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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher- NILi DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. X. KIDGAVAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., 'THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1880. NO. 1.
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The Sifting of Peter,
A FOLK-BOKO.
" Behold, Satan hath dosirad to hnvn yon,
that he may silt you as wheat." St. Luke
xxii. 31.
. In St. Luke's Gospel we are told
How Peter in the days of old
Was silted;
And now, though ages intervene,
Sin is the same, while time and scene
Are shiitod.
Satan desires us, great and small,
As wheat, to silt ns, and we all
Are tempted;
Hot one, however rich or great,
Is by his stationor estate
Exempted.
No house so safely guarded is
But he, by some device ol his,
Can enter;
No heart liatli armor so complete
But he can pierce with arrows fleet
Its center.
For all at last the cock will crow
Who hrar the warning voice, but go
Unhccdiug;
Till thrice and more they have denied
The Man ol Sorrows, crucified
And bleeding.
One look ol that pale, suffering lace
Will make us feel the deop disgrace
Ol weakness;
We shall be sifted till the strength
Ol self-conceit be changed at length
To meekness.
Wounds ol the soul, though healed,
will ache,
The reddening scars remain, and make
Conlcfekm;
Lost innocence returns no moio;
Wo aie net what we were belore
Tiuniigre-sion.
Jlnl noble souls, through dust and hca,
Kisc lrom disaster and duleat
The Btronger,
AndcoiiEcionce still ot the divine
Within them, lie on earth supine
Xo longer.
H. W. Lonnf:llow,in Ilarprr'i Magnzin.
Th2 Romance of a Water-Co'or.
Pretty Marie Lawrence sat in the ele
gantly furnished library, dividing her
attentions between the book she had in
one lmnil nnd the sprightly little kitten
in her lap, which playfully toyed with
the trimming on her drew, when her
fat her entered, having returned from hie
office intent on getting the cream of i.ho
day's news before dinner was served by
a h,ty spanning of the daily papers.
"By the, way, Mario," lie said, rattier
absent-mindedly, aH he settlid into a
law easy chair, " there's a little paekagt
on the table in the hall which the ex
pressman loft at the office to-dav."
" For me, did you say, pa? Why, I'm
not expecting anything by express."
The matter was quickly settled by
M:n ie going into the hall and returning
with a package about an inch and a half
thick and perhaps a foot by a foot and a
half square. There could be no mistake
about it, for there were the name and
address as plain as could be. The small
rpd label showed that it hud come from
New York,
" 1 don't see what it is or wtiom it is
from," she said, as she laid it down to go
in pursuit of something with which to
cut the binding cord and wrapper.
A moment inter she held at arms'
lei.gth a little landscape done in water
colors and enclosed in an artistic gold
leaf frame.
She was not long in recognizing the
locality, however, from which it was
sketched, for it was perfectly fami iar
to her, being the old mill in the town
where she spent a portion of every sum
mer. Yes, there was the pond stretch
ing back till it was lost in the distance;
and the little stream as it crossed the
roadway under the single-arched stone
bridge seemed true to nature. How
often had she visited that old mill.raade
dear to her perhaps by girlhood's mem
ories! But who was the artist that had
Eainted it, and, why had it been sent to
err
Sur enough, among her long list of
acquaintance there was not a single
artist.
In the lower right-hand corner there
was a cipher which had escaped her
scrutiny, and which on closer examina
tion took the form of "J. II."
Mr. Lawrence regarded the picture
for a minute, and as he handed it batik
to his daughter he said that, whoever
the author of il was lie was far from be
ing a novice, for such blending of light
and shade was rarely seen.
The remainder of the household were
taken into the library after dinner to
look at the picture, and many were the
utterances in admiration of it, and
many were the surmises as to why it
had been so unexpectedly sent to Marie.
1 he mother said that probably it would
be explained in good time. And sure
enough, for the next morning's mail
brought a letter for Miss Lawrence
winch partially cleared up he mystery.
And so Jerome Hart is a : artist nnd
strive to enter into com pondence
with ni, does he!" and Marie stamped
her pretty foot in an impetuous manner
and threw the letter to hermotl or
Mrs. Lawrence read it slowly, .iid as
she returned it to the envelope she
asked her daughter if she had any idea
who Mr. Hart was.
"Not the faintest, only that the letter
says he is an artist nnd has his studio at
No. 155 street. New York," came the
response, "and he must be as poor in
judgment as such people generally are
in pocket to send me a picture one day,
followed by a letter on the next, saying
that he has had a desire for some time to
know me, and trusts that I will keep
the fcketcli, which of course means to
start a correspondence with the fellow
by writing u note of acceptance," she
continued, showing her displeasure as
much in her expression as in her speech.
