FES 40 
Various. 
CATALOGUES ETC., RECEIVED. 
Citmmj. 
THE STOET OF STONY BEOOKFAEM. 
james M. Thorburn & Co., 15 John St. 
New York. Annual descriptive (illustrated) 
catalogue of 96 pages sent free to all who 
apply as above. Seeds for the vegetable gar¬ 
den, flower garden, for the lawn, farm and 
uursery—one of the largest collections to be 
found in the world. Among the novelties we 
And the Rural’s Blush Potato of which the 
above firm owns the entire stock except what 
is reserved for our free seed distribution, The 
price is 75 cents per pound and at a less rate for 
larger quantities. Also the Perfection Heart- 
well Celery distributed in the Rural’s last 
Distribution. We have tried all the new kinds 
of celery (this among them) and shall report 
in a few weeks. 
James J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, Mass. 
Annual catalogue of warranted seeds, vege¬ 
tables, flower and grain. Nearly all of the 
new potatoes as well as many of the old kinds, 
Golden Grains Wheat, White Zealand Oats, 
Livingston’s new tomato, the Favorite, Essex 
Hybrid Tomato, Minimum Pea, which is said 
to have grown 24 pods on a single vine but 
six inches high; Marblehead Early Sweet 
Corn which we tested two years ago to find 
the earliest of all, etc. The lists of vegeta¬ 
bles are especially full and the descriptions 
very plain, while the merits of the kinds 
offered are impartially stated. This catalogue 
will be sent to all of our readers who apply 
to Mr. Gregory. 
Johnson & Stokes, 1114 Market St., Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. Illustrated catalogue of seeds 
for the garden and farm. Philadelphia seems 
not to be behind any other city in the enter¬ 
prise of its seedsmen. This catalogue offers 
many novelties in the way of beets, carrots, 
cabbage, celery, sweet corn, melons, onions, 
potatoes, tomatoes and flower seeds. The 
catalogue is free to all applicants. The firm 
kindly sends us a valuable collection which 
they call in their advertisement, as may be 
seen, their “Special Introduction Box of Seeds” 
offering what they deem $3.25 worth of seeds 
for $1.00. 
Robert Buist, 922 and 924 Market Street, 
Philadelphia, Pa. An almanac and garden 
manual for 1888, 200 pages illustrated. Free. 
This gives cultural directions for every month 
in he year with in¬ 
structions for hot¬ 
beds, cold-frames and 
pits and remarks as to 
the kitchen garden 
(with a diagram), ro¬ 
tation of crops, ma¬ 
nure, etc. The lists of 
seeds of all kinds are 
very full. Mr, Buist 
offers his celebrated 
prize collection of 
seeds for $1.00. This 
firm was established 
in 1828. 
James Carter & 
Co., 237 and 238 High 
Holborn, London, 
England. Richly il¬ 
lustrated catalogue of 
100 pages of every¬ 
thing for the field, 
flower and vegetable 
garden. This is one 
of the largest seed 
houses in England 
and the catalogue is 
one that would sur. 
prise most of our read¬ 
ers. The application 
should be made as 
above with two three- 
eent stamps on the en¬ 
velope as required on 
letters going abroad. 
Report on Insects 
for the year 1881, by J.Henry Comstock, 
Professor of Eatomology in Cornell Univer¬ 
sity and ex- Entomologist of the Department 
of Agriculture—a profusely-illustrated pam¬ 
phlet of 22 pages to which are added seven 
pages of illustrations. 
Rules and Premium List of First Annual 
Exhibition of the New York Fanciers’ Club. 
Madison Square Gardeu, this city, February 
13, 14, 15 and 16, 1883. Hon. C. S. Cooper, 
President; C. R. Harker, Secretary. 
B. 8 . Williams, Victoria and Paradise 
Nurseries, Upper Holloway, London, England. 
Illustrated descriptive catalogue of flower, 
vegetable, agricultural seeds, etc. 
A. W. Stevens & Son, Auburn. N. Y. 
Illustrated circular and price list of the 
Stevens French Bubr Feed and Corn Mills. 
Hotchkin & Wilder, Syracuse, N. Y. Il¬ 
lustrated catalogue of fine open aud top bug¬ 
gies, road and village carts. 
Syracuse Cart Co., Syracuse, N. Y. Illus¬ 
trated catalogue of road and village carts, etc. 
HENRT 8TEWART. 
CHAPTER XXII. 
(Continued from page 73.) 
“It must be a terrible thing to be lost in the 
woods all alone, and at last give up hope. No 
wonder that men lose their senses and kill 
themselves in such cases. I have known green 
hands among the lumbermen down below to 
do the same thing.” 
