- HOW STRANGE IT WILL BE. ! Mow strange it will be, love—how strange when we two Shall be what all lovers become! “ou rigid and faithless, 1 cold and untrue; Fou ; a : Bur pet-names grown rusty with nothing to do; - TLowve's bright web unraveled, and rent and worn through, And life's loom left empty—ah, hum! Ah, me! How strange it will be! How strange it will be when the witchery goes, Which makes me seem lovely to-day: When your thought of me loses ils COLEUR TE ROSE “When every day serves some new fault to disclose, A #ind wender vou could for a moment sup- pose, “Wher you find cold eyes and an every Any nose— T was out of the commonplace Way ; Ab, me! 2 How strange it will be! Vow strange it will be, love—how strange when we meet With just a still touch ofthe hand ; ‘When my pulse no longer delightfully beat At the thought of your coming, the sound of your feet; : When I watch not your coming far down the long street; Gi When your dear, loving voice, too, 50 thrill ingly sweet, Grows harsh in reproach or commend; Ah, me! How strange it will be! How strange it will be when we're willing to stay Divided the whole day through ; Or getting remotely apart, as we may Sit chilly and silent, with nothing to say; Or coolly converse on the news of the day, In 8 wearisome, old married-folks sort of a way! ; I shrink from the picture~don't you? Ah, me! How strange it will be! Dear love, if our hearts do grow torpid and cold, Asso many others have done; [If we let our love perish with hunger and cold : Ifwe dim all life's diamonds and tarnish its gold ; if we choose to live wretched and die un- consoled Twill be the strangest of all things that ever were told As happening under the sun! Ah, me! How strange it_will be! A ———— Religious Sentiment. ar duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindnesaes and small obliga- tions, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure com- fort. A Quaxer’s Puruosorny. — The following lines, said to have been writ- tem by a Quaker, contain the true phi- lossphy of life : I expect to pass through this world but once. ghere be any kindness I can show, or human being. let me do it now. Let me aot defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again, Let this be my epitaph What I spec] had; What I saved [ left behind What I gave away I took with me ETOPARENTS, ~ LAAN voice, =00D ADVI speak in a Always Teach your children how fo work effort. Teach them the nobility dignity of labor, that they may respect and honor the producer, Teach your vice, and the aed, Encourage your child to be eareful of i wersansl appearance ; to return every solide its place; to always pay debts promptly ; to never shirk a duty; to do an equal share, and to always live upto an agreement, It ie an erroneous idea which many farmers have that manure applied in the hill, or directly beneath where a plant is to grow, does more good than fhe same fertilizer spread broadeast and well incorporated through the surface soil, Teach your children to confide in you ny conference together. Tell them your plans and sometimes ask them their sdviee ; they will thus open their hearts iowon, and will ask your advice. The gir! that tells all her heart to her mother, seca shield and a protection about her . s2hish can come only with a mether's «sdviec.and counsel, « {¥ive the children your confidence in 7 mo affairs of your business. They will Goes take interest and become co-work- esnerith you. If you enlist their re- wpont, then their sympathy and co-op- « aration, they will quite likely remain So'take up your work when yeu have done, and will go ahead perfecting what you have commenced, If you are a farmer do not overwork wour children, and thus by a hard and dreary life drive them off to the cities, Arise at & reasonable hour in the morn- ‘mg. deke an hour's rest aftermeals, and « guit at five or six o'clock in the after- cmoon. Let the young people in games + wand other amusements have a happy ¢ “ime the remainder of the day, There wipe reason why a farmer's family should be deprived of recreation and s.mmusemment any more than othérs, truthful, readily to anything we know Is to our » life. We exercise no little care to dis- cover what is such, Is it not well to exercise a similar care as to our interest in spiritual things, and discovering what is such, take to it readily and with a purpose ? Let us here affirm it is to your inter- est to be a Christian. The truest phi- losophy, the highest wisdom and the most varied experience of men prove the truth of this assertion. The testi- mony of the