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» USE »ONLYtfTH ISlfT H E J^flRST^. A^yjfTHE »B£ST,» 
says, tell Clara E. Abbey that the 
Amaranth (which has reason to envy the 
Rose) is the family name of plants that are 
found in almost every garden either as flow¬ 
ers or weeds. The name, properly “ Amar¬ 
al.” means “ unwifchering.” The Globe Am¬ 
aranth is one of the oldest nud best of our 
Km lasting flowers, now so much used for 
Vinter bouquets. The bright red of the 
Cock’s Comb, Prince’s Weather, Love-Lies- 
Bleeding, etc., iseouallv unfading. Sr. ia th,. 
ancJ Pachinrrg, 
The Improved 
TSE MIDNIGHT TRAIN. 
Acaoss the dull and hr coding night 
A giant flies with demon light. 
And breath of wreathing smoke ; 
A round lilin whirls the reeling plain. 
And with a dash of dim disdain, 
Ife cl oaves the sundered rock. 
In lonely swamps t he low wind stlA 
Tim belt of black funereal flrs, 
Thai murmur to the sky, 
Till, startled to his mad career, 
Th ty seem to keep a hush of fear. 
As If a god awe pt by. 
Through many a lark, while heart of heath, 
u’er booming bridges, where beneath 
A mighty river brawls ; 
By ruins, remnants of the past, 
Their ivies trembling in the blast; 
By singing wate rfalls. 
The slumb‘r<sr on his silent bed 
Turns to thu light his lonely head. 
Divested of lilsdrcan); 
Long leagues of gloom are burled o’er 
Through tunnel sheaths, with Ivon roar, 
And shrill night rending scream. 
Bast huddling lints, past flylug farms, 
High furnace flames, whoso crimson arms 
Are grappling with the night. 
He tears along receding lands, 
To where tile Kingly city stands, 
Wrapt in a robe of light. 
Here, round each wide and gushing gate, 
A crowd of eager faces wait, 
And every smile Is known. 
We thank thee, O, thou Tltau train, 
That in tile city once agaiu 
We clasp oar loved, our own, 
(Ail the Year Round 
luveuted and patented by 
E. G. MATTHEWS 
Price 812, Boxed 
With patent Combination Metal 
Dial that will not cor¬ 
rode or rust. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark I was in the Orphan 
Asylum at Berea, Ohio, for nine years, but I 
did not like it there, because we did not get 
enough to eat, and no schooling to speak of, 
I was wishing that a man would come for a 
boy, and. take mo, and so there did one day. 
Ho has a farm of ninety acres. 1 went to 
school last Winter and I am going this Win¬ 
ter again. I aut fifteen years old and would 
like to join the Horticultural Club. In the 
Orphan Asylum all the boys and girls get a 
garden eight feet wide and sixteen feet long, 
and uru allowed to raise what they choose. 
The boys raise melons and the girls flowers. I 
had a garden this year and I raised melons, 
com, and beans ; the beans did wd', but the 
corn did not ; the melons had two crops, the 
fi st crop was destroyed by the bugs, and the 
secoud crop was killed with the frost. We 
have four cows and I milk them. 
Your nephew. Citrus. Leffler. 
Linndale, Ohio. 
Uncle Mark :—The Celery Seed you sent 
me came up and grew verv nicelv. also tlio 
SEND FOR FULL DKSCRIP 
TIVE CIRCULAR. 
THE HIGGAMW MTG CORPORATION, Ili^ai 
... THE KEYSTO2TE 
OVER 300,000 IN ACTUAL USE 
&S~Ani all giving perfect satisfaction. 
AGENTS WANTED &£u 
Will wash Cleaner, Easter, atm with Lour 
injury to Clothes than u.tiy other iu tho 
world. We challnngo any manufacturer 
to produce a better Washer Every lYlu- 
chuus Warranted FAY E Years and bat 
is taction Guaranteed, Tho only Washer 
that can be clamped to iu,v sized tub line 
a Wringer. It in mode of muUoubte Iron, 
galvanized, and will outlast an? two 
wooden machines.-TjvfiAjronts wanted. 
Exclusive Territory. Our agents all ever 
tun country are making from 975 to $-00 
per month. Retail price. $7. Sample to 
a,Tents, Alsoour util curated 
A HAPPY HOME, 
Back of ali institutions of human invention, 
wo have ike domestic circle; and nothing 
varies so mu ?a in grades as tills. The perfec¬ 
tion of eui'thiy happiness or misery centre in 
it, and yet, the happiness of home depends not 
on a tropical sun, or a prevailing wind, or the 
government under w hich it is built. It has 
us foundation in the ordinance of marriage, 
and like a ny structure, much of its strength de¬ 
pends on the genuineness of its foundation, 
A happy home ujust be one of refinement, 
tmt, necessarily, the refinement that wealth 
brings, but necessarily the refinement that 
wealth cannot bring. Here the infant awak¬ 
ens to consciousness, and gathers material for 
its growth, and the voice is attuned to chord 
v/ith the sounds that .prevail here, und with 
this soul-growth grows the homo, either to 
grandeur or to degredation. Love, Peace and 
Trust must bo cle constant and revered in¬ 
mates of home, and the members of such a 
home dwell under the shadow of an angel’s 
wing, and where ihey are not, a home is noth¬ 
ing more than a lair of wild beasts, where the 
inmates contend over the bones of the slain. 
