Bratton nits, &£ 
tion of civic societies, the erection of several 
cozy residences, the beautifying of resid¬ 
ence sites and streets with trees (large quan¬ 
tities having already been purchased) and 
many business buildings will be built to keep 
pace with the demand. This might seem like 
hyperbo’e, had we not first stated the basis of 
such a remarkable growth, but as it is, we 
would suggest to the truth-seeker a trip into 
Northeastern Dakota, and to Mayville, which 
will satisfy the reader that we have failed even 
now, to tell him (ill the tlutb. 
The town occupies a pretty site on on eleva 
ted plateau, gently undulating, with good 
drainage; the Goose River approaches from 
the north, curves around the town on the 
west and south, then flows away from the 
southeast, having along its banks u heavy 
skirting of elm, ash, oak, box elder, basswood 
and other varieties of timber. There are a good 
public school, now held in a conveniently 
ituated rented building, «ud a wide-awake, 
local newspaper, the Muyville Eagle, a five 
column quarto by A. W. McCormack, which 
s contributing ably to the growth of the town 
and county. 
Mayville needs, would aid and cordially 
nd profitably support a flouring mill, mer¬ 
chant tailor, shoemaker, creamery, machine 
and agricultural implement repair shops, a 
rickyard, for which an excellent quality of 
0 lay abounds, and more mechanics in every 
industrial pursuit. 
only answered when the General addressed 
me. These are trifles, perhaps, that a man 
should pass over, but I suppose 1 urn queerly 
made and feel things that others don’t, and, as 
Edith says, I am weak and womanish; but I 
was not always in a dependent position. 
There was a time when even he would have 
been considerate. It seemed to please him 
when he saw roe getting hot and angry; but 
when he went my anger wont, and, laugh if 
you like, I broke dow n as a girl might have 
done.” 
“Never mind, Edgar,” I said, “it is over 
now; if he did mean to hurt your feelings 
it was cruel.” 
My heart was swelling with indignation, for 
I had detected in Nevil Verner’s nature a 
latent cruelty, which led him to wound others 
and to smile over it. 
** was well we did not meet after. I dare- 
suy he did it with the best intentions—never 
was there a cruel or unkind thing said or done 
in this world but with best intentions. I wish 
I could go abroad. My 
linger beside the ruins.” 
“If you had a brother- 
a friend?” 
“ Yes a true, kind fi 
first.” 
“ Would you do something for me?” 
“ Anything in my power,” he replied. 
“ Though I have tried to be a friend, and 
though you have trusted mo, you must have 
felt something wanting; there must be many 
things that you can’t say to me; you have no 
brother, but I can show you one who would 
help aud counsel you, one whom any man 
might take as bis model for the heroism of 
_ . t.r . _ 1 P iUC™ 
NEW BUCKEYE COMBINED SPRING 
TOOTH BROADCAST SEEDER 
AND HARROW. 
The Buckeye Spring Tooth Harrow, made 
by P. P. Mast & Co, Springfield, Ohio, 
has been favorably known to the farming 
public for some time, and of late the addition 
of a seeding attachment makes a complete 
seeding machine. This attachment has the 
same reliable force-feed used on the well- 
known Buckeye Force feed Drill and is read¬ 
ily attached or detached as may be desired, or 
it can be conveniently Used without removing 
the seed-box. The quantity sowp is easily 
regulated without any change of gear, and the 
machine will sow any desired amount of 
wheat, rye, barley, oats, flax, etc. The im¬ 
proved spout and scatterer conducts the grain 
low enough to protect it from the wind and 
insure an even distribution, while the harrow 
teeth are so placed as to effectually cultivate 
the ground and cover the grain. On the Dal 
rymple “ Bonanza” farm the Buckeye Seeder 
is used, but there, as illustrated on our first 
page, it is furnished with a wood drag bar, 
instead of the “spring tooth” here illustra¬ 
ted. The spring tooth is an improvement, in¬ 
troduced since the sale of the other imple¬ 
ments. This form of seeder is destined soon to 
replace the one with the wood drag bar, on 
account of its superior qualities. The manu¬ 
facturers have found ready sales for these im¬ 
plements in the West and the results have 
always been satisfactory. G. B - 
•Edgar, have 1 been 
SHEEP AND WOOL. 
Thk census returns, as seen in a late issue* 
give some most interesting information in 
egard to our wool industry. The number of 
heep in 1880 was over 35 millions, and the 
wool clip produced nearly 168 millions of 
pounds, which gives an average weight of 
fleece of a trifle less than 4’^,' pounds. But 
these figures do not include the Fall shearing 
of Texas, Colorado and California wool, nor 
the pulled wool from slaughtered sheep, These 
added raise the total production of wool to 
about 325 million pounds. Iowa stands first 
in weignt of fleeces, and the next, in order are 
Nebraska, Illinois, Vermont, Kansas aud In¬ 
diana. Iowa fleeces average 0>£ pounds and 
Indiana, a little more than 5j£. Vermont, 
strangely enough, is credited with but 5% 
pounds to the fleece, which, considering her 
reputation for high-bred Merinos, seems to 
be very low indeed. 
In a/ldition to the home product our woolen 
manufacturers imported 138 million pounds 
in 1880, which is about double the usual im¬ 
portation. The importation of wool is grad¬ 
ually decreasing, and it is only a questiou of 
time when American farmers will supply all 
the requirements of 
American 
THOENS AND EOSES, 
(Continued from page 82.) 
