POETICAL SELECTIONS FROM BISHOP SPALDING, To give delight is blessadness; The joy we give we feel, And when our lives our brothers bless They bring t» us best woal; For they and we Are company In grief and gles, And chime or clash together like s peal. No happy man lives for himself Or for a private end, Sad misers only love their pelf, Nor know the joy to spend, — New joy to add To make hearts glad, And cheerthe sad, And with our own eontant of others blend A generous heart asks no reward; It is, like conscience ecloar, A feast wh roe all best gifts are stored, And guests have all good cheer, And with glad song In bapoy throng Toe hours prolong, With loving friends whose presence makes life dear. O holy age, coma nearer still, Whea cach shal work fur all, Aud love and And all men disanthrall, | And There be no dearth peace the earth shall fill, on tho earth { jut a new ' 1" Of happy souls, and God be all in all ro Ah, could I sing some lulling song, i Whose mu-ic, soft and low i As murmuring stream, would bear song | My sorrow and my wos, And leave me light of heart Without a pain or smart, As when a boy I leaped for joy To soe the flowers springing, And hear the sweet birds singing; And all the days were filled with light, 1 And angels hovered wii b ght. through the ni Ah, could Itouch the secret spring Of heavenly harmony, And let gla! melodies To fill the soul wi outring ola a gi And drive all care away, Nor let dall sadness stay, But give each Its In ths desp jo Upbrim ving Own swo Till With songs « the gre it earth. in gladaess crowned, srrimaent resound Ah That weary worker for & note so new life to in Inspiring hop In all who gro "Mid ansions cares Until for joy th And look to God who al Ar d all who trust in Him In youth we long to make The thought of all th Bat when sad Time his wor We ma. ch with banners {i No more there floats before our eyes The { esh heroic dream -— That our weak, single energies Can stesn the torrent’s stream. Faough if we ourselve « may now Ride on ths raging wave, Or catch some overhanging bough With hope onr life to save But still the dewy, blooming dawn Throws on our soul ite li ht, Though ail its glories now are gona, And we sweep into night THE MISS ING COAT. BY THOMAS 6. MITCHELL. I never told anybody how very, very | near [ was to death that night, just a year ago; but as I can now look back | and calmly recall each word, each act, 1] will write it down as a warning to all who | may find themselves similarly circum- stanced, hoping with all my heart that | the number may be few, : In the first place, my name is Freder- | jck Putoam. I am, and have been for the last ten years, the foreman and book- | keeper of the large lumbering establish. ment of Willinm Winston & Co. and | hope to be for another decade, uniess something better turns up. Mr. Winston | is the resident partner and manager of | the manufacturing part of the business, The other members of the firm, of whom | there are two, live in the city, at the foot of | the lake, and attend to the sales of lum. ber, which we send them by vessel This is by far the largest share of what the mill cuts, though the amount of our | sales directly from the mill to supply the country to the west of us is quite large, Well, one cold evening, just as I was | preparing for home, 1 heard footsteps on the crunching snow outside, and pres- ently the office door flow open, as though some one in baste had given it a push, admitting a tall, stout, well dressed man, with a small travelling bag in one hand and a shawl over his arm, I was alone, Mr. Winston having gone to the house some half.an-hour Bi locking the safe, in which we kept our books and papers, and taking the key with him as usual. [ had already closed the damper to the stove. pat on my overcoat, and was just in the act of turning down the lamp-~but, of course, I waited, “Good evening,” said the man, bust. ling up to the stove, and kicking the damper open with his foot, “Has Winston gone to the house?” 1 answered that he had. “Whew! i was afraid of it.” He drew out his watcha very fine I thought. on shall not bave time to ge up,” he said. “The train is due in fifteen min. utes, wit thato £3ything 1 oan dot] asked. “I want ¢ some money with ed to stop in town a “What name, sir?” “Anderson, of Andersonville.” I knew him then, though I had scen him but once before. He had been one of our best Western customers. 