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A
Song of the Mill,
Oh, listen 0 the water-mill, throngh all the
livelong day
“Your salary will stop about the time you loss
your pay ;
The fellow at the ladder’s top, to him all the
glory goos,
And the follow at the bottom is the fellow no
one knows,
No good are all the * Had beens,” for in coun
try and in town,
onoe you have come down,
When once you have been president, and are
president no more,
You may run a farm, or teach a school, or
keep a country store,
missed,
The mill will only grind for you while you
supply the grist.”
Burdelie
I
Advice,
“1 must do as you do
Is a very good way; and still
There are sometimes two straight roads t
town
One over, one under the hill
You are treading
That the prudent oh
And you think me reckk
Because 1 prefor to of
your way, 1 own
th
the safe and well.v
Nise eReh th
> . 3
8 ARE asl
Your path is the right one,
We are not like peas in a p
Compelled to lie in & certain |
Or also be setters
"Twere a dull wor
If we all went
Yot our paths wi
Though they lead ap
i abroad
methinks, 1
1 One Way,
" i }
808 Do 4
You like the shade and I like
You like an even pace;
I like to mix with the throng
And then rest after the
I like danger and storm
You like a peaceful time
I like passion and sarge of 4
You like its gentle rhyme,
You like buttercups, dewy swe
I lke the roses, hor
And the rad carnations’ glow,
I must live my life, no
For so it
Wa must follow ou
Was WT
hall
SOR T
Bat I trast we
GRACE'S DESK,
Margaret looked up from her se
machine for a minute t i
the room at the quiet
ting at the window
little figure, whos:
ful gravity was
And el Ma
less crusty, but
impatient si
of her machin
her slippere
lips and py
in a per
Grace, w
out of
pect paif-ruel ed, dir 3
snow that was rapidly growing slashi
and more mel drizzli
rain that was of course,
thinking about Lar arcellus,
For several month
thought of much else
there had not
ment of th t
not to think of him and grieve fo
It had been very similar to the same
old story. Laurie Marcellus, handsome,
elegant, aristocratic, fairly well-to-do in
the world’s estimation of riches, had
been Grace Warrener's most devoted for
several months, until by one of those
venomous waves of fortune's wand social
position and wealth had ¥ van-
ished, and the Warrener eirls fond
themselves obli } ir
making for
Friends whe
who redeemed the dear name, who kne
them for what they were worth, did not
desert them ; but first and foremost i
the ranks of those who so convenier
preferred to dispense with
of the two dressmakers who lived
Appledore row was Mr, Laurie Marcel-
lus,
He had d
a brilliant
sky. He had
SAME as over, wit §, Care
in his voice—the gl
eyes—that made
her; and
ae
co
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PE
sls
th .
il £
rq Ie
salrel,
ka
Ki
nd
i
fot
#5
n ti Nn
ted
fall
been an
+}
today }
as 1m id
* him
i i
"
ar
tie
BAU
3 3
wdden
sudd¢ ni
na t add
: v
ha stab
thie soclely
in
in
14
i3
of Grace's life as
fror
even
ped or
& ih
net disanpear
0€L disappears
1
A“
roy
COX
one
ti
1@ SWee NN
tenderness in ad, es
1g within
sin I
3 of
y¥ the crash came,
throngh v great spice house of
Warrener & Gray suspended; and a
month later Caleb Warrener died with
apoplexy,
mitted the splendic
ture, the horses and CAITIAge
ver and jewels, all
red flag.
Margaret came grandiy to the fore
those dark days, when Ler keenest gris
was to witness little Grace's dismay ane
astonishment and suffering at Lauri
Marcellus’ defection; and yet her words
were usually more bitter and sarcastic
than gentle—it was Margaret Warren-
er's way to use heroic treatment.
‘“ He's not worth the everlasting fuss
you make about him, Grace. "m
ashamed of you—downright ashamed:
and he not your betrothed, either !”
That was true, so far as formal words
went. Laurie Marcellus had never
asked Grace Warrener to be his wife:
he had never in so many v™rds told her
he loved her; but he had known just as
well as he had known he was alive how
the girl's beart was all his own—how
she loved him dearly and truly
her sweet reserve.
Grace smiled faintly when Margaret
spoke of the “fuss” she made about
him. She knew well enongh that the
“fuss” was only her grave, sad face,
her quiet ways, her listless manner,
that she tried desperately hard to con
quer, and in all the months that had
passed had not sueceeded, and seemed
no nearer succeeding than in the be-
ginning—so nearly hopeless a task is it
for a woman to cozquer thoughts and
heartsick longings for the man she
loves. Prideand shame may do valiant
battle for the victory, but pride and
>
r
and as soo as decencs
1 >
Mansion
1 mansion
8
were sold und
f
i
rr all
y for aii
the giant they oppose—woman’s strong,
she disallowed herself to be dull or
eomplaining, or a kill-joy. She reso-
what the inward commotion.
had only given a momentary rein to her
thoughts, enough to make her lay down
her sewing and lean her head against
the window, and wish she might never
have known the sweetness of Laurie
Marcellus’ love.
Until the unusual whirring of the
sewing machine wheel made her aware
that Margaret had observed her and was
displeased. So, with a little, desperate
effort, she forced herself back to the
basting of the satin fold in her work.
“I was thinking about that auction
tale at Dempsey’s to-night,” Margaret
said, almost crossly. “You want i
desk, you said, and Maggie Rich says
there's a very good one to be sold there.
