Compensation. Yor avery leaf of green, A golden leaf; For every fading flower A ripened sheaf; For every parching beam, A drop of rain; For every sunny day, The stors again, For « A pretty shel VOIr'y Warming wave, For every soand of woe, A Joyous bell For every passing os A mother's Kiss And what coul Dear ohil The American Producer, A ra 34 \ Give me the blae of the bending s (Fer the land of the freeman And the! wi I joviuily wept But the vow of pase Round th THE WEDDING MARCH. 129 —A Wedd k 4 AN STOEX. ing Ma ' Such er a me of a pletnre v of a certain year which personal reasons, The pic @ was is Regins enough £4 No was the num in the acader & hall, for pol be left undesi one of my } Tracy, had been attain three very production. Firstly, i ugh by the hanging co m the line, 1 it faced i IADDEr As you lacondly, this for my yn which yurchaser 11100 QOOrs sal a Yi sill S58 wrap ¢ wd ald ' to ant ends by its t was deemed ex- cellent eno mmit- tee to be placed { you in a very entered room prominent sition secured pictare a large resulted almost as s0¢ opened Ba : actual purpose for which I and which led me to che That purpose involy of romances ; although critics praised are and tinted hat * Mr, Traey had 1 : gularly fortunate in his treatment of a somewhat and difficult theme,” ete., not one of them guessed that it was a | purpose. As the seq and mn a4 shirdiy, wrved Lhe ted it, r subject. sal and the pu | oil nn uli tae 80 much detare with 2 as AY Eerve to gp from and 1 my i 1 Rl : 1:14 i on which sketeh the o see my old friend generally seitied as a prac- The whole place Dr. James called bim- titioner in that town. was steeped in st shadows cast by narrow streets nli ¥ ne waterside mained one of ing so much as the blackness of the shades in some old Dateh town, where BEembrandt must have learned the special art that bears the impress of his genius to-day. The 3 4 i $1 : old church of Reckhampton is a fine bit of Norman architectare. Rising archi- tects declare ¢ no purer pillars of that style, or better preserved arches, with their queer faces squeezed ito the corner thercof, and which scem to impress the Rockhampton ju. veniles on Sundays quite as much as the service. Passipg h the ehureh- yard, found myseld With little hope fy open I lifted the latch, n at once it yielded to my touch. As | passed within the green baize doors within the poreh, [ beard the sound of the organ; so stealing quietly into the grateful shade and coolness of the chureh, I ensconced myself in the biggest pew I could find and listenad. How soothing was the effect of the music and snrround- ings on that glorious day! I could not seo the plaver, who was concealed by the enrtains in front of the organ! loft, but intuitively I gnessed it was a lady who played. imagined that only # woman's delicate tonch conld have made that “Kyrie” speak in these tones; and there was more gentleness than power in the * Stabat Mater” into which the player glided. Then [ re- member the “Wedding March” sue ceeded; and after half an hour's private hearing of the masters I quietly slipped out of the church, once again into the glad sunlight that played around the gravestones and made the world so fair to see. After Innching at my hotel, the Red Lion, I went to see Dr. Jim. It ap- peared that the fair player of the church was a Miss Spalding, and the only daughter of a well-to-do and retired merchant who had settled at Rock- Fampton some eighteen months before ; and Jim, I found, had been paying his addresses to the voung lady. Her father had married for the second time at there are bye ug Oi stepmother. The old gentleman, as Jim called him, was an easy-going man, kind-hearted in every way, generous to Dr. Jim's suit. Bat as to Mrs. Spald- ing, Jim pronounced a decidedly un- favorable opinion. She was an should look somewhat higher than Dr, which latter commodity Jim was, of course, as a young doctor of course, by no means overburdened, Without unpleasant for the lovers. ing, good, easy man, was completely under the dominion of his wife. Hence, Jim confessed, bo was in a somewhat unsettled state of mind. “You see, Regy,” said Jim, “Nelly will not disobey her parents in any way. confessed to me more than once. ried at once, and to make me happy, she won't hear of it.” to be her duty.” VOLUME XIV. Icditor and Prooric CENTR MOT. HALL, 4 CO... PA. REP OR $82.00 a 1881. 20), po RS TSI TI INIA in Advance. NUMBER 41. When | as 1 will ever me a happy man for life, Kk # her in my despair whether sl love, & rer; and so,’ n, miserable as 1 She was worth and wi 3 ah sic 18 rest y believed wishes 1 { . ho love affair as I ks came to the con was a difficnlt « mold human 1 and purp i oR Spald £3 Han en . ut how the d to the case in wi 3 rial inte & SPECIAL 10104 LR 8 uen, Bilgo & elsewhere; the means » added room, w pers sed. MNS Wil os Nell ung SHO Was adding make the old § 1 rena nu addit 18s i : acquaintance of ) of whom white waistcoat ax jewelry displayed there “Why, I suppose hi ut half a million vou know,” of ade, added the old an +s Way was thoughts pret 3 y AIO ont guessed his for he Mrs. S “Y hovet DEGIDE Be, M1} invited d He's a friend know, because the * Black com: Jim's state of he broached this theon imagined than deseribed. three weeks [ am bound to temper was well-nigh unendara