Safe.
Rate * the battle-field of strife
Seldom known * pen** in ntnfa.
Every path in net by nnnren,
F.vsrv JOT in crossed with oaren.
Brightest morn has darkest night.
Fairest bloom has quickct blight.
Hope han bnt a transient gleam.
Love in bnt a panning dream.
Tront in folly's helpless waif.
Who dare call their dearest nafe ?
Bnt thon, though peril loon afar,
What hast thou to do with war ?
Let the wild stream ilood itn brink.
There's no bark of thine to sink.
Let falsehood wave itn snbtle net,
Thon art done with rain regret,
l'et fortune frown and friends grow strange,
Thon nat panned the doom of change.
We plan and struggle, mourn and chafe
Safe, my darling, dead, and safe?
Some Time.
Soma Urns, tired hsart of rain*.
You shall have a Ion)!, long rest
An \ the quiet evening sun,
Sloniug outward to the vest.
Ore*;ling to the esK inent side.
Shall look on s quiet breset.
Though the bir.L shall eooauil call
As the ileejxr sh iitows fall.
You may rest.
Some time, patient eyes of mine.
You may take a long, long sloe)'.
Though the early morning sun
All along the aa'l .hall (trap,
Wat en eyelids will not lift
From the watching which they *e*|\
Though a sunbeam, overbold.
Seek to part your curtain's fold.
You uiay sleep.
Some time, atrinng hands of mine.
There trill tie a long, long peace.
Lxwened from the tasks you hold
Into new and sweet release.
Other hands must place you close
In a dumb amen for grace.
Even love's touch, soft and warm,
pare not break such prayerful form
Of your peace.
Siime tune, restless feet of mme.
There will come a long, king day
When you need not cross the sill
From the flushing till the gray.
Other iep must bear you forth
To the place where clay is clay.
Though 1 led ton out at light
They will hrtcg yon home when night
Ends our day.
PRUDENCE GRAY.
That's my name, for father said thero
wasn't a better barge on the river than
the Prudence, and if 1 was called the
same he was sure there wonld never be
a better girl.
Poor father! He was always very
fond of me. and my earliest remem
brances are of sitting on the tiller and
having a ride, when he stood there of an
evening steering the barge, with the
great cinnamon red sail filled ont by the
wind, and the water foaming and bub
bling by ns as we ran on up the river
toward the big city, where the ships lay
close together in "dock and against the
wharves, emptviug their loads or waiting
for others before going away across the
seas,
I used to think our barge, which was
a very small billy-bov, if yon know what
that is—if yon don't 1 must tell you that
it's a barge built with rounded ends and
low bulwarks, meant for carrying loads
np rivers, but built also to be able to go
out to sea a little while, running along
the coast —I used to think our barge, 1
say, a verv, very large ship, till I grew
old enough to compare it with those that
passed us going tip or down the river,
and then it used to seem to me that it
would be wonderfnlly fine to go on
board one of those great ships and go
sailing away—far away across the
ocean, instead of just coasting along to
Sheerness and up the Medway, as we
used to go year alter year, loaded deep
down in the water with pottery or hops,
or even bricks.
I can't tell vou how my child-life
slipped away, iiving with mother and
father on board that barge, in a little
bit of a cabin with a tiny stove; all I
know is that 1 was very happy, and that
I never hardly went ashore, aud when I
did I was frightened and wanted to get
back; and at last I seemed to have
grown all at once into a great girl, and
father and I were alone.
Yes, quite alone, for mother had left
us very suddenly, and we have been
ashore at Bheemess, father and I, and
came back from the funeral and were
sitting on the cabin hatch, before 1
oould believe it was anything but a ter
rible dream, and that I should not wake
and find that she was alive once more,
as blithe and cheery as ever, ready to
take the tiller or a pull at a rope, the
sama as I did when father wanted any
help.
Father was a changed man after that,
and as a couple of rears slipped by the
work on the barge "fell more and more
into my hands, and I used to smile to
myself as I saw how big and red and
strong they had grown. For father
grew qniet and dull day by day, and
nsed to hare a stone bottle filled wben
erer he went ashore, and then sit with
it in the cabin all alone till I called him
to come and help with the sail.
Not that I wanted mnch help, for ours
was only a small barge, and once start
ed, with a fair wind, I could manage her
well enough ; while when we had to tack
backwards and forwards across the river
mouth, I oonld always lock the tiller by
the rope that hnng on the belaying pin,
and give it a hitch on this side or that
side, till I had taken a pall at the sheet
and brought the barge round on the
other tack.
I must have passed half my life in
those days leaning back against that
tiller, with its end carved to look like a
great acorn, and the name of the old
barge, Prudence, cut deep in the side.
There I'd stand looking ont ahead as
we glided along over the smooth sea,
passing a bnoy here and a light there,
giving other barges and smacks a wide
berth, and listening to the strange
squealing noise of the gulls as they
wheeled and hovered and swept by me,
so closely sometimes that I could almost
have touched them with my hand.
Our barge was well known all about
the mouth of the river and far up be
yond the bridge; and somehow, I don't
know how it was, the men on the differ
ent boats we paased had al ways a kind
hail or a wave of the hand for ns, as we
glided by, if we were too far off for a
kindly shout to reach ns.
Sometimes I'd rnn the barge pretty
close to the great ships and steamers,
inward or ontward bound, no as to look
at the ladies I saw on board; not that I
cared to do so very often, because it
seemed to make me sad, for the faces I
looked on seemed to be so different to
mine that I felt as if I was another kind
of being, and it nsed to set me wondering
and make me think; and at such times
I've leaned against the tiller and dream
ed and dreamed in a waking fashion of
how I would like to read and write
and work, as I had seen ladies sitting
and reading and working, on the decks
of the big ships, under the awning; and
then I hail to net my dreams aside and
have a poll at the sheet or take a reef in
the sail; because the wind freshened and
my dreams all passed away.
I don't think poor father meant it un
kindly, but he si emed to grow more and
more "broken and helpless every day; and
this frightened me, and made me work to
keep the barge clean and ship-shape,
lest the owners should come on board
and see things slovenly, and find fault
with father and dismiss him, and that I
knew would break his heart. So I work
ed on, and in a dull heavy way father
used to thank me; and the time glided on,
till one day, as we were lying off South
end, with the sea glassy and not wind
enough to fill the sails, I felt my cbeekß
begin to burn as I leaned back against
the tiller, and would not turn my head,
because I could hear a boat being sculled
towards us, aud 1 knew it was coming
from tbe great loeboard barge lying
astern.
• He's coming to see father,'' I said to
mT self at last in a choking voice; and as
a "hail came I was obliged to turn, and
stood up in the little boat he was
scnlbng with an oar over the stern John
Grove, in his dark trousers, blue jersey
FILED. KURTZ, Editor and "Proprietor.
VOLUME Xi.
I ami scarlet cup; ami a* I saw his sun
burnt face ami brown arms ami hands 1
felt my heart l*rating fast, ami knew he
ws not coming to see father, but to see
me.
We had hardly ever spoken, but l had
known John Grove for Tram now, and
we had nodded and wave,! hands to oue
Another often ami often as we had passed
up and dowu the river.
" Heave us a rope, rnv lass," he said,
as he came close IU; ami 1 did it dream
ily, and as aoon as 1 had dime so 1 l*egan
to null it liack, but it was too late; he
had bitched it rouud the thwart of his
birat, and was tip and over the side be
fore I couldstir; atul then be stand look
iug down upon me, while 1 felt some
times hot and sometime* cold, s if 1
ooold not speak.
