WAKTED.
"Man wants but little here below,
tiu not with me exactly o,
But 1UH in thesoLRj
My wanta are many, and if told
Would master many a score.
What ftrat I wast la daily bread
And canvss-backa and wine
And all tbe realms of nature spread
Before me whoa I dine.
Four courses ecaroely can provide
My appetite to quell ;
Wi'h fonr choioe cooks Inm France besides
To dreas my dinner weiU
'What next I want, at princely cost,
Is elegant attire ;
Black sable far for winter frost.
And silks for summer' wear.
. And cashmere shawls and Brussels lace
My bosom's front to deck, "' -And
diamond rings my hands to grace,
And rubies for my neck.
I want (who does not want) a wife
Affectionate and fair ;
To solace all my woes of life,
And all its Joys to share. ' .
Of temper sweet, of yielding win,
Of firm, yet piseld mind
With all my faults to love me still, .
With sentiment refined. ,
And ss Time's car incessant runs,
And Fortune nils my store,
I want of daughters and of sons
From eight to half a score.
I want (alas, can mortals dare .
Such bliss on earth to crave f )
That ail the girls be chaste and fair
The boys all wise and brave.
McVEY'S TEXTURE.
It is a year ago this November since
McVey gave Bp the editorship of the
Tarry town News. He says it doesn't
pay' said Squire Brioe at Potts drag:
shop that night. . " Why, he took up
that paper when he left college, and
he's brought up fonr children and
bought a house and lot on it. Doesn't
pay, indeed !" "I think Mac would
have liked us to run him into Con
gress," said Potts, spreading a pitch
plaster. " He'll take a leading part in
politics in New York, you'll see."
" Well," Mac'li make his mark, there's
no donbt of that," said the Squire.
But Tarrytown was out of temper with
McVey. Everybody had subscribed
for the News and boasted of it out of
their own county. "It was none of
your tuppenny village sheets," as the
Squire , Baid to-night. . " The serial
stories and poems on the first page
were 6tA 1 order; and as for the
leaders, tou might look over the New
York dalies a long time before you
found political matters dealt with as
vigorously. Mao handles the other
party without gloves, in a way which
makes the articles of those city fellows
confoundedly lame. Where else will you
find the apt quotations from Horace or
tne sly allusions to the doings of the
ancient god and goddesses ? Mao's
classical education tells there ! That
magnificent piece of his, now, on the
Credit Mobiiier business, that ended
with 'Quia custodiet ipsos custodes?'
That was neat, air, neat. I'm not sur
prised New York has got him. It swal
lows up 'the brain of the country,
sir."
McVey, sitting in his dismantled
office (he was to leave in the midnight
train), felt it was time that his brain
found its feme work in New York. He
was quite, assured of the vigor of his
logic, the' delicacy of his taste, the
breadth f bis culture. "Men," he
told his wife, "with half mv ability
have coined fortunes in New York and
Philadelphia. The kings of journalism
began without shoes to - their feet.
Here am I, grown gray-headed with
doling out ideas to these village folks,
and what has it paid ? The house cost
i $1,500, and that with the $3,000 in
bank is the sum total of my life's work."
'We have lived -very comfortably,"
ventured .Mary. TLe children have
always been well fed and clothed, and
now the txjys are through college and
ready to go into business. Could you
have done better ia New York ?" " You
shall see, yen shall see !" smiling. "I
settled the house and bank stock on
you to-day.; Molly.- "Ifa but a drop
in the bucket compared to what we will
have two years from now." McVey
meant to leave his wife and children
behind for the first year of his venture.
By that time the golden flood would
would have begun. New York would
have discovered the quality of man who
had come to it at this late day. He looked
about his office now a large, airy
room, opening at the back into a gar
den where, Jie had raised vegetables ;
Dicky, the local editor, and three
printers going out to weed with him
when slack.of work. In the closet still
lay some mammoth pumpkins, two or
three sacks X flour and barrels of po
tatoes, which old Durborow had brought
in to pay for his advertisement. A
miserably petty way of doing business I"
he thought tk nP copy of
the Newsf there were the funeral
verses, kept in type to serve for every
death ; there were the glaring head
lines, " Burning of Maj. Shanks' barn !
Incendiarism stalks rampant in our
midst- the report of Miss Price's
school examination and the soul-stirring
pathos of the valedictory ; the jokes
bout our gallant friend Joe Dutton's
visits to Crow's creek, and a certain
young lady there. How small it was
stale, provincial I No wonder his brain
had contracted in such jail bounds.
" No, God knows it hasn't paid I" cried
McVey, tragically,- thinking of the ten
talents buried in this napkin.
McVey did not come to this city as do
the majority of adventurers, with but
the chance 9! good luck or work. Wood
(who left Tarrytown- twenty years ago,
and who was reputed to have acqtfired a
princely fortune here) had obtained a
position for him on the Clarion, a new
paper just started.,4 with an immense
mnital to back it." he wrote, "and
party influence.". Wood met him at
the ferry. " Come np. We'll give you
a shake-down," he Baidl "Our girls
are at boarding-school, so we can afford
to keep house in town," The . house "
turned out to be two rooms in the third
story of a showy looking building, fur
nished with sofas that turned into beds,
and tables that were wardrobes, and a
bookcase that resolved itself into a gas
stove and canned soups, rancid butter,
and meat, with which Mrs. Wood
cooked their supper, washing up the
dishes and then seating herself m full
dress. What would Mary, with her
great cellars and pantries full of stores
for winter use, think bt this sham show,
this tidrbit, hand-to-month way of life ?
