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Not SO Bad After All.

Mrs. S. M. Pollard, young milIiner
of BinghamptOn, n. Y, is in luck. Her
fathers brother and her uncle was wild,
and wandered off to California in the
early days of the golden state, when he
was young man and his niece q little
girl. The wanderers family would have
nothing more to do with him and never
got any news from the far-off land in
which he had thrown himself away.
They thought and spoke of him as gone
to the dogs, and disgrace to the honor
Orable name of Pollard. Little Miss
Pollard remembered her uncle. He had
been good and kind and gentle to her,
and she never thought he was so bad q
man. When she grew a little, she made
effDIts to ascertain her uncle's wherea-
bouts, and succeeded. She wrote to
him, in her little pratling way, aud he
became interested in the correspon-
dence, and answered her letters regu-
larly. Thus Miss Pollard kept up a
constant communication with her uncle.
Who knows but that correspondence with
an innocent girl may have saved him,
and induced him to change his wild
ways ?
The other day Miss Pollard received
a letter from San Francisco stating that
her uncle had recently died, leaving her
sole heir to his property, consisting of
Sl05, 600 in cash and 500, 900 in houses
and lands. So Uncle Pollard was not
so bad q man after all. He was GER
tainly good enough for the paper and
postage expended in keeping up cor
Tespondence with him. Little girls
should always lovingly remember their
uncles in India or California. 1t does
not cost much, and the investment,
without any great risk of loss, some
times pays. It did in Miss Pollard's
case. She will now buy her bonnets
aud other fine fxings at the old stand,
and bless Uncle Pollard's memory as
long as she lives
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The Compost Heap.

