Offi DOLLAR PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA: Sarartnn fllotnillD, December 22. 18S5. .Sclttiei) |locffii. THE COTTAGE DOOR. BY T. 11. lIKKVERT. HUTF sweet the rest that labor yields The humble and the poor, Where sits the patriarch of the fields Before his cottage door ; The lai K is singing in the sky. The swallow in the eaves, And love is learning in each eye Beneath the summer eve ! The air amid the fragrant bowers Supplies unpurchased health, And hearts are bounding 'mid the flowers More dear to hirn than wealth ! iVaee. like a blessed sunlight, plays Around his humble cot, And h ippy nights aud cheerful days Divide his lowly lot. And when the village Sabbath bell, Kings out upon the gale, TL- father bows liis head to tell The music <>f its tale— A fresher verdure seems to fill The fair and dewy sod. And every infant tongue is still, To hear the word of (Tod ! Oh. happy hearts — to him stills The ravens when they cry, And makes the lily 'neath the hills So glorious to the eye— The tm>ting patriarch prays, to bless His labors w ith increase : Sa h ' ways are ways of pleasantness," And all such " paths are peace." DJisttllittimts, Taking Care of Number One. •• Every one for himself." This was one of Uwri'iire Tilgbuiau's favorite expressions.— AMI it will do hiiu 110 injustice to say that he usually acted up the sentiment iu his business t-aiwietions aud social intercourse ; though ipmnledly. whenever a too manifest exhibition of selfishness was likely to affect hiui in the •stiination of certain parties with whom lie wish ed to stand particularly fair. In all his dealings this maxim was alone regarded ; and he was 11'vor satisfied unless, in bargaining, he secured the greater advantage, a thing that pretty ge nerally occurred. There redded in the same town witli Tilgh man a western town —a certain young lady, whose father owned a large amount of proper ty She was his only child, aud would fall heir to all iiis wealth. Of course this young lady ! had attractions that were felt to be of a most weighty character by certain young lneu iu the town, w ho made themselves as agreeable to her -- jio-sil>!e. Among these was Law fence Tilgh man. '• Larry," said a friend to him one day—they had been talking aliout the lady—"it's no use •ondence with a gentleman named I |'rr. and that their acquaintance was inti •ind fast approaching a lover like char- T; " '' |p not indifferent to the former, showed so strong a preference for • ." "I 1 to feel an awakening in- Lllghman was quick to perceive this, V T Preatlv elated him. In the exultation l( '< lings he said to himself: v.- ■ s '" nv th's Uolumbua man that I'm Vr 1 ' 1 h.' m - boldest wins the ° u ' f l n 't give much for his engage- KH'' ' mia " Was a ni( * n 'bnnt > and visited the •, r , r ' w ' , c py T.v year for the purpose of buy •aim ' "g'frt he crossed the monn t'lri- 3 ' M " :l ' Sn,nf> mpn *'hen they leave it 'J . among strangers leave all the G;! ,' rPO, '' n g Hiey may happen to have had " m a man was Tilghman.— r.r'i- s,e Pl' e d into a steamboat,stage ' "ad < nr, the ererv-onc-for-himself prin ,. whirli K ( . was governed manifested it nakrd deformity and it wa: at THE BRADFORD REPORTER. once concluded by all with whom he came in contact, that, let him be whom he would, he was no gentleman. On going up the river, on the occasion re ferred to, our gentleman went on the free-and easy principle, as was usual with him when in public conveyances ; consulting his own incli nations and tastes alone, and running his el bows into any and everybody's ribs that hap pened in his way. He was generally first at the table when the bell rang ; and, as he had a good appetite, managed while there to secure a full share of the delicacies provided for the company. 44 Every one for himself," was the thought in his mind on these occasions, and his actions ful ly agreed with his thoughts. On crossing the mountains in stages (this was before the railroad from Baltimore to Washington was completed) as far as Cumber land, his greedy, selfish, and sometimes down right boorish propensities annoyed his lellow passengers, and particularly a young man of quiet, refined, and gentlemanly deportment, who could not at times help showing the dis gust he felt. Because he paid his half dollar tor meals at the taverns on the way, Tilghman seemed to feel himself licensed to gormandize at a beastly rate. The moment he sat down to the table he would seize eagerly upon the most desirable dish near him, and appropriate at least a half, if not two-thirds, of what it con tained, utterly regardless of his fellow-passen gers ; then he would call the next most desira ble dish if he could not reach it, and help him self after a most liberal fashion. In eating he seemed