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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDTJM. - Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. VIII. RIDGWAY; ELK-COUNTY,-PA., THURSDAY,, MAY 23, 1878. 20.14.
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Good Might.
Good night I
Now the weary rest by right,
And the bnny fingeri bending
Over work that seems unending,
Toil no more till morning light
Oocd night 1
Go to rest 1
Close the eyes with (lumber prest
In the streets the silence growing,
Wakes bat to the watch-horn blowing,
Night makes only one request
Go to rest !
Slumber sweet I
Blessed dreams each dreamer greet )
He whom love has kept from sleeping
In swett dreams now o'er him creeping
May he his beloved meet
. Slumber sweet !
Good ntgbt !
Slumber till the morning light,
Hlnmber till the new to-morrow
Comes and brings its own new sorrow.
We are in the Father's sight
Good night I
-From The German of Theodore Korner
WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?
" O what a lovely bunch of pansies !
Is it possible they are for me ?" I ex
claimed to a tiny, brown-eyed girl who
placed a fragrant bouquet of the gold
and purple dewy blooms in my ham
mock in which I was idly swinging un
der the big maple.
Aunty Lee sent them," said tho
wee chihl, " and she hopes the moun
tain air will soon make you well, and
she's your neighbor, down under the
hill."
"Who is this neighborly Aunty Lee?''
I asked the woman with whom I board
ed when nest sho came within hearing
of my voice.
' O, then, she's sent ye some posies,"
replied talkative Mrs. Evans, coming
briskly from the garden and sitting down
on the steps of the little porch so that
she might entertain me while she wax
shelling her pease, thus killin' tew
birds with one stun," as hue said. "1
was a wonderin' tew myself not tew
minutes ago how long 'twould be afore
she'd find out about ye an' send ye
suthin'. I can't see, for my part, how
she tan afford to do as she does."
"Why, what does she dol" I in
quired, " " Oh, she snys she aims to
be neighborly, and if anybody happens
to be sick anywheres around she sends
'em little things to eat an' flowers to
cheer ' em up, us (-he says ; and she al
ways has her knittin' work in her pocket
Mid her odd job o' knittin' ' as she
calls grows eout like magic into
gloves and mittens and wristlets an'
btockin's that she gives away."
"To her friends, peeple fully able to
buy them, I suppose."
"Oh, dear, no. To poor children an'
tew old men an' women that, I spose,
are real needy, an that set great store
by her warm and handsome presents,
for her yarns ore as bright as her flow
ers, an' I've told my man a good many
times that the color went half toward
makin' her little gift so welcome. An'
then she has so much comp'uy."
"Rich people from the city, whose
visits she returns ?"
"Oh, laud sakes, no; poor folks that
are tickled most to death to get an irvi
tatiou to her pleasant little home. Yis,
her home is an amazin' pleasant one,
though her man is only a poor me
chanic. She's always a sayin' that she'd
rather dew a little good every day as she
goes along, than tew be a waitin' to dew
some great thing when she gets able,
and then, p'raps, lose her opportunity
and never do nothin'. I told her one
day last year, pays I, 'Miss Lee,' says I,
'I should rut.her be a puttin' by a little
- sumthiu' in the bank for a rainy day,
than to be a givin away all the time.'
And, says she, 'Mrs. Evings,' says she.
'That's your way an' it's a good way. I
don't find no fault with it, but all these
little things that I give away would
never git into the bank, an' so, you see,
they'd be lost, an' I should pass away
without ever doin' anything for my
Master. An' I don't want to go to bed
a night without thinkin' that I have that
day tried tew lighten some fellow mor
tal's burden, brought a smile to somo
face, or a streak o' sunshine tew some
heart, if it's oly a givin' a bunch o'
posies in the right speret.' "
"And these flowers cost her a good
deal, first and last, I suppose 1" said I,
caressing my pansies.
". Oh, 'iwould cost me a good deal to
run sich a flower garden as she does,
but Miss Lee says she's not strong, so
she gits fresh air, sun-baths and exer
cise in her garden aud spends her time
workin' in there instead of visitin.
She returns all her calls by send in' her
compl'ments with a bunch o' posies."
" She hires some one to carry them
about. I presume ?"
"Mussy.no. There isn't a child in
the village bat what would run its legs
off for Aunty Lee," and having finished
shelling her mess of pease, my talkative
little hostess trotted about her work
. again, saying, as she disappeared
through the door-way, "It's well
enough to be neighborly, of course, but
Mis' Lee may see the time when she'd
a wished she had a leetle sumthin' eout
at interest"
The Vermont mountain air agreed
with me, my health graduallyimproving,
and I stayed on and on, we k after week,
spending a great part of my time, when
the weather did not positively forbid, in
my hammocs under the maples. As yet
I had not once seen my neighbor, Aunty
Lee, but grew to love her on account of
the pretty nosegays that daily found
their way from her hand to mine by one
and another child messenger.
