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there must be protection-no Infringement,
no piracy, no stealing of the soul of the
invention by clothing it in immaterial
changes of form.
To secure this fair dealing we have, on
the one side, the Patent Office, with its
examiners, its drawings, its models, its
books and its foreign patents, to scan and
test the invention. On the other side we
have the courts of law to protect the in
ventor and punish the thief 1t is posi-
BILE that these instrumentalities may do
their work imperfectly This may some
times happen; but to the extent to which
they do it, a fair contract for an honest
and useful purpose is made and is main
tanned. This is the American system.
Under its protection great inventions have
been born, and have thriven. 1t has given
to the world the steamboat, the telegraph,
the sewing machine, the hard and soft
rubber. 1t has reconstructed the loom,
| the reaping machine and the locomotive.
1t has trained up each trunk of invention
until it has become graceful tree with
many branches, adorned with the fruits of
many improvements and useful modifica-
tons. 1t has won from the older homes
of the mechanic arts their richest trophies,
and, like Columbus, who found a new
world for CASTLE and Leon" it has Gre
ated new arts, in which our nation has
neither competitor nor peer. Without
the protection of our Patent laws, no such
exhibition as this would have been posi-
BILE. BY far the greater number of the
inventions which now crowd the shelves
of the Patent Office would be missing.
No doubt many weaklings would
thus have been spared a contact
| on1I Nd
but many vigorous children, that have
come to a robust manhood, would
have persisted long since for want of susie
nance Men will not take the risk of in
PRODUCING new inventions, of educating the
people in their Use, of overcoming oppo-
sition and prejudice, unless they can be as
sured of reasonable protection in their
work until their capital has made return.
! They will not sow that others may reap,
and, when the land is ready for the har-
vest, come forth with greater capital and
| more labOrers and thrust aside the pio-
neer who has borne the burden and heat
of the blowing and cultivating. For the
| proper administration of such a system as
| have attempted to sketch, it is manifest
that much skill and honesty are needed in
the Patent Office, in all its departments
| Speaking for the gentlemen associated with
me, | believe them to be both skillful and
honest. They pass in review many valua-
bic interests. They are ATTENDED by a
body of skillful practitioners. They are
beset by an array of eager inventors. If
in the examination of 10000 applications
they make no errors, they would deserve
statues of gold. That they make no more,
and that in all these years and in all their
number well-founded charges of corrup-
ton have been few and far between, are
strong tributes to their integrity and abili-
ty. On behalf of this great American bu-
reau of invention, bring you greeting to-
night; on behalf of the 100000 American
inventors whom it represents, l bespeak
for it your cordial support and sympathy.
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has ever undertaken. Buoyed mp by the
dear hope of life, went bravely on.
Deep chasms intercepted me-awful
preclpices rose before me. My footstep
disturbed immense masses of ice, which
came crashing down, yet still vent on.
what will not hope make man do?
On on! Nearer! nearer! And now
the summit is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 1t
Is gained There, at last, l stand at the
foot Of the lofty pinnacle-alone on my
vast iceberg!
Alone! Oh, what is that upon the
ocean?
Never before was the presence of man
SO dear to his despairing fellow.
There, not mile from me, was the
form OF an ocean steamer, slowly passing
hyson the course toward America. / saw
the tumult, the hurry, the thronging, the
confusion.
| was seen.
The steamer hove to. A boat was lie,
down. and in few minutes was within
hail pointed back to the other side of
the island.
Back again -rejoicing-prayine
singing with joy and gratitude.
was savedl
A jump into the sea, and was caught
up and taken into the boat and into tn,
steamer.
l am a saved man-and an artificial foo
which / now am compelled to use ever re
minds me of my fearful adventure
per's Weekly.
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are looking down on you" Which
silenced them for a time. But a. they
sailed on day after day, and no prospect
appeared of their making big strike,
they all commenced to growl again. Col
umbus took no heed of their insinuations,
but kept his eye steadily fixed on the dis
tant horizon, and said, az am resolved to
fight it out on this line if it takes all sum-
mer" He then went aloft and perceiving,
after a long look ahead, speck no bigger
than mans hand, he cried, in thrilling
voice, " Honi soft gui nadly pense," where
upon his followers, with one accord, fell
on their knees and declared their inten-
tons. The ship soon after struck the
Plymouth Rock, where they landed and
drank to the memory of George Washing
ton.
We come to the great event in the life
of this great man. Not being satisfied in
the discovery he had made, which ap-
peared to him as mere turn of luck, Col
umbus struck out West and made the dis
coyery of the Chicago river In his old
age he always referred to this event with
peculiar satisfaction, and to his latest day
he never ceased to regret that he did not
take ND his permanent residence at Chi
cago. In answer to the oft-repeated query
as TO whether the discovery of the Chicago
river was question of pure calculation,
he was wont to affirm that he was guided
thither by pure instinct.
The important public services he rem
| dered to Chicago are too well known to
need recapitulating. He took up his resi-
dence, for time, in the Fifth Ward, and
so identified himself with the interests of
the citizens, that they elected him, by a
large majority, to the office of Constable.
He located the site for an asylum
for reformed inebriates, which has
since grown into a flourishing in
stitution as the Washingtonian Home
and he projected "a plan for a tun-
mel under the lake. 1t was also during his
residence here that he composed some OF
his most popular melodies, including
"Hail Columbia" and Columbia, the
Gem of the Ocean," So popular had he
become that, had he remained few years
longer, and placed more faith in the flu
ture greatness of the city, he would have
been elected to the Office of Alderman of
the Fifth Ward. But it was not to be.
His old rowing habits proved too strong for
him, and he wandered back to Spain,
where the people scarcely treated him with
civility. The King sneered at him when
he endeavered to tell him of the vast num-
Der of hogs daily slaughtered in Chicago,
the enormous quantities of lager consumed
every hour, the immense superiority OF
our Nicolson pavement, and our admira-
BILE system of police discipline. 1t broke
the old mans heart and he died. But the
people of Chicago still cherish his mem
CRY with gratitude, and it has become a
popular belief with all right-minded citi-
zens that if Columbus had not discovered
America some other man would. There
ore it is that his name is revered and that
he now -
''Sleeps with that immortal few
| That were not born to de-
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"A correspondent of the Germantown
Taee.dpM wishes that he could make the
auth vivid to every keeper of cows. that
the care of them is something that requires
knowledge and painstaking in details
Cows must not be neglected or deprived
of sufficient food. Good shelter and
abundance of food they must have if we
would make them profitable. Evenness of
local temperature is necessity If the
weather is cold or wet withouthoors thew
should be made warm and dry within the
stable. If the sun shines tOb hot tbev
should have the privilege of shade When
COW becomes uncomfortable he flow of
milk is restrained. A COW will return to
you just in proportion as you confer care
upon her.
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Plugging the Holes of Apple Tree
BOferS.

