Song of the Silent Land,
Into the Silent Land !
Ah 1 who shall lead us thither?
Clouds in the evening sky more darkly gather,
And shattered wrecks lie thicker on the strand, |
Who leads us with a gentle hand
Thither, Oh, thither,
Into the Silent Land ?
Into the Silent Land !
To yon, ye boundless regions
Of all perfection! Tender morning-visions
Of beanteous souls | The Fature’s pledge and
band !
Who in Life's battle firm doth stand
Bhall bear Hope's tender blosssms
Into the Silent Land !
~Longfellow,
AOA.
rie Jos | VOLUME XV.
She was so fair, with her golden hair
And her beautiful eves of blue,
Hditor and Proorietor.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE
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CO., PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 1
8.00
PRISE SES
in Advance.
Sr s———— RRS FATTO.
NUMBER 15.
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What wonder that 1, in passing by, !
Tarried a while to woo !
Oh, bright the day of that spring-time gay,
And merry and young wore we,
| many times before he had grown old
i enough and wise enough to ask it,
{ The reader will remember that the
i condition of life in which one is brought
up will, unless life be made positively
unhappy, be natural to him. He will
{ remember that Robert had had the
i chance to learn little of any other life
than the one he led. He wns thrown
with travelers; to journey long and
| widely was natural to him,
We must not think that Robert was
loss aoute than other young men, al.
{ though he had never put his slowly.
formed conclusion into words until that |
night.
* She makes a business of traveling.
{ Why #
And behind the fair face that looked
{up at him in the gathering twilight, |
| with its wealth of love and tenderness
{ that had always been there for him,
was the secret; for he began to feel—to
know-—that there was a secret which he |
i could not fathom.
i “Robert!”
DP Brine. | " Yes, mother."
i “Do vou know what day to-morrow
TTT | will be
" ** The twelfth of Qotober.™
Shadowing a Shadow. «How old sre you
“Twenty-one to-morrow, mother."
Yobert Gaines had traveled with his! She made room by her side for her
mother ever since he could remember, | son, and asked with the air of one who |
His first childish memory was of the | has something to tell which she shrinks |
stormy Channel passage from England | from telling:
to France. { “Did you never wonder why we|
He remembered putting his little soft | travel about constantly? Why we
white hands together to say his evening | bave always journeyed
prayers) he remembered his kindnurse, | «I have wondered, mother; I was i
his lovely bat sad-looking mother | thinking of it not a minute since.
standing a little apart from them and | Why?’
gazing down upon him with a wealth of | «Jt is time vou ‘should know. It is |
love shining in her eyes and lingering | time you should begin to help me. We
around her lips. | may succeed better when we can work |
As he remembered that he was fright- | together.” i
ened at the noise of the wind and “1 shall always help you,
waters outside, and thought how differ- | mother” . :
ent it was from home, he must have had “I know it, Robert, bat vou must
then a memory of home. But later | know all of my life. I was born in |
that mem ry had faded away into the London, as was your father. He was
anknown aud forgotten blank of in- | wealthy, and so was I. He was engaged
fancy. His earliest memory, as a boy | iy a business which continues under his
aud as a man, was of the stormy Chan- | name to the present day; a business |
vel passage from Eagland to France. | which earns a sum of money each year
There was a break in his memory after | which is larger than I dare mention to
that. you. You would be more than amazed
Probabiy only the markedly strange | gt the income from your father's wealth
events of early life abide with us as | I manage the business, although almost
memories. Later he had seen great! entirely by correspondence.
mountains, which he knew, years after- “ When we were married, however,
ward, must have been the Alps. i the business was of much less import
Coming down the years, his memory | ance, Your father had only one clerk |
showed him events more snd more | then, a man by the name of James |
closely connected. They had spent an Watson—a man I always disliked. He |
entire year journeying over England ; | lived with us, and I fancied he would
they had seemed to avoid the usual | pe glad to make trouble between my |
routes of travel, and to visit the poorest | husband and myself. I was high-
and most untidy towns. | spirited; your father was quick-tem-
A year of this, and then a long jour- | pered. How it commenced I have never |
noy with only the shortest of prepara- | heen able to remember, but one night |
tion. He had grown old enough to | gt supper a slight dispute grew into a
know that the long voyage bad taken | quarrel, and the quarrel into a fierce |
them to Australia. And yet they! tumult of shreats and denunciation. At
had remained there only one week, | last your father seized his hat, shouted
coming back then to continue their | back the threat that he would never
travels in another part of the world. | come back again, and rushed for the
Mrs. Gaines’ journeys had always door. Five minutes later James Watson |
seemed peculiar to the few friends she | said he must go with his master and
made while on her travels. To the boy | glso left the house.
who had grown up to manhood by her | «J went to bed that night sorry for
side, tha idea of pecnliarity and strange- | what had happened, for I sincerely
ness had been of slow growth. He had | loved your father, and I know he sin-
never had other instructor than his | cerelv loved me.
mother, but his studies had not suffered. | <The next day the place of business |
Still, when he met other boys and | was not opened. My husband and
young men who studied in schools, he | James Watson Lad gone, that was cer-
had grown to wonder why he had never | tain, We advertised for them both. I |
been allowed to stop and study in| pgid hundreds of pounds out of my pri-
schools himself. | vate purse tc London detectives. Noth.
His mother’s care and love had never | ing came of it. Three months after he
failed him, her patience had never | jeft me you were born. I advertisad
given way; but she never remained | that widely, asking not my husband to
long enough in any one place to make | some to me, but your father to come to
friends. . ; you. The advertisement appeared in
Boyhood wins friends sooner than | avery capital city in the world. Itdid
more matare age; but Robert had | pg good. The lawyers allowed me to
scarcely any friends, and changed his | take charge of the business, after a
acquaintances so frequently that bel time I accounting for all that I re-
could remember but few of them, and | cajved. I was told that I might take
those were people whom he had met in | legal steps which wceunld put me in pos
late years. | session — absolute possession — of 2a
Then the method, or want of method, | |arge share of his property. But I had |
And the words she said, ere an hour had speds
Seemed full of truth to be,
Oh, nobody heard, “save a wandering bind,
The wonds that I dared to speak,
A%savatched the blush, the erimson flush
. oy stained her soit fair cheek,
NBhe other ear save hers could hear
The question I whispared there
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While a sparkle grow in the eves so hlue
Of that maiden sweet and fair,
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“What answer bast thou ?
