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Work for the Season.

The remarkably favorable winter has
gwen an opportunity for doing much
useful work in the way of improve
nents of the farm. Draining, clearing
land, repairs of fences, drawing out
manure, and similar labors, can now be
performed as well, if not better, than at
any other season. 1t is very rarely that
farm can be found in a completed
condition. On the contrary, majority
Of them contain swamps, barren spots,
unsightly stone-heaps, or rocks, stumps,
gullies, or other distractions to the
plough or the mowing-machine. Where
the winter has been suffered to pass
away without an attempt TO repair these
defects, or remove these obstacles to
flood farming, there is yet time and
opportunity to do something before the
spring work opens. Labor is cheaper
now than for years. Idle men who
would willingly work abound in every
village and hamlet, and it is to the
farmers interest to give these men
employment whenever it can be done
protitably. 1t is only labor that creates
wealth. A useless piece of swamp is
utterly worthless. 1t produces nothing.
When changed into meadow and made
productive, it then becomes an addition
to the farmers wealth, and adds some
thing to the aggregate capacity of the
land to support the population. The
greater the supply of food, the more en-
Encouragement is given to an increase of
population, and every additional mouth
iclamors for more farm products. IN
productive land, besides being useless, is
in addition source of expense in taxes
ard interest on its cost; SO that the
owner would really be better off could
his useless acres be sunk out of sight.
There is no reason why every acre of
the majority of farms should not be
made a source of income, and many
methods of turning Improbable land to
account might be pointed out. Swamps
may be cleared and ditched. The mere
clearing of the dense growth of under
brush and weeds from many swamps
may be sufficient to dry them enough
for some sort of cultivation. But it is
best to make a thorough job of whatever
is undertaken, and as far as work can be
done, to finish it so far as it is done. If
the whole cannot be done now let part
be completed, and the next opportunity
to be taken to finish another part-N
Y Times.
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Uncle RemuS and the Silver Dollar

iloiu tlic Il 'iaHtf, va NOHStSlutiOH
"Wa ats dis bout dat silver bezness?''
said Uncle Remus al hear Miss Sally
reading bout it, and axed her, but she
say dat | must ak Mas John, and den |
AK Mas John, and Mas John say | must
go ter desc yer noosepaper men what
kick up all de devilment. | b'leeve dat
wus de langwidge he used"
"Oh, that's all settled, Uncle Remus.
Every thing is fixed"
"Who hilt de biggest ham in de
gamer
"Tne silver men. They didn't carry
all their points, but they are tolerably
well satisfied"
Whats de upshot er de fracus, den?'
"Why, we are to have the old fash
Toned dollar; the old silver that suited
so WE'LL
81 notis dat / amt got mine yit."
"Oh, it is too soon yet. They will be
put in circulation just as fast as the mint
can make them"
"Whar bouts in de 'sembly you 'speck
Pm sitting, boss? How fur back FUN
de man what rashums out de scads duz
you reckon L is?"
ooh, the silver dollar will be circu-
lated just like other money. You get it
if you earn it,
"Hav' fer ter scramble arter it same
as before?"
eyes"
"Well, den, in regards ter dat silver
bill, I'd a bin whar de little boy wuz
when he made mouf at de cow"
Where was that, Uncle Remusw
"On de top rail er de fens."
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A Lost Colony.