1 say had been for the reason that during the past vear his payments had not been so wrompt. In fact, he was considered be. Bind, and Winston had that very day told me to write to him, and “‘punch him up a little,” as he expressed it. The letter was then in the breast pocket of my overcoat. ‘“You can leave the money with sir, and I will give you a receipt.” He seemed to hesitate, which nettled me somewhat. I never blamed anybody since, however, “How much is my bili?” eyeing me sharply. I answered promptly, for I had struck the balance not more than half an hoar before. “*Eleven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-three cents.” “Humph! Less than 1 supposed Write me out a receipt for that amount. He left the stove and came and lcoked over my shoulder while I wrote, ““It is all right, Mr. Putnam. you now, You've been with Winston a long time. | anywhere.” He drew from an inside pocket a large black wallet, very round and full, and counting out eleven different piles o banknotes, he told me to count them hort and easy task, for each contained just one hundred bills. The balanee was in fives, twenties, and took sre time to count them: but at last we tit so that both were satisfied. At this moment we heard the whistle from the station. Anderson sprang for me, he asked, an tell Cal weil 3 = at re = hand shake, was off on the sun. I closed the door and counted the money again. Finding it all right, I wrapped un piece of newspaper around it and slipped it into my overcoat pocket. easy to have so much money about me; but as Winston's house was at least a mile distant, I concluded to keep it uanti morning, when I could deposit it in t bank. I closed the damper again, dtew on gloves, took the office key from the just over the door, and stepped up the light. As [did so I paper on the floor, wiich, on picking up, I saw was the receipt [ wrote for Mr. Anderson. He had dropped it i I putit in and no more about would mail it to him. 1 it then, but as the ad gone out on the tr Anderson, I could do it te 23 i the il t he 7 { n SRW a of my pocket i for that h tock mai win whit last just as weil morning. Then, too, | f nigl ry #5 y # something of Ia wind he we | $ ¥ A hurry that it, for in appointment and I may as wel + here that it w with a young | hoped would if ny months, I hasten 14 xl to my the ‘arner's, wearing in it, asl did n in my ro i 8 she MI, 14 was expecting leaving my hat and coat in I went the parlor. Ido unk a repetition of our con would be very interesting, so [ will k wns of course, into serail t over, merely remarking that to disturb me leave went into the , that 1 might pat } x take Carrie my cont on by the hall for my them ; but she came back with only “Why, Fred, vou certainly did not venture out on such a ni as an overcoat?’ “No coat!" | exclaimed, in a dazed ght as this with out you had the ague, and you are sweating like a butcher! You're ill, man, Come, jump into my trap, and I'll take you home." I was glad of the chance to get away, and on reaching my home 1 locked my- self in. Ah! those were terrible hours that I passed, and, night coming on, brought me no relief. Can you not guess what 1 was meditating ? Coward that I was, I had at last resolved on self-destruc- tion, I commenced my preparation with the same calmness and deliberation that | would have used in the most common transaction. I wrote a short explana- tion for Carrie, another for Mr. Winston, a third for my poor mother, and I sealed them all, In a fourth envelope I en- All this accomplished, I went to my secre- taire and took out my revolver. Having examined the eartridges to revolver, 1 placed its cold, death-like muzzle against my forehead, In another lifeless: but just as my finger began to press the trigger, there came a tap on my door. It startled me, and, hastily concealing my weapon, I called out that I could admit no one “Not me, Fred?” I knew Carrie's voice, and a yearning } loved face the mas uietly slipping the teil. which 1 had the table, into my I opened the 00: to look on tery of + er rot ile letters, left on weket a : “Oh, Fred, you really il ex- claimed Carrie the moment the light fell on my face. “Why did you not saad for me? Aren't you better?” “Worse,” 1 answered, Carrie—good heavens |” As | uttered this exclamation | started back, and then forward; and then—I scarcely know what, for hanging across Carrie's arn was my overcoat! Recovering from my astonishment, I drew thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars