Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 7, 1881, Page 10

10 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MAY 7, I88I—SIXTHEN PAGLS \STORY OF A SALMON. His Adventurous Carcer from Birth Till Death—An Ich. thyic Romance. Down the Cowlitz to the Columbia, and Down the Columbia to the Ocean. A Good Time nt Sen, Followed by an Up-River Trip of a Thou. sand Miles. The Objoct of tho Journey Having Been 4o complishod, the Plscine Horo “ Passes In His Chocks.” Prof. David S.Jordan 4n Popular Scienes dtonthly for . May. in tho realm of the Northwest Wind, on fhe boundary-ling between the, dark fir- forests nnd the sunny plnins, there stands u mountaln, n great whits cono two miies and o hall in perpendienlnr hights On ita lowor mile, the dense fir-woods cover ft * with never-changing green s ont its next half- mile, ndighter green of grdss and bushes gives piace In winter to white; and, on its upperiuost mile, the snows of the' grent Ieo Asgestill linger In unspotted purity. The poople of Wushington ‘Lerritory sny that this mountain Is the great * King-Pin of the Unl verse,” which shows that, even in Its own eountry, M, Rainlor 18 not without honor, Flowing down [rom the southwest slope of Mt. Rainler is n cotd, clear river fed by tho . melting anows of tho. mountaln, Madly it Tiastens down over white cnseades and Leds of shining sands, through blrch-woods and belts of dark firs to mingle {ts waters nt Ingf with those of the grent Columbln, s I'iis river Is the Cowlitz, and on its bot- tom, not many years ago, there Iny half- burled I the sand o number of LITTIE ORANGE-COLORED GLORBULES, each about as Iarge ns a pen. These were not much In themselves, but, ke the philos- opher's monads, cach one had In it the prom- Ise and potency of an active life. In the water above thein, little suckers, and chubs, and prickly sculplng wera stralning thelr mouths to draw these globuled from the sand, nud vielous-looking crawfishes pleked them up with their blundering hands and exam- Ined them with their tolescople eyes, But one, at least, of the globulés escaped thelr scientific curlosity, else this story would not bu worth telllng. Thesun shone downon it through the clear waters, and thorippiesof the Cowlitzsaklover 1t thelr lucantations, and In it nt Inst awoko living bolng, It was n fish, n curlous littlo fellow, only half an inch long, with great, starlng cyes which made almost half his length, and « body so transparent that ho. coull not cast n shadow, e was a little salmon, u very little saltions but the water was good, and there were files, and worms, and {ittle Hving crentures in abundance for i to ent, and he soon bLeeame a Inrger sal- mon, And there were many inore Httle snl- mon with him, some larger and some smaller, and they all had o morry time. ‘T'hose who Iied been born soonest, and had grown iarg- cest, used to chase the others around and bite off thair talls, or, stlll botter, take them by the heads and swallow them whole,~for, | aid they, *“Even young salmon are good onting,” *Ileads I win, talls you lose,” was their motto. Thus, what was once twosmall snlmon becane united into one larger one, and the process of *addition, division, and silencostil” went on, vt T By-and-by, when all the salmon wdro too small to swallow the others, aud too large,to ho swallowed, they began to grow restloss ond to . . 2 S101T FOR A CIANGE. ‘They saw that the water rushing by scemed to bainagreat hurry to. get somewhore, and ono of them suggested thot its hurry was causged by something good ro ent at the othor end of Its course, 'Then they allstarted "down thq stream, snlmon-fashion, which fashion Is to get into tha current, head up- swcam. and so to drift backward ns the river sfecps nl ong, . e Down the Cowlitz River they went for n day and o night, finding much to interest théin which we need not know, At Inst they began to grow hungry, wnd, coming near the share, they saw an angle-worm "of rare sizo and beauty floating’in an eddy of the stream, Quick as thought ono of the boys opencd his niouth, which was well filled with teeth of ditferent slzes, and rllfi it around that angle- worm. Quicker still he felt & shnrp pain In his gllls, followed by o smothering sensation, and In on Instant his comrades saw him rise stralght Into tho air, 'This was nothing new to them, for they often lenped out of the wa- ter in thelr games of hide-nnd-seek, but only to come down agnin with a loud splash not far froin where they went out, But this one never eamo buck, and the others went on their conrse wondering, \ At last they came to where the Cowlitz and the Columbia juln, and I.Imr Were alniost tost for a time, for they could find no shores, and the bottom and the top of the water were 50 far apart. Here thoy saw OTINEI AND FAR LARGER BALMON In the deopest part of tho current, turning nelther to the right nor left, but swlminin, strafght on up just as raplily ns they could, And thess groat~sahnon wnu}d not stop for them, and_would not le and flont with the current, They had no.time te _talk, even in tho s{mple sign-langunge by which fishes ex- ress tholr fdeas, sid no thne to eat, ‘They ind an important work boefore them, and the thne was short. So they wout on up the rlver, keeping thelr great purposes to thom- selves, ang uuxinulu sulmon und his friends from the Cowlltz drifted down the strenin, By-and-by the water began to change. It grew densor, and 1o longer flowed rapldl, nlunfi. and twico n day it used to turn abou ond flow the othor way. And the shores dis- n‘:wred, and the water began to hnve a dlifferent and peeuline fluvor,—u flavor which seonted to the salmon much richer and more inspiring that the glacier-water of thuir uative Cowlitz, And thers were. man curious things to see; erabs with hard shulis and savago faces, but 50 good when erushed and swallowed!: Then there wara lusclous squid swimming about; and, to a salnion, uld are Hke ripe peaches aml erenmn for dinnor. Thoero wero great compnnies of del- iento sardines and Imrrlnuio Rreen amd’ sllvery, and 1t was such fun to chusa them and to captuve them| ‘Lhose who vat only sardlnes packed in oll by groeasy tingers, amd herrings dried in the smoke, can liavo Yittlo Idea How satistylng 1t 18 to hnve ona's stotach full of them, plump, and sloek, and silvery, fresh from the sea. “'hus they chased tho horrings abous and JNAD A MERBY TIME, ‘Then they wuro chased nbout fn turn llr ’xmnb gen-llons, swhnming nonstors with half-hunian fuces, Jong thin whiskers, and blundering wuys. ‘Ihu gen-llons liked to tdte out the thronts of the salinon, with their previous stomnchs full of Jusclons sardines, aud then to leave tho rost of the fish to ahifé Tor itself, And the seals and iho horrings seattored tho salinon abuut, and at last the hero of our story tound himsslt lvmu along, with none of nis awn kind near him, But that did not trouble him mueh, unl ko went on hls own way, gotting his ddinner when ho was hungry, which was all the fiwe, and thon cating'n little between-menls for his stomach’s sako. 0 it weut on for threo long years: and nt tho ond ot this tim owr little ish bad grown to bea great, fine sulmon, of forty pounds welght, shinhng and stlvery ns a now tn Yun. and with rows of the lovellest ronnd binck spots on his head, und buek, and tall,. Gne uy, 85 he wis swining about, fdly chasing & blg sculpin, with s heud so thorny that he never wis swallowed by auybody, all of a- sudden the sshinon noticed a chauga In the water nround him, smlm.