We have to economize," said Wood ;
my income doesn't : run over $10,000,
and what with tbe girls' schooling and
rents, etc." McVeys" salary had never
been one-tenth that sum ; but compared
to this his home had been luxurious as
that of an Irish king. Wood handed
him a little newspaper. "Is that the
Clarion t" cried McVey in dismay.
" There is no room there for a man to
show ability." "-You're no idea of the
money required to carry apaper of even
this size. It is to be terse, brilliant,
epigrammatic" McVey, in the dusty,
stifling office of the Clarion, found him
self shoved about as the New Zealander
in London. He had been wont to lu
bricate for days over his weekly "lead
ers ;" here, the manager thrust a dis
patch at him at midnight and called for
copy in an hour. His rounded periods
were docked; "his wit voted heavy, his
gods and goddesses laughed at by theae
clever touch-and-go lads no older than
his sons. He was asked to resign at
last. Since last May he has haunted
the newspaper offices, struggling to get
in as nevs editor, dramatic critic, re
porter, earning five dollars now and
then by an odd letter or book notice.
He has been ' in lack of a meal some
times ; ill and friendless. "Even with
the salary of the Clarion's 'chief,' " he
wrote to Mary, " I could not support
yoH here."
A fortnight ago a committee from
Tarrytown offered him the News again,
and hd went beck a gaunt, haggard,
but happy man. He took a square
meal of Mary's turkeys, pies, and innu
merable preserves, snrrounded by his
rosy girls and boys, and went down to
the office. The big wooden chair
opened its arms to welcome him ; the
yellow maples nodded in at the window ;
the very sun bhining through the red
mist over the hill slopes was full of
friendliness. Every boy and dog knew
him and was glad. There was a statej
dinner at the hotel that night to wel
come him. and Mao made a speech full
of his old fire. ' How brilliant," he
said, "are the temptations of the great
world ! How bitter (like apples of
Sodom) are even its triumphs t For
me, I ask no better boon of fate than to
live in Tarrytown and die among my
own people." New York Tribune. ,
The Ross Case.
The details of the abduction of
Charlie Roes, and of the subsequent
discovery of his kidnappers, excel in
romantic interest any story of crime
yet conceived by romancer or Vay
wright. The disappearance of tho child,
the alternations of hope and despair in
the hearts of the afflicted parents, as
news came from time to time that their
boy had been discovered, the various
threads of rumor which the officers un
raveled only to find that they led to
nothing, the pursuit of the real kidnap
pers for months by the detectives act
ing under the orders of Inspector
Walling, of New York, and the manner
in which they avoided them and finally
put them off the scent altogether, and
the tragical denouement a few days ago,
which discovered them, and at the same
time brought a swift and terrible
revenge upon them, form a series of
chapters in one of the - most thrilling
episodes of crime ever known in this
country. The result of the denoue
ment, however, is like the result of
every other step in the strange story.
No sooner had the sky lightened up
than it c'ouded over again. A ray of
sunlight entered the afflicted home as
the news came of the discovery of the
kidnappers, but it is only temporary.
The kidnappers have been found at
last, but the boy is still missing.
It will be remembered that, when
Charlie Boss was abducted, the crime
was witnessed by severfcl persons, Who
furnished the police with pretty Vic
c urate descriptions. These descriptions
were sent all over the country, and then
followed, all kinds of haphazard work.
Charlie Rosses were found every
where, in the remotest parts of
the East and West, in Southern
plantations, out in the Rocky Moun
tains, among the mines, and numerous
arrests were made, including crimi
nals and respectable people, fortune
tellers, peddlers, tramps, and gypsies.
Meantime, one detective, Inspector Wal
ling, was on the right track. From the
descriptions, and from the information
he had received, he was convinced that
the two kidnappers were two professional
criminals William Mosher. a low
browed, brutal villain, the hero of . all
kinds of scoundrelism, upon whom his
own vices had set an indelible stamp by
which he was recognized .after death,
and Joseph Douglas, a man equally
desperate in his acts of criminality,
and who had been Moshcr's partner in
crime for years, butV a man of some
intellectual ability and of respectable
connections. It was not long bef o re
the officers were upon their track, and
found that in February last the two men
had been traveling throughNew Jersey
and Eastern Pennsylvania, selling an
insect powder, using for their trans
portation the very wagon they had
when the Boss boy was carried off.
They were tracked as far as Trenton,
N. j., and here the-officers lost sight
of them. Meanwhile they did not relax
their vigilance. Mrs. Mosher, was kept
under surveillance, and every move
ment she made was noted. More than
once the detectives were almost on the
heels of the two kidnappers in fortune-tellers':
rooms, saloons, and low
boarding-houses, and one day they
came so close that the two villains be
came alarmed and dropped out of sight.
The chase was temporarily over, and
might have remained so for a long time
to come had it not been for a sudden
and mysterious development of good
fortune.