A CORRESPONDENT of the New England
Fdrni<r relates the experience of neigh-
Dor ipdestroying apple tree borers by
tree. LIE saws that his friend While
MAXIM an examination this spring of sne
of his tces. found several holes with sgns
of bore-s ut work. He soon found ut too
much d-a Job to follow them with wire
or chistl; SO he dug around the roots,
scrapcd off the rough bark from the roots
and trunk, and found all the holes. Then
he took common putty and plugged them
all upperfectly tight. On the thlro gay
after Soing this he visited the tree, snd on
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removing the putty found, to his surprise,
four borers dead, all of which came out
with the plugging. By this process he
destroyed the borers without cutting the
roots or trunk of the tree, which is as in
furious as the work of the borer, as have
often found it necessary to cut quite deep
in order to reach the rascals. From the
irregularity of the direction of course,
have also found much difficulty in fishing
them out with q barbed wire.
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THE LITTLE CORPORAL.-The pub
fishers of this verJ popular magazine for boys and
girls offer attractive premiums for clubs, and in adj
dition will send fee Of extra charge the october,
November and December numbers Tor 1863 to all
new subscribers for 1870 whose subscriptions are
received before the first OF next month. The sub-
scription price q THE LITTLE CORPORAL is only
SLIGO per year. The November number is very at
tractive one. Allied L. SeweR i Co, Chicago, H.,
are the publishers.
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BUFFALO, Sept. 2, 1868.
DR.. SAGE & Co,
Gents-I am always reluctant to say
any thing in favor OF patent medicines,
but l have found your Catarrh Remedy
such an effectual sOOtlier in those annoy
ing attacks which we term " colds in the
head" that l take pleasure in testlfying to
its merits Two or three applications
have always removed the disagreeable
symptoms, dried the Weeping eyes and
quenched the Bardolplian flames of the
nose. If it possessed no other virtue, its
worth would be beyond price as a simple
and effective antidOte or the horrors of a
"cold in the head" Yours truly,
GEO. A. MARTIN.
For sale by all prominent Druggists
everywhere. Sent by mail on receipt OF
sixty cents. Address r. V. PIERCE, NJ.
D., Buffalo, N. Y.
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The following are the advanced rates
established by the Elevsting Association
of Buffalo until further notice: Two cents
per bushel, including ten days storage,
and quarter Of a cent per bushel to the
vessel. Storage after the first term, one
fourth of cent per bushel for ten days, or
narts thereof
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Soda Sponge Cake.-1 egg, 1 cup Of
sour cream, cup of sugar, teaspoonful
of soda, 4 teaspoonfll of cream Of tartar,
8 cups of flour; flavor to taste. l some
times put 4 cup of dried currants and the
same of citron or raisins in place of flavor
ing: either way it is very light and nice
while fresh -Anlericnn AQricttLturta.
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USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

