i LOVE'S POWER. If I werg blind, and thon shouldst enter E er so softly in the room, I should know it, 1 should feel it, Something subti eo would reveal it, And a glory round the contre That would lighten up the givom, And my heart would surely guide me, With Love's second-sight provide me, One amid the crowd to 1 ind If 1 were biind! If I were deaf. and thou hadstspoken Ere thy presence 1 had known, 1 shou d know it, 1 shou d feel it, Som thing subtic would reveal if, And the seal at once be broken By Love's liquid undertone Deaf to other, ‘tranger voices, And the world s disc. rdant noises, — ‘Whisper, wheresoe er thou art *Lwill reach my heart! If 1 wero dead and thou shouldst venture, Neaur the coffin where 1 lay, 1 should know it, 1 shoud feel it, Something subile would reveal it And no look of mildest consure Rest upon that face of clay. Shouidst thou kiss me, conscious flashes Of Love's fire through Death's cold ashes Would give back the check its red, If I wore dead ! - Yosephine Pollard, in the Century. rsa fA ———— Our First Difficulty. Robert and I had been married 18 months before we seriously disagreed in affyihing. Our life during that time had not been a season of perfect bliss as some would have it, but we certainly had been happy—as happy, I think, as any can be before reaching paradise, and when our baby come, it seemed as if our cup was full to overflowing. We were living in Kansas, far away from both Robert's relations and my own. We had nei, therefore, as is generdlly the case, a host of aunts, un- cles and consins to urge that the child should be named according to thelr fancy. So it came (0 pass that our baby was nearly two months old be- fore the subject had been debated. But one day, how well I remember it, Robert said, as he tossed her in his arms for a final good-by before re- turning. to the store, ‘‘Esther, don’t you think it’s about time this maiden of ours had a name of her own ? Wil- son was asking me this morning what we had decided to call her, and I told him I "sdppos<d we thought her good enough withouf a name, for we had never Spoken about it.” “Mr. Wison’s child was named fore he was a week old, so 1 don’t wonder that he thinks us rather tardy,” said IL. “Well, what fo shall it be, Esther? Rosamond or Rachel? Bridget or Joanna? Kate or Arabella? Or haven't you thought the matter yet 7" “Our chhild’s name was decided to my owh ‘mind long ago,” I answered and thé for some reason I cannot ac- count for, 1 hesitated, though I tainly had no idea of what was to fol- low, “Well, let us hear it. It is something extraordinary, I suppose ; nothing less would suit our darling “It is Mary,” Isaid. “Mary ! surely you must be joking. You can’t mean it, Esther! “Why not ?” I asked, the blood rush- ing to my f4ce involuntarily. *‘So you have a Byronic passion for the name of Mary. Well, T must ac- knowledge that 1 am entirely free from it. But seriously, Esther, you cannot thihk of calling our daughter by that name 7’ “Bat I do think of it,” I responded, “and 1 eAnnot imagine what objection you can have, for almost every one agrees that there is no sweeter name,’ My husband's face grew dark. “Any name but that, Esther; you might as well not name the child at all. Hardly a family of any size in the country but has a Mary among its members, But I «can’t talk any longer now ; I shall be late as it is Look ia the dictionary, snd find some- thing else that shits you, and tell moe at tea.” And be kissed both baby and me, and Was gope. 1 ean hardly tell you what my feel- ings were during the long hours of that afternoon. It is true that my husband and I had differed before in matters of taste and opinien, but it had been condparatively easy to yield then, My child's name how- ever, was a different matter. I could not remember the time when L had sot looked forward to call my oldest ughtex by the name. of Mary. +My’ “doll babies, one and all, had been called by it. It was dear to me above every other nawe-—and now give it up-“"Never, I cannot and, I shall not!” 1 said firmly to my- self, At the tea-table that evening, we dis- cussed a variety of topics, but both avoided, as if by common consent, the one subject nearest our hearts. When the med] was over, however, and we sat together near our little one's cradle, Robert. commenced : “Well, Esthem, have you found any name this afternoon that pleased you ? I've thinking the matter over, and I've come to the conclusion that Laura and Evelyn suit me very well. of cer- Laura Evelyn Spencer, like it ?7? “1 like bath names well enough,” 1 answered, coldly, “but there is only one name for our daughter, and that 1 have told you. It is my mother’s name, as: you knew, Robert, and I have always said that my first daugh- ter should be my mother’s namesake, but I devel dreamed that you would feel so about it,” I continued ready to cry, yet keeping the tears back by a great effort. “1f your mother was not living, Es ther, there would be some reason for your feeling’ 46, but as it is—" “If my mother was dead, I would not care s0 much about it, for it then could afford her no pleasure.” 