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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. Villa " BIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, FA., THUBSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1878. " " NO. 1.
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Out of the way In a corner
Of our dear old attics room,
Where bunches of herbs from the hillside
Shake ever a faint perfume,
An oaken chest is standing
With hasp and padlock and key,
Strong as the hands that made it
On the other side of the sea.
When tho winter days are dreary
And we're out of heart with life,
Of its crowding care a-weary
And aiok of its restless strife,
W lake a lesson in patience
From the attic corner dim,
Where the chest still holds its treasures,
A warder, faithful and grim.
KoboB of an antique fashion,
-Linen and lace and silk,
That time has tinted with saffron,
Though once they were white as milk.
Wonderful baby garments
'Broidered with loving care
Tij stagers that felt the pleasure,
As they wrought the ruffles fair.
A sword with the red rust on it,
That flashed in the battle tide,
When from Lexington to Tcrktown
Sorely men's souls were tried.
A plumed chapeau and a buckle,
Aud many a relict fine ;
And all by itself the sampler,
Framed in with berry and vine,
Faded, the square of canvas,
And dim is the silken thread (
Cut 1 1 hint of the white hands dimpled,
And a childish, sunny head.
For, here is a crows, and in tent-ttitch,
In a wreath of berry and vine ;
She worked i', a hundred years ago,
" Elizabeth, aged nine."
In, aud out, In the sunehke
The little needle flashed ;
And in and out on the rainy day
When the merry drops down plashed,
As close she sat by her mother
The little Pnritan maid,
And did her piece on the sampler,
While the other oMldren played.
Yon are safe in the beautiful heaven,
"Elizabe'b, aged nine ;"
But, before you went, you had troubles
Sharper turn any of mine ;
Ob I the gold hair turned with sorrow
White as the drifted snow,
And your tears dropped horo where I'n:
standing
Oa this very plumed chapeau.
When you put it swy, iU wearer
Would never need it more,
By a sword-thrnrt learning the aecreta,
God keeps on yonder shore j
And you wore your grief like glory,
You could not yield supine,
Who wrought in your patient childhood,
"El zabetb, aged nine."
Out of the way in a corner,
With hasp and padlock and key,
Stindi the ra'ten chest of my fa' hers,
That came from over tho sea ;
And the hillside herbs above it
B ake odors fragrant and fine,
And here on its lid iu a garland,
To "Elizabeth, aged nine."
For love ia of the immortal,
And patience la sublime,
And trouble a thing of every day
And touching every time ;
And childhood, sweet and sunny,
And womanly, truth and grace,
Ever can light life's darkness,
And bloss earth's loneliest place.
Mr, if. E, Gangster.
A DOMESTIC CHAPTER.
It was a favorite expression of Airs.
Mayne's, ' As long as a child of mine
lives with me, no matter if she is as big
as tho house, she has got to mind me.''
But when girls have become perfectly
indifferent to such threadbare assertions,
and are really too old to submit to have
their ears boxed, talk as you may, what
is a mother to do ?
Very much in this predicament was
Mrs. Mayne with her daughters, four
goou-iooKing, good-for-nothing, charm
ing girls, who, afflicted with the mania
for pet names, only too common now-a-
days, nad transformed themselves from
plain Amanda, Cecelia, Esther and
Margaret into Amie, Ceci, Essie and
Midge. Then to complete the family
circle, there was Oliver, a half-grown
lad with a full-grown grievance. To be
alternately snubbed and petted, eojoled
and domineered over by his sprightly
sisters, who were all older than himself,
was bad enough ; but when hie mother
not only disciplined him rigidly for his
own offenses, but because those saucy
jades couldn't be conquered, would
make hitn suffer for it, that was alto
gether too much. Had Oliver Mayne
been of a phUosophio turn of mind, he
might have seen in all tliin tagging a
sort of retributive justice for the woes
of the fair stx under the despotism of
man, but alas I he was not ; so he read
"Mr. Midshipman Easy," and, when
he dared, played truant and prowled
around the water-front with ideas in his
head.
Yet in spite of all her inconsistencies,
Mrs. Mayne was a mother among a thou
sand. ' What would she not do to push
her daughters on in society ? So, while
they were brought np as much like fine
ladies as was possible with her limited
means, she was cook, chambermaid and
seamstress by turns ; they gave their
best energies to the glide, the cream of
their gord nature to gentlemen friends,
and imbibing a taste for dress and fash
on well nigh insatiate.
