To a Collar Button. Somehow you always seem too small To righty fit the buttonhole, Oh, pearly disk, you rack my soul When down into my shoes you fall, 1lose you twenty times 8 week, And find yon when I think vou lost When hunting you on morns of frost, What eulogles of peace 1 speak You wander coldly down my back, And o'er the carpet nimbly stroll, Then underneath the burean roll, And settle in the furthest crack, oJ XK. Munkitirick . How to Live, He liveth long who liveth well! All other life is short and vain, He liveth longest who ean toll Of living most for heavenly gain, He liveth long who liveth welll All alse is being flung away; Ha liveth longest who can tell Of true things traly done each day, Waste not thy being, back to Him Who freely gave it, freely give; Elso is that being but a dream Tis bat to be, and not to live, Be wise and nse thy wisdom well; Who wisely speaks must live it too, He is the wisest who can tell How first be lived, then spoke the true, Be what thon seemest; live thy eread; Hold up to eafth the torch divine; Deo what thou prayest to be made: Let the great Master's steps be thing, Fill up each hour with what will last; Buy up the momen's as they go; The life above when this is past, Is the ripe freit of life below, Sow truth, if thon the truth wouldst reap; Who sows the false shall reap the vain; Erect and sound thy conscience keep; From hollow words and deads refrain, Sow love and taste its fruitage pure; Bow peace and reap i's harvest bright; Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor, And find the harvest home of light. The Bitter With the Sweet. Ss a legaer,” said Lona, “or I could draw something in a lottery.” “I'm sure you drew a cigar case at the chureh fair,” interpolated Anita. “I wish I ccnld find a pot of gold buried in the cellar,” persisted Lena. ‘I'm about tired of doing without it.” “1 don't think riches ere balf so in- teresting as poverty safier all,” said Anita. *‘We get a great deal more ex. citement out of life than Mrs. Grundy for instanca.” “It's a kind of excitement I could ex- ist without. Poverty is a trial. You victim. It keeps [riends and lovers snd pleasures at arm's length. You might have done execution with your grown into genias, and Patty's beauty might have made her fortane in society. One can’t have society, you know, when one is too poor to entertain or dress, sad has no recommendation but longing for the far-off unattainable and dim." ” “My dear,” said Mrs. Morris, who was lying down with one of her head- aches, ‘‘you are losing time while you berate fortune, and time is money.” “ But not legal-tender,” rejoined Lena, turning to her sewing machine. her, She was daily governess in the died some years before, leaving an He had “genteel sufficiency.” There something else besides. and ontiawed accounts, although some their carriages to-day. said Lena, relled by. gested Anita. Mre. Morris laughed. “Do you nobility? Do you think Mrs. Grundy ured as an inventor of balsams or bitters 7 “(ld Mrs. Grundy had a bad attack of her gastric trouble,” said Patty, waking up, “‘ and she has a new remedy which can raise the dead, she thinks— Dr. Jay’s bitters. Did you ever try them, mamma?’ “TI'vo seen the advertisement,” said Mrs, Morris. And just then Rob Mar- quand knocked and announced that Le had come to tea, exhibiting a score of little birds all ready for the gridiron. “Bee what a mighty hunter you have among you. Patty and I will broil them for tea—a dish fit for the gods.” to him as much as his own soul. To Patty some da too poor, so said nothing sbout it. uncle had agreed to give him ten thou- sand dollars when he should have built his first house. That was one of his castles in the air. It would be time enongh to speak to Patty when the house was built. “ Headache again, Mamma Morris ?” said he. “Try Dr. Jay's bitters. Chil- dren ery for them. Aunt Marcia’s got a bottle—bitter as” —pausing for a synonym. “As poverty,” said Patty. ‘ “Yee, bitter as poverty, 1've tasted both. They are a tonic to the nerves, they defy death and keep old age ats respectful distance,” ** They must be the Elixir of Youth,” said Avita “Where do you get them ?” duced his pencils and paper and began making a plan of the “Marquand Man- sion,” to be erected when his ship came in, asking Patty’s advica about this and that, about closets, the pantry, the boudoir, their two heads bent together over the task. “We'll throw out a bay-window here,” he said ; ‘‘won’t we Patty? And .we will have a veranda for moonlight nights and a balcony ‘for whispering lovers mad.” And as long as the mate- rials are so cheap I think we'll add on a conservatory, ch, Patly ? so you may always wear a rose in your hair; and a studio for Lena at the top of the house,” till they were all offering sug- gestions, and the *“ Manor” looked as if it had broken out with an irruption of fantastic gables, windows and wings, and had become an anachronism in architecture, where the style of ane era jostled that of another, But it was not Rob who strolled into the school-room up at the Hon. Mr. Grundy’s when the bell rang for recess; who, under one pretext or another, be- guiled Patty to linger after hours, till the dusk shut them in alone with the stars, while he walked homeward with her, repeating some incidents of his travels, reciting some passionate sonnet of his own. It was not Rob who left a rose on her desk one morning with a love verse; when the sentiment is pretty and personal, one does not blame the poet because he is not a Milton—one is too apt to think heis. Rob had never attempted a rhyme in his life. If Mrs. Grundy, junior, had not been summering at the Swiss lakes no doubt she would have devised a way to end the love-making of her nephew; but there was nobody to interfere. Old Madame Grundy was too deaf and par- CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., 23, A AIAN 1882, NUMBER 12. youth and love existed, That ste for a word with a poverty stricken governess, should hang upon her will and court her presence, eapti- the her