THE OLD HOME,
It sleeps beneath the sunny hill
As in a tranquil dreamt ;
The giant elms are spreading still
Above the meadow stream.
Wild birds that join in music sweet
And quiet sheep and cows
Find grateful shelter from the heat
Beneath those leafy boughs.
All day among the scented grass
The crickets leap and sing,
And green and golden shadows pass
Like swailows on the wing.
How calmly in the sheltered nook
The summer hours may go,
Yet bright and joyous as the brook
That sings with deep'ning flow.
O world, with all thy cities’ pride,
Thy plains and valleys green,
Thou hast not in thy bound'ries wide,
So sweet, so fair a scane.
TTI,
A BRAVE WOMAN,
At Mr. Lonsdale’s anstocratic man-
sion in Philadelphia the earliest letters
fee. so that Mrs. Lonsdale was lang-
uidly eating orange marmalade when
the letter with the black edge which
had just come from Moon Mountain.
“eft a widow!” echoed Mrs. Lons-
dale. ‘‘And with six daughters. What
a very unpleasant circumstance!”
“She was my favorite cousin,”
Mr. Lonsdale. *‘As bright a girl as I
ever saw. I suppose, Naomi”—with a
little hesitation—*‘we couldn’t
her in here?”
“Take her in here?’ repeated Mrs.
Lonsdale. “Why, where could we put
a widow and six young women? We
actually haven't room to accommodate
ourselves?”
rv.” said Lonsdale.
the bluest eyes I ever saw. Six
daughters, and we never had one.
Perhaps, Naomi,” with the old hesita-
adopt one?”
his wife,
ed child into my house it will not be
the country article.”
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At the solitary little farm on Moon
Mountain, however, the same topic
ford.
was darning the carpet with a piece Jf
woolen yarn of the same color and
Lizzy was trimming seven plain straw
hats with bands of crape, as inexpen-
sively as possible. Susy was picking
over a shining tin pan of dandelion
greens for dinner.
ast and rosiest of all, was feeding a lit-
tle flock of downy chickens, and Sarah,
the eldest, was absent at a neighbor’s,
of half a dozen boys,
“Sarah was always so handy with the
needle,” said Mrs, Drix, with pardona-
ble pride.
up from her work with a troubled
countenance, “*what are we to do?”
“Mother,” said Lizzy ‘our Lons-
dale cousins in Philadelphia are rich.
Couldn't we go to them?”
“Certainly not,” said Mrs, Drix. “I
wrote to them, telling them of our af-
fliction, and they sent back a letter full
of common-places, without even offer-
ing to help us.”
‘But they are
poor.”
“Yes,
rich, and we are
and they live in splendid
Susy.
“Very likely,” said Mrs. Drix “But
in this family and God spares our
beggar!"
family, *'I really think—"’
“1 ‘ve settled it all in my own mind,”
said Mrs. Drix, stitching away until
her needle looked like a gleam of steel
lightning. “The house is large, al-
though it isn’t built after the latest
fashion. The air Is wholesome and
there is the Black Spring, where people
come to get the water for ten miles
around, I mean to keep boarders!”
“Hurrah for the little mother!” cried
Essie, clasping her plump hands,
*‘And I may help you make custards
and do up preserves, mayn’t I, mam-
ma?’
Susy and Esther shall help me,”
declared Mrs, Dnx, “Sarah can al-
ways earn her living by tailoring work.
Helen shall go into the glove factory;
1’'m told they need new hands there,
Lizzie can help Mrs, Dart, the milli
ner, and Rosie is to be nursery govern.
ess at Mrs. Millingham’s, And if be-
tween us we can’t earn a livelihood it
will be very strange.
Susy and Essie were delighted. Rosie
naturally regarded her position as a
decided promotion. Helen, however,
dropped a tear into the pan ef hot
. water which she had just poured out.
“The glove factory, mother?’ she
repeated. “But it will be such a
strange, lonesome place. I don’t think
I shall like it.”
We must all of us try to like our
duty, child,” said the brisk little wid.
ow. “I’m an American woman, and
they canuoct discourage me. This is a
country for the woman’s rights.”’
