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Best Organs on Most Favorable Terms.

Cabinet or Parlor Organs are capital
things for peddlers to work with,
because very poor ones can be
made ut half the cost of good ones,
and few people are competent to
tell the difference from a first examina-
ton. Manufacturers print on their cata-
lOgues prices which are three or four times
as high as the value of such cheap work.
Then the peddler starts out and puts them
on the people in various ways. He sellsat
an enormous discount, if he can get
cash; takes part trade, if necessary, or
leaves the organ while OH trial, and
sells it on long time at manufacturer
price," exhibiting the catalogue to show
that it is such, or even at discount
from this, which he can we'll afford.
The Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. have
recently announced plan which is likely
to interfere with this business. This
Company, as is well known, makes only
the best work, which, by its uniform ex-
cellence, has obtained the highest reputa-
ton for their organs. They proved the
best, and obtained the highest awards at
the recent Vienna and Paris Worlds Ex-
positions, as they have uniformly done
in American Industrial competitions. The
fact that these organs are the best in the
world is, indeed, too well established to
need further endorsement.
The Company have now added large
new factory to their former extensive
works, and design to greatly increase
their business. This they propose to do
by Offering organs for time payments, or
for rent with privilege of purchase, at
barely sufficient advance on the cash
prices to afford reasonable interest for
the time. An organ may be hired by
the quarter with privilege of purchase at
any time in one year or longer. If pur-
chased within one year, the whole cost,
including rent paid, is only five or ten
per cent. more than if the cash had been
paid down at the beginning.
Persons having any idea of purchasing,
will be wise to send note to the Mason
& Hamlin Co., at either Boston, New
York or Chicago, and obtain their new
circulars, before purchasing.
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A Clever Trick.

The following clever trick was recently
played upon an avaricious French land
lord by a poor engraver, who had got
into arrears with his rent. "Give me
little time," said the tenant; have
discovered means of paying you SOON"
" Bah !" returned the landlord; 81
should like to know howl" "Look
here" replied the engraver, taking hun
dred franc note mysteriously from a
drawer, "that's my last piece of work"
"Did you do that?" Certainly"
You yourself, and not the Bank of
France? 2" "No; it's my work." Will
you trust me with it for half an hour 2"
And the landlord. took the note, and hur-
ried off to the bank. There they assured
him it was perfectly good, and finally
changed it for him. AS he hurried back
to his lOdger, the poor mans head fairly
swan with visions of untold wealth.
"My good fellow" he cried, OH reaching
the house, all out of breath, show clever
you are! Why don't you make thousand
franc notes?" For the very good
reason that I have never seen one.
"That need be no obstacle-here is one
copy it, and / will be, back here in a
weeks time. We will share it, At the
end of the week the landlord duly made
his appearance. "How does the note
get on?" was his anxious inquiry
"Your note! Why have spent it with
two or three friends, you vagaboad |!
majestically replied the poor engraver
"Spent it But" "No noise, or III
split!" And the man explained to hi.
landlord that he had taken him in, and
that the hundred-franc note was per
fectly good. He wound up by advising
him to turn his avaricious propensities il
another direction.
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felilnB hcuWOOusIIoeS III OdliIOTulds
We extract from the Oakland Real
Estdte Reporter few paragraphs from an
interesting article entitled "Loeging in
the RedwoOds of California"
The choppers, especially, must be men
of intelligence and experience. A great
deal more than mere strength to swing
the ak for eleven hours day is required
to make good chopper. After the tree
is selected the ground needs careful look
ing after, as a stump or fallen tree, or any
inequality of the earth, would, as gen.
tleman of the profession remarked,
KNOCK the biggest on 'em into smither-
eens." 1t is popularity of redwood to
split into long and proftless thin strips
upon small provocation, and the mex
perienced eye, glancing over the ground
that bristles with all sorts of obstacles,
sees little hope of any tree escaping de-
struction. 1t is only the extreme skill Of
the choppers that make the disaster un-
common. They can drive stake with
the biggest tree in the forest when the
ground is clear. When there is not suffi-
Gent opening in direct line, common
expedient is to fall the tree so that it will
strike in its descent the trunk OF another.
Calculating the bounce well, makes an
accomplished chopper.
Telling seven or eight-foot tree is
half q days work for three men. The
choppers stand some six or eight feet
from the ground, each on a narrow bit of
board, one end of which is thrust into a
notch in the bark, and this unsteady
footing is all they have, while they hack
away with their axes hour after hour.
When ten or fifteen-fOoter is encoun-
tered, platform of bark, with the stand
ing boards for support, is built, and an
extra chopper put on. Two cuts are
made in the tree that on the side on
which the monster is to fall being much
larger and somewhat lower than the one
on the other side. Thus the weight OF
the tree is made to serve for its own over
throw. 1t is tremendously hard work,
and wears the strongest man out in from
three to four years.
When the tree begins to complain"
as the shrill, vibrating, cracking noise is
aptly called, the choppers give long,
warning wall that sends all the workmen
in the neighborhood scampering to safe
distance. A second cry tells that the
tree is wavering, and the choppers them
selves leap from their perches and run
form it. The giant yields slowly and with
a mighty grumbling. Then, in spite OF
himself, he leans over painfully, and with
a frightsomc booming and cracking
sweeps to the trembling earth, with foliage
whistling and screaming like the rigging
of ship in hurricane. The shock il
terrific, and resembles nothing so much
as an earthquake. Clouds of dust
mingled with flying fragments, arc
thrown into the air. Every branch i,
snapped off and broken to splintcrs. The
thud is heard and felt miles away.
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How the Chickens Grows In the Egg.

