Desdemona,
1 told her of my three years’ cruise,
Its haps and mishaps, and when 1
Had finished, in her sweet, rapt muse,
And when 1 66kl my jorneys o'er,
From torrid gone to lands of show
She paused in wonderment before
She softly epied, “You don't say so I”
And when I told of dangers, foars--
Our shipwrecks, when we suffered so,
Half frightened, and almost in tears,
She faltered forth, “I want 0 kiow!”
waNoribrer's Magazine,
The Drum,
Oh the drum!
There is sone
Intonation in the gram
Monotony of utterance that strikes the spirit
dumb,
As wo hear
Through the clear
And uncloaded atmosphere,
The rambling palpitations roll in upon the ear!
And the guost
Of the laeast
That thy rolling robs of rest
8 A patriotic apirit as a Continental dressed ;
And he looms
" From the glooms
Of a century of tombs,
Aud the blosd he spilled at Lexington in living
bealty blooms,
And his ayes
Waar the guise
Of a nature pure and wise;
And the love of them is lifted to a something
in the skies
That is bright,
Red and white,
With a blur of starry light,
As it lavghs in silken ripples 10 the breezes day
and night,
¥
Thoreare deep
Hushes croep
O'er the pulses aa they leap,
silehoe falls asleep;
While the prayer
Rising there
Wills the ses and earth and air
As a heritage to frepdom’s sons and dang
everywhore,
Then with sound
As profound
As the thunderings resound,
Come thy wild reverberations in a throe that
shakes the ground,
And a ory,
Flung owhigh
Like the tise it dutiers by,
Wings rapturousiz spwand till it nestles inthe
sky. Jiaes W, Riley.
NORMAN LAMAR'S BOARDERS.
He stood rubbize his Lands before
the huge+dog in the open chimuey, with
The worming was cold ; the hoar frost
became smoke as it met the atmosphere.
his shapely head was covered with little
eves wore just sueh a mild meditative
gentler cattle. We grow like our com-
panions, and they had been his many
years. He was rubbing bis hands, not
because they were cold, for they were
babe’s. The act was simply an expres-
sion of the pleasure he felt in the glow
frory the great back log. The room was
rude and homely, but spacious, and not
lacking in comfort.
an air of clegance about. her. She had
been looking ontthe window at the wide
sweep of prairie and cattle ranging free.
Saddenly she brought her very hand-
some eyes to bear, with a frapk eriti-
cism, on the man upon the hearth, in
his blue flannel pantaloons and shirt
and red suspenders. Metaphorically
speaking, he owned ‘“the cattle upon a
thousand hills ;” in practical language,
he was one of the most extensive stock
raisers in the territory in which he lived.
ner ow
wered by the vastness of
things
~—the vast prairies, the vast sky,
regarding his pro
sessions which he represented.
let dwells on in his chapters about the
world when it was pew, with their bine
eyes, yellow mustaches, and fair should-
ers decorated with golden collars.
She felt almost sure that even the col-
lar was somewhere out of sight under
bis blue shirt. She was certain that he
had swooped down on things and owned
a great deal more than rightly belonged
to him.
.. “He ought to marry a large, vellow-
haired, fair-skinned Amazon, and peo-
ple the land with a progeny that would
put to the blush the puny race one is
accustomed 10,” she said to herself, and
suddenly became aware ‘that she also
was being regarded.
“ Pardon, mademoiselle, but I was
trying to make out your nationality; are
you French 7” he asked.
“ What makes you think I am,” was
her reply.
A little amused smile crept from under
his yellow mustache.
“Your speech betrayeth you.. None
but a Yankee answers a question with
another.”
She langhed.
“Yon are right. Yet I call myself
cosmopolitan. Mamma and I live all
over the world. year we spent in
the year before in Gémany,
and so way back since I was ten years
old. I'm twenty-three now.”
Her frankness was enchanting.
_ “There is a good deal of Bohemian-
ism about us. We always live in apart-
aents, 50 we can locate wherever we
choose. ‘We haven't any particular ob-
ject in living—that is, not any high, ex-
alted purpose. We just try to have as
good a time as the means papa left us
will admit.”
Then she suddenly blushed np to her
aparkling eyes to think she had been
telling family affairs to gn éntive stran-
ger. .
“I beg of you, do not think I am in
the habit of doing such things,” she
said, hotly.
Just then her mother entered. She
did not look much older than her daugh-
ter, and they were both handsome.
Mrs. Burdett had not seen her host
before. They had been landed at
his door the night previous by the stage
driver, and had not learned until the
coach was beyond recall that it was a
private house, and not a hotel.
The housekeeper had given them any-
thing but a gracious welcome, saying
that the drivers had a habit of doing
such things, and adding:
“ Howsumever, Norman Lamar will
be right glad to seé yon. He likes a
housefull of folks. don’t have to do
the cooking, vou see.” 3
Mrs. Burdett's' apology for their in-
trusion savored of this reception. She
expressed regret that they would be
obliged to trespass until the stage re-
turned that evening, then formally in.
troduced ‘herself and daughter. His
welcome was full of simple hospitality ;
then they went out to breakfast,
Soon after he bade them good-morn-
ing, saging it was a very busy time
and he id not return until afternoon,
He had only been gone a few minutes
when a light wagon, drawn by two
sphited grays, stopped at the door, and
s young man who drove them came
ie ladies’ disposal for the day,
En AOA SA
VOLUME XIV.
am
1881.
i
{ were so charmed with the place they
{ would like to remain and board for a
i week. He regarded her with his great,
| meditative blue eyes for a moment, then
! smiled.