." r be suro." Mrs. Lawrence said.
it was a peculiar way of seeking an
acquaintanceship which must ot course
loilow Bhould the picture be kept," and
she quickly decided that it must be re
tur , V So tLo next express tojfew
oik bore the package which had
created the admiration and at last the
dirp'"asure ol the family. A letter
written by Mrs. Lawrence was placed
within the package, in which she briefly
but concisely stated that she could not
for a moment think of her daughter
keeping tho waf er-color without the ac
quaintance, by legitimate means, of its
painter. Surely, Mr. Hart's letter was
on its face honest in purpose, but there
was no alternative; the rules of eti
quette must not be disregarded, or the
lovely Marie mieht become connected
with a vagabond adventurer.
Months passed, but the circumstance
would not free itsell from Marie's mind,
and her father nnd mother had spoken
of it more than once.
One day the mail brought a letter to
M iss Lawrence from Margery Lovejoy,
a dear friend, who summered at the
same rural town with her, and who,
womanlike, pretended to be a regular
correspondent; but it was only when
she had some bit of news of a social na
ture to communicate that she ever
wrote.
" Do you know, Marie," wrote Miss
Lovejoy, " that I have found out the
name and all about the young gentle
man with the fine, manly face and lovely
physique who stopped at Dixon's
up at Grosvenordale for a week last
summer. You will remember him, and
how we used to drive our heads almost
crazy with wondering why he took such
long walks every day, always carrying
a portiolio under his arm. There is one
thing which you will certainly remem
ber, and that is that you did nothing
but rave over him, and when he caught
your eye one afternoon, as we passed
him while out strolling, you declared
that you knew you could love him with
just a little urging. Well, I won't keep
you in suspense any longer. A short
time ago I went to New York to visit
my aunt Julia, and one evening cousin
Tom took me to the theater, where
almost the first face I noticed was that
of our or your -admiration of last
summer. After making sure that there
was no mistake, I asked Tom if he knew
who the young gentleman was, point
ing him out in an unobserved way with
my fan, and he said it was young Hart
Jerome Hart, he believed and that
he was the young man whose water
color paintings were exciting the ad
miration of every one who saw them,
artists and connoisseurs alike. When
my cousin saw that my interest was not
mere curiosity he told me that Mr.
Hart was received everywhere, not be
cause he was a person of wealth or
family, but because he was a person of
rare refinement nnd marked genius.
Everybody said that his fame would be
world-wide in a few years."
Marie could not deny that she had
thought of the young gentleman daily
since her country sojourn so much so,
in fact, that she fancied that lur heart
had becomed steeled against any one
else, although the subject of her growing-
affection was unknown by name.
When she read the name her heart gave
a jump. Yes, it was the same person
who sent her the picture a few months
previous. To think that it was the one
whose image was so impressed upon tier
heart.
For days her brain was in a whirland
her agony was intense.
"Oh!" cried she, "why were wo so
hasty in deciding to return Mr. Hart's
picture and letter? He is gone from me
forever. I shall never know him."
She kept her grief to herself, not car
ing to tell her parents, and tried hard to
hide 'her sorrow, and to appear in her
accustomed joyous spirit; but il was of
no use : she could never forget the young
artist, nnd could never forgive herself
or her mother for their hasts in giving
propriety its proper accord.
Four years later Marie, at the age oi
twenty-two, found herself the wife of a
moderately well- to-docountry physician.
Slie had married Dr. Ostrnndcr, not so
much that she had any love for him. but
that it was the desire of her father, who
had from an early period doted on the
union of the Ostrander and Lawrence
families, the doctor's father having-been
a college churn of Mr. Lawrence, and.
they had become more and more at
tached after leaving college, their ho:nes
being favorably situated for such friend
ship. Six months before her betrothal all
the New York dailies and journals de
voted to art had contained lengthy
notices of the departure of Jerome Hart
for Europe, where he had gone to reside
in furtherance of his profession, and
where his ability would be accorded the
attention it so richly deserved.
Marie made the physician a good wife
considering her regard for him ceased
with admiration, and they were con
tented and happy. His practice wis
quite extensive, and he had accumulated
some property during the three years
he had been there, having wedded Marie
a year after entering into the active
duties of his profession. It was with
tender hands that she nursed him dur
ing a lingering summer fever, but the
disease seemed to baffle the skill of his
attendants, and just as the sun wns
sinking in the west on a sultry August
afternoon his soul took flight to the bet
ter world, and Marie wns a widow.
A few months were spent in the set
tlement oi the estate, and when a pur
chaser for the little house had been
found, Mrs. Ostrander, not caring tore
tain it, returned to her old home.
Even the luxuriant abiding place of
her youth seemed to have lost its
charms, and she daily grew paler, until,
by the advice of her physician, her
parents and friends, she decided to take
a foreign trip, in hopes that a change
of climate and scene would rally her to
her old self.
So in the early spring it was decided
that she should go abroad with Mr. and
Mrs. Lovejoy, who were to spend a
year andi a half in travel.
