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Ilill I THE JOURNAL. "WEDNESDAY, Al'Gl'ST 13, 18SJ. si Perthes, sitter. THE KIND OLD MAN. de kiwi old man llic mlW old man Who smiled on the bovs ut play, Drcaminjr.

jcix-lianci of his own glad jreutb When lie was us uud (ray! And the larger urchin tosscl the ball. And the lessor lit-ld tho bat Thoujrli the kind! void man's eyes were blurred He could even notice that! But suddenly he was t-hocWed to hear Words that 1 dare not write. And ho hastened, in his kindly way To curb them as he might! And he Raid. "Tut! tut! you naughty bo With tho ball! lor s-haine!" and then: "You boy with the bat, whack hiai over the head It ho culls jou that jijjain!" Tho kind old man the miid old man Vho Razed at the boys at play. Dreaming, perchance, of his.

own wild yout When ho was as toiiKh as they! -J. UiUy, in IitdiaiicixAia Journal. MRS. MILLS'S Sl'RLNU SUIT. "Now," said Mrs.

Mills, as sho took, her semi-annual dividend from the envelope "now lwill have a spring suit; it's high time, too, and 1 mean to have it math hv Furbelow. Once in my life I want a dress that will lit like a glove nnd look I'm dead tired of being running about in ready-made gowns that hang on me like a bag, and ravel apart if one looks at them. I think I will have a gray Hen- Tint ta-eloth ami rrav velvet. I saw one at an open'msr1 that was too lovely for inr--but a wedding. I'm so sick I of black cashmere and black silk; it ilUtlilllJ.

ju seems to me I've never worn anything-else. To be sure, black is more economical; your next neighbor can't be certain whether jou had your black gown this spring or last, and it's becoming and ladv-like. I shouldn't care to have Mis. IJrowii say, "There goes Mrs. Mills in her everlasting gray gown; when shall we see the last of Pcr-hapi 1 get to be known as tho woman in gra and then gray spots wo easily, and benzine isn't all- that fancy painted it.

To be sure, it would dye and shrink. Drown is a durablo color, nnd not so pretentious. 1 could never wear a gray gown except on fete days; still that gray gown has haunted my imagination; it's like a poem, like the first sight of the silver catkins, the first sound of tho robin. However, I'll go in to tow 11 and get patterns, aud seo Furbelow." So Mrs. Mills went in to town, and obtained patterns at the best shop; patterns of velvet, of Henrietta-cloth, of cashmere, of armurc, of bourette, of bison-cloth and what not; patterns of gray, of London smoke, of ashes of roses, of clover red.

Then she proceeded to Furbelow's, and looked at fashion plates, and asked questions. "Here's a grav we have just finished for Mrs. Hyson, of Mount Vernon street; it's thought to he very cAtc," said the assistant. "Our price for making is fortv-fivc dollars only." Mrs. Mills sighed.

It was plain she could not have a gown made by Furbelow, fit her never isely. Her check was but for fifty dollars. When reached home with her patterns, in rather a pleasant frame of mind for cvcii the selection of patterns is a kind of shopping which exhilarates the feminine heart, more or less she found Mrs. Armstrong waiting for her. "You see," explained Mrs.

Armstrong, "we arc getting up a testimonial for ifear Mr. Gluco-e his thirtieth anniversary and we know you would wish to add something; all of our best people have given, liss Clapp gave lifty dollars; nobody has given less than five except old Mrs. Blunt, and you know how stinirv she is. She cave a dollar." Mrs. Mills gave five dollars.

"She couldn't do less," said Mrs, Armstrong afterward. "I was determined she shouldn't get oil" with a dollar." "That rather cuts into my spring suit," said she; "but I can have it made without tho telvet, 1 suppose." She returned to her patterns next da and meditated upon them; it was so hard to decide, if gray shouldn't happen to become her. Brown might look old-womanish. Black was the safer, of course. She consulted with her friends and with several of her feminine relatives.

She made up her mind in favor of gray on Monday, and ohoe brown on Tuesday. She found her attention wandering in church from the preacher's text to the parishoners' toilettes. The woman who hesitates is lost we are told and Mrs. Mills was still debating the subject when a letter arrived from her dearest friend. on will le id to hear" ic wrote) "that my iss-it You must come and slop here, it will be quiet affair, without much iliis.

Malcolm's partner lifts 6cnt me Mich a lovely necklace. In hnsto. "Xklue." That means a wedding present," thought Mrs. Mills. "She gave me suclf a beautiful vinaigette when I was married: and ten dollars is all I can spare.