vening dinuer at Mongo half afraid he was goir b v € ng at felt personal chastisemen gen, 8 feat 1 shonld hs tiifally per 1 ’ masiers AVE : formed, after have seen sk iron COATS the medical professi had been called forth dn ment g doctors’ attitude toward Jim undergone no perceptible change. was loving and gentle as before; fancied that Mrs. Spalding dexterously to keep Miss Blagden and Nelly as frequently together as possible, and thus Jim's tete- reduead to a miserable minimum. Worst as Jim remarked to me da had confessed that her stepmother on more than one occasion hinted Mr. Blagden's visit and were not solely prompted by friends Mrs. Spalding was, in other words, a clever woman, playing a nice little gama of diplomasey, and while keeping on the most friendly terms with Jim, was, to my mind, furthering her own aims aud ideas of a matrimonial £0 the nyvective against ne argm Nelly's conecaernin yy d cs a-1eles8 were one « gy & h ip fo Ler MArents, founder, So things went on at Rockhampton, with diplomacy at Mount Grove, and despair at No. 14 High street, where Dr. James Brooke spnounced his willing. dally irom =~ ness to relieve the afflicted 10 io 11 a. M., and fo M., I bad been sitting cogitating over matters one evening at the Red Lion Jim having been called to a distant part of his parish—when an founded, I believe, on a quotation from an old French author, occurred to The quotation was to the effect, th “ when moral fails from cause to change an opinion, it is lawful to appeal to the most trivial of our emo tions.” Happy idea! thought L shall see whether or not I can work it ont to the advantage of Dr. James Brooke and—shall I odd it?—to the t r. i IGOR me, al suasion unyv I My plans were then rapidly matured. Morning, noon and night find me busy in the old church. I am hard at work on a canvas in which the interior of the edifice grows under my brush day by day. There are no sounds of the “Kyrie” now; nor are the jubilant strains of Mendelssohn heard, as on a bright sunoy day not so far gone by. Nelly does not come to practice her old favorites, as of vore. Blagden, I know, hates music; and painters, as he once | expressed it—in shocking bad taste— | are usually “a seedy lot.” I remember | Mr. Josiah’s white vest and cable chain, with enouglt appendages attached there- to to have get up ua small jeweler in a thriving way of business, The aisle and gallery of the church are now complete | in my picture. I paint it as I sit in the aisle; in the distance you ean see the altar and chancel; and the vicar, who | looks in upon me occasionally, rays it |is as like as can be. He is curious, | however, to know the nature of the fig- | ures I have sketched roughly in. There | is a group passing down the aisle from the altar rails where the vicar ean still be seen at his post; and there is a fig- ure standing alone and solitary in a pew, as if facing the advancing party. ‘The viear cannot fathom the design. The church he can understand; meaning of the picture puzzles bid him wait patiently for the of the mystery. When my study of the church was completed IT went home to the Red Lion, and there I painted in my figures. There was little for models, for | | { wo i W ¢ | him. solution pictare again. Brooke ;: her cheek is are tears like dewdrops glis her eyes. The iron master Way ¢ ake 8 WIS A Josiah, Spalding, have ©en my surprise, to her father and ‘ather.” et decisive tone oy anid she, 4 rought this morning? DOW. Tell him arry Dr. Brouvke.” ion that, | 1¢ messages you | Spalding to 8; with Nelly. roved his own case weak a word for i he de VY. this is my an angry voice 10wt, ' he repeat. ut the matter ' father ta bl avid] ala -1 italy ‘ 1 s + 18% ana he walked out at the ngainly strut whiel nity, and we saw more Mrs, by the parti: ¢ weiah of , i § ys § { 1 Wis nican the great Josiah no a 4 4a LLL ther taking lit in that of 11 f $ iter all Mr. latter asked me tell him in plain terms how I had brought this about {for he had no doubt 1 was at the bottom of it. 1 uneovered the picture, which Mv. supple, Casy 4 bul 4 PO had left the Spalding, the Spalding seratinis i i remarking Lo me understand it derfully clever, and was as like as life.” In six weeks thereafter I officiated as “best man” al ringe. As the organist peeled forth the jubilant strains of Mendelssohn, after the vicar's benediction had been given, and Nelly, radiant and beautiful, passed down the i isle on ber husband's arm, I could not help rejoicing at the success of what is now ‘No. 820—-A Wedding March,” | though the faces in the picture as ex- hibited are slightly disguised, and Mr. Josiah's vest has been shorn of certain | of its distinctive peculiarities, Jim's mas —— se ——————— The business of paper making in the | United States is estimated to employ | over $100,000,000 of capital and and i 40,000 persons, | Ifids Sir John Lubbock’s opinion that ! bees are, iff a ¥ouigh kind of way, sensi- SUNDAY READING, Whele Family in Heaven, § g CHIOWINE eit Here areat the present iil India . with five teachers It takes from thed sthing less than ts strong he Protestant Episcopal society inerease of the ministry, rece y entered the r A large share of ian bi €0n adde d lowment funds, egational church o hich 1s not less Years old, ty by the publica. ining historical {former