-_ “The Pith of Poetry and Prose. A man alone in a room is left to his «wn reflections. When the weather waxes too warm Wen nor keeps shady. A mule 1s unlike a poor rule, be- asuee he works both ways, Burglars never tackle a healthy $ook agent. L fs is too short. Three donation parties to one pastor mre as destructive as a fire, A big balance in the bank gives a eman 8 substantial backbone, and he feels it, too, The belle of the season is now at wvery watering place and summer re- «sort on the globe. “Behind Her Fan" Behind her fan of down flufly, SBewed on soft saffron satin stuff, With peacock feathers, purple-eyed, Caught daintily on either side, “Whe gay coguette displays a puff, ¥ wo bins eyes peep ab ve the buff; wo pinky pouting lips— enough! That cough means surely coms and hids Behind her fan, “The barque of Hope is trim and tough, #o out 1 venture o nthe rough, Uncertain sea of girlish pride, A breess! | tack against the tide,~ «Cs pture a kiss and cateh & oufl,— Behind her fan. We carry all our neighbors’ crimes 4n the light and throw our own over our shoulder, It is said that snuff is a sure remedy . for separating fighting dogs. Its sneezy thing to do. Niuety million postage stamps are sold snoually, This is the country that gets in the big licks. Ella Wheeler warbles * Love is enough.” Ella always sings in that strain just after a big dinner, “ Should old acquaintance be forgot, @tec?” They always remember us when they want a few dollars. «“ pride comes before a fall.” Yes, and s good big oath comes after a fall, especially If you fall on hard ground. A millenium that would come be- fore its time would be like pears plucked when green and ripened in the show-case. Brevity is one of the characteris‘ics of certain journals. A Southern paper speaks of Weston, the walker, as an “ex ped.” tens —- ff ——————— Working Uashod Horses. A gentleman who claims to have ‘tested it, save: “ I find that they work better, are snore sure-footed, and far less liable to dameness than when shod, and I am satisfied that horses’ feet, as nature «made them, are all sufficient for ordi- mary work. After my long experience 4 should now as soon think of going 40 a farrier myself to be shod as to send my horses. Oar roads are rough, filly and stony, much more than the mverage roads. To prevent the hoofs drom chip ing, the toes should be kept slightly r unded by s coarse file, such «a8 is used by shoers, and the feet should always be looked to when the fhorse is groomed.” We will admit that nature made all 4he arrangements necessary for the dorse’'s foot, when the horse is left in his wild condition, as nature made him. Who would think-—or what benefit does anyone suppose could be derived from going out on the plains, eatchivg & wild horse and putting shoes on him? History has yet to teach us of a single instance where the “horse is found in a wild state, in any wsountry that is rocky or mountain. us or, if they are, the mountains are in- terspersed with soft, luxuriant valleys, swhere the horse makes his home, and cons quently we say that the horse's foot was as nature intended it (as nature does not make mistakes) all right and properly made for the ani- mal, when left to himself and allowed to roam where his na‘ural instincws lead him. Bat when we talk of driv- «ing « ur civilized horses over our piked sroads in the country, our rough roads «filled in here and there with sharp, aagged stones, and, still worse, our mscadamized, Belgian and eobble stone streets in cities, the domestiosted ‘horse Is brought within another sphere, and is made to go where, and «do which, he would not if allowed to se his own instincts in the matter. And it Is for this very reason that hu nan judgment devised the means of yprotecting the horse's feet by use of dron bands; and the same argument holds good where the writer says that ghe would as soon think of going to the farrier's to be shed, ss to send his \ «the suthor of the above would not ‘snake apy mistake about going to the a after a pair of good boots, or grain that bad plenty of Can oftener than every three months? And, secondly, when they do get the herses shod, it is by incompe’ent farriers, and herein we claim the greatest trouble lies.— W. 8. Webster in Thoroughbred Stock Journal, Phil, sn—e—— Home Economies. APPLE MARMALADE —Take any kind of seur apples, pare and core them; eut them in small pleces,and to every pound of apples put three-quar- ters of a pound of sugar ; put them in a preserving pan and boll them over a slow fire until they are reduced to a fine pulp ; then put in jelly jars and keep in a cool place. Crome Pie. —Take one cup of mo lasses, one cup of cold water, one tea- spoonful of soda, stir together and peur into the crusts; then take three cups of flour, ove sup of sugar and ene cup of butter, rub well together and sprinkle over the tops of the ples; set in the oven and bake until light brown. This recipe will make four ples, Hay Cookep IN CiuER —Put a plot of cider and a cup of brown sugar ixto enough water to cover the ham ; boll