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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-31

"FANcHoN," writing of hearths-the
real hearth with its cracking hickory
and ruddy hames-says: ALREADY in
superb dwelling houses, newly built
upon the avenues near Central Park, in
the drawing-rooms sufficiently heated
by furnace, the ire-places are extinct
Even the monumental marble is re-
moved that could serve but to entomb,
with its gold sculptures, the departed
fame; and in its place are mirrors and
drapery, softly polished and delicately
inlaid woods, costly ornaments and
fresh flowers. The old-fashioned
chimney-piece is as completely meta
morphosed (alas for our old loves as
the dead who are risen again
Further on, In her charming Particle,
she says: "The Preside and the clock
are boon companions. OF all mani
mate objects-if we can be so migrate
fully matter-of-fact as to call them in
animate-they are the most friendly to
Even the rusty, crusty old bachelor
if such q venerable relic OF genuine i'm
exists in this day of devotion
to the single man-must feel himself
consoled and caressed when fixing him
self snugly in his armchair for a win
ter evening; with his pipein his mouth
and his slippered feet upon the fender,
he feels stealing softly up to him the
genial warmth, and hears in the depths
of his unpulled ears tho soothing tick
of the companionable clock.
What castles are built in the Goals (;
what love stories light up the embers;
what-parsons and people go out in the
And what loneliness ehills US,
what a pang of missing" thrills the
heart when entering the deserted room,
we find the clock siLent, and the ashes
dead on the hearth !"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-31
Truly French.

The following incident is claimed by
the writer "a London Times correspon-
dent) to be characteristic of French
character: ga good many years ago 1
heard an estimable member of the Gar
rick Club, whom 1 hope may be amem-
Der of it still, though if alive he can be
no chicken, tell a story from his own
personal experience illustrative of the
inveterate propensity of the French to
brag and boast, even of things which
should be a cause of grief, if not of
shame. He was present in the Champs
Elysees at a grand review of the Pruss-
ian and English who occupied Paris in
1915. From a feeling of delicacyhe was
afraid to say a word upon an event
which he fancied must be a souyce Of
deep humiliation to France. But a
Erenchman came up to him and said,
iauntily, "Tenez, Monsieur! Quel beau
spectacle! Conme c'est magniique.
Ill ny a gu a. Paris qu'on volt des
chooses pareilles = Clock here, Sir
What a magnificent spectacle It's only
in Paris that yousuch see sights. } The
French character has not changed dur
ing the fifty-ive yearsthat have elapsed
since Waterloo. y
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-31
Success In Farming.

Ihays lately visited a neighbor whose
farm Contains only twenty-eight acres.
He has owned it and managed it fol
many years. His stock this year con.
sisted of several horses and oxen and
twenty-eight COWS, inaddition to q CON
siderable number of fowls. He grows
no fancy stock of any kind; sells milk,
cream, roots, poultry and eggs. he
buys some grain for his poultry and
some meal for his COWS, though he has
a good field of corn every year. All of
the pasture required for his large stock,
and all the hay and other long fodder
consumed on the place, together with a
good supply of apples, are the product
of his tweuty-eight acres of land. The
great secret of his success is to be
sought in plenty of manure and thor
ough work, managed, of course, in the
most skiIlful manner. His cash sales
for 1870 VIII fall but little, if any, short
of 81, 600.
Ihave another neighbor who begun
with a fine farm of over one hundred
acres, and capital enough to have made
a first rate farmer of an energetic man.
He has probably eve sold enough
from his place - pay his yearly bills,
and his land has Jun Gown to low water
mark. These two men, living in the
same township, and with equal facili-
ties, illustrate perfectly the truth 1 have
to set forth above. The
one went to work in an over-cautious,
penny-wise way, scrimping here and
there, trying to cheat nature
out Of her just dues; and he has come
to grief. The other went into farming
as q business that was worthy of
his best efforts, and whenever he.
saw an opportunity to invest a
dollar in his farm to good advantage,
be made the investment as soon as he
could get the dollar. He acted on the
belief that no bank in the world Will
pay such good interest as wellfarmed
land and, so far as the plain and sim
pie farming he has followed afforded
him the opportunity, he has omitted
nothing-nothing that could add to his
facilities. The result is hat he is
more than forehsnd, and that, ifhe had
his life to live over again, he would
turn his attention to farming as the
pest opening that offers itself to- young
nan Of energy and sbility.--Ogden
Farm Papers IN American Agrtcut-
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-31
Mrs. Maria Cemm.