Well. I suppose I can get ury gown for thirty-live, and have a dressmaker come to the house; that will be cheaper. Of course it won't fit like Furbelow's." And she went to look up wedding present for ten dollars; and as she couldn't find anything for ju.st ten dollars that Miited tho circumstances of her friend, ami as sho had the money in hand. ho paid fifteen for the loveliest p'eee of bric-a-brac, that had just been marked down from twenty dollars. "1 needn't give so much for the material for iny gown," she reflected, as she counted her remaining Have you decided aboutyour spriug suit yet?" asked a friend, later, "Is it to be gray or "I don't know." answered Mrs.

Mills. "I have been obliged to spend some of my money, and that makes it difficult to decide." It was a few days when she had happened in at a neighbor's in the evening for a game of whist, that the conversation fell upon the Cincinnati sufferers. Everybody expressed great commiseration. "Yes," said Mr. Salem, one of the guests present, "we arc all very sorry, but it doesn't keep us awake nights, and we don't like to abridge our own material comforts for their we arc sorrv in a poetical.

immaterial sort of a way. Now who of us would give our personal adornments for their benefit 1 mean to pass round the hat, and tt who is in earnest about this business. Here goes my seal ring, my intaglio, for example: iteame from Home, and was blessed by the Pope." "And here go my car-rings," said a lady present: "I always disliked them." "And niy lock," cried the hostess; "lockets have gone out of fashion." "I have no ornaments to give," said Mrs. Mills. You have it tiny gold chain around your neck, Mrs.

Mills," whispered her neighbor. "Do you wear it for a charm." "Mrs. Mills has charms enough without it," said Mr. Langworthy, aside, at her elbow. "Hush!" returned Mrs.

Mills. "I have my pocket-book. Perhaps ten dollars will answer quite as well, it is the smallest bill in it. "Oh, give him the chain he only asked for ornament and save your money," advised a friend. But Mrs.

Mills only replied with a flush, and threw in the ten-dollar bill, mentally calculating the shrinkage of her spring suit, perhaps. "Twenty dollars is a rather small amount for a spring suit," she reflected, Jatec Let me see, ten yards at a dol lar a yard it's no use to buy olicaper. for tno elbows will be out in no time I do; that leaves ten dollars for the dressmaker, linings, buttons, and extras. I'll'ask how much Miss Slasher has a dav. "Thre dollars a day is my price, madame," reported Slasher; "and I might have it done in three daya, if j-ou are in a hurry.

I suppose you haTe ft machine?" "No." "I could bring mine, but that's a dollar extra." "And nothing left for linings and extras," thought Mrs. Mills. "I must give up Slasher, too." She went home lost in thought. Her spring suit was a problem which would have vexed Newton's ingenuity to fcolve; the laws of gravitation we're trilling in comparison; and while she worked over its solution an acquaintance who had teen better davs rang her bell. 'You can't irucss what I came for," she said, coloring furiously, and unfold- ing a lace fichu, "lou xnow i got into" debt when the children had the nieaslcs, and just now I want ten dollars desperately.

Now here's this R-hu what earthly good is it to me, a uoor widow doing her own house-work? I haven't worn it for ten years. I see they're coining in again, and 1 thought may be you could give me ten dol'ars for it aud not feel cheated "But, Mrs. Knowles. it's worth fifty at least- I couldn't think of giving you ten-dollars for it; it would bo like grinding the face of the poor. I'll lend you the monev gladly.

But why don't you raffle it?" "I don't want to publish mv poverty. that's all. 1 don't mind an old irieud hit you knowintrh: it's patent enough auvwav. But when von ratlie anything people always feel as if they were conferring an everlasting favor upon you, and those who don't draw the prize think they've made you a present 1 don't care if it's worth a fortune. I want the ten dollars now more than I ever shall again." "But I will lend it to you I will give it to you.

I have ten dollars that I don't exactly know what to do with. Do let me have the rare happiness of making a present." "No: let me pawn the fichu to you that's a may be I'll be able to redeem it some day; and if I can't, mav be you'll be able" to pay what you thiiik it's worth. Now is it a bargain?" And Mrs. Knowles went home with her money, and Mrs. Mills laid the fichu in the drawer and counted her change.

"Well, 1 must have a gown," she said; and before the remaining ten dollars should melt away she went out aud bought ten yards of black bunting. "A black gown is always safe, especially for a widow," she thought, and she purchased the last liazar pattern, and hired a sewing machine for a week. And while she puzzled over the paper pattern, Mr. Langworthy dropped in. Before she married, Mr.

