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Her mode of proceeding was brief and
simple enough. She would insert an ad-
vertisement In the papers to the effect
that "ladies in town and country wish
ing for remunerative employment in lace,
church needle-work, etc, might apply to
NJ. D., Fern Cottage, West Croydon"
Applicants were requested to send q
stamped envelope for the return letter,
and they would receive full proof of the
lady's respectability. Idle young ladies
OF small means, maiden ladies who had
"seen better days" and wished to earn
an honest though it might be q humble
living, eagerly caught at bait SO tempt
ing. Letters showered in upon NJ. D..
Fern Cottage, West Croydon, was fairly
besieged, thrice day, by burdened post
men. To all these mlssives NJ. D.
Margaret Dellair-returned a printed
circular, in which the work to be fur
nished was set forth in glowing detail.
There was braiding, there was point
lace, there was tatting, there was church
needle-work, there was Berlin wool. The
ladies who undertook these pleasant
tasks were to receive at least shilling
an hour-a "sweet boon" to many an in
telligent British spinster. There was but
one condition to be fulfilled before Ia
dies could be admitted to share in these
delightful tolls and spoils. M. D. re-
quired that each applicant should pay
one guinea I" for registration fee, mate
rails and instruction." and helf the sum
would be returned when the work
ceased. Postoff1ce orders were to be sent
to Margaret Dellair, Fern Cottage, West
Croydon.
Some wrote and sent the postoffice
orders. M. DIS business waxed great
apace. One young lady received, in
acknowledgment Of her guinea, ten
toilet-mats, with materials for braid
ing them. She returned them TO Fern
Cottage, but no payment or receipt was
returned. After many weeks Mrs. Del
lair wrote that she had been ill, but
there was no mention of remuneration.
Finally, some ladies, overpowered by
curiosity, made pilgrimage to West
Croydon. There was Fern Cottage,
nestled in the woods. There was Mrs.
Dellair, serene, dignifed, unpretentious,
but full of engrossing engagements. At
last several pugnacious dupes determined
that the fraud should not go on. Mrs.
Dellair, gold spectacles and all, was put
into the dock and tried. 1t appeared
that in six months she had cashed no
less than 400 postoffice orders. Her
references" one and all took the stand
and declared that they had never before
heard of her. The police came forward
and showed that Margaret Dellair's hus-
band was already serving out sentence
oflpenal servitude for fraud, and now she
herself was sentenced to undergo the
same punishment for a period of seven
,I0xrnnL
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The Chinese Held To BE the ORIGINAL
Inhabitants Of America.

The attendance at the regular meeting.
of the Academy of Sciences (says the
San Francisco Chronscle) was larger than
usual. DR.. Harknell presided.
The time of the meeting was princi-
pally occupied with the reading of care.
fully. prepared paper by Charles w.
Brooks, on The Origin of the Chinese
Race, the object of the writer being to
prove that the first Mongolians came
from some part of this continent, prob
ably Peru. The argument may be sue
cinctly stated, as follows: Central Asia
has hitherto had the credit of being the
cradle Of mankind. Scientists say that
America is older, geographically, than
any part Of the earth's surface. There
fore, in natural process of evolution, the
aboriginal man must have appeared on
this hemisphere In the vicinity of the
first rocky elevation. The Chinese peo-
pie are unlike any other people on the
continent Of Asia. They are hemmed in
by mountains, and the great wall along
their northern and western frontier.
They have had no communication with
other Asiatic people from time imme-
mortal According to this tradition,
their first progenitors landed on the
southern coast of China. In looking
for the place whence they might rnatu-
rally have been brought BY favoring
winds and currents, our attention is
turned to- Peru. The records of that
country show an immense antiquity.
Their civilization was extremely ancient,
and the remnants of an almond-eyed
race resembling the Monaghan are found
in the Peruvian mountains and also
about the headwaters of the Amazon.
Peru had an immense population 1900
years before Christ. Early in the history
OF the world the Peruvians possessed q
knowledge Of solar movements, the
mariners compass and hieroglyphics or
picture.writing. An armed vessel or an
invader might have gone in sixty DAYS
from Peru to the southern coast Of
China Chinese records show that, 8,588
years before Christ, Fo Ri, stranger
King, introduced the reconcile know1-
edge possessed by the Peruvians to the
Chinese. The lower roots. Of the Peru
Wan telegraph are connected with the
216 radicals Of the Chinese language.
These writings occur all through Asia
and 'as far west as the Pyramids.
The suggestions Of these facts and the
many differences to be drawn from them
were elaborated with much specification
of detail. It was shown that, while Peru
had at one time II ,00O, 900 of inhabitants,
her industries had died out and her pop
ulation disappeared indefinitely, and
a0hleved ahigh degree Of civilization.
The paper was listened to with interest
and applauded ct the close.
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losses Of cash they would be more care
full to avoid them. Most men would be
exceedingly annoyed at losing a five or
ten dollar bill; but thousands lose hun
dreds every year through sheer careless
ness or indifference to employing we'll.
known and understood precautionary
measures in conducting this business.
We hope these hints will set some Of our
readers thinking how to increase their
income from labor and capital already
or about to be invested in farming.-Pea
and PlOao
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HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

