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COR5i IS KING OK THE WEST. BY LOXTA W. BUSE. See : left and -iglit of us, Far out of sight of nn. B:o mighty bayalimm Arr marshaled to-uay ! Stauding.iip, cne by oue, High in the glcimiuftj hhd, See tbe linee au-etcUimi Away and away ! No gimg or cannonade Marshaled on dresa-iarade Only tbe gleaming blade ; Mark you that gleaming blade Artisan never made Emerald uniform. Tassels of gold, Banners of ail ken sht'u ; Deep their bright f olda between A cornucopia Each soldier's bauds hold . Long since their march begun ; Ne'er will their march be doue "Till 'ueath the setting sun. Bow their heads, one tiy one Bow in the sunshine. The Ocean to greet ; Know neither i ause nor rest, Never till gieaius then- crest O't all the mighty West, And the waves of Uceau Hull at their feet . Prairies grow green with them! See you the sheen of them Line upon line of tuem SJretctiiutr away ? Kauks uiHiu ranks of them. Emerald banks of them. Who will outnumber These legions to-day ? Kind's Ulion ancient thrones, Bniided on human Nines, Seuth whose foundation-stones Hear we a natiou's groans. Merit your armies Ken Fame's transient breath? Out on the whole of them t Biot out the roll of thein ! what is their merit Save bloodshed and death ? And hail to our glorious Armies victorious ! Hear ye the cheers for them ? Where are the peers of them, i'omiuering poverty, Blec-smg the earts. And bidding dehauce To ogres and giants That haunt the Old World Gaunt Famine and Death? These are our country's pride," Beaching out far and wide, For to the setting sun H earning their crest : All through its vast regions Lung may the fair legions ( if Pinty and Peace stand guard o'er the West . Prai AGNES HATILAND'S RIDE. Aggie Haviland came walking slowly down tbe straggling, ill-built principal street of tbe new Western village one warm September day, ber bands full of letters and papers. Tbe dry goods clerks and tbe druggists bad kept a sharp lookout for tbe flutter of her blue muslin, and came casually to the door in time for a bow and a smile. The editor of the Waneta News, who did more than the brainwork of his journal, on the contrary, kept carefully out of sight, lest he should be seen in his shirt sleeves, while he got a passing vision of a fair face and sunny brown curls, un der a broad bat. Young Dr. Hadden made minute in quiries concerning Mrs. Haviland's health since her last attack, in the vain hope of eliciting some symptom that would justify bis immediate at tendance. It might have been very well for his suit if he had ; but mamma was "much better than usual, thank you," and he was obliged to let her pass on home ward alone. The sun -was still higb in the western sky behind her, gilding the waters of a beautiful broad river. Aggie lingered on tbe long bridge, looking at sky and water, the shaded banks and fair meadows beyond, but quickened ber steps when she perceived that Melissa Briggs was making signals to her from the front gate. " Aggie, your ma is jest in a peck of half bushels !" said Miss Briggs as Ag nes drew near. " She's got a galvanic dispatch for your pa. and he's up to the fruit-farm. " Agnes ran up the flower-bordered walk, and hurried into the sitting-room, where her mother, a nervous invalid, sat, excited and troubled, with the tele gram in her hand. "Agnes, how can we get word right away to your father ? Here is a mes sage from Mr. Knox for him to be in New York by Friday, without fail, Ag gie, the whole suit depends upon his being there !" " Don't be troubled, mamma ; we can find plenty of ways," said Aggie, smil ing brightly, taking the dispatch, while her mother leaned back with an air of relief, as if she had handed over all re sponsibility with the paper, for Agnes had learned self-reliance as her mother had lost it. "Let me see; papa went up with Martin and the peach-boxes, and ex pects to come back by the Jones Settle ment stage. " " And that doesn't come down until Thursday night," said Mrs. Haviland, worrying again. "Agnes, your father is full of notions. The loss of that suit would be more than twenty farms in the Sand Ridge Y' " The fruit-farm is a pretty good no tion, though," said Agnes, brightly. " I'll tell you what I think, mamma ; it will be better to go after him myself then there will be no mistake. " "It is twelve miles through the woods," objected Mrs. Haviland. " Only three or four miles of forest, mamma ; and I shall be there before night." " But I shall be uneasy about you. Haven't I heard something bad about the people up that way. " " I guess not," laughed Aggie. " Now, mother, don't worry about me ! As if I couldn't ride up to the farm and back, with papa, in time for the train in the morning." So it was settled, and Aggie ran out to the stables to have the horses sad dled, Melissa Biiggs following. "What's up, Aggie?" queried the damsel. "I am going after father," replied Agnes. " Who's goin' along ?" "No one." " I wouldn't do it for nothin' in this livin' world !" cried Melissa. " The horse-thieves'll ketch you V "I guess not," said Agnes, with in difference. " Why, Aggie, you sha'n't do it. They killed a peddler up there once for his money. " "Melissa, isn't that what you call a ' bogle-story.'" " No, sir-ee !" chimed in Billy, the stable-boy; "the stage-driver always carries pistols." "Well, I've got to go, at any rate," said she, turning toward the house ; " and don't either of you tell those sto ries to mother for anything." Mr. Haviland was engaged in litiga tion which might leave him a million aire or the possessor of only very mod erate means. In anticipation of the lat ter result, he prudently resolved to lay t he foundation for another fortune, bought Western lands and engaged in various enterprises. The Sand Ridge region extends oyer miles and miles of