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THRKK. •T HATTIK E. 8. CKWMCX, ' , when the nun was nlowljr louttho kitchen door, s dwpeftliig fchadows lengthened - tfd rinpaintcd floor, g,-JMr,4« Lonely pat I cogitating ' * On the happy neeneH of yore f Again I eeeuieil to fee the f«ce4 Of the dear ones gone before, "^yj- And to hoar the loving voices - 1 hfc'l Tttmgbt to hear no motfc-" -• Then I thought of all the chnngeit Wrought within the last thrue years. Till my heart was full of sadnoas. And my eyes o erflowed with teara. In that time three of our number I Ijeen called to other spheres ; ft%r;r£ came a sickoning vlaion an*idwy shrouds and biera, Secret* longing •Jite in spite of #11 my feara. "TluiK iat't In afettW musing Till tlie suu was out of sight, And the purple twilight shadows Wrapped the earth in cloud." of night. Then it seemed there came three angels, Robed a'iki' in spotlt-KH white. And they spread their white wings o'er me Till the room was full of light; But they tarried scarce a moment, , ( , * Avd then took their upward flight. .<»- -JRnt.with them the light departed-- I could not e\en see a ray-- A*d the Old,: familiar kitchen , * In Uie blackest darkness lay. • And'twere better so than otherwise Until the following day, For iuy feelings were all wrought up, And my memory in full play; Then cculd I view that night again-- Those dear old walls of gray 1 ¥jo in solitude and darkness ' , yj t Crept I to my lonely bed, Ikying there in tearful silence, Holding commune wi'h the dead. While tlieir happy, shining spirits Hovered o'er my weary head. " Not for them, though, was I weeping. But for iuy lone self instead, Since Into joyful habitations Their blessed spirits had been led. MRS. CLYSTER'S ROMANCE. Mrs. Sims' boarding school was a high building, and it stood on a hill. My fipom was in its third story, find I had bften sat looking out over the city from ite "sightly" windows (as Peggy, the maid, called them). The hill was near­ ly conical in shape and terraced on two Sides, my side being cme of them. At. the foot of the hill ran a broad, hand­ some street, and on a prominent corner ai this street, in plain sight from my windows, stood a large, rambling old Scansion, about which we girls had "Woven many a romance. We wondered who lived there. Ladies and gentlemen promenaded through its pleasant grounds; carriages rolled up to its wide gateway many times every day ; profes­ sional-looking gentlemen went in and out of it. What could it be ? One day I found out. There was great excitement that day in Mrs. Sims' • boat-ding school. I had been feeling ill gan in the tone which people use when they are telling the " particulars." " You jest orter see them, miss"--for 1 had utterly refused to glance in the direction of the grief-stricken house-- " it's so touchin' like. He's a-siftin' the ashes now, miss. She done it that first day we come. She had on an old cali- ker--they give it to the woman next door afterward; and then she slicked up her kitchen and put on the nlpaca and went out a-callm' or somethin'. She seemed to think a lot of her neighbors and they of her. I see they had a houseful at the funeral." " Mercy!" I exclaimed, quite out of patience with Sarah Blyster's prying disposition. " You shouldn't be looking in at their windows, Mrs. Blyster ; it isn't polite.". . " Humph!" said the good soul, with some spirit, " I ain't a-lookin' in at their windows. I see it all without lookin'; can't help seein', they're so close and low like; and I've seen a sight o' trou­ ble and death, and it ain't to me as it is to a giddy young thing like you," and with this "crusher" Mrs. Blvster went out to take my tray, v The next day the doctor sent her out to take a walk, and she came in radiant. "I went by the front o'that little house, you know, where she died a fort- nit ago. Jest as clean, you never see ! Them two men must a' scrubbed the steps and front theirselves. An' such a nice rag carpet on the front-room floor, an' the clock a tickin' on the mantel­ shelf. My! it must be awful lonesome without her!" And Mrs. Blyster drew her face down dolefully. Ah, la ! Mrs. Blyster's heart was get­ ting enlisted. The dear old house, if it was only a hospital, was not going to be without its romance after all. " He goes to his shop every mornin'," said Mrs. Blyster, irrelevantly, as she brightened up the fire a day or two later. " He ? Who ?" I a£ked, stupidly. Mrs. Blyster started like a child caught at the cookies. " I jest see that man over there," and she' nodded in the direction of the back window. "I see him a splittin' some kin'iins an' then a goifa' off to his work. I I rayther guess he's a carpenter, but j mebbe it's a mason, or mebbe it's a shoe­ maker. " I "Sure enough!" I rejoined. "Butj what difference does it make to you, ! Mrs. Blyster ?