Before the Rain, We knew it would rain, for all the morn A spirit on slender ropes of miyt Waa lowering ita golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps, sud dismal fons Soooping the dew that lay in the flowers, Dipping the jewols out of the sca To aprink'e them over tho innd in showers, We knew it would rain, for the poplars show The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrinks in the wind and the lightning now Ts tangled in troniendons skoins of rain, 4d I Bo Aldrich, Sleep’s Threshold, What footstep but has wandered free and far planned By no terrestrial oraft, no human hand, With towers that point to no recorded star Here sorrows, memories and remorses are Roaming the long, dim rooms or gall grand; Here the lost friends our spirits vet Gleam through mysterious doorways, half ajar, demand But of the uncounted throngs that ever win These halls whore slumber's dusky witcheries rula, Wha, after wakening, may reveal aright By what phantasmal means he antered in What poreh of cloud, what vapory vestibule, What stairway quarried from the mines of pight ? w Bdoar Foes! ta dilate Mon’Al A BOARD:NG-HOUSE ROMANCE. We have had a romance in our boand- ing house. Charler and I are fond of them, and soent them out, I way say, long before the matter-of-fact people think of such a thing. You see, we had ove of our own-—comiocal, tragical, wonderful, but resulting happily. For, here we are, middle-aged folks, in the first heyday of love and its sweetness, and likely to linger here-—since we starved so long for each other we can never quite make up the lost days. It gives us a tender and wondering inter est in lovers. We have not a shadow of reason for doubting their truth and their trials, since we must measure them by our own standard. We have been married five years, and do nut ‘‘ keep house." Charlie's busi. ness calls him from place to place, and as we are only happy when together, 1 am content to live an Arab life with him. Indeed, I like it for itself. In those long years, when he seemed lost to me, 1 had to take up the lives of others, and I have formed the habit of elwars looking about me for some sor- row or some joy I can share or bless, Every place where there is a human being ‘Las sn interest for me, and soon becomes a home. The only drawback is the breaking up each time, and the leaving those whose heart life has touched mine. But at this rate I will never get to my story. We came here last December. climbing dir'y maible steps, and wait- ing at tardy doors or in dingy parlors ! We have come to know the aspect of a good boarding hoase pretty well, and It seeriad we were no! to find one in all Philadelphia. Bat late in the afternoon we were ghown into the large yet cozy parlor of as soon as 1 looked at Charlie's face, that we were suited. We have never regretted our acceptance of the sitna- tion. We took possession of our “ third- story front” that very hour, and fol- lowed Mrs. Jarvey to the tea-table as though we belonged there. There is a good-sized family of us. The Betons, the Burtons and the Browns come down from some mysteri- ous regions above us—very nice young couples, the three, just beginning the world. The Allens have the second story and the only children in the house. The back corridor turns out some five or six yourg clerks, an artist, a newspaper man, and an old bachelor who lives on his means, The third story back—next to our room—is now empty. It is the nest from which the romance has just taken flight with its moving ecaunse—Miss Atheling. It was empty when we came, and for a week later; then I heard signs of occupation. Mrs. Jarvey is one of the people every one takes an interest in, and who claims that interest. She came into me that morning, with her round, still-girlish- at-sixty, face all aglow and smiling placidly. “1 declare, I am a lucky woman,” she saie. ** Do you hear that, Mrs. Smith ? I have let the room for a good price to Miss Atheling—the rich Miss Atheling, who has been at 1216, you know. She's very pretty, really! You like pretty girls, don't you? I've noticed it.” “I think you ‘notice’ everything, Mrs. Jarvey,” I said, langhing—for she does ~— ““ but you are quite right. I do like pretty girls, and handsome men, and looking. Like them too much, I fear.” “Then you must have noticed young Welleston,” said Mra. Jurvey. “He sits at the far end of the table from yon, but he is handsome and grand and noble looking, all three—and awfully shabby- looking, poor fellow.” Now, Charlie and I had noticed him at ovr first breakfast, and had often spoken of him since. ways, nor indeed, usually, present at wveals; and when he was, sat silent and preoccupied, as though working away mentally at the problem of his future, He was strikingly shabby, and, rarest of all things, Ben ard grand enough to shine it down. When he did before the others, Charlie said he withdrew with the air of a king a little wearied from the restraints of conrt etiquette, not as a five-dollar clerk hn. pleased that Mrs. Jarvey mentioned him, for I was drawn to him in a way I was sure meant he had trouble we might lighten. The dear old lady wan- dered on in her simple, pretty, kindly way until I knew all she did of his past, present and future. Iwas sorry 1t eould be summed up in so few words. He had come to her a year previous taken her smallest room, and gone on as we saw him day after day, with no Shange and no brightening of his hard of. “I am sure, Mrs. Smith, he never has me penny to spare, and how he is to manage about his clothes, I do not know. I am ashamed to own how carefully I watch that