“1 wonld be glad to bave you stay
for ever, if it pleased you; but we
don't know nyt about board out
| here, and don't propose to learn.”
{ Mrs. Burdett admired his hospitality,
but she looked displeased.
“Then we shall be obliged to leave
{at once. The stage is about due. We
cannot, of course, be dependent upon
{ an entire stranger, no matter how gener
ous has invitation,”
It had bean a pleasant thought to him
all day that these two ladies were in his
home. That they wanted to stay gave
i him a keen sense of pleasure; that
such a little thing should hinder made
him impatient.
“I would no« touch a woman's money
for a bit of homely fare, 1 assure you.’
His ‘voice indieated his mood ; then
suddenly, he broke into a free, ringing
langh,
“If you will not stay without, pay my
housekeeper; but let me warn you, Mrs,
! Harden isa woman of the shrewdest type,
xd when she makes a bargain, as
Shakespeare says, she ‘Cavils on the
i ninth part of a hair,’ so look out for
her,” and he touched his hat and left.
Zaida had listened to the conversation,
“ Hes as generous as a prince!” said
her mother, enthusiastically, as she
entered the room,
. The girl laughed.
“1 feel somewhat as if we were Sabine
| women, and had been captured for good
i and all,” she said.
“Zaida, what makes you say such
| dreadful things? Perhaps we had better
not stay
Mrs. Burdett looked disappointed.
“Of course we will stay. We haven't
had anything so interesting before, ever.
{ Just think of it! To live under the roof
{ of a bonanza king and board with his
| housekeeper!"
i “Of conrse it will not do. The way
i you put it shows it clearly,” said her
: mother.
| *“Howsilly vouare, mamma! Come!"
{ and the girl started to leave the room,
{ “Where are you going ¥' demanded
| her mother,
{ “Why, to the kitchen, of course, to
tconelnde our bargain with our land.
i lady I" gayly.
“Did 1 ever see so perverse a girl!”
{ remarked her mother; nevertheless she
linked her arn®in her daughter's, and
they went out to the kitchen like two
| school-friends.
i Mrs. Harden was over the fire, stew.
ing potatoes in milk. She looked hot
and flustered. She flow about to get
{ them chairs, and seemed very uncom- |
| fortable and put-to by their coming.
{ Mrs. Burdett hastened to explain
! the object of their intrusion,
| The housekeeper stirred the potatoes |
i and shifted the pan as if she would
i never stop. At length she said, with a
| gasp, as if all out of breath:
i “That's like him, for all the world!
{ I suppose it'll look awfnl mean in me
to take any board, but if you won't stay
without, and you want to stay real bad,
what's a body to do?”
. Mrs, Burdett assured her that it was
ithe only way in which the diffienity
could be adjnsted. She seemed
{ lieved, though not a whit more com-
| posed, then made her bargain in as
| shrewd a manner as Norman Lamar had
| foretold. When it was concluded she
| said, apologetically:
I “You see, I'm obliged to appear
i close, because I've got a poor, weakly
| family dependent on me. They live
| over yonder, Norman Lamar gave me
| the house,” indicating the direction by
! throwing her thumb over her shoulder,
i 80 8s not to lose sight of the potatoes.
“What's the matter with them?”
asked Zaida, with more curiosity than
sympathy in the sparkle of her face.
“Oh, they're always sick, What with
{ the plagme of their living, and the fear
{of their dying, I haven't a minute's
| peace of mv life.”
i. ¥ Oh, well, there are people worse oft
i than von,” said Mrs. Burdett, in a con- |
| soling tone.
i “Yes, that's the only comfortin’
i thought I've got. If I hadn't that to
i keep my spirits up I'd clean give out.”
i They spent that evening in the sit-
| ting-room, before the great chimney
{ with its blazing log. The ladies were
‘embroidering. As they sat at their
| work, to Norman Lamar, who for many
{ years had been unaccustomed to seeing
{ women thas employed, they seemed
| more than human. It seemed as if the
{room would be besutiful forever for
| their having once graced it,
i He spent most of the time standing
| npon the hearth, with his elboW¥ resting
upon the high wooden mantelshelf.
| There was an unusual degree of strength
j and power in his presence. He looked
a4 is he could never be weary.
The second day was spent very much
i like the first. At evening, when their
1 host eame home, he found mother and
| danghter waiting for him on the piazza.
i It was a new experiment, and he was |
! 80 pleased that he could not hide the |
| act,
i “Why on earth don’t he find his
{ Amazon, and. stop living alone?’
thought Zaida, and held out her hand
with a cordiality that was enchanting.
He had to go to the sheds to “see one
of the creatures that had been injured
in the branding Mrs. Burdett asked to
go with him, as the sheds were at no
great distance. Bhe only remained a
short time, and Zaida, seeing her re-
turning alone, went to meet her, walk-
fog with what, for her, were gigantic
strides, and swaying from right to leit
in a remarkable manner,
“ What on earth are you doing?’ de. |
mandeds her mother, when they were
within speaking distance.
ak like the king, to be sure.
Did I look like a guy ?”
Mrs. Burdett did not even smile.
“How can you be so undignified?
Per too, he saw you.”
itla had a cool way of ignoring re-
proof, so she straightened herself to her
full height, and said, as naturally as if
nothing had occured:
“Ma what is the matter
the creature, as he called it?”
Mrs. Burdett wag easily diverted; she |
began to give a graphic account, when
the girl suddenly stopped her, saying
she would go see for herself.