1 joyfully urged at last.
tad a line : “For answer of ming,
Read this when the day is past.”
Oh, give it now,"
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Oh, maids may be fair, with their golden hair ;
But those who for love may thirst,
Be careful, I say, in the spring-time gay,
Lest it chance to be— "April 1s”
Mary
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| last check was made in London the day |
before we sailed. 1 have tried system
long enough; I am trying Juck this |
time."
“ What shall you
He paused and glanced at his mother,
Her face was pale and her eyes set,
She clutched his arm with a grip that
almost wrung a ory from his lips
“ James Watson I" she gasped,
LIFE AT THE WHITE HOUSE,
How Hasiness is Conducted at the
Headanaviers,
| Woe find in the Washington Keening
Star the following interesting descrip
tion of how business is now conducted
fr
| under the present administration is
truly a place of business, and is ran on
{ thorough business principles, President
“What is it—who —where {" | Arthur has set apart certain days of the
“That man is James Watson," whis- | week for special purposes, and all the
pered the woman, pointing forward. “I | employes know that nothing can be
must see him.” allowed to interfere with the regular
“I'll bring him,” said Robert, and | work for each day. One day in every
WAS gone, week the President has reserved for
“A lady wishes to ask you a question, | himself, Few people can realize the
sir, if you please." | constant strain to which the President
“ Cortainly,” and moved back | is subjected. It is absolutely neces
across the deck. { sary that he shonld have some relief
“* Where is my husband, James Wat. | from the pressure which is brought to
son? said Mrs. Gaines, quietly, though | bear upon him from morning until
her lips were white, and the blood was | midnight. President Garflald
he
{ of his office, and the constant strain |
{ on his nerves and strength told upon |
making in the palms of her hands,
“Mrs. Gaines!" he groans; then
side: “Who arevou?’ and he raised | time that he held the office,
) Saturday was the day chosen by Presi. |
Robert (Gaines had been in America dent Arthur when he should seclude |
often enough to haveseen something of | himself from the crowd of sight-seers |
one habit there which might well re. and business callers who daily besiege
main unimitated. He imitated it, how. | the White House, but as that day is the
ever, and took a boyish pride in going | one when Senators and Representatives
armed. | are most at leisure to look after affairs
When James Watson raised his cane | which necessitate a eall upon the Presi. |
the young man took one step forward, dent (both houses otf Congress usually
and the next moment Watson was look- | adjourning over that day), he decided
ing into the end of a short, self-cocking | upon Monday as “his” day. Tuoesdays
and Fridays have long been “cabinet” |
“Put down your cane and answer | days, Members of Congress, however,
my mother's question.” are received on these days from 10 until |
“Your mother?’ said he; and he! 12 o'clock. The latter hour is the time |
made a sudden movement of some sort, | for the regular cabinet meeting
It isn’t likely he would have dared to | Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
strike the boy with the revolver at his are what are known as business days, |
head. It isn't likely young (Gaines | when those who have business to lay |
would have fired on him if he had; but | before the President, or who merely
in some WAY the pistol went off, and wish to see him and shake him
Robert was looking from the smoking | by the hand are received
weapon to a prostrate man, and the | from 11 till 1 o'clock The
warm blood was creeping nearer and | President generally breakfasts abaut
nearer to his feet when the officers of | 7:30 o'clook, lunches at 2, if the pres
the steamship reached them. sare of business allows him, and dines
““ Pat him in irons,” said the cap- {at 7:30 o'clock. About 4 o'clock he
tain, pointing to Robert, goes out driving. Daring the evening
** Do nothing of the he almost always has a number of call
era, either personal friends or officials, |
with whom he has appointments, When
the last caller has departed the Presi
dent usually devotes several hours to
matters which he has set aside to be
considered at this time, or which have
| been crowded over during the press of
the day. Itis at this time a decision is
said he—* far bet- reached on many matters of weight, in
ter 0.” A little later he said. * Send cluding frequently important appoint
me Mrs. Gaines.” To her: “ You've | ments. The rules which have been laid |
followed me terribly close most of the | down in the White House are not devi.
time. You and your detectives have | ated from except in case of special ap-
tortured me almost beyond endurance. | pointment. In fact, business is done
It will be rest to die. It was my ac- | somewhat as it was under the Jackson
cursed greed and my powers of clever and Grant regimes. It will be |
imitation with my pen which did it all. | remembered that President Garfield's |
I don't expect you will forgive me—I | private secretary, J. Stanley Brown, |
sort,” said
with a terrible effort; ** he's
finished me, but I would swear with my
latest breath did it in sell-de-
fense ”
* He may live an hour,
surgeon,
Watson opened his eyes,
“ It's betterso,”
he
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said the
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1 dent Arthur for a time. Owing to the
request of Mrs. Garfield that he should
take charge of and arrange certain pa-
pers with a view to their use in the
She was beginning to biography of the late President he was |
understand. obliged to saver connection with the |
Watson started up. White House, Fred J. Phillips, a per. |
“ That night—more than twenty-one | sonal friend of President Arthur, suo-
years ago—when he left home—1 mur. | ceeded Mr. Brown. Although President
dered him—and threw his body—in the | Arthur has a much smaller force of
Thames.” assistants than his predecessors. the
The last word was a gasp. was work at the executive mansion is dis.
dead. patched with remarkable promptness
and accuracy. This is owing mare,
perhaps, to the signal abilities of Mr.
" . : { Phillips than to anything else. He is
he following anecdote about the |, thorongh man of business, The
famous jurist Story is in private eiren- | pragident has implicit confidence in
him, and relies on him a great deal, |
and consequently Mr, Phillips sncoeeds
in relieving him of much that would
otherwise occupy his time and annoy
him. The many callers whom he
is obliged to are dis-
| posed of with rapidity and satisfaction. |
The hungry office-seeker is not lured |
rest. He has ended your journey auc
mine together.”
