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Story of a millionaire.

lnree WGll-kQOWu CluUuuCu sdI III 1Ao
lounging-room of the Gilsey House chat
ting over the many changes that have
occurred in the last fifteen years among
the ranks of the American plutocracy.
Said the eldest of the trio, q thick
wasted, double chinned millionaire:
ssThere is one man in New York whose
career has been in many respects remark
able. He used to haul wood. Those
were the good old days when a judge
and his retinue of lawyers went from
place to place in the circuit, holding a
brief term of court in each district until
the calendar war cleared. On one of his
rounds famous old circuit rider, long
since dead, came across a young man
with load of wood for sale, and enter
ing into conversation with him learned
that he was poor, and farmer, with
aged parents dependent on him. The
lawyer saw that the boy was made OF
good metal, and proposed to educate
him, offering him at the same time the
loan of enough money to keep the old
couple from want while he went to
school. The offer was accepted. The
boy passed through the college, became
a merchant and after few years turned
his attention to railroad speculation.
sFifteen years ago he came to this
city. Four years ago this month his eld-
est son married Miss Carrie Astor. The
other day his daughter was married to
the Hon. Michael Henry Herbert, charge
d. affaires of the British Legation at
Washington. Another daughter is the
wife of Ogden Goelet. Thus, besides
the acquisition of enormous wealth, he
has gained firm footing among the
older families of New York, and the
acknowledged leaders of society. 1t is
scarcely necessary to add that the youth
who sold wood to make ends meet on
the farm is the noted inancier and rail
road magnate of Wall street. Richard T:
Wilson. His famlliars call him "Dick. "
-NeU York Tribune.
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Clearing Land of Stumps.

Stumps may be taken out OF land IN
the quickest way by means of dynamite.
A small charge will throw out large
stump, tearing it into several pieces,
which may be cut up for fuel or used to
build into fences. The method in use is
as follows: A pointed iron bar is driven
into the ground under the stump SO that
the cartride W IL be in the best place for
useful effect in lifting the stump out OF its
bed. The cartridge is then attached to
a fuse having a Illuminating cap in the
end next the dynamite. and the fuse is
fastened by wrapping the oiled paper of
the cartridge around it and tying the
paper with piece of string to hold the
fuse in place. The cartridge is pushed
gently to the bottom of the hole and
sand or water is poured in for tamping.
Very little tamping is required, as dyna-
mite explodes with much greater force
than common blasting powder. The fuse
is then lighted in the usual manner.
Dynamite has eight times the force of
common black powder. This method has
been in use for at least twelve years; and
although patent has been taken out for
the process two or three years back, 1t IS
invalid and worthless because of the long
previous use.-Ne0 York. Times.
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South Africa exported last year 8, 59s,
$50 carats of diamonds worth $21, 200,

We gratefully acknowledge the receipt,from
DR.. J. C. Aver e. Co., Lowell, Mass. of bound
set of their Almanacs for 1859, making q hand
some and valuable presentation volume. Be-
sides various editions in English there are edi-
tiors in French, Spanish, German. Portuguese,
Swedish, ,Norwegian-D Danish. Dutch. Bohemian,
and Welsh; also, specimen pages of pamphlets
issued by the firm in eleven other languages.
Nothing could better illustrate the extent OF
the business done by the company than such O
collection of its advertising issues. For oar.
selves, we confess we should often be lost with
out Ayers Almanac, accustomed as we have
long been to rely upon the accuracy of its cal
culations; and we have no doubt that Ayers
Sarsaparilla is equally trustworthy as medi.
cine The familiar yellow-cover pamphlet
can now be had at all drug stores.-The
EDdenrnr
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The Creamery Business.