coat, but then it is I dread to see it giving way. And I think he is breaking down under something more than hard work and oor pay. He is heart-sick, you see. There's a girl in it, as sure as you live.” With that, she trotted ont as she had come in, blithe and sunshiny, and ready for the next thing that might happen, witha h smile. Isat at my desk and dreamed, as I will do, when I ought to be very busy. 1 could believe there was * a girl in it.” Surely, one woman, at least—and more probaoly a score of them—had read that fine, sad face with tender eyes. Then I recalled the shadow that had lain on my heart so long, and pitied the imag- inary girl who, I was sure, must suffer with longing for the look I had seen once or twice spring into the pale face, hey some word or sentence struck e. The supper-bell rang before I had finished my letter, and I had to hurry my preparations, as I did not expect Charlie until a late hour, and must go down alone. When I went ont into the hall a servant was waiting at the back- room door, and just as I reached the turn of the stairs in the arch of the back corvidor, the new boarder came out of it, voluntarily I glanced over at her, and at the same momenta low exclama- ¢ VOLUME X1V. Iditor and * “)s) -— ty 1881. NUMBER 37. from some one standing in the shadow of the arch near me. It was yoang Welieston, and 1 knew he was devour ing with passionate eyes the lovely pio- ture hefore us, Miss Atheling was young tiful—no doubt about that. She was, moreover, a lady born and bred, and a woman of pure and delicate intuitions and tastes. 1 cannot tell why or how 1 knew all this at one glance, but I did. Something her face, distinetly visi Lle under the bright gas-jet, her atti tuds us she paused to read the note the handed her, her exquisite toilet and the soft tones of her gentle voice as she addressed the man, pro claimed the facts have set down as first impressions, which have not been modi. fled by after intercouse, And, just as quickly, I knew in the same way that and young Welleston were not strange to each other. 1 had scarcely paused on my way for this look, and 1 now passed ov, leaving him the dark corner facing her. As I expected, he did to the table, but Miss Atheling gilded into her place next to mine be- fore 1 was fairly seated. Sho was very, very “thin.” graceful as a gazelle, dark-haired, dark- eyed, clear, pale skin, lovelier than any ealor, a mo fine and pure in its delicate lines it was a continual sugges tion of delicate refinement, and a smile that was actually eleotrio. 'o this day I cannot meet it without a faint and delicious thrill like a shock. t must, it does a man’s very brain, for I have seen its effects, and Charlie says it is irresistible, if she had the will to work evil with it. But she has not a shadow evil her bless her ] and beau in in servant she motioniass Im W# BOL come 3 ’ ¥ rir tp ai iif prediy, sander, u 8 in I told Charlie about it when he came in, and my fancies as well. both on the qui vive next morning to see if anything would bear them out. Mr, Welleston was at the table when we went in, and greeted us with a bow, we were the earliest arrivals after him Miss Atheling came next, bright and breezy as the morning, and in her Gainsborough hat, “Out so early!” I could not help saying, as I caught her eye. She smiled, and her lips opened to re- | ply, but the words died. A scarlet flame shot up into her cheek that had more of shyness than anger in its red, and her eyes half sank, She seemed to steady herself with a strong hand, however, looked clear and full at the averted head of Mr. Welles- l, in a perfectl; ati Compeiling tone: “Good-morning, Mr. Welleston, 1 { am glad to see you are still living.” He answered something which I lost, for the Allen children burst in, tornado wise, as usual, and all the little world | of our circle was swept into a eurrent of teas, toasts, bread-and-milk, pota- toes, porridge, beefsteak, pouts and pranks, Iam not u to children, and I ean didly own I ¢ as near hating a bad one as I dot rit of Evil. la fact, I consider such a one the mere embodi- ment of that gentleman, sent as a pun- ishment and a temptation to commit murder, Those Allen children turn all the milk of human kindness I imbibe into | purest gall, and never were they more : Je th silent as isa t > as is 3 tinting &3 LABEL, » a al detestable t at that moment. But C alone: “You are al you may set her down I bet " en one.” “ Either she is or she wants to be,” I answered. * And I mean by that, she either is the girl he loves or the girl who loves kim. The same signs can be read two ways. Which is right here, I : do wonder #* Well, T wondered for n a day. I never have been witness to such another wordless, ceaseless, persistent struggle as went on beside me after that morn- . 