The lost Norwegian colony on the east
coast of Greenland is brought to mind by
the numerous expeditions now fitted out
for Arctic explorations. Over, 1000
years ago Greenland was discovered by ad-
venturous Norsemen, and the settlement
of the country dages back as far as the
year 9S7. Two fourishing colonies, one
from Denmark and the other from Nor
way, occupied the east and west coasts
respectively for period of 500 years, and
though separated by eighty miles of des-
ert, they had no trouble in sustaining
themselves independently of each other
by means of fishing and cattle-raising,
the pasturage of the hills and valleys
being in those days luxuriant. The
western colony had at one time four par
ish churches and 10 farm villages,
while that on the east coast, still larger,
had two towns, 100 farm villages, IL par
ish churches and two monasteries, and
was the seat of bishopric. About 1850
the Danish colony, having been weakened
by pestilence, was exterminated by Es-
quimaux, and early in the next century
It's Norwegian neighbor disappeared sud
denly and mysteriously from human
knowledge. Numerous attempts to
learn definitely of its fate were made,
but the only information ever obtained
was contained in letter from Pope
Nicholas V. to the bishop OF Ireland,
dated in 1913, which stated that the
colony had been attacked by hostile
fleet 80 years before, and laid waste with
fire and sword; this story, however, was
not generally credited. In 1922 Capt.
Scoresby discovered houses containing
hunting apparatus and household uten-
sis, but no inhabitants, and there is rea-
son to believe that the dwellings were
relics of the long-lost colony. Some
people are still of opinion that beyond
the ice-felds remnant of these hardy
Norsemen may yet be found, and an ex-
officer of the United States navy goes 50
far as to say that "the grandest under
taking of the present age weuld be to
strive to reach that isolated colony"
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FARM AND PRESIDE.
The Eeafhered Tribes

Meanwhile the tepid caves and fens and shores,
Their brood as numerous hatch from the egg that
soon,
Bursting with kindly rupture forth disclosed
Their calow young; butt feather'd soon and fedge
They SUNNI d their pens; and, soaring the air sub
lime,
With elang despised the ground, under a cloud
In prospect: there the eagle and the stork
On olifs and eedar.tops their eyries build
Parf loosely wing the region; part, more wise,
In common ranged in figure, wedge their way,
Intelligent of seasons. and set forth
Their ;ery caravan high over seas
Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing
Easing their flight; so steers the prudent crane
He annual voyage, borne on winds the air
Flats as they pass, fann'd with unnumber' d
planes:
From branch to branch the smaller birds with song
Soaced the woods and spread their painted wings
Till even; nor then theeolemu nightingale
Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft laws
Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed
Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck
Between her white wings, nantling proudly, rows
Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit
The dank, and, rising on stiff peunons, tower
Tie mild aerial sky: others on ground
WIk'd firm; the crested cock, whose clarion
sounds
Tie silent hours; and the other whose CAV train
Adorns him, color'd with the aorid hue
OF rainbows and starry eyes
-Nik0a, Book :, Par Lost
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The Hot sehOId.

SOFT CUsTARD.-1wo eggs to pint of
milk; boil milk; pour hot on eggs, (well
beaten previously;) then return to pail; ;
add two tablespoonfuls sugar, one tea
spoonful vanilla; boil until thick.
DARK STEAMED PUDDING.-To be
steamed two and half or three hours
One cupful mOlasses, one cupful sweet
milk, two cupfuls butter, four cupfuls
flour, one teaspoonful soda, three-quar-
tiers cupful fruit; spice to suit the taste
to be eaten with sour sauce.
LEMON PIE.-One lemon, one table
spoonful of corn starch dissolved in cold
water, one cup of sugar, one egg, piece
OF butter the size OF an egg, one cup of
hot water; boil few minutes Make a
merringue of the whites of two eggs and
two tablespoonfuls of pulverized sugar.
Bake q she'll first so as to have the crust
dry.
JELLY CAKE RoLLs.-Four eggs, beat
whites and yolks separately; one teacup-
full white sugar, one teacupful sifte6
flour, one teaspoonful cream-tartar, one
half teas ooonful soda dissolved in a very
little hoS water; flavor with the juice of
oIiC iClioll DSll an VIGIL tOScbltI, Sp1cdu
quarter of an inch thick in a square tin
bake quickly; then turn bottom side up,
spread with jelly, and roll up while hot
this recipe makes three rolls.
ROTHE GRUTYE.-This is a German
receipt for this healthy dish: One quart
of currents and mash them in a quart of
water; then steam them; put ON more
than half to boil, and blend three table
spOonfuls of arrow rCoG with the re-
mainder; mix it with f'1e other, and add
two tablespoonfuls of sugar; then put it
on the fire and stir until it boils; put
into form to cool.
WHITE CAKE.-One cupful of butter,
two cupfuls of either granulated or pull
verified sugar, one cupful of sweet milk,
the whites of five eggs, three cupfuls of
-four, two teaspoonfuls of yeast powder
cream the butter; add the sugar gradu-
ally; put the yeast powder into the -four
and sift; add to the butter and sugar Off
it is too stiff to be done easily, add the
milk first; if not, the -four and then the
milk;) the whites of the five eggs, beat
en- until you can hold them over your
head without splitting. This gives nice
layer cake, with jelly or chocolate, or
icing between, and icing on top. 1t may
be baked in loaf if preferred.
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Let Well Enough Alone.
From the New York Methodist.