best, most useful and hap- piest among men in all ages, prove it. Intuition, reason and revelation prove it, If it is to your interest to be a Chris tian at all, it is to your interest to be a faithful one, Upon this depends your assurance as to the future and your happiness and usefulness in the present. The more your faithfulness the greater your progress and success in spiritual things. It confirms you in the faith which sin would destroy, it increases that peace which it would disturb, and enlivens that hope which it would blast forever. Your faithfulness is the measure of your Christian usefulness to others. Nothing will afford a better reward, or pay you better, than to be useful in the highest sense to your fel- low men. To be a faithful Christian is to be earnest in the worship, and efli- cient in the service of Christ and his church. What higher, nobler aim for a living man than this? Be persuaded by the strong and thous- and considerations presented on every hand, that it is to your interest to be a Chnstian and a faithful Christ- ian. “Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is lo come,’ In the face of such witnesses you should not doubt for a moment, at least give a respectful, earnest, honest and immediate consideration. You would be convinced of your interest in other matters, and act accordingly, upon half the amount and credibility of tes timony. It isto your interest in the future. It will secure to you an “‘in- | heritance.” a ‘‘mansion,”” a ‘‘king- dom,” a “crown.” You can not cheat yourself, never so willingly into the assurance that death ends your exist- ence, or that living in sin you will re- ceive the reward of heaven in the life to come. Then is longer than now the interests then are greater than now ; and gain then, compared with now, will make the latter seem but loss, If not a Christian, whatever you may gain in the present you lose the | joy and glory of a never-ending habita- tion among saints, with angels, and in presence of God in the future, What profit toa man if “he gain the { whole world and lose his own soul ? | It is to your interest to be a Christian | in the present. The future is not so | far from the present, They are closely | related, linked together, reaches into the latter, is at hand,” | here, in some measure at least, by all | who enter it there. It is true from the | united testimony of all Christians, the and women that have ever It keeps you from a violation of | the laws of life and health, prolonging days and escaping pain. It keeps you from violating the principles of con- i science, promoling pesce, contentment It commends jou to the { the and the former “The kingdom ' of heaven to be realized best men lived. | fellow-men. It guards you against a thousand ills and troubles to which you are subject by sin. - p= A Telegraphic Blunder. Telegraphic ancedotes being in order reminds us of a dispatch which some years ago a business man in Boston sent to his correspondent in New York, re- | questing him to have a room reserved for him at the hotel, as he should come on that afternoon, Arrived late at night he stood serene- ly behind the crowd at the old Astor House who were registering their names, even till the clerk began to turn appli- cants away for lagk of room assured that his dispatch in advance must have se- cured accommodation, but was sur- prised and indignant to find that no order for a room had been received, and was obliged to hunt up lodgings for the night elsewhere. Early next morning, in response to the demand if his dispatch had been received, his correspondent replied in the affirmative, and said that & store- house had been hired for him in Beaver street as ordered. “A store-house ! I never ordered a store-house.” The dispatel was produced. It read : “Shall be on to-night ; have room in a store-house secured at ounce,” . Application at the telegraph office revealed the fact that the young woman who received the message as it came slowly from the wire supposed the oper- ator had been abbreviating (?) the spelling of the message, which origin- ally read : “Have room in Astor House secured at once.” The division of A-stor and addition of an *‘e’’ produced quite a different result than was de- sired, Agricultural, If your lace bed-spread and piliow- ceive from it a delicate shade of ecru, which is so popular for laces just now, may be treated in the same way. A writer it the New York Commer val Gazette says : 1 do not dread hog either begins to show signs of disease I mix some carbolic acid in the feed, and they soon are all right again, If