To such a length had this motherly
self-sacrifice been carried that there
had been months in Mrs. Mayne's life
when Sunday was no more a day of rest
than any other; and while the girls were
rustling into church with their stylish
suits she was as likely as not shut up at
home, sewing away for dear life on some
finery for them. All this she would do
uncomplainingly, but of little brief au
thority she was extremely tenacious,
and liked to be consulted by her girls
on even the most trivial occasions.
As old as the human race, is the liking
to have one's own way; so with these
young rebellious spirits, nothing was so
trying as to be obliged to say, "May I
On Sattudar, toward neon, the girls
were in the parlor, under pretense of
dusting and setting to rights that most
important room.
"I tell you what it is," said Midge,
yawning moBt prodigiously, for she had
been out late to the theater the night
before, "I think my plan is the best;
just go on and make your arrangements
without saying a word to ma. She will
be angry, but what can she do V
"Well, I don't know but what you
are right, Midge," returned Amie,
musingly.
" Of course," asserted Cecil, "since it
is for your sake that we are hatching np
this plot. Amie, you will have to shoul
der the blame; but then we will back
yon won't we girls ?"
Then they went np stairs, and in half
an hour these four had written, sealed
and addressed twenty-five or thirty
dainty letter notes.
"New," said Cecil, moistening the
Inst stamp, and affixing it with business
like celerity, ' all we have to do is to
get Oliver to post them. You go and
call him Es."
"Where is he?"
" jn, out in the back vnrd sawing
wood, 1 guess," said Cecil, esconcing
herself comfortably in a chair with a
book.
Great readers of romance they all
were.
When there was no immediate diver
sion offered in the way of promenade or
ball, one or the other of the sisters had
been known to pass a whole day at a
time, oblivious of everything except the
deeds or misdeeds of some hero of the
otrathinore type.
" Look here. Ollv." said Amie. sweet
ly, when her brother had come up into
her room; " I want you to do something
ior me, liKe a dear good fellow."
" What's up now ?" asked Oliver, the
more gruffly, because he knew his sister
had a motive for pleasing him.
" I want you to post these letters for
me without letting ma know."
" Why don't you post 'em yourself ?"
drawled he, ungraciously, turning one
envelope alter another to stndy the ad
dresses. " O, yon know well enough, Oily ; it
does not do for young ladies to run out
on the Btreet without fixing up now, it
don't matter about boys a bit."
"That's what you always say," re
turned her brother, remembering the
many times he had been left out at the
elbow because in Mrs. Mayne's system
of household economy the girls had
always to be supplied first.
But Amie knew well how to avert any
unpleasant argument when it was politic
to do so.
"Never mind see here," said she,
slipping a small piece of money into his
hand.
He became perceptibly better natnred
on the moment.
"Say, Amie," he cried, still intent on
the envelopes, I'll bet my head you
are doing all this on account of Mr.
Pick"
He got no further, for his sister, turn
ing red as a rose, hustled him out of the
loor. How had he spied that name.
when she had put Mr. Pickens invita
tion in the very middle of the packet?
Unconscious of these machinations,
Mrs. Mayne was drudging away in the
kitchen with that intense absorption in
her work which denotes the thorough
manager.
Amie found her over the ironing
table.
Mother," said she, " I should like
very mneh to have some company iiere
next Wednesday evening."
Mrs. Mayne, who had been ndmiriug
the petticoat just finished so satisfactori
ly aud hung on the clothes-horse to air,
turned about sharply.
" Amanda, she exclaimed, "yon are
fool."
Whatever luxury Mrs. Mavne dented
herself, she certainly did not deny her- i
self the luxury of plain speeoh. .
I m sure 1 don t know what youmijan
oy that, ma."
".I tell you it is not to be though! of
not for one moment." replied : her
mother, punctuating her sent mces 'with
vigorous thumps of the smoothing iron.
"I've got my plans all laid out for next
week."
" What is there to do on Wednesday ?"
" Mrs. Nesbett is coining to cut and
baste your polonaises, and I want to ret
a good day's work out of! her; so you see,
Wednesday evening, of all eveuiugs, is
the worst for company.
Amie naturally wishexl now. that she
had not been so hasty at -out sending the
invitations. However, regrets were use
less, so she said:
"But. mother, why need that inter.
fere"
Her mother out her ehort
peremrj.
torilv.
' Don't argue with mo. Amanda. Go
along and get your wotrsted work, and
tell Essie I want to hear her practicing
right away. "
strange to say, Amie wasn t so cour
ageous as usual ; so she idled about
without renewing the forbidden topic.
and having looked into the small square
mirror hanging by the sink more from
habit than from inclination, thoueht
What a hideous complexion this glass
gives me," and wal&ed out of the room.