-l had cowa agnin, and the south-lylng snow-drifts on thy Cascade Mountaing auce more feit that * the carth was wheellng sun- ward,” und the cold snow-waters ran dowy from the mountains-and into the Columbla Rtiver, und mnde a freshet on the river, aud the hizh water went fay out jnto the ses, and out fu 1o sea our suluon z FELT 1T ON 1IS GILLS; 3 and he yemombered how the cold water used to feol [n the Cowlitz when hie was u little Ush, aud In o blundering, fishy fashion ho bout Tittle eddy loo eaddiee-worns und young mosqguitoes really ns sweet and temiler as he think they were; and ho thowehit some other 8, but, ns n salinon’s mind s loeated o optie lobes of onrs In a different placo, we cannot bu wliat his thoughts really certaln, after il grown salmon in the ncean does when fer-witer onée moreupon his jecamo n ehanged being, e spurned the bluidishments” of soft-shellod hia pleasitres of “the table aml of the ehase, heretofore his only delights, lost thelr charins for him, atralght toward Lhe direetinn wheneu the cold, fresh water e, and for tho rest of he never tasted o monthtul of food. 1 on. townrd the river-maouth, at first ayrully, as thowdi ho were not talit whethor he meaut anything after all Afterward, when he struek tho full -enr. rent of tha Coltonbin, lo plungod stiaight hation that hind In it something of the herole, When ho had paased the rough water at the bar, Iie found that o was not nlones Wls olil neighbiors of the Cowlitz nud many more, n grent army of sainton, wers with b front wers thousands; presstig on, hind thom, wore thohsands more, by a common knpulse, which URAED THEM UP THE COLUMDIA, "They were swimming bravely along where the current was deepust, when sudden] foreimost teltaomething tiekling ke a cobweb about thelr hoses and under thelr chins, . “Phoy wil Ahelr couras tlittls to brnsh | tonched thelr fius ns well. 'Then they tried to slip dawn with the current, to leave it bohind, Dut to—the th 3, nithough 1ts touch was soft, re- nnd hehd thew liko g fettors hey struggled, . the tighter be- nd the whole foremost raunk of the salmon felt it togethor, for It was o grent glll-net,.n quarter of a mile long, and stretehed ,squarely across the mouth o Diy-nnd-by “men _ecamo | huuled up the gill-net and threw tho hel snlmon hito 1 plls on the bottom of tie and tho others saw.them no more. live outside the water know better what be- falls thom, und wo can tell ti the sahnon could not, Allalong the banks of the Columbin River, from its mouth to nearly thirt; there 13 n succossion ngs, looking like great batns or ware bullt on. . piles and high enough to A, tho mory he story which bo out of the reach of inln&nls. There ara thirty of these bulldings, THEY ARE CALLED CANNFERIES, Eneh cannery lins about forty Loats, and with ench boatare two men and a long gili- and these nets il the whole river as with n nest of cobwebs ‘from April to July; and to ench catinery nenrly a thousand saluon urg brought in every day, Thess soalmon are thrown in a pile on the floor; and hinnman, takes theus one nfter anothor on the table, and with a great knife doxterously ents off the head, tho tudl, nnd tho finsy then with o sudden thrust removes the Intestines and I by goes into n tank of water, and tho head .goes down the rivor toodbu made Into anotlier . table, like n feed-cutter, cuts it into pleces just aslongas none-pond ent "Then Al Sim, with n butcher-knife, lcess [nto strips Just as wido ns Wan Lee, the Clilna boy, brings down from the loft, where the tinners are mnking them, & hundred _cans, and into eich, can puts n spoonful of sult, Just six salinon to fill & hundred cans, twanty Chitnamen put the pieces of mes fitingz In little strips to wminke “Then ten more solder the enng, anil ten more put the It water till the meat s thorolighly cooked, | and five more puneh o tittie holg in the hend of ench can to let ont thanir, solder them up again, and Mttle gicls prste on thom bright-colored lubels showlng imerry 1ttle Cuplds riding the } cannery door, with M, ll)lsupualntmunt in the buekgroun into the cans, “Ilume’s’ or “Clark’s,” or *Kinney's Su- perfine Salt-Wator Sulnion.” "Then aro placed in cases, forty-eight In a ease, and . 500,000 CASES ARE PUT UP EVERY YEARL Great shipscome to Astorin and are, londed with thein, and they carry them away to London, and San Fraveisco, and_Liverpool, awd Now York, and Sldney, and Valparaiso, and Skowhegan, Me,: and, the em at 20 cents n can, 8 Lime our salmon Is going up the rivor, escaping one _net as by & miracle, and suon having need of more mirneles to escape tho rest ; passing by Astorinon n fortuateday, whieh was Sundny, the duyon which no man mny fish if lie expeets to sell what hie eatelios, till finally.ho enno ‘to where nets were tew, nud, at last, to whore they censed nltogether. Lut here e found that ‘scarcoly any of his many compnanions were with himn, forthe nets censo when there are no mote saltuon to be | caught in thom. So he went on day and nlght whoro tho water was deepest, stopplig not to feed or loler by the way, till at fast ho como to a wild gorge, whore Ty torrent rushing wildly over T not falter, and, all his forces, ho plunged jnto tho eades. Tlio curront eaught him and dashed him ngnlust the rocks. A whole row of silvery scalcs onng off and walter like suulx;ks of fire, an Dueanio an an, lstoned In the = place on his red, which, for n salnon, is the same ns belng black and blue for other people, 1118 comrades tried up with him: and one lost his oye, tall, fi‘d )mmd"fld his lower Jaw pushad back Again ho tried to surmount the Cascades, and at last e succeeded, nnd tho rocks above was walting to recelve hlm, Iut tha Indian with his spear was less sklll- ful than he was wont to eseaped, losing only n part of and with him came une otuer, and honce- forth these two pursued thelr journoy. to- an Indian on and our liero onu of his fing, . NOW A GRADUAL CHANGE J took placo In the looks of our salmon. a8 'hindsome ang ong need wish to kiss, N cofor disappeared, his skin grew slim the scales sank Into it; his back grow and his sldes turned symmaotrieal a mout! ow his silvery rod—not a healthy red, butu sort of hectio flush. He grew poor, k, formerly us stralght ns need oped an unplensant hum| es—like those of the shoulders. Hls ! @ untlnge and sleoplng enthusinsts who forsal Tor somw lofticr plm—beenme dork and sunk- en. 18 