Litile Patty. i “Aunt Cindy is growing worse every day,” ~ soliloquized Squire Berrian, drawing his eyebrows together in a per- | plexed frown, “I must really write to Sister Jane and see if she cannot spare one of the girls to come and keep house for me. The very idea! It's a wonder I never thought of that before. The girls must be all grown up by this time, and married, perhaps, some of thew, Even little Patty, the youngest of all, is a woman grown, and a good house- keeper, I'll be bound, or she would be no daughter of Jane's. As for hiring a housekeeper, I've had enough of that going olf withou! a moment's warning, and leaving me to the tender mercies of old aunt Cindy. However, I must write to Jane at for 1 shall certainly commit or go de- mented, if this state of unarchy con- tinues much longer." Having supplemented bis with the offer of a liberal salary, Squire Be: rian received a prompt answer form Sister Jane. “Phronie, the eldest girl, was mar- ried,” she And Cyrena, the second, was engaged and was waking for wedding, had leen not the Olive, suicide, request wiole, own and could but Patty, youngest, might go and keep house her nucle. Aad Patty is the best house- keeper of the lot,” Jane, “I'm t's Patty, wused the squire, as he drove down to the station to bring her out, *‘though 1 haven't seen her nine years old. “That's twelve vears ago. Bless me, how time fies’ Is it possible I shall be forty years on wy next birthday 7” It was possible certainly, for it was a fact. But nevertheless the forty years must have dealt kindly with the squire, for his firm erect figure, his raven hair, and clear piercing grey-black eyes might have belonged to 4 much younger man. ‘*And so this is little Patty,” he said, casting a pleased glance at the tall slender girl who stood before him in her pretty traveling suit, her fair, with preparations her Roxie leave home atl present, sick, for concludea Sister Te glad after all, since she was rounded cheeks dimpled smiles and blushes, And you are going to be my little Aunt Cindy aronnd, and take care of your old unel generally, Patty 7 they di ove home housekeeper, and order said the squire, as over the grassy road behind a span of sleek prancing bays, “ Yes, uncle '’ said Patty, demurely, dropping her golden eyelashes over a pair of the bluest eyes Squire Berrian had ever seen, . “ How bashful she is.’ he thought, “Not at all like Sister Jane. | never knew her to be bashful in my life,” Basbful or not, Patty proved an ex- cellent and HC never oeased congratulating himself on obtaining such a treasure, “f don't know what | without you now, Patty,’ he said. “1 am just beginning to know what a howe should be, | won't be getting married and going to keep house for some other fellow,” he added, half in jest, Oh, no promised blushing at the very thought, “The child is as timid as a wood thrash,” thought the squire, They were seated in the vine-wreathed poreh, on the shady side of the brown old farmhouse, The squire sat tilted back in his easy, split-bottesmmed chair, lazily fanning himself with his broad brimmed hat, while Patty, with a stray gleam of sun- shine flecking her golden braids, rocked back and forth ina low sewing-chair, some bits of scurlet needlework in ber lap. “Good evening, Squire Berrian. | didn’t suppose vou would be hone this time of day.’ Patty winced at the shrill, sharp tones of Miss Prudence Ketchum, whose angular figure suddenly loomed upon the porch before them. Miss Prudence cast a sharp, scrutiniz- ing glance at Patty, then turned, with a melting smile towards the squire. ““I have heard that mv second cousin, Patty Crampton, was keeping house for you,’* she explained ; ‘‘so I made bold to run over and see her this afternoon, I've been visiting at my sister's over on Muddy, and just got back to-day and heard Patty was here, The dear child must be home-sick, so far away from her folks." “She must speak for herself,” said the squire, placing a chair for Miss Prudence Ketchum. “But where is she ¥’ demanded the visitor. “Why here,” said the squire, “I thought you were acquainted, as she is your cousin, you say.” “That ?"’ “Yes,” he said, . The very ruflles on Miss Ketchum’'s lilac sun-bonnet shook with severity and righteous indignation as she cast a withering glance at Patty, **Bquire Berrian, that’s no more Patty Crauipton than you are | * You've been imposed on," housekeeper, her should do hope you indeed 1’ Patty, “Then who is she 7” demanded the squire, Miss Ketchum fassed up her head np untied her bonnet-string in her exeite- ment, “Who is she? An impostor, course | Who else could she be ¥ “Miss Prudence,” said the squire, sternly, ‘there is a mystery here which I will unravel if you will give me the opportunity. Whatever Patty's motive wus, it was a good one, | am sure,” “Oh, indeed |” snapped Miss Pru- dence Ketchum, ‘It’s very easy for some folks to be imposed on by a doll: baby face and a lot of yellow hair! But I thank my stars [| never imposed on anybody in my life.” “1 don’t doubt it,” said the squire grimly, while Miss Prudence, mortally offended, whisked out of the gate, shut: ting it behind her with a sharp click, like the sound of a steel trap. “Now, Patty, explain everything to me. You can do so, I am sure,” said, in a kind voice, “Yes, said the supposed Patty, with brimming eyes and blushing cheeks, *'1 can explain it, of he l—1 am a&—an impos ~us she said, [I was at Mrs, choking back a sob, ‘when they got your letter tor, as 1 Crampton’s,’’ she went on, and seemed if none of the girls as would go to keep house for you, and 1 wanted a sit uation very much indeed ; but of course I could not come only as — 48 n ‘* As my niece,” said the squire, grave- Hof course.’ a ly, “It was Mis. Crampton herself who first thought of it, and she said it would be no harm at all ; and I looked a little like your niece, and s0--"' ‘*And so they persuaded you to per- sonate Patty, and be my little house keeper,” said the squire, “Very good, indeed !| I am quite satistied. “But I can’t stay any longer,” sobbed Patty. And I don’t know what to do. I can’t do anything but keep house,” she sald. “And [ cannot give you up my little “So, you see- housekeeper,”’ said the Patty must call you Patty, since you are no longer my niece, will you be my wife 7" squire, And Patty dried her tears. blushed rosier that ever, and said she would. “And do you know,"”’ ‘my name really is Patty, after all- Patty Darling she said, “Then itatdways will be Patty Darling, even when you are Mrs, Allen Berrian.” . “ * * . “Well, I never heard the beat of that in my bern days,’’ grumbled Miss Pru- dence Ketchum, when she heard of the wedding. [saw that girl was a sly art- ful piece the minute I set eves on sc I am’t surprised that she fooled the squire ito moarrving her, But to think Jane Crmmpton should have cone all that distance to superintend the wed. ding, beats me, Jane will never come half that distance to help at my wedding. au) sme her own husband's cousin too,” her, Miss Prudence must have been a true her prophet, for Jane never did come to wedding, in fact, Miss Prudence never had any wedding for her to come to. er Married Folks Would be Hap- plier trials were If home told to neighbors, never If they kissed and made np after every quarrel, If household expenses were propor. tioned to receipts, If they tried $0 be as agreeable as in courtship days, If they would try to be a support and comfort to each othar, If each remembered the other was a human being, not an angel. If women were a8 kind to their hus bands as they are to their lovers, If fuel and provisions were Jaid in during the high tide of summer. If both remembered that they were married for worse a8 well as better, If men were as thoughtful of their wifes as they are of their sweethearts, If there were fewer silk and velvet street costumes and mere plain, tidy house dresses, If there were fewer ** please, darlings,’ in public and mere comtaon manners in private, If wives and busbands would take some pleasure as they go along, and not degenerate into mere toiling saachines, Recreation is necessary to keep the heart in its place, and to get along without it is a big mistake. a AA AI An Nustrious “record of loug and faithful services isthe brief summary of the life of a Georgia clergyman. For nearly half a century the Rev, Henry Crawford Tucker expounded the tenets of the Christian religion, and zealously performed the duties of his sacred office without receiving one dollar in return for his protracted labors, ssn PAI We walk upon the verge of two worlds ; at our feet lies the very grave items, It is the judgment of the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle that the Northern red raspberries surpass; the 'struwberry in