pastors shed twenty-t 1 to the 5 them the Rev. H. 8. nary in Turkey, Methodist nee nas denounced the AL B0 Ave : ii 5 ta wo met Episcopal facility nf il granted in that confer with which divorcees ar otate, and ¥y y i: n Cele i has re s0lve d hat its min brate marriages for been divorced for reason, and in the 1H » have INArry to the trans Moshy's Narrow Escapes, would ran risks s which he would rder his take. He was in Washington t during the war; in (SH E it f nd in Baltimore four or five tim i he pene- not « mein OO three different more than a dozen 1nstanod trated the Federal lines for information, Middletown | Ws cut ofl feral cav alry who held the pike h direc When ordered to surrender he drove his horse over the all and got away through the Three bullets pierced his cloth ing, his horse was strnok twice, and an saddle was Une day ne iQ Ones Fe 100A, stone Ww fields. OVOTeQ YOu + clean cal away while he was eating dinner in t Valley six Union cavalrymen on him, They did him as Mosby, but je ectured that he rill: they $ shot two and dashed throngh a window and made off vith one of their horses, He was once captured in Washington while on a spying but feigned drunkenness and made a dash for liberty while on the way to the pro- vost marshal's office. At that time he had plenty of proofs on his person to have convicted him a spy. Nem Warrenton he one night rode with twenty-four men full upon a Federal | reserve picket of at least a hundred men. Both sides stood staring at each other for a moment and then Mosby called out : “ Did any of them mules eome this way?" “ Haven't seen any,” was the reply. “Cuss the eritters—they stampeded on us!” growled the guerrilla, as he turnad his men and rode away. Some of his men had blue overcoats on, BOmMe wore citizens’ clothes, and no one could say that they did nc t belong to the Federal wagon trains, — Detroit Luray walkie d in not know rightly = con- was i fuer ttacked him he kb. ] ¢ 1 $+; ex aition, ns —— A Mysterious Malady, A most unpleasant malady affeets everybody who visits or resides in the city of Bagdad, It if a sore called a “datemark,” because after it has healed it leaves an indelible mark, about the size anghapoe of a date. It generally makes its Appearance about the face, lasts a year, and then disappears. The cheek of nearly every man and woman in Bagdad shows the inevitable mark. Sometimes it settles tipon the nose,and | then the disfigurement is great; some- | times on the eyelid, when blindness is | the result. Strangers are attacked even after a brief residence; but fortunately, | if they are adults, the sore is more apt | to come on the arm. In every case the | attack runs its course for one year. No | treatment, no ointment, nor medicine, | it is said, bas the slightest effect upon | it. incurable. Wonderful Tuventive Faculty, 3 of the death abroad recently ton BE Towle id re miarkable aol hed Ame Wis us Great | recalls the bright Havemeonts of FIC ON rine ier i 1 during thi i enginee: the her mem Atlantic when great storm, which appatatus Her mld do nothing and lay 6 at the mercy of the eritionl ment Me i wi wonderful broken from the Apparatus which Hi ay Ww ney, she ni an [8 8) signing, urgent neads of tl rudder @ improv { in port, American re passengers, have been fh sO rh gold stly few 18 | joy tO als, nseripe- mpelled to tiie Was od he salvage entitled, At shipwreck of the leli d a lecture boldly viedge of naviga was attributable From early boy wed a noteworthy inventive ¥ 3 % Mh J i y 3 {elegmplue — The Work of Yo spoiled by Rats, ire destructive wretch ars hich he n and perseverance ar up under them, is romance HOLS Was one them 0 Away, snd writ. formation down in boxes, a laid ther until by dint bor Ler naturalists for in hould be 1 si catal tiv: if he was too poor to bay t ing to ot Le COrrec ogue them he h pur got a lo! multiplication It was " it nen at shoots of figures necessary for hi print, he and 1 ' pose and could not of old tables and ent the numbers out. a long and tedious j was at last completed the naturalist pro. OF ode ad fo the where he had ter preparing them. here were twenty boxes, containing in On lifting ap the at case he found that it} stripped of its content he tried the others All were empty; they contained nothing but the pins that bad secured them, and there a leg or wing. The rats had done their work! His the empty cases, asked what he would do next? “Weel!” said he, “it's an awful disap pointment, but I think the best thing will be to set nd fill them again I" The work thus destroyed had occupied four entire yours. ¢ will be remembered that Audubon had a somewhat similar experience with rats, Upon ledting Kentucky placed his drawings of than thonsand insects in the care of a friend, to find upon his return after a few months that a pair of Norway rats bad entered npon and gnawed his Pr CIONSK drawing , bits of 5 paper. He, Edwards, un- daunted by his loss, set off on fresh ex pedi! ions, and in three vears had refilled his portfolio. ———— Coffee Taverns. An English lady writes that coffee taverns are not only great promoters of temperance, but also pay their way as investment. One of the best coffee tav. erns i8 in a town in Hertfordshire. The window is painted half-way up, show ing the words * Coffee Tavern,” und above hangs a small