the paper which is put over jelly and jam is wet in the white of an egg, it will when dry be tight and fitm, and keep the fruit from molding with much more certainty than if it is dipped in alcohol or brandy. The paper which is laid next the fruit is meant, not that which is tied or pasted over the glass. The best way to get rid of the docks is to spade them out, and lay the roots up to dry. If that is considered too laborious a job, take a sharp hoe and cut them off just below the surface of the ground, and in a few weeks go over them again, cutting off all that have sent out new leaves, Going over them a few times in this way will finish them all, Steamed corn-bread is particularly wholesome when made with buttermilk, If this can not be procured, use lob- bered milk. To two cups of Indian meal allow on® cup of white flour, two tablespoonfuls of white sugar, twognd a half cups of milk, one teaspoonful of soda, one of salt, one tablespoonful and a half of melted butter ; steam for two hours in a well-buttered tin, and dry off in the oven, It is agood plan to have a few egg- plants in the kitchen garden, The fruit is much nicer freshly-cut than after standing several hours in the market. rich a Warn, The plants do best in moderately and very mellow soil. Select sunny spot, set the plants about thirty inches apart, keep the ground clean, and look sut for the Colorado which is as partial to the egg-plant to the potato. beet le, an Every farmer should take some pains to interest his children in the fowls on the fan, and there is nothing that quickens that interest as to give them the right to all the money they can make off the fowls. Inreturn for feed, ete., the obligation can put on them that they place the money in a savings-ank, or buy clothes with it, or put it tc some good use, in such a way as may be mutually agreed upon. Chil. dren can not be too early taught the knack of making money, and, what is of still greater the of Keeping it. Care of Pastures. Too many farmers think can take care of themselves, 80 be purpose, art pastures and matter how greatly they are robbed and denuded, the cattle feeding on the past- ures can take care of themselves also, ¥y no We have heretofore urged the import ance of allowing blue grass to grow high before stock turned on it, and to have no more stock toan will allow the grass to continue that high, with a thick coating for the ground, keeping it moist and the grass green. But all Kinds of pasture need care and feeding. The grass crop ona well regulated and properly ordered farm is worth more than the com and wheat coop, And yet all the care and ex- pense are devoted to the cereals, leaving the grass to take care of itselt, This is unwise husbandry and poor economy, There is no crop which responds more cordially and pays more liberally for good treatment by the farmer than his pasture and meadow land. several inches is If a man keeps his mowing land in good condition, he will have an abun- dance of hay in winter and spring, so that he will not be compelled to tum his poor cattle on his pastures before They tramp the soil into mortar and gnaw the very roots of the grass from the soil. In this condition the ground is bare, soon bakes in the sun, and there is a scanty crop ef grass the entire year, If hay ie plenty in the spring itis better for stock than half a feed on grass, and ten times better for the pasture, The thoughtless farmer scarcely letsa spear of grasss stick its head above the snow-bank before he will turn his stock in to eat it, and poach up the soil. And too often both pasture and meadow get this annual treatment. The right way is to keep both in a good, rich and pro- ductive condition, and then Xeep no more stock than will eat in a suitable time and way the products of both, If there be too little hay and too much stock the grass issure to suffer the next spring, It is almost impos sible to avoid it. There must be judg- ment and wise management to make a farm profitable. There is nothing to be let alone—nothing to take care of itself. All of the time and expense must not be devoted to the grain crop, What is planted should be done well in order to have a plenty of meadow and pasture, raise eighty bushels of corn tthe acre instead of forty. Or raise as wuch on twenty acres as you do now on greatly decreased without lessening the product, In this way the grass lands can be greatly increased in acreage, and much more time allowed to enrich it in vari- ous ways to double its eapacity, These are not idle words, This system of management is what this country must come to, More corn, more wheat and more grass on less acres, But grass being worth as much per acre as grain, with one-third of the labor, it is policy and wisdom to make the soil more produc- tive in the various ways which good farmers know, and then farm to more profit with less labor.