The hen has scarcely sat on her eggs
twelve hours before some lineament of
the head and body of the chicken appear.
The heart may be seen to beat at the end
of the second day; it has Mt that time
somewhat the form of q horseshoe, but
no blood yet appears. AT the end of two
days two vessels of blood are to be dis
tinguished, the pulsation of which is Wis
ible, one of these is the left ventricle,
and the other the root ofthe great artery.
At the fiftineth hour one auricle of the
heart appears, resembling moose folded
down upon itself. The beating of the
hearts first observed in the auricle, and
afterward in the cntricle. At the end
of seventy hours, the wings are distin-
guishable and on the head two bubbles
are seen for the brain, one for the bill, and
two for the fore and hind part of the head.
Toward the end of the fourth day, the
auricles already visible draw nearer to
the heart than before. The liver appears
toward the fifth day. At the end OF
seven hours more, the lungs and the
stomach become visible; and four hours
afterward, the intestines, and loins, and
the upper jaw. At the one hundred and
forty-fourth hour, two ventricles are
visible, and two drops of blood instead
of the single one which was seen before
The seventh day, the brain begins tohave
some consistency. AT the one hundred
and ninetieth hour of incubation, the
bill opens, and the flesh appears on the
breast. In four hours more, the breast.
bone is seen. In six hours after this, the
ribs appear, forming from the gall-blad.
der. The bill becomes green at the end
of two hundred and thirty-six hours
and if the chicken be taken out of its
covering, it evidently moves itself Al
the two hundred and sixty-fourth hour
the eyes appear. At the two hundred
and eighty-eighth, the ribs are perfect
At the three hundred and thirty-first, the
spleen draws near the stomach, and the
lungs to the chest. At the end of three
hundred and fifty-fve hours, the bill fire.
quently opens and shuts; at the end Of
the eighteenth day, the first cry of the
chicken is heard. 1t afterward gets moro
strength and grows continually, till al
length it is enabled to set itself free from
| its confinement
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-01
A Ten.ThOusand-Dollar Girl.

/ must give you story lately told me,
which goes to show the value of the girl
of the period. On a certain day, on a
Pennsylvania railroad, belle of thriv-
ing Pennsylvania town, the daughter of
a wealthy lumber merchant, was travel.
ing in the same car with a shrewd old
citizen of her native town, and an agree
able young gentleman from the West,
who tells the story. The latter had been
talking to the belle, but as night drew
on and the young lady grew drowsy, he
gave up his seat to her and placed him.
self beside the somewhat cynical Penn
sylvanian. The latter began the con-
versation by pointing to high noun
tain, past which they were whirling, and
said, You see that mountain. Six
or seven years ago it was covered with as
fine forest as ever grew, and was worth
ten thousand dollars and upward. Now,
without tree, covered with stumps, the
land is scarcely worth a continental.
The net produce Of that mountain lies
over there in that seat" and he pointed
to the recumbent belle; I" that is my cal
culation. 1t has just about absorbed all
of that lumber which her father earned
to raise that girl, pay for her clothes and
jewelry, bring her out in society, and
maintain her there. Some of you young
men, perhaps, If you were given your
choice between the mountain yonder, as
il now stands, and the net produce on
that seat, would take the net produce I;
but as for me, give me the stumps."
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with any favorite food; they take it, take
sick, and take their leave.