One night, late in August, there was
a heavy thunder shower. The sudden
downfall of rain swelled the little river
that skirted our village to a veritable
mountain torrent A mill-dam some
miles up the stream had broken away
and the angry flood came rushing down
sweeping all before it.
"Aunty Lee's husband's shop has
gone," shouted my hostess, Mrs. Ev
ans, as she knocked at my door in the
eirly morning after the storm; "and
that's not the worst on't, for her garden
is all washed eout and undermined so
that it'll take a party pile o' mo'aoy
tew fix it up (gain, if ever 'tis fixed
I wonder now ef Mis' Lee don't wish
she hadn't been quite so neighborly,and
so had a little sumthin' eout at interest,"
and it really seemed to me as if the brisk
little woman chuckled to herself as she
patted down the stairs.
In less than half an hour she came
back to my room with as doleful a look
ing visage as I ever saw. "Whatever
is agoin' to become o' me and my man,"
cried she; "an we ft gettin' to be old
folk, tew. Our savings were all. in the
stock comp'ny np to Minotsville, because
they paid more interest than the bank;
we only tuk it eout o' the bank a little
while ago, and neow their old mill has
gone clean off, an' they'll all go to gin
eral smash and we along with 'em;" and
this time she went slowly groaning down
the stairs. I could not help pitying the
woman from the bottom of my heart.
There was great excitement in the
little village, as a matter of course, but
Aunty Lee was reported to be as "chip
per" as ever. The noRegay came to me
everyday as usual, not quite so many,
nor so great a variety as formerly, for a
part of the garden had been washed
away, but enough to give me an increas
ed admiration for the sweet old lady who
was so persistent and unwearying in her
neighborly acts of kindness.
The next Monday's local newspaper
had this unique notice at the head of
the village items:
" All who have ever been the recipi
ents of kindly deeds from ' Aunty Lee'
and who would like to reciprocate now
in her day of misfortune are invited to
bring their supper to Oak Grove on
Thursday afternoon at five o'clock, and
talk the matter up over a neighborly'
cup of tea.
At the time appointed I had a car
riage come to take my hostess and me,
and my basket of cakes and bnnB fresh
from the bakery, to the beautiful grove.
As we were driven along I was sur
prised to Bee so many people, lunch
bnskets in hand, speeding in the same
direction.
" Almost everybody in town is going,"
said Mrs. Evans, "high an' low, rich
an' poor."
As I was being assisted to a eeat a
gentle, motherly little woman spread a
soft shawl over the back of the chair
intended for me and quickly folded an
other shawl for my lume foot to rest
upon.
" This is Aunty Lee," said Mrs.
Evans, and the sweet-fuced little woman
ai'd I looked into each other's faces
with a little curiosity, perhaps, as well
as sympathy, and shook hands cordially.
" I don't know what all these good peo
ple are to do with Elijah and me," she
said with a smile that was as genial as a
sunbeam, " but the minister would have
us come, and he and his wife drove
around for us."
The minister ascended the platform
just then, and after tenderly yet im
t ressively invoking the Divine blessing,
he looked down benignly upon the faces
upthrned to his and with a touching
intonation of voice asked : " Who is my
neighbor ?" He then went on to tell how
Aunty Lee had answered that question
in regard to himself.
" When I first became acquainted with
Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Lee," he said, 'I
was finishing my theological ptudies
here in the village with Dr. Mills, and
they had just married and settled down
in their little houso yonder, which they
had inherited. One day I was sent for
to preach on trial in the adjoining town
of Luxboro. My only coat wan worn
threadbare and extensively patched, and
I hod no way of procuring another.
Feeling sorely grieved and dispirited I
started out for a walk, and for the sake
of telling my troubles to some fellow
creature and with no thought of receiv
ing any aid in the premises, I turned in
to Mrs. Lee's house and read to her the
invitation I had had from Luxboro' and
frankly told her why I could not go at
present."
" Leave it to the Lord," said the good
woman, and forthwith she proceeded to
take my measure with a piece of tape.
"Go home," she continued, "write
your sermon and come here again Satur
day morning."
I obeyed. I subsequently found that
the woman had actually taken a piece of
cloth that she had laid by in the house
for a cloak for herself, and tailorees as
she was by trade, had cut and made me
a coat from it. I preached my first
sermon in it, and shortly received and
uccepted my first call."
"Oh, dear," whispered Aunty Lee
from her seat by my side, "he's paid me
for that coat ev-ry New Year's Day
since, and it wasn't much for me to do,
after all."
Major Sanford, the richest man in
town, was the next to take the stand.
