Caw. 
“Every Man is presumed to know the Law 
Nine-tenths of all Litigation arises from Ig¬ 
norance of Law.” _ 
li.S. T., Montclair, N. J. —Is a tenant in 
this State, liable for rent in ease his house is 
destroyed by fire before the expiration of his 
lease, the fire clause not beiug in the lease? 
Ans. — A new Jersey statute expressly en¬ 
acts that “whenever any building or buildings 
erected on leased premises shall be injured by 
tire without the fault of the lessee, the land¬ 
lord shall repair the same as speedily as possi¬ 
ble. or in default thereof, the rent shall cease 
until such time as such building or buildings 
shall be put in complete repair; and in case of 
t he total destruction of such building or build¬ 
ings by fire or otherwise, the reutshall be paid 
up to the time of such destruction, and theu, 
and from thenceforth, the lease shall cease and 
come to an end; provided always, that this 
section shall not extend to or apply to cases 
where the parties have stipulated otherwise in 
their agreement of lease." (Revision of New 
Jersey, p. 5(5(5.) 
,lf. //. .S'., Tonawanda, N. Y. —If a woman 
dies without leaving a will, leaving a child or 
children surviving, is such or are such child¬ 
ren her heirs? 
Ans. —Tf her husband survives her, he will 
have a life use (tenant by the courtesy) of her 
real estate, and one-third of the personal prop¬ 
erty. The child or children take the other 
two-thirds of the personal, and inherit the fee 
of the realty. If she is a widow the children 
inherit all her estate. The brothers and sis¬ 
ters will inherit nothing. 
If. M. Albany, N, V. —Cau a married 
woman legally purchase real estate or other 
property, without the knowledge of her hus¬ 
band, either under her maiden name or her 
husband's name? 
Ans. —A married woman, in this State, 
may legally purchase with her own money 
any description of property, without asking 
her husband's consent, mid may hold it in her 
own right as if she was single. 
Inquirer, Worcester, 17.—A has a farm 
worth *1,000 and mortgages it to B for *500 to 
be paid in five years with annual interest. A 
jmys the interest for throe years and theu sells 
the farm to C, who assumes the mortgage. C 
fails to pay the interest; can B claim the 
money of A, or can he take the farm from C? 
Ans.—B’ s claim goes with the land, and C. 
is the responsible debtor. 
L. S. J/., Troy, N. Y. —If a newspaper' pub¬ 
lisher sends his paper to me although I have 
not subscribed for it, cau lie collect pay at the 
end of the year if I take the paper from the 
post-oflice with the rest of my mail? 
Ans. —No. Some disreputable publishers 
try to "bluff" money out of people in this 
way; but no money cau bo legally or honestr- 
ly collected. 
L. S. T., Elmira, N. Y. —A man abundantly 
solvent buys real estate; the deed is made to 
himself and wife; what is the status of his 
creditors in relation to this 'property if he dies 
insolvent? 
Ans. —The creditors have no recourse against 
the property after the debtor’s death, the wife 
becoming sole owner. 
//. M., Springfield, Mass. —A holds a mort¬ 
gage on B’s farm; cau he attach personal 
property to pay the interest? 
Ans.— Yes. 
A bill now before the New York Legislat ure 
provides for the punishment of the conduct¬ 
or* of newspapers which contain scandalous, 
prurient or flagitious news. Several notoriously 
immoral publications are specially prohibited 
within the boundaries of some States, es¬ 
pecially in (he South. A bill at present 
before Congress provides for the exclusion 
from the United States mails of all news¬ 
papers that admit advertisements of lotteries. 