Langworthy had been a lover of Mrs. Mills's, and there had been a lovers' quarrel, and Mr. Mills hail stepped into the breech he had helped to make. All that had happened years ago Mrs. Mills would have told you, when she very young and foolish.

"Dressmaking, eh?" said Mr. Langworthy. "Why is this thus?" "I don't know why I can't make a gown as well Furbelow." "Is this the gray cashmere and velvet with which you were to astonish the natives?" "The very same." "You should not give five dollars to Mr. Glucose, nor fifteen for Miss Nellie's wedding gift, nor ten to Mrs. Knowles, nor ten to the Cincinnati "How did you know, Mr.

Langworthy?" "Mrs. Armstrong told me of tiro first indiscretion, I assisted you to select the wedding present. Mrs. Knowles confided in me, anu saw ibe ten dollars urop into Mr. Salem's hat for Cincinnati.

Let me ask, by-thc-way, why you didn't put in the necklace you wore that night Was it because you had forgiven the donor, and loved the gift for his sake?" "Perhaps so," answered Mrs. Mills. It was a few days later when an expressman left a huge box and a tiny letter at Mrs. Mills's door. "Dkau CousiV (tho letter bepnn) "I'vo jurtlost an undo in the Cincinnati Hood, a irrcat-uncle whom 1 ni-ver saw, and hardly over heard of but papa tays wc must ucar black, ami here's my locly piwn that Furbelow just sent home a-bepincr.

As your jrowns used to tit mc to a when I visited at your house in the days of my impecuniosity that word's so bijr I'm not sure of the spelling perhaps you won't mind accepting this from your lo injr cousin. I.lTi A. S. 1 can't bear to part with it. but iff no use to me.

and will be out of stylo beforo 1 can wear it." It was a gray silk and velvet, a perfect symphony of a gown, the very shade Mrs. Mills had coveted. "It will answer for my wedding dress." she said, with a little blush. Mary N. Prescott, in Harper's liazar.

Carrying Water on a Wire. Get a wire about tjjc si.c of a telegraph wire, or a little larger, fasten one end well at the spring to a tree or post, the other end on the top of the hill where you want the water to stop; fasten that to something steady, with a roller in the post or tree so that you can tighten the wire with it so as to keep it steady. Then set some posts along the line about twenty feet apart Get a bar of iron three-quarters of an inch thick, round or square, cut oil." pieces about thirteen inches long, sharpen one end to drive in the posts for the wire to rest on. hammer the other end nearly to a point, take a cold chisel and split the end a little so as to make a grove for the wire to lie in. turn the end about two and one-half inches square up, something like a hook for a door hinge, put the wire in and hammer it a little so as to hold the wire, and file it off smooth.

Have a wheel cast at a foundry, about fmr inches across by one and one-ouarter thick, with a groove one and one-quarter inches deep, with a hole for an axle about three-quarters of an inch in the center. This is to run on the wire over tho hooks; hence you see why I want the hooks made thin and smooth. Geta rod about three-quarters of an inch in size, and about thirteen inches long with one end about two and one-halt inches made to fit the hole in the cast wheel, with a hole for lynch pin or key. Now turn the axle about three inches long rightsquare; this endgoes in the cast wheel, to run on wire about four inches long from the elbow or crook; turn the other back to hang the bucket so that the bucket will hang directly plumb under the wheel that runs on the wire. A common well-bucket is best.

Get a small cotton cord as large as the wire, or a little larger; such as are used by fishermen for a trot line is best: tie this cord to the top of the pail or bucket: fix something at the spring to stop the bucket exactly under the spout: hang your wheel on the wire, hold the cord and let tho bucket go, but don't let it run away, and with a little care and patience you will get water without much fatigue. You must have a wheel or drum at the top of the hill to wind up the cord. It acts finely at about forty-five degrees, and if the fall is not quite enough, you can raise the upper cna of the platform, which is a good deal better than packing, as some of them call it. I have made this thing as plain and short as possible, hoping that all will understand it and be benefited by it Correspondent Louisville Couriar-Juurnal. A says that "the glaciers of the Alps arc retreating not so much by cosmic or telluric causes as through meteorological causes." And yet there are men who will go right" on and work without feeling at all uneasy.