FIOM tnt NtW 1UTk MttHOuISt.
~ don't object" said the quarter
master, on Sunday morning, while our
ship-was running towards the equator,
before the northeast trade wind, / don't
object to prayers when it blows hurri-
cane, or when we are on lee-shOre. But
here we are called aft to prayers when
the weather is as fine as ever was made :;
fair winds every day; clear sun at
noon; skysails, studding sails and every
thing else set; not brace or sheet unbe-
layed for weeks; the ship going ahead so
steady that she could carry glass of
sherry on that capstan, and not spill a
drop of it! But prayers it is, according
to orders. Now, what's the good of it?''
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not prove an unusually dry one, see no
reasons why the grass yield of 1878 will
not be as large as that of 1877 or 1876.
The pastures lie within the corporate
limits of a town of 5000 inhabitants,
and have been fed down by milch COWS
for the past ten years, the owDers thereof
being willing to pay fair price for grass,
water, quiet and security through the
entire summer. The grass income for
the last FIVE years on the nine acres has
not been far from SIS per acre, which,
with increased age and more fertiliZa-
ton, may be augmented, no doubt, to
$40 an acre
Independent of any special advantages
these two fertilizers may possess (and
Mr.. J. B. Lawes says he would never use
any dung of any kind for pasture or grass
lands, where nitrate of soda could be
had), find this manner of enriching the
pasture is cheaper than the gathering and
hauling of manures from pig-pens. cow
houses and horse-stables, even whore
such manures may be had for the haul
ing. My method of applying the fertil-
first to sift both through coarse sieve,
so as to get and reduce the Jumps, then
mix in in equal parts, just previous to
using, and SOW broadcast any time in
March. Care should be taken not 20
have the soda and superphosphate stand
mixed many hours before sowing, for the
reason that there comes few hours after
mixing a chemical change, which is not
pleasant to the hands. After sowing,
the field should betwice gone over with a
sharp toothed harrow, and no stock
turned on before the first of May. With
such treatment doubling the nitrate of
soda the first and second year,, timothy
meadows will, by the first of June, look
more like wheat fields than what they
really are, the growth will be so much
increased, and white clover and blue
grass pastures, at the same date, will
carry mat and mass of heritage which
must be seen to be believed. | have been
thus particular in stating kind, cost and
quantity of fertilizers to be used, profit,
method of application and result, for the
purpose of anticipating the calls for in
formation from those who might feel
inclined to follow the example of your
correspondent. Where grass lands are
scarce and pasturage is high, as in the
neighborhood of towns and cities, large
or small, am sure there is no better
way of practically increasing the one and
cheapening the other than in the use to-
gether of nitrate of soda and superphos-
phate of lime.
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It was said. with CAV laugh, by some

