, you will wink at the fellow and say something about malaria. It is a matter of indif­ ference just what you say; the single word ' malaria'is the golden open ses­ ame. Whenever I see a man coming out of a drug store and wiping his mouth, I Bealize to its full and awful extent theiiold that malaria has on this unfortunate people. , What the drug stores in a town where a strict license bank-notes safe inside." We need hard- j prevails would do wuhout 'mala- ly add that, despite his characteristic ; ria Lsahard prob.au. and unmercouary indifference to money, i The following Thanksgiving proelft* the celebrated "Tom Dawson," than | mation has been issued by Gov. Cttl- whom^no more popular or large-hearted i jOI1i: v • trainer ever plied his difficult and re- The vear now closing has been crowned sponsible craft, took care to display no | with many bl.Mingo tor u*a»a people We ^solicitude about the missing hat-case, ; "Ahd abstained altogether from revealing • the nature of its contents. He merely i told the station-master at Leybourue ! that it was an article he had owned fdr a great many years, and that as, in auV ' dition, there was some papers iu itV which were of no use to any one but } himself, he should like to recover pos- j session of it.--London Teleijraph. - ilv\ . n< P0or Return l'or His Money. It was at the shore--a, gentleman wiis chatting on his cottage porch with two I - • . It was soon discovered that his plow turned up the soil with so much ease that two horses could do the work for which a yoke of oxen and a span of horses had sometimes been insufficient before; that it made a bet' • • furrow, and that it could be bought for seven or eight dollars; no more running to the blacksmith, either, to have it sharpened. It was proved a thorough and valuable success. Thomas Jefferson, from his re­ tirement at Monticello, wrote Wood a letter of congratulation, and, although his theory of the construction of mold- IwiivrriH hid differed entirely from tha inventor's, gave his most hearty appre­ ciation of the merits of the new plow. All uncertainty of the new plow hav­ ing been removed, and prompted by a philanthropic desire to do the greatest good to the greatest number, in 1820 Jethro Wood sent one of his plows to Alexander I., Emperor of Russia. Not being a French scholar, Mr. Wood got T>r. S. Mitchell, President of the New York Society of Natural Sciences, to write a letter in French to accompanv the gift. The plow was received and acknowledged by the autocrat of all the Ilussias by the return of a diamond ring to the inventor, reputed to be worth $15,000. By some error it was delivered to the writer of the letter, who appropriated it. Mr. Wood ap­ pealed to the Russian Minister, who corresponded with the Czar, who said the ring was intended for the inventor. The President of the Scientific Society said he gave it to the Greeks, who were then struggling to free themselves from the Turkish oppressors, " an in­ genious mode of quartering on the ene­ my." Wood, a Quaker, and a peaceful man, did not press the matter, and so it ended.--Boston Traveller. ' • j. if A Hat-Case Full of Money. Mr. Rice, in his "History of the Brit­ ish Turf," tells us that the victory Of Ellington for the Derby of 1856 "was marked by a singular incident in con­ nection with his trainer." The horse had 1 men heavily backed for the Epsom race, but suffered a humilating defeat when lie ran for the Dee Stakes at Chester, so that all possibility of "hedg­ ing" was out of the question. "The re­ sult was," says Mr. Rice, "that, against his will, Mr. Thomas !Dawson, the traiper, of Ellington, won £25,0(H) by that horse's victory. On the Mimdav after the race Mr. Dawson went to'Tat- teraall's to receive his money. Tho whole of it was paid to him in bank notes. ' After the settling he dined, and took the train for the north, having first packed his bank-notos in an old leather hat-case without any lock, and tied simply with a piece of string. Mr. Dawson fell asleep in the train, and when the guard, who knew him well, awoke him at Northampton, and told him that he must change carriages, Mr. Dawson got out of tho train, leaving the old hat-case behind hini. In those days telegraphy was not so simple and easy a matter as it is now, and Mr. Dawson did not recover his hat-case for a whole week, during which time it had traveled to Edinburgh, Aberdeen and various other places. Ultimately it came back to the rightful owner with the string neither cut nor untied, and with all the iiave been iavor.-d v.'i h generai bea th and prosperity. 1 he wisdom of GIKI has SO di­ rected and controlled the forces of nature that a bountiful tiarveet lias rvwurdeU the labors « f the people of ot.r Slate. We share in the aiivanc:-ge< of nat.onal growth and development. The bond which unites tha S ates was never stronger. i he Vni a vr«v* never iuor *; owcrtu for g o I than to daj- lt is pro!*? vhiit we «liouUt save SOUK'S fittiay i eeo*rii'tion o( the-' odue.-s o I>ivtne i rovi- lt nee in gTan iittr many bie.«&ittg» wnuik .-e e-.tioy. io U>at end, I", Shelby M. Cttl- ,©ni, GoVt'rno! of the State of Illinois, coifr. lorm'ny: wi h the au .on o tbe Pre-ulent of AIIRASKNK embroidery makes a most' stvlisli trimming for a cashmere dress, j thVUait^i Sta es do appoint lhus^day, ti e T* nn;A-lv dnne-lhbtfk"nnon 1 i»--t..as a day ot th nks. vsusr, ;ud Jt is vei} quicklv aone-^mck upon " imine,ui i^ ^nerai obseryua -o tar : ! it l V; \f':w black, or white upon white, or any self- color produces a very rich effect, » \ -or \ ' • I recommend its general observant the usual rel gious serv.etM uul nolulaj " Uvities. •illl * Wi w