symwetsical jows grow lon longer, and, meeting each othor, as of un old mon neets his, chin, sach had to the other pnss, And tiful teoth grew longer and longer, and projected - from his month, _fivum and wollish appearan turn aside to let bocoms . contored We do not know what this ono was, but we kuow that it was a stron led i on and on, past of Astorin, pust the dungerous Cascades, pust the spears of the Indiuns, through the terri- ble flumo of the alles, whaoro the inlgh -river s campressed botween hugo rocks into a channel narrower than a village street; on nyt the meadows of Umatilln and the wheat- tho-great Snake River u.m} the Columbln r 0 nnke eaatorn branch, till at_last he reached the fuol of the Litter-Raoot Mountainsin the Ter- ritory ot Idsho, - NEARLY A TIOUSAND MILXB FROM THE OCE. which he had left In A ‘was the other salmon w| him through the Cascades, handsomer and Iiko hint, growi ame togethor to o 'little a _bottom of fine over ‘which the watir was but a fow deep, Our fish paintully worked his way to i, forhis tal was all fruyed out Lis muscles his skin” covered with slzhtly blotches, Hut his sunkon eyes saw ripplo In the strenm, and under 1t wlittle bed ! Sa there i the sand he segoped ont with his tail o smionth, round place,and his companle arunge-colored eggs. e nots and horrors pril With him atil tich had come with snller than h and ragged, Werd sure, cameund flled ivwith “T'henour salmon camy back ngain, aml, s0ftly covering the e, the wark of thelr llves was done, ai sulmon-fushion, they’ driftod down the strepn, Next muornin reglon pusalng notjeed that a “dog-snlmon® thers and seemed “mighty nigh tuckered out.” Bo he took o ho, the brook, rupped the fisl on it, and, enryying it ashore, threw It to the Jiut the hogs hail o surfelt of salmon- amd they ate only the antouched. Aud a wandering uralist found it there,- and sont it to the tes Fish Commlssion to be identi- us §t caine to we, 4 ttler in the Nitter-Root he heud with TILE-DRAINAGE. The Philosophy of Tile-Drainage on Soils That Need It. A Summary of the Prinnipnl Benefits to Bo Derived from It, lmpnrlanca'dr‘ Drainage T inols—Amount of. Tile in a CarLoad, The Ehillosgphy of ‘Tlle-Dralnagoe on Nolls That Need Xt. By W, 1. Chamberlain--Itead Refors the l‘zh'lo z‘lil Camrention, heldat Columbus, Peb, 8, b This nge nsks not only for facts, but for reasons or canses, It nsks that new facts bo oxpinined by others underlylng thém, or at lenst . conneeted, similar and better under- stond, Take tho great fact, now well cs- tablished, that tile-dralnage greatly benefits "much of our Ohlo sofl. If we ean learn wheuce and why the benefits come, then wo can tell what kind of soll and locationa will be benefited. - % % Evorybody knows that wet solls nre cold, and dry ones warn,. Whyls this? Why Is o gravelly loam, that drinks In the rains, and leaves. no surface overflow mud no completo saturation, no mud,—~why is such nsofl warm aml ferttle? Why Is tho stiff elay sofl that fluods its surface In o heavy rain, drinks in the wator very slowly, and remnins muddy a long time,~why 13 such & sollcold and In- fertile, and hard to cultivate? T'uke a fleld half flat elay, and half rolling gravelly lotin . or thoroughly tile-dralued clay, Begin in winter, Hoth are covered, with snow. Inoarlyspringthisthaws, and the drained clay or samdy lonm is ready to have the onts sowed, and they will at once gorminate and grow. Butthe flnt, unarained clay 1s per- hiaps flooded, and covered wholly ur in part with fce under the suow. -I'his mustbe thawed and evaporated bofore tillage or growth can begin; and both ' thawing and’ evaporation nro ‘slow, tedlous processes, and require much wnaste of heat, and seen to ereato or ovolve colll (vot to bo over-sclen- tlie)) *'Thawing I8 a coollug process.” 1t absorbs heat from the adjacent body of nt- mosphere. To freoze cremm wo put it into o tin can o poil “Inside of a wooden tub or all,” and pack wilt and powdered feo arolind - between the wood and tin. Tho anlt beging to turn the solld (ice) to liquid tou, where the heat Is applled from above like the sun's heat, as uny one knows who has tried to thaw a pump or diiter by pouring on hot water from sbove,. When we melt ice In o kettly on the stove, the heat Is ap- wlied from bolow, ' But suppose the feg M our fleld to be at lohgth thawed. £ it I8 nearly lIm- porvious “clay and not . tile-dralnod, the surface-water wmust be evaporated.” But evuporation, ngaln, 13 n cooling process, Just as it absorbs heat (or, it you plense, cvolves cold) to change the solld lee Into water, so 1t absarhs heat and munkes the.wd- jacent body or atmosphore coul to cllxm‘w water into vapor,—thut Is, to evaporate It. Illustrations are .familiar, A wot _towel around a jng of water standing In the sun or wind coofs the water by rapld evaporation. Whon the wind Is light, we wet our finger and hold it up to seg which way It blows. ‘I'he side townrds the wind' feels coldost, becauso the evaporation 18 most rapld there. We sprinkle our bare floors {n sumaner- time, and the evaporation cools the room.” A brother of mine In hot Southorn Indin cools Il library and study to 50 or 80 degrees when It 18 110 degrees out-doors, by hianging conrse matting before the windows, and keoping water constantly trickling on it to keep it sonked, The wind Dlowl; irough the \vn{t matting causes rapld evaporation, and cools the room ns deseribed, So the rhw- id evaporntion on the water on the flat, un- dralned, clni'(oyuorllon of the field we aro considering keops It and the atmosphers cool long after the onts are up and finely growing on the dry, m\mli' loum or denined portion ot tho fleld, Al thls time, too, the wuter-sur- face hias been refieet ng heat by day and ra- dinting It by night. But suppose the water at Inst evapornted from tho surtnce. ‘I'ho soll, beine clny and nearly impervious to water, remains saturat- e¢d. The wator is not quickly und rapldly drawn off from benenth, s would be thacaso i it wore tile-dratned or gravel subsoll, In that case the warim airand rains would en- ter and warm the soll, and prepare it for tho }ilmnlnz and rapid growth of crops, t 1y, the water'can only escupa by evap- oration, which still keops up the cooling of the soll. And 80 we can readily understand the fact estublishod by nctunl experiment, that o wet, undrained cluy soil Is from 8 to 16 degrees colder in sprl mn!onrlf sum- mer than the adjnesnt soil, exnctly 1f but thoroughly tile-deained; and tshows, }clu(. why eropsare curller and better on the ntier. But thero firo further facts to notico,. As the water evaporntes from this wetsoil In the hot sun, the soll or mud bakes Into great chunks or lumps, which renders tillage yory dillicult, and provents the growth of plants, * ‘I'lie rootlets cannot | per- meata thiy stF soll to guin * thelr sustonance. Wo all know that corn isyallow and sickly on & wet soll, both bufore and after the baking process bugins, 'lants