To DESTROY yellow dock, the following
method has been found effective: Dig up
all that can be found early in the spring
then before the seed natures, go over the
farm, and gather and burn them, and again
dig up the roots.
BOILED BREAD PUDDING.-Soak a pint
of bread crumbs in milk until perfectly
soft, using only enough milk to soften
them, add three beaten eggs with salt and
a little soda; it should be quite stiff
raisins are an agreeable addition; boil in
a cloth three-quarters of an hour, and serve
with hot wine sauce
A Missouri correspondent of the Coun-
try Gentleman says that honey locusts, for
posts, is about as durable as sassafras, not
equal to black walnut-one black walnut
post is worth three or four of honey locust.
He thinks that honeXraocust is much less.
a ap5 astn i'm on G'a as in
KentuckY~
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GoDEY's LiDY's BooK.-GOdey, in the
November numbir, presents some very fine illus
rations TO his subscribers His steel plate, fashion,
plate, and tinted picture are all that could be de-
sired as embelismen In addition is given an
extension sheet containing thirtynine Illustrations
of articles especially designed for ladies and chill
dren; an extra pate of children's fashions; front
and back view OF an opera cloak; and design for
home made toilet table. A great variety of useful
designs for fancy work are also given ia the work
department. capital story appears in this num-
Der, written by Mrs. Hopkinson, entitled Scenes
connected with the Life of Weak Man." Marion
Harland, Mrs Victor, Miss Frost and other we'll
known writers contribute articles Published by L.
A. Cooley, Philadelphia. Onecopy one year, 81;
two copies, s.; three, $3.50; four, $40; five, and
one extra, s14 eight. and one extra, Ss1 eleven,
and one extra $3.50. Extra inducements to clubs.
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THE purest and sweetest CodLver OIL In the world Is
Hazard Caswers made on the shore, from fresh,
selected hvcrs, by CASwELL, HAZARD & CO., New
York 1t is absolutely pure and Sicee,. Patients who
have once taken 1t prefer 1t to al Others Physicians
market
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CHAPPED HANDS, face, rough skin, pimples, ring
worm, salt-rheum, and other cutaneous affections
cured and the sn made soft and smooth by using the
JUNIPER TAR SOAP, made by CASWELL, HAZARD
CO., New YORK. II is more convenient and easily
applied than other remedies avoiding the trouble OF
the greasy compounds now in use.
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JUST CAUSE FOR BEING ALARMED =
When a cough has been running for long time,
and you begin to feel pain setting in upon your
Lungs attended with tightness across the chest, 1t
is high time that you should awaken o the danger
of your disease, which is fast running into fatal
Consumption. Now. before il is too late use
ALIENS LUNG BALSAM, which will cure the
disease, and all viii be well with you. For sale by
all Druggists.
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What IL Il Not nd What IL These
truths are self-cvdtnt PHALON'S VITALIt OR
5 AVIATION FOR THE III AIR IS neither sticky like
molasscs muddy like quit rpude, fetid ike the
fumes of birthstone II ON the contrary genial huid,
clear, lmPid. aromatic, harmless and viii restore to
gray hair whisk boards and tsches their original
color as certainly as smashing melts the snow.
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BUFFALO, Sept. 2, 1868.