The moment sue showed her face to
her sisters, they knew she was distp.
pointed. After she had detailed her
conversation with her mother, and had
been rated fo not being bolder, Midge
cried spiritedly :
pi ever mind. Amie. Ill eo ntrht out
and see ma.myself."
She was the most demonstrative of
the family, was Midse : so she stoln nn
behind her mother and slipped her arm j
uiyuuu limn nuipiB wuiHK. Airs, juayne
was too warm and busy to be in a tend
ermood, so, without turning about she
said ;
"That's you, Margaret 1 knew vonr
tricks ; go along."
You look so tired, ma : da let me
help you."
You can t do this go along."
" O, you never think anybody can do
anything bat yourself!'' laughed
auage. . i '
" Because it ia so much easier to do a
thing than to bother showing somebody
else." .
Nevertheless Midge coaxed mo admira
bly that her mother left her work and
sat down by the - tabl A . handy
stroke or two of the iron having put
Mrs. Mayne into ffood "humor: Midse.
the sly rogue, began,
" Say, ma, dear, why won't you lot us
have company on Wednesday evening ?"
" Well, upon my word, you girls are
ridiculous. I thought I settled all that
with Amanda."
" Yes; but ma, dear, you settled it the
wrong way to suit us."
" O, I know your tricks, Margaret, and
you are all alike. You make up your
minds to anything, and there is no get
the notion out of your heads."
" Now, mother dear, if we are self
willed," exclaimed Midge, roguishly,
" how did we possibly become so ? We
couldn't inherit it from you, of course.
Why can't you have Mrs. Nesbett here
some other day ?"
"Why can't Amanda have her com
pany some other evening ?"
" wen," replied Midge, slanting her
head with an air of being very critical
over her work as she bore hard across a
rough place, " because she has already
sent out the invitations."
Mrs. Mayne's temper was instantly nil
ablaze.
"Get away from there, Margaret.
she cried, " you ore pulling that bids
seam the wrong way; give me the iron."
But Midge was determined not to let
the main question drop,
" Yon needn't worry abont baldng,"
said she, mildly, "because it would be
so easy to order a few things from the
confectioner."
"Don't let me hear another word
about it, I tell you," retorted her
mother, in high dudgeon. "And yon
may tell Amanda for me that whoever
sets his foot inside the front door on
Wednesday evening, if he was the Pope
of Rome, would be insulted."
Notwithstanding this edict, and the
fact that Mrs. Mayne's pleasure had not
been softened meanwhife by entreaties,
tears or tempers, at precisely seven
o'clock on Wednesday evening the girls
had all gone np stairs to dress.
They occupied two small rooms open
ing into each other, and were obliged to
shore many things in common. Just
imagine four girls forced to take turns
at one mirror I Then add to this the un
accountable way which ruffles, skirt
and ribbons have of getting mixed u p,
and you will not be surprisjiid that th ere
was some wrangling during the interest
ing process of toilet making. However,
there are some things which must be
viewed from a purely feminine stand
point. Of all the sisters, Amie's temper
seemed to be the most rasped on that
eventful evening. Everything -went
wrong with her.
"My goodness, Essie Mayne!" said
she, scrambling breathlessly around,
poking under chairs, the bed, the bu
reau, and even looking half demented
into her bandbox, "I do believe you
have got on one of my Oxford ties by
mistake."
" No such thing, Amie," replied tha
sister addressed, who was at that moment
subjecting her eye-lashes to a mysterious
treatment which necessitated the 'snaking
p of a horrible face, " mine were to
gether in the shoe-bag." '
"Come, do get out of the wray, Es,"
another voice Midge's was heard
complaining. " I want the giass to do
my hair ; you've been long e aougb. put
ting on that black stuff to mike yourself
into a nottentoi.
" What I want to know- o-his ." said
Amie, who had found h ,sr shoe in the
work-baiket, and was now straggling
with an obstinate lac jjg. j8 whether
any of yom had sense enough to light the
gas in tlve hall ?"
"Nobody in thia family pretends to
oe bhuh oni you, Amie," responded
Cecil, iiaucily.
Tuen go down stairs this instant, anil
seeto.it, exclaimed the eldest sinter.
peremptorily. " Here I am only half
. oocu, nun wivcLJ UUiC LUCJK JH 1116
leust noise it gives me such a start ex
pecting to hear the bell. I have a sort
ot feeling that Mr. Pickens will be here
early."
Cecil, who hated to be ordered about,
scolded :
" Oh, bother you and your old Pick
ens I but she threw a shawl about her
and went hastily down stairs.
1 suppose ma wouldn t go to the
door," continued Amie, "if the bell
should ring forty times before any of us
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nro reuuy Here,, image, hOld these
crimping-irons in tiie gas for me."
