HAounted Lives, aces may smile chough the hearts may be aching, Brows may be sad, though the may be curled; Joy way be sleeping while grief is awnk- % jocks TUE, All that we feel is not shown to the world. Lives may seem bright that are haunted by sorrow, Lips that are coy may be saddest of all; Brightly for some may dawn promise of IMOTTrow, While others rest dark thrall, ‘neath the shadow s' Haunted forever by passions that rend, Ne'er to be free from their cluteh to tbe end; ' Bowed to the earth by the weight of their gy ves, Helpless and hopeless these poor haunt- ed lives. Words that are lightest may bring bright- est thinking, Though their surroundings and sad: Thoughts tha shrink g, Call back perhaps glad, through the gladness, the pain, and the pleasure, there a mournful and constant re~ : ha somber and lovely, and Tone fro it—— Where is measure? Where pain? the gladness we hail withou* life that is lived without ia the s'er to ba free from their clutch to the end; Bowed to the earth their gyves Helpless and hopeless these poor haunt- ed lives, ETS SANS BOY. shine, mister?” something in that voice, perhaps the plaintive, appealing tone, or the just back to the days | the time When he drove his sou out of his home and life, and remembered his harsh words, his heart grew heavy and a sigh escaped him, and again he drew his rough coat-sleeve across his eyes. Just as the twilight was deepening of the farm house at the cross roads, and Kezziah awoke to his surround- ings, “Here wo are, Joe,”’ he said, very kindly, “Climb down an’ come on in, Mandy,” he said to his wife, “this little fellow I picked up down to the city an’ brought along with me, seem’ he haln’t got no friends nor home,’ for it was the frst time she heard Kezziah talk tbat way, He had been all these past years, voice was go gentle and soft, sion, sald: s(zive us some supper, guess the boy's hungry.’ Amanda, kind-hearted, generous, patient soul, needed no urging to com- ply with her husband’s request, did Joe need any urging Hor “Come, fall to an’ eat a bite.” That night after Joe had been snugly Amanda came and sat with Kezziah on ‘or a long time they silently out into the with thoughts, hall with a sigh, sad. half sweet, At last, Kezzlah Hicks, the crabbed old store-Keeper froma the Cross Roads 5 Ridge, tion CTOSs farmer Possum and down on the humanity who had addressed He saw before him a face, though pinched and dirty, still retaining the [ ness and innocence of childhood, , the large, brown eyes that looked go steadily into his own ories of the almost forgotten past, and up on ittle mite of i ! i ' Kezziah said, and there was a and tenderness in his voice ounded strange to wn went the id down knees, went the little 00ts, vith interest, and his thoughts yd dwelt on scenes and incidents gone by. To Lis 1 Ny VOars ong there came a picture, the face lancing brown eyes and rosy gheeks, Al head wreathed with ris. and a pair of lips wearing a smile Clad ilke & Heave Then came the sound of a came another picture—a young man with eyes clear, frank, hon- ast and affection he saw reflected a soul of love and gen- tleness. TI saw a cloud steal yver the picture, and when it had pass- he face of his boy, | nen en he $ aw the ut oh’ i ed, and the dark eyes are sor- haw 1 0 0oYy, my poor lost i bootblack looked up and ¢ the old man draw his rough coals eve across his eyes. He put his box away and started to rise man laid his hand on his brash wn the old head saying: “*Bafore 3 “Joe,” the boy replied. “What and Kezziah over in un expectant attitude, “That's all 1 know.” A shade of disappointment passed aged face, Have you no friends, mn Soap SH) Pd wi else?’ leared the ho y father or HT The boy shook his head, “Where do you live, then?” the oid Man went on, Just anywhere, Sometimes 1 go to the homes’ an’ sometimes 1 sleep in boxes and stairways.” For a minute they were both silent, Then the boy sald: “Please pay me and let me go,” “Wait a bit,” Kezziah said. “TW 't you like to have a home and friends, an’ a place to stay all the time? I need a boy like you on the farm an’ if you'll go you won't have much work to do, an’ you'il have warm clothes an’ plenty to eat an’ a good warm bed to sivep in. t:« horses and every thing like that, Don’t you want to go along with me?” like don’t “Mandy, don’t you think he’s him? The little feller up there you think he’s as was a little boy!” “Yes, he reminds like Sam 3 me of Sam,’ “lve of poor Sammy ever came. He's so like him.’ “Mandy,” Kezziah went on in a low ssthere’s something since that boy 3 understand. 