The old ppople smiled and nodded their
heads, but the young folkB looked at
each other and wondered what he could
be indebted to Aunty Lee for.
"When I was a boy, "the major be
gan, "I was bound out in H to a
very, very bad master, from whom I
determined to run away. I availed my
self of an opportunity to escape one
Saturday afternoon, when I was sent to
the pasture to salt the cattle. I came
straight over the mountain to this place.
I wanted to get out of the State as soon
as possible, so came directly to the
bridge down here at the river, which is,
yon all know, the New Hampshire
boundary. Just after I had stepped
upon Vermont soil I overtook, on the
road, Mr. and Mrs. Lee, young people
then. They had a basket and a spade,
and had been digging up wild flowers
to transplant in their garden. Although
an entire stranger, they accosted rue
kindly. Noticing that I had been crying,
Mrs. Lee asked me my trouble. Before
I knew it I had blurted out the whole
story, and had been invited by her to
go home with them and stay over Sun
day. I was, of course, only too grateful
to accept the invitation. After supper
we set out the plants, and then Mr. Lee
took me with him down the hill to the
bank of the 'brook,' as we called it then,
and into his little machine shop. I soon
evinced my fondess for tools, and confid
ed to him an invention that had, in a crude
form, long had possession of my braiu.
Being a natural mechanic, he saw the
utility of my invention at a glance. The
subject was not mentioned on the mor
row, which was a quiet, restful day ct
me. Mrs. Lee loaned me a clean linen
suit belonging to her husband, and I
went to church with them. The next
day Mr. Lee went over to H and
made terms with my master, because
Mrs. Lee said she could tot allow me to
feel like a 'runaway.' Then Mr. Lee
took me into his employment and gave
me a corner in his shop where I could,
at odd moments, work at my model.
My invention proved a success and
made my fortune, as you all know. I
am thankful, my friends, that I am able
to-day to repair the damages done to the
dear little homstead and to rebuild my
old friend's shop," and Major Sanford sat
down, wiping his eyes with his hand
kerchief, while his delightful audience
applauded vociferously.
"Dear heart," said Aunty Lee to me,
' 'what was he talking about ? He's paid
us over and over, and he's tried and
tried to make Elijah go into partnership
with him, but he wouldn't, and I would
not let him."
Then followed one minute speeches
by the score. "They kept me three
months when I was sick and homeless,"
said one. "I made their house my home
for weeks when I was out of work,"
said another. Ten homeless working
girls were married in their parlor and
went out into the world with their bless
ing. There was a great number of
touching little speeches from those who
had received flowers and delicacies in
illness and warm garments in times of
need.
And so from them all flowed out con
tributions of money, the greater part of
which was safely placed in bank for the
benefit of the Lees when old age and
failing strength should overtake them.
"Dear me," said Mrs. Evans to Aunty
Lee, "you've been lendin' to the Lord,
and He pays the best interest, arter all.
I never could understand before; but I
dew now."
"There are none of us so poor that we
cannot give such as we have. A smile
or a kind word even will come back to us
in kind," said Aunty Lee, and we all
brushed away the tears that we could
not suppress while those touching
speeches were being made, and went to
our homes.
How Wood and Morrissey Gambled.
Speaking of the recent failure of Ben
jamin Wood, puolisher of the New York
Kvtning News, the New York corres
pondent of the Detroit Free Press gives
this reminiscence:
It is well known that he once kept up
intimate relations with the " tiger and
had a strong penchant for " bucking "
that animal in his lair, and since his
failure sat old gossip going again, some
of his quondam chums have been re
hearsing the famous bout he once had
with John Morrissey, in the latter's club
house in Twenty-fourth street.
Ben was in the habit of droppiug into
Morrissey's place occasionally, and one
night about ten years ago he sauntered
in as usual, and fell afoul of the bank.
Morrissey was there, and many men
about town, all of whom knew WoodV
pluck and hang-on-ativeness, and tho
party set down for some lively work.
Wood had about $3,000 in his pocket,
and as the betting was heavy he man
aged to get to the bottom in about au
hour. In fact, he was cleaned out.
But his blood was up that night, and as
his reputation for pluck was at stake
am ng the boys, he decided that once
for all it should be " make or break."
His ready cash was all gone, but he
owned valuable property on Tryon Row,
where the Staats Zeilung building now
stands, and he prooosed to hypothecate
the same to Morrissey against whatever
sum, up to its value, he should lose.
The offer was accepted, and the great
fight began. It lasted all night and up
to nine o'clock next morning, and, when
a truce was finally called, Ben had won
back the $3,000 he started with, and se
cured about $120,000 ahead besides.
