Nub Rosa. •Oiorc's a rose at tho top of your letter, sweet heart, Jly which little bod, I suppose, Yon intended to nay, in a delicate way, That your letter was written uio under tho rose. Tis truo of half one's life, sweetheart, Of full half our cares and our woes; HVc laugh and wo sniilo, hut all of the while Tho sad tears aro falling, love, under tho rose. And so it is truo of life's pleasures, sweetheart, * Htolou pleasures which nobody knows, IVheii some dear form we prists in n loving caress. And rii>c lips meet ours, darling, under the roeo. ("live mo, then, this bud which is secrecy's sign; To the world inay it nover uncloeo. My friends may Is few, lie they charming as you, And I'll lore them, sweet, under tin- rose. FALSE ECONOMY " Albert, I wish you would lot nie have seventy-live cents Kate Landman spoke carefully, for she knew her husband bad not much money to spare; yet she spoke earnest ly, and there was a world of entreaty in her look. " What do you want seventy-five cents for?" asked Albert. " I want to get some braid for my now dress." " I thought yon had all the material on hand for that." "So I thought I had; but Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Thompson both have a trimming of braid upon theirs, and it looks very pretty. It is very fashion able, and adds very much to the beauty of adress." " Plague tako these women's fash ions ! Your endless trimmings and tbing-a-majigs cost more than tho dress is worth. It's nothing but shell out money when once a woman thinks of a new dress." " I don't have many new dresses. I do certainly try to bo as economical as I can." "It is a funny kind of economy, at all events. But if you must have it I suppose you must." And Albert Landman took out his wallet and counted out the seventy-five cents; but he gave it grndginglv, and when ho put his wallet back into liis pocket he did it with an emphasis which seemed to say that he would not take it out again for a week. When Alliert reached the outer door on his way to work he found the weather so threatening that he concluded to go back and get his umbrella; and upon re entering the sitting-room lie found his wife in tears. She tried to hide tho fact that she had been weeping, but lie hae buying hoops for you to trundle about tho street." " Please, papa." " No. I told yon." The bine eyos filled with tears, and the child's aobbing broke npon his ear. Albert Limlraan hurried from the house with some very impatient words np'n his lips. This was in the morning. At noon when he came home to dinner there Was a cloud over the household. His wife waa sober, and even little Lizzie, nanally gay and blithesome, was sad and silent. But these things could not last long in that honsehold, for the husband and wife really loved each other devotedly, ; and were at heart kind and forbearing. When Albert camo home to his supper Kate greeted him with a kiss, and in a moment snnsbine came beck ; and bail the lesson ended there the husband j might have fancied that he had done nothing wrong, and the cloud hail been nothing but the exhalation of a domes tic ferment, for which no one in par ticularly responsible, and might have cherished the conviction that women's fashions were a nuisance nnd 11 humbug, as well as n frightful draft upon a hus hnnd's pocket. After tea Albort did a few chores around the bona®, and then ho iightod a cigar and walked out. 110 had gono but a abort distance when ho mot Liz zie. In hor right hand aho draggod an old hoop which aho had taken from a dilapidated Hour barrel, while with hor left aho waa rubbing hor red, awollon eyea. Who waa in deep grief, and waa aobbing painfully. Ho atoppod the child and aaked what waa tho matter? Bho answered, aa well aa her sobs would let her, that tho other girla had laughed at her, and mado fun of hor hoop. They had nice, protty hoops, while hers waa ugly and homely. " Nover mind," said Albert, patting the little one on tho head (for the child's grief touched him); "perhaps we'll have a hoop some time." "Mayn't I have ono now? Mr. Grant's got one left—oh, such a pretty ono!" The sobbing had ceased, as the child caught her father's hand, eagerly. "No, not now, Lizzie—not now. I'll think of it." Sobbing again the child moved on toward home, dragging the old hoop after her. At one of tho stores Albert Land man met some of his friends. "Hello, Albert? What's up?" " Nothing in particular." " What do you say to a game of bil liards, Albert?" "Good ! I'm in for that." And away went Albert to the billiard hall, where he had a glorious time with his friends. He liked billiards. It was a healthy, pretty game, and the keeper of the hall allowed no rough scuffs on his premises. They had played four games. Al!