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IN ORDER THAT THE PEOPLE OF WASH
4 -ington Territory may help develop this vast
Gold aud Silver District, the Directors have con-
cluded to put in market 1000 Shares, at $40
each. unassessable, thereby giving the purchas
ers the benefit of $40 on each share. No assess
n ent can be made upon these :, 1000 shares.
Company the public are referred to the follow.
ing, made by Jay G. Kelly, Esq, Assayer:
CERTIFICATE OF ASSAY.
Assay Office of Jay G. Keiley,l
SEATTLE Nov Sd. 1874. {
Three samples of rock deposited by the " Sc
cattle Gold and Silver Mining Company" as
sayed as follows, pr ton of 1000 lbs:
No. l, Zephyr Lode-Silver, S408 43.
No. 2, Seattle Lode-Silver, $53 Al; Gold, 81;
Lead, per cent
No. 3, Northern Float-Siyer, sS4 50.
Nos. and 2 were knocked off the lodc4 by
me. JAY G- hELLY, Assayer.
Stock Books are now open at the Office of A.
Macintosh, Esq !, at Seattle, for subscription
to the 1900 shares Of preferred nnassessable
stock,
The Company guarantee that the whole pro-
ceeds of these 2 ,0Go shares will be applied ex-
clusivcly to the developement of said mines,
that not dollar of the same will be used for
saia-ies of officers or office expenses.
Stock will be issued to suit purchasers, from
one share upwards.
The public are reminded that this is home
investment and should be encouraged.
JOHN COLLINS, President.
JAMES McNAUGHT, yice-President.
A. Macintosh, Secretary.
Seattle, King County, W, T Dec. IL. 1874.
, 1875-05-20

Persons calling for the above, will please sev
they are advertised.
W Il. PUMFHREY, z. NJ.
, 1875-05-20
DIR. RADwAY'%

DIR. RADwAY'S
SARSAPARILLIAN RES0LVENT
Has made the most AstonlshingCures so quick,
so rapid are the changes the body undergoes,
under the influence of this truly wonderful
Medicine, that 4te
Every Day an Increase in Flesh and
Weight is Seen and Felt.
THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER.
Every drop Of the SARSApARILLIAN RE
SOLVENT communicates through the Blood,
Sweat, Urine, and other fluids and juices of the
system the vigor of life, for it repairs the wastes
Of the body with new and sound material. Scrof-
ula, Syphilis. Consumption, Glandular disease,
Ulcers in the Throat, Mouth, Tumors, Nodes in
the Glands and other parts of the system. Sore
Ewes. Strumous Discharges from the Ears, and
the worst forms of Skin diseases, Eruptions,
Fever Sores, Scald Head. Ring Worm. Salt
Ri cum, Erysipelas, Acne, Black Spots, Worms
l., the flesh, Tumors, Cancers in the Womb, and
all weakening and painful disc harges, Night
Sweats, Loss of Sperm, and all wastes of life
principle. are within the curative range of this
wonder Of Modern Chemistry and few days
use will prove to any person using it for either
of these forms of disease its potent power to
cure them.
If the patient, daily becomes reduced by the
wastes and decomposition that is continually
progressing, succeeds in arresting these wastes,
and repairs the same with new material made
from healty blood-and this the SARSAPARIL-
LIAM will and does secure.
Not only does the Sarsaparillian Resolvent
excel all known remedial agents in the cure of
Chronic ScrofulouS, Constitutional, and Skin
disease; but it is the only positive cure for
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Throwing the Old Shoe.