With the money that Morrissey had ad
vanced to him ou the hypothecated pro
perty, he turned round and gave John
the worst whaling he ever received at
the card table. Not a sign of wincing
was shown on either side till physical
exhaustion forced a cessation of hostili
ties. Both men were true grit to the
last and neither showed the least ill
temper from beginning to end. It was
on that occasion that Ben performed the
extraordinary feat of smoking ninety
dollars worth of cigars in one night,
Morrissey had a special brand of cigars
at one dollar each for his flush patrons,
and Wood, who is a tremendous smoker
(or chewer, rather, for he merely chews
furiously at a cigar and then flings it
away), managed to spoil ninety of them
while the fight lasted.
A Queer English Custom.
The ancient ceremony of tossing the
pancake, as it took place this year in the
great sohool-room of Westminster, is
thus described by an English paper:
After the Latin prayers at twelve o'clock
the college cook, preceeded by an Ab
bey beadle, marched up the school-room
carrying the pancake in a frying-pun.
This pancake is made, not of flour and
eggs, but of putty, and well greassd to
make it fly from the pan. The cook's
object is to throw this pancake over an
iron bar, from which formerly hung a
curtain, separating the upper from the
under school. Ou the further side of
the bar, which is some twenty-five feet
perhaps from the floor, stands au ex
pectant crowd of boys, every one of
whom is eager to seize the pancake as it
falls, and bear it off entire to the Dean
ery, where the reward of a guinea awaits
the f oi tunate possessor. The cook also,
if he does not fail to throw the pancake
over the bar, obtains a guinea. This
year tho cook was successful in his first
attempt, and sent the pancake flying
well over the ear into the middle or tne
crowd awaiting it. Then came the bat
tle, or rather, iu Westminster parlance,
the "greeze.". Up and down, back
wards and forwards, surged the crowd
of boys, and finally, when Dr. Scott
interfered to disperse the mass, a broken
form remained as evidence of the strug
gle. No one, however, was fortunate
enough to obtain the pancake in its en
tirety, but several possessed small por
tions, wbioh were afterward exhibited as
trophies to admiring groups of friends
and no doubt will be kept as reminis
cences of the " pancake greese" of 1878.
It is now six years since any one suc
ceeded in getting the whole pancake.
There were a few visitors present, who,
with the masters, watched the proceed
ings from a respectful distance. Lon
don Week.
The Press.
The following is taken from an ad
dress on the Press, delivered before the
Psi Upsilon Society, in Boston, by
George Corming Hill, ft journalist of
that city :
Obedient as the Press may seem to
be, it is, nevertheless, sleeplessly jeal
ous of its standing and influence, lest
they should be underrated or misap
plied. It is an unerring measurer of
public men, and alone knows the little
ness of great ones. An integer in the
fabrics of society, it has a scorn of be
ing thought to represent merely individ
ual interests. The personal organ is
deod the day it is born. If to-day,
therefore, it is the advocate, to-morrow
it is the judge. If it is the eulogist
now, it was the censor yesterday.
Though it have three hundred and
sixty-five opinions in the year, it is
nevertheless consistent always. Not as
yet has it found its ranks among learned
professors, and it is doubtful if it ever
will, for it must needs be practical
rather than learned. In this country it
i not recognized as the stepping-stone
to public preferments, and it perhaps
gains by the dissociation. In England
it is the accepted touchstone of intel
lectual capacity, retruiting Parliament,
the Bar, and the schools of authorship.
In France it is the acknowledged finishing-school
of publicists and statesmen,
and the entree into the best society.
With us, politicians would fain make a
whetstone of it to sharpen and polish
their blades; advertisers find it almost
the whole of their intangible capital ;
lawyers and doctors resort to it as birds
do to the hedges for shelter; the grand
army of grievance-bearers marches up
and flings down its knapsacks full of
complaints at its feet ; the accused run
to it with their ready explanations; the
defamed with their denials and defences;
the philosophers with their remedies,
the poets with their fol-de-iol, and the
other sex with their sleepless causes.