1 har > me when we were 3 ls N it, Alice right, 2! And as the girl 4:7’ | ing. | to attract him, and he resisted: times I thought she shrank from his interest in her and he rebelled; some- times it seemed as thongh they had come to an understanding, and accepted | the inevitable of suffering. She and I | wera much together, and I found her | the frankest, most childlike, confiding | of persons, apparently. But I noticed, | after a time, that she only told the ont- | side of matters, | ton as of Robbie Allen, But she never touched upon their re tion to each other, never remarked upon | his appearance, never even kindly spec- | ulated upon his financial prospects. { Iam not sure that they ever met ont of the dining-room, and I know their intercourse there was unmarked by any { display of feeling, yet always 1 was conscious of an underenrrent rushing fiercely onward to a crisis of joy or woe. | I have known her to part from me at her | door with her sweet, gay langh, and lock was silent between us. I have heard her pacing her floor hour after hour of the night, swiftly, softly, tire- { lessly, until the faint, faint sound grow terrible in its hopeless monotony. Charlie and I grew actually nervous | over the thing, and felt, we said, as i thongh we were living on the brink of | a voleano. At last it broke forth. It was late one night, Charlie and 1 bad laid aside our books for the cozy | chat which is always the last thing with | us, when there came a low quick knock { on the door. { It was such an odd little tap, and { such an unusual oc:urrence that, in. | stead of calling out, Charlie got up and | opened the door, Miss Atheling stood there, in evening dress and carriage wraps, pale to the very lips, her eyes glowing and her breathing hurried and irregular. once, and speaking eagerly, yet softly, I have come to you for help. matter of life and death to me—it means the misery or happiness of my whole life. Do not refuse me!” “what is it you want done ?” “Go to Mr. Welleston’s room and bring him here, please. Bring him here to me. Tell him so. He must come!” Charlie went on the instant. stood in the center of the room, wait- ing, her soft, shining wraps falling away from her fair, round arms and neck, her flowing hair and drooping flowers re- her whole frame quivering with sus- pense, ing, and not alone. I half rose. Bhe “No, no!” she said ; ‘you must not leave me. Oh, as you love your hus- band—and you do, you do—beg God to be merciful to me !” And then she turned to face them as they came in together. “Th " is worth infinitely more than speech, Charlie often thinks so, and I was per- fectly prepared to have him close the door and stand leaning against it, with out one word or one look, Mr. Welles ton, as silent and magnificent, stood near him, He was very tall and always graceful but to-night there was a splendor and imperial pride in his bearing 1 saw equaled. He, too, was pale, and his d stern under mustache, I almost trembled for my poor girl. What was she about to do. What had she dene or left un done in the far past ? * You are going away denly breaking the silence, “Yes,” he answered, briefly, “And why? Am I so hateful you yh » Heo looked at her, and my heart rose, Love, passionate and tender—only love was in it, She went a step nearer, “Geoffry,” she said, “do not break my heart!’ ) longer, When I heard the servants say, as I was coming upstairs, that you were going, I made this desperate re I know the story of these dear people, and their faithful sympathy for all who suffer. They will keep my secret and comfort me, if you cast me off. Aud why? Only because of this, and this," touching her jewels with rapid, scornful gesture—** only because my father prospered, aud leave his poor child above the ills of life. poor indeed, nothing conld separate i n us, never lips were sot so close an his dark she said, sud to no sin} sive sought to sweet face the expression of a truth the poet has put in words : fm) ICArs i that last step was taken! The loneli. ness, the unspeakable anguish of the ' “Geoflry, do not harden your heart ! | Your pride has cost us so much, and we { were so happy. Oh, am I not the sam i the very same I was before this ha fortune came to me? Think of And with it all twice told-—a thou. sand times told—1 could pur chase one little thing you so dear to me. each other so lo Was the man iron and stone? turned from her and folded his tightly upon his breast. * Then it must be so,” she said, m a tone of such utter, hopeless misery, it seemed a strange “Well, at least, know this! I did not follow you here. I knew you were in Philanel- « aud near me, for I saw you pass i216 often Ah often. Bai I never dreamed you were in this house when I came to it. When Mrs, Jarvey told me of the boarders the first evening 1 was startled, but I thought—I dared to hope the will of God had thrown us together, and it would be no harm for me to try for the only prize life holds for me. 1 was all wrong. Go now, and forget everything of the present, as you have of the past.” She covered her face with her and I saw the red blood dye her ad above her white gl A) e-tips. But slie had spoken so fearlessly, vot with 1 odest dignity and reliance in JUSLCO of her Cause, I eonld only admire her, Mr, Welleston raised his proud head and met Charlie's eve. if ever there was a * volume of meaning” in a look, he saw it then. “ Margarite I” he exclaim and holding ont his arms as to ber. She had conguered. down and for not that We have known g, Geofley!” He arms Yoice. \ HE f d, turning he hurried The barrier was Charlie and 1 slipped away into the hall-window in a . 