In spite of all Uie&e wearvinar aunov
ances, could there have been possibly a
sweeter, more artless face than Amie's
when she had coaxed the little tendrils
of hair low down upon her forebtad
bad knott ed her silken tie and turned
to go down stairs?
She was in good season after all, and
bod full five minutes quite to herpelf in
which to collect her thoughts. " Yes."
sua sue, 1 nave made np my mind.
It may not be so romantic and all that.
but I am sure plenty of girls would jump
at the chance. I must tell him before
hand that he must not expect me to give
np the glide and everything " here
the bell pealed through the house, and
as Amie ran hastly to the front door her
heart seemed to flutter in her throat.
Her first guest was, as she had surmised,
Pickens.
He stepped into the hall, and as he
hung his hat and overcoat upon the rack
he glanced inquiringly about. None of
these roguish sisters were in sight only
Amie, looking not unlike a. dewy rose-
Dud. tie was a gentlemanly person of
fifty or thereabouts, with beard and
hair well grizzled ; nor in his strongly
marked features did one disoover the
least hint of a susceptibility to rounded
curves and bright eves yet these had
taken him captive.
One glimpse of his face and Amie
knew intuitively that a decisive moment
in her life had come. Nor was she
mistaken, for Mr. Pickens took the white
hand she slyly gave him, and held it
close to his immaculate shirt-front and
whispered : " Mine, Amie ?"
The ridiculous bell sounding once more
with startling emphasis, out short the
first kiss.
Later in the evening, when the parlor
wai all alive with vivacious conversation
and musio, when everybody seemed to
be entertaining everybody, one after
another, the four girls slipped out into
the kitohen, whither Mrs. Mayne had
withdrawn herself directly after dinner.
Amie was the last to go. She knew
that her sisters intended making a
united appeal to their mother to forego
her angry resistance, and to assist them
in pleasing their guest ; and she
thought, "I am sure ma will be melted
at once, if I can whisper two or three
words in her ear."
ITafortnnately, when Amie got to the
hall door she heard loud voices in angry
disoussion. " i
From parlor to kitchen is always a
sharp transition ; but was there ever so
marked a contrast between the two
rooms as. in Mrs. .Mayne's house that
night? 'i
"There's no doing anything with
ma," said Oeoi : " she's just as obstinate
as the Sphinx."
" Yes ; everybody has been asking foi
her," said Midge, pouting, " and won
dering 'why she didn't come into the
parlor."
"So be sure aud I would have told
them Bhe is sick, but like as not if I did,
sue would come popping in the next
minute, saying thatshe never felt better
in her life," added Essie.
Then Mrs. Mayne broke in angrily
"Don't want anotker word from you,
Esther. I've caught yon at your tricks,
miss. Didn't yon think I had any eyes
in my head when you were giving Oliver
money in the hall to-night ?"
"Well, suppose I did," retorted EsBie,
indignantly; " I can't Bee people coming
to the hense and go away without a
crumb to eat."
" That's just what they will do," said
the mother, rapping her knuckles furi
ously on the table at which she had been
sitting with her sewing. " Didn 1 1 tell
you that there shouldn't be any supper
to-night ? And as for tampering with
your brother, and making him as dis
obedient as you girls are, that I will not
permit!"
" You don't mean to say," exclaimed
Essie, nearly inarticulate with anger,
" that you stopped Oliver" from going
out?" . - v f.
" TLat's just what I do mean to say."
Mrs. Mayne's tempor had now risen to
Bnch a pitch of exasperation that, not--vithstanding
the fact that since her en
trance Amie had not ceased to pour gen
tle pleadings into her mother's ear, the
good lady felt she must have some fuller
vent than mere words. Her finger itch
el to box somebody's ears.
Just as she glanced abont from one to
the other, poor unfortunate Oliver, who
had been sitting on the lounge behind
his mother, in swinging his foot, acci
dentally kicked his mother's chair.
Quick as a flash she wheeled abont on
him and gave him a sound slap.
"I ain't doiu' nothin'," he cried,
sharply, clapping to his geography to
hide the ' Claude Duval ' he had been
slyly reading. " You needn't take it
on on me because you are mad at the
girls."
" Things have come to snob a pass."
aaid Mrs. Mayne, bitterly, "that I never
expect to taue any peace or comfort in
this house any more "
J ust then there cam a gentle rapping
at the hall door. -
The girls hearts stood still. Was
some guest coming out to be insulted ?
was their mother going to shame them
forever ?
Let me in," said a cheerful voice at
the sound of which poor Amie's breath
came quickly. O, horrible! If her
mother should be disagreeable to Mr.