" lXi you want to see father ?" 1 said
at last.
" No, my lass," he said quietly, " 1
want to see vott."
"Me !" "l faltered, with my face
b tuning.
" Yes, you, my lass," he said; and his
bauds, me brown face lit up, and tie
h*oked so manly as he laid his hand on
my arm.
" Prudence, my gal," he said, "we're
birth young vet, for I'm not six-ami
twenty, but 1 thought it was time I
spoke to you
"Spoke to me?" I said, with my face
burning still.
" Yea, my lass, spoke to yon,for we've
been courting uow a matter of four
years."
"Oh, John," I cried, burattng out
laughing and feeliug more at my ease,
"why, we've uever hardly spoken to
oue another."
"That's nice," ho said, drawing a
long breath. "Over again."
" Over again f What ?" I said.
" Call me John," he replied.
" Well, then, John," I cried hastily.
"That's right. Prudence; but, as I
was going to say, not spoken to one
another ! Well, how could we, always
taking our turns at the tiller as we
werv ? But all the same, niy lass, I've
boon always courting of you, night and
day, these four years, and looking ont
anil louging for the time when the Pru
dence would come in sight and I could
give you a hail and get a wave of the
hand back."
I could feel the color coming back
into my cheeks again as L heard him
speak, and knew how anxiously I had
looked out for his barge coming up or
down the river; and then I began won
dering what it all meant, and soon knew.
" Prudence, my lass." he said, " I've
saved up £lO, alfmy own, and our owner
haa just given me the command of a new
bage, with as pretty a cabin as you'd
wish to see; and so, "my lass, I thought
I'd ask you if so be as now we've been
courting four years, you wouldn't come
to me and be my wife."
"No," I sai'l, "no," and shook my
head. " I belong to father, and I could
never leave him—never."
" But you'll have to some day, Prud
ence," be said, looking dreadfully down
hearted and miserable.
"No," I said, "I shall never leave
him; he wants me more and more every
day, and I must stay."
" Prudence," he said sharply, "you
ain't playing with me, are you ?"
" Playing with you?"
"Yes; I mean you ain't going to take
up with any one else, aud go aboard anv
other barge—no, no," he cried, "I won t
be so mean as to ask yon that. But,
Prudence, dear, some day you may have
to leave him, and when you do, will you
please recollect John Gtove loves you
better than aught else in the wide world,
and is waiting for you to come 1"
" Yes, John." I said simply.
"Yon mean it, Prudence?" he cried
in delight, as he caught my hand.
" Yes, John; I don't know anylwdy
else, and there's no cue as cares for
me."
" Hundreds on the river," be said
sharply.
"Then I don't care for them, Johu„'
I said simply; "aud if you like me, and
I ever do—do—leave —oh, dear ! what
am I saying ?"
I sat down on a fender and covered
my face with my coarse, red hands, and
began to cry; but he took my hands
down, and looked long and lovingly in
my face, with his great, houest brown
eyes; and then he oouldu't speak, but
seemed to choke. At last be gasped
out;
" Thanky, Prudence, thanky. I'm
going away now to wait, for you'll come
to me some day, I know."
I didn't answer him.
•* For the time may come, my lass,
when you'll be all alone in the world;
and when it does come, there's the cabin
of the Betsy Ann, clean painted up, ami
waiting for yon, just as her master's
a-waiting too.''
He went qnietly over the side and cast
off the rope, and was gone before I knew
it; and I sat there in the calm afternoon
aud evening, sometimes crying, some
times feeling hopefnl, au l with a sense
of joy at my heart sncli as I never hail
felt before.
And so that evening deepened into
night, with the barge a quarter of a mile
astern of us, and no wind coming, only
the tide to help ns on our way.
It must have been about ten o'clock at
night, when I was forward seeing to the
light hoisted up to keep anvthing from
running into us, when I heard father
come stumbling up from the cabin, and
make as if to come forward to me.
" Prne," he cried, " Prne !"
"Yes, father, coming," I said; and
then I uttered a wild shriek, and rushed
towar<ls where the l>oat hung astern by
her painter, hanled her up and climbed
in; for no sooner bial I answered than I
heard a cry and a €ieavy splash, aud I
knew father had gone overboard.
I was into the boat in a moment, and
bad the scull over the stern, paddling
away in the direction that the cry hail
come from; bnt, though I fancied in
those horrible minutes that I saw a band
stretched out of the water, asking as it
were for help, I paddled and sculled
about till I was far from our barge, and
then sank down worn-out to utter a moan
of horror, and sob, " Oh, father! father !
what shall I do!"
"Is that yon, Prudence?" said a
voice.
"Yes, John, yes," I cried, looking
out through the darkness, out of which
a boat seemed to steal till it was along
side, when John streched out his hand
and took mine.
"Quick !" I gasped, " save him,. John
—father—gone overboard !"
" When yon shrieked out, Prtie ?"
"Yes, yes," I wailed; "oh, saveliim!
save him !"
"My poor lass," he said, " that's a
good quarter of an hour ago, and the
tide's running strong. I've been pad
dling about ever since, trying to find
you, for I went up to the barge aud you
were gone."
" But father," I wailed, " father—save
him!"
" My poor little lass," he said, tender
ly, " Pd jump into the water now if you
bid me; but what can I do, you know,
Prudence, what can I do ?"
I did not answer, for I did know that
he mast have been swept far away before
then; and I was beginning to feel that I
was alone—quite alone in the world.
It was quite six months after that
dreadful night that one evening John
came ashore from his barge to the cot
tage, where I was staying with his
mother, and had been ever since he hail
brought me there, without seeing him
to speak to, only to wave my hand to
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
him as he sailed by. That evening he
came and looked wistfullv at me and
said but little, and at last {lis time was
up and he rose to go.
I walked dow u to his luvtt With him,
and on the way he told me that lie hail
got leave t> alter the name of his barge,
and it was called the Prudence, urn; ami
then, without a word alsmt the past, he
was saying giod-by, when I put my
hands tu his and said quietly—
"John, dear, I haven't forgot my
promise."
" And vou are alone now, lVndeuce,
my laas," he crted eagerlv.
" No, John, no," I sanl softly, as the
tears rati dowu mv cheeks; " I never
shall be while you \ive."
"Nevtr, my lass, never," he cried.
" And you'll le my little wife?"
" Yes, John, yes; 1 promised you."
i " When I come track from tins voy
age ?"
" Yes, John, wlieu you will," I said,
and Willi one long hand pressure we
parted, and I went back to wait for
another month, and then I was his happy
little wife.
And there seemed no cliauge, for 1
was onee more on the river orjout at sea,
leaning upon the tiller and gazmg
straight liefore me, with the gulls wail
ing as they wheeled and dipped and
skimmed or settled uj*ou the water;
while the soft wind gently stirred the
print hood that was lightly tied over my
wind-rutiled hair. Only a bargeman's
vouug wtfe living on the tide, but very
I happy; for Johu often points to the
great ships that pass ns, with their eap-
I tains in their gold-laced caps, and as he
does so he whispers—
*• Not with the best among them,
! Prae, not with the l>est; I wouldn't even
change places with a king."
And if he is as happy as I, dear Jehu
is right. (YursW/'s Mayasin*.
The treat Thirst Lind.
We take the following from a recently
published work descriptive of Southern
Africa, entitled " The (treat Thirst
Laud:" The sufferings endured on ac
count of the drought were at times al
most terrific. The throats of the oxen
, were so parched that they could not
low. The dogs suffered even more than
the cattle. Nor are the wild animals
exempt from the plague of the land.