beart. They would sit over bewitched her with in Patty's pretiy eyes, or he unappreciated Mozart, fact possess and enjoy made his eloquence more eloquent, his tongue more Persuasive. was nothing mercenary in patare; she was oaly although Robert thought vine. She had a Paul had been would have found his place on Parnas- her di- day to find her nature too narrow and shonld not blame him over-much, nor unlove him, but carry the remembrance of her happiness shut into her heart like a faded rose pressed in a book of poems. It is perhaps well that we be. gin life with an oversupply of senti- iment; we should { little left at the jomrney’s end. Very likely Patty had never thought of Rob as a lover at all: he was the friend of the family, a schoolmate, about whom there were no reserves or mysteries ; perhaps he even seamed commonplace and Mr. Spencer with his invalnerable self- | possession, his soquaintance with the world. In the mesntime things had begun (o brighten a little in the Morris family ;: Mrs. Morris bad the house paioted and the blinds renewed; there was a new carpet in the drawing-room i not home-made ; not all at once, but by {almost imperceptible degrees, the shabby Morris mansion had begun to blossom into elezanve and the shabby | toilets to follow suit. Anita had a new i piano in exchange for the old one and a singing master. we living on onr principal, or where do we gat so much money ?” father left,” answered her mother. Patty's engagement was confided to no one outs'de the family except Rob. { The fact was Mr. Spencer was not quite prepared to acknowledge it to his friends ; his mother, who had v ews of her own for him, might have something disagreeable to say, and although he proposed to have his own way in the { end he naturally hated a scene, and be- themselves without his interference; in the meantime he was enjoying himself, It did not strike Mrs. Morris strangely | for a while, til Mrs. Grundy should re- tarn from the Swiss lakes, and Mr, | Grundy take a holiday, occupied as she was with her own concerns, That jany one should object to { Patty would seem preposterous, In | her opinion a doctor's family ranked | with the first in the land, and it did i not occur to her that any one could think differently; to be a member of { the faculty was to belong to the aris- | tocracy. { in the Morris family the girls began to | be invited cut more and more; it was { found that Anita had a fine drawing- | room voice and obliging disposition, {that Lena could talk art with the the | flocked to the soiree which Patty at- i tended. Moreover, it | sesthetes, and that | Morris had invested in United States { bonds. i ““I thought that the doctor left them " he said to { a8 poor as a churchmouse, | his wife. “ Bo he did; but she Las realized on { something, I hear. I can’t think what; | maybe he had Alabama claims, or per. haps some stock they held may have { risen.” “ Their stock has gone up with a vengeance,” said Mr, Bert. “ Yes, it is the Morrises here and the { of them till the other day, ber?” “Couldn't recall the name to save my soul.” soul, but the body. says they've prolonged ber days, and would care my neunraleia. But of course that does not signify,” The following evening Mr. B ert and Mrs. Morris met in the horsa-cars, again,” said he; * perhaps you could help me, Mrs. Morris.” “ Their name is legion,” said she. * Doctor, Doctor—what in the dence is his name ?” “Dr, Hood ?” suggested Mrs. Morris. “No: I wonder if it's recommended for failing memory ? Don’t you ever indulge in a bitter 2” “I take the bitter with the sweet | sometimes,” *“ Ah, very good, very good; Doctor Doctor ”— “Dr. Jay's? “ Exactly; a thousand thanks, 1 myself, but Lizzie likes to try every- thing; it gives her something to think about. By the way, I he.r it origina ted in this place, and there's been money made on it. ent medicine, I tell Lizzie, and you may drive your four-in-hand; but she doesn’t fancy that sort of distinction, don’t you know?’ * Perhaps it’s better than extinction,” laughed Mrs. Morris, “Yes, ves; here’s Mortar & Pestle’s; Ill step in before I forget it.” And 80 it began to be whispered brewed; the subject wan touched npon at society meetings, in morning calls, on the church porch, and even in the gentlemen’s debating club. begged Mrs. Grew not to say that it to her next neighbor with the same precaution. Many of those who had nsed the bitters were provoked to find that they had been fostering home talent, and began to question if they had received any benefit from them at all; others stoutly refused to believe that Bradford had been capable of evolving such a tonic from its inner consciousness; but these were the class of people who would doubt that the electric light illuminated, if it had originated in their neighborhood. * And you mean to say that a woman started and owns the bitiers?” ques- tioned Mrs, Bruce, one of its warmest adherents, “Well, I did think it helped me ‘about my rheumatism, but it must have been the medicated flannel.” Having unraveled two-thirds of the enigma, the good people of Bradford bent their intellects whole, “Dr. Jay's bitters were a happy thought,” the elerk at Mortar & Pestle’s Spencer dropped in for a glass of soda, fortune out of them." “* Who says so?” asked Rob. “Haven't you heard? She's been mighty sly, and small blame to her! Nobody wants to ba pointed out as the woman who makes your bitters. Dr, used to make up for his patients when thera wasn't much ailed them, and after way to turn, Mrs. Morris, she put it into the hands of a manufacturer on the halves. But it isn't everybody, you a patent medicine upon the publio; it isn't aristocratic. You wouldn't want You wouldn't want to marry into the fam. ily "1 don't know about that,” said Rob; Mr. Spencer was on his way to visit Patty, but he turned about in order to reflect. He did not object to marry without money, and rather plumed him- self upon the fact, since he had enough, But what the clerk at Mortar & Pestle’s bad said was quite true; one did not care to marry