country, consisting of wooded, sandy ridges, with interven ing marshes and occasional openings. Game of all sorts was plentiful, but the soil was thought to be worthless, and the few inhabitants were believed to be there far the purpose of harboring horse-thieves and sharing their profits. In one of these sheltered openings Mr. Haviland had built a cottage, planted acres of small fruits and a peacb-orchard, now just coming into bearing, placing all under the charge of a trusty man in his employ. His Western interest demanded long and frequent absences from home, and, having fallen in love with Western life, be bad, within the last year, built a pretty house and brought his family to Waneta. Had Agnes Haviland understood the character of part of her route, she would have looked long for a messenger be fore she would have undertaken the ride ; but she gave very little thought to the horse-thief stories, hurried on her trim riding-habit of navy-blue, perched her little plumed cap over the feathery brown curls with their glint of gold, and gathered up her long skirt to hasten down-stairs, but, on second thought, turned back and took from a drawer a little toy of a pocket-pistol with which she sometimes amused herself in firing at a mark. In a few moments she was cantering down the carriage-way on her spirited iron-gray, leading her father's glossy chestnut by the bridle, Melissa Briggs protesting to the last. "Have you stole a hoss? Goin' to run him off,, into Injianny?" The speaker was old Capt. Billings, and Aggie dashed on, laughinar. For a time the ride was delightful. Over smooth roads, past cultivated farms, the horses dashed on abreast, seeming to grow more spirited and am bitious for their chase across the green country in the golden autumn air. But now the dwellings were less and less frequent, and by the time she reached the belts of timber, she con fessed to herself a feeling of nervous ness. The sun was getting low, and the forest-road looked lonely. She had traversed about two miles of woods when the horses sprang aside, startled by the suddeen apparition of two men, muddy and rough-looking with guns. Aggie's heart gave a great leap, and, thoroughly frightened, she urged the horses on at a flying pace ; but the men only lifted their hats, one of them with easy grace, the other bowing with all a ' Frenchman s enusion. "Only hunters," thought Agnes, i ashamed of her cowardice. ) " By Jove ! Fernand ! who would I have expected such a vision as that in i this wilderness ? She must be bound i tor the plantation we came upon this : morning." j "No doubt, won ami." "Those were vicious-looking scoun : drels we saw stealing through the tim i ber a while ago. Suppose we strike across here and see that she passes the creek safely?" " Wiz all my heart," responded mon ; sieur. Coming soon to the little stream, Agnes stopped to let the horses drink. It was a pietty place ; the shallow water clear" and limpid, the banks covered with close undergrowth of bushes, a blaze of cardinal flowers in the marshy : islets. Tired by rapid riding, she rested a ; few minutes, leaning over to watch the ; tiny fish darting here and there, quite i unconscious of the ill-looking figure lurking behind a large tree near by, and hidden by the bushes. " Ha'n't you stole a hoss, miss ?" Aggie started, almost expecting to see Capt. Billings, but beholding a most i villainous-looking individidual instead. 1 " Looks powerful like it," he continued, passing his arm through the chestnut's ; bridle-rein and grasping the other, i " You are mistaken, sir," said Agnes, quietly, " I am on my way to my i father's farm." ' Can't believe you, my beauty, i Reckon I'll have to set you down yer and take the bosses." u "You will do no such thing !" cried Agnes, roused and fearless now, in the face of real danger. " Let go my bridle, or I'll fire on you V drawing her little revolver. " Law !" said the man, with a grin, j confident she would not fire without ' further warning. "I shall tot hesitate if you don't drop that bridle !" said she, taking aim. i But the words were scarcely spoken ; when her arm was seized with an iron ; grip, and another wicked face leered up i at her. "Let go, you coward !" cried she. " Pritty good grit," said he. " Bill, j I reckon we'll take the gal along with ; the beasts." Then a chill like death came over her. There was a sudden rush through the ! underbrush, and Agnes' captor felt a j pistol-barrel pressed to his temple. ! " Let go your hold, this instant, you i villain !" commanded its owner ; and ! let go he did, not daring to stir : the i other turned to flee, but found himself I covered by Paul J? ernand s rifle. "Stop, my plaisant friend," said ; monsieur, and he complied, i Then Agnes disengaged the halter- straps, and the fellows were secured to i the neighboring trees, in spite of their j protestations that it was only a little loke they didn t mean nothing, The Frenchman remained to guard the prisoners, and the handsome young hunter galloped on with Agnes to the farmhouse. Mr. Jtiavuand and a nosse of farmhands hurried back with him to the scene of adventure, only to find poor Monsieur Fernand overwhelmed with chagrin, the prisoners gone, and the unfortunate naturalist securely bound in their stead. A paper was left fastened to a tree bearing the classic inscription, " Ketch a weezle asleep ! " " Dey did vissls two, tree times," said monsieur. "Dey say dey haf one dog someveres, but whiles I keep one eye on dem, and one to dis wondairfnl creature, like a dry twig wiz legs I was seize from behind, and two fellows tie me and take my gun, and dey all go everyveres dis way and dat vey. He Ian " mourned monsieur ; " dey vas so easy to be tie. I am one idiot. I should know dey have friends here." " My dear child ! " exclaimed Mr. Haviland, anxiously, when he returned