“ Where is my husband ?" said Mrs,
Gaines, with the sound of nnshed tears
in her voices.
He
Auecdote of Judge Story,
lic eve. It was prepared for Story's
biography by his son, but Charles
Sumner, who edited the work, struck it
out, The narrative runs like this:
In his younger days Story lived in
the aristocratic old town of Salem, in
Massachusetts, His great ability was
see
not then tempered by as much wisdom
by a false hope, because of a disinelina-
SUNDAY READING,
WALL HIFILT SPECULATORS,
Paving Delus, ]
" . How Farvtunes are Lost by Unsephisticated
One of our religions exchanges has | People Whe Think They have *Poluts."
the following strong remarks on this
subject, They drive the nail to the
{ head and elinch it: “Men may so-
{ phisticate how they please. They can
never make it right, and all the inigui
It wonld be laughable were it not so |
melancholy, says a New York corre
spondent, narrate the numberless
oases of men who, snddenly exalted
from their humble spheres of plodding
ous laws in the universe cannot make work to money making Wall street
{ it right for them not to pay their debts, | operators, built golden castles in the
| There is a sin in this neglect as clear | gir—alas ! to see them so soon and so
{ and as deserving church discipline as is | gruelly dispelled. People abandoned
stealing or false swearing. He who | their legitimate ooenpations and flocked
| violates his promise to pay, or witholds | to the eity in hundreds, hovering over
| the payment of a debt when it is in his | the omnipresent stock-ticker, and
| power to meet the obligation, ough! | thinking they were on the road to in.
| to feel that in the sight of all honest | dependence and riches, casting already
| men he is a swindler. Religion may be | about in their minds where they would
| a very comfortable cloak under which | take their next summer jaunt in En
| to hide, but if religion does not make | yope, whether they would have light
4 man deal justly, it is not worth oream-colored horses, or steeds of a
having.’ rich, dark bay; imagining themselves |
installed in fine, showy houses,
with liveried servants and all
the paraphernalia of wealth, 1
particularly remember, for its sadly
ludicrous end, the experience cf the
clerk of a small summer hotel in New |
England, whose aoquaintancs I had
made during a flying midsummer trip, |
He was a nice, modest fellow, but very
inexperienced and much too guileless |
and confiding for this wicked world of |
blooded Indian, ours, What was my astonishment when |
The Rev. GG. Hubert, a Baptist minis. | One evening I saw the young man sitting |
ter in Norway, has been sentenced to | 8t Delmonico's and picking his teeth |
pay a heavy fine for having baptized a after an elaborate dinner—for I could |
young person, both of whose parents observe the remnants of various ex-
wore already members of the Baptist | pensive courses and an empty claret
church : and champaigne bottle were on the
According to the Irish church dire. table. He came up to me with a smile
tory for the current year there are now of intense satisfaction, and (as I thought
1,708 olergy in the Protestant Episcopal | ™ the time) with considerable conde-
church of Ireland. In the census of A POCRTOB extanded sa his band.
1861 there was 2,265, and the decrease, | , «HOY are you? said 1, civilly.
therefore, in the tweaty yoars has been | 1 Lat are you doivg in New York?
’ ’ “I'm down in Wall street,” said he,
with airy lightness, and sat down be.
side me, stretehing out wide his logs
with the manner of a eapitalist who is |
on admirable terms with himself. “I'm
no longer in the hotel business.’
He went on to inform me that he was
making monev very fast, and that he
wondered he had be n a fool for ever
degrading his talents to the lowly du-
ties of a hotel clerk when a fortune
lay ready waiting for him in Wall street.
“How long do you mean to stay in
New York?’ I asked, casually.
“ Not long,” said he; **1 guess T'll
be going to Paris next month (this was
last spring) and stay there till Octuber, |
Bishop Peterkin ays that, contrary to and then come back to spend the win-
the assertions of some, it isa very com~ ter in Florida, No more hotel busi.
mon thing for ministers to decline ness for me! I'm going to have some
churches that are offered to them, with fun now for my money.”
much larger salaries than they are re- I left him and said to myself: * How
ceiving, because they are unwilling to cruelly they will shear this poor lamb!”
give up a work in which they have be. | I first thought of advising him to sell
come interested. ut once and put his money safely away,
There are in the United States 3 230 | but I knew I would only be laughed at
Lutheran ministers. Of these, the | 8% an old gmuny. But I often won- |
largest number in any one State is | dered what had become of him after
in Pennsylvania, which has 550; Illi | the great decline had set in last sum.
nois has . Ohio, 340: Wisconsin, mer. A short time ago I was riding
265: Minnesots, 228: New York, 180; | Bp on the elevated railroad, and as I
Towa, 108; Indiana, 135; Michigan, Was putting my ticket in the little box |
118. No other State has a hundred. which is at the entrance gate, I heard
There are at the present day estab mysell addressed by the gateman, who
Row oa : 30 preami © ang | 18 placed beside the box to see that all
lished in the Fiji islwnds about 900 the tickets are dropped in. Yes, it was
WN esleyan churches and 1,400 schools. | oc 14 friend whom I had last seen at
The communicants are numbered bY | Delmonico’'s. He had been ** cleaned
thousands. I'he schools are attended out completely, and after being
by nearly 50,000 children, and out of { oat on the verge of starvation,
a population of about 120,000, over ,.; gaoured the place of al
100,000 are reckoned as regular at gateman at $125 per day of|
tendants at the churches. Idolatry is | go. 0 hours. This was his expe- |
acutely known, and cannibalism, for | io..0 jn Wall street. Another case |
which these islands were so famous | Lo. ouch sadder one, for it involved |
'N shendonad } Ingle tri) an old man who will have but little |
tarily abandoned save by a Single tribe. | shane to repair the ruin his speeula- |
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The Pork King.
