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name 10c. Game Author* 16c. Lyuo.u A. Cu„ CllnUmvill 
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STALLIONS, 
Mares and Colts. 
HOLSTEIN CATTLE. 
Allot' the (inert breeding to befotmd iu the United 
States or Europe, several of which were prize animals 
at the recent New York State Fair. 
PRICKS AND TRRMS RASY. 
Also a large NUItKERV STOCK of best quality. Cata¬ 
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199 West Genesee St., Syracuse, N. Y T . 
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LITTLE HARRY'S LETTER, 
A postman Btood with puzzled brow 
Aud iu his hands turned o’er and o’er 
A letter, with address so strange 
As he had never seou before. 
The writiug 1 eratnped, the letters small, 
And by a boy’s rough hand engraven. 
The words ran thus: " To Jesus Christ,” 
And uudemoath iuscribed, “ lu Heaven.” 
The postman paused; full well he knew 
No mail oil earth this note could take; 
And yet 'liras writ in childish faith. 
And posted fortho dear Lord's sake. 
With careful hand he broke the seal. 
And rev’rentiy the letter read ; 
’ i'was short, and very simple too. 
For this was all the writer said : 
" My Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, 
I’ve lately lost my father dear, 
Mother is very, very poor, 
And life to her is sad and drear. 
Yet thou hast promised In thy Word 
That none can ever ask iu vain 
For what they need of earthly store. 
If only asked in Jesus’s name. 
Aud so I write you in His name, 
To ask that you will kindly send 
Some money down -, what you can spare 
And what is right for us to spend. 
I want so much to go to school; 
While father lived 1 always went, 
But he had little, Lord, to leave, 
Aud what ha left is almost spent. 
NO MORE m P| 
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_ Onl y Importers’ Depot, an Cliff 8t„ New York. 
\VE ADVISE YOU TO INSUJIK YOUIt 
> Y property in tho 
AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE CO. 
Of Watertown, Y., 
The largest Company in tho country which insures 
only fanners’ property aud residences. Over twenty- 
six years old. 
Capital . $200,000 00 
Net Surplus, over.$‘210,000 00 
Assets, Jan. 1, 1810. $1,098,023 24 
fid Perfumed .Chroma <(- Snowflake • 'urds.clcgant ease, 
name in Gold, iuc. Da y um & Co., Nnt hford , ct 
*" l 1 -'- 1,a :: " CtC v.z name 
iu gold and Jet, Uic. G. A Spring, E.Wulhngford.Ct 
down, lie looked very malicious, not to say goblin- 
like. 
Alas, he will amuse me with his eccentricities no 
more! During a period or domestic disorder, con¬ 
sequent, on moving, lie was placed in a greenhouse, 
aud one morning he was missing. Whether lie 
had climbed out or his Jar, and paid the penalty nr 
his rashness with hLs life, like many other adven¬ 
turers, or whether some predatory, but short- 
radish bot tle will do well, and llll the bottle nearly 
full with water. When the sugar of lead Is all 
dissolved, push two or three pieces of copper wire 
Into the cork, and let them run down Into the liquid 
lu the bottle. Bend the lower ends Into hooks, 
and hang on them a small piece or sheet zinc, tak¬ 
ing care that it, touches all the wires. 
After the bottle has stood for a few hours, crys¬ 
tals of lead form upon the lower ends of the wires. 
PtereUaucou,*. 
AGENTS WANTED FOR 
“BACK FROM THE MOUTH OF HELL,” 
Ho one o ho has been there 1 
“RISE and FALL of THE MOUSTACHE” 
Dv the Itoiluicbni Haukeyc Humorist. 
Samantha as a P. A. and P. I. 
lit/ Just'd h .1 lien's tvije. 
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you can put these books every whore. Best, terms given. 
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I do not know how long ’twill lie 
Ere this can reach the gulden gate ; 
Bat I will try and patient be, 
Aud for the answer gladly wait.” 
The tidings reached that fur-oft land, 
Although the letter did not go, 
And straight the King' an angel sent 
To help the little boy below. 
Cut to his mother he would saj. 
“ X knew the Lord would answer make 
When He had read my letter through, 
Which I had sent for Jeans' sake !” 
Ah! happy hoy, could you but teach 
Our hearts to trust our leather's love. 
Aud to believe where aught’s deuie 1 
’ Vi 3 only done our faith to prove ! 
[Sutton it Baptist. 
LETTER FROM UNCLE MARK. 
Dear Bovs T uin not certain that any one 
among you w III recognize llie boy In the picture, 
but I hope, at least mat his employment Is famil¬ 
iar to you, and Mat you all are as studious aud 
Improve your spare iiiuiuenm as assiduously as he 
does. Apparently he has just, come lu, perhaps, 
from school or from some errand, and, as he lias 
not removed his hat, he evidently expects soon lo 
go out again, perhaps to feed the sheep, or to water 
the burses, or to split and carry lu the kindlings, 
or may be to milk, or he is waiting tor Instructions 
to go on some errand, or to do any of the many 
things that nobody can do so well as boys. But he 
cannot w aste the few moments he has to spare. 