with any favorite food; they take it, take
sick, and take their leave.
SHIRT FRoNT.-The following starch
not only gives a gloss to the linen, but
imparts a new appearance to 1t, and
makes muslin perfectly clean. To table
spoonful of starch put large teaspoonful
Of clear prepared gum, lump of loaf
sugar, and pinch of salt; mix with q
little cold water, and stir till quite smooth,
then add sufficient boiling water to make
it clear and of the proper consistency; a
wax candle may be stirred twice around
it-not more.
CORN PUDDING.-One quart of corn
cut carefully off the cob, one quart of
milk, one cup of meal, one teaspoonful
of melted butter, salt and pepper accord
ing to taste. Stir well and put in two
eggs well beaten, just before you put the
pudding into the oven. If your fire il
good the pudding will be done in half an
hour. Let it brown slightly on top, and
send it to the table i'm the same dish in
which you bake it, / prefer a dish of
white earthenware. This can also be
made of canned corn.
TOMATO SAUCE.-Stew dozen large
tomatoes with Cayenne pepper and salt,
until they become like marmelade.
Pass them through sieve to remove the
seeds, and stir until it is of the consist
ency of very thick cream. Then add q
half pint of nice broth and little but.
ter. Or if you have no broth little
water and an ounce and half of butter,
with two tablespoonful of grated crack.
er, or bread, may be stirred in just before
sending to table. In seasoning the same
use very little pepper. 1t will be nice
accompaniment to beefsteak, or beef Ia
mode, or cold roast beef
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Household HELPS.

To REMOVE INK FROM CARPETS
Procure basin of sweet skinned milk
and sponge, and pour the milk freely
over the spots and absorb it again with
the sponge, repeating this operation three
or four times, until the milk Is no longer
blackened, and then wash the milk from
the spot with cloth and water, and not
stain remains behind.
WAFERs.-One quart of -four, one tea
spoon of butter, pinch of salt; mix
with milk into dough, then roll out in
very thin circles. Bake in pans, quickly.
One quart Of flour makes twenty-five
waters.
To PREVENT CALICO FROM FADING.
Take the dress when IL needs washing,
and dip it in pail of salt water, and dry
IL before sending it to the wash. This
should be done before sending il to the
wash the first time and the process need
never be repeated.
How TO GER RID OF RATS AND
MIcE.-Wc get rid of rats by putting
potash in their holes and runs. The poor
wretches get Il on their feet and over
their fur, then they lick II, and do not
like the taste of IL; IL burns them some
what, and the more they see of IL the less
they like it; so they clear out almost as
soon as the application Is made. To get
rid of mice we use tartar-emetic mingled
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The English Wheat Crop.

Mr.. James Sanderson, great authority
in England on crop reports, has sent his
conclusions for the present year to the
London Times. The English wheat har-
vests for the last three years have all been
deficient, and the present is estimated at
seven per cent. below the average. The
total yield will, so Mr.. Sanderson esti-
mates, be about 10000, 600 bushels, and
as England requires 10000, 600 to feed
her population, it will be seen how large
a quantity of breadstufls must be brought
from abroad. 1t will PROFESSIONALLY be
the agreeable duty of the United States
to supply ut least $4,000, 900 bushels of
wheat. Prices will be somewhat lower,
perhaps, than they have been in the last
few years, but of this even we are doubt
full; at any rate, that market will be
found at remunerative prices for all the
wheat we can spare is now quite certain.
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No MORE HERoICs.-The deadly vege-
table alkaloids such as Mercury, Strych-
nine, and Prussic Acid can not cure dis
ease or produce any but the most dis
astrous results. Perhaps no event has
occurred of late years which is SO well
calculated to disabuse the public mind
of a belief in the efficacy of mineral
poisons and bleeding as the discovery of
DIR. Walker, of California, of certain
medicinal herbs, whose healing principles
he has extracted and combined in
the form of VINEGAR BITTERs. The
cures wrought by it seem marvellous. Its
action is mild and agreeable, but at the
same time rapid and efectual, and being
unimpeded by the presence of alcohol or
fermented liquor of any description, is
attended with results hitherto unachieved
by any remedial agent. The cure of
Bilious Complaints, Malarious Fever,
Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Scrofula, and
all diseases arising from impurities of the
blood, attest the paramount excellence
of this medicine, and justify us in recon-
mending il. 2
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Two Centuries Hence.