“Mary 18 going to open a boarding-
wife. “She has requested me to insert
an advertisemeut in the dailies for
her.”
“Very laudable of her, I am sure,”
said Mrs, Lonsdale with a yawn,
“Suppose you were to go there for a
few weeks before the Saratoga season
painting and repairs are going on.”
biously.
her husband.
cheap?”
“] should imagine so.”
So Mrs. Lonsdale wrote a patroniz-
speaking the best room.
| there was only one little square room
| left.
had gone forth in all directions, and a
cle praising the delicious pine-scented
air and well populated trout brooks of
| the mountasin—and the consequence
was that the farm house was full,
“But this room is too small,” said
| Mrs, Lonsdale, fretfully.
“It's all I have left,” said Mrs,
Drix, “and I could have let it half a
served for you, cousin Naomi."
“You'll take me at a reduction from
| the usual prices, I suppose?” said Mrs,
| Lonsdale,
“I shall charge you just what I
charge everybody else, neither more
| nor less,” answered Mrs, Drix.
“Bat I'm a relative,” pleaded Mrs,
Lonsdale,
“What good does that do me?” said
the widow, fixing her blue eyes full on
{| Mrs, Lonsdale. “My terms for 8 room
| of this rize are $15 a week.”
“But that is too much,” whined Mrs,
| Lonsdale,
“How much did you expect to pay?"’
asked Mrs. Drix with a curious sparkle
in her eyes,
*In this wilderness here,” said Mrs,
Lonsdale, “810 would be"
“If those are your ideas we never
shall come to terms,” said Mrs, Drix,
“But if you are really cramped for
money—"’
“My dear Mrs. Drix, you have no
money"
“I will take you for twelve dollars.’
Mrs. Drix completed her sentence as if
| the other had not spoken.
And the bargain was completed.
| Mrs. Lonsdale had not been in the
| house a week before she took her hus.
band’s cousin severely to task.
““T'hat horrid old man in the faded
| olive-green suit has the best room in
the house,” said she, “The very best.”
“Yes,” sald Mrs, Drix, “he is my
mother’s uncle. He was always very
good to my poor husband.”
“But I'm told he
price?”
“Yes,” confessed the widow. **He is
very okl, and can't go up and down
*
only half
pays
stairs, so of course he must have the
first floor room.’
“‘But he hasn't any property?”
“He owns Carragee farm, across the
mountains,’ said Mrs, Drix, “but no-
body will rent it of him because the
land is so rocky, and the farm house
was burned down last fall when there
were 50 many fires mm the woods, De-
yond that he has nething.”
Mrs, Lonsdale frowned,
“Nobody has any right to Jive to be
seventy years old without having laid
up some little provision for the future,”’
she said.
“I was thinking,” said Mrs, Drix,
“that perhaps Cousin Mortimer Lous-
dale would contribute alittle something
| to his support, as we are equally rela-
i ted.”
“You may be very sure that he will
not,” said Mrs, Lonsdale, with empha-
sis,
“Very well,” said Mrs, Drix calmly.
| “He shall never want while I can help
him.”
The very next week, however, old
fr. Darrow was found dead in
armchair. And by will he had left
everything he possessed to his grand-
niece, Mary Drix,
i
w
said Mrs, Lonsdale. “Of course you'll
lutely be money out of pocket.’’
“It was all he had to give?’ said
| Mrs. Drix,
Meanwhile the family was prosper-
thrifty young farmer of the neighbor-
| bood. Helen was earning a good live
| ing.
Lazzy was contemplating the setting
account—and Rosie was in high favor
at Millingham Place,
Even Mrs. Lonsdale admitted that
her French cook could not excel the
creams, delicate cakes and delicious
puddings which these young damsels
compounded,
“I'm almost sorry our rooms are en-
gaged at Saratoga,” said the city lady.
“J am getting rather to like Moon
Mountain, And your table is decided-
ly good. Mary. And as for the girls, I
have grown to like them very much.”
Mr. Lonsdale himself entered as she
spoke,
“Well,” said the lady airily ‘what,
is the news, Mortimer?