| NO farmer is excusable who makes
his field work reason for not attending
to the vegetable garden. A good supply
! of vegetables in their season i worth
much in money and health.
-Stewed Cucumbers.-Pare and slice
sprinkle with salt and leave standing in
q drawer one hour; then stir in a little
water until done. Drain off the water
and season with butter, cream and pep
per.
TO make Venetian stew, take one ia.
blespoonful each of chopped onion, pars.
ley, flour and Parmesan cheese, little
salt, pepper and ground mace, spread be.
tween same thin Slices of veal; leave fo1
some hours, then stew in rich broth, with
a good piece of butter. ~ ---.
ITO make sage jelly cake, pour three
cups OF boiling water on one cup of
sage; let it stand three minutes; add
three cups Of finely-chopped tart.apples,
the juice of one large lemon, one cup of
stoned raisins, and one gill of sugar.
Mix thoroughly and dip one inch thick
in deep patty pans or biscuit pans. Bake
in moderate oven an hour Or less, but
do not brown. Let them stand till very
cold, then put on plates and serve for
supper. This can also be baked in q
pudding dish and taken out in slices
when cold.
The american Grocer gives the in
gradients of a very tasty dish made from
very simple materials: Three and one
half pounds raw veal, finely chop ped |;
butter the size of an egg, one-half pound
salt pork chopped fine, four soda crack
ers, crushed; three eggs, one small table.
spoonful of salt, one large tablespoonful
of thyme, two of powdered sage. Mold
with the hands int loaf, cover with a
little melted butter and cracker crumbs,
put little water in the pan and bake
three hours. To be sliced and eaten
cold for tea or lunch.
"A writer in the Philadelphia Pros
says: Nothing astonishes the English
more than our system of barreling ap-
Piles. In that country the crop is placed
thinly on shelves, in lighthouses con-
structed especially fer the purpose, and
no one thinks of sending them long dis
tances to market. Our Rhode Island
Greetings and Baldwins. therefore,
which now 60 there in barrels in i'm.
mense quantities, surprise them consid-
erably. A good deal of this is, perhaps,
due to the varieties we send there. A
few years ago the Newton Pippin was
the great American apple in the London
market, but since the failure of that va
riety those two named have, in a meas
ure, taken it's place. 1t is not, however,
that these apples should reach the En-
glish markets in such excellent condition
after being merely barreled up that SO
astonishes the English; the price is also
wonder, for, after being sent so far,
they can still be sold at a price the
English can hardly touch with their own
fruit. This fact speaks well for the
progress of American fruit culture"
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The Petroleum Industry.

