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HE SUBSCRIBER BEGS TO INFORM HIS CUSTOMERS AND THE Public, that he has received per Steamships St. Andrew and St, Da A LARGE STOCK OF DRY GOODS IMPORTED DIRECT, CONTAINING IN VARIETY Shawls, Mantles, Ribbons, Flowers, F Stock, and Corsets, Skirts, Hosier full range of Sizes and C Feathers, and Millinery and Gloves, including Colors the of genuine celebrated J eovin and Josephine Kid Gloves, lv hich will be sold at prices much below the figures Suahlly asked. for these guads. Together a large assortment | Plain and Faw Dress Goods, Lustres, Al | Pink, and Yon; Saxony Flannels, P! Carpets, snd Fancy W Damask's, Lace Curtains, Table Linens, Oil otha, Tow Towellings, French Hesinow, Satoh, White, Superior Make, ete. To- gether with a large supply of Gents' Fumishing, Cloths & Triminings, MILLINERY Clothing Made to order--Fits Guaranteed. AND MANTLES A SPECIALITY. || LATEST STYLES AT ALL TIMES. Oshawa, Oct. 16th, 1872. 8: TREWIN. Corner of King and Simsoe Streets, Oshawa. * | report said JOHN FROST audacity; be is boul Lo ma e asgiher sitdek | unoifensive person, friends at a distance | €zar of Russia has 'forwarded a Splendid Lot 0! TFRRIBLE BATTLE BETWEEN JACK FROST and a German Gentleman by t the worst of the contest. ot k on this peaceful citizen. BE GONE JOHN FROST! | A LLOW BY THE NAME OF 2 Rn of M. MAYER, nraged all last inten: y M. AYER being » opie heir.assistance in the emergency. Sable, Austrican & Russia Dog Skins, leon has forwarded o {To protect his men In the BRITISH CRAPE, ain lief from _ sane' Ia call ad J» moms ™ © apstart, be will long remem Jor Raw Furs. illo. Ogtober, J872.- Jonald Smith oReil, from the Hudson Bay. BUFFALO ROBES, MINKS, ERMINE, &c., THAT WERE EVER OFFERED IN- BOWMANVILLE. M. MAY ER thankful fos the distinghished | houot oun Sonferted upton him rng en Sp he a. iste FINE ASSORTMENT OF FRENCH CONIES. Queen of Great Britain has tendered to her loyal subject, MUFFLERS AND SCOTCH CAPS. Company, have sent the finest lot of 10,000 Volunteers, Ladies and Gongiopen; Wanted : for. the Campaign. | AM. M4 YER repairs dnd alters damaged goods, a and paye highest price MM. Ma YRE, | mE smm------ Portrp. NAA AAP PAAR NAS Ia memory of Mrs. Ligzie Thomas. BY ZLLIE aco HENRY. She ls Dot dead, our loved onc now But only gove before, But ab! the bitter tears will fall, Her voice we hear no more. When twilight gathers o'er the earth, And vight winds wall sad woop, Ove fond sad heart grows lonely theo And throbs ln sorrow deep. The gentle smile was always there To 8U his soul with light, But all unsecn, the death, Came ia his robes of Night. The bister anguish of that hour, 'When o'er ber lifelcss clay, The loving hearts now flied with grief, Could only weep and pray. Though here we iiss the gentle one, She reigns with Christ above And sings amid the angel band, A song of praise and love. Above the shadow and the storm, She halds tho gates ajar. And beacons with her snowy hand, From that fair home afar. God often takes the fairest flower That blpoms beneath the sky, To wear the starry angel crown, And dwell with him on high. Selections, Fifteen years ago London was a much jollier place in every way than it is now. It had an individuality of its own then. Ita big hotels were unbuilt; its Houses of Parliament were unfinished; it was just a big, brown, busy city, with a splendid river running slap through it. For it had a river then, with shores and noble bridges; now it has but a stone trough, with iron drain pipes across it. One rode on top of busses then, or darted about in hansoms; now, I declare when 1 visit London 1 | le ey Tot to my gloomy lodgings through the sloppy streets, and sit and lonely chew the cud of bitter meditation. The idea seemed to me horrible, and yet now, as ever, there appeared to be mo escape for me from the embraces of this melancholy fiend. I couldn't help saying to myself as I sat with my chin resting on my bands, "" I wish I were dead." 1 didn't mean to say it aloud, but I sup- poss I must have whispered it audibly, for a man who was sitting opposite me at the | table--who had been sitting there smooth. ing his moustache all the time [ had