& I A v Sfe' . ill iiiili Mifcik HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. Villa " BIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, FA., THUBSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1878. " " NO. 1. I i " ; - I Out of the way In a corner Of our dear old attics room, Where bunches of herbs from the hillside Shake ever a faint perfume, An oaken chest is standing With hasp and padlock and key, Strong as the hands that made it On the other side of the sea. When tho winter days are dreary And we're out of heart with life, Of its crowding care a-weary And aiok of its restless strife, W lake a lesson in patience From the attic corner dim, Where the chest still holds its treasures, A warder, faithful and grim. KoboB of an antique fashion, -Linen and lace and silk, That time has tinted with saffron, Though once they were white as milk. Wonderful baby garments 'Broidered with loving care Tij stagers that felt the pleasure, As they wrought the ruffles fair. A sword with the red rust on it, That flashed in the battle tide, When from Lexington to Tcrktown Sorely men's souls were tried. A plumed chapeau and a buckle, Aud many a relict fine ; And all by itself the sampler, Framed in with berry and vine, Faded, the square of canvas, And dim is the silken thread ( Cut 1 1 hint of the white hands dimpled, And a childish, sunny head. For, here is a crows, and in tent-ttitch, In a wreath of berry and vine ; She worked i', a hundred years ago, " Elizabeth, aged nine." In, aud out, In the sunehke The little needle flashed ; And in and out on the rainy day When the merry drops down plashed, As close she sat by her mother The little Pnritan maid, And did her piece on the sampler, While the other oMldren played. Yon are safe in the beautiful heaven, "Elizabe'b, aged nine ;" But, before you went, you had troubles Sharper turn any of mine ; Ob I the gold hair turned with sorrow White as the drifted snow, And your tears dropped horo where I'n: standing Oa this very plumed chapeau. When you put it swy, iU wearer Would never need it more, By a sword-thrnrt learning the aecreta, God keeps on yonder shore j And you wore your grief like glory, You could not yield supine, Who wrought in your patient childhood, "El zabetb, aged nine." Out of the way in a corner, With hasp and padlock and key, Stindi the ra'ten chest of my fa' hers, That came from over tho sea ; And the hillside herbs above it B ake odors fragrant and fine, And here on its lid iu a garland, To "Elizabeth, aged nine." For love ia of the immortal, And patience la sublime, And trouble a thing of every day And touching every time ; And childhood, sweet and sunny, And womanly, truth and grace, Ever can light life's darkness, And bloss earth's loneliest place. Mr, if. E, Gangster. A DOMESTIC CHAPTER. It was a favorite expression of Airs. Mayne's, ' As long as a child of mine lives with me, no matter if she is as big as tho house, she has got to mind me.'' But when girls have become perfectly indifferent to such threadbare assertions, and are really too old to submit to have their ears boxed, talk as you may, what is a mother to do ? Very much in this predicament was Mrs. Mayne with her daughters, four goou-iooKing, good-for-nothing, charm ing girls, who, afflicted with the mania for pet names, only too common now-a- days, nad transformed themselves from plain Amanda, Cecelia, Esther and Margaret into Amie, Ceci, Essie and Midge. Then to complete the family circle, there was Oliver, a half-grown lad with a full-grown grievance. To be alternately snubbed and petted, eojoled and domineered over by his sprightly sisters, who were all older than himself, was bad enough ; but when hie mother not only disciplined him rigidly for his own offenses, but because those saucy jades couldn't be conquered, would make hitn suffer for it, that was alto gether too much. Had Oliver Mayne been of a phUosophio turn of mind, he might have seen in all tliin tagging a sort of retributive justice for the woes of the fair stx under the despotism of man, but alas I he was not ; so he read "Mr. Midshipman Easy," and, when he dared, played truant and prowled around the water-front with ideas in his head. Yet in spite of all her inconsistencies, Mrs. Mayne was a mother among a thou sand. ' What would she not do to push her daughters on in society ? So, while they were brought np as much like fine ladies as was possible with her limited means, she was cook, chambermaid and seamstress by turns ; they gave their best energies to the glide, the cream of their gord nature to gentlemen friends, and imbibing a taste for dress and fash on well nigh insatiate. To such a length had this motherly self-sacrifice