Mr. Armour, known on every prod.
nee exchange in this country as “Phil
Armour,” but who modestly styles him
to
Religious News and Notes,
The Presbyterians in Minnesota num-
It is said that five denominations have
tion of 750,000,
The bishop-elect of Cuernanaca, the
Rev. Prudenszio (i. Hernandez, of the
Reformed Mexican church, is a pure.
The will of the late Lisonard Church,
of Hartford, is not to be contested,
Mrs. Church agreeing to pay the con-
testants 825.000. The estate is valuad
at §400,000. Two Congregational so-
will receive 84 000 each.
The annnal statistics of the Moravian
church in the United States show that
there are now 9.607 communicants, a
gain of 136; non-communicants over
thirteen years of age namber 1,530,
and there are 07 ehildren. Daring
the vear twenty-five were excluded and
043 ** dropped.”
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tions have wrought. He belongs to one |
of the learned professions, in which he |
has achieved a certain degree of dis
tinction, Last summer, and even down |
to last fall, he was hopeful, sanguine,
to speak on pork, Whether it bein the | saw dazzling before him. Like every
buying and killing of hogs, or in the | bedy else he had a new road somewhere |
metamorphosing of the valgar Anglo | in the West running from Oshkosh to |
Vour Western Girls,
The Woman's Journal cites the Misses
Kolloek as four typical Western girls :
The family of W. E. and A. M. Kolloek,
of Madison, Wis, consists of seven
members, four of whom are sisters,
Of these Dr. Mary Kollock Bennett,
the eldest, graduated at the Woman's
many vears has been practicing sue-
cossfully in that city, The next, Dr.
Harriet Kollock, graduated io the Medi
professional work, The third, the Rev.
Florense Kollock, gradvated at the
Canton Theological college some years
pastor in a beautiful church built for
her by her parish during the past two
years at Englewood, a fine suburb of
Chicago. Dr. Jennie OC. Kollock, the
youngest, gradaated in the Dental de-
partment at Ann Arbor, Mich., last
and passing the highest examination of
She is now establish-
ing hercelf successfully as a dental
White Embroidered Muslin Dresses.
White dresses are entirely of em-
broidery, with a panier sash of satin
surah passed around the hips and tied
The shirred basque is of open
star embroidery entirely made on a
lawn lining, with deep sailor collar,
flources of embroidery, and the panier
straight around the hips, as sashes are.
Narrower pink and blue surah outlines
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ping at the waist line in the unde- arm
seam, aud tied low in the middle; small
bows are on the throat and wrists, Wide
embroidered flounces ean be used for
dress waists by making the scalloped
edges of two flounees meet down the
middle of the back and also in
front, The sleeves are also of
embroidery, with a puff and frill at the
wrists, rounded upward to the inside |
Simpler dresses of white dotted |
sook, have a pointed basque with inser- |
tion and secant frill of embroidery on |
the edge, and also in pointed vest shape |
The |
es, edged with the embividery, and |
fluced horizontally on the lower skirt.
wo frills gathered in the middle likea
and have loops of satin ribbon, with a
coquettish bow at the foot in front. A
single bow of long loops and ends is
put on the right side—not in the mid-
ribbon is tied in a point in front. Pale |
navy blue aud bronze velver ribbons, |
are used on cream white mull muslin, —
Harper's Bazar,
Fashion Notes.
Moire is used for parasols,
Spring jackets are very plain.
Curtain overskirts are revived.
Shirred tabliers are uppopular,
Cotton satines rival those of silk,
Fiocelle, or twine lace, is a novelty,
The coronet bonnet is already popu.
The latest fichns are long and nar.
TOW.
The velvet dog collar remains in
favor.
Pearl buttons sre on stylish wool
TE SI EAA RE
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm and Garden Netes,
Hee that neither the solid or liquid
portions of manure are allowed to go
to waste,
Mr. Arthas Byrant places the profit.
able bearing life of an apple tree at
twenty years,
A silo and a cow's stomach have some
resemblance to each other—so it bas
been lately shown, a
Dry fish guano contains more than
fifteen times as much nitrogen as is
found in table manure.
Inu highly bred and liberally fed ani-
mals the teeth are produced earlier
than in those living under the reverse
Plenty of sun and a warm soil are
needed for growing man whilst
swedes thrive best in a cool, moist sail
and climate,
Well-seasoned posts, when th y
dried and then charred and di in
hot tar, will remain rot and inseet proof
So many years in almost any kind of
soi
A. D. Capen, of the Massachusetts
Horticultural society, says cabbage
plants may be hoed every day during
the season with advantage to the
crop.
In all cases a cow should be milked
regular and stripped clean. No doubt
this has much to do in forming good
milking tribes of cattle, by encouraging
a full development of the milk glands,
The dead bark from the trunks sand
larger limbs of trees is best removed
during a thaw, A wash of whale oil or
soft soap applied with s brush gives a
smooth, healthy sppearnace.
Onions are the first vegetables that
get in the ground. The land should be
very rich, = They can be grown in the
same place every year, as they are very
nearly equally proportioned in the con-
stitnent elements derived from the soil.
A small quantity of ashes given to
pigs while fattening is found w
beneficial, as their food is y ri
in phosphoric acid and deficient in lime,
which ashes supply; and in this way
the phosplumis id is madeavailable as
The premature growth of colts by
high feeding and severe training bas
the tendency to degenerate the breed,
by entailing the overworked debility
on their issue, which may become
hereditary, and be transmitted to fu-
ture generations,
At a recent meeting of the Dairy as.
sociation at Rutland, Vit, a chemist
claimed that the salt found in ocean or
power
of killing the germs that create ran-
cidity in butter than has pure salt,
hence he recommended it for the
preservation of butter.