I'll go and bid on it for you, I think, if
I ever under the sun get these bands
stitched on! It seems to me that those
Rich girls are not happy unless their
dresses are absolutely loaded with trim-
ming.”
Grace looked up, with such sweet,
sweet eyes—it was no wonder handsome
Marcellus had liked to look into the
pure brown wells of limpid light.
“You are so good, Margaret! I do
want a desk, if you are sure you can
afford it.”
“You needn’t say if I can afford it,
Grace. You have as much right to the
money as I have. I'm going to buy
myself a cashmere polonaise—you can
have the desk if it is reasonable in
. ”
50 that was how Miss Warrener came
to be at the auction sale at the big
house on the hill that evening—Demp-
ey's gr and mansion, whose prince had
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Icditor and P’ropuric
LOY.
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HALL, Cl
NTRE CO. PA.
Harvest,
* What enemy hath done this thing?” T &
"Oh! treachery that plotted while | slept!
Oh! foe that stole while 1, confiding, kept
No watch my fairost, $oarest felt dri
My noble fleld, so sunny and ss wide
Only at midnight coulda foe have crept
To work this harm.”
Alas! in vain T wept;
Too late the polson tares fo plack or Liles
My loss is loss; such hurt cannot be healed;
Forever, spite of all new sead 1 sow,
Past summec's sun and winter's purest snow,
Forever polson tares my beautoons fleld,
Its shining harvests waviog to snd Irn,
Forever pois m tares is doomed 1 viel!
And 1, with swift clear-sightodusss from pain
Like one long blind, whe, sxdden gaining sig!
Cries out at first, in saffering ai the light,
| Look back sind know, with soguish keen ss vain,
| No foe who had In treacherons ambnsh lain,
And stealthy sowed his poleon teres by
Did work upon my beauteons field this
SNM2.00 a Year, in Advance.
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1881. NUMBER 28.
21,
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wn a whim to sell out and spend a
ars abroad
the next dav t
ottage in Appledore row,
and Grace j n hex
beautiful artiel
cozy corner, and just the very
Grace's few books and her station
It was very |
ried a little
he de sk was deliv
room SIA,
LRWCRK BO
iti
oe between
every
lask, when, with ¢
broke, revealing How
hose exister ae not
nowledge,
y
and
rembling on the chair
ie Marcellus’ pr
yf 1
of 3
ie; hus caressing pleading to be
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lowed to comfort and protect |
wid } FN YY
1d De com
LIS
Answer
3
mistaken
ness would be
bewili
r Margaret
How the
de sk she
1 not
4 HOD
in
WY 8B, SIO dared
y realized that
di
© On Ome
. Gra i t
ous fate had discovered it tohea
I sweet, pitiful
n heart for d won-
r if she could dare
avs,
the anctioneer
» Margaret War
r and told her that a
ad just returned from
regain of
at Mr. Dempsey’s auction,
a gift to Mr. Dempsey
1 the eve of his depart
before. An
DE eves and
1
it
b
1
$
i
+
i
POSSessi na
the de
as 1t
from
ure abroad five years
dilat
' 1
Cirace listened with i
throbbing hes Ww
choked her 1
“Tell the
hie may have hi
And that evening, when she went
the door at the sound of the bell,
opened it, with her face slightly
than i Marcel
there.
“} expected ' she said,
gently, while amazed and bewildered he
could only bow «
Then 1 nem-
bered leaving the letter in the desk, and
understood how
hose beats
almost
y call here and
roperty.”
to
and
paler
stood
usual, lus
you—come in,
she exp
by accident—uay, by
grim fate—the slant was fastened
aud the letter had slipped into its living
grave fo be resurrected after all these
Years,
'
sl not
““Idonot know that I should tell
you even now,” she said, bravely, “for
do not know whether you are—are the
same or not. But,” and she looked up
in his grand face, “I want you to know
I did love you.”
§
for the minute,
“And now?”
“1 am Grace Warrener still.”
held her to his heart, kissed her sweet,
{ pale face.
woman, my darling. When no answer
i '
So you are my darling yet, Grace ?
hour afterward, in surprise that the gen-
tleman required so much time to make
a bargain for the desk.
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‘““Yiper Men and Women,”
At Guadalajara there exists an indi-
vidual having a scaly skin exactly like
that of a viper, even to the green color.
He has, besides, the viper habit of
changing or shedding Lis skin every
year,
piece, and not, as might be supposed,
in parts. On the man’s head there is
not a single hair. A sister of this man,
who died a short time ago, manifested
the same phenomenon, and toward the
blind, owing to the vipers skin en-
that she could only seethrough a narrow
aperture at each eye. The same thing
is now happening to the brother. He
‘an scarcely see any object, and the
head presents the repulsive as
viper. In Cuautla these unhap
have been known as the “v
and women,” and the phenomenon is at-
tributed to the fact that their mother
ate an excess of viper’s meat to cure a
disease of the blood. In Cuba it is a
common practice for people to eat
vipers flesh as a remedy for blood dis-
eases. —Santa Fe New Merican,
Texas Pasture Fields,
correspondent ]
mi, who
\ 1 entered
[OS (HK) acres
liv
dire
a flow small motts
ent drives
AM:
1O0W avery cowpati.
m Mexico
§ (NH)
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A Wonderful Musical Prodigy.
