Words of Wisdom,
Who walketh straight and acteth right,
Whose lips and heart in trath unite;
Who ne'er to slander lends his tongue
And to his neighbor doth no wrong ;
Who lowers not his brother's fame,
Feols as his own his brother's shame;
For vile men hath no flattering word,
And honors those who fear the Lord;
Who ne'er on usury lends his gold ;
Though injured, to his oath will hold ;
And takes no bribe to doom the pure
Who dealeth thus shall e’er endure,
Little Dancing Leaves,
Little dancing leaves
in the garden bower,
Which among you grioves
Not to be a flower
“ Never one I” the light leaves say,
Dancing in the sun all day,
1a
Little
Ras
IZONON §
From the «
Nesting
Wes!
|
y
Little dancing leaves
Grasses, forngand sedpos
Hl whi AVES
Wad h
3
1 DRS
What a dull world would remain
If you all
¢ useful grain |
THE KEEPER'S DAUGHTER.
A hghtho ocky coast. Out
side, thunder, lig g, wind and rain,
ud great black waves dashing up against
the rocks at the foot of the tower. In-
side a winding flight of stairs leading to
aun octagon-shaped room aining the
plainest furniture. The occupants, a
girl of eighteen, tall aud lithe, with
black bair hangi nassive braids to
her waist, and la: as gray eves under
straight black brows. Her dress of gray
waterproof cloth was short and scant,
and hung in wet folds about her limbs;
and strangest of all girdles, a coil of
rope encircled her waist and trailed one
end on the By her side a boy of
fourteen years, with his blue blouse
open at the throat, and a faded plush
cap on his dark curls. These two were
bending over a man who lay in all his
magnificent length on the floor. A
picturesque-locking man, with fair hair
clinging in dripping masses to his fore-
head; a curling golden beard and a
white firm throat, and one might be
persuaded that the closed lids with their
long fringes covered a pair of steel blue
eyes.
* Reckon he's a goner, Liz,” said the
boy, as he paused in his vigorous rab-
bing of the man's hands.
The girl was forcing some liquor from
a tin cup between the bine lips, and did
not answer directly; when their
patient gave the faintest possible sigh,
she exclaimed, joyfully: * See, Neddie,
Lie breathes | Now work { ereupon
they both fell to rubbi t a great
rate.
When. Allen Melntyre opened his
eves he looked about him confusedly.
The odd little room, the girl with her
black braids, d the boy looking so
like her that one would at. ouce recog-
niza the relationship; the drenched con.
dition of all three, and the strange
Janguor through all his frame—what
did it mean? He closed his
wearily, and then the boy spoke up in
this bluff fashion:
“You came near going under,Jcap'n,
but Lizzie pulled yon out.”
Then Melntyre remembered all, and
languidly raised himself into a sitimg
posture.
“It is too wild a night to be afloat
ih a little craft like that,” said the girl,
making a gesture seaward, where a tiny
boat had broken up an hour before,
“It was fair when I left the shore,”
replied the man. ‘I ventured further
than I intended. Then the wind went
down, and I could only drift until the
storm arose. I have a recollection of a
fierce rush of wind snd wave that upset
my boat, and a blow on my head, prob-
ably from some part of the boat as I
went over.”
** Yes,” said the boy, * there came a!
flash of lightning, and Lizzie and I,
looking out, saw the boat capsize. So
Lizzie caught a rope and ran, and 1
after her.”
“We're nsed to that sort of thing—
ch, Lizzie?’ Lizzie nodded, and the
boy coutinued, animatedly: ** You see,
my father keeps the light, but he is sick
now, so Lizzie and I tend the light—we
always do when father is sick or gone
to the mainland —and we've pulled out
more than one fellow more than half
dead. Why"
“Never mind that, Neddie,” inter- |
rupted his sister, gently, and the un-|
spoken reproof in her voice had the ef- |
fect of making the lad look somewhat |
shamefaced as he went back to the
first part of his story.
“ Well, sir, we ran down the slope at |
the side of the cliff out there, where the |
waves were tearing up like 10,000 wild |
horses. And every time it lightened
we could see you bobbing around out
there like a piece of cork. We were |
afraid of yonr striking against the!
ledges, so Lizzie fastened one end of
the rope about her waist and I held the |
other while she went straight in and!
struck ont for you.” 1
Melntyre uttered a low exclamation |
and turned his gaze from Neddie to |
Neddie’s sister. The boy wagged his |
head proudly. i
s Ah,” said he, with gleaming eye, |
¢¢ that’s nothing for our Liz to do! She |
caught you, and I pulled you both in. |
But you're monstrous heavy! I thought |
we'd never get you upstairs,” |
Melutyre laughed as he rose rather |
doubtfally to his feet.
i
“] feel a trifle shaky,” he said; and |
then, “It is easy to see that you are |
brother and sister. I am Allen Meln- |
tyre, at yonr service, Miss Lizzie,” and
he towed in a fashion that gave the lie |
to his declarations of shakiness. * Of
course I realize that you and your gal-
land brother here have rendered me
a great servicg—one for which yon
shill not go unrewarded, although I
can never hope to fully recompense
you.”