When water becomes source in these
| thirsty plains, the whole of the wild
animals that inhabit them congregate
round any poo! that may be left, for
with very few exceptions all have to
drink once in twenty-four hours. The
' lions, which follow the game, thus are
led to their drinking places uot only to
assnage their thirst, hut to satisfy their
; hunger.
To watch one of these pools at uight,
as I did in the northern Slassara coun
try, is a grand sight, and oue never to
be forgotten. The naturalist and the
sportsman can here see sights that will
astonish them, and cause them to wou-
Jer at the won ierful msliucts possessed
by the animal kingdom.
At such watering-places the small
antelopes invariably drink first, the
larger later on, and with them the zebras
and buffalo**. After these come the
giraffes, closely followed by the rhinoe-
I cms, anil next the elephant, who never
attempts to hide his approach—conscious
of his strength—bnt trumpets forth a
warning to all whom it may concern that
he is about to satisfy his thirst. The
oulr animal ttiat does not give place to
the elephant is the rhinoceros; obstinate,
headstruug and piglike, he may not
court danger, hut assuredly he does not
avoid it. The elephant may drink by
hts side, but must not interfere with
him, for he is quick to resent an insult,
and I am assured that when one of these
battles takes place the rhinoceros is in
variably the victor. The elephant is
large, of gigantic power, but the other
is far more active, while the formidable
horn that terminates his nose is a dread
ful weapon when used with the force
that he has the power to apply to it. I
have been told on trustworthy authority
that a rhinoceros in one of those blind
tits of fnry to which they are so subject,
attacked a large wagon, inserted his
horn between the spokes of the wheel
aud instantly overturned it, scattering
the contents far and wide, and after
wards iujurmgthc vehicle to such an ex
i tent as to render it useless.
The lion is not tied to time in drink
ing. After Jt fegds it oomes to water,
but it uever would dare to interfere
with the rhiuocerps or the elephant.
Where the buffalo exists in numbers it
is the principal prey of the lion; in
I other localities antelope and chiefly the
' zebra are its food.
Russian Proverbs.
Praise not the crop until it is stacked.
Bread and salt bumble even a robber.
Love, fire, and a cough cannot be
hid.
A full stomach is deaf to instruct
ion.
No bones are broken by n mother's
fist.
God is not in haste, but His aim is
sure.
A fox sleeps, but counts hens in his
dreams.
If yon hunt two hares you will catch
neither.
Lit* march on rotten legs; who lies
will steal.
Truth is not drowned in water, nor
burned in fire.
Make friends with a bear, but keep
hold of the axe.
Dog, why <lo you bark ? To frighten
the wolves away.
Everything is bitter to him who has
gall in his mouth.
Whose bread and whose salt I eat,
bis praises I sing.
The wolf changes his hair every year,
but remains a wolf.
The wolf asked the goat to dinner ;
bnt the goat declined.
It is not necessary to plough and sow
fools—they grow of themselves.
With Got! go even over the sea;
without Him not over tbe threshold.
A fool may throw a stone into a pond ;
it may take seven sages to pull it out.
Dog, why do yon keep your tail
bewteen your legs ? lam afraid of the
wolf.
A Spider'* Heady Wit,
Dr. J. Lawrence-Hamilton,of London,
writes: Tbe following incident, which I
witnessed, may possibly interest some
of your readers: A boy re mo veil a small
spider to place it in a"big spider's web,
which was hung among foliage, and dis
tant somo four feet from the ground.
The larger auiinal soon rushed from its
hiding-place under a leaf to attack the
intruder, who ran up oue of tbe ascend
ing lines by which the web was secured.
The big insect gained rapidly upon its
desired prey, the smaller creature
(spiders are cannibals, notably the
larger females, who are given to devour
their smaller male lovers). When the
little spider was barely an inch in ad
vance of its pursuer, it cut with one of
its legs the line behind itself,so that the
stronger insect fell to the ground, thus
affording time and opportunity for the
diminutive spider to escape along the
ascending rope of the web. This is not
th* only fact which seems to indicate
that a spider's instinct may almost equal
reason.
CENTRE lIALL, CENTRE CO., IA., THURSDAY, MAY Hi, 1878.
THE HYDKOt'tIOHIA (QUESTION.
I. Ihrrr •u.-S a niMcrtf UeliOou* el Hoa
ry MrraS AS. I Mr. IIMOMOMU.
Iu view of the careful history of the
case of Richard Schweitzer, of Melrose,
made bv lr. Kreteohiuar, save the New
York Itmiht, and in view of the physi
cian's jssiitive declaration that the cam*
was one of hydrophobia, considerable
surprise wsa occasioned by the result of
the post-mortem exauuiistmu. Dr. Mae-
Whtutiie, who mailt* this examination,
declared that the iinmadtateoauae of the
death was not hydrophobia,but asphyx
ia, and the opinion of Mr, Henry Hergh
and that of l>r. William A. Hammond
was asked forou the bearing of .Schweit
zer's esse on the much vexed queatiou of
hydrophobia.
Iu the (Msd-mortcm examination a
small fibrinous clot was found iu the left
ventricle that indicated that death was
due to protracted caused, uot to sudden
violence, lhta of the egg eaten by the
lov shortly befot* his death were found
in the right bronchus and in the r glit
lutig. l>r. MacWliiuuie, therefore, de
clared that death was caused by
asphyxia, caused by the impaction of
pieces of egg tu his Inug and bronchus.
Mr. Hergh, letug asked, said that he
was firm iu his disi*elief m the existence
of such a disease as hydrophobia. He
made a distinction between a mad di*g
and a hydrophobic one. He sanl he
was frequently mail himself, but it by
no means followed that he hail the hy
drophobia. So a dog might Is* madden
ed by ill-tfeatuient. He might le wor
ried into mailuesa, but he was uot neces
sarily hydrophobic. He thought the
principal trouble in the dog question
came from its treatment by politicians,
who were lint competent to dual with it.
He had offered years ago to manage the
whole matter if the city would only pro
ride a house and a keeper. The S>sieiy
for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals
would scudftten aroond daily and "sc*op
up" the stray dogs without charging
the city for the service.
"Then do yuu believe in killing these
dogs t" he was asked.
"1 must eoufess," said Mr. lU-rgh,
" that the unfortunate animals would be
better off dead than alive, and it is not
right that they should rim nt large,
alarmiug the community, lint Ido ob
j<t to the treatment they receive uow."
" Do you not consider," wa the next
question, 'Jtliat the bite of a d-y mad
dened by worry or other means is more
dangerous than that of a dog unin
fluenced in that way ?"
"Why oertainlv it is," said Mr,
Hergh, aud he told a story of a woman
suckling a child while she was iu s fit of
rage and of the consequent death of tin
child.
Dr. William A. Hatuiflund, on the
other hand, declared, after reading Dr.
Kretachmar's history uf Richard
Schweitzer's case and the acconut of the
post-mortem examination, that it was
unquestionably a case of hydrophobia
" 1 thought it was not genuine hydro
phobia," said he, '"when I read the first
accounts because they sj*oke of the
child barking like a dog. In pstiedo
hydrophobia, which is a hysterical dis
ease, superinduced by the imagination,
patients often do this, but not in genu
ine hydrophobia. As to the child dying
bv choking, the choking wiu* a symptom
of the hydrophobia. Dr. Kretachmar'*
history of the cose is an excellent one
and leaves no doubt as to it* nature.
One of the strongest pr*s>fs of it i 11
abnormal temperature. In the real hy
drophobia the temperature is always
high, ranging from 105 to 110. In the
false disease it i* never raised, but al
ways remains normal."
