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HER PAPA'S Ora w.

A little girl, with tangled locks peep
ing from under a calico hood, clad in 6
dress of ehinz that hung all awry, loitered
behind as the great, dusty crowd moved
out of the gates of Mount Adna the
day, after they had scattered
their flowers and done honor to the dead,
Half dreamily she gazed after them, hel
eyes filled with a PARKWAY look of tender
ness, until the last one had disappeared,
and the rattle of the drums had died
away. Then she turned and vaguely
scanned the mounds that rose about her,
clutching still tighter the fast-tading
bunch Of dande1ions and grave-gra that
her chubby hand held.
An old man passed by, and gently
patted her curly head, as he spoke her
name, but she only shrank back still
further, and when he told a passing
stranger that the little ones father was
one who went on the battle field and
never came back, there was only a tear
drop in the child's eye to tell that she
heard or knew the story.
When they were gone she moved on
further to a neglected, empty lot, and
kneelihg down she packed up a mound Of
earth, whispering as she patted it down,
and smoothed it with her chubby hand:
"This won't be so awfully big as the
others, I guess, but maybe it'll be big
enough so that God will see it, and think
papa is buried here"
Carefully she trimmed the sides with
the stray grasses she plucked, murmur-
ing on:
"And maybe it will grow SO that it
will be like the rest in two or four years;
and then, maybe, papa sometime will
come back and"
But she paused as though it suddenly
dawned upon her young mind that he
rested where the southern breeze whis-
pers unknown" and the tear drops that
sprung to her eyes moistened the little
bunch of dandelions that she planted
among the grasses on the mound she had
reared.
When the sexton passed that way at
night as he went to close the gates, he
found the little n fast asleep, with her
head pillowed On the mound, and when
he reused her she started up and looking
dreamily around for a moment and then
smilingly faltered-
eyes, TIL 60 home now, for God says
He will watch papa's grave"
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AGRICULTURAL.

A loaf of wheat bread represents the
necessary food Of all animals and all
plants without an exception; and no one
need be surprised that over two thousand
different species OF animals and plants
subsist more or less on this cereal. Joint
worms, Tessian and wheat flies, weevils,
granary moths and bugs, rats and mice
are a few OF the enemies the farmer has
to fight or lose his wheat. Cutting this
grain early or late does not change the
nature of any living thing that subsists
when it car on this bread-yielding plant.
Wheat should be cut as soon as may be
when in drying the berry will not shrink
from the loss or absence of starch. What
ID contracts from the loss of moisture
does no harm.
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to the head. By purchasing three or
four hundred ommon goats, costing not
exceeding one dollar per head, it would
be but a few years before a flock of 1000
goats would be built up-yielding IN an
nual clip of 1000 or 5000 ponndsof Mo.
hair. We may be mistaken, but We be-
lieye this Mohair industry is destined
in the south to assume mammoth
proportions-constituting al important
factor in the future wealth OF
the country. On . small place
or in tbickly populated dsection of
the country, the breechy habits of the
goat make him a very undesirable
neighbor. They will not brook confne-
ment. Put them out on our creeks and
wild lands, where they can oar for
miles at will, and they are then in a con-
dition most favorable to their highest
development, and will prove most profit
able to the owner. To every n who
owns the common goat we would urge
the purchase of a pure Or a high-grade
Angora buck, and begin at once to grade
up a stock now comparatively worthless,
which may be made, taking stock into
consideration, the best paying stock On
the farm. In the general improvement
of farm stock, horses, cattle, hogs and
sheep, do not let the goat prove the only
exception. Grade him up.
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THE HORSE FANCEERS OF FIFTH