will not long grow 1 n saturated soll, “Iheir roots require air, and air eannot enter tho soll when the Intter Is covered, or_oven com- _klumly anturated, with wator, Evuri' ludy K her nows this in the management of | DS plunts, A water-lght tub or crock, with the carth In It soaked to mud or covered with water thot cannot escape from beneath, will never lfiruw healthy geraniums or fuchsing, Nor will 8 elny soll with Impervious subsoll ruise healthy crops'in n wot season, unless it is the-drained, or underdrained Insone way. But undordraining “wmakes ~tho -soil warm and tillable far earllor in the spring,— thus greatly sxtendiog tho season” of ¢rop- growth and of profitable farm-lubor, and mu- turing the crops before the frosts of autumn come, - it renders the soil fur more frisble and eastly tilled, It lots tho warm showors filter down deap, earrylng thelr warmth il the richusss of all the surface-inanures and fortilizers downward, and leaving - them whore the roots eah iget them, It on- ables crops to withatand drought - far botter in two ways: 1t starts them growing eurlior, and so thoy, often gut tholr growth botore the dronght comes to gdamnge ' thom, The other renson 18 not so’ensy to under- stand, - Poople naturally say, * kHow cun the removal of part of tho water from the soll muko tho soll and oyops withstund drought batter " ‘T'he reason Is something lke this: When water saturates the sull or niakes mud of I, It is alwuys o domuge. 16 fills ull the vores, largo und small, 1 the .soll, and In ovaporaving makes the soll ssttle In a dead, sold mnss, and bake hnrd, Soll in this shupo Is as bad for plant-life und growth u8 henvy sodden bread or biscuit is for the huwun stomach, Lut water held i the soll by caplllary attraction is g beneflt, and the niore ot this kind of water wo cun havoe the |, belter, Thu soll is porous naturally, 1t has | Idrge and small pores, - Caplilary attraction | holis the wator in the smuller pores, while the Jarger, gnes ure lofl free for the alr to. outer, Lt when the soll by heavy rains be- comes full or saturated, unless tia surplis water can be drawn off from beneath by, dralns, or n porous subsoll, the surfuce be- cunies mudl.w und bokes as the wator ovaporates, and tho whole bocomes « sodden 1pass, Now, the soll will hold the most -~ water by* caplilary atiraction when ‘1t' 1s loose, just’ us a ‘sponge’ wit hold more whon it {s Jocss than when It 1s cmunrusstid to half its alze. . "This, then, Is the second reason why tile-drainoed sollsstund drought better, 1tmakos the soll wory lonss and rnmul. s0 that it wiil hold more water in caplilury suspeusion: and that ia the condli- ton in which water benelits thesoll, Drainsd solly other things boing: equal, Teally hus mora avalluble wator; and, of course!thly water Justs longer aud holps the Tants withstand drought. Fhat " such ls . the fuct Is attested by ubundunt proof; and tho nbove -scoms to be the rewson, briefly given, and with no attompt at sclentlfic ucoursoy of statement. ol Auother advaninge of drainage fs, that, by |* removink the water of saturatlon fu fall andl wintor, Ib prevenly, or at least greutly diwe ko it, ” Inlshes, the actlon of frost In heaving out tha roots of growine crops, especinlly of clover awd winter wheat, It nlso deepena thie sofl by lowering the water-levelnnd sclinftting tho alr.nmll thus gives the roots Inrger feedityg ground, The Improvement of the healthfulness of any reglon is not un unimportant advantago of dralnhge,” Not only do - swaimps amd anarshes cause Cmalarlal dis- cases, bub a high wator-evel evon be neath the sotl—that is, n saturated soil tends toward typhold and malarlal fove dysenterys mud vheamatism, It injurious alfects dur cellars, onr dwelllngs, and th water of onr wells, And so tho thorongh and genoral drainage of Inrge tracts of land that need it fimproves tha health both of the men and bensts that dwell upon It This hus been proved agaln and agaln by actaal trind 1 England ntd elsewheres and dealnago will prove tha greatest benefit“in this respeet in our level Western and Northwestern conn- tics, Tl kinds of lands that need drafnages, nrs not ouly the flat or swampy lovels, where water stands, but even rolling Innd with heavy elny or other lmlmrvlous subsolis,—in short, any soll that will for any length ot thme remitin saturated. Whan sitel Tand s tile-lralned, the water of saturation becomas the wuter of fiiteation, and lewves B the soll the fertillzing clements of soll, air, yaln, and applicd mamires, mueh of which would oth- erwise waato by snturationandsurface wash, t makes manurs go further beeauso It dnesu’t Jet It go so fur—own stroin, 8o, then, the benetits of tlle-drainnge ara many amtt greaf. Wo have glven and tried o explain” the. reasons of o few. Lot us briefly restato tho facts, with no special at~ tempt at cinssifieation or ortler: 2 1. "Tile-drainage deepons the soll, and gives tha raots nore féeding ground, o It lmlys pulverize the ground, and thus to unlogk lta fortllity so thatthe minuto roots may drink It in. 8 It .provents surface-wnsh, nnd conse- quent miud often great wasto of_ tertility, 4. It Qlsponges with open ditehes, which are tiot &0 good, and tren wreat hindrancu In cultivating and harvesting erops, 5, 1t lengthens tho season of tillage, and matures the crop beforo frost. It lurgely prevents the winter-killing of whent, and }Im heaving of clover ond other roots by rost, 0. it saves Inbor by making tillage and pul- verization ensler, . 7. It supplies air to tho roots, nud proniotes the -abserption of vapor and of fertilizing mintters from the alr, and tho, ralns, aud tho BNOWS, . 8, It provents the chilllng offects from the thawing of Ice and the wevaporation of water, and §n this and .other woys Warms tha goil, Water warms raphuly when heat is n,mllmlfmm lieneath, but vory slowl when it Is applied from nbove. ‘Tlence it I3 impogaible for tho sun frum above to warm & saturnted soil, 3 d 9. Drainaga fmproves_the quniity as well a8 quantity of crops. Especially I3 this true of apples, and of root-crops lke potatoes. 10, 1t 18 n great hielp In tho harvest of corn, and espeelally of rout-crops In n wet full, Without tile-<irainage, indeed, 1t Is almost tmpossible on p elayoy soll, Y% 1L It fmproves the health of . crops, and even prevents potato-rot, which may occur on undralned ciny soil, 13, It greatly improves tho health of man atul bense I many localitles, g 13, It greatly Increases the crops, other things belng equal. i L. Butit never should bo forgotton that tile-rainage 15 not needed on lands that inve o gravel or porous subsoil; and thut, even on solts that do need 1, drainage 18 only tho bnsis for good farming, and will never pay unless followed by guod fariing. Land-Dralnage in Tinols, ‘The subject of dralnage is of n vast and In- ereasing linportands anong land-owners in Tilinols, It Is ongeging the attontion of farm. ers in all parts of the State, 'Thore nre not less than 2,000,000 neres of swamp-lands n Ii- linols, anit several million acres of other lands " that may be flted by drainnge for profitable cultivation, 'T'ho County of Iro- quols, for Instance, preselits a large fiold for dralnage operations, and the froquols Coun- ty Limes, of a recont dato, Indicates anap- preclative view of tho subject) saylng: “ What [roguols. County needs firat, ‘and more than anything: elso, aro big ditclies to recolvy, the tile-dmiing, = When' this great work hiag Dbeen. nccomplishod; no_spot .on Snrth - will: oxeel usiidu richnuss of soll-and cortainty of good .crolls.