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The Beginning OF a Brilliant Career.

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is a
bright and pleasant little woman of
about thirty-five.s She is q great favor
ite with all her intimate friends, who
familiarly call her sg.assie.r She was
born in Manchester, England, and came
to America when she was about fifteen
years old, and settled with her family
at Knoxville, Tenn. And it was while
living there that she wrote the "Lass o.
Lowrie's." She has written stories ever
since she was a little girl, and was only
sixteen when her ''Lassie'i was pub
lished. At the time she did not intend
giving her story to the public, but the
family were poor and proud, and would
not go in society, because they had
ssnothing to wear.n So, to pass away
the time, she wrote this book, which she
read to her mother and sister, who were
so delighted with it that they persuaded
her to have it published. But she had
no money to send the manuscript to the
publisher, and how to obtain it was u
question She at last got if by picking
blackberries and selling them for the
postage money, and this was the begin
ming of her brilliant career as q gifted
xuthoress.
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

1t is claimed in Boston that every
building in the city available for manu-
featuring purposes Is now occupied, and
that suitable sites for other manufac-
tories are in demand.
1t may interest our manufacturers
to learn that the Turkish Council of
State has just authorized the importa-
ton of agricultural machinery into the
Ottoman Empire free of duty. Chicdgo
Journal.
1t is estimated that no less than
S00,0 tons of tin plate are annually
used in the United States in the manu-
facture of tin boxes and cans for oys-
ters, and the multitude of various things
known to Gamers. A single New York
firm uses twenty tons of the plato per
day.-N. Y. Times.
1t used to be considered a wonderful
thing to engrave the Lords Prayer on a
three-cent piece. At the last meeting of
the San Francisco Microscopical Society
the President exhibited an engraving
upon a glass plate of the Lords Prayer
SO infinitely executed that on the same
scale nine copies of the entire Bible
could be produced within the space of u
square inch.-St. Louis Globe
The improved Calling gun, which
is made at Hartford, has been tested at
Sandy Hook by the United States Ord
nance Board with very satisfactory
results. The cartridge feeder works at
an elevation, and DIR. Calling holds that
the gun, firing from five hundred to one
thousand shots minute, will kill men
in intrenchments ut any. distance from
one hundred TO thirty-iire hundred
yards.-NeO HdUe'I Register.
Some of the foreign papers have
reported a discovery in photography of
Capt. Bing, Paris. He converts a neg
ative into positive in this way: The
back of the negative is covered with
soluble asphalt and then illuminated
through the negative. When tho ex-
posure is sufficient to make the light
portion insoluble, the remainder of the
asphalt is dissolved away in any usual
manner, and lastly, the silver negative
is dissolved off with the chloride u
copper and fixing agent.
"A Canadian paper says: The duty
of fumigating greenhouses is such an
unpleasant one that it is often neglected,
TO the injury of the plants. A French
horticulturist has made q discovery
which will render it unnecessary to use
smoke for the purpose. He finds that
the vapor from boiling tobacco juice is
as efiicacious as are the fumes from the
burning weed. The method adopted is
simply to mix small quantity of juice
in water and evaporate the whole. The
vapor, it is said, kills all the insects in
the house. Could not the same plan be
adopted against houseflies and mosqui-
toes? Its recommendation would be its
cheapness, for the juice could be ex-
pressed from the refuse tobacco which
is now thrown away at the factories.
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Tile Drainage.