more like a hungry dog, in his eager ness, than a man possessing a graiu of decen cy. When the time came to part with him his fellow-travelers rejoiced at being rid of one whose utter selfishness filled them with disgust. Iu Philadelphia and New-York, where Tilgh man felt that he was altogether unknown, he indulged his uncivilized propensities to their full extent. At one of the hotels, just before leaving New-York to return to Baltimore, and there take the cars for the West again, he met the young man referred to as a traveling com panion, and remarked the fact that he recog nized and frequently observed him. Under this observation, as it seemed to have some thing siuistcr in it, Tilghman felt at times a lit tle uneasy, and at the hotel table rather curb ed his greediness when this individual was pre sent. Finally, he left New-York in the 12 o'clock boat, intending to pass 011 to Baltimore in the night traiu from Philadelphia, and experienced a sense of relief in getting rid of the presence of one who appeared to know him and to have taken a prejudice against him. As the boat swept down the bay, Tilghman amused himself first with a cigar on the forward deck and then | with a promenade on the upper deck. He had already secured his dinner ticket. When the | fumes of roast turkey came to his eager sense 1 he felt "sharpset" enough to have devoured a whole gobler ! This indication of the approach ing meal caused him to dive down below,where the servants were busy in preparing a table. ! Here he walked backward and forward for about half a hour in company with a dozen others, who, like himself, meant to take care of number one. Then, as the dishes of meat be-! gan to come in, he thought it time to secure a good place. So after taking careful observa tion, he assumed a position, with folded arms, opposite a desirable dish, and waited the com pletion of the arrangements. At length all was ready and a waiter struck the bell. In stantly, Tilghman drew forth a chair and had the glory of being first at the table. He had lifted his plate and just cried, as he turned part ly around—" Here, waiter ! bring raesoine of that roast turkey. A side bone and a piece of the breast !" when a hand was laid on his shoulder, and the clerk of the boat said, in a voice or authority : " Further down ! Further down ! We waut these seats for ladies " Tilghman hesitated. " Quick ! quick !" urged the clerk. There was a rustling behind him of ladies' dresses, and our gentleman felt that he must move. 1 u his eagerness to secure another place lie stumbled over a chair and came near falling prostrate. At length he brought up at the low er end of the table." " Waiter !" he cried, as soon as lie found a new position, "waiter, I waut some .of that roast turkey !" The waiter did not hear, orVas too busy with some 011 c else to hear. 60 loudly and earnestly was this uttered that the observation of every one at that end of the table was attracted towards the young man. But he thought of nothing but securing his proven der. At length he received his turkey, when he ordered certain vegetables, and then began eat ing greedily, while his eyes were every moment glancing along the table to see what else there was to tempt his palate. " Waiter V he called, ere the first mouthful was fairly swallowed. The waiter came. " II ave you any oyster sauce ?" "No, sir." "Great cooks! Turkey without Oyster-sauce! Bring me a slice of ham." " Bottle of ale, waiter!" [soon issued from his lips. The ale was brought, the cork drawn, and the bottle set beside Tilghman, who, in his haste, jioured his tumbler two-thirds full ere the contact of air had produced effervescence. The consequence was that the liquor flowed suddenly over the glass, and spread its creamy foam for the space of four or five inches around. Several persons sitting near by had taken more interest in our young gentleman who was look ing after number one than in the dinner before them, and when this little incident occurred, uoul not suppress a titter. Hearing this, Tilghman became suddenly conscious of the ludicrous figure he had made, and glanced quickly from face to face. The first countenance his eyes rested upon was that of the young man who had been his stage companion ; near him was a lady who had thrown back her veil, nnd whom be in stantly recognized as Helen Waleot ! She it war- who stood behind hirn when the clerk eiec- PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANT QUARTER." ted him from his chair, and she had been both an ear and eye witness of his sayings and do ings since he dropped iu his present place at the table. So much had his conduct affected her with a sense of the ridiculous, that she could not suppress the smile that curled her lips ; a smile that was felt by