are TE 4 LY “hut us husky; oul eleven flashed upon me so suddenly that it almost stunned me The next moment I tore past her like a madman, as [ was. The coat was gone! Then I was unnerved. [I grasped at the stair-rail, and caught it just in time to support myself, Carrie came running out, her face pale with alarm **Oh, Fred! are you ill { mother and the doctor! white as a sheet.” **No, no, Carrie!” I entreated I am better now." And I was better. I was strong, all at once —desperately strong, And what brought about this change? That sim ple receipt which I had in my pocket Anderson had nothing t money had not been paid; and was not my unaided word as good as his ? : Let me call You are as could brave it through, and I grew confi. dent and quite easy at once You have heard about, and perhaps he sing madman, those craze i with { ilar capers of a antics of grotesque dancing BAVADCS, from what Carrie told the my was were it poss above mentioned 13 possessed udoing judging from appearance of over, [| am led le to nt after it » that, concen. s Lthirtee Biwi en I asked the simplest thing im hy 1 had not simply i ver dreaming tl a g idly in the pocket Anderson his receily money to Winston with my duties, a wiser, man a better Drake 4 RELIABLE RECIPES. Saxpwi Ego hes are simply made hard boiled egys fine with a cucumber pickle, according to the Pepper and sait, adding a little made mustard, and rebbing very smooth with a spoon. Spread between crustiess buttered bread. Pile on a plate on a folded napkin. HES, as 1 Ege sande slows: Chop ssnall, number of egus silver thin slices of Goon Cram Cuowpra. For a good clam chowder, take twenty-four medium sized hard-shelled clams. Wash and cut them into a large porcelasin.lined sauce- pan containing two quarts of cold water, Add one white onion, chopped fine, two sprays of soup celery, also chopped fine, and the green leaves of three or four stalks of parsiey. Add a tablespoonful of butter and one of salt. Now put the kettle over the fire and let the water come slowly to the boiling point, and boil fer minutes. At the end of this time take a large slice of fine lard- Let this pork stand in a saucepan at the back of the fire for about ten minutes after the chowder is put over. Then bring it forward and fry the scraps Add now The room was too warm, I guess. stolen my coat? an one.’ Well, let it go. It was ¥ It is strange how suspicions guilt will us. 1 really thought Carrie sus pected me, and an angry reply on the end of my tongue, 1 suppressed it, however, and uttered a falsehood in- stead. *‘Nothing of consequence, Carrie. A good pair of gloves and some other tri. fling notions,” “I am glad it is not worse, Fred. Now, if you will wait a moment, I will get you one of father’s coats to wear home.” Thus equipped, I left her. You may guess that my slumbers that night were not very sound, nor very refreshing. | never passed a more miserable night, and in the morning my haggard looks were the subject of remark, “Why, Fred, you look as though you met a legion of ghosts last night,” said Winston. ‘What is the matter?” *“I had a bad night of it," I answered with a sickly smile, “*And you'll have another if you're not gureful 4 Jou | had bier keep quiet to- . By the wa uw write to Andenoprr | Lye I do not know how I managed to re- for the question set me shivering head to foot, and I was so weak sit in my ohair. 1 —— in the affirmative, however, for he said : “Then we may look for something from him to-morrow or next Pat Immediately afterward he 1 in small pieces, and a sprig of thyme. Cook twenty minutes longer. Cut each slam in four equal parts, and add them, with half their juice, to the chowder. but no longer. Draw the kettle to the If necessary, add a little salt and a salt. of black pepper. A table. i § Break in pieces two erackers and add to the cover it, and let it stand for three or four minutes, Then serve at once, This recipe may read strangely to some people who have been accustomed to pack in clams, crackers, potatoes and other vegetables at the be. ginning, and boil the chowder for three quarters of an hour. The result of such cooking is that the clams are moerel? toughened. Clamsand oysters should be cooked as quickly as possible, and are rendered tough and indigestible by lengthening the process, large pilot The Spots on the Claas, The pale round spots, about as large in circumference as a tack-head, that one aus on Sigars now sud then, are said to