The following fancy picture of what
may be familiar enough two hundred
years hence is no more improbable on
the face of it than our railways, electric
telegraphs, and the like, would have
seemed a century ago:
iScene-Library in the house of an ell
derby gent, somewhere in Australia.
Old gent telegraphs to the kitchen,
and waiter ascends in balloon.
old Gent: "John, fly over to Calcut-
Ia, and tell Mr.. Johnson that j shall be
happy to have him sup with me. Never
mind your coat now, but CO."
John leaves, and at the end Of five
minutes returns.
John: "Mr. johnson says he will come;
he has got to go TO st. Petersburg. for a
moment and then he will be here"
Old Gent: Every well, John. Now
start the machine for setting the table,
and telegraph to my wife's room, and
tell her that Mr.. johnson is coming
then brush up my balloon, for / have an
engagement in London ut twelve o clock"
John flies, and the old gentleman runs
over TO the West Indies 10 buy fresh
orange.
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Dr. Pierce. Fnyorite Presentation


is very strongly recommended by the Medical
Faculty, and is largely prescribed among
their Female Patients. 1t is worthy of all
confidence, as may be seen from the follow
ing testimonials:
DIR. g. B. CHAPMAN, Plattsmouth, Neb.,
writes: l have under treatment a lady, who,
for the past seven years has been afflicted,
and, after trying several physicians without
receiving benefit is gaining rapidly on your
FdUorfte Prescription.
ATLANTA, ILL.,, July IA, 1872.
DIR. R.V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y.-Dear Sir:
l have not words to express my gratitude to
you for your advice and assistance i'm my
case. There is not one who has used your
medicines since they have been brought here,
but that can say with me they have been
greatly benefited. Since l have been so
helped by its use, six or seven around me left
off all doctors and other medicines, and now
use it in their families, after being cured of
the same disease as mine. You do not know
what wonder ii created in cur city, by its
restoring my sister wrote you about, for she
had been under the care of three of our best
doctors, but could not sit up but for few
minutes at one time. / begged of her to try
your medicines, and before he had used half
the bottles she could go all around the yard,
and has now just come home from visit five
miles away. MRS. TIIOS. MCFARLAND.
From Miss LORINDA +. ST. CLAIR, Shade,
Athens county, Ohio, Oct. II, 1872:
DR.. R.V. Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y.-Your Favor
tie Prescription is working almost like a
miracle on me. / am better already than
have been for over two years.
From ELLA A. SCHAFER, GAINESVILLE, Ind,
Aug. 3, 1872:
DIR. Pierce: / received the medicine YOU
sent me, and began using it Immediately. As
a result of the treatment feel better than
have for three years.
From Mrs. JOHN X. HAMLIN, Odell, ILL.,,
March 10, 1872:
DIR. Pierce: The Favorite Prescription has
done me good which am very thankful for.
Favorite Prescription is sold by all drug
gists.
DIR. Pierce's Treatise on Chonic Diseases
of Women will be sent to any address on
receipt of two stamps.
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Obstinate Pew Owners.

Connecticut people are proverbially
smart, and the following incident is no
exception to the rule: A religious
society in one of the towns in that State
was afflicted, asmany other societies have
been and are, inasmuch as the pew owners
had real estate right in the property.
Some of them would not give up their
right, nor sell it, nor consent TO any
action by the parish which could be
legally resisted. Here was case Of
tyranny. In free republican oligarchy
ruled the majority. But invention Is the
offspring of necessity, and Connecticut
is at home. At a parish meeting of the
society IL was voted to floor over the tops
Of the pews and build anew. The real
estate remained intact below. and the
unyielding owners found themselves
literally foored.
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The Seventh Day Adventists have
General Conference, including thirteen
State Conferences, 800 churches, rs or
daincd ministers, 60 licentiates and $1,000
members. The amount pledged TO sys-
tematic benevolence, in round numbers,
is $4,000. The headquarters of this or
ganization are at Battle Creek, Michigan.
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FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
HeIpfal Oracle.

