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Ny straining eyes were at last reward.
ed BY. the faint glimnet .Qk. Light
through the storm. Fierce1t, inpatient
ly, | urged my tired horse up to the
door. With Miss Grace in my arms, /
tried to enter. At first the inmates were
startled by my imperative summons, but
in a moment they unbarred the door re-
vealing the ruddy glow of the fire within.
Motionless, senseless, | laid Runee on the
wooden settle, where the yellow light
played over the ice-cold face.
The woman who had welcomed Us un-
derstood the treatment needed to restore
animation to the almost pulseless form.
She had a fire built in the innner room,
and took Runee there. All night she
watched and worked, and when morning
came the smile in the languid eyes of her
patient would have rewarded hours of
even greater anxiety.
Early in the morning | rode home, to
tell the story to the fearing ones who had
watched through the dark hours for us.
Two or three months after that fearful
night, | stood alone with Runee in the
little parlor at Deacon Thaxton's. |
stood holding her hands in mine, looking
down at eyes that shone sweet Fad humid
through tears that were not of sorrow
"And the absent lover is a myth |
said.
eyes, and always was"
"But the present one"
"You know; have told you; the pres
ent one has my love-"
And with the love of Runee Grace my
happiness is sure.
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Deadening the Roar of Steam.

Everybody that travels has expert
enced the annoyance of having his ears
deafened when on board a steamboat by
the roar of steam. Sometimes accidents
have occurred during the racket of
" blowing-off" simply because the cap
tain cannot make his orders heard, and
everything is to be done in dumb show
while the disturbance lasts. Happily an
invention called the spiral exhaust noz-
zle, is destined to choke off this noise.
1t operates by breaking the waves of
sound, the escaping steam being sur
rounded with a wire helix A report
adopted by the. committee on Science
and Arts of the Franklin Institute says:
T" In view of the annoyance, fright and
danger arising from the roar of escaping
steam, and of the completeness With
which the nozzle destroys this roar, we
are of the opinion that Mr.. Shaw has
done a great service TO the community,
and especially to the transportation in
terests, in overcoming an obnoxious and
dangerous feature in the use of steam
and we recommend the award to him of
the Scott legacy premium and medal for
his spiral exhaust nozzle"
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How to Manure Orchards.

/ have read with interest the notice in
one of your recent issues by Free
Talker' of one of the meetings of the
Pathological Society when the necessity
of a system of fertilization of orchards
of the Michigan Lake Shore, where the
soil is of silicious character This mat
ter of enriching orchards has been for
some years a subject of some Thought
with me. At length | came to the con-
clusion to make an attempt in that
direction on about ten acres of apple
orchard. In the spring of 1876 plough
ed the ground as deep as [ could, then
sowed one bushel of clover seed: and
dragged it in both ways; this was in
April. We had an abundance Of rain at
the time the seed was sown, and, after
ward, the consequence was good catch.
The clover grew all the season without
pasturing. At this time of writing, it
would be called a heavy crop. / am
having it moved with a scythe. As soon
as it is cut | have it raked under each
tree as far as the limbs spread. This |
leave as mulch the second crop | intend
to let grow the balance of the season,
ripen the seed and thereby restock the
land. In 1878 | think there will be a
heavy crop of clover. If so, shall pur-
sue the same course of moving and
mulching. The second growth of 1878 at
proper time in the fall I shall plough
under. Thus I shall return to the land
two heavy crops in the shape of mulch,
and one, green, ploughed under This
will be cheap and durable way to enrich
our orchards.-J 4. Whittlesey, IN Michi-
qdn Farmer. @
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Now that moving machines run such
light draft. and the facilities for regulat-
ing the height of the cutter-bar are so
exact and convenient, We have often
thought that there was, In seasons giving
short hay crop, a tendency to cut too
close, especially in timothy. In clover the
formation of its stalk and its attachment
to the root is different, and its roots run
deep, while timothy is comparatively
shallow rooted. If timothy is cut below
the lower joint the chances of the root
being killed by dry weather and hot sun
are very much increased, and its tenden-
cy to tiller out is very much checked.
Last season we tried the experiment of
cutting three or four rows of timothy as
low as we could set the knife, and it is
perfectly safe to say that to-day there
is not one-half the quantity of grass on
this plot as ON the same area in other
parts of the same field. The timothy is
so long in starting its second crop that it
is much more exposed than clover, and
the trouble may be due to this cause
alone. If half, or even an inch more
of the stubble will have any effect in
saving the root, it is poor economy to cut
so close as to remove it.
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Cure for Poison Ivy.
From Forest and Stream.