, The advantages of the cooperative sys-
tenn of butter-making are daily becoming
more apparent. In those sections where
the system has been tried, on right
principles. it almost invariably inures to
the benefit of the farmer in giving in
creased returns for his milk product, and
in the enhanced value Of farm land on
account of increasing its fertility and
productiveness by bookkeeping. The
removal of much hard labor from the
shoulders of the housewife is one great
advantage of the system and one too
often under estimated. If the farmer
could get no more per pound for his but
ter by selling his cream to the creamery,
the saving of labor in doors is weighty
argument in favor of his patronizing the
creamery. A writer in the Western
huraI adds testimony on this point, by
saying that he esteems the factory as a
great blessing to the overworNed women
of our farms, taking them as whole.
The cream gathering system is the means
of greatly blessing our wives, mothers
and sisters. One man wrote us some time
since that he had given up dairying, be-
cause of the burden it imposed upon his
wife, and was selling hay. Well, that
is bad plan. Secure the establishment
of factory in the neighborhood, and
feed the hay to cows on the farm
Msao York Mdependent.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Who waits for dead mems shoes may
have to 60 barefoot.
Honesty is best policy, but policy not
always best honesty.
Balances on the credit side of the
ledger always look the best.
Better to begin the world without q
dime than end it without dollar.
The man who lays his hand to the
plow aud doesn't look back is doubly
blessed.
No consciousness of rcctitude will en-
tirely take away the sting OF being
cruelty misjudged.
Every man is society's debtor, not
creditor. Will our anarchial friends
please bear that mind:
AS water runs down from the swelling
hills and flows together in the lowly
vale, so grace flows not but into humble
hearts.
The leaders in the coming conflict,
those who will be crowned when the VIC
tory is gained, are not to-day sitting
astraddle Of fences.
Let not him who prays suffer his
tongue to outstrip his heart; nor pre-.
sumo to carry message to the throne OF
grace while that stays behind.
1t is impossible to make people under
stand their ignorance; for it required
knowledge to perceive IT.; and therefore
he that can perceive it hath it.
He who, in advance of the world,
grasps truth is seer who shows others
how to see. He carries a torch that dis.
pels darkness which a thousand suns
could not dispel.
The man who is right ncedn' It care
for appearances. All things for or
against will be found in the end to have
worked toward victory; courageous
hopefulness is rightfully lis.
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Maple Sugar Making.

The manufacture of maple sugar is a
paying industry when properly con-
Quoted, the profits being usually in pro
portion to the quality, and thus mostly
within the control of the manufa turer,
and large bush con generally be more
economically managed than a small one.
There is an inherent quality in good
maple syrup that will sell itself, and
nothing but honey can ever compete
against maple sweet, and there is no real
competition between them. Both are
sweet, but have no other property in
common. Neither is used for the sweet
alone.
At present not enough maple sugar is
made, including enormous sdulteratlons,
to afford a pound year to each in
habitant. If all were made into maple
syrup there would not be half gallon
FOR every family of six. Less than one
half of one per cent. of the worlds sup
ply of sugar is reported as maple, and
the demand for pure maple IS constantly
increasing. The appetite is cumulative,
and what was once luxury rapidly
comes to be considered necessity. Pure
maple syrup is cheap dessert at dollar,
or even dollar and half, a gallon. 1t
is about the only farm product there is on
which the producer can fix the price.
Only a few weeks are employed in the
manufacture, and that at time when
there is the least demand for work on
the farm. Pasturage of the ground and
fallen timber for frewood are more than
an Offset for taxes. AS rule the sugar
bush in Michigan is made up of original
forest trees preserved for the purpose.
The sugar bushes commonly stand IN
small Isolated areas exposed to the full
effect of wind and weather. These two
causes, old age and exposure, and not
tapping are to be assigned as the true
causes of the loss Of sugar trees.-Ne'o
T0rE World.
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Simple Kid Glove Renovator.

One of the best preparations for clean.
ing kid gloves that 1 have ever tried
can be bought for small sum at any
drug store. Get one quart of deodorlzed
benzine, one drachm of sulphuric ether,
one drachm of chloroform, two drachms
of alcohol. Cologne oil can be added
if desired. Pour little of this into a
clean bowl, and wash the gloves in it as
you would wash anything. After the
dirt Is nearly out, rinse in more of the
clean fluid. Usually one rinslng IS
enough, but it the gloves were very much
soiled rinse the second time. If the
gloves are of cheap kid it is better to dry
them OIL the hand, but nice glove after
having been rubbed with a soft cloth to
smooth out wrinkles, may he hung on a
line to dry. This preparation is an ex-
cellent thing to keep in the house, not
only for cleaning gloves, but tor taking
out grease spots from clothing and
carpets, and for sponging coat collars and
felt hats. -Brook{ya Citizen.
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To Make Poultry Grow.

