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to think what a convenience five.hun-
dred-dollar reaper and mower will be in
harvest-time, and it is an easy thing to
write ones name or promissory note,
out 1t Is quite another thing to meet obi
cations OF this kind, especially If the
yield per acre and price of products in
market 90 not come up to our expecta-
tons. II there had never been q dollar
OF credit given to farmers Tor such arti-
cles there would be fewer i'll use; but the
farming community would be many mill.
ions OF dollars richer and rid Ut vast
amount of trouble. We have known more
than one instance of farmers purchasing
implements. where the interest on the in.
vestment would more than pay for the
extra labor required in gathering the
crops for which the implement was pur-
chased. Few men look far enough ahead
to cast up the interest on five hundred
dollars or less sum invested in reaper
or mower, or the annual depreciation in
value of the implement, for if they did
we are quite certain many would hes .tate
some time before giving their orders for
articles which could be quite readily dis
pensed with.
Then again, men who are so easily
cOaxed into running in debt are very like
ly to be equally easy and negligent in
other matters, and after getting an nipple.
ment on credit will let it 90 to ruin
through exposure to the elements. In
proof of the truth of the latter assertion,
we will quote the remarks Of corre-
spondent Of Western agricultural jour-
nal: In riding ten miles, a few days
ago, I saw thirteen harvesting machines
lying in the field neglected or cornered
in some lot where they could he crippled.
by cattle or horses, and, in turn, cripple
the stock. They did not grow from the
earth like weeds, but were put there at
much cost by the farmer" Now, we will
venture to say that had the correspondent
made inquiries he would have found that
every one Of the owners of the thirteen
implements had a mortgage on his farm,
and probably paid ten to fifteen per cent.
per annum on the money borrowed.
One of our correspondents, writing us
not long since FROM the new State of
Nebraska, declares that there are already
more implements purchased by the farm.
ers than will be needed for the next ten
years, if ever, inasmuch as the State is
clearly better adapted to raising stock
than grain. The same condition of af-
fairs exists all over til Western States,
and it is high time that farmers should
turn over new leaf in these matters and
commence counting the cost of running
in debt Tor articles which they can easily
do without.-N. Y. San.
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A Word to Parents.

Nor long ago teacher in one of our
public schools was convicted of having
had in his possession certain vile pam.
phlets and pictures which he used for the
decentralization of his pupils. The mans
sentence was a heavy one, hut there was
probably no father or mother in New
York who would not have doubled it, to
be sure that their children were safe from
the cOrrupting influence of such mon
ster. We wish to warn them, as we have
warned them before, that there is just as
corrupting an influence daily set before
children who pass through the streets on
their way to school, which parents appear
strangely to ignore. We mean the flash
newspapers and cheap novels which are
offered for sale to half-grown boys and
girls by their vendors, or thrust gratu-
itously into their hands as they pass,
with the certainty that they will buy the
succeeding numbers. Very few girls, and
fewer boys, unless they have been fore.
warned, can resist the tempting dramatic
pictures of kneeling women with stream
ing hair, -bravos armed to the teeth. etc.
The opening chapters seem harmless
enough, and the boy or girl, reared most
probably in refined and Christian home,
plunges unchecked into this Offal of
kitchen literature.
These papers and magazines to which
we advert would not strictly fall under the
prohibition against obscene publications,
and so they manage to escape the law;
but the views of life they present are those
taken from the grog-shop ands gambling
hell; their very atmosphere is crime. A
boy who would be simply disguised by
the open vice in publications which the
law prohibits, accepts the concealed poison
in these without suspicion. When we
read (as in our exchanges of last week) of
murderers OF fourteen years old, of burg
lars of nine, of delicately-reared girls in
the first bloom of innocent youth leaving
their homes and coming to the city in the
mad desire for adventure, to be rescued
on the very verge of ruin, we can trace
the motive cause in every case to these
or their dramatization on
the boards of variety theaters. In even
the best class of juvenile literature be.
longing to the present day there is too
much of fever and unrest. The child's
brain, crammed and forced at school, is
still further heated by tales of wild adj
venture or fantastic improbability. Rob-
inson Crusoe and the Parents Assistant
are voted dull by our boys; even SCOTS
magic wand moves too slowly to enchant
them. But if our best Juvenile literature
be. thus open to criticism, what is to be
said of this the worst and lowest deep?