1 cried. “If ib-were any name but Mary, I would consent, even though it did not please me,” Haid Robert. *‘Come Es- ther, be reasonable ; there are so many pretty names, and Mary, besides being 80 common, is to me the very essence of plainness.”’ But my mind was wade up apd I would not listen. *‘She is your daugh ter, I said, “and, of couise, you yourself, but to any other than How do you as well mine Robert , n will name her to suit me she can never be what I have said.” How our conversation would have ended I cannot tell, but fortunately for both of us, it was interrupted by callers who spent the evening with us, and for the time being our dispute and its cause were forgotten, At breakfast the subject was not once next morning the alluded to in even and at noon and in the evening it was the same, Another day came and went, and still another, and yet not a word was said. table-talk longer the pleasant pastime it had once been, for we found it difficult sustain a conversation on topics of minor inter- est, while the one which grossed our hearts minds tabooed, “Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth!”” (As day after day passed away, and the week drew toa close, a heavy weight settled upon my heart. My husband appeared a differ- ent person to me. It seemed to that a great gulf bad come between baby, who before had been associated only with the purest, est joy, seemed changed. 1 could not take her in my arms without thinking of what ] to call my trouble Friday morning came. It was a lovely, sunshiny day ; but it the dreariest ever sul rose upon. “Whowould think Robert could be 1 said as I in one to 8 leep, char Was Lo to subject en- and was me us; even deep. choose seemed to me s0 obstinate 7 to myself, rocked my litt Just before our pastor ill at easa that it was that I sustained my suppose for he inquired if or called, with HOON I was so d ficulty the conversation. 1 ticed my agitation, I were well as usual, F part in he no instant ined to him all. It seemed as if it would be a relief to open my heart to some one ; but a feel- ing of pride restrained me. . Robert seemed unusually silent at dinner, and I fancied he was looking pale and ill. He kissed the baby, but did not toss her in the air and play with her as he generally did; as fo myself, every word I spoke cost me an effort. When Bobert had gone, [ took my little girl in my arms and rocked her to sleep, then 1 threw myself in my chair again, and silently brooded over my unhappiness, It seemed to me that a good, hearty cry would be a lux- ury in which I had determined I would not indulge The time passed slowly away, and I begat ww wonder why baby did not wake. I went over to the cradle. Her face was flush, and [ thought her breathing very unnatural. “What if our darling should beill 7* 1 cried, and then with a chill at my heart, “What if Gad should take away from us the cause of our dispute ?’ At that thought a great revulsion of feeling came over me. [ knelt down by wy baby’s cradle and wept unre. strainedly. “After all,’ I thought, *‘is it not natural that Robert should vot care to have his child given so common a name as Mary ? And what right have I to de- cide without consulting him what her name should be? Oh, if he would only come I took baby in my arms and went to the window to look for him. Then I re- niembered his pale face at dinner, “If anything should happen I should pever forgive myself,’’ I said, At last I heard his footsteps on the stairs ; I laid ‘baby down and just rushed to meet him. “Oh, Robert I cried, as 1 threw my arms arousd his neck, “name her Laura or anything you please, but do 1 an 1 #11 Wh born May 18, Mary Evelyn Spencer, 1855, “I wrote isthis neon,’ he said. I cannot tell what happened for 1 really do not know ; but I have had seven children since then and they have all been named without the least particle of trouble between their father and mother, and in closing this little account of our first real difficulty I thank God that I am enabled to de- clare it was not only our first, but our last, next, Sanitary, Preserve Health. —Caroline Mubelbach, of St. Louis, 12 years of age, died of blood poisoning, caused by wearing tight shoes, How to and Restore —In Cleveland, a piece of lime which a boy carried in his pocket, was the cause of his death from blood poisoning. THE TREATMENT OF FLESH-WORMS., —T'he black points flesh- worms, or come- dones, which are found in the face, and especially near the nostrils, are not at all produced by the ace the generally umulation of been believed, but by pig- mentary matters, which is soluble in acids, The following treatment bas been recommended : Kaolin, glycerine, 3 parts; acetic parts, with or wi a small quantity of some et With this pomade, cover the fected in the evening, and during the day. After several days all the comedones can be easily expre sed ; most of them even come out by wash- ing the parts with pumice The samme results can be obtained, by bandaging the parts affected for a long time with vinegar, lemon juice, or diluted hydrochloric The acids like a8 they transform the black color into a brown and yellow shade and destroy it gradually gether, acid two heral oil, parts af- stone soap. acid, act cosmetios, a'to- — Cause of Rust in Wheat. A correspondent of the Count {ter stating