q
have probably suffered more from
poison ivy than any other man. Three
times during one summer | have been
blind from its effects. / have tried
every remedy without success, until last
summer / was out east shooting, and,
with ~ usual luck, got another dose
that confined me TO the house l could
not walk. An cid fox-hunter living in
the neighborhood, hearing of my condi-
ton, came to see me and brought me a
remedy that acted like magic. In
three days time was up and enjoying
what / love better than anything else in
this world, the best of all field sports
fall woodcock shooting. ! give you the
recipe: Take one pint of the bark of
black spotted alder and one quart of
water, and boil down to one pint. Wash
the poisoned parts dozen times day,
if convenient: it will not injure you.
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A Scene i'm the SOughanlu.

- "A correspondent OF Inc LONDON NclC5,
who reached the Turkish camp in the
Soughhanlu range early in June, saw
the great glacier-like snow beds which
were feeding the mountain torrents, and
felt the raw edge of the wind. Every
day for a week there were rain and snow
storms, and every morning the camp was
covered with a thick sheet of snow. To
an ordinary European army, with its bag
gage and artillery trains, the country
around the camp was impossible, and the
Turkish officers were not surprised that
the, advance of the Russian left wing
over the spurs of the Ararat chain to the
south had not been more rapid. 1t was
in such wintry scene as this that the
correspondent witnessed the roll-call in
camp and the public punishment of a
pair of military offenders The battal-
ion were drawn up in columns of COM
panies along the slope outside their tents.
The report was made in the usual fash
ion, and then, just before the sun dis
appeared over the snowy sierras towards
Erzeroum, the Imperial salute was rem
dered. The bands played long drawn
out wailing kind of air-the regimental
bands sounded flourish, the drums
rolled, and simultaneously from the en-
tire army burst the cry, " Long live my
Padishah," while the troops presented
arms. This. ceremony was repeated
three times, and then the offenders were
marched from their battalions to point
in front of the whole line. Each man
placed himself on hands and knees, and
by him stood a soldier holding stout
stick about yard long. On a signal
from the commanding officer The bands
struck up a lively air, and the men with
the sticks commenced belaboring the
culprits, keeping time to the music with
the greatest regularity. At distance
they had the appearance of men. beating
dust out of carpets. After each had re-
ceived about fifty blows on the back the
music ceased, and the offenders eturned
To the ranks - q fsEt s.s.tFHT. 7-r.
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Salt for Poultry.

A McLaren, Meadville, Pa, writes to
the .Aqriculturist: " would like very
much to have some of your correspond
ents give the reason why poultry should
be excluded from the great essential
salt. In my early experience this was
the precept laid down by my mother,
and it is practised by nearly every one
to-day. l am very extensive breeder
of nearly all the fine bred varieties of
fowls, and have reared this season about
FIVE hundred young stock. find that
my stock thrive better, after their warm
feed and bran, every morning, we'll sea-
soned with salt, and in cold weather a
little red pepper added. l look upon
these condiments as the ounce of proven
ton in case of disease, and would ask
your readers to try it and report. If l
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Lice on Animals.

A correspondent writes to western
exchange: Lice on domestic animals
will often produce great irritation of the
skin. They are often on cattle when
their presence is not suspected.
noticed some time age that my
horses rubbed their tails even
to rawness, and that before carding
them they were inclined to rub against
me. So began searching for lice, and l
found that they had thousands of the
big blue species. l washed them in
strong suds made of common SOAP
which had no effect on the lice. So
procured carbolic soap and washed them
with the suds. The effect was surpris-
ing. Three days after the washing
there were hundreds of dead lice with
their heads pointed apparently to the
hide, and their dead bodies extend ling
outward
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ADRICAL.
nY EpMrNp cLARENcE srEnMAN.