3 1 3 the dark, and stood elasping each other, and whispering 9 aver, ments, «It was all as clear as the noonday sun now. They had been lovers before her father's death, when he was in the early flush of hopeful youtk, and she a child, too timid and guileless to meet the mists. Her good fortune and his evil day gether, and he had evidently started away from ap shadowy spectre mocking his pride. What days were before them? We knew they would never re- wine that lay beneath it. After awhile our door opened slowly, and they both looked out, a little shyly, a little archly. Charlie gravely advanced, and I fol- whispered, appalled, “Not at all,” I answered from my heart. **God defend the truth!” on that bill, after all, didn't he ?" “Well, yes—after a fashion. But ”" oriwice. go round.” Margarite went away presently with gentle good nights, and I was perfectly satisfied with the look he satisfied with him from that time. and groom—a well-matehed pair—and the great book Charlie special consideration, treats part sad enough, this thing. comes round. lovers of self who seek comfort for that man whom God gives her, and not her. A Kissing Spring. been discovered one of the most mi- raculons springs on record. A corre excellent anthority on water. The par. son says the spring flows from a moun- { tain about 400 feet high, comes out of the ground 100 feet from the top of the mountain on the north ride, and flows at the rate of about forty gallons per minute, and it is the color of apple cider and tastes just like apple brandy, and has the same effect, Those under theinfluence of the water are perfectly ecstatic, and hugging and loving every- thing they meet. He says: I never raw the like, children and boys and girls hugging and kissing every one they meet. Old men and old women, young men and young ladies embracing each other by hugging and kissing. I met an old white-haired man and woman —1I suppose about eighty years old—and | they were hopping and skipping like {lambs. I saw hundreds lying around the spring so drunk that they could not | stand up, and they were lying and laughing, trying to slap their hands, The | people call it the * Milennium Spring.” | Twenty to thirty alligators in a drove | went up the Cumberland as far as Nash- ville lately—an unheard of incident, THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD, Lime, Lime benefits the soil partly by sup- plying plant food, as almost all the use fal plants contain considerable lime, and partly by decomposing inert substances Lime liberates fixed am. monia, decomposes vegetable matter and destroys the acidity of sour soil, Its absence from the soil is generally shown ho presonce of useless or noxious A in the soil, by dicated by the growth of the more valuable plants. When refuse lime ean be obtained it ia one of the cheapest fertilizers that can be employed Old Pastures A few nee, says a writer, 1 had an old pasture that hud almost run ont, covered with weed and patched with moss, I mixed a few barrels of salt and wood ashes, and applied about two barrels of the mixture per acre, covering about haif the lot. The result surprised me. Before fall the moss had nearly all disappeared and the weeds were rapidly following suit, while the th dar k YOR's Mi grass came in thick, assuming green color, and made pasturage, Lhe balance of the lot remained nopro- ductive us before, but the following year was salted, with like results, ine Bowes for Poultry, Dome persons are in the habit of burn- ing the bones before feeding them to poultry, it that after being burned they are much easier broken up, the raw contain a large amount of gelatine, whieh is a most ex. cellent food for making hens lay, and gelatine also eontains a large amount of nitrogen, which driven into the atmosphere by the When the re fed raw re tained wd having done duty as food for the poultry and constituting part of their systems it is still eapable of again 18 trae hut bones Wi is heat, 1s nitrogen bones 1h doing duty as a fertilizer, but once be- coming free nitrogen in the atmosphere it is not 80 easy to combine it in such a manver that it shall be ren dered available as plant food. In pound as people suppose, for a hen will swallow a much larger piece than many would think possible, and when properly economiszed. Feed Dalry Cows Liberally, believe, BAYS the National Live the dairyman should he may produce all the food We Stock study how necessary for his cows upon his own Jornal, iat he should make all the provision that an intelligent foresight can do; but he should never suffer his herd to go with deficient food, even for one week, for this he cannot afford to do. And that we may encourage him to be liberal, even when his pasture and he has no extra green food for them, let us compare the extra cost of natriment in some by-product, such linseed meal, it SO ¥ D4 de ROA OG 8 fast) TRENL nay always find n asture grass; i meal, twelve p al, or ten is e {ual to 100 pounds of grass, 100 pounds of pasture grass is g for an ordinary-siz o per day. ] 4 aort one third, Or proportion, it this deficiency by r several of these y easily handled. than to seed me that ir to make ration on short Let ua sup pose the dairvman to be feeding seven pounds of fine bran ; this per would cost 2.8 conts or more be fod pasiare, ane-tl O i { i 7 wi s (IAY, ot per extra milk per week produced by this cost. If he should feed, instead of bran, four pounds of linseed meal, it would cost him twenty-eight cents per week: or if 312 pounds of eotton- of corn thirty-five cents If he has the com- meal, twenty to ration nearly as follows: Four pounds pounds eorn meal to each cow per day, flow of milk till the fall rains renew the pasture, and the extra food can be discontinued. We have known many circumstances. Corn meal will be fonad cheap in some localities ; but it is always best to mix some bran with pasture, Breeding Sows, The Prairie Firmer has an able article says, this interesting native, the else upon the farm, first rate—broad, bone, with tail well set on, a thin ear and skin gathering in folds even to the hock, and of a breed that will fatten on clover and grass in summer and mangolds in winter, sliced and sprinkled Various the breeds nowadays possessing characteristics. Wherever they on Are such especially if you attend our State and Grudge not & few extra dollars, while on such a journey, in