We speak this warning advisedly to
parents. 1t would be we'll if they would
pay closer attention, not only to the books
which are bought for them to study at
school, but to those which they buy them
selves to study outside IN. 2. Tribune.
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Without single case Of failure. and have IN aHmeroas
whom have sold one bottle. This 10 tho only pstent
medicine lhave ever recommended. never having be.
eved in them BEFORE although constantly engaged In
their sale. Very gratefully yours, - ,,,x,.,,o,.
Bo010N, Feb. "a. 1875. GEORGE +. DINSMORs.
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and made oath that the foregoing statement By
him subscribed b true. Before me,
SETH J. THOMAS,
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The Girl and the Skeptic.

THERE was once q very clever and
learned gentleman, but an in6del, who
was travelling among. the mountains and
valleys of Wales. He came to roadside
cottage in a lonely, lovely spot, and, as he
was very tired and thirsty, stopped to ask
for drink of water. It was little girl
he spoke to, sitting at the cottage door
with book on her knee. She instantly
rose and said: "Will YOU not have cup
of milk, sir, for you are hot, and the cold
water would hurt your
He was very much pleased with her
kindness, and thought he would like q
little chat with her. So when she came
out with the milk, he said: II see you
are getting your lesson there, my dear"
mo, SIR" she answered, Il am only
reading"
"Why, what book!"
"The Bible, sir"
What" said he. half smiling to him
self, as he gave back the cup, lido you
like that book, then ~
For moment the little maiden did not
bright eyes 70 his face, she said: "Why,
sir, I thought that everybody loved the
Bible"
The gentleman babe the child good-by,
and slowly rode along. No one knew
what he was thinking of then; but years
after, when he had become q true and
humble Christian, he used to tell of that
little Welsh girl, and say: "And /, too,
now that I understand what the Bible is,
am almost as ready to wonder at my ques-
ton as she was; for every one who really
knows it must surely love 1t, too"
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What God Says Of MY Sins, II 1 Trust
In Jesus.
The Responsibility Of Parents.

1 READ, the other day, a notice in one
of the religious papers of father who,
one beautiful Sabbath morning, took his
little child out into the fields for q walk !;
the little child ran ahead, while the father
lay down to rest. Every now and then
the little thing would run up to the
father, with flowers in its tiny hand. cry
ing, "Papa! papaI see, prettyp' The
man fell asleep, and when he awoke the
child had disappeared; he called, but got
no response, and, becoming very much
frightened, went to hill near by and
called again; he then went to the edge of
a precipice, a short distance of, and,
looking down, saw the mangled remains
of his little child lying on the rocks be-
meath. He ran and found the lite had
left its little body. Oh, how he pressed
the little form to his heart, and accused
himself of being its murderer, for the
child was killed while he was slumber-
ing; that child fell over the precipice
while he was unconscious. Now, my
friends, there are hundreds and thousands
of parents sound asleep, while their sons
and daughters are wandering down to
death and ruin.-D. L. Moody.
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No ONE will for a moment question the
value of the reaper, mower and similar
farm Implements of comparatively recent
Introduction. They have made it possible
TO increase the total product of the country
many fold, have lightened the labor Of
the farmer, and greatly facilitated the
gathering of his crops in localities where
laborers were scarce. But it is to be
feared that many men could, if they
would, trace their financial ruin to invest
ing too largely in these helps" in agri-
culture. In thousands of instances there
has been q strife among neighbors to see
who should have the best farm nipple
ments, and more money has been invested
in them than the original cost of the land
upon which they are used.