Lizzie raised her head haughtily.
“ Sir, such work as we have done to-
night we do not for wages. If you feel
strong enough, I will walk with you to
the house, I think the storm is passing
over. We live a quarter of a mile from
the light. Our accommodations are
plain enough, but there is no other
house on the island.”
“Oh, I am as good as new, now,” said
Melntyre; “but will you leave this
boy here all alone.”
She smiled.
¢ Ned is not afraid, and he ean tend
the light as well as 1.”
“ Very well I will go with you.”
He waved a smiling adieu to the boy,
and followed his guide down the narrow
stairway.
Two days later a small sailboat put
out from the island, which, when it
returned, brought McIntyre's luggage.
nad O
Moa mm
(a :
M8
&
hir
ont
figor.
aad
3
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nt
One
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138
eves
VOLUME XI1V.
i
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§ -
fancy to the young man, who expressed
a desire to spend a few weeks there at
any price they might charge. Capt
Clyde straightway ordered Neddie off
in his new boat to the mainland for th
gentleman's traps. The
obeyed this order with alacrity, Kk
a
a A
good humored ease of the stran
gother with his evident
of “our Liz,” had wrought favora
on our Neddie. Even the maiden
who kept the house, smiled frostil
pleasant
s appre
v} ‘ f
the prospect of this
to their family
Molntyre, who had been wandering
about three or four hundred miles from
home of a place to
spend the summer, congratulated him
n having drifted to the very
in search quiet
o
place,
* Although it was an expensive style
of drifting,” heremarked, with a smile,
as he inclosed a bank note in an envel
ope, to be sent to the owner of the little
craft which had slipped him nto
the waves abreast of the lighthov
A week late Tr, &8 he
wand, there came to his ears a wildly
sweet strain of melody. As he listened
in amazement, for he had seen no musi
cal instrument about the place,
gan to realize the
Stranss’ artist life
a strain
stepped re
and there, leaning against
wall, was Lazaie, herchin d
Jessly on a little red violin, as she drew
3
8
ne
ul
out 1
sanntered shore-
tl
the granite
Trop a Care
the bow across the ;
like a guilty thing when she sa
Intyre,
“You whis
she faltered, *‘and I liked 1
it baunted me al me.”
He stepped forward.
“Why, nLizmie! Is
play like that without ne
] don't 1
drawing her d:
A ¥
CRIing 2 10 visit the
and overheard
one of the ladies s
girl with a fidd
haps i in
“Not )
langhed ¢ n. "Why,
did you r hear of Camilla Urso?
“ No.”
“ Well, she is a lady, anc
the most exquisite musio
\ ' 4
stiri 3. She flushed
#1
tled that the othe
t 80 muh
t
1
i ta
ne
WHER D9
HINO 1K
ng
a part
ners
Ve
J
(8 Of peop gO 10 Dear
OUsal
1
antiful as the t
and whistle.”
McIntyre smiled;
music consisted of
waltzes, redowas
which had d
Tm
al
ith ni
iis
bravely fn
had
ym the jaws of death as Lizzie
Lizzie, who stood tl
with her little violin |
breast, and her fi
over the string
# Tal
said, presentl;
her play #
“ Yes, deed !
trank containin
life, which you may read for y«
which will tell you better than
her t
nt »
For a
8.
iy
11
y
talent
1m
ering in them.
“Mr. Mcintyre,
use— I cannot
“ Lizzie
Her violin slippe
ld hav
not Melntyre caught
ered her face with both hands.
““ But Lizzie,” persisted ber com
panion, in some perplexity, “1 do ni
understand. There good
schools in the city, and surely yourta
must have known that it was his duty
give a girl like you an education, to say
nothing of Neddie, who is growing up
such a did young fellow.”
“It is very kind of 100 to say such
things of Neddie and me; we are com-
mon people, and ours is a common life,
Neddie did spend two years with our
uncle who lives in York State. He went
school there. But father doesn’t
think much of book Aunt
Jane never had time to help me, and
Neddie is too restless to keep still long
enough, I ." Bhe continued
quaintly, live out in
world look at these things in a different
way ; but I know of many who are just
where I am. Why, a whole
family on that island,” pointing to a
tiny speck away to the eastward, * who
cannot read or write. Once in three
months, perhaps, they go to the main-
land, I scarcely ever go. I suppose I
shall always live here, and I am con-
fons ha
L400 A
df
@ lalien
are public
ther
7 to
spler
id
to
ERTTIIDK.
the
. :
there 1s
gathered in her eves; * at least I was,
Int lately I have wished so much that
I could read and had books-—for it is so
lonely here in the winter.”
“Well, dear child,” said the young
mas, gently, ‘this gives me the priv-
ilege of paying my debts, doesn’t it 7"
“Your debts 7’ echoed Lizzie, in sur-
prise.