three hours, or until the skin will peel off easily. Remove the skin, cover the ham with a crust of sugar, and bake in a slow oven three hours. Dis solve a cup of sugar in a pint of cider and baste the ham frequently while baking. If the cider Is very sweet use less sugar, CrAB ArpLes, —8elect perfect ones; pour boiling water over them, which removes the skin ; lay them in water enough to cover them ; let them sim- mer slowly until soft; take them out and drain ; make a clear sirup, pound for pound ; boil them in it ull clear, lay them on dishes to cool, aad place them In jars ; cook the sirup a little longer, and pour it over the apples when hot: seal. SreaMeEDp Fis. —Place tail of fish in its mouth and secure it, lay on a plate, pour over it a half pint of vine gar seasoned with pepper and salt ; let stand an hour in the refrigerator, then pour off the vinegar, and put in a steamer over boiling water; steams twenty minutes, or longer if the fish is very large (when done the meat easily parts from the bone); drain well, and serve on a napkin gar nished with carled parslev. Cream Oysters — Fifty shell vysters, one quart of sweet c¢ eam, butter salt and pepper to taste. Pat the cream and oysters in separate kettles to heat,the oysters in their own liquor, and let them come to a boil ; when suf ficiently cooked, skim ; then take them out of the ligunor and put into some dish to keep warm. Put the cream and liguor together. Beason to teste and thicken with powdered eracker. When thick stir In the oysters. FrExCH BErwrED OYSTERS. — Wash fifty large oysters in their own liquor, strain the liquor into a stew pan, putting the oysters into a pan of cold water, season the liquor with a hall pint of sherry or madeira, the juice of two lemons snd a little mace. Boil this liquor and skim sand stir it well ; when it comes to a boll put In the oysters well drained, let them get heat- ed through, but do mot boll them. Many people consider this the nestest way of stewingreysters. FRENCH MARMALADE ~~ Take the entire rind of lemons; put it into plenty of fresh water and boil until q rite tender ; then throw it into a pan of cold water; let it remain from eight to ten hours; drain it, mash it smoothly, pass through a sieve, weigh It, and to each pound of pulp add one pound of white sugsr; put it inte a preserving pan and stir it well over a moderate fire until it is & rather thick paste; put in small pots for use. The juice and pulp are not used. PerrERMINT Dnors.~Mix half a pound of sifted sugar into sufficient lemon juice to make a proper thick. ness, Dry it over a fire, gently stin ring in, at the same time, 120 drops of oil of peppermint, after whieh drop the mixture upon white paper well greased, How 10 Omraix Loxa LiFe — Thousands of people spnually ruin their constitutions by simply swal- lowing too much medicine, It may seem 8 strange thing for medical men to say, but it s nevertheless a fact. It is & dangerous thing to fly with every {ittlo ailment to the medicine chest. The use of tonics, unless under medi sal advice, should be discountenanced ; s tonic Is sharper than a two.edged sword—it is a fool that needs to be ased with esution. Coven TROUHES. spanish licorice, two ounces of finely gum arable, and extract of The Field of Science. Sa" Silesia ylelds a kind of asbestos, v hich ls made up of short interwoven | ,ves, and it bas more than 8 per cent. At 8 meeting of the Russian Chemi- eal Hoclety, on September 22. M. Men. delejefl stuted that the specific gravity of the petroleum of Baku was between 0.881 and 0.880 and that it ylelded Iarge quantities of vaseline. Ultramsrine bine is decided by M. Guckelberger to be a true definite chemical compound, requiring for its formation a temperature about the melting point of zine, and towmid the end of the process even s still higher degree of heat. Basing his opinion on the results of experiments conducted at the Agricul tural Bchool at Norden, Dr. Wegner say# that artificial manures can be ap- plied profitably on marsh lands. The harvest of the crops raised ylelded a very fair return for the expenditure incurred. Halting, M. L. Fouriment asserts, is pot necessarily fatal to trichire im- bedded in meat. These parasites may live in salt provigions for fifteen months, Salting, indeed, often serves to preserve the vitality of trichinse, as it protects them to some extent from the destructive influence of heac, Bir James Paget is indignant at the nature of the English law against vivi- section. “I may,” he says, ‘pay a rat eateher to destroy all the rata in my house with any “poison he pleases, hut I may not myself, unless with a license from the Home Becretary, poison them with snake poison.” Rawhide horseshoes are made and used in E-gland, but to no great ex tent. Three thicknesses of green hide are sald to be compressed into a steel mold snd then subjected to » chemical process. It is said one of these shoes weighs but one fourth as much as an iron shoe, and will wear longer. The method by which Dr. 8B. R. Marsden recently succeeded in making