to the cottage, "have you quite recov ered from your fright ?" "I don't think I was very much frightened," said Agnes. "Papa I thought you would sorely bring the gentlemen back with you 1 " This is all my fault, Agnes ! I never thought of your coming up here alone ! I took every precaution to keep these things from you, so that you would not borrow trouble about me when I am up here." " Papa, they may have saved my life, and I did not even thank them 1 " " My dear, I said everything," said her father, " but they, were far from their camp, and their party is going to move further on, early in the morning ; they will call on us, my dear, when they pass through Waneta, on their way home." But Agnes' thoughts often reverted, that evening, to a handsome face, a lithe, graceful figure, a trick of voice and manner which would render the luckless beaux of Waneta insipid for ever. The rising moon cast a soft, uncer tain light over the hunters' camp, on a green ridge across the marshes. A grand bonfire was blazing : there was much laughing and jesting among the dark figuers busied around it, and a savory smell of camp cookery pervaded the air. Is there any pleasure in the world like camping out in the autumn woods ? Can anything compare in flavor with stews and roasts prepared over the campfire? Is any sleep so sweet as under the little tent, with the wind in the tree-tops, the hooting of owls and distant yelping of prairie wolves for music ? The Indian's happy hunting-ground is no mean anticipation of future bliss. It was a ' scene for an artist, and Ray Fielding had often studied it with an artist's eye ; but to night a different picture occupied his mind, and his cigar went out, forgotton in pleasing reverie. The two friends had prudently spared themselves from unmerciful raillery, by keeping their story to themselves, but, as they lay resting on their blankets spread on the soft greensward, the Frenchman became voluble with whim sical regrets over his misadventure. " A pretty tale to relate to our friends verre pretty ! " "Beautiful !" said Fielding, with re pressed enthusiasm. " We sail nevair have such an oppor tunitee no more ! " " Yes, when we comej.back," mused Fielding. " I nevair would tink I should be so precious green ! " " No, blue," said Ray, irrelevantly. "Eh?" said Paul, " regarding him quizzically. "Ah, out, certainement, deeplee, darklee, beautif ullae blue eh, 711071 ami, caught at last ! " " Nonsense !" said Ray; but he re solved to know more of beautiful, in trepid Agnes Havi! and. The hunting party, in due time, dis banded and returned to the prosaic earning of bread and butter, but the artist and naturalist still lingered. Making Waneta their headquarters, they went out hunting and fishing, the Frenchman collecting specimens, and Fielding filling his portfolio with some of the best work of his life. It was the life in which Paul delighted, and Ray spent all his evenings with sweet Agnes. These Arcadian days could not last for ever, but before young Fielding de parted for bis distant city home, cer tain credentials had been laid before Mr. Haviland, and the loveliest in Wa neta had been wooed and won. The great suit was at length favorably decided, and Mr. Haviland's invest ments, combined with the fortune of his son-in-law, gave great impetus to tbe now beautiful little city of Waneta. The horse thief region has become quite harmless and respectable, is be ing rapidly drained and settled, and Agnes Fielding and her husband often ride out thither to visit their great fruit and stock farms in the Sand Ridge. Resuscitating a Paitially -Drowned Man. The average Briton is not generally credited with a strong attachment to theories. He is not sufficiently mercu rial to risk his life for the vindication of a theory or propagation of an idea. But one of them has been found, who risked his life to teach others a method of preserving it. It was one Prof. White, a champion swimmer, who con sented to drown himself in order that his theory of resuscitation might be tested for the benefit of the London Humane Society, who were present to witness the experiment. After laying down certain rules for holding a drown ing person in the water, he plunged into the river the Serpentine, probably in Hyde Park and remained under water long enough to be partially drowned. His son then dived after him and brought him to the surface in an apparently lifeless condition, adher ing strictly to the principles laid down by his parent. The breathless body was then turned over to one of the Hu mane Society's officers and put through the course of treatment recommended. The society had the satisfaction of see ing Mr. White revive, and in a short time return to the water without appar ent unpleasant consequences, thus proving his theory by illustration at the risk of death. Such experiments with human life are not altogether wor thy of repetition, but the purpose served was so single and humane that tbe so ciety should at least add one more medal to those worn by the daring swimmsr. A Remarkable Family. A recent number of the Buffalo Com mercial contains the following : "There is gathered at the residence of Mr. Cy rus DeForest, in this city, a family re union such as, we believe, has few par allels. It consists of the five sons and three daughters of Gideon DeForest and wife, all born in Edmeston, Otsego county, the youngest of whom is now 61 years old, the oldest being 79. The family circle has never been broken, ex cept by the accidental death of a son two years old, and this meeting of all its members, whose homes are in vari ous parts of the country, some living in Wisconsin, some on Staten Island, and the others widely scattered, seems quite remarkable. The names of this family, given in the order of their ages", are as follow : Abel Birdeey DeForest, born Dec. 