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To Color CARPET RAGS,

For ycllow.-Onc-half pound sugar of
lead dissolved, in hot water, onc-fourth
pound bicramatc of potash dissolved in Il
vessel of wood in cold water. Dip first
in lead water, then in the potash, then
alternate until the color suits. For five
pounds goods.
For orange.-To make the yellow a
bright orange. take quick lime slack and
let it settle, then drain it off clcar-add
sufficient water 80 that the goods will not
he crowdcd-bring to Il scalding heat for
an hour or until it is bright enough
For bluc.-DisSolvc One-fourth pound
of coperas in soft water, sufficient to color
five pounds of goods. Put in the goods
and let them remain fifteen minutes, then
take out the goods and take clean, soft
water, and dissolve two ounces pursiate
potash and put in the goods when it is
milk warm, let them remain fifteen min
utcs, then take out the goods, add one
ounce of oil of vitriol To the potash dive
when it is only milk warm; put in your
goods again. boil for deep blue and take
ont before boiling for lighter shades.
For grcen.-Takc the yellow, dyed by
the above recipe, and dye it by the above
recipe for dying blue, and you will have
u beautiful green. Try it, and see if YOU
don't
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The Slow Times.

We do not look for a sudden revival of
business any longer, says DIR. Holland in
Scribner's Monthly. If our diagnosis of
the case is incorrect, there can be no sud
den cure. We of this generation will
hardly live to see the country genuinely
prosperous. Great masses ofpropertv are
To be abandoned. The capital stock of
multitudes of corporations will be sunk,
and theirproperty will pass into the hands
of bondholders and creditors, at such a
price that they may possibly be made re-
meratively useful. Hundreds of millions
of invested funds will practically cease to
exist. The things in which these funds
have been invested cannot be used, and
they might Just aswcll have been thrown
into the fire. Thus the means Of living
have been enormously reduced among
capitalists, and more men need work to
do than used to need it, With this fact
on one side. we find set over against it
the other fact. that, of the multitude who
had adjusted their industry to the con-
ditiOns of war, only Il part are needed
under the conditions of peace Tens,
twenties, fifties are to be counted out of
the mills, the factories, the shops, and
sent either into idleness, or into some
our national industry is to be read
iustcd.
The cities and centers which have
grown 50 rapidly will naturally cease to
grow. The larger cities will grow, per-
haps, AZ London grows, by their attrac-
ton for men of wealth, but the men of
enterprise will not crowd into places
where there is no work or reward for
Il
fathers farms better than they have
done; and hundreds of thousands of men
and women who have left the farm and
the farmhouse must return to them. 1t
is pleasant to reflect that a living can he
won from the ground, and that agricul-
ture holds a certain cure for all our
troubles. Mr.. Greeley's old advice,
Go West, young man" was based upon
Il philosophy whose soundness the peo-
pie Of this time cannot question. The
tendency in his time was to overdo busi-
ness, and that tendency went on, to the
distressing results Of which all of us are
the witnesses and victims.
1t Is pitiful to see men and women
living idle. 1t is pittiful to see them in
great masses thrown out of employment.
We wish they could he made to under
stand now hopeless the SITUATION Is Tor AT
least half of them-how necessary it is
that they should seek employment in ag-
ricultural pursuits, in lives of industry
adapted to the present circumstances of
the country-in anything and any place
except that which is proved to be INSULT
cient for their needs. This change must
come, and the quicker it comes the bet
ter for them and the better for the I
country. Let us leave nothing to the
political doctors. They cannot help us
with any of their schemes, except by Civ
ing Us an honest financial system. Even |
this cannot work the miracle of making
people consume more than they want. T.
and of supplying work where it is not
needed. The American people are not I
lacking in shrewdness, patience, adap-
tivcness, and industry, and the good time
will come, though it is likely to be long .
delayed,
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The parsnip is one of the most valua-
BILE roots that can be grown. In the
island of jersey it is used almost eXclu-
sively for fattening both cattle and
swine. According to lie Contour the
weight of good crop varies from thirteen
to twenty-seven tons per acre. When
parsnips are given to mich COWS, with a
little hay, in the winter season, the but
ter is found to be of as fine color and
excellent flavor as when the animals are
feeding in the best pasturage. As par
ships contain six percent. more mucilage
than carrots, the difference may be suf-
ficient to account for the superior fatten-
ing as well as butter-making qualities of
the parsnip. In the fattening of cattle
the parsnip is found superior to the car
rot, performing the business with more
expedition, and affording meat of cXqui-
site and Juicy flavor; the animals cat it
with much greediness. The result of
experiment has shown that not only in
neat cattle, but in the fattening of hogs
and poultry, the animals become fat
much sooner, and are more healthy, than
when fed with any other root or vcgeta-
bic. and the meat is more sweet and de-
licious. The parsnip leaves being more
bulky than those of the carrots, may be
mown off before taking the roots, and
given to oxen, cows, or horses, by which
thew will be grecdily eaten. Another
thing in favor Of parsnips for this coun-
try is, that the frost does not injure
them. They may remain in the ground
until spring, when they make splendid
feed, at time every other root or green
thing is scarce; or they may he slightly
buried, where they can be obtained al
most any time during the winter
E,rchdRqe
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American Steel in England.