‘ We ars glad to know that this necessity Is understood and approciuted, and thatsteps are belng takon to make the necessary Uitelies, *We venture, iii_connection with this sub- {ec to suggest that monoy spont for drain- ng lnnd should always be applled with duo regard to economy, Economy ean bs had only whan the work fs vut in the hands of these who understand nhow drains should be congtructed, Ditehes of slzo Inadequnto to perform tho work reyulred, or Inld out in such o nianner as to «disregard the laws of Nature, witlsimply Involyna wasto of money, injustice to those who fuoot the bills, wxd a wrong perpetrated undor the cover of Inw, Interested parties shounld soe to this, lro- quois and other countles contalning lands needing lnrgo drains can arrest miteh of the emigration gotng from States cast of Iiinols to States wast of this, by mnking ditehes; or canals, of sufliclent size and nuinber to pre- pura tho land tor good crops in ordinnry scasons, 1f this bo done early In thiy dé- eade, tho lnrge Incrense of popuintion from {ggg o 1880 ‘will be surpnssed from 1850 to A CarsLoad of Tiles To the Editor of the Drainage and Farm Journal: Being often asked. how much draln-tle it takes to make a car-lond of tile, L wish to make the.following auswer through the Journal: \ Two-inah tilo.... ..,7.000{8Ix-inch tilo ‘I'wo und a balf Inch,5,000|Soven-inch t! Tnree-iuch tilo. ..., 4,60| Eigbt-inch til ‘Chreo and a half In,.4,000|Ton-inch tilo, Four-inuh tllo,.., ,000| T'wolve-inch tilo, Five-inch thlo.... Gronae T, KAsTes. TRANSFER OF CUTICLE,’ Grafiing Now Skin on the Scalded Arm of n Young Girl. | ‘Nrwnung, N. Y., May 8,—Dr. John Deyo, of this city, bns n case of akin grafting, Tho pationt fa n little girl 10 yours . old, living in . Mill stroot, -who .was torrlbly soalded six weeks ago. Bho' and an older slater wore taking o botler of hot water of tho stove, whou it foll, the girl bolug thrown for- ward 8o that hor arms wore mmorsed in tho water, The whole of the right arm wasstrippoed of the skiu frow the shouldorg to tho tips of tho fingers, 80 that the muscios wore loft bare, and the left arm badly njured below the clbow, The unforunate child hus suffered terribly, The sPghtest movemont of the right . arm causpd , blood to flow from a myrlad of VI ces, but caroful nuzsing bas miuch improved its condition, The mppreach of hot weathor onusod tho Doctor to fear that hor suifortiugs might bo wrgravated and tho child exinustod, g0 ho resolvod to huaton the borling of thonrm b{ the process of skin gmfting. Now skin has alroudy formed over tho hand nuyd about tho shonlders, and thero was a strlp extonding up- wurd near the wrlat, but still ninc-tonths of tho armn wis bary, v ‘Tho Doctor persunded two madioal atudents and five or aix othor young mon 1o yoluntoer tholr uld, and tho party went to tho child's house on Bunday, ‘Tho little lilrl‘l nrm hnd beou brought into the best possiblo envdition for the opuration,” The ‘younz mon bared thelr uring, the Poutor cutfiog - from oight 1o -fif- toun “or twenty small Dbits of skin from vach .of tho young wmon A&nd transe furring thom to tho ari of the girl, whero bo plucmruhom at dliforent polnts vn the buro, quivering tiesh, 1 tho hope that w good propors tion of thiow, at lenst, would adhero and grow, l'mhnh“r ALty or sixty grafts were mode, and those will bo “followod by s now butob Ina few duye. Ho fartho graftiog hus beeu douw under ravorable olroumstunces, and whllo It is yot, too suan (0 prediot 8 resylt, thero is much bopo. that the oporagion will prove p succoas, - e K et —— 3 . L TO SPRING, . " From Sehitter-Por The Chicago Tribung, -0 weleume, lavely 8priugtime, - o wandar-Ghild of NAtAro, u wondur-c - Weloomo on biils aud laing) 63, yos, agaln thou coinosi t e Wo . Sy § ;llnjyxdup 1hou yre hfifi o i i * Rorjomb'rost thou, my Walden?, . . Homemb'rost hore wosuety o !"¥'hou jo ufl we well, Wa malduiy T 1L loves g yet, . ] < b . Hor hor tull many w ow'rot 1 Mmlwd ’l'cly'l from ::Wl U 1 oo‘:nu ‘:w ta liwplore thoo, + And thou~-thou giv's: thom me? Thea welcome, lovely Bpringtim Thy fow'rs, fu{ mu?lnp viritul " e ¢4 ¥ Osnsosy, Wis, v M. E, DARNON, FODDER-GORN FOR CATTLE. Valusblo Information for Western Parmors—Eight Yeara' Experience of the Hon. A. C. Wales, of Ohlo. Soven Tons of Excellent Feed Por Acro— How to Ralse, Cuty and Cure i It=Ils Costs To the Editor of The Chieago Tridune, Masstrroy, Stark Co,, 0., May 8.—I dosiro to plueo beforo tho readers of Tuk CittoAdo Tiine UNE my pxperlonco with corn-fodder ns A #ube atitgte for hny or clover foreattlo afd shoop,~ not tha corn-stalks vn which ears of malze have grown, but corn sown so thickly that it producos no ears, Bomo threo or,four yonra ngo I wrote n short nrticte for your paper on this subjoot; tut sinco then I hnve had largor exporienco in this mportant dopartment of agricenilure, and proposo togive your reiders tho rosults thoreof, FODDER-TONN FOI BTOCK. Sumo cight years ngo T was in possossion of obout 2,600 ahieep, and was oasting nbout for the best way of wintering them, To depemt upon clover was hazardous, as ono would be' nt, tho meroy ;of the wenather. Timothy wns not so goud, and, bosides, was exbansting to tho land. About this timo I snw samo nrticloa in tho ng- ricuitural apera on tho subject of . fodder-corn and ita utility, mostly as n feed for tho producs tion of milk, Iwrototo my friend, Mr. Kilp- part, Boeretary of the Ohlo Btate Bonrd of Ag- riculture, and to as many others, as I thought could give nio nny light, nsking nato Its fitness as it fopd for sheep, Thu answerd woro fow and unsntisfactory, I -therafore resolved to put: some questions to Naturo and to test thoe thing on my own account. Accordingly, when tho timo came, I prepared fivo noros of -good land and sowed ft in corn, varylng the quans tity of sced in differont plats nll tho way from ono to four busbols per nero, The following August I tried exporiments upon the timo and manner of autting, tha fod- dor, and vontinucd thom alt through that month and n grent part of Septombor. Whon' winter camo 1scloated out 300 ewos und divided thom into two lota ns evenly as T could, “Ono hundred and fifty ware put into ono shed, and a lko number iito a shed near by, Hutwoon tho two sheda thore was a sot of stock-scalos. Each lot of sheop was carofully weighed at tho beginning of tho exporhnent, sud were welghed pgaln coach week for aightweoks. . During tho contin- uanee of the oxporimont I was nsking guestions for iny own fnformation, und bud uo futerest exe copt to got at tho truth, - Onb lot of sueop was fod with one food per day of good elover and timothy-huy, and one feed of ‘. athior Jot recelved two foeds of *tho foddor-corn, which [ cut up by horse-powor, infxed with a vushol and a hatf ot bran. I poured hat waler over It, and lot It soak from mornmng until ovoning, or from evoninz untll merning. 