The little party spent a month in visit
ing places of interest in England nnd
Scotland, and then went to Norway nnd
Sweden; and it was not till the winter
season that they arrived in Paris, at
that time being in its gayest attire.
Mrs. Ostrander gained considerable, and
the last letter from Mrs. Lovejoy to
Margery said that they had great hopes
of bringing her around to the bright
and robust woman that they had so
wished for.
Among the few Parisians whom Mr.
Lovejoy had letters of introduction to
was M. Meunier, an exceedingly refiued
gentleman and a pleasai.t acquaint
ance. Several times he had tola them
of the royal academy exhibition, and
explained to them that it was there that
the best artists of all Europe entered
their productions for prize competition,
and so great was the strife that who
ever was fortunate enough to take even
a second or third prize his star was as
cending to the zenith of notoriety,
and when a first prize was awarded
an artist it gave him rank with
the leaders of the various de
partments. M. Meunier cad promised
to take them to the gallery on the very
nrst opportunity when others than
members of the societv were admitted.
At last, on a pleasant afternoon, his liv
eried establishment drew up in front of
their stopping place, and a minute later
the three Americans were in high glee,
for their benefactor had brought the in
formation that the snrlon would he
thrown open on . the morrow, but
through the kindness of a friend, a
member of the academy, he had obtained
permission to take his friends there on
that afternoon, and he would call at
three for (hem. To be thus favored
seemed to have a noticeable effect on
the whole party, and it is almost need
less to say they were in readiness some
minutes before the time appointed for
the start. Marie gave several expres
sions of her enjoyment during her drive
to the gallery, and by the time the build
ing was reashed she was the happiest of
the party.
An hour or more was spent in the de
partments of sculpture and drawing, and
nearly an hour in the grand gallery
where the paintings were exhibited. It
was understood that this was but a fly
ing visit; they would give a day to each
of the departments later in the season.
It was getting late in the afternoon
when M. Meunier suggested that they
should go to the water-color department
his Javorite room, he expressed it.
Marie was beginning to show signs of
fatigue, but ol course she would oblige
him.
After the pictures on one side of the
room hnd been hurriedly examined, and
the party finding they would be lata for
djnner unless they made haste, M. Meu
nier proposed to cross to the opposite
side to see a famous picture, and then
they would depart.
" Why, what is the matter with
Marie P See, she is ill!" came the quick
words from Mrs. Lovejoy, who was the
first to notice her blanched face as she
stood like a monument with eyes riveted
on the picture which their escort had
taken them to see the picture of a
country mill with its pond at the side
and a single arched bridge spanning the
stream as it crossed the roadway as if in
a nurry to get away lrom the ponderous
wheel which but a moment before had
made use of it. Marie would have fallen
to the floor had not the two gentlemen
made haste in supporting her.
A few minutes later sne was assisted
to the carriage, and the driver was told
to lose no time in reaching the hotel, a
mile distant. On the way Mrs. Ostrander
came out ol her swoon sufficiently to
realize that her friends were deeply dis
tressed about her.
" It was only a sudden attack of a
heart trouble, something she wns sub
ject to," she said.
She wns taken to her apartment im
mediately on arriving at the hotel, nnd
her friends who had accompanied her
up-stairs, fearing that she was going to
to be seriously ill, were lold to have no
alarm. "'No, it was unnecessary to call
a physician," she said. Mrs. Lvcjoy
remained with her until midnight, when
her patient fell into a sound sleep.
The next morning Marie was a trifle
late at breakfast, nnd when she came
down it was noticed that her face which
had begun to have some color in it, was
still quite pale, but she appeared quite
cheerful, and inquired after their friend,
but made no allusion to the "occurrence
of the day before.
Early that afternoon he called to in
quire after the healt h of Mrs Ostrander,
and she went alone to their private re
ception room to se him, her com
panions beingabscnton a shopping trip
He was delighted to find tier able to
see him, and hoped she had fully re
covered. Had he kept them too long at.
the academy f
Mrs. Ostrander assured him that such
was not the case, and when asked if she
enjoyed the visit, aside from her illness,
she replied that until they went to the
water-color department it had been very
pleasant. She then, in- answer to a
second interrogation, told him that the
sight of the picture of the old mill
brought up an unpleasant remembrance
which, she was frank to say, was in a
measure the cause of her fainting.
"How peculiar," said he, "that that
picture of all should tend to make one
ill. On the contrary that was the most
noted work of art in the entire collec
tion. Why." he continued, " that is the
masterpiece of Hart, the eminent water
color artist, who was taking all Europe
by storm by his brush. It had taken
the grand prize, and its value iu itself
was a fortune. Had she naver heard of
Jerome Hart? He was an American,
he believed."