Very few, probably, of the thousands
who throw old shoes after bridal parties
as they are leaving home know anything
Of the origin of the custom. Like almost
all our customs, it is ancient and can be
traced to Bible times. 1t was then the
custom for the brother of childless man
to marry his widow, or, at least, he had the
refusal of hei. If he chose to reject her,
the ceremony was public, and consisted in
her loosing his shoe from his foot and spit
ting in his face. His giving up the shoe
was symbol of abandoning all dominion
over her; splitting in his face was an as
sertion o. independence. There was an
fair Of this kind between Ruth and Boaz.
In some parts of the East it was the Gus
tom to carry slipper before the newly
married pair as token of the brides sub
lection. The custom, as it exists with us.
is very old also in Scotland. The usual
saying is, that it is thrown tor luck, but
originally it meant Il virtual remuneration
of authority over the bride by the parents.
1t was formerly a custom among the Ger
mans for the bride when she was conduct
ed to her bedchamber to take off her shoe
and throw it among the guests. Whoever
caught it in the struggle to obtain it re-
cciyed it as an omen that he or she would
soon be happily married. Train, in his
history of the Isle Of Man, says :-"On the
bridegroom leaving his house, it was Gus
tomory to throw an old shoe after him,
and in like manner after the bride on leav-
ing her house to proceed to the church, in
order to insure good luck to each respect
lively, and il by stratagem either Of the
brides shoes could be taken off by any in
spcctor on her way from church it had to
be ransomed by the bridegroom" In
Kent after couple have started on their
tour, the single ladies are drawn up in oac
row and the bachelors in another. An old
shoe is then thrown as far us possible, and
the ladies run for it, the successful ono be-
ing the first female whom it is supposed
will be married. She throws it ut the
gentlemen and the one who is hit 10y it is
deemed to be the first male who will en-
ter wedlock. Generally it is considered
the older the shoes the better.
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Balky Horses,

once heard Of an unfortunate gentle
man who had become insane, but was re.
stored to sound health simply by causing
the mind to make q sudden revusion
which was done by skillfully causing him
to become jealous of his wife, who was II
most excellent lady and aware of the pro-
cess.
On this hint we might learn to manage
balky horse. He is insane on the subject
of going, that is self evident. If we can
manage to make him think on some other
subject, he will naturally forget about 60
ing and go before he knows it. The fol
lowing devices have been successfully tried
to accomplish the desired end
list. Tying a string around the horses
ear close to the head.
I'd. Hitching the horse to the swingle-
tree by means of cord instead of the
tugs; the cord fastened to the horses
tail.
3D.. Filling the mouth full of some dis
agreeable substance.
4th. Tying stout Irvine around the
leg just below the knee and then remov-
ing it when lie has travelled some distance.
Never whip balky horse, for the more
he is whipped the crazier lie will become.
Let everything be done gently, for bolster
Gus words only confuse him and make him
worse. Treat him in the mild manner
that you would a crazy man, and you will
succeed.
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4 Great Russian Contractor.

