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President Grant.

WITH all this divergence of opinion
about the mental characteristics of the
President, it is very notable to observe
that those who know him best like him
most. The highest estimate of his intel
lectual capacity has come from his enemies
Frank Blair, for example.
But take the opinion of men who are
about him. George s. Boutwell,, Secre-
tary of the Treasury. says that General
Grant is man greatly underestimated by
many. He has stated several times that,
in Cabinet, the President almost always
leads, that lie has distinct ideas and valua-
BILE ones, on all the multifarious topics of
importance which come under considera-
tion, and that, instead of being silent,
or in any way stupid man, he is ready,
quick, and almost always well and even
minutely informed. Governor Boutwell,
is not regarded as at all enthusiastic, and
even he warns when speaking of the
President.
Secretary Robson, a very shrewd and
keen-sighted man of affairs, declares that
Grant is the leader of his Cabinet on all
important topics. In the main he has
taken the initiative on all the principal
features Of his Administration. Mr. Robe
sons praise is reaffirmed by others.
George William Curtis has several times
expressed surprise at not only the COM
| prehension of the civil service question
shown by the President, but his very
complete mastery of its details. When
Mr.. Curtis first came he doubtless expect
ed he would have both to convert and in
struct the Executive. OF course that
gentleman has never said this, but he
stated he was very much gratified, as well
as astonished, to find General Grant very
well posted, not only on our own, but the
civil service system of other countries.
Other gentlemen whom know, well in
| formed on distinct topics, have at times
expressed in my hearing, their surprise to
| find the President so well informed on
their peculiar specially. The matter of
| Ku-KluX outrages, and legislation there
on, is another of these examples. Senator
| Scott and Representative Stevenson, the
two members of the Investigating Com
mittee, who may be deemed most thor
roughly informed thereon, have said, over
and over again, that the President under
stands the subject better than they do.
! Senator Scott stated last fall that he was
| the best informed man in the country on
this matter. could go on and spin this
letter out with concurrent testimony, but
| forbear
| know what will be said-that there
must be something lacking when the
President requires to be systematically
shown to be regarded as man of large
intellectual ability. admit the force of
the suggestion, but demur to the natural
deduction on the ground that it has been
rendered necessary by reason of the sys
tematic undertaking of him which has
been so marked feature of our politics
for the past two years. No man has been
more thoroughly "set upon" " or design,
edly overshadowed by the weight and
@gis of prominent personalities than has
the President Washington Cor. Worcester
| SIM
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MIX rs Food.