Nettie J. Hibbard, of Athens, Ohio,
a precocious little miss not quit
whose musical
to be ranked
a very delicate
il devi A0DINent
WORBESSIng a highly
When a very you a
ung
of
18
vears of age,
justly entitl
prodigy. She
I
with a very
{ brain
1
e her
18
3
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HZallon,
} showed a degr
“iy froin ts
ge front
l
1
ATi
re of suscepti
SOT
reset 1
Cr dited
€
musical 1s that could
scarcely be
When only
tiveness to such
ceptible, sh
upon to ¢ }
taken from the room before she could
When a little older certain
would es 3h laugh,
others to cry.
When not more than a year and a half
old she began to sing, readily learning
any air she heard played upon violin,
piano or other instrument and learning
them very accurately, Whenever she
chose to amuse herself by drumming
upon the niano she was allowed to do
80, sometimes playing for hours. A year
0 shut herself up alone
in the room with the piano, but no at-
tention was paid to it until the family
were surprised to hear her playing
chords adapted to certain airs which
she had learned. She made rapid pro-
gress, and is now able to improvise ac-
companiments and plays as readily in
one key as in another. She is fond of
playi duets, and if Ler assistant
makes any mistakes, which often hap-
pens intentionally, he or she is instantly
corrected. Sometimes will play
io
strangers,
her sensi
by
1
Was
8 Of
Wee:
sound
ch a di LSTee i
iat
P (JUIe0E d.
“Hpleces r to
mn
il
an
RE
ago she began t
n
mt
ng
ng
she
part with her left, and again she will |
in a
merry mood will make as many flourishes
as any modern belle, :
No pains are taken to teach her, as
her brain is already too active for her
more strength than one would think
them capable of. It is wonderful to
firm, resonant sounds, which might put
The piano on which she plays
y termed a |
Recently she has become anxious |
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little feet, she is made happy in using
them. She takes delight in playing for
her friends, never refusing when called
Her sweet and winning disposition
her to every one who sees her.
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“Den’t you think we ought to separate |
our husbands ?” said a lady to her friend.
“Do you not see how excited they have |
They are beginning to call
“Oh? no,” was |
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Adelia Patti has finally decided to |
visit America with her own manager, |
having refused the co-operation of |
Messrs. D'Oyly Carte, Gunn and Abbey, |
who offered her £50,000 for fifty con- |
certs,
FOR THE LADIES,
Halvr«Dressing.
low and high coiffares are worn,
for tl former, but
ids entirely on the wearer,
Hig face hair
be hind and yory broadly,
from ear to ear, so that it may
With a broad
for
Ff raw!
la dope
the 15 dressed
reaching
be Boe
from the face nnd
short
the top or
there,
made of two
ogether in a sort
at the
with a
front
1 1
neck, also very
i
wed
dt
HBArrow ol
broad
slose behin
irve
Hol
ot of many small
Car ;
BOIL
iat
HOLE
i
{
{ by | lacing a short
ourl on each si le jit nearthe
or full dress, and
hair arranged
in Agaln
1
I'h
tO save
repared
i
i
hao mn tl
OROK HOARLr 10 the
is passed
CArs
y of the
AY y
WV y loose, n
The
al
Wahler waves
y
and
Arie
wearer's
y
erimps by mois
Waves
tw
all faces, and is
onee. Da Mansier's
nd which
, weighing only three ounces,
hair wear loose waves
h twisted coils or low braids
in the
With gray
d
HWny al
ir fashion f
still bette
Oreliem i le
t are brushed
wh
Mangs not yet grown
up, and put in with the back hair,
is ibed straight ba vk, and tied b
rib around the head.
n a bunch behind or on
oon passes
i v hair
i y head has been aband
8 bald spots back of the ears or
on top of the head. It is then allowed
to hang, flowing straight without
erimps If it is inclined to curl, it is
put in about t
five curls that
hang behind.
Farther hints air. — Hair
wears lighter, and is changed by per.
spiration; hence, in selecting false hair,
it should be dark enough to begin with.
The hair on the temples and forehead is
lighter than that further back, and
to be well-matched requires lighter addi
tional hair than that chosen for a switch
Brushing is the best stimulant for the
hair and should be done twice a day ;
fifty strokes in the morning, and again
in the evening, passing the hand over
3
oned, as
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loose sof
h
‘
about h
tained handsome hair beyond middle
The ends of the hair should be
clipped once a month to keep it thick
and even. To do this thoroughly, the
hair should be taken up in tresses, and
a comb drawn through each tress, be
ginniug at the roots, and doubling the
hair around the comb, so that in passing
the short ends wiil be seen, and can be
clipped. To prevent the hair falling
out after an illness, six inches should
for three
four half inch should
cut off each month. The cheap hair
of which so much is sold is nsually un
wholesome stuff; it is not always real
Age,
or months an
be
brittle that it does not wear well, or else
not cheap at any price. To test the |
quality of the hair, rub the ends of the
switch between the fingers, and if good
it will fall away out of the hand en
tirely ; but if of inferior quality, it will
gnarl and mat together, A microscope
the hair are turned the
Bazar,
wrong way.
Fashion's Fancles,
Bustles increases in size,
Overdresses are shirred from belt to
knee,
The pointed shoe is again returning
to favor.
