To Myself. Let nothing make thee and or fretful, Or too regretful. Be still, What God hath ordered must be right Then find in it thine own delight. Why shoaldst thou fill to-day with sorrow About to-morrow, My heart ? One watches all with care most true, Doubt not that He will give thes, too, Thy part, Only be stead fast—nover waver, Nor seek Earth's favor, But rost, Thou knowest what God's will must ba For all His creatures, so for theo The best, Paul Fleming 1667, a wn ———— a m— A Troutioy ldyl. “1 go a-flshing™ A ling, A hook, A rod, A brood A man absorbe A cast, Al “A trout “You're right; ¥ 4 ~JORN xxi, 3 tae £89 For this I have been wishing." In camp To lie, With trout To fry, Farewall to cares and sadness | Na Oat Alife What health aud rest and gladnes Then Sige With me, Away We'll flea And spend s month together, Iv stream And lake Sly trout We'll take, And sleep in stormy weather, 3 VU ven wading Tha wn LATAONMGOY LTY ne VOLUME XV, CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., NUMBER 16. ' { spread the table for their simple sup. | per in the back part of the store, In cold weather they lived in this room as much as possible to save fuel, | Nettie toasted her feet luxuriously, fand looked rather admiringly at her { pretty hands lying idly in her lap, Her { work at the factory was by no means { detrimental to their shapeliness, “If Mr. Stone had only been at home { the night father brought the money for all right. ‘stroke’ before morning.” Her lips quivered, and her eves filled, at the Memory. “ Nettia," said Flo, solemnly, as she out the rye loaf, “we are sure that Mr, te 2 C18 “ Why do you emphasize Mr, Sackett so strongly? Don't you suppose Mr Stone is honest too “J don't know anything about it,” their suspicions. * Nettie langhed incredulously. “Nonsense! Don’t yousuppose peo- plawounld have found him out before I don't think myself he's very amiable. Father very DESTINY. § On a stormy March day a {fresh-faced | young girl was ({ am tempted to say | ““manfully ”) * womanfully” making ber way slong the main street of a New England factory village. A bright, daring fice was bers—one that said as plainly as brown eves, rod lips and piguant festures could say: ‘“‘Here | am. Lot Fatesend her worst, I shall fight the good fight.” The very | curls on her tamples, blowing this way and that, under ber simple straw turban, locked fearless, almost sancy, yet with- | out any suggestion of that hideous, straight-banging, modern crank of fashion termed ‘‘bang.” She wore a | neat waterproof suit, sensiblein length, | and pepper-and-salt of hue, though a | shrewd physiognomist might have been willing to wager that somewhere among | her feminine aderping would be found a vivid dash of scarlet. She carried her cotton umbrella without endangering | people's eyes, and sppeared altogether | business-hke and self-sustained. A pussing stranger, glancing at her eager | face and quick gait, would think, “That girl is in dead earnest.” : She looked occasionally atthe pic- | tures, vases and other preity trifles in | the shop windows but without a twinge of envy in her healthful soul. She was wont to say that she conld enjoy them four times oc day (except when she car- ried her dinner) without the trouble of taking care of them. In short, she seemed fally equipped for “possessing” in the very best sense. She did stop, however, before a confectioner's win. dow where some tempting oranges displayed, counted the contents of | a shabby little puree, then snapped the | steel clasp with a determined shake of the head. *Nettie Randall, you're a selfish coward.” was her mental com- | ment as she walked resolutely on. Turcing into a quieter street, yet not | too far from the business part of the | village, entered a small frame | house by the door of which was tacked a modest tin sign, lettered, “Ladies’ | Trimming Store. F. & A. Randall.” In the front windows hung a few rib- | bons, cheap Hamburg edgings, ete.—a most vupretending establish- ment. As Nellie closed the door upon | her dripping umbrella and the general | discomfort of storm and fasi-thickening darkness outside, a cheery warmth and | light greeted her, and another fresh- | faced, brown-eyed girl, a year or two younger, looked up with a bright smile, from her seat behind the counter, where | she was swiftly and dextrously drawing | the bristles throngu ble aids to cirviliza‘ion, tooth-brushes. | “How's ‘Destiny ¥ ’ asked Nettie, | in a matter of course way, as she hung | up her waterproof and pushed her over- shoes under the stove to dry. {In explanation, let it be here stated | that these two were once singing that beautiful poem which begins : *: Though the day of my destiny’s over, i And the star of my fate hath declined ;» | a tiny, lisping cousin caught the mel- | ody, and piped out : *“ Though the day | of my destiny's 'clined.” ** Destiny's | "clined ” became thereafter, a most ap- propriate expression, when thej* best- | she laces, those indispensa- | in some mysterious cranny of the floor Secrets come to light in strange ways, sometimes.” “ | know one thing,” said Flo, reso- Intely, ‘‘yon and I are going to pay baok that money, Nettie (or the re- mainder, seeing that Mr. Stone took if we have to live on dry bread and oat meal for twenty years.” (Ab, how easy is prospective heroism at sixteen!) “ We shall be almost old women by that time, and cross and ugly, like as bite from her butterless bread. Despite demeanor on the street, she was more subject to ups and downs than Flo. “Wea needn’t be cross and ugly,” answered Flo, carefully measuring out her share of milk from the finy pitcher, “1 hope the lamp won't smoke again How nice it would be to have A short, bobbing figure, in an im- mense rubber cloak, with an umbrella in one hand and a yellow quart bowl in the other, pressed a beaming face against the glass upper half of the door, “ Miss Mellavine { said Fio joyfully, and sprang up to admit her, Their next-door neighbor, Miss Mary the name of * Mellavine”” when a little Many the commissary department, and her gifts were as delicately bestowed as they were timely. A simple, unlearned “You dear things! I do hope yon myself this boiled dinner is so savory this afternoon (vou know, my habit of those girls must have a taste. Don't get a chair—I mustn't sit down.” She did, however, and smiled on them, benevolently, while pretending not to see jast how acceptable was her neighborly offering. “Such a day, to mercy my good spirits don't depend on How did you get home Nettie, child # “Oh, I'm used to all sorts of days, you know, Miss Mellavine. That 5 o'clock whistle haunts me in my dreams, bat I hope for something better some day. (I believe that is the current phrase these days.) And what have you done to pass away the time?’ “ Oh, odds and ends, my dear—odds A little mending and my my sister Ce- linda’s son, because it's his birthday, be sure! It's a tha w Fly ow 3 Wine. from the mill, I'mso glad you like the things. Some! You ge! may cut me off two yards of that twelve | cent ruoching, Flo, my dear. Now| really must go, (Never mind about the | bowl this time.) Caleb Btone is very | sick again—taken worse suddenly, they say—and Mirandy wants me to come | over to-night. He's dreadful fidgetty, | 1 me. The stockings are all right. Your i legitimate business is simply to put on the labels which we provide," Higher mounts d the color in Nottia's sheoks, Her voice trembled, but her courage did not falter, “Then I must decline to do it, Mr Barker." " Ho, ho, indeed ™ san Barker, with sudden energy. | Simpson,” to one of th { just passing through kind enough to step desk and ask him to with this ex-ceedingly conscientious young woman, and provide Ler with a ticket of leave,” and Barker turned abruptly on his heel, Nettie's nerve and indignation carried her through the next few moments, and 1 2 the beery t Here, © dapper clerks the room, ‘Be to Mr. Wiggins' uunts gottle Boo behind her, { “I know I've done right, and I shall find something to de. I hope Flo { won't be very much overcome!” Her sister looked up surprised at her early return, On hearing the story she gave a half-hysterieal laugh, { “You match my exparience, Nettie. That ‘drummer’ for the Worcester firm was hare. Do yon notice anything strange ¥' Nnettie looked aroud the recom, and | emptied, | “We hadn't the money ready, you | know,” said her sister, ‘so the goods had to go. He was ‘vewy sahwy,'— ‘disagweeable dewty,'—and all that sort of thing of couree. Buch ‘genteel’ kid gloves he wore, and such a ‘genteel’ ease he brought to pack the things in! I sat in stony silence, working away, and never lifted a finger to help, Mean { of me, wasn't it?" Nettie slowly sank into rocker and stared helplessly, m ad the little | “Now,” said Flo, proceeding briskly { with her brushes, * the question is what to do next. I shall get two quarts of New Orleans molasses, and start a candy { trade to-morrow.” “I suppose I might take a flat basket and peddle the sticks, after vou make them,” sail Nettie, half bitterly, “1 might strike a gold mine, in the shape of a rich old lady or gentleman who is | fond of taffy and would like to adopt a likely baira about my age.” “1 hope we won't be tempted to eat too much of it ourselves,” said the provident Flo. “ Where's the tin pail?” said Nettie, jamping up with alacrity, *‘ Oh, here it 18. 1'll go to Dickerman’s for the mo. lasses right off. You will need every spare minute for your brushes now | till youn teach me how to make them too. After all, I don’t see why it won't | be just as respectable to sell candy as anything else, if we deal in pure goods and give honest measure, I'm sure an- thors sell their books, and artists their It's only a question of de- gree.” “And statesmen langhed Flo, The molasses was soon bubbling mer. ily in the porcelain-lined kettle, and until the time of stirring even monarchs and great receive , compensation,” constant sister to take a lesson in brush-making. “We can take a few dollars of yeur pay, Nettie, and lay in a small stock of candy to-morrow. The school children will soon find it out. I can take some comfort in having you at home, for a time, at least. Why can’t we indulge in a good supper to-night, as long as you have your pay? 1'm getuing reck- le Let’ “Agreed I" said Nettie, delighte see Flo so ready (lor once) for a parative luxury, — ** ‘Serimp-atio its limits!" “Oh, oh!" cried her sister, in horror, “‘Labors of Max Miller! can you, Nettie? There! The neat emmiled over! Run quick!” (In the midst of stirring and fun @ ter Miss Mellavine in a stae of n wonted excitement.) “ Such a surprise, my dears! What do you think? 2lut, first of all, I sup pose vou've heard that Caleb Stone is dead.” She dropped into the nearest chair and fanned herself with her brown. check apron, though it was wintry March outside. “Why, no !” # v y SD " 89, $s have ovsters. mock How candy and stir— 3 }- Ne i exclaimed the girls in a gracefunily pendulous therefrom. “I must begin at the very begin- ning,” eaid Miss Mellavine, “ or I shall be sure to forget something I ought to remember. (He died at 4 o'clock this morning, but Mirandy couldn't bear to on * ganging agley.”) The answer to Nettie's promptly: | “Awful! just fifteen cents in the | cash drawer! I haven't sold anything | to-day but a paper of needles and a | yard of elastic.” | “That meaus oatmeal! for supper | again, I suppose,” said Nettie. “1 | hate it,” she added, savagely, her gocd | humor oozing away at the uninviting | prospect. She had been working all | day, for “ent-down” wages, in a woolen factory, and was wet, tired and most | unsentimentally hungry. “ That's because you haven't ‘got far enough in ‘Epictetus,’ said her sister, | serenely. | Nettie glanced around at the hangz- | ing shelf of carefully selected volumes, | ancient and modern, gathered for these | two, in years past,by a studious father's | loving hand and judicious brain, ‘*“ We can't eat Greek philosophy. If | we had the original manuscripts, we | might make fepvrus soup. I'll tell | you what it ia, Flo,” she continned de- cidedly, as she put up her feet to warm, “ Something must