Pickens 1
Neither Amie nor her sisters need
have feared. Human nature is many
sided ; it has its curious inBtincts.
Angry as a mother may be with her own
flesh and blood, she cannot flaunt their
failings before other people's eyes.
Bitter as the pill was, Mrs. Mayne
swallo1f?d her wrath whole and walked
to the door with a smiling face.
"Why, Mr. Pickens! is that yon?"
said she, giving him her hand.
" I was afraid you were going to be
invisible all the evening," replied Mr.
Pickens, " and I made bold to hunt you
besides, I want my Amie.'
A shock went through Mrs. Mayne's
frame. Mr. Pickens had told the whole
story bluntly in those few words, and
magically as a picture snonced from a
slate were Amie's shortcomings wiped
from the tablet of her mother's remem.
branoe.
I'm sure." said she. tremulously.
" I couldn't wish her a better chnic.
Mr. Pickens; and if she makes as good
a wife as she has been a daughter, you
will be a happy mau. "
The little disturbance was all forgot
ten. The girls went back into the
parlor radiant, while Mrs. Mavne
dropped a few salt tears as she brewed
some delicious coffee for her daughters
guests, and Oliver, harboring no resent,
inent, sped to the baker's as fast as his
legs could carry him.
It was not until the guests were all
gone, and the girls were alone together,
that Amie received her sisters' congratu
lations. The gas flared over the bnrean. nile.1
with ribbons and orimoincr-rjins: brncn.
lets and shreds of torn curling papers; a
fringe of silken frizettes had fallen
across the powder box; then there were
ruffles, brashes, cosmetics and combs.
But nobody minded the disorder in the
least.
Perched on one bed, arrayed in the
" prettiest night-gowns under the snn
were the four girls, talking and talking,
in spite of the lateness of the hour.
There will be only three of us to
squabble for the looking-glass," said
iu.iuk, signing.
" And I suppose we will have to bo on
paying for meat that is eaten, and clothes
that are worn out, while Amie will have
no end of lovely dresses and bonnets,"
added Essie.
" You haven't euessed the nicest thine
df all that I shall have," laughed Amie.
" Oh, I know," exclaimed Ceci, tri
umphantly; " your own way I"
Her Economy,
The dried anule of tn.d HV hfla Si hun
dred yards the start of the dried apple
of ten years ago, but yet all people are
not willing to admit it, A Woodward
avenue grocer was yesterday trying to
induce a woman to buy a three-pound
package, instead of half a bushel of
green apples, telling her that she would
save money by the operation.
" Yes I mio-nt save itrnrnt m.nA .
I mightn't," she mused. .
i Enow you would," he urged.
" But if I took home dried apples
in.
stead of green, there would be no
parings for the children and no cores for
my husband to obew ou during the long
eveniog. And there's the worm-hole
they re awful nioe for my canaries."
us wok green apples, YeJrett.
Fashion Notes.
Chene silks are revived.
Macrame lace is revived.
Polish styles are coming in vogue.
Soft-finished percales are preferred.
Table naperyis trimmed with Macrame
lace.
Crape enects are seen in new spring
gooas.
Wattean backs are revived for princess
ureases.
Moonstones and cat's-eye jewels are
very fashionable.
Scotch ginghams are woven to produce
bourette enects.
Velvet and satin are the materials for
matron a ball dresses.
Black and white lace over white satin
is revived for ball toilets.
Moss greens, India reds and indigo
uiues are retained as spring colors.
The new colored grenadines show
India colors and Turkish designs.
The coming bonnet is a capote of
shirred silk with a tulle cap under it.
Cheap cotton and wool goods show a
great improvement in the method of
manufacture.
Knotted, bouele or rough surfaces,
polka dots, and Greek squares are con
spicuous in spring fabrics.
New grenadines are rough, knotted
and bouele threaded, and woven also in
Mexicame, brocade and canvas effects.
Black grounds relieved by figures of
wnite, gray, brown and high colors ap
pear conspicuously among the new spring
gOOdB.
Basques are simulated on fourreanx.
but are no longer made separate gar
ments m tne most fashionable dress
making establishments.
A novelty is black grenadine lumlne,
woven with flat threads of metal old
gold, silver and tin f el red, thrown into
Dotn warp and wool.
A Free City of Constantinople.
