Year After Year,
‘Year aftor year the cowslips fill the meadow,
. Year after year the skylarks thrill the air,
Yoar after year, in sunshine or in shadow,
Rolls the world round, love, and finds us as
we were,
Yoar after year, as sure as birds’ returning,
Or fleld flowers blossoming above the wintry
mound,
Yoar after year, in work or mirth or mourning
-
oan grow old.
passion,
Strong hope of manhood, content of ag
bagun,
Loved in a hundred ways, each in a diffe
fashion,
Yet ‘oved supremely, solely, salwe never 1
but one, D. M, Craik,
Knitting Song.
Stith by stiteh, and row on row,
This is the way the stocking must grow ;
Cliokety, clickety, day by day,
The slender glittering neadles say,
Hush-a-bye, baby, grand
Hither and thither the eradl
Purl and plain, and plain and purl,
Bae it for boy or be it for girl;
Two and two is & neat device;
Loarn to shift the thread in a trice,
Hush-a-bye, baby, grandmother sings;
Hither and thither the oradle swings,
Inch by inch the long leg grows,
Straight and narrow for fitting close;
A very poor leg, is the say
That cannot shape a sock of its own,
Hush-a-bye, baby, grandmother sings; |
Hither and thither the eradle swings,
ng wall-knewn,
Count the stitches and halve them now,
And one half set in & single row,
And back and forth, outside and in,
Knit the heel on the single pin,
Hush-a-bye, baby, grandmot)
Hither and thither the cradle
Knit it long, and narrow midway,
To round it, and bind it off, as we say;
Take up the loops on either side
And add a few more to make it wile,
Hush-a-bre, baby, grandmother sings;
Hither and thither the cradle swings
Now cach side narrow, or slip and b
To shape the instep as you will find
Then kuit straight round till y
This is the way the foot must grow
Huah-s-byve, baby, grandmother
Hither and thither
ear the toe;
Then DAITOW OnCS pore, and DArTOW away,
Toeaing it off, aa knitters say;
There is » stocking §
Now knit the mate
Hush-a-bye, baby: when
Your fet may be worthy to climb a throne,
¥
oo Harriet M «Bury un Xaaball
sr an heir!
for he must have a pair,
YOu are grown
IN THE DARK.
“J cannot see what possesses you,
Ervine, to act as you do I” complained
Mrs. Graney. “ You know very well that
vou will sever have such another oppor
tunity to secure a rich husband. Here
is Morgan Ingraham all ent and dried
to your hand, rich and agreeable and
handsome. 1 must say I never saw a
hsndsomer man. And not a creditable
rival in the way, for neither your cousin
nor Vashti Short can hold a candle to]
ru in point of beauty.”
“Well, mamma, and if I don't want
Mr. Morgan Ingraham?’ said Ervine,
indolently, without raising her eyes
from her novel.
“Pon't want Mr. Morgan Ingraham ?
"Then who on earth do you want?’ in
accents of despair.
“ I"m not sure that I want any one—to
marry. Iam only just twenty, and as
strong anda healthy as an orthodox
young plebeian should be. I suppose
it is pot imperative that I should have
a husband :” Ervine answered, calmly,
still, to all appearances, deeply inter-
ested in her book.
“ Well, I suppose guite differently.
What do yon think your sunt invited
vou here for but to get a husband?
Certainly not for love of either you or
1. She hates us both. And she con-
siders, as she distinctly told us, that
she will have quite done her duty by
us, pow that she has educated you,
when she has given you one season in
society under her prestige and a chance
vo make a match.”
“Mamma, I am extremely obliged to
Aunt Jerome for my education, as I
have told her; and I mean to put it to
such use as to pay ber back every cent
she expended on it, as I have not told
her, but she will find ont some day. As
for her invitation bere, I accepted it be-
cause 1 thought I might as well have
one little taste of life before settling
down to sober realities and hard work;
but to marry at her command, or any
one’s else, 1 have no intention of do-
ing.”
“No intention of marrying? Then
what are youn intending to do, may I
ask? questioned Mrs. Graney, in a
passion. *‘I suppose we are both to
go to the poorhouse !”
“Not at all. Your income is the
same as it ever was—sufficiently large |
to enable you to live comfortably.® 1
shall make no demands on it. I intend |
to work for my living,” Ervine said, |
firmly, turning a page slowly and de-
liberately with her strong white hand.
“Work for your living!” with fine
“And what do you expect to |
VOLUME XIV.
Kditor and
HALL,
CO. PA.
AUGUST
00
“oO
20,
1881.
AAAI
EE HE A OP
NUMBER 33.
i
it of fish,
“Diamonds! I should say so!” ex
“B the
You BOQ, dia
ds ean always be disposed of to ad
Just take
ing and there
ut, then, it shows
y invest in those,
been used, and
“That's
there's a What fun this
fish for vou!
Miss
must
Giranoy.
Neal
thought
It
{Poachers Im
“TH walk
hery time.”
But there was not much excitement
in archery that afternoon. The fair
stants had no audience. Presently
rriages full of new guests rolled
up to the great porch, and Adella and
Miss Short threw down their bows.
Ervine put a few more in the
Arrows
gold, without half-trying, and then com-
back. De
ft Pe
ail
Ayn
CULE
two
ments,
“Why stop so soon, Miss Graney ?”
making his ap
pearance.
“‘ Because I am tired of
time to dress for dinner,
that there has been qu
of guests
“Yes; the carriages passed me as 1
came in the park gates. I had
down to the village. I have a
stopping at the hotel there.”
“Yes? said Miss Grancy, indiffer.
ently, as they reached the rose-terrace
at the left of the old mansion, and broke
off a Spray of blood-colored roses and
disappeared, humming a gay little tune,
It was unusually gay at Jerome Lakes
that night. The summer season was
fairly inaugurated. The great dancing-
parlor was thrown open, lanterns
gleamed among the shrubbery and two
musicians played delicious music on the
balcony,
Ervine waltzed to her heart's content
and to every man’s delight. There was
not such a dancer in the room,
“May [ have this waltz, Miss Graney?”
queried Ingraham, long before any one
had dreamed of saying good-night, “1
am retiring early.”
