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f Akl there be is, lad, st the plow; He bests the boys for work, ,*?•!'. And whatsoe'er the task might Hone <-vcr saw him chirk. . Aa£ he can taojh, too, tiii hi* eyes Bun o'er with nlrtliful tean, 4j>A ffiiiR fall many an old-time In spite of seventy years. -SIS; > 1 "Qpod-monilng, friends I tia 13 Time for a hmlf-hour's rest." And Farmer John took oat hia lunch And ate it with a zest. M A harder task it is," he said. That) following up these stem Or mending fences, e'en for ma To foal my seventy yeara. . Who kept me up go well; For women such as she are scarce In this poor vale of tears ; She's given me love, and hope and strength For more than forty years. " And then my boys have all done well, Ae far ae they h^ve gone, And that thing warms an old DULXXIB blood. Aad helps him up and on. Rirls have never caused a Ot raised up anxious feart; Then wonder not that I feel } And hale at seventy year*. 44 Why don't my good boys do my work And let me Bit and rent? Ah, friends, that wouldn't do for me; I like my own way best. They have their duty; I have mine, And till the end appears, I mean to smell the BOII, my frtonda," Said the man of seventy years. THE LAST OF NINE. ; --* --• * •» « •; W "Did you know that Tom Bailey had passed in hia checkftin " Yes, heard it by telephone an hour ag°." The speaker was John Mc Williams, and we were sitting on the piazza of his home in Bradford. " Do you know the particulars, John ?" "Particulars? Well, I don't know as there are any. Same old story, you blow. Didn't pack the nitro-glycerine in the wagon carefully, and when th£ wagon went over a k/g the load explod­ ed and--and--that was all." There was no need of further explana­ tion, for I could reason it all out clearly enough, and could almost fancy I saw the ghastly remains of the ill-starred Tom Bailey, who went out one morning to superintend the shooting of a well and never came back. Bailey was an em­ ploye of the Roberts Torpedo Company, and John McWilliams, the man with whonj I was in conversation, was his Division Superintendent on the same "run," or district. "Family, John?" , ^- "No--that is, he tfadn't a wife,"but he had a widowed mother and a young sister." " What will they do ? " "Oh, the company won't see theta starve, and, beside, I guess poor old Tom didn't die a beggar. Poor old boy !" and the bearded man at my side sobbed like a heart-broken child. "I never told you about Tom and the rest of the boys, did I ? " continued the sorrowing man. v"The rest?" i " Yes, there were nine of us, you Snow--but you don't know, for I have dBver told a living soul. This sudden death of Tom's quite unmans me, for I am now the only one left--the last of nine." I waited a long while for John to gain oontrol of his feelings, for I knew he had a story to tell of more than usual interest. It was a beautiful night, full of soft moonlight and drowsy with the ham of humanity in the city beneath our feet. A delicate, almost impercep­ tible mist hung about the city, and from our hillside piazza we could see far down the valley where the Tunung want stream fiuutly glimmered in the moonlight, and inhere "the huge iron tanks of oil loomed *p gloomy and black against the mellow brightness of the night. Over at Pros­ pect Park, on Mount Raub, the light W»B flashing and flaring, while faintly "to our ears came the strains of a Strauss waltz. Away off on another hill the sound of a laboring engine and the thud of a walking-beam told that the ponder­ ous drill at a well was being lowered in­ to the earth as fast as men working night And day could sink the hole. Down below, the city flashed up at us its countless lights and shadows and faintly floated up the hum of business and pleasure. It was a strangely beautiful night for a story of oil. John spoke at last, slowly and with evident hesitation. Yea," he said, " there were nine <rf us, aha I'm the last one alive. It's a tfttfegV tiling, and It makes me feel very • strangely; perhaps more so now that poor Tom is--is--" He couldn't bring himself to say the word; he couldn't say that his friend was dead. With .a great effort he con­ tinued : "You doubtless know that I was in the lurmy .during the late war. 1 saw some pretty tough fighting, too, and af­ ter Shiloh I was made a Captain, and *& the swue time Tom Bailey, who was in the same company, was promoted to • Lieutenancy for linavery. He deserved it, too, for there never was a better or braver boy; a trifle reckless you might say, bait brave and generous to a fault. At the -close of the war we went home