>ert had won two and his opponent had won two. "That's two and two," cried Tom Piker. " What do you say to playing them off, All>ort?" "All right, go in," said Albert, full of animation. And so they played the fifth game, and he who lost was to pay for the five games. It was an exciting contest. Both made capital runs, hut in the end Albort was beaten by three points ; and with a little laugh he went up to settle the bill. Five games, twenty cents a game—just one dollar. Not much for such sport ; nnd he jiaid out the monev with a grace, and never once seeming to feel that he could not afford it. " Have a cigar?" sai l Tom. " Yes." They lighted their cigars and then sauntervd down the hall to watch the others play. Alli-rt soon fonnd himself seated over against a table at whieli some of bis fri. nds were playing, and close by stood two gentlemen, strangers to him, one of whom was explaining to the other the mysteries of the game. '• It is a healthy jiastime," said he who hail been making the explanation; " and certainly it is one which has no evil ten-leticv." Alliert heard tho remarks very plainlT, and he had a enriositv to hear what the other, who seemed unacquainted with billiards, would say. " I cannot, of conrse, aascrt that anv game which calls for skill and judg ment, and which is free from the at tendant enrse of gaming ia of itself an evil," remarked the second gentleman. " Such things arc only evil so far as they excite and stimulate men beyond the liotinds of healthy recreation." '• That result can scarcely follow such a game," said the first speaker. But the other shook his head. "You are wrong here. The result can follow in two ways : First, it can lead men away from their business; it can lead men to spend money who have not money to spend. Whenever I visit a place of this kind I am led to reflect npon a most strange and prominent weakness of humanity as developed in onr sex. For instanre,ol>serve that young man who is jnst settling his bill at the deak. He looks like a mechanic, and I should say from his manner, and from the fact that he feels it his duty to go home at this honr. that he lias a wife and children. I see by his face that he is kind-hearted and generous, and I should jndge that he means to do as near right as ho can. He has been beaten, and he pays one dollar and forty cents for the recreation of some two hours' duration. If yon observe you will see that he pays it freely, and pockets tho loss with a smile. Happy faculty I Hut how do you suppose it is in that yonng man's homo? Hnppoee his wife had come to him this morning, and asked him for a dollar to spend for some trifling thing—noma household ornament, or some bit of jewelry to adorn her person—and suppose his little child put in a plea for forty cents to buy a jper and picture liooks with, what do you think he would have an swered? Of fifty men jnst liko him, would not forty and five men liave de clared that they had not money to spare for any such purpoee ? And, moreover, they would have said so, feeling that they were telling the truth. Am I net right 7" " Upon my word," said tae man who understood billiards. " You speak to tho point. I know that young mail who hiiH paid liia bill, and you have not mis judgod liiiu in a single particular. Ami what is more, I happen to have a fart ut hand to illustrate your charge. Wo have a club for an excellent literary paper in our village, and last year that man was one of our subscribers. Thifl year ho felt obliged to diacontinue it. Ilia wife waa very anxioua to take it, for it had become a genial companion in leiaure momenta, but ho could not af ford it. The club rate waa ono dollar and fifty a year." " Aye, and ao it goea," auid tho other gentleman. " Well, that nian'a wife may bo wiahing at this very moment that ahe hail her paper to read, while ho ia paying almost ita full price for a year —for wiiat ? And yet how amilingly ho does it Ah ! those poor, sympathizing wives ! How many clouds often darken upon them from tho brows of their hus bands when they nak for a trilling sum of money, and how grudgingly the mite is handed over when it is given ! What perfect floods of joy that dollar and forty cents might have jioured upon tho children of that unsuccessful billiard player. Ah ! it is well for such wives and childreu