Nothing will enlarge the capacity of a
chicken quicker than varied bill of fare
and q good supply of green food. To
chickens in confinement onion tops are
especially acceptable, and the tops are
relished more than are the bulbs them
selves. Beet and turnip tops will be
greedily devoured. That they may not
be wasted lay them with the tops all one
way and weight them down with a. stone.
Bran and shorts, wheat and outs, table
SCRAPS and meat, with a very little corn,
a few sunfower seeds, and q small
amount of buckwheat, make an irresisti.
BILE combination, combination that will
make chicken grow and thrive in spite
of itself. To make pullets trot along to.
ward maturity with a wonderfully accel-
Grated pace, give them every morning
warm feed of bran and shorts and ground
oats mixed up with milk or meat stock
in which is little salt. At noon give
feed of meat and at night all the wheat
they will eat and little left to scratch
for the next day. In addition to this,
provide green food, crushed bones, and
pure water, and give each day one heavy
feed of broken shes: they will be eaten
with avidity. Feeding pepper often to
fowls as a regular appetizer is q bad
practice. Although very little will do
no harm, yet the continued use Of the
condiment is liable to cause liver COM
plant. Warm feed tends to have the
same stimulating effect without possess
ing the injurious qualities of the
cayenne. The only way to make a
chicken house is to build it with board
floor. Where the droppings nightly fall
on the ground the soil will become foul
and damp, even though it be cleaned out
every day in the year. The odors that
then ari,e are unwholcsome in the ex-
treme, will cause roup, and in fact nearly
all the ills that poultry flesh is heir to.
The board floor should then be kept
covered with two or three inches of dry
soil, which should be repeatedly re-
newed. The only way to make roosts is
10 make them on a movable frame that
NAV be taken out OF doors, there to be
sealded with boiling hot water in which
is little crude carbolic acid. Make
the roosts all on level and not more
than two feet high: thereby preventing
much quarreling and the humble foot
:Chicago Times.
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A Palm that Belonged to Washington.

John NJ. Goring, of Wappinger's Falls,
Dutchcss County, y. y, has sage
palm with quite history, which added
20 its great age-l5O years makes it a
valuable plant. The palm was originally
crown at Mount Vernon, and was once
owned by George Washington. 1t was
brought from there By Mr.. Van Rens.
selaer and planted in Niblo's Garden at
The time that pleasure resort was first
constructed. After some years it was
brought to Clinton Point, the Van Rens-
,elaer homestead and for four decades
was cared for by Edward Downing, the
gardener to whom it was eventually
given when the Van Rensselaers left that
section of country, and alterward it be
came the property of the 'iorings. The
plant stands ten feet high and weighs
nearly four hundred pounds.
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Astonishing q Bell Boy.

Harry Meredith is considerable of an
athlete and wag. 1t is his habit to
carry with him a pair of heavy iron
dumb bells for exercise. These he ire.
quently puts into his valise, making it
so heavy that an ordinary man would
find it task to lift it. On entering a
hotel it is a favorite Joke of Mercdith's
to hang the valise OH his little finger,
assume an innocent expression, and call
to one of the bell boys: ''Herc, take my
valise."
The yonugster, thinking from the way
its owner carries it that it must be very
light, takes hold of it in careless, easy
manner, and the next instant is dumb
(bell) founded to find himself and the
yalise on tho tioor.-LeirJit Tree Press.
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Fattening Sheep in Winter.