“Well, the secret’s oat, Barley; and we may 
leave here as soon as we like. We have noth¬ 
ing to keep us here now. We are rich. Forty 
thousand dollars for my iron lots and the vil¬ 
lage site, and what I bad before, is more than 
I want or ever thought of having; and one of 
your lots will bring a good deal more if you 
want to sell. You must go down, and right 
away, as soon as we can get these poor bones 
together; and I can’t trust you alone, you 
have such bad lock on the water.” 
“ No more water for me when there’s a rail¬ 
road; and if not, I would rather walk a few 
hundred miles than go on the water. I’ll go 
down sure, if I do go slow.” 
“ Well, you are right, if you lose a propeller 
every time you go. But let us turn in. I feel 
kinder upset over this thing; and I’ll have to 
sleep over it before Tm quite right again.” 
CHAPTER XXIII. 
It was a curious scene that occurred the 
next day in the woods where the bones of Jo¬ 
nas Pratt lay moldering under the leaves 
of three Autumns. Nature had kindly and 
gently buried her dead out of sight; had 
dropped gentle tears, and spread a pure 
mantle of buow for those years over the 
unhappy man and his memory. The jus¬ 
tice of the peace and the jury of six men, 
with a few witnesses hastily gathered, were 
met there in the dense wild forest, to assert 
the power of law and the dominion of man 
over nature. Every form of law was care¬ 
fully observed by these rongh-looking work¬ 
ingmen; and their methods and manner 
showed how safely the principles of popular 
government could be intrusted to the Ameri¬ 
can citizen, thoroughly imbued by his educa¬ 
tion with a revererce for the laws which his 
weight until released by the falling apart of 
the body. Worms bad consumed the flesh, 
and the last end of man, the inevitable pre¬ 
serving power of nature, which preserves by 
quickly destroying or more truly, changing, 
all dead matter, had literally come upon the 
unhappy and unfortunate bat repentant 
Pratt. 
A witness testified to having met Pratt more 
than three years ago at the camp at the coal 
kilns where he inquired for Barley Merritt 
and was directed along the line, already 
partly cut out for the railroad, to Wild Goose 
lake. A branch line that had been surveyed 
part way there, intended to avoid a steep 
grade and a deep cutting, and which ended in 
a blind lead, had evidently been mistaken for 
the right path and had lead the inexperienced 
traveler into the thick unbroken woods where 
he had wandered until he found the camp. 
The hat, the overcoat, the pack—a canvas 
valise—were all identified by the witness. 
Josiah Jonkius and Barley Merritt related 
what they knew and exhibited the papers 
molded and staiued by the rains of three 
years. The verdict was quickly reached by 
the jury—all of them backwoodsmen and well 
knowing how a lost man loses his presence of 
mind under the circumstances of this case, 
and how several hunters and other persons 
had been lost in these deep tangled woods 
which stretched for a hundred miles beyond 
any habitation and who had never again been 
heard of. Permission was given by the cor¬ 
oner to remove the remains and the men all 
helped to arrange them in an orderly manner 
in a coflln brought out for the purpose. They 
rested upon a bed of leaves and with the 
clotbiDg laid over them as a covering. The 
limb which had played its part so fatally, 
was cut off and put in with the rest. The 
burden was laid upon a sled and Jon kins’ dogs 
drew them carefully over the rough ground 
aided by the men who followed. 
The few preparations needed were quickly 
made and the recluse who had made these 
woods his home for a quarter of a century 
and was now driven out of his retreat by the 
rapid tide of humanity which had over¬ 
whelmed it, returned to take the place he had 
abandoned in his disappointment so long ago. 
With him weBt Barley Merritt, carrying the 
remains and relies of Jonas Pratt and a certi¬ 
fied copy of the inquest. Aud in the same 
train went down, too, Mr. Bates and Dr. Noble. 
No untoward occurrence delayed th“ travel. 
Jonkins advanced to meet Mrs. Memtt. 
“ Mary l” 
“Josiah !” 
“It’s many years rince we met, Mary.” 
“ Oh, why did you leave me. Josiah 1” 
“ You told me to go, Mary.” 
“You didn't understand a young girl’s 
heart, Josiah, and should not have taken me 
at my word. I loved you, but you ought to 
have discovered that without my telling you.” 
“ A lover is very jealous, Mary, and many 
a time as I have laid in my camp and thought 
over our last meeting I have suspected that I 
wronged you with my doubts. You have 
been my angel, Mary, all these years. Often 
and often I have seen you; and when I saw 
your boy’s face the first time up there I saw 
yon again..Knew him ...Indeed 
I did; and I watched him for his mother’s 
sake. Barley t—He has gone. Ah, Mary, 
he has been a son to me. I have heard of you 
many a time from my brother Jabez, and 
looked for your boy when be came up. Mary, 
I came back to stay if you will have me stay. 