*' „ I " Law !" said Mrs. Blyster, bridling : I " you haven't no interest in your fellow- | bein's. Now here's a poor man, as like- | ly a man as I've seen this many a long I day, gone and a-lost his wife--the dear- | est creetur to him prob'ly in the world." j And Mrs. Blyster's voice choked up. I " MM. Blyster blushed Violently, and said with a simper : " You hain't a-forgot, sure's I lire." " Of course I haven't," I said, warmly. "I take a great deal of interest in my fellow-beings, in spite of your thinking I don't. How is he ?" "Law, miss, he wan't hurt so awful bad; still,raising her eyebrows and looking serious, "he was pretty sick for a while, and he broke a leetle bone in his foot, which makes him rather lame." " But what's his name ?" I interrupted, impatiently. "That's it," said Mrs. Blyster, im­ pressively. " Wasn't it strange enough you should a-said Crippen ? I knew 'twan't no common name, and it ain't. It's Crimpton; now don't that sound mostly like Crippen ?" "It does, indeed," I said, trying to look as amazed as I felt that I ought to. "But how did you get along?" " Oh!" blushing again, " we got along first-rate, and that's what I come to tel you. We--that is--well, miss--I clare," and good Mrs. Blyster looked like a 15-year-old girl with her first beau, "I come a-expectin* to ask you if you would do us the honor, you havin' a-known all the circumstances from the start, to--to--" "To what?" I cried, as interested as Mrs. Blyster herself. "Well, if you must know--it's a pleasant room, you know, with the rag- carpet and clock a-tickin', and we're goin' to lie married there Thanksgivin' day. 'Tain't been a year yet, but he needs me, bein' lame, you know--and mebbe you'll come to the weddin'." You may be sure that I went. lieved, of laziness, , but which reallv call for mora trouble and hard work than a thorough and systematic cleaning, such as we have indicated, does.--German- town Telegraph. DOMESTIC RECIPES. FARM NOTES. A CORRESPONDENT of Monthly says that one spoonful coarse-powdered saltpetre to a pail of water will destroy potato-bugs, squash-bugs, and other insects. For roses it is unsurpassed. For maggots that work at the roots of squash vines, pour about a pint of the liquid at the root of each vine as soon as the pests indicate themselves. WET a flannel cloth in kerosene, dip it in dry whiting, and rub the plate ware. Let it dry on it, and then polish with a ^chamois skin. CHALK, or magnesia, rubbed on silk or ribbon that has been greased, and held near the fire will absorb the grease so that it may be brushed off. PASTE for hanging paper should be made about the consistency of cream, perfectly smooth, witliont lumps; a little size will add to its tenacity, and a small STRAWBERRY CONSERVE.--Prepare the .fruit, as for preserving, allowing half a pound of loaf sugar to one pound of fruit. ! Sprinkle the sugar over the fruit at <je. | a strong jelly of the isinglass; then add ; sugar and juice; boil up and strain into 1 your glasses or molds. j WHITE WINE JKIAY.--Take one pint of cold water and pour it on six sheets of 1 isiuglass. Let it stand until dissolved. Then pour a pint of boiling water into it, and add the juice and grated rind of one lemon, one pint of sugar, and one •wine­ glass of white wine. Let it stand until it hardens. This is excellent in sickness, and makes a delicate dessert, to be eaten with cake. portion of powdered alum will ' help it to dry. - CRANBERRY JELLY.--Two ounces of isinglass and one pound of sugar to three 1 tints of strained cranberry juice. Make skimmer, and fill a number of small rang three-quarters full. Boil and skim the syrup five minutes longer, fill up the jars, and seal while hot. Keep in a cool, dry place. FISH PUDDING.--Three pounds of night; in the morning put it on the fire in a kettle, and boil until the berries are clean. Spread on dishes and put in tlie I sun until drv, after which roll the fruit i in sugar and pack in jars. PRESERVED STRAWBERRIES.--Pound for HOW HB HID IT. mil mm** m Kia*. I St. Louis Post-Dispatch.] Charles A. Hill, Esq., attorney-nt-law, is just now an occupant of Cell 33 in the City Jail, and with the cheerful prospect before him of ten years in the peniten­ tiary. He is the most notable capture which the United States detectives have made since the Biebuscli case, and the arrest has caused a great deal of excite­ ment throughout the town. In yester­ day's Post-Dispatch tliei details of the collar were given, and within the last twenty-four hours quite a number of new facts have developed, enough to make conviction a certainty. Mr. Hill has been in the habit of clipping one and two-dollar greenback bills in such a way that out of each nine he makes ten. The process is rather a complicated one, and needs diagrams for thorough comprehen­ sion. A WHOIJE afternoon of the recent con- j poUnd of lwrries and sugar. Put them vention at Lansing, of the Michigan 4n a preserving kettle over a slow fi?e Sheep-breeders and Wool-growers' As- ! imtil ?he 8Ugaf Boa twentv-fke .loir some days. My head ached and my tongue was dry and hot. The doctor | " And you haven't no more sympathy said at last that I had the scarlet fever, I with him than nothin' in the world." and must be removed at once. "Better take hfer home," he said; " she isn't fair­ ly sick yet." " Home !" groaned Mrs. Sims ; "doc­ tor, Rhe lives in India !" "Good gracious!" said the doctor, •«. and he scratched his head thoughtfully. , * & last he said, " I have it! Here's Dr. Dolby's hospital right down here--just the place for her." So I was wrapped up and driven to "Dr. Dolby's Hos­ pital," which proved to be nothing other than the dear, rambling, romantic old