Tilghman as the death-blow to all his hopes of winning her for his bride. With the substance of these hopes went his appetite ; and with that he went al so—that is, from the table, without so much as waiting for the dessert. On the forward deck he ensconced himself until the boat reached South Amboy, N. J., and then took care not to push his way into the ladies' car, a species of self-denial to which he was totally unaccus tomed. Six months afterwards—he did not venture to call 011 Miss Walcot—Tilghman read the announcement of the young lady's marriage to a Mr. Walker, and not long afterwards met her in company with her husband. He proved to be the traveling companion who had been so disgusted with his boorish conduct when ou his last trip to the east. Our young gentleman has behaved himself rather better since when from home ; and we trust that some other young gentlemen who are too much in the habit of taking care of number one when they are among strangers will be warned by this mortification, and cease to expose themselves to the ridicule of well bred people. CURIOUS LAKE OF PITCH. —The last number of Silliman's Journal contains an account of that remarkable curiosity, " The Pitch Lake of Triuidad," West Indies. It is situated on the western shore of the island, near the vil lage of La Bruye, which is built on a founda tion of hard pitch. The lake stands about ninety feet on a plateau above the village, is circular, and half a mile in diameter, surround ed on all sides by a dense forest. Its face is intersected with a net-work of water channels, which gives it the appearance of marbled pa per. The surface of the pitch is pretty hard, and when the water channels are dry, it can be passed over on foot. Iu the centre of the lake the pitch appears to bo constantly and silently rising up in a mass, aud what is very singular, numerous pieces of wood are con stantly coming up to the surface from below. These are from one to several feet in length, and are forced by the peculiar pressure to as sume an upright position, so as to appear all over the lake like stumps of trees protruding through. It is believed that this pitch lake is boiling slowly below. Streams of sulphuret ted hydrogen gas frequently issue from beneath, the temperature ef which is 97 degrees Fah renheit's thermometer. The centre of the lake is somewhat plastic, or soft, but arouud the sides the pitch is very hard. The water in the streams and small pools is pure and soft; fish are numerous in them, aud alligators make them their habitation. Large spriugs of petrolum, or rock oil, are in its vicinity, and about a mile northward there is a bed of brown coal cropping out upon the sea shore ; it is about twenty feet thick, and appears from its dip as if it passed under the lake. The pitch is of great depth, for it has been dug into eighteen feet in many places. It is believed to be a submerged mass of vegetable matter, undergoing slow distillation by volcanic action underneath. This store of bitumen appears to be inexhaustible. It is used with wood for fuel by the American steamers plying on the Orinoco river. Mixed with pebbles and sand it makes excellent pavements, and ground floors to houses. With ten per cent of resin oil, it makes a good pitch for ships. The Earl of Dundonald has purchased a tract of twenty six acres of it, and has instituted experiments to discover, if possible, some means for making it a substitute for india rubber and gutta pereha, water-proof or vulcanized fabrics ; and lie has already made some vulcanized cloth, which, from appearances, bids fair of future success. If such a result crown his efforts— aud every person must wish him success—such nu inexhaustible supply of cheap material as this lake furnishes will soon bring down the price of such goods in our country, and thus confer unspeakable benefits upon our people. THAT NIGHT AND THAT MAN. —Twas night! The stars were shrouded in a veil of mist—the vivid lightnings flashed and shook their fiery tresses in the face of heaven—the deep-toned thunder rolled across the vaulted sky—the elements were in commotion—the storm spirit howled in the air—the winds whistled, the hail stones fell like a shower of pearls, the large undulation of the ocean dashed upon the rock bonnd shores, torrents leaped from the moun tain tops—in short, awful beyond imagina tion. Dutch Bill sprang from his couch with veugeauce stamped upon his stern brow ; mur der iu his heart, and the instrument of death in his hands. The storm increased, the lightnings flashed with a brighter glow, the thunder growled with a deeper energy, the winds whistled with a wilder fury, the confusion of the hour was congenial to" his soul and the stormy passions that raged in his bosom. He clenched his weapon with a