“I am sorry, but it is promised.
Good-night ;” and in & moment more
she was whirling away in the arms of a
very dark young man who was to all
appearances deeply enamored of her,
Ingraham walked away.
i Evidently she doesn't
it, and itis
You know
ite an accession
been
friend
'
ng
care!” he
It was nearly twelve when the guests
separated for the night.
“Oh, I wish it wasn't over |”
Ervine sighed, stepping upon a
balcony that opened on the rose-terrace
and was empowered in fragrant
of bloom. * But it must be!
go I"
One by one doors closed, and little by
little the stillness of midnight came on.
The moon shone whitely on the silent
park and the open rose-terrace, with its
y fountain and dew-laden flowers,
The soft July breeze blew the damp,
ravishing odors against the girl's wist-
fal, The leaves whis
soft, sweet
music,
pered en ngly i
voices of the night made restful
A servant came into the great parlor,
back of Ervine, and put out the flaming
lights and closed the windows.
all
no
ous
masses
I must
silver
resolute
the
; she beget i
er balcony.
here to-morrow
minutes more of the roses
light. I will fasten the
bar the shutters”
“Very well, Miss Ervine,” he re
sponded, respectinlly and kindly.
/ he he girl drew a
hair near the window and threw
herself into it, where she could see the
moonlight and the waving tree-tops,
and yet be partially screened from the
cool, dewy air. Lying there and plan-
ning her future she fell asleep.
to
1
aL
from
sen
great
was gone the
When che awakened she could not
tell how long she had been unconscious,
but there was no moon; the room was
cold and damp and black, and she was
trembling and her heart was throbbing
violently.
She drew herself np and tried to
think, and then a sudden faint, soft
sound brought her swiftly to her senses,
Some one was in the room —some one
had come in at the opened window, had
passed her in the darkness without per-
ceiving her, and was groping a way
across the parlor.
She grew calm at once.
do?’ burglar, of course; but the house was
“ Really, mamma, I have not decided. | full of people, and she had but to let
But Mr. Ingraham would not be likely | him go his way and then steal softly
to refuse me, do yom think, a position | after and arouse some one. He could
as eplesiady, or, perhaps, cashier, inone not do any harm, and he should not
of his unmerous establishments, were I | even escape, with her on his track.
to apply 7" She gathered her black tulle skirts
“ Ervine, you try me beyond all en- | closely around her, and guided by the |
durance! For heaven's sake put down | stealthy footsteps which sounded dis. |
that book and let us talk sense! You | tinet enough to her alert senses, moved |
can marry Morgan Ingraham if you try, | as noiselessly as a spirit across the |
and you must!” great room.
Miss Grancy threw aside her novel | As she approached the hall she hesi- |
now, and stood up, revealing herstrong, | tated. She had supposed that the
shapely young figure at its best. burglar, if he knew anything about the
“Mamma,” she commenced, proudly, | house, would make “directly for the
“1 am quite willing to talk sense! | butlers pantry, where were locked stores |
have talked sense from the first. Don't | of solid silver. But he was apparently |
you suppose Mr. Ingrabam knows that | feeling for the foot of the staircase.
I am poor and have been asked here to Yes, he gained it and commenced |
entrap him because he is rich—into a | ascending. Frvine followed, scarcely
marriage? Has Aunt Jerome lost any drawing a breath lest she should be!
opportunity of letting him know the | discovered. The head of the great stair- |
true stute of affairs? Have you lostany | case reached, the man groped his way
opportunity of throwing me at his head ? | along the corridor until he came to a
Let me tell you—once for all—that I! second corridor, where he turned.
will not marry Lim! That I bate him!| Qnick as a flash it came to Ervine
That 1 will not marry any man, just be- | that Morgan Ingrahem’s was the room
cause he is rich, and you and Aunt Jer. | sought; and then the words recurred to
ome desire it. I will not so lower my- | her which she had heard, dreamily,
self I” And with this violent outbreak | )
Miss Ervine Grancy walked ont of the noon:
room assigned to herself during her stay “Diamonds! I should sav so! You
atJerome Lakes,and out into the coolest, see, diamonds can always be disposed of
shadiest, most recluded depths of the | tq advantage. Just take them out of
great park that inclosed the noble old | their setting and there is nothing to be-
mansion, * tray their former owner, and vou can
“It is a shame!” she cried, throwing | get full value for them.” >
herself back downward upon the yield-| = Morgan ingrabam wore magnificent
ing moss, and folding her white round | diamonds, His watch was monogrammed
arms across her flushed face, ‘‘that I | with them, his sleeve-buttons were of
should be flung at Morgan Ingraham as | nntold value, and his studs,
Morgan Ingrabam flings his bait at the | small, were of the choicest water
fishes in Aunt Jerome's lakes! But| All this passed through her mind
then” after a pause—‘‘it is my own | like the transient but vivid gleam of
fault. I had no business to come here | lightning —and, too, that Morgan's room
and let myself be placed in this hu- | opened on a balcony, from which any
miliating position. If I had only gone | desperate man could easily jump to the
to work immediately I would never have | velvet sward below. ’
seen Morgan Ingraham, and he would | The thought was no sooner framed
never have had a chance to despise me. | than Ervine’s satin-slippered feet carried
Despise me! Yes, despise me, who am | her with a few swift bounds through
ten times more beautiful and more in- | the darkness to Ingraham’s door. It
telligent than Vashti Short and Adella | never occurred to her to
Jerome, who may yet smile on him and |
foree their society mpon him as they
please, since they are rich and cannot
be accused of fortune-hunting! Well,
I will rectify my mistake—I will go
away to morrow. No one shall prevent
me!”
Having made this rash, but, perhaps,
not quite unwise resolve, Miss Grancy
fell to musing; and she was just on the
borders of slumberland when voices
aroused her. She had not been aware
of her proximity to one of her ‘Aunt | ment she held him fast,
Jerome's Lakes,” but, in fact, among | She did not scream, nor eomld she
the evergreens not twenty feet away, | tell what it was that smothered her with
lay one of the deepest and most seclu- | a great fear, a great uncertainty, until
ded of the pretty sheets of water which | the man wrested one hand from her
gave its name to the fine old estate. | clasp, and, with unerring aim, caught at
now, only to arre:t the thief before he
should force his way into his victim's
room,
She was not a minute too soon. The
man was already fumbling at the door.