happen pretty soon. My pay won't amount to much this month, and the next installment to Mr. Stone falls due on the 17th, you know. Besides, the coal is nearly gone.” “ Oh, dear! Those payments to Mr. Stone! What do youn suppose ever be- came of that money, Nettie ?” “We have asked ourselves that qnes- tion for the last two years, Flo, and we don't come any nearer to the solution of the riddle—whatever we aceom- plish toward the solution of the debt.” “Is it a debt,’I wonder,” said Flo,— “a legal one, Imean? I know it isa moral one, and I shall not give up try- ing to pay it, as long as I can fill a brush, or—mop a kitchen-floor, if it comes to that. Our literary ventures don’t amount to anything, I should rather write stories and paint pic. tures than make brushes, I’m sure, and you would rather give dramatic read- ings than be tied down to a factery bell—but we are evidently not headed for the temple of fame, and may as well give up.” “Fame !” rejoined Nettie, ¢“ who cares for the empty bubble? It’s the money we want. I wish we had back all we have spent in postage stamps on the miserable seribblings.” I suppose it’s trne (as some editors tell us, in their polite little notes) that writers seldom accomplish anything of real literary merit till they are at least thirty. e don’t belong to the fortun- ate group of phenomenal geniuses”— and Flo twitched away her finished brush from the vise, with a quick, she's not to blame, never having been | brought to it "—and the short anburn | curls, slightly silvered, on each side of the round) smiling face nodded good- | will and good-night as she disappeared in the cavernous depths of the rnbber | cloak and stepped oat into the rain. “* Caleb Stone very sick! If he should | die we may have to hurry up the pay- | ments to the lawyers or somebody,” | said Flo, rather upprehensively, getting her dish-pan ready. “ [ shan't worry over that,” answered | ig, blithely, as she tied on a large | apro. preparatory to dish wiping. She | advent of the parsnips, eto. “Jf there's an out-and-out angel on | the fuce of this selfish earth it's Miss | Mellavine, What a difference a good | meal makes in one’s moral barometer, | I was cross before supper, Flo dear,” | said she, penitently giving her sister a | guick little dab of a kiss on the left | ear, “if any one has a right to be cross it's you, shut up here all day— | with no exercise except to do errands | tend the store. You're twice as good and patient as your unsanctified sister Nettie.” Znough of Miss Mellavine's benefac tion remained to give a flavor to the breakfast, and Nettie went to her work with a light heart in the dark of the wintry morning. Her duty in the fae- tory was packing and labeling stock- ings. About the middle of the after. noon her quick eve detected something wrong in a pile of stockings that had just been brought to her for boxing. “How's this, Richard?” said she, to the messenger, ‘there must be a mis- take. Mr. Barker has given you the wrong kind, These stockings are part cotton and my labelseay ‘superfineall wool.”” The boy gave a knowing wink. “I guess it's all right, Barker knowed what he was sbont. Mum's the word, Miss Nettie, if you and I want to keep our places,” With sparkling eyes and scarlet cheeks Nettie carried the box of stock- ings into an inner room where sat Mr, Barker, the overseer of her department, a heavy, flabby man, with pale ejes, pale hair and a hanging under lip, and with him one or two clerks, ‘These are not the right stockings for my labels, Mr. Barker. They are half cotton.” .- Mr. Barker fumbled the stockings with his thick fingers, looked at the labels and then at her with a beery smile. practiced movement, and began to “My dear young lady, you surprise turn it gave me. To think that all this time— (but I shall be sure to let it out before I get around to it, after all, if I'm not careful.) When I went up last night Le was asleep and Miraudy was sitting by the fire and the little fellow had gone to bed. come, Mellavine,’ says she, ‘for Caleb is your house if yon didn't come. He's been out of his head, more or less, all small dose of morphine and he's rest She hadn't more than got the words out of her month when opened his eyes. *“ Is that yon, Mellavine Gay ’ bed. “ ‘Mirandy,’ says he ‘you go ontand sit by the kitchen fire till I want you Just as quick as she shut the door he a heavy black box that stood on the burean, “There! There itis!’ sayshe. ‘It’s elntehing at my throat now, as if it had | fingers! Takeit away! Take it away!’ | he almost shrieked. “Yes, yes, presently,’ said I, to pacify him. “ ‘Why don’t you take it? The key | hangs around my neck. Here, unlock the box, and take away the—the pack. age. It’s clutching me, I tell you! fe quick! Be quick! “1 did just as he told me (you've got to be with a ravin’ man, you know), not expecting to find anything important, I unlocked the box, and the first thing I sce—oh, I pretty near let it out that time, but you've guessed it, like as not I declare, I don’t know when I shall get over the turn it gave me!’ (Flo and Nettie exchanged quick, startled looks, and drew nearer to Miss Mellavine, while the molasses bubbled unheeded in the porcelain kettle.) “Tell them,’ he says, ‘that I've not had an hour's peace since I locked it in there. Their father's sudden death pu it in my head—the temptation came ike a whirlwind—then—oh, the misery! You know the rest. Afterward I could not confess. They are good girls—good girls, John Randall's daughters could not be anything else. Tell them to keep it all—all. Tf is doubly theirs, I have so wronged them! I do not want them to pay another dollar on the old account, If is the only reparation I can make, Beg them to keep my secret, I meorey on my good name-—but, oh! for Mirandy's sake and little Joe's them to keep it! They are good girls. Now call my wile,’ ho says, and drops bis head back on the pillow without another word. There, I've tried to tell it, word for word, just as it happened and, you dear things, nobody could be gladder to put it into your own hands than my