Among the deaths published in the
Baltimore Sun of the 18th ult., was
that of fMrs. Maria GLENN, the aunt,
mother-inlaw, and never failing-friend
of Edgar A. Poe. Mrs. GLENN was
born in Baltimore on the 18th of March,
1870. Her family was n of the old
est and most distinguished in Mary
land. Her father, David Poe, was
Quartermaster Generate of the old Mary
land line during the revolution, and
the intimate friend of Washington, La
fayette, and the leading men of the
time. In 1886, while editing the
Southern Literary Messenger, Edgar
A. Poe married his cousin, Virginia
GLENN, a lovely and beautiful girl,
whose memory he embalmed in "The
Raven She was the "Lost Lenore I"
of that extraordinary poem. From the
time of Poe's marriage with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. GLENN adopted him as her
son, and never had a son q more devot-
ed mother. To have won and kept the
love Of such g woman through all the
vicissitudes of such a career as Edgar
Poe's shows more forcibly than words
can tell that the innate goodness of the
poet was not lost vel In the midst of
wasted genius, unparalleled misfor-
tunes, and utter misery. When he was
i'll, and his wife dying, it was a touch
ing sight to see this ~"tireless minister
to genius" poorly clad, going from
office to office in New York with a
poem, a story, or a critique of Poe's to
sell. To her Poe wrote the sonnet,
"To My Mother, in which he testifes
to her care and devotion by saving
that she had been "more than a moth
er to him. After the poets death on
the 18th of October, 1s49, Mrs. GLENN
resided with different friends in New
York and Virginia, until five or six
years since, and she was received into
the Church Homein Baltimore, a char
liable institution, under the manage
ment of the Episcopal Church, and
there she died on the 18th inst, in the
eighty-frst year of her age. Poe died
in the same building which was then
the Maryland Hospital. AT her own
request she was buried by the side of
her "darling Eddie, in Westminster
Churchyard, corner of Fayette and
Green streets, Baltimore. Besides tie
four pail bearers, there were about a
dozen ladies and two gentlemen pre-
sent, admirers of Poe and friends of
Mrs. GLENN. Among the ladies was
Miss Rosalie Poe, the sister of the
poet.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-31
FARM, GARDEN ANB HOUSEHOLD.
Practical Suggestions.


From the New England Farmer.
Ii is poor economy to reset thin
wheel tires.
EVERY farmer should have a brand
to mark his cattle and tools 1t viii
save its cost, often.
A wAeoN4sHED, centrally located and
easy of access, is a great convenience.
II is an investment that viii pay.
A BARN, located square up to the
highway, like q city block, is worth
half-price. No land is too valuable for
buildings
EVERY prudent farmer will avail him.
self of the comparative leisure of win
ter, to put every vehicle and implement
in complete repair.
DoN'r live another year without a
toolroom. 1t viii ave hours of vexa-
tious search for forks and shovels that
should be ready without a moments
delay.
Ii new tools and implanted are soaked
with raw hnseed oil, they Will work
easier and last longer. Why don't
manufacturers dol it by the wholesaler
1T seems reasonable that a laborng
horse should have a room to lie in at
night, where he can turn over and shift
about.
LII your colts are hard to get into the
barn, after their daily exercise, let them
find a few oats in their manger alter
coming in, and that trouble is over.
BETTER pay a carpenter for making
flights of stairs in the barn, where
needed, than a doctor for mending
bones broken by using ladders. Rule:
Things in daily use should be exactly
adapted to the need.
Two dollars a day for a farm hand
makes it important that he should have
good tools to work with. They cost
considerable. Insist that he use them
for the purpose for which they are
made.
AN Ohioan, who has three-fourths of
acre of ounce orchard-from which
last year he sold 800 bushels of first
class frnit-spades the ground In Inspiring
and scatters apeck of coal ashes around
each tree, also a quart of salt, and an
other quart when the ounces are half
grown.
CARRoTs are recommended as feed
for farm-horses, as they a v II and
give a fine gloss to the skin, besides
promoting a heslthful condition of the
From fourteen to twenty-one
pounds is a liberal allowance, anything
over that being apt to affect the kid
neys and induce excessive atalling.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-31