He has picked up a paper, aud to judge from his 
sober features, he reads lo good earnest. That 
boy will some day take a leading position among 
his fellow men. 
Let me tell you that it Is Just such boys, who 
seize every opportunity to learn all they can, that 
become our foremost scientists, who go to the leg¬ 
islative halls to make our laws, who rise above the 
general level or mankind, and distinguish them¬ 
selves in every' branch of business, in every honor¬ 
able pursuit. Strange as it may seem, the majority 
of our great men, those who shape the affairs ol 
the country and of the world, were farmers' boys, 
brought up on fauns, and who. many of them, had 
to struggle with adversity and hard work before 
they rose to tlielr present position. The boys that 
are on farms now, the ty pe of boys shown lu the 
picture, will, hi a quarter of a century, be the lead¬ 
ing men, socially, tiaanclally and politically. Bear 
this in mind, boys; now is the the time ror you to 
lay the foundation for your life work, and the bet¬ 
ter you spend your spare moments now, the more 
Influence will you get In the future. 
Uncle Make. 
ABOUT TOMMY. 
Tommy Is not a naughty little boy who Is con¬ 
tinually getting into mischief and Involving his 
filends In a variety of unpleasant situations, but a 
little red lizard that lives, or that did live, In my 
aquarium. 1 named him Tommy, after oue ol 
Kingsley’s 11 Water Babies,” for he always reminds 
me of a little baby, with his pink skin and tiny 
hands, in color he Js salmon pink, paler under¬ 
neath, and the head, back, and outside of the legs, 
are thickly spotted with black. In form he Is very 
slender and graceful, but hJs small, pale, brown 
eyes are very ugly. The name of this species Is 
Spelerpes rubra, or lied Chameleon, aud it Is com¬ 
monly found in running streams or springs; but it 
Is not very common lu this part oi .Yew Jersey. 
Like most of the reptile tribe, Tommy is easily 
affected by music, on hearing the sound of a 
piano, or even of a person whistling, he come? to 
the top of the water, and slowly turns his head 
from side to side. I treated him exactly like a gold¬ 
fish, not placing any food in the water at all, but 
letting him feed hlruself. He certainly thrived 
under my treatment, for during the nine months I 
kept bun, he grew at least half an Inch. 
The plants In the aquarium were several sprays 
of Mermaid AVeed, common in most ponds, and a 
pot of Aponogeton. Tommy appeared to have a 
great affection for the last named plant, and spent 
many hours colled up on Its pot. A nother favorite 
position was to hook his tall over a floating branch 
of Mermaid Weed, aud hang downwards In the 
the shape of Hogarth’s line of beauty, a long S. In 
this position, with his small, pale eyes upside 
A BEAUTIFUL EXPRIMENT. 
Perh aps some of the boys and girls may be In¬ 
terested in the following experiment. It Is easily 
performed, and will give some Idea of llie manner 
In which crystals are formed. Remember that the 
solution Is a poison, and must be kept where It can 
not possibly be taken through mistake. 
Procure from an apothecary half an ounce of 
sugar ot lead, sometimes called lead-acetate. Put 
this into a wide-mouthed bottle, an empty horse- 
These rapidly increase, and soon the entire bottle 
Is filled with beautiful l'ern-Uke crystals. Looking 
carefully at them, the branches are all found ro 
start out at the same angle, thus showing that the 
force which produced them acta constantly In the 
same direction .—Chicago Standard. 
Kino Henry III. of Prance was In the habit of 
spending every year large sums upon pet dogs. 
Among these he had three favorite lap-dogs, called 
Lillne, Miml, arid 'litL These little anlinals, which 
were very beautiful, and had been brought with 
great trouble and expense from Turkey, were such 
darlings of their master that the King used to 
keep them In a basket hung by a splendid chain 
from Ills neck, lie even trained his little dogs to 
act as sentinels, tunl keep guard over him when 
he slept. Stationed beside the head ol' the King’s 
bed, the three little dogs stood sent ry in i urn, each 
for a time standing on Us hind legs, and supporting 
itself against the tester of the bed, which served 
instead of a sentry-box. The sound of a whistle— 
a very welcome music-, it may well be believed, io 
the poor 111,tie tired dog—told each small sentinel 
lu turn that the time of Us watch was up, and It 
might go to rest, Before doing so, however, It 
gave a Utile gentle bite to the ear of Its sleeping 
companion whose turn came next. In flits manner 
Lillne, TJtl and Miml kept up by turns an uninter¬ 
rupted watch over r,he King, from the time he tvent 
to bed until morning; and ho could not have had 
a more careful or falthlul body-guard. 
One of these little animals might have been the 
means of saving her master’s life. Henry III., as 
Is well known, was not a good ruler, and had many 
enemies, one ol these was a priest of the name of 
Jacques lenient, who came troui Paris to st. 