The sheds were extensive and she |
wandered about in them some time be- |
fore the sound of voices guided her to
the right one. Norman Lamar and one
of his men were dressing the wound of
a young heifer. The animal's large,
t eyes were turned up to the tender,
pityisg eves of its master,
ida stood afew moments unobserv-
ed; then stole quiet]
““ And that is ownership,” she said,
dashing some quick tears off her cheeks;
then added: ‘Yet the poor dumb crea-
ture seems to love him.”
She was subdued and thoughtful all
during tea-time; so too was Norman La-
mar.
That evening it was moonlight, and
he invited them to ride.
“He treats us as if we were guests,
and not a couple of interlopers—with
our i I would
re.
with |
y away.
week out,” said Mrs. Bundett, looking
disturbed.
“Pooh! pooh! Of somrse we will
STAY, I'o be treated with marked econ
sideration by the monarch of all
surveys is delightful I" Then, breaking
off in her capricious way: ** Mamma, do
YOu suppose he aver wears a coat ¥ :
“It would be a shame for him to spoil
his figure with one,” began Mrs. Bum
dett; but the girl was already in the
hall,
The night was olear and frosty. The
ladies were well wrapped and a trifle
shivery for all; but Norman Lamar
seemed perfectly comfortable, though
Ge
he wore no extra garment save a vellow
silk handkerchief knotted around his
white throat.
a Phere, i knew he had i golden cols
lar somewhere |” thought Zaida, view
ing him delightedly in the moonlight,
When the nde was over, and mother
and daughter were again in their room,
Mrs. Burdett said, after a long, thought
ful silenoe
“1 wonder if he has not any family ?
I have never heard him speak
five.”
Zaida had thrown herself do
the loange; she looked drowsy
asleep; she yawned slightly as
to be disturbed.
2 Why, of course not,
have all been dead centu
Gaul, you know |”
“What on earth are
about 7” demanded her mother
Zaida aroused herself, laughing gayly.
“1 reckon 1 must have been dream
ing,” she said, and she had been—of the
master,
' he week was soon goue, and the
house lacked their bright and graceful
presence. Even Mrs. Harden wished
they might have staid forever, and wore
& more dolorons face than ever, and
was taken with spasms shedding
tears into her apron.
Norman Lamar had lifted his cap in
answer to the wave of Zaida's hand just
as the road made a bend that took the
stage from sight, and then had turned
and looked at his rude house and wide-
sweeping prairies and cattle ranging
free. One week ago he had been con-
tent. Hoe took up his life, to all out-
ward appearances, as if nothing had oe
curred, as if no one had come and gone.
The only discoverable difference lay in
the fact that he ceased to spend
evenings reading by the light of the
great log, as had been his habit for Years,
and instead spent every night ontd
chafing when storms compelled him to
remain within,
“ He looks muserable lonesome,” was
Msr, Harden's mental comment every
time she served his meals.
One day she brought him a dainty
little handkerchief, witha faint suggos-
tion of perfume about it, and asked if he
of a 14 in
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and half
if hating
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; they
He's “
i
i
vou talking
of
OOS,
she might mail it to them, He took it from
her eagerly ; it had Zaida's name mark-
ed in one corner,
“They expect to spend their winter
in London,” he rephed, but did not
offer to return the Landkerchief.
lingered as long as she could possibly
find excuse to, hoping he wonld give 1t
back, then returned to the kitchen, say-
ing, gloomily; “I wanted to keep it my
self, it seemed just like her somehow ;
but that's just my luck; born to dis
appointment.”
Mrs, Burdett and her daughter bad
gone to London, and were settled in
apartments for the winter. They had
their windows full of plants, some of
which were in bloom, and they had ca-
naries eaged among them. Their apart
ments were bright and cheerful, and
furnished in warm colors ; the
suitably situated. Mrs. Burdett was
never weary of talking of Norman La-
mar. He seemed to have impressed her
wonderfully, His fine presence, his
noble bearing, and his mild, beantiful
face were constant themes of delight to
ier. She described him so often to the
rosyv-checked little woman who served
their meals, that one day she exclaimed:
“In a million I'd know him !”
“You could not fail, for you do not
find one sach in every million,” had
been the reply.
Zaida never mentioned him. She did
not even appear to listen when her
mother talked of him, but nsually
caught up her Kensington work and
became intent upon it.
The girl bad changed. She had lost
some of her old vim and fire. Bhe read
a great deal, and spent much time with
her clieeks pillowed in her hands, gazing
dreamily out at the window,
One day her mother said to her, a
trifle sadly:
“I am afraid you are growing digni-
fied. I never have to correct you any
more."
It was only when they were walking,
as they did every day, that she was her
old vivacious self. The erowded thor-
oughfares gave her new life. They
seemed to have hope in them.
One day she said:
“ Mamma, the concealments and de-
velopments of a crowd are positively
fascinating. One lives in momentary
expectation.”
zor
ng
time, and at that moment Mrs. Burdett
was rudely jostled by it.
“What of 2” she demanded, a trifle
sharply.
idut the girl did not reply. She had
gotten her own remark.
At length they had been in London
four months. It was February, and dis-
agreeable and foggy, so much =o that
they were obliged to remain much in-
dbors,
One afternoon mother and danglitor
were sitting before the grate-fire. Mrs.
Burdett was embroidering; Zaidan had
her hands folded idly in her lap. They
Her mother looked
Presently she said:
entirely absent,
perplexed.
to be so merry. What are yon thinking
about now--this minute ?"”
Zaida langhed.
completely without results our winter
some Kensington work.”
Lamar that their lives were without
purpose,
er langh,
» mother in astonish.
do?’ asked her
ment,
“I am sure Ido not know,” replied
the girl, and she got up, went to the
bn oh and began picking dead leaves
from the plants.
more of them than usual this afternoon.