te esused by dew drops and rain drops, that act as burning glasses when the sun shines through them on the green tobac- co leaf. Be that as it may, the florists declare that palms are often burned kpohe and corrugations in the glam ol of their greenhouses, as these irregulari- Hise 2 Joust so Joe the Jun'y rays. The strong heat on the palm leaf—~which is as sensitive to heat as it | DOWN IN TENNESSEE. A FAINT IDEA OF ITS FAMOUS SPRINGTIME HOLIDAY. “First Monday's’ Origin and Its Most Distinguished Churacteristios, “First Monday” in Tennessee is the day of the year to the average denizen of the Volunteer State: for on that day every owner of an obstreperous stallion, every enthusiastic breeder of a dulcet- i | Yom tittle Mier feller widont any vou Dance ti the gal 1a do calico drew, Cot up Take an’ tirn your partner, shake dom fest as vou sno you ‘srier; Yon little red nigger with de busted back HL np an’ gin as de 4 * ehanikon rack,” All hands round 0), wtap lite, ladies lordly bull, is expected to be out, with his family and his friends, to show the kind of live stock on which he has pinned his faith And they are all there, Tennessee was admitted into the Union 1796, and as far as we have been able to ascertain, this honored day and ous- tom was admitted with her, believe the State went into our glorious Union upon the express undervtanding tnat she was to bring along with her, by the car, as it like a determined mother Ler recalcitrant son, this time honored privilege And to-day she would fight for it quicker than she would the institution of slavery or any other of the various bonds of matri mony. What, indeed, would life worth to the horse ovine Tennessean 0 ware, { iOr wrivilege of showin red 3 * +1 deprived of the i stallion, decked in cover a burni £4 na with bridle and rel rong to hinve held the Ux Napo i stiess war eon crossing the Alps +, standing on down upon soon-to-be « onquered ins of Italy, proud a man the Tennessean in the big parade the primitive court Suny ing his mettlesome pacer in che proudly crowd Hal!" First Monday in Tennessee is founded on a beautiful and simple faith, that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. In looking it up among the ancient and dust-covered archives of » we find it state's incomparable and nd hors: weotling cliffs and looking is prin not so snd happy as is around hose 1G “ This proclaiming around him; is so old sh La alli base i upon efiicient t biireau ! uss and feath. MAKCS ONC every « , and i to Crs, Arranges absolutes for his ret ring weeks more : ever anything more simple as in beauty of absolutely inexpensive its And the has never been Known to leit itself! decked home Sus and hat; it Washington with a hatchets, We commend it to partment at Washington with its retinue of official asses, predicting min on the threshold of a Pharoah famine, and pre paring us for a “long dry drought” about the time the heavens declare the curtain will now rise Noah-avd-the-ark aot. On the day in question the pikes are fairly alive with the country cousin and his squealing stud, with Sambo leading his ambling jackass and showing his ivories to every passerby who takes time to honor him by asking whose jack is that? Every old lady who has a hask of yarn to sell is there, every urchin who can bring a dozen eggs in his hat and trousers is there; every pretty girl who can sport varie. gated hosiery is there; all are there, reid tape § is itis it is truth A Wool operations’ in is pair of the de upon Say, nigger, Coma you one-eyed niggor, fling pigeon wing.” Such is a faint idea of first Monday in [Clark's Horse Review, A Great French Prison, ““Mazas Prison, in which the French are ipcarcerated.” sald P. (x. Fouse of Philadelphia, **is one of the eurth, Each cell is about eleven feet long by 64 wide and less than nine high, and the only light is admitted through a smull pane of roughed glass, The prison is cold, and na prisoner needs to wear an overcoat there all the time at this season, “It was of a cell in Mazas that Victor Hugo, who was one of the first to enjoy the hospitality of this prison, said that ‘one’s first impression is the darkness, second the cold.’ Each in fitted with a small table, & stool! which is chained to the hammock bed a small quantity of tin-plate uten- cell ‘ wall, a anda sils “The hos in force at Mazas are as At 7 o'clock for an hour later a or, by which his his hammock and be dy for inspection. The warder | d him his bread snd fills his jug with his daily allow of water, At 8 o'clock his first meal of vegetable soup is served, meat soup being only allowed ows the bell rings : the prison 1st have folded wu BW pt ance on Sundays and holidays. tha it second and last meal the prisoners, It consists of a gamelle of beans or lentils, given only twice a week, At 8 o'clock the bell warns prisoners to get their cells ready for the night, and at 10 o'clock all lights are put out, ‘‘Each prisoner is allowed exercise himself for three-quarters of an hour ry day in a small vard or passage ch lies between high walls with iron ting at either end. During his under the constaht surveillance a warder, i neither see nor ynmunicate wit The of spends in his cell, the “At 3 o'clock of the day is served to neat being in CcxXer. he is other being. thie re Le may tors or {ot prison con- 1 SMUsSen ut, as he FHOWOHR 8 “By POON S workine sing i the y % ogee Biipper it whic sibout with Arn yners who « tH 4 g wt y I A resiaurans, rding report of uthern Japan, which is valuable in ship-build in mouniainous regions it a we H-propor tioned, handsome evergreen, its ell dentate leaf t for one or two The berries in bunches The tree is cut down the collection of the camphor, but the law requires that be replaced by another. It is then cut up, into chips asd steamed. The camphor and oil extracted by the steam through a connecting the laurel th ue Japan, growing in wood of It grows 3 a { from the sea, is 5 iplica., i A ’ 4 ighter n the series § $4 or #4 shigatly irping a months : Colo i ring or YW spring grow for it | 34 ing are passed tube to a third, whica is divided into compartments, one the other These compartments are separated by a perforated partition, which gives passage to the water and the oil, into two above while the cam phor is deposited on a layer of straw provided for it. It is theo separated from the straw and prepared for sale, The which is drawn out from the lower compartment is used for illumi. 1} 05 ing from his country home in his car riage and spanking bays, to the oid darkey in his cartioad of stove wood; from the prosperous farmer, with his wife and happy children, the latter looking a little unsatural in the solem- of the fact that they are ‘going to town,” pacers to the poor cropper ou his mule they are all in the procession, with his patent; the officer with papers: that most detested of men, the back-tax collector: the all is hustle, stir, squealing, snorting, eackling, flying. A twenty-foot track is made in the living crowd around the court house square snd half a hundred flying pacers are showing their gaits, while the chan their cases to look out of the windows, A bell is ringing across the street at a store and proclaims that the ladies of a certain church are giving a lunch to pay off the church debt; an auctioneer is howling away, trying to sell x $10 buggy for $25: a man with a patent blacking, warranted to shine forever, is blackin; the boots of all who will come to his stand; a big jack brays in your ear while you are lookiug at a dog fight under a wagon; an apple wagon, all the way from the “State of Lawrence,” is selling the rosy fruit right and left, and as the sun begins to got low and you call for your mare at the stable and ride out of the bustie and con. fusion, you pass a lot of “horse swap. pers” in a vacant lot set apart for that ancient class eng d in the horse busi ness, whose chief aim is to keep the equine corpses moving and uphold their own reputation for being ‘‘devilish Juans fn a horse * Beyord this, a grove, the negroes are having a dan and the leader, inspired by the music i The Champion Sportsman, Delhi has been visited occasionally by famous sportsmen, but not one of them has as yet made such a good bag as the shikari Moestafar. The day be He shot with a young one. the mother Whilst do- ing this it commenced to *‘trumpet” so loudly that two large elephants appeared on the scene, coming to the rescue, The the dead bodies and had the good luck which he shot, and two tigers, This man has alto period. mile stone on basengan, —{ Delhi (India) Courant, Saved By a spider. for his life from Confederate shar ers, says the Pittsburg DPispatet, was but a few feet from the open end. shortly after ho gotinto the log a large spider came and spun his web over the open log as much as to say, *‘I will save ou.” He spun his web round and round, Lack ward end forward, until a network was made, Then