The value of all manufactured fer-
tilizers depends upon their solubility,
sud these manures should all be appro-
priated by the growing crops. To ex-
pect any such fertilizing matter to re-
main in the ground for another year is
to presume that the fertilizers are not
properly manufactured. Bone dust,
however, will remain in the soil several
years,
When corn on the ear is fed to horses
they masticate it much more slowly
than if the corn was shelled. As a
consequence that on the ear is better
digested. A horse requires more time
to eat corn on the ear than if fed
either meal or shelled corn. If the
horse cannot have time to masticate a
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best to feed something else, |
The following is given a8 an exoel- |
lent method of plucking poultry : Hang
the fowl by the feet with a light cord ; |
then with a small knife give one ent |
across the upper jaw opposite the cor- |
ners of the mouth ; after the blood bas |
stopped running a stream, place the |
point of a knife in the upper part of the |
mouth, run the blade on into the back
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“ Intelligent!”
setter dog, “ He kno
Why, once he took a dislike to a
and went and induced the to
him so I would lick the
sir!” Boston Traascript.
At a high school examination
teacher asked the son of an old
was
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which Sharactastesd Mrs. Guisled ac- | enough of my own without using what
10IS Was growing SIraADZEr and Siranger | helonged to my husband, and 1e- | : :
to her son as he grew older and knew | fused to commence the legal processes | joked upon a Sida oF by 2oine of
more of life, and more of the way in| pecessary. I simply managed { the old lames, ne day Mrs. A. |
. ’ ? { ealled upon Mrs. B., and in the course |
the |
which people usually traveled. business, placed the profits in bank to |
: sd - 4 0 i 1 FeTrR 3 od Ny :
His mother was not a woman who vour SES phone spent money | of their conversation {there being a |
: y »" : : | f the summer
i as he afterward displayed, and he was | Saxon “hog” into the more elegant and | Poshkosh in his vest pocket. * He was | dresses. o
whether there is any chance for him or | popular product yelept, through the | going to make a million,” to quote his | Afuglin embroidery trims cashmere
not. When he is told no he under! influence of one’s Norman French an- | own words, “if he was going $0 make 8 | Jracses,
stands it to mean no. Mr Phillips’ costors, “pork;"” whether it be in the | dollar.” I met him the other day, and | Polonsises have taken a fresh lease
time is more than occupied. He is] exporting of product or in the exercise | was much struck by the change in his |
| tion to say no, but he is told at once papal 8 eu ng bo ately |
following this operation is the proper
time for plucking the fowl, as every
would have been called liberal by the
people around hotels and public re
sorts. She would pay a hackman ex-
actly what she had promised or exactly
what ske knew he had a right to
charge, and not one cent more. She
would seek the humblest rather than
the best hotel in a place. She dressed
plainly. She was economical.
Still, Robert remembered a ceriain
occasion when she had ordered a car-
riage at the last moment in New York,
and driven in all haste to the steamboat
just starting for England, leaving tick-
ets for Ban Frapeisco on the table. And
he rémembered reversal occasions on
which tickets for cshorter journeys had
gone igthe same way, gone without a
wordy"apparently without a thought.
e was a great reader; she never
gfadged money paid for books and
newspapers; and she read alond to her
son hours at a time. She would read
of great men with a smile of enthusiasm
on her face; of great art galleries with
all the appreciation of a cultured taste,
And Robert bad seen her face flush
with pleasure at the sight of some
famous painting on one or two rare
occasions,
But they had visited Rome, and he
had seen nothing of the treasures of art
or relics of early religion there; they
bad journeyed to Egypt, and he had not
climbed a pyramid; they had been in
Paris twice, and he had never seen a
play nor listened to an opera; they had
visited Berlin, St. Petersburg, Washing.
ton, and he bad only by accident seen
some of the noted leaders among men,
and had never been inside one of the
public buildings in his life. They had
spent a month in Philadelphia during
the summer of 1876, and had not been
allowed fo visited the great exhibition.
There were three conditions which
Robert had always had to obey. He
could never go anywhere, even for the
shortest distunce or the briefest time,
without a full statement of exactly
where he was going and how long he
would be gone, and was allowed to go
alone only on rare occasions. His
mother always read all newspapers be-
fore he was allowed to touch them. She
always read her letters in silence and
never mentioned them afterward.
Iadulgent in many things, his mother
exacted implicit obedience in these
matters. He went or remained as she
said; he read his favorite papers after
she had finished them; he never ap-
peared to even know when she had let-
ters,
Robert Gaines was thinking of these
things as he paced the deck of a fast
ocean steamer headed for New York, on
the eleventh day of October, eighteen
hundred and eighty, And the wise
conclusion he formed as he threw away
his cigarand turned to rejoin his mother,
who was reading a dozen paces from
him, was a conclusion that had been
uttered by more than one person who
had met Mrs. Gaines in the last one
and twenty years:
“ Some make a pleasure of travel.
Some try to get pleasure out of it, and
get worry and discomfort for their pains
and money; but she makes a business of
traveling. Why?’
of my own freely in advertising and
paying detectives, while I economized |
in every other way. My fortune en-
abled me to save considerable money.
“Things went on so for more than
three years. One day I received a let-
ter from the lawyers—mine as well as |
hie, A check for one hundred pounds, |
dated at Paris, and with your father’s |
name at the bottom, had been presented |
by the London bank which had received
it from a Paris bank for payment. The |
lawyers said that if 1 would enter |
formal objection they thought they
could avoid baving it paid. I refused |
to enter objections. It was paid, and {|
took a journey to Paris at once. i
“I spent money freely there with |
only one clew, and that a doubtful oue,
to reward me. I believed my husband |
und James Watson were together, and |
my agents believed they had traced
James Watson to Geneva. So Isearched
Switzerland personally and by agents,
and failed utterly.