One dark, stormy night two men
came np the river in their little black
sloop, which had been engaged in many
a marauding expedition, and landed at
Bay Ridge, in the rear of the uncoon
pied residence of Judge Van Brunt,
with the intention of robbing it. Not
knowing that the house was provided
with a burglar-alarm connected with
the adjoining residence of the Judge's
brother, the two burglars entered. - The
alarm did its work. The family was
aroused, and the Judge, his eon, and
the hostler armed themselves, went
over to the house, and at last, tired of
waiting for the burglars to eorae out,
opened the doors "and provoked an en
counter which resulted in the death of
the two villains. They were Mosher
and Douglas. Mosher was killed in
stantly, and Douglas lived long enough
to confess he assisted in the abduction,
of Charlie Boss, but died without dis
closing the whereabouts of the boy.
The identity of the two burglars has
been established beyond doubt, Charlie
Boss' brother, nncle, and others having
identified them as the abductors, and
their relatives having identified them
as Mosher and Douglas. r . . -'.
Death has visited a sharp and quick
revenge upon the two ruffians, but
where is Charlie Ross ? Moaner's wife,
who might have told something, has
disappeared. Douglas' wife or mis
tress, through terror of the detectives'
power, bas agreed to tell all she knows
at the inquest, but this may not amount
to anything definite. A more joyful
denouement than the restoration of the
little fellow to his, home again could
not be imagined ; but this may not be
possible. The clonds still bang -dark
over the afflicted home, but the crime
has been fearfully avenged. The same
good fortune which made the two
scoundrels targets for the unerring
practice of the Van Brunts may yet
bring back the Jitue xeuow, ana nu roe
chair which has been vacant so long in
the Germ on town home. CMcaro
Tribune. . - V v ":,:r :
' 1 1 1 ' - ' ! 1 '.J';.-.'-'
Voice of nature The mountain's
peak. .
The Whale Fishery.
. The Tall Mall Gazette gives some
statistics on the whale-fishery, which,
though limited to England, serve to indi
cate the decline of this industry among
all nations. In 1814. 143 English ships
were engaged in whaling, with a result
of the capture of 1,981 " fish," and the
produce of 19,408 tens of oiL As an
example of " the luck " of the fishery,
it is mentioned that one ship came home
"clean," another obtained but one fi6h,
whilst a third captured forty. In 1824,
the British whaling fleet had dropped to
111 vessels, and the number tof fish
taken was 761. In 1834. the number of
whalers was reduced to 76 ; in 18-14, to
32. The take of fish this last year
amounted to 125, yielding 2,000 tonsof
oil and 89 tons of whalebone. In 1854,
the British whalers numbered 53, and
the catch was 97 whales. The first
record of the capture of seals by En
glish occurs in 1841. when the Peter
head boats pulled 19,180. Seal-oil was
at that time worth from $165 to
$200 , per ton. 4 In 1844 the capture
of 48 seals is recorded : in 1854, of
59,301.
During the last twenty years the
whale fishery has still further declined
not, as the Gazette urges, on account
of the invention of gas, but because el
the great scarcity of whales and the ex
cessive peril of the occupation. The
Greenland whale is almost entirely ex
terminated, and other species have been
so reduced in numbers as te make their
capture an unprofitable adventure,
while no - industry of the sea is so
fraught with disaster to those who en
gage in it. v
A Chemical Difficulty.
A livrly exchange tells the following
story: "One of our merchants recently
sold a gross of matches to a. woman,
who, on reaching her home, could not
make them bum. In a towering pas
sion, which increased all the way back,
she returned and demanded, ' Why did
you cheat me with these worthless
matches ? ' ' Matches,' responded the
grocer pleasantly he always wears a
smile for his customers 'what is the
trouble with the matches?' 'They
won't burn, not one of them,' was the
quick, ' angry response. Jiet us see,
said: the gentleman, applying the
charged end to his pantaloons and
causing it to blaze instanter; 'that
burns well enough.' 'But the rest
won't, replied the woman, who began
to fear that she had walked seven miles
and was to return seven more on foot,
and had got angry for nothing.. The
grocer opened three bunches and
proved them all the same. 'I don't
want to burn up all your matches,' he
said, but there is not one that will not
burn the same way.' Chagrined, she
stared at him with tiger eyes, and, not
to be beaten, burst out '"if they will,
you don't s'pose, every time I want a
fire, I'm coming all this way to rub
them on the seat of your trowsers, do
you?'"
Care of the Ear.
The Scientific American thinks that
the ear is quite as liable to injury from
draughts of air as from cold water. The
modern style of cutting the hair of men
and of arranging the hair of women, is
much to be deprecated, because it was
intended by nature that the hair should
fall over the ear and form thus a pro
tection to it. But as we cannot throw
down so great a goddess as fashion, we
must use care and artificial means for
the preservation of this delicate organ.
If sitting in a draught is unavoidable.
the handkerchief should be applied to
the ear exposed, or a pledget of cotton
inserted within it. The ordinary man
ner of washing the face does no harm
to the ear, because the canal leading to
the drum of the ear is partially pro
tected by wax, and water does not pene
trate far ; but all the swabbing of the
ear, . whether - with dry cloth or lint
moistened with hot or cold water,
or other fluid, is by no means to be
advised, as it removes the wax, the
necessary safeguard to the internal ear.
A Needed Railroad Reform.