DR.. Strousberg, who was arrested at ST.
Petersburg after failing for nearly &c.
000,0 900 is of Jewish origin, his full name
being Baruch Hirsch Strousberg. Born
in 1928 in humble circumstances at Neid-
enburg, in East Prussia. He went to Lon
don in 1885, after the death of his father
Here he was received by his uncles, who
were commission agents, and was shortly
afterward baptised a member Of the
Church of England. Gifted with great in
telligence and energy, lie more or less edu.
Gated himself, and entered journalism.
In 1S4S he went to America, where he
gave lessons in German, but finally realiz-
ed some money by buying cargo Of dam,
aged goods and selling them at heavy
profit. With this capital he returned to
London in 1858, and founded several news
papers, but six months afterward he went
to Berlin, where he was for seven years the
agent of an English insurance company
In 1864, however, Strousberg began to
think of improving his fortunes, and hay
ing made acquaintance at the British En-
bassy, by this means came to know some
English capitalists, with whom he con-
tracted for the construction of the Tilsit-
Insterburg Railway.
Within six years Strousberg was making
dozen lines, among others those of Rou-
mania. He had over 100000 workmen in
his pay, and had launched out into other
vast enterprises. AT Hanover he estab
lished gigantic machine factory; at bort
mund and Neustadt he had smelling works
and iron factories at Antwerp and Berlin
he had built entire new quarters in Prus-
STA he had bought ten estates A.; in Poland
an entire county in Bohemia he paid
100000 for the splendid domain Of Zbi-
row, where he established railway car
riagc works which employed 5000 work
men.
Meanwhile he built palace for himself
i'll the Wilhelmstrasse at Berlin, which in
decoration, luxury and accommodation
surpassed that of the Emperor himself
I'm it were to be found works of the first
German and French artists Deacroix,
Meissonnicr, Gerome and others.
Nor was his charity on n less splendid
scale. In winter he caused 10000 portions
of soup to be given daily to the poor in
addition to $4,000 worth of wood. When
the famine broke out in East Prussia he
sent whole trains laden with corn and po-
tatoes to his suffering fellow countrymen.
OF course, such man had his own organ
in the press, and was chosen to represent
the nation. Yet he took from the Moscow
Bank, which he founded, 4,309,000 rou-
bles, and it is limited that bis future is not
altogether unprovided for. No greater
collapse than that of Strousberg has Prob
ably occurred in the financial history of
the country, save, perhaps that of Law
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were carefully laid over the surface. These
again were covered with seaweed, and the
whole with huge piece Of sail cloth The
mass was then left to cook.
Great skill has to be exercised in arranp-
ing the materials and in so gauging the
heat and time of cooking as to secure per-
feet work. When the bake was pronounc-
ed "done," it was uncovered and the con-
tents taken in baskets and poured on the
tables. In cooking, the shells in the clam
become partially opened and are easily
opened with the fingers The clam being
taken out smoking hot and juicy, its head
is removed by dexterous application of
the thumb nail, and it is then ready to
be seasoned and swallowed. So great was
the crowd on this occasion that the provi-
sions were entirely consumed and there was
not a clam or lobster left to tell the tale
That the average New Eegland stomach
can retain and digest a hearty meal ofroas-
ed clans, HOLSTERS, green corn and eggs is
a striking evidence of its capacity and
soundness.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-17

An enterprsng farmer of Western New
York communicated to us recently his
practice in the management Of his cows
during the season when the grass begins
to fail. He says the great secret of rear
ing and feeding stock successfully is TO
keep what you get-to save every pound
question lying still back of this is how
shall the fat and flesh be retained What
to do and how to do it is the question:
Hitherto have always commenced feed
ing my cows meal in October, and con-
tinued the regular extra feed through No
vcmber; and we made more butter in one
of those autumn months than in any other
month of the grazing season. | have
pint cup with tlaring sides that holds, when
dipped in and heaped up full, about two
quarts of good Indian corn and oats, OF
equal parts made Of the pure grain. |
never "cob" my animals. | am down on
the cob system of management. With
every fifteen bushels of corn and oats
mingle, before it is ground, about one
bushel of faxseed. This improves the
quality of the feed for animals ofany kind,
as ground flaxseed, which mingled with
grain, is far better for mich cows, for
horses, for fattening young sheep, or tor
young stock of any kind, than all neal
| SOW Il little flaXseed every year for the
express purpose of having the seed to
mingle with the grain that is ground into
meal for my cows and other stock. | think
this is the true way to make money-to
save all that is made without losing any
portion. The little losses abstract the
profits.-Nec York. Herald.
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farMIers' Column.
speed the ElOsr.o
Weight of Pigs for Market.