Grandpa, grandpa, will you take me? ?"
Pleaded Oracle; "may Igor
Please say yes, and that will make me
Just as happy, don't you know2"
Grandpa, with his basket laden,
Said, "Igo TO SOW the rye;
II you wish II, little maiden,
You may come there, by-and-by."
Then TO grandma, gayly dancing,
Went the happy little maid
Scarce her feet could stop their dancing,
Scarce her eagerness be stayed
While she said, with eyes all glowing,
Drawing 10 her grandma nigh,
Please needle, for Pm going
To help grandpa SOW the rye"
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THERE is something infinitely touch
ing and solemn in the thought that q
man may be born into this world, strut
his brief hour upon the stage, and at last
tumble into eternity without ever having
seen the St. Louis bridge.
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CANCER.

IL is we'll known that the whole medical faculty
OF all schools OF medicine have pronounced Cancer
stand up boldly In the face Of all this authority, and
claim 70 be able 70 cure Cancer, To pat forth such
city of Philadelphia, with It's worldrenowned scien-
thc professors and medical colleges, would be- unless
10 lie inflated In the most unquestionabe man.
ner height of impudercc rarely attained by mortal
man. DR.. Thorpe boldly claims that he can cure
diseases OF q chronic and scrofulous naturei and,
further. that nv cuREs EvEny CASE TAKEN Nv MN.
lie does this by system which other physician IN
the world practices Ills method OF treatment lnvg
nature, purihcs aud cIeanses the system, and i'm.
parts tone and health 10 all the organs OF the body;
His method IN the most potent ever discovered, and
that II IL what IA claimed TO be Will be established
10 the entire satisftion o. sny one who viii inyes-
tiaate. Address, THORPtAN INSTITUTE, No.
3268 Chestnut street, Philadelphia.
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LIEnrENANr DoYNE. of Che 8Sth Repi.

LIEUTENANT DOYNE, Of the 38th Regi-
ment in the British army, walked the
other day from Aldershot to his club in
London--a distance of thirty-6ve miles
for wager. He backed himself in the
sum of ESQ to accomplish the distance in
seven hours, and succeeded in walking il
in six hours and forty minutes. While
passing through some of the London
streets his appearance attracted the at
tention of a constable, who took him to
be an escaped lunatic, and came very
near OBTAINING him.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-01

The proverb, "Silence is golden" is
translated in Spanish, "Flies don't creep
into O closed mouth"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-01

The Chinese are again permitted to
trade with Corea, under certain condi-
tons.
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Organs will be furnished on these plans, either
through agents, or directly to almost any part
the country.
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES with full descrip-
tions of the organs made by this Company, and
circulars showing in detail the different plans of
payment on which they offered, sent free.
Address MASON 4 IAMLIN ORGAN CO., Boston,
New York, or Chicago.
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The Cloth.plate is the size used by 800
Machine; is OF Polished Plated Steel Attach
ments Of proportionate size and quality,while
the entire Machine has corresponding finish
throughout Braider, Embroiderer, Guide,
Hemmer, Gatherer, four sizes Of Needles,
etc., are given with every Machine.
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BEST ORGANS FOR
EASIEST PAYMENTS.

The MASON HAMLIN ORGAN CO., winners Of
THREE HIGHEST MEDALS and DIPLOMA of
HONOR, at PARIS, 1857, and VIENNA, 1873, and
HIGHEST AWARDS IN AMERICA ALWAYS, re-
spectfully announce that, having greatly increased
their facilities for manufacture they offer their
celebrated Cabinet Organs, mot only for cash ex.
cIusiS ely, as formerly, but w i'll MISC rent them
with privilege Of purchase, or sell for payments
running through one 10 four years. One may
rent an ogan and thoroughly test IL before COM
peting its purchaser If paid for in the of
year the cost will be only i've To ten per cent.
more than the lowest price for cash on delivery.
The following table shows amount and times OF
payment several plans, running through year,
for a FIVE OCTAVE DOUBLE REED ORGAN,
style T, with Five Stops, Yox Humana, &c. Other
styles are at proportionate rates.