“ For a whole year we paid drafts, all |
drawn in England, and all drawn for |
small amounts, at the rate of about one |
a week, and I hunted all over England |
in the track of the dates of those drafts,
and paid a dozen men to do the same
thing for me. i
“A report reached me from Live- |
pool just then which led me to believe
that James Watson had been seen to |
embark on a vessel for Melbourne. |
Another man was with him, There was |
a good deal of doubt as to the second |
man being my husband, and a little as |
to the first one being James Watson, 1
took the risk on both, and sailed on the |
next vessel for Australia, |
“The mails went on board, after
which passengers would have been un- |
able to go. And our own vessel carried |
a letter to me at Melbourne, informing |
me of a draft made since the vessel |
which was supposed to have carried |
James Watson and my husband had |
sailed. That settled the matter. I took |
the next vessel back. I followed a faint |
clew, which indicated Watson, to Alex- |
andria, to Berlin, to 8t. Petersburg. 1 |
hurried back to England to trace a draft
made in London, I started to investi.
gate the case of a man who registered
at a hotel in San Francisco as James
Watson, and whose description was not
unlike that of our James Watson, and
hurried away to the boat from New
York, leaving tickets for San Francisco
unused, on receipt of a cable dispatch
from my lawyers regarding another
draft. Rome, Washington, Paris again,
now on one clew, now on another, It
has been a hard life. You have been my
only comfort.
** A month before the Centennial ex-
hibition opened in Philadelphia we paid
a draft made in that city. We paid
seven, all made there, while the exhi-
bition was in progress. I spent a
month there with you, and five of the
shrewdest detectives in America worked
for me during the entire time. We have
paid more than one hundred thousand
pounds in all. ‘We paid twelve thon-
sand last year. I would give all I own
to meet your father again and be recon-
ciled with him,”
“Why are you going to America
now?”
{
And his question had been askel
B. if her daughter was going to the
evening. ** No,”
my daughter go to any place which is
frequented by that insignificant young
puppy Story.”
Story was a judge on the supreme
beneh, he visited Salem, and was
warml
known him formerly. Among his best
friends apparently was Mrs, B., and he
accepted her pressing invitation toydin-
ner, Now, in the years which had
elapsed, the seamstress had become
possessed of a home of her owa, to
which was attached a garden, with a
pear tree, which was just then loaded
After the invitation to
dinner had been accepted the seam-
stress geccived a call from Mrs. B.'s
servant, asking her to send up a basket
the supreme
court of the Unit:d States, was to be
present.” The good-natured seam-
“Tell your mis
tress that I am glad that the insignifi-
cant young puppy Story has grown to
be go fine a dog." — Harper's Magazine
EE ———
Deadheads in Newspapers,
It is well eaid by Forney's Progress
that in proportion to the expense in-
volved in its preparation no article is
80 cheaply supplied as the newspaper.
Its eost to its readers is asnear nothing
elsewhere for a revenue than to its snb-
scription list, That in many establish-
ments is a positive loss, regarded by
itself, but the circulation attracts the
advertiser, and the advertiser furnishes
the sinews of war. To get the adver.
tiser youn must first get the circulation,
and to get the circulation you must
give the people a paper that will inter-
est and please them. Every lins which
a newspaper publishes for any other
reason than that its editor thinks it
contains something the people wish
to know, is more or less an in-
jury to him, because it oc-
cupies space which otherwise wonld
be" filled with matter which
would aid in building up or retaining
the popularity of his journal. To this
must be added the cost of putting the
“puff’ in type, and the other outlays it
requires. The wise newspaper proprie-
tor limits the number of columns to
which he will admit advertisements, or
increases his columns to accommodate a
rush, knowivg that to crowd the read-
ing matter, though it may temporarily
make happy the heart of his cashier,
means speedy and permanent ruin.
Yet there is not a newspaper in the
country which does not give away in
the course of the year many columns
of its valuable space—a trite, but true
expression—and more than that, places
these gratis notices in positions which
the money of the legitimate advertiser,
paid down over the counter, could not
buy.
age, was the editor of a weekly school
paper.
rushed, He has no relief and no time |
No matter how busy, |
he always has a pleasant word for those |
who approach him. He is not only |
recognized as a thorough business man, |
as a thorough gentleman. Mr. |
Crump is the steward of the White |
He came there with Hayes, |
| House.
| the late President's illness,
and the new French cook make the
| President's dinner parties.
i The President's doorkeepar, Charles
| Loeffler, knows every person of any |
prominence. He never forgets a face, |
He is daily passed by erowds of people |
desirons of audience, but he knows
| how to discriminate, and his phles-
| matic temperament keeps him lovel-
| headed, He came with General Grant.
| Arthur Simmons has been the door
| keeper of the private secretary's office
| since 1866, and he is likely to remain
| thera for a good many years,
Mr. Crump
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| : ' :
i room. came with General Grant There
| are several messengers connected with
the office. The President's monnted
messengers, James Sheridan and Thos.
Dolan, are daily seen riding throngh
the streets, Albert, the driver, and
Jerry, the footman, must not be forgot-
ten. They were well known under
(General Grant's administration, when
they looked well behind a fine
team, They didn't seem to take
much pride in President Hayes's turn
ont, Itis very donbtful if President
Arthur, who has a turnout befitting a
| President, will allow his driver to hold
the reins in one hand and a large
umbrella in the other. There is one
man about the White House anthorized
to make arrests, Sergeant Dinsmore.
Two other policemen are on duty at
night. A police officer was first placed
on duty there in 1864. Very little of
Sergeant Dinsmore’s time is occupied
with police dnty, however. He and
the ushers, Mossrs. Thomas F. Pendle,
who came with Lincoln, and J. T.
Rickard, have about as much ag they
can attend to in receiving callers, and
showing what can be seen and answer.
ing innumerable questions.
i ————— 3 SAAS.
