unselfish as little Mary, whose conduct was 
similar to this every day; hut may we not 
all win more of the love of our friends, and 
the approval of our conscience, and of 
Heaven, by thinking leas of our own com¬ 
fort and gratification, and more of that of 
those around us ? Aunt Alice. 
against the better judgment of her liege lord, 
and they made a verbal promise of exchange, 
there being no lawyers among the squirrels 
in that quiet region. So the lying old minx 
prevailed, and winked in his sleeve as he 
thought what a splendid exchange he had 
made of his dreamland possessions, tor this 
snug little home and fat larder; for the old 
sinner, like many sinners of a different spe¬ 
cies, had lived all his life by sponging on 
others, and lie hoped that if lie could dis¬ 
lodge his new Mends, they, in their long 
route, wi 
untor 
Messrs. Dabney, Morgan & Co., 
53 Exchange Place, and M. K. Jesup 
& Co., 12 Pine Street, N. Y., offer 
for sale the Bonds of the Kansas 
ASTRONOMICAL SKETCHES—NO. 2, 
COUNTRY CHILDREN 
BY OUR CELESTIAL ARTIST, 
Little freah violets, 
Born in tho wlldwood; 
Sweetly illustrating 
Innocent childhood! 
Shy as the antelope - 
Brown as a berry— 
Free as the mountain air- 
Romping and merry ! 
RURAL FOUR-YEAR-OLDS 
TMotheks of Smart Children are invited to contri¬ 
bute to this Department.J 
Geographical,— A cute Wisconsin four-year- 
oliler was asked by his teacher“ Albert, 
wiint State do you five In?" His answer was as 
follows:— “ We used to live in the State of Wis¬ 
consin but papa built a house and we live in that 
now." 
Astronomical. Little Jay saw the new moon 
one evening and was apparently quite puzzled 
by its strange appearance. He exclaimed, finally. 
'* Why, Unit don’t look like the moon; that Just 
looks like a horse-shoe 1" 
Heusibly (sharp. Ken recites his leRsons to his 
mol her, and being one day asked, “ At eighteen 
dollars a yard, how many yards of cloth could 
you buy for thirty-six dollars?" promptly re¬ 
plied, "Iwouldn’t buy It at all, it is entirely too 
high." 
Reversing the Case.—“ Mamma,” said Ivan. 
showing a rent, ** if a fairy were to turn ine into 
a big lady and you into a little boy, I wouldn’t 
whip that little boy for tearing his pants." 
Pacific Railway. These Bonds pay 
seven per cent, in Gold ; have thirty 
years to run; are Free from Govern¬ 
ment Taxation ; are secured by a 
Land Grant of Three Million Acres 
of the Finest Lands in Kansas and 
Colorado. In addition to this special 
grant the Company also owns Three 
Millions of Acres in Kansas, which 
are being rapidly sold to develop the 
country and improve the road. They 
are a first mortgage upon the exten¬ 
sion of the road from Sheridan, Kan¬ 
sas, to Denver, Colorado. The road 
in operation now earns more than 
enough net income to pay the interest 
on the new loan. There is no better 
security in the market—this being in 
some respects better than Govern¬ 
ment Securities. Principal and In¬ 
terest jxtgable in Gold. Price 96, 
and accrued Interest, in Currency. 
Pamphlets, Maps and Circulars fur¬ 
nished on application. 
oil 1(1 meet w ith some disaster which 
would rid him of them forever. 
So after sleeping one more night in their 
nice warm bed, giving their guest a bed of 
leaves at the foot of the tree near the lawn, 
the poor little misguided creatures bade 
adieu to their old associations and home, and 
set out for unknown regions. It was a cold 
morning, with everything ft’ozen stiff, but 
the sky was bright and cloudless. A last 
meal was taken, a paw given the old scape¬ 
grace, who chuckled in his coat to think 
how he had treated his credulous entertain¬ 
ers, making them believe that he was get¬ 
ting old, wished to retire from busy life, aud 
lead a quiet one the rest of his days, and ofT 
they started, skipping along quite jollily for 
awhile. But towards noon hunger began to 
assail their empty stomachs, and they looked 
around for some friendly squirrel to guide 
them to a stray nut or so, to appease their 
whetted palates, yet all they found was an 
acorn or two, and a few berries on some half 
dead hawthorns, and they noticed that the 
further they went the more dreary the 
country was, for old gray had directed them 
to take a due north course, for reasons of his 
own. 