stronger grasp, a demoniac smile gathered 011 his lips, his hair stood 011 end, he grated his teeth, raised his arm, sprang with a fearful yell of triumph on his victim, aud relentlessly murdered— a bed bug ! TRUE BENEFACTORS, —The day laborer who earns, with horny hands and the sweat of his brow, coarse food for a wife and children, whom he loves, is raised by his generous motive to true dignity ; and though wanting the re finements of life, is a nobler being than those who think themselves absolved by wealth from serving others. .It is worthy of note that the meu and women who think the most highly of themselves, and most meauly of others, are those who render back to society, for the good things they enjoy, the smallest return of per sonal effort. The world's true benefactors, and therefore its true noblemen, are they who serve it, humbly and carncstiy, to the bc6t of j the ability God hae given them. All other? ! are but counterfeits and pretenders. Chinning The Artesian Well in Paris. One of the most extraordinary things in Pa ris (or, indeed, in the world) is the artesian well of Grenelle. It was begun in 1834, and finished after several forced suspensions, about the year 1841. It is bored in the centre of the court of the Abbatoir, goes 1700 feet into the bowels of the earth, and the column of wa ter, nine inches in diameter, rises in a copper tube 122 feet above the surface. From this elevation it descends by meaus of another tube to the ground, and is conducted to the reser voir at the Pantheon, whence it is distributed for the use of the inhabitants. The tempera ture of the water is constantly about eighty degrees Farenheit. It holds several salt 9in solution, among the rest iron, (which colors glass submitted to its action) and is highly charged with carbonic acid gas. Now, what is most interesting about this well is that the facts developed by it, it being the deepest yet bored, have served to explode the old doctrine that such wells were mere examples of a jet of water having its head on some mountain or high table land, passing through the ground, and springing to the outlet up to the height of its head. The force that drives a column of water up to an elevation of 1800 feet, aud with such ra pidity as to supply 3,400,000 gallons in 24 hours ; the force that shows itself so variable, sometime comparatively quiet, at others almost terrific iu its violence, is thought to be volca nic, and to result from expansion within the inner crust of the earth—to be, in fact, a sort of explosive escape from an artificial valve in the immense steam boiler on whose surface we live. When the well was first opened, and be fore the water was carried to its present height, vast quantities of mud came over, from which the height of the column now clarifies it. But for a while the residents in the vicinity were greatly alarmed, thinking that the ground on which they lived was being gradually under mined by the uction of the water, aud that some day they would be engulfed. This notion has long ceased to alarm them, as it is evident that the anger has pierced through the rocky exterior into the very iuterior, the soft central mass of the earth, whence the detrius that frightened the Parisians proceeded, and not,as they ignorautly imagined, from just beneath their houses.— Paris Correspondence Newark Daily Advertiser. CURIOCS TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR. —Professor Trench, in his latest work on the English lan guage, points ont a curious typographical er ror in the 20tb verse of the 23d chapter of Matthew. The words "which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel," the professor thinks contain a misprint, which having been passed over in the edition of 1611, has held its ground ever since. The translator intended to say, " which strain out a gnat and swallow a camel," that being the correct rendering of the origi nal, as appears in Tynsdale's and Cranmer's translations, both of which have "strained out." It was the custom of the stricter Jews to strain their wine, vinegar, and other portables thro' linen or gauze, lest unawares they should drink down some little unclean insect, as a gnat, and thus transgress the Levitical law. It was to this custom the Saviour alluded, intending to say that the Scribes and Pharisees, while they strain out a gnat from their drink, would yet swallow a camel at a gulp. WOMEN vs. OXEN.