Ervine putout her hand in the dark-
ness, and, with some fateful surety,
seized both of his.
The captive gave a little, half-smoth-
ered imprecation of surprise, and made
a struggle to free himself; but Ervine's
hands were too strong, and for a mo-
trated voloe
“Who are vou ? What are vou ¢
Ervine knew the voice I'he
the Hest the
are vou?’ he questioned,
in, but in a changed voice
ill Ervine was mute
xd to free
“1 will not let you go," he whispered,
“until 1 know who yon are! Until
His hand slipped up Miss Graney's
Still she strug
herself,
arm, and tonohed a bracelet she wore,
a tiny line of gold, with a crucifix dang
ling from it. No one else in the house
wore such a trinket,
“* Ervine! Miss Granoy!
Tell me?
But she wonld not. Then
dealy threw both arms about her, and
drew her close to his breast. Worn out
by her useless attempts to free herself,
Ervine's splendid figure yielded to his
embrace. Only her heart throbbed
madly. For a moment the two stood
thus in the darkness, the man’s pulses
quickening and answering to her beat-
ing heart.
“1 know youn,” he said presently,
and I think I have frightened you.
Did you take me for a burglar?
“Yes,” whispered KEry
you please to let me go now?
“ No; not until youn tell me why you
tried to capture me.”
“1 thought,’ with a little constrained
laugh, “you were going to steal vour
own diamonds. I heard some strange
who were fish in a distant part
of the park, talking about diamonds
this afternoon, and how EASY It was to
sell them.”
Is it you?
he sud
“i
Will
nay
men,
Ingraham commenced to laugh softly,
in the darkness. “Why, it was Jack
Valdon and I. Jack an intimate
friend of mine, and came to see me on
a little He only arrived in
he village in the morning, and goes
away this morning, so [ could not per-
suade him to coms up here. But we
went fishing together in the afternoon,
is
business,
the hotel and played cards with him
until quite late. Coming home it had
grown quite cloudy, and in the park I
lost my way. When I found the house
all was darkness and I went
round to the rose terrace, and thought
I would sit on the balcony until some
of the servants were up, rather than
rousa the house, There, to my surprise,
[ found a window open, and so con-
cluded to try to find my room, though,
unfortunately, I had no with
me. Where were you?”
“ Asleep in a chair by the window you
entered. must have awakened by the
time yon were half across the parlor.”
“* And how wasit you called no one?”
“ I expected youn would go directly to
the butler's pantry and I could run up
the stairs and arouse In.
that you went up the stairs,
stil
3
SLLINORS,
a
matches
the house.
stead of
too.”
Again Ingraham laugh
“ Yes, to my o
d softly.
wn
steal diamonds,”
180 diame nds wore von talking
' demanded Ervine,
ut Miss Short's. 1 was de
to Jack. He thought he
un her in the village, and | asked
@ wore a blue dressand a great array
iamonds.”
er
1.3
nag sed
eat goose of
ust ip her
herself,
had
with In
sie
“ Don't SAY that,” retorted her com-
panion, without loosening his clasp.
“I am glad it basall happened; and I
don’t mean to let you go yet; for, per-
haps, here in the darkness I shall have
the courage to declare what your freez-
ing eyes will never let me say when 1
can look into them -that I love yon,
Ervine, and want you to marry me.”
“ Me—me, Mr. Ingraham ?" said Er-
vine, blankly, *“1-I-"
“Stop, Ervine! Don't tell me that
you care nothing for me. Give me
some hope. Tell me that you will try
| to care for me, for you are the only
woman I ever wished to marry—the
only woman I will ever marry !”
“Mr. Ingraham, you cannot accuse
| me of having encouraged you to talk to
{ me in this way,” said Ervine, proudly.
“No,” he broke out, passionately.
have appealed to you! 1
are utterly heartless!
softening, “1 love you.
that, always.”
He unclasped his arms, but Ervine
did not stir. Instead, she did a most
strange thing,
hated this man,
her strong white hands, and drew
down his head until it rested against
her soft white cheek.
And Mrs. Graney was in a state of
beatitude, indeed, the next day, when
Mr. Ingraham announced to her
his betrothal to her daughter,
although she did not see, and never
knew, quite how it all came about. For
Morgan and Ervine never betrayed the
believe You
Eut Ervine,"
Remember
FHA SAS 30 3
Strange Professions,
Among the curiosities of the Indian
which some of her majesty's subjects
declare they pursue. In Allahabad no
fewer than 974 at a former census de
scribed themselvesas* ‘low blackguards,”
a calling which, however, is only too
common elsewhere than in Allahabad,
who pray to their inkhorns” are surely
In Russia, however,
premises, The St. Petersburg insurance
| They were in the
| habit of arranging for conflagrations with
{ the owners of insured premises, On
| houses, which, being mostly built of
{ wood, burned easily enough, They
{ might have been earning their twenty
{ per cent. to-day but for the astuteness
| 4 ot
| of the Liban police, who set a trap for
delight of the insurance companies, It
| is possible enough that members of this
| scandalous profession are not unknown
{in other countries besides Russia.
Frauds against insurance companies are
difficult to detect even when the in-
sured fires his own property; but when
the work is undertaken by a professional
fire-raiser detection becomes almost im-
possible,
ne
a man who gave her his seat in a street.
car; the car started, and she fell into
the proffered seat with a bang that jarred
hér store teeth out. Now we under-
stand why the girls who never thank a
man for any street-car civilities hold
their peace.— Hawkeye.