Towards night, the clouds came scudding 
up, and it soon began to rain horribly. Poor 
little Brownies, — how they wished them¬ 
selves back in their dear little home, with 
their plentiful supplies and pleasant sur¬ 
roundings ! They looked about for a place 
to lodge in for the night, aud could only 
creep in the crevice of a rock, where they 
cried in each other’s faces all night, their 
tails being their only covering. 
On tlie morrow they set out. again, stiff 
and cold, hungry and hopeless, at times, but 
when the brilliant vision held up so tempt¬ 
ingly by the cheaty gray came up, they strove 
to encourage each other. They had scarce 
set. out before they heard a whizzing sound, 
and presently the air was darkened, and a 
great eagle pounced down, but as good luck 
would have it they scampered into a hole in 
a rock, and so saved themselves. A few’ 
roots was all they could get this day, and 
their lodging that night was the cold, bare 
ground. 
Next morning they were lying as if dead 
when a farmer passed on ins way to market, 
lie picked up the poor things, and handing 
t hem to his sons, they wrapped them up in a 
blanket and the little things soon began to 
revive. The farmer took them home to his 
two youngest children, and as soon as they 
arrived that night at. the neat little farm¬ 
house, in which a cheerful fire was burning, 
they begun to prick up their fears and run 
races, to the great delight of the little folks, 
up and down the great beams of the kitchen. 
A good meal of raw sweet potato and 
some ground nuts made them all right, and 
when the little curly heads of Bessie and 
Kittie rose from their blankets next morn¬ 
ing, the fugitives were missing. They had 
scampered away towards some woods near, 
and coming to a stream which they thought 
looked rather familiar, peered around until 
they discovered, to their great joy, that they 
were once more at their dear old home. 
They soon routed their gouty usurper, 
who| having eaten heartily, lay panting near 
As socn as he could 
Blue eye* anil Imxel eyes 
Peep from the hedges. 
Shaded by aun-honneta 
Frayed at the edges! 
Up in the apple treea, 
Heedle** of danger. 
Manhood In embryo 
Stares at the stranger 1 
Out in the hilly patch, 
Seeking for berries — 
Under the orchard-tree, 
Feasting on cherries— 
Tramping the clover-blooms 
Down ’mong the grasses. 
No voice to hinder them— 
Dear lads and lasses! 
Dear little Innocents, 
Born in the Wildwood : 
Oh, that all little ones 
Had such a childhood I 
Goij’b blue spread over them- 
God’s green beneath them: 
No sweeter heritage 
Could we bequeath them ! 
MERCURY 
GLIMPSES OF GENIUS. 
THE DISCONTENTED SQUIRRELS. 
Why Is a sausage like a woodchuck ? Because 
it is aprownd-bog. 
Why will sailors insist that vessels are lost as 
soon as t hey founder ? 
The young- Turly who took the gentleman's 
fancy tuts returned It wit h thanks. 
Org anist* ought to gain a reputation more 
easily than pianists, since they always have some 
one to " blow” for them. 
It may be true, hut It sounds badly to confess, 
on your way home , from fishing- that the few 
fish you have you hooked. 
Mr. Wiggins being asked if he liked codfish 
balls, hesitatingly replied " Well, n-ullv 1 don’t 
recollect over having attended one.” 
"You have lost some of your friends, I see,” 
said a traveler to a negro whom ho had met on 
the road. " Yes, mn.ssii.” " Was it a near or dis¬ 
tant relative?" “Well, purty dhttant — 'bout 
twenty-four miles." 