“Bad news,” sald Mortimer, in a
| hoarse accent, “We are ruined! The
business has gone to wreck—the cash-
{ fer has gone to Belgium-—and we hav-
| en’t a cent to éall our own!”
| Whereupon, naturally enough. Mrs.
| Lonsdale went into hysterics, scream-
| ing, “Oh,
| ruined, ruined!
Mortimer—I
| starve,”
When Mrs. Drix came in, Naomi
was widely loading her husband with
| reproaches and struggling with him.
Mortimer Lonsdale stood with some
thing glittering in his hand. Mrs,
| Drix went up to him and took it away
with gentle authority.
| “Give me that pistol, Mortimer,”
| said she, “Get up, Naomi, and leave
off crying and sobbing. If ever you
needed to be a woman, you need it
| now.”
““We are ruined——we are ruined!”
“1 can never redeem myself,”’ said
Mortimer hukeily. ‘You had
have let me shoot myself, Mary"
“Pghaw!” said Mrs Drix, curtly.
“Suicide is the last resort of the cow-
ard. Don’t you know, Mortimer, that
it 18 always darkest just before day-
light?”
“I don’t know what you mean,’* said
he,
“Then listen to me. The old lawyer
has just come over from Carragee farm,
He says that they have struck a rich
we are ruined,
life has ended,
as well
heaven!
My
might
die as
for $30,000, and I've agreed to sell it,
Uncle Darrow was as much your grand-
uncle as he was mine, We'll divide the
money, Mortimer, you and 1.”
“But I've no right to it Mary,” fal-
tered he.
“Not by law, perhaps,” said the wid-
ow, “but you have by equity—at all
events, half of it shall be yours, What
do I want with $80,000? Half of it will
be great riches for me, The girls are
all doing well, and I like to lead a busy
life. Nay, Mortimer, you must take
itr
He turned away his face,
“Mary,” sald he, “you have heaped
coals of fire on our heads!"
“Mary,” sobbed Mrs. Lonsdale, “you
are an angel.”
a pretty farm on Moon Mountain, and,
gtrange to relate, their only son, Greof-
frey, eventually married pretty
Drix,
“So you'll
Essie
have to adopt one of Mary
Drix’s girls, after alll”
ber husband.
jocosaly said
* She’s a perfect little darling!”
Mrs. Lonsdale, had softeped
strangely of late; “and her mother has
said
who
shown me what a complets fool 1 made
of myself. She has brought me to my
senses, Mortimer, and I think we are
all the happier for having been ruined.”
——
The Soldier's Lite,
Going into winter quarters
the veteran what holiday t
First of allt
Was
ime is to the
YO
school-boy. Il there was the
ed down for
a time, the prospect of a long
much an increase of
personal comfort. The dreary boxes of
hard were exchanged for broad
sheets of fresh loaves from the Govern-
ment The sutler and the
arrived, and every table
groaned with simple but high-priced
luxuries. Hat-building grew into an
art. A few men of mechanical instincts
would explore the woods, in search of
all sorts of odd-shaped roots and
branches, creating of these un-
promising materials specimens of rustic
work remarkable for in de-
sign. Usually the huts were built of
rough logs, split in half to give the in.
terior walls a finish, Shelter tents wer®
stretched over the rafters, the chinks
between the logs were stopped with
wet clay, and a chimney completed the
exlifice, Six men formed a mess, shelf.
3
and
weeded rest, with
bread
bakeries,
paymaster
»
ous
neatness
end. In the center stood a
cracker<board table, with a few stools
barrels. The muskets and equipments
hung on pegs on either side of the door,
In these snug huts the men for-
Chess, checker, and backgam-
mon hoards were obtained from the
a pack of well-thumbed cards, These
A great deal of pipe-
devoted their leisure to inventing pat-
One of the most valua-
market owes ita origin to a soldier
mechanic, who completed the details
in a winter hut.
si MI APSA
Think of ease, but work on.
A foul morn may turn a fair day.
A threwd observer once said that in
walking the streets on a slippery morn-
ing, one might see where the good.
natared people lived, by the ashes
thrown on the ice hefore the doors,
Have the courage to show your re.
spect for honesty, in whatever guise
it appears; and your contempt for dis-
honest duplirity by whomsoever exhibi-
ted
Piowuresgue War.