" I would be in favor of braving the
whole question of handling the dog** to
Mr. Hergh'* society," said he, in reply
to further questions; " for it has done a
•Ural of good, and would unquestionably
deal with the dogs in the Ixrat way; but
Mr. Hergh is doing a gr*at mischief by
promulgating his disbelief in hydropho
bia, iu spite of the fact that all the au
thorities assert its existence. It was
formerly denied that there was such a
disease, bnt no authority denies it now.
And just so far as people are led by Mr.
Hergh to disbelieve in the dnnrase, iuat
so far will they be inclined to neglect
the proper measures of precaution when
thev are bitten."
" It in A union* fact," ho Raid fnrthor,
" that no one has over lived after hy
drophobia Into lieen developed in hie
system. Thoro is no cure for tho dii**a*e
known, thongh it may bo prevented by
fmunpt measure* token after the bite
laa I*W inflicted. Excision is probably
the beat of all prophylactic*, and ahould
te performed as aoon a* possible. The
operation ahould not be doue with a
niggardly hand, bat erery part with
which the teeth of tho animal baTe crane
in contact ahould l>e removed, aa well aa
the tiaane into whioh the noiaon may
have become infiltrated. Cauterization
may be performed instead of excision,
and i- preferred by aome practitioner*.
Mr. Touatt. of England, need it with
over four hundred persons bitten by
rabid animal*, and never nnaaecoaafnlly.
He preferred tho of ailver, hnt
othera have used the actual cautery,
canatic alkalies. I have performed ex
cision in eleven caaea and cauterization
aeven timea, four with the nitrate of
silver and throe with the actual eantery,
and alwnva successfully."
A* to the treatment with strychnia
which Dr. Koetschmer employed. Dr.
Hammond said that he did not lielieve
in it, but would not condemn it, because
iif a disease which had never l>een cured
a physician was justified iti doing nnv
tliing which he might fancy would do
good.
A Howling Heni-di.
A Oallipoli correspondent of the Lon
don Timr* writes : Rich in shrines and
monastic institutions, (lallipolt has beeu
from the early days pf the Ottoman rule
in Eavope a stronghold <f the faith. It
shelters three sects of dervishes; the
Beys, the largest landed proprietors,
are mostly affiliated to olio or other of
the orders; wealth ami influence belong
hereto Islam, and the rule of the high
priest of the howlers overrides that of
the appointed governor. An able, en
terprising, intriguing, money getting
fellow is this distinguished dervish,
though you would hardly think it hi see
him with liowing head ami eves east
down, pale and ascetic of aspect, in
green pelisse and turbanod ealpack,
slowly pacing the streets on hia high
bred horae, with an attendant holding
either stirrup. Htill less would yon
think it if you saw him in mosque on
Tuesday or Friday, howling like a ma
niac till he foams at the month and
drops exhausted. And yet this Huasam
EfTemli is a keen man of business, man
ages vast estates with great ability, and
conducts extensive commercial o]>era
tions in timber and agricultural produce
with success, lends money to small far
mers, has a large share in a steam flour
mill and bnscuit factory, and ia one of
the largest contractors for army anil
navy supplies. It ia impossible to be
lieve that one of such practical mind as
Hussam Effendi should have faith in
the value, theologically speaking, of his
grotesque and painful ritual; hut he
owes much of his influence to his repu
tation for holiness, which. Won by con
stant, and efficient howling, is as snb
stantial an item of his large stock in
trade as the engine in the biscuit facto
2, Hussam Effendi's steadfastness to
e rule of his order is thus by no
means irreconcilable with bis keen pur
suit in this world's goods.
Cigar Ends.
Probably few people in this country
are aware that that usually wasted aub
stance, a cigar end, is utilized IU Ger
uiany to a large extent, and with even
lieuettcent results.
We cau imagine ninny of our readers
wondering what i •> be the object of
Collecting these siuao . .ids, and we will
therefore briefly explain that they are
sold for the pur|Hise of leing made into
snuff, and that the proceeds of such
sales are devoted to charitable purposes.
There is ill Iterliu a society called the
" Veretu iler Hammler vou Cigarreu
Ahachuitton," or the Ho**letv of Collec
tors of Cigar-cuttings, which has been
in existence some ten years, and has
done much good. Every Christmas the
proceeds of the cigar ends collected by
tins society and its friemls are applieii
to the pun*base of clothes for some |x*or
orphan children.
In lM7ti alsuit thirty children were
clothed by tins society, each child leing
(irovtdixl with a pair of good leather
■iKrts, a pair of woollen stockings, a
warm dress and a pocket handkerchief.
In addition to tins, a large, well decor
ated Christmas tree is given for their en
tcrtaiumeut, and each child is sent home
with a gooil supply of fruit and sweet
meats. Altogether, more than two hun
dred jHKir qrphau children have lw*en
clothed by tins society, simply bv the
proceeds of such small things as cigar
ends.
The success of the Hociety at llerlin
lias induced further enterprise in the
asuie direction, and it la now proposed
to erect s building to be called the
" Deutsche* itcichs-Waiserihaiia " (lui
pertal tierman Orphan Hume), where
orphans who are left unprovided for may
le properly oared for, clolheit anil
instructed. The site pro|x>*od for this
institution is at Irahr tu Hadeii, where
there are a imm!*cr of snuff timi.ufa. tor
lee, and It is therefore well ailapteil to
the scheme, which we can only hope
mav Is* successfully earned out.
fhe system of Collection, which is ex
tended over a large part uf Germany, is
generally undertaken by one or two
ladle* or gentlemen iu each town, alio
collect now and then from their smoking
friemls the ends which they have been
saving tip. These collector* eititer send
on the cigar-ends t*> the central society,
or sell them on the spot aud transmit
the proceeds. This latter plan, when it
cau t*e worked, is preferable, a* saving
expenses in earriage and packing. It is
proj*eed that the uumtN-r of children
which each town shall have the privilege
of sending to the home shall t>e regula
ted according to the amount which they
have contributed to the society.
To insure the *tie***M* of this institu
tion, it will be absolutely necessary for
all to unite and work together; each on
must not leave it for Ins uetgbl*or,
thinking that one more or leas cau make
no difference. To show, however, what
might t>e accomplished by a thorough
uutty in the matter, let tis a * that there
are at least ten million auio r in Ger
many; or, to lie very much within the
mark, we will take only five million
smokers who will give themselves the
trouble, if such it is, of saviug up their
cigar ends; and assuming that tlie cigar
ends of each jH-rsou are worth only a
quarter Pfrnnig (ten Ptennig equal one
penny English), we have a total revenue
tor the year of six hundred and fifty
thousand mar's, or thirty-two thousand
five hundred poi.Oila.
Now, these thirty-two thousand fire
hundred pounds, which, a* a rule, are
thrown awav an I wasted, cau la* used to
provide a home for at least thirteen
thousand poor orphan children. Fur
ther, if the five million smokers would
Contribute but once a year the value
uuly of a single cigar, say in Germany
one penny, thi- would make an addition
al five hundnxi thousand marks, or
twciitv-five thousand (Kiuuds, which
would clothe another ton thousand
children.
Now we ask, is it not worth while to
be careful in small things, and to save
up these usually wasted cigar ends,
w hen we so** what groat tilings might
result ? We can only conclude by wish
ing success to this remarkable institu
tion. which has taken for its mcrtt > the
most apnropri ate words, " Viele \V<*nig
machen ein Vlei;" or in the words of the
old Scottish proverb, "Many a little
makes a mickle."— < 'hamhrrs'i Journal.