— Iowa State weler, teg- Sorghum for Feed. The following statement is from the first quarterly report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, The writer, Mr, G. E, Hubbard, of Pawnee county, has been growing sorghum for feed, annually, during the past six years, and has not met with a single, failure, He says: “I plant any time between May 20 and June 20, using a corn-plantér, and planting one quart of seed per acre, Cultivate exactly as you would corn, and make thorough work. in shock by September 1, at which time cut and shock the same as corn, letting it remain in the field until it is wanted for feed in the winter, It makes excel- lent feed at any time, and especially when the ground is covered with snow, I only feed sorghum during bad weather, unless I have an unusual sup- ply, when I feed it at all times, It makes a very rich food, and all kinds of stock will eat it with a relish, eating it clean, stalks and leaves, “Another method of growing sorghum for feed is to prepare your ground by plowing fine and deep immediately after harvest. Plant with a corn-planter as fast as you plow until sou have the number of acres you intend to put to this use, Abeut the 1st of August the sorg- hum is nicely up, then barrow it thor- legthwise of By the 15th of August the sorghum will proba bly be from six to eight inches high, at oughly TOWS, which time preceed to seed the field with rye. Drill one and one-half bush- els then, when the cold weather cowes, turn your stock in upon it, and you have an excellent pasture, I consider this latter mode one of the best and most profitable ways of culti- vating sorghum for winter feed. It does away with the expensive item of harvesting. When planted on or before July 20th the sorghum will mature before frost sets in and a fleld thus planted will secure you a great amount of valuable fodder for all kinds of stock in winter, per acre ; Statistical. Witrniams, Jr. Division of Mining Statistics and United Survey, has in press and will short y publish his report on the ** Mineral Be- sources of the United States.’’ From it we collate for our readers ALBERT Lie Chief of Technology, states GG ological the following totals of production for 1852 and the first six months of 1883: 1882, Pennsylvania anthracite tons and Pennsylvania bituminous 063,038 tons. The latter includes brown coal, lignite and small lots of anthracite mined outside the State, The spot value of the former was $65,523,216 | of the latter, $72,453,797. During the first six months of 1883, the output of Pennsylvania anthracite was 14,010,767 tons. Bituminous, etc, 30.000,000. The spot value of the an- thracite for the six months was $31,- 524.226 ; bituminous, ete., $37,500,000, The iron statistics for 1882 were: Pig metal made, 4,623,325 tons; spot value, $106,336,420. Iron ore mined, 8,000,000 tons ; spot value, $32,400,000, Domestic iron ore consumed, 3,700,000 tons; spot value, $31,320,000, Imported iron ore consumed, 580,655 tons, Total spot value of all iron and steel in the first stage of manufacture, ex- cluding all auplications, $171,350,429 Anthracite consumed in all iron and and steel works, including furnaces, 3,800,000 tons; bituminous, 6,600,000 tons; coke, 3,350,000 tons; charcoal, 107,000,000 bushels ; limestone as flux, 3,850,000 tous, For the first six months of 1883 : Dig- fron, 2,352,010 tons; spot value, $7. (040,380, Domestic iron ore consumed, 4,500,000 tons ; spot value, $12,375,000 ; imported ere consumed, 185,000 tons, Total spot value of all iron and steel in the first stage of manufacture, ex- cluding duplications, $71,000,000. An- thracite consumed in all iron and steel works, including furnaces, 1,810,000 tons ; bituminous, 3,140,000 tons ; eoke, 1,780,000 toms; charcoal, 38,760,000 bushels ; limestone as flux, 1,950,000, The mint authorities furnish these statistics for 1882 : Gold, $32,500,000 ; silver, $46,800,000 ; total, $79,300,000, an increase of $1,600,000 over the out- } for 1881, i ior the first six months of 1883 the product is estimated : Gold, $16,250, 20. 