There is no rule which will apply to
all kinds of soil to determine the dis
tance drains should be apart. The ma
ture of the soil and mans good sense
must determine this matter. A loose,
porous soil, the depth the tile is sunk,
and the fall, enter largely into the ques-
ton. Into drain in loose soil, or if it
be little sandy, the water collects for
q long distance. In tough, compact,
clay soil, impervious TO water, drains
are required to be much nearer. Gen.
orally in our prairie soil, with good fall,
ten rods apart win do pretty well. But
IL it is stiff clay, or on black, sticky soil,
the drains will have to be from four to
six rods apart.
An eighl-inch tile is considered large
enough to carry off the water from fifty
acres. 1t will discharge about rs much
water as an open ditch four feet wide
and two feet deep. In an open ditch
the water is frequently impeded by grass
and weeds. But tile, if laid deep
enough and each end well protected, is
clear and the water is discharged with
great rapidity.
We recollect some years since visiting
farmer who said his tile drain was oh
structed. He ascertained as nearly as
he could the location, and he set his
hands to work to digdown and ascer-
tain the trouble. He found that the
bottom of the ditch was uneven in the
hardness of the soil, that the end of one
section of tile had dropped down past
the end of the other This gave the
muskrats access into the tile, and sew
oral of them had crowded in and died
there, and thus Distracted it. This
impresses the Importance of having the
tile laid on a solid foundation, and of
the ends being crowded close together.
When thus placed one end can not fall
without the other end drops at the same
Time.
Trees should not stand near the ditch,
as the roofs, instinct with vegetable life,
win seek water drains, and if the roots
grow large will obstruct or displace the
tile. What is called horseshoe tile is
worthless, as the crawfish soon fill it up.
Tho longer the sections of tile the bet
ter. The old length was twelve and
one-half inches. The fifteen-inch tile is
far better. If It could be successfully
made and buried twenty inches long it
would be better still, as then it could be
laid with a tolerable certainty of being
permanent.
1t will not pay to employ an engineer
TO grade the drain. A man of practical
sense ought to be able to do it better
himself. Water is a good leveler, and
syith the simplest implements the drain
can be laid on q gentle incline accord
ing to the fall of the ground. 1t should
not have any place where it will have
stagnant water, as in such case the sedi-
meut will settle, and in times of drought
may bake and become immovable by
wateF, and thus gradually fill up. Have
ut least little fall for every foot of the
drain. 1t is well for the farmer 10 do
this himself, and thus probably make
him begin to think and study, and thus
awaken an intellect that might after
ward bless the world.-Io,cd State Reg
ister
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THE DAIRY.

--There are few private dairies In
New England, from which little butter
is sold at prices considerably above the
price of Western creamery butter, but
such butter has very little influence upon
the market Not one per cent of the
butter sold in New York or Boston bring
prices above the newspaper quotations.
1t Is the wholesale quotations alone
which can be relied upon as the true
guide to determine market prices for
pu.eer, ana " Is q TACT tnat the average
outeer Irom vermont LOT the past 1ew
ears mas soid AZ leastIour Genus pound
T1 S9lo~ ene pest creamery outeer oi the
49, 49,, WINE New England seteSt'o''S nave
sou q. aoouI TWO Genus Iess tnan west est
IN Hs SIea'lsry y.-ai'.J0' -as0V'u' :" "s~
A"gseDu ra''''e'.
Its not certain that because farm
er Il gong into the dairy business that
ms farm Is improving In fertility. Ii ne
seils mix or makes his milk into cheese
he IS probably taking as much phos-
phatic fertilizer from the farm as in any
otherway. Butter making. on the con-
trary, is conductive to fertility. provided
the skim milk Is fed and the manure
laitniuiiy saved ana used Inc lore
gong item we nnd noannS on thc news,
paper sea- having prooaoly oeen started
IN the interest OF the cream-gatnerlng
system. II II IS true, dairymen IN TINS
poat'on OF limos must nave some secret
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influence Of DaIrying.

Every occupation exerts powerful in
fiuence on the person who engaged in it.
Some enlarge intelligence and elevate
morals, and some have the contrary
effect. Englishmen fairly educated who
engage in herding sheep in the interior
of Australia. and who have few asso-
ciates except the uncultivated natives.
soon lose all their refinement and much
of the knowledge they have acquired
from books and By association with edu-
Gated people. Perhaps no department
Of husbahdry. IL we except fruit-raising,
exerts q better influence on the persons
who are engaged in it than dairying, as
it Is now conducted in neighborhoods
where butter and cheese are made in
factories The rules adopted by all we'll
managed factories for the delivery of
milk make it necessary for the patrons
TO be punctual in doing their work and
cleanly in the management of their
stock, Implements and dairy utensils.
They also exert a powerful influence III
causing patrons TO attend strictly to
business and to devote most of their
time to the care of their farms and stock.
A milk-producer soon finds that he must
be watchful and careful at all times in
order TO succeed. He has also powerful
incentives to carefully study the COM
position of milk. the best foods. for pro-
ducing it, the most valuable breed of
cattle, the correct principles of breed
ing. the most economical kinds of shell
ter, and the most suitable care of live
stock. Receiving cash for his milk at
special times. he learns how to use his
money to the best possible advantage.
He keeps out of debt and makes himself
acquainted with the current prices of
nd In
to do this he takes papers, buys books,
and attends conventions of persons en-
gagged in the dairy business. f
Dairy communities are ordinarily
pleasant ones TO live in. Good rosds
become a necessity, for without them
milk can not be taken to n factory or
station on time during all seasons of the
year. The drainage of sloughs and
marshes also becomes necessity, for if
they are allowed to exist in their natural
state they will contaminate the atmos-
phere and injure the milk, which is the
chief source of wealth in the neighbor-
hood. The water supply in a neighbor-
hood where dairying Is extensively car
ried on must of necessity be good, for If
it is not the quality of the milk is inn
paired and the quantity is diminished
The economy Of keeping good stock and
of giving it good care is demonstrated in
a dairy community, and comfortable
barns and well-bred stock are the almost
universal rule. A better class of labor
ers are employed on grain and stock
farms Fhe farmers themselves are more
thrifty and more likely to remain a long
time on the places they occupy. II land
is sold in neighborhood where dairying
is the principal business, it generally
passes into the hands of successful dairy
Chicago Times.
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Malaria.