house, which, with its wildly-overgrown but delightful shrubbery, had so long been the object of our speculations. TJiey put me to bed in a large, quiet room. The open fire looked wonderfully pleasant. A quaint, old-fashioned tea service, with cherubs and gillyflowers and various other iucongnious designs on it in blue, sat appetizingly on the round table at my bedside. Three or four easy-chairs were mingled among the others, and in one of them, after I ./was nicely "tucked up" and read; There was an eloquence of reproach in this which quite alarmed me--though I feebly protested my innocence--and the subject was dropped. Sunday, however, was the grand day for Mrs. Blyster's observation, lor then the "inexpressive he"--it was a real trial to her that she did not know his name--was at home all day. She simu­ lated on his name a great deal. "There's a bearing about his mien," said that lady, with some sentiment, " that seems to sorter show he hain't got no common name ; now I know he hain't got no name like Smith." " I'm afraid we never shall know," I said, soberly; "I'm getting well very fast, Mrs. Blyster." "Yes, you be!" said the good 'soul, giving me an affectionate hug. "Yes, you be ; an' I'm glad enough if it do put me out of a job. But likely the doctor'll get me here again." " Oh, yes !" I said; " but what do you think that man's name is now ? " Mrs. Blyster returned to the subject sociation was given up to a debate on the question of Avasliing sheep, and the result was an almost unanimous verdict to the effect that tlie practice is not only useless and barbarous but unprofitable, taking into account the often fatal effect on fine animals thus shocked by being forced into the water. A MASSACHUSETTS farmer says that he has planted the following crops, all with good success, after the early peas have been marketed and the vines pulled: Squash, horse-radish, cabbage, all kinds of turnip, sweet corn, tomatoes, spinach, rye for fodder, clover to plow under, Take out in a perforated a large lump of butter; a minutes fast. lx)iled fish; tablespoonful of flour; two cups of fresh milk. When boiled it must cool a little. Add to it the yolks of seven eggs, the whites beaten, and stir it around; then add salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Put it in a buttered dish, and cook for one hour in a pretty warm oven, and then serve. Sauce--Flour and butter and a little broth and capers. This will be found an excellent and toothsome dish. MOLASSES PICKLES.--One quart mo­ lasses and three of water; keep adding .j, , , . , - ^ , as needed. Cut the cucumbers from the corn fodder and string beans. By get- | vine with a sharp kCife or shears, leav- • A. B. • » paper b artistically dirtied, and is ready for shov­ ing. Bill "B" is then taken up, and a ting two crops from the land tlie peas do not cost much, except the cost of the seed, picking and marketing. The second crop is the profitable one, as there is but one Jcoat of manure applied for both SOWING RYE IN CORN.--If farmers will sow one-half bushel of winter rye to the acre in their corn, and plow it in the last time, it will not only have a tendency to choke out the weeds that start up after­ ward, but there will lie no danger of dry murrain among cattle from eating too freely of dry stalks, as the rye will re­ main green through the winter, and will be eaten by stock in preference to oorn fodder. It makes a desirable feed for icly to go _ t» sleep, I beheld--yawning already, I with evident alacrity. •: abd custing wishful ej?es toward her own " T.ii^Kr 3 white cot near by--my buxom nurse, []Btsi Blyster. who had presslv for me. Likely 'tain't nothin' like Perkins ? " she said, interrogatively. The Perkinses i Blyster. who had been engaged ex- j were a great family, who lived near by - - in a grand mansion. "You know I haven't seen him," I how the white cot creaked when j said, half ashamed of drawing out the dear, old creature just for my own amusement. "Perhaps it might be Crippen." The Crippens lived further down the street, and, though not so aristocratic as the Perkinses, had claims to consideration. " That just about suits him," said How fat and good-natured she looked ! Mpd *«e finally sought repose ! The next morning I was worse, and 4 for several days I tossed in delirium and •pain, but by a week more the fever be­ an to abate and Mrs. Blyster said, re- suringly : You hain't dead yet, miss, and what's duced, besides proving a saving of from one to two tons of hay for every acre sown; and last, but not least, it affords a green crop to plow under in the spring, which will renew and enrich the land.-- Rural World. WORKING THE SOIL.