—A certain clergyman once addressing his audience in the southern part of New Jersey, had occasion to quote Luke XVI. 16 —20 : "A certain man made a great supper, aud bade many, and scut his servant at supper time to say to them that they were bidden, come, for all things are uow ready. And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and 1 must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me ex cused. Another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove ; I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have mnrricd a wsfe, and therefore, I cannot come." " Now," said the venerable clergyman, "you see the man that bought the land merely wish ed to be excused. The man that bought the oxen merely wished to be excused ; but the man that married the wife said positively 'there fore (for this reason,) I cannot come .' So you see, my hearers, thaf a woman can draw a man further from Goi> than FIVE YOKE OF OXEN 1" Say SIR DAVID BREWSTER makes the follow ing remarks relative to the structure of the sun : —So strong has been the belief that the sun cannot be a habitable world, that a scien tific gentleman was pronounced by his medical attendant to be insane, because he had sent a paper to the Boval Society, in which he main tained that the light of the sun proceeds from a dense and universal aurora, which may afford ample light to the inhabitants of the surface beneath, and yet be at such a distance aloft as not to be among them ; that there may be wa ter and dry land there, hills and dales, rain and fair weather, and that as the light and seasons must be eternal, the sun may easily be conceiv ed to be by far the most blissful habitation of the whole system. In less than ten years after this apparently extravagant notion was con sidered a proof of insanity, it was maintained by Sir William Herschcl as a rational and pro bable opinion, which might be deducihle from his own observations 011 the structure of the sun. CURIOUS COMBINATION. —It is understood that the dress-making business is about to be incor porated with coopering. A number of active coopers will be required to hoop the ladies' petticoats ; the model of female elegance be ing now a molasses cask or beer barrel. S&~ That was a keen reply of the buxom lassie to a little pigmy of a man who solicited a matrimonial connection : "O, no," said the fair lady ; " I cau't think of it for a moment. The fact is, John, you arc a little to big to put into a 'radfe, and a little too small to pyt into 1 bed Percussion or Fulminating Powder. If the word "diabolical" can he properly ap plied to any substance that chemical artifice has produced, it certainly belongs to this,which, from the terrific power and force of its ex plosion, deserves that title. The extraordinary power of fulminating mercury, or, as it is com monly termed, percussion powder, prohibits its use as a projectile, because we have not made any cannon capable of withstanding its force, iu any quantity at once. Sufficient to project a ball or bomb-shell, would completely shatter a cannon on the instant of explosion. It is a strange mixture that produces fulminating pow der, such a combination as none but a true chemist would think of making. Fulminate is prepared with nitric acid, (that is, spirits of wine,) aud mercury. These substances are the representatives of the atmospheric, the botanic, and mineral portions of the world ; and although they are here united, they have little affinity to each other, and are waiting to fly asunder at the slightest call. The full of a feather upon pare fulmiuating powder will cause it to explode. We would describe the method of its manufacture did we not fear to do so, lest some of our ingenious readers should attempt to produce it. None but persons of the greatest experience should ever touch it.— Not long ago the principal operator of Apothe caries' Hall, a man extremely cautions, and of profound experience, was shivered to pieces while drying an ounce of it. As a means of igniting gunpowder, it has proved in warfare of great service, as it adds to the force of the powder. Eight and a half parts of powder fired with percussion caps, are quite equal in force to ten parts of gun powder, fired iu the old way by means of the "gun and fliut." One ounce of fulminate is more than enough for charging a thousand caps. In charging the caps, the fulminate is mixed with a quarter of its weight of water aud half its weight of gunpowder ; the whole is then ground together with a wooden mailer upon a marble slab. Percussion powder, like gunpowder, owes its terrific force to the con centration into a solid form of the elements of air iu the immediate juxtaposition of combus tible materials, which, when fired, assume in stantaneously the air, shape and bulk, which is, by the heat developed at the instant of ex plosion, fearfully increased in size. All sub stances that contain a great deal of oxygen will explode more or less when in contact with combustibles ; although not included in the category of warlike stores. Thus, at Gates head, during the late fire there, dreadful ex plosions took place, although