that they do not know where the money all goea." They had tlnishcd at the nearest table. The two gentlemen moved on and Albert Landman arose from his seat and left tho house. Never before had lie such thoughts as now possessed him; he had never dwelt upon the some grouping of ideas. That very morning his own true, faithful, loving wife hiel been sad and heart sick be cause he had harshly and unkindly met her request for a small sum of money. And his sweet Li/.zio had crept awav to her home almost broken-hearted for the want of a simple toy, such as her mates possosaed, and yet the sum of both their wants amounted to not as much as ho had paid away that evening for billiard-playing. Hbert Landman wanted to lie an honest liu si land ami father, and the les son was not lost upon him. On the way home he stopped at Mr. Grant's and purchased the best and greatest hoop to lie found, with driving-stick jmintcd red, white and blue, and in tho morning, when he beheld his child's delight, and hail received her grateful, happy kiss, the question came to his miml which was the best and happiest result—this or tho five games of bil liards? The hoop cost thirty cents. He could play two games of billiards less ond Iki the alisolnte gainer of ten cents by the pleasant operation. A few mortiing* after this, as Albert arose from the breakfast-table, he de tected an uneasy, wistful look upon his wife's face. " Kate, what is it?" " Albert, could yon spare me half a dollar this morning ?" And out came the wallet and the money was handed over with a warm, genial smile. What! Tears at that ? Was it pos sible she bad leen so little used to such see nee on his part, that so simple an act of loving kindness thus affected her? 11 How many games of billiards would l*> reqnired to seen re such satisfaction as Alliert carri<-d with him that morn ing to the shop ? A very simple lesson, is it not; but how many may gain lasting profit by giving heed to the lesson ? Tree fi*tern. It has long Wen known, through the reports of travelers, that in certain arid districts of Africa water is often found, even in the driest seasons, in hollow trnnks of the great 1-soWb tree (Adan soniai and it was supposed that this provision of water was, so to say. natu ral ; but it appears from the investiga tions of officers attaches] to severing |>arties sent ont by the Kgyptiau gov ernment that these reservoirs are neither formed nor filled by the accident* of nature. They are in reality prepare,l and filled byHhe inlmbitants of the oonntry who carefully remove the de cayed and s|iongy flWr from the inte rior of the trunk and laWriously trans fer water to the cisterns thus mrde, bucketful by bucketful, from neighbor ing pools in which it collects at the rainy season. The impoitance of these reservoirs is illustrated by the fact that trunks containing 15,000 gallons of water are not uncommon in Kordofan, and that individual trunks have I>ecn measured which might store 33,000 gal lons. The officers of the survey urge that it would W well for the Egyptian government to organize a service for the protection and maintenance of thes e trees von the |>oat roads and telegraph lines so that couriers, linesmen, inspect ors, etc., might always find a store of water. Th >y cite one particular post ronte where in times past the ]>eoplo of the country had carefnlly filled the Adansonia trees during the season of rains, and thns insured water dnring the dry season for much travel. Bnt when troops were moved in that direc tion the inhabitants took alarm, altan doncd the vicinity and neglected to fill the trees so that the road liecame aa good aa impassable. MORAL AMI RKLIUIOUK. llroUrn PrlenaUlil*. Friendship is a good deal like china. It is very durable and beautiful as long as it is quito whole; but break it and all tho cement in tho world will not quite repair tho damages. You may stick the pieces together, so that at a distance it looks as well as ever; but it won't hold hot water. It is always ready to deceive you, if you trust it; anil it is on the whole a very worthless thing, lit only to bo sot empty upon a shelf and forgotten there. Tho finer and more dclicuto it is, the more utter the ruin. A mere acquaintance, which needs only a little ill-humor to brink it up, may bo coarsely puttied, like that old yellow basin in the store closet, but tenderness and trust anil sweet exchange of confidence can no more bo yours when angry words and thoughts have broken them, than can those delicate porcelain tea cups, which