Whittier,
A tall, spare and erect person in a
long black cloak is often seen of late
upon the Boston streets, and never fails
of recognition as * Mr. Whittier,” He
is entertained a good deal in that lit-
erary town, and always accepts hos.
pitality in the simplest and most genial
manner. A correspondent of the Provi
dence Press who met the poet at a
conventional dinner party describes
him as suspiciously eyeing a dish of
spinach daintily served in I'rench
fashion, and presently asked his
hostess: “What do you call that
herb?” “It seemed,” adds the core
respondent, ‘like a sudden opening of
the door into another room-—another
atmosphere, where, to do as everybody
else does, and to know everything that
everybody else knows, was not necessary
to human life and enjoyment, but
rather the reverse. How many people,
simply bred to plain country life, would
dare to show the simple ignorance that
Whittier did.”
that diplomacy with which in appearanco. His hair, whie™ previ
these latter days an American pack- | ously was slightly tinged with gray, |
er must be equipped in order to had become almost completly white. |
cope with his wily French rivals— | There were terrible, deep lines about
in all Phil Armoar is facile princeps | his eyes and mouth, and a look of touch:
among the makers of pork. Over a ing, almost despairing sadness stole ont |
million of hogs were killed at his Chi- | of his formerly placid and genial eyes.
cago packing-house last year, over half | Ho had lost everything he had in the |
a million more at his packing-house in | world, and had swept with him into the |
Kansas City, and several hundred | ruin (his wife, his children and his
thousand more at his establishment at home. Worst of all, he had borrowed
Milwaukee. He killed more porkers— | money from friends, in the vain attempt |
a half million more—within the last! to retrieve his misfortunes and to re-
twelve months than both Cincinnati | spond to the incessant brokers’ calls
and Bt. Louis put together. Twenty | for more and more ** margins,” and was
five millions of his money were! heavilyin debt, Everything was gone,
distributed in the corn belt of this | and he spoke as though not only his
country for live hogs last yeur. He sits | fortune, but all his hope and couraga
in his office on Washington street in | in life had been utterly destroyed. And
Chicago, and every day talks over the | Goethe says: “Courage lost, everything
wires with his own employes in Lon- | Jost; better that thon hadst never been |
don, Liverpool, Antwerp, Copentagen, | born!"
Havre, Hamburg, and with hundreds |
of them distributed through the South
Not That Kind of a Doctor Shop. |
01d Bill McGammon, who keeps a
bank in Kansas City, with his partvers | grocery store in the suburbs of Austin,
at New York and Milwaukee, When 1% one of the olosest men in the State
he believes in pork, he buys not only | of Texas, and abbreviates his words in |
such as is within easy reach, but every | writing. He abbreviated the names on
barrel and pound of meat that is for the drawers and boxes of the contents
sale in the world. Having bought it, | in his grocery, instead of painting the
he sells it, not to the great speculators | names in full, For instance, he!
in this country and abroad, but bim- | painted on the sugar barrel, “Br
sell distributes every pound of it with | Sugar,” for brown sugar, und so on.
his own distributing machinery-—the Last Tuesday a feeble-looking |
most elaborate in the world—to the | stranger dropped into Bill MeGammon's |
pork-eaters in the Southern cotton | gore and after looking around, asked :
States, in the manufacturing districts | «1g Dr, Prunes in?"
of England and France, the agricul-| O}d MecGammon stared, and said he |
tural sections of Germany, the lumber | yeckoned not.
regions of the North. In 1879 Mr. Ar “Is Dr. Codfish in, then I” asked the i
mour was the owner of practically every | gtranger.
barrel of pork in the world. Withinthe| «No, be is not,” said old MeGammon, |
next year he had sold it all for consump. i emphatically.
ion. His speculation netted him, it 1s {| «Then toll Doctor Cherries I would
aid, $7,000,000. Chicago News. | like to see him, if he is at leisure.”
Seem — | “You get out of here. I believe you |
| have escaped from the lunatic asylum.
| This ain't no medicine college; this is
| a grocery,” retorted old McGammon,
getting red in the face.
A Warm Iavitation,
Jesse B., of Raleigh, N. C., wal en-
gaged in the lightning rod business. |
He had just putjup the necessary rods |“ «yf this is a grocery, then you had
for a farmer, and was, judging from 81 | patter carry back them doctors’ signs to |
unpleasant sensation in the region of | where you stole them from,” responded |
the diaphram, certain that the hour |g, stranger, strolling out, |
of dinner was near at hand. In other | Old MeGammon looked where the |
words, he had not tasted food since stranger had pointed, and for the first |
ouEly Haat NiOFn RSs nl kusw So time noticed the Hastie of his abbheviae
where his next meal was to come Irom | ging the word *‘dried” into “Dr,” for
nnlass he was invited to dine with |, the drawers he read, in large letters:
Pasir Bo neaitation. th | Dr. Prunes; Dr, Peaches : Dy Codtiel §
t length, after some hesitation, (Re | py, (Cherries; Dr. Peas ; Dr. sles ;
farmer said: ** It's about our dinner | 1). Beef, — Teras Siftings. Rupos
hour, but the old woman 1s away from ! er —c—————
home to-day, and I hardly know what | Te Boston Herald recently preached
to do about it, but if you will take pot- a sermon on the “Power of the Press,”
luck with me, you are welcome 10 |gand an extract taken therefrom is as
dinner,” a | follows: ‘Ihe press rebukes sin morn-
Jesse thanked him, and they two ino noon and night; also Sundays and
wended their way to the Siging rooms | holidays. By the press men are kept
They found nothing to eat save a dish | i, wholesome fear of public opinion,
of roasted potatoes aud a pot of mus- | Aan who would otherwise go home to-
tard, : .'} ked | night and beat their wives fear the
After being seated the farmer asked | {1ythi-telling reporter. Men who are
Jess. to take some potatoes. | itching for a safe chance to steal their
‘‘ No, I thank you, said Jess, “I employers’ cash are restrained by a
font like potatoes ® cd | dread of being pilloried in the public
ell,” said the farmer, not in the | rings.”
least disconcerted, “ just help yourself ! i - a
to the mustard !” [1linols last year raised 174,491,706
Jess. tells the story, and says it was bushels of corn, Which cost $76,303,074
one of the warmest invitations he ever | and was worth $93,328 977, The crop
received.— Detroit Free Press, was the smallest since 1874,
{
Bengaline dresses are worn in light
mourning.
Paniers in lengthwise
plait: are
Gilded paragon frames are placed over
Greyhound bine or gray will be a
favorite color for traveling and utility
Fine carving appears on the} wood
bandles of dressy parasols and coach-
s and
orders
Cashmere serges in broad stri
and designs, are late novelties.
Bouquets of roses and other large
the tops of handsome parasols.