The early history of petroleum is
curious. Known and employed for
burning from remote antiquity in the
Old World, no process for its purifica-
ton had been devised, and it was there
fore at best but an Indifferent and cheap.
er substitute for animal and vegetable
oils. The first attempts to refine it for
commercial purposes are believed to
have been made by Young, of Glasgow,
in 1S47, on petroleum got from Derby
shire, in England, from which he pre-
pared lubricating oil, and it was the
exhaustion of this supply which led him
to improve the methods for the extrac-
ton of oils from coal.
Meanwhile. in the United States, the
existence of sources of mineral oil had
been known to the Indians of New York
and Pennsylvania, who priced it as
medicine, for which purpose it became
familiar to the early European colonists
under the name of Seneca-oil. 1t ap-
pears to bave been an object of research
to the aborigines ages ago, since in the
oil regions of Western Pennsylvania are
found pits or wells apparently dug for
the purpose of collecting the oil, care.
fully timbered, and afording from the
growth of the forest upon the site evi
dences of an antiquity of from 500 to
1000 years. As early as 1919, in boring
for brine on the Muskingum River, in
Ohio, from a depth of 400 feet were OBJ
tanned large quantities of mineral oil,
which was source of great annoy
ance to the salt-makers. At this
time attempts were made to use
the oil for illumination. but, from
the want of proper lamps, it was not
found to be adapted to the purpose. In
1854 the successful manufacture of oils
from coal caused attention to be drawn
to the possibility of utilizing these ma
tive oils, and the Pennsylvania Oil Com
pany was formed for the purpose Of
manufacturing the petroleum found at
Oil Greek, in Venango County, Pa. The
chemical Investigation of the material
was committed to Prof. B. Silliman, Jr.,
and his report to the company, which
appeared in April, 1855, has been the
dustry of petroleum which has grown
report was described the conversion of
the crude petroleum by fractional dis
tillatiOn into products differing in densi-
ty and in volatility, the manufacture
from it of burning oil of great illumi-
mating power, of an oil capable of sup
porting low temperature and fitted for
fabrication and also for paraftine. He
farther showed the importance of dis
tillation in a current of highly heated
steam, and noticed the breaking up of
heavier into lighter oils by continued
hest-processes which have since as
sumed great importance in the manu-
facture of petroleum.-T. Sterry Hunt, in
Harper's Magazine.
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ALApY dropped her handkerchief in a
streetcar yesterday and q gentleman sit
ting opposite popped, down to pick it up.
The lady dived at the same moment
their heads came together, q crash, hands
went up to faces, faces turned red and
some very unintelligible apologies were
made. His head was the softest, of course,
and even at this moment he may be lying
on couch ofagony with huge lump Of
ice on his cranium.-lFee Pres.
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For SALE BIZ ALL DRUGGIsrs,

That untiring industry in any given pur.
suit, and an intelligent employment Of every
legitimate means for success, gives eminence,
is illustrated in the career of Geo. P. Rowell
& Co. In the science of advertising We might
Newspaper fraternity they have the best
standing in business point of view. To the
interests of advertisers they also devote .
large amount of careful contrivance.-Aeth-
odist Home Journal, Philadelphia, Pa.
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The GREAT FAMILY MED1C1NE.-Dr. vii.
hoft's Anti Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic!
No case of incurable Chills has yet presented
itself where this scientific and safe medicine
has been employed. No case has been found
so obstinate US to resist its prompt and mas
terly action. No man has been so reduced by
malarial influences but with its use has come
up perfectly reconstructed. No pills or pur-
gatfve required with this medicine. WHEE-
LOCK, F1NLAY & Co., Proprietors, New Or
leans.
For SALE BIZ ALL DRUGGIsrs.
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THE SONG OE.IHE SAFEGUARDS.