1t was said, with gay laugh, by some
one in the next chamber.
The jailer entered. Paul sat up in bed
and said, in faint voice, "What day of
the month is it7 3"
"The sixteenth Thermidor."
"Ah, yes" said Paul. than this is the
day | am to die!''
"Cheer up, Citizen" said the jailer.
" You are not going to die"
monsieur Paul Janquard!" cried
sweet and merry voice in the next room,
beard clearly through the tin partition.
How are you?" 1t is Lucy Arnaut
who is speaking. You are free"
cam l dreaming ~ said Paul, once
more sitting up and gazing round him.
Voices were outside crying, Long
live the republic. Robespierre is dead.
Down with Brutu.."
A great noise of keys opening harsh
locks was heard in the entry, and the
ten ladies all came into the chamber of
Paul.
alt must be dream." ne thought.
"Come, Monsieur Paul" they said !;
"you are free. Get up and go home,
and be wiser for the future"
Lucy Arnaud here helped him to
sit up.
Ladies'" he said, with tears in his
eyes, "for three months you have been
to me like angels. But will you," he
added, turning to Lucy, "will you con-
sent to be my guardian angel all my life
long."
"Yes; but l must be your one sole
guardian angel, Maybe one might not
be enough for you?"
Enough, now that | mean to live for
love and you. ;,
Four months later Paul Vanguard, in
perfect health, married Lucy Arnaud;
but we may mention that she did not
invite to her nuptials any of her nine
rivals. Perhaps because she was not
quite satisfied as yet, as to the dangerous
susceptibility of the head of her hus-
band.
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THE PARTING HOUR.

There's something 10 the "parting hour"
VIII still the warmest heart
Yet kindred, comrades, lovers, friends
Are IA ed all to part.
But this I've seen-and many a psng
Has pressed il on my mind,
The one WHO goes Is happier
Than those who stay behind.
No matter what the journey be
Adventurous, dangerous far,
To wild deep, or to bleak frontier,
To solitude Of war,
Still something cheers the heart that dares
In all Of human kind;
And theT that 60 are happier
Than those they leave behind.
The bride goes 10 the bridegroom home
With doubling and with tears;
But does not Hope her rainbow spread
Across her cloudy tears2
Alas! the mother who remains,
What comfort can she Emo
But thistle gone IS happier
Than the one she leaves behind!
Have YOU a trusty cOmrade dear
An old and valued friend?
Be sure your term of sweet concoursa
At length will have an end.
And when you part-as part you will -
O take il not unkind
If he who goes is happier
Than the one he leaves behind.
G. cd wills it So and so it Is
The pilgrims on the way,
Though weak and worn more cheerful are
Thar all the rest who stay.
And when at last, poor man, sabdued,
Lies down to death resigned,
May he not still be happier far
Than those be leaves behind?
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A treat Question Settled

"Dear Mr.. Hawkeye, should one take
ones soup from the side or end of the
spoon?- EDw." Oh, well, if you've got
so stuck up and proud that you have to
eat with spoon, We don't suppose it
makes any difference, but We suppose
you would have enough reverence for
the good old days and the grand old sim
plicity of the better times, and take
your soup as your father did; blow it
until it is cold, then lift the plate with
both hands, and empty it by steady and
long continued suction, making flip
ping sound with your lips at the conclu-
sion of the services to indicate to the
waiter that you are ready for the next
course. 1t is these new tangled ideas
that are driving the old simplicity ana
the old purity out of style and existence,
and crowding society to the edge of the
awful precipice that leans and totters in
crumbiing Weakness over the fathomless
abyss Of corruption and destruetien,--
Rawtfse.
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If there is person in the United
States who does net know of Johnson
Anodyne Eminent, we hope this paragraph
will reach that persons eye, and that he will
write us for particulars of it. 1t is more
valuable tian gold, silver, or precious stones.
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TO CONSERVATIVES

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HIeHIY IMPORTANT TO FARMERS

HItHI1 INFORMANT TO FARMERS
The manufacturers of SheridaD's Cavalry
Condition Powders inform rs that their
powder Will etfectually prevent hog cholera
and all otter diseases in hogs, and that they
will increase the size and weight one quar-
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to three hundred hogs.
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Boston Tea Bread.