together, and with as went wb*t was left of the company. There -wasn't much, to be sure, lor we had done some fcanyot fie boys had gone down through the valley of the si|a&pw. Xiike the rest of the re­ turned soldiers, we went into the Oil country, which was just then turning the heads of the people, and after knock­ ing around a while and losing what mouey ae had we concluded to go into business of shooting wells. Tom and I weal, into the business for our­ selves, and soon hired four of the men who had been in our company and a friend of mine, who had beeci wealthy but was ' broke,' to work for us. Two fisherman pame along that we bad known before, ^i«d we engaged them. That inadd tiiie of us, and we used to. live in i one room &nA do all our own cooking, ' for women were scarce in the oil country ^ Everything went along ' finely and we made money hand over fist. * Old CoL Roberts hadn't got the monopoly of the nitro-glycerine business then, and any man could engage in it who cared to run the risk. " Onr crowd was extremely fortunate fir«t,ram) we were beginning to feel jst mJtect-giyeerine wasn't such le thing as some persons made out. Well, -we worked along about six months without an idSSidelit. when one" day t>ne of our men was killed while taking glycerine from a wagon. This gave us considerable of a shock, but we laid the blame on the man's carelessness, and worked on as usual. Within a year three more of our men were blown to frag- nqpents at the same time through pure vScklessness. None of these men drank liquor to excess ; so you couldn't at­ tribute their death to intoxication. The rest of us were mighty careful after that, and only stayed in the business because we could mijke money faster than at any­ thing else. We didn't have any more accidents while we were doing business for ourselves, and we began to fa»ta oonrage. " When the Roberts Company gained monopolistic control of the torpedo business the remaining Ave of our cro^rd went to work for them. Everything t on swimmingly for some time, but at last three of the crowd had some trouble, real or fancied, with the com­ pany, and the result was that the men quit entirely and went to moonlighting --shooting wells at night in defiance of the law giving the Roberts Company the monopoly. Moonlighting is just about twice as dangerous as torpedoing in the lawful way, and it wasn't long be­ fore those three fellows were blown sky­ ward. I wasn't a bit surprised, for when a man gets down so low as to go into moonlighting when he can make good wages at a legitimate business, I nat­ urally look to see his death announced before a great while in the papers. <» ^ "Well, that just left two--Tom Bailey and I--of the original nine that went into the business only a few years ago. One by one our boys have dropped off, until to-day I helped to bury what remained of poor Tom. Poor old boy. I know it wasn't his fault, for he was the most careful man I ever saw: There were nine of us when we started--all banded together to work for one anoth­ er s interests--and now they are all gone but me, and I am--the--last--of nine." His unsmoked cigar slipped from his nerveless fiugers and fell to the ground. He trembled violently, as with ague, a nameless horror and fear looking out of his eyes into vacancy,, "John," said I, gently touching his arm, " come, into the house: it is chilly Out here." ' " "Yes, yes, let ns go in. But stay--I --feel--so strangely. I never thought of it before, but if--my wife--should-- Should see me as I saw* Tom Bailey to­ day it would--it would--would kill her!" and the strong man sank into a chair, completely overpowered with the awful thought. Business called me away from Brad­ ford and the oil country the next day, and I did not return for same weeks. Having business at Smethport, the county seat of McKean county, I passed through that village and started FACTS FOB THE CURIOUS. PBOF. SOOTT says that a wood-pecker never runs down a tree-trunk. IN the growth of all animals, they pass from the simple to the complex. The young of the higher animals repre­ sent the fall growth of the higher ani­ mals. IT is said on the best authority that a toad frequented the steps before the hall-door of a gentleman's house in Devonshire /or upward of thirty-six years. THK minute lines and furrd%8 on per­ sons' hands are likely to receive a far more useful attention than the observa­ tion of the great lines by fortune-tellers. There is reason to believe that the spiral whorls on the thumb and finger-points are peculiar to individuals and races, and may be as certainly used to define