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Hreaking Celis te the Halter,
"A time
handling colts, well
"
stitch In ning
NAYES
clothes mmen
They
i halter
birth
gentled
first few months
) nent period, and
nger it is deferred the more difli
IF vory
cantly
r thi
18 work becomes, wl way
world to break a eolt
» halter is to tie him in the stall
the side of his dam, and to lead him
her side occasic
out for work or exercise
h by
The
voung thing that might otherwise grow
’
ge ntle, kind and tractable Live
Farmers' Gardens,
We have had occasion to observe the
great increase in the cultivation of flow-
ers throughout the country within a few
vears, and on riding through some of
Our larger villages the absence of bloom-
ing plants in pots in the windows has
been the exception and not the rale,
But there has not been an equal im
provement in farmers’ kitchen gardens
It is very rare to find one entirely free
from weeds, and some have positively
many weeds The
trouble is these gardens are too large.
More land has been allotted them
than the owner has found time to take
proper care of, One square rod, made
rich with manure, and kept clean and
mellow by eultivation, will furnish bet.
ter and more delicions vegetables than
an overgrown with weeds. Now,
lot every farmer who has a weedy gar
1
den reduce its size to
ns vegetables,
un
fo
/a0re
one-half and see
if he can do any better, If not, reduce
it again to half, and try once more;
and if still unsuccessful he can gradu.
ally bring it down to nothing, which
would be better than slipshod and profit
culture. We recommend such a
course only as a choice of evils; fora
good-sized, well-manured, well-kept,
well-cultivated kitchen garden is one of
the most profitable investments a man
can make, "
less
wintry (fentleman
Farmers’ Maxims,
Thinking about a piece of corn adds
five bushels to the acre, sometimes ten,
{he fifth rail of a fence is generally
worth more than the other four.
Weeds in a corn and potato field are
like notes on interest at twenty per cent.
If a particular production is all the
rage sell out while prices are high and
buyers are plenty.
Fall and winter evenings are the most
profitable times for mental culture, so-
cial happiness and rest.
It is never best to overdue economy
by letting hogs or geese habitually eat
the grass in the front yard.
Encouraging words will sometimes
make a sevthe cut well an hour longer
than it otherwise would.
Gives the boys work, and take pains
to teach them, It ist
we yar best farm men,
Cigar a cornfield may pre
wows, but it
is
this souree that
3
must look for «
3
SmMOKe In
Id less,
in M AY.
It is better for a or to*eat salt on
his potatoes instead of butter, if the lat
ter 1s needed UL pay an old debt at the
village store,
Every fagmer should compete forall the
preminms at the annual fairs in his line
except ‘the fastest trotter owned and
raised in the county.”
Men may deceive each other, but they
can never deceive Mother Earth. Deal
ers may sell sawdost guano at fifty dol.
lars a ton, but they cannot count on the
soil as a helper in their imposition,
A very successful farmer once re
marked that “he fed his land before i
was hungry, rested it before it was
weary and weeded it before it was foul.”
There are two things that every far-
mer must have—things that subserve
like purpose and are of about equal im-
portance-—a grindstone and a newspaper,
The owner's eye will detect ten needs
on the farm where a hired servant's will
one,
The leaves of a maple or elm stand-
ing near the farmhouse door are often
more valuable than the fruit of a whole
orchard planted elsewhere,
A farmer need never to say, “If I
could only get work I should be happy.”
His store never lacks customers. His
factory need never be run on half time,
Best Mulching Material,
Mulch is placed about plants to pre-
vent the sun from evaporating the mois
ture. In many cases it takes the place
of enltivation. No doubt, if it were
not for the expense and trouble, it
would be more extensively used about
herbaceous plants, We have found in
our trying climate that a fine mulch
of manure, completely covering the
round, is an excellent thing for bed-
ling plants. With trees and shrubs a
serious objection to the use of muleh is
its liability to harbor mice, which may
injure or destroy the plants. For straw-
clean as it ripens, and to protect the
plants in winter and spring. For straw-
berries we have had the best success in
applying the mulch quite late in an-
to
The more
over the plants
expose a few of the leaves,
greater the need of mulch, and
mulch in generous quantity. There
is a great variety of materials employed
beach sand or fine gravel with excellent
results. The inexperienced gardener can
employ rich timothy or June grass, and
he was not prepared for, Or, again, if
he like better, in
mulch with oat straw not half threshed,
or full
plenty. Then he can dig
plants all summer among the strawber-
ries,
the will
ercise, and stirring soil
all the above methods,
corn stalks to
| thought I had a good thing.
| were not to be found.
| they had blown away.
| or more.
| soil and are a nuisance.
soil.—Prof. J. W, Beal.
Frult Canning.
Good canned fruit
tables of thousands of
might as easily be used,
le ft to wanl * i i
expenditure would preserve it for winter,
If the ¥ be
the canned
farmers when it
Fruit 1s often
had, berries are among
fruits
apples, plums, apricots, and,
fruits, are worth canning. Dried
never wholly take the place
fruits for family use.
jars are preferred by most persons, and
the end. With care
they ean be used many years, though
new rubber bands must be procured
when needed. In canning, sugar should
certainty be used, and it should be of
the granulated white grades, a8 poor
sugar hurts the flavor of the fruit. The
rule is to put one-quarter of a pound of
sugar with one pound of fruit, but this
quantity may be doubled if the fruit be
unusually acid. Some persons think
that fruit is good when canned without
sugar, but in that case it loses color and
firmness. The fruit used for canning
is to be of the best quality, and as
freshly picked as possible, Well-ripened
frait, not, however, dead ripe od soft,
is in every way preferable. In fact, a
cannery should really be located near
the orchards, for there is a manifest de-
terioration in the quality of the fruit be-
tween the time it is picked and the time
it is ready for the cans, Coarse grained
market varieties seldom can so well as
the more highly-flavored kinds. When
the fruit has been peeled and pitted place
it in the preserving kettle and properly
cook ; but if it 1s still boiling hot the
cans are to be filled full, to the very
brim, the elastic put on, the jar
wiped, and the top screwed down at
once, and tightened several times after
ward. As a writer on the subject said
oan
nicest Peaches,
indeed, all
eatable
fruils can
of canned Cillass
are cheapest in
into the perfect cans, filled full and
sealed up at once, will be fresh and pure
when opened, though years later,” Bim.
ply pouring boiling water over fruit
does expel the air, Partly filled
fruit jars will spoil. Canned berries are
to be put in a preserving kettle, with
lavers of sugar, and boiled from five to
fifteen minutes. The syrup can be bot-
tled up, of it, for other uses.