There are numerous other indications that 
the people through all parts of the country 
are awaking to the importance of holding the 
conductors of journals and periodicals to 
some extent accountable for the contents of 
their papers, both ns regards the "reading 
matter” and the advertisements. “Freedom 
of the press,” like freedom of the individual, is 
a glorious thing, but in neither ease should 
liberty lie confounded with license; and there 
is certainly a strong inclination among the 
managers of many papers to do so. Even in 
papers in which great care is evident 
in the selection of reading matter; great 
carelessness is manifest in the admission of 
immoral, and, still more, of fraudulent adver¬ 
tisements. Iudeed, it is hardly possible for a 
person of ordinary knowledge of the world to 
scan the advertising columns of almost any 
paper for a short time without noticing adver¬ 
tisements so clearly fraudulent that then- 
nature should have forcibly obtruded itself on 
the publishers who admitted them. Of 
course, all the world over, everybody who has 
anything to sell is bound to extol its merits 
and be silent as to its defects. Publishers, 
therefore, should not be expected to bold ad¬ 
vertisers rigidly to the bald-headed truth. A 
considerable margin for exaggeration is al¬ 
lowed even by the best of men in such eases. 
Those who read the advertisements and are 
likely to be led by them must not be considered 
children or fools. Iu selling goods themsel ves 
they certainly do not belittle their excellencies 
or amplify their failings; why should they 
expect others to do so; or in trading to trim 
their talk to the straight line of truth? But. 
while exaggerations are permissible to a cer¬ 
tain extent, absolute misrepresentations; or 
exaggerations so gross as to amount to misrep¬ 
resentations, should not be tolerated; yet such 
advertisements are constantly seen in political, 
agricultural or even religious journals, Some 
discriminate to a considerable extent no 
doubt; but. others appear to admit every thing 
that is offered. Within the last week we have 
refused to admit over *500 worth of adver¬ 
tisements of this kind. The Massachusetts 
Watch Co., Bostou, which offers the New 
American “Stem Winder” for *1, grossly mis¬ 
represents the nature of the thing. It 
isn’t a watch at all;-but a poor “make-be¬ 
lieve.” How auy reasonable publisher could 
possibly believe the statements made in the 
advertisement of this concern passes compre¬ 
hension: yet we notice it in some “highly re¬ 
spectable ” papers. 
To Several Inquirers.— We cannot re¬ 
commend the Flower City Seed Store, Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y., which offers packages of (lower seeds 
free. Some people have always had to be 
feared even when offering gifts. 
The Cotton Belt, published at Memphis, 
Tennessee, is a fraud, and its “Cuban 
Corn” is a humbug. We have several times 
denounced this catch-penny affair within the 
lost two years; but it still drags out a miser¬ 
able, false existence. In a specimen sheet 
just received from a subscriber, considerably 
more than half is taken up with advertisements, 
and there isn't a single honest one among them. 
-Again we say that we haven't the slight¬ 
est faith iu the Florida St. Andrew’s Bay Col¬ 
ony humbug. We have repeatedly explained 
our reasons for thinking this scheme a hum¬ 
bug, yet every week we still receive a number 
of inquiries about it... .The Yaukee Blade, of 
Bostou, has not “the largest circulation in 
America" as it claims; the best reports give it 
a circulation of 15,000: probably it is consider¬ 
ably less..,.The Helping Hand, a “matrimon¬ 
ial paper” of Chicago, is a humbug.. 
No; wc do not recommend the Eureka Medi¬ 
cal Institute of this city, or its medicines. ... 
.While we have had uo complaints of 
the Murray Hill Publishing Co., of this city, 
or of the Franklin News Company, Philadel¬ 
phia. we do not like their style of doing busi¬ 
ness, and therefore do not feel justified in re- 
commeuding either of thorn. The Plain 
Home Talk by Dr, Foote contains some good 
things: but it. is bard for “ ordinary folks” to 
distinguish these from the puffs, for it is a 
work designed merely to advertise Foote’s 
system and nostrums.'..We have re¬ 
ceived a great number of inquiries about J. 
Lynn & Co., of this city,and a few complaints. 
The latter have always been satisfied so far as 
we know. We have visited the plaee and in¬ 
vestigated the business several times, and 
have found uo cause to doubt the honesty of 
the concern. Wedo not recommend 
“Professor" W. C. Fowler. What a tremen¬ 
dous amount of humbug and quackery appeals 
to public gullibility with regard to the cure 
of “general debility” and other indefinite ail¬ 
ments' Why won 't people understand that a 
good local doctor will, in nine cases out of ten, 
be more successful than advertising specialists 
in the treatment of their ailment s! 