the ethnological class or positive iden­ tification of the being possessing them as the measurements of the skull or the examination of a photograph would be. ACCORDING to Humboldt, the oldest town in the world is Yakutsk--5,000 in­ habitants--in Eastern Siberia. It is He keeps a valet to assist in changing his dress. He trav­ els from one race meeting to an­ other in a first-class carriage, probably the companion of the nobleman by whom he is employed. In winter lie rides to his hounds, or goes to town. In 1876 he is reported to have earned $60,000. [From the Sheboygmn Falls (Sheboygan Co) News.] ' W* NEVER saw any one joyous when suf­ fering from pain--neuralgia for instance. In relation to this malady Mr. George Guy- ett, Prop. Guyett llouse/thus informed our representative: I have used St. Jacobs Oil $100,000,000 iHlllm • Thirty Tear*. [Pachuca Cor. Boston Herald.] Far more than three hundred years the mines of Pachuca have been worked by the Mexicans--first by the Mexicans pore and simple, then by the Spaniards and now again by Mexicans, who would scorn the name of Spaniard, though his blood mingles in their veins. Here in this very town was discovered the pro­ cess of amalgamation now in use to-day, by which all the precious ores dug from the mountain are made to yield their for neuralgia, and can confidently'recom- i more' tbe vei7 "agenda i3 mend it to any one similarly affected. ! ? worked, and profitably, in which, The Mosquito in England.*: Here it must be observed that mos­ quitoes are especially hard on two sorts j of people. Young ladies anil children, ; and many men, they stiug, till the vic- j tims are all covered' witli blisters and in I danger of erysipelas. This is pretty i bad. but we think the nervous persons, I whom mosquitoes sting little, but keep j awake with their buzzing, are even more a- : S3? £££ The ground remains frozen to coldest. the depth of 300 feet, except in mid­ summer, when it thaws three feet at the surface. The mean temperature for the year is 12.7 deg. Farenheiht For ten days in August the thermometer goes as high as 85 deg. From November to February the temperature remains be­ tween 40 deg. to 68 deg. below aero. The river Lena remains frozen for nine months in the year. FBIPAY, which has long been super- stitiously regarded as a day of ill omen, has been an eventful one" in Amerioan history. On Friday, Christopher Co­ lumbus sailed on his great voyage of discovery. On Friday, he, though un­ known to himself, discovered the conti­ nent of America. On Friday, Henry HI., of England, gave to John Cabot his commission, which led to the diseov- ! may not mark or hurt them much ; it is ! a question of constitution; and there ! are people with whom the bite does not I " take," as they say of vaccination. But | they suffer all night long from the shrill, persistent noise of the mosquito's tram- ! pet At the first warning they leap up, ! light a candle, take it into bed, and try ! to catch the intruder. No one can guess j how difficult this is. You soon find the I mosquito on the curtain, where he lies j apparently asleep. Very cautiously you : stalk him, your hand is just over him, and justice is about to be done, when I tho vicious creature flies away and j amuses himself in mid-air. Presently j he settles, and the chase begins again, j till the hunter sets fire to the flimsy cur- ! tains, and has quite enough work 'to do | in extinguishing the fire. After that mosquitoes come and go as they please, for Bradford, by the way of the Brad- i ery of North America. On Friday, the j without let or hindrance, and day dawns T)AV/1A1 1 an<1 IT 1 n r*«L n «1 « 1171. WliK lit A MV 3.. iL _ _ • 1 1 f A • *. ford, Bordell and Kinzna railway. When within a few miles of Bradford an acci­ dent happened to the locomotive, which would delay the train several hours. Being anxious to reach the city as soon as possible, four of the passengers, in­ cluding myself, started over the mount­ ains afoot, hoping to reach our destina­ tion by 3 o'clock in the afternoon. We walked along quite briskly, and, while Mayflower, with the Pilgrims, made the on a feverish and frantic man, who has harbor of Princetown, and on the same j only bagged two or three of his innu in- day they signed that august compact, j erable enemies. Late in the morning the forerunner of the present constitu- | mosquitoes sleep, overcome with triumph tion. On Friday, George Washington j and the refreshment which they have WJU* born. On Friday, Bunker Hill was } snatched from their enemy. Thev mav seized and fortified. On Friday, the | now be