120,006 HE (Pa.) Home News, 5 Birds of the Hebrides, Curiously enough of all the birds pro- hibited by the Levitical law as unclean, the only one ever eaten is the cormo- rant, which is certainly one of the least tempting of fowls, It is such a satanic- looking bird thas the very look of it always suggests Milton’s legend of its having been the first creature whose form was assumed by the arch-fiend, when, perched on the tree of life, he overlooked with envious eye the fair Garden of Eden, plotting how to work mischief for the blissful pair. The fishy taste of this repulsive-looking bird is considerably diminished by buryingitin the sand for four-and-twenty hours, and then skinning it, after which its flesh is said to make tolerable soup, in flavor happily combining fish and fowl, the former predominating. There is sor e- thing very weird about these solemn black birds (scarts, as they are called), which haunt the dark caves along the rocky coast, In the innermost recesses they heap up a pile of dry seaweed, selecting, with unerring instinct, a spot where the highest spring tide cannot touch them. There they lay their eggs, and sit guarding their nests, or else stand solemn and immovable on the rock ledges, never stirring till we are well inside their cave, when a sudden flap of dusky wing startles us, and they dash past us with piercing cries. Well does the seaman recognize the voice of these birds of ill-omen, whose shrill notes invariably herald the coming storm. It is very pretty, however, to watch them fishing, as they pounce on their silvery prey and gluttonously struggle to swallow it though, perhaps, twice too big for comfort, and, more- over, wriggling piteously all the time. In olden days, some of our ancestors imported fishing cormorants from France and from Holland, and enjoyed their sport as fully as do the Chinese cormorant-fishers of the present day, fasten’ ng a leathern strap round the lower part of the throat, to prevent the birds from actually swallowing their prey, them to return to their masters and disgorge their spoils, uli alve, and training Wonderful is the amount and variety of ird-life to be seen on some of the out- where every sort and kind congregate in count- less multitudes, Thousands of puffins burrow the turf like rabbits, while on every rocky ledge sits closely-packed rows of sea-gulls, guillemots and kitti- wakes, black-headed gulls, stormy pe- trels, eider-down ducks; in short, all manner of wild-eyed beautiful birds guarding their precious blue or green eggs, which lie in millions on the bare rocks or half hidden among the grass and rushes, while feathery clouds float in mid-air, hovering near their mates, and appearing in the distance almost like a shower of drifting snowflakes, gleaming in the sunlight. For all lov- ers of such beautiful, wild bird-life, I can conceive no greater enjoyment i lying rocky islets, sea-birds of in than a yachting cruise in the Hebrides in the early spring-time.—All the Rowonud, Year ssn AI son. a Home Economies. Pixcusnion, — An English pin- cushion will be found a very pretly ad- dition to a toilet table. The cushion should be round, with an open space in the centre for the reception of a flower vase or glass, and can be either of sim- ple colored paper muslin, covered with lace or muslin, or it can be provided more elaborately with an embroidered or painted silk cover and deep fringe or bordering tomatch, The glass supplied with a few fresh flowers isa great im- provement to the toilet table, WasTE PArEr Basggers, — The fashionable color for ornamenting waste paper baskets is a deep rich orange. Scarfs of silk of this hue are drawn carelessly about two sides of square baskets, or draped from the top of those which are round or oval Orange ribbons are embroidered with dasies or cornflowers, and drawn slant- wise over one side of a basket or run in and out of the meshes of the wicker- wotk in such a way that all the em- broidery is fully shown, Piaxo Stoon CoveER.—-A pretty way to cover a piano stool which is much worn is to cut a piece of broad. cloth or felt so that it will fit the top. This may be left plain, or may be orna- mented with a vine in applique-work. Around the edge of this sew a regular little lambrequin. Have the founda tion of broadcloth or felt or of velvet, This may be in one piece, cut in points or scallops, or in separate pieces, with the edges pinked or button-holed, and with a different design in applique or in Kensington embroidery on each part, or, if pressed for time, the lam- brequin will be handsome if the design is the same on each part. Another way to make the lambrequin is to buy a strip of the fringed border intended for the — Our Young Folks. instructive, Entertaining and Profitable. Tue VALUE oF A Good REFUTA- rion, ~The