PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY IN MUSSER'S BUILDING, Corner of 3faln anjd Penn Su., tt SI.OO PER ASSUM, 15 ADVANCE; Or $1,25 if not paid in advance. IcsptaUe Correspondence Siied, £STAdcL-ess all letters to "MILLHEIM JOURNAL.' : Take Courage. Be brave, C heart, and iear not earthly shame, Cringe not to men, but make thysell ft name. Take up thy cross, and walk erect through life, F ght for the truth, however fierco the strde. Yield to no tolly, crush thy tempting tin, And htel no murmur ot complaint within. Bend meeklv down to sorrow's chastening rod And chaie not at the wise decrees ot 6od. Slav thy most selfish and presumptuous will; What e'er thy burden, bear it, and be still. Lift thy sad, doubting eyes to God above, Know that his namo and nature both are love.; Love is the guardiau of the gale of heaven, Through love alone thy name shall bo for given. But it thou hatcst, even in a thought, Apparent virtues will avail thee naught. Love God, thy maker; lovo thy fellow-iueu; Love without etiut; thou shall not love in vain. Koaso thee, O heart! and do thy work in laith; Love is the conqueror over sin and death And when thou art free to seek the native skies Thou sbalt find love the light of paradise. Ccuntess Core',lt, Saved by His Sister. "Ahem, Lysander!" said Miss Cath erine Southernwood, one morning, as she poured out her brother's third cup of coffee, Avhile he drenched his last buckwheat-cake with a sea of maple syrup. "I was a-thinking, Lysander, since you here set your heart on in;ur rying that Jcnes girl" (Lysander figuratively, pricked up his ears at this announcement, for Miss Catherine had been bitterly opposed to the idea of her good-looking bachelor brother con signing his heart and fortune to the tender mercies of the "Jones girl") "I was a-thinking," she went on, de liberately, "that raebbe, seeing they're so kind of pinched fur means, that i might get Olyrnpia to come and stay awhile this fall, and help me about the housework. There'll be a heap to 10, with tlie apple-butter to make, and the "like; and, besides, 1 need some help in the kitchen. Cook in' is gettiD* to be hard work for me now. But there's one thing about it, Lysander,'' she continued, as her brother signified his willing consent and gratitude— "you. must promise me that you won't ask her to marry you while she is stay ing here. It would be very improper, you know." Lysander promised, and went out to harness the mare, as Miss Catherine had decided to drive over at once, and bring Miss Jones back with her. She swiJed grimly as her brother strode away, whistling. "The shortest cut ain't alius the nearest road home," she said, com placently. "And tliere's more ways of kilfing a cat than feeding it to death with beefsteak. There's Huldah Bush is worth a dozen of that girl! But, la! Lysander is as bliudasabat! Never could see an inch before his nose!" "Astonishing how Sister Catherine has come around at last!" thought Mr. Southernwood to himself. "At first she couldn't bear the idee of mo a marrying Olympia Jones, and now she's actually a-going to have her in the house. But that's just like a woman! Let 'era see you will have your own way, and not be led around by the nose, and they'll give right up and be as mellow as a fall apple. But lam glad Catherine thought of getting Olympia here this fall. It'll be a help to 'em both, for the Joneses are poor- But I don't care a rush for that! I'd rather have a poor girl, anyhow, than a fine lady, that didn't know how to make up a feather-bed or fry a slap jack. I like a woman that can bustle around and see to things, even if she don't have to do 'em herself—one that can make a pat of butter, or pick a goose, or spin a hank of yarn, if need be. And I like to see a woman look neat," he weiit on, as he curried the lappled mare and rubbed her down with a wisp of hay. "And Olympia always looks as neat as a new pin when 1 call there. Anyhow, Ido hope she'll come!" he added, anxiously. Of course Olympia would go! And she ran quickly up stairs to pack up her clothes. "It's a mighty good chance for me," she thought, as she brushed her curls before the little looking-glass; "and ['ll improve it, too! But I'll not help with the house-work long," she added. 