intoa family made famons by Dr. Jay's bitters. And therefore the perfumed note which Patty received the next week read: “My pear Parry: I promised my mother once, in the days when I be. lieved no woman would ever touch my heart, that I would never marry with- out her consent. Having told her of our engagement she refuses to sanction it; and I. oruelly staid, leave it to you to say if I shall keep my vow to her or follow my own sweet will? Always your lover, Pavn Srexcen,” “The bitters haven't agreed with him,” said Lena, when Patty broke the news. “Oh, yes,” said Anita, “they have cured him.” Of course there was but one reply possible, and Patty sent it, “Ho never could have loved me,” she sighed mournfully, “or the patent medicine conld have made no differenes.” “ He never could have loved as Rob loves you,” Lena ventured. “ Rob!” “Yas, Rob. The bitters make no differonce with him.” “ { never thought of it. But I shall never marry now.” And Patty thought she was quite sincere. But perhaps thers is nothing more soothing to the lacerated feelings of a jilted woman than the existence of another lover in the background. It was a year and a hall later when the evening mail. Ha bad started on an errand of his own, and waited with beating heart while she read the pages, fearing that he had come eon a fool's " “ Many waters cannot quench love, wrote Mr. Spencer, *‘ and although I put the Atlantic between us in obedi- ence to my mother’s will, I have never ceased to regret. Nothing shall ever come between us again, mein liebling ; the happiness of a lifetime is not to be weighed in the balance with a stupid, unconsidered promise. Ishall leave for America in the next steamer, and the future shall make amends for the weary months of suffering and heart- break, I thought I could live without I was mistaken.” * Oh,” eried Patty, in distress, * he She bad risen ‘“ He takes everything for granted ; how ean [ tell him I am not his Liebling I" “Tell him," said Rob—*tell him that you belong to me, Patty.” ** Bat, Rob, you have never "— “No, I have waited for this. See, I have built my house ; it is no longer a castle in the air,” and he unfolded his uncle's promised check, *“ Will yon me, Patty ” “Yes,” langhed Patty, beneath his kiss; “I will tell him that came very near wrecking Polly's happi- ness,” — Our Continent, —————————— A Showman's Life, “ Haven't ycu something of interest to relate about your own circus life and respondent inquired of Dan Rice, now sojourning at Wheeling, W. Va. “The story of my life is a strange one—a very strange one. Forty years ago I first entered the ring, and since then For nine years I re- in thering. I have been worth over much, Forepangh, Nathan, Cooper, Bailey & Co., E. R. Spaulding, Avery Smith, and other wall known managers have traveled under my name, and W, OC. Coup was once a gide-showman with me, and is a very Jikely and liberal gentleman, forall that. The jokes of old Dan have been heard in almost every city and town in the ont the entire West which wonld no of a Talmage or Beecher. There are four eirenses now traveling under my name—one in Texas, one in Arkansas, one on the Mississipi river and one in East in the spring, north in sonth in the fall is the order of circus A with all his failings a circus clown has a heart; and doesn’t the Bible say, Yo may not be And so the old man talked for a couple of hours and more. He told of intentions to night, and as he now and then recalled aged face; for whisky and time are fast doing their work for old Dan, A Fervent and Laconic Prayer, During the session of 1858, when the Towa legislature was discussing the State bank bill, and a prohibitory liquor law, a fervent aud laconic prayer, which has become historical, was offered be- fore that body. Recently the author- ship of the prayer and its phraseology have been disputed. Mr. Frank Shinn apparently settles the matter by stating that it was his father, A. T. Shinn, who prayed, and that his petition was as follows: “Great God, bless the young and growing State of Iowa; bless onr senators, representatives and chief offi- cers; give us a sound currency, pure water and undefiled religion, for Christ's sake, amen,” WISE WORDS, | #eliet is not in our power, but truth- | fulness is, Some men's attack is safer than their protection, True wisdom, in general, consists in | { energetio dete rmination, The gramblers never work, and the workers never grumble, Davote each day tothe ebjeot then in time, and the evening will find some. | { thing done. | Most of our misery comes from our fearing and disliking things that never | harpened at ell, If anything is possibla for man and peculiar to him, think that this can be | attained by thee, | What is really momentous und all im. | portant with us is the present, by which | the future is shaped and colored. There are persons who do not know how to waste their time alone and hence become the roourge of busy people. He who troubles himself more than poads grieves also more than is necessary, for the same weakness which makes him an'icipate his misery makes him enlarge it too, Ha that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act; for the consciousness of well-doing is itself ample reward, Life is a book of which we have but | tion. Let each day's actions, as they add their pages to the indestrueti- ble volume, be sach as we shall be will. | ing to have an assembled world read. a ——————————— he n one edi The Maple Tree and Sugar Making, Timothy Wheeler, of Waterbury, Vt, writes authoritatively as to * The Maple Tree and its Capabilities.” He is said to have made the making of maple sugar a matter of close investi. | gation and study, Mr. Wheeler says Vermont produces the best maple sugar made in A United States. He is sat- isfied that the sap, which flows from the tree in the early spring, does not come from the ground, as the ground and roots are both frozen, which would make it impossible; neither can it be sapplied entirely from the body of the tree, having been retained there daring the winter, as