A Treasury ljdy the Victim of Alcohol.
A Washington correspondent says:
One of tbokc ingenious women whiww
busmen* it is to examine mutilated and
illegible currency in the Treasury has
r<ceutlv come to grief. Tina woman
had ao ably performed this intricate*
work for several years as to have be
come almost indispensable not only to
the de|>art!uent, but scarcely less ao to
numerous banks in different parts of the
country, who but for her patience must
have lost considerable sums in worn
currency. Her skill in restoring what
looked li*e a hopeless mass was marvel
lous, and in consideration of her perse
verance in Una direction, some of Uie
banks have from time to time attested
their appreciation of the material Iwuie
tlt tlina derived, by handsome donations
of money, one or two, it is understood,
■laying her aa high aa SI,OOO tier year.
I take equal pride in the gallantry of
such men and the ability of snch a wo
men. Too often are women compelled
to fi'el that thev gain nothing by marked
fidelity. These gift* from the banks
were, of course, in addition to the regu
lar salary paid by the treasury, of
$1,200. For a considerable time it wn*
sadly noticod that thi\ woman was mani
festly falling into the insidious power of
a terrible syren. Often and again, it
could not lie denied, she was not quite
herself long before the honr for the
close of work. Admonitions, kind and
gentle., and warnings, oft repeated, were
of 110 avail. She was ho|>elesslyJ en
thralled. At last she earoo to the office
one morning already too oblivions to
faithfully perform her usual task, and,
as patience hail long since ceased to tie
a virtue, n carriage was called and she
was sent, a victim of alcohol, lo her
home, there to find that ominous yellow
envelope containing a notioe of dismis
sal from service hail preceded her com
ing. Straugo to say, her predecessor in
the same position, whp had served long
and acceptably, but for this weakness,
wastfischarged for the same cause.
Chinese Sii|>er*tltlon*.
To break a tween the mirror and its
owner's life is evidenced death, or other
wise, and is only aecond in ominous por
teut to breaking an oil-jar. And thifl
superstition of a connection existing l>o
twecn mirror augurs a separation from
one's wife by also by its use in eaaes of
sickness to form the head of a sort of
figure made of one of the sick man's
(vmts which, suspended to a bamboo
with the end-leaves still on it, is carried
about 111 the vicinity of the house in the
hope of attracting the departing soul
back to its body. * * * Who has
not noticed or beard of the bizarre ar
rangement of Chinese gardens and rook
eries ? The motive for tliia laying out
the pleasure-grounds attached to large
houses is not simply ornamental. No
doubt the Chinaman is one of the most
ingenions of landscape gardeners, hut
the crooked walks and abrupt turns not
only economize space but are " lucky,"
inasmuch as they discourage the advent
of evil spirits, who like the " hrnad
way " in China much as they are reputed
to do in Europe.—/tW fore of China
MA It It It'll MY DEATH.
The TrrrlStr MISr on a KollrooS tlasS
tar % goarlsl Mo* rasa.
A moat horrible affair t**k place re
cently on a branch line of the radiating
road tunning from the great iron artery
of the P. W. and D. railroad, up through
the pleasant valley of Chester county,
Pennsylvania.
It was near Ohadd'a Kuril, tuid at a
lieuiitifully romantic spot, There is s
turbulent stream running lielweeu high
batiks, on whieb stunted willows grow,
wlale further down, at the water's edge,
the weeping variety of the same tree
dips its greenish tresses in the musical
water, which has hushed its riotous uuise
to almost a requiem since the death of
()corge ltickHts and Mollie Dolbell—
"as fine a young man aud as pretty a
girl," the farmers say, " as vou will find
in all Chester county." This is how
they met their death : Mollie was one
of those pink aud white dairy maidathat
you sometimes meet in the grazing re
gions of Pennsylvania. Her hair was
bourne brown, hut with just a glint of
black tu it, as if it had been gently
touched by a raven's wing. Hhe was
light hearted and as merrv as tin*lurk
with which she arose—the lark that car
olled above her head as she looped her
neat dress, and skimmed into the stone
dairy where the painted pans were
ranged in rows, and the yellow pots of
butter flecked the cool water.
The trouble with Mollie was that she
had two lovers —one. George iticketts,
s stalwart farm hanJ, and the other
Hugh O'l>onuell, asulh n, red-whiskered
man, employed on the small drawbridge
over the Kol Hun that we have apokeu
of. This draw was seldom used save
for a lazy schismer that came up to get
terracotta pi|>* from a manufactory
above.
The two men knew that tliey were
rivals and Mollie knew it too, being
surely troubled in Iter white soul as she
stood oue Saturday evening in the porch
of the house where she lived and prom
ised to take a ride on the tuorruw with
George—uot a ride in a buggy, nor tu a
sailboat, but a rattling ride on a hand
car, a practice which is frequent on
these lonely lanes, whose rails vibrate
hut arlJom under the crualuug advance
uf the engine.
It is uuneccewaary to describe the
hand car, that fits ttie rails, is worked
by a crank, and when started goes like
the wmL The car had been loaned
George by a baud of laborers who were
making repairs about a nine above. He
had dusted it neatly, and when the
pretty girl reach ad him bv a short path
through the woods, he had arranged
the vehicle no cleverly with a cushion
for Mollie thai it did not seem unlike
Cleopatra's barge. Hhe was in her Hun
day Iwt*. and she laughed lightly in the
sunshine as tieorge swung her lightly
into the aeat and then leaped to the
handles.
There were no Sunday traina ; there
wa> u<> danger.
Mollie crossed her tiny feet, felt the
exhilaration of the movement, **
George's swelling arm* produced the
U-rnble momentum, and MW her neat
skirt* blown lUmt by the rushing wind
beimitli the platform. On, on they
went, the glistening rail* ringing. the
bonny brown hair blown alniut and the
Fox-run bridge near at hand.
On that bridge Hugh O'Donnell sat
sniokiug hi* pii>e. The draw wan open,
although no drifting aehooner WM in
eight. Some evil bird had wbi*pered to
Hugh the Sunday trip of hi* rival with
Molhe. He determined on murder at
onee. Tin* i* the roaaou the ruty draw
wa* open, while Hugh eat in hi* *entry
bo* on the other aide smoking hi* pipe
and w*trlimg up the converging line*
of metal that seamed like iwtui ribbon*
tied in a bow bv tlie perspective.
He did not liave to wait long. Firat
came the rumble—the faraway sound
| that die* away while it increa* -and
then, swiugmg suddenly around a carve,
the handcar. boaringthcgirl he loved anil
the man he hate*!. He drew another whiff
of smoke and looked calmly at thetnmbril
of death, with it* arm* whirling wildly,
aiuoe George had trusted to the steep
grade and the appalling acceleration he
hail given the machine to aooumpliah
the passage of the bridge, and hail aat
down alongside of Molhe with hi* arm
around her waist.
Just a* thcT neared the draw, which
wwi never legally allowed open on Hun
day, he turned his head and hi* face
ln-came white. Mollic felt the chill
circle her wiust a* hi* blood froxe in hi*
arm*. He sprang to hi* feet and tried
to seise those revolving handles, which
were only a blur and a niit. He thought
of throwing the girl off. but before lif
could think of anything else the car took
the leap, and as Hugh O'lbinnell sat
smoking in hi* sentry lox he saw the
upturned faces, pallid with agony, but
presm-d close together, go down with
the band car TO the deep IKIOI* and cruel
rocks of the Fox run, and as he did so
he ssid :
" Curse von !" and lighted another
pipe.