1 don’t know why it was, but when |] for him, All day I've been goin’ over all what happened way back there, an’ feeling how wrong i in i driving Sam away because he hadn't my way ol was life a burden to you, and ma hate me by bein cross and an’ besides ['ve been miserable my self, 1 never see il I've made 1 3 6 peopie him to. : fiah 80 SEIS so till to-day, an’ somehow that boy’ teched my heart an’ thawed the ice oul o’ my nature, I il now, an’ I'd give every thing to have Sam back, an’ have it ail to SEE 6 do over again.” Amanda arose, and going softly up the stairs came to Sammy's little room. Jending over the sleeping boy shi ned his features well. “It is so like Sammie,” she though 230 like he used to be when I came 0 nichts to look at him when he slept.” Then noticing a string about his neck she pulled it gently ttle aCan- and a little locket came from his bosom. “That is it,”’ she gasped, and, spring- ing the lid, she held down Lo the dim light and read: “God 1s my friend. and keep me.” After awhile Amanda came back, and up to Kezziah hand ou his shoulder. sie 18 Sam’s boy, Kezziah,” she said. «] know it by this,” and she held out the locke! Kezziah raised hands, and for wife in silence, “ie is Sam's boy,” ed. “Sam's boy,” Kezziah sad; “‘our Sam's boy, an’ left without friends or home. I've been a brute, Bat 1t shall be different now, and I'll make up to the boy what I ought to have done for Sammy." Fsom this day Kezziah was a chang- ed man, and people often wondered at it. Though he could not atone to poor it ClO%0 He will protect going his head from his a moment gazed at his Amanda repeat- and haunted him through his few remaining years, his sorrow was sweetened with the Knowi- edge of the good be was doing to Sem’s boy. but 1 am thankful that I come to see i i fl ively. “Of course it is.” plied, than this sort of hfe, If you go and don’t like it, I'll fetch you back.” the old man re- later he and Kezziah drove away to- ward the old farm, They rode in silence, and as the horses pulled the gsereeking old wagon along the narrow lanes, up and down the rugged hills, Joe was busy seeing and enjoying the great open country with its broad fields of growing crops, and the big blue grass pastures, and meadows of red clover all in bloom. To his young mind a new world was opened out—a grandly beautiful world, aud no doubt he sometimes felt that he must spring out and scamper off over the soft grass and down into the deep, shady forest beyond, where the happy birds were singing and the squirrels were basking. The sinking sun was glinting the east- ern hills with gold and purple, while from far away came the rustic song of some happy farmer tru home at the close of his day’s labor in the felds. Never had the boy seen any Shing hike it, and he feared to speak , he dis- turb the enchanted scene and the mar- yvelous beauties fade away. Kezziah saw nothing of the things abn: im, for his mini had wandered 8 wrong ways. God for sending him to us.” Kezziah was never more the cross, instead, he was their frend, and often atore to talk with him, or rambled with him in search of flowers, . So —-——— in Hitherto it has puzzied eminent sur- geons lo account for sudden death by apparently inadequate by the prick, ~*hout penetration even, of a needle, H ir Schmey, a student of the Physiviug cal Institute, Berlin, has, however, just discovered that when a needle pricks a certain small spot on the lower border of the upper third of the septum cords, quite instantaneously the movements of the heart are ar- rested and forever set motionless in death. *It is now the task of anatom- fecal investigation,” says Prof. Kron. ecker, who verified the discovexy of his pupil, Herr Schmey, and communi. cated it to the Physiological Society of Berlin, “to demonstrate with accuracy this vital centre, the existence of which has been proved experimen- tally.” It is stated that the antiseptic aclion of copper sulphate is slightly superior to that of salieylic and benzoic acids; twice greater that of phenol; five times greater than that of alum, tan- ulu, and arsenious acids; and ten times jiantas than chloral hydrate and the rrous salts. Copper chloride is from one-third to one-half more edicient than the su nh te The Way Silk is Made, an { wonder if the ludies who read this | JounrxAL know how the silk is made, How bimy | that little worm is who spins the silk | for us, and how. many stages the raw silk must go through before ibis trans. formed into the silk