killed, and it is curious to see- surrender of Saratoga was made; and on i as any one who crushes them will see- Friday, the surrender of Cornwallis at j how much of man's vital fluid one mos- _ _ ... Yorkjown occurred, the crowning glory ! quito can absorb. Thev who are fortu- following the ridge of a mountain, were : 4mericaui arms. On Friday, Con- ; nately iuexperieuced in the wavs of hailed by a voice which I recognized as . ffress declared the colonies free and in- j mosquitoes will now understand that the belonging to the torpedo superintendent j dependent. Americans surely need not insect is one of the greatest players that be afnud of Friday. | nature tolerates. There are more dau- IT is only when we regard our globe j PAROUS flies--though the mosquito's bite as a member of the planetary system, rind that system in turn as a unit among having in charge the district adjoining that of John McWilliams. " Hallo ! come over here I" the man shouted, accomimnying his words with emphatic gestures. Curiously wondering what" Smolley could want, we went toward him. Two or three men were leaning against the stump of a tree and merely nodded as we approached. Smolley was searching on the ground for something at some dis­ tance from his companions. "What's the trouble, Smolley ?" and as I spoke the glycerine man raised a Eained-looking face and mutely pointed is finger in the direction of the men around the stump. I looked and saw a strange sight. The is sometimes poisonous and severe--but there is no more irritating creature iu the systems, that we realize how intini- • theworld than the mosquito. te.simal are its concerns and how rela- j Norway and Sweden suffer more even tively insignificant it is. We may, for j the South from mosquitoes. The practical purposes, treat the orbit of Neptune as the circumference of our planetary system, and state the diameter of it, therefore, as about 5,480,000,000 miles. But if we could suppose all this vast plane converted into a solid disk, instead of being as now for the most part empty space, and if to it to it were then , - ... given, by some means or other, a slight- *nore remarkable for the insect " whe ly luminous surface, it would appear to deriy^d the verb ' to flee ' " than an observer upon the very nearest fixed wreck of an oil derrick and its machinery j star no more pretentious than anew i . , shilling glittering in the sunshine would appear to an observer at a distance of over 100 yards. In other words, it would want fairly good eyes to discern it at all. We may safely say, then, that the annual thermal loss of our own little sphere, though sufficient to melt 777 cu­ bic mi'es of ice, would, even though multiplied by centuries of centuries, no more affect tho temperature of space than the striking of a match would avail to moderate the climate of Siberia. lay scattered over the ground in small pieces. In an instant it all came to me--there had been an explosion of nitro-glycerine. The derrick had been blown to atoms and scattered far and wide ; the ponderous bull-wheels were dismantled and broken into a thousand fragments. On every hand was ruin such as only nitro-glycerine can pro­ duce. The thought came, was anybody hurt? I glanced inquiringly at the three men. One of them pointed silent­ ly at a small baking-powder box lying at their feet. I stepped forward. "My God! John--John McWilliams?" and I would have fallen had not one of the men supported me. The last of nine ! I stood and lookefl down into a little wooden box filled with ghastly flesh and blood and bones--all that was mortal of noble-hearted Jolin McWilliams. A side of the head and face remained as noble and handsome as in life, but what remained of the body could have been placed in a ten-quart pail. Smolley came and leaned his arm Ogamst my shoulder in silent sympathy. " How did it happen, Smolley ?" This after a long period of silence. '• The well made a heavy flow of gas and oil as John was lowering the torpe­ do, and when the shell came to the top of the hole John stood there and caught it in his handt>, and as he turned to take the thing away it exploded in his hands with the result yon see. There never was a more careful man than John." For years and years John McWilliams had laughed at nitro-glycerine, and had toyed with it m with a shackled monster, but at lost the monster, waiting patient­ ly for years, had sprung upon him and avenged its wrongs. Sorrowfully we lifted the little box and carried it home­ ward. Along the mountain ridge we moved, a aaelanelioly procession, and when on the summit of Mount Raub we rested