The scientific world does not yet know
what malaria is. They know the sur
rounding circumstances of its production
or prevalence. But whether it is a subtle
gas, or poisonous compound of gases
which in their separate condition are
healthy and necessary to the healthy
action of the human system, they have
not yet clearly established. Many are
disposed to imagine, without knowing
why or wherefore, that malaria or
miasma Is caused by living bacteria,
nomads, infusoria, or some other infini-
tisimal atoms, whichare developed and
set afioat in the atmosphere, when the
situation is damp and rank with decay
ing vegetation, and the temperature is
at least above eighty degrees. What
ever it is, whether a poisonous gas or
an equally vicious germ, all know pretty
well the surrounding conditions for It's
development. Newly-broken prairie,
with the grass turned under to decay,
damp places obscured from the sun by
high weeds or thick shade, decaying
vegetable matter, or animal deposits
about yards, stable lots, fence corners,
or the rich soil, probably mauured
annually on lawns, are the favorable
locations for the development of malaria.
But in all the places and conditions, If
freely exposed to open air and bright
sunshine, little or no harm arises from
such conditions. While all are com
PEELED TO acknowledge the beneficent
influence of the cool shade on q sultry
day, and the beauty and variety given
TO the landscape by beautiful trees, yet
when clustered so closely as to shut out
the magic influence of the sun in enabling
the system to withstand the poisonous
influence of malaria and other morbid
agencies, better part with the shade
than health. Damp cellars, thicklv
shaded lawns, obstructed sewers, muddy
streets and alleys are all exciting causes
of disease, feebleness of mind and body,
and premature decay. The great power
to aid the system to resist these agencies
for evil is glorious flood of sunlight.
Blest power of sunshine, genial day,
What balm. what life are in thy rnyl
To feel thee Is such real bliss,
That, had the world no JOY but this,
To sit in sunshine calm aud sweet
1t werc a world too exquisite
For man to leave IL for ths gloom,
The deep, cold shadow of the tomb"
--IopI STATE Register.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-11
sudden and Violent.

The change from the summer To the
fall season is so sudden and violent here
in the West that "a few eau get through
the winter months without having n
cough or cold of more or ISIS severity
fastened upon them. The seeds of that
dread disease consumption are usually
sown in Que of these much dreaded
months. Browns Expectorlnt Is a sure
cure for the most violent cough and
colds, and will arrest consumption If
taken in time. For sale by II. G.. Starr
& Co. Call for TaraXine memorandum
Book, free. Lie
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HOME AND Farm.