Mrs. Burdett stopped her work and
looked into the fire,
“YT had been married several years
when I was as old as Zaida is now,” she
said to herself, vaguely, pethagh =
peshape—1 have been selfish. I have
ept her so jealously to myself. It
would, perhaps, be more natural for her
to marry and have a family. I—I won-
flor Jf the thought has ever occurred to
or ”
And she looked curiously over to
‘where her danghter stood. -
The girl was intent upon the dead
here
leaves; was nothing to be learned
’
Mrs
fire
“Certainly she
anybody, We
one long enough; and vet
fe
cared for
Known any
and yet-—1
Mr. Burdett first
has never
have never
with the
him."
il in love
timo 1 saw
Suddenly she turned and again »
garde dd her d ang hte oN She had never
been quite the same sinee last fall—-bnat
it could not be possible,
She stopped surmising, and said, quite
naturally, for she was full of tact
“Da you know, Zarda, 1 think it
would be pleasant to return to America
in the spring and make another trip to
the prairies. It was so cold when we
wore there before.’
** What's the use,
l there was of them,’
We
was the indif
mamma? SAW
rent reply
Mrs i irdett Hd ked up hel
er COoursa
think of it)’
[he next ii .
it was the first day they had seen it for
two weeks. They went ou nediately
after breakfast, but Zaida soon tired,
and, leaving her mother in one of the
ho
O30
win
i foalisl
she said to herself
day the sun
Was
i 3
SNOne DrIgntiy
stores, started jor
Sometimes we were ROAr ony
that we could eall out into the unknown
and get back an answer, but we do not
know it .
Zaida hurried on bloek after block,
and behind her, block after
following her, came long,
People taraad and
looked after him as he passed, His su.
perh proporti and eceontrio dress
would have attracted attention in even
be denser crowd,
He wore a y, and no coat save
a dark blue broadeloth cirele, one end
of which was tucked nuder his ann and
the other swang over his shoulder,
By the time Zaida had reached her
door, near enough to see the
swing of her dress as entered. 1
was nothing that he had ever seen he
wear before, and the erowd was so great
that lie had not discovered her as she
walked. There was nothing to remind
him of her, he had simply seen the fold
of & wynan's dress and then lost it
Perhaps it was the mere fact of losing
i le very act of seeing that made
op when he came in front of the
oor ; perhaps it was
into and gone from his
Perhaps it was
BO ale
ind vy
hlog 5, UL
consciously
swinging strides,
fin
sombre
he was
she t
3
3!
lk
because
COG
in just such wise,
fate! Who can tell?
Several in the crowded thoroughfare
half-balted, as if to Was
gong. He saw that h '
served He had been looked at a great
deal since h ft the prairies, but
had ney of it un
that moment
He mng the
under his yellow mustache,
finite idea of what he should say when
it was answered. He did it for the sake
of the passers-by, Thins through the
simplest and most opposite motives, we
destiny.
3
where he
SO0
was being ob
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i
h
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CONSCIONS
s bell with a curious smile
i and no de
sometimes work ont our
The little Englishwom
door. A moment later
admittance to Mrs. Bardett's parlor,
Zanla knew the rap as the landlady’s;
in fact, na one ol the
The g inexpressibly
wat mo lad
of the thought of &
h
i
i
i
n opened the
sOINe Gone songht
40 aver rapped save
washwoman, 1 was
lonesome tl
astily threw open the de .
“Oh, Burdett, the king
come! I knew him the moment
his 1s bu he Op wed his 1
exclaimed the landlady, exeited
Zaida was looking right over
woman's head, up into the gentle
of Norman Lamar
The landlady turned and saw that he
had followed her, then quite nnobserved
with her the
v's face, and saving to
p y and w ho « onld
Miss
fore over
He
menos
hersel
help it?
An hour latét, when Mrs Burdett
quietly opened her parlor door and en-
tered, Norman Lamar stood upon her
hearth just as she had loved to remem.
ber him standing upon his
prairies, only with one difference, which
wins so great a one that) for a moment,
it seemed to stop her breath. One arm
rested Lightly over Zaida's shoulders,
and his fair, noble face bent toward her,
all full of new bright Lights.
ea rn
-
{
y
3
own on the
Female Smugglers,
off the steamer CGermanie on to the
dock with dignity and an evident con.
sciousness that she knew what she was
about. She wore asilk mantle, whose
bottom was tucked in. This having
been pulled down a large quantity of
valuable Biwek lace a foot deep was
stitches eight inches long. The woman
boldly claimed that the lace was for her
personal use, and that she had a right to
sew it and wear it in any manner she
pleased. “There being no means of
disproving her statement she was re
(Now hear the twitter of sat-
isfaction among the ladies, that for once
those odious custom-house ruflians have
been outwitted Butsee what followed.)
A moment later two women quit the
steamer, whose apparel also attractéd
the captain's attention, and he gave
thent in charge of the inspectress, One
wore a new silk dress that did not fit
her around the waist by four inches, and
the other, nnder her ulster, had on a
magnificent silk cloak trimmed all over
with beads, and reaching to the ground.
They abused Captain Adams in the
most voluble manner, and threatened
him with all sorts of disasters for put.
ting such an indignity upon them. At
length, when the elder paused an in-
stant to catch her breath, the captain
took advantage of the opportunity to
ask whether she would candidly answer
a question or two. Receiving an affirm
ative response, the following collogny
took place:
“ Are vou a dressmaker?"
“1am.”