that the yields of the wheat elds of Western New York will be seriously diminished by rust, that il is worse on mucky soils de + T 3 I believe that mineral fertilizers against It not clear to me just why this should be. 1 remember well that where stumps have been burned out the straw of any grain following will be bright and the grain plump. The question has suggested itself to me whether the potash getting into circulating sap may not obstruct its flow, and thus prevent the flushing of all the tender new growth with more sap than the plant can prop erly make available. There is un- doubledly an excess of sap taken into the during warm, ry (Fentic- n.an, low, i adv 151 5 t . {ic Ii Htiais, BAYS . extent, are a speciic ust, is the circulation wet weather The fag that barnyard manures increase run while mineral fertilizers decrease it shows that there is a lack of something in the sap of some Kinds of plants that is not found in others Arles and salt are both said by practical farmers to have the effect of making the straw of grain bright. Yet both attract moisture, which it might be supposed would increase the evil, Gypsum also attracts moisture, and to this fact is popularly ascribed its repated tendency to increase rust. The practical ques. tion is why moisture attracted to the plant by these fertilizers should produce such different effects. 1donot attempt to answer this further than to suggest the theory mentioned above. Rust in grain and bight in the pear are both fpparently caused by excess of heat and moisture, making a too sudden flow of sap which cannot be properly elabor- ated. Mineral manures have been recom- mended for pear blight, Is it not pos- sible that these mineral fertilizers may be just enough soluble to be taken up by the roots of the tree and may vet prevent its being taken up wore rapidly than the leaves can receive it ?*' ms AAP —— Facts and Fancies., ~T'here is no greater weakness than that of letting ovr happiness depend too much on the opinion of others, ~=Jay Eye See, a five year old horse, trotted a mile at Narragansett Park without a skip or a break in 2.104. ~Grain is sold on the Pacific const by the cental, a much better way than by the bushel, ~Over 2200 trains leave the various railroad stations of London daily. ~Permangunite of potassium, hypo- dermically injectsd. is an antidote to the poison of the cobra. Tue output of copper in Arizona this year will equal about 25,000,000 pounds, Ture Prussian Government has ex- pended about $3,000,000 on the Univer- sity of Strasbourg, since the conquest of Alssce-Lorain from France, and Home Economies. For WASHING BLACK orn NAvy BLve LINENS, PeroaLes, Erc.— Take two potatoes grated into tepid soft water (first having peeled and washed them), into whieh put a tea- spoonfull of ammonia, in this and rinse in eold biue water, Storch will not be needed, and, if at all practicable, they should be dried aud ironed on the wrong side, preserve the of buff an infusion of bran will do for brown linens and prints, colors linens ; the same ~—To WAsH PRINTED Goops which have a black iround with a white pattern : Dissolve two ounces of red chromate potash, three ounces of common salt and two and a half ounces of sal-soda in a wash-boiler of water heated to boiling point. into this hot bath for five frequently turn and stir it, ft thoroughly in black ground will ‘foxy,’ goods will appear perfectly bright and Of minutes, and Then wash water. The be dull and clean not EpiBLE AXD Poisox The stem of room i8 short, thick under the head with a prominent ring. The I is white and regularly con edg® are bent inward, esh is white and firm, the under leaves nk, and separated as they approuct do the stem. When the mushroom grows old the pet- like shape changes ; it becomes brown, flal and scaly. The under leaves also turn brown. It is better when eaten young. Spurious mushrooms have their heads covered with warts and other membraneous substances, which adhere lo the upper surface ; they are heavy and spring from species of bulb ; they generally grow in bunches, When the mushrooms are doubtful sprinkie a little salt on the under or spongy part. If it turns yellow they are poisonous, if black they are good, TO HAVE NICE HARD BUTTER for without the use put a trivet, or any open flat with legs, in a saucer; put on this trivet the plate of butter, and All the saucer with walter ; tum & common lowkr-pot that its edges shall be 1 under the water, ous Musn- a genuine mush- ead not touch the table in summer, of ice, thin g 80 ork, then drench the flower-pot with water, set in 4 cool place until moming, if done at brea- fast the will be hard at supper time, --A FEW DROPE OF OIL DER will save a library from mold. One drop will save a pint of ink. To Remove TaN-—An wash to remove tan wucumbers soaked nightly to be wiped off, but left to dry on the In the morning wash in luke # warta water, and let it be rainwater, if or butte: OF LAVEN- excellent made of sliced milk, and ap- It should is in plied the face, not face $3 wm NE ANE. --—— Sclentific. ~The whistle of a locomotive is a train 2500 yards, the report of a musket and the bark of a dog 1500 yards, the roll of a drum 1100 yards, the croak