Don’t let me go back to begin lire again in 
the wild woods. Let me be a father to your 
boy aud let us be one as we might have been 
years ago, but for my mistake. What shall I 
do, Mary ? Shall I go back again or stay 
here * Tell me. Mary.” 
Then Mary raised her averted head with 
eyes flooded with tears. “Ah Josiah, you 
are too good. You have not one reproach for 
the foolish girl who jilted you without intend¬ 
ing it.” 
“ Don’t say so, Mary. No, I have no re¬ 
proaches. John Merritt was worthy of you. 
But this is a living world and he has gone, 
and there is no reason yon should cast me 
away now Mary.” 
To be continued. 
OCCUPATIONS FOR BOYS. 
Polled Bull, Sir Eustace, [2889.—From* Life.—Fig. 5S. 
fathers and he had helped to make, and which 
he knew were left in his care as a heritage to 
be preserved for hischildren. The justice was 
the head blacksmith of the iron furnace, and 
the jury impaneled by him were six of his 
fellow workmen. Horny-handed and be¬ 
grimed by the dust aud smoke of the furnace 
they met aad heard what evidence could be 
gathered relatlug to the affair. 
The jury were seated upon a fallen log; the 
justice acting as coroner, faced them seated 
upon an upturned root; the three witnesses 
stood around. The jury viewed the remains 
which were carefully uncovered from the 
thick coat of leaves. They were undisturbed 
excepting that here and there mice and other 
small animals had gnawed the ends of the 
softer bones. The bones were in aheap and 
the clothes so folded among them as to show 
that the nnhappy man had rested on his knees 
only partly supported by the yielding limb, 
which now hung down low and within easy 
reach, indicating how long it had borne the 
ers, and the usual lumbering, rattling milk 
train brought them all to their destination in 
due time. Samuel Pratt and a crowd of 
neighbors were there to receive his brother’s 
bones. The first person he met was his cousin 
Barley Merritt. Pratt seemed to avoid the 
meeting. 
“Come, Sam, here’s my hand; we must 
forget by-gones; poor clay as we are, cannot 
afford to 1 >ear enmity and keep up grudges. If 
you have anything to blame me for I ask your 
pardon; if t have anything to blame yon for 
I am ready to forgive, and to forget every¬ 
thing, but that we are cousins.” Then, turn¬ 
ing to Josiah Jonkins, he said “Come, our 
home la to be together; yours has been mine, 
aud mine is now yours, as loug as you will.” 
Aud the two men turned to the widow Mer¬ 
ritt’s house, reached it and entered. 
“ Mother, here’s an old friend of mine who 
has been very good to me; he saved my life 
and cared for mo all through that year, and I 
owe everything to him.” 
To place a boy where he will do well in 
life is no longer an easy matter. Opportu¬ 
nities are comparatively few, while boys are 
legion. Yet it must be done, and after 
months of anxious thought a lad is situ¬ 
ated not perhaps according to his liking, 
but where opportunity offers. His des¬ 
tiny then rests with himself, and oh the 
way he begins business depends much of 
his failure or success for manhood. If 
be has been a petted 
boy, with plenty 
of leisure time and 
holiday enjoyment, 
the life on which he 
now enters presents 
some features which 
are in lively contrast 
with his past expe¬ 
rience. Perhaps the 
boy has been placed 
with an employer who 
will work him from 
seven or eight in the 
morning until eight or 
nine at night, giving 
him only two dol¬ 
lars for his service. 
Common report says 
that there are 3uch 
men in the world, 
and that an under¬ 
paid and over-worked 
office boy is required 
to render as much 
service as an able- 
bodied aud fairly - 
paid man. Perhaps 
it is because such men 
know how it was in 
their own boyhood, 
when they did hard 
__ work for poor pay, 
that they want to 
take it out of the boys 
of the present genera¬ 
tion, and teach them to bear burdens. It is 
an unpleasant experience for a young man 
to bear burdens which are too heavy or too 
hard. Yet it fits him for other burdens 
which he must bear during manhood. No¬ 
body of any consequence in the business world 
ever got on without bearing some burdens 
and enduring many disagreeable things. 
The more clearly the young man understands 
this when hel.sets out on his business career 
the surer is his road to prosperity. There are 
boys and young men beginning business who 
think that because their pay is small their 
work Is of little importance. Therefore they 
perform their duties in a slipshod manner, 
caring little as to whether,they give satisfac¬ 
tion or not. A youth who thus conducts him¬ 
self stands in the way of his own advance¬ 
ment. He has a very narrow view of the 
possibilities in store during the coming years. 
He who has a keen eye to the future will look 
sharply and closely to the interests of his em¬ 
ployer, for in so doing he is regarding his own. 