"I have heard of him," she replied
faintly, and then she asked to be ex
cused as she was afraid that rhe was
going to have a headache, and Mr. and
Mrs. Lovejoy coming in at that moment
relieved the gentleman of embarrass
ment. ' Is it destiny P" Marie murmured, as
she threw herself upon the sola in her
room, and gave way to the tears which
she had kept from the gaze of Mr.
Meunier during a part of their short in
terview by only the greatest exertion.
She took her tea nnd breakfast with
out going down, and when Mrs. Love
joy came to her room for the third or
lourtu time she was assured that it was
only a headache, and that she would be
down in time for lunch at noon.
That afternoon she thought she did
not ieel well enough to go out with Mr.
and Mrs. Lovejoy, and consequently
they started alone.
As soon as they had departed Marie
hastened to her room and dressed for
going out, and in less than a half hour
she entered a cab, which was in waiting
for her, having been ordered by one of
the hotel attendants, nnd drove oil'
alone, going cirect to the academy
She crowded her way through the
immense throng until she stood before
the picture of the old mill. Yes, there
was the same cipher before her that she
had seen six years before. To be sure
it was not the same picture, but the
same scene in larger form and more
minute in detail and finish ; but it wasJ
As she stood there it had another in
tent admirer, she thought, although the
surging column of peoplo at her back
made general expressions of comment
as iney passed it. it was a gentleman,
she eould see without raisin er her eves.
and when she did look up she found that
his gaze was not directed on the picture
but at her.
"At last!" were the only words he
spoKe, as lie grasped both her Hands in
his.
Mrs. Ostrander had an escort on tier
homeward ride, and before he bad left
the hotel it had all been explained
How he had seen her at the little village
of Grosvenordale. and from the time he
had caught her glance when passing her
on tne way back to his boarding place,
from a short sketching trip, he had a
longing for her acquaintance, and had
nuisned up tne very sketch ot that day,
and learning her name and address from
the Dixons before his departure the
next day, he had taken the liberty of
sending ner tne water-color, although
with the conviction that it was just a
trifle improper, but he couldn't help it.
For a couple of days his suspense was
agonizing, and when the picture came
back accompanied by the freezing letter
he was almost broken-hearted. From
that time he had loved hert
Conveniently removed from Paris, in
a suburban district, is now a charming
villa, where Jerome Hart, justly caHed
the greatest water-color artist in the
world, and his wife live the happiest of
mortals. In the richly furnished draw
ing-room of the house hanirs a nictnrA
of the old mill, but not the one from the
royal academy. It is a smaller one, ann
Marie Hart thinks she likes it better.
. Deafness In Children.
The ear is subject to affections that im
pair its functions at the earliest neriod
of life; indeed, it is frequently found to
De aeiecuve at Dirin. ittiiaren are ex
posed to influences from which they sel
dom entirely escape without more or
less aural disease. Snch are the conse
auences f colds, which, when of lonir
continuance, are productive of enlarged
tonsils, enronio catarrn oi tne mouth,
throat and nose, the resulting svmt a-
thetic deafness in some instances being
BU KICIlb Limb AllOLl in lllipUSSl DIB,
and the child is unable to learn to talk.
It is then a deaf mute. 1
The fact should not be lost sitrht of
that at this early period of existence the
function of hearing is etude, and re
quires gradual cultivation for its devel
opment, ani that any deafness should
be promptly met. Thus the hearing of
children ought to be often tested, and
although accurate results may be diffi
cult of obtainment, the knowledge
gained is advantageous.
Should an infant escape all other
causes of aural disease it encounters
at the seventh month a physiological
process in development that is frequent
ly the source of great irritation m the
mouth, and of sympathetic irritation in
the ears. I refer t j the cutting of the
teeth, which usually begins at this age.
That this period is fraught with special
danger to the organ of hearing is well
recognized Dy ootn mothers and nurses,
who have long considered teething as in
some way connected with earache.
Every one of the first twenty teeth in
perforating the gum is liable to be IIiub
heralded. Fortunate, therefore, is the
infant who has passed its second year,
the period at which first dentition is
concluded, without having experienced
aural irritation.
These first teeth, however, are sub.
iect to premature decay, as well as a
natural absorption of their roots, before
the second dentition begins. From this
cause sympathetic aural trouble often
arises, and frequently continues while
the second teeth are cutting.
About the sixth year, as stated, the
second or permanent teeth begin to
make their appearance, nnd at the thir
teenth year they have all been cut. with
the exception of the wisdom-teeth.
These second teeth nre promoters of
even pore disturbance in the ears than
the first; the earaches ana discharges
are more persisten' , the complications
it) general more grave. Subsequent to
tli tg period there is si cessation of rten
tafirritation. although established dis
charges from the ears are liable to con
tinue on indefinitely.
lae foregoing remarks will serve to
draw attention to the liability existing
in youth to frequently recurring attacks
of earache, each one of which leaves the
conductive mechanism in a worse con
dition than before, repeated invasions
finally leaving behind irreparable in
jury. In these cases, even when com
parativcly unimportant as respects
pain, competent advice cannot be too
early obtained, for the longer they are
neglected the less amenable to treat
ment they become.