Our WOlverhamptOn correspondent
writes last night: English edge-tool
makers are fully aware of the success
with which certain of their business rivals
in America have supplanted them in
many OF our home and foreign markets.
80 large, however, is the demand at pres
ent for good edge-tools of almost every
description that there are few edge-tool
firms in the United Kingdom who have
not plenty of orders upon their books.
The English article is not, therefore, out
of use, but ere is a perceptible increase
in their favor in which handy and thor
oughly excellent tools are held, both at
home and abroad and this being encour-
aged by the growing facilities for manip-
ulating steel, both shear and cast. SEN
sibie of this, certain American firms are
pushing their opportunity, and American
forks, shovels and axes are to be had
wherever edge-tools are offered in this
country. 1t would seem that the Amer
leans believe they can compete with us
much more successfully by having branch
establishments to manufacture their spe-
cialties in this country rather than by
shipping their produce from the other
side. A firm of cast-teel shovel makers
at Pittsburg, who have recently brought
out a shovel in which the straps, though
of iron, are compacted with the steel
during the process of casting, and who
are making, at very low figure, and
with very little manual labor, shovels
that are getting very rapidly into use
thrC ugaOut the States, are now, through
a representative who has recently come
over from Pittsburg to England making
inquiries which will regulate their actions
and determine them whether they will
Themselves begin to make in this country,
or whether they will offer their process to
English firms or to an English company.
If American edge-tool makers should be-
gin to produce here goods that are already
running English makers hard, then it is
to be inferred that their example will be
followed by other Transatlantic hard
ware manufacturers. Whether in such
an event the English firms would remain
as well employed as they now are remains
to be seen.-London Times.
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Attend to the Animals.


Next to the family, the most import
ant duty is to make our domestic AMI
mails comfortable. There is great
profit in it. Warmth is, to a certain ex
tent, equivalent to food. And, what is
of far greater Importance, it saves diges-
ton 1t is sometimes said, when speak
ing ON this subject, that corn or hay is
costly fuel, but this does not tell half the
story. When an animal is exposed to
storms, and loses an excessive amount OF
heat, this heat has to be supplied from
the blood or from flesh and fat. And
good meat, fat or butter, is certainly a
very expensive fuel to burn in the ami
nal stove. Many farmers who think it
a great waste to burn body maple" in
in the house, allow their COWS to burn
butter in the barn-yard. This is precisely
what thousands and tens of thousands of
farmers do every winter We implore
every reader to provide some shelter for
his animals-if it is nothing more than a
shed Of evcrgrcen-branches or corn
stalks.
Next to exposure, one of the most
serious drawbacks to profitable stock
feeding is the want of liberal and regu-
lar supply of nutritious food. Many
farmers cannot be made to understand
that an animal eats large amount of
food merely to keep it alive, and that all
the profit the owner derives from keep
ing the animal comes from the food eaten
in excess of this amount. If straw will
keep an animal alive, all the profit of
keeping the animal is derived from hay
or grain fed in addition to the straw.
Horses that have worked hard during
the autumn had better rest little this
month, rather than towards spring. But
much depends, of course, on what there
is to be done. If horses are well fed,
steady work does not hurt them. And
it costs 50 much to keep horse that we
can not afford to let him lie idle unnec-
esSarly. Horses that have been pam
pered in the city are rejuvenated by a
winters run at straw stack, but farm
horses are seldom benefited to like eX-
tent by such treatment. The only adj
vantage in turning them ont is that it
saves the labor Of taking care of them.
They ought to have a warm shed to run
into in stormy weather.
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GENTLEMEN'S DRESS
Down with the Conventional Black "a
and Plantations and white Vest AL
a'raNafS.