1t was only few years ago that swine
feeders were vieing with each other for the
greatest weight of carcass, but this is now
all changed. Hogs that will weigh 500
pounds are sold at less price per pound
than those of $50 to 800 pounds. The mar.
ket in England has long favored light
weights; London is chiefly supplied with
pigs of less than 200 pounds weight And
inns tendency OF the market to pigs well
tattened, but ofsmall weight, is just what
the farmer should encourage, for it is ex-
actly in the line of his interest 1t costs
more to make the second hundred pounds
on pig than the first, to make the third
hundred pounds than the second, and so
every pound added becomes more expen-
Sive.
Several years have proved that wcll-fat-
tened pigs OF $50 pounds weight find the
greatest favor in the market, and this fact
should change the whole system of pig
raising and fattening. Instead of keeping
them TILL eighteen or twenty months old,
they should never be kept beyond twelve
months, except for breeding, and seldom
beyond nine or ten months. The great eff
fort should be to induce early maturity
In our pigs, and thus shorten the period
OF feeding, and consequently less, the
cost per pound producing pork. This is
matter OF much greater Importance than
pork-raisers generally realize. We think
any well conducted experiment would
show that ten pigs carried over the winter
in store condition, as is usual, and fattened
at eighteen or twenty months, cost, per
pound of live weight, twice as much as
another ten of equal quality, full fed, and
fattened at nine or ten months. There
would not be so much difference in cost
per pound if the pigs were full fed for the
whole eighteen or twenty months but
even then the difference would be at least
80 per cent. in favor Of early maturity
And this matter of early maturity is en-
tirely within the control of the breeder
a cross of Berkshire, Essex, Suffolk, small
Yorkshire, or other early maturing breeds
upon cur best common sows will produce
the desired result. But this system has no
period of storing animals; it must be one
constant progress from the first to the last
day in the life of the pig.-Bufalo Lire
Stock Journal
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known only to themselves, some miles
down the river, and it was year or two
later that they were finally unearthcd and
annihilated.
An examination of the interior of the
sycamore which had long been the abode
of the pluuderers, revealed vast stores of
provisions, arms and valuables, stolen from
the settlers. This famous tree was still
standing fifty years ago, and many old citi-
zens Of that locality remember it distinct
ly; but no trac, of it now remains. The
writer lately visited the spot where il once
stood.
The treacherous Gibben, who of course
disappeared from the neighborhood of
Cats Run, after the discovery of his affilia-
tion with the robbers, joined them at the
cave alluded to, and met his deserts when
the gang was broken up.
Deerfoot, the faithful Indian, was shot
dead in his canoe, not long after revealing
the secret OF the sycamore; but by whom
can never be more than matter of sur
mise
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-17

PoTAToEs.-A contemporary states that
it is not true that Sir Walter Raleigh first
brou. Int potatoes to England. John Haw-
kins first introduced them in 1865 next,
Walter Raleigh, in 1884 !; finally, Admiral
Drake, in 1886, sent some to Il friend 10
plant. with the remark that the fruit was
excellent and nutritious, SO that it would
be very useful in France. His friend plant
ed the tubers and they grew nicely; but
when the seed balls were ripe, he took
these instead of the tubers, and fried them
in butter, and, sprinklirg sugar and CHINA
mon over them, placed them before some
company as great rarity. Ofcourse, these
balls tasted badly, and it was decided that
the fruit could not ripen in that climate.
The gardener was directed to pull up the
plants and burn them, which he did, when
gentleman who CHANGED TO be present
stepped on one of the baked potatoes us it
lay in the ashes, when it broke open, and
he noticed that it was white as snow,
and mealy, and had such nm agreeable
smell that he tasted it, and found it very
palatable. The new vegetable was thus
rescued, but for century after it was only
cultivated in his garden.
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A Clanbakc.

The following description of an Eastern
clambake will, we doubt not, be of inter-
est to many Of our readers. To begin with,
600 bushel of CLANS were caught day or
two beforehand and kept in barrels of sand
moistened with seawater. The excavation
for the bake was 100 feet long and eight
feet wide. The bottom of the excavation
was covered with smooth boulders of from
eight to twelve inches in diameter. On
these boulders were piled fifteen cords of
wood, which was saturated with coal oil
to make it burn easily. Early in the morn
ing the wood was set on fire, and during
the forenoon burned to a mass of live GOALS
The Goals and ashes were then removed
leaving the boulders ut white heat.
Then the cooking process began First,
the clans, 600 bushels, were spread oD the
hot stones to the thickness of four or five
inches. They were then covered with fresh
seaweed. On this were spread 1900 lob
sters freshly caught, alive and Kicking
These again were covered with seaweed.
Then came layer of 900 dozen ears of
sweet corn and another layer of seaweed.
This was followed by layer ofeggs, which
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VARIETIES.

