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Capital Paid-up .SI,000,000 
Debentures secured by flint mortgages on improved 
real estate held by the Mercantile Trust Co., New York. 
Call at office or write for particulars. 
HOUND R. CONKT.IN, 
Equitable Building, New York City. 
Virginia Land Agency. 
Cheap Harms. Splendid Climate. Short Mild Winters. 
Cood Markflts. Descriptive Land List Free. 
GRIFFIN A JEKVIM, PETERSBURG, VA. 
FOR HALE. Established FLORET Business, 
paying from the start, lit a flrst-ela^s business town. 
'Ireounouse.H new. bea f ed toy hot water: ci rner lot 
:H xltw feet; city water: electric light: telephone; two 
railroads; population 15,000. and 2U,000more In a radius 
of in miles doing their trading here. Business can be 
rapidly Increased, No greenhouse within 25 miles. 
Owner has a large tv boh sale business which requires 
his whole time. Only those meaning business, ad¬ 
dress A, J. SWA b,R, Hn/elrmi. Pa. 
STOCK FARM FOR SALE. 
The Rost Stoek Range on the Georgia Coast. Good 
• running, Fishing, and unlimited supply of O.vsters. 
E/ka Cok tcare of Graham & HUPbelb. Savannah, Ga. 
For Hole.—improved Stock Farm, with every eon- 
veuieuee. Stone House. Eight Rooms Chas. W. Diehl, 
Box \ Manhattan. Kansas. Parties met at train. 
Struggle against barrenness and poor soli in New 
England, 
WHEN 
IN FERTILE MINNESOTA, 
The richest and best farm in that State mav be had 
$35 000 
All in one piece. 
Good house cost $8,800. 
Splendid barn cost $1,000. 
Finest timber; 160 acres worth 
$100 an aero. 
Clear and beautiful Lake. 
School house close handy. 
760 ACRES 
MILKS FROM DEPOT. 
FINE ROADS. 
WELL IMPROVED. 
NO WASTE. 
AXX READY TO SEED. 
15 HOUSES. FARM IMELEMENTS. 
35 CATTLE. IN PERFECT ORDER. 
Paid last year above expenses 
m 84.750. 
To lovers or hunting this location is 
PARADISE. 
For full particulars apply to 
A. II. HOR NS BY. Heal Estate Broker, 
ST. PAUL, M INN. 
Also for particulars as to St. Paul. 
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PERSONALS. 
Joaquin Miller ban bought 640 acres of 
land near Shasta, Col., and will become a 
farmer, if he isn’t too indolent. 
Friends of Postmaster-General Vilas say 
thufc iron ore abounds on his Wisconsin lands 
and that he will he a millonaire in a little 
while. 
Miss Catherine L. Wolfe wished all her 
bequests to women to be for their sole use, in¬ 
dependent of their husbands, present or pros¬ 
pective. 
Millionaire Corcoran, who does more 
for Washington titan all the other millionaires 
lumped together, pays taxes on $9,100,000 
worth of property. 
Queen Victoria has received enough Jubi¬ 
lee gifts to fill a store-house as big as Windsor 
Castle. Many of them have to be given away 
for want of a place to put them. 
Mrs. Whitney, wife of the Secretary of 
the Navy, has given $5,000 to the St. John 
Episcopal Church Orphanage, to commeno- 
ratc the bapt ism of her daughter Dorothy. 
Bonanza Mackay, with $850.(H)0^p00 at his 
bark, is credited with an itching desire to 
knock out Phil D. Armour, the great Chicago 
packer. It is not too much to say that when 
Mackay meets Armour theu will come the tug 
of barrels. 
Henry George, in a late speech to the 
Labor Party here, among other bright things 
said. “If the system of monopoly of land ex¬ 
isted in heaven it would not be long before 
heaven would be full of angelic tramps who 
would be forced to pawn their very wings for 
means of subsistence.” 
Sir George Stephen and Sir Donald A. 
Smith, the one president of the Canadian 
Pacific Railway, the other a director and a 
member of the Dominion Parliament, have 
established a beneficent memorial of the 
Queeu’s Jubilee in giving to the City of Mon¬ 
treal $1,000,000 for the founding of a hospital 
“for the use of the sick ami ailing, without 
distinction of race and creed.” It is to be 
called the Victoria Hospital. 
Major John E. Blaine, pay master (broth¬ 
er of the ex-Seeretary), died at Hot Springs, 
Arkansas, Thursday morning. Born in Pa.; 
lived in Leavenworth, Kau., from 1859 to ’OS. 
June Hi, IStlS, was appointed military store¬ 
keeper in the quartermasters department, 
being stationed at Fort Leavenworth. Re¬ 
signed on May 1, 1870, and held the position 
of Collector of Internal Revenue at New Or¬ 
leans, where he remained until his appoint¬ 
ment to the position of Paymaster in the 
Army. Married in 1803 Miss Alice Fenton, 
who survives him, with a son and two daugh¬ 
ters. 