By EDMUND CLARENCE sTEDMAS.
rus 10 Lycoris, rho repyored hin Jor Inconsistency
Why should l constant be?
The bird in yendeT tree,
This leafy summer,
Hath net his last years mate,
Nor breads to venture tate
With a newcomer.
Why should fear TO sip
The sweets of each red lip?
In every bower
The rowing bee may taste
Lest aught should run in wastel
Each fresh-bl0wn flower
The ,rickling rain doth fall
Upon US one and all;
The south wind kisses
The saucy milk-maid's cheek,
The nuns, demure and meek,
Nor any misses.
Then ask no more Of me
That should constant be,
Nor exc desire it;
Take not such idle pains
To hold our love in chains,
Nor coax, nor hire it.
Rather. like some bright elf,
Be all things in thyself,
Forever changing,
So that thy latest mood
MAY ever bring new food
To Fancy ranging,
Forget what thou vast first,
And, as loved the erst
In soul an feature,
I'll love thee out of mind
When each new morn shall find
Thee new creature.
-lSxi5ner.
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A Mechanical Horse.


The Geneva Continent says: can inge-
NOUS gentleman of Berlin, Herr Fred
erich Netzsch, has invented horse. The
animal is made of iron, and the motive
power, instead of being its own legs, is
derived from the legs of the rider The
iron horse, as the Berlin papers call him,
showed off his PAGES the other day in the
garden of Hagen's Summer Theatre, in
the presence of the leading mechanicians
and journalists of the German capital.
The concern is described as consisting of
a couple of wheels, two meters high; be-
tween these find itself the horse, upon
which mounts the rider. The latter
moves his legs after the English fashion
of riding (this means, we presume, that
he rises and falls in his saddle), and the
thing goes along as fast as quick trotting
horse. The road makes no difference
it is all the same whether the machine
goes gently over the stones or moves
swiftly on the hard, high road-and the
facility with which the steed turned
round corners excited the admiration of
all beholder. Herr Netzsch believes that
his invention will be of great use to
porters and others for the carrying of
light loads, and he has confident hopes
that it will be highly appreciated by the
numerous classes who are fond of saddle
exercise, but are destitute of the where
withal to buy and maintain horses of
flesh and blood; he contemplates too, its
application to the drawing of cabs and
other carriages. 1t is even conceivable
that in this invention we have the
charger of the future. An animal that
does not eat and cannot die would be of
inestimable value in warfare. There are
one or two rather significant, omissions
in the description from which we quote.
We are not told how man of flesh and
blood is expected to support the fatigue
of moving, by rising in his stirrups, a
creature of iron,s OF. if it be possible to
keep it going in any place less fiat than
Berlin, city which, as everybody
knows, is as level as a biliard-board."
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Singular Medical Development.

NJ. Auguste Labrot. French gentle
man, having recently died in Cincinnati,
his body was embalmed for the purpose
of sending it TO France. The process led
to some singular developments. There
was fatty degeneration of most of the
internal organs TO an extraordinary
degree; the heart was in such condition
that the finger could be easily pressed
through it; some OF the blood vessels were
calcifed and brittle; and there were
patches Of softening in the brain that
must have been of six months duration.
though the deceased showed no signs of
it while living. The most extraordinary
discovery was that there had been a rup-
ture of the heart some little time pre-
vious to VI. Labrot's death That such
an event did not Immediately prove fatal
is matter of surprise. The embalming
of the BODY was very successful
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HOW A NEWSBOY SAVED A BANK