30, 1795 ; Lee DeForest, born Aug. 7, 1798; Sally DeForest Campbell, Cyrus Haw ley DeForest, Maria DeForest Snyder, Charles Augustus DeForest, Tracy Rob Deforest, and Harriet DeForest Fuller, the youngest, born July 28, 1813. The father and mother of the family moved from Connecticut to Otsego county when it was an unhabited wilderness, and there the family was reared, the primitive mode of their living doubtless doing much to give them their robust constitutions and thus prolong their lives. The father died in 1840 and the mother in 1844." A Double-Header. The Paducah Kentuckian furnishes the following double-headed snake story : " Capt. Howie, a reliable gentleman living near Lovelaceville, told us yesterday about a curious snake shot and killed in his neighborhood the other day. The snake was about three feet long, and about as large as tbe average forearm of a man. It had two perfectly formed heads, one where the tail ought to have been, and of course bad no tail. The man who killed it said that it could travel with either head in front, and those who ex amined it after it was dead found per fectly developed fangs in both heads." Lemon Btjttkb. One pound of sugar, five eggs, juice and grated rinds of three large or four small lemons (.none of the seeds), one quarter pound fresh butter. Put into a saucepan and boil about ten minutes, stirring all the time, till it is thick as honey. Good for jelly cakes, tarts, and cheese cakes. Keep well if dry and cool. Current Paragraphs. Trrp. flistillnti' berries is a new industry in South Jersey. TlTE first ll in-1 na rl cvf rrra lei oon f Al rect from Texas to Europe lately left Galveston. Victor Hmo's mner has a larcror circulation than anv other French oaner 80,000 copies. A CmCAfin man wIiahp ntirlp rtiorl anrt left him S18.000 broke his lee while capering for joy. Somebody has noticed that nineteen out of every twenty newspaper men have straight noses. The value of land in Iowa has in creased from 832,000,000 in 1854, to 320,000,000 in 1874. It costs France $6,000,000 a year to protect the body politic from the rav ages of the criminal classes. Mrs. Austin, of Alexandria, Va., has lived in one neighborhood thirty-eight years and never borrowed her neigh bor s llat-irons or a cup of sugar. De troit Free Press. Red Oak, Iowa, has the champion smoker of the State and probably the nation, in the person of Henry Fisher, who consumed in nine weeks 146 papers of smoking tobacco. It is stated that the yellow fever has never appeared in any climate at an ele vation of 2,500 feet above the sea level. The highest elevation it has visited in the United States is 460 feet. The Egyptian government has begun publishing full details respecting its finances. Its annual revenue is $50, 000,000, and its expenses $45,000,000. More than half the revenue is raised from taxes on land. Austria wants a great deal of artil lery, and proposes to Krupp that it will buy of him half what it wants if he will divulge the secret of the composition of his metal, so that the other half can be made in Austria. Krupp merely raises his eyebrows. Seven comets appeared in the heav ens in the year 1873, 'five of which were first seen from tho observatory at Mar seilles. The seventh was" Coggia's comet, which ornamented our northern sky early in the past summer, but was first detected as a telescopic object on the 10th of November, last year. A colored man of immense size, named Charles Cook, died lately at Riverhead, L, L Three weeks preced ing his death he was in a constant struggle for breath, so excessive was the accumulation of fat around his throat. Finally he could only get relief by resting on his hands and knees, and in that posture he died. His weight was 396 pounds. The assertion that wall-papers col ored with arsenical pigments give rise to poisonous exhalations has been veri fied at Stockholm, by Dr. Hamberg of that city. The presence of the arsenic in the atmosphere, however, had not perceptibly affected the health of the inmates of the house, although Dr. Hamberg himself experienced unpleas ant effects from it. The English Postoffice pays. The receipts for 1873 amounted to $26,740, 000, the expenditure at the same time was $18,965,000, leaving a surplus of no less than $7,775,000. There are 42,000 persons employed in the department, of whom many are women, this number including 12,500 postmasters, 9,000 clerks, and about 20,000 sorters, car riers and messengers. A Mr. Levy Farsdos has been pros ecuted at Notting Hill, London, for practicing as a physician without being registered. He pleaded a degree of M. D. from Philadelphia, which is not recognized. American graduates will do well to remember that no one can legally practice medicine or surgery in Great Britain until duly registered by the Medical Council. The oldest clerk in the Interior De partment at Washington, Mr. John D. Wilson, has just died. He was ap pointed to the War Department on the 5th of October, 1832. Forty-two years in office ! a small life-time. One is al most tempted to exclaim with Hood One more unfortunate. Weary of breath. Rashly importunate. Gone to his death. There ajje over a thousand religious sects in the world. The adherents of the principal sects, recounting the whole population, are supposed to be nearly thus : The six other Oriental churches, 6,500,000 ; Roman Catholics, 195,000,000; Protestants, 57,130,000; Mahommedans, 460,000,000; Buddhists, 340,000,000 ; other Asiatic religions, 260,000,000 ; Pagans, 200,000,000 ; Jews, 6,000,000. "The following table will show the to tal shipment, in gross tons, from tbe Lake Superior iron district for the season of 1874, up to Sept. 17 : IKON ORE. Grom ton. Mine. 1873. 