CHAPTER XIX. 
“ Not only possible, but highly probable, my 
cousin; only that doesn’t matter. I mean to 
go where I can lead the fashion for people 
worth leading. If yon heard Nevil’s pictures 
of our future, Kate! Claude Melnotte’s were 
nothing to them! I agree always, as it is too 
soon now to show him my pictures.” 
“Will Mrs. Verner like to leave?” 
“ I don’t know. 1 wonder if she will be like 
Mrs. Mackenzie, Thackeray’s Campaigner, you 
know. No matter, I mean to be master, mis¬ 
tress, and treasurer, for Nevil is a perfect 
miser when his own pleasures are not con¬ 
cerned I don’t care w hether I please him or 
not, and I’m sure I shan’t try.” 
“ Do you never think?” I began. 
“No, I never do; I left off thinking some 
Domestic Cxoitotmj 
CONDUCTED UV EMILY MAPLE 
NICKEL-PLATING 
MRS. E. K. B, 
Having seen several highly decorated coal- 
stoves. that after slight usage looked tar¬ 
nished and dull, I hud formed a prejudice 
against nickel plating and when our “head 
o’ the family” went to the city for a new 
sitting-room stove, I charged him not to 
get one very much ornamented for “ every one 
says they are hard to keep nice-looking,” 
therefore, I was quite dis- 
^ mayed at the sight of 
_ * the brilliant affair ho 
brought back with him, 
although he assured me 
1 * tl 
have been using it three 
months and now my only 
regret is that it has not 
more nickel than it 
has, for I find that is 
• • — : r..- . - - much easier to keep 
T- — ;; . clean than the unplate<l 
iron part which has to 
^e Slacked. The only 
cleaning I ever give the 
wiw plating is to rub it thor- 
; Vw/M' oughly with a soft woolen 
cloth whenever I sweep 
and dust the room, never 
touching it with soap¬ 
suds (as I bad been told 
to do) and I think it 
looks as bright to day as 
it did the first day we 
used it. 
Slippers. 
People often say to me, 
“ How do you manage to 
'' keep your carpets bright 
and cleun 80 lonB? They 
' v " x ' N ‘ * really 1< ok nice until they 
are worn out,” and my an¬ 
swer always is “Slippers 
—it is slippers that save the carpets.” There 
is nothing that grinds the color out and tears 
the threads of a carpet so soon as a pair of 
uneasy feet in coarse, heavy boots with nails 
iu the heels. It is one of the inexorable de¬ 
crees of our household that every man and 
boy on the premises must first leave his boots 
in the boot closet buck of the kitchen and 
don a pair of slippers he will find hanging 
there, before he can j in the circle around the 
lamp in the sitting-room. 
If a new-comer has no slippers of his own, 
I sometimes furnish him with a pail', for the 
expense is but trifling compared to the advan 
majufactur- if, £ 
ers, and through them 
find a market for a por- 
tion of their product 
in foreign countries in \ 
every quarter of the 
globe. The largest im- 
portations arc of coarse, " 
carpet wools. The manu- 
factureof carpets is one - 
of our largest woolen in £.lPwa . i 
dustries. We import no £ j-H’\ - ' 
carpets, but export some, 1 . 
with a large quantity of 
our improved and excel- : * **/A 
lent carpet machinery. ' s,v - 
The tendency of the [J -W 
wool-growing industry is ^Vw 
towards a finer class of r S 
wools than these low- 
priced carpet wools, and 
so long as a profitable 
market is found for the 
better quality of wool, 
this process of improving V 
the flocks will go on. -A 
There is no danger at 
pres rot of overdoing this 
business. There is still a 
large gap to be filled up 
by wool-growers, aud 
while a sheep on the 1 ' 
Western plains can be 
fed for 80 cents a year 
and 75 cents’ worth of wool per head 
can be produced from the flock, and 75 
per cent, of gain by increase besides, the 
business can sustain a good deal of pressure 
before a Western shepherd need begin to 
complain of hard times. Eastern farmers 
have the mutton market to themselves, and if 
they will take steps to improve their flocks 
and raise the weight of fleece from 4®i pounds 
per fleece in Pennsylvania and five pounds in 
New York and Ohio, to at least, 60 per cent, 
more, aud at the same time produce a carcass 
of mutton worth $7 instead of $4, there will 
be a satisfactory profit in the business. 
SPRING TOOTH BROADCAST SEEDER AND HARROW.—FIG. oO. 
>m Philosophy! “You could not imagine what I felt. I was 
x> my wedding l half mad with hutred when I saw him smiling, 
it wouldn’t be and simpering and jesting over the General’s 
i easily say that congratulations on his engagement. I was iu 
alone. But I am the room, but Mr. Verner wus too much occu- 
t.be cold by the pied with himself to see me, though he made 
present that im- several remarks at me. How I hated him as 
' ho fawned and flattered the one richer than 
ll for me to be himself ! The General spoke of his history 
To bride and being published soon, and in response Mr. 
n an embarrass- Verner said: ‘ Of course it takes less time to 
get a book ready for the press when one em- 
invitation,”con- ploys a person to do the writing out!’—a very 
mn’t refuse your innocent remark you will say. Very, when 