“ Certainly, Did yon not fish me out
of the water a week ago? Well, now
to some service, I will teach you to read
and to write.”
After that McIntyre proved the most
steady progress in her lessons. Neither
Hditor and
well, it ia high time I returned home,
1 have been here six weeks, Yes, I will
20 away to-morrow and forget her, as
she will forget ma,"
Melntyre threw away the
end of his cigar and started into a brisk
} h hy COmMiIng dire otly
ect of his thoughts,
and fro, drawing
her violin, She
vor her gray
SO BAYIDg,
ly
} irom
wore a I'i jacket o
3 L : 3 5% 3% ;
dross, and a white handkerchie
wer her head and under he
i throl [ast
think 1
¥ man,
muttered, *
Now
to
, then m
wail fost’
eted his approach
layed to the ¢lose
spoke, it
he had
gre
Pp
© she
look of
earnest
%
ish
Aston
gaze, he
you care very much
n here ¥
{ropped, the red blood
ud brow { t,
leaving her quite
5 AL
{
3
I OF 4 Mmome!
3
Ci AWaYy,
1k it will be well for you to
y
v, Lizzie, will you tell me ?
1 ou need not fear to tell me anvthing,”
added,
y looked away from
inaudible
as she hesitated
i almost
L088 DOCRANRE ~
You kr
your own 1
rour answer? No
me that you wil
3 :
20 brave to save nt
He drew her gently towar
faced him suddenly,
“Do yo think 1 Osis me wothing to
made my life
10TL Woe
refuse von ha
ul ks? 1
a wi
youin fa
am ry - such ) |
would bu 1
for your goo
pt what seems like a
then, swift a 1
ng the shore, leaving Melntyra t«
» between apger, a
wounded self-love.
t t day he tried to speak with
it gave him no
last, in very despera-
tion, he at the door of her
father Captain Clyde was
again suffering with rheumatism, and
at I refuse to ae
heaven t«
1
as deer,
musaement
t she
rit 1
oppo At
3
of.
ir, while Lizzie hovered about him.
‘Captain Clyde,” said Meclntyre, as
he blocked the doorway with his broad |
shoulders to prevent Lizzie from escap- |
ing, ‘* 1 wish to say a few words to your
daughter in your presence, since she re-
fuses to grant me that privilege
where, i
“ Say on, my lad, she would be proud |
to hear whatever yon have to say to
her.” : i
“Well, Lizzie, I will go away from |
here to-morrow, and stay as long as you
bid me. When the time is up I will re
turn to claim youn for my wife. You
shall see that this is no idle, passing
fancy.” ‘
His eyes, grave and ead, rested on the |
girl's flushed face, and the bluff cap- |
tain’s eyes widened in amazement,
“‘ Speak out, gal,” he commanded.
‘““ Have yon anything to say to this
young man, who woes you like a gen-
tleman? Shall he come—or no?" |
And Lizzie answered, with downoeast
eyes: “If he comes one year from this |
time, and still cares for me, I will be |
ready.”
““ And is that all, Lizzie?"
i
i
else.
he said,
“No, I'll be bound!” said the old
man, with a sly twinkle in his eyes.
“ When I went courting, my little giri |
he gave Lizzie a little push that sent
HALL, CENTRE
shin
t h
woman in trailing robes, and the
ing hair braided and coiled about he
above the low broad brow.
old, her downeast but
g softly through their happy
tears, her mouth smiling trivmphantly
Waa tl Lizzie Why, not a woman
in all his brilliant throng lhe re
bered could compare with her,
Every su
and his
anvy,
han
than of
shintn
eyos
¥
nie
dark haired wife visit the light
; and every fall they
return their stately home in a fa
AWAY , Where the lady does
honors of her grand house with a grace
:
Lv
8 home
to
City ie
hat charms all
And yot Allen Molnty re laughingly
accuses his wife of ** fishing for }
EI ————————
SCIENTIFIC NOTES,
iii,
The precision of mq de In engineering
is foreibly illustrated by the recently
accomplished feat of picking un
p a long
abl § }
cable Iron i depth of
1 he sien i
ing which locates a fault with so much
readily find
in”
unused ocean
2,000 fathoms,
exactness and
thread two miles
add much te
1
ocean laieg ra
BO
t 3
phie
his address at
British associ
Huxley predicted that
y £1
5 y 3
} BS the epoch in
suocassion of
¥ visa}
IIAIS §
of paleont
FY A
HMRICAL Taos,
ants Dy Grerman sol
‘ome, Johnny
cak Mary's
and I'll h
maternal whisper,
nuisance turned 1
ere
“ Joh
mother, 115
it right this time.
tlemen never heard it.
Once more the
“ What a naughty boy I" exclaimed
the proud mother, who had been train
ing the cub all the afternoon for this
display. “Now speak it right or
mamma won't kiss when you go
to bed.” y
Thus encouraged
tra
You
the insect
ted himself once more
perpe
TE
Mary had a litle
It's was white as &
And every one that Max
Lhe winte was
i
“ |
v, that
You must do
will
“I'm ashamed of you, John
it this time
punish you.”