the purchase of an exemplary sow-in-pig to begin with. ment, to buy second-rate stock, however excellent your judgment may be, with the purpose of improving it. far as you can on the shoulders others who have pioneered before you, and then take up the path, Yon be passed in turn, never fear, by some lasts, which feats, nine of a litter, if you get so many. have about ten or twelve cold weather is death to little pigs. A high bred lot are apt to drop their tails. This disfigurement, however, for such it is, may be prevented to a certain de- gree by a light dose of physic (a taste with a little digestive ointment, such as any druggist can prepare. Around the sty in which the breeding sow is kept at the time of farrowing there should be run a couple of rails, one above the other, a foot from the wall, the lowest being about three quarters of a foot from the ground, The great risk at such time is of the little pigs being smothered by her lying helplessly upon them in her pain, whereas if there be a rail she is like ly to bear against it, 80 that the little ones, if they have the bad luck to get underneath, will either work themselves oul, or escape the direct burden of her direct weight, hey soon learn worldly wisdom enough to take refuge behind, where yon should have a little soft straw or hay for their especial Uso, Unde r the BOW at farrowing time there should be little be { disposi tion she is then more apt to annihilate some of the wee ones who Nay be to sight, having gone burrowing on their own behalf The best praclios, however, ave her watched and the little {roma her as they appear, and & weather is cold, gept five in a hamper for a day or two, being carried to and fro for suckling. This entails a little fiouble, but it is well nv Pad 1, you may save a whi litter, three. fourths of which, if left with her, the are you may find with thei th" within As goon strong upon their legs and can expostulate lustily you may leave them in the fenced mamma altogether, having taken care first to initiate them into the secret of their harbor (the railing wall), All thisa EAVage not allow; n her offspring or no straw, as with the lost is to €n f CGUeH ak 3 ii iu near tia Bo He chances tongues ont **done to des twenty-four hours after birth. as they are pretty #1Y with around the mother will y, often she will devour if me ddl a with at ail. As » preventive against this awkward finale a wash of and water into which the piglings are dipped, j newly farrowed, | been “ fond parent * of ) you best, however, to fatten and con. sume in tarn, ciently attainable to permit diate B1008 has 3 tis sort, Gentle sows are suffi. sacrifice of a savage. ones be ailing a bot bath for them and | a dose of castor oil four ounces) to the mother, of which they will en joy a reversion through ber n , 8 safe and usually sucoessful treatment, That the sow will require warm gruel, ete, after her labor, and must be carefully tended and not hi -hly fed for some days, it is almost superfinons to funded, the tyro servants about his stock will exercise we will have a We may amotes that {RAY food LOK * y remark, unless have Ho of themselves such ordinary the very mountain to surmount notice only that boiled especially the flow of milk, for those sows which litter in autumn lettuces are the most and julciest of food. Toward weaning time turn out the sow ionally by her. self, and accustom the nursery to take warms milk and slops on their private This will grease the slips of hal WiGléesome QO0a their take place as soon asthey have shivered through the week, when the hould be thinking of baby Mind and do your littl The sow should ghout the ninth YAY "is : . fed thron ' \ when you an the to start on their own at at ac o be 81, it is a tick eriod when they are first put over inous as cruel 1s the policy ¥ ing an infant. 1iis far better for keep ball a do i good trim, ready ever for pork or winter baconers, than half & 1 ired trotting everlastingly, half fed t the yard adr PR BCRODDT, W v you fo en en-looking and 3 ot-bellied «in anxicos search for anything to sat ialy the pangs of their hunger. Starved in infancy, young stock seems to not only sige, but in a great degree aptitude to fatten. lose ita Clever ns a Fertilizer. All plants draw much of their food from the atmosphere, and of those nsed in agriculture none are exceeded by clover in the large proportion of nutri- ment thus derived. this res; other legnminons crops are much like red clover. Here we include all clovers, vetehes, beans, pens, eninfoin, lupins and lucerne, To keap up the fortili ¥ of Our soil, we musi restore to it paoiphorie potash, nitrogen and othe: 1 n oot the al id, sNORLANces which are found in farm crops. Of the three very important and valuable sub. stances just named nitrogen is the most precious and costly to obtain. In vari. ous places there are abundant supplies of potash and phosphorie aci As may be said, these are *'in sight.” Agrienl- tural chemists are now studying on the problem of the future supply of nitrogen for agricultural purposes. So far, clover seems to be the important factor in this problem. Whole crops of clover are often fertility of the soil; but I am safe in saying that it has been proven a better practice to cut off the clover, feed it, and use the manure than to plow under the whole erop. In other words— for seem plain—it has been shown that plowing under a clover-stubble is fol lowed by about as good results (often better) as though the whole crop was turned under. Again, Valoker shows that land on which clover has been grown for seed in the preceding year yields a better crop of wheat than it does when the clover is mown twice for hay, or even once only, and afterward fed off by sheep. Says Dr. Vweleker, in the “Journal ® of the Royal Agricunitoral Society of England : “1. Agood crop of elover removes from the eoil more potash, phosphoric acid, lime, and other mineral matters, which enter into the composition of the ashes of our cultivated crops, than any other crop usually grown in this country, 2. There is fully three times as much average produce of the grain and st vi we Biraw 3. Clover is an excellent preparatory crop for wheat 4. During the growth of clover a large amount of nitrogenous matter ae- cumulates in the soil. | containing, when dry, from one and a half to tw per cent. of nitrogen. 