Small Roman pearls are braided in the
hair with fine effect,
Children’s dresses are again ent with
low necks and short sleeves,
elips of pale pink, light blue, or eream-
or mauve-tinted silk stockings are worn
with white surah skirts trimmed with
the color of the Jersey,
with
and
white china arape embroidered
silk floss in each
edged with white nettlad
in vogue,
tresses for . g ladie
of India muslin or gauge, elaborately
trimmed with lace, and garnished with
Iv0ps and knots of ribbon or clusters of
charming flowers,
A charming little baby frock is made
pale blue low-necked and
trimmed with a shirred plastron edged
with Valenciennes lace, which is set up
the entire front of A broad
sash edged on the ends with lace is car
ried around the waist and knotted
loosely at one side,
Ombre weddings
ord Kr,
heavy corner,
Bro sguin
Fvoning L Youn Bare
of surah,
who dress
awe actually
bride wea 8,
in
that 1s, the Of
out of six bridemaids, the smallest or
the youngest wears pale PINK Tose buds,
and the t: the eldest wears the
deepest erimson roses, while the four
intermediates upward, This
novel effect is re ponte d in flowers of
other color and form.
i ,
wiest or
shade
TO 5.5
A Desperado’s Triple Murder,
A correspondent of ths Denver (Col
Republican tells how “ Billy the Kid," a
notorious desperado, killed three cow
Lincoln ty, New Mexico
‘he escap d desperado, says the
DOVE In GO
rode np to a I
the well-known eattle
Panhandle, in which there
Three of these were
fire
spondent, COW 4
Chisum's,
in the
Dn
John 1
ms
were four cowboys,
All,
around
the ONY
seated
while
murder of
Sr COwWDOY sprang
hey could draw
{ the killer had
48
ex pioded
thie
1 wherever
art Pp one, until the debt is
wre, or, if 1 happer
re, I'll kill him and eall
titled, AllI'm li
ad
1 with my enemies, and
y time
| wl } him be
away toward
rode
did valiant work, if
nat as a murderer
SNCCeSSs
3, Killing several mon, it is
MIPDORITe Bl
3
I 5
of
Cerrors,
had busine
county
Village
A
village
i
Detroiter who
in Washtenaw
2» buggy, and «
for |
16re in J 2 y
the
GAaten snd
nd opportunity
“Were
You EOL
at youl were ¢
nd I was going to say
“
hat
shoot
somebody else,
ng over to Judge
me fruit trees for
fall setting ¥"
‘“ No."
“Well, that's Incky. Only yesterday
the judge was remarking to me that the
next fruit-tree agent who entered his
ate would want a i 1 18, 1
myself have got to do some kicking to
pay for being swindled on
You are not a patent-right
“ No.”
“Well, that's a narrow escape for
you. We've been swindled here on hay
forks, cultivators, gates, pumps, churns
and a dozen other things, and I'm keep-
ing sixteen dozen bad eggs for
when the next patent-righter shows his
face in this town. Perhaps you are a
lecturer?”
“ Oh, no.”
“Well, you haven't lost anvthing,
We never turn out very strong here to a
lecture, The last man who struck us
lectured on *“ Om Currency,” but didn't
& cofi wet
Epe Vines,
man, eh
per. You are not a book-canvasser
‘ No.”
“ That's another escape. We've been
laid out here so often that if an agent
should offer to sell a £20 Bible for fifty
cents we'd suspect a trick to beat us,
Strikes me now you may be a lawyer.”
“No.”
“Good "nuff, Last
here had to leave town at midnight, and
Say, what are
you, anvway ?"
For heav-
here if
Then git!
around
“A politician !
en's sake! don't stand
you value your life!
peached our pound-master for embez
ment is so intense that the Democrats
will ride you on a rail or the Republi-
cans duck vou in the water trough, Git
right up and scoot |”
Ee ———————
What She Would Be,
Wife of a prominent public function-
ary who is complimenting her on the
high social position she holds—* Yes,
have acquired is entirely due to my
| husband's office.
now, what should I be?
you.”
I leave itto
1
| would, madam, be a widow !
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Three Americans, Burng, Hamilton
and Wilkes, caught in Italy counter-
feiting its paper money, are now galley
slaves at Gaeta, serving ont a twenty
years’ sentence each,
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Tmproving Seeds,
A gentleman experimented with pois
in this way: He time
pieking all the early, full pods as they
ripened, and planted the seeds saved
from these pods vear after year, for
three years, and the fourth year had
peas of the same name that were
than two weeks earlier than the seed of
the same name purchased in the store,
Noods of cabbage, lettuce, tomato, en
cumber, peas, corn and many others can
be much improved by the same care,
saved at the ol
more
Cut Worms,
Bays the New Yorke It isa
good plan to tie about tomato and eab
bage plants pieces of cardboard to pre-
ot the ent worm from severing the
It
and is better protection than mounds of
earth, whic h, it has cut worms
¢annot elimb up 18 mis
take
cut worms in a hole about eight inches
le Py the sides of which were nearly
perp ndicular, We watched them at
two hours, and found
any attempts to escape
were ineflectual, some were successful.
i ural
Yt
i
stem near the soil 18 easily done,
heen said,
This idea a
int
mtervals during
that, though ¥
tL
Outside Trees in Orchards,
Mr, William Naunders, the hortienl
st In iarge of the | ublic gardens
grounds in Washington city, ob
serves that outside rows of trees in
orchard aiway
in el
il
wi
ETrow moro thrifty than
He
OWS, attributes this
{ 300 feet or more, ar
8 Of trees, and so onover the groun
¢ g 300
inlervenin
i
thinks
nd oO
Mr. Na
{ trees woul
nduece to their
inders thinks
i helter the
i ii
1, and ml in that
High Feeding for Milk.