the supply would soon run out and leave the tree dry, He be lieves that the tree is replenished with sap from the *‘ vapor of weter in the at- mosphere.” Atnightthe tree gets cooler than the atmosphere, which causes the vapor to be absorbed, and the coolness also contracts the moisture in the tree, which has the effect to produce & ** suo- tion in the night,” and * fo the daytime, owing to the heat, an outward pres. sure.” * This is why sap flows by day and ceases at night.” This expansion, by the heat of the sun, causes an in creased pressure, and this is why the flow is largest near the surface the tree, as proven by a shallow hole com- pared with a deeper one, and why sap 1s sweetest in proportion as it is drawn | near the surface of the tree; hence the more shallow the hole the richer the sap. On this account thers can be sev. eral qualities of sap drawn from one tree. It is not the quantity of sap the tree supplies which determines its value for sugar making, but the quality; and, as a rule, the tree which offers the most makes the poorest sugar. The mos sap is obtained within ten to twelve feet of the ground. It ! diminishes in regular proportion, ac ¢ rding to height. At thirty feet the flow was found to be one and a half quarts, and above scarcely nothing. ‘The trees will yield from twelve to twenty-four gallons a day. eold climates more sugar can be obtained from maple sap than in warm latitudes, where molasses oxceeds, Poor soil i produces the richest sap, and the rich soil the poorest. One tree, with two spouts, will produce twenty pounds of | sugar; and one tree, with three spouts, { thirty-nine and a half pounds of sugar. { Toward the last of the season the sap is | sweeter, and more sugar can be made from the same amount of sap. of u . ni — Fortunes of the Barings. The Barings have been among the | most famous of English bankers. They | | are of German stock, There is a kind | of ecclesiastical flavor about them. ‘heir English fcunder was a Bremen | pastor, who settled in this country. His | grandson married the niece of an Eag- { lish archbishop, One of his descend- {ant , became bishop of Darham. The { money was originally made in the rich, { profitable clothing business in the west of England. Ashburton gave a title in the peerage to the chie! of the house tof Daring. It has been a rule in {the homse that when any one of tthem has got a title he goes ont {of the business, Sir Francis Barirg {the first great banker, who, dying in { 1810, left a fortune of £2 000,000, had three sons—Thomas, Alexander and | Henry, Thomas succeeding to the { baronetey, gave up the business. Henry { bad a rather romantic reputation as a | lncky gambler, who was frequently able i to break the bank of a gaming table. | | He was the amazament of beholders | | when he would sit down at a gaming { table at the Palais Royal—before such | tables were happily abolished —with | {piles of gold and note before him. | The reputation of a successful gambler | was hardly suited to the intense | respectability of the firm, and Mr. Heary i i | was iaduced to retire fromthe business, Baring, often known as | “ Alexander the Great,” sustained and extended the fortune of the house, Ha { went to America, and there, the richest | banker in England, married the daugh- i ter of the richest citizen of the United { States, One of his magnificent transac | | tions possess a historical importance, | | After the conclusion of the great! Earopean war he paid down a sum | of £1,000,000, by whish Irance| was freed from the oceupation | of Russian, Austrian and German armies. ‘‘ There are six great powers | in Europe,” ssid the Due de Richelien | —** England, France, Russia. Austria, | Prussia and Baring Brothers.” In 1835 | he was made Lord Ashburton. Two of his sons held the title, and each sue- cessively retired from the business. The head of the firm, Thomas Baring, be came chancellor of the exchequer in | Lord Melbourne’s ministry, and an- | other member, Lord Northbrook, hos | been governor general of loadin, —ZL in: | don Society. | Alexander Pluck and Loag Life, The force of will is a potent element in determining longevity, This single point must be granted without argu- ment, that of two men, every way alike and similarly circunmstunced, the one who has the greater courage or grit will be the longer lived. One does not need to practice medicine to learn that men die that might just as well live if they resolved to live, and that myriads who ave invalids could become strong if they had the native or acquired will to vow they would doso. On the other hand, there are those who have no other quality favorable to life, whose bodily organs are nearly all diseased, to whom each day is a day of pain, who are beset by life-shortening influences, yet who live by will alone, FACTS AND COMMENTS, In 1777 considerable interest was | in an annoupcem nt that | six stoves had been completed in Phil. | adelphia, The annual product of the ued at 1,000,000, and the indugtry sup- The value in round millions of the cereal crop of 1881, according to the estimates of the department at Wash. ington, are: Corn, $750 000 000; wheat, $453,000, 000 ; oats, $193 000,000; rye, $10,000,000; barley, £38,000 000; buok- wheat, $8 000000, Total, 81 465 000,. 