'Wait till I get to be mistress up there, and see who'll do house-work thenl" Lysander's heart gave a jump as the wagon hove in sight with its two oc cupants, and visions of the blissful weeks to come danced through his mind. He was so embarrassed and overcome with delight at the coquetish smile Olympia bestowed on him that be hardly had presence of mind gnough to let down the bars for them to pass through. "Now, Olympia," bustled Miss Catherine, when they had laid off their bats and shawls, "it's time we begun ihe Jtillheito Journal. DEININGER & BUMILLER. Editors and Proprietors VOL. LVII. dinner. Lysander must liev it at twelve o'clock, precisely, or ho thinks he's killed. There's a couple of pul lets in the coop, out in the chip-yard," she added, tying a clean check-apron round her waist. "You may wring their necks, and git 'em ready fur roasting, while 1 start tip a fire in the cook-stove." Olympia looked at her pink calico dress, with its tlounces and rurtles and wondered if Miss Catherine would offer her a check apron, too. Hut Miss Catherine did no such thing, and Olympia wrung the chickens' necks and prepared them for the oven, with rather a cross look shadowing her pretty face. "Got'em in the oven?" asked Miss Catherine, sharply. "Then you kin mix up a batch of biscuits while 1 make the johnny-cake. Lysander alius must hev two kinds of bread fur din ner, or he can't eat," she explained.. "Humph!" thought Olympia. "He won't get two kinds of bread for din ner when I'm the mistress here, I can tell him!" Hut she turned to the bread-tray without a word. By the time the biscuits were in the oven the waist and front breadths of Olympia's dress looked considerably the worse for the morning's campaign. Miss Catherine blew the dinner-horn at the usual hour, and Lysander ap peared punctally at twelve o'clock. But for some reason or other dinner was a half-hour later than usual, and when it was finally dished and brought to the table, the biscuits proved to be underdone and the chickens roasted to a crisp. "Had bad luck with vour biscuits • didn't you, Catharine?" said her brother, making a wrv face at the yel low streak of saleratus he found on breaking open one of the leaden lumps; but Miss Catherine smiled leniently. "Olympia had bad luck with her biscuits," she said; "but 1 think my bread is as good as usual," and she passed him q square of light, golden lined corn-bread more tempting than pound-cake. Lysander left his biscuit untasted, but cast a glance of compassion at Olympia. "Accidents w ill happen," lie said, consolingly, though he could not help noticing a sullen look on Miss Jones's face in spite of the smile she flashed at him. He noticed also the tumbled curls and soiled, untidy dress. "Have some cold mutton, Lysander," said bis sister, "if you can't eat any of the chicken. Olympia will learn how to cook after awhile." So it was Olympia who burneil the chickens! Lysaiider finished his dinner in silence, though he still made excuses for all shortcomings. Olympia changed her soiled dress before tea-time, and was beaming with smiles when Lysander took his seat at the table. But the tea had a wishy washy taste, the butter-dish was smeared and untidy, and the apple* sauce was insipid and flavorless. The biscuits were light and puffy this time, for Miss Catherine had made them her self. Lysander had a good but unpalatable food will disorder the best-regulated liver and upset the tem per of an angel, and Miss Catherine soon discovered a fresh wrinkle over her brother's nose. One morning, Lysander strode into the kitchen, where his sister was mix ing light bread—for she could not trust it to Olympia, who had already spoiled two batches, which had to be thrown to the pigs. "Catherine,'' whispered Lysander, hurriedly, "the minister's folks are coming up the lane! Of course they'll spend the day, and do, pray, Catherine, cook the dinner yourself! Don't let us be disgraced in their eyes!'' Miss Catherine saw her opportunity and seized it "Cook the dinner myself! Dear me, Lysander, how kin I?" she asked. "We must have turkey, of course, and mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pies and a steamed batter-pudding, with lemon-sauce, and cabbage-salad! Be sides, who will entertain the visitors while I'm in the kitchen? Olympia? "Olympia? Pshaw! She can't do anything but giggle!" growled Lysan der, savagely, much to his sister's amusement. "I'll tell you what Lysander," said Miss Catherine, reflectively, "I must have same help, and if you'll just saddle the mare and lead her around for Huldah Rush, I'm sure she'll come." And Lysander hastened to do his sister's bidding. Dinuer was on the table at precisely twelve o'clock, and the Rev. Mr. Shep herd and his family testified to the ex, cellence of the richly-browned turkey, juicy