Down with the Conventional Black Goat
and Plantations and white Vest and
GrayafS.
A writer in fashion journal finds fault
with the masculine regulation dress suits,
as follows: "Thc dress coat and panta-
looms black, vest and cravat white, is the
mode for the ball, opera, state dinners,
theater, (for such as 90 with ladies, and
not to eat pea-nuts), and evening enter
tainments i'll general that demand dress.
How irredeemably ugly it is! 1t is the
dress also of a tabe-waitcr; sensible for
such an occupation and position, but that
it should also be the evening toilet for
gentlemen is too ridiculous The only
true test Of dress is art, and any costume
that will bear repetition neither in a pic
turc nor statue is false in its conception,
and should be numerically frOwned down
by society. Test gcntleman's evening
dress by putting it either in Il picture or
a statute! 1t is skimpy, stingy, utterly
devoid of grace, unindividual, uncharac-
teristic. Look at a salon! Women in
flowing robes of silk, velvet, satin, or
tullc, radiant in jewels and flowers. What
charm, what grace, what spirit of refine
ment, what genius and pride of civiliza-
ton and culture thrill the beholdcr! No
two aliketpossibly. The various require
mcnts of beauty are fulfilled in color; the
woman's character and personality are
stamped on her costume i'll its complete
ness. She has expended time and thought
on her dress, it is evident 1t was the
tribute she owed to society, and she came
into it as shcshouId, Il priestcss, in fitting
robes. And the priests, An army of
b,, ( fol ,,-,,,1I
given precisely the same character to the
salon. And all these men to man hate
this dress, despise this dress, make fun of
it, feel like fools in it, and yet keep on
wearing it! Men and brethren, do you
think wOmen-weak, silly, frivolous wO-
men-would endure for one year, this
tyranny of fashion that you have borne
so faithfully for fifty? Not bit of it.
They are not 50 weak-they are not so
strong. Let this be reformed. Ii there
is any one thing | especially like it is re-
voiUtion And what revolution this
will be! What fortune laid at the very
doors of the journalistic fry who 90 into
society to write descriptions of costumes,
What Il spice, what fascination it will
give to the costume historians to be able
to inform the waiting world what sort of
lace Beechcr has chosen for frills, the
color of Vanderbilt's velvet coat, the
precious stones that glittered in the
buckles of Tilden's pumps, the lovely
combination Of cOlOrs in BiCrstadt' dress |
and the poetic charms of Emers0n's cos
tune. Then a salon will be picture
with the crows transformed |
into golden pheasants. When shall it be? !
What lady will immortalize herself by |
opening such a salon? What man will |
be the Bayard Of the new school of mas
culinc toilet?
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and move and carry on his devilish plot
as safe from discovery as if he possessed
one of those malign charms that in olden
times were accredited to the human
agents of Satan. We turn from the cruel
story with modification at the made
quacy of our methods of common pro-
lection, and with sorrow confess that, in
the stories of real life, the mystery and
power and romance are all with the vii
lains
The trial at Westervelt, in Philadel-
phia, for being an accOmplice in this plot,
leaves very little doubt in the public
mind of his relation to the principals.
But the conviction is forced upon every
thinking mind that from the very start
he played the deeper part by battling the
police at the very time he was. supposed
to be aiding them. In a word, one of
the principal police agents was himself
the confederate of Mosher. Two weeks
after the abduction of Charlie Ross, the
police of New York had satisfied them
selves that Mosher was the man. Indeed,
their conclusion was reached from two
widelyseparated starting points. Pinker-
tons men had struck the trail in one
place and the men of the central office
had crossed it in another. There can be
no doubt now that if Pinkerton's men
had not also run across the path of the
New York detectives, and to avoid
squabble with the central office been
called of, MOsher would have been cap
turcd alive. The efforts to secure the
kidnappers and to discover the where
abOuts of Charley Ross, were from that
time to the present confined to the exc
cution of number of stock devices pre-
sentcd for all cases alike by the formula
of the central office.
Accident may some day reveal the story
Of Charley Ross. Nobody now, for a
moment, dreams that the police will I'M
ravel it. 1t is a mystery, planted in the
full glare of the century, and in which
every mother and father in Christendom
is interested, mystery which is incom-
patible with The age, and alike disgrace
full to our era and our civilization. But
it shows us how far superior is ordinary
craft devoted boldly to the accomplish
ment of given purpose to the hObbling
and INSTRUCTED intelligence which we
employ in the detection OF crimc.-N. Y
World
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Aud Lang SYne.