been dining, his eyes fixed on his plate--look- od up of » sudden and gave me a quick and searching glance. I knew him then; it was Médhunt, sn old schoolfellow. Asa boy he had always been a mystery to us; that quick, sudden glance of his always had such a strango of fest upon all on whom it fell. * We used to say that he had the Evil Eye, and won- derful tales used to be told at sohcel about the effect of Medhurst's look. Still I was glad to see him; any relief from the loneliness and motony 'of my life was pleasant. He recognised me also, - and came over and sat beside me. "Well," he said, after we had shaken hands--he had 'a strange, flabby, chilly hand, which somehow sent an icy thrill to my very heart--*' well, and so you wish you were dead!" "Did you hear me? "'I said. was nonsense, of course. I often say so. A foolish habit I have. I don't mean it." "It is nonsence," he said; he talked in a low monotonous voice, intelligible enough to the ear for which it is intended, bat not to be overheard by others. " It was non- sense, but a very ratonal, prudent, wish. I wish so myself; and what is more," he zaid, "I have the means to carry out both our wishes." "0, it had spend all my time in a coal cellar, where | there is an escape of Gas, and where all | *" the great deterring influence which has the hot cinders from the kitchen fire are | way. Fiftoon years ago J was in London, liv. ing on a slender pittance, and wach troubled iu the matter of dinners. As a rule, I dined in the middle of the day, on 8 chop sent in by a neighboring publican, sud made out with bread sand cheese and beer at night. Dat there were times when the soul craved wore luxurious living. -- Those times geuicrally coincided pretty ac- curately with the advent of quarter day apd then une would would go in for a cut of Bimpson's mutton, or, if mcre reckless for a dinnor at the Wellington, at that time just opened, vice *' Crockford's." Sundays were the worst days for dinner arrangewents. By breakfasting at noon, indeed, one avvided the necessity of any luncheon; but at about § o'clock a desper- ate craving would come uver me--a gnaw- ing vulture in the st h would | ly cry for food. Frequently, I confess, an empty purse coincided with an empty stomach, and the vulture cried in vain; but sometimes one had a few shillings in one's pocket, and then, even then, the problem was a difficult one---where to dine on Sunday. I went often on such occasions to an un- derground chamber called the Recesses, not far from Long Acre. The promises of that establishment were excéllent. * Soup, fish and joint--all for the modest sum of eighteen pence. The performance, how- ever, was sumewhat feeble. .I don't mean to say it wasn't an exeellent dinner for the money--it was. But it wasn't an in- vigorating dinner. The soup was some" what thin, the fish was generally ** fresh" herrings, and they'd have been better for a little salt originally. The joint was usually boiled beef;-and, you see, the joint and the soup were like the two buckets of a well--the stronger the soup tho less suc- culent the joint, and vice verso. One Sunday, I remember, my funds wepe getting low, very low. I had doter- mined to remain in my lodgings and sup- port nature om tobacco smoke; but my hunger was too strong. I had a few shil- lings left, and as the evening wore on,and the eravings of my appetite increased, resolution broke down. I put on my hat sod hurried out in quest of a dinner. How is it that everythihg looks so ghast- ly on Sunday? Don't tell me about the prickings cf conscience, misspent day, and all that. Good lack! I wish I'd nothing worse than that to reproach myself with. But I believe it te be a physical fact, that on Sunday the air is loaded with bile. I don't think it rises above a certain latitude; I've escaped it on the heights of Hamp- stead, on the hills of Surrey; but within s certain distance above the level of the soa I believe the air, between 11 in the morning and 8 at night, to be overcharged with bile. Perhaps it's owing to 80 many poor people being in church or chapel, and that they leave their bile outside - "they do their umbrellas on a wet day. When I made up my mind to go