Some persons prefer to cook berries in
the jars in which they are to be canned.
In this ease the jars filled up with fruit
are sot in a wash boiler, on wooden slats,
80 as not to touch the bottom. Cold water
15 poured in till it comes elose tothe rims
of the Jars, and heated until the fruit is
well cooked, when the fruit in one jar is
used to fill up the others, and they are
sealed and put away. We may add that
glass jars of fruit should be putin a
dry, dark and cool place where the tem-
perature is equable throughout the sea.
son.
not
sOme
Heusehold Hints,
To take grease from floors, rub soft
soap on the spots, then press with a hot
iron.
To take grease from silk, moisten the
spot with chloroform, then rub with «
cloth until perfectly dry. It will not
ininre the most delicate color,
If rats or miee infest any part of vour
house find their i
with rags dipped in a strong solution of
pepper. No rodent will ever
wil wiih} s at that or
HA DIODE AF LUA Tal.
holes ax nfl them
cavennd
take a seo
An
ill always
SOOO
wel with ammonia.
Alway 8 sland
handle down.
You ¢ { the ram lity With
drain, and your nmbrellk
ger if dried quickly.
a ——
Canning Corn,
{here are
devoted to
In the vicinity of Boston
numerous establishments
the canning of green corn, and as the
similar to that to which all
articles of preserving food are subjeeted
a deseription of the method is given in
the American Owltivator, and will serve
A8 Aan example of the rest. The corn is
planted expressly for this purpose, and
when it in condition to can
stripped of its husks, after which it is
process is
is
It is then passed along to another set
of hands, who, with knives made for
the cob
a tub,
in small quantities, each amount just
sufficient to fill a can, the corn being
foreed into the cans by means of a pow-
erful automatic press, which operates
very rapidly.
The cans are then taken to the sol-
dering room, where each is carefully
wiped and the top is soldered on, a
allow the escape of air.
is the cooking, which is done
placing the cans in wooden vats filled
with water and kept at the boiling
point by steam heat. After being
cooked awhile the cans are taken out,
the air-holes are newly opened, and
to force out the air, which operation is
most important. After this the corn
is again cooked, the cans are sealed
air-tight, and they are then ready for
market. All articles are treated in a
similar manner, with the exception of
preparing them for tae cooking pro-
cess, and when finished they are proe-
tically imperishable, as they will top
for years in any climate, All through
there are extensive
vegetable canning establishments, as
well as in other parts of New England,
and within the past few months the
business has increased to a marked ex-
tent in the State of Maine, especially
in corn.
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The Conductor,
What an alert type of men the con-
ductors on the steam railroads are.
Probably the engineers are also, but
there's no good chance to get a look at
the levers and their eyes are peering
along the line of track as far as keen
vision ean reach. But the conductor is
all alive under his quiet and impassive
exterior. There is little in his car he
does not see, even while his whole atten-
tion appears to be concentrated by the
ticket he holds in one hand to he eut
by the punch in the other. And there
is nothing he does not hear and under-
stand down to the most needless ques-
tion. Amid the clangor of the swift-
moving train, the slightest unusual
noise or jar about the running gear tells
its story instantly to his acutely edu-
And
wrong, how promptly yet how quietly,
with what freedom from fuss, or any-
thing approaching to flurry or panic,
he moves toward the right placo. He
is the very embodiment of self-posed
qui vive. What soldiers these men
would make.— Philadelphia Ledger.
FACTS AND COMMENTS,
for $800, if
had known how highly these coins were
to be valued they might have made a
grand speculation by turning out a few
millions of them. As it was they
thought eight would “meet the busi
ness wants of the " and
they made,
country, eight
A correspondent of a London pape:
warns people against throwing broken
bottles among sun dried grass or heat
at this time of the year, as the bottoms
of such bottles frequently act as burn
ing glasses, The Australians know that
extensive and damaging brush fires
have taken plece in Australia in conse-
quence of broken bottles having been
carelessly thrown down among the dried
scrub.
From the year 1875 to the present
date 176 murders have been committed
in Chicago. Of these, as is the case
generally, nearly one-half were com. |
mitted in the hot months—June,
July, August and September, chiefly in
July and August. Only two of the 176
murderers were hung for the crime.
But in that year, 1878, one of the hot- |
test summers known, the number of
murders decreased, from thirteen in
the summer of 1877, to six; increased
next year to nineteen, and this year
bids fair bo exceed it,
—— |
The Main Exhibition building sat
Philadelphia, which cost $1,600,000 to
erect, was recently sold at auction for
$07,000, Its sale calls to mind the long
and disastrous effort to maintain a per- |
manent exhibition within its walls with
some of the shells and vestiges of the
great Centennial fair. The scheme
was doomed to failure from the begin-
ning, but it was heroically supported |
for four years by a company of Phila
delphia gentlemen who have paid dearly
for their enthusiasm. Nowhere has a
large permanent industrial and art ex- |
hibition been successful save at Syden-
ham, pear London, and that has in its
favor the attractiveness of the Crystal |
palace and its park as a point for ex-
cursions, and the immense population |
of the British metropolis close at hand.
A handbook giving a general account |
of the Jews, just issued by Dr. R.
Andree, estimates their total number
thronghout the world at about 6, 100,000, |
Only 180,000 of the race are to be found |
in Asia, 400,000 in Africa, 300,000 in
America, and 20,000 in Australia. The
great majority of the race, more than |
5,000,000, live in Europe. Roumania |
proportion to its population than any
other European country, namely, 7.44 |
The local |
ulation in |
out with |
Thus, in|
districts of
34 individuals of the race.
different countries is traced
great pains by Dr. Andree,
some of the government
Russian Poland the Jewish inhabitants |
constitute from 13 to 18 per cent. of the |
population. Although for the whole of
Germany the Jewish element is only
12 1-2 per cent. of the population, in
the city of Berlin it has increased to
nearly & per cent,
nothing small about the
in India. He has
youthinl and lovely brides
ng the daughters of the Gon-
id has made arrange-
2 ‘
them to the altar,
1 hie re
nawab s
is
ff Gondal
EEN SEVEN
one
{ T sNCoessive
a3%Cr anoiler, upon
days. It will be the pleasing duty of
each bride, Progr asively and in regular
rotation, to attend the weddings cele-
brated subsequent to her own, so that
} } lady of the series will enjoy
unusual privilege of witnessing
nuptial ceremonies, in all of |
which she will be more or less directly |
interested, within the limits of a single |
week, The sevenfold bridegroom,
however, Las bestowed upon all his
brides wedding dresses and ornaments
of identical material, design and valne.