Certain diseases of childhood verv
frequently affect the ears; such are scar
let fever, measles, diphtheria, cerebro
spinal meningitis, whooping-cough,
nnd mumps. During the attacks of
these diseases, and even when conval
escence has been established, although
earache may be absent, occasional ex
aminations of the ears should be made,
in order that, if affected, they may re
ceive early attention. Deafness is
usually an early symptom of most aund
affections; but, on the contrary, in some
instances very considerable impairment
of the drum cavity and its contained
mechanism txlsts without any percepti
ble impairment of hearing.
it is believed that a very small per
centage of the adult population possess
normal hearing, which fact greatly de
pends on the neglect in childhood to
which allusion has above been made.
Or. tsamutl Sexlon, tn Harper.
k Puzzled Minister.
An old gentleman lrom the East, of a
clerical aspect, took the stage from
Denver South in ante-railroad davs.
The journey was not altogether a safe
one, and he was not reassured by the
sight of a number of rifles deposited in
the coach, and nervously asked for what
iney were.
Perhaps you'll find out before you
git to the Divide," was the cheering
lepiy.
Among the nasseneers was a narticn-
larly (it seemed to him) fierce-looking
man, girded with a belt full of revolvers
and cartridges, and clearly a road agent
or assassin. Some miles out this person.
taking out a large flak. asked :
oiranger. oo you irrigate!"'
" If you mean drink, sir, I do not."
" Do you object, stranger, to our irri
gating?1' "No, sir." And they drank accord
ingly. Alter a further distance had beerJ
traversed, ine supposed brigand again
asked : " Stranger, do you fumigate?"
" If you mean smoke, sir, I do not."
"Do you object, stranger, to our fumi
gating?" "No, sir." And they proceeded to
smoke.
At the dining place, when our friend
came to tender his money, the proprie
tor said : " Your bill's paid,"
"Who paid it P"
"That man" pointing to the sup
posed 1ighwayman, who, on being asked
if he had not made a mistake, replied :
" Not at all. You see, when we saw
that you didn't irrigate and didn't fumi
gate, we knew that you was a parson.
And your bills are all riirht as lonir as
you travel with this crowd. We've got
a respect for the church you bet!" It
was no highwayman, but a respectable
resident of Denver. Harper" t "Drawer."
Thirty-tour years of constantly-increasing
use havo established a - reputation for l)r.
Bull's Cough Syrup second to no similar pre
partition. It relieves instantly and oures all
roughs, colds, eto.
FARM. GARDEN AKD HOUSEHOLD.
Prnnlns Orchards.
This work is often done, apparently.
for no other purpose than to do some
sort of perfunctory work in backing up
the trees. Trees should be pruned and
thinned out, and so, with axe in hand,
the owner goes over them and butchers
them miserably. The rough wounds
inflicted do not henl, but rot begins, and
in a short time the trees are useless, if
not dead. How rare is it to come
across a good-looking old orchard, ven-
i-1 - Y. i. i . i i i J
erauie wiui age, out vet tniii, neai, nuu
sound in limb and trunk. Fruit trees
exist in Europe that are historical in
their age, and in this country there are
trees from which the old Indian tribes
gathered fruit before they were crowded
from the banks of the beautiful Dela
ware. But now. an orchard thirty years
old is a ruin, and unless trees are planted
every few years, a farmer must buy
liis fruit. Much of this is due to the
rough pruning the trees undergo, and
more to the continual cropping of the
orchards. Perhaps something of it is
owing to the root grafting which does
not seem to produce long-lived tr es.
top-grafted trees seeming to bo more
vigorous than others. But bad pruning
has much to answer for. One cannot
prune by system. Each tree must be
studied separately and in regard to some
definite principles. For instance, prun
ing is intended to relieve the tree of use
less or superabundant wood; to take
awav less important branches that
crowd and press upon others ; to reduce
the quantity of bearing wood, and so
preserve tne vitality and balance ol the
tree; lastly, to remove disfigured,
blighted and diseased wood . Now,
with these rules in mind, let one ex
amine carefully each tree before he cuts
away a twig, and note where and what
he should cut away, and then mind how
he cuts. No axe should be used about a
tree except to cut it down when it cum
bers the ground. A sharp, fine-toothed,
long, narrow-biaded saw is the proper
pruning implement. A sharp knife with
a curving blade that makes a draw-cut.
and a pot of shellac varnish should go
with the saw. Everything that is re
moved should be cut close to the main
wood, trimmed smoothly with the knife,
and the wound covered with the var
nish. The varnish is shellac dissolved
in alcohol. This leaves a water and air
proof covering over the ground. The
work may be Tbegun now and continued
ns opportunity offers. There need then
be no hurry. Young trees should be
put in training now for future Drunine.