to the Recesses for a dinner, it was because I knew that there was no other place open, the prices of which would be within my means. How dismal it looked on this funday evening, that long, low room! its tables almost deserted, save for one or two wen here and there modding over a plate of biscuits. There was pea-soup that night 1 remember, and it was rather good, too. The fish was flshy, the joint was re" duced to a stump. * Waiter," I cried, *""can 1° dispense with the other courses. and dime off the soup?" "If you wish, of course, sir," waiter. T had three helps of that excellent pea- soup, and in each plate I put a spoonful of dried mint. But the after result was not. exhilirating; it rather clogged the pores, I think, that soup. Miserable and depressed as I went into the Recesses, I felt still more miserable, more depressed after my dinner, I had spent my pre- said the Il ily. *'You are joking.' " Never joke. Until now," he went on, restrained those wise men who sce the fol- emptied--I mean the Metropolitan Rail. | ly and emptiness of life, 'who, measuring ! | their feeble capacicies for enjoymént with their unlimited capacitios for suffering would gladly resign a posecssion which has no advantage for them--the graat dot- erring influence has been the doubt whether death is roally a complex severing of the body and soul: whether, indeed, there is not a lingering capability of feeling and hanging to the relaxed nerves, a lingering consciousness in the bitterness of death, one may tasto also the gloom of the grave, the horrors of the-charnel house." " Good heavens!" [ cried, ** what a hor- rible idea!" He fascinated me, this man. I would gladly have risin and gone oy but he stopped me with his eye. *¢ Listen!" he said, this impedi t; I have op young schoolfellow, I will reveal this sec- ret; lest, prompted some day to cross the boundary, I should die and leave mankind as wretched as ever. You sce this little powder herb; it is like wing, is it not}-+the smell, the taste, every thing is like mint --you would not know them apart; and | yet in a small quantity of this powder lies a release from all the wiseries of life. -- Don't shrink back; it is innoxious in small doses; produces merely pleasing langonr; but in such a quantity as a teaspoonful, it produces lethargy; twice the \gnantity brings on syncope; thrice, inevitable death. I have often ventured as far as the second stage, but have always stopped short of the third. But I have brought back this much assurance from the world of shad- ows; consciousness ceases altogether at the second stage. 'There are no dreams in the sleep of death. *' The preliminary stage of lethargy is delightful; I-often indulged in it; but I have a doubt sometimes whether I might not possess an exceptional physical organ- ization; whether the herb would produce exactly the same effect on others. I de- termined to try the effect on a large scale. I came here to-night to do it. Ihave not- iced that cach frequenter of these rooms, on pea-soup nights, which are frequent, takes one plate of soup, to which he adds ono spoonful of mint. Well, I watched my opportunity. I came here as soon as the door was opened; and, while tho wait- er's back was turned, I emptied the con- tents of the plate of mint into my pueket, and filled the plate with my own powder. The experiment was a bold one. I might have caused the death of innocent persons. However, I persevered, the interests of science overpowered considerations of hu- manity. The experiment has completely succeeded. Each habitue of these rooms has swallowed his plate of soup, his spoon- ful of precious herb; each has gone through the stage of lethargy. There are some now, you observe, passing through that stage. I threw an agonised glance around.-- Yes, sure enough, there were two or three men lying back in their chairs, their heads sunk on their breast--in a state of com- plete lethargy. 