1 hiave nothio niinutes of thesocxperimonts bofore mae, but I remembor that the shoep fedon tho foddor-corn showed a marked yaln ovor tho other lot. The dung wasabout of the consist- eney of that of shoep on drylsh pasture. They shenf-on drank very littlo wator, nud 1 thouxht tho growth of wonblwns heulth! ont wns 80 ulutlnvncmry that 1 preparod to into the growth of fodder-corn on a Inrgur seale, ¥ naras, ' | and bave continued to grow abont tho snme ‘The noxt spring 1 sowad nbout sovent auount overy yeur since, My gtovk of wheop ls notas laorge nviv N8 _thon, Lit the numbur of eatllo is ‘much lurgor, ronghing conslderably over 100 hend,—nmong thom botween forty nnd flity dulry-cows, supplving mlik to the nolgh- boring clty. Thero iro ulso twonty hond of horses. Most of tho feeding .sonson hordes, ont- tlo, and sheep hnvo had 1o othor coarse food thun tho fodder-cors, and & run to u straw- stuek., ‘Tho Inst erm\rm' two, hawever, 1 have boon foeding u little hay Yowards spring, nug [ would prefer fo havo hny from tho 10th ' of Marel untll grasa; for aftor that timv the fod- dml‘ u'oolfim to becomo dry, and less nutritious and valntablo. * Now for the mannor of sowlny, harvesting, ota., which yuu ask mo to stute In dotail: The rouni is plowed and hacrowed till In guod or- der, and tho suwing dona in the finit weok. In L Juue, L uso & Duckoye whont-drill, nll tho gpouts runnlu!g. nnd gow from two 1o two nnd o half bushols of enwminon eorn to tho nere.’ When tho plunt is nbout threo 1nches high, 0 Thomus smoothing hirrow 8 run once or twico over It; this l:uu to rest any fox-tnil or othor grugs, or weul will louk na If tho crop was destroyod ution, for much of 1t will bo bunt down and par- tially covored with earth, and it will prosent n_vory much injured appearnnce, But tho first raln will bring all vight, and tho erup will bo talier, stoutur, und ek freor. from weeds than i tho harrow bnd not been used, Nothing oro 18 required until the timo for cutting, which, with m“\\“ nbout the first weok in Septumber, ar whon the Jowor joint 18 turncd to u bright wolden color. Wo go into tho fiold ‘with a Champlon alde-dollvery self-rake renpor, made at Springtiold, O, This i« the only mu- ¢hing, out of porhaps n dozen tried, that 1 have foutid capable of doing the work, Last fall, owing tu tho groat grawth And lumflodumlllluun of tho erop, this muohine was sorcly tried, and soveral urma and rakes brokan, Healdes tho drivor of tho machine, thoro nro ofght men, divided into four gnngs, of twa to o gung. The “statlons” nre mensurcd off and assignod ns in ronping whont, Ench gang of two men {8 provided with a * corn-horse,” which 8 alnply it light rall, with two logs at ono end, and a luoge four-foot pin In the middic, Each gang s ulso provided with a quantity of wool twine, cut to n auftablo lenwth, and bung on R huok In the ond of tho *bhorae.”” = Whon the mon are In tholr places, ana the maohino starts, one of tho men pnsscs two of the gavels orshonves, and sots up his* horde.” 1o thon #oes buck and pleks up tho two wavels, ono at i timo, and puts thow into two of tho nugles formord by the horse and {ts loose pin3 his come rado does tho sumo with tho two gavals In front of tho * horse,” Thon ono draws out tho pln and moves the horss vn by two more, while tho. other, with a pieco of wool twine a yard long, binds the top of tho shock, ' y Wo usunily huvo an oxtra toam for changing; and, with this force, o falr duy's work 18 oight weren, We have avoraged that muob. ‘Tho fod- dorstands in these shocks for. ton duys or two weoks, tillit 18 partly curgd. Then tho men bronk the shocks opun, cuach shock genorally separating into tho four orlgiunl wavols, anil bind it into shunves with the foddor {tself, which by thls thno bina becomo tough and withy. Pwelve ur more shonves are thon put inthn grent shuck, and the top of it bound by the wool wwino ised lu the lirt place, I hud atmost forgotten to sny that one Is far less dependunt on tug weather In gurtng foddor- corn than in muking bay, Sovernl yeurs it has rafued wearly uvery day whilo cuntting, but [ never lost & bundrod "pounds through wot wonther, unloss jt hud Ltown down und boon, . allowed o luy on the ground, liore it should' stand until_wanted for feed, It 19 8o full of sugar, starob, and gum that 1t cannot bo safdly stored in barus or staoks, 1t will hont und fors mont, A noar nelghbor lost his entiro orap Inst winter, nlthouuh curefully stacked in long, low, narrow rloks,” I'his 14 thy groatest -objeotion to foddor-carn. Tt {8 hard getting jt up whon ro- poated freeziogs and thawings have glued 6 to thio ground towsnls apring; and it 18 hard houl- ing whon tho wheols sink through tho soft #round to tho bottom of tho furrow, - 1 vutand stunin all iny foddor, 1t 18 cuton a Cumming outter of tho Inrgest size, with - a cupavily of three or four tous por hour. 'ho out fodd fulls upon & cominon straw-gnttor, thirty-add feot long,which carries tho foud totho top of two tunka, stunding aide by sido, and einpe tles ftanto u tiiting trouwn, hung in tho middie, Whononcend of tho trongh {8 dopressed, tho fead runa Into the top of tho south tunk; whon the othor end of the trough is down, it runa Juto tho north tauk, Edch tank s sweaty foot high, sovon feot In diameter at tho top, and olicht fout at tho bottom—made af two-Inch pine stull, Thoro 15 a tikbt botton to enoh tank, then 8 apaco of two inphos, thon a fulso bottowm tull of nuguplmm. 'ho atonin for cooking is lot Inta tho spnce, and rises through tho nuger-boles 1o do tho aooklng. Each “mk bns A nl'puclly of neurly two tons of dey foddor, 1t cequires front elglit to ton barrels of water,' besidos the con- danscd stenin, to wet down a tank, T'his s furs nishod by » furce-puimp, xlrlwri h!v tho engluno thraugh plpes with w rose-sprinklor ut the end, und fulls from the top of the tank upon tho cut {ved ux that fulls tnto the tank, Thoro is also bLopporover tho carrior, for mill-foed, which falls uhon tho foddur a8 it goos up: so thut tho fod. dovxwhun it gots to tho tuuk, 18 evenly wixed witk tho mili-food and wator. Tho tauks are cluvated from tho ground to the bight of the top of a wagon-box, and, as thoy aru outsiio of tho butlding, the wagous pro driven alongside pf tho tunk, and filled from 8 door in_the efdo of .the tauk, by woins of a potato-hook, It takes abnat two ‘hours and a"halt to stenm u‘muf( With utoam ut twenty pounds. The cost of fuel for auttiugr -aud stosming four tons, uid warm.. fug n twunty-tect square shoj g all tho geindlug (for ,flslv-ll. frtinrs °:r'l.'x'.