delicacy and flavor, The absence of is lnmented by the Chronicle, The Princess Isabella, of Bavaria, re- cently married to the, Duke of Genoa, is described as looking like a wax statue, without a particle of, color in the face, rich suburn’hair, large, dark, wistful eyes, and the figure of a Juno, She is very timid and retiring, and even her smile is tinged with sadness, Mr. J. Q. A. Ward, the sculptor, and Generals Barnett, McCook and Cist, will visit! Washington next week to seleckn site for the Army of the Cumberland’'s statue of Garfield, Mr, Ward wants to know what sort of a place the monument will stand in before he de- signs it. Mr. Samuel Woodward, who died re- cently at Pueblo, Colorado, was a native of Philadelphia, and a som of Samuel Woodward, deceased, who well known tobacco merchant of Pid adelphia. After the war he at Salt Lake City, where he became interested in the He member Was a settled Overland Stage Company, Was a prominent Mason and of the Episcopal Church, and much respected citizen of that place, Beruini’s Towers "on the Pantheon at taken down-—a fate that ought to have overtaken them im mediately after they were pat up. It is further announced that the rail- ing with which Pope Clement IX closed tome have been iron up the intercolummniations of the portico have been removed, and that the msthet- ic appearance of the portico has thus been greatly improved, The new square front of the fest that 1s to be laid out Pantheon will 175 feet wide, the to in DN be long and scheme tha Of LWO This is a destruction the involves private property smount millions of lire, H. D. Cosgrove of San Francisco, has offered the City of tal drinking fountain, to cost $8000, juffalo a monumen- A recent cyclone in Berkeley county, Ie Vaux Isle, General south Carolina, ravaged the family burying ground at Belle the of VEArs Ago A whe rest remains ine Fraucis Marion. fell upon and Ome broke which, resting ‘upon a brick structure covers Marion's tomb the marble slab and the evelone hickory tree upon it, reducing the whole monu- brought down another huge ment to a heap of ruins, The epitaph can never again be deciphered upon the marble, It read as follows: “Saered to the memory of Brigadier General Fran- ife tn we 6d record cis Marion, who departed this |} of February, 1795, in ti History will el st x - #411 we vear of his age. his worth, and rising generations will embaun bis memory as one of the most distinguished patriots and heroes of the American Revolution, which his native country to bonor and elevated inde- pendence, and secured to her the bless. Thi of veneration and gratitude is erected ings of liberty and peace, tribute in commemoration of the noble and d s- of the and the gallant exploits of the soldier, who lived without fear and died without yeproach,” interested virtues citizen some interesting statistics bearing on capital punishment have been pub- lished in Berlin. Between the years of 1564 and 1808, 218 persons were con- demned in Germany to decapitation, and of these 96 only were executed, Between 1568 and 1878 no fewer than 428 were comdemned, but in no case was the sentence carried out. In the year 1878, however, Hodel was executed for his attempt on the Emperor, but in 1870 and 1880 these were no executions, Since 188] there has been only three, The German executioner is named Krantz, and be has four assistants, who are paid by the State. It is their duty to divest the culprit of his outer cloth- ing, and then to bind him with leather thongs to the block. It is said to be a boast with Krantz that be wields his axe 50 cleverly that he always severs the head from the body at the first stroke. Facts and Fancies, ——— A correspondent of the Tropical Agri- ewlturist says, regarding the destruction of ants : “Take a white China plate and spread a thin covering of common lard over it, Place it on the shelf or any place infested Ly the troublesome insects, You will Le pleased with the result, Stirring up every morning will be all that is needed to set the top again.” ~-Ah You, the prettiest Chinese girl ever brought to this country, has married an Englishman in San Francisco. Milwaukee consumes more beer per capita than any place in the country, and the suicide rate there is double that of any other city. Query ? ~The Vanderbilt party claim that their new line--~the Southern Pennsyl- other line between New (Chicago, York wand Mrs, Gaifleld has given the herse that General Garfield rode at the L t'le of Chickamauga, to O, C, More, of Kent, who assisted the general to mount it the first time he rode it, it being an unbroken colt, England still has 1,000,000 paupers, notwithstanding her recent exports to America. The Pennsylvania hay crop is very large this year and the wheat heavier than for a long time, The Trade Dollar excit« men abating. crop is 8 Two male descendants of Martin Luther are now living in an obscure village in Thuringia, one is a carpenter and the other a theological student. Ellen M. Gifford, of has given $20,000 for a summer home for Boston, dogs, cals and birds, A justice's court in Seneca county, N. Y., has decided that a barbed fence is wile insuflicient, illegal and danger- ous, and therefore a private nuisance, which any party aggrieved has a right to abate, A NUMBER of cases of leprosy have been discovered by San Francisco phy- sicians among boys of the hoodlum class in that city. Beet does not Tie a) pear to thrive SUgar industry this the manufactory in Delaware will prob- it Our farmers do not appear to t ke very kindly to the cultivation of this It would pay them to do so, in country, and ably close for want of beets to keep running. joot, The Decay of Bullding Stone Is a hol ¢ unt matter in which ry is interested, and especially a regim, where new buil- dings very generally of stone, inans nie and constantly going the matter and the builder the We ask atten tion to collate for the information of gen- the state of Col- New The effect eral reader and from & recent address Columbia ruents below Prof. A. A. N. Y.. made York Academy of of weathering on Julien of before the ede, NCIeLOes, 14 ® building stone has received less attention in modern times than it deserves, will last 1000 years, many of them before their own architects are effects Marbie it dissolves The weather produces differing on stope in town and eountry. suffers from three causes on the outside and is washed away, undergoes internal disintegration, % 1 *4.4 also bends and cracks, as found Prof, Geikie, who has made a stud the effects of weather on tombstone Scoteh graveyards, Some a1 call brown stone “gingerbread h This stone adds noth rength the exfoliates and corners wear off in twenty ing to st usual renered house and ot {0 SIXLY Vears, 100k port sometimes shows signs of decay in Library begun finished. The granite depends on climate. Ag that stood for forty centuries in 1 after removed to Paris, cracks in forty sears. What that in Central Park, New Yark, be, can only be conjectured. years, Lenox before it was ie BYP, the fate of % Nova Scotia and Ohio sandstone soon Ar Can be become stained and streaked, and ble erumbles on the sarface and scraped off, three kinds— chemical, mechanical and organic, Chemical agents are the acids which dissolve carbonates, such as sulphurous and sulphuric, from combustion and from decay of organic matter . car- bonie acid from the air. nitrie acid in summer showers, carbonic and hippuric acids in rain water, and hydrochloric acid is always present near the sea. The mechanical agents are frost. action of wind carrying sand, crystaili- zation by efflorescence and pressure - and fire ; organic agents are vegetation on land, and marine animals in water, and in such places as New Y orX lichens and confervie, The influence of liquids in cavities, and as water of hydration, Mica in stone is an element of weakness, and poro- sity enables frost to penetrate deeply as seen in the lintels and door steps of brownstone houses, The means of preservation are: selection—no quarry is so good that all are to be used : 2d, seasoning-— Wren allowed stones 10 lie three years on the sea beach : 3d, position, in regard to lamination, —stone should lie on its nat- ural bed : 4th, shape of the projections; bth, artificial protection, such as pats and coils, The best protection, for lime- stone is water-glass, For sandstone it should be mixed with boric or caleie ehlorides : if ofl is used it prevents the use of water-glass ever after, Bryn Mawr {Pa.) He sine Nowa, C—O nb A fire at Little Falls, N, Y., destroved the planing mills of West & Co., the Jumber-yard of William H. Waters and the works of the Warrior Moving Ma- chine Company. Total loss, $26,000, “Alleged.” Few words are commoner in the lan- guage of the newspapers