vields of milk, says
Five
dai Et
redid, MINST necessariiy
of a large
fe
1
Ler
his
y supported
After t
3
1 oon
of
od
¥
mix
IO
luction
cow is a ge
i
KOCH Sa ¥ 1]
ort, the e
18, either
aii mn
r the food of sup
li goes to profit th
And it is equally clear
nsumed to support
he animal lost until
production i.
ducing point ins reached
the animal can eat, properly
this, the
desire to
you
al
is
I Fenced
assimilate above
Bo, if you
the
witl
produce least cost,
must {
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Bie COWS
te}
1 the capacity to
¢ largest amount of food into
he larger the amount the more
apply wil
1 the milk be produced. Of
best cow is the one that can
assimilate the most food and
1into milk, instead of
It is the bu
rman to select such
Y of ir
ull fee
the extra fom
%1
4
the
by {
What Breed of Plgs to Raise.
ble to answer the que
hich 1s the most profitabl
to Very muc
the system of manage-
to market, individual
But there are some
A should be under
n deciding what kind of pig to
} any particular ease. Pig farm.
profitable or a source of
few pigs of almost any breed
1 a dairy farm with profit,
the
It is
arl 5 HiR experience
hat pig pork is the pork that pavs
‘'oung hogs marketed when a year old
moro profitable than older
being troe—and it
) in the older States- a
breed should be selected that matures
early and fattens quickly, The best
pig the least amount of offal in
dressing; is compact in its parts, and
its flesh is of the very best quality. Of
such Essex and Suffolk, and
Hied “small breeds.”
“ go further and fare worse” than
to select the Essex for the piggery
that is to make profitable returns.
There is some prejudice against black
pigs, but it should be remembered that
the color is less than skin deep, and the
blackest pig makes as white dressed
pork as any other. There is money in
pigs if a good breed is chosen
properly managed. The value of full
blooded pigs over the *grade”
Miss) oo
@
}
8 raise ¥ a
.
which
"1
i
wan be grown ot
when the number is increased
pay become an
v determined by a le
expense,
is
has
the
1
are
\
some other a
CAL
former is taken into a neighborhood
where only the ‘common hog” was
before. In a few years the whole coun-
try round about has had its swine im.
proved, and its pork interests greatly
enhanced. Grow young pigs rapidly
and market them as pigs rather than
keep them until they are old hogs, Pig
pork pays.
The Fen,
This hardy and excellent vegetable
may be planted successively up to the first
of July, They produce best on light, rich
The soil for the
first erop should be prepared as early as
possible in spring after the frost is out
of the ground, and the peas put in as
soon thereafter as possible. Other sow-
ings may be made at intervals of two or
three weeks, if a succession of crops is
desired. Peas, when grown in small
quantities for private use, may as well
ches apart, with a space between of
about three feet in order to give room
plenty of space to pass between the rows
in gathering the crop.
Karly Varieties.—Philadelphia is the
earliest of all, and close npon it comes
| Alpha, Carter's “First Chop,” Kentish
Invicta and Tom Thumb. The last va-
riety can be raised with least trouble and
may be also said to produce least, as it
| grows but half a foot high.
Farly—McLean's Advancer, Yaxton's
Prolific Long Pod and McLean's Little
| Gem are good early varieties,
| Medium,—Champion of England, Lax-
ton's Marvel, McLean's Premier and
| Eugenie,
Late.— British Queen, Black-Eyed
| Marrowfat, Tall Sugar and MeLean's
Best of All. Champion of England for
| & main crop is still considered the best.
This grows five feet high ; the pods are
| large and well filled. For an early pea
| there is none better than McLean's Lit-
| tle Gem,
Humble I walk beside the loaded wain;
My head bowed down by shame, and damb my
longus;
Fate given each man the gifts ho has bestowed,
And metes exact all measures which are owed,
The seed from which these polson tares have
rprung,
One idle day my own hand careless lang.
1 only resp the harvest that | sowed,
~ Independent,
Hecipes,
CARE.
WISE WORDS,
Rub seme
three-quar- | Bette a soft heart and an iron hadn
ters of a pound of flour, and take | than an iron heart and a soft hand.
half a pint of sour cream ; dissolve & The power of eloquence is sometimes
teaspoonful of carbonate of seda in a superior to military force,
teaspoon of boiling water it tl fad :
easpoon of boiling water, add it to the guspicions among thoughts are like
sons and stir it until it froths
well If the eream is very sour it may ats among birds they over fly by
’ | twilight,
require a little more soda. Be cereful : 3
that it is frothy, or else the paste will | : Every man must work at something.
not be light, Stir the frothing cream The moment he Blops working for him-
into the flour, enough to make a soft | #elf the devil employs Lim,
paste ; line a groased plate with a thin ! Let the soul be turned as strenuously
layer of paste ; have ready some stewed | toward good as it usually is toward evil,
apples, sweetened and perfectly cold, | and you will find that the simple love of
g ated lemon peel mixed in before they odness will give incredible resources
are put into tho cake, and as little juice | to the spirit in the search afier truth,
from the apples as possible, or the erust Love, with intellect, will perform mira-
will be soddened. Bpread the stewed | cles,
apples over the paste, leaving A Darrow The treasure house of 8 man's life is
margin for the top erust to adhere to | his heart ; and he who has nothing there
the bottom, roll out the top crust an |is poverty-stricken, though he roll in
inch thick; pinch the edges well to- | gold ; while he who has a good deal
gether to make it a little ornamented | there is rich, whether he has & roof over
round the edge, and bake it in a quick | his head or not.