minute diamonds depends upon the solubility of earbon in fased metals and its erystalization afterward, when the mass is allowed to cool very slowly while the crucible is buried in sand. Feo makes the carbon by calcining Sugar, cana i AS Eastern Carpets Cam It is not easy f.r a E.rpesn who has never been in the Ea.t to r alize what an froportans position the caret fillsthir.. Toan Arid his rug is his most ir asured possession. Without one he is a pauper. It is necessary to his devotions, It Is oftn his bed, som«t mes his saddle, and generally the only decoration of his tent, This has been the case for centuries snd ovr avast extent of Lercibery. » . The jress given in ancient times would now be thought ex'r vagant even by tie collet r who will cffor thousands of pounds for a Meissonier & few inches square. A million of money i» sald t: have been paid by a form: vr Guikwar of B. r da for a cover for tie Fr:phet’s tomb, and though ther ater portion of this sam repre gert 4 ‘he jewels inter wvoven, still about £30000 r mained as t 'e value of he groundwork. Major Euan Bmit meit ons thet he saw at Kerman a carpet being made for tre shrine at Mashhad which was to emt 1 t the r de of £7 te square yard, It wae 11 yards long by 2} broad, and wou'd take t vo yeers to make, This means a still larg: r price when labor becomes more valuable, whieh it must do even in Est ri cour tres. Then, to, mod- ern chemistry has done its beat to ruin the coli rs, and dyers sr) not proof against the temptation of the cheapness of anilines ss a substitute for the mcr: expensive but lasting pigments. Mr. Vincent Robinson tells us that Kir nes, the best r d ev. r discov: rsd, was in the Middle Ages in gen: ral use all over Eurjpe. It was known to the Geeks and Romans, the Turks, Cossacks and Ar neaians. Venetian rod was made from it, and the SBpanisrls paid trt: to Rome with .t grains. The serfs in Ger many were bound annually to deliver a certain quantity to the convents, Hellot speaks of it in old Flemish tapestries ss having lasted 200 years without fading. We hear that Mr. Wililam Morris Las determined to re vive this valuable dye, for there 1s no rd known in modern tiraes that can supplant it for Issting qualit es. Whether it can be procurd st & price which is likely to bring it into general use remains a question yet to be solved. ‘Sir Gr eo Birdwood thinks that in India the decay both lu the quality and the design of carpets has been gr atly owing to the compel tion between the Government jsils and the caste weavers, Itlo only from prove {oes far away from Euaropesn infla- ence that anything worth buying can now be had, He hopes much from the revival of taste in Eigland, and thinke that with mers univerial oul ture we shall come t) reject the pre tent ous and wor hiess manufactures now flooding the market. Poet's Corner, Ashes of Roses. #01 on the sunset sky Bright daylight closes, jeaving, when night doth dis Pale hues that mingling He ashes Of roses, w hen love's warm sun is set Love's brightness closes : Eyes with hot tears ure wel, in heuris that lloger yet, Ashes of roses, At Parting Asone in think! ig of the dead Recalls the face, but not the name, As kuowing when the soul has fled A title goelh ss It came, Be mine the face that you recall And mine the name that you forget, The sweetest story of them all 1s thought, bat never u tered yet, Autumn, Ihe aster glows toe falling leaves beneath, rhe golden rod gleams by the hedgerow brown, As though the dylog summer in the frost king's teelh Had burled her gauntiet down, #0 when the shades of solemn silence tink Upon us, and we reach j1e's Intest breath, The soul exultant bl is, ¢'sa OU the grave's binck brink, Defiance unto death! We perirh not. The mounting spirit towers In cvusclous immoria iI'y stiblime, And galas beyond death's feeble, flesting winter hours Eternal summer Lime, Fate. Who ean withstand Fale's weapons, ime and Change? Tue warrior spirit, armed and perved for the fight, Awaits Fate's onsel from whatever quarter; But entertained so well by pesos and plenty Fate finds him at his ease and weapon less | The lover, by bis passionate zon inspired, Biands res iy to dere all things for the dear one's sake ; But crafty Fate will wait ill love's flerce flame, {is own heart consuming, sinks to the som- mon level | I've would-be Spartan is put not W the test Till many dainty mesis Lave made him dainty. fe has rehearsed his scene with Death, both lines and gestures ; But when ihe dreadful call comes all's fore gotten, Trembling be stands, aad, like an ox, is led oul speechless | Aod thas, with ail high and heroic daring, Fate little heeds our deafening storm of chile lenge, Eigse heroes wern as plentifn! as mean, ———————————————" ron Thz Fair Sex. Oue of the sweetest-looking girls in Ray county dislocated her shoulder the other by kicking at a cat. Beauty is » mighty deceiving thing, young man, A woman hss suggested thst when men break their hearts it is the same as when a lobster breaks one of his claws—snother sprouts immediately and grows