very own self-—but able man's looks and motions will haunt me to my dying day, 1 verily believe.” She drew from the boscm of beg her eal Nettie's hands, The lost money! as the reader has doubtless guessed, = “From Loren Sackett, of Ashfield, to Caleb Btone, 81,800 payment for live stock, Sent by kindness of John Ran- dall” For two years hidden in Caleb Stone's strong box, while two heroie girls, turned out of their homestead to satisfy his guilty greed, were working their young lives out to make good its as. sumed loss! Flo and Nettie wept silently at the side of their good friend Mingled with the inexpressible relief at their good fortune, were pity (suchas few in like case would have been able to feel) for the wretehed, guilty man who had 80 used them-—and sorrow for his inno- | cent wife aad child, that this gain must come from their grief and loss! Ah! John Randall's daughters were indeed good girls! ‘After all,” said Flo, finally, jump- ing up and running to the stove, “1 don't believe it's good economy to let the candy burn I They kept the dead man's secret faithfully, compassionately. They made the remaining payments to the heirs as if nothing had ceeurred, then went to Boston, Nattio to take a thor ough course in eloeution, and Flo as an art student. They were not wanting numerous Paul Prys of both genders who *‘ couldn't for the life of them sec where John Randall's girls got money to fool away on such doings! To such Miss Mellavine discreetly replied that, as far as she could say, it was a present from a very kind friend pamed * Des- tiny I” Crime in New York. Inspector Byrnes, head of the New York detective force, said to a reporter: “I don't think we have here what would be cal®d a very bal city as com- pared with the big cities of Europe, be said; *“‘our professionals are doing their work in the other cities, having fonnd it dangerous to engage in it here. They London and the other English cities and come back here with lots of swag. They are very seldom caught, despite the wonderful reputation of the men of Bow street and Scotland Yard. New York has none of these throngh which strangers may not pass with safety which we are told sre to be found in the big cities over the sea. Jt bss not even those resplendent and bold its of vicious pleasure that wo hear of the We have nearly 2,000,000 le here in the daviime every day and 1,500,000 “overy ninals and seam of Ea ¢ are dropped in our streets, an mber of arrests has falls 1 i 3 reek from 1,900 u go to sections ¥ "y SRA © Deon : i excey t Sanday, 3 ip radoes of the Gloins (referring to a lad who has wen sentenced to be hanged for the irder of a French saloon keeper af nth ers and 3 3 the city to-day are iy ow they are only loaf lay, and yet } terrible record the do nothing to prevent i AR0}; BOO 10 most We can crimes, ard w } in pursuing the iene young fellows,” he continued, “are tho sons of respectable parents, ho are poor and have to bring their children up in swarming tenements { The boys go to school, read dime novels and flash papers, and learn to hang around and visit variety | shows. ssently they are beyond the r parents, end being no- abl from home the money necessary to support their vices, they steal. McGloin and his had a wagon wh over to Brooklyn and Jersey, load up with barrels of flour, hams or anything they could steal from the sidewalk and sell herein New York. They went into the Frenchman's saloon to work a gamo of a few years’ standing hera, ealled the ‘fainting act. as of ti next, t bye con PET RITCOINS ¢ 10 get f companions The plan is for one of the crowd to hand | the proprietor a big bill to change, if possible, necessitating his bringing out | his bills from Lis pocket. His doing so the floor. The | natarally | attempts { afilicted proprietor alarmed, lays down his bills, and to do something for the man. Then one grabs his | money, and all run. In this case the { Frenchman | fainting man, and the others | bluffed. Mad at him for his sagacity, {all came to his place late at night, | broke in the door and stole bis cigars, The Frenchman heard | them, and came downstairs, The door was open, and all conld have es. | caped, but MeGloin waited, cocked his pistol and when the man's form ap. peared on the last flight of stairs fired {and killed him, Ie left nothing to { work on but the bullet in his vietim's | body. I was four weeks getting him, | and when I did so, 1 marked him by a necktie I had bought for him and had | put on his neck. I could tell how that | was, but I v._2't. When ho was arrested | and asked how be came to kill a man who had done him no harm, his reply was: ‘A fellow is not considered a tough until he has downed his man,’ “The truth is,” said Captain Wil. liams, in whose precinct this and one or two other murders have been commited recently, ‘‘the truth is that these for- eigners determine to bring their chil- dren up like gentlemen, They send them to school until they get too old and too wild to be manageable, and then the boys steal the copper bottoms out of their mothers’ wash boilers, the rings and brooches their sisters and mothers wear, and finally make stealing pay their way in pool rooms, gin mills and vicious resorts, getting arrested and bringing their parents to plead for them at first, but finally going headlong into the extravagance of crime.” e——————— The Value of Politeness, Bome thirty years ago Mr, Green, an amiable Englishman, geeing a rather shabby old man looking for a seat in chureh, opened his pew door, beckoned to him, and placed him in a comfort. able corner, with prayer and hymn- books. The oid gentleman, who care- fully noted the name in these latter, ex- pressed his thanks warmly at the close of the services. Time had effaced the incident from Mr, Green's recollection, when he one day received an intima- tion that by the death of a gentleman named Wilkinson he had become en- titled to $35,000 a year. Mr. Wilkin son was a solitary old man, without relatives, Green's act prepossessed him in his favor; he inquired about him, and found that he bore the highest character, There was a marvelously courteous hospitality in the matter of ews for sor time after that bequest, ut nobody else has yet got $35,000 a year for a seat, A Novel Scheme of Co-operation, i The little village of Dolge ville, Her { kimer county, N, Y,, has the only man nfactory of sounding boards in piano felts in this country, The work gives employment to 480 people. 