This quantity of paste should Many of the saddest instances of men-
make two good sized cakes, the size of tal aud moral failures ean be traced with
a dinner plate ; a tin plate is best to | unerring precision to continued over- |
them on ; they sre equally good work, and, as it has been clearly demon- |
Cueam one
of butter into
Arvie
| une
creain
HUMOR OF THE DAY,
Love knots should be {isd with a sin-
gle bean, :
It is the mean temperature (hat makes
& man sick.
A match —A wedding in the
best front room.
A schoolmistress should be u
chin in knowledge.
Why is the letter G like the san?
Because it is the cenier of light.
1f a man cannot be cured by smoking
he is less susceptible than a ham.
Though postmen may not be literary
they are mea of letters. — Wit and Wis.
dom,
The impecunions man who
plo ur.
oven,
| bake
jeold or hot, and are eaten with sugar
and cream,
Invian Frrrrens,—Three tablespoon
fals of flour, boiling water, the yolks of
four eggs, the whites of two, hot lard
or clarified dripping, jam. Put the
flour into a basin and pour over it suffi.
t boiling water to make it into a
stifl paste, taking care to stir and beat
t well to prevent it getting lumpy.
save it a little while to cool and then
t (without beating them
ages, and stir and beat all well
Have ready some boiling lard
clen
wreak into |
i
i
fy Qrop
ne, and fry the fritters a
‘hey should rise so as {o
derve on
spoonfal of preserve or marma-
between each fritter,
excellent dish for a hasty
st Jur
18 80 casily and
batterin at a tis
light brown,
almost like balls, on a dish
h i
lade dropped in
his
addition for dinner,
quickly made,
Picken Warre Cassa. —QCat the
8 into thin slices, put it into an
earthen pan, sprinkle with salt, and let
it lay f then drain and
spread it before the fire for some hours;
put 1t in a stone jar and add suflicient
vinegar to with a little
wace sud a few white pepper corns,
Mixt Pt
is 8h
14
it
cabbag
. 4 J
or (Wo days;
white cover,
joil one
whila boil
DING
3
pint of
sir in
,
Os
Serve with
TH
: an
ing
- Lo]
and four tablespoonini
waten together,
egg
ur well 1
cream and sug
i
Crean Caxe.—Three eggs, one
of sugar, two teaspoonfuls o
baking powder, two tablepoonfuls
one cup of flour; bake
8 and let them cool.
of thick sweet cream and beat it
i looks like ice cream ; sweeten and
flavor with vanilla; put very thick
between each layer of cake,
COL cup
water, one
jelly tin
JOLY IX
A Drink for Each.
“John White,
3:3
lid
Christopher Columl his
nbus 7 asked
Honor a laborer who bad the rem.
nants of a big drunk still hanging about
him.
“No, sir-—never did.”
“WN ell, he discov ered Ami rica.”
“Ind be?
“He did, but
covered one end of Cape Cod if he had
got on a tear instead of attending to 1
i
i
of I
his
business,
can hope become
who fall
448 1
great.
1 a drunken stupor on a
the world to re.
i
monuments
Mi
to
own i
CAll expect
or
i
t
erect
over his deeds”
“But I had
“Wife run away ?"
“Oh, no. 1
working over
when 1 got
ge woman was at
hat she was one
wives from Canada.”
“Yeou™
“And it wasn't twenty minutes after
that the wife I left in Indiana
Seven years ago went past in the direc
tion of my house.”
“You."
“Well, IT ecounld either drown myself
or get drunk, and I thought it best to
| get drunk. 1took a drink for each « ne,
and the last I remember was trying to
climb a lamp-post for apples.”
“How 1s it about these wives ?”
“Well, I was divorced from the two,
nd I've got the papers to show for it,
but I don't care about going home for a
few daysyet. My last wife has a tongue
{ like a file, and a temper like a jack-
{ knife.”
“Shail I send you up
“If you please, give me thirty days,
{and by that time the three will have
settled all disputes over me.”
“Well, I'll make it thirty,”
“Thanks. As | told you before, I've
got my divorces all O. K., but them
| two women have come here with their
| claws sharpened for business, and I'll
| save my complexion by retiring from
{the arena for afew days. I've pulled
{ hair with ‘em, and I know their best
| hold.” — Free Press,
tronble,
your Honor."
ily wish she had!
Brady street
word that a
ny house, claim.
3
of my deserted
Bir 5 £
I
yest rday
stran
Was on
ine
:
ng
before
i’
ER —
Spare the Carpets,
even with a sweeper, save them from
unneccessary litter by care, about scat.
tering fine chips or crumbs of wood, cloth,
paper or food. Eating should be done
in rooms easily cleaned, with carpets of
oil-cloth, or similar material, or with
bare floors, or with a linen ernmb-cloth,
spread upon the carpet underneath the
table. Children should not be allowed
to run about the house with pieces of
food in their hands, If their food is not
all taken at the table, the child should
be obliged to set still somewhere, catch-
ing his crumbs upon a napkin, bib, o
apron, instead of dropping them upon
the floor. Taught habits of neatness,
order soon becomes second nature, and
they do not make themselves obnoxions
| to orderly people. If they wish to whit.