{ “Do you intend to offer those goods
{ you are wearing for sale ?"
“1 dof I can get a cnstomer for
i them.”
{ “Did you put them on with the in-
“1 did,
duty anything I can wear.”
Captain Adams said that there was a
difference of opinion on that point, and
| informed the deputy surveyor present of
his discovery. The women were told
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD,
——
Warrants and (losseberrios,
Currants and gooseberries can be left
without much pruning, if a vigorous
growth be Rept up by a liberal appli
cation of fertilizing material, Should
pruning be thought necessary, ent away
no canes until they are thr & Yours old,
and shorten in the new ones to eanse
new fruit spurs to develop. The best
fruit is always borne upon wood two
and three years old, and the more vig.
orous, the finer and larger the fruit
There is no fruit grown in which liberal
treatment is so well repaid,
Frequent Veediug.
Young chickens require frequent feed-
During the first week they should
be fed, if possible, every hour; for three
weeks after that, every two hours, and
after that, until they are two months,
three hours. Perhaps this may |
look like a great deal of trouble, but we
are simply laying down mles, obedi
ence to which will produce the best re-
sults. If any one does not wish to have
the finest poultry that he can have, he
will, of course, not follow the rules pre- |
seribed, It is a prevailing law that if
we have anythin. we must labor for it.
There are exceptions, but that is the
rule, and it is as foreible in operation
in the poultry yard as anywhere else.
ing.
every
%
Orehards,
Our plan for cultivating a bearing
orchard -and we ask {or none better,
only that we want a better {ool than the
common plow to stir the soil with—is
to plow the ground between the rows
way, not trying to plow very near
the stews of the trees, about the first of
May with common turning plow,
then in ten days harrow thoroughly, then
in ten days again, and then aboat the
tenth of June plow the orchard the
other way, then harrow three times as
before. This plan we adopted after a
great deal of study and experiment, We
reasoned in this way: if we should plow
the orchard both ways, turniog all the
ground possible, we would destroy 80
many roots as to give the orchard a
severe check, but by plowing it
between the vows only one way at a
time we leave st least half the roots un-
wturbed and the trees are not checked
at all. And we cared not how many
roots we plowed up between the trees
one way, we knew the undisturbed roots
would hold the trees in thrift until the
broken roots could put forth new feeding
roots in the fresh mellow plowed land.
This kind of culture is adapted to high,
dry, rather poor hill land; on richer and
more moist soil it would have to be
modified to suit, for so long as an
orchard of bearing trees is making a
growth of from six to fifteen inches
yearly it has vigor enough. There ean be
no general plan for the enlture of orchards
given, for the culture of each orchard
must be aoconding to its soil and require
ments, The cultivation necessary on a |
thin, dry soil would eanse an orchard on
a richer, moister sofl to ran all te wood,
or little fruit. Rich, level or |
prairie soils should be treated very |
differently from thin, dey hill soils; when
planted 1n orchard they should gener
ally be laid down in grass and the thrift
vf trees kept up in part by ontting
wd thinning out the outer branches
and by surface manuring, and eventually
by plowing narrow strips between the
Prairie dormer,
One
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With none
TOWR
Getting Potatoes Early,
1 gel
drained
oud
seleyied
potatoes early a dry, well
of ground should be
, & rich sandy los seeming the
at all times If an early
crop i desired sprout the tubers, or c6t
in a lght, warm room,
four to six weeks before planting,
hot-bed two weeks before thes
are wanted, then Lift carefully and plant
out-during this time you will procure
strong, vigorous shoots whieh as soon as
planted out in the open ground will
send out roots and grow more rapidly
than those treated in the ordinary way
All planters have doubtless observed mn
planting that where a set with a long
has been planted it his been
above gronnd a week earlier
the rest, and this shows the
of first sprouting the seis
in planting while
a dnmpy bit of
Plant
ns early in the spring as the gronad ean
he thoroughly worked, for a healthy,
vigorous growth, and a erop free from
rot, in hills or rows three feet apart, and
in the rows one foot apart; covering in
light, warm soil about four inches, and
in cold, wet ground three inches deep.
Cultivate to keep down the weeds, and
draw the earth to the plants. The
practice of hilling or earthing up
potatoes has been long continued, and
we must allow with satisfactory results,
or it wonld not still be almost universal.
It is claimed that it entices root growth,
besides allowing of move eunltivation
than otherwise, the earth holding up the
tops. There are many persons however
who have tried level culture, and"who
claim the yield was just as good ns under
the earthing up system.— Ivibune and
Former,
1a
:
3 § wsbalid
most sustatil
the potaloes
LOT
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shoot
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Every Man His Owa Herse«Doctor,
Every one who has the care of horses |
should be prepared for an attack of
colic, Gov one pint turpentine, add
one ounce sulphurie ether, one ounce
oil peppermint, two ounces sweet spirits
i and one ounce aconite, Mix,
shake and it is ready for colic. This
recipe is the best I ever used, and in the
first stage of pneumonia it is excellent.
Dose for colic, a tablespoonful every
hour until relieved. It will often eure
the patient in a few minutes.
I found the best treatment I could
employ for the epizootic was bran
mashes, all they would eat, with a spoon.
ful of Glauber's salts each feed, and the
same amount of niter powdered fine and
A tea-
spoonful of powdered coppers occa
sionally put in the feed will help keep |
up the appetite. I find all horses that
are off are benefited by mixing a tea-
cupful of flaxseed jelly in their bran |
mash, The jelly is made by slowly |
water until it is a complete jelly. To
| was sent for. When the silk cloak was
One of the women replied that it was
{ made so for purposes of warmth, but on
closer investigation the inspectress dis-
covered evidences of ¢ tacking,” and in
a few moments, by the rupture of a
few stifches, had resolved the apparently
single cloak into two, both equal in
costliness and beauty. The women paid
the amount demanded, which was $120,
without another word.