and looked down on the clustered buildings of Bradford. In the glory of the afternoon sun even Bradford's home­ ly buildings were beautiful, the city pre­ senting the very piotrtre of the loveliness of life, whiln over and beyond the hills, looking down in silent grandeur, were voiceless witnesses of God's immortality. One of the passengers who had come with me from the tra.n produced a pow­ erful field-glass. Almost mechanically I turned and looked at John McWill­ iams' hillside home. A door was stand­ ing wide open, and a lace curtain streamed idly from a window. In through the open door I could see the tea-table set and waiting. On the lawn a hand­ some, graceful woman romped with two children, frequently shading her eyes with her. hands and looking down the street long and earnestly. It was Mrs. McWilliams, and she was waiting and watching for the loving husband and fa­ ther who would not come again on this •arth, never, nevermore. Slowly the sun crept behind the west­ ern hiilfl, and, with aching hearts, we took up onr burden again and prepared to descend into the city, my ears ringing with the words of the ill-fated John on that night many weeks before : "If my wife---should--should see me aft I saw Tom Bailey to-day it would--it would-- would kill hex !"^-Philadelphia Times. mild Bulgarian dreads them, and there is a ghastly story of a drunken Bulga­ rian who tied up his wife in a mosquito trap. The poor woman was bitten to death, and her husband observed in the morning that he had suffered almost as much as if he had not thought of his savage expedient. Greece is, perhaps, nee for in 1857, Senor Medina, made that dis­ covery so valuable to Mexico. Senor Medina has passed away, it is presumed, but his memory still lives. The English colony comprises about three hundred and fifty men, women and children, from the mining district of Cornwall. The first Cornish miners came here about fifty years ago, introducing English ma­ chinery and modes of working the mines, much to the benefit of the owners. Some of the original number are still living, though very few, and all here now agree as to the healthfulness of the cli­ mate as a place of residence for JSnglish people. Though some of them have ac­ quired wealth and some have retired to old England with enough and to spare, the majority have earned little more than a living. Precarious property are these mines, except in exceptional eases. The most noteworthy of jdl the instances of poor men striking it rich is that of the Santa Gertrudis mine, which is now " in bonanza." It had been successively worked and abandoned years and years ago, and was finally "pronounced"--or taken to work--by a Cornish man, who has just died Forming a small com­ pany in 1877, he commenced active work. After it was proved that the mine was paying he sold out his share--nine twenty-fifths--for $15,000. Since then, one twenty-fifth has sold for $80,000, the present price per bana or share. This would give at that rate $720,000 for what he got but $15,000 for. The mine has been "in bonanza" now for three years, and is yielding about 3,000 cargas of 300 •pounds each of metal weekly, and giv­ ing a clear profit of $1,000 per day. From June, 1877, to March, 1881, the mine produced $2,800,000, and declared thirty-two dividends of $20,000 each-- $640,000. In June, 1877, there was but one shaft of sixty varas--u vara is a little less than a yard--now the deepest shaft is 170 varas ; there is a powerful pump­ ing and hoisting engine, many large btiildings and all the appurtenances of a mine in this section, all paid for. With all this profit, present and prospective, all the ore obtained here is sent to bo I j reduced to Regla, a distance of seven j i leagues. This mine, which is located less than two miles from the center of Pachuca, is owned principally by men I who were poor at the time they com- • menced to work it. There are, it "is said, | two distinct lodes, running parallel and • ; at less than fifty yards from each other. ' At til'st the vein worked was only a vara wide, but as they went down they found a cavern filled with "metallic mush," twenty-four feet wide. They were at first compelled to timber around a great le ta the House. Ask Druggists for " Rough on Rate." It dear* out rats, mice, roaches, flies, bed-bngs. 15c. EIUKRT'A EXTRACT OF TAR Aim WILD CHKBBI has been iw d for twenty rears, and during that time has saved many very valuable lives. Do not neglect a cough or cold until it ia too lata. Try thin excellent remedy, and we are rare you will be convinced of its merits. Chronic Congha, and