John Lord Hayes, L.L.D., Secretary of 
the National Association of Wool Manufac¬ 
turers, and who has been for years very prom¬ 
inently identified with the wool-growing in¬ 
terests also, died at his home in Boston last 
Monday, April 18. Born April 13, 1812, at 
South Berwick, Me.; son of the late Judge W. 
A. Hayes, a noted agriculturist of his day. 
Graduated at. Dartmouth College and studied 
law ut Harvard under Judge Storey, who, in 
P-41, appointed him Clerk of the U. S. Courts 
in N. H. From 18*15 to his death was a widely 
known scientist, and was for many years suc¬ 
cessful in mining, railroading and the practice 
of law. Was acting Patent Commissioner 
under Lincoln, and held the position of Secre¬ 
tary of the N, A. of Wool Manufacturers 
since 1865. Was author of 60 works on legal, 
political and scientific subjects and a contri¬ 
butor to various periodicals on wool growing 
and wool manufacture. In Juno, 1883, Pres. 
Arthur appointed him member of the Tariff 
Commission, Received the houorary degreu 
of L. L. I). from Dartmouth College in 1876. 
In his younger days a Democrat, hut after¬ 
ward left the party on the slavery question, 
and was one of the first founders of the Re¬ 
publican party. 
Lieutenant John W. Danenhowkii, the 
arctic explorer, one of the survivors of the De 
Long expedition, committed suicide shortly 
after 9 a. m. last Wednesday, April 20, at the 
Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. On April 
11th ho was sent to Norfolk in command of 
the IT, S. Ship Constellation, towed by a 
steamer and tug. Site grounded going out of 
Annapolis harbor, and the accident preyed on 
his mind, somewhat upset by his arctic suffer¬ 
ings, and the day after his return from Nor¬ 
folk the deed was done. Born in Chicago 
Sept. 30, 1840; entered Naval Academy in 
1S66, graduated iu 1870. Served two years as 
midshipman with the European squadrou. 
Received commission iu 1874. Was on the 
steamer Vandalia, in 1874, iu the Mediterra¬ 
nean. when Grant and family were on hoard. 
Shortly afterward on returning home showed 
signs of an unbalanced miud, and was con- j 
lined for two months iu an insane asylum. 1 
One of the first volunteers for the Jeannette I 
Expedition in 1879, of which he was second 
officer. Arrived in New York in 1882. In 
September, 1884, was assigned to duty at An¬ 
napolis as Assistant Commander of Cadets, 
and held that position at the time of his death. 
LITERARY NOTES. 
W hat per cent, of readers really understand 
the meaning of every word they read i We 
would put it at 10 per cent. It is so much 
easier to skip the hard words and read ahead, 
than it is to hunt up the dictionary and see 
just what the words mean, that the habit 
grows upon one, It is not very polite to have 
, to inform our friends that they do not know 
how to read properly, but the reader who 
skii>s hard words is either lazy or unable to 
appreciate the real value of reading. Thei*e 
should be a dictionary in every house, in such 
a convenient place that every member of the 
family can have easy access to it A pocket 
dictionary is a poor thing. It usually fails to 
contain the very words one wants to discover. 
In some schools the dictionary is used as a 
text-book with great success. There is proba¬ 
bly no person in the world who would not be 
vastly helped by half an hour spent at the 
dictionary every day. Too many people try 
to go through life with a limited vocabulary. 
They know about 800 words, and attempt to 
conduct conversation that requires a knowl¬ 
edge of 5,000. The only way to increase the 
vocabulary is to go to headquarters for words 
—the dictionary. 
Henry George, just at this time, is a very 
widely advertised man. His name is found 
everywhere—in all the papers. He is known 
as the originator of a theory for removing 
many of the present ills of mankind by bring¬ 
ing about a new system of taxation. In spite 
of all that has been said on the subject, few 
seem to understand just what Mr. George pro¬ 
poses to do. Beyond a vague idea that he 
proposes to “tax land” most of us discuss aud 
combat his theories without knowing just what 
they are. Such blind discussion is bad busi¬ 
ness. This land taxation question is a very 
timely one. Every man should know at least 
enough about it to discuss it intelligently. It 
is only after thoughtful discussion that such 
things arc made right. A study of “Progress 
and Poverty” and other works by Mr. George 
will help, but we must say, after reading them 
carefully, that the proposed remedy is hard to 
dig out. The best and clearest account 
of what Mr. George would like to do 
is contained iu a published conversation 
between him aud David Dudley Field. Mr. 