The world at large seeks the cover of its
sheltering fold. Everybody is eager to
proclaim his existence aud something
more through its effectual agency,
they alone excepted who are in the real
secret and sit silent at the source of its
power. It is Argus, Briareus, Hercules
and Hermes rolled into one. Day and
night it keeps its messengers running,
flying, swimming, delving, looking and
listening, and with their faithful assist
ance it manages to turn the world in
side out. For it Schliemann uncovers
Homeric Troy to veiify the immortal
story; Stanley cuts the dark core out of
the long-forbidden fruit of Africa; gov
ernment despatch astronomers to the
far-off capes to report the transit of
Venus and correct the distance of the
sun; Sitting Bull harangues his harle
quin braves and swings round the circle
of Indian villages; the tireless interview
er pulls the boll at all front doors ; and
the local gosip glues his capacious ear to
every piivute keyhoie. ' ' All this purely
for the production ond dissemination
of intelligence, the valuable and value
less. It supplants the orator, compresses
verbose debate into pregnant statement,
makes only straightforward business of
legislation, and turns eloquence into the
raw staple of facts and figures. It edits
the telegraph, the mails, the caucus and
convention, the Legislature science,
art and invention commerce, law
and agriculture. It is the free publish
er for them all makes their announce
ments adjusts their .differences and
assures their influence. It boils down
books; extracts the soul from treatises;
culls bouquets from the garden of the
portts; gives flexibility and present uso
to learning; sets professors of Greek to
writing on international law; and, in
general, sifta, assorts anddistributes
literature. Its remorseless appetite for
news presenting horror and humors in
parallel columns will, however, create
a surfeit some time, and after that is
ver will yield to the finer suggestions
of its palate for thought. Just now it
is not greatly given to the nicer moral
shadings, but flings the pigment on the
canvass with a rapid brush and exhibits
all things in the same fierce glare of
light. But its loudness will gradually
be disciplined down to a low-keyed sug
gestiveuess, with steadier aim and more
practised engineering; and it will yet
become the true living outline of the
national literature.
A Narrow Escape at Minneapolis.
A Minneapolis (Minn.) paper gives
the thrilling experience of a survivor of
the recent terrific explosion in the
Washburn flour mills, which was attend
ed with such heavy Iobb of life and
property. Tho survivor referred to is
Joseph Monti. Jr.. the watchman of the
Gulaxy Mill, who was discovered by the
reporter in all the plenitude of full
health. He said he was iu the basement
of the mill, one story below thj canal.
engaged iu putting in an alarm bell
upou the shafting. The concussion
lifted him fully six feet, when he fell
and was stunned for five minutes. He
was in a dazed condition when he re
covered from the shock, and only heard
one explosion. If there were other ex
plosions they must have occurred while
he was stunned. When he realized his
position, he found the water pourincr in.
and naturally thought the thud of the
explosion was merely the result of the
breaking in of the canal. lie rushed to
a window up-stairs and looked for a
place to jump. When there he saw
John G. Rosienius, of the Zenith Mill.
looking out of the window. Monti
called out to him. " Are yon eroinar to
jump ?" but Bosienius either didn't un
derstand or did not hear, and that was
the last of him seen alive.' Monti took
in the situation, ?aw the elevator in one
tremendous sheet of flame, and was
momentarily paralyzed. Looking below
the' window, Monti observed an ash
heap, fifteen feet or so below him. He
straddled the sill, swung himself over,
hung by his hands a second or two on
the sill as the roar of the flames boomed
hissingly around him, and then dropped
and rolled thence into the seething
waters. Once in tho water he swam out
despairingly aud exhausted, until he
struck a protruding rook, npon which
he olimbed and rested to recover his
presence of mind and courage. His
senses being gathered, he waded to the
paper mill. Beaching the under portion
of it, be rose before some of the em
ployes putting out a blaze. As a voice
from the dead, he asked, " Wbioh way
oan I get out ?"- He was then directed
to a place of safety.
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FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Horse Feed. '
Every eood groom knows that sound
oats and beans in due proportion, and at
least a year old, are the very best food
for a galloping horse the only food in
which it is possible to get the very best
condition out of a race horse or a hunter.
It also has recently become known that
horses do slow work and get fat, indeed
too fat, on maize, Indian corn, which 1b
freqnentty one-tuird cheaper tnan tne
best oat. In the East horses are
fed ou barley, and it is a popular
idea with English offloers who have lived
in Persia and Syria that the change of
food from barley to oats often, when
imported, produces blindness in Arabian
horses. Now, although no men under
stand better or so well how to get blood
horses into galloping condition as Eng
lish grooms, they do not, and few of
their masters do, know the reason why
oats and beans are the best food for put
ting muscular flesh on a horse. The
agricultural chemist steps in here, makes
the matter very plain, and shows that if
you want pace, Indian corn, although
nominally cheaper, is not cheap at all.
When wo feed a bullock, a sheep, or a
pig for sale, after it has passed the store
stage, we want to make it fat as quickly
and as cheaply as possible; but with a
horse for work the object is to give him
muscle in common language.hard flesh.
There are times when it is profitable to
make a horse fat, as, for instance, when
he is going up for sale. For this pur
pose an addition of about a pound and
a half of oil cake to his ordinary food
has a good effect. It is especially use
ful when a horse that has been closely
clipped or singed is in a low condition.
It helps on the change to the new coat
by making him fat. A horse in low
condition changes his coat very slowly.