1875 0,080 pounds of piano felts were nanufactured there, In 1581 the total was 25,600 pounds, Five years every piano firm manufactured its own sounding boards, and the attempt on the part of a single firm to suit the | tastes of all piano men was regarded as an innovation that would never sue- ceed, { large quantities to Earopean countries, 1876 but 260 out at the of the supply. In | hoards were turned Dolgeville factory. Last year 52,000 | sounding boards were made { sold, This is the work of one man, | 1806 a German lad of eighteen landed As soon as he got work that to live he turned his { his pocket, {enabled him | makers, with unflagging industry until he had { proved more aocce { makers than anyt port, | work of manufacture was fairly entered i npon at Brooklyn, but was subsequent- ly transferred to this hamlet. All the | machinery had to be invented and Plable to the piano SCIENTIFIC NOTES, Although the gastrie juice has no ef. fect on the walls of the stomach while the blood is circulating through them, they are affected by it after death, The auroras observed by Baron Nord- FARM AND HOME, ‘ Hemoval of Grease Mpots, Fatty oils have a greater surface ten: | sion than oil of turpentine, benzole or | ether, Hence, if a grease spot on a | piece of cloth be moistened on the re- | verse side with one of these solvents {the tension on the greasy side is larger, and therefore the mixture of istic of these phenomens. | move toward the main grease spot. If common, and this distinguished Aretic navigator's theory is that the are The principle of water rising in ar. tesian wells is that percolating throngh previous strata, such as sand, gravel or an impervious stratum of rock or clay, thus causing it to accumulate in the voir. When this source of supply is higher than the spot where the well is the surface or even considerably above it. The harbor Francisco commiesioners of Ban have made the discoy- that port are rapidly being destroyed by the teredo, some of them being com. gpot with benzole we should not re- move it, bat drive the grease upon the clean portion of the cloth. It is there- fore necessary to distribute the benzole first over a circle surrounding the grease spot, to approach the grease gradually, and at the same time having blotting puper in contact with the spot to absorb the fat immediately. Boone method, namely, to apply a hot iron on one side, while blotting paper is applied to the other, depends upon the fact that the surface tension of a substance diminishes with a rise of temperature, If therefore the temperature of differ. ent portions or sides of the cloth is dif- ferent, the fat acquires a teudency to move from the hotter parts toward the cooler.— Pharmacist, Orchards. Professor Beal, of Michigan, says: If pletely eaten off. ‘This is found to be the case with piles that have been down | but a little more than two years. As sioned long and vexatious delays and endless experiments, Ef- | forts will be made to discover a rem- | kept running night and day. One secret of the success of Mr, Alfred Dolge is that he has always emploved the best work. men he conid find, employes have always been so intimate {and pleasant that they have labored | with an intelligent zeal that has borne i good fruit. {aged to suggest improvements, for which they have been paid liberally, {and they have been provided with a | gymnasium, library oR other means of | entertainment for their leisure hours, | Mr. Dolge spares no pains to command the zealons service of the most intelli gent workmen. A pension system has been introduced as a part of this policy, | At a meeting of his workmen Mr. Dolge explained his plan, and announced that Modern improvements have inereased | the power of the microscope so greatly | 100,000 diameters, The best unaided | hundred-thousandth of sn inch in di. | ameter, Beyond this minuteness is ob. | farm will, after a continuous service of ten years, bo entitled to a pension under the following conditions : Pensions will ba due in ease of partial or total inability to work caused by accident, sickness, i or old age, as long as such inability may last, and they will be proportioned to wages as follows: O50 per cent. after ten years’ service, 60 per cont. after ter sixteen, after nineteen, 00 after tw and ju per ¢ after tw uty-five years' sorvioe, In case of aceident while on duty, or of sickness contracted through the per- f wa of duty, employes will have a pension of BO per cent. at any time prior to the completion of the ten years services, This is the groundwork of beral provision made for faithliul labor wv * 1 | ¥ adib 85 per cent ntv-iwo vears, i IY «id 1 il by fly y EA Wood Carving, Wood carving is a feature of the in r decoration of modern New York and is carried to the very high- of art. The Ki "4 rer tor houses, BAYH: Ten . plis vears ago the number of accom- ultimate particles or atoms composing | all matter can be no more than one | i man eye. I 7 How a Petticoat Placed in Peril a) Nation's Peace, | A late Paris letter says: If it is gen- | erally the big mountain which gives | birth to little mice, it may happen that | a mouse is the progenitor of a mountain. | Great and serious consequences some- | times can be produced by apparently | trifling causes. The last bey of Algiers lost his possessions because, in an ont- | break of iil-temper, he broke his fan | across the face of a French consul, and | not many weeks ago the mistake of a | dressmaker very nearly embroiled the courts of Rome and Brussels, Every. | body knew that there was a coolness, | yet none, save those salt of the earth | who ara always admitted to the presence | of royalty, by right of birth or accident | of fortune, conld