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had chance to prove that. Until last
year the Longfellow had given us our
largest berries, but last year the Sharp
less exceeded it in size. The fruit is de-
licious. Next l got few plants of
Crescent and Sharpless. The Sharpless
is delicious if picked and eaten immedi-
ately, but it loses flavor if allowed to
stand over night. My next investment
was in the Wilson, Windsor Chief and
new Seeding of DIR. Hoskins', claimed
to be one of the latest. 1t is rather
small, late berry, but seems to be quite
prolific and is of excellent quality. The
blossom is not perfect and is the only
one of that class that | have found
worth raising. In conclusion, wish to
say that berries vary in different soils
and locations. For example, straw
berry-grower said to me last summer:
=" If l could grow the Sharpless like
that / should raise Sharpless." The
Wilson does not do well at all with me,
yet l know of people who grow no
other kind. The Crescent Seeding is
favorite in some places, but only a
few first berries are good for anything
with me. The Jersey Queen is no
good at all. Manchester and Windsor
Chief are fearfully and wonderfully
sour. Last year l procured half
dozen plants each of the Mrs. Garfield,
Henderson, Prince of Berries, Cornelia,
Kentucky and Old Iron-clad. Hender-
son and Cornelia each made good
growth and looked very thrifty, while
the Prince of Berries just lived. |
hope to sample the berries from each
kind next summer. The grubs ate my
Cumberland Triumphs badly last sum-
mer and began on them about the time
the fruit began to ripen, so that did
not get as many berries from them as |
expected to and do not know as there
will be any good plants left.
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A Perfect Time-Piece.

A patent for new clock, or chronom-
eter, has just been granted that is
attracting considerable attention here.
1t is the invention of two Maryland
men, who claim it can be run, if neces-
sary, for years after once wound up.
Other special features of this time-piece
are that it is absolutely noiseless when
in operation and does away entirely
with the pendulum and balance-wheel
now used in clocks and watches. The
running gear, including both the strik-
ing and time mechanism, consists of
but six wheels, and it requires but one
spring to propel both of these attach
ments. BY the use of patent self
winding spring, connected to two of
the wheels, the inventors utilize the
power wasted by friction in other time
pieces, thus enabling the clock to run a
much greater length of time with the
same motive power, or by once wind
ing it up. The inventors threaten to
work a revolution in clock-making by
the introduction of perfect time-piece
which, they say, because of its sim
plicity, can be manufactured at much
less cost than many excellent low
priced time-pieces manufactured in this
country to-day Washington Critic.
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Catarrhal Dangers.

To he freed from the dangers of sufocation while
lying down to breathe freely sleep soundly and un
disturbed to rise refreshed head clear brain active
and free from pain ache; to know that poison
GUS putrd matter defiles the breath and rots away
the delicate machinery of SMELL taste and hearing
to feel that the system does not through its veins
and arteries suck up the poison that is sure to
undermine and destroy is indeed a blessing beyond
all other human enjoyments. To purchase i'm
munity from such fate should he the object of all
afflicted But those who have tried many remedies
and physicians despair of relief or cure.
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Catarrh. from simple head cold to the most loath-
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The Genius of Battle.

The great captain combines all the
talents and genius necessary to make
men eminent in the other walks of life,
and in addition he must possess rare
powers of physical endurance and a
personal courage which is exceptional
in degree, To the profundity of the
philosopher he must add the qualities
of a statesman, as policy is an ele-
ment which must enter into his
plans for campaign. A commonplace
general may plan campaign and select
his time of operations and points of con-
centration, but there will be as wide a
difference between his work and that
of a great captain as between the rhymes
of village poet and the sentences of a
Shakespeare. The genius of battle
must have an eye which at once enables
him to discover the key point of bat
tle-feld and the weak point of the enc
my's position, not often the safe, and
to judge promptly and surely which is
to be selected for the attack. He must
have the unerring faculty to see and
press every advantage of the battle
field and to repair every disaster.-Gen-
eral W. F. Smith, IN North american
Rerielr.
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LeprOsy Experiments.