It is difficult matter to fatteu lambs
the first winter. AS rule, the only way
it can be done pro6tably is TO commence
to feed the lambs, the earlier the better,
before they are weaned, and continue
to feed them grain OF cake while run.
ming on good grass in the summer and
autumn. Prof. Roberts, of Cornell
University, says that late and inferior
lambs can usually be purchased in the
latter part of September for from 81 to
$3.50 per head, and that if properly fed
and cared for there is nice profit to
be made from them. We doubt this.
Far more profit will be made if bought
at the same price per pound, live
weight, from good, strong, almost lat
lambs than from inferior lambs. In
fact, we would rather pay five cents a
pound for a good lamb weighing eighty
pounds than three cents pound Clt
obliged to try to fatten him in winter)
for an inferior lamb weighing forty
pounds. s.-american Agricultur;St.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
FARM AND GARDEN.
Play This Joke on Your Chickens

Play This Joke on Your Chickens
An amusing test of the difference of
disposition in barnyard fowls may be
made by placing piece of looking glass
against the trunk of large tree and
laying train of corn in front of it:
Some hens will discover what they all
take to be new arrival with mild curl
bslty and merely look at it intently, per,
baps peering around behind the tree and
then wax quietly away. Others peck
the glass angrily and insist upon fight
ling, while few nervous females show
much of the same noisy excitement that
Beizes upon most hens when they spy
enake. We tried the valiant old auto.
erat of the farmyard with this trick and
he was at once aroused to fury. Drop
)ping his head when some ten feet in
Ffront of the glass, he began the cautious
advance parallels which every one ia
milar with poultry has seen before a
&ght.-Te Poultry Yard.
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Origin OF Tanning.

It is difficult to determine the origin
of the art of tanning leather, owing to
the confusion existing in ancient authors,
and in the translating of words. which
sometimes mean raw skins and again
prepared hides, and possibly what we
now term leather. Raw hides were, no
doubt, first used. and afterwar0 soften
ing processes introduced similar to
those employed by our North American
Indians. It is said that the pounding of
skins and sewing them up and inRating
them is shown in the ancient paintings
of Kourna.-NtW York San.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
History of Mustard.

Mustard was little known at English
tables until 1872, when Mrs. Clements,
residing in Durham, began to grind the
seed in a mill, and to pass the flour
through several processes necessary to
free it from husks. She kept her secret
to herself for many years, during which
she sold large quantities of mustard
throughout the country, but especially
in London. Here it was introduced to
the royal table, where it received the
approval of George the First. From
the circumstance of Mrs. Clements be-
ing q resident of Durham it obtained
the name of Durham mustard.-4rgo-
o1nUt
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take large per cent. from their value
when matured. A colt is easily stunted
or weakened, and it may even contract
disease on account of bad food or i'm
proper sanitary conditions. Providing
stables or sheds in which colts can barely
exist, 10 make them tough, is both in
human and improbable. Warm quar-
tiers not only save food, but aid healthy
growth, which should be maintained all
winter. The stable should be warm
enough to allow the manure to freeze
only in the coldest weather, and as In all
buildings for domestic animals, draughts
of air should be guarded against. COTS
coming through in spring time with
long hair, prominent ribs and projecting
hips. and lousy, are disgrace to their
owners. They are so reduced in vitality,
aud the basis for the next summers
growth so undermined, that they cannot
make nearly so much profit out OF pas
lures AS ii we'll wintercd.
Since form and quality of the muscles,
tendons, and frame are equally as i'm
portant as 81 c the feeding of colts IS
even of more importance than that OF
calves for beef, or pigs for pork. Corn
alone has not enough muscle and bone
producing elements, and in the hands of
the ignorant feeder is often Improbable.
No one grain food with hay answers the
purpose in point of elTecti eness, COM
bined with cost, so well as oats. 1fthey
cannot be obtained cheaply, a good "a
ton can be made up of 100 parts by
weight of bran, fifty of cornmeal and
fifty of ground linseed cake, feed with
nice hay chopped in the feed cutter.
Four to nine pounds OF the mixed grain
food should be given each colt per day
in two to three feeds. 1t should be
mixed with about its weight of cut hay
before feeding. No definite amount can
be given, as some colts will require more
and others less than an average In
several days, or at most few weeks, an
observing feeder will know whether or
not the feed for each individual colt
should be increased. Colts as well as
mich cows, will enjoy water warmed TO
seventy degrees, and mixing in other
foods, for variety's sake, will give tone
to the appetite and condition" to the
animal. - Wisconsin, AgricuLtHriSt.
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dreamed of it, he did not know it himself, but
it is exactly what he did, nevertheless. Do
you remember his sallow complexion? Doyou
recolect how he used to complain of head
aches and constipation? I'm getting quite
it'll pass off. I haven't done anything for It,
because don't believe in dosing" Soon af-
ter that you heard of his death. 1t was very
sudden, and every one was greatly surprised.
IF he had taken DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Purga-
tive Pellets he would be alive and we'll to-day.
Don't follow his example. The pellets" are
easy to take, mild in their action, and always
sure,
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No MANS LAND is the arm of Indian TIE
ritory TINT lies between Texas and Colorado.