fabric, of which we make our dresses, The silk-moth (bombyz mors) which produces most of the silk of commerce, like neurly all other Insects, undergoes complete metamorphosis, that is, passes | through four distinct stages of exls- tance—egg, larva, pupa, and jmago. The larva is the worm-like stage and | may be called a locomotive egg. The | pupa stage is that in which it wraps | itself in a cocoon, or case, and remains apparently dead until new’ organs are developed; when it escapes a perfect winged insect, or imago. The silk-motlh is about an inch long, whitish, with brown stripes, and lays at the close of summer numerous eggs { about the size of singly to the leat by a kind of gum, | The eges do not hateh until the next | summer, and around the world. The sale eges is of itsell a great business, Each moth lays from 400 to 700 eggs. It | takes 600.000 eggs to make a pound, | In tropical countries, the eggs batch by | natural heat; in others, | warinth is necessary. In egus for breeding, the grower usually | places the moth, on cloths in a dark, warm room, where they contentedly lay their eggs and die. The moth feed chiefly upon the leaves of the mulberry- tree, but it can feed in whole or in Osage orange, | {s hatched feeds upon finely chopped { mulberry leaves which have been pre- | pared by the careful grower. then becomes distended with the silk- The worm carefully adjusts his body in the best position for the cocoon, and commences to throw the floss that forms The material of the glands along each side of the body, minating each mouth, Upon tion each fibre of the thre: be double, one strand coming each The worn o and tighter, beng the rin place with his and throws his head her: he The thread 1800 feet long without a break, Good COCOOUS yeald 300 yards, It takes at least 2500 worms to raise a pound of silk. The spinning period lasts five or six days, and then makes preparations Lo emerge. To prevent the worms from plercing cons and thus breaking the con- tinuity of the thread, they are usually killed just before this stage, by expos- ing the cocoons to a temperature of degrees. The “good cocoons’ are fuzzy oval balls about siza of pigeon’s eggs, white, yellow-while, or greenish containing a long continuous thread of silk fibre, and the body of the dride chrysalis, The fuzzy or floss is a ruff, § iti exsming- in a spinners microscopi closes the in- fixes hooked feet, and there as is sometimes finer; he i arise Spins, should the co hy the The next thing to be done is to reel off the fibre as woven by the worm without breaking it, and by combining it with other fibres into a stronger thread, to make the raw silk of commerce, which makes the reeled silk goods, pierced cocoons, unfinished cocoons in double cocoons in which two joined partnership and mixed their threads. the inside of the cocoons where the thread is too fine to reel, and all the waste made spun into yarn, like wool and similar fibres, and made into schappe or “‘spun silk” fabrics, not so lustrous as real silk goods, but stronger and cheaper, The waste in the manufacture of this is left as a ruff, bury yarn called noil, which is woven into the fabric sold by longs to silk as it 18 reeled from the co- In reeling silk, two dozen or thrown dissolve the gum with which the silk- As the gum softens, tenuous ends from three or more Co- to be made, are attached together, threaded through eyelets and fastened When there is a break, when an “end” has run out, a fresh deftly thrown upon it so as to keep the thread always of like thickness Five “ends” make the usual thickness of “raw silk.” There is quite a distinction make in commerce between country silk, which is house reeled, and filature silk, which is reeled at establishments called fila- tures (thread factories), professional work always being better than amateur work. The Chinese silk is mostly house-reeled, and then re-recled in the great centres of trade, The Japaveso silk is mostly reeled in large filatures under government inspection. Within eight or nine years past silk- conditioning houses have been estab- lished in Lyons and New York for testing reeled silk, The great silk-growing country is Shing. ‘L'he last estimate of the world’s silk product was 67,000,000 pounds of this grand total, China produced over 28,000,000 pounds, Japan 4,500,000, India 9,000,000, Italy 15,000,000, France +800, The silk industry in this country is almost exclusively a manufacturing in- dustry, Silk-raising bas not produced much result in this country, chiefly be- cause