An official statement shows that in
1870, 1861 diamonds were shipped
from the Cape of Good Hope, valued
at..$625, 900 and that the total value of
stones shipped since the discovery of
diamond diggings does not exceed
81, DOC, 900. Mr.. Harry Emanuel, the
London ~jeweller, says that the Ameri-
can demand is far in excess of the SUD-
ply, that the Cape diamonds are very
poor, and that the value will not de-
cline perceptibly. He may be right or
not, but this odd thing is the imagin-
airy value placed upon the discovery of
the stones. Here is a whole colony
gone wild about mines which promise
to yield in time about the same sum that
any e cultivation, such as tobacco,
produce.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-31
The Canadian Canal Improvement Pro.
ieef.

information has been received from
Ottawa that the commission appointed
some time since to inquire into the
whole canal system of the Dominion,
and suggest the best plan for improv-
ing it, have agreed on a report which
has Just been submitted to the Govern
ment. The report recommends the
following improvements: The con-
struction of a canal at SaultSt. Marie /;
the construction of a canal at the VEL
land improvement of the lower Ottawa
canals; the improvement of the lower
Chsmply canals; deepening the river
st. Lawrence between Quebec and
Montreal; the construction of the Bay
Verte canal improvement of the st.
Lawrence canals; the improvement of
the upper st. Lawrence river. The
total cost of these improvements is es-
timated at nearly 500, 000, 900. The
Commissioners urge on the Govern
ment the necessity of the immediate
construction of the enlargement of the
Welland canal, and following it up by
the improvement of the St Lawrence
canal, the construction Of the Bay Verte
and the other works recommended be.
ing taken up according as the public
finances warrant it.
The report also refers to the great
advantages which the American people
in the West derive from the use of the
canals, especially the Welland, and ask
whether Canada should not demand
from the United States the repeal of
the navigation laws, under which a
Canadian vessel cannot go from Chi
cagoto Oswego, as some return for the
still greater benefits the Americans
must receive from the improvements in
contemplation. The report contains a
number of statistics to show that the
Erie cInal is inadequate to the require
ments of the West, and that the st.
route affords the short
est and cheapest communication
to Europe and the ports of the upper
lakes. Even now it is shown that a
bushel of wheat can be carried from
Chicago to Montreal ten cents cheaper
than from Chicago to New York Vid
Buffalo and the Erie canal. Freights
from Montreal to Liverpool are as low
as from New York to Liverpool, and
under these circumstances Il is con-
tended that if the st. Lawrence route
is improved in the way contemplated,
the bulk of the Western grains and
other products VIII eventually find its
way by this route in preference to the
Erie canal.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-31
Be Guided by what You KNOW.

There an old proverb which says "Experience
is the safest guide.s To this guide the sick and all
ing naturally turn when casting about for the means
Of rsAef. They inquire what . medicine has
done for cthers, before they adopt it themselves.
Of al The remedies and preventives in use, Hostet
ter's Stomach Bittsrs meets the test most triumph
ar1y, and hence its immense popularity and vast
sales. The sufferer from indigestion is sure TO find
some one among his frieuds who has been cured Of
that aflment by the famous vegetable stomschic.
The victim Of fever and ague, liver complaint con
stipation, nervous prostration, or general debility,
has only to make inquiry IN the neiehborhood where
he resides II order to discover what this standard
restorative has effected in cases similar to his own.
In the published testimony to its merits he VIII find
a volume OF proofs of its sanitary properties, wh1ch
it is impossible for his common sense to resist. He
tries il, and the effect it produces on his system
adds another to the hosts Of witnesses in its favor.
thus, its reputation, founded on facts, not nsssr-
tons, continually grows and spreads. Oharlstans
and imposters, some Of them mere local trfcknters,
and others who take 4 somewhat wider range
attempt TO thrust into the hands and down the
Threats Of the patients, their haphazard concessions,
IS substitutes for the tonic which for % many
yeers has been Q medicinal STAPLE throughout the
United States, Spanish America, Canada, and the
Weet Indies, but only succeed to q very limited ex-
tent. In this reasoning age, the people having
ascertained what is really deserving Of their conf
dence, decline running after strange gods.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-31