and unctiou3, the mashed pota toes and gravy, the golden-hued pies, and the yellow-batter pudding, withita rich sauce- to say nothing of light, flaky rolls and fresh butter. And when, after dinner, Lysander stepped into the dining-room for a pitcher of water, he could not help observing tbo contrast between Jlul dah's satin-smooth braids and snowy neck-ruflle, and Olympia's tawny rib bons and browzy hair. "Olympiad said Miss Catherine, a couple id" weeks later, as she took a folded paper from the bureau draw, "here's a present I've got for yon—a new dress? It's basket cloth. And there's some blue trimmings and silk buttons for you. And and, Olympia, 1 shan't need you any longer, for my brother is going to be married tomor row to Miss Huldah Rush, and she's a powerful g<>od housekeeper you know. "Just what 1 thought." said Mrs. Jones, when her daughter appeared with her bundle of clothes. "You ;illus was lazy and slovenly, an' alius w ill be. I reckon." "I'm sorry I went there now," grumbled Olympia. "it's ;ill that plagued old maid's fault, 1 know!" Audit was Miss Catherine's man agement that saved her brother from that snare; but he never suspected it of course. Helen IC. ' 'lark. How to Obtain Government Land. There are lour principal methods of acquiring land from the United States gov eminent, namely, homesteading, pre-emption, troc-cultureand purchase. The timber-culture act is liberal in its provisions. Under it any person may get a farm of 160 acres or less. He may do this, and also acquire title to another 160 acres, under the home stead or pre-emption law, but he cannot make use of both the homestead and pre-emption methods, except in the territories, nor can he use either of those methods twice. If the tree-claim contains the maximum entry of 160 acres, at least uve acres must be plowed within one year from date of entry; the second year live acres must be culti vated and another live acres plowed; the third year the first live acres must be planted in timber, seeds or cuttings, and the second live acres cultivated; the fourth year the second five acres must be planted in timber, seeds or cut tings, making at the end of the fourth year ten acres thus planted. These must be carefully cultivated and pro tected for four years more, at the end of which time, on making due proof that at least 2700 trees were planted upon each acre, and at the time of mak ing proof at least 675 thrifty trees are growing upon each acre, a patent for the land may be obtained. Perfect good faith must be observed. If the trees, or any of them, are destroyed one year they must bo replanted the next. If grasshoppers or drouth de stroy the trees, seeds or cuttings, for one year or a term of years, the time for planting is extended one year for every year that they are so destroyed. The land office fee for entry of 160 acres is 114. Only western prairie or treeless lands may be taken by this method. The trees planted must be those properly called timber trees, and among these the cottonwood is recog nized. Origin of Ensilage. Mr. L. P Muirhead, of Kilereggan writing to the North British Agricul turalist upon the origin and practice of ensilage says: "Sauerkraut! Yes, that's it. What is good for man is good for beast. I'll try it anyhow. So thought an old German farmer one wet season eighty years ago; only, instead of cabbage he used grass, clover and vetches, omitted the pepper corns, and used a pit in the ground in stead of the family barrel or crook (ir dene hagen). Some years after such words as 'salzfutter' (salted fodder), 'sauer-futter' (pickled fodder), and vieh-sost' (cattle salad), might he heard among the farmers of Germany and East Prussia, where the practice first obtained a hold, thereafter being carried by emigrants to America, and gradually finding its way among the Dutch and Erench nearer home. About 1850 it came into notice in Scot land. The Rev. John M. Wilson, at that time an authority on things agri* cultural, gave so full an account of it as to be well worthy reproduction." Mr. Muirhead quotes the lengthy de scription which answers to the method of curing grasses now known as ensil age. Referring to Mr. Sala's recent note on the word ensilage in the Illus trated News , Mr. Muirhead says: "It seems to be an Americanism, probably a corruption of the German 'enisalzen,' to pickle, or the Spanish 'ensalada' salted, from which the English word salad is derived. Possibly salad pit for the receptacle, pickling for the process, and cow salad for fodder would he more