The rooms they are destined to occupy
in his palace are all furnished exactly
alike; aod the accident of seniority, as |
regards the mere date of their respect. |
ive marriage ceremonies, is not to carry |
with it any procedence at court,
seven
sOVen
The time is not far distant when, ae-
four days. This will not be, as one may |
in steam power, electricity or |
simply because in time the American
from what it is to-day.
of New Brunswick
The |
coast and Prince |
cast are rising, and on the Pa- |
is a subsidence of water. |
continent must in time |
project to the North Pole. Hudson's |
cific there
character of the place, the Newfound- |
land banks will become arid and St, |
George's bank will be part of the main- |
land. The coast line of all oceanic |
States will be carried out to the irner |
edge of the gulf stream.
- I ——
parent Death,
A Paris paper tells this strange story: |
A religions custom has just prevented a |
person from being buried alive, and, |
singular to relate, this is the second |
time the same thing has happened to
the same person. About ten years ago |
Eulalie B—, then aged three years, |
daughter of respectable tradespeople in |
the Rue Montmorency, was attacked |
with typhus fever, After a fortnight's |
sickness she appeared to expire, and her |
parents, as a relief to their sorrow, left |
the house, leaving two of the girl's
aunts to superintend the funeral. As |
the family belonged to the reformed re- |
ligion, it was resolved, in compliance |
with the usual custom, to wash the body |
before placing it in the shrond. While |
the water was warming one of the aunts |
roposed that it should be made quite |
Bot and that part of the foot of the de- |
ceased should be placed init, This was
done: and the twa females, to their sar
prise, fancied that they heard a slight |
sign. They thereupon began to employ |
friction on different parts of the body, |
and succeeded in restoring the child to |
life. The girl continued to enjoy good |
health until yecently, when she was at- |
tacked with brain fever, and after suf. |
fering some time appeared to die. A |
physician declared her dead, and signed |
a certificate for the interment, One of |
the aunts, in company with a nurse,
watched the body. The aunt having |
stated in the course of conversation the |
singular circumstance that had pre-
viously occurred, the nursé recommend- |
ed that the proof of hot water should
again be tried. The leg of the girl was |
accordingly plunged into hot water. |
This produced a similar result, and the |
girl recovered.
seis cm—————————
Hoopskirts came into nse in 1857 and |
departed this life in 1865,
SUNDAY READING,
Losk Out for Breakers,
A jwriter in the Presbyierian says:
There are so many of them on the sea of
liife. They eome to us when out on the
waters or on the shore. They come in
the morning of life, or noontide, or at
midnight all the same. Bometimes, like
the billows which break against a rocky
shore, they come with a force which will
be heard and noticed. Again, they
come softly, quietly, peacefully, like
waves which wash the shore in the sun.
shine or play around a vessel on a calm
sea, and just as much we need to look
billow, Justas often as the one harms
us as the other, Anold seaman, a wise
bather, is always on the outlook, He
knows that forewarned is forearmed. It
is only children and fools who do not
trim their sails before the wind, who do
not look out for breakers on a rocky
shore, or who go out to bathe in a storm,
or who sit quietly on a smooth beach at
incoming tide. But there are a good
many people who have passed their
childhood, and who are not counted as
fools, who on the voyage of life never
trim their sails before the wind, be it
ever so boisterons and threatening; who
never think of looking for breakers, be
the coast ever so rocky; and who, though
never having learned to swim, go out
on & stormy, unknown coast, beyond
their depth, or sit on the smooth beach
idly, and let the tide of prosperity fl ow
waves become great breakers between
them and the green land and loved ones
beyond,
Religious News and Notes,
Of the 680 missionaries in India 117
are from the United States,
Five graduates of Fisk university
have gone to Africa as missionaries,
Paris at the present time contains
forty regularly ordained Protestant
charches,
There are said to be thirty-six Meth-
odist churches in Baltimore, with a
membership of 11,500,
There are said to be 154 Baptist
churches in the Indian Nation in a pop-
ulation of about 60,000,
The two Church of England foreign
missionary societies report this year a
total income of 81,680,940,
Of the graduates of Madison univer.
sity eighty-six, it is said, have become
missionaries among the heathen,
All ot the Congregational churches in
Chicago, except one—the Union Park
church~-are reported to be free of debt.
The additions to the Presbyterian
churches in Indianapolis, resulting from
recent revivals, will number U0 or
According to the Baptist Year-Book
there are 2,200,327 Baptists in America,
the net increase for 1880 having been
163,298.
A burean has been established in
Chicago for the purpose of supplying
clergymen with sermons. It is said to
be of foreign origin.
There are twenty-seven Protesant
Episcopal clergymen, including the
bishop, in the State of Delaware. The
communicants number 1,980,
The largest Sunday-school in Canada
is that of 8%. James' eathedral, Toronto.
Although there are on its roll the names
of 1,320 children and sixty teachers, the
rerage attendance is about 900, Bix
andred of these regular attendants are
in the main school and 300 in the in-
fant deparfment,
Cod-Fishing.
We have been out on the briny deep
after fish, and the Hawkeye distinguished
itself as usually. The Jester caught the
first fish, And it was the only fish of
that kind taken all day.
We went out after codfish. It is a
pleasant fish to catch. Catehing cod is
bucket.
it is cured for the Western market,
creep by, Lorena. When the spring
time comes, gentle Annie, the old cod-
fish that hangs on a nail away back in
The dryer it gets the louder it grows.