1874. From Marquette 31)6,006 319,064 From Escanaba 379,063 203,254 From L'Anse 55,867 66,653 Total 829,936 PXO IKON. From Marquette 17.597 From Escanaba 6,642 From Grand Island 589,971 18.841 9 413 8,918 Total 24,239 36,272 The comparison given in the above shows a decrease in ora shipments this season of 239,964 tins. Five-Twenties Called In. The Secretary of the Treasury gives notice that the principal and accrued interest of the following 5-20 bonds of 1862 will be paid at the Treasury on and after the 1st of January, 1875, and that the interest on said bonds will cease on that day. Coupon bonds : $50, Nos. 1,311 to 4,200, both inclusive ; $100, Nos. 1,967 to 6,200, inclusive; $500, Nos. 1,787 to 5,000, inclusive; $1,000, Nos. 4,371 to 14,900 inclusive $9,000,000. Registered bonds: $50, Nos. 1,801 to 1,820, both inclusive; $100, Nos. 13,901 to 14,150, inclusive ; $500, Nos. 7,951 to 8,070 inclusive ; $1,000, Nos. 32,951 to 33,350, inclusive; $5,000, Nos. 10,151 to 10,260, inclusive; $10,000, Nos. 12,501 to 13,200 inclusive $1,000, -000. Total, $10,000,000. At a recent trial an Aberdeen young lady got into the witness box to be ex amined, when the following conversa tion took place between her and the opposing counsel : Counsel " How old are you?" Miss Jane "Oh, weel, sir, I am an unmarried woman, and dinna think it right to answer that question." The Judge "Oh, yes, answer the gentleman how old you are." Miss Jane " Weel-a-weel, I am fifty." Counsel " Are you not more ?" Miss Jane "Weel, I am sixty." The in quisitive lawyer still further asked if she had any hopes of getting married, to which Miss Jane replied: "Weel, sir, I winna tell a lee ; I hinna lost hope J et " ; scornfully adding, " but I widna marry you, for I am sick and tired o' your palaver already." Fire Insurance in Chicago. The great Chicago fire of 1871 ruined many insurance companies, crippled others, and caused heavy losses to al most every one in the whole country. The smaller, but still destructive fire of last July involved a loss of between three and four million dollars more. The insurance authorities noted these conflagrations with alarm, and began to believe that it would be impossible to continue taking risks in Chicago unless something was done to lessen the proba bility of extensive and continually re curring fires. On the 24th of July, therefore, the Executive Committee of the National Board of Insurance Under writers notified the people of Chicago that if they desired the companies con nected with that board to continue doing business there they must comply with certain suggestions, which were in substance as fallow : 1. That the present tire limits should be made co-extensive with the city limits. 2. That a Building law should be adopted, the same in substance as the New York Build ing law. 3. That there should be a complete reor ganization of the fire department. 4. That water-mains of a certain size should be laid in certain districts. 5. That provision should be made by law for an investigation of the cause of all fires with a view to preventing incendiarism 6. That all lumber yards and other inflam mable things should be removed from the southwestern district of the city. All that tbe city has done, thus'-rei is to comply with the first suggestion (after much hesitation and delay), and to take steps for complying with the fourth, in regard to the laying of water mains in certain districts. There has been no attempt to reorganize the fire department, or to increase its apparatus and working force ; and no steps have been taken for the removal of the lumber-yards and other inflammable mate rial in the southwestern district of the city. The provisions in regard to a building law similar to that of New York city, and for a law for the investi gation of the causes of fire will have to be acted upon by the State Legislature, and of course have not yet been com plied with, as the Legislature has not been in session. After thus waiting two months, the Executive Committee of the National Board of Insurance Underwriters has adopted resolutions recommending the companies belong ing to the board to discontinue taking new risks or running old ones after the first of October next. Of course this action has caused a genuine and very decided sensation in Chicago. The Chicago press, with the exception of the Times, denounces it with much vehemence and bitterness ; and even the latter paper heads its local article describing the feeling in Chicago over the proposed departure of tbe in surance companies with the suggestive line: "Go and be D d." The Trib une characterizes the action - of the underwriters as a "foul and dastardly blow" at the credit of the city, although it advocates nearly all the reforms which they demand. The Inter-Ocean accuses them of attempting to dictate to the city and its officers ; while the Post and Mail calls the insurance managers a set of swindling " Tigg Montagues," and thanks heaven that Chicago is well rid of them. Detroit Tribune. Depopulation of Ireland. The New York World's Dublin cor respondent writes : The population of Ireland decreased by 1,662,319 persons between the years 1841-51, by 775,814 in the next decade, and by 396,208 be tween the years 1861-71. There is reason to believe that this decrease by the end of the present decade will have wholly ceased, that is, that the emigration will not exceed the natural increase of tbe population. The con dition of the country is now really pros perous. Wages have greatly advanced in consequence of the limited supply of laborers. The reform of the land law has had a most excellent effect, and not unfrequently Irishmen return from America with fortunes gained there to take up their abode in their native land. The aggregate investments in govern ment stocks, joint-stock banks, and savings banks in 1864 were 54,888,000 ; but on the 30th of June, 1863. they were 67,362,000, an increase of 23 per cent, in ten years. The value of