The news that the great American
dead -head has driven to despair all the
managers of all the rail re ads, and com
pelled them ta recognize him as bellig
erent, is rendered less al.-rming by the
further information that one gt eat line
has struck a blow at the sleeping-car
monopoly and reduced its rates from
S2 for each berth to 1.50. Sleeoincr
and palace cars are always running and
earning, money, their life is longer than
that of other rolling stock, and they are
always tilled to their utmost capacity,
so that there is no earthy reason why
their occupants should be charged at
tne rate of Sf& a nignt, plus fifty cents
or $1 to the orter. Great as is their
convenience .for the business traveler
who desires fully to economise his time,
their expense is by no ' means light on
his pocKet, and if so desirable a reform
as a reduction can be brought about and
made general, the traveling public, East
and West, will be deeply indebted to
the Illinois Central Company. New
rorjt worta.
, ,,; An Ingenious Executive.
. After spending nearly two years in
making improvements in his ditching
or excavating machine, Gov. Randolph,
of New Jersey, has brought it to per
fection. The . machines used for dig
ging ordinary farm ditches require the
services of two men and four horses,
and with this force will ' excavate a
drain suitable for tile laying, three feet
deep and four thousand feet long, in a
day. This is equal to the labor of over
sixty men in the same time, under
favorable circumstances, in loamy soil,
tbe machine has dug equal to the labor
of 100 men at the cost of 12 men. If
this statement is correct, many millions
of acres of land . now unproductive can
be brought cheaply into cultivation, and
the production of an enormous quan
tity of other land can be greatly in
creased.; : Larger machines will be
worked by steam power where ', excava
tions are to be made, levees .and em-
bankments built, etc ,
' A YdrrSa lady' in Paris, Ky., remarked
to a companion, in conversation, the
other day, that she would never paint
her cheeks again before attending a
funeral. " Why not? ' as&ed her
friend. ' Because," replied the young
lady, "I was painted up when I at
tended a funeral, last summer,' and
never wanted to cry so bad in my life,
and was getting my handkerchief ready,
when glancing around at , I saw
that coarse, yellow skin of hers through
the tear tracks, and it looked horrible.
I never had such hard work to hold my.
tears in since I was born. I'm done'
painting for funerals."
Tan Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin men
tions as a remarkable fact, in regard to
the late Admiral Lanman, that, during
all his long life and active service, he
never smoked a cigar or made use of
tobacco in any form. It is said,' also,
that he never voted in his life, nor at
tended a political meeting of any sort.
A. SW YEAR'S MYTH.
The peasants of Trauslyvania have a supersti
tion that, at the moment when the old year merne
into the new, the cattle speak, but in a language un
known to men, and tliat whoever hears tiiem dies.
Pile wood on the Are, Wilhclmlna, f
Here's Caspar come home from the plain
The wind wnistles bleak at tne lintel,
The rrot-f alries tap on the pane.
To-night the Old Year is departing
W;ta steps that are tard y bnt sure ;
Between the wild gust of the night-wind,
Bis footfalls are heard on the moor. (
The herdsmen have gone from the pastures
To their nuts on the edge ot the pines ;
The milkers croucl close in their hovels ;
Theffltners lie low in their mines.
For, to-ni?ht, when the Old Year expiring
To the Comiug Year waves his farewell,
, Uplifting their heads in the cow-pens
The cattle strange things will foretell
In words so unearthly and weird
That the wolves to their coverts will flee.
And the imp-lights will fade In the marshes,
And the owlet will cower In her tree.
And if onto ears that are tinman
Oo floating the mystical words
That, just as the Old Y ar out-passes,
, Gush forth from the lips of the herds
Death's dart like a thunderbolt flashes ,
And lifeless the lirtener falls,
As the New Year sets foot on the threshold
And his shadow towers up on the walls.
Ho I Caspar, the herds must be talking,
The step of the New Year arrives
Draw your cloak over yonr bead, WUhelmlna,
On our knees let us pray for our lives 1
ApileUms' Journal.
Pith and Point.
A city that soots people Pittsburgh.
Best known general General de
bility. An article you can always borroxr
Trouble.
A mother-in-law in a house is a well
spring of jawy.
The last gentleman in a lady's
thoughts is generally the first as welL
" Corn bread ?" said an Irish writer ;
" we haven't got it ; an' isn't it corn
bafe ye mane ?"
The bed on which a Parisian husband
poisoned his two wives was sold at a
fancy price to Mmfil. Tnssaud recently.
And thus they went foot and foot
together :
Two soles with but a single squeak, -Brcgans
that clump as one.
Sunday school teacher "Next Sun
day we'll have the death of Moses."
Overjoyed pupil " Then he did die at
last."
" Heaven bless you," said Johu
Henry, "it was the preitiest fight you
ever saw. She punched away at the
ivory keys like mad, and the piano
forte nobly.
Dit. John Hall says that in England
people are dvided into churchmen and
dissenters, but that in America they
might properly be divided into church
men and absenters.
.Ladles should remember to keep
their mouths shut when going out of
a warm room into the air. In fact, it
wouldn't hurt anything to keep them
shut at some other times.
The clergy of Schenectaday have ad
dressed a circular to their parishioners,
requesting them to die at such times as
may make it convenient to be buried
on some other day than Sunday.