Bennett, Belmont and Bonner were the
three horse fanciers of Fifth avenue.
Bennett had a dozen in his stalls, and
might have had more had he remained.
Belmont has IN out-of-town establish
ment for breeding these animals, and has
devoted himself to raising racers. His
breeding farm probably costs him So, 900 a
year. Bonner, however, far outstrips
Belmont in equine taste, for he owns one
hundred frst-class animals. Never be.
fore has any printer displayed such a
horse mania. Belmont has a taste fol
pictures, but Bonner cares nothing fol-
such things His fancy is specially di.
rected to the horses, and he is willing to
expend $4,000 a year to crafty it. Nc
man in the Union has as much invested
in horses as Bonner. This enables him
to make an unparalleled boast, and ii
no doubt of use Is an advertisement
Bonner has been in no small degree
spoiled by his wonderful success, and
may yet have some useful lessons of ex'
perience.-N J. Cor. Cincinnati Gazette.
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These territories have, it seems, a
greater number ofsquare miles than the in
habitants they are supposed to be able to
support. They are estimated above to
be capable of supporting about three
quarters of al individual to a square
mile! Great Britain supports $50 to the
square mile. and several kingdoms of
Europe have a population much denser,
but half the territories of the United
States, embracing about half the area of
this whole country, with much soil in
comparably fertile, and a climate favor
able to diyer;e vegetation, are "esti"
mated" to be able to keep alive an ag-
gregate population about as large as the
present population of Massachusetts !!
The Tribune can safely multiply its
figures by twenty, and even then the
families would live too far apart to reach
each other with a tin horn. If our ter
ritories could support a population as
dense as that ofHollsnd, itwould number
100000, 900; multiplying the Tribune's
figures by 20 would only provide for 28,-
000,0c0-a population only one-fifteenth
as dense. There is a good deal of chad
land" in northern Dakotah, Colorado,
Utah aad western Kansas, leaving out
the mountains; but our territorial
possessions, after making all possible
allowances. are capable of supporting in
comfort and even luxury a population
greater than centuries will be likely to
provide.
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esg,amhRR. In The End. -

You watch its development with expectant
solicitude-the choice, exquiSitely-moulded
bud which promises to untold with the per-
feet flower. You perhaps think how it will
adorn the drawing-ro O vase, and anticipate
the pleasure of showing it to your flower
loving friends. But some morning you find
its head dropping, its fragrance fed, and an
ugly purple spot on one of the delicately-
tinted petals. It is the poets "canker in
the bud" How often the loathsome canker
bllghts the cherished "infant blossoms in
our household gardens those human buds
which give earnest OF a brilliant future.
The nois0me canker, SO long concealed
| scrofula-at length reveals its dreaded pres
ence, and to our bright hopes succeeds the
most agonizing fear, for we know the fatal
sequel it portends- pulmonary consumption
1t is estimated by eminent medical authori-
ties that at least ~one-ifth of mankind are al
hicted with this insidious malady. But its
ravages are so secret, that even its victims
~aresunaware of its presence untilit suddenly
dist1oses itself in some of its myriad and oft
times fatal forms. A slight cutaneous erup-
ton is often the only in ticatOr of its pres
ence. The only means of exterminat:ng this
disease from the system is by a thorough
course of constitutional treatment. This
treatment must fulfill three indications,
namely: promote nutrition, alter or purify
the blood. and arrest disorganization of the
tissues, and the formation of tubercles. No
more efficient Alternative can be employed for
these purposes than DR.. Plerce's Golden
Medical Discovery. While imparting strength
and tone to the digestive organs it ~cleanses
the blood and heals the diseased tissues.
Test its virtues ere the deadly canker has
blighted the life you prize.
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WHAT IT USED TO COST TO SHEAR

Laws against swearing were strictly en-
forsced during the times Of the Common
wealth, and with the largest possible in
depreciation against the accused. We
are reminded of the reproof that Sir
Walter Scott put into the mouth of
CrcFrWell, "What can it avail thee to
practice a profanity SO horrible to the
ears of Others, and which brings no
emolument to him who uses it Every
oath was counted. For a single oath the
Ane was Is. 3d., but the charge was re-
duced to IS. i'd. each con taking a guam
tity." Humfrey Trevett, for swearing
ten oatks, was committed till he paid 33s.
Al. to the poor of Hartford, John Huishe,
of Cheriton, was convicted for swearing
twenty-five oaths and two curses at one
time. Of course. the greater number of
these cases were disposed at petty sessions
without being sent for trial. One justice
returned the names of the persons whom
he bad convicted of swearing since the
previous sessions. We are not left with
out examples of what was considered
swearing in those days. William Heard
ing, of Chittiehamptop,. for saying two
several times in court, "upon my life,"
was adjudged to be in the act of swear
ing, for which he paid Is. Sd. Thomas
Butland was fined for swearing "on my
troth." Gilbert Northcott had to pay
3s. Id. for saying "upon my life"
Thomas Courtiss was fined for swearing
in court, "God is my witness" and
81 speak in the presence of God.''
Christopher Gill, being reproved by Mr..
National Durant, clerk, " for having used
the oath Gods life in DISCOURSE" went
and informed against the minister him
self for swearing.
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"A Reasonable Warniug.