The expedition which Lord Wolseley
the English journalists as original and
daring as anything in the annals of war,
Jt may, however, have had its proto-
type in the ancient Pharaohs, who sent
large expeditions into the Soudan, be-
their sway, to procure drugs, ivory,
ostrich feathers, lions and slaves. These
expeditions may possibly have ascended
in the small Nile boats which are repre-
The
English are going to attack the rebels
in row boats. The Londoners speak of
It is the common way
of going to war with the river tribes,
This expedition was to leave Sarrar
What it
will do, now that it is impossible for
the liars of the Soudan and of Cairo
the fact that Gordon is as safe in Khar-
toum as the Khedive in Cairo, and that
no ‘rescue’ is needed, it is impossible
to predict. But it seems to be belived
that the English troops will continue
restoring allegiance to Egypt by a show
of force,
The expedition was to contain 7,000
men in a flotilla of 800 small and nar-
row boats. Each boat is 32 feet long
by seven feet broad and will carry ten
boatmen, ten soldiers and food for one
hundred days; they draw only twenly
inches of water and can be salled,
rowed or poled or “tracked’-—that is
pulled along by a rope. It is thought
that boats of this size can be hauled
over the rapids with little difficulty. Of
course the only reason for following the
river in its roundabout way Is that the
men may haye water, the want of which
presents an almost insuperable obstacle
to the crossing of the desert by a large
army. If this plan 1s carried out, the
expedition will
respects a
be a novel and in some
pleasant The
the upper Nile in winter is
superb, with
adventure,
climate of
rain,
fairly cool nights for sleeping, and a
temperature of seventy degrees during
The voyage, to be sure, if it
lasts a couple of months, will be rather
no no dampness,
the day.
monotonous, and we imagine that row-
ing the boats up the swift current will
cease to be amusing after the first day.
No progress worth speaking of can be
made by poling, and tracking is about
as slow as rowing. It requires a good
deal of strength to pull a small row
boat up the stream, with only four or
and when it is at-
tempted to row a boat thirty-two
long, and loaded down w men
provisions for three months, it will
no joke,
occasionally, for the prevailing wind
five persons in it,
ith
Sails may perhaps be utilized
on the Nile in winter is from the nord
but, in taking this great
its numerous short bends, there will be
a 3
Circus, Wisi
a good deal of distance where sails can-
not be used.
»
To ascend the river in a
( 4
gt
row boat is also less pleasing than on a
i
dahabeah or steamer, whose decks are
high enough out of water to give a
high and steep banks.
against a three-mile
view over the
To pull along
rent, in fact to crawl along, in the river,
with little to see on
tonous banks, will be anything but in-
spiring. Probably, , the sol-
diers will walk a good deal of the time,
their food.
Certainly expedition will be watch-
ed with interest,
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top of the mono-
however
§ 7 1 3 /
and drag boatloads of
th
wae
Henry Clay's Medal.
Henry Clay, when presented in Febu-
ary, 1852, with a large and elegantly-
executed medal, by some of his New
Y ork friends, received it by reading a
written address, and then, in a conver-
sational manner, expressed a favorable
opinion of the bead, as giving his feat~
ures with great truthfalness, but play-
fully remarked that he did not know
before that his nose was 80 prominent,
and then added, in allusion to the great
intrinsic value of the medal from its
material: “Who can tell but fifty or a
hundred years hence, some Goth may
get hold of this and say the nose of this
old dead fellow will serve to buy me a
great many things that I want, and
may carry it off? However, it is a capi-
tal likeness, I think. The artists,’’ said
Mr, Clay, “have not generally succee-
has been ina great measure my own
fault; for my face never retained long
when I am under any excitement, it
changes every moment. John Randolph
intentionally, fer he seldom complimen-
ted any man; but, without intending
it, he paid me what I esteem one of the
highest compliments I ever received.
He said that whenever a debate is
coming on, if I can get a sight at Mr.
Clay's face I can always tell which
gide he is going to take.”’ Strange to
say, the medal was soon afterwards
stolen between Washington and New
York from a lady to whose care it had
been intrusted, and the original donors
had a fac-simile made, at considerable
expense.