The agents for manufactures are gen.
orally at hand to help along with
plausible words the spirit of emulation in
such matters, and if the farmer has any
credit he Is invited, In fact importur ed,
to take whatever he wants and pay " after
harvest" or Is even given q longer time,
if he desires, BY simply paying . good
round interest on the cost of the machines.
This credit system IL the bane Of every
agricultural community, and to-day
thousands of the farmers of the Western
States are struggling to pay the interest on
mortgaged homes, the legitimate result of
their anxiety to possess the new labor
saving Implements. The first debt was
so small as to scarcely call for moments
consideration, but the interest must be
paid or added to the principal; then the
first implements purchased were, or were
supposed to be, inferior to new kinds. and
to keep up with the times the latter were
purchased on favorable terms, {. g., credit
again, and thus, step by step, debts &C
cumulated until the farmer saw ruin
staring him in the face. We ara mot so
unreasonable a. to say that q farmer
should never run in debt, for it is we'll
known that ninety men out of every
hundred get their start In life BY doing 60 |;
but there 10 great difference q to the
manner in which . man gets in debt. If
it is for land which is constantly advanc.
iny in value, as is generally the case in
all new countries, then there Is some safety
in the transaction; bu: purchasing on
credit what one can, with . little incon
venience, do without, Is always Bad
policy.
Now this il just the position that .
vast number Of our farmers iind them.
selves In 1t this time; they have pur-
chased costly farm implements which
could have been dlspensed with, and
might now be comparatively free from
debt had they resisted temptation. It IL
very comforting to ard-working farmer
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RELIGIOUS Reading.
i" GOD KNOWS"

Tine people looked from the windows. out At the
OF the rising and falling pillows, while the strong
- gale ragged that night, :.
And give to tie drowning strangers the power to
rise to Thee"
In the ir *,s . sInc Of moaning when the late
And compassionate wives Of sesmen, scarce dar.
Lest af.l teey should ioOkon faces solemnly white
Made coy the little home-place and ready the
empty bed
But Of oil in the outbound vessel that was caught
Nor passenger, child, or seaman was rescued to
For o through s1o the .sething waters the ship and
Only he GOD God s q HEAVEN vsches when people
drowni
Next day, when the hsh-wives waited, fighting
The body Of some ones darling was ruthlessly
And the Pitiful sailors took her. Said they, She
Away IN little churchyard, out Of reach of the
cruel wave."
The comm had been made ready, when question
+" What name shall we put upon it," Said pity
I'M man, God knows
And the heart Of the reverend asker echoed the
word he said,
And that was The sole memorial they had for the
early dead.
And that IL the greatest comfort we have in this
world Of care.
Black are the skies above MS, and the storm is in
the air;
We are often hurt and worsted by the thickening
shower of wees,
But we ret on the heart Of the F.ther and We
calmly say, "God knows"
-M.rianne Farningham, In London Caristian
World
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Aching Heads and Uneasy Nerves

Aching Heads and uneasy Nerves
Are often soothed by Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, because that searching corrective
completely removes the causes Of brain and
nerve excitement, which are to be found in
arrangement of the stomach, and Of its asso-
ciate organs, the liver and bowels. It 10 .
truth which cannot be too earnestly insisted
upon, that the effect Of mere sedatives and
narcotics, like bromide of potassium, valerian,
choral hydrate and opium, IL less appreciable
the longer they are used, and that they can
never permanently relieve nervous excitabil-
ity, because they cannot remedy the weak
ness and organic derangement which lies ct
it's roots. Hostetter's Bitters, however, can
and does cure nervous maladies, for the res
son already stated. Sick headache, restless
ness at night, vertigo, mental heaviness, and
depression Of spirits, Is well - the dyspeptic
condition of the stomach, and t0rpidity OF
are entirely obviated BY this benign Alternative
tonic.