000, against §1 861,000,000 1 18580 In Great Britian there is a fmedical association with already nearly 200 members who eschew the preseription of aleoholie liquors in nearly every and who publish a quarterly Dr. Richardson and Norman Kerr, of ineluded. Charles A. Henry, formerly editor of the Vallyrien, a Beandinavian journal published in Ban Francisco, has been engaged by Henry Villard to bring to this country 5,000 or 10,000 Seandi- pavians, to be employed in the con. struction of the Northern Pacifie rail road. Inducements will be offered these emigrants to settle on the line of the road. There are 1,000 Indians yet in the of Florida. They speak intercourse with white people at the posts on Lake Okeechobee have become eivilized. They are friendly and honest in their dealings with the whites, and are never known to ¢ommit thefts or outrages. Now and then a tourist induces one to go up to Jacksonville, but they seldom go farther, | An Italian who ii 1s, perhaps, unneo- essary to say has lived some time in Americas, has come to the conclusion that it is & huge basin of petroleum under Vesuvius which keeps the bowels of that interesting mountain in a oun- stant state of ebullition, more or less activa, He therefore proposes to dig a tannel at its base, tapping the great caldron, and thus puting the moun. tain at rest and scouring an unlimited supply of petroleum. Mr, Bergh's society for the preven. tion of cruelty to animals has sixteen branches and 230 agencies in the Btate of New York, and last year prosecuted 835 cases in the courts. ln New York city and Brooklyn 1,275 animals were taken from work and sent to veterinary surgeons for treatment. Three years ago the number was 3,000, and it is claimed that the falling off proves that the work of the society has been effect- ive morally. a — A stone bridge to be built al Minne- apolis, Minnesota, bids fair to become one of the notable structures of the world, It will consist of sixteen ocighty-feet spans and four 100-feet spans, and including the shore.pieces will have a total length of 1 0J0 feet It will support tw railway tracks at a height of over sixty feet above the water, and will run diagonally across the river below Anthony Falls. The cost is estimated st nearly $500,000, The Chicago Tribune predicts that within an area of about 90,000 square miles, covering the northern third of Iilinois, the southern grarter of Wis. consin and the entire State of Towa, is to be tho great butter and cheese pro- ducing region of the world, The farm- ors there are said to receive only about fifty por cent. of the commercial value of the grain they mise, the balance portation, but when they use the land for pasturage and fodder for cattle and turn their attention to dairy of their valne, the transportation being redused to ten par cent., including brokerage. The movement in favor of reform in the agricultural law of England is quite as active as in Ireland. It is quiet and undemonstrstive, but none the less de- termined for all that, and gradually, but somewhat stealthily, it may besail, lords disposing of their properties. I'rom every quarter of Eagland comes the announcement of the sale of some hereditary estate, which has lain in the family for ages, and in every caso the announcemert is accompanied by the most bitter lamentations against tho depression in the value of land. The Dake of Westminster has already sold some of tho most desirable por- tions of his property. He is said to have already realized over a quarter of a million by his tales, and he has ex- sponsibilities still further, of the chief of bureau of statistics, shows the value of the principle articles which we buy of other nations : Articles, Valine, Sagar and molasses... ..oovvvess £03,404 288 Coffoo Iron, steel] and masufacturesof. ... Silk and mannfacinres of Wool and manufactares of 406,430,737 42,944,965 40,800,394 86 500 473 Cotton snd mannfactures of. ..... 7 Hides and skins, other than Tin aud manufacturers of Flax and manufactnios o! Frais of all kinda including nuts, Wood and manufactaresof.oov.... India rubber an! gatta-percha, and manufactures of Jreadstufls and other fairnaceous 21 004,518 17.621.465 11,651,301 10.663.675 10,586,342 B 084,437 8,742,201 8.332.516 Leather and manufactures of, .... Jute, ete., and mannfactures of, , Wine, spirits and econrdials Procious stones . Fanoy goods, periumery and oos- 8 208.927 Fars, dressed and uadressed, ,.... 7,001,649 Earthen, stone and china ware, ., Total about A Doctor on Yaccination, ‘* People make a mistake,” says a physician employed in a New York city hospital in which are treated many smallpox patients, *' when, because they have been vaccinated on one arm and the vaccination does not take, they conclude their system will not receive the virus,” The physician says : I vaccinate mrself, and as often as once a year. I do it for self protection, a8 I am employed in a hospital which receives many smallpox cases. Recent. ly I vaccinated myself on my left arm. The vaccine matter did not take at all. Then I determined to vaccinate my right arm, The trial resulted most successfully, and I am just getting over about as painful a vaccination take ns I ever experienced, I would advise a person to keep at it, If the left arm does not feel the influence try the right one, and even if the right arm shows no sign of the vaccine tak- ing effect try some other part of the body, Where failure will result the first or second time, success will come on the third or fourth trial. SUNDAY READING, A Happy Custom. It is related by travelers, as an in. stance of how little the eustoms of Eastern nations have changed during many hundreds of years, that in the flelds of Palestine the very same words may be heard now as ia the days of Boag and Ruth, When the master enters the harvest fiald, he salutes his reapers just as Boaz d d; “ God be with you." And the pessants respond always in the same word « (vod bless thes” It 1s a happy custom, that may well ase no change. We should all do well to use this ancient salutation: “ The Lord be with thee.” Religious lutelligence. The British Wesleyan Missionary society appropriates annually $2 500 for the support of evangelistic work 1c Fran ca. Seven hundred conversions are result of seven weeks revival work in Ciuciunati under the leadership of the Rev. Thomas Harrison, Messrs, Moody and Bankey have been in Glasgow, Beotland, where they bave held large meetings and have met with great sucoass in their work. InAungusinext the Moravian Brethren will celebrate the third jubilee of their mission among the heathen, 17382 being the year in which Leupold and Dober set sail for Bt, Thomas and the West Tadies, Thare are reven Baptist associations, with one hundred churches, in Canada. Only 151 baptisms are reported, being less than