Boston Transcript. How Rico Raised. The rice planting and culture was Just beginning during our visit, early in April. At "Orton" ColoncT'M. employs from seventy-live to oue hundred negro hands, who earn on an average seventy-live cents per day.

The present owner and planter of the "Kendall" gave me the following items regarding the culture of rice: The negro men prepare the fields, ditch, drill, etc; the women take the lighter part of the work, hoe, plant and pick grass out. The rice is planted in drills- fourteen inches apart and sowed by women. They use a long, pear-shaped gourd, from which tho rice Hows easily and evenly. Two acres per day is called a task. The rice is prepared by being soaked in a sort of gruel of clay and water.

This prevents the rice floating when the fields are flooded, which is done immediately after the planting is finished. The water for Hooding is stored in a lake or pond, and is turned on the fields by means of gates to the depth of two or three feet and allowed to remain until the rice germinates, which requires from one to three weeks according to the temperature of the water and air. Although the fields are upon the banks of the river, it is too salt at this point to use upon them. After the rice is sprouted the water is drawn off (by means of iralcs also), the rice hoed out, nearly the same as corn is hoed, when about three weeks above ground. It is then left to grow for two or three weeks, again hoed out, and again Hooded with what is called the How," this "How" being used to the rice in the low parts of the field high enough to allow the whole field to be flowed finally without drowning the riee in the low parts.

After this is taken oft' it is again hoed, and all the grass that has lodged in it is picked out by hand. Then the last "How" is put on after a few days Of sun aud air have dried the field; anil the last Hooding remains until the riee is harvested, about the first of September. The rice fields are laid out with high clay banks running their length and breadth, of sufficient width to allow a good safe walk for cultivation, over-seeing, etc. The main bank extends from the wharf to the house, and is a very comfortable walk or mule-ride for those who prefer that means of locomotion. Mules are used in place of horses on the plantation, and some of them are easy under the saddle, being trained to it The bird enemies of the rice planter arc very numerous and varied, beginning with the common wild dove and blackbird, and later the "coots" and the riee birds, which infest the fields in such numbers that the planters are obliged to keep numbers of negro men employed in constantly shooting and frightening off these pests, which appear about the middle of August in perfect swarms and droves, and are very troublesome and destructive, and would entirely destroy whole fields.

They feed on the sprouting rice and on the full grown rice. The lice harvest begins early in September, before the heavy rains and tides come. It is cut and packed in bundles much the same as oats, and carried or "toted" out of the field, as fast as it can be handled, upon the heads of women and stacked in barns until it can be threshed and prepared for use. llice culture is considered remunerative under conditions of good yield, but planters have many discouragements to contend with, such as wind-storms, high tides, which sometimes destroy hundreds of acres of growing rice, that has then to be all replanted, if the season be not too late. The cost of raising rice is abouf thirty dollars per acre, and it will ield from thirty to forty bushels per acre The rice is prepared for market by being milled and cleaned.

North Carolina rice is considered the best grown in the Southern Slates, being very large, firm and white. Norlt Carolina Cor. Trou (N. Times. The Xut-Beariug Trees.

If practical horticulturists assure us that the nut-bearing trees, particularly the hickory, cannot be successfully grafted, I am able from personal experience to say that good sized seedlings can be transplanted without difficulty, if previous proper precautions are taken. These are for the hickories and the others; the nuts must bo planted in autumn late in nursery rows, from four to six feet apart, the nuts planted six inches apart, ami if the same proves too close, the plants thinned to eighteen inches. The same care and cultivation is required as for nursery stock and the seedlings should stand until they have mado some size, eight to ten or fifteen feet high. They should then be root-pruned by the common tree digger when the ground is thoroughly softened by the spring rams, and then be suffered to stand for two years, for the development of fibrous roots. In tho fall, raise them carefully and place in a deep trench and cover the roots with earth, beyond the reach of frost Plant out in May taking unusual care to place the earth about the small roots.

That is all. In the spring of 1882 I put out four young hickories which had bcn managed as above. All lived, but did not make much growth the first ami second year. This spring they are pushing as vigorously as others that have not been moved. Last spring 1 put out some twenty more, only about half of which grew, because when buried in the fall there was not covering enough to prevent freezing.