6. The clover roots are stronger and the ground when clover is grown for In consequence, more nitrogen is left after clover-seed than alter hay. trates, ance of nitrogenous food, but delivers | tinuously, and with more certainty of a | good result, that such food be applied | to the land in the shape of nitrogenous spring top-dressings. Pror, W. J. Bear.” Recipes, Rice Y'rurr Poopixa, ~ One large tea- cup rice, a little water to cook it par- any fruit you chooss, Cover with rice. Tie a cloth over the top and steam one hour, Daxot butter the dish. Poraro Prooixe, —One pound pota- toes boiled and well mashed, one quar. ter pound of butter stirred in while warm, two ounces of sugar, the rind of hall a lemon chopped fine with juice, a teacapful of milk; butter the moderate oven for half an hour; two egos may be added Cookies, Three and one-half cups flour, one cup sugar (a little heaped), half cup butter, one third cap rich milk OF Crean, two egRs, half teaspoonful soda; work the butter until creamed and best the sugar smoothly into it, then add the soda dissolved in the milk; let the whites of the eggs be beaten to a stiff froth and add the Jast thing be fore the flour, k; make it 1 p into a batter little salt, su spoonful of a little grated it be of fine ness and perfectly smooth, Clean Irying-pan thoroughly, and ut into it a good lump of dripping or utter; when it is hot pour in a eupful of batter and let it all ran over of an equal thickness: shake the pan fro- batter nay not stick, you think it is done on one it over; if you cannot, turn it with a slice, snd when both are of a nice light brown, lay it on a dish before the fire; strew sugar over it and so do ths They should be eaten directly, or they will become heavy. : —RBoak two-thirds gelatine in a cup of good milk; put three cups of good cream to 3 inner boiler; beat the yolks of six eggs to a thick foam: stir and dissolve the gelatine in the cream at the boiling poi add a round saltspoonful { salt; beat a heaping cup of sugar to rolks of eges, letting the eream and 14 ETE nRnger and on lot i fi i quently that the and when side toss ing # rest. CHanvorre Russe. of a box of Kop! scalding hot; pour the cream gradually to the yolks and sugar, beating the while; continue io beat till all is ht and eold; give it into a second band to keep beating, while you beat the whites of eges to a stiff froth: add the whites of « REE and beat all to- gether to a fine froth; flavor with two teaspoonfuls of any extract, and turn into molds lined with slices of sponge-cake, Do not use stale cake; that is only fit be made into puddings in which it will be recooked. Provide cake nice and fresh enongh for the tea-table. juite i LO III 70 Work and Wages in China, The United States consul-general at Shanghai has made a special investiga- of living of the working people of Skilled laborers—artisans, workers at trades, ele. live mostly in : , where all prices are hig i Art and teste, although , Are pol paid accordingly, A painter may win renown, and his pame or Lis seal may live after him: but dar ing life be will be no betteroff than his neighbor who makes coffins. Painters of pin designers and weavers of most exquisite patterns of silks, and the artisan who makes wonderful pieces of enamel or “china,” are satisfied if hey put by enough for burial expenses; ho | ber does as well gs any of them. and silver and others wo work is peculiarly responsible, do a little better; the weaver or spinner of silk is proba) ly the best paid day laborer, getting $1 to $2 a day. The average pay of s led labor is probably week for a master, $1.50 fora workman, and 50 cents for “ youngsters or females” master : glues apnreciat nppneCiai CEiRL smiths, Lit wis 8 y at his 1 lives generall rkshop, having 820 to 0 seliold goods ; he pays $72 : i 0 ou w I > { {¢ or wr friend. hres itewas above mentioned. and hoy can earn. On the farm everybody six years. Two and a hall acres of ara- very primitive tools, may constitute a well-to-do farmer's property. The soil will usually support the family, and 20 cents a day will pay for their food. Rice, or bread, with vegetables and common { or pork on their diet. festive occasions, makes Their bit of land may be duce about $160, leaving about 850 clear. In cotton the land will average 1,600 pounds at 4 cents; cost of ealti- vation and tax, $31; net yield, 833, if the soil suits cotton. A woman weaves one piece per day of cotton cloth, 6 to J yards, 39 to 40 inches wide ; one-thi Vail rd of a ponud of yarn, at 6 cents raw fiberinto 1 1.3 pounds of cloth, worth 60 cents, The farm laborer gets 10 to 15 cents a day, or 70 cents to 81.05 a week, in harvest time, besides his food, estimat- ed at 10 cents a day ; by the month, £81.50 to 82 $12 “and found.” About 82 will clothe him, and he does wall if he saves twice that in o vear, For