Cloud on purpose to kill the King. Being shown 
Into the sovereign’s chamber, he took out a paper, 
which, as a pretext, he handed to lienvy. Mean- 
while little LlUne rushed out Cram her watch- 
house and began to bark very loud, lor Hits gentle 
little creature, who never hurt or attacked any¬ 
body, had yet, In some wonderful manner, found 
nut that harm was about lo be done to her master. 
Henry had tho dog taken Into an adjoining room. 
She began to bark still louder, and in a short time 
the unhappy King was found dead, stabbed by 
Clement to the heart. 
sighted cat mistook him for a gold-fish, and seized 
him, is a mystery; he lias never been seen since. 
Peace be with him! e. l. t. 
Maywood, N. J. 
lugler. 
CHARADE, 
My first, a most delicious treat, 
In many a place abounds; 
My second Is removed with care 
From the thrifty farmer’s ground; 
My whole, I oft have noticed. 
Within my first is found, 
C2f Answer In two weeks. M ary Wai.ey. 
DROP-LETTER PUZZLE. 
Tli— sli-lt n- -t st- -1. 
Fill the blanks with vowels and find one of the 
commandments. 
tzr Answer In two week3. Little One. 
WORD-SQUARE ENIGMA. 
l. An Insect. *2. One who speaks falsely. 3. To 
win by Industry. J. A river of Europe. 
t3st~ Answer in two weeks. 1)r. 
DROP-LETTER PUZZLE. 
Behead And Curtain —l. Acute, cut ; 2, Wit-u, is; a, 
Trani]’. ram; -I, Truth, rot , 6, Yearn, ear; 6, Travel, 
rave; 7. Tribe, nib; 8. Trollop. Kollo: 9, Trillup, l'UUi; 
hi. Truth, rut; 12, Trunk, run; 13, Trusty, rust; M, 
Trash, rasli: 15. Prate, rut; III. Zliic, iu ; 17. Yore, nr . 18, 
Youth, out, 19, Yoke, " t). K.” : 25, Tripe,rip; 21, Drown, 
row . 22, Earth, art; 3'!, Drouth, rout; 24, Shed, he; 25, 
Revile, evil. 
Cross-word Enigma. Honeysuckle. 
Trifle Acrostic.— Primals, Bantry; centrals, Dub¬ 
lin: finals. Dingle. 
Magic Sol are.— 
THE LITTLE SENTINELS. 
PUZZLER ANSWERS.-March 8. 
P-t -h- r-g-t -e-t-r- l- a-d - a- c-m-I-t-. 
Z3f~ Answer in two weeks. Mermaid. 
THE FARMER’S BOY IMPROVING HIS SPARE MOMENTS. 
LANDSgHOME S 
IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. 
1,000,MX) acres of well watered, timber and 
prairie Inmls adjacent to the St. Louis and 
San Francisco It'y for sale, at from f-1.50 to 
ftfi per acre, on seven years' time. Excellent 
for stock, fruit, and agricultural purposes. 
Free transportation to those who purchase 
land. Fend for maps and circulars lo 
.W.H.comN, Land Commiss’r 
TEMPLE BUILCING.ST, LOUIS, t 
Don’t go 250 Fafitern Md. Farms. Low prices; easy 
H r ,,.,,,7 terms; convenient to It. It. & Steamers. Cat- 
r-” * > alojruen. J. C. Pi.ummeu, Oiuabridg-e, Md. 
IF YOU WANT A FARM OR HOME 
with independence and plenty in your old-iuro, the 
BEST THING IN THE WEST 
is the Atchison, Tockua, and Santa Fe It. It. 
LANDS IN KANSAS 
Circulars with map, giving full Information, free. 
A. a. JOHNSON. Acting Land Cbtn’r. Topeka, Kan. 
IN If ANSA S 
HOW TO QETTHENJ inilwiwd parigeihe »r.,a, o.non.ooo 
acres Fir sale. i or irt-e ei*py of “ Kansan Puelllc Home¬ 
stead,” address Laud Ooinlulssloin-r, Kailua, Kansas. 
MINNESOTA 
DAKOTA 
[Ijfl OVER 1,000,000 ACRES OF 
PS FINE FARMING LANDS 
[if IN MINNESOTA A N 1 > OAK OTA, 
K For sale l.y lire WINONA & ST. PETE It U.R.CO., 
!■ At from ijO- k, $0 per Aerc. 0 -rill nn lit,, nil terms. 
If! Tliesc lands lie In die ercul wlnnit bailor ihe North- 
LJAr Went, and are I'quully well adorned lo the growth of 
Wg> oilier rrnin, v> emlites, e(c. rile climate is unsur- 
[»j< | passed Tor healtlirulmss. 
■ They are Free from Incumbrance. 
K? Guide BooJc, M’tps, etc.* contulnhuj full information 
scutfrer. 
M0 CHAS. E. SIMMONS, I .and Commissioner, 
Gcn’l Office* 74,\V r . It'y i 'o., On icaoo, 1 n. 
Ittcnttm) this tmjicr in k W/Oic; 