Constantinople under Turkish rule
became the centre of a vast system of
plunder and conquest. The city was
enriched by the spoils of Europe and
Asia. ' A large multitude gathered
there. But its legitimate commerce
has never been large. The race
whioh held this golden key of the
world's commerce has never been able
to open the store-house. They were
like barbarians in possession of a com
plicated machine. The sultans have
simply wrunir their -wealth
plundered peasantry, and lived genera
tion after generation in their rich pala
ces on the Bosphorus, No building, no
work of art, no machine or invention,
s far as we are aware, has ever been
discovered or constructed in Constanti
nople by a Turk. The Greek has done
all. The race has basked in the rich
sunlight of that deliciour climate, and
has enjoyed all the luxuries aud beau
ties of the Golden Horn for more than
four centuries, has seen the current of
the world's history flow by, and has
never contributed a single blessing or
favor to mankind. Outside of the capi
tal, its dominion has been to Christians
a curse and a burden ; inside, it has per
mitted all things to remain as they were.
As a free city, it might, like Venice of
old. or Hamburar in later
centre of a world's commerce. The
Greek has an aptitude for trade, and,
no doubt, the merchants of all countries
would gather there. The burdens that
have hitherto rested OU nil nrrwl not Inn
and iudnstry in the Turkish empire
would then be removed, aud we might
see a new centre of eiviliznHnn tvliom
Slavic barbarism has reimied so lonar.
But this will not be (ill the empire of
the race of Osman lias mmn in its
and that must be yet in a future, not
remote, but not immediate. Aew York
j. met.
How Muck Tobacco 1
The entire mass of tobacco which is
annually consumed in smoking, snuffing
and in chewing on the earth.is 4,000, 000,
000 pounds manifestly too high au esti
mate for from 1,200,000,000 to 1,500,
000,000 of inhabitants. Let us take the
half as the more probable, and let us
suppose the tobacco leaves transformed
into roll tobacco, a tobacco serpent is
creatfd which, with a diameter of two
inches, and following the direction of
the equator, could wiud itself around
the earth thirty times, Let us suppose
that the tobacco is formed into tablets
similar to the chocolate tablets, and
which, indeed, is the shape which the
chewing tobacco of sailors takes, and
we have a colos?al pile worthy of being
placed beside the third largest of the
pyramids of; Gizeh, that of the Myker
mos, and as massive and high as that
old regal edifice. Let us grind all the
tobacco into snnff, and let us picture to
ourselves the sad case that an evil equi
noctial wind, one flue morning, blows
the snuff over the ocean, and showers it
on one of our German states, we are
certain more than one of the Liliputian
states would have much difficulty in
recovering its existence by shoveling
away the snuff. Cope't Tobacco Plant.
Be Social.
We are social beings, and the home
circle, alone, however attractive, will
not satisfy. The old-fashionefl singing
ouuuui, mo nnsBing party, the lyceum,
the grange, the Good Templars lodge,
or division of the Sons of Temperance,
whatever draws together the young men
and women, the boys and girls, for
development of mind and character and
for social enjoyment, is to be welcomed.
All the better, too, if the parents can
renew their youth, or enter heartily
into the young people's enjoyment.
Ihere is but one object in the world
more pitiable than the adult man or
woman who feels no thrill of sympathy
over the happiness of the young, and
that most pitiable of all is the old head
on young shoulders, too dignified to ao
cept the keen wisdom of the old Roman
poet, " It is pleasant to be foolish some
times. " Work and play each have their
time,x and advancing years bring no
pangs for the innocent sports and enjoy
ments of the youthful daya long past.
We grow old all too soon, but if the
heart ia fresh, and in sympathy with the
world around us, it matter little how
we count our years. Th JIomeHead.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
A Model Poultry Yard.
Looking at the yard of a poultry fau
oier a few days ago, I was pleased with
his hen-house, not because it was the
finest I ever saw, but because of its per
fect simplicity. As he was a man of
abundant means, and his place is near a
fashionable resort, there was a tempta
tion for a nicer building than other peo
ple, but he preferred to set a good ex
ample for his poorer neighbors. This
building was framed, of convenient size
for two flocks of about twenty fowls
each; boarded outside and inside of the
frame with matched boards, and with a
large window on the south side. It was
very warm inside, even when the air
outside was nearly at freezing point.
On the inside of the sill a plank was
spiked over to go down a foot into the
ground, all around the building, which
prevented the outside moisture from
coming under the building, and as the
building inside was raised some inches
with earth and dry loam, it was at all
times a dry place to wallow in. As the
house was for large fowls, the roosts
were low, and a space was left where the
hens could stand on the ground all
night, instead of roosting if they pre
ferred, which some did. I noticed the
fence between the poultry yards was
boarded np some three feet high, with
short pickets above that. This prevent
ed the cocks from fighting through the
fcnee. The whole arrangements of build
ing and yards were neat enough for a
gentleman's country place, and yet not
too extravagant for any farmer to copy.