A home, to be a home iu the true sense 
must have privileges for its own, that belong 
not to those born outside of this circle; and a 
home whose laws ana privacies are subject to 
encroachment by others is no better than the 
sheep-fold that has no protection from ravages 
of wolves. A home should not Jjo a hermit¬ 
age, but better tnat than that it have nothing 
for its own. 
Perhaps the greatest destroyer of homes is 
intemperance, but there is another that does 
not always receive its due, and that is the race 
for wealth. In this the tender and lofty emotions 
are smothered, and affection is left to droop 
and die, and then perhaps when t hese are gone, 
the race is found to be futile, and even if the 
end is attained, it fails to bring the jieace and 
satisfaction that has been anticipated.™ 
KEYSTONE WRINCERS AT LOWEST WHOLESALE PRICES. 
Circulars Free. Refer to editor of this paper. Address I’ .F. ADAAIb a CO Erie jp a ** 
THE WESTINGHOUSE GRAIN THRESHERS 
are unexcelled by any forcatmcity and ounlitv of xn 
COMBINED ULdVKft AND UHA?NTlfttKSlYBRS h 
all t he requisites for drain Threshing .and have un b 
pendent t lover nulling Cylinder; ace most d. sir; 
machines where both Cruln and clover urn raised 
points of eflleit ncy and price, 
Economical Portable and Traciicn Engines 
TRACTION HAS TWO SPEEDS to accommodate iltt 
em. conditions or roan». Main Engines, Light and l 1 
erfu 1 . Horizontal 1 ■iUch, ami therefore free from ob 
tlonable features of Vertical Boiler.'. HORSE POWF 
both Lever und Endless Chain ; nil sizes. Address 
Catalogue, 
THE RURAL SEED DISTRIBUTION. 
W E give below a brief summary of the 
Rural New-Yorker's next Seed distribution 
for the instruction of those who have not read 
the details as given in the Rural’s (Supple¬ 
ment. This supplement will, however, be for¬ 
warded free to all who apply for it. All ap¬ 
plicants for the seeds must be subscribers and 
they must forward us in their applications 
two three cent postage stamps as their share 
oj the postal expenses, unless they subscribe 
for the Rural iu connection with some other 
journal which oilers the Seed distribution in 
connection with both papers. We would add 
that the chief object which the Rural has in 
requiring subscribers to pay a part of the 
postage is, as far as possible, to provide 
against applications being made by those who 
have little or no interest iu their proper care 
and cultivation. Full instructions to those 
HOUSE & CO., Schenectady. .NT. Y 
The standard of’ America . . 
Admitted by leading SeedB- fcAff i.vy ,, 
men and Market Gardeners 
everywhere to be the moat per- TT- 
feet and reliable Drill In nee. r 5 .-^ 1 -;- 
Send for circular. Manufac- — 
tured only by 
feVKKBTT Si SMALL, Bo.ton, Mars 
Simple, durable, of the beat work- 
maiudiip and material. Solid Wrought 
Iron Rollers. Engine complete on 
iKiard cars at Springfield, U„ at fob 
lowing priced : 3 home power. *275 ; 6 - 
horee po\ver,.'iUMt); 7-horue powojf.iSitffr; 
lohorre power, *&.*>. These engines 
fully guurranteed in every respect. 
UkircRB Common Sense Engine Go. 
Springfield. Ohio. 
SIMPSON & GAULT 
(STRAUB MILL CO.) 
Makers of 
Flour Mill Machinery 
Of Every Description. 
Portable Mills for Corn. Wheat 
Rye, and ttil kinds of Grain. 
tw~ Write for prices, 
N. W. oor. FRONT & JOHN s. 
Cuici*_v»T '..Ohio 
A A ft**’’*I**bushel omte MVlil) in 
^ fi R« HM I li'(n-jtigCoru and 25c. iu Wheat by 
% f£ W r BJurbwourllAltUfm'. OurPri;. 
U m *- • \ K f t I VS Eft contains 72 sharp steel 
blades in three frame® ooveriuir Ul feet. Warranted 
the most you i-rf'ul Pulverizer known. For illustrated 
Ptnunhlets adareea ThomasIIajikow Co., Geneva.N.Y. 
FARM CRIST MILLS 
AND CORN SHELLLRS. 
