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. ———————————— 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,