To ore quart of flour add two tea
spoonfuls DooLEY's YEAST POWDER, a
little salt butter the size OF an egg rubbed
in the tiolr, one pint sweet milk, and the
yelks OF TWO eggs beaten very light. Add
last, stirring in lightly, the whites of the
eggs well beaten, and bake in square pan
in quict oven. Break in squares for the
table
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THE divorce market must be still easy
in Indima. A country paper in that
state heads its list of marriages " Limited
Partnerships"
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YES, DEAR you can use your spring
mattress Ia tbs falli-bs-risk,
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RUPTURE

Cured without the nur, rrsses iniict, without sur
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| FARMER, a Farmers Son or Daughter

~ taking orders for five of NELLIE HARFooN HORSE
Hay FoRKs and FrNrrREs will, lin addition to the
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WE are skeptics to greater or less
extent, but when we have the truth before
us how can we but believe.
1t is claimed DR.. Graves HEART REGU-
LATOR will cure Heart Disease in all its
forms. F. f. Ranger of Wilton, Me-, says !:
"A few weeks ago sent for bottle of Dr. Graves
HEART REGULATOR. 1t has helped me more
than expected. consider it great cure for heart
disease. I inclose, you will find, dollar, for
which you will please send me another bottle and
oblige, F. RANGER
If you don't believe this write TO him and
see for yourself.
Among the many forms of Heart Disease
are Palpitation, Enlargement, Spasms of the
Heart, Stoppage of the Action of the Heart,
Trembling all over and about the Heart,
Ossifcation or Bony Formation of the
Heart, rheumatism, General Debility and
Sinking of the Spirits.
Send your name to +. f. INGALLS,, Con-
cord, N ii for pamphlet containing list
of testimonials of cures, &c. The HEART
REGULATOR is sold by druggists at 80
cents and 81 per bottle.
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MOTHERS! MoTHERs!! MoTHERs,ll

MoTHERSi MOTHERs!! MOTHERs!!!
Don't fail to procure Mrs. Winslow's Sooth-
ing Syrup for all diseases incident to the
period of teething in children. 1t relieves
the child from pain, cures wind collie, regu-
lates the bowels, and by giving relief and
health to the child, gives rest to the mother
1t is an old and well-tried remedy.
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The ssreates; Di.coye-y or the Age is DR.

" 4 farmers Son or Daughter" See adv't
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Signs.

People who still adhere to the look
at-your-tOngue-and-fee -your-pulse doctor
sometimes express not little curiosity in
regard to DR.. r. V. Pierce's original method
of distinguishing all forms of chronic dis
ease without personal consultation. Some
even suppose that he accomplishes this
through clairyoyance, or some other species
of professional iugglery. All this is utterly
false. He claims to determine disease by
the rational methods of science only. Says
Comley, in his Biographical Encyclopedia
of New York State, speaking of this dis
tinguished physician He perceived that
in each of the natural sciences the invest;-
gator proceeds according to a system ofsigns
The geologist in his cabinet accurately de-
termines and describes the cleft of rock,
which he has never seen, from the minute
specimen on his table. And the chemist in
his laboratory notes the constituents of the
sun with the same precision that he anna
lyzes crystal of rock salt. The analogous
system developed by DIR. Pierce in Medical
Science is worthy OF his genius, and has
made his name Justly celebrated" For a
full explanation of this ingenious system Of
diagnosis, see the Peoples Common Sense
Medical Adviser, sent, postpaid, to any
address on receipt of one dollar and fifty
cents. Address the author, r. V. Pierce,
NJ. D., Buffalo. \. Y.
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Every Year You Lose

More than one costs-uurs always right-No pay TILL
tested aud shifted: risk, pay freight; be your
own Agent and save commission. Five-Ton Hay
Scales complete better $50 derered. Send for
free Price List all size Scales and judge for yourself.
JONES OF BINGHAMToS, Biughamton, \. Y.
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CHEW
The Celebrated
MATCHLESs "
Wood Tag Plug
TORACCO.

THE PIONEER TOBACCO COMPANY,
New York. Boston and Chicag,