imagine ite reason, This is what happened, and I trust | that your readers will pardon my being | retrospective and going as far back into | was ont New Year's day, and the diplo malic corps was defiling in solemn | procession before the throne, when the | first lady of Lonor, the] | At present 1,000 competent men may { be found to do the finest kind of wood carving, and a new industry may be said to have syrung up in this Rupant- went of work, Two firms alone have had in their employ for the last two or { three years nearly 600 carvers, whose houses of the eity. Vith a taste for stained glass has come a taste for cary. {ing the panels of the wainscoting, of the ceiling, doors and staircases, | monumental of art which has cost weeks of | labor, while the newel or large | post at the foot of the stairs, is worth | in consequence it is not uneommon for thousands of dollars. mo of any pretensions at all but has a band of oak or alanthus leaves carved in tl the character of the decorations within, Por the Inst four years carvers have been coming from Europe in such uum- bers that the wages bave fallen consid. erably of late. The very finest work- men, espedially those in the possession of some secret processes of doing diffi cult work, receive wages as high as 88 a day. The average pay of good wocd carvers is from $4 to 85 a day. The process of ebonizing cherry wood, for | instance, used by one of the firms vis- |ited, is a secret known only to the { workman who does it. ——— Longfellow’s Humor, Mr. Longfellow had a very keen sense of the humorous, and many a witty im. prompin was occasioned by some slig.. imeident or accident. One summer twenty years ago, when the Appletons were living in Lynn, the poet's son Charles, who was very fond of sailing boat, and who has since become a famous yachtman, came in his boat one day to make a call. The surf was high, and the boat was capsized and he was thrown into the water, He was wet through, of course, and was compelled to make an entire change of clothing. Captain Nathan Appleton, in place of my loaned him a pair of slippers, which he wore home. Mr. Longfellow, the poet, returned the slippers a few days after- ward, done up in a neat package, with this little stanza: Slippers that perhaps another, Hailing o'er the bay of Lynn, A forlorn or shipwrecked nephew, Heeing, may purloin again, The mother of Captain Appleton wus a Mrs, Sumner before she married Mr, Appleton and before Mr, Longfellow married his wife. One day when he came from Portland to call upon her he wore a pair of new boots which were very noisy, When he went away the next day he left a little poem written on a card, which Captain Appleton still holds. It is as follows: I know by the boots that so terribly ereaked Along the front entry a stranger was near. I said: ““If there's grease to be found in the world, : My friend from the Fast stands in need of it here.” A —— In this world of change naught which comes stays, and naught which goes is lost, : , | the wife «f the first secretary of the | Belgian legation, had a tail which was not of regulation length. The marchi- oness was horrified. She called her majesty’s attention to the dreadful de- linqueney, and gracious Margarita agreed with her that such things could not and should not be permitted ; it was a mark of disrespect to her au ust ‘Request M. de Kendel to come here,” she said to a page, and the Ger- corps to ask Mme. Leghalt if her robe was not a trifle too short. With sll the gravity ard coolness of his nation M. de Kendell acquitted himself of his misssion; he was courteous, unctuous, but withal uncompromising and de. raled as a sheet of music paper. He suw nothing absurd in the royal mes- sage, naught to get angry about assur. but Mme. Leghalt did, and of a vivacions temperament, once flared np, beckoned to her husband and left the room. This was bad enough, certainly, yet was it but a trifle compared with the sequel, for when she reached the ante.chamber ghe asked for a pair of sciesors, and, aided and abetted in the operation by the marchioness with—my compliments, length of it for yourself, driving home immediately from the quirinal, * You must apologize,” said the Bel gian minister, “The apology is due to, not from, me,” replied the lady, and then a series Humbert scowled, and a special mes- senger was sent to get instractions from King Leopold, and nobody could tell what might not happen, when M. Frere- Orban bad a happy thought ; he would send M. and Mme. Leghalt to some other capital, and appoint a celibatarian secretary in their stead. Con- siderable excitement prewvniled in court circles, 1 am assured, until the difficulty was settled, as the Opposition is in an interpellating humor just sat present, and there is quite as much in this as there is in most of the incidents which are made pretexts for an attack upon the foreign policy of the Italian government; fortunately, the tempest was blown over without a rupture, and the Eternal City will not be forced to appenl to General Garibaldi for advice and comfort, EE ———— Speed of Wings, The speed at which some wings are driven is enormous, It is occasionally 80 great as to canse the pinions to emit a drumming sound, To this sort the buzz of the flv, tho drone of the beeand the boom of the beetle are tu be re- ferred. When a grouse, partridge or pheasant suddenly springs into the air, the sound produced by the whirring of its wings greatly resembles that pro- duced by the contact of steel with the rapidly revolving stone of the knife- grinder, It has been estimated that the common fly moves its wings 380 times per second—i, 0., 19,800 times per minute, and that the butterfly moves its wings nine times per second, cr 540 times per minute. The movements represent an incredibly high speed even at the roots of the wings; but the speed is enormously increased at the tips of the wings, from the fact that the tips rotate upon the roots as centers. In reality, tho speed of the tips of the wings increases in proportion as the tips are removed from tho axis of rotation and