2 "And," he went on, '"'I can see the symvtoms of the approaching lethargy upon you--the dilated pupil of the eye, the ex- pression of an anxiety in the face. Yes, all is perfect; the symptoms are--" * But," 1 gasped, 'I have tsken three spoonfuls!" * Martyr of science!" he cried, spring- ing up and gasping me by the hand, *" how carefully, how painfully 1 will watch every symptom of your declining vitality. Dear friend, your case will be ah era in the his- tory of humanicy. . Like Curtius, you have leaped into the chasm for the public weal." *' But isn't there an antidote!" I grasp- ed; "a remedy!" "There is none, and werg there, you not go back from the noble path! My dear { friend, imitate the example of the ancient Romans; a quietude and serenity in your last hours is indispensable Gr the firoper. Bung: noting of your "But I won't die!" 1 shouted, pething | seribed allowance. 1 couldn't go anywhere up. iy Vs wSuEio THD wos a ---------------- "i have overgome d the gates of death to all mankind. To you, my the very chills of death upon me. Quick! I'm poisoned!" proprietor appeared pale and wondering. do you hear?" him!" ing the 'quality of my victuals, sir?" will you see a fellow creature perish, per. ish, perish!" friend. been advertised for." mounted the box. sidious advances of the deadly narcotic. that chap they advertised for," ing at the door of a police station. tor, coming up. have known better. drooping eyelids, ness." "What! is Medhurst mad?" light bursting in upon me. creation, that Medhurst. tricks. Quite a gentleman, too. | chaps; he's miles away by thls time." then, TARR KP 6 8 SRI, SLA. G PHRASES. | ed, and his attention diswracted from his theme, by the following conversation: ought to have been there--just the stuu- ningest fellow." Then a srund of running feet, claim: "I that you, Maggie!" "Yes; come down, quick. something to tell you." "I'll bo there in half a jiffy." Then the door opened and shut, a few minutes: fellow, right in front of me. on the sidewalk." founded." lous that I almost died with a laughing." them up. = I wasall Hunky-dory then. ed, him of course, etg., otc. how 'tis yourself., " The good Dector scratchad his head. -- Could this be his Nellie, whom he tho't so Iady-liks! He opened the door softly, | tiser snd put his ear to the crevice--thinking, no doubt, that he had a right to play the part of a listener to so strangely mixed a daughter commeneed the conversation. "There! How's that for high?" 'Only five dollars; cheap enough." going to have pink--this is blue." Dateh." gase of her friend. "It's raging hot here." any cooler," said Nellie laughing. fore to keep the doors closed. late," said Maggie, rising. " Don't tear yourself away. going to the lecture to-night." "" Yes. Tuesday night." home with you to-might." | has "| won't, I won't!" Here I screamed, "Send | for a doctor--for 'a policeman, Quick! All the lethargic men jumped to their | foot, the waiters came 'running in, the | night. " I'm poisoned!" I shouted; ""poisoned in the mint! - Send for a doctor, you fools! "Mad!" said a quiet voice; "mad as a hatter. Poor fellow he's subject to those fits. He'll fall down directly; look out for "* Bat I am not going to have the char raster of my house taken away for no mad freak, What do you mean, sir, by attack. "I waa he," I shouted, pointing to my friend, *' who now seeks to screen himself by calling me mad. But, good heavens! ¢ There, don't aggravate him" said my "Put him into a csb and send him to a police station: he's sure to have 1 was dragged and hustled from the room, and hurled into a cab. Two or three policemen had come up, and oné took charge o! me inmie while another I was quiet now, over- come by my struggles, and lay exhausted in the bottom of the cab, waiting the in- Presently the cab stopped. We've got cried the man outside to a policeman who was loung- 'The deuce you have," said the inspec- "Then you have done a good job to-night. There's fifty pounds offered now. Take him right off to the asylum at once. Let's have alook at him, though. Why, this ain't the man at all; this ain't Medhurst! Low, you ought to Red, full mustache, aquline nose--Why, they're as different as light from dark- I said, a "' Yes; has he been playing .any of his pranks upon you, sirl--making believe to give you any poison or any thing of that | sort]. Lord, he's the cunningest chap in| He's a small fortune to the police to bring him back after his escapes. He's quite harmless; too, though he's always up to so many I've swallowed a pint or more of his pois- on just to please him, and thea hell stand a bottle of champaign afterwards. [hat's how yon onght to have served him, sir.