|“-fl'f»? corn-uhollur, snumugi-chobper, lnmnlnrmlll.mm olhor macklues, Is about 18 conty per duy, with 51‘%::' &‘a 50 ety pes tou at tho ming, Illl“ivl wily Any irnshing-enging, most o which are gw::i; .wlmqe.'uau 4 Vo used for o‘i.:?m"cm V0 (ostion & ofton asked n the neriouit urul papersy ** Does it pry 1o cut and steain Jder for glook?' ia onw that caunot bocatae origelly “unyworod, Kuaph ono must determine t for nlmwl?. 'mw’nmwur will dopend largely, upon the cost of fuvl, supply of water, cone vontencos of handliug, eto., ¢to.in esch pare ticular easo, Lut, witbout cutting or stenming; the fodder is an excelient feod, T‘"" us good, | think, tou for ton, &s buy; und tho 84 100, fow years ago 1 was futtening forty howl of Chicaga d-yoar-ald sicors; they wore thriving waell, hut ong d-lymo’y goL ulf thelr feed. Thole uendant thoukht § lhun ondy b wole uive buy thuy weuld come ult cight, or 1nd atronger thun that on the other lot. - Altogothor tha experie {Juou that Gon, Loo must come; and, eald Lee, ‘el g, thit inny bo” stnoding, and promotes tho . growthof thocorn, To the novice, however, it d by thoupor- They wore intlmate and cordial friends, Alwaye alon, whil : wn{l"‘":.&t" o yoara grow old lmlmr‘u:;‘ 2 rng - Al\wu}',J atouo, tho' all bav 1ovi bought a lond of the heat and brightest hay 1 ) o, t ot m Ut it bofors thom: ihe farty | _ TROPIC-FRUIT LAXdrryy ' boad did not eat wo onnee, & i Mr', I~'Iln‘t.r ";I' his boul on grasios, nnt{mn’tc; 2 o ono ton of fudide-portt s equal to two tond o corn-fodder, Whiiout fenowing ucourutely, | i FRmCRRD.NY B think tne differenco pronter, Thore Kppuars to i bo na much diiferonee botween fodder-corn cut greon, and that whioh has font most of tho strength ol the stalk up Into the ear to maturo tho grain, ns thore ia In timaothy-hay et ut the right timo and timothy-hny after boing nu.t. for seed, 11 1850, whon tho whont was killed by frost, o8t OF 118 WiienlefATIUrS ouL tur Whent gEoUI for hny, Tt wus gooll by, wnid somo avan wins tered DIge upon 1t i¢ had riponed whoat, It | ) would huyy LU . cosT oF! RAISING AND IIANVESTING AN ACHE OF FODDERCORN, Coutntitg n man and team'ut 83 por day, and a man'a wages nt $1L25 por day, nnd the extrn tedin for enanging at 82 por day, the oost would PITMCIARy, o il A Delicious ang Re. ik freshing Fryjt Lozenge, ‘Which Serves the Purpqg, of Pills and Djg. agreeable Purgatiy, Medicines, SFRUIT TAY 5 i the \rhrlv’}@aw 18 the ey patl amnens, Hewdachie, Piles, i nif gy Bk pintuts, 1€ naty gontly, «-rr‘-:?fl\fif.’y"[,l‘\',i’,;"{‘ ‘o cloua to take. Cleansini tha ayatem thepe Jtl it "linarin vigor t mi and o ooy Melanohuly, l:wmmmn. &c. e ,,,)’.WIM. vinces, PRCKe 1t Branstd fin fox e PRICE 25 and 80 CTS, SOLD BY ALL DRUSEIST, e e il 7 .. Wivor bushiols of socd. ... Hnrvesting na follows— Tenm nud (drivor, Txtrn team ., Kight men at $1.2% © Totnl.iie.en QOne-oighth for o Wool twine por ncre, Ttebinding pornere. ... o Harrowing with Thomna harrow, Total per nero ... . Cost pet ton, five tons to the acre. Cost per Loy, soyen tons to the el The ylold of dry fodder bas boen Sovui tuns por dero, and L oarry us mu nud got ns much and ag |I;nml faed from soventy #iores of fodiorecorn ns [ ugad to frot from 160 to 226 nores of mondow, Whoavor suws corn for | tho firat tima wiil e astonisiied at the wmount of feed ko will have (n Septomboer, g There 18 no doubt that urass and hay arn tho ong perfect food for ruwminating unimuls, 'hoy contain, in the proper proportions, the elemonts suech anlmals require, Fadder-cor {8 very rich in atuar, stnroh, and gum. A plece thnt 1 tastod to=day I8 neavly ns sweet ns enno; and Cominls- sloner Lo Dite veports ns uch sugay in a ton of greon cornestatky ag in n tonof Loulsiana sugar- cnre, I'hese aro nll earbo-hydrentes, Tho fod- dor I8 defigient In alluminofds. 1 bhave boon supplomenting the foddor, thla winter, with oll- menl for tho albuminolds, with vory sntisfactory reaults, " A focd of fodder-corn, supplemonted by from ono to three potinds por day of ofl-moul or cot- tonsced-meonl por linnd of horned eattle, would muke u ratlon superlur to tho best _of bay, stock-mon would uttentively study Armsby's Munual of Cattle-Feeding thoy would « learn ‘to compound wnderstandingly many equully nu- tritione ratlons nt cheap ratos, and that hay s n prinelpal feod Is In vory many oasos uvhe of tho donrost used, - 1 havo no great taith in tha syatem of ensilogo now coming into fushion, All say it husa_sour oraloohnlic smell ut the timo of feeding, | The | firat stngo of decompusition must have beon- Feached; nt bost it 1a only nkind of corn sour- krout. 'Tho coss of hauling, cutting, and hand- ling thifty tons por acre (gome olnim nincty tons) musat bo heavy. I think my foddor-corn, dried, hos nll the nutrinent of onsitage, minus tho water, nnd I put the water back Into it, and the summor tao, by cutting, wetting, and niomnmm . ARvINg C WALES, REBEL REMINISCENCES, Jefferson Davis nud Robort K, Loo— Mr. Bavis, In a Lottor to Gon, Orafts J. Wright, of Chileago, Corrocts Some IRecont Stutomonts Ilegarding Ikis Relations with Gon. Loo During tho Itobellion, & $ e i o the Editor of The Chicago.Tvitnine, 2 CniroAgo, May 6.=A short thne slnco Tur Citrcago“U'ninuns published an articlo pur- porting to bLe dictated by the fortheotming mowmolrs of the 1on, Jefferson Davis, aud o conversation with n ropresentative of the Now York L'ribunc by.**a prominent oflicor of tho late Southorn Confedoracy.”” ‘Ihe fol- lowlng is one of tho parngraphs: **Just bofore our 1lnos wore broken at Potors- bury, Lrook dinuner with several oftivors, and Gun. Loa thero rolnted that Mr. Davis had the dny bafore sont him n messugo to leavo his aruy and go over tp Richimund, & Jonrnoy both wiys of nday urso, to have n confervnce. Leo re- plied tliat tho nocgsaltics of the army overy mo- wont wore suoh thac he conld not ko away, that ho oxpected an attick ovory momont. To this answer was roturnced that Mr, Davia still insisted onseelng Leo that dn{. Leo veplied that he would nat by respansiblo for what hnppenedin his absence: that only.tho vory yravest acension would justity s golng. Davls Influxibly re- WHAT DRUGGISTS Say B . e OF oo Toopio-Rruit Laxatye — Wo 4 to keop the nrtlclé. but letux fiira Tnat R b get n si) mny?:’fu}"»"fi%‘.’%é} UNT & DUNLAF, 1200 Broadwey, New Yo Wo havo never scen a remedy | never falls to please the paticnt, y“'[: fie"\“;:ml; 1t highly, ALEXARDER & VANDERW(mtY, Cor. 78tk 8 and 34 Avenue, New Yoy, It solls bepter than any artlel . JupsoN uumlsmmfiwgtmna‘ ALY Our physicians preseribe it. T kmlly? L I’Vu. i Bmmm;:,ub'r'n?‘;',’q.m 770 Wadhingwn, D6 1t takes well and gives eatlsfnetion, . HEnny MEGILL & Boxs, Phannacists, A S Owensbaoro, Ky, Am selling TROPIC-FRUIT LAXATIVE rapldly, o J. T\ Hiaoiny, owen,: ’xy. TROPIC-FAUTT LAXATIVE solla rapldly and splendid satisfaction. 