“J won't!” bawled the urchin,
jut his mother promised him some
additional eandies or buns or clams or
something that had the great social ad
or mamma have to
and the wretch began to bawl:
d
¥
oco as lamb,
t Mary wi
th $f ra
here tha
Viel In
“Mary had a
Its snow w
find ram.
fered, and said it was a shame to tor
ment the sweet child. He
nobly, and should have
off.
Lizzie playe
first realized. Meclntyre was the first
to wake np. He was a man of the
world, and understood
thought he did, thoroughly.
the room.
# * * *
A whole year passed by, and not un
endeavored to improve herself, She
along the beach to think it over. | spent the winter “on the mainland,”
“ Ag the case now stands.” he solilo-- | with some friends.
quized, as he lit a cigar and threw away | watched the people about her, and,
the match, “it is either Lizzie or the | never coarse herself, despite her com-
world; and I confess the world has | monplace life at home, she fell easily
charms for me.” | into the new groove.
again, until it sank below the horizon,
thought of the delicate ladies in Lis
set, and how wretched they would make
the poor girl’s life in their own high-
bred fashion. No—but wonld they,
though?’
A faint amusement lingered in his
face as he recalled Lizzie's rather
stately carriage and stately dignity that
redeemed her from being common-
place. He laughed out.
“Tt would be fun to see her among
all those peacocks. Poor Lizzie! What
a shame that she has been neglected !
If she had received half the advantages
of any one of my acquaintances she
Lizzie's father, who was laid up with
would have surpassed them all, Well,
| ture: “ He may notcome at all—he may
forget.”
But Allen MelIntyre was truer than
most of his kind; for the early fall
brought him again to Lizzie's house.
While he waited in the old-fashioned
sitting - room, the deor was opened
hesitatingly, and who was this before
m?
Allen had left a young gypsy, magnifi-
cent in her way, with coal black braids
and flashing eyes, 1 et scarcely the figure
for a drawing-room in her short gown
and thick coarse shoes; a daughter of
the sea, sun-browned and fearless, But
this-- was this Lizzie? A gracefnl
writhing under the nightmare, Brook
lyn Eagle,
IN
Excess of Modesty.
Many truly great men have been diff
dent in company, or have broken down
in attempting to speak, Robert Hall
attempted to preach, The great Pitt
was exceedingly shy in his private inter-
When Daniel
Cowper's friends pro-
cured him a place as clerk in the house
of lords, where his duties only required
him to stand up and read parliamentary
notices and documents, The thought
of standing up before such an audience
was 80 terrible to him, that as the time
drew on he was in an agony of appre-
hension, and tried to hang himself. 8»
there is hope for all who are afflicted
with shyness,
The oriole was called the * Baltimore
bird,” becuse it wore the colors of Lord
Baltimore, black and yellow.
00., PA.,
FOR THE LADIES,
Cloth Costumes,
Cloth is the fashionable woolen fabrie
| for street costumes this winter. It is
| worn in all its varieties, such as the
{ smooth habit eloth called Amazon
la y's cloth, the tricot, which in
{small flgures like armure, and the
| rongh-finished Cheviots like those worn
by gentlemen, The simple and stylish
{ loth snits made by a tailor, are per
haps most in though there are
| many imported costumes of cloth that
are far showy, The tailor-mad
suits rely upon their fine fit for their
| beauty, as they have no trimmings but
the usual rows of machine stitching,
and plaiting on the bottom of
| the skirt; later the winter border
| of fur will be placed around the skirt,
and a separate collar and oufls of fur
will be added to the cont For glen.
der ladies the basques of such dresses
made double-breasted, with a
| single box plait closely stitched
down each , and one double
plait in the back A slit 1s left
: he back, between the
forms, A wide
OF
is
favor,
more
BOLO
in i
HI
3
Ox
rafulltl
itis a
ord
igure
Blin
thle
shorter on
the
ET tiral fain
Is eniireay pian,
ng near the
rward trimm
Wt
verskirt is draped
shirt, being
This n
tL a
y
ay Le
vy he
flan
t
plush suits for
ithiful looking
™ lerine Cape of
and sometimes
suits of eloth
in designs
uit fastidious
cloths of
i same
orming the principal
, An is tit hed bands,
ollar, cuffs and pockets, an.
rimming, are made of the
Blocks, and
‘heviots are chosen by
young ladies for th th suits, and
in these the Prussian blue shades are
very fashionable, also the copper reds,
seal brown trimmed with green, or the
opposite of this cloth with
brown plush and finally
the mustard and olive shades of Cheviot
with dark garnet plush, or else sapphire
blue or myrtle green.
two
6
slripe &
green
ROCERSOTION
Fashion Notes,
to be
3 it
gOaowWn by
Soarlet worn
Paris
polonaises,
blac) rts
liners,
Aare
Among favorite ornaments in millin-
ory are those of 1 and
beads.
iridescent stee
The eaprice of the movement abroad
is the absence of jewelry from even ball
toilets,
Bridal slippers are of white satin,
high heeled and with rosettes or buckles
of paste,
Little boys and girls are considered
a necessary part of a bridal procession
nowadays.