of our inability to compete with the cheap labor of other countries, silk valued at from four to five dol. Jars per pound is brought from Japan to New York at from three to eight cents per pound freight, A—————— A SR SA This country sends annually over $10,000,000 to foreign lands for raw slik. California, Kansas, New Jesey, and some of the Southern Stales are at present the chief fields of silk culture in this country. Sewing silk is made of reeled silk, and is “wound,’’ “doubled,” *‘spun”’ and “twisted,” ‘Machine twist’ is of three threads, twisted from right to left, and “‘sewings” of two threads, twisted from left to right. After being dyed in skeins, the silk is spooled on a machine which auto- matically measures its length. For skein silk an equivalent machine weighs automatically, From what has already been said you will see that “Broad goods,” or fabrics are of two kinds according as they are made of ‘*‘reeled” or “‘spun” silk, The cocoons for the latter are imported in bales—largely from Lyons and Asiatic ports, There is no attempt to use the continuous thread in these as spun by the silkworm, but the co- coons are treated as bundles of fibres, and spun like cotton or wool by the usual textile machinery. But before this can be done they must be waken through several processes, T silk he in making its cocoon, and the fibre self must be loosened, This is done by fermentation, or by boiling in soap water, The cocoons in going through into puffy little per,’ a machine which receives ina mass at one end, and by a great gamates them mio a continuous sheet which emerges at the other end. The next process is to pass these sheels chines in order that the fibres may be cleaned and combed, The combed silk next passed through spreader,” by which machine the bunches of combed fibre are beaten oul into an approximate eveuness, the fibres properiy overlapped, so as (o is i gamated together, The silk as it is a thick, loose tape of fibre, again into a finer and thinner sliver, until after several repetitions of the drawing process by different ma- chines, the sliver has become finer and finer, and is now ready for the ‘“‘speed- er'’ which takes it from the caus of the last drawing-frames and spins it in COATSEe Yarn. The next important one, that a silk-maker his yarn 300 per cent, weight by the use of metal tn 8 vo a vg 3 is aug Is 18 4 very It 1s Process, is dyeing. dishonest take of in the dye pot. cheapness and bad wear of some fa- brics which look as well at first sight as goods at a much higher price, After the yarn has been dyed, it ready for the process of weaving. Woven silk, like all fabrics is com- posed of a series of continuous threads lengthwise of the piece, called warp and of cross threads woven and out of the pattern of the cloth, called the wool, Warp yarn is first spun, then doubled, then close twisted and is called ** zine; woof yarn is first doubled, then spun, and is but slightly twisted and is called “tram.” Paterson, New Jersey, is the greal centre of silk manufactury in America. 82 factories whose nual product of fabrics amount to $10,- 000,000, New York came next with 18 in delphia ranked third with 47 factories in The largest silk factories try outside of the great cities are at Manchester, Connecticut, Florence, Massachusetts, is noted for its sowing silk factories which were started in 1834. The facilities for milk making in are such, that the American woman who likes to feel con- day are as good as or better, and cost brics of which our grandmothers’s a A I HOS elle Leighton. “Te “They'll all bear that subject of inexhaustible inlerest to the male sex women. “Then you wouldn't trust ‘em “[%] tell you just how far I'd trust Just as far as | Here the speaker bit off the end of his cigar, looking at his companion with the air of a man who “knew all »] rather guess that there Is one ex- “There's a charming Miss Somebody that you don’t Include in that sweeping asser- tion, I know.” “1 make no exceptions,’ retorted the other. ‘*And as for trusting, 1'll trust the evidence of my Own senses, and nothing else. I wouldn't trust the woman dearest to me contrary to these, The woman does not live that will ever hood-wink me, or make me think that white 1s biack, or black white.” The user of this emphatic language was the betrothed of Bella Leighton, a sweet and most lovable girl, and who had undeaneath all her sweetness and gentleness a high spirit and pride of character, of which few believed her Allen loved Belle, though he loved himself a great