A ROMANTIC incident, showing the
power of an earnest love to overcome
the most formidable difficulties, is re-
ported in the Colorado papers. A Chi
cago youth fell in love with a Colorado
maid, whose father was so opposed to
proceedings that he drove the young
man from his house with wrath and a
revolver. Upon this the earnest youth
had the stern parent arrested for
threatning his life; and when the old
gentleman was safely locked up, by the
judicieus use of a ten-dollar bill, helm
duced the same Justice of Peace who
had imprisoned the father to marry
him to the daughter. This done the
old man was brought up for trial, when
he concluded to swap forgiveness with
his enterprising son-in-law, who there
upon magnanimously withdrew his
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-31

THE following estimate of woman's
love appears in an English contempt
rary: "a French woman will love her
husband if he is either witty or chival-
rous; a German woman if he is con-
slant and faithful; a Dutch woman if
he does not disturb her ease and com
fort too much; Spanish woman if he
wreaks vengeance IN those who incur
his displeasure; an italian woman if he
is dreamy and poetical a Danish wo-
man if he thinks that her native conn
try is the brightest and happiest ON
earth ; a Russian woman if he despises
all westerners as miserable barbarians ;
an English woman if he succeeds in
himself with the court and
.aristocracy; an American woman if he
has plenty of money"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-31
High Farming i'm England.

A valued correspondent (says the N.
Y. POST sends us the following extract
from a letter froma young gentleman
of this State, now travelling IN England
to familiarize himself with English
methods of farming:
Mr.. p. ownes 1000 acres, of which
he farms 350-the rest being rented.
He has not always made his farm pay
well, but by his own high farming he
has improved the system In the neigh
borhood, and thereby very much in
creased the value of land and his own
rents.
He keeps on his home farm of $50
acres from 30 to 100 mich cows, be-
sides a flock Of sheep. He never pur-
chases more than one-sixth of the food
for his cattle, and that sixth is nearly
all artificial.
His farm-buildings are of brick, and
perfectly drained and ventilated The
hay and straw are stacked and thatch-
ed,-by the way, neither is yer slowed
away In barns, even in this land of
system being exclusively
Even the roots and potatoes are left
out of doors in pits, and the barns are
used for nothing but cattle and thresh-
ing grain.
Nj. P.'s yield of wheat this year was
IS bushels to the acre, and of hay q
tons; and such hay! In some of the
cut last June there still remains
the smell Of the clover blossoms, and it
is worth Ct los. per ton.
Nj. p. has gone extensively into irri-
Some parts of his property lie
at the foot of q low range of hills,
through which run streams, In which
he has arranged foed-gates, so that
after a heavy rain he can cover with
water at one time fifty or sixty acres
the water taking the place of manure on
the Nile principle.
His draining has been on the same
scale. In one ffty-acre field he has put
down twenty-five miles of tile pipes.
This is high farming, you viii say, with
a vengeance. Yet it all pays, and 1
know not why it should not pay equally
well with us. At all events let us try.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-31

Hosiery and Gloves. have removed into their
new store, log, los, u0and liz Wabash avenue,
and have made the amplest preparations for
the Spring trade. Their store-built and
owned by themseive@eontains seven floors, ~
by 165 feet, with extensions under sidewalk and
alley, making $3.50 square rods-over two and a
quarter acres of floor room-being the largest
and most perfectly arranged store devoted OK
block is one story higher, and IS feet deeper,
than the north 40 feet, though the perspective
does not show it. They have four patent ele-
vators working to their full capacity, in receiv-
ing and shipping goodsIone more, and run
ming a third faster than those of any other
store in the city: They are the Oldest and
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-31

A LOUISVILLE lass got very tired of
her lover calling on her so constantly.
Desiring to get nd of him, she con-
coeted plan by which the much-de-
sired result could be obtained. Every
time he came she asked him to help
move the piano up stairs, and after that
was done, changed her mind, and had
him help move it down. She kept on
until she removed all the furniture in
the house seven times, and he didn't
see the point; but the other night in
despair, when he called, she threw a
pail of water on him from the window.
He says he can't place any confidence
in women, and he has presented a bill
for removing furniture.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-31
Senior CasanOra's Adventures in Havana.