BY HENRY AMES BLOOD.
Far poured past Broadway's lamps alight
The tumult of her motley throng,
When high and clear upon the night
Rose an inspiring song;
And rang above the city's din
10 sound of harp and violin;
A simple but manly strain,
And ending with the brave refrain
Courage. Courage, mon cdmdrade!
And now where rose that song Of cheer
Both old and young stood still for joy,
Or from the windows hung to hear
The children of Savoy;
And many an eye with rapture glowed,
And saddest hearts forgot their load,
And feeble souls grew strong again,
So stirring was the brave refrain
Courage! Courage, mon connafude.'
Alone with only silence there,
Awaiting his life's welcome close,
A sick man lay, when on the air
That clarion arose;
So sweet the thrilling cadence rang
1t seemed to him an angel sang,
And sang to him, and he would fain
Have died upon that heavenly strain
Courage Courage, mon canaaude!
A sorrow-stricken man and wife,
With nothing left them but to pray,
Heard streaming over their sad life
That proud, heroic lay;
And through the mist of happy tears
They saw the promise-lade years,
And in their joy they sang again
And caroled high the fond refrain
Courage! Courage, mon canaaraae!
Two artists in the cloud of gloom
Which hung upon their hopes deferred,
Resembling through their garret-room
That noble chansOn heard;
And, as the night before the day,
Their weak misgivings fled away,
And with the burden Of the strain
They made their studio ring again
Courdge' Courage, mon camarade'
Two poets who in patience wrought
The glory of an after-time,
Lords of an age which knew them not,
Heard rise that lofty rhyme;
And on their hearts it fell as falls
The sunshine upon prison walls;
And one caught up the magic strain
And to the other sang again
Coufnge.' Courage, mon camdrude.'
And unto one who, tired of breath
And day and night and name and fame,
Held to his lips glass of death,
That song Savior came,
Beseechng him from his despair
AS with the passion of prayer,
And kindling in his heart and brain
The valor of its blest refrain
Courage Courage, mon camarade!
o thou with earthly ills beset,
Call to thy lips those words of joy,
And Lever in thy life forget
The brave song of Savoy!
For those dear words may have the power
To cheer thee in thy darkest hour;
The memory of that blest refrain
Bring gladness to thy heart again.
Courage! Courage, mon conlardde.'
-Scribner for June,
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COM, AND LET Us REASON TOGETHER.
-Tn the aff1icfad in bodu ma offor a IAN,

Conn, AND LET Us REASON TOGETHER.
To the afflicted in body we offer few
words of plain, practical reasoning. No
matter under what form of sickness you
labor there is one great truth you should
ever keep in mind, viz: All disease origi-
mates in an impure condition of the blood.
Purify that, and the disease must depart,
for it has nothing to feed on; but you can
not purify the blood by the use of poison.
Gus drugs and exhaustive stimulants; the
relief which these afford is temporary and
deceptive, leaving you worse off at every
interval. The best Blood Purifier ever
discovered is DR.. WALKERS FAMOUS VIM
EaAR BrrTERs, compounded of simple
herbs. No matter how hopeless your case
may seem, try the VINEGAR BIrrERs, and
few draughts will convince you of their
virtue. DR.. Walker, the discoverer Of
this priceless remedy, had been given up to
die by the Physicians, and is now sound
and healthy man from their use. SO
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Coax and flour are staple articles: but
not more so than Johnsonfs Anodrss Lint
nsent, where known. It 10 good for children
or adults, for any internal soreness of the
chest or bowels, and the best Liniment pre-
pared, under whatever name. ri,
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Thanks ssFrom the Depths OF ths
Hearth

WELLINGTON, Lorain Co., o., Aug. "a, 1874.
Dr.. r. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. T.:
Dear Sir-Your medicines, Golden Medi-
cal Discovery, DR.. sage's Catarrh Remedy,
Six months ago no one thought that I could
possibly live long. had a complication Of
diseases-scrofu1a, manifesting itself in
eruptions and great blotches on my head
that made such sores that could not have
my hair combed without causing me much
sils enlarged, enlarged or "thick neck" and
large and numerous boils. also suffered
from q terrible Chronic Catarrh, and in fact
I was so diseased that life was burden to
me. I had tried many doctors with no bene-
fit. finally procured one-half dozen bottles
of your Golden Medical Discovery and one
dozen sage's Catarrh Remedy and COM
couraged, but after taking four bottles of
the Discovery. began to improve, and when
I had taken the remaining I was ,ceN. In
addition to the use of Discovery I applied q
solution of Iodine to the Goitre, or thick
neck, as you advise in pamphlet wrapping,
is certainly the most wonderful blood med4
cine ever invented. thank God and you,
from the depths of my heart, for the great
good it has done me.
Very gratefully,
Mrs. L. CHAFFEE.
Most medicines which are advertised as
blood purifiers and liver medicines contain
either mercury in some form or potassium
and iodine variously combined. All of these
agents have strong tendency to break down
the blood corpuscles and debilitate and 9TH
erwise permanently injure the human sys-
tenn, and should therefore be discarded. DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, on the
other hand, being composed of the fluid ex-
tracts of native plants, banks and roots, will
In $vS,, 10 HHn3rnn
strengthening and curative only. sarsapa-
rilla, which used to enjoy quite a reputation
as blood purifier, is remedy Of thirty
years ago and may well give place, As it il
doing, to the more positive and valuable
vegetable Alternatives which later medical in
vestigation and discovery have brought to
light In gerofula, or Kings Evil, White
Goitre, Scrofulous 1n1ammations, Indolent
Inflammation, Mercurial affections, Old Sores,
Eruptions of the Skin and Sore Eyes, as in all
other blood diseases, DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery has shown its great re-
medal powers, curing the most obstszate
and intractable cases. Sold by all dealers in
medicines.
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100000 ACRES
MICHIGAN LANDS
T. q r. . a T. II