A student of Latin, being confined to
his room by illness, was called upon by a
friend. "What, John said the visitor,
''sick, eh 2" Yes replied John, "sic suns'
$50 any.
i is important to know the difference
between mushrooms and toadstools, but it
takes years to find out, and authorities
differ. The only sure test is to eat one
lfyou live, it is Il mushroom. If you die,
it is to0dstool
"A Syrian convert to Christianity was
urged by his employer to work on Sunday,
but lie declined. But" said the master,
"does not your Bible say that if man has
all OK or an ass that falls into pit on the
Sabbath day he may pull him out ~
has a habit of falling into the same pit ev-
cry Sabbath day, then the man should
either fill up the pit or sell that ass"
The head Of II New York mercantile
house was Dragging rather largely of the
amount of business done by his firm
You may judge of its extent" said he,
"when | tell you that the quilts for our cor
CNSt lNO NLlNuSdltl tlDllUIS u
year. pooh ~ said the clerk of another,
who was sitting by, what is that to our
correspondence, when save four thousand
dollars in ink from merely emitting to dot
the is
The steamer Fanny was coming down
the upper Mississippi loaded with pig lead.
AS she was going over a shoal place the
pilot gave the signal to beave the Lead
The only man forward WAS a green Irish
man. "Why don't you heave the lead ~
as it the lead yer honor9 Where to ~
"Overboard, you blockhead." The Irish
man snatched up one of the pigs Of lead
and threw it overheard. The mate, in en-
deavoring to prevent him, lost his balance
and fell into the river. The captain run
ming to the deck, asked, "Why don't you
heave the lead and sing out how much
water there is 2" "The lead is heaved yer
honor, and the mates gone down to see
how much water there is"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-12-17

A WEATHER PREDIcTIoN.-Prof Tice,
according to the Springfield, Qll.) Journal,
made the following prediction few weeks
ago: "The coming winter certainly will
not be an agreeable one. First, cold, re-
ally so, will set in about the 2Sth of No
vember and continue for nearly week.
1t will he warmer about the 9th Of Deem
Der, and then cold for another week. 1t
will be warmer from the 10Th to the 18th,
and then cold again. About the Goth it
will be warm, and about the Both cold,
very cold until January 9th then warmer
till the 18th {; then very cold to the Goth f;
then warmer for few days, followed by
cold weather till about the close of the
month. The month Of February will be
very boisterous, generally warm, but short
spells of intensely cold weather" A por-
ton of the professors prediction has al
ready been realized.
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HOG CHoLERA.-As this disease is now
prevailing, the following, from an ex-
change, may be of service:
I'VE have given ten grains Of calomtl to
the hog, with great success, in case Of
cholera. II they will not cat slops, put
the calomel in an apple after the core is
withdrawn, plugging up the ends with the
part taken out, after the inner part of the
core is cut off. Hogs will eat an apple
when sick, when they will not touch any
thing else"
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Poe tiCal.
For The AEgiS d. Intelligence:
The Old Maid.

BY AN OLD MAID.
In a cottage fair and westward,
On the prairie far away,
Sat maiden sad and lonely,
Growing sadder day by day.
Thinking thus-"They told me westward
If my fortune | would seek,
] should lose my old maid title,
Catch beau within week.
So came, but not q shadow
OF the coming man | see,
And an awful fear steals DER me
That an old maid Ger I'll be.
Then / try to look less primmy,
Try to keep my things less neat,
Try to love my tabby cat less,
Try to drink my tea less sweet.
Gladly would sew those buttons
That said bachelor sews at cen,
Gladly would | wash those dishes,
Keep that kitchen neat and clean.
Gladly too I'd cook that bccfsteak,
And a spoon his cup should stir,
Not q dish should he have broken,
Longer why does he demur?
For no bachelor will ask me
All these duties to fulfil,
And | fear my future prospects
Are to be an 'old maid still"
Bon UOmnle, DAKOTA tn.