The Erie Railway is constantly receiving al.
ditions to its stock Of magnificent Pullman
cars and other dctachmcnts.
They have just received certainly the most
magnificent parior cars that have ever been
delivered by that famous company.
The latest additions arc the "Begonia' and
the Merida" which will be placed in servi e
ON train 8. leaving New York at $50 P. NJ, and
train l2, leaving Buffalo at $50 p. ".
Parlor cars of the same character have, this
week been placed between New York and
Horpn1 srillp
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Consumption, ScrofuIa, General

DEBILITY, WASTING DISEASES OF CHILDREN,
Chronic Coughs and Bronchitis, can be cur1d
by the use of SCorT's EMULSION of Pure Cod
Liver Oil with Hypophosphites. Prominent
physicians use it and testify TO its great value.
Emulsion for an obstinate Cough with Henor-
rhace, Loss of Appetite, Emaciation, Sleep;
les. ness. &c All these have now left, and |
believe your Emulsion ha, saved case OF well
developed Consumption. 1T. j. FINDLEY, VI.
D., Lone Star. Texas.
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THE total value of the mineral productions
of the United Stats in 1887 was S53S 056, ,345.

We accidently overheard the following dia-
logue on the street yesterday:
Jones. Smith, why don't you stop that dis
gustirg hawking and splitting?
Smith. How can l? You know am martyr
to catarrh.
j. DO as did. had the disease in its worst
form but am well now.
s. What did you do for 1t? >,
J. used DR.. Sagc's Catarrh Remedy. 1t
cured INC and it will cure you.
S. I'vt heard Of it, and by Joye III try 1t.
]. Do so. You'll lind it at all the drug stores
in
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Advertising patent medicine in the pecu.
liar way in which the proprietor Of Kemp's
Balsam, for Coughs and Colds, does it is indeed
wonderful. He authorizes all druggists to give
those who call for it sample bottle Free, that
they may try it before purchasing. The Large
Bottles are SOC and 81. We certainly would ad-
wise trial. It may save you from consump-
tiOn.
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Ed,vIn Forrest,s Secret.

which everybody ought to learn and profit by.
Said he: II owe all my success to the fact that
everything ! have undertaken | have done
thoroughly. never neglected trifes." That $
that hacking cough, those night-sweats, that
feeble and capricious appetite. and, the other
symptoms, trihing in themselves, but, awful
in their significance. They herald the ap-
but you can be saved. DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery will restore you to health
and vigor, as it has thousands OF Others. For
all scrofu ous diseases, and consumption is one
of them, it is sovereign remedy.
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Winter Care of Colts.

The first fall and winter is a critical
period with colts. During this time
Improper care, shelter, or food, or INSULT
cient water, OF lack of exercise, may
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sRnd cnI Cure for Epileptic Fits.

To the EdRor-Please inform your readers
named disease which warrant to cure the
worst cases. So strong is my faith in its vir;
tues that will send free a sample bottle and
valuable treatise to any sufferer who Will give
me his 2 O. and Express address. Respy,
H.G. ROOT. ". C. 1s3 Pearl ST.. New York.
The lest cough medicine is Piso'S Cure for
Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c.
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EVERY FAMILY SHOULD HAVE ONE.

All newspaper readers are constantly n. cdiIg an
Atlas for reference in order to inteligenly under
stand the eric they perusinR 1t is surprising
how much information Is thus stored away in tho
memory, and how soon ono becomes familiar with
the chief points concerning all the Nutions Of the
"eod "4oddK PfR rH i9r "a. ~ onard SSn 9. CITY