wen Consumptives, are cured by following the direction*. Every bottle is war­ ranted to give satisfaction. Prepared bv the Emrnert Proprietary Go., Chicago. Sold by ̂ »ll good druggists. QCK-RIOUS that the Chinese men should have such long hair. Ladies, if you would have your hair as long as the Chinese and as beautiful as a honri'a, use Carboline, the deodorized petro­ leum hair renewer and dresser. Nmmlgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Sorcnats of tho Chost, Gmf, Quinsy, Soro Throat, Swott­ ing* and Sprains, Burns mi Soaids, Sonera/ Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headacho, Frostod Foot and Cars, and alt other Pains and Mches. Ho Preparation on aarth equal* Sr. Jaeoat On •s a to/f, rur*t timplo and cheap Externa] Mmmay, A trial entaiia but the comparatively trifling outlay of 60 Cents, and «»ery on. lufferinc with pain can have chaap and potitir* proof of its Directions In Xl.T.n Language*. SOLO BY ALL DRUCKJIBT8 AID DEALEB8 II MEDICINE. 1.VOOELER A CO., Sfifi ? ,n r°ur own *"wn- Terra» und f 5 outfit VwO fro*. Atldraaa H. HAI.LITT A Co., Portland.Ma. DK. HrNTKK. I03 Stite at., Chiemfo, treat* auo-ceaafnlly Throat and I.nn* Dteeaaes by Inhnlatlnn. frt <tOn P«r da? at horn*. Samplw worth «B frw. ™ Addraaa STINSON A do, Portland, Ma. mosquitoes ; and the same remark holds I deal for the sake of economy, taking out good of the, Baden contingent. None of | merely enough to meet current expenses. remained DID Him GOOD. (From tbe New York Union.] Mr. Charles H. Bauer, editor of the above paper and Notary Public, in a late is­ sue mentions the following: Patrick Kenny, Esq., some time ago, suffered much from rheumatism and tried almost every means to rid himself of this painlul evil, but in vain. He was advised to use St. Jacobs Oil, which he did so successfully that all pain has left him and he is as healthy and strong as ever before. Mr. Kenny is an enthusi­ astic advocate of St Jacobs Oil, and it has done him good. SHE was decorating her room with pic­ tures, and she perched his photo up on the topmost nail, then she sat down to admire her work and remarked quietly: "Now everything is lovely, and the goose haugs high!" " The Mad Poet," Such was the name given to McDon­ ald Clarke, a wild, eccentric writer of verses, who lived in the city of New York some thirty years ago. He had a talent for improvisation, which he used to celebrate the charms of those persons of whom, from time to time, he became enamored. A volume of his poemB, published by subscription, contains in the preface these touching paragraphs : "I won't pester folks with apologies. Here's a rough handful of flowers--a little dirt about the roots--a tear'll wash it off!" " If the life otf my poetry is whole­ some, 'twill breathe after the wild spirit that inspired it has been sobered at the terrible tribunal of eternity, and" the weak hand that traced it long wasted to ashes." In one of these wild moods which fre­ quently came upon him, when the will to be sublime was not sustained by the strength, he wrote these lines on Wash­ ington Eteriutr--ffive liim elbow room; A spirit likehiB i« large; Earth-- feiu-o with artiliery his tomb, And lire a double charge, To the memory of America's greatest man; Hatch him posterity if you can. fte was a regular attendant on Sunday church services, and in one of his lucid moods wrote this tender, simple tribute to the Sabbath: I feel t In? happier all the woek If my foot has praned the sacred aisle, - The pillow «e«B>8 nofter to my cheek ; I nink to slumber with a smile ; With Kiufn! pHi-si' inn cease to fight. And sweetly dream on Sunday night. He died in the lunatic asylum on Black well's island, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery. Speaking of the arrangements he desired made for his funeral, he said : " I hope the children will come. I want to be buried by the side of chil­ dren. Four things I am sure there will be iu heaven--music, flowers, pure air and plenty of little dhildien." the countless snakes of America or In­ dia cause more trouble, when the host of minor miseries is added up, than ! mosquitoes do. --London ATew*. j Woman's Wtsdona. { " She insist* that it ia more important that her family should be kept in full health than | that she should have all the fashionable dresues and styles of the times. £he therefore sew to it that each member of her family i« supplied I with enough Hop Bitters, at the tirst appearance j of any Hymptoms of ill health, to prevent a tit I of sickness with its attendant expense, care and [ anxiety." All women should exercise their wis- I 4om in this way.