in you have money to fool away seed down your young orchard to clover or timothy or sow a crop of wheat or oats. If you want the trees to thrive cultivate well till they are seven to ten years old. Spread ashes, manure or salt broadeast, Stop cultivating in August, weeds or no weeds; this sllows the trees to ripen for winter. The question whether to culti- vate old orchards or not must be an- swered by manuring trees. If the culor of the leaves is good and they grow well and bear fine fruit they are doing well enough even in grass. Dat if the leaves are pale, the annual growth less than a foot on twelve-year-old trees, and the fruit small and poor, something is the matter and they are suffering for a want of cultivation, or manure, or both. To judge of the condition of an apple tree is like judging of the con- the sheep and not at the pasture, and if they are plump and fat they are sll right. Thoereugh Caltivation. Chemistry teaches us that nearly all of the material which makes plants teaches us that a small portion mast come fromthe earth. Careful experi- ments prove that the phosphates, the potash and the nitrogen, which enter the roots of plants must be reduced to atoms, and united with both sir and water before they can be available as When we understand this we at once realize the importance of ap- plying fertilizers in a condition to be soluble in water, or so that decomposi- tion shall be rapid and continuous, also realize the importance of keeping the soil in a condition which will per- mit a free circulation of air, moisture snd heat. In keeping the soil loose and well of the plants a better chance to push their way through the earth, but we give the descending rain a chance to settle down into all parts of the soil and to reach every particle of the manure penetrate and warm the earth ; these things are important, for planta cannot grow without large quantities of oxy- gen, and plenty of heat as well as mois- ture, The thorough preparation of the stirring after does more than secure these, for thorough preparation means not only pulverizing the soil, but it also means thoroughly incorporating the fertilizers with the vulvermed earth, thus not only bringing it in contact with all portions of the soil but also with the descending rain and sscend- ing moisture, and every time the earth is cultivated the particles of both the earth and the moisture are changed and a new chemical action takes place, thus hastening the decomposition of the material applied to furnish the plant food. The moment the earth becomes hard rapid decomposition ceases, the rising moisture stops, and the oxygen of the sir is shut out, and the descend- ing rain cannot readily find its way down, so it stands in ponds until it breaks through the hard crust of the soil, in some hollow, and descends in large streams; and as it cannot find its way back through the hard crust of the earth it settles down into underground streams and finally reaches the ocean by way of the rivers, without having in the least aided plant growth; when this takes place the plants must suffer, - Massachusetts Plovghman. Farm apd Garden Notes. Fat is of no value as manure, Excess of water in the soil prevents root development. Hoof and horn shavings contain more than twenty-five times as much nitrogen as is contained in average stable manure, Roots fed in a state of decay induce blood poisoning, disorder the milk of ewes and cows, and act prejudicially on the young of both, Sheep fed on dry fuel are frequently troubled with sore lips. An application of sulphur and lard once or twice will generally effect a cure. Small, yolkless eggs, sometimes ob- served in the care of fowls, denote over- feeding, most likely an exclusive diet of Indian cora, with little exercise and 10 green food. Deeply-rooted erops, as wheat, red clover and mangel, are those best fitted to resist drought, while shallow-rooted crops, as grass and turnips, are those that suffer most from it, Hen manure carries less water than stable manure, but mere nitrogen and organic matter. As to potash and phos. phorie acid, there is a great similarity in the constituents of both materials, In the management of live stock it is safer and better to give water before feeding than after. In the latter case the food is liable to bo washed out of the stomach prematurely, while in an imperfectly digested state, and thus occasion intestinal irritation and dis ease, The common practice is to keep hogs in a growing and fattening state with- out forced exercise, An exception, by way of an experiment, was recently made with a boar on a Pennsylvania farm. He was well and liberally fed, cat was forced to takea good run in front of a boy every day. His offspring were much more vigorous of constitu. tion than were pigs from boars that were confined all the time, Distemper in a colt takes about three woeks to run its course, All the med- joine required is a light dose of Epsom salts—say four to six ounces—and good nursing. Give warm bran mashes, lin- seed or oatmeal gruel; keep the animal warm, and rub the legs with cloth dipped in hot water; a tablespoonful of mustard in the water would bs bene: ficial, for the legs seem to be weak and numb. 4 proportion a8 the wings are Jong, A rough wind prevents the regular spreading of seeds, therefore choose a still day for sowing grass In- stead of mixing clovers and grass seeds together, the practice is r of going twice over the land, sowing the light grass seeds first, g up and down the furrows and su “il crossing the lands at right angles the mixtare of clovers and other heavy seeds, The bush-harrow should be ap- plied immediately before and after sowing, thereby covering the seeds be- fore the birds or a change of weather can interfere with them. After har. Yawing) the whole should be carefully ro Recipes, Escavroren Pansxirs.