Claus Spreckels, the sugar king, still
tarres in this city. The other night
he said that as common as leprosy is in
the Sandwich Islands and among the
yellow race, and as great as the efforts
had been to arrive at some knowledge
of its origin and course of transmission,
hitherto absolutely nothing had been
learned. Five years ago, he said, an
eminent German physician and surgeon
was specially commissioned to visit the
Sandwich Islands and investigate the
subject. This doctor is still there, but
in spite of numerous and carefully
conducted experiments, confesses him
self as ignorant as the day he landed.
One instance was cited by Mr.. Spreck-
els. There had been murder COM
mitted by a healthy native, who was
condemned to death. The German
doctor begged the convict's life from
King Kalakaua on the condition that
the convict would submit to expert
mentation. Consent was given and
the man was severely inoculated with
the blood of lepers without any appar-
ent effect. At last the German dis
sected a piece of flesh as big as the
palm of his hand out of the shoulder of
a living leper and sewed it into wound
he made in a corresponding position on
the shoulder of his subject. Even
this failed. This was four years ago,
and the convict is to-day healthy
man.-NetC York World.
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Saved by a Volcano.

At ten years of age he had run away
to sea from a comfortable English home,
and had ever since been an exile and a
rover. One year ago he was captured
by pirates and was sold into slavery to
native merchant of Samarinda, who
had sent him on a trading expedition
up the Mahakkam river, where he was
captured by the Tring Dyaks. These
amiable people Immediately made prepa-
rations for grand banquet, at which
he was to have the honor of being the
piece de resistance. Just as the head
cook was leading him forth for culinary
purposes the sky became suddenly
darkened, the earth groaned and
trembled and shower of ashes fell
upon the terrified natives, who there
upon took to their heels and left him
to his own reflections. He shortly fol-
lowed their example by scampering off
though, tits needless to say, in an oppo-
site INSTRUMENTATION Magazine.
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Letter from Sister Jerusha.

l want to reply to "R. g." Mr..
Editor, but do not know her address,
so l write to you. l did not marry
him for his well-furnished house or for
man to take care of me, for | was
able to take care of myself; neither
did | love him with my whole soul and
body (or gave my heart to God in my
YOUTH, but loved him well enough to
leave all my friends (and / had a
good many) and everything to make
his home happy-as far as | could and
do right. AS to my calling him "boss,"
that is what he calls himself to me.
He says he is the boss and | must do
as he says. Perhaps you are married
and perhaps not. If you are, do you feel
as though you ought to thank your
husband for what rightfully belongs to
you? l claim | have worked hard for
him ten years and have done all could
to save, and | also claim | am entitled
to my clothes besides my board, which
l get. / have taken in sewing, but am
not able to take in washing. | think if
l clothe my two children and make my
husbands shirts, knit his socks, do all
my work, besides doing work in the
yard, care for hens and COW (when we
have cow in this hot climate), do my
share, and if he wanted a wife to do
more he ought to have told me so be-
fore he took me for better or worse. |
will add that he is not drinking man.
That is one good thing. We are both
strictly temperate. And now if you
wish to write to me you can, and | will
take it kindly, but l will tell you l am
not one of the soft-soap kind. am
out-and-out. What | want is to have a
man do right, and if he does not dc
not poor-pussy him over.
REMARKS BY EDITORIALS we have
mislaid "R. G.'s" address, we prin
Jerushas contribution for her consid
Grafton, and if she desires to correspond
with her personally we will forward
any letter she may send to Jerusha''
address,
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Sculptured Rocks in British Guiana.

Travellers in British Guiana speak of
the Indian picture-writing," as they
call the sculpture found on blocks of
granite over which hangs a mystery not
yet solved. These sculptured rocks
have been traced through 700 miles of
longitude and 500 of latitude, or scat
tered here and there over an extent of
100000 square miles. Many of them
have been copied, and, although they do
not denote an advanced state of civiliza-
ton, they seem to have higher origin
and significance than the idle tracings
of hunting nations. They are gener-
ally found near cataracts and rapids.
Among numerous other figures was a
representation of two vessels under
sail. There remains, therefore, no
doubt that these pictures were made at
a later period than the discovery of
America by Europeans. The other
figures were representations of birds,
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animals and men. Among others was
group of thirteen men, arranged in
row, as if dancing This probably re-
lates to an event which caused great
ejoicing-perhaps the arrival of
Europeans. Schomburgk says on this
subject: "The Indians of the present
day, in the vicinity of Pedrero, admit
the antiquity of these figures, and say
that they were engraved by means of
constant friction with quartz pebbles.
Such may have been the case, but our
attempts to produce such results proved
fruitless, as, indeed, did our endeavor
to produce fire from two sticks, though
it is done with comparative ease by the
Indians. Unwearied patience may have
accomplished t.-ETchange.
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Strawberries.
BY A. c. W.