The winter is the time to prepare the
compost heap, to gather the materials
and incorporate them, so that in spring
they will be in a condition for the crops
to digest easily. 1t is a work which is
easy OF accomplishment if it is steadily
pursued, but unfortunately it receives
but little attention from the majority of
southern planters. There are very few
places where the materials for large
and valuable compost heap cannot be
collected during the winter months, it
we would only take the necessary trOu-
BILE. The fallen leaves from the woods,
all refuse vegetable matter, creek mud
and little lime will make an excellent
compost with stable manure, cotton
seed and all other matter which will
produce fermentation and decomposi-
ton. It is astonishing what a large
pile of fertilizing matter can be collected
in q short time if attention is given to it
every day. Wherever river mud or
muck can be had without too much
hauling, nothing IS better when mixed
with Stacked lime in the proportion of a
bushel of thu latter to half a cord of
the former. The heap should be worked
over well, so as to pulverize and mix
the ingredients thoroughly, and when
warm weather commences decOmposi-
ton will take place Immediately. We
should begin now to gather the leaves,
trash and muck, and spriu king the
heap as it grows with lime, as already
indicated. Leave one-quarter of its
bulk Of stable manure, cOtton-seed and
such other vegetable matter as can be
collected, it will become one of the
richest possible fertilizers. Ashes can
be added to such pile with great ad-
vantage, and the refuse from the kitchen
and clubhouse, if thrown in to swell the
pile, will be of value, instead of, as now,
a complete waste.
We should not complain that oUr
lands are becoming poorer every year,
while We neglect the means within easy
reach to sustain their fertility, We
must not grumble because we cannot
afford to buy the expensive artificial
manures of commerce, and give this as
an excuse why we make poor crops,
When we allow hundreds of cords of
natural manure of the best quality to
lie unQatheTed and unused all around
rs. One hand and an ox-team put to
work now will build up an immense
bank of fertility before seed time, which
will in harvest add many bale of cot
ton and barrel of corn to the crop.
But now is the time to begin. Let no
consideration arrest the work. Gather
up the leaves, clean up out of the fence
corners, pile up the corn-stalks, haul
away the muck from the borders of the
branch, burn up the old logs and brush
now numbering the ground, and collect
the ashes, mix them all together with
few bushels of Stacked lime, making the
pile broad and fiat on top, and early in
the spring add the stable manure and
other fermenting matter.
The labor expended will cost very
little. The lime can be bought for a
few dollars. The result will be a per-
manent enriching of the land and large
~ increased crops. Farmer.
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for he knew that the rain would place
me in his power.
It was some time before could real
ize this fact. The ditch was beginning
/ to fill with water, and my discomfort
was becoming intense. But I looked
as cheerful as could, in order to de-
ceive the bull. Suddenly it flashed mp
on me that the ditch would soon be full
of water, and that must either remain
at the bottom and be drowned, or come
out and fall victim to my enemy.
To say that this discovery filled me
with Cismay is but feeble to express my
feelings. turned my eyes despairingly
to the sky. There was no comfort there;
the dull leaden hue which it presented
showed that there was no chance of the
rain abating. I had been in some des-
perate and disagreeable situations dur
ing my life, but they all appeared easy
and agreeable IN comparison with this.
What was I to do The ditch was fill
ing up rapidly, and the question deman
ded an immediate solution. A dozen
wild and impossible projects flashed
through my brain; but, after all, there
was but one thing to be done.
/ must face the bull.
/ looked no at him.
He was waiting for me.
He was paving the ground impa-
tiently; his tail was erect, his head
slightly lowered, and there was a wild,
bloodthirsty look in his eye that was
most appalling.
My heart sank within me. But there
was no help for it.
g must screw my courage up to the
sticking point, 4" 1 said.
And L smiled grimly, and with some
self admiration, at this mild and harm
less, but, alas too obvious witticism.
Z" But, oh, Heaven what welcome
sound is that which meets my ear
$1,000 ey Coo-o-ey I" shrilI, clear,
and distinct, and at no great distance.
Coo-o-ey Coo-o-ey - responded,
at the uttermOst stretch of my voice.
The next moment l have sprung from
the ditch, the bull has charged me, he
has missed, and have caught hold of
his tail. Round and round we go,
holding on with desperation, and he
vainly striving to get at me. But two
horsemen suddenly appear upon the
scene precautions the bull receives
three or four heavy blows upon the
head with a loaded whip, and in a few
minutes he lies bleeding and senseless
upon the ground.
An hour afterward I am snug in the
hut at the station. Over a steaming
glass of hot rum aud water am relat-
ing to an admiring group of station
hands the details of the desperate bat
tie which ] fought for upward of two
hours with the bull. And I meet with
much sympathy in my modification at
being interrupted just when had him
in my power, and was "going in" to
finish him.
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A Ouaker Printer,s Proverbs.

Never send an article fer publication
without giving the editor thy name, for
thy name eftenJimes secures publication
to worthless articles.
ThoH shouldst not rap at the door of
a printing Office, for he that answereth
the rap sneereth in his sleeve and loseth
time.
Never do thou loaf about, nor knock
down the type, or the boys will love
thee as they do the shade trees-when
thou leavest.
Thou shOuldst never read the copy
on the printers case, or the sharp and
hooked c ntainer thereof, or he may
knock thee down.
Never inquire of an editor for news,
for behold it is his business to give it
TO thee at the appointed time without
asking for it.
It is not right that thou shouldst ask
him who is the author of an article, for
it is his duty to keep such things unto
himself.
Whan thou dost enter his Office, take
heed INTO thyself that thou dost not
look at what may concern thee not, for
that is not meet in the sight of good
breeding.
Neither examine thou the proof sheet,
for i is not ready to meet thine eye
thou mayest understand.
Prefer thine own town paper to any
other, and subscribe for il Immediately.
Pay for 1t il advance, and it shall be
well with thee and thine.
QUEEN CHARLOTTE, wife of the king
of the Friendly Islands, is a Methodist
class-leader, and the king is q licensed
local preacher of the same denomina-
ton. It is not much OF a kingdom
only %, 600 inhabitants-and its only
productions are earthquakes and bsna-
mas. When pagans they cut off thire
little fingers aud toes as propitiary offer
jngs to their gods, but when the Wes-
leyans established a missionary station
there IL 1927 they stopped the surgery,
made them wear clothes, set up print
impress, Taught them the multiplica-
ton table, and how 20 trade off cocoa
nut oil.
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I have rather exceeded my duty on this
occasion in advocating the claims of the
Lying-in hospital it is certainly an ad-
mirable institution-no better; without
it we should probably not have so many
newsvenders, and without these useful
members of society how should we get
our morning papers? I drink prosper
ity, therefore, to the blind asylum,-I
beg pardon, I mean the Newsvenders'
benevolent association may they
long discharge the duties they owe to
society, by taking care of those unfor-
Inmates who find themselves in an in
teresting condition" Immense APP
plause and LAUGHTER. -BeLQraUia.
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REYnIING.