"IIEtta's your money, dolt, and now tell me 
why your rascally master wrote eighteen letters 
about That contemptible sum." “I'm sure I 
can't say, but if you’ll excuse me, sir, I sort, o’ 
reckon ’twas because seventeen didn’t fetch it." 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS,- No. 25 
BY MRS. S. O. LAKE, 
On the margin of a beautiful stream, and 
in the edge of a wood of oaks, lived a pair 
of pretty squirrels — brown, striped with 
black. They were as nice little creature# as 
you would wish to see. Their habitation 
was a hole, high up in a noble oak, which 
the woodpeckers, with their hard, sharp 
hills, had scooped out. It was sufficiently 
large for them to live in comfortably, and 
was so secure that the rain and wind could 
not get to them. When the weather was 
cold or wet they cuddled up in their nice 
little room, witli their tails spread over 
them, and were as snug as you please. 
They wore an industrious pair, and had 
scratched out, or dug out, a second hole at 
at the foot of the oak, under the roots 
of a huge vine, for a store-room, where they 
had garnered up hickory nuts, walnuts, 
chestnuts, chincapins and a few small ears 
of corn for their winter eating. All through 
the long summer days they gamboled over 
tkc rich green sward under the oaks and 
near the clear brook, ran races up and down 
the trees for exorcise, and hopping into their 
nest at the approach of danger, and often 
playing “ hide and seek” behind the knolls, 
and limbs of the adjacent trees. 
One day when the lively little pair wore 
sun ning -themselves near the brook, and chat¬ 
ting on such grave subjects as squirrels de 
light in, who should hobble up hut, an old 
gray fellow, who looked as if he had been 
suffering with the gout. After they had 
shaken paws with him, and invited him to 
a seat on a tuft, of soft green moss, the 
stranger hinted that he was rather hungry, 
and off went little Mrs. Brownie on hospita¬ 
ble thoughts intent. The old codger was 
soon invited to take lunch, as the regular 
dinner wn- over. On a sizable mushroom 
the V o brown lady had placed a walnut, 
a hickory nut, two chestnuts, half a dozen 
chincapins, and ft small bunch of winter 
grapes by way of dessert, flanked by an acorn 
cup of water from the stream. 
The guest then hobbled up, sniffing the 
viands, which he regarded somewhat con¬ 
temptuously, the hostess making apologies 
all the while, like some housekeepers of a 
larger model. Old gray retorted that it was 
not quite up to the fare to which lie was ac¬ 
customed, but he would try and make out 
with it,—at which gross insult the tiny 
housekeeper hid her face with her tail, so 
great was her mortification. However, the 
stranger finished every particle of the viands, 
and sat licking his chops as If he would like 
a little more of the same sort, using all the 
while a laurel leaf by way of a napkin, and 
a thorn to pick his teeth ; and after washing 
his paws in his acorn cup fiuger bowl, he 
squalled down, and commenced a conversa¬ 
tion which seemed on his part to be rather 
on ’ o bragging order. 
boasted of his extensive possessions, 
his splendid mansion, which was built high 
up in an immense tulip tree; of his various 
storehouses and barns; aud, moreover, de¬ 
clared that he carried on an extensive bar¬ 
tering business, in which he exchanged nuts 
and grain for luscious and rare fruits and 
nuts from a foreign country. lie also spoke 
of the beautiful furs worn by his wife and 
daughters, and finally so worked on the im¬ 
agination and vanity of his female listener, 
throwing in a little flattery once in a while, 
that she began to think her lot had been very 
hard, instead of the happy one she had al¬ 
ways thought it. 
At length, after a great many hems and 
haws, the tricky old fellow proposed an ex¬ 
change with his late contented, but now 
miserable, acquaintances. The tears and ar¬ 
guments of the weaker Brownie prevailed 
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ir FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS. 
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the strongest and Best Wringer 
in the Market. 
A RCHITECT, 
New York City. 