1T pays better to sell chickens while
young. They bring higher prices than
Did fowls, food is saved and many losses
prevented.-N. y. Herald.
There is no gain in plowing up sod
land in the fall. The most approved
practice in the culture of Indian corn,
than other crops, is to plow in the spring,
farming the sod under of sufficient depth
to allow Just enough soil for properly
covering the seed.-N. Y. Times.
The Agricultural Colleges of the
various States that have a farm attached
should begin systematic and continu-
Gus effort TO develop new and different
kinds of fruits, and by interchanging
find out what sorts have the most ex-
tended field of usefulness; one new
sort of any kind of fruit, especially
the apple, will alone pay the expenses
million fold.-St. LOuiS Globe.
Herbs for winter use should be
gathered when the plants are in flower;
Just as the flowers begin TO fade is con-
siderod to be the best time to harvest
them. The herb garden was formerly
of greater domestic Importance than it
is in these days of patent medicines, but
whether this change is an advantage to
health may well be questioned. TO dry
herbs it is best to tie them in small
bundles aud hang them up in an airy
she'd Washington Tribune.
Mr.. j. Ii. Comstock, formerly en-
tomologist to the National Department
of Agriculture, has come to the conclu-
sion, after much experimenting, that
common soap is the cheapest, safest and
most effectual remedy for scale insects
which infest the bark and foliage of trees
and shrubbery. he recommends using
one fourth of pound of common bar
soap to q gallon OF water, applying the
solution with a hand-pump or syringe,
and repeating the. application after an
interval of a few days.-N- Y. Er-
anitzaer.
The farmer and the farmers boy
need more than any one else to learn to
know their friends from their enemies
in the insect world, the lower grades of
animal and bird life. Entomolgy is
science which in its practical applica-
ton should be taught in all our primary
schools. As rule, il q warfare is made
upon insects, it is blind attack, and
our friends and enemies are alike indis-
criminately slain. Every farmer boy
should know that the toad should be
saved, while he NAV with impunity slay
the snake.-Sdn FrdnciSc0 Chronicle.
AT time of year. when eggs are
scarce and consequently high-priced,
one does not always feel like using an
egg every morning to settle coffee with.
At such times we have tied the ground
coffee loosely In thin bag "a salt bag
washed and boiled answers PERFECTLY,
poured boiling water over it, allowing it
to stand. on the back of the stove, where
it would not boil, for some time, and so
obtained quite clear coffee. The white
of an egg alone settles the coffee-bind-
ing the grounds together-and it were
better to beat the yelk and add to the
boiled milk for the coffee Gust after it is
taken from the fire) than to throw it
away in the coffeo-pot.-FarDs aud
Evresitle.
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AKeepIng Butter.

When butter comes from the ehurn
and working table it has certain flavor
to which she market Is stranger
1t may be characterized as a delicate,
creamy, butter-milk flavor, in which the
ETHEREAL and fugitive sentiment of sweet
yernal grass and clover blossoms blend
with what in the market is called
freshness" coarser essence preserved
by salt and tickling the palates of grocery
men and s9he trade Rosiness is very
well in its way, but he that can get butter
whose flavor pleasurably tiltilates the
olfactories and mollifies the most sensi-
tive nerves of the most exacting Tongue
tip, satisfying the sensitive palate, and
besides, carries him back dreamily to the
sweet-breathed kline and the green past
ures, to the thick cream. and the plash-
ing churn-must enjoy it within four or
five days of the churning. - - a.
Such D butter may well sell for dol
lar pond in the town-hot and vile
with odors of humanity and horses, of
sewers and sweepings-but it will not
keep. 1t is like the morning cloud and
the early dew. Salt will not save it.
The ETHEREAL essence of cream will go,
but the rosiness viii remain. Salt keeps
that. -
Well-packed butter. if it is good to
start with, and is packed in good oak
firkins, scalded and brined as every
dairyman knows how to do; solidly
packed, headed and filed with strong
brine. so that every particle of air is
excluded, every interstice filed with the
brine-such will keep = year. and will
be rosy and sweet and marketable; but
the butter must be good. Salt viii not
keep poor butter.
II the cream or the milk is wrong
to go to the fountain head, if the COWS and
their feed are not right-the butter will
show it. II the milk and the cream are
not well handled, the butter will surely
90 wrong II the churning be overdone,
and the working be overdone or undone.
the butter will be of. of, of. Packing
Is of little account. unless the butter is
up to the mark as well as the market
Erch0RQe, ~ t--- =
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A Remarkable ESCAPE.

Mrs. Geo. G. Clarke, of Port Dali
housie, Ontario, states that she had been
confined to her room for long time
with that dreadful disease, Consump-
ton. TIL, doctors said could not escape
an early grave, but fortunately she Le-
gan taking DIR. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption, and in a short time
was completely cured. Doubling ones
please write Mrs Clar ke, and be conviu-
ced. Trial bottles free Mt Houghton's
Drug Store. Large size 81 90. S-ly
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WHO'S the Best Phys1cian.