Velvet basques will be much worn
with silk, satin, Riradzimire and soft
wool skirts,
A novelty in dress goods are the Jer-
soy webbings, an elastic fabric showing
a silk surface and a wool back.
A pretty collar for a serge gown is
square in the back, with a box-plait in
the center, and has square ends in front,
American reversible carpets and rugs,
much less than the cost of the
described as having one seam which
ness inserted between the back and
front of the waist,
Some of the most elegant novelties of
inches wide, These ribbons are double.
one side and plush on the
Roman sash ribbons come with a double
face of plush in changeable colors
Two wide box plaits for back
breadths, single plats for the side
breadths, and no plaits at all for the
front breadth, is one of the ways of
arranging the fullness on new skirts.
The real skirt is very narrow and closely
gored, and the plaits are an overskirt
in reality,
The things that an ingenious woman
can do with broeaded velvet are in-
numerable, and not the least pretty are
the borders which she can make for
brocade pelerines by culting out the
NOVEMBER
| figures and button-hole stitehing them
| on the edge, setting feather trimming
underneath to puil between the pretty
CHrves,
Bodices girdles of
colors,
velvet or
of contrasting or those
which harmonize with the shade of the
dress, are very popular with stylish
Cut low nnder the arms
the girdle tapers off into a minute
point far below the waist. They are
trimmed with beaded applianes, em
broidery, or are sometimes hand
painted, Those of plush, however, are
made perfectly plain, and laced front
and with gold silk cords. The
last mentioned models are considered
the most elegant.
——————————
Splendors of a Mediwval Banquet,
When Henry IIL of France and King
of Poland was on bis return to Paris to
take up the government which had de-
volved upon him by the death of Cath.
erine de Medici's two elder BONS, he
passed through Venice, and the recep.
tion given to him by the Queen of the
Adriatic is a fair specimen of numerous
displays of a like nature. On the Vene-
tian frontier a goodly namber of sena-
ouncillors met the king; his
gondola was spread with gold brocade;
the nobles toled off to attend him were
dressed in flowing robes of silk; sixty
halberdiers as guards of wore
liveries of orange-colored silk, and ear
ried ancient battle-axes, Four hundred
rowers sped royal eraft on its way
to the Lado, owed by countless_gon
dolas of the no lity draped in cloth of
gold and resplendent with mirrors and
arms. On the Lido was erected a tn
nmphal arch, of which Palladio, the
celebrated Vid EAL,
fect, ana wi Tintoretto and Palo
Yeronese had } uted. The king was
lodged the Yoscari palace, adorned
{ evervihing that
d. But the
Le
It took pl
just over again the
of modern Venlo the
i i down the grand
ding music, and at
Bi was received by
wetare
with
satin
young ladies,
back
tors and
honor
the
foll
b
bad been the archi
a v
or
and gol
most
t
RCE 0
sd
sqne
with
& lady in
Three thou
{ king's advent
wtvard, resplendent with
'o while away
satin
: i sha OL
jewels and gol cade
JoOWels and ¥ } .
i! t dual Was an
nd al
g fleet of gondolas
torches and gilded prows, and their
crimson damask coverings floated in the
waves, for there were no sumptuary laws
; restraint on display.
date the
royal entertainment a
» Was prepared.
seal hin at a table
yphins,
Wore all
ad Was
lacently
up his napkin
beneath his grasp
king it
seated on two
heir breasts the
and Poland. On the
al seal were two sugar
: justioe of like
SUZaY
i
ose days, and n
were laid to accomm
had upon
b HH
spread horses, ..
After the
SNEAT Were
fair sex a
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wore planted Fare
lants, baskets fall of it hung from
the carling, and tame hares, rabbits and
were chi among the
silken « The repast lasted
wre, ard ninety
passed before the roval eves; and then
at the end of all things a huge pie was
opened from which issued birds, and
the
the prize for the largest bag being sn
ret in gold. With
i and revelry of the
public banquets Ware
private life
ur to five hundred ducals was an or
diary sum for a Venetian to spend on
an entertainment. The art of cooking
Was carrie ad ton ridienl¢ us excess: into
every dish it was deemed necessary to
cast some gold dust to give it what
they termed ‘‘the heart” A
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guests arose Wo them clase,
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Otters on the Missouri,
the letters of the New York Herald cor
mndent, who made a canoe voyage
down Missouri, accompanied
Cay iain Boyton the latter be mg in his
rubber suit:
The temperature was below freezing
point when ihe captain entered the
the by
gau {o
habitations to be found than a canvas
Fortunately we were protected
in a measure from the wind by ranges
of “gumbo” hills, through which we
paddied all the afternoon. These bleak
masses are composed of a sticky sul
stance, which becomes quite slippery in
wet weather. Not a blade of grass will
grow npon it, except here and there
where the natural soil rises to the sur-
face. The rain bad worn little creeks
in the ravines, and as we passed down
the river hundreds of cascades tinkled
musically, and their waters gushed into
the Missouri and accelerated the cur
rent, much to the satisfaction of the
eaptain, who is anxious to work south.
ward before winter sets in. Ducks and
other wiid fowl cowered in niches or
to
sky
under the banks escape the
keen wind. The was overcast
aod not a ray of saushine appeared
except a momentary gleam during a
slight rain shower which occurred at
b o'clock. Shortly afterward the river
narrowed considerably, and we were
forced to paddle through a fleet o
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CONFIDENCE MEN.