Were splin tered to pieces be restored to their original handsome excellence. The slightest crack will iqioil the true ring, and you hail better search for a new friend than try to meml the old one. And all this has nothing to do with for giveness. One may forgive and be for given; but the deed has been done anil the word said. The flowers and gilding are gone. The formal "making-tip," especially between two women, is of no more avail than the wonderful cements I that have made a cracked ugliness of | the ehina vase that you exjs-cted to be j your " joy forever." liundled delicately, washed to purity in the waters of truth, confided to no careless, unsympathizing hands, friendship may last two lives out, but "it does not pay" to try to I mend it. Once broken, it is spoiled 1 forever. Mrligloua Vrw nnd Voir®. Th< African Methcxlist KpiHcopal church claims that it has 3*7,50(1 mem tiers and probationers, against 213,000 reported in 1*73. Among tho complaints given at tho Philadelphia meeting of Friends was one that Friends sometimes go to sleep during public worship. York county, I'onn., is the banner county for the Lutheran ehurcb. Within its bound* • are abont h,(**i member* of the General Synod Luth eran chureb. Canada Baptists support five mission aries in India, where they have filO communicants. One of their mission aries, John Craig, rcjiorts the n-cent baptism of 107 converts. The Methodist churches of Ohio numlier 2,014. Ohio has also 2,042 Methodist Sunday-schools, with 22,060 officer* and teachers, and scholars num liering 172,323 a trifle less than the entire membership of tho church in the State. The Churchman calls attention to a popular misapprehension. There is no canon, it says, which prevents an Epis copal clergyman from preaching in a ehnreh of another denomination, as has lieen frequently charged, but there is an express prohibition of a clergy man preaching within the parish of another clergyman in another diocese. One hundred and twenty-three Con gregational churches were organized last \ ear and fl/ty-two dissolved. There are now 3,743 churches, with a member ship of .'1*1,3-12. There are 4 1t,02* memlier* in tho Sabbath schools, a gain of 7,123. The amount of benevolent contributions fur the year was 91,032,- 272.32, a falling off from the year Ik-fore of 9in;,4!0. The highest percentage of Preeby torian communicant* to the population of thirteen leading cities in this country is four per cent This is in Rochester. The following shows the strength of the Presbyterian rlraroh in the cities re forred to: San Francisco, 2,001: Cin cinnati, 3,787; Cleveland, 3,131; In dianapolis, 2,644; Pittsburg, 3,1813; Newark, N. J., 4,183; Chicago, 4,ti:fc'., St. Louis, 2,i>-t0; Philadelphia, 23,000; Brooklyn, 10,003; New York, 18,330; Rochester, 3,671; Louisville, 2,730. Paper Pulp Toys. Various toys and other articles are made from paper pulp, the method be ing to roll out a flat cake of the pnlp, then press it, piece by piece, with the hand, into the proper mold, till all the outer coutors are covered. The mold and inclosed mass are quickly dried, and the molded parts are then put to gether. The process is slow, and the articles have not the strength desirable in children's toys. The following new process, however, is said to obviate this difficulty: Fifty per cent, of flncly-|ow derod clay-slate is mixed with twenty per cent, rag paper pulp, thirty per cent, burnt gy|>sum, and sufficient water; and the well stirred pulp is |x>nred into the closed and hollow molds (which have been flrwt penciled over with finely bruised gy|>snm, or the like). After standing a few minutes the sn|ierfluons pulp is |>oured off. and the product is then taken ont of the mold, dried, and further treated in the usual way. The advantage of the method is, that the mixed pnlp is poured direct into the closed molds and qniokly hardens in them. THE FAMILY DOCTOR. In Cuius a Fki*.—Ah soon oh tho part* begin to swell get the tincture of lobelia and wrap tho part affected with a cloth; saturate it thoroughly with tho tincture and tho felon will soon die —poisoned instead of hung oh felons ought to be. This never fails if tried in season. To Br wove Bi'iufTANOKS i'hum tiik Eve. Make a loop of bristle or horse hair, insert it under tho lid, and then withdraw slowly and carefully. ThisiH said to Im< never-failing. To Stop tiik Fnow ok Bmmid.—Bind tho cut with cobwebs and brown sugar, pressed on like lint; or—if you cannot procure these—with the fine dust of tea. To Bror Buaunxo at the Nose.