However, after planting 1 took the precaution to bandage the trunks six feet up with strips of old bagging, and to set a tall, wide stake on the south for the double purpose of protection from the sun and to support the young tree. So far as grafting the hickory is concerned, there is really no call for it if one starts right. Nuts of the true shell-bark, Carya alba, produce trees which in turn yield shellbark nuts. But the coarse hickory, Carya tomentosa, yields large, thick-shelled coarse nuts, which also, when bearing, yield nuts true to their kind. The pecan, walnut, black and white, and the chestnut, may be safely treated after the manner of "the hickory, with this difference: The hickory is more impatient of disturbance and therefore more difficult to transplant than any of the others; the black walnut more difficult than the white, or butternut; tho chestnut less, and the pecan least of all.

Indeed, I know from personal experience that pecan roots left in the ground will occasionally sprout and make trees. I have a pecan some fifteen years removed from the nursery, that blossomed in 1882 and again in 1883, and I think would have borne fruit hist year but for the killing frosts of the 21st and 22d of May. Indeed the pecan, for a deep, rich soil, is the most promising of all the nut-bearing trees, mainly because it is not at all difficult to trans-plaut, grows fast, bears early and makes a singularly handsome shade and ornamental tree. fc As to the chestnut, I have failed utterly with it, in common with every one'who has tried to grow it upon a soil where there is a substratum of blue or other clay. On such soils it starts off well for a few years and then suddenly dies.

It succeeds better than elsewhere on rather thin and rocky or sandy and gravelly soils, but only in every instance where there is good natural drainage. In these situations it grows fast, attains enormous size anil fives for centuries and is to "be preferred to auy other of the indigenous nut-bearing trees. B. F. Jofinson, in N.

Y. Tribune. Rub the heads of newly hatched chicks with lard and sulphur, just a trifle of the latter. Exchange. PERSONAL AS IMPERSONAL.

Fred Douglass has a colored protege with a talent for tragedy that is said to excel that of Booth or Barrett A Washington Territory woman named Johnson, anil her two children, a son and a daughter, were all married on the same evening a short time ago. Itubeiistein, the musician, always closes his eyes when he plays. He says he doesn't wish to see how many rude people there arc who are not paying attention to his music. Joel L. Morse, rich, became poor, was disappointed in love and forty-two years ago went into a cave and lived a hermit "at Leominster, until ho died recently, aged seventy-three.

Boston Post. Charles O'Conor left twenty thousand dollars in money and a portion of his library to the Law Institute of New York, ten thousand dollars eaa to four ladies, aud two-thirds of the residue to his sister, Eliza M. Sloane. N. Y.

Sun. One of the most accomplished ladies in Kansas City is Mrs. F. D. Bourly, who scolds her husband in eight different languages, sings her baby to sleep with the grand operas, nnd shoves the servant girl out of the house as Richard III.

Chicago Inter Ocean. Hengel ran away from his father at Bergen, N. four years ago, because he opposed John's marriage to a poor girl. He returned recently to find his girl still true and waitiug for him, and to learn that his father had died aud left him seventy-live thousand dollars. Newark lit tjislcr.

Paul Morphy, of New Orleans, once so celebrated as a chess player, is only forty-five years old, but is a mental wreck. He goes up and down the streets of New Orleans, always neatly nnd stylishly dressed, muttering incoherently to himself. His insanity results from tho loss of a lawsuit N. O. Times.

In 1877 Abram Meyers, of Syracuse, was sent to prison for twenty years for burglary. His two daughters have tried three Governors in search of pardon, but without avail until recently, when Governor Cleveland granted the boon, and one of the daughters fainted awav when it was given her. Syracuse (N. Journal. Dist'nguished scholars and leading journals in Emrland and America have taken a deep interest in the important arclneological work now in progress at Zoan in the Delta.

The preliminary excavations have dislocated tho great foundation walls of the temple, the Necropolis, and a great many interesting relies, such as the broken obelisk of the Pharaoh who oppressed the Israelites. Oliver Wendell Holmes recalls the fact that sixty years ago three little Boston boys might have been seen in patchwork costumes of melo-dramatic heroes performing in a garret theater before au audience of young acquaint-Aiiees. As he remenil its them they had remarkable aptitude for acting. But they did not stick to the stage, for they grew up to be Wendell Phillips, Thomas G. Appleton and John Lathrop Motley.

Boston Herald. In 1879 John Maginnis was torn from tho arms of his oung wife at a camp meeting near Battle Creek, nnd a charge of illicit distilling persuaded him to go West and grow up with the country. His wife, not hearing from him, recently consented to a fresh espousal with a former lover? but, justas the nuptial arrangements were completed, the long-lost Maginnis returned, with a to reclaim his wife. N. 0.