sign telling that lodging ean be had, and nice, neat rooms they are, with pretty frilled muslin cur- tains, fit for a lady's boudoir. The large shop ix fitted up with coun- ters for the huge tea and coffee urns; small tables are dotted about, as in a foreign restaurant, and at the side there almanac % process, and w $ garret red the insects af all 910 specimens. ad been en- 8. Horri 5 wife, seeing to work a 3 noe more f possession into loss like and magazines; in the bar parlor there is a bagatelle hoard. If properly managed, the experience of most of those who have established coffee taverns over the country is, that they are not only self-supporting, but remunerative: and to bring this about the eatables and drinkables must be of the best, and the place rendered as at tractive as possible. Such ments are calculated to improve, raise and refine the general character of the people. A break fast cup of tea or coffee The cheap coffee rdstaurants here charge five cents, and the stuff is anything but inviting; the places, too, are dingy and miserable-looking. company to establish coffee taverns gneh as they have in England, and not only will they advance the temperance canse, but also obtain a good dividend on the investment. I has succeeded in making a boat from chemical wood fiber. the first of the kind known to have been made. The boat is fourteen feet long, water like a daisy.” ———————— It is always better to keep out of a quarrel than to make it up ever so | amicably after you have gone into one. THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD, Pelled Cattle, A writer in an exchange saves: No has owned a head of im proved poll cattle will ever again have eattle with horns, A dozen of the re Hed cattle will drin at the same time from a trough whieh would aecom modate but animal | number will farmer who one IRVING horns, wd together 16d for sh 11 r the whole Bpace h ned animal wonld GOL sider neces: ATY for its comfort, drivit KE its fellows out, With these polled cat tle the farmer and the shipper of stock need have no fear of damage resulting from the g 4 horns, There is now a demand from all parts of the wountry for young bulls of this breed, | from a er I being for The sam under as Which ari ane ring of ws of these on the most part notably quiet, rogeny progeny ore cows i } i fit { Wr wnless. The bulls are Vielen Cualtare, An Ohio winter ar the manure ure, farmer says: During he 1 spring I gather together all mannra 1 ean, such as hog with the bs raked out, hen barnyari wrapings, eto After nied I load this mix and if not wet hrow a few pais of water on nio the fie id and straddle « with another hand two h side of the Wagon, ull shovelful of this mix hill. By soaking the seed before planting over night, it will be hills if they the inch on pead fine LEER the wago it, drive i row, and POWs ne ako and pat 8 sm i {ure On each necessary then to examine a few to { in course of five days, il BOG Ble LLG of dirt that was first covered : if 80, then the manure should be shoved W the back of a rake. ning to get mixture of d about al r part With salable t me side ith @ Melons are begin leaf, 1 take of , Ana « t a “ irds slacked lime, ane-tun hill with , geting the gre: the dirt around plants, ethod I get 1.0 BO04, melons per acre, and always get a pre min 1086 each the ni al our county fairs. Weeds, hall we kill weeds and how rid A very simple aid 0 in other thing: wheat A Hens i rod nee gO d round Every f will surely t before her, abave 8 life may be come onl, In jute apt « ' Bpecies 7 d, If we we se the same own * ay OHIs UF y OF § se § 4H if is ¥ produce seen ordinary cult keey roo rtion of ti il We Are op together, ue 1 remain with moist earth, Weads treated in t y handsome growth, \ Lie species quits q and to let a . oOls in contact his way do pot make » but they will con i i int ni to It my " sunlight. Ordins: 1 early in the » m Kills the ari of the weeds of a field, a quent enongh anc 1] eve rything that i ARON Ho Lean Lig ' mo enouga 10 pry but a very few weeks al Cis 1.3 a eid Road 3 WEads ana row and roller Rimoss 10 up the seads from the une soil crop of ach time LUA a, aif so one for killing weeds by Almost all our doorvards are nurseries of weeds, 1 1 SPyads ¥ 5 1 . continual streams are iow : ved to other parts of % ind Fa JATTOW 1 a8 GITEeN B ¢ the ground e 0 compact Lae Me Ler ne ds germinate, good as a wel this method. and barnvards from which ing unobser farm, as y season 1s not h 15s i 7 New Knugi The Parming We Need, A correspondent of the Germantown Telegraph The time has now come when nothing bat high farming will pay in this section of country, since the cheap and fertile lands of the West are brought into such close and sharp competition by cheap freights and rapid transit. Old habits which t now paying must be abandoned, newer and better paying Every acre of tillable land nade to yield its treasures with When one EAVES are ana adopted. must be 1 the least possible expense, hundred bushels of corn per acre can be produced, we must not be satisfied with fifty bushels. If a new imple- ment can do the work of two men with an old one, the old one should be laid by and the new one used. If there is not enough manure to go all over the common ground, we must buy some well-tried fertilizer that will increase