—Mash one pint of boiled nips; add two Sablakpioe fuls of —— pon ml, ’ a little , two cream or milk, Mix the stir on the fire unti! the mixture bub- bles; turn intoa buttered dish, cover with crumbs, dot with butter and brown in the oves. Cuocorare Cosranp,— Take a quart of milk and the yolks of two eggs. Mix with the eggs one tab of corn- starch, only u little heaped, and stir this gradually into the milk when scalded. Add two squares of (Grated), sugar fo taste. Pour into » ish, and spread ovor the whites of two eggs well beaten, and sweetened and flavored with a little vanilla. Set the whole in the oven to brown slightly. Prcxvep Tosarors.—Ope peck tomatoes, three bell peppers (or with cayenne if one has not the bell pepper), one cup sugar, one table- spoonful cinnamon, one each of ground cloves and one tablespoonful greund mutad, 3 the tomatoes sliced i2 #alt over . scald in salt and water; drain well. Cover with vinegar and cook a very few minutes, Beald the vinegar over occasionally. I 5 Using Oue’s Eyes, How many of us go through life with- out ever realizing that our eyes have to be educated to see as wel! as our tongues to speak, and that only the barest outlines of the complex and ever- changing images focused on the retina ordinarily impress themselves upon the brain ? That the education of the eye | may be brought to a high state of per- Jostion is shown in numerous wars | There are many delicate of | manufacture which i To en | practical success uv the nice visual | perception of the skilled artisan, who | almost unconsciously detects variations | of temperature, color, density, ete, of his materials, which are inappreciable to the ordinary eye. The hunter, the mariner, the artist, the scientist, | needs to educate Jhesye to quick action | in his special fleld research before he can hope to become expert im it. The following story, which is quite apropos, is related of iz, t is | sufficiently characteristic of this re- | markably accurate observer to have the | merit of probability. We are iold that once upon a time the professor had oc- casion to select an assistant from one of ' hisclasses. There were a number of candidates for the post of honor, and finding himsell in a gquaniary as to which one he should choose, the happy Sought Suisse to him of subj Sng three of the more promising pupi turn to the simple test of describing the view from his laboratory window, which overlooked the side yard of the college. One said that he saw merely a board fence and a brick pavement; another added a stream of soapy water; a third detected of the paint on the fence, no- ted a green mold or fungus on the bricks, and evidences of ig in the water, besides other details, It is needless to tell to which candidate was awarded the coveted position, Houdin, the celebrated prestidigitatear, | attributed his success in his profession mainly to his quickness of perception, which, be tells us in his en i autobiography, be sequired by edues- ting his eyes to detect a large number of objects at a single glance. His sim- ple plan was to select a shop window full of a miscellaneous assortment of articles, and walk mapidly past it a num- ber of times every cay, writing down each object which impressed itself on his mind. In this way he was able, after a time, to detect instantaneously all of the articles in the window, even though they might be numbered by scores, EE. — —————— An Otaheiten Dance, A sojomrner in Tahiti relates his ex periences in a letter to the Detroi Free Press, as follows : Monday migh be called Ganpowder day, as the can non were firing salutes sll ay Jong The present fleet of vessels in bar. bor is an exceptionally large one, the French rear admiral having some eight or nine vessels, three of them iron- olads, and the Russian admiral in these waters having two vessels with him. There was also an English vessel in the harbor when we arrived, but she sailed away directly. On Monday night the natives gave a d dance in honor of the two ad 8. The scene was wild and weird. All the foreigners were arranged in a circle, and in the middle sat a crowd of native girls. The French band struck up, snd the girls, rising with a wreath of flowers in each hand, advanced toward the strangers, singing in their native e. After crowning each of us they joined hands and circled around, then breaking, crowned each stranger again, and im- mediately commenced the savage whola- whola dance. After dancing till they were tired they passed green cocoanuts aronnd smong the visitors. After a very short interval the native men stepped in the circle and danced the Kanaka war dance, The wild contor- tions and movements of the natives, the dim light from the candles, the gay col- ored dresses and the strange fraits and flowers scattered around made up a very picturesque scene, The dance took place about two miles out of town, and lasted until 1 o'clock in the morning. All the next dwy was spent in seeing the town. Far removed as Tahiti is from the stir and bustle of the world, it yet shows signs of its close connection with the outer world. One of these signs struck us in rather a ridienlous light as we were passing a yard com- pletely covered with shrubs and guava bushes, in the shape of a bare.legged Kanka boy riding an American bieyele. Horses and buggies sre to be bad any- where, though at a prow fair price. Cafes are numerous, and in every one bil- liard or bagatelle tables can be found. For the benefit of the aristocracy there are the three clubs, the Qitizens, the Army, and the Navy. Taken all inall one can enjoy life in town very nicely, but the real beauties of the island are only to be seen inland. An un brilliant specimen of “red snow” was recently presented at the I Siar] scopi 5 was on the Wasatch mountain at an altitude of about 10,000 feet above sea level. It isnow very well understood that the color of such snow is produced by a minute cellular plant which reproduces itself by rapid subdivision. | FEE § i ih : : f - hd 1 at £ : i f iE f § 3 : i E i E i i 2k N i Es i E ] 3 2 a = - F F.28: Hi Bf ff lor, and his 1862, after the battle of ville, while staff duty, he was taken a statement of Hovter's number of men, efc, on i it 4 5 1505 sri Fab § g § XT 11s 3 mpao Eefdcd 7k
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