Three or four main limbs only should
beieit, so as to balance the Jiead. All
in-growing shoots should be removed
.close to the main branch, so that no bud
is leit to sprout, r.acu mam side limb
may fork into two or three sub
branches, spreading fan-like around the
central limb, if there is one. The sub
branches should be encouraged to start
low, so that a low, round, compact,
spreading head may be produced. Much
may be.Mone in forming tke head by
tying down or hanging weights upon
limbs tluit ai-e inclined to wander from
the wav thev should en. so that; whnn
they are old they will not depart from
it. "As the tree is bent the tree is in
clined," and a piece of hemp twist will
soon bring a crooked young tree into a
regular una handsome form.
Heclpes.
Shai-k Cakes, Beat the yolks of four
eggs and then the whites to a froth. Then
add a quart of flour and a quart of milk.
To he baked iu small shape tins previ
ously greased.
Sandeks or Coi.i Bekv. Mince beef
(or mutton or veal) small, with pepper
and salt; ndd a little gravy. Put it into
scallop shells, or a baking dish, with
mashed potatoes nnd cream. Put a bit
of butter on the top, and brown them in
an oven.
Omelet A dish made according to
the recipe given below is called by the
Poultry yard an omelet: Three pounds
of beet, chopped fine; three eggs, beaten
together; six crackers, rolled tine; one
tablespoonful of salt, one teaspoenful of
pepper, one tablespoonful of m?lted
butter, sage to the taste, mix well and
make like a loaf of bread ; put a little
water and bits of butter into the pan;
invert another pan over it; baste the
omelet occasionally ; bake an hour and a
quarter, and when cold slice very thin.
Pudding. One quart milk, four eggs
one cup breast-crumbs, one-half cup
jam, one-half cup sugar. Butter a pud-ding-dish;
sprinkle the bottom with
bread-crumbs; pour over these one half
cup jam ; cover this with the rest of the
crumbs. Heat the milk till near boil
ing, take it from the fire and add gradu
ally the beaten yolks, whites and sugar;
heat this until it berins to thicken ; put
it spoonful by spoonful upon the layer
of crumbs. Bake until well set and
brown. Eat cold with cream.
Buckwheat Cakes. The best buck
wheat cakes are made with an addition
of cornmeal flout and oatmeal flour to
the buckwheat, in this proportion : Six
cupfuls of buckwheat, three cupfuls of
oatmeal flour, or if this cannot be ob
tained, substitute Graham flour in its
place, and one cupful of cornmeal flour;
to this add a dessert spoon evenly filled
with salt, two taolespoonfuls of molas
ses, and lukewarm water sufficient to
form a batter; stir through the flour
well lour teaspoon tuls ot baking powder
beiore wetting; but these cakes are
much better raised over night with
yeast.
Household Hints.
Tea loaves, used for keeping down the
dust when sweeping carpets, are apt to
stain ngtit colors ; salt is the best in the
winter and new mown hay in the
summer.
Buttermilk is excellent for cleaning
sponges. Steep the sponge in the milk
for some hours, then squeeze it out nnd
wash it in cold water. Lemon juice is
also good.
For the earache, toast an onion thor
oughly, take the heart out, put it into a
piece of flannel and insert it into the ear.
having previously put a few drops of
not water into me ear.
For soft corns dip a piece of linen
cloth in turpentine and wrap it round
the toe on which the corn is situated,
night and morning. The relief will be
immediate, and, after a few days, the
corn will disappear.
The white of an egg, into which a
piece of alum about the size of a walnut
has been stewed until it forms a iellv.
is a capital remedy for sprains. It
should be laid over the sprain upon
piece of lint and be changed as often SB
it becomes dry.
The vice-president of the New York
elevated railway states that the company
employs 2o,uoo men, and there are nei j
2,000 applioations for the firs vacancy
TIMELY TOPIC'S.
II. M. Stanley brought homo from
Africa the skulls of two animals railed
" sokos," which had been eaten by an
affable chief with whom he hobnobbed
one day, and Prof. Huxley at once
pronounced them to be human. But
Central America has now come forward
with the susmetu, and so far as sub
scriptions go at present this animal
would appear to come as near ourselves
as the soko, for the other natives of its
forests whom we call men and women
call the susmetu human.
When Washington was on his way to
Red Bank just 100 years ago he slept one
night at Chew's Landing, a village
which is also in New Jersey. Next
morning he wns surprised to find that
half the inhabitants had formed them
selves into a delegation to ask of him a
contribution toward a new Episcopal
church. He not only gave the contri
bution but signed the church book, and
so did Carroll of Carrollton. The book
has been religiously preserved in the
vestry, and every governor of New Jer
sey has for many years given something
to keep the building in order. Now,
however, it is to be torn down and a
commonplace brick church erected.