V-shaped waistcoats, the V terminat-
ing at the waist line, is a feature in
New parasols and umbrellas have
handles of the wood of the natural
stick, knobbed, erutched and hooked.
Shrimp pink, water bine and pale
copper-colored silks line many parasols,
the lining.
Spring fans aro in various designs.
Some of lace and flowers, others are
hand-painted on satin, while others are
made entirely of feathers.
Dress skirts are wider thisTseason.
The draperies
are more bouffant and elaborate than
Irish lace, trimmed with clusters of
leaves and forget-me-nots
was the garniture of the green valvet
dress worn by the Princess of Wales at
Newly imported French woven un-
people, both men and women.
The skirts of last year's dresses can
be very advantageously added to a new
where the original basque to the cos-
tume has become soiled or worn. A
sash or Grecian tunic can be laid over
the seam where the skirt and jersey are
joined.
Mountain fern, gold-tipped chestnut
blossoms, and scented wood violets are
seen npon elegant new *‘ garden” hats
of or brown straw, he hats are
not to make gardens in, but only to
grace a garden party, which is a matter
as different as a * horse chestnut and a
chestnut horse.”
ms IA
The most recent life preserver it
made of iron. At least, it appears that
a steamer on the Ohio river, on which
were 130 persons, was saved from being
orushed by the presence of 600 kegs of
nails in her hold. 8he ran on the
rocks and the nails held her down so
that she couldn't dash about and go to
pieces. At the same time we do not
recommend a keg of nails strapped
upon the person as being anything ke
a perfect life-preserver.
feather yield as if by magic, and there
is no danger of tearing the most
tender chick.
It is a practice with many farmers fo |
plsce a load or two of somewhat green
bay on the top of the mow, thinking |
that it will dry under such circum- |
stances without injury, and finally turn |
out pretty fair bay. This is a mistake.
The greenest hay should be placed at |
the bottom of the mow; it will heat some
and throw off the moisture, and the hay |
will come ont bright green and full of
aroma, Place the bog hay on the
top of the mow, and it will absorb snch |
moisture as ascends from the sweating
hay below, and though vundoubtedl
will prove somewhat musty, yet su
would also be the cise with the geod |
hay if placed on the top of the mow, If
farmers will try this plan, they will
find they will have firsi-class hay in all
their mows,
Recipes. i
Oup rasgioNep Arrie DurMpLING — |
Mix a pint of prepared flour with a cup-
fal of finely chopped suet, a little sult
and cold water, roll it out, slice the
apples ina heap, and draw the four
corners together as for an old-fashioned
“turn-over,” make the edges stick by |
wetting them; lay the dumpling ina
cloth dipped in boiling water and then
floured, fold it over, pin and tie firmly,
and place in a kettle of boiling water,
with an old kitchen plate on the bottom
to keen from sticking or burning ; beil
an hour and a half without stopping.
Serve with hot lemon sauce, or maple
syrup, or sugar and cream.
Cuvppesrox Cage. —Three-guarters of
a pound of butter beaten to a cream,
three-quarters of a pound of sifted
sugar, & quarter of a pound of mo-
lacsns; beat up well with the band.
Take six eggs, breaking each one sepa-
lately into the mixture; then warm a
balf-pint of new milk, mix all together,
and then add one and a half pounds of
hour, two pounds of currants, half a
pound of citrop cut in thin slices. Bake
in a slow oven four hours. When done
it will weigh six and a half pounds.
Frexen Currast Jenoy.—Mash and
strain currants, and for each pint of
currant juice have ready a quart of rasp-
berries; mash the raspberries in the
currant juice, first cold; then boil
slowly for fifteen minutes, stirring all
the time; then drain, put all back into
the kettle, and to each pint of fluid
add three-quarters of a pound of pel
vorized sugar ; boil very gently for
an hour until it jellies, stirring and
skimming,
A Ricn Tomato Souve.— Take eight
good-sized toreatoes, cut them in half,
pus them ints a saucepan with a bunch
of sweet herbs and an onion stuck
full of cloves, some allspice,
whole pepper and salt. Cook them
slowly until quite soft, then strain
through a strainer or hair sieve until
the skins and onions and herbs only
are left behind. Have a quart of plain
stock boiling hot. Stir the tomatoes
into it, and the yolks of two eggs
beaten up in a little cold water, Serve
with sippets of toast or fried bread.
.
is not only to “doa little
supposed, bat
glean, to select, to discriminate,
cide, to foresee, to
i elucidate,
down,
several hundred o
large number of districts yet to
from.— Newsdealers' Bulletin,
*Levme fu wo ask. _bngun a lttie old
man it 5 whispes y as at
of being avd dnwith his
chair cl.ae upto the editor, “if you
know anything of the of
#
condition
th
id np capital?”
Pe Tee millions, I believe,
editor, beginning to wonder
ner of man bad floated against
“And,” continued the man in
thin and straggling iron gray
“what's the Nevada Bank's reserve—
its reserve—that's what I want to find
he illions, I think
“ Four millions, 5
“ And how is it invested —bow isit in-
vested?’ He fairly golped with eager-
ness as he glued bis eyes npn those of
the editor and awai ed the reply:
«In United States bonds.” :
« Ah,” he said, with a great sigh of
relief, “I'm glad of that. Then" -here
he looked all around to make sure there
were no listeners—‘‘then you think a
man could safely intrust his ney
toit? -
« Why, certainly. There is no safer
bank in the world. It has unlimited
backing. .
The little old man chuckled and
took the editor's hand, which he shook
almost gleefully. : vag
“You have done me a great fav
sir,” he exclaimed, *‘ a great favor a
1 shall not forget it.” mK
«It bothers you to be sare that
money's safe, I suppose, sir ?” sai
editor with that respect in tone
manner which every independent
gen instinctively assumes when
ing a wealthy man. .
“ Well-—er—no, not just yet.
AL
dence, ** a my
ner of life. I'm fifty-five to-day
have formed a resolution that
forth 1 shall save wy money
8 ing it, as ve done
Ly up, and I have suffered
him.
black,
at his
+
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58,000,000 ;