satisfactory." MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1883. KEIA' MURDER. Motliiiti of Sulfide In the totted Slalti. Germany, it is said, is becoming se riously alarmed at the constant increase of suicides among all classes of her population. In Berlin hardly a day passes without one or more. With us in the United States popular attention is not so much directed to the subject, 'argely, no doubt, tascause owing to the incompleteness of our methods of gathering and tabulating vital statis tics, the subject is not brought before us with such startling distinctness. But it may well be asked whether suicide is not increasing here, too, in a way to justify the most secret appre hension. The New York Chronicle, for two years past, has kept a record of suicides *n the United Ktates compiled from the columns of the newspapers. These data are necessarily very imperfect, but they serve to give an idea of the extent to w hieh self-murder is resort ed to in this country and of the rapidi ty of its increase. For the year end ing March, 1882, 817 suicides are re corded, while for the eleven months ending with February, 1883, there are 1606, an increase of nearly one hundred per cent. The greatest number took place in the summer months, 514; the smallest in the w inter, 280. This ac cords with the view of Dr. John G. Lee, coroner's physician of Philadel phia, who explains the frequency of suicide in the spring and summer months, by reference frj the fluctua tions of the thermometer and barome ter. As between tho sexes, nearly four times as many men as women committed suicide, the proportion being 1217 to 349. In point of nationality the lead is taken by Americans with 603, Ger mans coming next with 482, then English with 142 and Irish with 127. As to occupations one is surprised to find that farmers are largely in the ma jority, no less than 205 of them having of their own accord shuffied off this mortal coil, while the next greatest number, that of merchants, foots up only 80. Of journalists it is agreeable to observe there are only four. Married life seems to conduce to self destruction, there being in the list 476 husbands and 178 wives as opposed to 296 bachelors and 121 maids. Ages ranged from ten years to ninety-three, the largest number, 165, coming between twenty and thirty. Family troubles head the list of causes, follow ed by sickness, with 158; insanity 156, dissipation 131. and business troubles 127. Other reasons assigned are of the most whimsical nature. A North Carolinian committed suicide because his mule died, and an lllinoisian because he had lost his best boy and his best cow. A susceptible youth drowned himself because his sweet heart jilted him in poetry. But per haps the most inconsequent case of all was that of the New Yorker who took his life because he had a mortal fear of death. The methods employed show no less diversity, though shooting seems to have had the preference, being employ ed in 484 cases, poisoning in 372, hanging in 2(37, and drowning in 151. The pistol was usually selected by Americans and poison by Frenchmen. One man took his departure by jump ing into a furnace, and one cheerful Californian blew himself to pieces with giant powder. The largest pro portion of suicides is accredited to Col orado, where the ratio is one in 8000, and the smallest to Mississippi, where it is one in 380,000. The average of suicides throughout the southern states is small, owing, it is said, to the large colored population with whom Belf-murder is infrequent. In New York one in every 36,000 committed felo de se. The rate for the entire country is 32 per 1,00(1,000, according to the figures here cited, though in all probability, it is really far greater. At all events it is great enough to cause serious concern to the philan thropist and the legislator. Arrangement of Boom*. Give your apartments expression, character. Kooms which mean noth. ing are cheerless, indeed. Study light and shade, and the combination and arrangement of drapery, furniture and pictures. Allow nothing to look iso lated, but let everything present the air of sociability. Observe a room im mediately after a number of people have left it, and then, as you arrange the furniture, disturb as little as possi ble the relative positions of the chairs, )ttomans and sofas. Place two or "hree chairs in a conversational atti tude in some cheery corner, an otto man within easy distance of a sofa, a •hair near your stand of stereoscopic dews or engravings, and one where a jood light will fall on