My experience with strawberries be-
gan with a few plants of the Charles
Downing, which were given me by a
friend. Not finding them very salts
factory, l began to inquire if there
were not some kinds which would do
better, and Mrs. Annie l.. Jack sent
me two kinds which she considered the
best for family use-the Cumberland
Triumph and Miners Prolific. The
Cumberland Triumph has the most
good qualities of any berry have ever
grown. 1t is early, hardy, productive,
handsome, of good shape and fine
quality. 1t is not so sweet berry as
the Sharpless, Longfellow or Miners
Prolific; and it is not sour, like Cres-
cent, Wilson, Manchester or Windsor
Chief. Next | bought few plants of
James Wick, Longfellow, Manchester
and Jersey Queen. The Wick is a small
berry and is said to keep a week on the
vines after ripening, but l have never
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Fleischman's Yeast.

l suppose not every housekeeper
knows about the German compressed
yeast, and how easily they can get it..
1t can be had by mail if several club
together and have a certain number of
cakes sent each week, or as often as
they like. 1t comes in cakes one inch
square and half an inch thick and costs
two cents. Half cake is sufficient for
a batch of bread, or one-fourth will do
if the flour is of the best 1t never fails
to make good, light bread, and saves
all the trouble of making yeast-a job
most people dislike. 1t is to be used
just the same as any yeast, but can not
be kept fresh long.
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Stolen Secrets.

Few inventions are at present worked
secretly, as the patent laws now provide
the protection which in olden times was
wanting. One hundred years ago
whatever man discovered in the arts
or mechanics he concealed. Workmen
were put upon their oath never to re-
veal the processes used by their en-
ployers. Doors were kept closed, arti-
sans going out were searched, visitors
were vigorously excluded from admis-
sion and false operations blinded the
workmen themselves. The mysteries
of every craft were hedged in by pre-
cautions which now appear to be fam
ciful and silly. But neither locks nor
oaths availed against the ingenuity of
curious or inquisitive rivals. One after
another trade secrets were revealed,
until the wise patent laws did away
with all necessity for secrecy. The
secret of the manufacture of citric
acid was stolen from an old chemist,
who had a shop near Temple Bar in
London, by chimney-sweep who
dropped down the hue and took good
note of the process. The secret of the
manufacture of tinware, which was
discovered in Holland and kept Sc
cret for fifty years, was stolen by James
Sherman, Cornish miner. The his
tory of the cast steel presents a curious
instance of manufacturing secret
stealthily obtained under the cloak of
an appeal to philanthropy. In 1850 a
Sheffield (EnglanD matchmaker be-
came dissatisfied with the watch-springs
in use, and after many experiments
succeeded in making cast steel. In
1770 he had large factory making this
steel. The process was wrapped in Sc
crecy by every means within reach, true
and faithful men were hired, the work
divided and subdivided, large wages
paid and stringent oaths administered.
1t did not answer. One midwinter
night traveller knocked at the gate. 1t
was bitterly cold, the snow fell fast and
the kind foreman gave the wanderer
shelter from the storm. He sank upon
the floor and soon appeared to be
asleep. But in reality he kept his eyes
open, saw the whole process and when
he departed in the morning he carried
with him the secret of making cast
steel.-Golden Days.
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advertisements.
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A YOUNG girls grief at seeing her
charms of face and form departing and
her health imperiled by functional
irregularities at her critical period of
life, was turned 20 joy and gratitude
after a brief sef-treatment with DR..
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mistellanp.
ALPS at An End.

The breach Ia made -false friend. adieu;
Ais at an end between us two.
Let others come. with power and praise.
To blot your image from my days.
That shining past, its colors fade;
I'll have no more--the breach is made.
ALPS at an end? Proud instinct lies
There is no end to human ties.
My voice has learned an alien tone,
My very look repeats your own;
Our natures act in foe and friend
In vain we cry, AIS at an end.
-Hdrper's Magazine for april.
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WOman's Work.


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But little they are needing.
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CURRAN once said to Grattan: "You
would be the greatest man of your age,
Grattan, if you would buy few yards
of red-tape and tie up your bills and
papers,
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Land for Sale in Michigan.

DR.. Il. D. Sargent of Eastlake, Michigan,
dealer in Timber, Fruit, Farming and Stump
Lands in Michigan. From fifty cents to ten
dollars per acre. Correspondence invited
now at Washington, Vt.
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advertisements.
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February I, lsss-Not trace whatsoever of the
disease from which suffered has shown itself since
my cure. GEO, COTEH.
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