In the vineyards of Southern France
and Italy snails are ‘ cultivated,” or
rather fattened and fitted for food, and
Baron Barthelemy prepares snail sirup
and snail bonbons which he considers
valuable as a remedy for bronchitis and
asthma.
|
i
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i
of bran with beiling water, stir it up
thick, put a cloth over the bucket to
keep in all the steam and let stand until |
cool enough to feed. |
For foundered horses, four ounces of |
alum dissolved in warm water and given
as a drench, then followed in two hours |
with a quart of linseed oil, is my best |
remedy. Don't squander your money |
buying high-toned, far-fetched spavin
remedies, when for a few cents you can
put up a bottle of corrosive liniment
that will remove any callous puffs, ete,
that can be removed by any remedy, It
is made thns: Spirits of turpentine;
add two ounces of gum camphor and
one-half ounce of corrosive sublimate,
shake well, and in a few hours it is
ready for use.. It will cure hog spavin,
remove callouses, cure thrush, and I
believe it will cure corn if faithfully
applied. Itis one of the best known
remedies for the foot-root in sheep. For
‘sweeny, leave out the corrosive’ subli-
mate and use only the turpentifie and
camphor. For strain of the stifle, use
the same quantity of turpentine and
Farmers, put up your own liniments,
One of the bost for rhemmatism is made
as follows: One pint of spirits of tur.
pentine, two ounces of cmmphor, two
ounce of oil of sassafras,
best liniments for wounds is made by
melting one pound of pine tar, add one
quart of linseed oil and half a pint of
spirits of turpentine; it is just the
thing for any wounds on wan or beast,
and it is one of the best remedies to ap-
ply to brittle feet. HH, 8 Hill,
Clover for Warn-Out Land,
The Country Gentleman makes the
following extract from Mr. Harlan's
work on * Farming with Green Manure”
It is a very common practice among
agricultural writers to A en all persons
having large farms which are im very
poor condition to sell one-half or two.
thirds of their land sand apply all the
proving the balance of their property,
for two very good reasons. First, vou
ean get bat very little per sere for your
poor fields, and secondly, if you improve
enhance its value so rapidly that in
seven or eight vears it will be worth
double or treble its former valuation.
To begin its improvement take the old
field about half a mile from the house
ard which HOW covered with thin
yellow grass and a mellow soil about
one or two inches deep, produced by
many years of exposure to the weather.
It has never been plowed sinoe you
it. And, I beg yon, do not
plow it now at the beginning of
your efforts to make it better, Let me
show vou what a coating of fine mellow
earth is worth upon the surface. In
Egypt the annual overflow of the Nile
deposits on the land a thin stratum of
very fine soil, which amounts to only
four or five inches in a century. This
yearly settling, which is only the twen.
in
impalpable dust, keeps the farms for
ever rich and productive. The Egvptians
do not plow this precious coat under,
but sow the seed on the moist ground as
the waters subside,and then, if possible,
they drive sheep and hogs and goats
over it to press the seed into the soil.
We shonld all loam a useful lesson from
their example and experience.
should not plow down the only part
ing
harrow as many acres of the old field as
we can sow with clover seed at one peck
to the sere,
should roll the ground and sow one
or two bushels of plaster per acre
The principal roots of all plants
feel the life-giving influence of air and
phere may penstrate even to the deep
est fibers of vegetation. Henoe the rea
son that plant food acts so well upon
the surface and that all seeds germinate
more thickly, ‘more naturally, when
covered by only one or two inches of
soil. But these great truths must not
be misunderstood. Though the soil
greater the necessity when planting or
sowing of pressink with the hand or
foot or voller the earth into elose con.
tact with the grain. I remember a lit.
tle incident which will illustrate the
subject and fix it in the mind. An old
soa captain who vad in onr neighbor.
hood tried every year to raise for him.
self a Little tobacco. He prepared a
little patch of ground with the greatest
care. The surface was as fine and rich
and mellow as he conld mike it. Then
he sowed the seed and raked it
more very gently. Yet,
to his surprise and
fow stalks grew each
But one spring, after the little
bed had been sown with all the
usual care, some fellow, to worry the
old captain, went secretly on it and
tramped and tramped and danced and
tramped it till it was to all appearance
as hard and solid as the most frequent.
ed publie road. - The poor old man gave
him seaman's blessing, whoevér it
might be, and loft it to its faté. Bat on
his next visit to it he was astounded to
wen the whole bed covered with vigor.