| tle, or to cut paper or dolly things in
{ your best rooms, vou need not neces-
| sarly refuse them. Spread a large cloth
| or newspaper down to eateh the chips or
clippings, and see that it is safely emp-
tied as soon as the child's work is done.
| Grown up people are sometimes very
| trying, because of their lack of this kind
| of training. They pull flowers to pieces
| in your parlors, whittle on your smoothly
| shaven lawn, scatter fruit peelings and
| cigar stumps about your vard, scribble
on the covers of your magazines and
margins of newspapers, and scratch
| matches on the Spe of the house, or
leave disagreeable marks of some kind in
every possible place. Had they been
would be impossible to them.
hree dollars, ma'am,”
her at the close of the
lollars I” exclaimed
ught I was to sit
didn't say anything
about money. this the way you
swindle your customers ? If you won't
give me my picture you can keep it,
that's all; but I shall take good care to
warn all my friends against coming
here, sir.” And out she flounced, leav-
ing the poor photographer the picture
of despair, beside her own.
“It will 1
said the photg®
sitting. © ™
the woman, “2
for my picture. §
strated, of intemperance also.
BRVErance your bosom friend, experience
your wise counselor, caution your elder
brother, and hope your guardisn.
The be at people need afflictions for
trial of their virtue, How ean we exer-
cise the grace of contentment, if all
things succeed well; or that of forgive
ness, if we have no enemies,
Profanity never did any man the least
good. No man is the richer, happier,
wiser for it. It commends no one in
6]
ple and abominable to the good.
The Betting Young Maun,
We bad on board, 8s a matter of
course, the belting young man from
| Chicago. No steamer ever sailed that
did not have this young fellow aboard,
and there are enough of them to last
he Atlantic fora great many years. He
new everything that everybody thinks
hey know, but do not, and his delight
was to propound a query, and then
when you had answered it, to very coolly
and exasperatingly remark:
‘‘Bet yer bottle of wine you're wrong.”
The matter would be so simple and
one of so common repute that im i
| ately iger only to
find that in some minute particular you
'
i
i
1
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You
A"
onth
uth had won,
For instance:
“ Thompson, do you know how many
States there are in the Union?
Now any citizen of the United States
who votes, and is eligible to the presi-
dency, ought to know how many States
there are in his beloved country with.
| out thinking, but how many are there
i Thompson answered :
| “What a question!
know."
‘‘ Bet yer bottle ye don’t.”
“ Done.”
“ There are—
nd then Thompson would find him-
Of course 1
“
lem as to whether Colorado bad been
admitted, and Nevada, and Oregon, and
{ he would decide that one had and the
other badn’t, and finally state the pum-
{ ber, with great certainty that it was
wrong.
The Chicago man's crowning bet oo-
curred the last day out. The smoking
{ room was tolerably full, as were the
| occupants, and everybody was bored as
| everybody is on the last day. The Chi-
| cago man had been silent for an hoar,
{ when suddenly he broke out:
“Gentlemen—"
{ *“Oh, no more bets,” was the excla-
| mation of the entire party. * Give us
a vont,”
“Idon’t want to bet, but I can show
you something curious.”
“ Well ¥
“J say it and mean it. I can drink
a glass of water without its going down
my throat.”
** And get it into your stomach 7”
“Certainly.”
There was a silence of considerably
more than a minute. Every man in the
{room had been victimized by this
gatherer up of incaonsiderable trifles,
and there was a general disposition to
the better of 1 in some way if
Here was the opportunity,
3 ev
got im
get
possible,
into his stomach without it going down
{ his throat? Impossible! And so the
{usual boitle of wine was wagered, and
{ the Chicago man proceeded to accom-
| plish the supposed impossible feat. It
| was very easily done. All he did was
{ to stand upon his head on the seat that
s of It went to his stomach,
| but it did not go down his thoat. It
{ went ap his throat, And so his last
triumph was greater than all his pre-
| vious ones, for every man in the room
| had been eager to accept his wager.
From that time out had he offered to
glas water,
Toledo Diade,
idence
HE ———————
Care of the Ear.
People who are inclined to deafness
| should livo apart from the loud noises
{ of railroads, factories, iron mills, ete.
{ They should avoid with great care ex-
| posure to cold and damp, and especially
{ should not wear thin shoes in walking
{on demp ground or saturated brick
| pavements. Children ought never to
| be struck on the ear with the palm of
| the hand, even in sport ; sudden deaf-
| ness results sometimes from boxing the
| ears, as well as the rupture of the tym-
| panum. Often the sudden jar or shock
{ with the concussion of air on the ear
Irives in the stapes or inner. bone, des-
| troying its fanction sand diminishing
| the sensibility of the nerves. A snow-
{ ball thrown with force on the ear, or an
| accidential blow with a ball or bat, may
easily cause deafness. As a cold in-
| creases deafness, it should be avoided if
| possible. Delicate persons should avoid
{ draughts on the ears, sitting in wet
| clothes, sudden changes from the
| heated atmosphere of crowded rooms to
| cold winds, and other similar exposures.