the the log, alon close to the They sioh sol lay nearly f Joa. He heard them one in and J soldier stayed came the htened to is no ih THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH, When a carpet is ned the floor beneath with ine and dry and Before 1emoye- floor with very dilute Daxcenots Dust taken up to be clea it is generally very dust This dust is very POIsOBONS to thu : in ins may be present, and to thoroughly An admirable bath by those plunge into cold water, is Tod ommended by an authority follows: Stand in hot water deep to cover the ankles, fill a basin g body off rub vigorously, and Tur Mouxixc Barn way to take the morning as Dry and It is the rubbing more than the water that is needed: sponging off gives the excuse for the after and the good result rubbing, is gained, Tyrnop Frves MiasMatie A recent on will de Accord. ing to this high medical authority, when in towns i, and when the daun- gerous subterranean atmosphere 18s pre sli the organic debris pro fuced is quickly remove vented from enterin Or ever ' day and a Gweilings, } # § wien sewage Hows steadily night the h Al constrocts nain it wWers, { drained if £0 of SOraers ree many «ai in most instances Ix were p id to ordi measures of precaution, is constipation, says a medi- cal authority i exerci this troubl ary eating and trouble, ed with heads stion remove SOON other the AWAY a minor complaints would cause the effe would When a headache 1 nstipation a j i just after rising remos plication of preparations to ded as 10 the pass from taken will do more towards i 4 { iis COonsL: walter 4 f.1 3 i} 1 ¢ 2 the trouble than the local ap- head. merits th ing thie Opinion is div of 0d } here ree apt 1 Dara ( 0 proagu INCERNI? numbers Panis stance, duce the tempera stated to be 35 certained 1 iu that a pound of coal used steam for a fairly-effi machine will prod JO effect equal to t six pounds of ic 1mits, sixteen pounds of ice, hat forts f oO ‘ Taking the lower of which 375 heat units whiie f : ¥ id ana tract some “nd meiling, It is coal will, seen that one pound o vem- of air for one per accordingly, reduce the perature of the supj son for 6% bours sumptions ; and estimating the price of coal at $3 per ton, and that the air is to be cooled for ten hours a day, the appar- ent cost is but 16 cents ft thousand people an hour, i under the above as Ww One Pruecavrioxs 1x Ruecarn To UANNED Goons. —I1t is rather the fashion to decry tinned vegetables as being unwholesome, and there are people who rarely allow them to appear upon their tables, yet if properly treated they are perfectly harmless and wholesome. There are two essential rules, however, which ahould be invariably remembered. The first ix that when a can is ned, the edible, whatever it should be turned out at once into another dish, and should never be kept standing in the tin. Careless cooks are apt to leave tomatoes or mushrooms other tinned things used for seasoning in the cans, some- times for several days, in which case they ase sure to be injurious. The other rule is that a wegetable should never, under any circumstances, wilether at a picnic or to save the cook trouble, be warmed in its own tin. There is another danger connected with these preserved goods, and thet is that the insane mania for cheapness at all risks, which some women have, has in- duced dishonest people to put inferior goods upon the market: but if a house. keeper is careful to buy none but the best, and sce that they are properly pre- mred by her cook she need have no fear vat that her tinned vegetables are as harmless as the same subtances in their raw and natural state; and she will have the advantage of procuring an infinite variety for her table at a very small out. lay both of time and money, O is, Or Caviare and the Sturgeon, The sturgeon is now, as it has been for many centuries, a very popular fish in Russin, During the long Lent of the Greek Church and its many fast days, exceeding in the aggregate four months, sturgeon is the principal meat of the common people of all European Russia, The flesh of this fish is not only largely used for food, but from the egys or roe nearly or quite 5,000,000 pounds of cavi- are is made annually, There are several pecies of the stu the known as a ¥he Huo o the Black Caspian seas their rivers, some. mos attains a length of twenty five and 3,000 nds in rarely more than feet in ifiE ; . £ o + if & v
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