than the word Halleged,”? To allege anything. if the old meaning be good, is to affirm it with the exactness of a despatch. But the participle of this verb has found new service, Whenever any doubt is felt than a murder is a murder, the deed is softened to an “alleged” murder, Whenever a man loses his watch and his senses, and cannot tell exactly how they went, the lamentable occurrence is chronicled “alleged’’ robbery, According to these new linguistic lights a guess, ‘*‘Phe- nomenon’ applied to something wonder- a8 an an allegation means ful and abnormal is a common instance of high-flown vulgarity, much in the mouths and on the pens of persons who can hardly have compassed the truth that a shower of rain is just as positively a phenomenon as a shower of frogs. a calf with six legs, Miss Crummiles, or an enormous geofeberry, “Immense” is an adjective seldom used but in such a manner as to confute its own meaning Thus, in an account of some discovery beneath an ancient ruin, it was said that skeletons of great size were found, the inches,’ being of feet 10 this skeleton was reall one of them “immense length of 7 length of it have been “immense 7°° of of ness, and pumpkins of “immense” girth, iy read walls “immense’’ thick- Are there, then, no fool-rules or meas- uring tapes to reduce these immensities 7 A “econflagration’’ is not the burning of oné house ; it is the meeting of flames, + a8 when a street, town, or village is fired in several places. ‘“‘Culminate’ 18 a verb incorrectly used, unless in respect reached the has height, of something which i i £4 1 | limit of its possible AY Desa. said to culminate’ in the lowest depths of degradation, the term 1s misapplied, even to being turped upside down, So is the term “‘assiduous’’ when employed to strengthen the idea of peserverance, ARd not 0, too, is “preposterous, ”’ i intimated be locomotive | sedentary. | unless clearly denoting the figure which | homely rhetoric describes as ‘putting the cart before the horse,” — i The Medical Value of Vege- tables. On Med ie asparagus is a strong diuretic } » thie authority of the flee 4 fori the cure for rheumatic 8 part of h health resorts as Sorrel patients atl sud les- Bains, is coelirg, and forms the staple of that soupe aux be her- which a French lady will order { yy after a long and tiring pols, as containing a quantity of sugar, are avoided by some J | while others complain of ndi- With it may be remarked, in them 4 ! gestible, i cusation, JASE. ! ing. that it rot | outer, a red layer, is tender enough. is the yellow core of the car- . ’ that is difficult of digestion, the In Savoy, the peasants have rec | for jaundice, i very rich in those alkaline ! which counteract the poison of rheu- | matic gout, | broth, and eaten with a little Nepaul | pepper, it will be found to be an admir able article of If slowly stewed in weak diet for patients of sti. | dious and sedentary habits, The stalks the same sort of often the stalk a | caulifiower is so ill-boiled and unpala- of cauliffower have | value, only too of | for proposing to them to make part of | their meal consist of so uninviting an article Tuarnips, in the same way, aie often thought to be indigestible, and better suited for cows and sheep than for deli- cate but here the fault | with the cook quite as much as with the 100t. The cook boils the turnips badly, and then pours some butter over it. and the eater of such a dish to be the worse fer it, Try a beter What shall said about our The plant has a =light nar. action, of whicl old like a French knows the value, and when properly cooked is really very easy of digestion, Seientific American, people ; lies is sure He a French doctor a The Rope Cure for Pawing Horses, The habit of pawing can be over- come in most cases by lifting the foot and holding it up for a while each time the horse begins to paw, To give the horse his first lesson, put on an old har ness, buckle a strap around each of the forward fetlocks, attach a small rope five or six feet long to each strap, pas top of the saddle, take the horse toa soft, smooth #pot so that he will not turn, take up one forward foot and hold it up for some ten or fifteen minutes by making the rope fast at the ring cn the saddle. The object of this lesson is to teach the horse that standing on three — and also to teach kim that lus too. i held by a superior power, and tat