0. lf.' m’nfv‘.’ g . Henderson, Ky, -Wo sell mote'of it than any other one thing in tho stora. DOWNEY & LKouKs, Dmi"m"x R 7. Excallent artiolo, KiNg's Pranstacy, Jerey Clty, ¥.0. T havo & large domand for Troprc-From Lixi TIVE, e 5 e W J. Basranis, Bemmy, K1 Elegant and attractive, I have used {t mysell, aud Lrought it 10 the hotice of Gur physcin . PRENTICE & EVANSOY, Jancrville, Wit L ommescia thi diug butne i icly et Sl "noric-. + JOUN I, WiLsoX, Druggist, Lealngwoo, K7 1ling this atory, when wo gut toguther thoro -was no business ur question of wny mory mo- | ment botween. ug than might’ briug two old womon togothor. Mr, Davis bad merely dotore mined thut I should come, no matter what tho cousequences wore.” - Llmoew Jofforson Davis and Robort E, Leo well durlng thelr West Toint cadetship, avo used it in 3 family with groat il th It's n good mm‘lclrw. and 1o mistake. % MDAV, Druggt, Jellows bl Tt Wo_ havo used your TroPio-Fror Laxim oursclves, ani m«mmemlud It to the physicias o‘l' mnrl ‘lownuhlp. \{'lwlalwln-sun':m;;lu'd it I awerd the purpose designed admitbly, nn:‘v’:mu, & co.',"l')nlgxuu, Viucland, X.J, ‘They sorved togather after’. graduatlon in tho Northwest, ut and after the Blackhnwk war of Illinols, They served in tho Mexican war, On tho stafl of Gen, Scott and in Washinzton whilst Mr. Dayls was In the Senate, the Intl- mate relation and cordial splrlt engoendernd .by éoileginto Jife and nilitary service In the fleld were runewed nnd Intonstfied even to n grenter respect for the talont of ench other., It was this respect which indueed Mr. Davis, when he beenne President of the Confed- cracy and had the power, to show his conil- dence in tho military skill and gentus of Col, Lee, to seewrs him the next place of: fmportance to nis® own, that of Gen- eral of .tha .Confederate Army. Dur- ing oll -the period of Gén, Lee's lifo tho greatest cordinlity continued to exiat betweon these two partles. I-was saitsfied, from my knowledge of the ehiaracterof ench, that the nbove-yuoted pnrnfi'mnh of o conver- satlon was not correet, for It was utterdy In- consistent with the character of sither, and r. Davis was too miuch alive to the intor- ests he sought to promote, nnd he know too woll whnt wns best for it, to be gullty of any in]w,h folly and mudness as Is thus charged on i, : 1n alettor to ma of Mny 8, Mr. Davis fully confirs my own provious opinions, and i regard to the paragraph says: © - 1t {8 difoult t6 Nind u moro miserablo tlssue of filsehoud, and It suows us great an igyorunce ot Gen, Loo's chnrotor nd of niy own, [ soimo- times nakod Lew 1o como ur 10 lichmond, but that was only when I wanted to have a meoting with ottiora us woll ns myself. At othor times, und that wus vory ofton, I rodu to his hendguar- tors for couvorsation with him, | have scon such u parayraph a8 you Inclose purporthig to bo tho utternnces of i man who wasn |nflm‘{mr 0f Congresa from Mlssourd, and who would have beon vory much embuarrassed in his narrauon by tho faotd bolonglng to.anything of which he spoko. ‘% After tho War, whon the objoot was to rui 1ho MHE IS ORE foqad i 1o, Lo wna brought bofore thie Grand Jury In Riche mond and subjeoted to » eloso oxamitintion tor the-purposo of fixing tho responsibility on o . fur uetd exeeutod by bimsclf, After ho left the LaxaTyi 8 courl-room ho raportod to o the subgtance of 1-havo given your. 'l‘mwn:-l-‘fl'a'!i"h it his oxumination, * Hesnld e had told the Grand | falr trisl and am' umall)’flh'“‘.““ “m‘ sterdam, 0 Jurg that bo aiways avaliod himsolf of overy W, B, Rzavin, 3. D, Now nrnorlunlly ho hud toconanlt me; that wo novor - diiferod 80 us W0 lulll’K Lijul in anying that each wot wns not bis own. ‘There were othor romarks tending'to tho samu ond, 'That ho nvatlod hime- solf of my judiment, but had uever boen ‘ve- quired to'do augthing which his owu did nut ap- prove, : ) * Juit feneto him, and nowid no nesurances that ha gncnm only gy what ho .bolioved to bo l:}::v. or o what hy befloved to bo right to do, ‘'o the ond ofhls Nife ho Mwn{n manitosted porsonul regnnd anconalatont with- any deproctation. Then ho was nlways a - grave and resorved man, ==\ ho wns i boy,—one who, if hls foclings had boon other than ke exprossed, would nover have mu}pd in suoh twuddic ss is .uttribisted to i, -, 1In regard to Gen. Leo and his habits, an the cordinlity ang liaod {eol(wi whieh n?'xlnu?l betwoen hinkand Mr, Davis, 1 confirm what 18 writton above to me, Burely we Lave in 1 b these duys chough af truth o suswar overy | acho, and have Leen mmufl‘““‘,',.&rnn tut R0t purnnso of currespondence, Withont u reaot Jouni 1 have wied Algrent Heius (o ino &8 o fulso statements, 50 froguont 1 cegand to | Of thom have pavon paulianiii ey 185 e Duyia, wul s eonatatunt with bla ohar- e T i it any. cordlal AU oter, i S R mn?fll' o my mAnY COMOtE, oy ot " Cravrs J, Wiuaur, | Pocommendiik 1o sy B ey M . w LA 5 —— U company K, Bib . 'ALWAYS ALONE, MExico, o ? tiataction, e Ly LT Tho nicest Lnxnll;re— in l)‘w world, All thoCatbr ollo clergymen i1 Indinnn nni-, gflgfi‘lfimm ; CAnuALAIIA DUDDIIAGET, riicle, T B R roatiss, Clerelant, & * TROPIC-FRUIT LAXATIVE givc: du’n“l‘v‘:::d atishe o, B ggis, M Verson O I'never found & more pleasant and aximflstinn o Loyls Suz Laxative bufore, " 100 Colusibe Bk, Now ok - Phystelan hava found {# to he mmst relle l‘flle:’«m-l O e Fato prescribe i W coming senson, . Al uxfum. Drugglst, Grand Raplis Miche 1 consider the Laxative tho fincat and miet mfi‘k}:«fi:’r&mmw? 5"4;\':' used, and dall ree ¢ custol ommend 110 PN, Biznor, Druggis, Cheer, Vo ———— PHYSICIANS’ TESTIMON!: : et - - 1 find the administration and cffect {ugl’] 1'1:’ datm, C. . Liskrt ot o0 e — oy s ) Yottr LAXATIVE {8 Just the thing—6r d. f ke, &R U0 L K u, 3., Everons e T I tried your TRoptd-FRUIT ‘l.t'xmvl. el R R, pen -OTHER: TESTIMONY: . fom~ll§Al>x, D. T, J8 n, 24, 1660 b Dear Sir =1 havo hod o mrnfll""“fl"flkm For. The Culcago Ivibuns, - 3o, March 20,185 o E i - d 4 R LAXATIVE 18 1B€ SO0 M‘wnn alone, in sunshine and in shadow! - Dear Sin~TROPIOFAUIT LAXYC 1, quy pe 4 Vhistkar tho Auttmn dies renedy that has ever dons { (sl cons Or8pring comes lmmn:{‘n'nrl:welgflg fit‘-fi:!ow nent good fo torpld Mversud habiiey fype + Wit portumert delets of tintod orchurde, | WO T s et D 'yv'x;&m:r tho Winter, white 'asd Llehkwith| - -+ opayer, Micho ML ?;"w-tng Droods, dosulate, o'er Ton, ‘and bonch, and i o Tam taking sour SO oot 1 oo " ATwagh oot . - I o ffamsong our udisy as, As M. O s ke, 1 el i g 5 e e ive, o2 T eutdons u&‘l:fi '\l': ‘fflv{-‘fi ?‘«?3?""" § naveusad your TBOr! ""“}4'; 7"" L ‘m iwuya alouc, 1 Hiy-guarded wilighty © ¢ beir to sy thag ¢ does & 4o S5, gy ol 2 i rp! ' o, PERIAN } Ana wuv&sly_n: . bIACK - wings dr?yp’:géw o .Va?gd'f-'a:-u{)&h ‘a,,E.':,’;E Vewakiy. 2 ~Hop ‘al 3 _. Alwaysaloue! .. ¥ — e o DiTaLyauBad Ak S0 of 10 . 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