Protective Union,
The workingwomen’s Protective Un-
fon of New York has a record to be
proud of. It has been in existence 20
years, and during that time has expen-
ded $65,000 in the conduct of 7,000
prosecutions for attempted frauds upon
working girls
Yictoria's fortune,
Her Majesty possesses an lmmense
The estate at Osborne is at
when it was purchased by the (Queen
The Balmoral property of her
Majesty now extends over 30,000 acres.
the property outright three years ago
for £78,000, Probably its market value
is not much under £150,000. The
Queen also possesses some property at
With regard to personal property Mr.
Consort is believed to have amounted
to nearly £600,000 ; but the provisions
the document has never been proved.
The Queen must also have saved a vast
sum out of her income, which has al-
ways been very well managed. Since
the of the the
general administration of the Queen’s
private affairs has
Lord Snyder, who 1s a
man of business,
death Prince Consort
been confided to
consummate
I have reason to be-
lieve that in due course application will
on behalf of the
and Princess of
18 to be a royal
be nade to parliament
children of the Prince
W
message on the subject of Prince Al:
bert Vietor’s establishment next sess-
The country will not, however,
provide for the younger
of the royal family. The
Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh are
death of
ales. Indeed, there
10M.
be asked to
members
will migrate to Germany ; but the Con-
naughts, Albanys, Christians and Bat-
tenburgs will look to the Queen for
provisions; and so, also, will any of the
younger children of Princess Alice who
may happen to make poor matches. It
will be seen, therefore, that the Queen
will have plenty to do with her fortune,
large as it undoubtedly is; and althe
in the event of her Majesty's deat
country would be asked to provid
Beatrice, vet she
ats
Dast
Princess
11 s # feet wo Ya
will occupy an import piace
mother's will
Harvest of Salt Marshes
Thousands of large haycocks are vis-
ible over ihe length and breadth of the
Laboring in these
harvest fields that rest on watery
the ar-
cadiant charm which is associated with
the same work among clover and timo-
thy. There is no suggestion of lowing
kine. no sweet scented breath of new
Jersey marshes.
great
fondations is not attended with
mown hay, no rest at noonday beneath
The
4
rance of the salt meadows 18 that
the cool spreading trees frag-
waft-
sluggish ditches and stag-
choked
vegetation of years, and from the great
od from the
with the decaying
pant pools
malanous slime which
sources of oozy,
.
t
the receding tide the sun.
Mosquitos are born in millions in these
eX poses wo
congenial breeding spols, and swarm
constantly about the ears of the
This salt hay, after being cut and
is left in the meadows untill
has so stiffened the
horses may safely
driven on them. Then the hay is haul-
the farm or premises of the
his hay is prized and prin-
used as bedding, although it
INOWers,
slau ked,
weather
that
winter
marshes be
edd 7)
OWners,
cipally
serves in some places as food for cattle
especially if upland hay is scarce and
high. Large quantities of it are sold
in Newark and Elizabeth to livery
stables. brewers and manufacturers
for bedding for horses. It is worth
about what the purchaser may feel like
paying for it, although in some Seasons
it has brought £5.00 a ton.
a —
The Hest Medicine,
Speaking generally it is not to the
laboratory of the chemist that we should
go for our potash salts, but to the
laboratory of nature, and more especie
ally to that of the vegetable kingdom.
They exist in the green parts of all veg-
is illustrated by the
manufacture of commercial potash
from the ashes of twigs and leaves of
timber trees. The more succulent the
vegetable the greater the quantity of
potash it contains, though there are
some minor exceptions to this, As we
salts when we boil vegetables and throw
away the pottage which our wiser and
more thrifty neighbors add to their
everyday menu. When we eal raw
vegetables, as in salads, we obtain all
their potash. Fruits generally contain
important quantities of potash salts,
and it is upon these especially that the
possible victims of lithic acid should
rely. Lemons and grapes contain them
most abundantly. Those who cannot
afford to buy these as articles of daily
food may use cream of tartar, whic
when genuine, is the natural salt of th
grape.
om ardently,
First understand, then argue.
Be just to all, but trust not all.