How They Operate Hetween New York
and Philadelphia,
A Philadelphia letter to na New York
paper says: Tho bunks men who
operate between this city and New York
have been reaping a harvest of late
The leader of the gang has in foar
instances represented himsell as a
nephew of Anthony J. Drexel or a
member of the well-known banking
Louse of which Mr. Drexel is the head,
dolph, sn experienced business man,
whom he swindled ont of $110. The
member of the Philadelphia bar, whom
he caught for $21,400, The third was
Mr. J. A. J. Bheets, a prosperous
lumber merchant, who lost $2,900 by
his confidence in the scoundrel. The
than the Hon. George Sharswood, chief.
justice of the supreme court of Penn.
evlvania. In the latter case, however,
the amount involved was only $10,
The story of this operation was given
to your correspondent as follows :
«As I was strolling up Broadway, in
New York, a well-dressed young man
wddressed me by some name not my
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in Advance.
NUMBER 44.
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
!
i
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| flints tov the Pouliry Yard,
| re
| practical now as ever:
| shine,
| for them to wallow in, which should be
| kept perfectly dry, Every few weeks,
| thoroughly dusted with dry ashes, ce-
| easionally adding a little sulphur; and
| once in awhile we wet the roosts with
| kerosene. A spring-bhottom oil can is
| just the thing for the purpose. At.
{tending to these rules carefully, you
| need not bave lice, which is an impurt-
| ant item in keeping pouty; Our chief
| object is eggs, for wh
{ erally a ready market and good price.
| And to lay well, hens must have plenty
| to eat and of the right kind, We gen-
erally feed cors, and in the winter let
them shell it for themselves, after giv.
ing each ear a blow or two with the
| hammer or something of that kind to
| start the kernels. This gives them ex-
ercise and keeps them from eating too
“rn
rem
jum
wi html
fessor. A man who goe
for inst I always shave
| The emphasis on the last word
| broke Augustus’ heart,
a
{ wpenetrable
nativity, float by
currents of
told him that he was mistaken. He,
however, apologetically said that I bore
a striking resemblance to the gentlenan
who he supposed me to be, and. that he
womd be grateful if I would tell hiw
who I was. I gave him my name, and
I had not gone much further when an.
other gentleman, youthful, well dressed
crossed the sidewalk toward me, and,
extending his hand, addressed me by
name and professed to be delighted to
have met me. His face did not seem
unfamiliar to me, but I could not re-
call his name, and I supposed my puz
as he said: * Ab, I see you don't remem.
ber me, Tam F. A. Drexel, Jr. I have
been studying art in Paris, and returned
only last week." He then asked many
questions about the welfare of prom.
pent Philadelphians, with whose names,
occupations and social standing he
seemed thoroughly familiar, He also |
conversed very interestingly on
art matters abroad, mentioning
incidentally that he bad been an
extensive purchaser for the account of
his uncle's as well as himself. We
walked uptown, chatting thus pleas
antly, and not a suspicion that my com-
panion was not what he represented
himself to be enterad my mind. At
length he mentioned that he had just
received a very expensive painting from
Paris—one for which Belmont's and
Vanderbilt's agent had bid against him,
but which he had bought for 50,000
france. ‘It was a very steep price, and 1
don’t know how father ) Uncle Tony
will like it," he said. He then invited |
mo to look at his treasure, which, he!
said, was only a block or two away. |
Nothing was occupyiog me particularly
at that time, and 1 a, Tuaring
down one of the cross streets we came |
to & handsome brown-stone house, into
which we entered afterringing the bell.
While we stood on the steps my com
panion told me that he had drawn the
grand prize, 11,000 francs, in a lottery |
designed for the benefit of some Pan- |
¢ian art association, and was only wait
if kept before them in a clean, dry
place, they will keep fat. Give them
each morning what they will pick off
during the day.
——
Parm and Garden Notes,
The bulbs of the tuberose never bloom
| but once. They require a sandy soil,
Bunflower seeds are useful for givi
gloss to the feithers of poultry fed
upon them,
It is often thought a bother to raise
ducks, but where they ean be conven-
| iently kept any of the improved breeds
will pay well.
In changing the diet of an ox five
days will generally elapse before the
remains of the preceding diet are ex-
pelled by the animal.