the product, It is all folly {to continue to farm poor land when it is possible to enrich it, The expense of farming poor land is greater than that attending richer land, and the labor more discouraging. There must be more general attention given to dairy products, the cultivation of small fruits and the raising of poul- try. The old system of pasturage will have to give way before the onward march of soiling aud the no-fencing sys- tom. The road master, with his gang of full hands and half-grown must yield to the new road scraper and smoother. To which we may add that the time has arrived, even iu our neigh boring counties, where more systematic method and higher farming are expe- dient, in order to produce satisfactory results. On our best bottom land the old corn and hay and clover methods may vet satisfy the farmer, but even he conld experience benefit by heeding the admonitions of the above extract. ones bors, Biscuits, Battercakes, Waffles, These articles form a pleasant varia- tion from bread, and reach of every housekeeper, She may use some milk and soda for raising bis cuit and battercakes, or she may use baking powder. A quart of milk or cream kept a day or two in a warm place will sour; so one who oan have sweet milk osu also have sour if she de | sires it. Biscuit may be made in a variety of ways, two or three of which are the following: Into a quart of flour mix thoroughly by three or four sift. | ings throngh a sieve two teaspoonfuls of good baking powder. Then rub into { a teaspoonful of salt and milk enough to make vot a very stiff dough, mold quickly, roll thin, cut in shapes and bake immediately in a quick oven about | fifteen minutes. After the milk is poured on hot before the dough is made. { may be omitted,but the biscuit will not be as nice for the omission, If sour milk or bultermilk is used instead of | baking powder, sift a teaspoonful of | soda thoroughly with the flour, then { rub in the butter and proceed as before, | More or less soda, according to the | acidity of the milk, should be used. | Hammered biscuit are made as fol- | rub a pound of lard or butter and a | pinch of salt, water with it to make a stiff dough. for half an hour or more, or until the dough will break when pulled. Form into little biseuit, prick them on the top several times with a fork, and bake Fancy biscuit are thus made: Into three pints of flour mix a teaspoonful of salt, two tesspoonfuls of lard or but ter, one teacupful of warm milk. To this add two egas well beaten, and one teaeupful of home-made yeast, Mix well and set in a warm place to rise, whieh will take about five hours ; form into biscuit ; let them rise again and | bake. These are nice for tea, also sre {rasks made as follows: Melt four anees of butter in half a pint of new milk; add to this seven eggs well beaten, a gill of yeast and three ounces of sugar ; pour this mixture gradually into as much flour as will make a thick batter, and let it rise ina warm place half an hour; then add flour till a soft do formed; knead it well, form into small loaves, let them rise, and {then bake them, When cold, slice them and brown in the oven, Muffins, wailles and batiercakes are all composed of precisely the same ma- terials, Bugar is sometimes nsed in muffing and waffles, but not in batter cakes, To make muflivs, mix together uart of fine flour, a pint and a half of luke-warm milk, hal! a teaspoonful of veast, a couple of beaten eggs, a tesssoonful of melted butter. Bet the { batter in a warm place, and when light pour it into battered muffin rings and bake light brown. Or mix together two eggs, & pint of flour, a teacupful of milk or eream, butter half the size of an egg, a little salt and a teaspoonful of baking powder stiffened with the flour, Waffles are thus made: To one pint of luke warm milk add four tablespoon fuls bakers’ veast, one tablespoonful { brown sugar, one tablespoonfal melted butter, a little salt and flour to make a batter the consistency of thick cream. Let it rise over night. In the morning just before baking add two well beaten If any flour is added after the atter is raised, the waflles will be sure o be tough, A little difference in the consistency of the batter will effect them very much. If they seem leathery, use less flour next time. Another method: With a pint of flour sift three times a teaspoonful of yeast powder, one and a quarter enpfuls of milk or eream, but. ter or lard the size of a walunt, a little salt and two eggs, whites and yolks i : separately. Add the whites the ing, and bake immediately. ugh is a 4 i % id t veater y 3 ast u of flour two teaspoonfals baking powder, teaspoonful of salt, milk to make a atter, then add two eggs, whites and wien separately, and bake im- mediately. Use as little grease as pos sible on the batter pan, and have it jost hot enough. As much almost depends ® 3 i» yolks be ing of them. Battercakes may be raised by veast or by sour milk, as well as by g powder. The best buckwheat cakes are raised by yeast, and a little molasses is added to the batter when it is mixed. Eggs should be added to the hatte r just before baking. Boiled rice we added to battercakes, or homi- bread crumbs soaked in milk, Gems belong to the family of bisenits and battercakes, and are very easily made. To make gems of unbolted wheat: Mix with unbolted wheat ugh wheat to make a batter, add a salt, and beat it up well. Pour Lot buttered iron-gem pans and bake a light brown. Both pans and oven should be of the hottest when the batter is poured in. Another method: Mix together two cupfuls milk, two cup uls flour, a little salt and the beaten yolks of two eggs. Add the whites, beaten to a stiff foam, the last thingand bake immediately in gem-pans ic a hot To the above recipes may be added the following for making corn cake: Three pints of cornmeal, one. half pint of molasses on the meal; mix and scald thoroughly; cool with sour milk, add two pints of rye meal, a little salt, and soda to correct the acid in the Have it quite hree hours, And this also—Iudian bannock: Into one pint of Indian meal stir a pint of sour milk or buttermilk, half a teaspoonful of salt, a tablespoon- fal each of melted butter and molasses, and two well-beaten eggs, and then stir in a pint of wheat flour. Thin it with Dak Or en little into oven, soft Nii. 1 i ‘ . add a heaping teaspoonful soda dis- pans an inch thick. er ———A— A Dangerous Humorist, A moderate humorist is a genial com- panion, but an immoderate one is apt to shock his friends’ sense of propriety and notions of reverence. Sydney Smith was humorous to such an extent that when it was proposed to make him a bishop, the idea so shocked the cabinet that the witty clergyman was only pro- moted to the office of a canon. That Smith's conduct gave good reason for the refusal may be seen from the follow- ing anecdote, given by Lord Houghton in his ** Monographs Personal and So- cial,” for the authenticity of whick, he save, he will not vouch, but which seems to him good enough to be trae. On being settled at his small living in Yorkshire, Sydney willingly assisted his peighbors in their clerical duties. On an occasion of this kind he dined with the incumbent on the preceding Satur. day, and the evening passed in groat hilarity, the squire, by name Kershaw, being conspicuous for his loud enjoy- ment of the stranger's jokes. “1 am very glad that I bave amused you,” said Mr. Sydney Smith, at parting, “bat you must not laugh at my sermon to-morrow.” “I should hope I know the difference between here and at church,” remarked the gentleman, with sharpness, «1 am not sure of that,” replied the visitor. “I'll bet yon a guinea on it," said the squire. “Take yon,” replied the divine, Mi mn steps of the pulpit apparently suffer ing from a severe cold, with his hand. Ferchief to his face, and al once sneezed out the name Kershaw several timesin various intonations, This ingenious assumption of the roadiness with which a man would re- ceptible to the ears of others, proved acourate. The poor gentleman burst into a guf- faw, to the scandal of the congregation; | with stern reproach, proceeded with his discourse, Comfort Me with Apples. A young lady has a Sunday-school class of rather bright boys, averaging between seven and nine years. Re- cently she requested each pupil to come the following Sunday with some | | on | The lads heeded the request, and in | turn recited their verses bearing upon | enemies,’ | another,” ete. The teacher said to the | Die, what is your verse?” Rising, he | responded, ‘Song of Solomon, ii, 5 tn apples ; for I am sick of love. An Unexpected Rise, 1 stood on the porch at evening, Fuss tsa waa silaatly down, And the June bug bright in the starry sigh’ Flow merrily throngh the town. That blew from the balmy South, And re were the lips and sweet the sips That [ took from the preity mouth, Her tiny waist was encircled By my arm so strong and true, Haid 1, “ Whose ducky are you, Jove . “Yours,” she murmured, “and whose are ye k id Oh, the hallowed hours of that evening | Oh, the crusl caprics of fate | Her father, unkind, same up from behing, And fired mé over the gats, w{ hieago Tribune, - I —————— Mrs. E. H. Leland, author of * Farm | the following rules for right living : i 1. Keep the body clean, The count. | less pores of the skin are so many little | drain-tiles for the refuse of the system. | If they become clogged and so dead. | ened in their action, we must expect to | become the prey of ill-health in some | one of its eountless forms. Let us not | be at all afraid of a wet sponge and five | minutes brisk exercise with a crash | towel every night or morniag, i 2. Devote eight hours out of the twenty-four to sleep. If a mother is | robbed of sleep by a wakeful baby, she | must take a nap some time during the | day. Even ten minutes of repose | strengthens and refreshes, and does | good, “like a medicine” Children should be allowed to sleep until they | awake of their own free will. | 3. Never go to work in early morning in any locality subject to damps, fogs | and miasms, with an empty stomach. | If there is not time to wait for a cup of | coffee, por two-thirds of a eup of boil. | ing water on two teaspoonfuls of cream, | or a beaten egg, season it with salt snd peppe and drink while hot before going | ont. This will stimulate and comfort | the stomach, and aid the system in re. | sisting a poisonous or debilitating at | mosphere, 4. Avoid overeating. To rise from the table able to eat a little more is a proverbally good rule for every one, There is nothing more idiotic than | forcing down a few monthfuls becanse | they happen to remain on one's plate, after hunger is satisfied, and because they may be “wasted” if left. It is stomach with evea hall an ounce more | than it ean take care of, G6. Avoid foods and drinks that plamn- ly “disagree” with the system. Vigor. ous outdoor workers should beware of heavy indigestible suppers. Suppers should always consist of light, easy- digested foods—being, in the country, so soon followed by sleep, and the stomach being as much entitled as the | head to profound rest, The moral pluck | and firmness to take such food and no | other for the last meal of the day can be easily acquired, and the reward of such virtue is sound sleep, a clear head, s strong hand, and a capital appetite for | the breakfast 6. Never wesr at night the undergar. ments that are worn through the day. 7. Cultivate sunlight and fresh air. Farmers’ wives “fade” sooner than city women, not alone because they work harder and take no care of themselves, but because they stay so closely indoors, and have no work or recreation that | takes them out into the oven sunlight. | It is a singular fact that women in crowded cities generally get more sun- shine and pure air than their hived np country sisters, 8. Have something for the mind to feed upon—something to look forward to and live for, beside the round of daily labor or the counting of profit and loss. Jf we have not a talent for writing splendid works on political economy or social science, or the genius for creating a good story or a fine poem, the next best thing—is to possess | an appreciation of these things! Bo have good books and good newspapers, | and read them—if only in snatches— and talk about them at dinner-time or by the evening fire. Cultivate choice flowers and fruits, and help some poor | ne‘ghbor to seeds and cuttings, or take n interest in bees, or fice poultry, or | trout-culture. And study always farm | and household sciences, and take advan- tage of the new and helpful things that | are every little while coming to light. 9, Live in peace! Fretting, worry ing, fault-finding, borrowing trouble, giving away to temper and holding | long, bitter grudges—all these things | affect the liver, poison the blood, en- large the spleen, carve ugly lines on the | as wise as that little creature, the bee, who takes all the honey she can find and leaves the poisons to themselves, Where Mutilated Coins Come From. A reporter of the Evening Post asked | James N. Sampson, the veteran detec- tive employed at the sub-treasary, to | what the govarnment detectives at. | tributed the sudden increase in the number of elipped and punched coins | which has attracted so much attention Mr. Bampson said it was per- the punching was done in this city by | Cubans. A number of silver coins were | clamped together in a roll, and in less | time than it takes to write an account | of it a hole is drilled through the whole | lot. The value of the silver obtained | by punching a hole of usual size in a | coin amo ants to about one twenty-fifth | of the value of the coin, so that for | every roll of twenty five quarter dollars | the value of one quarter dollar is ob- | i i : tained in a moment by running a drill | through the roll. Mr. Sampson says | also that many of the punched coins | come from Mexico and Bouth America, | where our silver coins circulate freely, and rarely escape mutilation. Several | attempts have been made of late years to break up the systematic punching of | coins, but with little success. Only | two convictions for the offense have | been made in tea years. i Mr. Sampson remarked that while the | business of punching snd filing coins was almost wholly in the hands of the Cabans, the business of sweating gold coins by shaklog them up in a buek- | skin bag is attributed by the detectives | to the denizens of Chatham street. By | shaking a bag containing one hundred | eagles for three hours the result in gold | dust will be worth about twenty dollars. | Mr. Floyd, the chief clerk «f the assay office, said that the government rales relating to light weight gold coins | were defective, and tended to keep such | coins in circulation. When a gold coin | less than twenty years old is abraded to | more than one-half per cent. of its] value, it is stamped with an * L" at the | sub-treasury and returned to whoever | offers it, instead of being sent to the | mint. The object is to force the holder | to take it to the assay office or mint to | be sold at its real value, instead of | which it goes into circulation again. | The trouble is that Congress has never | made any provision for redeeming mu- | tilated or even abraded coin. Many | persons think that all pieces that have | been worn down beyond recognition | The diffi- culty is to tell when a piece has been worn smooth thirongh use or brought to that condition by sweating or other ar- means. Mr. Floyd considers cause, unlike the abrasion of gold, the tected at once, and it rests with the pub- lic to drive such coins out of circula- tion — New York Evening Post. Over in Marblehead the men turned ‘‘the dog was not mad atall” If a Lynn dog had been stoned in that way he would have been hopping mad.