--The working of the soil, in connection with the applica­ tion of manure and special fertilizers, works wonderful results^ The great uni­ versal solvent is the oxygen of the atmos­ phere, and while but a small per cent is free in the atmosphere, tlie earth is full of it, while that which is free in the at­ mosphere is ever ready to enter into and make new combinations in the soil. ing about an inch of the stem on the cu­ cumber. Use sorghum or any good cane molasses, as the other sirups* will cause them to bccome soft. Keep watch of them while gathering, and if they do not keep good add more molasses and you will have pickles that will be good and •our. A <{ueer Breed of Children. "There are the most curious children in that coach that I ever saw in my life," said a gentlemen standing on the Union Pacific Depot platform to a lice reporter. "Just step in andlook at 'em, and if you can tell me what they are you can have With a view of accepting the offer all kinds of stock, and aids materially in ^ starting a side-show business if the tli6 quality and quantity of^ milk pro- articles referred to p] proved to be genuine curiosities, the Bee representative moun­ ted the steps of the coach on a tour of investigation. Surelv enongli, occupying four seats on the left hand side, sat a Chi­ naman well dressed in his national cos­ tume and beside him a full-blooded ne­ gro woman, holding two children on her lap, while four others, under the charge of a Chinese servant, rolled and tumbled over the seats and down the aisles of the car. There was nothing so peculiar in the appearance of either the man And wife, for so the reporter found them to be, but the six children, the oldest of whom was nine years of age, were tlie most singular combination of negro and Chin- linir tmo mncn oiirl Hence, one great object of tillage is to I «se imaginable Their liair was crisp and l-i-- .A- , •, a . onrlv nit in vprv dark, but tlie more you hain't a goin' to be--not with | good Mrs. Blyster, with some enthusi- Sarah Blyster to see to ye !" Then good j asm. " Mr. Crippen ! That sounds Sarah Blyster gave me'a motherly kiss like him. I declare I'm ashamed of my on my forehead, fumbled over my al- : age, but, rainy as 'tis, I could really al- mady painfully tucked-in bed clothing i mo^| put on my gums and go out. I . ̂ DTL ' - - - •*--** i' I a/i lriit/lAii ofiviAiiD mf IiaIiI A# VTIA IHlyJier attempt to express still more forc- Ib"l^ her affectionate zeal for my welfare, and sat down with a sort of good-natured . grunt at the back window. I closed my eyes and was just about falling asleep when I was roused by a h$lt-suppressed sob. 1' What's the matter ?" I said faintly. To see happy Mrs. Blyster sobbing and in tears was too much for me. ... "She's dead, miss; the woman 't llives in the little house back. They're a hevin' her funeral this blessed minute." " A friend of yours ? T woa fetel so kinder anxious to git hold of his name." I couldn't help laughing. "Mrs. Blyster," I said, "I do hope you will know some day, and if I ever find out I'll tell you." Something in my manlier quite in­ jured her feelingB. "Is'poseyou think I'm silly," she said, in a hurt way ; " but, indeed, he's a very nice man." " I know he is, dear Mrs. Blyster," I said, penitently. "And I'm every bit in earnest, and I want you to promise to pr< B1 ressed almost to tears myself by Sarah make me some of that famous toast of yster's manner. I yours to-night. Alas ! I fear I shan't " Law, no !" said the lady, starting . up and assuming her own radiant coun­ tenance again. " And what I'm a whin- ii' around here and givin' you^the blues for I'm sure I don't know Sarah Blyster, cheer up ! " I smiled faintly and soon dropped off ! were paid and the carriage was ordered, into tlie nap which Mrs. Blyster's sob j and Sarah Blyster and I were sitting l>e- hftd interrupted. i fore the pleasant fire having a farewell A day or two after Mrs. Blyster was. chat, when suddenly in burst one of the "snivolin'," as she expressed it, again | maids. have much more of it "--for I was al­ most well. This cleared good Mrs. Blyster's face in a moment, and she hastened to set out the cherubs and Cheer up, j gillyflowers and ran to get the toaster. I Two days later I was to go. Tlie bills by the back window. I was Wronger and better now, and asked cheerfully : "Not another funeral, I hope, Mrs. ^Blyster ?" "Mrs. Blyster," she said, in an agi­ tated voice, " the doctor wants you right away. There's a carpenter lives ! back here on the little back street, and " No," said that worthy lady, still un- ! he's fell off a roof. Oh ! it's awful. I able to attain her wonted serenity; "but saw him, and mebbe he'll get well, an' there's a boy--her boy, I s'pose--a- mebbe he won't." •Workin' much inside, and he--and he-- Mrs. Blyster's rosy face grew percept- he's a shakin' out her clo'es and a-foldin' , ibly paler and her comfortable hand felt 'em up, and it does seem's if some o' the female relatives oughter be a-lie]pin' of em." Surely it did. There was considerable pathos in the way of stating it, in spite the "female relatives," which only i cold as it touched mine. " It's him, miss. Mr. Crip " she checked herself, "but likely that ain't I his name. And, miss, I do believe there's a Providence in it, and here I'm a-goin' to find out his name without showed that Mrs.