Spread manure as fast as it is made,
Manure applied in fall and winter will
than that
applied in the spring.
Thyme will grow almost anywhere,
but it prefers a dry, poor soil. If the
ground is rich the plant will grow too
luxurigntly and lose its aromatic gual
ties,
A cow wintered upon two tons snd a
five tons of manure, provided she
be wasted.
This causes the snimal to shake its
bead violently, and the muscular se-
tion dislodges the obstruction.
A pound of bones contains as much
phosphoric acid as one hundred pounds
of wheat, On many farms there are
bones wasted sufiicient to supply phos-
phoric acid for all the wheal consumed
period of growth
necessary ash
soil.
Plant fruit {rees in the fall.
| simi
That is an easy one. It
| butter is dearer and a good
| so forth. ie
| A bealthfal moonlight e
| good for building houses.
| is required, only talk.
lovers disenss the future—after
married. They sit down, with
| arms entwined around each other,
! story house, It shall
| this or hanes Derhah rooms.
| convenience or that noe
| make it much more desirable than
| other house. Hundreds of little
| The season No house built.
| other fellow builds the house.
An Old Adage Verified,
A New York man tells in the Ere
| casion ssw a crowd moving toward
station-houseand a poor-looking woman
Lk nothing pep eg ee
| knew not 4
| came at once interested on mi
Fredert vom i pp
| decent- ing woman,
| intoxicated, entreating to be
| He followed ihe Srowd io the sia
| bouse, succeede getting
| mined to see fair play, and took ag
fore whom the woman was 1
diy st several men and boys
| offering to fight. As she did not obey
| their directions fo go home :
woman.
that seemed to have been turned into |
an office. Mr, Drexel introduced him- |
self to the gentlemanly individual who |
and rabbits.
In sowing wheat be careful that ne
| to the charge. Shes! cnee
| a tirade against those who bad can
‘her arrest. She said that she
had just been sent to Philadelphia, and
he showed the express receipt in con- |
firmation. Apologizing for the disap-
pointment, my companion made a move |
as though to go away, when the gentle.
manly individual, aftera brief consulta- |
tion of what seemed to be a book of
entry, said : ‘Mr. Drexel, 1 received the
remittance of your grand prize, 11,000
francs, this moming. Here is the
money,’ and he counted out what
seemed to be that amount. The gen-
tlemanly individual then suggested
that it wonld be well to take some tick.
ets in another lottery drawing for the
benefit of some other art association
Drexel was willing. He said he patron- |
ized such schemes for the benefit of |
art, and always turned his prizes over |
to deserving artists, I had scruples |
against snch methods, but be insisted, |
and 1 banded him $10. Then they |
bronght ont a numbered chart, and |
gambling implements. I saw at once
that the whole thing was a trick and |
#10 which I had given my companion,
and which was Iving on the table, and |
nade my way out of the room without |
opposition. The pseudo Drexel came |
along, and agreed entirely with me io |
my estimate of the character of the |
place. I still had confidence in him,
obtained.” |
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A Great Sanerkrant Center,
Chicago is the sauerkraut center of
America. One firm recently advertised
500 barrels forsale, and the entire manu-
facture amounts to 10,000 barrels a year,
The principal consumers are (Germans, |
but there is a constantly increasing de-
mand from Americans. The latter,
however. do not take readily to the per-
fame, One dealer shipped a carload to
8t. Louis, and was notified by telegram
on its arrival that it was spoiled. He
telegraphed back, reguesting the pur
chaser to call in a German expert, ashe
was certain some Yankee had been test-
ing it. The advice was followed, the
article pronounced good, and it was
sold at a fair profit. A good
deal of kraut is also imported from
Germany, and is found to pos-
gess a peculiar flavor or bouquet
which the American article lacks, al.
though the Chicago manufacture is im-
proving, The process of manufacture,
in brief, is to cut the cabbage into long,
thin slices, removing the core, which is
stringy, and then pack in barrels, ram-
examining the shores closely the pres. ming down very compactly, either
ia | with wooden implements or by heavy
hundreds of beaver slides which were | yon in rubber boots treading it. The
worn iu the muddy slopes. Beores of | opplication of salt and water isa mis-
trees freshly felled by these industri- take. It should be pressed so tightly
in all directions. 1 saw one huge cot- |
nearly two feet in diameter, had been |
guawed as neatly as if it had been cut |
with a fine edged tool. Itis a]
{ almost extinet in America. The banks |
| of the Missouri are completely hived |
| with beaver holes, and on the tributary
| brooks they are numbered by hundreds
| of thousands, We met several trap-
| pers who were plying their trade in
| small covered boats. Some of them had
| accumulated 100 skins, ranging in vaine
{ frhm $1 to $6 each, but the majority
were merely able to obtain a living, and
had to work hard to accomplish even
that, Now and then they trap an otter,
the skin of which sells for a handsome
sum, but otter traps ara Deginning to
be a rarity.
headed up, a hole being bored in the
head to allow fermentation, These
simple rales will give a delectable com-
pound, such as no American maker of
sauerkraut has ever produced. The
price for a good article is $11.50 per
barrel of thirty gallons, and from fif-
teen to twenty cents per quart at retail.