cooly labor, o¢ isi boatmen, carriers, wheelbarrow + from 5 to 30 cents a day paid ; the carriers in West Ching, who carry for 20 secutive days 300 to 400 pounds of tea their backs a country, are considered well paid at 25 cents s day. The ordinary cooly earn: $4 50 a month, and spends $4 ote re Con overt On Coal is mined entirely by hand, and sells at the pit's mouth for #1 a ton. Gold earning were estimated to wash 20 tons gravel a day, yielding 3 or 4 cents to a year con —— Audacious Autograph, first time fully taste for his autograph, ister of the household was much per turbed when a letter arrived from Eng- land addressed directly to his majesty. interpreter was summoned and the mis- give open d in the emperor's presence. Inside was a bluck card with an orna- mental border and a request that the | imperial name be laced thereon. The | Japanese ave raid to have a remarkable veneration for the first of anything, and as this letter wasthe first overaddressed | by a foreigner, not only to the present | emperor of Japan, but to any emperor | of Japan since the age of the gods, it | is supposed that its writer will receive | the august autograph he craves. i i — oo. A man on Cumberland monntain, Tennessee, is shipping wild ferns to the North aud realizing a good profit, Children’s Teeth, Fortwo or three years Dr, Bamuel with special reference to the influence of decayed teeth upon the sight asd The investigation was suggested by the almost eonstant ocenrrence of defective teeth in cases of inflammatory diseases of the evo and ear, In the course of his work Dr, Sexton has taken some hundreds of accurate casts in plaster of the juterior of the his petive, nud has collected a eabinet that is invaloable as a contribution to science, is method has been, first, to cavity, and then from it to mold each jaw separately, and nnite the two pos. the state of the teeth, their arrange. He has found a pretly constant association between of nerves, which is at once a sensory, teeth, the {issues of the nose, those of the eye and ear, the integuments of the Irritation of the whole region is con. sequently produced by a defective whatever, and none tion between the fierce stiacks in the Ww hatever, no apparent disturbance, but was re- sponsible for deep-seated cerebral in the Investigation. On the among the principal causes of the pro. dren, as observed by Drs. Agnew, Lor- Parke Lewis, Kohn, and other oph- nologists, ing, thal eo ————— A Coincidence, The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle of a re. tane to cite the case of John Wesley, that of President Garfield. The follow- icg in Ireland in 1755, is taken from his For three days he lay more dead than alive, His tongue was black and swol- len. He was violently convulsed. For some time his pulse was not discernible, Hope was almost gone, when Joseph Bradford, his traveling companion, came take this,” Wesley writes: “1, thought Immediately it set me a vomiting; wy play again; and from that hour the ex- tremity of the symploms abated.” Six days afterward, to the astonishment of his friends, and, as he says, trusting in God, he set ont for Dublin, where within a week he was preaching as usual. The house in which he lay so dangerously ill was the hospitable dwelling of Mr. a converted girl sixteen years of age, and with her mother was -Wesley's Hezekiah, God would add to his days fifteen years, Mrs, Guyer suddenly rose from her knees and cried, “The prayer is granted I" Marvelously enough Wes- ley’s recovery immediately commenced and he survived from Jane, 1775, to But even this was not all the wonder. Alexander Mather at the time was at Sheerness in the case of Wesley. a ————— A King's White Elephant, Some ten weeks ago the king of Siam vincial governors informing his majesty that a brand new deity in the shapo of a snow-white elephant had been cap- joyful tidings were greeted with inde- scribable enthusiasm at court, and the king at once resolved to start in person, accompanied by his ministers, grand officers of state, and exalted clergy, upon a processional excursion with the half way and escorting it to Bangkok with all imaginable pomp and ceremony, The cortege, headed by his majesty, had not proceeded many miles on its road the object of its pilgrimage. Approach. ing the elephant with profound rover king knelt down at its feet and reverently placed its trunk upon his head and Having thus paid publie proboscis,” his majesty drew his sword and took up a position on the animal's right flank, supperted, to the elephant’s left, by the high priest carrying a golden Thus headed the procession en tered Bangkok, where the new god was on either side of the route leading to the palace. Having escorted the ele- phant to its apartments, the king form- rank of ** reigning monarch,” and decor- Siamese Oorder bearing its own style and title. The household of the new deity has since been organized upon a truly royal seale, Every article dedicated to the white elephant’s use and service is of massive gold or rare porcelain, and popular offerings to the value of many thousands of pounds were deposited at its shrine before it had been established forty-eight hours in its splendid quart- ers, immediately adjacent to the king's own private suite of apartments, It is a matter of economy for a man to allow his wife to purchase the meat. A woman can get more meat for fifteen cents than a man can for hal! a dollar, And she can generally get a chunk of TS ITO ODDITIES, The hair of the beard was sometimes added to the seals of ancient deeds and ¢ re, The day began to be divided into hours