}
! anime the Books. and Satisfied.
From the Philadelphia Record.
And now let me tell you how Did
ley the newsboy, stopped panic. 1t
was soon after the failure Of the Bank
of Pennsylvania, and public confidence
in all moneyed institutions was badly
shaken. Savings funds especially felt
the shock. Well, rumor had gone
about the Savings Fund, then located
in the building at the southeast corner, of
Third and Chestnut streets, where the
Western Union Telegraph Office is now
situated. The depositors were mostly
Germans, in small amounts. Dudley had
told me he had $500 deposited there, and
so when a rush was made on the bank l
called on the president as newspaper
man to make inquiries. Dudley hadn't
got down town yet, but some of the news
boys started for his house to notify him
while others gathered in the crowd. ALI
were as much interested as himself in his
finances. A failure of the bank meant a
stoppage of theatre tickets. / soon
learned that the Savings Fund was in a
condition to go through if the rush was
checked"
"' But We can't stand this panic. Pll
see that Dudley shan't lose a cent, if |
have to pay it out of my own pocket
said the president. This touched me,
and L resolved to help him. 'rll send
Dudley over here when he arrives I
suggested to the President, and when
he comes you give him full liberty to
look at the books, ETC., as you have given
me: Then trust to his tact l found
Dudley waiting for me at the office, and
| told him the facts. Over he walked
with the careless air of a capitalist,
through the crowd into the bank, fol-
lowed by yelling mass of newsboys"
"' want to see the president, de-
manded Didley."
:" am here; what can / do for you,
Mr.. -, calling him by his proper
name. "
W Well, Mr.. President, want to know
the exact state Of affairs. | have $500
deposited here, and | can't afford to lose
1t. But l don't want to trouble you by
drawing it out if it is safe. l ask you,
on your word of honor, is it safe?
"' | assure you that it is, on my word
of honor. But as you have acted so
gentlemanly, walk in and examine the
! books"
"With one of his little hands thrust I'M
der his short coat tails and the other
placed on his breast, Didley walked into
the Directors room with all the style of
a Rothschild. The rush for money was
temporarily stopped bp the crowd gazing
on this littleman q.
"Soon Dudley emerged, his face show
ing evident satisfaction. did you get
your money! was the salutation of the
crowd of boys, as he reached the step.
why should l get my money! he an
swered. This banks all safe-I don't
scare like these Dutchmen' Three
cheers for the bank! Three cheers for
Didley' went up from hundreds of
youthful throats. The older folks stood
awe-stricken. The confidence of the
newsboys asserted itself among them, and
by noon the panic was stopped, and the
crowd had disappeared. The President
told me afterward that Dudley had saved
the bank, as continuance of the rush
would have embarrassed them beyond
redemption, before they had time to dis
pose of their assets at a proper price"
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"A Wash for Fruit Tfses,

Wash for Fruit Trees f
The following is recommended, by a
commission of fruit-growers, presided
over by Prof. Cyrus Thomas, state ento-
mologist of Illinois, and is part of a
very full report, embodying advice as to
the best means of fighing the insects that
infest the orchards Of that state ~ E''s
"Insects and mildews injurious to the
leaves of seedlings and root gratis can be
kept in subsection or destroyed by a free
use of combination of lime and sulphur.
Take of quick or unslaked lime four
parts, and of common flowers of sulphur
to one peck of lime. Break up the lime
in small bits; then, mixing the sulphur
with it in a tight vessel iron best), pour
on them enough boiling water to slake
the lime to powder. Cover in the YES
sci close as soon as the water is poured on.
This makes also most excellent white
wash for orchard trees. and is very useful
as preventive of blight on pear trees,
TO cover the wounds in the form of a
paste when cutting away diseased parts
also for coating the trees in April. 1t
may be considered. as the one specific for
many noxious insects and mildew in the
orchard and nursery. Its materials
should alwas be ready at hand. 1t
should be used quite fresh, as it would
in time become sulphate of lime, and so
lose its potency. Wherever busting with
lime is spoken of, this should be used.
This preparation should be sprinkled
over the young plant as soon as or be
fore any trouble from asphides, thrips,
or mildew occIlrs. carly II, tho mOruipp
while the dew is on the trees This
lime-and-sulphur combination is destriic-
tive to these pets in this way; Firstly,
by giving off sulphuric acid gas, which is
deadly poison to minute life, both animal
and fungoid, and the lime destroys by
contact the same things. Besides, its
presence is noxious to them; Neither is
1t injurious to common vegetable life,
except in excess, unless it be to the foil.
age of evergreens." 81.
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NOTES FOR THE FARMER,
simmer Thanrht.

BIZ D. 5. FOSIER-
Upon messy knoll in the forest, x
Lay looking upward at the eternal blue
OF the infinite and quiet heavens, through
The oak Leaf and the henil0ck's canopy
And now and then cloud went drifting BY,
1Listless aud SLOW, and changing 10 the view
How like my heeting summer thoughts 10 YOU.
Calm, peaceful cloudsl And now the evening sky
A deeper, darker, loyelier azure hath.
The birds have ceased their singing and the breeze
7 Is filled with hum oil insects; darkness saith
With the first few stars twinkling through the
trees
That night has come. A little while and death.
Like night, Will end life's summer reveries
-lHidsamsaeg Holid1y S,r;iger
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PONDS EXTRACT. There is no swell
ing it will not abate; no pain it will not cure
This is the testimony of those who have used
it many years. Try it.
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1877. NEW YORK. 1877.