no gunpowder was present. Some of the ware-houses con tained vast quantities of nitrate of soda, a sub stance of similar composition to nitrate of potash (saltpetre). The naptha and the sul phur being mixed with this, formed a com pound precisely similar to, although not iden tical with, gunpowder. Chemists are, how ever, acquainted with many substances far more explosive than fulminate, such as chloride of nitrogen, a pound of which would annihi late the strongest fortress in the world. By 1 the time the chemists have taught U3 to con- i trol this frightful power, let us hope that the peace of nations will have rendered it useless. Scientific American. THEJTKUF. WIFE. —She is no true wife who sustains not her husband iu the day of calamity, who is not, when the world's great frown makes the heart chill with anguish, his guardian angel, growing brighter and more beautiful as mis fortunes crowd along his path. Then is the time for testing whether the sweetness of her temper beams only with a transient light, or like the steady glow of the morning star, shines as brightly under the clouds. Has she then smiles jnst as charming. Does she say, " Affliction cannot touch our purity, and should not quench our love ?" Does she try, by happy little inventions, to lift from his seusitive spirit the burden of thought ? There are wives—nay, there are beings who, when dark hours come, fall to repining and up braiding—thus adding to outside anxiety the harrowing scenes of domestic strife—as if all the blame iu the world would make one hair white or black, or change the decree gone forth. Such know not that our darkness is heaven's light ; our trials are but steps to a golden ladder, by which, if we rightly ascend, we may at last gain that eternal light, and bathe forever in its fullness and beauty. "Is that all !" and the gentle face of the wife beamed with joy. Her husband had been on the verge of destruction—all his earthly possessions were gone, and he feared the result of her knowledge, she had been so tenderly eared for all her life ! But, says Irving's beau tiful story, "a friend advised him to give uot sleep to his eyes nor slumber to his eyelids until lie had unfolded to her all his helpless case. " And that was her answer with the smile of an angel— ls that all 1 I feared bv your sadness that it was worse. Let these beauti ful things be taken —all this splendor, let it go; I care not for it—l only care for my husband's love and confidence. You shall forget in my affection that you were ever in prosperity—only still love me, and I will aid you to bear the little reverses with edeerfulness." Still love her ! a mau must reverence her, aye, and liken her unto the very angels, for such a woman is a revelation from Heaven. BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE.— In a late article in Frazcr's Magazine, this brief but beautiful passage occurs : " Education does not com mence with the alphabet. It begius with a mother's look—with a father's smile of appro bation or a sign of reproof-—with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's no ble act of forbearance—with handfuls of flow ers in green and daisy meadows—with bird's nests admired but not touched-—with creeping ants, and almost imperceptible emmets—with humming bees and glass beehives—with plea sant walks in shady lanes, and with thoughts directed in sweet and kindly tones, and words to mature to acts of benevolence, to deeds of virtue, and to the sense 0? all good, to God himself." VOL. XVI. —NO. 28, How TO EDUCATE A MAN* or BUSINESS. —In the education of a business man, it mu9t nev er be forgotten that his future life will be a life of action, and not of study. Great care must, therefore, be taken that" the health be not impaired in a strife for useless honors, that the feelings be not suffered to grow over sensitive in recluse contemplation, nor the mind lose its spring and electricity under a load of cumbersome and unpractical learn ing. It has been said that at least one fourth of the students of colleges leave them with im paired health ; full one-half are too sensitive to bear the rude jostliugs of the world ; and, perhaps, two-thirds of the balance have some defect that would seriously mar their happiness and usefulness. A collegiate educatiou can not be recommended, and if attainable, is not desirable. A counting house is the business man's college. When the youth has finished his course of preparatory educatiou, at a school or private seminary, under the charge of an instructor, who teaches as much by conversa tion as by a prescribed course, he should go into a counting house, that he will learn order, method, obedience, and acquire a knowledge of life and the business of life. It is there that he will learn the value of