of a frog 900 vards, and a cricket's chirp 800 yards, heard 3300 vards, the noise of ~ 1 is stated as a fact, and is a matter of study for scientists, that the corn and vegetables planted in the path of the eyclone of May 12 will not grow. Farm. ers along the line of its travels in Mor- gan county, declare the statement to be true, and say that corn and potatoes planted on “‘eycilone ground’ will not even sprout. ~[t 18 a curious fact that in the salt mines of Poland and Hungary the gal leries are supported by woeden pillars, which are found to last unimpaired for ages, in consequence of being impreg- nated with sajt ; while pillars of brick and stone, used for the same purpose, crumble away iu a short time by the decay of their mortar. It is also found that wooden pilesdriven into the mud of salt flats aud marshes last for an unlim- ited time, and are used for the founda- tion of brick and stone edifices ; and the practice of docking timber after it has been seasoned, by immersing it for some time in sea water, is generally admitted to be promotive of its durabil- ity. To make a rubber lubricator for belts, five parts of india rubber are cut fine and melted together with five jarts of turpentine in an iron, well-covered essel ; then add four parts of resin, # ir wel, m it, and four parts of yellow wax, stirmug constantly while melting. This mixture while warm is added, with constant stirring, to a melted mix- ture of fifteen parts fish oil and five parts of tallow, and the whole is agita- tated until it has congealed. The mass is applied to old belts upon both sides in » warm place, and when the belts are in use from time to time upon the other side, By this treatment they be- come very durable, Th South, ~Home in g relics of antiquity were Jately | i Mayence. They consist of the remains of piles belonging to the bridge which once led from Castle to Mayence, and which is proved to have been in use fifty. three years before the Christian era. The pieces of wood are trunks of vari- ous trees, including oak, elin and white and red beech, Internally they quite sound, At ofié end there are Some of the wood is to to dhe manufacture of a Prince Alexander of Hesse, some ornamental pieces of | furni ure made from odk discovered at the spot referred to, and these articks he has presented to his son, Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria. are be devoted | piano case, —At Gaudenfrel, Germany, the ar- Prengal, of Vienna, has established his glass busi- offering carpets, cuffs, collars, etc.,, made of glass. He not | 18, bul also weaves, glass bhe- | fore the eyes of the people. The others wise brittle glass he changes into pli- able threads, and uses them for making warm clothing by introducing certain ingredients, which are his see- rets, and thereby changing the entire nature of the glass, He makes white curley glass muffs ; also, ladies’ hats of with glass feathers, which lighter than real feathers. of glass, it is said, guished from veils, are distine Padi cannot be genuine 8 & non conductor, the article, and the time when it will 1 dress materials, may not be distan reve cause a piution i ~The measurernent of is, 4s we all know, tance in various chemical and manu- facturing operations The mercurial thermometer will auswer for every purpose within certain Limits ; but when it becomes necessary 10 meas. ure the melting point of different met- als, or the heat given out by different forms of furnaces or lamps, the ther- mmometer must give place to an instru- ment of another form altogether, Hitherto no reglly satisfactory instru- ment has been produced for te exact measurement of high temperatures : but Professor Talt at a recent nmmeting of the Royal of Edinburg, stated that from experiments he had made with those rare metals, iridium and ruthenium. believed that he would able from them a couple which required conditions, temperature if extreme impor- Society he form standard thermoelectric would answer the be Fs] Chambers’ Journal, li Indian Toa, The recent passage of the Tea Adul teration Act by Congress has eom- menced to show its effect to some pur. pose upon the lmporiation of poisonous teas from Japan and China. and for the health of the of this country i introduction has come none too soon. Dio lewis’ magazine August, quotes an article fron a the Sanitary En- gnmeer, which contains facts almost in- credible, were it not or the authority, It states that 7000 packages of tea from people i8 for China were burned as poisonous by or- der of the British Government. These showing upon analysis 65 per cent. of poisonous adulterants, being deadly. That is in every 100 pounds of tea (7) 65 pounds of adulterants were found. Eleven different poisons were detected -—some deadly--says this reliable authority which concludesthus : “A large percentage of the stomach- pain aud indigestion among American women may be traced to tea (7), In the years 1881.2 upwards of 80,000 packages of tea from China and Japan were refused permission to be landed in Great Britain as adulterated ; every pound of this 80,000) packages was sent on to America and has been, and is be- ing consumed, This explains the mean - ing of Gift” Tea Companies, who