The one that does most to relieve suf-
fering humanity of the thousand aud
one Ills that befall them, is certainly
the best of all physicians. Electric
Bitters are daily doing this, curing
where all other remedies failed. As u
Spring tonic and blood purifier they
have no equal. They positively cure
strongest sense of til term, they are
the best and cheapest physician known.
Daily Times. Sold by j. w. Hough-
ton at 80 cents. SLY
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-11

If you have a Cold or Cough of any
kind, buy bottle of Hills Peerless
Cough Syrup, use it all, If not satisfied
return the empty bottle and we will re-
fund your money. We also sell the
Peerless Worm Specific on the same
terms--no cure no pay. Cobb's Little
Podophyllin Pills will cure headache.
billiousness, constipation, etc, or no
pay. One pill dose
43-ly ii. G. STARR & Co.
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Always Do.
Special Telegram.

SpCCIHI I IOIcRI HIfs
Union Pier, Mich.-Your agt mt was
here last winter and sold us some of DIR.
Baxter's Mandrake B;tters. we sold
them and they gave extraordinary satis-
faction. Would like more of them, there
fore please write us the price by the
quantity. r. NJ. GOODWIN & Co.
As sure remedy for Sick Headache,
Sour Stomach, Dyspepsia, Indigestion,
Constipation, Torpid Liver, Billionsness
etc., no MEDICINE is equal to DIR. Bax-
ter,s Mandrake Bitiers.
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Bucklen,s Arnica salve.

The Best Salve in the worl.i for Cute,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rhuem,
Fever Sores, letter, Chanpe0 hands,
Corns and all Skin Erup-
tions, and positively cures Piles. 1t is
to give satisfaction or mon-
Price % cents per box. For
sale by j. w. Houghton. ely
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A CARD.

To all who are suffering from the errors
and indiscretions of youth, nervous weak
ness, early decay, loss of manhood, &c,
win send a recipe that will cure you, FREE
OF CHARGE. This great remedy was dis
covered by o missionary in South Americc.
Send self addressed envelope to the Rev.
JOSEPH T. INArAN, Station d, New York City.
49Sl
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During 1886 Europe produced 203,-
$50 tons of zinc, of which nearly S9, 900
tons came from Germany, and about
two-thirds from Upper Silesia. Bel
GUM contributed 65,0I0 tons, England
22,O00, France 12,715, and Austro- Hum
gary {, ZOO.
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ouInIne SUPERSEDED.

We have much pleasure in recommending
Thermaline 10 our readers an absolute cure
for Malaria. The best and most reliable sub
stitute for quinipe known. The manufao-
turers name alone Is n guarantee OF It's merit
It's efficacy is as wonderful It's eheapness.
2Sc. per box. For particulars see advertise
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DR.. Frazier's Root Bitters.

Dr.. Frazier's Root Bitters.
Frazier's Root Bitters are not a dram-shop
whisky beverage, but are strictly medicinal
in every sense. They act strongly upon the
liver and kidneys, keep the bowels open and
regular, make the weak strong, heal the lungs,
build up the nerves and cleanse the blood
and system Of every impurity.
For Dizziness, Rush of Blood to the Head
tending to Apoplexy, Dyspepsia, Fever and
Ague. Dropsy, PimpIes and Blotches, Scro-
fulous Humors and Sore Eyes, Sores, letter,
Ring Worm, White Swelling, Erysipelas and
young men suffering from Weakness or De-
bility caused from imprudenee, and to
females in delicate health, Frazier's Root
Bitters are especially recommended.
DR.. Frazier: have used two bottles of
your Root Bittcrs for Dyspepsia, Dizziness,
Weakness and Kidney Disease, and they did
me more good than the doctors and all the
medicine ever used. FROM the first dose
took began to mend, and am now In per
feet health, and feel as we'll as / ever did.
consider your medicine one of the greatest
of blessings.
MRS. NJ. MARTIN, Cleveland o.
Sold by all druggists everywhere at 81 per
bottle.
HENRY & CO., Sole Prop'rs,
62 Vesey Street, New York City.
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A variad Perforn,anos-

Many wonder how Parker Ginger
Tonic can perform such varied cures,
thinking it essence of ginger, when in
fact it is made from many valuable
medicines which act beneficialIy on
every dieeased organ.