{ Tobacco smoke is injurious to sensitive
| nerves and sometimes induces a peculiar
{ diseased condition of the eustachian
| tube. Smoking in the open air should
| be especially avoided by persons whose
| hearing is impaired, as it injuries the
| throat, and the opening between the
|throat and ear. No instruments
{should be introduced into the ear, as
| the delicate lining membrane is apt to
| become irritated.
r———————
{ The best part of one's life is the per-
| formance of one's daily duties. All
higher motives, ideals, conceptions,
sentiments, in a man, are of no acconnt
if they do not come and strengthen him
[forthe better discharge of the duties
| which devolve upon him in the ordinary
{ affairs of life.
et ———————
Sycophant, a tale-bairer, comes from
sycos, the Greek word for fig. There
wus once a law forbidding the trans-
| porting of figs from Attica, and such as
| gave information of the law-breakers
"he married
| an heiress always spoke of her as a capi-
! tal wife.
| Opera singers are remarkably healthy,
| considering the amount of male aris
! the business.
| The boy who is tied to his mother's
| apron strings is avielim of wais-tied
opportunities,
There was a young man of Pine Grove,
Who said, “I wil go 10 my love”
Bat when he drew near,
Her parent yelied “Hove
: Aud over the brick fence he shove,
If the men were as silent about their
many army reminiscences ss we now do.
The ladies are worthy of being patterned
after in this regard,
Increase of Grain Production,
Nothing cas more strikingly illusirate
the wonderful progress of the United
| States in wealth than a comparison be-
| tween the production of cereals at stated
periods. J. R. Dodge, special agent for
the collection of statistics of agri
bas submitted toSaperintendent Walker
| of the census burean a detsiled state-
ment of the results of the first count of
area and grain product in all the States
and Territories Shiatnad by the Prvest}.
terse! 1080 and 870, respectively,
relative io the crops of 1570 and 1800,
We have room only for the aggregates.
| The acreage of wheat in 1579 was 35,
487,060, and the production 459,501,008
| bushels ; in 1869 the production was
| 287,745,026 bushels. The gain during
the decade was seventy-three per cent.,
| while it was only sixty-six per cent. in
| the decade of 1850-69. Illinois was the
| largest producer, 51,136,445 bushels;
and Rhode Island the smallest, 200
| bushels,
| The acreage of corn in 1879 was 62,.-
{ 326,952 and the production 1,772,909,-
846 bushels ; in 1869 the production was
760,944,549 bushels. The incress™ sr
the decade was 133 per cent. Again JI-
{ linois appears as the largest producer,
| 327,796,535 bushels, and the Territory
of Wyoming the smallest, sixty-five
| bushels,
| The acreage of oats in 1879 was 16.
| 150,065 and the production 407,970,712
| bushels ; in 1869 the production was
| 282,107,157 bushels. Illinois still keeps
| the lead with 63,206,250 bushels, while
the Territory of Arizona comes last,
| showing 0624 bushels, Nearly bslf of
| the oat crop of 1879 came from Illinois,
Iowa, New York and Pennsyivania.
The acreage of barley dm 1879 was
2,005,466, and the produet wis 44 140, -
479 bushels ; in 1869 the production was
20,761,805. California and New York
produced nearly half the crop of 1879,
Visconsin, Jowa and Minnesota show-
ing the heaviest increase.
The acreage of rye in 1879 was 1,844,-
1821, and the production 19,863,632
| bushels; the production in 1869 was
| 16,918,795 bushels. Pennsylvania is the
| largest producer, 3,683,621 bushels. The
| increase in this crop has been only seven-
| teen per cent, and there is a decresseof
production in proportion to population,
| The acreage of buckwheat in 1879
| was 851,364 and the production 11,857,
| 738 bushels, against 9,821,721 bushels
in 1869. Two-thirds of this crop in
| 1879 was grown in New York and Penn-
sylvania. The total increase of produe-
| lon did uot keep pace with that of pop-
| ulation.
{of grain during the last decade was
Sawdust,
In New York there are about five hun-
dred venders of sawdust, having a capital
two hundred thousand dollars annually.
Forty years ago the mills were glad to
hava the sawdust carted away: twenty-
cents a load at the mills, It is used at
the hotels, eating houses, groceries, and
spread over floors in order to make the
| sweeping cleaner work. Plumbers use
| a great deal about pipes, and builders to
Soda-water
{ men and packers of glass and small arti-
| cles of every kind use it, and dolls and
| some living creatures are more or less
[stuffed with it. Washington market
| takes two or three loads a day, and 3
| great deal is s on the piers, an
Stables require muY loads a oo Yel-
| low pine makes the best sawdust, as it is
the least dusty, and has a good, healthy
{ smell. But any white wood dust will do.
They make a great deal of black walunt
sawdust, but it will not sell, and it is
burned.
The Mustang of Australia.
The mustang of the American conti-
nent has itscounterpart in the ‘‘brum-
bie” of Australia, large herds of which
exist in the interior partsof Queensland
and New South Wales. These animals
are so numerous that they have often
been destroyed and boiled down for the
sake of their tallow and hides; and in
some of the newly-setiled districts they
swarm in such numbers that the squat-
ters have to protect themselves and the
pasturage against thir inroads. Brumbie-
stalking is a recognized pastime, the
destruction of the wild horses being as
necessary as the destruction of kangaroos
or rabbits. The sport of capturing and
taming these animals,’ however, has
attracted a good many adventurous
spirits, who adopt tactics somewhat simi-
lar to those adopted by the inhabitants
of Mexico and South America. The
hardiuess and size and strength of these
brumbies are remarkable, and when
trained they are of considerable value.
Their progeny, when crossed with Euro-
n horses, possess excellent qualities.
t is recorded that in one year no less
than seven thousand wild horses have
been shot on a single station in New
South Wales. -
Minnie Palmer, the actress, is under
$5,000 bonds to her manager not to
marry for five rears.