They found him there, but mad—mot
raving mad, but in that lymphatic state
of mama which is beyond reach. On the
shore below, held by the gnarled roots
of a willow, were discovered the hodiee
of George and MoUie. In the moment
of death she had thrown her nrms about
him, and aa the sunlight filtered through
the surging-branches and fell npon the
upturned faces, they seemed like bride
anil groom in the sleep of happiness.
So they were married, but death had
been the minister. Cincinnati In
quirer.
The Armies of the World.
Three years ago Major-General Emory
Upton, with credential* from the United
Stntes Government, started on a tonr to
examine and report u|Ku the condition
of the armies of Japau, China, Persia,
Italy, Russia, Austria, Germany, Franco
and* England. He was gone nearly two
years; and the work embodying the re
suits of his observation* lias jast lieen
issued. The armies of the countries he
visited are tlma represented :
Ptacr H'ar
footing. footing.
.Upon 31,410
chins soo.noo 1.000.0n0
India 190,000 500,000
1'rU"" fin,o(lo 130.000
| U I T 230 000 869,816
llussi* S'*>.ooo >-640.000
Austria 300,000 1,040.000
(lermanv 421.000 >-340,000
Fnnce. 490.000 1,780,00
Kngland 139,034 541,634
Totals 3,991,064 9,326.990
Excluding from consideration the first
fonr countries, we find that the peace
footing of the nations more or less in
tcrcsti-d in the Eastern question is an
aggregate of '2,(>W,600 men. while the
war footing is nearly 7,fioo,ooomen.
A Young (Hani.
The " fat. man " whom I mentioned
in my last letter, writoa a coi resjionder.t
in England, is now exhibiting himself
at the Egyptian Hall, in London, and
making a good thing of it Fancy, if
you can, a young man only twenty-two
years old, weigliing 728 pounds, and
measuring eight feet round the shoul
ders. He seems in perfect health and is
very chatty, a peculiarity Rhared by his
wife, who accompanies him and who
seems proud of bnving the biggest hus
band of anv womau in England, perhaps
in the world.
TERMS: 52.00 a Year, in Advance.
A Deaf lute Prodigy.
The Jhttn in um Monthly says:
We will conclude this article by men
tioning one instance of the extraordinary
intellectual caliore of a congenial deal'
mute a prodigy—whieb has uever been
iu print )>efore. Home years ago a
benevolent gentleman found a red-head
ed, ragged, little, deaf mule in the
streets of Glasgow, aud took him to the
school for deaf-mutes in that city. He
showed extraordinary intelligence, and
the gentleman thought he was a rough
diamond, hut capable of Imiug highly
is dished by education and training.
I)uriug the first session at school the
boy shot ah etui of every other pupil,and
there were then more than s hundred,
many of them having been there seven
or eight years. The rapidity with which
he learned was amazing; indeed; his
memory was so reteutive that what he
once read he uever forgot.
Huch was the culibre of his mind thai
nothing was too difficult for hia compre
hension. He read books on mathe
matics, methaphyMca aud the like
whether thev were printed in English,
foreign or dead languages, which he
also read with ease. When school was
over he wonld rush to the library, take
out a lot of books under his arms, aud
make his way to the nearest fire to read
them, while hts school ma tea directed
their steps to the play-ground. Huch
was the force >4 habit that he would sit
near the fire even during summer while
he studied. No (binder, with a mind so
w*U stored with knowledge, he was a
capital story-teller, and he never used
signs since the day he could ejieil on his
fingers. He was appointed an aas.stant
teacher at the school, but he foand the
task too irksome, and he left tha institu
tion to become a common laborer in or
der to make money more rapidly to pur
chase I looks, and neglected his bodily
wants.
His books increase. 1 in number very
fast, and "they formed his table, chair
and bed, nv being piled one upon an
other in his lodgings. Thev were his
only articles of furniture. TLe extraor
dinary learning of this deaf and dumb
laborer attracted the attention of many
gentlemen aud his employers, who
thought that he waa not ut his proper
sphere. They determined to give him a
tw-tter position, so that his fund of
knowledge might be pat to some one.
They visited his lodgings for this pur
pose one day when he was not at his
work, knd found him dead on Lis bed of
booka, having literally starved hi* body
to death to feed his hungry mind. He
hail everything ready for writing a book,
which be said would astonish the world.
There were several reams uf paper and a
large bottle of ink, allowing that he fully
intended to enter upon the work, but
then* was no indication of wlurt work it
would be. His stuck of book* wen*
printed in several languages of the high
est kind of literature. He wsa sixteen
or eighteen years old when he died. He
had a florid countenance, red hair, green
ish eyes, inclining to blue, which gave
htm a"peculiar expression.
A Might* Hunter.
Capt. (himore relates, in hi* late
reounl of travel in South Africa, a re
markable story of the prowess of a
liauter, who, lees knosrn than Gordon
Gumming, rivaled him in courage and
skill. Mr. Fmnety. the hero of the tale,
was one day traveling over the unculti
vated! plains near Ramanwath, riding
one horse and leading another. He
had watered hi* animal* at a pool, or
•ley a* it i* there called, and, pasamg
on a little way beyond, "Two bona
■prang from the bush ou either aide of
the road, each seizing a horse. The
mount that he was on fell in a mo
ment and shot him over it* head, but
the hunter wa* on hi* feet in a trivet.
With the right barrel he killed the as
sailant of the horse ke wa* riding, with
the left the brute that attacked the led
horse. So quickly wa* the whole done
that neither of the nags was injured."
Another exploit, told of the same
hunter, is lees brilliant, yet attest* hi*
singular coolness aud accuracy of aim.
A* night closed in, he shot a large
white rhinoceros, and left the game to
be attended to in the morning :
"At break of day he started alone
to find his quarry, anil, after going a
mile or ao, found il dead, with three
lioti* around it. Mr. Finnety strolled
up within a short distance of them and
killed the trio—each requiring only a
single bullet. Soou afterward, having
discovered an elephant-spoor, he fol
lowed it np, and after noon overtook
the herd aud bowled over a couple of
tuskers. Retracing hi* step* to regain j
his wagon, he bail to pans by the dead
rhinoceros, and, wheu doing so, foand
two more lions leaide the carcaas.
These he alio killed. In the morning,
Mr. Finnety went out with hi* people
to secure the ivory of the elephant*
slain the d*y before. On their route
thev passed a pool in a drv river-bed,
1 and by it were two lion*. He left hi*
peoule, and, unsupported, walked up
to tfiem aud killed them right and left.
Thus seven lion* fell before hi* gun in
little over twenty-four hours."
A I July's Fight With Burglars.
In the slwiene* of Mr. A. A. Hopkins,
of the American Kural Home , says a
dispatch from Rochester, N. Y., an at
tempt was made to burglarise liia honae
about one o'clock in the morning. Mrs.
Hopkins haard the burglars, took a pis
tol from nnder her pillow, searched the
honae, disco rem! one burglar pacing in
the front hall, tries! to enter the sitting
room to alarm a gentleman who was
sleeping above, but was apprehended
by a burglar, who fired at her. In the
meantime one of the burglars escaped
by the back door, and the other songht
his exit Mrs. Hopkins followed him
as cloaclv as the intense darkness per
mitted. He seized her several times by
the hair, but she broke away, and when
near the side door raised her pistol and
fired at the thief. He retreated to the
book door, but the plucky little woman
followed, and just aa he wa* about to fire
again alie emptied another barrel into
bis right arm. The burglar dropped
liia pistol, exclaimed, "She's hit me in
the arm," and disappeared. Nothing of
value was secured. The burglars made
an ineffectual attempt to chloroform
Mrs. Hopkins and her little daughter.