THE SUNtontinuss to be the strenuous advocate Of
reform and retrenchment and Of the substitution of
craftsmanship, wisdom and integri s for hollow pre-
tence. imbecility, and fraud In the administration o.
public affairs 1t contends for the government Of the
people by the people and for the people as opposed TO
government by frauds in the ballot-box and in the
counting of votes. enforced by military violence. 1t
endeavors to supply its readers-a body not far
from a million Of sCus-with the most careful, COM
plete and Trustworthy accounts of current events and
employs for this purpose numerous and carefully
eced staff Of reporters and correspondents. Its re-
ports from Washington, especially, full, accurate
and fearless and il doubtless continues deserve md
enjoy the hatred of those who thrive by plunderng
the Treasury or by usurping what the law does not
give them while it endeavors to merit the confidence
of the public by defending the rights of the people
against the encroachmentg If unJustifed power.
The price of the daily SYN is 70 cents a month, or
$3.50 year, post paid; OK, .-.n the Sunday edition
$40 year. ~ -
The Sunday edition alone, eight pages, SI.2O
year, post paid. r..H - sfe..ts- ts-fE
THE WEEKLY Sun, eight pages of sc broad columns
Is furnished at 81 year, postpaid.
SPECIAL NoTIcE.-In order to introduce THE ST.
widely to the public, will send TIL WEEK
LIZ edition for the remainder of the year, to Jan. l.
1873, post paid, for Half Dollar, Try it.
Address. THE SUN, NJ Y. City.
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can afford to Experiment, if yoa call it
50, on my valuable stock, aud daily see
the results are so favorable, l think It
would pay those who raise for market"
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THE,
GOOD OLD
STANDBY.
Mexican Mustang Liniment


ready. Alwas shandy. Has never yet failed. Thirty
millions hare tested IT, The whole world approves the
glorious old Mustang-the Best and Cheapest Lini-
ment in existence. Is cents a bottle. The Mustang
Linment cures when nothing else will
SOLD BY ALL MEDICINE XENDERS.
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girl in A lriau. Mich, had 400 twelve
line verses.
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THIRTY years experience proves the
and most effective medicine ever known for
the complete cure of Headache, Biliousness,
Liver Complaints, Nervousness, Feyers and
diseases of digestion. Sold everywhere,
price % cents per box. Send for almanacs
Graefenberg-Co., New York.
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THE MARKETS.

No more sidewalk stands in New
York at~ t.ss+t -s- .t p .s7s
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SANDAL-WOOD

is not easily earned in these tines
|" but il ca II be made in three months
n by any of either sex, in any
mart OF The country who is willing
Qn to work steadily at the ployment
fiat we furnish. 666 per week in
your CIV town. You need not be
awavfrom home over nipitt Yon can give whole
time to the work. or only yenr spare momeats. we
have agents who making over $50 per DAY at the
business All who engage at srnce can make money
fast. At the present time money cannot De Iiaue 80
easily and rapidly at any other business. ~ cosu
nothing to try the business Terms nj 10 outn Tree
Address at once, III. HALLET & Co.. Portland maine
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please Rear II in Mind

that if your grocer does not have, and
'wlH hot ~, wecs4xsy YEEsrs PowpKK for
you, you can send 70 cents for quarter, So
cents Tor halt. or 60 cents for one pound can,
direct b DooLKY & NEITHER, New York,
and yoa viii ree@ve jtaby return of mail.
Always use Il f6rshexe licious* Vienna rolls.
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THE essehtiak for wide popularity are
fully met in Colgate L Coz. Cashmere Bou-
quet Soap. 1t is universally esteemed by
the tasteful and refined as the most deli.
cate and recherche of perfumes, and the
name and trade mark of Colgate < Co. on
each package as a guarantee of superior and
-riterms quality. With such fine adapta-
ton The st.esess Of this-article is not sur
prisiDp