--New Haven Palladium. Indoctlity in Paradise. There is a story, a little ethical apo­ logue about one Peter, a poor and igno­ rant teamster, who, dissatisfied with his hard life of drudgery, prayed that he expenses What remained was "pure black sul- phurets, which exhumed globules of na­ tive silver when exposed to fire." One can trace the silver lode as it crops out above the surface and ruus diagonally . across the hills ; aud, if appearances are j good for any thing, the two new mines of | Dr. Skilton, the Santo Tomas el Nuevo I and the Santa Catarina, to the west of Santa Gertrudis, are right in the silver track. We visited these latter, which ! are at present oj>erated by the old-fkBh- ioned Mexican mode, the metal l«5ng brought up in bullock-skins by means of long ropes of magney fiber wound about a large drum operated by mules or horses. The whole district abounds in picturesque features, but noue more so than these primitive mines. One hun­ dred million dollars taken from one mine in thirty years ! This is the amount de­ clared on good authority to have l>oen YOUNG HiEH •amt«totlO»i iflfell month. Graduates guaraniMxl pif tn« oUem, Addra* VAJ*BKTWX BBO«.. JaitetTiUn.Wto 472 A JSFF*- •';}»»J.honneaaxll;mode. OortJ* outfit tree. Addreu Tau* t Co., Aosaata, Ma. AfiKNTS WAITED for the Beat and V>at4fft» Sellinc Pictorial Books and Bibles. Prices rpdnoed S3 per ot. NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO.. Chicago, 11L 1841 MAPIEWOOB INSTITFTK.IOQI F°r Voung Ladiea, PitUfield, Mass. AOOX* IIare ndvantnara. ljormfon of unrivnled •eauty and salubrity. ROT.C. V.SPEAB.Principal. S1IIOH E FARMS FOR MALE In Central Vy .tllaaourl. Best Bluegraaa, Grain and Fruit Lands for about what the improvements cost. Title pertact. For Descrlpt ve (,'treulnr address A. SPENCER WOL. COTT, Real Estate Agent, Fayette, Howard Co., Mo. SO Songs, Words & Music, for five 8-cent ataoips. Send full name and home address. Address C. Caldwell,408Merchant et.sFhiis.,Ffc. might be allowed the oomfort of a walk in Paradise. An angel appeared, and I extracted from the Rosario Mine since it offered to grant his wish if he would i was started in 1850, aud the books show The " Boss'" jockey in England. Archer, the chief jockey in England, has a larger income than the Queen's Prime Minister. His regular fees are $25 for the mount if, he wins, $15 if he loses, and S10 f<* J trial. These fees I the teaching spirit, and the angel put a are the smallest part of his income, not- | bandage over his eyes, seized him by the ear, and hustled him out of Paradise Eromise to study with docility whatever e saw there and to utter no criticism or censure. Accepting the terms he joyfully ac­ companied his guide. The first tiling he j noticed was that the houses of the in- j habitants were made of transparent gems. " Why," he exclaimed, " this is j a great defect; there can be no privacy; j you are all exposed to public gaze f" | The angel, with a slight frown and a 1 warning finger, replied: 44They who | are free from sin and guile need no con­ cealment. The glory of God is rather in exhibiting than in hiding." They passed on and Peter next per­ ceived several angels bearing golden buckets full of water, which they poured into sieves. He could not restrain his surprise and disapproval. " What a fol­ ly ! " he cried; " the water runs out as fast as they pour it in." The angel sternly rebuked him for this second vio­ lation of his pledge, and showed him that the fine sieves strained out the leaves and other matter floating in the water, which then ran underground in numerous channels, all over the garden, to fresheu the flowers and the fruit trees. Peter hung his head, and proceeded for some time iu silence. Iu a little while, however, they came to a gorgeous chariot whose driver was urging with voice and whip two pairs of horses har­ nessed on his right and left, one pair headed to the east, the other pair to the west Peter forgot all his caution and his former experience. Was he not a teamster, and did he not know ? In a loud voice he called to the charioteer, " Fasten your horses all in the same di­ rection, or you can never move !" Sud­ denly a bitter repentance fell on him ; for he now saw that the horses had wings ; as they strove in contrary direc­ tions, the chariot rose into the air as was meant. It was his third offense against that there has been paid $500,000 per 6hare hi dividends ! WBAX women --young or old, married or sin­ gle, will be greatly benefited by Kidney-Wort. " GATH " says thnt a public man at Long Branch told him