$50 you are here again, Sarah Mon
roe?'' hailed his honor as the next prisoner
appeared--a woman who has been at the
station twenty times year.
''Sarah MOnroe? she repeated; (" no.
sir-my name is Mrs johnson, and live
in Toledo"
Pooh-pooh! Haven't | seen you
here score of times, Sarah? %
No, sir-I was never in the city till
last week
"Git Quit I'd know that nose of yours
if | was to meet it in Delaware and the
train was running sixty miles an hour
You were intoxicated again last night? ?"
Il know now where your mistake is, ="
she said, smiling bIandly, "don't you re-
member that l knew you when you were
boy about so high?"
"NO, madam"
"WeH, | did. Don't you remember
how we used to wade in the creek, swing
on the gate, and go berrying?"
"NO, madam"
You don't? Why, it seems hardly a
month ago since we rode down hill and
you helped me build play-houses. All!
Judge, don't you wish we were young
again?"
"Mrs. Monroe, you can't play that on
me- What about this charger
And you were such a sweet child, >"
she continued; chad such tender ways
with you! All! I'd give four dollars to
be little girl again and have you draw
me around in a wheelbarrOw, as you used
tor
"And I'll give you six months, Mrs,
Monroe, and if Bijah don't stop grinning
I'll take care of him as well"
you'll send me up?"
"Yes"
An old childhood friend ~
"The same"
"And didn't | used to say you'd come
TO the gallows?" she sighed, as she re-
entered the corridor.
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ScHENCK's PULMoNIc SYRUr,
SCHENCK's SEA WEED ToNIC,

SCHENCK'S PULMoNIC SYRUP,
SCHENCK's SEA WEED Tonic,
SCIIENCK's MANDRAKE PILLS
Are the only medicines that will cure Pulmonary
Consumption . 81
Frequently medicines that will stop cough viii
occasion the death Of the patient they lock up the
liver stop the circulation of the blood, hemorhage
follows and in fact they clog the action of the vei
organs that caused the cough.
Liver Complaint and Dyspepsia are th9 causes OF
two-thirds of the cases of Consumption Many per
sons complain of A dull pain in the side constipation
coated tongue, pain in the shoulder-bla1e, feelings
Of drowsiness and reseSSneSS, the food lying heavily
on the stomach accompanied with acidity and bclch-
ing up of wind.
These symptoms usually originate from dis
ordered condition of the stomach or torpid liver.
Persons 50 affected, if they take one or two heavy
colds, and if the cough in these cases be suddenly
checked, will find the stomach and liver cloSged,
remaining torpid and inactive, and almost before
they are aware the lungs mass OF sores, and
liberated, the result of which is death.
Schenck's PulmOnic SyTupis an eXpeCtorant which
does not contain opium or anything calculated to
check cough suddenly.
mikes with the gastric juices of the stomach, aids
digestion, and creates ravenOus appetite.
When the bowels coStive skin salow, or the
symptoms otherwise of Il bilious tendency, SCIIENK'S
Mandrake Pills required.
These medicines are prepared only by
i. II. SCHENCK * son,
n. f. corner of Sixth and Arch Streets, Phila.
And are for sale by all druggists and dealers
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Housekeeping.