he can not put it down without the con- rent of that power, For him to get these he needs to stand long enough to get tired of it, and needs to do bis best to get his foo: free Defore he can realize that it is impossible for him to free it. Having given this lesson put the Lorse fn the place where hie is in the habit pawing, and when he lifts either foot, take that foot up by pulling on the rope attached to it, and eld it for a short time ides of doing the wost only. The object of this lesson is to teach the horse that it is when and only when Le of it $Lhis lifts nis foot to paw that the control is taken fr ym him. When he learn he will probably stop the practice; but for him to get this idea the foot must be taken and held long enough for him to realize that it is held paw, In and disciplinars every time he « ¥ wt y 'y : atiempis to this, as in ail teaching all work, the teacher and governor needs a good supply of patience and perseverance rt A os Breaking the Old Man's Will. Old man Gubbett died only last week He willed all his goods, chattels and effects to his housekeeper, leaving Ji nis nephew and npext of sulted a lawyer about the in contesting 1 sting the I've come to see boul busting uncle's Ww my plained Jim ‘Om Sud 4 (SRE ale wi what wyer. “Did and explain that the paper was his grounds he have two {nesses last will, and request them to sign 7" me if 1'd Was Not Yes, sir, be did ; but hang if 1'd leave me out in the cold a knowed that he ‘You did not have to } sens we can’t work against the for- mality. Was he of sound and d or, in other words Was | peculiar that a jury of twelve men would regard him as ing making a will #7 ‘1 think | feeling reassured. he was,” ANEW ET ‘* Now tell me what makes 3 Try and recollect anytl ! that would warrant us in regarding | as crazy.” ‘In the first place, he allers paid 1} | debts right up to t Never wed thes : 1 handie. he : disputed the bills when he kn was right and save a dollar here and *hink don’t | there, 1 that oughter be against i | & IAL, ‘Yes, it ! We might you?" shows a want foresight call it unbusiness-like an rash. I'M] put that down. Give me =a ! few more instances like that and vou’l nave Well, ¥ VYOur uncle's money. let's see. What would you » 4 man that bought a paper every pnin’ when he could have borrowed the top fl orwalkin’ just for a nar ciean or it» i ap It strikes me tl} that'd 488fier buy at thar th borer is ully agree with you. jury, Mr. be a lawyer,” I don't Wihas 8 1 | the conductor forgot to collect his fare ! and bimeby in gettin’ out han’ it overt | the conductor—1I don’t "spect you'd say Ny WOuld foe igt my ju or Gubbett, YO onght 10 spect you'd say a man that idin’ on a Third avenue car and | sich a man was a born statesman, would you ¥’ “Who would be guilty of such a crazy act?’ “Why, my uncle done that very thing. I was a lookin] at him doin’ it.” “Mr. Gubbett] since the beginning of the world there hasn't been such an- other foolish man as your uncle. He was a spendthrift. He should have had a committee to take charge of his estate Now tell, had he strange religious opin- ions such as would render him incapable of making a valid will ¥” “Yes, he had, Though he was one of the richest wen in the church, I never heard him makin’ long prayers. He never tried to run the preacher or the congregation. But the foolishest thing he done was to refuse to have his n me on a stain-glass window that Le gave to the church. Refused point blank “That will do, Mr. Gubbett, ‘*Tisae | plain as day your uncle was a lunatic, Not try to run the pastor, refuse to par. ade his name before the whole congre- gation. Yes, sir, your uncle was loon ey." “Counselor, let me tell you another thing be done just before he died. #2 seems he once borrowed ten dollwrs from a man in Vermont twenty years ago, I think, Well, he forget all about it until after his will was made, and hang ine if he didn’t tay that he wanted that wan paid the ten dollars with legal interest. He had forgot or he'd paid ig himself,” “Enough, enough, Mr. Gubbett. A 1a that would pay an outlawed debt has not the shadow of a chance of hav- ing his will upheld. I never yet heard of & wan so crazy in all my professional life. That'll do, Come on Monday, and I'll Cie allegations against his will,” “Good day, Counselor,” “Good day, Mr. Gubbett."-- MN _Y. legs is tiresome and disagreeable work ; World,