-- There, you won't get hold of hum to-night, I have never wished myself dead aince Rev. Dr. Hall was as sitting in his study one pleasant Augnstafterooon, his thoughts | intent upon his Sunday sermon, and his | thivg worse. | mind withdrawn from earthly cares, when P0¥® Use them sometinés, but a girl is ex- | | his train of thonght was rulely interrupt- | pected to be too rofined and lndy- like to "' Oh, Nellie. where are youl--you'd and pretty soon he heard his daughter ex. I've got and in "What do you think? As I was coming 'over here, there was just the stunningest | Just as 1|5t all, neither by heaven nor by the earth; got opposite the new church, my music | but let your communications be yea, yea, | | roll slipped, and every paper in it fell out | She nay, may, for whatsoever is more "' Graceous! I should have been dumb- "And so I was; but it was so ridicu- " Well, that fellow, do you think, stop- ped, turned round and helped me to pick He walked as far as here with me, and I thank- . You know NO. 41. "Well, good-bye." "Oh, the dickens ! I've left my para KE " "Here it is." - Now, good-bye; be sure and come to- ight." " Yes; good-bye." Then the door closed, and Nellie wert up stairs. The doctor gently shut the door, with a sly twinkle in his eyes. He sat buried in thought some little time. Wow and then as » good-humored smile| broke over his face. Then, again, his face lengthened snd his brow grew dark, until at last, wiv. a profound shake of the head, he sat down to resume his sermon. But in vain--he could not concentrate his thoughts; not an idea would enter his brain. So he sat, idly seratohing his pen on the paper, till at last, with s gesture of impatienbs, he pushed back his chair, got np, shook him. self, took hiahat asd went out for a walk. He got as far as the gate, when an idea seemed to strike him. He came back, hung up his hat, and went in search of his wife. For a long time they were closeted to- gether, unti! time for tea. When toa was ready, Miss Nellie came _down stairs, equipped for the lecture. After they were fairly seated at the table, Mrs. Hall said: tea I" : ""In half a jiffy, madam." td Nellie looked up, but her father took n no notice. "" Really this cake is quite stunning," went on the doctor as solemn as a judge. Nollie gazed at her father in perfent amazement. 'My dear this sauce is staving. Where did you buy it!" said his wife cooly. " Oh, well, its all the same in German." Nellie dropped her knife and fork. | ** You must give me some money for the butcher to-morrow," said Mrs. Hail. "You'll have to spell 'able first,"" growled the doctor savagely. ! Then, suddenly taking out his handker- chief, he gave his nose a tremendous blow. " There," said he, " how is that for high?" "I know how 'tis myself," meekly re- plied his wife. This capped the climax. The knowledge that her father must have heard the con- | versation was too much foi; Nellie. . She | burst into tears and left the room. The sage doctor nodded wisely to his wife, afd when Nellie got out of hearing he oxclaim- od: " There, wife, I guess we shall hear no more slang phrases from her." The next day the doctor called his daughter into his study, and said to her: " My dear girl, don't you see how foolish all these phrases are! They niean nothing, but are exceedingly injurious t those who use them. By ever so sparingia use, one's speech gets so corrupt that a person often makes use of one of those expressions at times, which afterwards he would, be sor- ry to remember. They sound very silly to a listener, and often they lead to some- It is bad enough to hear sully her lips by such expressions. = The | nse of them is simply a bad habit, but bad hahits like cuts in the bark of a tree, geo w and widen with age, and if they o- getiirm hold, are hard to got rid of. 1 there is a graat deal in companionship . we keep company and are intimate with those who uss bad lauguags, we are apt to nse it ourselves. ¢ Prawns are known by thecompany