An exchange gives this timely sugges-
zion: "Cooling off suddenly when
heated sends many of our farmers' youth
to an early tomb. II il often a matter
of surprise that SO many farmers boys
and girls die of consumption. It is
thought that abundant exercise in the
open air is directly opposed to that dis
ease. So it is; but Judgment and knowl-
edge of the laws of health are essential to
the preservation of health under any
circumstances. When overheatcd cool
off slowly; never in a strong draft of air.
Gentle tanning, especially if the face is
wet with cold water, will o 0 produce a
delightful GOODNESS, which leaves no disa-
greeak1e results.
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DRIFTING AWAY,
BY ROSE

Drifting away, drifting away,
Baby is leaving me every day;
Steering tar out on the treacherous sea
Where the bright glories of woman life be
Yes, on the hour-Tipples, day alter day,
Baby, my darling, is drifting away.
Drifting away, drifting away,
Every morn loses a golden ray;
Every night twineth a shade less fair
Over the ripples of clustering hair;
Yes, on the hour ripp!es, day after day,
Paby, my darling, is drifting away.
Drifting away, drifting away,
Sailing and s~inging-oh! bright little faye
Al the true strokes of thy siIver-tipped car
Float back to echo on memory's shore;
Yes, on the hour-ripples, day after day,
Baby, my darling, lis drifting away.
Drifting away, drifting away,
Wonderful words can the darling lips say:
Wonderful tasks can the busy hands do,
Wonderful journeys go tiny feet true;
Yes, on the hour-ripples, day after day,
Baby. my darling, is drifting away.
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Coal OE Repettia0 Rabbits.

WIN. Kiehl gives in Coleman's Rural
World a statement of his success in CO.
piously using coal oil on trees for keeping
off rabbits. It works like a charm. No
rabbits have touched the trees since, as
rabbits have no fancy for dead trees"
Coal oil, tar and grease kill apple, peach
and pear trees if applied to their trunks
by closing the breathing pores of these
living beings. When a tree has no leaves,
its circulation of air takes place through
the pores in the bark. Fetal chicks in
eggs may be killed by filling all pores in
eggs with grease, oil or paint.
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EFFECTs OF STORMS ON HEALTH.

There is no doubt that the changes in
the condition of the atmosphere which
precede a storm have an effect on the
health of some persoas. DR.. S. Weir
Mitchell, a Philadelphia physician, has
been lately studying the relations be-
tween bodily pain and weather. It is
well known that diseases and injuries of
the bones, rheumatism, and other all
ments cause increased pain on the ap-
proach of sterms. DR.. Mitchell induced
an army officer who had lost a leg, and
suffered with neuralgia in the stump, to
keep a record of his pains in connection
with the weather for three years. The
eenclusionderived by this investigation
is that a certain combination of atmos-
pheric conditions is required to produce
the palms. He says: every storm,
as it sweeps across the continent, consists
of q vast rain area, at the center of
which there is a moving space of greatest
barometric depression, known as the
storm center, along which the storm
fls,enFes like a bead on a thread. The
rain generally precedes this by six hun.
bred miles but before this and around
the rain lies belt which may be called
the neuralgia margin Of the storm,
which precedes the rain by one hundred
and fifty miles. This fact is very decep-
tive, because the sufferer may be N the
far edge of the storm basin of barometric
depression, and, seeing nothing of the
rain, may yet have pain due to the
Storm
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MARK TWAIN'S HOTEL.