Ons plants of tolmeco. It seemed that
every seed had. grown, - He had a grand
crop. After that he «conld always raise
tobacco. He tramped the ground him-
self after the seed was sown, Well, to
turn to our field, If the clover shuld
grow five or six inches high by the mid-
dle of August give it a hall or a whole
bushel more of plaster per acre. The
yeat von must treat it in the
same way, and if the clover is thin on
the ground sow more seed and again
roll it well. Do all this the third and
fourth year if necessary. After this ft
will reseed itself provided you continue
the plaster each vear. Here isa practies]
illustration of this plan which 1 know
to be fect, A person bought a very
poor farm near the southern boundary
of Pennsylvania and tried to raise grain
upon it in the usual way; but nothing
Hrew large or strong enongh to produce
seed. Fortunately he did not sacrifice
the property by sellingit at u very low
figure, as many wonld have done. He
sowed every acre of it with clover seed
and plastered it every year, For a liv-
ing Ne followed the profession of an
anclioneer. About seven or eight or
wore years the clover grew upon his
farm, nndisturbed by plow or hoof of
any kind. Then he concluded to try his
hand again at farming. Many of his
neighbors gathered to the first
ste
Bai
Ov at
much
only
Onte
b TOar,
second
S00
An old farmer who was present
assured me that the soil turned over
eight or nine inches deep as black as
More than fifty years have now passed
since that occurrence, and the farm has
the reputation of being rich and pro-
ductive to the present day,
Recipes,
Winteren Porarors. — Whip boil pota-
toes to creamy lightness with a fork;
irregularly upon a dish, set in the oven
tv o minutes to reheat, but do’ not let it
Bran Saum,—Put some lima beans,
potatoes and beets (all boiled tender)
cut the potatoes and beets into rather
oil, pepper, salt and vinegar, Garnish
with a few watercresses,
Cuocorare Propping, —Scald together
a quart of milk and three ounces of
grated chocolate. Set it away until
cold and then add the beaten yolks of
five eggs and one cup of sugar. Bake
about twenty-five minutes, Beat the
whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, spread
over the top of the pudding and brown
them slightly in the oven. «This pud-
ding should be served very cold. -
Cream Pre —One enp sugar, one egg,
piece of butter size of an egg, one tea
spoon soda, dissolved in a cup of dweet
milk, add to this when mixed together
two teaspoons cream tartar rubbed
three cups of flour, and bake
3
jelly-cake tins, Cream for inside of the
pie: One and one-half cups of milk,
when boiling add seven teaspoons corn-
starch wet with cold milk; let it seald
a moment, then add tw» well-beaten
egus; sweeten to taste, and flavor with
lemon or vanilla. Split the cakes when
cold, spread them with cream and put
together again like jelly-cake.
Ounas Sovr.—To two pounds lean
beef, boiled in two gallons of water for
two hours, add tomatoes and okra each
erately, then add three tablespoonfuls
of browned flour, twenty whole cloves,
pepper, salt and three onions (first fried
then added to the soup), boil another
hour, strain and serve,
Geogr Onackess,—Two quarts of
flour, one pint of molasses, one pound
of brown sugar, half a pound A lard,
two ounces of ground ginger and a tes
spoonful of cloves. Knead them a
A SLEIGHING MATCH,
Four Hondred and Sixiyawe Slelghs in
One Field, Each Drawn by Pour or Mix
Horses A Remarkable Spectacle,
An Akron (Ohio) letter describes a
sleighride which occurred in t :
twenty-five years ago, and is ptle
one of the most 6 occurrences |
of the kind on record. The winter of | W
1805-6, save the writer, was long, se- |
Yare, ith Hush snow, vide remain Wl
on the ground throughout the | 1 of | th
March, presenting serious tacdes to | plates
outdoor employments, 5! Es
could do but little work, and so turne
The circumstances which gave port.
this famous sleighride were as follows:
Upon some occasion a rural township | o
turned ont with a large number of four.
horse sleighs, The leading in
the procession carried a rade banner
long time and roll very thin. Bake
over a steady, strong fire.
three-fourths cup of sugar; two table.
spoons of butter; one teaspoonful of
made of chesp muslin, a sare— |
ela» aD oe Sas pa
ack a negro boy, end
his thumb upon his fami poy
beranee, and his hand spread out a
fan, alter the manger of the street
corn-starch; wet up with
and a little cold water.
smooth cream and bake in small tins,
w I AN—yr sn
WISE WORDS,
body,
Nothing is so good as it seems before-
We wish for more in life, rather than
more of it
who lacks the weapon will never tri-
nmph.
limity into trifles. That is power.”
or harm in the world
therefore envy him; did we see how
little he eujoys, we should rather pity
n.
Never fear to bring the sublimest
motive to the smallest duty, and the
most infinite comfort to the smallest
trouble,
An act by which we make one friend
and oue enemy is a losing game, be-
The best way to apologize is to do
tempted to injure him,
Rule inion is a weak tyrant, com-
red with our own private
{Fiat a man thinks of himself, sat it it
indicates
his. {ate. 4 ’
Oar costoms and habits are like the
tle info them, and we jog along thro
the mire because it is too mue
to get out of it.
The hills of lofty endeavor and high
achievement lie all around us, and if we
never vateh a glimpse of the views they
afford we need not complain that it is
becanse of the insuperable limitations
of our surroundings.
Among the Emigrants,
A New York reporter who visited
Castle Garden the other morning beheld
assembled thirty or forty persons
whose peculiar dress and uncouth ap-
pearance would surprise even one who
was accustomed to seeing the most pe
culiar costumes. This was a party of
Seclavonians who had lately arrived in
this country from Austria, not only un-
able to speak English, but merely able
to express themselves in a language
which is as unknown here as Greek is
where. From a little distance the men
would easily be mistaken for millers,
every article of their atthe presenting a
white appearance ; but on a closer in-
#pection it proved to be a very dirty
white. Some wore entire suits of sheep-
skin, the woolly side being turned in.
ward ; others bad jackets or pantaloons
of dressed leather, ornamented with
embroidery ; while still others had suits
of white baggy stuff, Lomespun, which,
although very coarse in texture, ap-
peared to make up for what was lacking
in that respect by its qualities of
strength and endurance.