they keep.' When yousceaper- son using these slang phrases, you may be sure that such a person knows not what is called ' good society.' Sach ex- pressions as 'By Gorry' or 'By Dam' are not only foolish, but wicked. For does not the Scripture say, ' Swear not han these cometh of evil. » - " There, my daughter," said the doc- tor, we have made quite a sermon of i*, 80 let us have no more of slang phrases. -- Congregationalist, LINE AS A FERTILIZER. At a necting of the Elmira Farmers Club, Now. 23. in reply to an inquiry from the President as to what he should do with a quantity of air slacked lime which he had on hand, Mr. Lewis Fitch "and pitfalls of a flaming hellon either holding aid, a reported in the Elmira Adver- About Steen years ago I had & piece of ground ten or twenty acres in extent, cenyersation, and in his own house. © Very soon it was continued; this time his 4 Oh, isn't that sweet; how much wasit." " Yes, indeed; but you said you were "Never mind it's all the same in] The Doctor peeped to see: what they were talking about--and Miss Nellie was exhibiting her new bonnet to the admiring . "Well, L don't know as I can make it "" 1 *spose father'd kill me if T opened a door." Her father had requested her the day be- "1 guess it's time for me to absquatu- Are you I had a staving old time last " George Sanders anid he should go "Did he? He'd better spell able first," "That's so.. If there's anything I hate, "tis the boys bothering round; they ought #o be put {a a batrel and fed through the hole until they are old enough to be- J) a 42 Ls dou God im now; Tre which had been so badly run that it would not produce any useful crop. It was too miserably poor to raise weeds except sor- d, if not created, by the use of lime. I believe that more lime has been thrown on the ground in that than all that has ever been used.in this city for all purposes. D. E. Howell--What is the soil! = _ 'Lewis Fitch--Clay, black loom, red shale, and a mixture of these kinds. * There is a very large extent of country with vary. ing soils, where great dependence is plac. ed on the use of lime, and the richness of all attests the wisdom of its use. President Hoffman--With the lime oi your poor picce did you use otherman- ure! Lewis Fitoh--None at all in that year, and the following year I sowed it with oats and had an excellent crop, without any further application of time or other fertilizers. On that crop it was stocked with grass, which made a good catch, and grew luxuriantly where grass would not grow before. At the subsequent plowings other manures were used, and the piece has always proved reliable for's good orop of whatever kind I have cared to raise. Oxe of the most tou instances ~f gratitude is alleged to have vecured at Lock Haven the other day A little doy, the child of a welthy mother, tumbled into tae river. He was rescued by a workingman and restored to his parents. The woman ; | gave the man a three caat pos "My dear sir, will you have some | "hare in Nm and said she would be glad to come up to her bouse and sit out inthe en- tryaud hear herplay thepiano, Hewenta- way with tears in his eyes. Such unaccus- tomed kindness quite uamaned him, AN I= DOOR )R TRAGEDY. Well nigh half a » contary ago a newly- married couple settled in one uf the west- ern counties of Pennsylvania. They had what their neighbors deemed a fair capi- tal with which to begin life--a well-stock- ed though small farm, sound health, guod common sense, and a more than amount of shrewd intelligence and culture. Under all this was a sincere trust in ard a jealous, sensitive love for each other neither of which their bors knew much about. American' Bods far-- mers take a pride in covering their emo- tions undor a hide as tough as that of their own beeves. They had three or fi children, and night after kitchen fire, the problem solves to answer was, what i we can do with them, ani Guestion asked daily Yih uth a wrench ing of heart in myriads of homes, pe differently. The fear of God.seom- ed to Jacob and his wife the best to give them; the next best, money. To give them the first, gan by hedging the children's stem of rules, borrowed To half f from the n' sect. trict