An Epitaph.
A tombstone in the cemetery at
Plattsburg, N. Y., over the grave of
Catharine and Charles Straight, aged
respectively three months and eight
days and four months and four days,
has the following:
They tasted of life's bitter cup,
Refused to drink the Jotion up,
They turned their little he ads aside;
Disgusted with the taste, they died.
he
dust in t
and wherever disagreeable odors or
abound. Broken bits of lime, old
wortar, crushed oyster sheels, ete,
should at
ensued ; that the police came
‘up and instead of arresting them sr-
od her, At this moment she turned
her eves on the good i
she had fair
Seatter ovster shell lime about the
t is the best material
for egg shells. Airslaked lime scal-
tered over the floors of the poultry
and keep them healthy,
carbolie lime for whitewashing,
most effective in destroying lice.
In the treatment of light soils, Eag-
lish farmers frequently sow mangels,
carrots or Swedes to be fed upon the
lend with sheep. Such land after
being fed off by sheep will be made close
and productive by the tread of the ani-
It is
w
in ber champion’s left eye. Hii cham
pionship ended in sn instant, and
case was settled by the serg ant ox
irg the officers to “take her down
and they bad their hands full. The
“ champion's” eye was badly blacked,
and when he told his wila about
case she reminded him of the well-worn
story of the man in Tennessee who was
hung for not miading his own business.
A Western paper says that when Lin-
coln was ivangurated his rival,
vals. With an allowance of oil cake
quite productive for cereal crops |
t is not a good plan,sars a writer, to |
leave squashes attached to the vines
after the frost. They should be sepa-
rated, being carefal to let the short
stemn remain on at least nntil the
are assorted when cold
that of a fruit room. Some cellars ml
answer, bat most of them will nok
The Michigan legislature st its last
session appropriated $1,000 for experi-
ments in ensilage and the culture of
amber cane at the State Agricultural
college. The season was somewhat
late, but corn for ensilage was at, once
samples of the fodder being subjected
to careful chemical tests before being
put into the feeding, for the purpose of
noting any chemical changes that may
take place in it and making a more
complete theoretical determination of
the value of the new system of feeding.
Removal of Sinins and Spots,
Stearine.~In all cases, strong, pure
aleohol.
(Tum, Sugar, Jelly, ele.—Simple wash-
ing with water at a hand heat.
Matter Adhering Mechawically.--Beat-
ing, brushing sand currents of water
either on the upper or underside,
Lime and .Alkalies— White goods,
simple washing. Colored cottons, wool-
ens and silks are moistened, and very
dilute citric acid is applied with the
finger end,
Seorching.— White goods, rub well
with linen rags dipped in chlorine water;
colored cottons, re-dye if possible, or
in woolens raise a fresh surface; silk,
no remedy,
Alizarine Inks. ~--White goods, tar-
taric acids, the more concentrated the
older the spots. On colored coftovs and
woolens, and on silks, dilute tartaric
acid is applied cautiously.
Oil Colors, Varnish end Resins.—On
white or colored linens, cottons or
woolens, use rectified oil of turpentine,
alcohol, lye, and then soap; on silks,
use benzine, ether, and milk soap, very
cautiously.
Tanning from Chestnuts, Greek Wal-
nuts, etc, or Leather.—White gocds, hot
chloride water and concentrated tartaric
acid; colored cottons, woclens and
silks, apply diluted chlorine water
cautiously to the spot, washing
held bis hat. When Garfield was sworn
but the hat episodetook a different turn,
General Weaver, not the Greenba
candidate, but a Mi shigan Weaver, p
sented a hat to Gar with the une
standing that Garfield was to wear it a
the inauguration and, after the close
the season, return it to Weareras a ri
legacy. The President died and Wi
wanted the hat, Fortunately for
ambition to be a Garfield re
Riper, he bad a friend at court
ington postmaster, who, “A
vigorous search, found the hatin
possession of a negro servant, to!
it had been given by Mrs, Garfield.
reluctantly surrendered it, and the
goes to Weaver, ;
——.
Mistook His Man,
“Let me see,” said the young
slowly robbing the newly-arrived
ns Se oe BE
ragged who Ha at
sented ren: Fag wih “your
is familiar to me. Were you not
the battle of Gettysburg ?” :
“Yes, yes;” quickly replied the |
gar, brightening up at the pr
a generous stimulus to his finances,
not thinking a lie harmful to bring:
the sesuls “1 remember Tou :
was in he same company with you.
“ Yery likely,” replied the youth
eighteen summers; “I was almost co
« ent that you were around onlya
at the beggar slowly turned
walked out, fully convinced that
esty is not always the worst poli
Yonkers Statesmm. {
Invaded by Chinamen.
While King Kalakaua has been
ing over Europe, it seems that
and reapplying it several times.