in its piace. A Lady's Toast to the Men. At a literary meeting Mrs. Dunway toasted the men sa follows: “God bless ‘em. We halve thelr joys, double their sorrows, treble tuelr expenses, quadruple their cares, excite thelr afl- fections, control their property and out marc ivre them in every thing. In fact, I may say, without a prospect of suoce«ful contradiction, without ‘em it would not be much of a world anyhow. We love "em and tbe dear being can't help it; we ecomtrol "em and the precious fellows don’t know it. As husbaads they are always con venient, though pot always on hand ; as beaux they are by no means mateh- jess. They are most sgreeable visi tors ; they are handy at State fairs sud indispensable at oyster saloons, They are splendid as escorts for some other fellow's wife or sister, and ss friends they are better than women As our fathers they are inexpressibly grand. A man may be a failure In business, a wreck in constitution, not enough to boast of & beauty, nothing as a legisla tor of women's rights, snd not even very brilliant as a member of the press, but if he is our own father we over look his shortcoming, and cover the pecoadillos with the divine man- tie of charity. Then, as oor husbands, how we love to parade them as para goons! In the sublime language of the inspired poet— « ‘We'll lie for them, We'll ery for them, And if we could we'd fly for them, We'd do anything but die for tnem.’ Fashion Hints, SryLes ¥oR CHILDREN. ~The Prin. oeos dress for little girls is always in favor, and is usaally completed with a deep collar and cufls turned back in unison with it. BSsilor suits for both boys and girls bold their own, and there are few styles more becoming and comfortable. It is slways a difficult matter to dress little boys well, but the preity kilted dresses, whichgare simple and child-like and yet essentially boyish, solve the problem. girls continue in favor, and are made gulmpe, Is made of white French nainsook, prettily trimmed with Va lenciennes edging snd insertion. The blouse is mounted upon a square yoke, made of alternnte rows of lsce inser tion «nd strips of nainsook, and the full sleeves are gathered at the wrist with a band of insertion and lace ruf- fle. In less expensive goods this de- sign is an excellent one for an apron, and be worn to protect the dress un- derneath, Eoglishwomen have taken a great taney to the Greenaway styles for their children. This fashion derives its name from the suthores of a num. ber of charming designs which are creating a perfect furore in London. Tne designs represent chubby little children, with rosy cheeks and curly halr, dressed in old styles, such as were worn by their grandmotuers fifty years ago. Little glris wear skirts fastened to very short waists, leg-of-mutton sleeves, and immense “oahriolet” hats, The boys are dressed in short coats, wide trousers, and the style of hat worn in 1830. The Girls. Wildness is a thing which is can~ pot afford, Delicacy is a th. which cannot be lost and found. N rt can restore the grape to its blose iu, Fa. miliarity without love, withow confi. dence, without regard, is desructive to all that makes woman exaltng and ennobling. “This world is wide, these things sre stall, they may be nothhyg, yet they areall.” Nothing? [It is the first dity of woman to be a lady. Good breeding Is good sense, Pad manners in a soman is immorality. Awkwardness nay be eradicable. Bashfuloness Is ocomtito- ticnal. Ignorance of etiquette § the result of circumstances, All cin be sondoned and des not banish mey or women from the amenities of heir kind. But self possessed, unshrinking, and agressive cosrseness of dememnsr may be reckoned as a State's prson offence, and certainly merits that mild form of restraint called Imprisonment for life. It i+ sn shame for women to be lectured on their manners, It Is a bitter shame that they need it, Women are the umpires of society. ILis they to whom sll mooted questions should be referred. To be a lady is more than to be » princess. To a lady prince and peasant alike bow. Do not be re strained. Do not have impulses that need restraint. Do not wish (0 dance with the prince unsought, feel differ. ently. Be sure you confer an honor. Carry yourself so loftily that men shall look up to you for reward, nut st you in rebuke. The natural sentiment of men toward women is reverence, He loses & great amount of grace when he is obliged to secount her as a being to be trained in propriety. A man's idea is not wounded when a woman fails in worldly wisdom. Bat if in grace, in tact, in sentiment, in delicacy, in kindness she should be found wanting he receives an inward burt. Independent Girls. There is growing up among the more intelligent young women a desire to be independent. They want some means for earning a living, so that they may be independent in the mat. ter of support even of a husband. here is a great deal of education not taught in the schools. It is an educa- tion of the young which comes of family training and observation. Mar. riage is no longer preached as a