READ THE FOLLOWING FROM THE CON-
MERCIAL EDITOR OF THE BUFFALO Ex-
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tE- We take pleasure In referring those who have
had dealings with u.s. the largest Express Com
pany in the United States the AMERICAN MERCH<RTs'
UNION EXPRESS COMPANY, 81 to 90 Washington eyreet
Boston, Mass, and through them TO their Agents
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Inventors who wish to take out Letters Patent
are advised to counsel with
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-15

nHHN#.. mLN ~ #.E -L... a-NH#. 7
ONE hundred tons Of strawberries
were recently received in one day in San
Francisco-one and a half pounds to every
naan, woman and child in this city. Straw
berries have been selling in San Francisco
as low as i've cents per pound. California
luxuriates in peaches from June TO October,
strawberries from April to November, and In
fact every month I'm the year; grapes from
June IS tn Christmas. TIL farmers com
menced harvesting in June, and continue
until the rainey season sets In in October.
Mr.. DALTON, of England, by care
fuI experiences has shown that where there is
a mellow son three feet under any crop, 1t
can defy the weather and come to maturity
without a drop Of rain after the LIST Of June.
This shows that successful tillage ~husbandry
on the arid plains Of the Far West depends
wholly on deep blowing.
Hon. A. M. GARLAND writes to the
Journal Of Agriculture strongly advising
Missouri farmers 70 purchasesheep. Hegtves
figures to sustain the statement that IL the
whole country should begin to consume
mutton in the same ratio as is now the case
In large cities, all the sheep would be eaten
up in ten months.
THE daily bill of fare of the ele-
plant Empress. in Central Park, New York,
is twenty-five four-pOund ~lOaves, three hum
dred pounds Of oats and bran mash mixed,
and one hundred and fifty pounds Of hay.
This she washes down with forty pals Of wa
ter. Qnnn4 FaTGF 8R
TT should always be remembered
that a COW which gives avery large Quantity
of milk, while the best for a dairy wheremilk
is sold, may not be the best in a butter max
ing d~airy-that is, that quality s well as
quantity is Of importance.
IF you want bone and large develop
ment Of red flesh in hogs, give them as good
pasture during the summer as your beeve'
have. II cost less every way 10 mRke big hog
weigh 500 by Christmas han to get two small
swim cup to $50 apiece.
THE orange crop of st. Mary's par
ish, Ia, this year will be quite heavy. Tit
orange trees ares0fuH Ofyoung fruit that tn,
limbs can not possibly hold the crop when 4
is full grown. They grow almost in cluster
like grapes.
THE Rural World suggests, in view
Of the difficulty in getting pure a~nnOtto, tina
the best possible c~Oloring matter for chess
would be TO introduce into the dairy, say ont
Attorney to every twenty COWS Of Othet
breeds.
A WRITER in the American Stool
Journal says tha cOstiveness and fits accom-
panying evils are the main cause Of sOws des
troying their young, and thatgreenan and Othe
proper foo is the preventive . cure.
WOOD ashes contain ali the morgan
&c ingredients which growing trees extrac
from the soil, and In consequence are justl.
regarded as the best fertilizerdor apples, pears
peaches, plums, etc.
IT is easy 70 equal any fancy bre,
COW with q native as mixer, but II tn
daughter Of che native is as good q COW, it 1
an accident; not so in Thorough bred stOch
IT pays TO make a Gov comfortable
in as many respects as possible. Every hOu
she suffers from any cause, the milk accom-
suffers co~rrespondingly.
IF you would not have your hors
acquire the habit Of hanging in the haltel
do not strike at him when young.
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-15

We are in favor Of training fruit
trees with low heads. A late number
Of the Journal Of Agriculture contains
a somewhat lengthy communication
signed &C. H. NJ" in which he deals
some heavy blows to high topped
trees, and closes with the following
short but weighty arguments in favor
Of low tops:
'sThey resist storm better. This is
especially important on the prairies
across which the wind sweeps with
Snch violence. IL q tree is trained
with a low head, its shade will keep
the ground around its roots mOisteT,
and protect its trunk from the burn
ing heat of the sun. They can be
trimmed more readily and to better
advantage. The fruit can be gathered
more easily. The amount of material
required to make an additional foot of
trunk is thrown into the body Of the
tree, making the limbs Of more service
% bear fruit. There are also strong
grounds for believing that the longev-
Sty Of the tree will be increased"
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-15