deal more, and he felt proud of winning such a prize from so many competitors, though he had no realizing sense of the wortn of the heart that it was his. He trusted her, too, after his own fashion; but it was less faith in her than In hisown sagacity, and because she had, as yet, given no cause for even his suspicious mind to doubt her truth and constancy. Belle apparently, no wish ay love or devotion save % hoe would have exacted 1t from her, but because it was ber free choice to do so. One morning, & few days after the above conversation, #8 Allen was walking along the street, he saw a elle was seated beside a fine-looking gentleman, an entire stranger to him, She did not ses him, her face belng turned from him and toward her com. panion, to whom she was talking with great animation, Suddenly checking his horse, the strange gentleman spoke to a lad well known to Allen, ‘I hs latter quickening his step, over- took him. “Who is the man that just spoke to you?" Mr. Duval.” Allen waited for no more, but hur. ried home with a feeling of astonish- ment mtermingled with displeasure in his heart, altogether very far from being agreeable. Who was this man that was making an Individual appropriation of his beauty? And what did she mean by such actions? He would not go near her again until she had volunteered an explanation, When evening came, too restiess and ill at ease to earry out this programine, Allen sallled out on an investigating expedition. On walking slowly by the house, on was lighted, was a gentleman, a8 Le could see by a shadow on the curtain, As he was meditating whether he opened and the gentlem:n he had seen in the morning came out; he recognized moon. eile came with him to the door. Bhe placed both hands upon his shoulder, saying something to which he responded with a laugh. Then stooping, he kissed her on the lips and ran hightly down the steps, Allen went home in a state of mind that defies description. Rage at being 80 basely decsived, however, was the The next morning he took all Belle’s hair, together with various other ten- der mementoes which lovers delight to cherish and keep of the one beloved, and doing them up in one package, directed them to ber name. He then queried in his own mind whether he should send it or deliver it in person. band her the package himself, Jetting her know in a few brief, cutting words his knowlege of her perfidy, and then leave her forever. When he was shown into the parlor, same gentleman he had seen the pre- Belle dia not look at all confused; “Mr, Jarvis, let me introduce you to “Thank you, Miss Leigton, 1 think I seen the gentleman before—on I beg leave to congratulate both you jonger of any value to me, and which you may prefer, under the circum- stances, to have in your Own pOEses- sion,” Without waiting for a reply, Allen I1e went out of town the next morn- gayeties of many a festive scene, in the One day, gentleman passed them, saluted with whom his a pleasant “Who is that fellow?" inguired Al- len, abruptly. “His name is Duval,” *] know, but what is he?” “A lawyer, I believe. Belle Leigh- ton’s brother, Nhe was married to Fred Foster last week, as fine a fellow as ever breathed, By the way, I thought you were interested in that quarter?” “Miss Leighton’s brother?” “Yes: that is to say, her half brother. Mrs. Leighton isa second wife. Her first husband was Dr. Duval” “ool! doit! idiot!” groaned Allen, as soon as he was alone. ‘1 bave lost the only woman I have ever loved, or could love!” Allen Jarvis has never married, and never will, He sometime meets the woman, whose love he won and lost, beside the husband of her choice; the expression of tranquility. and happiness in the countenances of each bespeaking the perfect trust that can alone make pleasant the sacred relation they sus- tain to one another. ——-— w— Common salt, chloride of sodium, is the most widely-distributed substance in the body; it exists in every fluid and in every solid; and not only Is every. where present, but in almost every part it constitutes the largest portion of the ash when the tissue is burnt. In ular, it is a constant constituent of the blood, and it maintains it in a proportion that is almost wholly inde- pendent of the quantity that is consumed with the food. The blood will take up no more, however much we may take with our food, and, on the other hand, If none be given, the blood parts with its natural quantity slowly and unwillingly. Nothing oan demon- strate Its value better the fact that if albumen without salt is intro- duced