— A I*reach surgeon says the simple ele vation of a jH-rson's arm will ship bleeding ut the nose. He explains the fact physiologically, and declare- it a positive remedy. It iH certainly easy of trial. Or, a strong solution of alum water, snuffed up the nostril, will cure in most cases, without anything further. Cahi: ok tiik Comi-kkxion.—lt is u mistake to believe that u good complexion depends upon tie- use of sueli ami such,cosmetics. It really de -1 icnds ujKin digestion, which depends upon our mode of life. Persons who rise early and go to lied regularly at ten, who take plenty of air and exer cise, eat with moderation at regular hours, have their meals at intervals long enough for the digestion of one to le thoroughly accomplished Ik-fore tbey begin the next—these jit-rsons are sure to digest well, and, in consequence, have clear, healthy complexions, which will require no other cosmetics but plenty of soft water and good toilet soap. In Ihe Wrong Pulpit. A young Methodist clergyman, not a hundred miles from Lindsay, Canada, u few Sunday* ago was delegated to re lieve a brother clergyman in u neigh boring village, and never having been in the place liefore lie had to make in quiries when he got there a* to the lo cation of the jmrsonage. It was j pointed out to him, and after putting his horse in the stable he walked into the church next door, naturally thinking it, from its proximity to the parsonage, to be the church in which he was to preach. The congregation had nearly all assembled, and a* the young divine walked up the aisle to the pulpit ex pression* of Hurjirise wore manifested on all side*( that they were to have a strange minister without having heard anything about it. But of course the clergvrnsn could not read their thoughts, anil sent up his list of hymns to the choir in the usual way. Then he leaned back in his seat for a breathing spell before com mencing the service. As he was taking his ease a clergyman entered the church, ami seeing s strange minister in the pulpit he quietly took a seat in tho front pew to await developments. Presently the stranger took down the hymn-liook from the desk and turned up the jiagc on which he expected to find a hymn he had selected, but was astonished to observe that the numbers did not cor rc]>ond. He Iteckoned to tlio clergyman in the |>ew to come for ward, anil asked "I* this the hymn book you use bere' ' "Certainly; that is the Bible Christian hymn-book." was the reply. Tin- young minister took in the situation at once; he had got into the wrong church. After making an explanation he gras|>ed his hat and promptly walked ont I.iniUty —■ New Core for Crime. An idea, not exactly new, but now re ceiving new attention among scientists, is deserving of notice. The th-oiy lias been advanced that murders and such crimes are not the fmit of devilish dis position, of revenge or of bate. They j ore simply the natural result* cf some abnormal condition of the brain. The undue growth of the brain in the region j of the medulla oblongata presses upon the brain and drives the innocent man to innocently seize an ax and blame lessly chop his wife's heod open. *lt is her misfortune, not his fault. The post mortem examination of the brains of a numlier of murderer* show* in s majority of casos some tumor, malformation or j softening of the lirsin. The brains of assassins are usually larger than the average. Btiicidos in almost every ease show softening of the ltrain in one or more loin** Tho radical believers in this theory argno that this being the ease hanging ia not the remedy tor crime. Murderers are to be pitied, not punished, and placed under medioal treatment instead of hanged. At least, while the theory ia not generally ac cepted, they hold that a convicted mur derer should le given to them toexper iment on, cut a section out of his skull bone and try to mold bis brain into new shape. However this may be, in places where hanging is still in vogue, where the choice i* between confinement under medical treatment and turning the criminal loose on the community, the decision should not he long to consider. —PiUtbvrg Tdigraph. A HIM FA KM. A Wheal farm of 7.V01M1 Acre. In Hit. Itola. and How li I* Worked. In an article on Dakota arid its mam moth farms a New York Herald corre spondent gives the following irite-rent ing particular# about one of the 1 argent farina in that immense Territory: A great ileal of interest ha* attaeheil of late years to scientific fanning on a large acale. I