We parted by the gate in June,
Tnat soft and balmy month,
Beneath the sweetly beaming moon,
And With a-wonth-hunth-E
Can't find a rhyme 10 month
Years were 10 pass ere we should meet
A wide and yawning gulf
Divides me from my love 80 sweet
Aud sadly with -ulf-Eulr-duif-
III plunge thee in tue gulf.
An how dreaded in my soul
To leave my lovely nymph,
Wllle years should their long seasons roll
before NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. symph-
Alas my lovely nymph
Oh, had loved her many years
loved her for herself,
loved her for her tender years,
And also for Observation-Disclosures
Must let II 90 at pelf.
sorrowfully wrung her hands,
While tears did fast escape:
MY anguish could not command,
And feeling like En--tupe-cape-ape-
An must make IL ape!
gave 10 her a fond adieu-
Sweet pupil OF Loves school.
told her would Ger be true.
And ever be a-rule mule fool
buL wind mp on the fool
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Testing the Darwinian Theory.

Ii is not generally known that q series
of elaborate experiments intending to
illustrate the laws effecting the variation
and selection of species have been tor
some years going on under the direc-
ton of able and intelligent naturalists.
These experiments were began soon
after the appearance of Mr.. DarWin's
great work, and their object is to dis
cover the extent to which, by persistent
effort, species may be varied, to what
degree particular organs may be chang
ed by.a different circumstance and con
ditiOn, and now far feeble and rudimen-
tary development may be increased and
accelerated by special conditions and
wants. These experiments are carried
out with the utmost care, and their re-
suits recorded with accuracy; and they
will no doubt in due time throw much
light on the doctrines of development
and natural selection. The period dur
ing which they have been conducted
has, as yet, been too brief to yield i'm
portant results, and they may possibly
have to be carried On for more than half
a century before their scientific value is
really ascertained. These experiments
are under the direct supervision of near
~ all the more eminent nRturalists of
the day, including Sir Johu Lubbock,
Mr.. Darwin and Mr.. Wallace, aud they
will be the first sustained scientific test
to which the laws affecting the variation
and origin of the species have been sub
lected. Dundee (ScOtldndO Advertiser.
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Canned Vegetables.

An exchange SAYS that in the city of
Burlington, n. J., 1900, 600 cans are
packed annually. One day last sum-
mer is. 600 cans of corn were put no at
single house. The grain was cut
from cobs by expert boys and girls,
with knives, ll0, 900 ears being used for
this days work. In other towns in that
state the business of canning is carried
on extensively. Baltimore has several
firms engaged in canning, exclusive of
the oyster trade. In Maine there are
seventeen factories which in the aqgre-
gate put mp 4 900 600 caus. The corn
used is grown on 1892 acres, and up
ward Of 1000 hands are employed dur
ing the canning season, besides the cam
max IA. The value of the corn canned
is s. SOC. 600. Large quantities are ex-
ported, and we also import the same
fruit and vegetables.
na,-cprt Iurka in ,ave,-v fbiDp, ammo
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RitterS. The constantly increasing PATRONAGE
which it receives has it is true, excited the petty
envy of certain splenetic advertisers of pinchbeck
panaceas who hope to make market for their own
stagnant. watery wares, by decFying all spurious
medicinal preparations. But the public can
stomach neither their arguments nor their pota-
uons and consequently reject these very weak irn-
tations of the enemy entirely too thin!
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People who Whine.