An investigation into the nutrltive
quality of milk, and the reason for its
disagrceing with many adult persons, has
been made by Dr. Wiggin, of Providence,
r. l., and reported In the Jonrndl Of
Applied Chemistry.
The results will seem novel to those
who have looked on milk as a sloppy diet,
not to be compared with the more solid
articles we choose in preference for our
good For example, milk contains eighty
seven per cent OF water but then rump
steak of beef contains seventy-five per
cent. of water, and eggs contain sixty
eight per cent.
In fact, 1t turns out that milk, even at
twelve cents per quart is the cheapest
form Of animal food DR. Wiggin says
that sirlon steak, including the bone, at
thirty-five cents per pound, is as dear as
milk at twenty-four cents per quart !;
round steak at twenty cents per pound as
dear as milk at fourteen cents eggs at
thirty cents per dozen as dear as milk at
twenty cents corned beef at seventeen
cents as dear as milk at fifteen cents.
A great obstacle to the use of milk as
an important element of food is to be
found in the fact that IL cannot be used
by all with impunity, often producing
headache and biliousness. The cause of
this seems to be that the milk undergoes
in the stomach process similar to that
which accompanies the manufacture of
cheese that is, il is solidiied or formed
into nearly solid "curd," the potash and
soda in the milk, which were needed to
render its caseine soluble in its water, be-
ing taken up by the acid of the stomach.
The temperature of the stomach also
favors the change.
This mass of curd, which is probably
manageable by the health digestion of a
child, or of n person with whom milk has
always been used as an article of diet, is a
hard nut for an unsound stomach to crack
The depraved gastric juice of an adult
| sinner finds difficulty in penetrating its
/ gummy businesses. The contents of the
stomach, only half prepared, pass on in
to the intestines, making discomfort and
trouble as they go. All this may be
avoided by mixing with the milk some
farinaceous food, such as bread or rice,
or corn pudding The farinaceous parti-
cles will be so mixed through the mass of
the curd as to destroy its cohesion, and to
make it easy for the stomach to manage
it, Even with this precaution, milk
should be used sparingly at the outset,
and the digestion should be accustomed
to its new work-for the easy digestion OF
milk is a trick we put aside with our chill
| dish things.
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unpleasant scrape. If you do, will un-
dertake to help you out of IT," 81 shall
see him at all events" was the young
mans answer, and he took his leave.
Shortly afterward Mr.. Dallas met him in
company with man wearing military
uniform. "Well,' said the young man,
'I have seen the Emperor" YES" and
have got into difficulty; you are under ar
rest, see; you remember what said
about helping you out of any scrape you
might get yourself into" ooh, you mean
that man; why, he is my officer" "Your
of1lcerp "Yes, he is the officer whom
the Emperor directed TO go with me, and
show me anything that must like to see
In st. Petersburg" On comparing notes
1t was found that the young adventuret
had already seen great deal more
of that city than Mr.. Dallas had,
although for some time resident
there. The introduction to the En-
peror TODD place in this manner The
young man wrote note to the Emperor
acquanting him with the strong desire he
had for private interview, and mention
ed his particular purpose. Soon after this
he was waited on by person who asked
him if he was the American gentleman
who desired to see the Emperor. 81 am, !"
was the answer. "Come, then, with me,
and your wish shall be gratifed." The
American was conducted into a small
room in the palace, the Emperor's Cabi.
net, probably, where sat a middle-aged
gentleman, who asked the same question,
and, being answered in the affirmative,
said, 81 am the Emperor" The conver-
sation proceeded, but the Emperor, not
finding himself over-fuent in English,
said to the young man, "Come with me,
and | will present you 10 the Empress,
who speaks English much better than H.
and, taking him into another room, intro
duced him to The family circle. The
American and the Empress were soon en-
gagged in an animated conversation. you
have no servants in America" said the
Empress. "Pardon me, we have many"
was tho roPly. "NOo, bat Won do not call
them by that name you call them help.
"Ahl" said the Yankee, shaking his finger
at Her Imperial Majesty, ''you have been
reading Mrs. Trollope." 80 she has, in
terrupted the Emperor, and they all
laughed in chorus. Meantime the acorn
was not forgotten, but duly delivered; the
young man was afterward allowed free
access to the imperial family circle, was
provided with an intelligent guide in q
military uniform, who was to show him
everything worth seeing in st. Petersburg,
and was afterward sent, at the imperial
expense, to travel post through the empire
wherever his curiosity might lead him
The acorn, it seems, was duly planted and
geIminated and became tree. In token
of the truth of this, if we may receive the
words of the Boston Traveller as authen
! tic, some leaves and little twig from il
are deposited in the cabinet of the Boston
Historical Society.--N. y Erening Post
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James Fisk, Jun.