Answer in two weeks. 
soi.i: ma.v i l td i in r.it s 
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SAMPLE AND SALESROOM, 
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EXTRA 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA.—No. 36 
Umvci-5.il Clotlu-H Wringer * 
I am composed of thirty-nine lettei’9. 
My 2,10, 21,10, 24,26 is an insect. 
My 4. 24, 2, 38, 19, 12 is a 1 ree. 
My 10. 37, 24, 17 , 9. 23 is a fruit. 
My 11,27, 22,15, 20, 8 is a bird. 
My 12, 20, 7,1. Id, 0 i* tut animal. 
My 15.27,21,25, 19.84 is a plant. 
My 28, 21, 28, 32, 3, 85 is a reptile. 
M s 20,15,14,22,3,18 Is an animal. 
My 2), 13, 5, 20, 29, 39 is a fruit. 
My whole is ft recent notable occurrence. 
Hhofflold, Pa. Isola. 
J37“ Answer in two weeks. 
sHatem 
The “Universal Improved" lias ROWELL’S 
PATENT DOUBLE COGS mi one end of the roll, 
in combination with the PATENT STOP, (which 
is in no other Wringer,) to prevent the Double Cog* 
from sepuruling «o Dir as to lose their power. 
Those Potent Cogs have very tong and strong 
alternating teeth and ean rai.Hi* sufficiently to let 
through the largest arliele easily, yet eunnot sepa¬ 
rate so fur u» to dlKonjiuectand loss their power, hut 
always retain complete control over the roll*, which 
is of the greatest importance to the durability of the 
machine and on sc of operating. 
The "Universal" also has tho peculiar advantuge 
of two pressure screws, so arranged witli Patent 
Wooden Springs, that each screw prre>m on both nidi 
of the roll alike, the same tin if it ions in the renter, 
while the two together give double the capacity for 
pressure. 
The "Universal” lias all its iron ports either 
•wrought nr malleable, iron, and is built so strongly 
and substantially that tor years It cannot be broken 
in wringing garments by the strongest person. 
It is also Improved in appearance by having all ft* 
iron parts nicely tinned. 
We will now furnish tho various sizes of this first 
and strongest of all llViiifg-ra, on as liberal terms and 
at as low prices, in either large or small quantities, 
ns any other licensed wringers can be obtained. 
“ it really merits all the good that can be said of 
It.’’— Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
-• The Universal ’ the best.’ '—Am. Agriculturist. 
Sold to the trade everywhere. No exclusive sale 
ffiyori 
R. I’. BROWNING, Gen. Agent, 
32 Coi-iluml St., New York. 
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Use only SAPOl.Itxlo clean While Paint. 
From Marble Sapoi.io remove* all SthSns. 
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equal. 
If you would have Glean windows, use SAPOI.IO. 
Sample eukc scut by mail on receipt of 20 cents. 
Depot, 211 Washington St,, New York. 
Established 1809. 
Particular attention is called to our SOAPS for 
family use. 
CHARADE.-No. 23 
M y first a faithful toiler 
From ft country over sea. 
Among my second labors 
In this country of the free, 
When harvest-lime is golden 
With its fruits for you and me,— 
Among my second labors 
That my third he may obtain, 
And a faithful worker is he 
Out amid the ripened grain; 
For ho reapeth that his children 
When he dies my whole shall gain. 
Turkey, 1869. Ali Cujus. 
^sgr' Answer in two weeks. 
their store-house, 
travel, they gave him his walking ticket and 
lie left. The pretty little Brownies lived 
contentedly and happy ever afterward; and 
when another little cunning - looking pair 
blessed t heir affectionate hearts, they early 
taught them the lesson to “be contented 
witli such things as they had” aud to “let 
well enough alone.” 
ICE'S PATENT 
RltfiRfoVM 
iAScif RaWf 
S'. .... 
PROBLEM.—No. 25 
A cabinet-maker having; an elliptical log of 
valuable wood, whose maim- and minor axes are 
32 and 24 inches, respectively, wishes to know 
the dimensions of the end of the rectangular 
parallelnpipedon, which being sawed from the 
log, will waste the least quantity possible in the 
four slabs. w. h. h. 