There is a class of persons in the
world, by no means small, whose prem
inent popularity is whining. They
whine because they are poor, or if rich,
because tNey have o health to enjoy
their riches they whine because they
"hsve no luck, and others prosperity
exceeds theirs they whine because
some friends have died and they are
still living; they whine because they
have sches and pains, and they have
aches and pains because they whine !;
and they whine, no one can tell why.
Now a word to these whining persons.
First, stop whining-it is Of no use
complaining, fretting, fault finding and
whining Why, You are the most deluded
set of creatures that ever lived Do
you know that it is a well-settled prin-
ciple of physiology and common sense
that these habits are more exhausting
to nervous vitality than almost any 9TH
er violation of physiological law ? And
do you know that life is pretty much as
you make it? You can make it bright
and sunshiny, or you can make II dark
and shadowy. Then stop whining and
fretting, and 60 on your way rejoicing.
THE body of IA lady recently exhumed
at EDhrata New York WAS found IN he
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Ten THOUSAND PEoPLE.-There are
more than ten thousand people who expect to
be the happy pOssessors of the first grand
prize in the Kentucky Gift Concert, of $780,
600. All of them but one will be disappointed.
One will get it, for Governor Bramlette, the
manager at Louisville, has announced that
the Concert will positively take place on No
Yember 80 1874.
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IT IS so hard to get a linen collar
wise every gentleman to buy the Improved
Warwick. 1t looks better than any linen col
lar fits splendidly, and keeps clean longer
than any other. Try it.
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THROUGH the length and breadth of
the land the celebrated SILVER TIPPED
Boots and Shoes are sold by the million, for
parents know they last twice as long as those
without Tips. Try them. For sale by all
dealers
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VEGETABLE PULMONARY

DIR. TUFTS HAIR DYE acts instantaneously !;
contains no Sugar Lead Sulphur. Warranted
harmless. Has no bad Odor. Easily applied.
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The Prettiest Woman In New York,
Miss -, well known in our fashionable society
for her dtstRgue appearance and beautiful complex
ion,was once sallow, rough-sknned girl chagriDed
at her red, freckled face. She pitched into Ha-
gaH's Magnolia Balm, and is now pretty in com
plexion as she is charming in manners. This arti-
Gle overcomes freckles, tan, saIlowness, moth
patches, ring-marks, etc and makes one look ten
years younger than they are. Magnolia Balm for a
transparent complexion, and Lyons Kathairon to
make the hair plentiful uxuriant, soft and delicate
have no rivals. The Kathair0n prevents the hair
from turning gray, eradicates d2ndruff and is the
best and cheapest dressing in the world.
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e1E e0p per day at home. 2 erms free Address
"" = ~~S GEo- srISsoS q Co. Portland Maine
&ECD zach Week Agents wanted. Particu
- = lars free. WORT Il a co. 81. , oris. No
GIN P=rdsy znsas With cur FOOT power s5suu sa Pa.
CAS taa @aasess,Nlta ssSDR BAKNEs BIOS, Rocosd N
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SENT free, on receipt of neck and
breast measure, height, weight and price, our
(sample) Model % Shirt" Fitted BY patent
ed model. Stylish and substantial Address
Model Shirt Co.. 81 South 9Th St., Philadelphia
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Rev. E. II. Hopkins, of Jackson Cen
tire, Shelby Co., O., says: Nv wife had the
consumption for ten years, and had been con-
fined to her bed for some time. Il heard of
DIR. l.. O. @. Wishart's Pine Tree Tar Cordial
and after using four bottles she was able to
do the work for her familY.1
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Damned by Faint Praise.-Jas. Beck
man. clergyman Of New York, was recently badly
kicked by horse, and was speedily cured by using
the celebrated Mexican Mustang Liniment. When
the proprietor asked him for certificate he replied
that he considered it a remarkable article but if
wouldn't answer for him to endorse a remedy In
print" Here's consistency. But we didn't kick
him, as the horse did. The world knows that FOR
rheumatism, bruises, swellings, SPAWN, scratches
Inflammation, lameness, any flesh, bone or
muscle alment upon man or animal there is moth
ing like the Mustang Liniment. 1t costs but so cts
and SlOO per bottle, and should be in every family
It Is wrapped in fine steel.plate label and signed
q G. W. Westbrook, Chemist"
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F. b. HARPER the feir 81 " Uncle
John" Harper, wzs offered $50, 600 for
Longfeilow the other day, but declined
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AT the New York post-office, the daily
sales of postage stamps aggregate nearly
$4,000 worth, and the total amount
sold per annum reaches the large sum
of 100000. In the large fire-proof
in which the sheets of stamps are stored,
stock of 5000, 900 worth is always
kept on hand.
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WHISKY AND THE WEED.-Intellige
psychologists and Psychologists admit
that all so called medicines containing
alcohOl-whether they emanate from the
regular pharmacopeia and are called
tinctures, or from the empirical rum
mills, and are labelled " tOnics are
essentially dangerous and destructive.
The only way in which drunkenness can
be arrested Is by restoring the integrity
of the nerves Especially the nerves of
taste and the great sympathetic nerve),
and purifying the animal fluids and
these objects are more certainly and
swiftly accomplished by the use of DR..
Walkers Vinegar Bitters than by any
other means. Hence, probably, the
opinions now 30 generally expressed,
that this pure preparation is sovereign
remedy for the evils referred to. Should
it be clearly ascertained that Vinegar
Bitters is not only a specific for indiges-
ton, liver disease, nervousness, scrofu-
lous ulcers and eruptions, and host of
other disorders, but also for inebriety,
thousands will rise up and call the dis
coverer blessed.
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:. Fight it Out Like Pa and Ma Do. .