The German minister at Washington
has recently inquired, on behalf of his
government, for exact information ns to
the process by which the signal service
bureau so promptly collects at the wcr
department the meteorological report?
from all parts of the United States an
extent of territory greater than Europe
and so rapidly drafts and publishes
them upon the printed daily weather
map. This is a high compliment to
"old probabilities" and his staff. It
is understood that Germany proposes to
take a step forward in meteorological
observations; and all the assistance at
the hands of the war department has
been cheerfully given.
Some remarkable statements wrre
made by a prominent physician before
the class of the college of physicians
nnd surgeons at Buffalo the other day.
He announced that one-fifth of all man
kind die of consumption alone, and one
third of all from the ravages of tuber
cles upon the bodily organs, including
the lungs. Comparing this mortality
with that from yellow fever during the
epidemicof 1878, he said that it "would
require 450 years of such epidemics of
yellow fever to equal the devastation
wrought by consumption in a single
generation in this country alone, and
750 years of such work to equal the mor
tality caused by tubercles in one genera
tion in this country." These state
ments are appalling, but they are made
by a man who lias devoted the study of
a utc-time to tne subject.
Dr.Willard Parker, an eminent physi
cian and surgeon of New York, regards
our system ol caring lor the insane ns
radically wrong. The institutions nre
too large. Too much care and responsi-
bility are placed upon one man. It is a
physical impossibility for him to con
suit the peculiarities of each of several
hundred patients whose cases diller
entirely from one another. Each case
should be distinctly studied. He has.
besides, to superintend nnd manage the
institution and the grounds, to be
firmer, treasurer, etc. "As well ex
pect the captain of ore of our large
steamers to act also as stoker nnd ccok."
The buildings are too magnificent
They should be inexpensive, so that
when the wards become saturated with
disease they may be destroyed and
others erected. Some occupation should
be provided adapted to the patients'
conditions. Dr. Parker maintains that
nsanity is not diminishing in this
country, as under proper treatment it
ought to be.
Minnie Knrcll's fight with a burglar
in her room deserves to be immortalized.
She is a slight girl only eighteen years
of age, and tends her father's bakery in
JNew i oik. blie was awakened at nn
early hour in the morning by a man
standing over her bed, rtnd was told by
the burglar that if she screamed he
would kill her. Nothing daunted Min
nie screamed and at once struck the
burglar in the face with all tier might.
Quite a-tussle now ensued, the burglar
trying to escape lrom Minnie s grasp,
and she trying to hold him until her
father and the workmen from below
could come to her assistance. But the
robber broke away from Iter and made
his exit lrom a window, not. however.
until Minnie had recognized him as John
Gates, a resident of the next block.
V hen the police came they found Min
nie's bureau ransacked and all her best
clothes gone ; but fortunately they met
a man named Kogers in the street carry
ing a bundle of female wearing apparel
and arrested him. The clothing proved
to be Minnie's. They next went in
search of Oates and found him at a wake
next door to the bakery, coolly smoking
his pipe and condoling with the be
reaved family. Minnie gets her heroism
from her mother, who is dead. She
used to tell Minnie always to fight when
she got in trouble; and the old lady
acted upon this principle, for she hot-
sen used to take a club to all who came
to the bakery and didn't conduct them
selves with propriety.
I A Valuable Discovery.
Rome five nr six veai-8 aim a vrnincr
man was traversing the mountains, can
ons and valleys of Esmeralda county,
Nev., prospecting for gold nnd silver. As
no looked down on mo valley ot reel s
marsh he saw a vast bed of white sand
or something like it, and was temp ed
to descend and examine it. He iound
the place to be a dry lagoon, five miles
in length, and about halt as wide; and
what he had taken for sand proved to be
a Bolt clay like deposit, in which lie
sank ankle deep as he cautiously walked
over it. Filling his pockets with the
curious stun, lie mounted liis horse
again, and rode to his home in Colum
bus. There an assayer pronounced the
contents of his pockets the finest sam
ples of crude borax he had ever se n.
Ihe astonished prospector one of the
large family of Smiths lost no time in
making formal claim to this find: and
thai obtained, he and his brother went
to work with tanks, boilers, crystal
izers and all necessary appliances, and
are at the present writing, as the mas
ters of an immense establishment, driv
ing a very profitable trade, one likely to
be as permanent as possible, since the r'p
rosit oi borax in Teel's marsh repio
duces itself every two or three years.
KIssck.
Little child, whon twilight shadows
Close the western gates ot gold,
Then those loving arms ot mother's
Tenderly about thee fold.
Over lip, and cheek, and lorohead,
Like a shower caresses fall;
For a mother's kiss at twilight
Is the sweetest kits ol all.
Pretty maiden at the gateway,
Shy, sweet face and downeast eyes,
Two white, trembling hands imprisoned.