hardest work in the world is that of re-establishing 4 good reputa- tion when once lost. Young man, one first-class drunk will blast a reputation for sobriety and business reliability that bas taken many years of patient and correct deportment to build up. “me tingle shot fired from a revolver, or stab given with a knife while you are wild from the effects of strong drink, may cousign you to the penitentiary or to the gallows. A good pame is better than much gold. Less than two years ago, a friend of ours, the cashier of a national bank, in a vot far distant city, wanted a messenger boy, The position was one that many rich parents would have been glad to have their sons oc- cupy., The cashier had his eyes and ears open, be looked around ih ough the city, observed the conduct of boys cn th streets, and took notice of their Lnzuaze. He at last gave the place to the son of a poor widow, because the bx y did not idle away his time around stores, postoffice, hotels, or saloons, and did not smoke or swear. Remember, boys, that every bad Labit takes yu away from respectability and bappi- ness, Tue Ecuo Boy.—A little boy once went home to his mother and said : “Mother, sister and I went out into the garden, and we were calling about, and there was some boy mocking us,’ ‘How do you mean, Johnny ?”° said his mother. “Why,” said the child, “1 was call- ing out ‘Ho!’ and the boy said, ‘Ho!’ So I said to him, ‘Who are you 7?’ and he answered, ‘Who are you? [ said, ‘What is your name ?° He said, ‘What is your name ?' And I said to him, ‘Why don’t you show yourself ¥° He said, ‘Show yourself I’ And I jumped into the woods, and I could not find him, and 1 came back and said, ‘If you don’t come out I will punch your head I” And he said, ‘I will punch your head !’ So his mother said : “Ah! Johnny, If you had said, ‘I love ' he haw if you had said, *Your voice is sweet,’ be would have said, ‘Your sweet,’ Whatever you said he would iave sald back to you.” And the mother said : “Now, Johnny, when you grow and get to be a man, what- ever you say to others they will, by and by, say back to you.” And his mother took him to that old text in the Scrip- ture, “With what measure ve mete it shall be measured to you again.” over the diteh, and I went you, would said, ‘I love you.’ voice is to him BRAVE AND TEXDER.— When Sir John Lawrence was governor-general of India he was told one day of a little girl who had been tuken ill, and was pining away with grief at the loss of a very curious pet. - The pet was a tame ostrich, which the child had raised from the egg. left by the ostrich mother in the grass of the park at Darrackpore. The little girl's father was the keeper of the park, and soon after Ler discovery of the egg he died and his successor was appointed. Fearing that foxes or jackals would eat her treasure, or that the cold devs would destroy it, the little girl carried the big egg to the bungal w, and hurried it safely in a lidless box filled with dry white sand. This she took great pains to set out in the sun every day just where the fiercest rays would pur on it. At night she coaxed a motherly hen, whose own eggs she transferred elsewhere, to brood over the box. By-and-by, to the great fright of the poor hen, a giant chick broke the shell, and stepped into view. The hen ruffled her feathers, spread her wings, and fled, The little girl and the ostrich became fast friends, and one was never seen without the other. What, then, was Ler dismay when the park-keeper took it into his head that theostrich was public property, and must ge the government aviary | The child was so distressed at the re- moval of her pet that her mother feared she would die. But the military sur} geon, who came to see her, thought he knew of something better for ber than medicine, and he wrote a letter to Sir John Lawrence telling him all at out it. The viceroy was a very great man, and had pressing affairs of state to at- tend to, for millions of people looked to him as their ruler, But he had a very tender heart, and far away in England be had little girls of his own; so he wrote a reply, by the return mail, that the ostrich was at once to be given to its rightful owner, who lost no time in getting well, Does anybody ask, “How can Aunt Marjorie make a bit of advice out of this little incident #* Well, you know we wrap pills up in sugar; and so we tell stories, and hide lessons within them, A brave heart is always a tender heart, are, you may, like Sir John Lawrence, take time to do a kind act for some one
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