When from any cause there is difficul
ty in getting a supply of the best oats,
an excellent mixture may be made of
crushed maize aud beans, and the pro
portion of two-thirds of maize and one
of beans, which exactly afford the pro
portions of flesh-forming and fat-forming
food. Bran is a very valuable food
in a stable for reducing the inflamma
tory effect "of oats and beans. Made
into mashes, it has a cooling and laxa
tive effect; but used in excess, especially
in a dry state, it is apt to form stony
secretions in the bowels of the horse.
Stones, produced from the excessive use
of bran, have been taken out of horses
after death weighing many pounds.
London Live Stock Journal.
Unrden Nates.
Grated horse chestnuts mixed with
ten times their bulk of water, will expel
worms from the soil in flower pots.
Many farmers think it doesn't pay to
bother with much gardening; but a
good, large garden, well planted and
well worked, will give a liberal profit
from .the . sale of surplus vegetables,
after supplying the home' table the
season through with all the vegetables
desired.
A good supply of manure for a garden
may be made from the refuse of any
household. A shallow pit may be made
and some chaff, short straw, the con
tents of a worn mattress, grass, sodr,
weeds, woolen rags, burned bones,
waste from the kitchen, wood-ashes,
chimney sweepings, scrapings of roads,
earth, chip-dust, saw-dust, manure from
the poultry-house, old boots and shoes
chopped into shreds, and all such mat
ters may be thrown into this pit, and the
waste slops of the house, soap-suds, etc.,
may be thrown upon them. In the
course of a year a large pile can be
gathered , and if a cow and a fowchickeus
are kept the waste from these may add
largely to the heap. The heap should
be built up squarely and hollow at the
top. A bag of bone-dust added to the
pile would greatly increase its value,
aud a stock of manure that would cost at
least ten dollars to purchase could thus
be made. A pile six feet square and
three feet high would richly fertilize a
good sized garden, and help to produce
sufficient vegetables to supply a large
family.
Household Hints.
Mutton and Beef. Four pounds of
beef lose one pound by boiling, and a
pound and five ounces by roasting, and
one pound three ouuees by baking.
Four pounds of mutton lose fourteen
ounces by boiling, ond one pound six
ounces by roasting, and one pound four
ounces by bakiug.
Orii Out of Woolen. You can get a
bottle or barrel of oil off any carpet or
woolen stuff by applying dry buckwheat
plentifully. Never put water to such a
grease spot, or liquid of any kind.
To Makb Toast- Watku. Toast some
fcliccs of bread quite brown, put them in
a pitcher, and pour on them boiling
water, and let it steep.
Bed Clothes. On getting up in the
morning the bed clothes should be
thrown over a chair by the open window,
to air for two or three hours before the
bed is made np; otherwise the sheets
and coverlids and be s, being charged
with the moisture of perspiration, be
come unwholesome.
Heat. More than nine-tenths of the
heat of a common grate or fireplace, be
ing lighter than the atmosphere and
subject to a direct draft, passes np the
chimney and is wasted.
Why Do Eggs Spoil t
We find lining the shell a thick skin,
which when kept in a healthy conditian
by the albumen of the egg is impervi
ous to air, but if the egg remains in
oue-'position too long the yolk being
heavier than the albumen gradually
sinks through it and comes in contact
with the skin. As it has none of the
qualities requisite for keeping the skin
lubricated and healthy, the skin bo
comes dry and pervious to the air, which
penetrates it to the yolk, causing the
mass to rot. Therefore the true plan is
is to keep the yolk in its central posi -
tion. By doing this the egg can be pre
served for a long time. My plau for
accomplishing this is to take a keg or
barrel'and pauk the eggs on the side end
to end, laying a tier around next to the
staves so continuing until a layer is
made, and so on until the barrel is full.
Use oats for packing. Jar them down
as much as is required to deep them
firmly in their places, and head up the
barrel ready for market. By rolling the
barrel about a quarter around every few
days, the yolks of the eggs will be kept
a requireo.. Amerioan UtooM Journal
A Tirglnia Tragedy of the Past,
Among the numerous moss-grown eld
tomb -stones in the graveyard of
Williamsburg, Va., is one which bears
the following inscription:
Sacred to the memory of
SARAH SEMPHTXJi,
Who died at the age of twenty -five,
slain, with her two infant daugh
ters, by her own husband.
She was fair to look upon, pure as snow,
and beloved by all who knew her.
Divine Providence alone knows
why she had to perish so
miserably.
This epitaph, some of the words of
which are hardly legible any longer, is
the only record left of one of the most
terrible tragedies that ever took place in
the Old Dominion.
It was in 1798 that John Semphill, a
young man, who said he was from Santa
Cruz, in the West Indies, arrived at
Williamsburg and settled there as a
tobacco planter. He had plenty of
money, and was able to purchase about
one thousand acres of the finest soil
within a short distance of the old town.