that when Zach Chandler henivl of the nomination of Lincoln in 18(50, he began to cur-e in a terrible manner, aud said that Lincoln was a miserable clown, and that S -ward was the only man in the country tit to be elected and who could have ca ried it. Somebody spoke up at the tt Ivgrap't office, where this talk was going on, and said, "You uiulerate Mr. Lincoln ; he is a man of int llect; a tine lawyer ; an ex­ cellent debater, aud a man of decision of character and firmness of purpose." In about fifteen minutes of such talk as this, Zach was induced to send a message to Lincoln congratulating him. Traveling: men find it hard to keep in good health, owing to the constant change of water, diet, and the jarring of the cars. AH these things injure the kidneys, while Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cnre is certain to counteract them. MOO Actati waaMI t* sell the @f PRESIDENT GARFIELD, Including a full and accurate account of his brief but eventful administration; the qr*at conflict with the "Ntfilw4«rte**' headed by Conklii?^; the diabolical attempt to aauasinate tilm, with full part cularv of hii ease, one of the most critical and rrmarJeabU on rwofd, Term* liberal. OurrirftOc. Circulate free. Addrow HUBBARD BEOS., Pubs., Chicago, IU. U m u n i a i I fW^NEH^OUS DEBILITY, Loat Manhood. »nd impaired power© cured by MATHEWS* Jmuroved Klectro-Msgnetic Belt And Ahaorlxal I * combined ; »iza of Pad, 7x10 inches--foor • times lanrer than others. Do not purchase any loJd-fttjr le $2U Belts when you can set the latest • improved for $3. " Electric Light," a M^oIIUM Ipaper, »ent free unwaled ; oonled. 6u. I D. S. II. MATHEWS A CO.. Mi and Fiftb Avenue, Chicago, 111. F R A Z E R A X L E G R E A S E . Best In the Warld. (<et the Kennlne. KT> •ry parkue has our Trade-mnrk nnd la narked Fruer'a. HOLD KVKKYWHKKB. withstanding that he rides in a vast num­ ber of races every year. In 1875, he won 172 races ; in 1876, he won 207 ; in 1877, he won 218 ; in 1878, 229 ; in 1879, 197 ; and in 1880, 120. He has not rid­ den so many horses during the last two years on account of a savage bite which disab i d on^ arm fJpr several months. The fees for races are, however, insig­ nificant compared to the presents made to him by owners of the horses ha has ridden. Gold watches, diamond rings, into the sterile place whence he had come. The human is admitted into the society of the angelic not to crit icise or condemn, but to love and assimilate. The first lesson, therefore, is docility.-- "School of Life." Fro in the Hub. There is perhaps no tonic offered to the peo- Sle that possesses as tuach iutrmsic value as tbe [op Bitters. Just at this season of the year, when the stomach needs an appetizer, or the riding horses, dog carts, yachts, suits of | blood needs purifying, the cheapest and best clothes, hats, cases of champagne, etc., are quite common. Money gifts accom­ pany these smaller testimonials of grati­ tude. He got $5,000 from Mr. Lorillard for winning the Derby, and Mr. Keene gave Foraham §2,500 for winning the Grand Prix of Paris. Still larger sums than those have been given. The jockey who won the Derby ten years ago with Hermit was presented with $15,000. The policy of paying such sums to jockeys has been much criticised, but the amount of money at stake is so large that it is thought wise to protect the jockeys against corrupt offers. Archer has only to ride his appointed hone. remedy is Hop Bitteis. An ounce of preven­ tion is worth a pound of cure ; don't wait until yon are prostrated by a disease that may take months for you to recover in.--Boston GLob*. AXOEB is a mere animal impulse. In­ dignation comes in when that impulse has been adopted by the reason and moral sentiments, and has become a mere rational revolt from evil. When therefore, a man is assailed by wrong he has a right to feel anger; but he has no right to carry it on. Do not let the sun go down before you have looked over, aud put on this moral ground, and held in and regulated the temper of your mind. MR. PKTFH HENDEKHON says that more out flowers are now sold in New York than i:i any other city in the world. The sales last year amounted to $3,000,000. He mentions a catie where four Gen. Jacqueminot cut roses brought $60, and another lot of buds of same variety, num­ bering 300, brought $300 at wholesale. Rose buds are most sought for, aud their sale is estimated at $1, (XX),000 annually. A Miss MCCABTY was married iu Lou­ isville, and the Courier-Journal'# ac­ count of the event was headed, "Mated in May." 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