The beauty of the face is a frail pos-
session, a short-lived flower, only at-
tached to the mere epidermis, but that
of pie mind is innate and unchange-
A MAX'S domestio relations don’t both-
or lym ss munch as the relations of lus
domesties,
FOOL FOR THOUGH.
Fall not out with a friend for a tri-
A flow of words is no proof of
dom.
A good paymaster never wants work-
Attend to duties promptly and Jaith-
Never speak to deceive, nor listen Lo
Yield always to reason, but never t
The sublimest miracle in the u:
Friendship 1s the bud of the
A friend to everybody 18 a friend t
nobody,
Form plans with care, to ex
The old man’s staff is the rap;
death’s door.
The agitation of thought is ti
Children have
loug tongues,
Be forgetful of self,
yourself alone.
Many without
without sin.
Mediocrity is th
lyzes Progress,
Pleasure in work is the mere
of rhapsodists,
wide ears
and live no
punishment,
1 pony
€ ary rot
Little things console us because |
things afliict us,
Whatever is
worth sticking to.
Remember that a good
very convincing teacher,
’ thoughts Aare
Second
children of experience.
worth
Be respectful towards others
commanding self-respect,
Learning is pleasurable, but
the height of enjoyment.
All life alms are
at anything less than heaven.
}eing found true
the goal of the humblest life.
: wain $3
in Yan 1
of }
+ i
DEAT, Lif
Malice sucks the greatest par
own venom, and poisons berseif
The lowest deeps and
heights are in the heart of man
The Cant of politics is soa
reprehensible than
It is the best proof of
family circle to see a happy fireside,
Kind hearts are more tl
and simple faith than N¢
Many persons
friendly when they are only
the
its. corn
consider themselves
olicious,
sand-
truth,
oles vin
I
culed
No pleasure is comparable to
ing on the the vantage ground of
Have the courage
Maker, the risk of being rid:
i
nt
aL Wi
¥ nen.
0
ve apna d &
‘ 3 . « 1 aa
ustom, see that it 1s at least
If you are determined to
a slave 10 «
a good one.
The beggar is
universe who 1s
appearances,
The best and most important
a man’s education is that
gives himself,
The best and most import:
a man’s education is that
gives himself.
A can
boots with
polish his manners.
That which is won ill never
well, for there is a cause alien
which will waste,
The man whose rule of
neve yws the glow or
honest enthusiasm,
Have the
Tn
Boas
courage to do witd
your eyes cover il
Have the courage to provid
tainment for your friends withir
means-not beyond.
Scholars are frequently U
with who are ignorant of nothing
their own ignorance,
Good taste rejects excessiy
it treats little things as |
and is not hurt by them.
He that, to the best of his power,
has secured the final stake, hasa peren-
nial fountain of joy within him.
Genius is only entitled to respect
when it promotes the peace and im-
proves the happiness of mankind.
“In the sweat of thy shall
a Curse
Lisguilse,
brow
which has proved a blessing in
A false friend is like a shadow on a
vanishes as soon as a cloud approaches,
Work of hand or head is not an end
in itself, but a means to the develop
man.
Nothing makes the world seem so
In the literary as well as military
under a rustic
garb.
Have the courage to acknowledge
your ignorance, rather than to seek
credit for knowledge under false pre-
tences.
We often meet with more instances
of true charity among the ignorant and
r than among those who profess tc
be Christians,
Religion cannot pass away. The
burning ot a little straw may hide the
stars of the sky, but the stars are there,
and will re-appear,
The same corrupt dispositions whick
incline men to the sinful ways of get-
ting will mecline them to like sinful
ways of spending.
He who is truly in peace never sus.
ts others, But be who is ill at ease
and discontented, is disturbed by vari-
ous suspicious.
So quickly sometimes has the whee
turned round, that many a man has
lived to enjoy the benefit of that chanty
winch his own piety projected,
Have the courage to work and sup-
ourself, though it may be by
Pore ng the pick, rather than sponge
on your relatives, and act as a dude.
Have the courage to wear old clothes
until vou can pay for new ones; and do
without’ rather than borrow, particu.
jarly from any than a near friend.