In one of her contributions to current
literature, Jennie June" says that there
Is no habit more disastrous to good house
keeping than that of allowing the hus-
band to do the marketing-sen in the
supplies. Not that he may not be gen
crOuS, what Is called good prOvider F"
like the one who ordered home barrel
of Yeast, because his wife had taken a
fancy to have homemade bread; but he
acquires the habit of disbursing the en-
tire income according to his own tastes
and ideas, and no matter how liberal he
may I've to begin with, he will grow into
questioning and disputing every item of
which ne himself docs not exactly see
the importance. until it will become too
great humiliation To press any need
upon him; life will lose all its zest, and
the wife become mere working drudge,
or the idle recipient of whatever her huS-
band chooses to bcstow.
HouSewiferv as an art is considered of
less importance, at the present day, than
formerly, because so much is now done
that once depended upon the skill and
industry of the housewife to perform.
But if the housekeeper has less of handi-
work she requires to bring more of the
knowledge of schools. more capacity for
directing, more of the higher kind of
administrative ability to her work, and
has, moreover, not unfrequently, the
double part to perform of assisting in
finding the means, as well as dispensing
fer the benefit of her household. TO
these and such other novel conditions rs
the housekceper may encounter, she has
to adapt herself, and if she fail to accom-
plish all that may be demanded of her,
the fault is not altogether her own. This
does not, however, relieve women in gen
eral from any part of the burden of re-
sponsibility as heusekeepers; placed in
that position. let them do their very best
to improve the physical, mental, and
moral condition Of the world at large, by
making their own corner Of it as perfect,
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The Charley Ross Story,

The Charley Ross story, which by this
time X looked upon hv all the fathers
and mothers of the country Is the most
heartleSS and terrible crime of our era.
has unfoldcd. in the slow and uncertain
methods of the law. details of iniquitv
that must make every readers blood
both freeze with horror and boil with
indignation. The letters of these kid
ulppcrs are, without doubt, far ahead of
anything the imagination of Sue or Rev
uolds fabricated for the special delight of
their morbid readers. 1t would be folly
To so back To fiction for astounding bold
ness, crafty and mcrcenary rascality com
hned, - long ~ our courts can present
Us with such records rs these. No i'm
agimary plot can equal in defiant villainy
and successful mystery this actual oc-
CUrrencc. Moshcr and his coufederatc~
worked against the most fearful odds.
and, ~ far a. the fate of Charley Ross Is
concerned. they fulfilled their threat and
won. 1t was, without exception. the
most daring challenge that rascalitv had
ever made Ia our authorities. And our
authorities had everything on Their side
The boy for long time must have been
alive, must have been carried bv human
means from point To point, and during
that time, while the attention of the
entire American people WAS called to hi,
case. while his features and general ap-
pcarancc were made familiar to every
body hv photographs and descriptions
circulated broadcast in circulars and
newspapers, and the police of dozen
cities were stimulated To the utmost nv
offers of reward and the cagcrncaS of the
public. while we NAV say 10000. coo of
ewes were looking for the lad and for his
abductors secure mi>crcants who
carried him off were negotiating with
the parent through the public press. II
seems incredible now. with the advan-
tage of telegraphs and all the skill of the
police the country affords, with the com
munity itself turned into an Argus-eycd
watcher, that this young man could live
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BEATTY OF FARMING.-Thcre i moth
ing mean about farm work. There is
nothing ungcncrous or Ungratcful in the
stock. There are no such sore and sour
things To deal with as We meet every dav
among mean men. DctdultCrs. liars, and
thieves have no place on the farm. These
miserable characters are i'm towns The
farmer ought To he Il good man. He has
less temptation To he 4 bad man than
any character we know Of All his work
Is cnnobling, his contact with nature.
His dealing is with old earth. which is
the mother of us all. and which will take
Us all into her kindly arms again, when
lilc's titful fever is over.
.. it is delightful to turn the back
upon anxious, quarrclsome, struggling
men, and look upon the greenfields, and
commune with the honest cattle, and live
with nature and her children. The
farmers noble cork is worthy of noble
conservation,