Almost every one of the party had
semi-cloaks of sheepskin, and some had
hats of the same material, while others
had white felt hats. Not a single white
shirt, much less a collar, was to be seen
among them, but instead sheepskin
undershirts and woolen comforters were
worn. There were no whiskers on the
faces of any of the men; and their dark,
swarthy complexions and tall angular
forms, added to the queerness of their |
dross, made them look more like Indians
than anything else. Men, women and
even children wore boots, and this pro-
duced a most comical effect in the ap-
pearance of the women and little girls,
with their short frocks and big boots,
he Mastodon,
Professor i. C. Broadhead contributes
to the Kansas City Review, a paper, in
which he enumerates all the discoveries
that have been made of mastodon
remains in the United States. This huge
animal appears to have had a wide range
in this country in past ages, The earhi-
ost record that we have of the finding |
of the bones of the mastodon is con.
tained in a letter from Cotton or
Increase Mather to the Royal society of |
London, between 1650 and 1700, de-
scribing the portions of the skeleton of
one of these animals discovered near
Albany, N. Y. Since that period skele- |
tons nearly entire, detached bones, teeth,
ete, of the mastodon, have been found |
in nearly every State in the Union, |
including those of the Pacific slope. |
The evidence thus far obtained, the
Miocene times, was abundant in the
Pliocene, and lingered until the close of
the glacial period, and disappeared in
the early Loess.
The Now York Observer says: We do
The con-
found the contents of the animal's
stomach, a mass of masticated twigs.
The animal had at no very remote period
become swamped in the bog in w he
was found. Other skeletons have been
ound in this climate in such a state of
‘preservation as is inconsistent with their
early disappearance.
.
January last was the coldest month in
Soot of which
-
h was inscribed the words:
aleight--nothin ¢ under a four-horse
sleigh was eonsidered—until it was
tured by Richfield tov
it now became a county affair, and
the contest, each with the laudable in-
on of carrying off the prize from
A day was a :
| tenti
holder of the banner,
| township was the
within her
| of citizens, men, women
| almost as large us that which wi
Garfield's inauguration. The marshals
| were on duty, and ss the de
| came in they were assigned to their al-
lotdxd positions The different town-
ships were placed in the delegations of
their respective counties, ranking so
| cording to the number of sleighs each
turned out. No wo was admitted
| into the procession wi
| horses fo it, while were drgwn b
| six horses. When all arrived
| taken position, the marshal preceeded !
| to count noses, or rather to count the
Sleighs. The aout sewliadias foltawst
i inn county, 140; Cayshogs county
| 151, and Swamit county 171—a avery
| 462 four snd six-horse sleighs, in one
‘grand collection of h
3
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-
Fre a
‘ Cleveland 8 brass fieldpiece, mounted
! one of ber howviest siz-norse |
sleighs; with which to celebrate
| ratify her com 3
| tho prize. Put, alas, for human calen-
{ lations! She was counted ont—justly
: howaver.,
{ The grand
seat of Summit county, in
tary style; the hele of brigade,
¢ach connty a regiment of the brigade, |.
and each township a company of its re.
spective regiment. The erowd which
: witnessed the turnout, and :
it to Akvon, wad variously mted by
eve-witnésses at from 5,000 to 10,
persons. And one of the most ark-
able features of this most remarkable
occasion was the total absence of any | for
‘accidents. Not the slightest sccideny |
occurred during the day, and all passe
off in the utmost peace and harmony,
good-fellowsllip prevaili
As Richfield townshs
banner it was decreed in th
that the township turning out the
largest number of sleighs should on this
occasion receive the prise, to be by it
turned over to its county, and to remain
in the custody of the county until some
other rival won it. This honor fell to
Hudson township, of Summit county.
The banner was presented in iate |
terms by James W, Weld, of Richfield,
and received likewise by Dr. C. R. Pierce
on behalf of Hudson, who ia tam
presented it to Summit conuty, to be
preserved among Her valuable relics in
the city of Akron. The received
it with great dignity, d ber in
tention to keep if until some rival
county should come for it with a greater
number of sleighs than she had tursed
out on the previous occasion. It trans. |
pired that ber glory was short-lived. On |
the following Tuesday Medina county
came for the prize with 185 four and six-
horse sleighs, being fourteen more than.
was
turned over to her, taken home and
placed in her archives, whéré it
remains to the present day, a prize to
the champion sleighing party of Ohio
men,
RASS 0 55%.
Died While Langhing, :
A singular and fatal accident oocmrred
Jackson, Miss. recently. Mr. Ww,
Bailey, chancery clerk of Madison
county, in company with Mr. T. Wharton, |
of Jackson, was eating dinnerat avestans
rant, During the meal, while engaged
in friendly and sociable conversation,
allusion was made to the SE 0 and
sad fate that befel the late Walter
tracted Mr. Bailey's attention and
tleman appeared very sick, and was!!
gasping for breath. Mr. Wharton and |
attempted to relieve
him by carrying him to the door and |:
slapping him on the back, but without
avail. Physicians were sent for, but
before they arrived Mr. Bailey was
and it was beyond the power of medi :
skill to revive him. He bad nadvert-i
ently swallowed a piece of beef, which!
became lodged in his throat and choked | i
him to death
Light-
A woman named Galligan, who re-
sides in Castle Grove, Iowa, was strack
by lightning while engaged in her
houshold duties about the cooking
rash te Shap Au ee eg
struck the chimney, teari ing
on fire the end of the house, demolish-
ing the stove and striking Mrs. Galli- | o
gan's foot, tore it to pieces aud then 1
escaped through the ;
was muti and shattered
blown to pieces b
other terrible ex ve. Th
driven half th
:
one of her shoes was driven k
corded was fifteen degrees J
below zero at Stobo castle e in