Having lately opened q hashery, |
send you these. my rules and regula-
tions
This house will be considered strictly
incorporate.
None but the brave deserve the fare.
Persons owing bills for board will be
bored for bills.
Boarders who do not wish to pay in
advance are requested to advance and
pay.
Boarders are expected TO wait on the
colored cook-for meals.
Sheets viii be nightly changed, once
in six months or mere, il necessary.
Boarders are requested to pull of
their boots ii they can conveniently do
so.
single men end their families will not
be boarded.
Nightmares hired ont at reasonable
rates.
Some values will be furnished to aner-
ing boarders.
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AFTER an experience OF over twenty
FIVE years, manly leading physicians acknow.
edge that the Graefeaberg MarshaJPs Uterine
Catholicom is the only known certain remedy
for diseases to which women are subject. The
G~raefenberg Vegetable Pills, the most popular
remedy OF the day for billiousness, headache,
liver complaint and diseases of digestion.
Sold bY ali druggists. Send for almanacs,
Graefenaerg Co, New York.
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UNDERESTIMA TING THE WEST,

"a regular correspondent of the Tri-
bune " has been fooling that journal to
the top of its bent. He telegraphs from
Washington that a gentleman "who has
travelled extensively" in the western ter
r~itories, estimates the following as the
maximum they are likely to be able to
support:
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the Anoora Goat IL the sousA.

The Southern Live Stock journal
q Hitherto the goat has been con-
sidered the most worthless of all our
domesticated animals, but, by the intro
duetion of the Angora, promises to be
elevated in the scale of being to us a Of
the most useful, as well as ornamental
Lev US consider Tor moment the value
of this goat In the south, and the cost
tsof establishing a flock. We have large
tgacts of ~unoccupied lands-afording an
unlimited range, where, without any
feed sghatever, goats would subsist the
year r6end. Their favorite food il such
as is rejected BY other domestic animals.
They utilize the growth Of leaves and
noxious wesis by converting it into
the most beautiful fleece. The common
COST 81 foundation stock can be bought
for d merely nominal SUM The only
material cost Is thass Of . pure Angora
buck, costing $50 to 800. The fleece d
the second cross il worfa from 20 cents
10 25 cents per pound. Each additional
cross rapidly increases both she quantity
and quality of the fleece, andWhen the
third and fourth crossis made, you find
the fleece equal in value with ths full
blooa-,worth III the market rs cents PEI
pound, and averaging about five pounds
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-07-21

:" When it can be arranged, as the
Bible suggests, so that only those with
out sin shall indulge in the pastime of
throwing stones, we won't have to dodge
around as we do now"
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TO

All communications for this paper should be &C
COMMANDED by the name of the anthor; not necessary
r - ooeticatlon, but as evidence of good faith on the
PIT nt zoe writer Manuscripts should be written
my on one side Of the paper. Be p.rticuIarly care
u = regard to your dates, and to having all sigma
lures plainly written.
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Disease il am Antagonist

That should be attacked the instant he shows
himself. Don't wait. At him before his nails
are grown, and wipe him out. The great
Alternative and invigorant of the age, Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters, will speedily infuse
such healthful tone into your organism thatit
will be enabled to successfully resist future
attacks. The Bitters prevent and remedy
lhills and fever and bilious remittents, and
eradicate dyspepsia, constipation, liver com.
plant, rheumatic ailments, urinary and
fetal when the system has been drained Of
its vitality, or is inherently deficient in
strength. The nerves gather from it both
vigor and tranquility. But while it imparts
strength and gives a wholesome stimulus to
the animal economy, it does not duly excite
it like the cheap exhilarants sometimes re-
sorted to under the erroneous impression
that they can invigorate.
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The History of Civilization

might be written in the gradual processes of
improvement wrought out in articles of food.
Every progressive step is a public blessing.
To no one article is more due than to
DooLEY's YEAST POWDER. This with
proper care insures the most delicious and
digestible bread, biscuits, pastry, etc.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-07-21

Loss Of appetite, headache, eonstipa-
ton. disanlet, nervousness, etc. is frequently
caused by impaired digestion. and those who
thus suffer are strongly advised to use the
HomE STOMACH BIrTERs. Prepared by the
Home Ritters Co, ST. Louis, No,
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INFORMATION worth thousands to those
out of health. Self-help for weak and nerv"
Gus sufferers. Facts for those who have been
dosed, drug. ed and quacked. The new
Health journal teaches all. Copies free.
Address, Electric Quarterly, Cincinnati, 0.
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When to csst WheaS.