— Lynn Bee, The orange is the longest lived fruit i Lave HUMOR OF THE DAY, The artist's adien to his pieture—Youn be hanged, If a boy gets on the wrong * track ™ shows that his father's “ switch” has pot had a fair chance. A fool in high station is like a man in a balloon. Everybody appears little to A German complaining of the over. shadowing inflnence of militarism : have handsome, well-made boys they oin the military; if giris, the military Join them.” —Frand furter Zeitung, “Old age is coming vpon me ly,” said an urchin, who apples from an old : was man's garden, as he saw the owner a oond him with a stick in his hand. in ome of our ex- An article appears ges on the “ Free Importation of British Pig.” II the British pig is us, we nme His name was Presto Magico, and he vil “Will any one in the et me bave a five dollar note? he asked, with his blandest ruptly, as the audience rose and left precipitate haste. 1t was more than they could stand. — Philadelphia Sun, Johnny had a little sister who was Hatha put Sosa camphor in > jo 1 fsa the " e man wa Rion aud then vent out and told the neighbors that his sister had moth in her teeth and his mother put camphor benville Herald. A Thorough Job, Judge M——, a well known jurist liviog pesr Cincinnati, was fond of re- lating this anecdote. He had once oe- penter, and a sturdy young fellow ap- with his tools. “I want this fence mended te the cattle, There are some un boards use them. It is out of sight from the house, so you need not take time to make it a neat job. I will only pay you a dollar and & ball” The judge went to dinner, snd com- ing out found the man carefully pling each board. Sau that was trying to make a costly job of it, he walk. When he returned the boards were planed and numbered ready for nailing. “1 told you that this fence was to be covered with vines,” he sai i “I do not care bow it looks.” “I do,” said the carpenter, grufily, carefully measuring his work. Whaen it was finished there was no part of the fence so thorough in finish. * How much do you charge ?* ssied the jadge. “A dollar and a half,” said the man, shouldering his tools. ; The judge stared. “Why did you spend ail that labor on the job, if not for money ?°* “ For the job, siz.” { i** Nobody would have seen the poor work on it.” “But I should have known it was there. No; I'll take only the dollar and a half.” And he took it and went AWRY. Ten vears afterward the j had the coucract to give for the building of - There were many applicants among “Jt was ny man of the fence,” he id. * I knew we should bave only good, genuine work from him. I gave him the contract and it made a rich It is a pity that boys were not taught success belongs only to the man, be he carpenter, farmer, author or artist, whose work is most sincerely and thor- oughly done. A Shocking Story. The St. James' Gazeite recounts the particulars of a shocking crime which was committed recently ata vy. This monastery, which was in- habited by eight monks who were be- lieved to be very wealthy, was attacked by a band of brigands, but an alarm having been given, a body of soldiers came to the rescue. The brigands en- deavored to barricade themselves in the monestery, and exchanged several shots with the soldiers, who were more than an hour before they could force an en- trance. When they did get in they found the monks lying gagged on the floor, but could find no trace of the brigands. After the monks had been set at liberty they informed their de- liverers that the brigands bad escaped und passage leading from the cellar into the forest. The soldiers at once searched for the passage, whl» the monks went off to the,chape’ to give thanks for their delivery. The soldiers, having explored the cellar, and having failed to tind the door of the passage, came back to ask one of the monks to act as their guide; but they were nowhere to be seen. In the course of further in- vestigations, however, they found the dead bodies of the eight monks in & small room, and the mystery was then solved. The brigands, seeing that they could not escape, had murdered the monks and hidden their bodies in this room, having first stripped them of their clothes and put them on themselves. They then gagged one another to de- ceive the soldiers, and while the latter were searching in the celiar had made off to their fastnesses in the forest. The Cost of Living. The cost of living, says the Chicago Tribune, has greatly increased durirg the past fwilve months, and this will fall most heavy on the r ple. The Tribuwe makes up ee oe table of the increase in the price in tha wholesale markets of thateity: Per cent. of crease, 21 119 100 10 9 11 Per ent. of | increase, Pork ........... Jam. .......... Hoge.......... Wheat,..co... Corn soauie.atns OatB acee. icon RYO. .ccvninanss Barley.......... Boar.......... Butter .......... 1884 Or an average of thirty-four yer cent, ite fish, ....... Corn mesl........ BESNEREERE. As the mountain stream receives nourishment from a thousand springs swelling into the majestic river and forming a highway for the commerce of the world, so the human mind, drafting from a thousand fountains of knowledge, becomes a mighty in- tellectual fores capable of Wresting from nature her choicest secrets an molding at pleasure her strongest powers. *f et — The men who mix the least with their fellows become at Isast the most thoroughly one sided.
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