offer premiums of China-sets, Waltham watches, Pianos, Sewing machines, &c., a8 inducements. Leslie's Popular Monthly. for Septs mber, conteing states ments from a Mr. Oscar Rigg, who is evidently well posted on the subject, and these are worthy of note, The cargo of the “Fruitshire’ is mentioned as being inspected at New York, The results bedog that 3100 chests of China tea were condemned as impure, while 542 chests from Japan were also re- jected for the same cause. The valve of this tea vas stated to be $30,000 and the writer concludes as follows : “It is expected that at least 10,000,- 000 pounds will be refused a market in this country, The condemned tea be- ing roainly green, snd inferior Japan,” Recent quotations for Japan teas show as follows : “Finest' 25 cents ; Fine’ 22 cents ; ‘Good medium,” 20 cents ; “Medium 18 cents, and yet no ene appears to ask why do our grocers charge us the fahu. lous prices they do for such doubtful trash ? Little is known in this country about Indian Teas, or upon what scale they are grown, and an idea exists that they are something eropped up recently quite new. Tea was commenced to be grown in Indian in 1885, or 48 years SOs “from 9 500,000 Ibs, to 28,196,000 ibs. or liveries for year ending last May was 56.600,000 1bs. ; or 10 millions of pounds increase upon last year. In British India there are over 2000 plantations with an acreage under tea of more than 188,000 acres, while nearly 500, 000 es are taken up for tea planting, 0) bout 1200 Europeans and men of edo- tom are retained as managers and assis. and over 500,000 natives are empl «! m the factories and maximum esting d yield is 70 millions of pounds, Of ie purity and excellence of Indian Teas, little need be said, for their increased consumption in Ewrope and Great Britain speaks volumes, while as opposed to all the seizures and demnations one reads Japan and China Teas, one solitary statement need be alone made, Not a single package | of Indian teas, shipped direct from the factory to the cot { known to be ‘ painted, or COon~ of sumer, has beer either faced, colored adulterated. a'9d every ever i i { Teas to be innocent of adulterations jo The reason ple; no ulter- 3 anc would LO use ad and even if he so wi any doubly damn a valuable reputation no planter would risk while he has large crops of pure tea to sell upon its own established merits in an open prejudiced market, flooded without agonists only 100 ready to seize on the first chance to deny iis merits, — Newfield (N. J.) Item. — — - The Balance of Trade. atlempt such tricks A Statement That Makes a Favor~ able Showing for American Com- merce, The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, in his first monthiy statement for the cur- rent fiscal year of ports of the United States, reports the imports aud ex- that the excess of the value of imparts over exports and of exports over imports of merchandise was as f Month ended July 31. 188 imports, $4,466 ended July 31, $41,616,450 July 279. 234 3 Tt Hiows RG BEYeL I1=E3. excess of exports twelve months ended , €xcess of exports, $107,- values of the im- ports of merchandise during the twelve months ended July 31 were $714, - 236,710, for the previous i1welve months $735.021.773, a decrease of $23. 785,064. The values of the exports of merchandise for twelve ended July 31, 1883, and for the twelve July 31, 1882, $742, ise of $70,480,772. . q fet wi, LBNL ie total TR“ . * "Fe and viresys fy AIEHI1L AN 4 | B15 bY were 58 months ended 126.183, an incre Loxpox, September 7.--The returns issued by the Board of Trade show that month August British mpared with that last by £3,100,000, and that the exports during the same period decreased £174,000 during the of imports increased co thin nom Year, ii The Government and the Tele- graph. An ¥ sysiem that ; involves the genecal interests of the people shoul if be under control of the Nationa! Govern- ment. The issues that from time to time spring up between the people and certain corporations are {00 momentous to allow them to be at the caprice of in- dividual temper or distemper. The telegraph companies have their machinery of action intciwoven with each the varied interests of the whole country, enforcing rates, dictating lines of policy, and creat- ing disturbance, often, in trade circles by the want of power that can be alone exercised by the Government. If the Government can control the postal service with eminent satisfaction to the people, why cannot the same adminis tration and executive force be utilized in the telegraph service, certainly an in- terest not sccondary to the postal bu- vreau? We believe it will come to this ; and the sooner the better. One more strike in this branch of the public in- terest, with all its attendant jostling of the business arrangements of the coun- try, and our people will be more sensi- tive to real condition of the relations existing betv een the Government, the people and the telegraph companies. the of «A Chicago wholesale bouse sent out three female drommers by way of experiment. One of them wore all ber samples to a picnic and got emonade, pie, and grass stains all over them ; an-
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