two for each church. This is the smallest number of baptisms re- ported since 1853, Dr. Hartzell, of Louisiana, made the statemeat in the Chicago Methodist ministers’ mesting, that near Houston, Texas, there are half a million colored pople without a single school of any Find under the guidavoe of any church, The Presbpterian synods now oon: form to Btate lines, That of Penn sylvania heads the list with 131,054 communication; that of N«w York has 130 374; Ohio has 6% 316; New Jersey, 40 957; Illinois, 421286; Indiana, 27,- | 678; lowa, 20.812 In the first decade of the Methodist Episcopal church there was one minis. ter to evary 190 members; in the fifth decade the proportion was one to 284 The'presert propo: tion is one minister to 147 members, against 143 in the ninth and tenth decades. The National Bible sooiety, of Boot land, have placed in the hands of Dr. Bomerville, at present on an evangelis- tic tour in Germany, 50,000 copiss of portions of the New Testament for gratuitons distribution. Dr. Bomer- ville declares that the supply is con- siderably smaller than the demand, | From the * Baptist Hand Book for | 1882" we gather that there are now in | the United Kingdom 2 580 churches, 8 395 chapels, 1,101 361 sittings, 200. - (038 moubers, 46521 Sanday school teachers, 433 801 Sanday-school schol ars, 1, 535 pastors in charge and 3,247 evangelists. There has been a decrease in pastors and evangelists of late years io the denomination. Aocording to the graud totals, there are now throughout the world 28 505 charshes, 17,683 pas tors or missionaries, and 2473,088 members, Upward of $1,000,000 has been spent in Great Dritain during the year upon new or improved places of worship On a Mexican Farm, We are in the midst of a level valley, with gently sloping mountains on all the boundaries. Tae leading crops are maize, barley and maguey. The tlachi- quero goes around every day, with his donkey carrying wine skins, collecting the sweet sap from the magney to make the puique. He pours it into vats of skin in his department to ferment, treats it in his own way for a fortnight or more, and then it is ready for sale. We see sometimes forty plowmen come in and nuyoke their teams of an even- ing. The agricultural implements of the larger sort in use are American, but plows, sprdes, picks and the like are manufactured at Apuloo, near by, more cheaply. There are interesting homemade woeden forks and shovels yet remaining. Among the rest the veritable Egyptian plow, of wood with but an iron point, is much more in use than the modern sort, And for its pur- pose of tarning shallow furrows and plowing between the rows of waize it appears, to tell the truth, not ill adapted. The ground is treated by irrigation, no less than eleven large dams, one of them creating a lake two miles long, being formed for this purpose. The portions of land used for cultivation are taken irregularly in various parts of the estate, according to their proximity to these. Eich has its name, as Las Animas, San Antonio the Larger, Ban But it is a grazing country, and the chief industries are the raising of ani- cheese. The greater part cf the cattle when sproating, after which it does not The idea is worth attention by American farmers aud those who have to do with the transportation of The call hero remains with its | mother under all cirenmstances. It is | a quaint sight at milking-time to see it lassoed fast to its mother, whose hind. ach of the departments is and an securate supervision and record is made of the whole, — Harper's Maga- ne, ser EL Saxe’s Sorrows, The bereavements which John G. Saxe, the poet, has suffered in the loss the malady with which he suffers, to the extent which alarms his friends Visitations of death bean in 1874, danghter, aged seventeen years, died f consumption. Next, Sarah E. Sixa, the poet's eldest daughter, died in 1879, ter a long & okness, A year ago the poet's mother departed this lite. Last fall the poet received the heavi st blow in the low of hia wife, she, in reality, dyina ot exhanstion produced by wateh- ing at the bedside of her sick children Two months ago the poet's third danghter, Harriet, died of consumption Within three weeks death scizad the poet's danghter in law, and on Jane 30 the poet's son, John T. Saxe, was found dead in bed at his home in Albany, hav. ing died of some pulmonary disease. {he poet, on the night of his son's de mise, had slept in the next room, but Hid not awaken to hear his last words, Ry the death of his son the pce! has oat poven of lis tumily in a few years, Lut one of his children is now hing, Jharies 8. Saxe, of Albany, The long vain of fum'ly misfortunes has left the soot in a reflective, melancholic state, £ ind ho rarely swiles, t THE INDIAN'S CONFESS ON, A Mystery of the Nerthwest Cleared Up After a Lapse of Fifty Years, Canadian papers give the following account «f a mystery which has been cleared up after a lapse of fifty years: An old snd well known Indian, who has just died, before his death made a confession which entirely clested up what had been a painful mystery for a full hall a century, Fifty years ago Nicholas Garland, a pioneer, took a tract of land situated in what is now the township of Beckwith, in the conuty of Lauark, built a eabin on it, and proceedod to clear away the {ense forest standing upon the tract. At that time he had a wile snd one small ehild, a very pretty little girl, pamed Alice, One a Alice did not return from the edge of the clearing, where she had been playing with two other children. An alarm was raised, aud all the woodsmen in the countr thereabout joined in a search, whi lasted for many days, but resulted in no clew to the missing child, and the general verdiet mirived Zat by the hunters was that Alies had been ear. ried off and devoured by one of the bears with which the country then abounded, This eonclusion seemed to be ecor- roborated by the discovery of some clean, small bones a few months after. ward in a deep hollow a couple of miles from Garland’s cabin, They were guthered