JAMES FISK, Jun, familiarly known as
"Prince Erie" whose death by the hand
of a former boon companion has brought
TO tragic close career of brilliant crime
and audaclous indecorum, was perhaps
better known at home and abroad than
any other American of his time-an emf
nence of infamy which he alone of all men
could covet and be proud of. He has left
worse men behind him, but none who
openly court the notoriety in which he
delighted The crimes, the vices, which
he paraded before the public, they conceal
behind a mass of aGected decorum and
hypocrisy but he lived entirely in the
public eye, and all men knew the best and
the worst of him. He was a young man
at the time of his death, having been born
at Bennington, Vermont, on the 1st of
April, 1884. His father was a.peddler
AT the age of seventeen he obtained en-
ployment of very humble character in
Van Amburgh's menagerie, his occupa-
tion being to assist in the erection of
tents, and to sweep out and keep clean
the cages of the animals. His employer,
noticing his capacity, promoted him to
the position of ticket-collector In this
capacity he accompanied Van Amburgh
in his various tours through the United
States, the Canadas, and Europe--a ser
vice extending over period of eight
years. Leaving Van Amburgh at twenty
five years of age, he determined to pursue
the calling of his father, an returned to
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Manure for Straw berries.

A CORRESPONDENT of the GaF2ebeT'S
ChTonicle who has been very successful in
raising excellent strawberries for a num-
Der of years from the same bed, says :
"a fictitious manure of my own devising
having been very successful with me,
beg to preface the recipe with some obser-
vations on cheap way of obtaining a
crop where labor is scarce / cover the
beds with straw, at the beginning of win.
ter, and let the young runners kill and
take the place of the old roots, whereby
deep layer of humus is formed, Just as
in old grass land, and by the same process
But | had failure one year, and the next
applied the dressing just referred to, and
the produce was such as | really believe,
that if could grow it accurately, would
be incredible.
My composition is One pound each of
EPSON salts, Glauber salt, pearl-ash, and
carbonate of soda, and one-half pound of
muriate of ammonia TO sixty gallons of
water. Last year 1 used small quantities
of chlorade and phosphate of lime, and
nitre, instead of the pearl-ash; but tried
the two in different parts of the bed this
year, and found no difference. | apply it
as soon as the plants show signs of growth
in spring, watering them pretty freely
without hose, three times, at intervals of
about week. so as to finish before they
come into flower; and if the season be
dry find it absolutely necessary to sup
ply them literally with common water
afterward, during the whole time of
growth, or their increased activity will
very quickly kill them.
Independently of the quantity, straw
berries of equal size l never saw grown
separately-for by this plan, the bed is,
of coarse, complete mat and yet, last
year, measured specimen of Keen's
Seeding five inches in circumference, and
that toward the end of the season and
during the whole time of bearing / could,
at any time, gather plate full fit for eX-
hihition
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The Little Corporal,

First, in the list of Juvenile Magazines, is
more full of life, spice, and interest since the
fire than ever. It's editor, Mrs. Emily Hunt
ington Miller, with her rare genius for inter
esting children, has given it national repu-
tation, and made it welcome and indispen-
sable guest in a hundred thousand house
holds. Its prominent features the coming
year will be $500 prize story by Helen c.
Weeks, a continuation of the Editors "Sum
mer Days" so attractive to young readers
more profuse illustrations, shorter stories
poems, articles on science, natural history,
biography, travels, home amusements
games, puzzles, etc. No family with chill
dren is furnished without The Little Corporal
Price 81 80 a year, or 81 in clubs of twenty
with premium to agents. Published 10y
JOHN E. MILLER, s4 West Randolph St., Chi
pnUp (o,,,
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Throw in Reinfor,emcnts.