Over 2o,OuO .Now in IJse. 
1C very .viiteluno isFuily War¬ 
ranted. Price of MUG ij.f, to |85. 
hellers, $5. Don’t buy u MILL or 
niELLEH until you have seen our terms 
and Illustrated circular. Address with 
stamp. LIVINGSTON ic CO , 
Iron Founders, Pittsburgh, Pa 
THE SUGAR MAKER’S FRIEND 
<- Twenty-five per 
-• cent, more Sugar 
a bettor quality 
from f’ (l s T-*Si 
O T n it I K A SAP 
§ SPOUTS than 
o 73 , .. ,, trom uuy others, 
S © — is tho verdict of over tfLyWJ Mapio 
O § ,9 /ft Sugar Makers that usei thorn. 
- * a# ijyTlii-lr perfect worfelug with 
” the utmost saHufac.tlmi U g u -run- 
teed Only a trial is needed to convince ouu of their 
supertoi ity over alloth+r*. if every stugnr linker-, 
not having tested them, will but tup halt his sugar 
bush with the Eureka tho coining Sugar S« , ;tr>>»n. 
a full su;qdi/ the following season will Tic the result. 
It there is nut un agent In your town, got ft good re¬ 
sponsible Hard wot' or other denier to order at n/tec 
undnotdfloy it until tile season for tapping Is utiou 
you. Better have '.hem two months In navonve than 
lidliy tou late I will tier. I you SuinplCN am! I»c- 
Heriptivo Cieeniars Po«t-paid on receipt vi 
TeuCcnta. Address at ouco 
U. i i’OsT, Patentee. Ituriingron. Vt. 
Buy tho Eurekus and you escape all Infringements 
and penalties of the law. 
40 Clydesdale Stallions 
AND MARES-Mostly Imported. 
GO fiambfetoiiian Stallions, 
AND MARES OP THE FINEST BREEDING 
NOTES, 
I SUPPOSE the bo3 T s and girls of the Club 
are having grand times nowadays, coasting 
und skating. It is fine sport, isn’t it } My 
memory of such times is yet very good. But 
then, you will not care to coast or skate all 
the time, and I hope that, w'hen you come in 
by tho wurtn, crackling fire, to sit down for 
an e.’ening s cujoyni >nt, you will think about 
those “Peanuts” we are soon to discuss. 1 
am not sure but it would be a good plan for 
father, when he goes to town, to bring home 
a cup of peanuts si that the subject maybe 
more easily borne iu mind. Let all, who can, 
s ty a word. 
Largest Herd of 
HOLSTEIN CATTLE 
With largest milk records In America, 
Separate Catalogues of each class of stock with 
milk record of cows. Denote which is wanted 
tr correspondence solicited, 
SMITHS & POYVELL, 
Lakeside Stock Farm, 
StBACOSB, N. Y 
THE VICTORY 
CORN MILL 
The only mill that is a 
[Complete Buecess in prlml 
(lugeoru and cob together, 
wt defy competition on this 
Kind of grinding. It also 
gt-lndu shelled corn and all 
oilier kinds of grain, coarse 
or lino, «s desired. Capac¬ 
ity ten. to f«'<:?(fp btieKeU 
per hour. Self sharpening 
plates, and warranted uj 
every respect. Address 
THOMAS ROBERTS, 
Springfield, Ohio. 
VIRGIHI1 IMKWTOESmWvfltTM 
Registered Jersey Cuttle of best butter strninB u 
specialty. The largest herd In the Slate, kept, on 
three farms. And most Buecessful at Virginia S-tute 
Fairs. Young sloek for sale. Also Cotswold, Khrup 
sliireand South Down Sheep. Berkshire, Eajet und 
Jersey Rod Swine, aud ail the leading varieties of 
pure-ored Poultry. Address A. P. ur M. B. ROYVE, 
Look Box Rt, Frederli-kdiurg, Yu. 
I imagine there will be pretty strong com¬ 
petition for that “History,”too. The winner 
(I wonder who it will be <) w ill deserve con¬ 
gratulation. 
Perfected BUTTER COLOR 
ronn ^* The largest, Batter Buyers recommend Its use. 
n ud ™ n V CMwl Uy Blu “ e be8t Grenmories. Awarded the uueb 
^ fi N O’, * A 2K^U r ‘ 1, J , ¥!£ 1 ** or merchant fori t; or write to ask wimt 1 1 Is, what 
Ucostiywho Bseslt. whereto get It. YVELLW. KltHAItUHON A OO., ProprtcU>r». ltorll ngton, 
V\ e give another poem this w r eck which is 
susceptible of being rendered, as a declama¬ 
tion, with good effect, I hope the Cousins 
will give much attention to declamations 
and essays, or “ compositions,” as they are 
more commonly known in the district schools. 