^ Blyster had mingled j havin' to put on my gums at all; but, mercy !" for she had suddenly realized luch in scenes of woe herself and knew liow they ought to be conducted. " I wouldn't look that way," I said, soothingly ; " try the other window." " I did," said Mrs. Blyster, " but my «yes would go that way somehow-- everything shows so plain from here. There was a black alpaca, as good as that this was no time to ruminate, "I hope he ain't a-goin' to die. He ain't if good nursin' '11 a-save him ! Good-by, miss--yes, I'll call up to Simses some­ times. Bless your heart," and Mrs. Blyster.was gone. So I went back again to school. The new. I see her out in it the very day I | fever had not spread, and everything flame here to take care of you. Sh^ j was as quiet and stupid as ever. Some- took sick the very next day, I reckon, I times letters came, and I spent the va- for I see her curtain was down and the ; cation with my mother's friends in a dis- doctor there, and now I think she's dead, j tant place. I forgot almost that I had and there's that alpaca dress a remindin' ! ever had the scarlet fever, or had been them /" And Mrs. Blyster sobbed I under the care of good, efficient Mrs. again. I Blyster. The fall term began, and . I had been sitting up for some time, j Thanksgiving was close upon us when "I'll lie down, now, Mrs. Blyster," I ; Peggy entered my room one day and said, hoping to divert the good creature i handed me a card upon which was from her sorrowful reflections. And in' printed, " Mrs. Sarah Blyster. arranging my bed and getting the cherubs and gillyflowers set in order for my tea she forgot the alpaca dress and its departed owner. But only temporarily, for, two or three days after, sitting solemnly and almost tearfully again by the window, she be- Then it all came back to me, and I rushed into the reception room to give the good creature a loving embrace-- which quite upset her, and made her wipe lier kindly, susceptible eyes--and to ask, the first thing, " How's the car­ penter that was hurt?" let in this oxygen, that it may produce those changes necessary for the produc­ tion of plant food. Cultivation also aids in the escape of water, where there is too much in the soil, for, while a certain amount of water aids in the decomposi­ tion of the soil, too much water shuttfout the oxygen and prevents decomposition. Stagnant water is antagonistic to plant growth, \yater in a state of motion not only conveys food to the plant but con­ veys heat both to and from the land, equalizing the temperature. -- Prof. Stockbridge. To CURE FOOT ROT IN SHEEP.--The preparation of the foot is just as essen­ tial as the remedy, for if every part of the disease is not laid bare the remedy will not effect a cure. A solution of blue vitriol, as strong as can be made and as hot as you can bare your hand in, even for a momont, having the liquid three or four inches deep, or deep enough to cover all the affected parts; then hold the dis­ eased foot in this liquid ten minutes, or long enough to penetrate to all tlie dis­ eased parts; put the sheep on a dry barn- floor for twenty hours to give it a chance to take effect. In every case where it has been tried it has effected a cure, and I have never given a sheep medicine in­ ternally for foot rot. This remedy I call a dead shot when the foot is thoroughly prepared,. but a more expeditious way, and where you don't hardly hope to ex­ terminate the disease, but keep it in sub­ jection, is this: After preparing the feet as for the vitriol cure, take butter of an­ timony, pour oil of vitriol into it slowly until the heating and boiling process ceases, and apply with a swab. This remedy works quicker, is stronger than the vitiiol, and is just as safe, but its mode of application renders it less sure. --Ohio Farmer. DESTROYING WEEDS.--The remedy for noxious weeds is thorough cultivation. If a piece of ground is full of briars, milk weed, couch grass, Sodom apples, Canada tliistles, sorrel, toad flax, or other miserable stuff that so often tries the mettle of our good farmers, let them put the ground in corn a couple of years or so, keeping the cultivator going continu­ ally, and especially going in the earliest parts of the season, and the toughest character among these weeds will fail to stand the ordeal. If the hand hoe can be spared to go in among the hills of corn occasionally, where the teeth of the harrow cannot reach, or to cut off here and there one which the harrow may miss, a bad case may be cured in a single season. But, if this cannot be done, a couple of successive years with a sharp- tooth cultivator among a corn crop will generally do the business for the worst casethateverwas. Let any one who has a weedy field before him resolve, another season, to put the whole tract in corn and keep clean, and he will soon give up curly; their skin very dark, but tlie shape of tlieir face and the almond-shaped eyes proclaimed their paternity too dis­ tinctly for any mistake. They jabbered a- way with their father in his native tongue in the most artless manner, while at the same time they kept the passengers in convul­ sions of laughter with contortions and grimaces which would have done infinite credit to the stage of negro minstrelsy. The reporter acertained that the name of^ the Chiaman was Hang Hang, who, twelve years ago, went a coolie to Cuba. While working in Cube he became enamored of a negro slave, He saved enough to pur­ chase her freedom and married her. In the course of a few years he became a coolie contractor himself, and is now wealthy.