The yards were set with plum and bench
trees, and the owner said he had no diffi
culty in getting abundant crops of the
finest fruits every year, which was a
handsome profit in itself npon the cost
of keeping the iovt.Boton Journal.
Household Hint.
To Make Boots Waterproof. Yel
low beeswax, Burgundy pitch and tur
pentine, of each two ounces ; boiled lin
seed oil, one pint Apply to the boot
with the hands before the fire till well
saturated.
Milk. Milk absolutely supplies every
requisite for the body, and enables a
young calf to grow into a heifer and a
baby into a thriving child. It is a
model food in fact, it is the most per
fect that exists in nature. Let parents
realize this, and encourage its use in the
family.
Poultry as Food. For table use.
fowls that are killed directly from a free
range, where they have been well fed
for some tune previously, and, having
taken plenty of exercise, are in perfect
health, are to be preferred to those which
have been kept in a close coop, in con
nection with their own excrements and a
polluted atmosphere.
To DlSTTNOCISH BCTTER FROM OLEO
MARGARINE. Artificial butter now so
nearly resembles the genuine article that
it is difficult to distinguish one from the
other. M. Jail lard submits the follow
ing plan : When the butter is placed be
tween two slips of glass the animal fats
appear under the microscope as abores
cent crystallizations. Pure butter is seen
only as fatty globule.
Jellies. In making ie'llies of apples.
plums, peaches or apricots, peel, remove
the stones or cores, cut in pieces, cover
with water, and boil gently till well
cooked ; then strain the iuice gently
through a jelly bag and add half a pint
of sugar to a pint of juiee, boil until it
ropes from the spoon, or from fifteen to
twenty minutes. Ju making raspberry
je ly use one-third currants and two
thirds raspberries
Drill ll ion l C'allle.
P. H., Raymondville. writes: ' I
would like to ask through tho columns
of your paper if cattle shed their teeth
the same as the horse; if so, nt whatage f"
Beply. Cattle, as well as well as other
animals with teeth, shed their first teeth
before they reach maturity. The matu
rity of an animal is frequently considered
to be complete when the dt ntition be
comes permanent. Iu horned cattle the
first two central permonent incisors ap
pear at the age of twenty mouths or two
years; the next two appear at three years;
the next two at four, and the last two,
which ore the corner ones, at about rive
years old. The first and second perma
nent molar teeth appear at the age of
two years, an additional one on each jaw
appears every year after up to the sixth
year, when the mouth is full. As the
permanent teeth appear, the milk or de
ciduous teeth drop out, or are forced out
by tho new ones. After tho sixth year
the teeth begin to wear down, and the
amount of wear, in ordinary cases, is a
guide to the age of the animal. When
sheep or cattle are pastured upon sandy
land this test is deceptive, as the teeth
wear down faster than they would other
wise do. Neio York TimcH.
The Soli for Flower arjd PJnul.
The best soil for most flowers, and
principally for young plants and tie
seed-bed, is a mellow loam containing
enough sand to prevent its baking after
watering it. A good many have the idea
that seed will grow most anywhere and
with any treatment. Mostly the seeds
are planted too deep, so they cither rot
in the cold, damp soil for the want of
warmth necessary to their germination,
or after germination, perish before the
tender shoots can reach the surface. To
prevent this, sow your flower-seeds in a
cold-frame, box, or pot, and transplant
as soon as the yonng plants attain their
proper size. Transplant when the weath
er becomes warm and settled.
Absent Minded.
A letter from New Preston, Conn., to
the Litchfield Enquirer, oontains this
anecdote: A man who had been sort
ing tobacco for one of his neighbors,
stopped at one of the stores on his way
from work and purchased a pair of shoes.
He threaded his dinner-pail upon his
arm, took the shoes in the same hand,
and with the other thrust deep in his
breeches' pocket, started for home.
Having got opposite Dr. Ed's he missed
his dinner-pail, and, thinking be had
left it at the store, back he went for it
Aa he went through the door it swung
to, and hit the pail strung on bis arm.
His only eiaonlation was, " Thunder I I
thought I left it !" He's the cams man
who took hiswatob to New Milford to
be repaired and two day afterward
found it in hi vest pocket
The Yeais.
Silent silent ! like God's blessing on a shi-
bewildered earth t
Coming comingwith s glory and a promUe
at tbeir birth !
Wondrous wondrous, wbite-winged heralds,
with a wordless mystery,
Bearing with them gleam and glimmer of the
far-off " jasper sea."