Field asks questions aud Mr. George answers 
them. This conversation is well worth read¬ 
ing. Mr. Field is an able lawyer who does 
uot believe iu the George theory. His ques¬ 
tions are those he would have used iu a cross- 
examination. We are informed by a personal 
friend of Mr. George’s,that the latter considers 
that his answers to the questions states his 
case as he would have it. Thus we have the 
matter in a nutshell. The conversation was 
published iu the North American Review for 
July, 1885. It is now printed in the form of a 
tract. It is a favorite document for debating 
societies. Every question autl answer pro¬ 
vides an argument for or against the George 
theory. 
Agriculture in Home of Its Relations 
With Chemistry, by Prof. F. H. Storer is 
published by Chas. Scribner's Sous, New 
York. This book is published in two large vol- 
unies.price $5. It is, without question,the most 
complete treatise on agricultural chemistry 
that has yet beou prepared iu a popular form. 
Any farmer who has read such books as 
“How Crops Grow" or who has studied the 
leading agricultural papers will be able to 
comprehend fully the language employed in 
this work. Tue author is recognized as a 
thorough stmleut aud iuvestigator. He has 
made use of information from every authen¬ 
tic source, aud here presents the results of Ins 
iuvestigation aud study in a condensed 
and complete form. VYe believe that this 
work can be read and re-read with great 
profit by every thoughtful farmer. It is one 
of the books that can be referred to again aud 
again, always with interest aud profit. 
Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke gave the world 
a notable book in “Somebody’s Neighbors.” 
It is a collection of short stories. The charac¬ 
ters arc all Yankees—the regular “down 
East” people, who look at life so seriously that 
their very seriousness is laughable. There is 
nothing that can besAki to equal “Somebody's 
Neighbors,” except It may be Mrs. Stowe’s 
“Sam Lawson’s Stories ” Mrs Cooke delights 
in picturing the grim old maids who have 
fought their own way in the world so long 
that they come to look with something of con¬ 
tempt upon a man. and yet end by marrying 
some shiftless scamp. The pious widower 
who grinds the life out of one gentle wife and 
theu succeeds in frightening another of the 
same nature into marrying him, is another of 
, her favorites. The reader shuts the book 
with a fervent wish that all the brave old 
maids could be provided with strong, manly 
men, and that all the pious frauds could be 
broomed into decency by stalwart helpmates. 
A feature of the next Scribner’s will be 
an article by Professor N. S. Shaler on the 
“Forests of North America.” The subject 
of forestry is an interesting and important 
one. It is well that the magazines should dis¬ 
cuss it. The forests of this counti-y are cou- 
stautly disappearing at a rapid rate. They 
are not being replaced by new growths of 
trees. The loss of the lumber will not be of 
vital importance. Cheap substitutes for wood 
are discovered every year. The great injury 
which may result from the destruction of for¬ 
est trees lies the change which is sure to take 
place in the physical aspect of the country 
when the proper balance between forests and 
cleared land is destroyed. 
The picture of Hawthorne, iu the last 
Century,is said to he the best likeness that has 
ever appeared in any magazine. Hawthorne 
was a strange writer and a strange man. His 
books are not read now as they should be. 
Newspaper literature has done much to draw 
the public away from standard books. Peo¬ 
ple are more iu a hurry than they used to be. 
They want their literature served up in short 
and strong doses. They think they have not 
time to spend a week over one hook, even 
though it be a book that cost the author years 
and years of thought. Those who will read 
James T. Field’s “Yesterdays With Authors,” 
will learn things about Hawthorne that are 
found in no other book. 
The American Magazine is the latest candi¬ 
date for public favor. It is the old Brooklyn 
magazine enlarged in scope and size aud 
greatly improved in appearance and con¬ 
tents. The original “Americau Magazine” 
was issued nearly 150 years ago from Phila¬ 
delphia. The present publication bids fair to 
equal in value any of the standard magazines. 
The illustrations are all good, the stories ex¬ 
cellent and the popular topics, timely aud well- 
treated. The article descriptive of the U. S. 
Senate and various senators is the best one of 
its class we remember to have read of late. 
A writer in the American Magazine gives 
a black picture of Cuba. It is strange how 
little we know of this island, which lies but 
90 miles from Florida If we believe this 
writer, Cuba is 200 years behind the United 
States in development, while the chief char¬ 
acteristics of the Cubans are cruelty, craft 
and greed. The country appeal's to be very 
rich naturally, but the people stick to their 
old methods, aud the poorer classes are kept 
down with au irou hand. 
New York, The Planting and Growth 
of The Empire State is oue of the series of 
American Commonwealths, published by 
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. It is in two 
volumes, price $2.50. This is probably the 
most interesting history of New York State 
that has ever been propured. The history is 
traced from the discovery of New York bay 
by Verazzano iu 1534 down to the present 
time. It is as interesting as a story and is 
considered authentic. 
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