have seen nearly all the big farms in Dakota, but have not yet ruailo uj my rniml an to the practice bility or profit of mammoth farming. One of the lx**t big farm* in Dakota in Mr. Dalrymple'a. It consists of acres and coat from forty cent* to £o ja;r acre five yearn ago. The taxes are ten cent* j>er acre j>er annum for school, road and county purposes. There in no government tax. The farm is laid off into S,'KM) acre tracts with a superintendent over each division. Ho i has a foreman and gang foreman under him. Tin- su|Mjriutc!ident subdivides . hia S,'XJO acres into 2,500 acre lota, and these also have foremen. All the buai j neaa i conducted on regular vouchers, ! and all supplies are drawn on requl ; sitions, the same as in the army. The | division foreman gives all orders. Money ! is paid on time checks, and each work ! man receives his money whenever he wanb it. Mr. Dalrymple is cultivating ; 25,000 ai res, and S,(XX) acri *is being ' added each year. The crojis are sow d in Ajiril, and about three weeks are taken for the planting season. Wheat of the Scotch Fife variety is planted, and one bushel and twenty ipiartN is sown jer acre. All the planting is done bv | machinery. It takes 400 head of horse's j and mules to plant the crop. One seed J sower plants about 200 a/ res, and each I harrower alrout 100. The new land is broken after the crop j is in, and the breaking i- general]* ; commenced early in May. The land | produces No. 1 liard Fife wheat, and the yield is twenty to twenty.four bushels ; js-r sere. The cutting of the crop commences August 1, and 115 automatic binders and harvi-sters are used. Of these 100 are Wood's pathnt and fifteen McCor tnai-k s. The sheaves are bound with ; wire. The threshing-machines used are twi-nty-one in number. Tlie crop ' is cut in twelve days, and about one thousand bushels per day is threshed on each thresher. The threshers take a gang of twenty-fire men and twenty horses for each, to haul wheat to the machines anil then to the cars. No stacking is done on the farm. As manv as fifty cars per day are loaded with wheat at this farm, the average per car lx-ing bushels. An expert on horse liack attends each two harvesters wbeD they are at work. The sees! wheat is takrn from the new land and all the surplus grain is put into market immediately after liar vest. The first yield of wheat from the land is usually the best; the average weight of wheat rained on this farm is fifty-nine pounds. The workers on the farms are mostly Norwegians, Scandi navian* and Germans. In the spring months they an- ]>aid £IS j-er month and board, during the cutting season £2.2.i per day and board, during the threshing season £2 per dav and board, and in the fall £25 per month and loard. In winter only one man for each forty head of horses is retained :in set .ire, aDd he is jwid £.'lo per i month. i In breaking the first farrow is al>ont four inches deep; tin land is then hacked over the same ground. The average plowc d by each man per dav is about two and one half acres, and the distance traveled eighteen miles. After the ground is lack set it is harrowed and left lay until the next spring. ! Every four years timothy and clover is to he sowed and plowed under to recu js-rate the land. The cost of raising wheat on this farm is £ll per acre the first year and 1 sf thereafter. At an average of twenty bushels per acre the interest on the money invested is seventy-five eenta per acre on the basis that the land is worth £l2 per acre. At this rate we perceive wheat can be grown and sold i at fifty cents per bustiel and the farmer still make a good living. To put up good buildings, bins and machinery, plow and sow new land, cost* £t per s< re, to which if we aid £.' l, the orig inal cost of the land, it brings the land up to 812 per acre, which is not exces sive for a good farm. Mr, lhdrymple give# the following as the basis of the operations of his farm: 'Vwl*. A'.wt of raising wheat on the farm, per tmsbel XS Freight W> New York, p-r bustx 1..... ... . 4s Helling commission \\s Marine iiu. iranc. J p,. r cent 2 * Ocean freight. IS rk 9fi> ' .1 Coat delivered at New York. 6fi ~ An Illinois man was arrested and fined $25 for disturbing a debating . clnb. We should like to know him. The man vjho has got the voice and energy to disturb a debating club, pro vided the Utter is healthy and active in iU diabolical mission, is worthy our acquaintance, and ought to lie given a j government position as a fog-horn on a j stem and rock-bound coast.