Womans XVotrh. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY LOUISE TAPLIN. 
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN. 
The full, piuked-out niches or quillings, 
which were used so extensively in trimming 
redingotes a few seasons ago, seem to bo 
coming in again. A gray cloth gown dis¬ 
played by a New York house had this trim¬ 
ming around the bottom of the skirt, beneath 
the long drapery. 
Cray, putty-color and fawn seem to prevail 
in spring fabrics. There are beautiful touuis 
stripes in soft cloths of harmonizing colors, 
fawn anil brown, gray and black, navy blue 
and putty-color, as well as more violent con¬ 
trasts. These are to be made up with drapery 
and bodice in solid colors. 
The bourette ginghams, with raised threads 
or patterns, are very handsome, and quite un¬ 
like a cotton fabric. Embroidered ginghams 
are really beautiful, especially the new French 
designs. Cotton dress fabrics seem to grow 
more ornate every year. 
A dainty wrapper from a French house was 
of pale-blue cashmere, in tbe Mother Hubbard 
shape, the back falling in one large Watteau 
plait. The yoke and sleeves were of cream 
Spanish lace. The long sleeves were flowing 
in shape, caught up a little at the wrist with 
blue ribbon. Muslin wrappers are usually 
made with Watteau back and half-fitting 
front, slightly confined by a ribbon sash. 
Some beautiful ones are of all-over nainsook 
embroidery. 
SOME WAYS AND THINGS AT THE 
RURAL GROUNDS. 
ALICE BROWN. 
Before school begins in the morning, at the 
noon recess, and after school closes for the 
day, the children hasteu out doors and spend 
as many hours as they can in the open air. 
With rubber boots for deep snow or mud, 
overshoes for other times, and warm clothing 
and wraps,the cold becomes exhilarating and 
makes them proof against its ill effects. Colds 
they rarely have, owing partly to their out¬ 
door exercise, and largely, no doubt, to the 
careful watch that is kept over the quantity 
and quality of their food. They fill the time 
for play with skating aud coasting, running 
races, and other active sports, and when an 
unusually stormy day keeps them indoors they 
are restless aud impatient. 
There has been scarcely a day this winter so 
stormy as to keep them in all day. When not 
so cold as to make a horse feel too spirited. 
Cerise has ridden a pony, giveu to her by her 
grandfather. 
Mounted ou “Ruby’s” back, she is one of 
the happiest of children, aud as fearless as 
though her experience as a rider dated back 
into years instead of months. 
The snow has gone, and the weather has 
been variable; uights cold enough to make 
hard the mud, with noons of warm sunshine 
and oozy ground. Theu a day of fog and 
mud from morning until night, or a cloudy 
morning clearing at noon. 
The Grounds now have few of the attrac¬ 
tions that summer lends to them, but winter’s 
face, too, is dear to every loyal son and daugh¬ 
ter of northern lands. There are evergreens 
in profusion, so scattered about the Grounds, 
that, although they never seem obtrusive, yet 
they give to the place a sense of warmth and 
shelter. Everywhere the leafless branches 
and the needle-leaved limbs offset each other. 
There is a fragrant friendliness iu hemlocks, 
fire, and pines, but the leafless branches have 
their charms too. 
Every tree has its own peculiar form and 
variation of form in its twigs and branches. 
The old apple trees are gnarled and fantas¬ 
tic, and their strange shapes suggest years of 
unresting work, gatberiug juices from the 
earth for many crops of fruit. 
The maples hold up cleau straight limbs, or 
set with flower buds ready to open at the first 
coaxing of spring. 
The eye takes pleasure in following the ec¬ 
centricities of the growth of the weeping trees. 
Iu the Weeping Beech, just west of the house, 
each limb seems at first to have dreamed of au 
upward growth, but some instinct sooner or 
later turned all its branches toward the grass 
and away from the sky. Some branches have 
seemingly turned all about, iu an uncertainty 
as to their destiny, and left the record of their 
doubts iu the curves of their advancing growth; 
others droop so abruptly they seem to have 
suddenly learued what was expected of them, 
and to have gone about it with a directness 
that shows no doubt at all. 