The Lands Of the Jackson, lansing & Saginaw Rail.
road Company are Now Offered For Sale.
They situated along railroad and contain large
tracts of excellent FARMING and PINE Lands
The farming lands include some of the most fertile
and well-watered hardwood lands in the State They
tmbered mainly with hard-naple and beech; soil
black, sandy loan, and abound in springs Of pures
prosperous State in the Union and its farmers have
greater variety crops and than any West
State. While some of the prairie States may pro-
tce corn in great abundance, they have other re-
source and when this crop fails destitutiOn follows
has been the the past year in Kansas and Nebraska
For Maps, Circulars and further Information, apply
to or address q. NJ. BARNES,
Land Commissioner. lansing Alichgan.
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=. TIL all-gone feeling which people some
times speak =. Of is caused BY want Of proper
action acton OF the liver and heart. These may be
sons Pwrgativs Pills In ANAL doses.
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WHY is the sun like . good loaf? Be
cause It's light when it rises.
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- ~ 49, = Y.
ONE of Audubon's sketches is entitled
"a Bah at Newfoundland" A fish-ball,
probably. y = -.
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The largest Vinegar Works in the world are
in Chicago. e. L. Prussing g. Co., Props.
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express charges guarantee of same from EXPIRES:
AE't. Address W. NJ HALLOcK. 1g:Tackson-st Chicago
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-12-06
The MeNicnn Lnnd lob.

That GRANT has long had in mind n
scheme of some sort FOR getting hold Of
Mexico, there is no doubt whatever GR,Nr
knows more about our Pacific coast and
Mexico, aud is more interested in the ,ub-
ject than in any other. lie unquestionably
looks with COW tous eyes on the country Of
tho old Azteos, una hopes to see it a part
of the teri tory Of the United Siatrs.
The san Francisco papers for some time
back have had references TO this subject Of
the annexation or conquest of Mexico, and
now they publish interviews on the sub
iect with various pcr-ous interested in
McXican'matters. The prepoudeiance of
opinion is that there is on foot scheme
for the acquisition of Mexican territory,
the pretcXt for which will be the claims
due us from that country. These amount
10 anywhere from twenty-five to nifty
millions of dollars, and for some time have
been under Adjudication by a Joint COM
mission sitting at Washington. GRANTS
idea seems to be 10 annex strip from
the northern portion Of Mexico. Senator
JONES OF Nevada, when interviewed about
the affair, expressed the opinion that the
Mexican people would not submit to the
loss of an inch of their territory Thismay
be So but if they can't help it, they may
have to submit 10 the loss Of good many
inches,
The san Francisco story is that there is
n treaty for the REIMBURSEMENT of terri
tory IN payment of the heavy claims
which Mexico has not the money 10 settle.
This may be true, but even If there is no
such treaty, thebclef is strong-and we are
bound TO say there is II show of fact to
supportit-that GRANT will try to take the
slice of territory, whether he gets 1t by ne
gotiaton or has to take it by force.
The Northern Mexican States, toward
which GRANT looks with covetous eyes,
are rich in minerals and agriculturally
resoureeiul, ana have superficial area Of