into the intestines of an anl no portion of it is absorbed, while it quickly 4 if salt be added. The conel 3 likely vo be Injurions i A— «A California association of trotting horse breeders has been pois wih 3: J While HORSE NOTES, ~A half mile track has been Euilt at Roslyn, L. L -THheérs Are Chesterbrook, —~ Kitty Birch, record 2.25, has a foal by Manchester. —~Lady Maud (2,18) has a foal by Eagle Bird (2.21) —Bonita (2.184) Las foaled a filly by Pancoast, Mr, Schultz will drive Edith 1, and Vernette to pole. ~Hanover looks well, as yet done no real work. —Sire Bros. have sold to German parties King Thorndale, by Thorndale, 2.22% out of Martha, — Izzie Moore, sister to Brown Hal, 2.18, dropped a bay filly, by Tennessco Wilkes, at the Ewell Farm recently, — Pandect was bred to Madeleine, 2.23}, by Hambletonian. This is doub- ling up the blood lines of fast perfor- mers with a vengeance. — Major Dickerson has just returned to New York after a two months staff in the South, He is driving Matilde Y. and Jane Eyre double. x — Among the ten nominators for the Clay stakes appear the names of Jobn E. Turner, of Ambler Park, and James Elliott, of this city. ~—There will never be a ; and Sire Bros., will not go to and Hickok will not come —Sam Bryant continues to send Proctor Knott along, as though he expected to start him on May 2, at Nashville, in the Two Thousand. --The proposed Birmingham twelve new foals ab bay but he has match Adonis, as Califoruia East, Trace the New Orleans and Memphis meety —0, W. Kemble has purchased the five year old filly Belle Monte, by Electioneer, dam Monte Belle, by Mohawk Chief, from the Palo Allo furm. She is considered a sure 2.25 performer, —*"Father” Billy Daly is on deck again with Farmer Boy. ie has made an entry In the Clay stakes and will send the Thomas Jefferson gelding for the money. Recently he rattled off a mile in 2.304. —A two year old bay filly, by Red Wilkes, dam by Happy Medium; this season. Gibson, xhe is owned by Colonel who will develop and then —J. H. Goldsmith will train his trotters at Trenton, N. J., this spring. He will have Gean Smith (2.18) Wi- liam (2.1%), Company (2.183), Gray- light (2.21), Morelight (2.28), Cleon (2 22), Tabby 8. (2.193), Arbutus (2.80), Gallig, Hillerest, Lufra, Cleanthe, Shep Kuapp, Layer and Hunt. —J. B. Green has added two more horses to his string of trotters at the Gentlemen's Driving Course. Samuel Stewart sent lim Betsy M., record 2.40, by Messenger Chief, and Mr. tiamilton bas consigned to his care a bay 2 year old colt by Alcazar. — William Weeks has the following horses in the stable at New York: B. m. Lucy Norton, record 2.38, by Cuy- ler, owned by Charles Logan, of 8, C; ch. m. Stella, by b. m. Flora Gould, by blk. m. Queen Wilkes g- Chance (2.231). —A match troiting race for $50 a side at the Gentlemen's Driving Course on Thursday April 11th resulted as follows: Al Helmbold’s b, m, Geraldine 201 1 John Redmond’s br. g. Mike 1022 Time—2 48, 0,00, 2.37, 2.44. The judges Messrs, Shepard, Robin- son and Benay declared the second beat no heat. —Pretty Belle and Fitler, the prop- erty of George A. Singerly, were shipped from here for Kentucky. They were consigned to Crit Davis at Har- rodsburg, who will develop thém. Pretty Belle is by Messenger Cluef, dam by Brown Dick. She showed a mile in 2.290 as a three year oid. Fitler is a two year old by Bad Wilkes, dam Messenger Girl, daughter of Messen- ger Chief and Bose Chlef, dam of Prince Wilkes, 2.14§. 1.88 than two months ago Mr L. J. Rose, of Los Angeles, offered Rose. meade and it trotters—including Stamboul, Alcazar, Minnehaha and Mascot—to two California gentiemen for $200,000, They did not acespl. still, since that time, the proprietors of the famous establishment sold Stame boul, two brood mares and the New York consignment, containing forty- eight head, for almost that amount, and still have the ranch, brood mares, Alcazar and Harvester, —W. P. Balch has reconsidered the terms of entry to his $10,000 stallion race, 10 be trotted on September 18 next. Instead of making the 10 per cent, payment a few hours before the race, the old and popular installment system will be followed. The entrance will be 10 per cent, &s previously an- nounced, of which 24 per cent. must be paid on June 1, with the subscription, per cent. on July 1, 24 per cent. on August 1, when horses shall be named, and 24 per cent. at 9 I. M. the day before the race, Horses eligible on (2.233) and chy
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