An etymological numismatologist
wishes to know if the cein known as an
angel (from the root not of all evil, but
of the Greek " Aggelos "), was equiva
lent to "one sent." Independent.
" My son," said a mother to her little
boy, 4 years old, " who above all others
will you wish to see when you pass into
the spirit world ?" "Goliah!" shouted
the child, with joyous anticipation,
" unless," he quickly added, "there's
a bigger fellow there."
The Qbzor, a newspaper of Agram, in
Croatia, adds to each announcement of
death, the name of the medical practi
tioner who attended the deceased.
This gratuitous advertising will be of
great benefit to the most numerously
mentioned of the medical gentlemen,
is adding, as it inevitably must, to a
man's engaging him to attend his wife's
relatives.
A contemfobaby gives the following
advice to a correspondent : We have
to decline your artiole on the Decline of
Aristocracy. We have left out several
of our own articles this week, and yours
is worse than any of them. Take our
advice, and write a few very short
pieces; write only on one side ml the
sheet ; write plainly ; and then take
your pieces and burn them in the
kitchen fire."
the BBAurnm. snow.
Oh, the snows, the beautiful snows.
Wetting your aakles and damp-mug your toes.
Blinding your eyes snd tickling your nose,
Filling your gloves till your hands are "half
frose:"
Under your neck-tie, melting It goes,
Down your backbone like a trip-hammered rose ;
Stuffing your eara and spoiling your clothes.
Making you think, as it shivering blows,
That It came all the way from where Boreas grows..
i A Fortunate Dream. .
The Montpelier (Vt.) Watshman
tells the following : " One of pur in
surance companies had a heavy insur
ance upon a certain dwelling house in
this State. Recently, a ladv living in
the house (the owner being temporarily
absent; dreamed that there was a hole
in the chimney in the attic, with kin
dlings piled about it, . apparently for
tne purpose ot firing the house. Bo
much did the dream trouble her that
she could only be satisfied by & personal
inspection of the spot, when, to the
surprise of all, she found everything
just as she had dreamed ; a hole broken
tnrougn the chimney and tuied; with
matches, paper and wood kindlings, the
whole carefully covered np with a
board, and the board held in place by a
stone, all ingeniously arranged for a
very mysterious conflagration. It is
needless to add that the insurance com
pany regarded this discovery as good
cause for at once canceling the policy."
The Specie in Circolatien in Germany.
The German Government has, since
the war with France, coined new gold
coins and put them into circulation to
the amount of $275,000,000. Prior to
this issue of gold coin there was in cir
culation ' about $375,000,000 silver
money, which had previously sufficed
for all the wants of the country. The
effect of putting the gold coin into cir
culation while the silver was still on
was that the price of silver fell sudden
ly, and gold was at a premium. There
are still, after two years' effort to
retire it, $100,000,000 of this silver
money afloat, and as silver is the cheap
est, everybody uses it, to the exclusion
of gold, and gold continues steadily to
be exported. ; . :-
New Teab's Cake, Excellent.
One and one fourth pounds of sugar ;
one pound of butter ; half pint of cold
water; two eggs ; three and one-fourth
pounds of flour ; ' one. teaspoonful of
soda dissolved in hot water ; four table
spoonfuls of caraway seed sprinkled
through the flour ; rub roe butter, or
chop it np with the flour ; dissolve the
sugar in water, mix all well with beaten
eggs ; eut in square cakes ; bake quickly.
Origin of Typhoid Fever.
A controversy-as to the origin of
typhoid fever is held by various men of
science in the columns of the London
Times. Dr. Lionel Beale takes the
position that : fever-germs will not be
developed from filth. The influence of
bad air arising from defective sewerage,
tbe vicinity of foul matters, etc., etc,
is to prepare the human system for the
invasion of fever-germs when imported,
and to render it favorable to their
growth and multiplication. When the
body is perfectly healthy and strong,' it
is able to resist successfully the action
of fever-germs ; but, when it is" dis
ordered and weakened through con
tinued living in disregard of sanitary
laws, it is ready to fall a victim to dis
ease and the generation of fever-poison.
The deduction is perfectly clear ; keep
the air and water pure as a fundamental
precaution against all diseases. ; '
True Hospitality.
True hospitality of the home is never
loudly, and noisily demonstrative. It
never overwhelms you with its greeting,
though you have not a doubt of its per
fect sincerity. You: are not disturbed
by the creaking of the domestic ma
chinery, suddenly driven at unwonted
speed for your accommodation. Quietly
it does its work, that it may put you in
a peaceable possession of its results.
He is not the true host, she is not the
best hostess, who is ever going to and
fro with hurried action, and flurried
manner, and heated countenance, as if
to say, " See hew hospitable I can be ;"
but rather the one who Jakes your com
ing with quiet dignity and noiseless
painstaking ; who never obtrudes atten
tion, yet is very attentive all the while ;
who makes you, in one word- the. most
expressive word in the EtigHsh tongue-
to be at home. There is no richer,
deeper, larger hospitality than that, ;
This is indeed the age of perfect
hotels. The Sherman House, at Chi
cago, has a lira-alarm connecting every
room with the main office ; has none but
brick partition walls ; has Paris floors,
with cement between all joists, and in
short is absolutely fire-proof. Notwith
standing all these advantages, its rates
have recently been largely reduced.