morality, t keeping Sun.' day ass poriviical y wretchedness, the and hard path throu a dark valley with the terrors of Sinai bok and the Even Jacob's wife, Mary, her dar- lings to her breast, than which no mother's - ever ached or throbbed with wore tender- ness, had no other sermon to preach to them. It never occurred to her or her hus- band that it was .into just such Gelds of grain as those atv at them, under such towering codars, tL. Jesus led his disciples + and tanght them, the sunshine and the rain, the tender m reies -fGod. The word vrew green arotind them, faded agninand ed itaclf in snow, year after year; Fiver sanz its' mystefjons song to the vosods at ir vo door; and overheard 'he aL that had selared to the patri- a of the old world the infinite secrets Tehovah blaze ed them forth still, ma. zarded. . Day nnto day vttered and nicht after night showed forth ledge of Hin, bat hath farmer and wife were deaf and blind. God was to ba ap. rroaened only through a hog-eared cate- chism, and fields and rivers were worth onlv so much fish and wheat per vear. The children's salvation being thus rro- vided for, the next thing to be insnred was money. Hushand and wife worked and stinted as only a Scotch-Irish farmer's family an work or stint. All noe that was saleable went to the : the vra children were reared en the refuse, the = - skim milk, poorest bacon and watery po- tatoes. The'r clothes were corrse Shuts. and patched, their feet bare and* The house grow bearer year by year, hilbjainal father's back | bent, his face brut the by As for the plump -- Mary, she jad long ago joined that sisterhood of lean, yellow.skined, toothless women who, with dirty ealico dresses and of y to look - at them w! yg for them with a fierce be God himself. " ; cy to aleoholie poisoning, against which his diet and training hould have defended him, rel, and with that it was pletely cov- ered. I plowed it well and planted pota- toes, and of course got nocrop. Not be- ing acquainted with its poverty, I had hoped that diligent care would bring a moderate crop, but I was mistaken. The worthless sorrel was the only thing that would grow, and that monopolized the ground in spite of my efforts to raise po- tatoes.. The next year I bought three hundred bushels of lime and spread it on about one-half the ground, throwing it from the waggen with a shovel. made a good, thick dressing. My idea was that I should thus overcome the sur- rel, for I thought lime was its antidote. I | planted that portion again with potatoes and was rewarded with a very fine cnp and a total extinction of sorrel, which has never appeared since. From that time to this, whenever the piece is plowed, traces of that lime application are seen. It prov- ed a complete renovation of the worn out land. Another remarkable instance of its good effect I witnessed many years ago on land near Hoffman's Grove, which was then in possession of the Mechanics' As- sociation, and my brother had a portion to sow to wheat. It was wet, cold and poor; so I felt impelled to say to him* you cannot raise wheat there." the trial, and as a preparation gave liberal dressing of lime. The 1 s fine crop of wheat, which | "left to themselves, were brain with and ely . in or com, was $= e, But what tine had Mary guts in any way Re ol Br hend or help vd children? scrubbing and churning to be_ done, money to be saved. and girls were sent to colleges and seminaries; every ad- vantez: that education could L] Bo was theirs; the rnly mistake Jacob his wife made in this 0 San a ucate themse ves as well. The went forws=d; they sat down and grmb- gE? That | bed. W! at is the end ic and. ai duh. urs grew dyspe, s'ckly for wd cee A wash oo Bide a_i died cre idee : women, and neither them in any sense religious. . son went in- to politices, was successful, is is now a mem- ber of and one of the most fluential of his party. Jecob and mother read of his life in Washington, wife's Nigeious, has be. Ie e was a strangr in yoars since he crossed the old is there in common bet: the ignorant, boorish farmer A few weeks ago the last of thy home to die; the one of all who had real power of inte one who was not ashamed to He insisted on | haggard