You must be blind if you couldn't hear
the flavor of a two-year-old codfish.
But when he is new he is quiet, and
you miss the old familiar bouquet.
When you go for codfish you must first
get your herring, for bait. We ap-
proached a lone fisherman for this pur-
pose, and besought him that he would
jend us a few herring. But he wasn't
doing a discount business then, and said
he had only a few—oh, such a very,
very few,
“Well, couldn't you let us have
three or four?”
But he shook his head sadly, as one
who should say he only bad four or
five.
Then we shouted and cried aloud and
said unto the lone fisherman:
“Lo. here is twenty-five cents, but
what is that to you? Will you see us
die for three small herring ?”
And the lone fisherman dropped his
line and made a reach for that quarter
even as a drowning man reaches for
crowbar, and spoke with great
alacrity:
“Oh, yes, I have just about a quar-
And he gave us a peck.
The sinker on the cod-line is a piece
of lead about the size and shape of a
corn-cob, and it weighs as much as an
old-fashioned family Bible. You fish
very close to the bottom— five feet or so
from it; and the only labor involved is
hauling up that deep sea-sounding ap-
paratus at the end of your line. When
the weight at all. Ob, no; the cod
helps you to pull the sinker up to the
surface, and that makes your load
lighter. That's the way you know when
yon have a fish on. That's just how
Little Billy's Mean Trick,
“ Where is your little brother Billy ?”
asked an Austin school-teacher of little
Johnny MeSpilkins,
“He is home in bed. He is too sick
to come out, and I am glad of it,” re-
“ Why do you speak so unkiudly of
Billy
“ Because ha played me a mean trick,”
“* What was it?"
“ Billy told me that ma said the boy
that eat the most meat for dinner should
have the biggest piece of watermelon,
I beat Billy all to pieces eatirg mest.
He didn’t hardly eat any meat, and when
the watermelon came on I-—boo-hoo—
room for the melon, and Billy, who
hadn't eaten any meat hardly, ate up
he is tick, and I'm so glad it ain't me.
TI conn
“Elephant” is the name of a new
town in Colorado, and it is go built that
it is hard to determine which is the teil
end.,— Detroit Free Press. The name
will be more appropriate when a trunk
line is built through it.— Lowell Courier.
A —-
OVERRUN BY RATS,
flow Some Provinces of India Were Devas.
tated by the Vermin,
The recently isened “Bombay admin-
istrative Report,” a few copies of which
have reached this country, gives some
| curious details respecting the extraordi-
| nary plague of rats which devastated
| eight eollectorates of the Bombay presi-
| dency in the latter half of 1868, The
particular kind of rats which ed
| most obnoxious were the Indian jerbos,
{the Indian mole rat, or kok, and the
| mettade, The first named is fawn
| eolored above and white below, and,
| including the tail, is often fifteen inches
(long. It burrows underground, is very
| prolifie, but does not customarily hoard
{ food ; while the kok, on the other hand,
{ mecumulates large quantities of grain,
| The mettade is really a species of monse ;
| but it is a very large mouse, sometimes
i nine or ten inches long. It is maid to
| live exclusively in eunltivated fields,
| within the deep fissures found in the
| black soil during the hot months, This
‘rat climbs the stalks of the erops and
guaws off the heads generally a few
days before they ripen. Great numbers
of the rats inhabiting the black soil sre
said to be killed every year by the first
heavy rain of the monsoon. The b
soil swells when the drenching rain falls
on it, and the broad deep cracks found
in the hot season, closing, suffocate the
rats caught within them. It in
November, 1878, in the district of SBho-
lapore, that the rats first began to
attract notice ; but it was not until June
and July of the following year that they
became an actual plague. in was
scratched up and eaten as soon as sown,
cotton plants were destroyed, and the
cultivating classes, depressed by the
droughts and scarcity of previous years,
were driven to a state little short of des-
peration. In July, 1879, the govem-
ment adopted energetic measures for
the destruction of the vermin. A reward
of one rupee was offered for every
hundred killed, and district officers were
roused to do their utmost towards
exterminating the animals. It was re-
quired that the rats killed should be
produced at the government treasuries,
where the tails were cut off and the
bodies returned to the claimants, who
usually earried them home for food. As
long as the plague was at its height this
system of rewards remained in force, In
| over sixteen million rats were killed ;
and by March, 1880, theyavere reduced
to tolerable numbers. As regards the
origin of the plague, no altogether sat-
isfactory explanation has been afforded.
From the fact of their appearing in
greatest numbers in the famine-stricken
districts, it has been conjectured that
the large amount of land lying untilled
owing to the death or absence of the
occupants, served as favorable and un-
molested breeding-grounds for the ver-
min ; that, by the absence of heavy rain,
the suffocation of numbers by the mon-
soon rains did not take place; and that the
exhaustion of the usual underground
stores of grain, which, no doubt, ordi-
| numbers to the surface.
{| The plague, however it arose, was
| fostered by the religious prejudices and
apathy of the peasants. The cultivators,
| a8 a body, did little; but some tribes
| did take to rat catching, and rendered
! good service, Various means were re-
‘sorted to. Phosphorus-paste balls,
| famigation, asphy ea ali squibs
| were all tried, but with only partial
| success. Digging up the burrows,
| though tedious, was found after all to
| be the better method. A clumsy, char
| acteristic attempt was made in one Col-
| lectorate to obtain rewards a second
| time for the same rats by fastening the
i tails on with babul thorns; and in the
| same district it was discovered that rats
| were being imported at twelve annas
{ the hundred from the territory of the
| Nizam, with the view of making four
| annas, or sixpence, on every hundred
{ by the transaction. Energetic as the
| government measures were, it is not sup-
| posed that the cessation of the plague
| was due to the number of rats killed for
{ the sake of the reward. The heavy rain
{ that fell later in the season, and the
| frosts and cold which set in before the
| close of the year, are believed to have
| done much more in the way of extirmin-
ation, —&8¢, James Gazelle,
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
Henceforth the telegraph offices of
France are to record in detail all thun-
der-storms which may be observed.