A correspondent of the american
Agriculturist, &c. M. N" gives the
following as his plan for putting out
hedge plants. We fully endorse his
mode, with this addition. In u soil
the plants should in addition, be well
mulched. Planted in this way there
need be no failure. We have no faith
in dropping the plants in a furrow and
covering with a pillow, as many per-
sons do who make a business of put
ting out hedges by. contract, and re-
curing one third down and the bal
ance in enstallments of one and two
years. A hedge car be planted prop
erly at a cost to not exceed Is cents
per rod. Then let the owner Guilt
waite his own hedge, and as a rule it
will be well none. We have had
enough of hedge planting by contract
at so and IS cents per rod.
"We take a narrow spade, andgrind
the corners round and spade. Then
RcJ u Ddll VI SbIOuR bWluCg lOuE VI nNC
rods long, and begin ut one end and
tie knots as far apart az the sets are TO
be; take coarse red yarn, cut it short,
and insert a piece of yarn in each
knot before it is drawn up tight.
When this is done, you have a line
with which the plants can be set.
Take a spade; set it along the side of
the knots, drive in little slanting,
give it a shove forward, take a set and
put it in while the spade is forward,
then back the spade to where it was
driven in, hold on to the top of the
set, pull out the spade, and you are
ready to repeat the same operation.
Two men and a smart boy can set a
Ralf mile in a day. When one line is
done, let a man tramp along each side
and between the sets, being careful
TO close all of the openings that the
openings that the spade makes. ]
have three-quarters of a mile set in
that way one year ago last June,
which was done we'll. / prefer to
throw up the ground where l wish To
grow a hedge-row as it is One-halt
better, or the sets will be One-half bet
ter, i'm the same time, than on ground
that is not thrown up"
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-15
Valuable work.

The author, GEO. PENNEY, has placed
on our table a neat pamphlet of fifty
two pages, entitled IAN Essay upon
the Culture and Management of Fruit
Trees and Native Evergreens, exhib-
iting the vast amout Of timber being
consumed; the various prosts and
advantages of Forest tree culture, and
directions for planting and cultivating
the same, by Rev. GEO. PIENEx, Stur-
geon Bay, Wis., We have pernsed
40 work Of the kind with more pleas
ure. The authors ideas in aH respects
agree exactly with our own experience
and observation It is a book every
tree grower ought to have and study.
Price Is cents.
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-15

DURATION OF VITALITY IN SEEDS.
There are few plants. the seeds of
which will not grow the second year
after maturity, il kept in a cool place,
neither too dry nor too damp. The
seeds of most of the grains and grasses
will keep their vitality for very many
years. Instances have occurred of
wheat having been grown from seed
supposed to have been buried 1900
years. Parsnip and onion seed can
only be depended on to grow the year
after il natures. Beans are safe only
for two years, as also are carrot, egg
plant, and several of the pot herbs.
Radish, lettuce, spinach, parsley and
asparagus-are good for three years.
Celery, cabbage, caulilower and tur-
nip seed-may be tOlerably relied on
for four years after maturity. Beet,
mangels, tomato, squash, pumpkin,
cucumber and melOn-are good for
five to ten years, and the four last,
which are bi-sexual, generally pro-
duce the largest proportion of female
blossoms, and consequently fruit,
when grown from seed that has been
kept from three TO six years.
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-15
COuntIng-HOuse DiCnOnary.

We are indebted to the publishers,
IvIsON, PHINNEY, BLACKMAN & Co.,
AZ and 40 Green street, New York, for
a copy of Webster's Counting House
and Family Dictionary. This is a
new edition with important additions
and improvements, and appropriate
illustrations. The banker, the mer-
chant, and the business man generally
will find this a valuable book of ref
erence. The commercial tables, esA
pecially those pertaining to money,
weights, and measures of the princi-
pal commercial countries of the world,
and their comparative value at the
present time, will supply a want not
filled by any similar work. It con-
tains $40 pages, and the price is $50.