,; Pianos and Organs.
Fine new rosewood pianos for $300. .
Fine walnut organs, six stops, $125. .
Good second-hand pianos, $160 to $200.
Keed'e Temple of Music, Chicago.
No Uncebtatn Sound. When a man
discovers a great truth it is his duty to
proclaim it to his fellow-man. The use
of Db. Walkeb's Vineoab Bittebs can
not be too strongly recommended to the
invalid public. To. those who have
tried it, nothing need be said their ex
perience is their proof, pure and posi
tive as Holy Writ. To those who have
not tried it, these truths cannot be too
often repeated. It is a certain vege
table specific, which aids faltering na
ture against the triumphs of dyspepsia,
bilious disorders of every kind, malari
ous fevers, constipation of the bowels,
liver complaint, Spring and Fall de
bility, etc., etc. It costs but little, and
can always be at hand. It is the poor
man's friend. It saves a doctor's bill,
and the iime lost in riding five, ten or
twenty miles after him; besides being
free from all the poisonous medica
ments of the pharmacopoeia. It will
not stimulate you to-day to leave you
weaker to-morrow. Its benefits are
permanent. -
For all Femalt Complaints .
nothing equals Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pr
toription. It is a most powerful restorative
tonio, also combining the most valuable
nervine properties, especially adapting it to
the wants of debilitated ladies Buffering from
weak back, inward fever,conge8t!on, inflamma
tion, or ulceration, or from nervousness, or
neuralgio pains. Mr. Q. W. Seymour, drug-
?iat, of Canton, N. i , writes Dr. Pierce as
ollows : " The demand for your Favorite
Prescription is wonderful, and one man
stated to me that his wife had not done a
day's work in five months, when she com
menced taking your Favorite Prescription,
took two bottles and is now on tbe third bot
tle, and is able to do her housework alone
and milk fourteen cows twije a day." Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is sold by all
dealers in medicines. . v
The Pbaibtb Fabheb. We have long
been in the habit of calling tbe attention of
onr readers, once or twice a year, to tbe
merits of this enterprising and reliable farm
and fireside journal. We again do bo with
pleasure, and knowing that we are thus doing
the farmers and fruit-growers of this region
a favor that they will appreciate' if they-by
this means are induced to subscribe for it.
All its departments are richly filled with choice
and entertaining matter that renders it the
ablest and most popular paper published for
tbe farmers of tbe ' Northwest. The - sub
scription pricA is now $2 per year, and 15
ceats extra for prepayment of postage. Spec
imen copies and agent's outfit free, and will
be sent uj on application to the Prairie Farm
er Co., Chicago, 111.
Ska. Foam Bakxro Powdek.- In an
other column will be found the card of the
old and reliable house of Gio. F. Gawtz A
Co., who have won an enviable and solid
reputation aa the inventors ard proprietors
of "the beat Baking Powder in the world."
All through the Eastern States it is universal
ly used, and countless praises are daily re
oeived from dealer and consumer. , Those
who have used it will have no other, snd
those who have not have yet to learn the de
lights to be derived from sweet, pure bread.
American Jfewspaper Meporter. . Uv . s .
WrtHOFT's Anti-Pbbiodio ob Fever
and Aock Tome. This invaluable and stand
ard family medicine is now a household word,
and maintains its reputation unimpaired.- It
is indorsed by the medical profession, and pre
scribed daily in tbe Charity Hospital and
other hospitals in New Orleans. Wilhof t'a
Tonio is thus highly recommended by tbe
leading medical men of the coon try, and is
worthy of each indorsement.. Wkexlock,
F1NX.AT & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans, Foa
SALE BY 1U. DBOGOISTS.' . .. V.Z.i'"..,
These ib, probably, no way in which
we can benefit our readers more than by
recommending to them for general use Jolm
ton't Anodyne Liniment. It is adapted to al
most all tbe purposes of a Family Medicine ;
and aa a speciflo for coughs, colds, whooping
cough, soreness of tbe chest, lame stomach,
rheumatism, pitting of blood, and all lung
difficulties, it hag no equal that ever we saw
or heard of. . s
The nroTritv nt
medicine to horses, cattle and sheep was dia-r
vumwi b.uu Himiuea uj many or tne Agricujt
ural Societies throughout the State last fall,
and we believe that in every case bnt one
they decided in favor of Sheridan's Cavalry
Condition fowders. Good Judgment.
An ingenions physician in Paris
Betnaudiot by name more than two hundred
years ago began circulating a sheet contain
ing me news ana gossip oi tne day, lor toe
amusement of bis patients. From this news
papers grew and became advertising mediums
for all classes of goods, especially Elmwood
and Warwick Collars. . .
Tbe names of victories may be pruned from
onr battle figs; bat 8IXVER-TIPPED Shoes
win sever become obsolete, They are
tional institution.
Thb Northwestern Hoese-Natl Co, 's
" Finished " Nail la the beet in the world.
VEGETABLE PTJLMONARV BltnltMl
Moat approved, reliable and well-known remedy
fin- Congus, Colds and ronsnmpilnn. Get thtoenuin.
Price 1 i smalt Mo. CD TLKR BEOS. CO., Boston.