together and buried by the father and mother of Alice near their home, All the people for miles around attended the funeral, which was the first ever held in this section by the whites, The loss of their child and the terri. ble 'rain of the long suspsnse and the ghastly discovery subsequently, broke down the strong constitution of Mrs. Garland, and she died with a broken heart not long after the funeral. Mr. Garland, after his wife's death, became hard and ascetic, never referred to his trouble, never associated with lis neighbors, and has ever since lived a hermit in the eabin he first built. This old Indian who died recently, however, says that he saw Alice on that day when she was playing with ber companions in the clearing, became foscinated with her childish beauty, and carried her away aud raised her us one of his own family. When she be- ciume marriageable she was thoroughly Indianized, snd ber abductor managed to have her married to one of his own sons. She is now living in Broce county, and is the mother of a large family, She hus never shown that she had any recollection of her parents or home and sppears to be happy. The dying Indian ssid that so well had she been cared for that he believed no one could have convinced her to change her lot, and he added that no one but him- self and the son who married her was ever made sequainted with her history. The story is believed to be trae, and caused a profound sensation. What a Voleano Can Do, Cotopax’, in 1833, threw ils flery rockets 3,000 feet above its crater, while in 1¥54, the blazing mass, struggling for an outlet, roared so that its awful voice was heard at a distance of more than 600 miles. Ia 1797 the crater of Tungurangua, one of tue greatest peaks of the Andes, flung out torrents of mud which dammed np the rivers, opened new lakes, and in valleys 1.000 feet wide made deposits 000 feet deep I'he stream from Vesuvius, whish, in 1337, passed throngh Torre del Greso, contained 32,000,070 ecabie feet of solid matter, and in 1703, when forre del Greco was destroyed a sooond time. the mass of lava amounted to 45,000,000 cubio feet. In 1760 Etna poured forth a flond whica covered eighty four square miles of sur- face and measured nearly 1,000,000,000 cubio feet. Oa this occasion the sand and scoria formed the Monte Rosini, near Nicholosa, a cone two miles in circumference and 4,000 feet high. The stream thrown cut by Etna in 1810 was in motion at the rate of a yard a day for nine months after the eruption; and it is on record that the lava of the same mountain, after a terrible eruption, was net thoroughly eool and consolida. ed for ten years after the event. In the eruption of Vesuvius, A. D. 79, the scoria and ashes vomited forth far exceeded the entire bulk of the mountain; while in 1600 Etos disgorged twenty times its own mass, Vesuvius has sen: its ashes as far as Constantinople, Syria and Egypt; it hurled stones eight pounds in weight to Pompeii, a distance of six miles, while similar m-sses were tossed paxt has projected a block of 100 cabie yardsin volume a distance of nine miles; and Sumbawa, in 1815, during the mos! terrible eruption on record, sent its ashes as far as Java, a distance of 300 miles, sn se —— A Curious Legend, This curious Hessian legend is re- corded by the Brothers Grimm: A man kills bis brother while they are out bunting and buries the corpse under the arch of a bridge. Years pass. One day a shepherd, crossing the bridge with his flock, sees below a little white bone, shining like ivory. He goes down, picks it up and carves it into a mouth- piece for his bagpipes. When he began to play, the mouthpiece, to his horror, began to sing of iis own accord: “Oh, my dear shepherd! you are playing on one of my bones; my b other assassinated me and buried me | under the bridge.” : The shepherd, terrified, took his bagpipes to the king, who put the mouthpiece to his lips, when straigat. way the refrain began. “Oh, my dear king! yon are playing on one of my bones; my brother assas- sivated me and buried me under the bridge.” The king ordered all his sub- jeots to try in turn the bagpipes. From mouth to mouth the instrament passad t) that of the fratricide, and then it sang: «Oh, my dear brother! you are play- ing cn one of my bones; it was you who assassinated mal” And the king ordered the murderer to be executed. —— TT — Satisfying tho Majesty of the Law, There is a justice of the peace out in Crosby county. Week before last he found a man guilty of shooting a bull that did not b:long to him, and fined him seventy-five dollars, * Why jodge,” said the doomed man, 9] haven't got seventy-five dollars; I can't pay no sich fine.” “The State of Texas pats me in this office to find ont a way to make men pay their fines. You will cut cedar poles uatil you have cut enough to satisfy the majesty of the law,,’ replied the justice. * But jedge, what nse has the State of Texas got for cedar poles 2” *‘ The State of Texas hasn't got no use for cedar poles. It's the conrt who needs them cedar poles to build a fence. Il take the poles’ and settle with the State of Texas for them.” Aud the poor chap is cutting cedar poles for the State of Texas now. HEALTH HINTS, a Ten cents’ worth of muristio sein avd acid of niter will take out any vum- ber of corns or warts, pe around the corn and put the seid sronnd its few times, and then you can take a pin sud lift it out by the roots, Pat a little gieese in it when it is removed, The following is an excellent and safe remedy for children's colds : Take onions, silee thin, and sprinkle loaf sugar over them, put in the oven and simmer until the juice is thoroughl mixed with thesugar. It makessa syrup, very nice. Give n I soonen 10" bo Hosded, ros or four times a day. In acute sickness when milk and beef tea disagree, the French hospitals give a preparation albumen water, made by dissolving the white of an ogg in a pipt of water, and glycerine to sweeten, sud lemon juice to flavor.— Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. Reuepy ron Bumss — According to the Practitioner a simple snd effective remedy for removing the pain of wounds caused by barus or sealds is a situited | aolution 4 of bicarbonate of a in eit P or Senplnisd water. To apply the remed that is hom isto ob piece uf fit or old soft rag or even thi 0 § papers 0 Se va te lie 8 parts to t well wetted with thy sodaie lotion, 4 as to prevent its drying. means it usgally happens ceases in from a quarter hour, or even in much | the main of a li band or forearm or os 1 pegs to bout ticable to plunge part at 8 jog or pail or other con sel filled with the sods jotion, it there until the subsides, or limb may bs # ed or encircled with s surgeon's cotton bandage y sonked in the saturated solution and kept coustantly wetted with it, the relief being usually immediate, vil tae solution be saturated CO. 33 hf §iEins EEE : § £3 The Magnetic Needle, the needle pointing to the northward and southward is as follows: The magnetic poles of the earth do not coincide with the geozraphical poles. The axis of rotation makes an angle of ie 2 witha line Joining the former, e northern magoétic is at ent pear the Powe, mp Pe a ian of Omaha, Hence the needle does not everywhere poiat to the astronom- ical north, and is constantly variable within certain limits. At Fran- cisco it points about seventeen Sepines to the east of north, and at Calais, . as mach to the west. At the northern magnetic pole, a balanced needle points with its north end downward ina piunmb line. At Sin Francisco it dips about sixty three degrees, and st the south- ern maguetio pole the south end points directly down. The attraction of the earth upon a magnetic needle at its surface is of about the same force as magnet, forty inches long, strongly magnetized, at a distance of one foot. o foregoing is the accepted explanation of the fact and southward. Of conrse, no ultimate reason can be given for this natural fact, sny more than for apy other observed fact in nature, A Hot lice io Live, Mr. John H. Wilson, who has been Bremen, is by this appointment simply transferred from Panama to his old post where he was for three years—from 1873 to 1876. He went from there to Hamburg, where he remained for Panama. The consulship at Panama is the best in point of by about £1,000, but Mr. Wilson savs he would not live in Panama for $20,000 a year. “It is down there under the tropical sun,” he said, *“ where there are graves of five consuls, and nothing but dis. comfort,” His suoccesscr there is Mr, Seroggs, formerly minister to Colombia. As he was speaking of the graves of consuls, Mr. Pualvermecher, of Ten- nessee, consul at Maricaibo, Venezuela, came up and said : ** At my post there are thirty-three graves of consuls, and there is, if one can judge of the heat, but a thin partition between there and h—ades. Mr. Palvermacher is soon to return to his red-hot post, where he is, apparently, the only consul who ean keep out of a grave. He is not only United States esnsal, but fills the same office for England, France and Ger- many.— Waskinoton Letter, A Woman's Ingenuity. A Dublin chambermaid is said to have got twelve commercial travelers into eleven bedrooms, and yet to have given each a separate bedroom. Here wo have eleven separate bedrooms: 1721314151617i8:9:/10i11] [112! 15161718 “ Now,” saysshe, “il two of you will go into No. 1 bedroom and wait a few min- utes 111 find a spare room for you as soon as I have shown the others to their rooms, Well, now, having thus bestowed two gentlemen in No. 1 she put the third in No. 2, fourth in No. 3, the fifth in No 4 the sixth in No. 5, the seventh in No 6, the eighth in No. 7, the ninth in No. 8, the tenth in No. 9, the eleventh in No. 10. She then came back to No. 1, where you will remember she left the twelfth gentleman alone with the first, and said: “I have accommodated all the rest and have still a room to spare; so if one of you will please step into No. 11 yon will find it e.opty.” Thus, the twelfth man got his bedroom. Of course, there is a hole in the saucepan somewhere, but we leave the reader to determine exactly where the fallacy is, with just a warning to think twice before declaring as to which, if any, of the travelers was the *‘ odd man out.” Hang the Expevse, A Chiosgo man who made a big for- tune in a pork deal went to England to polish up a bit on the ‘‘hang the ex- pense” method. He sawa hat anda pair of boots he admired very much in a window. The hat had a ccckade on the side that pleased him exceedingly. It had not been introduced into Chi. cago, and he was bound to have the newest thing out. After paying for the hat he said he would take the boots, too, if they fitted. . «Oh, you can't wear those boots with that hat, you know," said the salesman. “Why can't I? demanded the mil- lionaire, ** I guess I can pay for them.” «Oh, cartainly,” returned the man, smoothly, ‘but, you see, that's a foot- man’s hat and those are cjzehman's boots.” a the peel of one lemon, whip it to a froth, pour a pint of thick cream into a china dish, lay sponge cake in thin slices over it lightly, then a4 layer of some kind of jelly, then pour the whioped cream on top and pour what remains into the bottom of the dish. Teas 8 Jtings, Garnish the rim with sweetmeate, i : gs d 138 § k i i ; ; 4h § E g : : 3 ¥ i 1] rte E fii ff Es 1] ! ¥ F Se ue Jos streets of a large y= over five feet two inches in weighs Wall street. He controls proper estimated to be worth $400.00: Nolody, not even himselt, can tell much he is personally worth, But disposition is always to e rate fortunes of operators. la aa ition his gigantic railway enterprises, man owns the telegraphic arstem country, and through it hus the the whole nation by the throat.” A Surprise Party Surprised, There was a “surprise party” lust | urday night in which the members the party were the ones who wire ji ucularly surprised. Miss Esther a popular aud young Jud Si Gu ered und a party in her and or eusunl SUrprse ap by some friends. Aa young gentleman who was not
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