The Weeping Ash, with its thick stumpy 
branches reaching far out from the trunk and 
then drooping regularly iu a circle around the 
tree, is uo less interesting, though pruning has 
assisted nature to make it a model of orderly 
growth. 
Of upright growing trees the Pyramidal 
Oak is one of the most compact, with many 
twigged slightly incurving branches, but its 
outline is scarcely changed by its loss of 
leaves. 
One of the brightest winter trees is a young 
dog-wood; its brauches are so bright all the 
winter that its leaves are hardly needed to add 
to its beauty 
An Osage Orange spreads its thorny 
branches above the frozen lake, and looks soli¬ 
tary to any one who has seen the long lines of 
Osage hedge so common in some parts of the 
country. 
There is au oddity about the branches of 
the Liquidambar, the strange excess of ragged 
bark suggesting a shaking of the tree in a 
huge eoru-popper aud a bursting of each twig 
into the .ragged shapes of well-popped corn, 
modified to suit a long twig instead of a round 
grain. 
The magnolias have tipped every branch 
with long, slender leaf or flower buds, 
sheathed in wrappings as soft as mole-skin. 
Writers, loved in many lands, have written, 
in poetry and prose, of the wild tempests of 
winter, its hurrying, shifting, storm-driven 
snows; its marvelous fantasies in frost pencil- 
ings, of the hush it lays on nature, aud the 
bonds, as of iron, on many waters. But those 
who live in the very store-houses from which 
the poets drew their inspiration when they 
wrote of winter, do not always see the 
beauties that lie all about them. 
THE HIRED MAN QUESTION. 
FROM ANOTHER STANDPOINT. 
This is truly a. moving question to many a 
farmer’s wife who has to work for several 
men as well as her own family. And it is a 
question which may not be decided by any 
fixed rules. 
Our sprightly correspondent who has given 
IContinued on next page.) 
DRESS GOODS. 
JAMESMcCREERY & CO. 
Offer from among tlieir 
large assortment of Dress 
Ooods the following Spec¬ 
ial Lines: 
Silk and Wool Cheviots, 
54 inches w ide (Stripes and 
Checks) at 85 cents per 
yard; wrorth $1.50. 
Durham and Prnnelle 
Cloth all wool, double 
width, 60 cents and 75 
cents per yard; worth $1 
and $1.95. 
French Diagonals at 60 
cents per yard: worth$1.00. 
Heather Mixtures at 75 
cents per yard; reduced 
from $1.95 per yard. Sam¬ 
ples sent on application. 
ORDERS BY MAIL 
from any part of the coun¬ 
try will receive careful 
and prompt attention. 
Broadway and 11th St., 
New York. 
bit sun 
Col. -ill pis. 
Aster. Hose-Fine. ereu, is 
bright colors mixed. 
Phlox l)ruiititt gran- 
diflora, choice colons. 
Petunia, "Queen of 
Roses," choice. 
Verbeu*. extra from 
choice Rowers only. 
Ca.lliopsis.mt xeil colors 
Mignonette, tin Queen. 
Chrysanthemum, seg- 
etum grand Riorum. 
Zinnia, Double flue. 
COLLECTION OF 
FLOWER SEEDS. 
preit 
Ol.l 
TWO SUPERB COLLEC TIONS. 
Col. **B” 20 ets. 
Aster Peony-ft’d. Per¬ 
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Petunia, mottled aud 
striped. very fine. 
Hariitolil, "El Dorado." 
Pansy, N> w Herman va¬ 
rieties, very choice. 
Sweet Vlyssuui. 
SaJpijtlossIs g run di¬ 
ll orn. mixed colors. 
Cand) I u It, mixed. 
Chinn A- .Inpan Pinks 
Attest mixed. 
All lovers of choice flowers favoring me with their 
patronage are guaranteed satisfaction? stamps taken. 
Sent postpaid w iih directions Cor culm re. 
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