( C sAnn per day at home. Terms free Address
Wv?HVjCU Qo. BTTJSSOW A Co.. Portland, Maine.
Ciy K A WEEK. Agents wanted everywhere. For
t a ar gptni ac x wtrrvu OS n slsjb, xayron, unio.
1 7 flO p" I7 md bT our Bent" selling
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Ad d ress H. H. Mi ller A Co.. 104 B ndolph-st..ChlomsTQ
PORE OBAPE WINS. Price reduced to Too per
gal Send cash or rsf. to Win. Bamsay, Pslla, la.
Ball's Comb's Plre-Pxoof Bafe, good as new. Sao
Cataloorne Free Rs
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IF YOU WANT 5 GOOD PHOTOGRAPHS
f tbe priUiest Girls In the U, 8., their names,
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to i. H. JfOBBiS, WIS Springs, Kentucky. -
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A KOUJCDTilKTEtTA BLK,"ne nb
aenptton book, by Ear. T. I Witt Talmage,
author of "Crumbs tip,11 Ac. a genta wanted.
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P Ull JX I or 1 West sth fit., Cincinnati, Ohio?
The Miller and milwrighfc
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Millwrights nu take it. Add'sSmpsoar etOAUXT,
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V "Cyclopedia at mines Werlli Kusw
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OWWl Afrents Wante'i for THK
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By ths eminent Dr. Pah coast, XLLUSTBATED. It
is hifk emai and eompbt npon oulitmta subjects,
and nance is ixnmsnflelw popular.' For particulars
and tlrni, address HTTBBaRD BEOS., Publishers,
, either PhiladelpAia, Boston, or Cincinnati.
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address 8. P. SANBORN, 114 Monroe St., Chicago.
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My ILLUSTRATED SEED CATALOGUE for 1S7S
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CHARGE, to all applicants. English and Oerman
edition. Address :
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811 RXarlset Street, St. LtralM
B tat e where you saw this advertisement..
THE CINCINNATI WEEKLY STAR
Including postage and the nnely-Hlustrated Star
Almanac, $1 per year. ABti-flonopaly tne
OraBger1 Paper containing 8 large pagea of
entoelient Temdina? matter. The farmer, merchant
. and mechanic in any part of the country will find
tnis the best ox tne weeKites, to say notmng oi ins
low price. Agents are offered inducements superi
or to anything heretofore attempted. Specimen
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A book for every American. Balis everywhere at
sight. Farmers. Teachers, Students, Lawyers,
Merchants, School Directors, Manufacturers, JSC
cLanica, shippers. Salesmen, meu of learning and
men who cau only read, oil and young, all want it
for everyday refeaence and use.
" A whole library." Bnston Globs. Not' a luxu
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Tbe ladies are all in love wfth It.
SKLLS like IHT C1KES.
Hr Send at once for Circular to
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A WHITE HAND.
AS KLEttAKT VOlUME. '
By Flia Fakwax. - - Price. 91.50.
A jeweled Patrician whits hand," but, never
theless, one which, for womanhood's sake, handled
mtetake and sin, and d d not spot itself. It is,
withal, one of tne sweetest of mooern love stories,
and both our society and our flctioa need the in-,
finance of women just like Milllcant Chains,
Uostont U.IiUTHHueCii,. Publishers.
. Messrs. D. L. at Co. publish the celebrated SI, 000
and SoOO Prise Stoties, the Panay books, and up
ward of three hundred other choioe books for tbe
aTsmtly and S. 8. Librarlea. Cataloirues free. Any
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WIR NEARLY THIRTY YEARS THK
RICHMOND PRIIWTS
hare been beld in high, estiem by those who nse a
Colico They are produced in all the novelties of
cusnglnaT faihiona, and in eouser-ratire styles
suited te the wanta of soany ssrsoas. .Ajaoaa ths
Utter ate the .
"Standard Gray Styles,"
rreper for the house or street beautiful ia de
signs nd pleasing In coloring. . . -1
"CHOCOLATE STANDARD STYLES,"
In great rariety, and widely known es anost ser
viceable prints. - If othing better for daily wear.
These goods bear ticket! as quoted above. Yonr -retailer
should have them, and tout txamlTVlaB
and approval will coincide, , ! ,1 1- , .'4
THE PIABOHAEP
'. . Cabinet OrgansT
.Patented December, ISH. '
A new and besuttful musical instroment or lm.
yrovsment vpon the Cabinet Organ being a com.
blnatlon of the pianoforte and organ. To a com
plete rive-Octave Deuble-Eeed Organ la added a
Piano-Harp, the tones of which are between those
of the pianoforte and harp. It has a pianoforte ac
tion, is played by the asms key wtth ths organ,
and may he used peparataly or with one or all the
tops of the organ. It la not liable to get out of
order, and does not require tuning. Having thor
oughly tested this beaatiful improvsmsnt, we offer
It with great confidence to the public Price of
PIAHO HASP CABINET OSOAlf , being a PrrivOo
Ta.vs Donu-SsiD Oboist, 8ix Srors; with Vox
Hunan a, Atjtomatxo Svkll, Kmrnm Bwill and
Piavo-HABV, three and a half octaves ; in Elegant
Upright Resonant Case, S2CO. - Circulars free.
MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO.,
28 Union Sqeare, Mew York; 84- Tremont Street,
Boston ; 80 and 82 Adamu. dtrect, Chlc! - ,
Habit Cured
' A aartstiA and inro cure, wlihont Inconvenience
and at home. As antidote that stands purely on its
Own merits. Bend for my Quarterly magazine, (it
easts wouttolMntf,) containing certificates of hundreds
that have been permanently cored. I claim to have)
discovered and produced the fibst, DBXantAZi Axn
txHTauxaenraayoaopitnai aaTcra. ;
: PH. g. B. COttlttSS, JLa Porte. IndV
HABIT CUBED at Bom. Ifo
Ptiblicltv. Icrms moderate.
ia1 a V as poraHeii
mtats. Andreas Dr.,
eu success, .uescriae case.
mn r uurrssrs JL go
sVtKj tcetimou ha Is.
FMarsb.QnincyMioh.
C41&D.QUlCKtI10frfW4rep A sr-wea
MM?
SI
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Dr. .1. Walker's Cailifomia Vin
egar Hitters are n purely Yet.lbiV'
preparation, made chictly frohi tho taa
tiye herbs found on the .lower ranges of
tke Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor
nia, the medicinal properties of whieli
are extracted therefrom withodt tub nso
of Alcohol. . The question. .13, almost
daily asked; What is tho canso of the
unparalleled siiccess of ViirfcGAit" Sit
ters!" Our answer Is, tliat,thcy rCiJiKv&
the cause of disease, and the patient re
covers his health. Thev are the great
bloecTptirific'r and S'W-gi vfi!2"rtftcTpIe,
a perfect r Renovator and InvigoYator
of tho system. Never " h Cforo 'Trflbe
history , of tho troriil has a incdieinw beer
compounded jiosHessiiifr ' the .' remarkable
qualities of Vikkoar Bitters in'HeaHbir-tbei-sick
of every disease man i heir jtoi ''SSiey
are, .a gentle Purgative as well as a .Tguic
relieving Conjrest'ioti or 'TnflaniniHtioi of1
tho Livwr ami Visceral Organ, in Biliour
Diseases,. :. , -. - ::. ,ta
, Tile properties; of De. WAiKsnH
"Vixeoar BiTTiiRS are .A poricnt. lliapborttfic,
Carminature, ITntritions. asatirfc. uitirduc.
Sedative Connter-Irritinn, Stdotffic?a.nris
tire, and Anti-Bilious. fr r . ; Ji;i
It a H. DXeirotfALD it CO.,
Drnpfpists ond Gen. AjC.San Francisco, California,
and oer. of Wnshinc-fon and Charlton Sts., K. Y
Solil by mil Druggists and Dealers
asthma r cATAnmi..
Having trmrvletl twenty ycarbtwom ftJfe m&
fleatb will. ABTiiMA, I xiMrlmentetl ky t ii
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aure ear for Alt) mail Catarrh
WarraMed to pel lav orerert paroxyaToj fti
tmntly, M the rwtlsanC can Its down So rwml MMttt .
mleep comfortably. Druffci.,t r aupplk-d wltte
uunpte pcaea lor raatK ati-tribauen. uotafiry
anirKH.. racftMC oy man wi.v.
A. m-AJMCB fc.M,, Appte Croc tea Phil.
KAN0FACTORY AND SALESROOM,
23 & 25 RANDOLPH ST., CHICAGC
My ILLUSTRATED BEED CATALOGUE for 18R
Is now ready, and wilt be mailed; f BIB OF
OHASOB, to all applicants- English and Oermsja.
edition. Address ,.-
JOHN KERN, i r.
, ail tlarket Street. St. lxmis"
State where you saw tnis adTertlsemenW ,
i
7
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Payne, Hawtkorse, Walter fcicott, .AnUtoair'
Trollop, Marryatttv, Sic. Ac. One comjplot
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straw.
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postpaid worth from StO to .;.
Cheaper than a etrcnlatlne lihrary.
Jsunsia PaTna.
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ths chance to do It;
We aiarantee tne .most pee-
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yonr letters, write plslnlyraad your papaxa will 1
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tO"TC Our new list's now reads-.' K.ery ros
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Large eommissiona and no capital needed, lfyosa
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To be Orawa HoUlay Ceto. 8. 1875. '
tWO GRAND CAPITALS OF SS.000 EACH IN CASafr
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Circulars eontaining full Information wut.be Sana.,
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tor. naca.di tanawortn.) c.lt;iri ATI, ,j
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sfrvrllntspl suy ix-rtn taryei,,MM4,lilHtsl!y Till art all oau
' O1--'1-. Irma, Hints tol.it.Uea. Ac. 1 .t'. twaJJ
fctovs T. WltUaJUH CO., hi ,, r MlaUk, IpMaJ' S
wsfflsjsaTlWPMS.HIia -'- " ' -' -
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roBltam to treat an eases af (astasias t narrlsa, 2
i'.f PriUa, avorr aittneol or shssssas which reaulti frTsT
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soarl, was fowulnl aa-l has tHl oatsbUatcd a
..sab, esrtota mod tettaMs fsHef. Belaj m - srStfaaU Jt '-n
waurr whs talk, osll or writs. yron ths .rest nass
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r1ARRIACE CSS.ESF?.
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iitarriatre. '
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