Picayune. "A LITTLE NONSENSE." The undertaking industry is increasing in activity. A North Carolina man has invented a machine for making two hundred cigarettes a minute. An agricultural exchange in an article on "How to Feed Horses," mentions feeding "corn in the ear," as one way. This may be an economical way, but it must be excessively painful to the horse.

N. Y. Graphic. A noble lord who had a great an-tiphathy to music was asked why he did not subscribe to a certain series "of concerts, it being urged as a reason for his doing so that his brother subscribed. "Aye," replied his lordship, "if I was as deaf as my brother I would subscribe too." They got mad at each other on the way home from school, and as one ol them turned in at Windsor street she called out: "Hump! Who cares for you! We are going to have the electric light in our housed" "You dasn't!" "Why?" 'Cause it would show the pimples ou your mother's face!" Detroit Fret Press.

An English journal calls the people of this country "a nation of pie eaters." If this writer could sit down to a cold apple pie such as "mother used tc make," smothered in thick cream, he would make use of some other name with which to abuse us. We have eaten pie that was almost -Philadelphia Call. "Have you got fifty cents?" said a beggar to a surly- passer-by. "No, 1 haven't got fifty cents." "Well, have you got twenty-live cents?" "No, 1 haven't" "Have got ten cents?" "No." "Have you got an v. sense at all?" "No yes what's that? "Get out or I'll knock "your face The beggar got out chuckling.

Mercliant Traveler. A resident of Boston, who Uvea in a fashionable thoroughfare, observed a man whom he did not earo to see coming towards his door, and hurriedly directed Bridget to tell the person that he was not at home, "All right sir," said Bridget, as she mado haste to answer tho door-bell. "Is Mr. at home?" inquired the caller. "Faith, "an' he's gone out" responded the obedient servant.

"When will he be at home?" asked the man atthedoor. "Hould on a minnit," put in Bridget, "an' I'll ax him!" Boston Post. Why do you always wear a bunch of flowers in your buttonhole?" inquired Miss Fussanfeather, while Mr. Titepants was calling the other evening, "Oh, it gives one an air of freshness, responded the poetical young man. "Well," replied: the young lady, frankly.

"I don't think you need any artificial means to prove your freshness." Aud then Titepants went out and sat on the hitching post to think it over. Baltimore Every Saturday. Got UN Money. The flurry in Wall street a few daya ago seemed to startle the far Western people into the belief that another panic was at hand. When the news reached Virginia City, a citizen who had about ninety dollars in one of the banks made a bee-line for home, loaded and pocketed his shooter, and then leaped into a buggy and drove at full speed to tho institution.

As he reached it he rushed in, pulled out his revolver, and drawing a bead on the cashier at the window, he called out: "I want my money! Hand it over or Til plant six 'bullets in your head!" "Did you want your balance?" calmly queried the cashier. "Yes and quick!" "Then draw your check for the amount Let's see, it's $92.35." The check was passed in and the money passed out, and the citizen went off in such a hurry that he forgot his pistol. It was only after he haa stood front of the bank for the best part of two days, without discovering any signs of a crash, that he recoererf his confidence in the finances of the country, and turned into a poker room and the ownar clean him out Wall Sirml News. KRAUS AG All TOi The season for self-binders and reapers, which has proved successful to us beyond anticipation the extremely large number of machines we sold, as well as in the perfect operation of ch ma- in chine again ready, and offer to ana wnicn we propose and the unbounded nraise ana satisfaction expressed by each mirchassr, beinsr over, we are Mowers, Hay Rakes, Hay Sweeps, Farm Wagons, SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE, At the Lowest We sell the Threshing Machines, DEERIBTG-, WARRIOR, CLIPPER, CLIMAX, WOODS, Tiger, Hollings worth, -Hoosior, i liniax. Surprise, Taylor, Champion, and Daisy, JSrTHE WELL ABBOTT, STUDEBAKER AND RACINE Buggies and Spring Wagons.

THE CELEBRATED STUDEBAKER AND THE Light Running Orchard City Wagons. HALLADAY, ECLIPSE, "I.X. U. S. STAR and ADAMS EVERYTHING WE SELL We cordially invite everybody to call on us.

in our line, and will give you BOTTOM PRICES. Street, LTX the farmers of Platte and to sen at iu itjiiiviniij i -WE ARE PREPARED -Trrrc la-KGkkst stock of Cutlery IN" COLIJMBITS, Living Prices. Come and Convince Yourselves. celebrated AULTMAN Horse 2g near B. 6c M.

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