duty or as the acme of lasting humsn bliss, Conscientious mothers, who have taken it all in, are advising daughters not to marry for the mere sake of catching a husband. Sensible, observing giris have watched and noticed the results of marriage among their companions and former schoolmates, and the gene ral verdict on the subject is not favor- able. The average girl, whether of the store, workshop or boudoir, is still as pretty an idiot as ever on this subject. Her dream is the nice young man with plenty of money or at least a good salary, who shall put the plain gold ring on her finger. This Is not wrong. iils natural and right. It is not well for any to live Money Order System. From the superintendent of the money order system for the flecal year ended June 80, 1898, it appears that the business 1u that division exhibits a remarkable increase over the transac. tions of the previous fiscal year. The domestic operations of the 5491 au. thonz «dd moaey order «MM "es (to which number 449 have been added since June 80, 1852, while one (fice has been discontinued) reac «ed the sum of $118,400,118 21 in money orders, and of $118,838 301 99 in orders paid and repaid, a gain in each csse of abeut eight per cent. The fees received from the public smecunted to §1 053,710 55, au increase of pearly nine per cent. There were 877443 International money orders issued of the value of $6 586 514 48 and 116 888 «uch orders paid, smounting to $2 458 462 79, while the total amount of fees paid to the public was $145,614 25 so that the domestic and intérnstional money orders issued during the year agere. gated $110 936 982 60 and the orders paid with the repayments of over $115,000,000, The gains in the issue of the orders of ths several nstionalities varied from twenty-thr etoseventy per cent., and in the payment of such orders from three and a half to forty. nine per cent. Accessions are con- stantly made to the number of foreign countries with which the United Htates transacts money order business, Jamaica, New South Wales, Victoria and New Zsaland having been added during the past year, while an inter. change of money orders with Portugal will be eommenced on January 1st next, 8 ¢ nvention for that purpose having been duly signed and approved July 15th, 1882, The gross revenue from the domes. tic money order business was $280 841 for the fiscal year 1881-82 and from the international money order busi- ness tor 1880-51, $80,428, The sum total of these amounts has been paid into the Treasury for the service of the Postoffice Department, Deduocting therefrom all the expenses of the system which were paid during the year, and there remained a net profit of $165,080, One hundred snd nineteen cases of alleged lost remitigsees and ninety- five cases of sllegél erroneous pay- ments were investigated by post office inspediors, forty-eight of these cases eccurmng from Jaly ist, 1881 to June 80th, B52 making the ratio of improper ments se 1 to 175 034, Buperint@dent Mclionaid con cludes hi« #port with a renewal of the ons contained in his } viding for modifications {order system, and for the new form of money or- led “postal notes,” for three cents, designed to ithdrawr: fractional cur as it was formerly em- ployed fori mittance by mall sly sat AA 0 scbing Powers of oil. A recent inquiry by Herr Vellny into the influence of color of ground on ite heating, yields the following results : (1) The colorof arable land of approximately the same nature sff-cts its heating to a comparatively great depth. This ivJuence is different ac- cording to the season, time of day and amount of cloudiness, In the warm season, at the time of daily maximum of ground temperature, and with un- hindered radiation, the ground is hot- ter the darker the color. The differ enoe of tenipératur: between bright and dark oblored ground disappear more or less In the cold season, at the time of the ily minimam of temper ature, with diminished insolation, and at grest depths. (2) The dally variations of temperature are gr ater with dark coloration than with bright. They are generally | r ster the greater the differencis in (he mean tempera. ture, and conv. rely. (8) The inflo- ence of col t Indicated in (1) decreases in progr ién as the ‘wal r content inc rases, and othe r fact rs which de termine the heating of arable land gain the ; reponderance, With great differences in physiesl |rperties, chiefly osused by a largir amount of humus, snd war capacity, the influ. enoe of color may be whally set aside. Worlds With Double Suns. It has how been ascertalued tha many plstets in the universe are il- juminatel by two suns. While se tr nomen are os rialn of the fact, they are puszixl to account f r the orbit, of = these planets, which must describe irragulsrooor es in their revolutions. The sans srs often wir; different in ther appesr ince, often one is yellow and the other purple, It follows that sunrises and sunsets on such planets must be far mors beautiful than here foroes not known tus, In
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