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Aunt DOlefnl's Visit.

"How DO you do, Cornelia? / heard
you were little ill, and stepped in to
cheer you up a little. My friends often
saw, IT'S such com fort to see YOU. Aunt
Doleful. You have such flow of con-
said to myself, as came up the stairs,
Cornelia Jane alive
"You don't mean to die yet, Ell? Well
now, how do you know? You can't tell.
You think you are getting better, but
there was poor Mrs. Jones sitting up and
every one saying how much better she
was-and she was-and all of q sudden
she was taken i'll with spasms in the
heart, and went off like flash. Jemima
is young to bring the baby up by hand.
But you must be careful, and not get anx-
ious and excited. Keep quite calm, and
don't fret about anything. OF course,
things can't 60 on just as if you were
down stairs; and ! wondered whether you
knew your little Billy was sailing about
in tub on the mill -pond, and that your
little Sammy was letting your little jim
my down from the balcony in q clothes
basket.
Gracious goodness, what's the matter!
I dare say Providence'll take care of him.
Don't look 50. You thought Bridget was
watching them! Well, no, she isn't.
saw her talking to man at the gate. He
looked to me like burglar. No doubt
she'll let him take the impression of the
door-key in wax: and then he'll get in
and murder you all. There was family
at Robbie Hill all killed last week for q
few dollars. Now don't fidget; it will be
bad tor the baby.
Poor little dear! How singular it is,
to be sure, that you can't tell whether
child is blind, or deaf and dumb, or q
cripple at that age! It might he al, and
you'd never know it.
Most of them that have their senses
make bad use of them, though; that
ought to be your comfort, If it does turn
out to have anything dreadful the matter
with it. And many don't live year. I
saw baby's funeral down the street as
came along.
Scarlet fever has broken out in the
town, Cornelia. Little Isaac Potter has
it, and saw your Jimmy playing with
him last Saturday.
"Wea, must be going now. I've got
another sick friend, and sha'n't think
my duty done unless cheer her up lit.
tie before sleep Goodbye. How pale
you look, Cornelia. don't believe you
have good doctor. Do send him away,
and try some vne else. You don't look
30 vel. % you did when came in. But
If I can't do anything, can cheer you
up little. korainG Star.
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and IN people who appreciate the value Of
keeping memorandum Of business trans
actions, daily events, and items Of interest
or importance, for future reference, should
call on their druggists and get Dr.. Pierce's
Memorandum book free. The Doctors
Grand Invalids' Hotel ct Buffalo, which costs,
when finished, two hundred thousand dol
lars, will be opened early in June next, for
the reception Of patients amicted with
chronic diseases aud deformitics. II will
afford the most perfect facilities for the cure
Of such affections, and it, Faculty Of physi-
clans and surgeons win embrace graduates
from both American and European Medical
Schools who have become distinguished for
their skill. The Peoples Common Sense
Medical Adviser, by d. R. v. Fierce, . work
Of over nine hundred large pages, illustrated
by two hundred and eigkty-two engrayings,
and elegantly bound IN cloth and gilt, 10
sent to any address BY the Author On r..
ceipt Of one dollar and fifty cents. Almost
one hundred thousand copies have already
been sold.
8. A. CRAIa, Esq, druggist, Of West Alex
ander, Pa, says: i sell moro Of Dr.. Pierce's
preparations than Ill others combined. They
give satinaction in every case and can
cheerfully recommend them to the public"
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THE submarine and land telegraph
lines now in operation measure dis ance
of more than 400. 900 miles. and employ
1000, 900 miles Of wire. At present there
are 81 900 telegraph stations, sending, in
the aggregate, 81, 900 900 messages per
annum,
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FOR sAiE..-TAsYs At A SACRIFICE,

ATTENTION OF Stock Raisers Nurserymen and
Capitalists 10 solicited to the following:
$40 acres, well improved, stream through it. miles
from Omaha; 912,OO worth Us per acre.