live stock in 1864 was 30,728,910 ; in 1874 it was 37,225,887. It is to be remarked that although in thirty ysars Ireland has lost about 3,000,000 of her people, the relative proportion of Catholics and Protestants remains almost unchanged. In Munster, in 1861, 938 out of every 1,000 were Catholics ; the proportion now is 936 to each 1,000. In Kerry the Catholics in 1861 were 967 in each 1,000 ; they now are 968 in 1,000. In " Protestant " Ulster which is Prot estant only in name there were 751 Catholics in each 1,000 in 1861, and now there are 755 to each 1,000. The old faith does not die out, despite the fact that the emigrants are for the most part Catholics. Poisonous Candy. The Brooklyn Board of Health held an important meeting at the corner of Court and Livingstone streets yesterday afternoon. About two months ago the attention of the board was called to the fact that large quantities of poisonous candy, most of which came from Boston, were sold ot various places in Brooklyn. The subject was partially investigated at tbe time and referred to the Sanitary Committee of the Board of Health for investigation and report. Dr. Hutchi son, Chairman of the Sanitary Commit tee, has had the matter under investi gation ever since, and yesterday sub mitted a long report, which affirms that all the candy sold in Brooklyn is almost wholly unfit for use, and is little better than poison. The poisonous ingredi ents are, he says, introduced very ex tensively for the purpose of coloring the candy and increasing the size of the different kinds. There are 341 candy shops in Brooklyn where this poisonous stuff is sold to thoughtless children and others ignorant of its dangers. The magnitude of the task of discovering and suppressing all the places where this candy is made and sold is so great that the Board of Health could not grapple with it without incurring great expense. The report says that it would be necessary, in the first place, to analyze the contents of the candy-shops. This would require 10,000 separate analyses. A competent chemist couldnot make more than ten of these examina tions each day, and without a careful analysis he did not think the Board of Health would be justified in commenc ing a prosecution against the alleged offenders. New York World, Sept. 25. Toothache. A correspondent of the Scientific American says that the worst toothache or neuralgia coming from the teeth may be speedily and delight fully ended by the applicatien of a small bit of clean cotton saturated in a strong solution of ammonia to the defective tooth. Sometimes the late sufferer is prompted to momentary nervous laugh ter by the application, but the pain has disappeared. The Mineral Wealth of Michigan. When the mineral resources of this region are taken fully into considera tion, the extent of its wealth is simply amazing. We doubt whether there is anywhere else in the United States as much material to be found, in so small a circumference for the building up of a powerful community, unless we ex cept some of the- auriferous or argen tiferous districts of the West. And these latter even do not afford so wide a scope for the exercise of business gen ius and enterprise. They are neces sarily selfish and restrictive in the de velopment of business, only so far as precious metals become a currency in aid of business. They are not material which can be wrought into ships and bridges and buildings, or give mechan ical life to hundreds of thousands of men in the scores of manufacturing es tablishments throughout the country. We are, therefore, a mainspring par excellence of the life, energy and wealth of the country. Our iron ore and pig iron, our cop per, our brown-stone, our galena, our slate, our malachite, our silver, and our forests of timber, place us in the front rank as a people having extraordinary means of wealth and prosperity. Mis souri is the only State which can boast of as numerous and powerful resources ; but she is far behind us in a market for her minerals. We have a more direct and cheaper means of transportation to the great consuming centers of the United States. We have direct com munication by laks with eight leading States in short, with nearly every State which enters into the business heart of the nation juxtaposed by such railway connections as give us un limited intercourse with all the im portant manufacturing centers through out the country. Being so situated, and having all the wealth which, so to speak, we may see proper to dig for, the south shore of Lake Superior is destined to command a position as important to the people of the future as was the west shore of the Mediterranean sea to the people of the world at the commencement of the Christian era. There is but one thing to prevent an early and complete devel opment of this stage of being. That is, the competition which is going on in other new districts not sufficiently strong in one or a half-dozen points to materially affect us, but' all having, as a common purpose, the same object in view, to meet the demand, throughout the country, for the minerals which this district is richest in. Wonders have been accomplished here in a few years. Yet but one third of an active business life-time has been spent in opening up enough ca pacity in iron mines to supply half the wants of the nation, and but little longer in developing enough of the copper region to supply every demand of the country. But this is njt a tithe of what can be done, as the territory containing these minerals is as yet but superficially examined, and no estimate can be made of their unlimited extent and value. One of the most promising of the late developments is the slate, which is acknowledged to be the finest in the world ; and it exists in such quantities and is situated in such a manner as to be regarded the most economical