The Citadel Of Life is in a state of siege all
through the year, but is never more closely invest
ed than in mid-wnter. The liver is usually some
what torpid, and the bowels or less constpat-
ed at this season, and dyspepsia often assumes its
most aggravated form in cold and wet weather. In
short the sluggish system seems inclined to inter-
nit or shirk some of its most important duties
der the influence Of low temperature and requires
wholesome stimulants. The spur required is Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, the only medicine which
quickens the action Of the secretiye organs and
brings out the latent vitality of the system, without
creating any febrile symptoms, or the slightest
nervous excitement
The great Vegetable Tonic is not recommended
as a specific for Coughs, Colds and Consumption
that field being left open to the conoooters Of prep
arations which cannot by any possibility reach the
lungs but as a specific for the constitutional and
physical weaknesses which invite pulmonary dis
case, it is literally infalibe. The most insidious
and terrible enemy Of human life Is not disease It,
self hut the weakness which affords II an opportu-
nifty to gain firm hold OF the vital system, Re
member that Stamina, Vital Energy-the life-prin-
ciple, or whateyeryou may choose to call the re.
sistant power which battles against the causes OF
disease and death, II the grand safeguard or hedih.
Ii Il the garrison Of the human fortress and when
It wakes weak, the true policy Is to throw m rein
fOroements. In other words, when such an emer-
gency occurs, commence course OF Hostetter's
Btters
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The Safe Investment of Money.

The pending negotiations between Messrs.
Jay Cooke & Co. and the Rothschilds
on the one hand, and the United States
Government on the other, which negotia,
tions promise TO result in funding the
whole of our National debt at 4, AZ,
and per cent. interest, with a saving to
our taxpayers of at least Twenty-Five
Million Dollars year, add new prestige
to the eminent American bankers above
named, and give increased importance to
their opinions of various investment Sc
curities.
In financial circular just issued,
Messrs. Jay Cooke & Co. state the follow
ing facts about favorable Railroad Sc
curity now on the market
OFFICE OF JAY COOKE & Co., BANKERS,
PHILADELPHIA, January, 1872.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Compa-
ny offers to the public an investment
security which combines the ready nego-
liability, the convenience, and the high
credit of first stclass Railroad Bond, with
the solidity and safety of Real Estate
Mortgage on Land worth at least twice
the amount loaned.
IFqGic-As officially reported, the gross
earnings of the present Pacific Railroad
Union and CentraD for 1871, the second
year of through business, December
earnings estimated) reach Seventeen Mil
lions and Quarter. OF this, 65 per cent.
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CAST THEM OUT. If there are any diseases
which deserve the name dcmoHiac, Dyspepsia
is one of them. 1t racks and tears the sys-
TEN like a veritable tiend, and renders life a
burden. The medicines of the dispensary
will not expel it. Cast it out with DR..
WALKERS VEGETABLE VINEGAR BITTERs.
There is no form of indigestion or liver com
plant that can withstand this potent tonic
and Alternative. The newly discovered Cali
fornia roots and herbs from which it is pre-
pared are of more value to mankind than all
the gold of the Pacific States.
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RE-ANIMATMa THE HAIR.-When the hair ceases
TO draw from the scalp the natural lubricant which
is Its sustenance, s vitality is II were suspend.
ed, and II not promptly attended to badness will
be the certain result. The one sure method of
avoiding such an unpleasant catastrophe Is to use
LYONS KATHAmoN, which, when well rubbed Into the
from falling out. Besides that, this inimitabe resus
ciant and strengthened OF the Hair nourishes and
sacles TO their growth IN the shape Of dandrph and
dirt, and ultimately produces new crop OF hair
stronger, glosser. and twice abundant as the old.
As hairdresslng II ia notably the most agreeable
droao
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WE were pleased to see, not long since, in
one of our exchanges, some pretty severe re.
marks addressed to several persons who,
during an interesting lecture by Rev. Jno. S.
G. Abbott, kept a continuous coughing,
which prevented many from hearing. Pco
pie who cannot refrain from coughing had
better stay away from such places, or else
take bottle of JohnSon's AROdyi,e Linimen
with them.
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GoDEY's LADY's BooK-The illustra-
tions Of the February number consist of two Val
entine plates, handsome fashion-plate, an alpha
bet of nterlaecd letters, large presentation sheet
Of braiding patterns and the second of the series
Of Miss Lilipop's Party. In the Work Department
the usual variety Of designs for fancy work occupy
large space Brilliant and entertaining reading
matter, by popular authors, combine to make this
spirited number.
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A PLAIN and unschooled man, who had
received his education principally beneath
the open sky, in the field and the forest, and
who welded the axe more than the pen,
while speaking ofchildren, remarked, with
true and beautiful simplicity, "The little
chips are nearest the heart"
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"TME is short-Art is long" but CABLE
SCREW WIRE Boots and Shoes will last longer
than any other kind; are drier-morc pliable-win
not rip nor come apart.
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THE importance of giving Sheridan'S Cd0-
airy Condition I6'gderS to horses that have
been out in the cold rain, stood in cold wind,
or drank too much cold water, cannot be
over-estimated ; no man should be without
them who owns good horse.
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For AN IRRITATED THROAT, CoUGH OR
COLD, "BrotcH'S bronchial TrOcHeS" are
offered with the fullest confidence in their
efficacy. They maintain the good reputa-
tion they have justly acquired.
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BEST AND OLDEST FAMILY MEDICINE.
fords Lirer IpUigordtor.--A purely Vegetable
Cdthdrtic and TORic-foT Dyspepsia, Constipation,
Debility, Sick-headache, Bilious Attacks, and all
arrangements Of Liver, Stomach and Bowels Ask
youE Druggist for 1t. Be1CdTe Of limitations.
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Nor every one can be President, but all can buy
SILVER TIPPED Shoes for their children and
thereby lessen their Shoe bills two-thrds.
For Sale nv a1l Dea1pra
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ALIENS LUNG BALSAM