--Omaha Bee. Literary Recluses. Mr. Ryan, librarian of the Kilkenny Library Society, made books his idols, denying himself every luxury and not a few necessaries in order to add to his collection; the well-ftunished library of which he was custodian being insufficient to satisfy his literary cravings. He lived in the upper part of the society's Eremises, but permitted no one to enter is rooms for any purpose whatever. On his sudden death, in 1866, their privacy was perforce invaded. His bed-room, or what passed for such, was found to con­ tain nothing in the way of furniture save an old sofa, which had served him for a bed, upon which lay a pair of old blankets, his sole nightly covering. Piles of books were heaped up promis­ cuously in every direction. So in his sitting-room, there was scarcely space to move for dust-covered volumes, of which the owner had apparently made very little use, contented, like many another collector, with merely having acquired thein. A wealthy eccentric living in a French provincial town was not open to that re­ proach. He dwelt alone in a secluded house, admitting no one but a char­ woman, who prepared his meals, and a news agent, who brought him thirty or forty journals at a time. One day even they could not obtain admission, and the police were called upon to intervene. Upon entering the solitary bed-room in the house--a room as squalid as it well could be--the recluse was found dead on the bed, which could only be reached by passing through a ravine, the sides of which were composed of thousands of newspapers and novels, whose perusal had been the sole delight and occupation of his wasted life. "PA, what does it mean to be tried by a jury of one's peers?" "It means, my son, that a man is to be tried by a jury composed of men who are his equals--on an equality with him--so that they will have no prejudice against him." "Then, Out of one dollar bill "A" he clips a piece through the head of Washington three-eighths of an inch wide, and cut with artistic irregularity. The two ends of the bill are brought a little closer to­ gether than they were before the piece was taken out, and a rough continuation of the lines of the head is made with ink upon the white surface of tlie gum­ med paper beneath. The bill is then section three quarters of an inch, or twice as large as that taken out of "A" is then removed; the piece taken out of "A" is then inserted l>etweeu the two ends of "B," the pasting, inking and dirtying repeated, and tlus bill is alm> ready for the market. A section an inch and a half wide is then removed from "C," and the three-quarters cut from "B" let in, and so the process is con­ tinued, each bill, iustead of its true length of seven and three-quarter inches, being only seven inches. The first one is the most dangerous, because it is hard to doctor up the head of the Father of his Country in a way that the cliildren of the same will not recognize the old gentleman, and hence this bill is left the longest of the lot. It is easy to see that out of every nine bills there is an extra bill left over, jjgnaking ten dollars for nine. Working TO hard as he could, Mr. Hill could not have made more' than from three to five dollars per day-urather a small sum for the risk he ran, as it w as. necessary to shove fifty of the mutilated dollars to make five S. A. D.--Yes, we do favor long en­ gagements, say sixty or seventy years, and if you are not cured by that time marry her, and repent at leisure.--Bos­ ton Globe. An Editor's Opinion* [Moline (111.) Review.] This is to ccrtify that I used St. Jacobs Oil for Rheumatism, and after three days' application was entirely relieved. I con­ sider it a meritorious medicine for all forms of Rheumatism. Ii#lL MOORE. Proprietor. A COQUETTE came out of a fancy goods store loaded with purchases. ' 'You have renewed your provision," said a rival. "Don't speak of it, I have quite ruined myself! I have bought a thousand tilings I do not need, among others, six tooth brushes." "Ah, one for each tooth," said the other sweetly. B« Kind to Yourself. [Peoria (111.) Evening Review.] It pays to be kind to everybody; but bo kind to yourself all over, and especially tp your stomach, which promptly resents ill treatment. Mr. Joseph Pfeilcr, Chicago, 111., writes: I suffered with Indigestion and Constipation for a long time. Alter spend­ ing a large amount oi money for doctor's bills, without obtaining relief, I used the Hamburg Drops, and was entirely cured thereby. . * THE chimney is on fire at Mme. C.'s-- "Don't be afraid, madame; don't be afraid," says the footman calmly to his alarmed mistress; "there is no real danger." "But you don't know any­ thing about it John, and so why do you tell me there is no danger?" " I know I don't, madame, but it is to reassure you." THE invalid's hope and strength beyond all other remedies is Malt Bitters. A SHREWD little fellow lived with an uncle who barely afforded him the neces- ! saries of life. One day the two were out walking together and saw a very thin j gravhound, and tlie man asked his [ nephew what made the dog so pool. "I expect he lives with his uncle," said the boy. FICKLE in appetite, irresolute in mind, and subject to melancholy, try Malt Bitters. A COMPANY of scapegraces meeting a pious old man named Samson, one of them exclaimed: "Ah, now we're safe! We'll take Samson along with us, and then, should we l>e set upon by Philis­ tines, he'll slay them all!" "My