time and the value of money, two very important things to know. Whatever of conceit he may have brought from the village academy is soon rubbed out of him. He learns to obey, to sub mit and to be patient—to endure reproof with out anger, and to b£ar eoutradictions with good humor. He is obliged to keep bis wits about him, to decide quickly, to have accurate eyes, and truthful ears, and to learn that there are just sixty minutes in an hour. A count ing house education will be of advantage to every man, whatever his future education may be. A moral education need not be dwelt up on. This is especially a work of self-cultiva tion. No one's principles can be called temp tation proof but those which are the result of logical conviction, and for which repeated sacrifices have been made. As ability to com municate varied and practical knowledge by conversation is a qualification that especially fits man to be a teacher, it should nor be over looked in the selection of one.— Freedly's Trta tise on Business. How TO KKEH SILKS. —Our lady readers may be glad to learti that silk articles should not be kept folded in white paper, as the chloride of lime used in bleaching the paper will prob ably impair the color of the silk. Brown or blue paper is better ; the yellowish, smooth India paper is best of all. Silks intended for dress should not be kept long iu the house be fore they are made up, as lying in the folds will have a tendency to impair its durability by causing it to cut or split, particularly if the silk has been thickened by gum. Thread-lace vails are very easily cut. But dresses of vel vet should not be laid by with any weight up on them. If the nap of a thin velvet is laid down it is not possible to raise it up again. Hard silk should never be wrinkled, because the thread is easily broken in the crease, and it never can be rectified. The way to taka the wrinkles out of silk scarfs and handker chiefs is to moisten the surface eveuly with a sponge and some weak glue, and then pin the silk with some toilet pins arouud the selvedges on a mattrnss or feather bed, taking pains to draw out the silk as tight as possible. When dry, all the wrinkles will have disappeared. The reason of this is obvious to every person. It is a nice job to dress light colored silk, and few should try it. Some silk articles should be moistened with weak giue or gum-water, and the wrinkles ironed out by a hot flat-iron 011 the wrong side. DKCI.INE OK AUTHORITY. —The parent of to day is an extremely mitigated form of the par ent of fifty years ago. He has, no doubt, the same fondness for his child, but he is no lon ger capable of enforcing the discipline which the child's social destiny exacts. The parent of to-day coaxes where the other was content to command ; and the child, consequently, in stead of growing up with a back-bone—in stead of preserving some vestige of the whole some rudeness and simplicity of Nature—too often finds himself in the very crisis of life dyspeptic, enervated, and inclined to dissipa tion. The conjugal relation attests the samo fact. The husband of to-day is not the hus band his grandfather was before him. His grandmother had a certain awful reverence for that sublime and stately functionary. Hut what wife of to-day has any awe for her husband? "Catch her," indeed! Woman's rights are extremely well understood, even where they have not consented as yet to the foolish symbolisms of dress. In the public sphere the same signs are visible. No one any longer reverences the Governor, and no one goes to see the President except with the patrotic intention of getting office. Time was when the little boys wonld cease from mnmble the peg, and reverently 6tep off tho sidewalk, when old Or. Rogers or the great Dr. Mason passed, feeling that there was an inconceivable amount of sanctity locked away in those sable shrines; but Dr. Spring or Bishop Potter might travel the town to-day, his countenance perfectly ral'a it with " Shak* speare, Milton and Hooker," and find no ur chin so humble as to do him reverence. How TO PRY IVMPtftX AND MAKF. THF PIK Perhaps some don't know the best way to dry pumpkins. It is this :—Cut thorn up and stew Ihnu till they are soft and dry : ponnd and strain through a enlander ; then grease pie-pans, and spread it on a quarter of an ineh thick and dry it ; roll it up, and pnt it away in a tight box, or bag, from the Each one of these rolls will make a pie. It is very easy now to make a pie. lut in sweet milk, and let it soak about two hours ; put in an ogp, table-spoonful of sugar, a of ginger, and one of allspice ; and if yon are lovers of pumpkin pie, as we are, you will prouounee it good.— Ohio Farmer. Hfirif want, eqemiea, strive to axeel other'', if you want friend-, let others excel you