Being apparently a gentleman in every
sense of the word, Mr. Semphill was
admitted to the best society in his new
home, and a year later he was married
to Sarah Jones, a beautiful heiress, the
wedding festivities being celebrated with
extraordinary pomp and splendor. In
course of time two daughters were born
to the young couple, and everybody
predicted a long career of cloudless hap
piness for them. Alas I How terribly
those bright anticipations were to be
disappointed. It was on Christmas eve,
in 18ul, that a strange-looking man, in
a sort of military uniform, appeared at
the house of Mr. Semphill, who was in
Richmond at the time. Mrs. Semphill
received the stranger in the parlor.
" Do you speak French, madam ?" he
said to her iu very broken English.
She replied in the affirmative.
" Then, madam, please send your two
nurse-girls with the children out of the
room."
She did so, and looked interrogatively
at her visitor. The latter hesitated a
moment. Then he said in a tono of deep
emotion:
"Poor lady, I have terrible tidings
for you."
" Heavens 1" she cried, turning very
pale; " my husband "
"Your husband is an infamous vil
lain." " Sir 1" she exclaimed, indignantly.
" He has basely deceived you. Ho is
an escaped galley slave, a thief and a
murderer I
She uttered a heart-rending scream.
" Do you tell me the truth ?" she
gasped.
" He is a Spanish thief, and was sent
to the galleys of Barcelona for lite, lie
made his escape from thence, and fled
f m n It ii nrl-toi-a tin v.itiliod nn1 iyiiii.1oi,i1
A rich planter. I am here to take him to
Cuba, where the scaffold surely awaits
him."
The afflicted lady had become strangely
calm.
" Sir," she said to the stranger, " be
fore you arrest him, will you permit me
to hold a private interview with
with"
" His true name is Juan CeBrio. If
you will let me remain in an adjoining
room until he returns from Richmond,
where he has gone, I uuder&tund, you
may see him privately."
"I expect him back every moment.
Half au hour later, Cefirio, alias Semp
hill mado his appearance. His wife
briefly told him everything. He flew
into a terrible rase. He shot her t hroueh
the heart, aud rushed out of the room to
the nursery, where he stabbed his two
little daughters. The next moment the
Cuban officer, who had rushed after
him, grappled with him, aud suooetvWM,
after a desperate struggle, iu shaokliu
him. The news of tins horrible- tragedy
spread like wildfire through the old
town, and in less than twenty minutes a
large course of people had gathered in
front of Semphill alias Ce Brio's house.
Vociferous threats to lynch tho murder
er were made, and the deputy sheriffs,
who were promptly on hand to arrest
him, had the utmost difficulty iu taking
him to jail, where he wus chained to the
floor, having threatened to commit sui
cide.
The villain was hung on the 17th of
May, 1803.
Words of Wisdom.
Common sense is nature's gift, but
reason is an art.
The man who assumes to kuow every
thing generally knows very little about
anything.
To be comfortable and contented,
spend less than you can earn, an art
which few have learned.
Knowledge, when the possession of
only a tew, has always been turned into
iniquitous purposes.
It is easy to piok holes in other peo
ple's work, bet it is far more profitable
to do better work yourself.
When we are young we waste a great
deal of time in imagining what we will
do when we grow older; and when we
are old we waste an equal amount of
time in wondering why we waited so
Ipng before we began to do anything.
Honor your engagements. If you
promise to meet a man, or do a certain
thing at a certain moment, be ready at
the appointed time. If you go out en
business, attend promptly to the matter
in hand, and then as promptly go about
your own business. Do not stop to tell
stories in business hours. If you have
a place of business, be found there when
wanted.
Contempt naturally implies a man's
esteeming himself greater than the per
son whom he contemns.' He, therefore,
that slights, that contemns an affront,
is properly superior to it; aud he con
quers an in jurv who conquers his resent
ment of it. S XJrates. being kicked by
an ofh, did not think it a revenge proper
i l - -i- i. T
iur oooruitB to kick me ass again.
Wantxd. Mould for growing flowers
of speech. A handkerchief for the weep,
iog willow. E eotricity for thunders of
applause. Teeth for the mouth of a
river. Gloves for the hands of ft clock.
Spokes for the ladder of fame. A few
grains of e tmmon sense to sow in the
hot beds of rowdyism and orime,
Kerns of Interest,
Coming to blows The fruit trees.
Indians are not at all contagious. They
are very difficult to catch.
When do one's teeth usurp the func
tions of his tongue? When they are a
chattering.
" Experience is a dear teacher "old
maxim. Not half so dear as a pretty
school marm.
When is a mad bull as objeotionable
as an absent husband? When it is
getting on towards one.