Senior Casanova's experiences In Ha-
ANA for a few days previous to his de-
parture for New York were extremely
exciting and interesting. An official
permit to land from the steamer Mere
don was given him when he reached
Havana on the oath ult., but on land
ing he was immediately seized and
returned to the steamer by the author
tiles. He then wished to come back to
New York by the Columbia, and was
forced to go IN a small boat in the night.
In the morning a Spanish officer came
on board to arrest him, claiming him as
a rebel, but the captain of the steamer
would not permit his arrest while un-
der the protection of the American
flag. A short time previoustoth the hour
for the steamer to sail, a small Spanish
boat from shore arrived at her side, in
which was his daughter, who came to
bid him farewell Not ~suspecting the
plot of the guard to kidnap him, Cas-
anoya stepped into the boat. Imme-
diately afterward an order was given to
shove of, and a rush was made to seize
him, but without success, as he jumped
back upon the Columbia, and thus es-
capped. Friends of Casanova visited
the United States Consul previous to
his sailing for New York, demonstrating
against the outrages practised upon an
American citizen, who had not only
been imprisoned, but robbed of over a
thousand dollars in American funds,
and the Consul has brought the case
before the authorities at Washington
IT is said that the Washington carni-
val was a stupendous failure, and one
lady-reporter wants to know why
Americans are not content to be Ameri-
cans instead of trying to be Italians,
Frenchmen, and apes generally.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-31

HAKLIN, HALE q Co., Wholesale and Retail
Dry Goods, nowoccupy the corner of the above
splendid new block, their stores having q 'front.'
age of 100 feet on Wabash Avenue. This firm
is a combination Of members Of the two firms
Of F. N. Hamlin d Co., long known as alead-
ing retail house, and Of Hunt, Barbour d Hale,
for five years Appointment Wholesale firm. They
use the first floor and basement for the retail
branch, andupper stories for the wholesal ehrm.
The magnihcence of their building, and the
requirements of their business, may be under
stood when we state that their principal floor
is lighted in the day by 26 windows, each 151z
feet high, and in the evening by % chandeliers,
each having "a burners, making more than $50
gas lghte for this floor alone.
JOHN V. FARwELL & Co., Wholesale Dealers
in Dry Goods, Woolens, Notions, Fancy Goods,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-31
spetiaI uotifes.
Most Wonderful Cure
of Scrofula.
posxxLsvuLL, CLAnxE Co, oEol
Jsnusy 10th. ISL
ls..srs. ,. N Rayrs q o..

DoSSELsVuLLs ILAnAE 20 S59os
Jsnusr 10th. ISL
h.ssrs. J. " Ra-ris q o..
DEAN SIRs IL have sold some OF DE- A-Wesver's
Canker and Salt Rheum Syrup. from my store, and ]
think It the best medicine / ever sold but my oolsct
OF its use in my own home Ny daughter has been
afiicted With scrofuis for three wears A lady Doc
diseases in this section Of tie state, doetorsd her for
some fifteen mcnths, but seemed to do the girl no
GOOD. was then advised 10 Try Dr.. Rose. Of Dayton,
He had her under Treatment for about sixteen months.
and could not effect cure. / attended the State Fair
e Springfield last fan, accompanied by my family.
sorely AFFLICTED. advised me to procure Dr. Viewers
syrup and Corate, that they would cure her.
My daughter then could not see At all. her eyes be-
badly affected. she bad two liberated sores, one on
her hip and one On her arm. From the ulcer on her
arm several pieces Of bone had been taken cut Opt 10
for her, and with u all she got no better, but when she
had taken the third bottle of Viewers Syrup she COM
nenced 20 get better. She has now used since October,
10 sight, and the sores are healed mp. I think . little
more Of the syrup VIII restore her sound and vel -
1 write YOU o. ms eIrs: ~ waps {9q 20 msksm
Scrofula can save large doctor bills. and etcrred By
WI oure s~crofuls and old running sores, if anything
known will.
Any person who knew the condition Of my daughter.
~ sesaiy tnst wssssrs Nip and Ssrste cured her,
ne cure can write 70 ms, and 1 VIII satisfy them that
d.. Wesver's Syrup and Oerate cured that disease
T Taasa SS zaeSa the hes ski1 Of s5 Psysi tSs s,s md hat no Oth Der
much IL favor Of Dr.. Weaverss medicine, to make
them known to snch as are afflicted With any scrofn-
lous diseases With much gratitude TemGn.
fc John i1abUk.
Merchant. DonnslsTille. Clarke Co., Ohio.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-31

"SR," said a guest to his host at
dinner, "this is a capital sirloin ;
please tell me the name of your pur-
veyor2" addison" was the reply.
"Any relation to the SPECTATOR"
added the gentleman. Probably, u
said the other; ST have often seen
steel by his side"