young friend," quietly responded the old man, I "to do that I should have to borrow your i jaw-bone!" | Are Ton Not In Good Health? If the Liver is the source of your trouble, you ! can find an absolute remedy in DR. SAXFOBD'B i LIVER INVIGORATOB, the only vegetable cathartic I which acts directly on the Liver. Cuces all | Bilious diseases. For Book address Da. £Ua- I PO&D, 162 Broadway, New York. The Voltaic Belt Co., marsh all, nsitka, I Will send their Electro-Voltaic Belts to the af­ flicted upon thirty dayf' trial. Bee their adver- i tisement in thia paper, headed, "On T1 irty j Days' TriaL" i Yon can get an elegant lithographic map in 6 ! colors, descriptive of the great trip acrosn the j American Continent, free, by sending your ad- j dress to J. R. Wood, General Passenger Agent ; C., B. A Q. R. R., Chicago, JDL i VEOETINE is not a stimulating Utters which ; irentes a flci itious appetite, but a gentle tonic ! which a«f>ists nature to restore tM atomaofc l to a healthy action. WiLHorr's Fever and Ague Tenic. Hiia old reliable remedy now sella at one dollar. MEDETUR, being physiological in effect upon the pystem, revives the morbid organs. ONE pair of boots or shoes can be saved every year by using Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffenera. American Beef in England. JL correspondent send the following communication to the Manchester Ex­ aminer in the form of a letter of inquiry: " Notwithstanding the large quantities of foreign beef, etc., weekly imported, I shall lie glad if any of your mvlers will inform me what becomes of it. When first introduced I often saw it exposed for sale in the shops, but now I can find nothing of the sort. The other day I found in an obscure shop in a somewhat obscure locality a few joints which were described by the vender as American beef, but of which I had some doubt. In reply to my inquiry as to what became of it all, he coollv informed me that great quantities reached Manchester every week, but it was sold by the butchers ks English beef. Upon expressing my surprise at this announcement, he coolly informed me that it was 'as good as English beef, and therefore why not sell it flus such, and the same pries.' I say nothing as regards quality, but I do think while the American beef does not! cost the butchers more than one-half what the English beef does, surely they might be contented with less profits tban they are evidently making. " (ireec*. The greatest length of Greece is about 250 miles, its greatest width about 165 miles, ft includes 19,353 square miles, and lias a population of about 1,500,000. By the recent decision of the conference of European powers at Berlin there was added a slice of Turkey (Thessaly) to the territory of Greece, containing 400,- 000 inhabitants. Turkey is not disposed to give her consent, but probably will have to. KICK your corn through a window- glass and the pane is gone forever. DfBULL'S BABY SYRUP BLOOD PURIFIER, CURES DYSPEPSIA, l/r«f> Complaint, Costirentsa, Biiiom ^ tasks, indig»sthn Jaundic«, Lms «f : i!" _ ^ tppritl Hmdnche 'DiYzinm* " * *£ - Nausea. '{ **•*< •4 S Hmrftwm Depression of Spirits, Sort* Moifs, Pimphs, Skin Disease*, Erup- ttomr Foul Breath, and aft Diseases arising from Impure Blood. i The Hftmlmrg Drop* an recommended M th» best and cheapest Vhmlly Medicine ever offevX and ar» aold by Druggist* and Dealen at SO C«*tl aSotUe. Direction* ia Eleven Language*, b*aw the fkfrrfmUft denature, and private pronto. tary atamp of l.TOeBIEK A «j©„ BALTIHOBE, HD^ C.S.A, A1A m week. |H a day at boras easily mute. OoaDr 9 lit Outfit free. A<!dtre«* T*TO k Co., AOT.«Wlb. j xw fciaty IMIHU M<>iai< lwiii| --ftitt Htlila IWMhtrfy taoMMalL Kmi InilytnllMnrfiMaMiafaK. Fkg M* jrijWfclhiWuMinii UlTH A 80K »ia» ( NATR0NA,Hm SODA FREE! AMutloalJoaraal. Add'sF.Brehm,Erie,Pa. &CC n week In yonr own town. Term*and CI Ontfli vDO free. Addles* H. HALJJCTT A Co., Portland,Me latfcabaattath*World. «».. ; bert Medicinal Pupwii It to the beat for k 8oMto« TAYLOR.--All persons of family name of TAYI/>R will TPCOIV® interestinir and valuable information by •endingnddres* toj. KIRK TAYLOR, JerseyCitgr,N.J. A MOXTH ! A cent* Wnatcd S ir>> Best-Soiling Articles In the world: a sam-.V4hli 'J'4» Best-Soiling Articles in the world: a san ipuuu piOjrt*. JAY BKONSON, Detroit, Mich. OPIUM •ort>lilit« Habit Cured In !• tmMday*. Nautili CarcC 1>M. J. SxitPHKNa, Lebanon, OHLU. f $9 A pert! ay at home. Sample* worth (lifto* •C IW 9£>U ADDRMUI Ktixhon A CO.. Portland, M* NORTHWESTER! 60LLE6E, full Faculty; eight course*; exf only to REV. A. A. SMITH, Prea H, Treasurer. $5> 7 <y M»ws«.«u-55S!L.{r • 9 9 O. V1CKKHY, Augusts, Maine. Napervllle, 111 nnosually lo or REV. J.I. and all faaaUy Ua*a. SoM^vaU DnwgMaaad OTOOM*. Pen's Salt HanEtcKiE C8.,Pk0a. SAPONIFIER tor making Hard, Soft and Tsllei anap qnlekly. *ak row groom tm SAPONIFIER, MM! take m other Penn'a Salt Manafaet'ng Co., Efejfcu SORE EARS, CATARRH. VOUNC MEN ean̂ SKO » • morth. Rvenr graduate guaranteed a paying situ*, tton. A<idr«** R. VaUWTIna, Manager, JanesviQe.Wla Jki ^1^^ 1*0 Send stamp forS4-page il- n -i= M BnlK lustratedcatalogue. J.H. RU811TON.Canton.N.Y. BUSINESS COLLEGE. f^lLINTON BUSINESS COLLEGE, Clinton, la. Rart- V da** facilities. Annual announcement free. BA n#*cre ? Campaign BADGES, with gitt K igleanii Shield, on red, white snd blue ribbon, with life-like photographs of both can- •arty. $1.