shout 203 B. O,, when Ciosar erected a sun dial in the temple of Quirinus in Rome, The ordivary country house in Ar- kansas is a log cabin; in Kansas, & dug- out in the prairie; and in Nebraska, a #od house, built of square pieces of sod. Among the Greeks of historieal times, the burial of the dead by the nearast leet exposed them to grave accusations. The igstitution of the **Order of the Bath” originated in the custom of the Franks who, when they conferred knighthood, bathed before they per- formed the ceremony, and from this Labit came the title knight of the bath, Christian names sre so ealled by of which were borrowed from the names of thelr gods, and were therefore rejected as During a heavy shower at Milbrook, Shortly after the rain, and pext day, in some places little hoppers, From a privately issued on gill enltivation in the Chinese province ern seaboard, wild silk worms sre found which feed on the camphor tree, and their silk is utilized in a singular man. ner. When the caterpillar has attained pupa state, it is out open and the silk Curing by Charm Remedies, A recently-published work on superstitions, says: At the present day, io spite of the march of intellect, prevention sud cure of the common ail- memerial have been handed down from parent to child. Indeed, thousands treatment of disease than in the skill Most of the ordin- of the coldness of the metal, is sharp- it is around the neck. Aecording to a deep- | rooted notion among our rural popula tion the most efficacious care for scald “There came two sngels from the north, One was Fire, apd one was Froad Out Fire: in Frost, In the name of the Father, Son apd Hel i Ghost. ™ i Bleeping on stones, on a particular For rhen- matism professurs of the healing art in his pocket the right fore-foot of a female hare, while others consider s A Coraish or to drink water in which a thunder stone has been boiled. The curative employed in cases of smallpox. Thus red “bed-coverings were thought to bring the pustules to the surface of the substances. There are a sour apple, which should afterward be buried, and as it decomposes the Some rub the picking each wart with a pin they stick it into the bark snd repeat this rhyme: ** Ashen tree, ashen tree, Pray buy these warts of me.” Salt in the United States, The preliminary Feport of Special Census Agent W. L wland on the from sea or bay water by solar evapor- lakes or natural deposits by the same The amounts produced by artificial heat from subterranean brines were 8,853,821 bushels by kettle or pan process, and 16,115,851 bushels by steam evaporation process, Fifteen States and Territories have salt works, namely, California, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, chusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New York, ginia and West Virginia. Michigan York produced 8 748,203 bushels ; West California, 884, 443 ; Pennsylvania, 851,- 450; Utah, 483,800 ; Virginia, 425,805 ; Louisiana, 812,000; Nevada, 182408, The other States named produced only small amounts. The total values of the salt product of the entire country dur- made from sea water; in ralt is mined and salt is ground. The salt industry employed capital to the amount of $8,225,740, and over 5,000 hands, whose wages amounted to $1,256,113. The wells number 539. where they average 1,048 feet. The Ohio wells average 902 feet; Pennsyl- vania, 884 feet; Michigan, 881 feet; Kentucky, 560 feet; New York, 824 feet; Virginia, 264 feet. The rest are shallow. A Curious Spot, Between the m uth of the Missis- gippi and Galveston, ten or fifteen miles southwest of Sabine Pass, is a spot in the Gulf of Mexico which is commonly called *“*The Oil Ponds” by the cap- tains of the small eraft which ply in that vicinity, There is no land within fifteen miles, but even in the wildest weather the water at this spot is com- paratively calm, owing to the thick cov- ering of oil which apparently rises from the bed of the gulf, about eighteen feet below the surface. This strange refuge is well known to the captains of the small vessels which trade between Caleasien, Orange, Sabine, Beaumont and Galveston, and when through stress of weather, they elsewhers, they run for “The Oil Ponds,” let go their anchors in i 5 ES Fl i i vagabond s person.” Jones—* "Well, what of him?" Smith—“0h, I . to give him awsy. He bit me.” tou Transcript, lady “1 like them both, bat up my mind to marry Tom.” young lady— “Why, Minn ever so much handsomer.” Fi yw { know W; at : t is bush fat) here's a margin in hairpins, that the a boy reader of Si. Nicholas could lift. In other localities shells of og valve were found fifteen feet the | bh ¥ ago; really large shell is of I ed Tridacnag in the Pacific ovean; len life being sixt or vice, and rendering powerless. As the tide went shark's head appeared above thrashing about and churning sea, The hubbub attract tod : tion of some natives, who soon tured both shark and —& Jas. A liitle story comes from Russia lating how a pretty Jewess saved 2 ground outside the & and began to howl pi ed ero stantly assembled, sod it would fared 11] with the Jewess if she! dashed out of the shop, the bread outof thei began to eat in sight of crowd iu $i ance. “alosa, lend me your ki you?’ Then the impostor sta his feet and scudded ff, pursae mischievons but vo longer crowd, ar = Fommniss, Ci Koumiss has come into notice beverage because of its use Ly Pr Garfield. The following is a making it: Fill 5 quart b neck with ik: aid two same by the adanion of &°1 over a bot fire); also a quar cent cake of compressed
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