A story is told of a daughter Of q
prominent person now in the lecture
field which is peculiarly interesting and
suggestive of unconscious wisdom. A
gentleman was invited to the lecturers
house to tea. Immediately on being
seated at the table the little girl aston
ished the family circle and the guests
by the abrupt question
Where Is your wife
Now, the gentleman having been re-
Gently separated from the partner of his
life, was take so completely by surprise
that he stammered forth the truth:
ST d mt know"
"Don't know" replied the infant ter
rible, "why don't you know?"
Finding that the child persisted in
her interrogatories despite the mild re-
proof of her parents, he concluded to
make q clean breast of the matter and
have it over at once. So he said, with
a calmness which was the result of in
ward explosives
"Well, we don't live together we
think, as We can'G agree, we'd better
not"
He stif1ed groan as the child began
again and darted an exasperated look at
her parents. But the little torment
would not be quieted until she ex-
claimed
Cant agree Then why don't You
fight it out as pa and ma do?"
Vengeance is mine, ;" laughingly re-
tOrted the visitor, after spa" and "ma"
exchanged looks of holy horror, fol-
lowed by the inevitable roar.
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Tonic and Reeuperant PIantation

SAM! Most approved. reliable and weIl-known rem
edy for Coughs, Colds & Consumption. Get the GEN
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DR.. WHTTTTER

valuable Information Tor those who are 4, ~
OF contemplate marriage. Prlce MY ,sl-t o55
nail. Address DR. BIZ rs DiSFENi - - -
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THE CHEAPEST AND BEST
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Danger Turks in every thing, appa-
rentlv, for now We are informed Of an
explosion Of ice-cre3m in heading, Pa.
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THE body of IA lady recently exhumed
at Ephrats, New York, was found to be
AS hard as stone, and to weigh eco
pounds, or $50 pounds more than at
the time of burial.
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mnnn and expenses month to agents. Addres
9ZuU A. L sTODDARD, Jonesville, Mich.
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For full information, price-list,
T. =. CHILDS. Troy, Ohio.
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ROOFING :ss4; g. s &C.,: s
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nnTTTTE HABIT CURED at Home. No pub
tTDIEH HI llcitY. Terms moderate. Time short
HI Ill III Four years of unparalleled success
VI lOU4 Describe case. 400 Testimonials.
Address DR.. F. f. MARSH. Quincy. Mich.
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