(10 per doz. Sample 15 cents. PATTKN A CO., 43 Barclay St., N.Y. didates of either party. $1.00 Big thing to sell. • AOEXT8 wishing to canvass for the IJres of GARFIELD § HANCOCK Should write at once for Circulars and terms of aawtot* ------ rultCO. FOltSHEE & McMAKIN, Cincinnati.< CAMPAIGN Parties intending to Print Xewa- papers during tli« Campaign or longer should communicate with THE CHICAGO NEWSPAPER UJTION, 177, 179 and 1ST Pifth Avenuet Chicago. NOTICE! W® hare made a re» Suction In price* on nearly alt (rood* qpotca by UK in Price List No. i7. Ai% reader of this Paper not In possemton of our Price List No. 37 tihould bend for a copy inimrdlatelye Free to any addresv. Reduced price* limited to August Slit, 1SSO* MONTGOMERY WARD & CO., QUI <fc 22ft Wabash Ave., Chicago, III.' YOCJfO MAS ©E OLD, If j.m n>» . Imnul f'Jw- lag wkiaktn, • b«**r ef tesi? m fcaM e? t* esreisgthss Bed {be bait an? d;-n' B b*t Ml em R--aiste ihseererr tbw I e*s AUtem, Oft. 9QX 1&4S, 1mm. MM. It mem readily cnrauW w ft fft£^ 2 hnf® %imjm oraraad ovar again byaay tmatmant. Bao« tor my Uttla Booh.JrM to Si; ttwill tell you all about Uses® matters and who I ana. My hug* Book, 3.S pM*a i Aural Suntoa BM4IK,KI - • A , r*f's -4.- -.'i •IESTET & Ci Bbatticbbro Vx FRAZER AXLE GREASE. Beat In the World. Made aal; ky the Fra> cer I.itbrlcator ( swiiasT, at Ckleago, New York, and Ht. l.oaU. SOU) £V£KX • V(V f-OKi'i The sole* of theaa Boot* and Shoes are mad* with two thlokneaaes of best sole leather, with a coating of rukbar between them. Tb» aoterealele protected irom wear b» OoodrleVw P&teiitBeaeeiaer Steel Rlvetat and they are <>*mr+*l*td to ortwar any other «•>?» :»eda 4nqfalre f<i>- them of any Boo* and Shoe dwalw and taka MB otter. HALF SOLES may be had of H. C. Goosmca. Church 8t.p Worcester, Ma ~ ' Ills. Send I " , Worcester, Masa., or 40 Hoyne Ave.. Chicago, i paper pattern of nae war ted, with 60 cents in stamps for men's siae, < pair will be sent by ma Haehtoe Oaaananlo* in the r 40 cent L My ra t United for boy'* die, and a reference*--All Sewiag KIDNEY-WORT ana Keep cieaii, ana ne win soon give up ( j suppose you'd have to be tried by all the common ideas of smothering out ajuryof bald-headed men." •with deep layers of earth, cutting up in the full of the moon, putting salt upon their tops, or the many other recommend­ ation# started in tfee interest, it is be- FOB all the ailments of small children there U no better remedy than Dr. Boll's Baby Syrup, aselltt. All druggists i Price only 25 cents. HOFMAMi'H HOP PILIJ4, a •recUecare for Ferer and Ague, Blllousneaa and Malarial Nasariag a# the Blood. Fifty pill* for to eenta. MeLAIKt TEBMIFVCIE BblTBOHa ffcr Wane tat Ohildna an dalMow aa* mtm Ml to i The Croat Remedy For THE LIVER ( THK ^flfWEL8,and tho KIDNEYS. Tbeeef'arreat organs are the Natural cloansereof the System. If they work well, health w ill te per­ fect, if they become elogped, dreadful diseases are developed Decause the blcx>d Is poisoned *.'.h tho humors that should hare been expelled naturally. KIDNEY-WORT Will restore the natural action, ana throw off the disease. Thousand have been cored, and all may be. For sale by all Druggists. PETROLEUM Grand Medal at Phi ndelp'ia Exposition. VASELINE JELLY. Silver MetkJ at Pari* Kspoattton. FOR CHILLS AND I AJSX> AXIXI SSIBBLA 0A0SK0 BT Malarial OF THE BLOOD. ~ A Warraitai (Mf Price* $ 1.00. V REM aua IT IU navoeisia. J9 " A MEDICINK WITHOUT A RIVAL." KIDNEY Blaiider, Urinary and liver Diaeaaca, Dtopqf, (iravel and Diabetes, are cued by M \ " ' HUNTS the Or eat Kidney awl Wver Medicine. HUNT* mrenir rt.&kMWC, Retention or Kowilwfc - to the Back, Loina, or 8Mk This wonderful substance I* acknowledged bj phjrst lane throughout the world to be the best remedy die •vared for the cure of Wountla, Burti« :hout the world to be the best rei tie cure of Wountla, Hum*. Khtusi*. tleni, SMii lllatuari, IMIe*. tuturih, Chll* Wain*, In order that evsrr one may try it. It II put up in 16 and 25 cent battles for household nee. Obtain <i from ?ourdru£t:'-s!.ami yon will find it sapeita* to alij'ibitii. you have ever used. ON 30 DAYS' THIAL We will sen1 our Electro-Voltaic KeSta and other Rleetrio Appliances upon trial for M d.jra %o tttoes tfllcted witn bervou. Debility and diwuno/ a wr. •m- I i.ature. Also of the Liver, Kidneys, ltheumatlsm. Pawls-sis, Ao. A surf cure v«aro».u«i4 tsr m paj?. Adores* Vsltulc llelt IKswabull. Hkk. Important to tho rail" Sox! : ENGLISH REMEDY. cra wa tsueost- i THE G gts ggenj.ltewL, Price 0U.MU* All B01U^SlTlviUia^^^S%r&8»ge cure* B ttoool * 1 v J ' W carta Intemperance, Nervosa Dlaeaaea, Debility. Female Weakneaa and Exeeaaca. HUNTS REMEDY iree Biliousness, Headache, Jaundice, 3) lomach. Dyspepsia, Ooaatipation and Piloa. i- HUNTS REMEDY ACTS AT ONCK on (be KMa«n,Uvar,«d Bowels, restoring theaa to a berth* aetioau aad CURKS when all other medlcinea hlL dreds have been eaved who Ian I to die by frienda and phyaiciaM. Semi ror pamphlet to <WW» *•%. SOLD BY ALL DRIWCUISTS. WM. K. CUSEE, Trial aite, T5 ceata. Large DR. MARCHlSl'S UTUJI CATHOUCQIl - ">i C N . IX. Mat! wmmsm fo AO1