How the golden moment flies I
Lips that softly press thy forehead,
All the rosy blushes call ;
For a lover's kiss at twilight
Is the fondest kiss ot all.
Happy wife, thy noble husband,
More than half a lover yet
For those sunny hours oi wooing
Are loo sweet to soon forget
On thy smiling lips uplifted,
Full ot love bis kisses fall,
For a husband's kiss at purling
Is the dearest kiss of all.
Weary mother, little children
With their dimpled hands so fair,
Passing over cheek nnd forehead,
Soothe away all pain and care.
Lead your doubting henrt to heaven,
Where no dreary shadows fall,
For the kiss of sinless childhood
Is the purest kiss of all.
liote Hnrlwick Thorpe, in Free Prtii.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Jefferson Davis is seventy-two years
old.
" Before the wnr "Courting. Phila-
delphia Item.
A woodcutter never fells a tree against
its will. He always axes it first.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be
sniffed at, not swallowed. Boston
Traveller.
The man who eot hurt bv stonninir
suddenly said it was the result of his
bringing up.
Parnell has about $500,000 in Irish
real estate and $150,000 in American
securities.
Stanley liaR begun the ascent of the
Congo, well armed and equipped with all
kinds ot provisions and boats.
What part of the wheel makes the
most noise? Why, the spokes, man, of
course. Detroit Free Press. No; the
hub, bub. Dodon Povt.
The telephone is only about two years
old, but some of the jokes about it sound
as though they pre ragged when the
pyramids were young. Burlington
Hawktye.
Ex-Governor Shepherd of Washington
has a silver mine at Chihuahua, Mexico,
that yields $3,000,000 a year with no
apparatus except the old time arastras
and mule.
Mark Twain has furnished parents
with a valuable recipe for bringing up
boys: "Take 'em by the hair of the
hair," he says, " and you're pretty sure
to raise 'em."
" Stony Batter," the little log house
near Mereersburg, Pa., where President
Buchanan was born, is i-till standing.
" The Latin school " wbi h he attended
is also intact
France has just been nble, ten years
after the event, to figure up the cost to
tier ot the Franco-German war. It was
$3,000,000,000. aside from losses to com
merce and industry.
The San Francisco public library has
nut in electric lights in place of eas.
The monthly bill is reduced from $256 to
$90 and the lights burn till midnight,
while tho gas used to be shut oft' at 9 :30.
According to the Philadelphia Record,
by carelessly forgetting that lie invented
the telephone a month ahead of Bell or
Gray, Edison failed to recure a patent
for a device which to-day would be
worth $15,000,000.
"There's something about your
daughter," Mr. Waughop said, reflec
tively, "there's something about your
daughter" "Yes," said old Mr. This
tlcpod, " there is. I had noticed it my
self. It comes every evening about
eight o'clock, and it doesn't getaway
usually till jibout two o'cIock. And
some of these nights I am going to lift it
all the way from tLe front parlor to the
side gate and see what there is in it."
One Hundred and Eighteen Years Old.
A Washington correspondent writes;
Washington now claims, besides other
things, to have the oldest man in
America as one of its residents. The
oldest man is a colored man, Shadrach
Nugent by name, a Mary lander by birth,
but for over sixty years a resident of
Washington. He claims to have been
born about 1762, and that he is now over
118 years old. Many of them in this
section at least claim to have been at
times servants of Geori e Washington.
Nugent makes no such claim, though he
says lie often saw George Washington,
and that he has shaken hands with every
President that this country has had lrom
Washington down. Whether he is 118
yenrs old or not is not known to any
thing like a certainty, but he has docu
ments from mauy of the oldest and best
known citizens certifying that they had
known him from forty to sixty years.
The gentleman who says he has known
Nugent lor sixty years says he was at
least forty years of age when he came to
this city, and that he may have been
much older. This gentleman's letter was
written several years a;o, which makes
the proof tolerably clear that he is over
100 years. He drove a cart for the father
of tho Hon. W. W. Corcoran, our phil
anthropist and banker, when Mr. Cor
coran, the father, was but a young man.
This is important in view of the fact
that W. W. Corcoran recently cele
brated his eighty-second birthday. He
has records of his birth and other papers
referring to the same incidentally, which
have been copied from the court records
at Frederick, Md , showing undoubtedly
that he is nearly that age. He " lit into"
the revolutionary war as a body servant
of Lieu tenant Groff, whocommanded an
independent artillery company which
was organized about Frederick. In 1813
he saw the public buildings in this cjty
burned by the British, though he, like
many others, viewed the burning from
a point in tae adjoining woods, several
miles distant. He is yet able to walk
about the city, Ubin a cane. Although
he has lost the sight of his left eye, he
can still read his Bible, which is his
strongest hold. His het.lth, as a rule, is
good and always ha been. His teeih
are as sound as they ever were, while
ins hair is now as straight as a white
I uiun's and snow white, but very thin.