A Missouri farmer writes a long and
earnest letter condemning the practice of
cutting wheat before it is ripe. With
some truth, he inculcatcs much error.
We have often urged farmers to teach
one another through the press; but it is
9every way desirable that a man should
not undertake to teach more than he
knows. The writer alluded to believes
that rust, smut, mildew, and other dis
eases of the wheat plant, come from har-
vesting wheat too soon, and thereby inn
pairing vitality in the seed sown.
Every seed should be fully developed
before planting; but a lack of moisture
at the roots of the growing and ripening
plant, even where suitable food is album
dant, may check the organization of
gluten, albumen, starch, oil, gum or SUI
gar in the seeds Of wheat or corn to q
degree that will injure them for produc-
ing a new generation of the species. To
advance q breed of animals or a variety
of plants, requires something more than
ripe seed to do the needful; nor does it
follow that in case q heifer or bull be-
comes a parent at an early age the off.
spring will be diseased as q consequence.
Most Of the maladies which affect man,
beast and plant are parasitic in their orr.
4 gin and nature. Rust, smut and mildew
are as we'll known parasites Al the small
animals that produce scab, mango and
itch, on the larger ones called ticks and
chiggers.
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SANDAL WOOD

Possesses a much greater power in restoring tc q
healthy state the mucus membrane OF the urethra
tina either Cubebs Of Copaiba. 1t never produces
sickness, is certain and speedy in its action. 1t is
fast superseding every other remedy Sixty capsules
cures in six or eight days. No other medicine can
do this.
Owing to its great success, many substitutes have
been ADVERTISED such as Pastes, Mixtures. Pills,
Balsams, ETC., al of which hay ? been abandoned.
DundOs, Dick &. Co.'s Soft Capsules con-
tanning Oil of Sandalwood, sold at all drug stores.
Ask for circular, or send for one to 35 and 81 Woos-
ster street, New York.
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PONDS EXTRACT. It's sale extends to
every portion of the country. There is only
one genuine Ponds Extract for Pains and In
Examinations.
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THE SUN.
NEW YORK. 1877.


THE SUN continues to be the strenuous advocate Of
reform and retrenchment, and of the substitution Of
statemanship, wisdom and integrity for hollow pre-.
tence, in becliity. and fraud in the administration of
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 ballC t-boX and in the
Counting of votes, enforced by military violence. 1t
endeavOle 70 supply its readers a body not far from
a million of souls-with the most careful. complete.
and Trustworthy accounts of current events, and en-
ploys for this purpose a numerous and carefully Sc
lee ed staff of reporters and correspondents. Its re-
ports from Washington, especially. are. full, accu-
rate, and fearless and it doubtless continues to de-
serve and enjoy the hatred of those who thrive by
plundering tine Treasury or by ~usurPing what the
law does not give them, while 1t endeavoys to merit
tine confidence of the public by defending the rights
of the people against the enc oachments OF %uDJusti-
fed power.
The price of the daily SUN is 81 cents a month, or
&6 so a year, postpaid or, with the Sunday edition
1870 a year.
The Sunday edition alone, eight pages, $1.2O a
year, post paid.
THE " EeKLY Sun, eight pages of IS broad columns,
ia t furnished at FL II year, post paid.
SPECIAL NoTICE.-1n order to introdgce TIE SYN
more widely to the public, we will send Il WEEK
LY edition for the re mainder of the year, t. Jan. l
1878, post. paid, fer Half a Dollar. Try it.
Address. THE SUN. N. n. Gafy.
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To HousEKEEPERs.--The attention of

heads of families is invited to the superior
quality of BURNETT's FLAvoRING EXTRACTS.
They are highly concentrated, have all the
freshness and d~elicacy of the fruits from
which they are prepared, and are less expen-