The Minneapolis fire has raised the
question, "Will dust explode?" We
have known it to blow up.
Ten per cent, of the husband's income
is what it is legally decided in England
he shall pay for his wife's dresses.
" Brilliant and impulsive people,"
says an exchange, "have black eyes."
Impulsive people are only too apt to get
black ey.s.
The amount of British capital invested .
in various Wiys in the United States
and American securities of all descrip
tions is roughly estimated at $700, 000,
000.
A wit, on being asked what are the
most common monosyllables in the
language answered: "1 don't know; but
the most common money symbols are
I. O. U.
"What are Russia's terms t" asked ft
visitor, referring to the San Stefano
treaty. " Two dollars a year, in ad
vance," replied the abstracted editor.
Ilawlccye.
While a little girl was playing in a
graveyard at New Lexington, Ohio, the
other day, she suddenly ran against a
gravestone, which fell over upon her,
inflicting fatal injuries.
The United States sold to France in
1876, $52,900,000 worth of raw cotton
and other stuffs, and bought in return
$45,920,000 worth of silks, velvets, dress
goods, and ether articles.
A man at Evansville, lad., in a fit of
jealousy, cut his wife's eyes with a
butcher knife for the purpose of " spoil
ing her beauty." The unfortunate
woman will be totally blind for the rest
of her life.
When you rut your pen-holder be
hind your ear be sure that you have the
pen to the front. Ideas of great pro
fundity are sometimes banished hope
lessly from tho mind by failing to ob
serve this rule.
In 1877 there were 2.9D9.G77 electors
in Great Britain and Ireland, or more
than one in twelve of the population.
There are about nine million qualified
voters in the United States, or one in
every five of the population.
It's all very well to talk about econo
my, but the difficulty is to get anything
to economize. The little baby who puts
his toes in his mouth is almost tho only
person who in these hard times man
ages to make both ends meet.
Scene in a ear: Seats all occupied.
Lndy enters. Elderly gentleman rises.
"Dou't rise, I beg of you. I much pre
fer yon should keep your f-eat, sir."
"Should be very happy to accommodate
you, madam; but I want to get oat
here."
A. B. Robeson has probably the larg
est poultry yards iu New York. He
keeps 6,000 ducks, 4,000 turkeys aud
1,200 hens. They consume sixty bush
els of corn, two barrels of potatoes and
other food daily. His fowl hout-o cost
$7,000.
Ho was fully six feet tall, yet he
straightened up and exclaimed: "Talk
ing of short men, look at me!" and no
one could tell what he meant until he
turned both pockets wrong side out and
saped, "Who is there in the crowd
that'll lend me a quarter?"
Te Emperor of Austria, on his visit
to Veutie in lS75,conferred a decoration
npon a colonel of the Italian army in
command of the fortress of Mantua.
The latter, in accordance with the rules
of the service, was compelled to accept
it; but a few weeks ago, having resigned
his commission, he at ouce returned the
decoration to the Austrian Government,
snying that he did not wish t hold aty
honors from Emperor Francis Joph,
who in 1852 had caused his brother to
be (.hot aud had condemned himself la
Co tamo death.
How a Man Reduced His Sixe.
Bnuting, "Undertaker io the queen
and royal family," recently died ut the
age of eighty-five. He invented a sys
tem of diet hich became as famous in
our age as that of the Cirnaro was three
centuries ago. In a curious pamphlet
which he wrote, and which had a cosmo
politan circulaf ion some ten years ago,
Mr. Banting related his sufferings from
his enormous obeisity in terms as mov
ing as those of "Falstaff." For years
he had not tied his shoes, and he was
obliged to walk down stairs backwards,
lest the protuberant weight of his trunk
should pitch him down head foremost.
He adopted a regimen by whieh he
gradually shrunk himself within such
bounds that he became quite a nimble
pedestrian. The fact that he lived
through this process to die at the age of
eighty-five, may be taken to show that
abstinence from farinaceous and saccha
rine food worked as well in l is case as
living on an egg a day did in the case of
Cornaro. But others who have adopted
his system have fared worse. Still his
work has borne good fruit, if only in
making people think about what they
eat and drink in its relations to their
vitality as well as to their appetites; and
the man cannot be said to have lived in
vain who enriohed his native language
with a new verb, "to bant."
Unknown Regions of tho Globe.
According to an English writer there
are four vast areas wl io'i have never
been traversed by civi ia d man, and
which among themoonsiit ite about one
seventeenth of the wb.il i area of the
globe. Of these the greatest is
the Antarctio region, the extent of which
is about seventy-five times that of Great
Britain; the second lies about the North
Pole; the third is in Central Africa, and
the fourth in Western Australia. The
areas of these unknown regions of the
globe are estimated, approximately, at
about 11,600,000 square miles