Swiftly swiftly down onr earth-way) bring
ing treasure all unknown s
Iloaobing ont still bands to touoh ns with tbe
radiance of a Throne !
Bllont silent I golog going -ont beyond our
utmost reach I
Bearing with thorn so much sweetness scarce
we knew they came to teach.
Swiftly swiftly while we struggle for a little
Iocs or morn,
Down their tide dear footprints vanish, leaving
ours npon the shore !
Calmly calmly while onr pulses beat to ev'ry
s'ren tunc,
Ou their waves our sunlight trembles, and onr
day grows dim at noon !
Onward onward ending ever at God's foot
stool ! Ah, will lie
Merge thoxe weary fragments into His serene
Eternity?
Aew York Evening I'onU
Items of Interest.
Snoring is now politely described as
indulging in sheet music.
Petroleum is the favorite illuminator
in many French households.
About 20,000 Italians annually immi
grate to this country to fettle.
Turkey's experience is that iron clad
fleets do not amount to shucks.
Dr. Petermann, the leading geogra
pher of tbe world, places Stanley fore
most among all explorers.
It is said by men who have sailed a
mile a minnte ou an ice boat that the
sensation is like falling from a building.
A London paper estimates that during
the latter '200 days of 1877 that human
blood flowed at the rate of forty gallons
an hour.
A Chiciigo German, who wanted to
add a postscript to a letter after he had
mailed it, was found trying to dig up
the lamp post
A paper speaks of a horse that eats
meat. Harry says that he has never
seen a horse actually eat meat, but has
seen one ruuning for a stake,
Lieut l lipi er, the only colored grad
uate of West Point, is to bo appointed
military instructor of the colored brancu
of the agricultural aud military college
of Texas.
A patent lias been taken btifc-pGE ftl:.
most everything of valne, but there is a
fortune waiting for the man who patents
a boot-jack that will kill two Thomas
eats at one time.
An Indiana farmer misned a 360-ponnd
hog and found him, after thirty-five
days, under a box that had fallen and
caught him under it. Tho hog lived,
but he only weighed 200 pounds when
found.
There was a shower of worms iu
Michigan, one day recently. Some days
previously there was a shower of fish.
And now, if Naturo understands her
business, n shower of fish-hooks is next
on tho programme.
The total dividends paid laRt year by
miniug companies, banks, insurance aud
express companies, aud other commer
cial enterprises on the Pacific coast, not
including tho Central Paciflo Railroad,
was ftM.afifi.OOO.an increase oi 81,2r0,000.
A deserted Ute squaw, grieved by the
heartlessncps of the Indian who had
only a few mouths previously taken her
to his wigwam, drowned herself. Before
her suicide, she formally and elaborately
cursed him. The Indian belief is that
such a curse is a potent.
A Frenchman has analyzed the dust
aud debris of the streets of Paris and
Florence, and has found that thirty-five
per cent of that collected from the road
way is iron given off by horses' shoes,
and that from thirty (o forty per cent,
of that taken from the sidewalks is glue.
He proposes to ntiiize both the iron and
the glue.
In the harbor of San Francisco a wave
struck a fishing boat, aud overboard
went two disciples of Ike Walton. Bjrue
parties who happened to be in a boat
close by went to their assistance, and
resoued the half drowned pair. On be
ing questioned how the accident occur
red, they replied : " Wo didn't capsize;
we only went down to see why the fish
wouldn't bite."
John Bright wrote, lately, a note in
which occurred this passage: "If
children at school can be made to under
stand how it is just and noble to be hu
mane even to what we term inferior ani
mals, it will do much to give them
higher character and tone through life.
There is nothing meaner than barbar
ous and cruel treatment of tho dumb
creatures who cannot answer us or re
sent the misery which is so often need
lessly inflicted upon them."
I'OP COHN.
Pip, pop.
Hip, bop,
Tip, top,
Pop corn !
Out of the pan,
Into the Ore,
Bursting aud bouncing,
Higher and higher.
White as new snow,
yellow as gold,
Yon'd better be patient
Till it U cold.
King Victor Emmanuel was especially
fond of a fight. At the battle of Goito,
In 1819.be charged at the head of a regi
ment, an Austrian battery, and showed
the same courage during the eighteen
hours' strife at Novara. On traveling
one day in a carriage without escort, to
bis chateau of Poleuzo, he found a num.
ber of gendarmes exchanging shots with
brigands. Victor Emmanuel seized the
carbine with whioh he traveled, and aid
ed the gendarmes, two of whom were
killed at his side. The brigands who
were not killed finally fled. The officer
In command of the gendarmes was jniicU
at.touisb.ed on learning that the king was
bis new recruit,
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