The evil effect of the electric light
upon the eyes is due, it is supposed, to
the constant changes in the intensity of
fatigued.
The labors of the Seismological so-
ciety of Japan have established the fact
that there 1s a chronic center of dis-
turbance within a radius of a few miles
from Yokohama,
It has been computed that the power
of the steam engines of England would
suffice to raise from the quarries and
place in position all the great pyramids
in eighteen hours,
galleries of the Museum of Natural His.
of the several kinds of animals, plants
and minerals, and to incite young pupils
to collect specimens during their
around the city.
The drill is kept moist with oil of tur-
pentine, and caused to revolve rapidly
bow about it and drawing the bow
quickly backward and forward, after
the manner of using a saw, while the
head of the drill is held in position by
a loose oiled brace.
It is believed br many scientific men
that a close connection may be traced
between the remarkable electrical
phenomena lately observed all over the
world and the excited condition of the
sun. As the sun has not yet reached
the enlmination of its period of dis-
turbance, it is thought that yet more
startling outbursts of nature's forces
may be seen ere the close of the present
summer.
Count Enzenberg, who has an estate
in the Tyrol that suffers very much
from lack of natural moisture, but on
which, from the formation of the hills
and the density of the woods, he has
long believed that there were hidden
springs, has employed the microphone
to solve the riddle, and with excellent
success, Along the foot of the hill he
has several insjruments, and has con-
nected them with an insulated telephone
and a small battery. In the time of
night, when the vibrations of the soil
ara fewest, he listens for subterranean
ripples, and already has been able thus
to discover several springs, which he
has turned to practical purposes.
es —————————
A Colorado horse, belonging to H.
QO. Gill, walked into a lake, and after
wading in the shallow water 100 yards
from shore lay down and drowned him-
self in water but two feet deep. A clear
case of suicide. : ;
Sn.
There are 500 men in New York
worth $3,000,000 or more.
Tis the true ones always face,
Dangers and trials, and wina place,
A niche in the fane of fame,
Strike and struggle, ever strive,
Labor with hand and heart and brain;
Work doth more than genius give;
He who faithfully toils doth live,
Tis labor that doth reign.
i
HUMOR OF THE DAY,
Counter irritants— Women shoppe
who pull goods to pieces und never
an g.
The latest style ribbon is in various
shades. Bois the old gentleman's face
when the bill is presented, =
H irts are to be revived and
there is a great deal of bustle in the
feminine world.—New Haven r.
“One thonsand stocking makers of
Chemnitz, Bsxony, are coming to this
country.” If this is nota yarn, there
must be something on foot.
A cook can tell an when it is bad,
if it should happen t
would like to have conversation wi
egg of that kind — Picayune,
“Chinese barbers shave without
lather.” That reminds us that our old
schoolmaster used to lather without
shaving, One is said to be as painful
an operation as the other.— Norristown
Herald,
Zivis
“Why dost thousoar,
Celia Thaxter in an exe
it is because he hasbeen to mount
the fiery, untamed , Celia. It
will make ALY man sore.
Conerier,
Miss Blanche Street, who looks so
sweet, and dresses so 58,
never heard of the ocean's 2h
matter where she may go, she's to
hear of its undertoe! “Bo
you know I"— Philadelphia Bun.
An Oi] City man
hand bellows, took it home
wife he had eoncluded to blow his
We take up the
casting our glances
columns we see many
after the word “ W
3
ih
have not honestly paid for.
| know what ought to be done and
do it. Men who are not egotistie,
rather bare the ccurage given by
| spirit to do and to dare. Men who will
ample for emulstion, who y
| thize with the grieving and succor
‘a base thing even in their zeal fora
that ties their hearts
| who know how to obey before they un-
| dertake to command. Men who do more
| than they talk. Men who do good to
| their fnends to keep them, to their
enemies to gain them. Men whose
hearts compare favorably with full
| pocketbooks—who believe in systematic
giving, snd advocate it. Men whose
hearts are moved by the sadness of
others, who are touched by a liftle
| hungry face and cold, bare feet.
| Men wanted. Men who are brave and
tears away. Men whose acts will
smiles to wan faces, Men who hb
| lamentations, and sre rewarded with
| sweet songs of thanksgiving.
| Women omen who know
their own business better. than their
| neighbor's. Women who are true and
{pure frown center to circumference.
7 who will not weary in well
| doing, who will neither nor flinch,
Women who will not fake rear from
choice. Women who know their mission,
and do not the will-o’-the-wisp.
| Women who will daily do loving ser
' vices, gentle little kindnesses—and do
them oth bare — ho
| will see that pantries are suppli
and that the shelterless find homes, :
but will coun-
whose hearts will ulter * God-
as workers grow faint and hands
Women who will not allow
be the stepping-stones to lift people ap
—not stumbling-blocks to hinder and
trip them down. Women who listen to
and ready hands ard willing heattny
"Women wanted. Women who know
is in a
Women who will sow their loving acts
broadcast, believing that kind words
never die. Women who extend a help-
ing band all along life's pathway. Wo-
men with clear understanding, quick
perception, and a judgment. Wo
men of patience, who do not explode at
the slightest friction. Women of fore-
thought (yes, jad afterthought), of =
crimination, and great ity. Wo-
men who will on es fixed
upon the loving and will not
listen to the murmuring crowd. Wo-
men who will brave the scorn of this
world to be crowned of God.
Men and wcmen wanted. Men and
women who, for the sake of mankind
and the glory of the Father's name,
will never forget to look up—ever np—
as the great Shepherd leads them on-
ward toward the heavenly fold—the
land of eternal day.— Christian Weekly.
Disparaging the Prophets,
It is just as well to bear in mind,
when you read the wild ications
of Mr. Vennor and his great rival, that
a rain hundred miles square no
more makes a rainy day on thi
nent than a fly-speck on the
the capital makes the District
lumbia, or even all of the
Anybody can say, “th
and thunder-storms and
United States
country clamors tor, is a
tell us when and where
. ————— x :
The Paris Jockey club pays its chi: f
cook $5,000 a year, and Poe or a foe
a dozen years. His specialty is soup, up,