One of the best stock Farms in Kansas 40 acres,
in Riley County. ~ miles from station: stone build
ings; on Big Blue River; $4,000. worth S25,OO0
Splendid Stock Farm. "a acres. near Fl. Dodge.
10 acres, finest Corn Farm in Missouri, in Bates
80 acres. highly improved, Ellis County. Kansas,
$1,000; Improvements cost 9j QUO.
Ftretsclass Farm, Clay County, Kansas, GO acres,
two dwellings, IA acres orchard. etc.. $780,
jefferson County, Missouri, 81 ,6O0.
1,240 acres Improved Farm in Iowa, one mile from
the Mississippi River and Station. Large vineyard.
valuable mill power, lead mine and navgabe stream
through 1t. eis0 Will divide 1t into three farms
County. viii divide it.
E. r. HOTCHKIsS CO..
0ale and Exchange Bureau for Farms and Western
Lands 142 La Sale street, Chicago.
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The Colorado Hiring Rsuiesc places
the bullion yield Of the State for 1877 at
"a, 695, 00O.
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Some Cincinnati proprietors Of retail
dry goods stores have the lady clerks
searched before they leave for the day.
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American Express Company.
ose. # ASSISTANT GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT,

A. L. SCfMSON b our PURCHASING AeRNT, IN
Chicago for the execution of all orders in his line
buyer Of Goods for tho people Of AICHIGANs
INDIANA, MISSOURI, wISCOysIN.
IOWA, NINNESOTA, 1EDRAsKA ~ssS
the Territories. Orders addressed to him EHl.
be handed to our Local Agents, or be sent by mail
0EIAO. FARGO,
Asr Gen. EMpI
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SAWIERH EE HsIGIAASss SS 80 !:
the only New Book By DIR. A. ".
Chase, author Of DR.. Chase's -
nous Recipes, etc. Beware OF .
reprint of the old book In imitation
Of the genuine new book here an
Sells at sight,. Agento
wanted. Sample Copies $50.
Address Chose Peeegtek4seD
Ce,espaND, Tosedos Ohio. Sole
Publi6her1s
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WH11 WRIEL10 - ADYDBT1SD80.
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Garret shed tears over him, and said /:
IF had only known what he meant,
I'd have sat up with him. But never
could see far. He was deal wiser for
a dog than shall ever be for man."
Meantime the family party assembled
in the bedroom of the deceased. Every
tree of feigned regret had left their
faces, and all their eyes sparklcd with
joy and curiosity. They went to open
the chest. 1t was locked. They hunted
for the key; first quietly, then fussily.
The women found it at last, sewed uD in
the bed; they cut it out and opened the
chest.
The first thing they found was lot of
stones. They glared at them, and the
color left their faces. What deviltry
was this?
Presently they found writing on one
stone: Look below" Then there was
q reaction, and loud laugh. 1.-THE old
fox was afraid the money and parchments
would fly away, SO he kept them down. -
They plunged their hands in, and soon
cleared out q barrowful of stones, till
they came to q kind of paving stone.
They lifted this carefully out, and dis
covered good new rope v it'll q running
moose, xnd-the will.
1t was headed in large letters finely en-
crossed:
1.-THE last will and testament of Brian
Taafe."
But the body of the instrument was in
the scrawl of the testatOr:
II bequeath all the stones in this box to
the hearts that could turn their father and
benefactor out on the highway, that
stormy night
~ bequeath this rope to any father
to hang himself with who is fool enough
TO give his property to his children be-
fore he dies"
This is prosaic story compared with
the Lear of Shakespeare, but 1t is well
told by Gerald Griffin, who was man of
genius. Of course I claim little merit,
but that of setting the jewels. Were /
to tell you that is an art, I suppose you
would not believe it.-Harper's Weekly.