the hook which 'ou may reach from the table near, tfake little studies of effect which ,hall repay the more than usual oh- A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE. server, and do not leave it possible for one to make the criticism which ap plies to many homes, even of wealth and elegance, "Fine carpets, handsome drapery, a lew pictures, and elegant furniture, but how dreary!" The chilling atmosphere is felt at once, and we cannot divest ourselves of the idea that wo must maintain a stiff and bcl vere demeanor, to accord with the spirit of the place. Make your homes, then, so easy and cheerful that, if w© visit you, we may be joyous and unre strained, and not feel ourselves out of harmony with our surroundings.—[Arf Itcrteic. Learning to Svrim. The greatest difficulty to the beginner is to learn to keep the proper position of the body after attaining it This difficulty can onfy be overcome by using the proper stroke after having placed the body in the correct position. In the use of the arms, the only direction that can be given is to re member that, when the arms are thrust forward at the beginning of the stroke, such positions of the elbows and hands should be taken as will make the least resistance to the water. To accomplish this, the hands should be placed palm to palm, and the elbows made to come quite close together, starting them from under the chest. In making the effective part of the stroke, our object is to get a forward motion only. The arms and hands should be so placed as to produce the greatest resistance upon the water. To accomplish this, the palms of the hands should be thrown outward, and the plane of the direction of the stroke of the arms made parallel to the sur lace of the water. The most important and the most often defective pcint in swimming is the mode of using the legs. It would be well for a begir*ier to observe the swimming of a frigr. for undoubtedly the same method of using the legs should be adopted by man as is display ed in the model swinging of that am phibian. In analyzing the stroke of the frog, we notice that there is no vertical motion; the whole direction of tho lorce is in a plane exactly horizontal and is accomplished by virtually open ing and closing the space between the knees—offering the sole of the foot as a resistance while kicking, and placing the feet in a position of least resistance while recovering. In accomplishing the first of these conditions—the opaiing and the clos ing of the space between the knees— the knees should be thrown out, and the contraction of the legs made slow ly, in order to cause as little resistance as possible to the headway already attained. It will be found that, if we alternate the stroke of the arms and legs by giving propulsion with one while re covering with the other, a more con stant buoyancy will be attained, and. for long swims, it will be found far less fatiguing.— Popular Science Monthly. Knowledge in a Nut-Shell. A cubit is two feet. A pace is three feet. A fathom is six feet. A palm is three inches. A league is three miles. There are 2750 languages. A great cubit is eleven feet. Two persons die every second. Bran, twenty pounds per bushel. Sound moves 743 miles per hour. A square mile contains 640 acres. A barrel of ice contains 600 pounds* Slow rivers flow five miles per hour. A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds. A barrel of flour weighs 196 pounds- An acre contains 4840 square yards. Oats, thirty-three pounds per bushel. Barley, forty-eigtdt pounds per bushel- A lirkiu of butter weighs 56 pounds. A hand (horse measure) is four inches. A span is ten and seven-eighth inches. A rifle ball moves 1000 miles per hour. A storm blows thirty-six miles per hour. A rapid river flows seven miles per hour. Buckwheat, fifty-two pounds per bushel. Electricity moves 228,000 miles per hour. A hurricane moves eighty miles per hour. Coarse salt, eighty-five pounds per bushel. A tub of butter weighs eighty-foia pounds. The average human life is thirty-one years. Timothy seed, forty-five pounds per bushel. The first steamboat plied the Hudson in 1807. The first horse railroad was built in 1826-'27. A day's journey is thirty-three and one-eighth miles. Terms, SIOO Per Year in Advance. NITRO-GLYCERINE IOIRJ Singular Stories Concerning Tremendous Explosive Force. A gentleman well acquainted with the projierties of nitro-glycerine says of this terrible explosive: "1 have had a good deal to do with nitro-glycerine. I did some important government work, such as the making of breakwaters, where the rock was brought to me in large pieces, and we had to blow it up, and used nitro-gly. cerine for that purpose. It is the mat destructive thing you can conceive of. A little cartridge of it as thick as the end of a musket barrel dropped to the bottom of an oil well will shatter the most tremendous primitive rock. You can take a piece of it half as big as your hand, and it will blow a rock as big as this room in which we are sitting all to flinders. 