to mine of any known. The galena, or silver lead, which has so long laid without a commercial value for want of being energetically handled, will soon be made available. It is of too much importance to be entirely and forever ignored. And the mala chite and lithographic limestone and the brown stone of the region are des tined to occupy a position as the best of their class wherever such materials are used throughout the country. Mar quette Mining Journal. Bring Out the Hose. There was something malicious in the smile of a Michigan avenue ' saloon keeper yesterday as he dragged fifty feet of penstock hose out on the walk, turned on a full head of water, and re marked to a crowd of eight or ten boys that they could wash the walk. He went in and shut his door, and every boy in the crowd jumped for that nozzle. An old gent going by bad his plug hat knocked into the street, and when he turned to remonstrate, the stream bit him in the eye, down behind the collar and on the back, and he galloped into a grocery and wildly inquired for a three barrel shot-gun and a hand grenade. Each boy declared that he was going to hold that nozzle, and each one tried to. The stream hit the windows, then the walk, then a hitching-post, and more than once it slid down a boy's back or into his boot-leg. A woman came out of a store just in time to get a dash under the chin, and she fell over a box aud shouted " murder !" in clarion tones. A girl came along with a baby cart, and as she was chewing away at a quid of gum and gaping across tbe street, the water struck the baby in his little stomach and poured down over his little toes like a babbling brook rushing to the sea. The struggle among the boys lifted the stream to tbe window again, and the girl and baby got away. A small boy ran across the street to see what the matter was, and he went back howling, his hair dripping and his ears filled full. A barber went out to say to the boys that he'd have 'em locked up, and the water raked up and down him, filled up his pockets and wilted his shirt bosom, and he jumped back into his door and said he'd like to be Chief of Poliee of Detroit for about six seconds, he would. Some of the boys dropped out, discouraged at the thought of what the " old man " would say when they got home, but five or six held on until they had wet up a sack of coffee, a barrel of sugar, " plunked " a small girl in the back and wet down a drug clerk, and then the saloon-keeper came out and took the nozzle and ex claimed : " Poys ! Poys, if you don't stop dis peesnes I'll call for der perleece on dis beat !" Detroit Free Press. The Latest French Medal. The French Legitimists are circulat ing a medal thus devised i-3 L. U. 13 Which is to be read. htr. neir. Ip-r. rvr light, peace, law, and the King and which means to intimate that these commodities are not to be had sepa rately. The income of the Suez canal during the past year was nearly one million sterling, and the expenses were less than 700,000. The number of vessels which passed was 1,178. and their capacity up wards of 2,000,000 tons. The increase in the size of the vessels is striking ; in 1870 the tonnage averaged 1,388 tons ; it now reaches 1,817 tons, or an increase of 88 per cent. " If you think, " said a high school boy to his mother, when she asked him to go out and get the kerosene can fill ed, "if you think they haven't crammed enough science of government into me to teach me that this is a land where the free American heart cannot tolerate despotism in any form, why, you're la boring under a baleful error. That's the kind of hair pin I am." Thosb who like to see a ragged toe and dirty stocking will not care to boy SILYEB TIPPED Shoes. But these who would rather have a neat Silver Tip should insist that their shoe dealer should always keep them . Victims of consumption seeking re lief Y,rl Matured health should use Sr. Wishart'e Pine Tree Tar Cordial. This ia the onlv preparation that develops the full virtue of Tar. THE DYING BODY SUPPLIED WITH THE VIGOR OF LIFE THROUGH DR. RADWAY'S MMMBTJiil RESOLVENT THE GREAT Blood. Purifier! ONE BOTTLE Win make the Blood pure, the Skin clear, the Eyes bright, the Complexion smooth and transparent, the Hair strong, and remove aU Sores, Pimples, Blotches, Pustules, Tetters, Cankers, etc., from the Head, Face, Neck, Mouth and Skin. It is pleas ant to take and the dose is small. It Resolves away Diseased Deposits; it Purifies the Blood and Renovates the System. It cures with certainty all Chronic Diseases that have lingered in the system five or ten years, -whether it be Scrofula or Syphilitic, Hereditary or Contagions, BE IT SEATED IN THE Lungs or Stomach, Skin or Bones, Flesh er Nerves, corrupting the solids and vitiating: the fluids. IT IS THE ONLY POSITIVE CUBE FOB KIDNEY and BLADDER COMPLAINTS, Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel, Diabetes, Dropsy, Stoppage of Water, Incontinence of Urine. Bright's Disease, Albuminuria, aud in all cases wnere there are brick-dust deposits, Chronic Rheumatism, Scrofula, Glandular Swelling, Hack ing Dry Cough, Cancerous Affections, Syphilitic Complaints, Bleeding of the Lungs, Dyspepsia, Water-Brash, Tic Doloreux, White Swellings, Tumors, Ulcers, Skin aud Hip Diseases, Mercurial Diseases. Female Complaints. Gout, Dropsy, Rick ets, Salt Rheum, Bronchitis, Consumption, Liver Complaints, Ulcers in the Throat, Mouth, Tumors, Node in the Glands and other partsof the system, Sore Eyes, Strumorous Discharges from tbe Ears, and the worst forms of Skin Diseases, Krupriona. Fever Sores, Scald Head, Ringworm, Salt Rheum, Fry sip las, Acne, B .at k Spots, Worms in the Flesh, Cancers in the Womb, aud all weakening aud painful discbarges. Night Sweats, Loss of Sperm and all wastes of the life principle are within the curative range of this wonder of Mod ern