Can be taken fact Let all afflicted test It at
DR.. A. L. SCOvILL is the inventor OF several medi.
cal preparations which have become very popular, and
have been literally used Among, his Inventions are
" Halls Balsam for the Lungs" and "Liverworth and
Tar" For the past ten years better Lung remedy
has been offered TO the public. Read the following let
ter from DR.. SC0VlLL referring TO it:
MRssRs. J. N. HARRIs q Co; Gents: make the fol
lowing statement from perfect conviction and knowl
edge OF the benefits OF Aliens Lung Balsam in
curing the most deepseated PULMONARY CONSUMPTION!
have witnessed its effects the young and the old
truly say that 1t Is by far the best expecoant
remedy with which am acquainted For Coughs and
all the early stages OF Lung Complaints believe 1t
TO he certain cure; and II every family would keep
it by them, ready TO administer upon the FIRST appear
ance of disease about the Lungs, there would be very
few cases OF fatal consumption II causes the phlegm
and matter TO raise without irritating those delicate
gans (the Lungs) and without producing constipation
OF the bowels II also gives strength to the system
stops She nightsweas, and changes all the morbid
cretions to a healthy state. Yours, respectfully.
A. l.. SCOVILL.
j. N. HARRIS & CO.,
Sole Proprietor,
Cincinnati, o.
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THE FITS.

Big Money in How to Make the Farm Pay. Send
to Geo. A. Deitz. Chamberehurg Pa.
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WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS
w please say you saw the advertisement
In this paper.
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For the BEST and CHEAPEST Stump Puller and
Rock Sitter, address II. w. FAY, Camden, n. j.
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sWARTMoRE COLLEGE,
THE LESSONS

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FiRsT QUARTER-By Rev. j, NJ. Gregory, LIZ d.,
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Professor in the Chicago Theological Seminary,
THIRD QUARTERLY Rev. Joseph Alden, ID. D.,
FOURTH QUARTERLY Alexander G.. Tying, Peoria, Ill.
Specimen copy furnished ON application. Terms for
Teacher per year, $l50 Lesson Papers, 15c per l00
ADAMS, BLACKMER q LYON PUB. CO., -
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1sg- The worst coughs yield, as ifby magic,
to the wonderful curative powers OF DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. 507
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ERESH SEEDS since the Great Fire. Western
Seed Company, li5 and III Kinzie ST., Chicago
j. p. FOGG SON. Stock new and complete. Can
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Inquire for our Seeds IN papers.