1 can tell you of a very singular property about nitro-glycer ine. On one occasion an ordinance was passed in a ceriain city where I was doing public work, imposing a penalty of SSOO for bringing nitro-gly cerine within the city limits. I had to have it, so I told my foreman to put that glycerine under my table, at which I sat writing. As it is exploded by concussion, you may imagine that for a few days I was a little skittish. There w as enough glycerine there con cealed by that tablecloth to have blown up half a dozen blocks of that city People used to come into my room, sit a few minutes and suddenly one or more would put their hands to their head and complain of headache. Not being subject to headaches myself, I could not understand it. 1 suppose that from one-half to three-fourths of all my visitors who sat with me more than ten minutes would have those headaches. One day a man came into my office who had been blowing out oil-wells in Pennsylvania. He sat there fifteen minutes and suddenly said, 'Why, I have a headache; yon must have nitro-glycerine here.' *Oh. no,' said I, with a smile. 'Yes,' said he, 'this is a nitro-glycerine headache* 1 think I smell it, too.' He began to sniff his nose. There is a very slight odor, hardly perceptible, in the stuff, and it looks like a box of lard. With this my visitor lifted the tablecloth and said, 'Have you got it there r' pointing to the boxes. 'Yes,' said J, with a laugh, 'that is nitro-glycerine.* •Well,' said he, 'it gives the headache to a large proportion of people who sit near it' " "Did you have any accidents?" said "No, I did not; but a fellow con tractor, who was doing some work in Canada,was driven out of that country by an accident that happened to him in a very simple way. He had been using nitro-glycerine, and it is suppos ed that some of it got spilled on the tire of a wagon, which was left un moved for some time. One day he i hitched a horse to the wagon and start ed to drive it off, and then that small amount of stuff adhering to the tire blew up and really destroyed two thirds of that little town. The people around were killed, the hotel was blown to pieces, two or three blocks were devastated, and my associate was unable to do any contracting work in Canada. He hastily sold what he lell there to a native, and crossed the river and came away, otherwise they would have sued him for all the damage done to that to—u." Shooting a Zebra I had sighted a herd feeding and coining toward me. These were the first I had seen so very close, and more beautiful, sleek, well-groomed looking animals I never saw. It seemed almost a pity to lay them low with the bullet. The big stallion of the troop was coming toward me. I fired, he threw up his head and I missed; and away they all went helter skelter clattering over the stony ground. I jumped on the mare and galloped after them {is hard as I could go, then off again, and as they were disappearing I managed to hit the stallion behind. On again, loading as I galloped; after about six or seven minutes sighted them again. The stallion by this time was in the rear and bleeding. He looked as if he were going to give in. However, #fter pressing him a little time, I closed up to him, and then at that moment a mare darted out from the herd and tried to make him return; but the pace was too good and he left* and gradually edged away from the troop. AVe were now going as hard as ever we could. I got close up to him, and placing the gun between the ears of my mare fired, ne staggered; I fired again, and he rolled over and turned a complete somersault, landing on his back, all his four legs quivering in the air. The mare had to stop sud denly short and throw herself back on her haunohes, or she would have been on the top of him. It was a most ex citing gallop. The animal was quite dead.— Zvndon Field. NEWSPAPER LAWS. If subscribers order the discontinuation of newspapers, the publishers may continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. 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