Mr. aud Mrs. Hopkins have practiced
pistol-shooting considerably, hence her
brave defense against the two burly
burglar*. Mrs. Hopkins narrowly es-
CSJKVI the two shots fired at her.
A Noble Animal.
Of the late Lord Itavensworth—the
gentleman who defended George IV.
against Thackeray—Mr. Edmund Yatea
tells this amusing story. He was a man
of no little personal vanity. One cold
day in wiuter, some years back, having
wrapped himself in a fur coat, he went
to call on some neighbors in Northum
berland. He was ushered into the draw
ing-room, and left, aa he thought, aloue.
No sooner was the door closed thau he
mounted on a chair in front of the
mirror over the fire-place, and, after
surveying himself with intense satisfac
tion, gave vent to the ejaculation :
" Well, a man in fur is a noble ani
mal !" Unfortunately for the baron, a
lady was seated in a corner of the room
in the recesa of a screen all the time,
and not only witnessed the exhibition,
but overheard the soliloquy.
NUMBER 20.
PARI, UAKIDI AMD HOIHKHOI.D.
Kara IMM.
Do not plant trees deeper than to
necessary to oovar the roots well. Never
place the roots in contact with manure.
Wanting need n<A be burned. When
trees arrive from the nursery, unpack
the in, keeping e sharp eye to the labels,
and " heel in " at once.
Watering must be attended to, and
when the soil gets packed and crusted
between the rows, break it up,or mellow
it with the Anger, or a pointed stick.
(■raiting is best done just as vegeta
tion start*. A tree that produces poor
fruit to easily converted into a profitable
tree. The operation to a simple one,
and any intelligent boy nan perform it.
H takes, where trees are properly
I planted, are not needed, nuleea is ex
i puaad localities where there are strong
wind*, and in such canes 'the orchard
should be protected bye screen of some
quick-growing trees that soil serve es e
wmd-break.
Drains should be cleared of waste
waiter, such as leaves, and other trsab
that will interfere with the flow of water.
In digging open drains,the earth should
be thrown out upon the aide opposite to
that {row which the surface water oomw.
It la now that we require rapid, rig.
orous growth, to send up strong spears
from the tillering mots, A modernto
dressing of some active fertiliser, rich
in ammonia, and with a good supply of
phosphoric acid for the needa oil the
grain, to precisely what is needed.
Laying out the -ground may be done
in squares, the trees in rows, and oppo
site each other, a common plan for
small orchard*, but where the ground is
to be used to the beat advantage, ths
</t linrunx method to adopted, in which
each tree stands at the corner of an
eqni lateral triangle, and to equally dis
tant from six other a
A Hileaian farmer has adopted a
method of imparting to butter an aroma
as delicate as that secured from cows
pastured in the most fragrant meadow*.
H suspend* in the empty churn a oalico
bag filled with fragrant herb*, keeping the
churn carefully closed. When churn
ing, he substitutes four smaller ban,
attaching them to ths beater* of the
otiuni. The result to thus secured in a
perfectly legitimate and harmless man
ner.
A Oorres|>ondent tUla ibat he kept a
plum trer from ourealioa by sprinkling
the ground under the tree with oora
meal. This induced the cluck on* to
scratch nod search. The meal n
strewn twT morning from the time the
tree* blossomed until the frnit wee large
enough to be out of danger. The oou
aeqnence wee, that the fowls picked np
the enrenhoa with the meal, and the
tree being eared from the presence of
the insects, wee wonderfully fruitful.
Br*rllu Nurk so Ikr Farm.
In new of the market for choice stock
lately thrown open to oar farmer* by
the exportation of cattle and meat to
Europe, it behooves them to pay in
(-reamed attention to the raising of tu-
an i mala on the farm. A late
report on the American trade, by Pro
fessor Sheldon, of the Ciriwvater Agri
cultural College, England,after famish
ing a mass of information on the subject,
comes to the oooduaioa that, despite
some fluctuations, the deed meat trade
will rapidly increase, and that appli
ance* for its successful management will
be multiplied here and in Europe. The
profits of the traffic will be in a great
measure, proportionate to the excellence
of the product, and the limit to the
quantity shipped will be the stowage
capacity of vessel* crossing the Atlantic,
for, owing to the falling off in our im
ports, the nnmber of ships engaged in
the transatlantic trade will be too small
to afford room for a large export of moat
together with other merchandise without
advancing the freight to a figure that
will prohibit further exportation.
The experience of many thriving
farmers all over the country,proves that
a better run of animals is obtained by
breeding them on the farm than by pur
chasing them. More care ia bestowed
in selecting the likely offsprings of tried
animals, they will go on fattening
more rapidly and uniformly than strang
ers picked np here and there, for it 1
takes some time before theae get ac
quainted and become contented enough
to lay on fleah kindly in their new home;
and moreover, the tendency of prices for
young stock ia npwarda, and the proba
bility ia very strong that ere long it will
not pay farmers to go into the market
for young animals. In any case, it ia,aa '
a rule, more profitable to breed the
stock one handles than to purchase It.
Mas*arJ)u*ctU Ploughman.
Vlarawr Msklsa-
The apples should be crushed and the
juice expressed and put into good tight
barrels, with the bnug left cut. Fer
mentation will follow quite rapidly, and
continue for days or weeks, according
to the weather. After the the first fer
mentation ceases, draw off the cider
carefully, in order not to disturb the
sediment which will have fallen to the
t sit torn. Rinse out the barrel, put the
cider back, and set in a warm place,
adding a pint of liquid yeast, or a half
pound of yeaat cakes previonalv dis
solved in two quarts of water, 'if the
cider ia rather weak, two quarts of mo
lasses may be added to strengthen it; j
but usually the cider will be strong
enough to make excellent vinegar, ana
sometimes too strong; in the latter case
dilute with rain water, two, three, or
more gallons to the barrel; at the cloae I
of the second fermentation, the cider
will generally have become excellent (
vinegar. If what ia called mother of
vinegar can be obtained, a small quanti
ty may be added with advantage.
What an Egg In*
To the reflective mind the egg consti
tutor one of the pro*test marvels of na
ture. At first view it wonld seem that
it ie an especial cliaraotenstio of birds;
but when we observe that fishes, so dif
fereut from birds in their organization
and their mode of life, have also eggs,
we see that it mnst be the same in one
sense with all kinds of animals. A pul
let's egg is a very small germ, posses
sing at first only the moat essential or
gans for the actual sustenance of its ex
istence, and the gradual development of
its other parts inclosed in a box, with its
provisions for the time it must actually
remain in seclusion. The animal is the
little whitish circle remarked in the
membrane which envelops the mass of
the yolk. The house destined to protect
the young animal until it has acquired
all of its own organs, and all the ueoes
sary strength, ami jet allow the air and
heat to penetrate, is the shell. Hence
the size of the eggs of animals is, not
necesaarilv proportioned to the size of
the animals to which they belong. All
animals, whatever they may be—from
the elephant to the humming-bird—are
nt the moment when they begin to feel
the principle of life nearly of the same
size. That which varies is the provision
of nourishment they require. The cro
codile, destined to attain ooloasal dimen
sions, can take care of himself very well
in the river where he was born when he
has attaint*! the size of a lizard; so na
ture places in the box where he is con
fined food sufficient to enable him to
reach that size. The same with fishes;
there are some enormous ones which
have only very small eggs, because, how
ever dimiuutive they may be on leaving
their envelope, they oan already obtain
their own living in the bosom of the
river or oaean. >.
flMi ef litmrt.