Cornell University, 1869. 
CSi’”Answer in two weeks. 
HOW WOULD YOU HAVE DONE? 
T he success of the dodge 
SELF RAKER during tlu- Must Beacon mm peen 
beyond all precedent. II* kum-rlor merits have oren 
fullV established by the uniform Mitl*tneth>n it uus 
given, ami by tlio enthusiastic reports ol dm picu- 
»umls of purchasers. Thu great advantage ">,<-1”° 
Raker over all others Is, that it requires no adjastj 
iuenb but is always reudy tor work tu Mi? K'ira 
crop, short or long, lodged or otherwise, ,ll 'd tue 
driver ean make gavels witli either Of tint 
and whenever lie choose*, iu prefect order lor hom¬ 
ing. The Machine i* also a splendid Mi-uoi. tot 
A prettier or more touching sight than 
I witnessed a few days since is seldom seen. 
A little brother anti sister were trundling 
hoops in the yard when, neither seeing the 
other at the moment, they collided with such 
violence that 1 pitied their poor little heads 
from the bottom of my heart. 
The sister, a child of very sensitive organ¬ 
ization in every way, clasped her head in¬ 
stantly with her bands and cried bitterly. 
The brother, either slower to feel, or to ex¬ 
press it, was a moment behind her iu utter¬ 
ing his cry; hut when he did utter it the 
sister looked at him in evident surprise that 
he, too, was hurt. Then, throwing her arms 
around his neck, and choking back kef own 
sobs, she kissed him again and again, beg¬ 
ging him not to cry, assuring hitn she didn’t 
mean to hurt him, and offering to give him 
a “ nice swing.” 
Little boy, little girl, how would you have 
done? You and I may not naturally be as 
T he only new life of < iikivt 
which is. likely to meet public expectation for 
the present,, is Lyman AmiorJ ’s beautifully Ulus- 
t rated nn<l universally uratfod volume, entitled 
“JESUS OF NAZARETH : HtS LIVE AND flCAOIl- 
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tensolv Interesting octavo volume, hint published, 
•' TliU DESTRUCTION OF .1 Kill SALEM, anii 
the Desolation ok Palestine." with Map* and 
Engraving-.—We publish several of (lie must popu¬ 
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can offer experienced Agents unusual pppoi fulittle* 
for making mono) during the fall mid winter. Ap¬ 
plicant* will please state what their business has 
been, ana iu what district, they deidro to work. 
Address __ 
MOORE, WILSTACH A MOORE, 
113 Race St., Cincinnati, 
or, for Rustem States, 52 Bleeulctir St>, New York. 
ANAGRAM.-No. 21 
Vie dearh oyu kpeas ni lesearcs stone 
Fo soeth eshwo plosindrhf cone ouy dnzpe, 
Sa fi a pulse fo cynrs mlti floarrm 
Ithcr si fl ip’s tubyoa ot royu seey. 
11 a 1 sit relth vole ahd neeb tofrog— 
1 mpy heet ot regnft cm ton. Della. 
CST* Answer in two weeks. 
ing. 't he Machine is also a splenmu V 
further i nfurmation, please write tors pumpmei. 
»--— — \NTED AGENTS— 
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where, mule f^d feina|®| ,Vi 
introduceItipOKN LIN L1M 
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out tearing U, We pay Agent* < r l % 'old. 
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PUZZLER ANSWERS, 
Illustrated Conundrum No. 1 — Aliitub and 
Ahijah. 
Anagram No. 26.— 
Youth was ray friend, but youth had wings, 
And he has flown into the day, 
And left me In a night ot things, 
Bewildered on a lonesome way, 
And careless wliat tilt- future brings. 
PROBLEM No. 24. 1.2912; 3.1513; 2.5515. 
Miscellaneous Enigma No. 34.—Learning is to 
the studious, riches to the careful, power to the 
bold, and Heaven to the virtuous. 
Charade no. 22.—Carpet. 
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