Chemistry, and a few days'usewill prove to any person using it, for either of these forms of disease, Us potent power to cure them. Sold by Druggists. $1.00 per Bottle. Rs IRa P RADWAY'S Ready Relief, The Cheapest and Best Medicine for Family Use in the World! One SO-Cent Bottle WILL TURE MORE COMPLAINTS AWD PREVENT THE SYSTEM AGAINST SUI1DEN ATTACK" OP EPIDEMICS AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES THAN ONE HrNDRWD DOLl.R8 KXPENT1ED FOR OTH ER MEDICINES OR MEDICAL ATTENDANCE- THE MOMENT RADWAY'S RKADY RELIEF 18 APPLIED EXTERNALLY OR TAKEN INTER NALLY ACCORDING TO DIRECTIONS PAIN, FROM WHATEVER CAUSE, CElSES TO EXIST. IMPORTANT. Miners, Fari-.r, and others re siding in sparseiy-settled districts, where it ia difficult to secure the services of a physician, RADWAY'S READY RELIEF is invaluable. It can be used with positive assurance of doing good In all cases where paiti or discomfort is experienced; or if seized with Influenza.Diputherla, Sire Throat, Bad Coughs. Hoarseness. Bilious Oolic. Inflamma tion of the Bowels. Stomach, Lungs, Liver, Kid neys; or with Croup, Quinsey. Fever and Ague; or with Neuralgia, Headache. Tic Doloreux. Tooth ache, Barache; er with Lumbago, Pain in the Buck, or Rheumatism; or with Diarrhea, Cholera Mor bus, or Dysentery; or with Burns, Scalds, or Bruises; or with strains. Cramps, or Spasms. The application of RADWAY'S READY RELIEF win cure you of the worst of these complaints in a few hours. Twenty drops in half a tnmbler of water will in a few mements cure CHAMPS, SPASMS. SOUR STOM ACH, HEARTBURN, SICK HEADACHE. DIAR RHEA, DYSENTERY. COLIC "WIND IN THE BOW ELS, and all INTERNAL PAINS. Travelers should always carry a bottle Of RAD WAY'S READY RELIEF with them. Afewdropf in ier will prevent sickness or pains front change ef waxer. It is better than French Brandy or Bitters as a stimulant. Sold by Druggists. Price 50 Cents. DR. RADWAY'S Regulating Pills, Perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with sweet gum, purge, regulate, purify, cleanse and strength en. RADWAY'S PILLS, for the cure of all disor ders of the Stomach, Liver. Bowels, Kidneys, Blad der, Nervous Diseases, Headache, Constipation, Costiveness, Indigestion, Dyspepsia. Bilioueness, Bilious Fever, Inflammation of the Bowels, Piles, and all Derangements of the Internal Viscera. Warranted to effect a positive cure. Purely Vege table, containing no mercury, minerals, or. delete rious drugs. -Obeerve the following symptoms resulting from Disorders of the Digestive Organs: Constipation, Inward Piles, Fullness of the Blood In the Head, Acidity of the Stomach. Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust of Food. Fullness or Weight in the Stomach, Sour Eructations, Slnkingor Flutter ing at the Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of the Head, Hnrried and Difficult Breathing, Fluttering at the Heart, Choking or Suffocating Sensations when in a Lying Posture, Dimness of Vision, Dots, or Webs before the Bight, Fever and Dull Paiu in the Head, Deficiency of Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin and 'Eyes, Pain in the Side, Chest, Limbs, aud sudden Flushes of Heat, Burning in the Flesh. A few doses of RADWAY'S PILL8 will free the system from all the above-aamed disorders. Price 26 Cents per Box. Sold by Druggists. Bead "FALSE AND TRUE." Send one letter-stamp to RADWAY CO., No. 33, Warren Street. New York. Information worth thousands will be sent yeu. WISHART'S PINE TREE TAR CORDIAL. It la now fifteen years since the attention of the public was first called by Dr. L. Q. C. Wlshart to this wondenul remedy, aud so well has It stood the test of time that to-day it not only has the con fidence of the entire community, but is more fre quently prescribed by physicians in their practice than any other proprietary preparatlou in the country. It is the vita! principle of the Pine Tree, obtained by a peculiar process in the distillation ef the Tar, by which its highest medicinal proper ties are retained. For th following complaints, Inflammation of the Lungs, Coughs, Sore Throat and Breast, Broncoitis, Cousumpiiou, Liver Com plaint, Weak Stomach, Disease of the Kidneys, Urinary Complaints, Nervous Debility, Dyspepsia, and diseases arising from an impure condition of tbe blood, there is no remedy in the world that has been used so successfully or caa show such a num ber of marvelous cures. The following will serve to show the estimation in which this sovereign remedy is held by those who have used It. Consumption for Ten Years Cared. Db L Q. C. WisHaht : Dear Sir I am grateful to yon from the fact that you have made a medicine that will cure the disease of the Lungs. My wife has had the Consumption for ten years. Physicians had told me that they conld only patch her up for the time being. She waa confined to her bed and had been for some time. I heard of your Pine Tree Tar Cordial and secured one bottle ; it relieved her cough. She has uow finished the fourth bottle, and is able to do the work for her family ; and may God speed yoa on with your great discovery and cure you have made for Consumption. ' REV. E. H. HOPKIN6, Jackson Centre, Shelby Co., Ohio. From St. LjouIs, Mo. tjb. Wishart, Philadilpku: Dear Sir During a visit to Philadelphia, some three years ago, I waa suffering from a severe cold, and was induced to take a bottle of your Plue Tree Tar Cordial, which cad the effect of curing me in a few days. I have used it ia my family ever since, and am of the opinion that is saved the life of my daughter, who was Buffering flora a severe and painful cough. It the publication of this will be of any service, yoa are at liberty to use it. Yours respectfully, JOHN HODNBTT, St. Louis, Mo. For sale by att Druggists and Storekeepers and at DR. L. Q. C. WISHART'S OFFICE, No. 232 N. Second St, Philadelphia, Pa. i