Hud to bnak-tbe spring mrpot
Buckwheat to root* eaten here than in
uiy other land.
TheOWooufor "adieu" to very ap
propriate " cAin-chin."
There ere nineteen thouaand female
Patron* of Husbandry in Texaa.
Everyone to in one thing at least orig
inal—in his manner of aneeaing.
A picture frame juet completed by a
New Jeraeyman, contains 1,682 kinds of
wood.
SrigruM silk* have snowflake scatter
ing* on dark groaada. The effect to at
tractive.
London to going to build a new bridge
over the river Thames, and to pay $lO,-
000,000 for it.
A Ave-year-old girl was actually whip
ped to death in Marshall town, lowa, by
her drunken mother.
(tortchakoff is in hie eighty aesond
, year—beating Lord Palmeraton, wbo
'died in barnaas at eighty.
The ltla-book just toeoad ahowa that
there are 86,880 aivii employeea of the
United tttafaw government
A girl working in a peper mill in
Orange county, 5. T.. reeetitly ripped
f 24 in gold ottl of en old buatle.
The present mlere of the to we of eti
q net to have deculed that it to only good
style to bow after the lady bee bowed.
Anatria'e peace establishment is pnt
down at 287,086 men and 47,972 horses;
in war, 780,090 men and 148,120 horses.
The geographer* tell us that the earth
to aompoaad entirely of land and water.
H<**ae to na then are a few rocks thrown
in.
Five of the sweetest words in the Eng
lish language begin with H, which is
only a breath: Heart, Hope. Happiness,
and Heaven.
A poor woman in Danville, 111., while
splitting k"dimg wood, lulled bar little
three-year-old eh ild by an accidental
blow of the axe.
There to a man only twenty-five jeers
of age who has already married fourteen
women. He to a clergymen, and mar
ried them to their husbands.
In Pennsylvania seventy-one per cent,
of the farm* am cultivated by their own
ers, twenty per cent us worked on
•karea, ana nine per oenk sre rented.
Haul n young doctor to s lady patient:
'Ton must take exercise for your health,
my dear." '• All right," said she; " 111
jump at the first offer." They were
married about six months afterwards.
An organ of the tobacco trade asserts
that if the tobacco consumed annually,
about 4,000,000,000 pounds, could be
made into a roll two inches in diameter,
it would encircle the world sixty times.
"Jons! Jens! Jons"
Los croon t
The brown baas to the slovsr:
•• tiwsat' asset' swsstl"
Kpg
Tb* robin*. Meted over.
—Sot* Orry ta Seribmrr.
Mr. F. D. Millet, an American, was
the only correspondent wbo went
through th. Balkan* with Gen. Gourko.
The cxar presented him with the decora
tion of St Ann, which to the highest
decoration given to any correspondent.
Hie " agony column* " of the Turkish
newspaper* ere filled with advertise
meat# for lost relations, giving painful
evidence of the dispersion of families of
the Mussulman population which bee
taken place in the district* ravaged by
war.
: The sea bold* 00,000,000,000,000 tons
l of salt Should the sea be dried up,
there would be a deposit of salt over
the entire bottom of the ocean 450 feet
deep, and if the salt were taken and
spread cm the land it would oover it to a
i depth of 900 feel
Because voc flourish to worldly affair*.
Hon t bs haughty and pot on air*
With mutant pride of station. ,
Dent bs proud and turn op year no**
at poorer people in plainer doth** ;
But laarn. for the sake of your mind's raposs.
That wealth a bebbto that wan and gc* ;
And that all proad fleet, sheressr it grow*,
1* subject to irritation.
" Marie," obaerrei Mr. Holcumb, as
he was putting on bis clothes, " there
5 ais*t no patch on them brooches yet"
"I cant fix it now, no way ; Fm too
busy." " Well, give me the patch, then,
an' I'll carry it around with ma. I don't
want people to think I can't afford the
cloth.
How strangely joy snd sorrow are
, interwoven in this world. Pain chases
pleasure like a champion pedestrian,
and the sweet tears shed by the maple
tree in spring time, crystallised into
sugar, will give an infant the stomach
! ache equal to a doctor's bill of nine
dollars.
Henry Goodrich to a music teacher.
He baa traveled from place to place until
he has taught music in every State in the
Union. It to said that he" has married
seven of his pupil* and most of the States
sre yet to be beard from. In Clarksburg,
Vs., be outdid his former matrimonial
exploit* by marrying two girla in the
s*me village. He is now in jaiL
In the Concordia Turnverein Hall, St.
Louis, there is a gymnasium for girla.
There are eighty girla in the class, and
they wear a regular gymnasium dress of
blue and gray cloth. Besides the lighter
gymnastics, they are taught the heavier
exetcteaa also# such as climbing, jump
ing and swinging. The girls are said
to beoomt* very strung, active snd healthy
by these exercises,
A Vienna mechanician has succeeded
in constructing an apparatus for working
sewing machines. Electricity, steam, or
water power sre, an the score of cost,
dnmestioatly inapplicable, so the iaven
tor of the new machine was restricted to
gravitation or elasticitv, and he, prefer
ring the totter feroe, has contrived to
male springs strong enough to keep an
ordinary meed machine in motion, it to
said tor" hours. A system of cog-wheels
s arranged underneath the surface of •
the table upon which the machine is fix
ed, and by a handle at the side the spring
is wound "up with facility. The velocity
at which the machine works is entirely
at the option of the person using it, and
can be easily regulated.
The NCTCS Meep >rs.
A lady in Brooklyn asks ns what ware
the names of the "Seven Sleepers " and
where the will find their strange story
recited. The legend is attached to a
gtoUo on the soatheast aide of Monnt
Prion, which is.a place of pilgrimage
not only with Christiana, hnt with Mos
lem*. It is a deep care filled with sta
lactites. The Christian tradition is that
seven noble youths of Epheeus, named
Malchas, Maximilian, Marti man, John,
Serapion, Dionysiut* and Constantine,
being and a such threatened
with death under Eraperr Diocletian
(A. D. 238-So4>, fled from the city with
their dog to this cave, and there falling
asleep, woke not for 230 years which,
on their waking, were to them as a watch
in the night They ventured down to
Epliesus, where to their amazement,
tbey found the cross everywhere in
honor, new coinage in the shops,
new coetumee in the streets, new faces,
and a new tongue. Thus displaced and
mistimed they soon died, and their bod
ies were taken to Marseilles where a
huge stone coffin is still shown as con
taining their remains, in the chnrch of
St. Victor, the oldest church in the city,
and once a Benedictine convent which
dates as to its earliest parts from the
eleventh century. Mahomet believed *
in the story and lias embodied it in the
Koran, where it is told in " the Chapter _
of the; Cave." The) Turkish names of
the seven sleepers are Jemlika, Meshi
lina, Mislina, Mernoos, Debbernoos,
Shszzernoos and Kepbestetjoos. Their >
dug, named Ketineha, is held in equal
honor with themselves.
All these names the Turks think of
good omen. Thev put them on. build
ings by wsy of ire insurance, and on
swords to prevent their breaking. Ket
meha has a place in Mahomet's para
dise, and at the bazaar in Ayaaolook, on
the site of Ephesus, you can now bay
talismans engraved with his name and
the names of* his masters. The central
idea of the legend is of all ages, from
that of Diogene Laertius, who incarnat
ed it in the tale of Epimonides of Crete,
to that of Washington Irving, who .em
bodied it in the story of Rip Van Winkle.
One of its most poetic forms is that of
the legend of the monk Felix so grace
fully put in verse by Longfellow.—
New York World.