been carried that there had been months in Mrs. Mayne's life when Sunday was no more a day of rest than any other; and while the girls were rustling into church with their stylish suits she was as likely as not shut up at home, sewing away for dear life on some finery for them. All this she would do uncomplainingly, but of little brief au thority she was extremely tenacious, and liked to be consulted by her girls on even the most trivial occasions. As old as the human race, is the liking to have one's own way; so with these young rebellious spirits, nothing was so trying as to be obliged to say, "May I On Sattudar, toward neon, the girls were in the parlor, under pretense of dusting and setting to rights that most important room. "I tell you what it is," said Midge, yawning moBt prodigiously, for she had been out late to the theater the night before, "I think my plan is the best; just go on and make your arrangements without saying a word to ma. She will be angry, but what can she do V "Well, I don't know but what you are right, Midge," returned Amie, musingly. " Of course," asserted Cecil, "since it is for your sake that we are hatching np this plot. Amie, you will have to shoul der the blame; but then we will back yon won't we girls ?" Then they went np stairs, and in half an hour these four had written, sealed and addressed twenty-five or thirty dainty letter notes. "New," said Cecil, moistening the Inst stamp, and affixing it with business like celerity, ' all we have to do is to get Oliver to post them. You go and call him Es." "Where is he?" " jn, out in the back vnrd sawing wood, 1 guess," said Cecil, esconcing herself comfortably in a chair with a book. Great readers of romance they all were. When there was no immediate diver sion offered in the way of promenade or ball, one or the other of the sisters had been known to pass a whole day at a time, oblivious of everything except the deeds or misdeeds of some hero of the otrathinore type. " Look here. Ollv." said Amie. sweet ly, when her brother had come up into her room; " I want you to do something ior me, liKe a dear good fellow." " What's up now ?" asked Oliver, the more gruffly, because he knew his sister had a motive for pleasing him. " I want you to post these letters for me without letting ma know." " Why don't you post 'em yourself ?" drawled he, ungraciously, turning one envelope alter another to stndy the ad dresses. " O, yon know well enough, Oily ; it does not do for young ladies to run out on the Btreet without fixing up now, it don't matter about boys a bit." "That's what you always say," re turned her brother, remembering the many times he had been left out at the elbow because in Mrs. Mayne's system of household economy the girls had always to be supplied first. But Amie knew well how to avert any unpleasant argument when it was politic to do so. "Never mind see here," said she, slipping a small piece of money into his hand. He became perceptibly better natnred on the moment. "Say, Amie," he cried, still intent on the envelopes, I'll bet my head you are doing all this on account of Mr. Pick" He got no further, for his sister, turn ing red as a rose, hustled him out of the loor. How had he spied that name. when she had put Mr. Pickens invita tion in the very middle of the packet? Unconscious of these machinations, Mrs. Mayne was drudging away in the kitchen with that intense absorption in her work which denotes the thorough manager. Amie found her over the ironing table. Mother," said she, " I should like very mneh to have some company iiere next Wednesday evening." Mrs. Mayne, who had been ndmiriug the petticoat just finished so satisfactori ly aud hung on the clothes-horse to air, turned about sharply. " Amanda, she exclaimed, "yon are fool." Whatever luxury Mrs. Mavne dented herself, she certainly did not deny her- i self the luxury of plain speeoh. . I m sure 1 don t know what youmijan oy that, ma." ".I tell you it is not to be though! of not for one moment." replied : her mother, punctuating her sent mces 'with vigorous thumps of the smoothing iron. "I've got my plans all laid out for next week." " What is there to do on Wednesday ?" " Mrs. Nesbett is coining to cut and baste your polonaises, and I want to ret a good day's work out of! her; so you see, Wednesday evening, of all eveuiugs, is the worst for company. Amie naturally wishexl now. that she had not been so hasty at -out sending the invitations. However, regrets were use less, so she said: "But. mother, why need that inter. fere" Her mother out her ehort peremrj. torilv. ' Don't argue with mo. Amanda. Go along and get your wotrsted work, and tell Essie I want to hear her practicing right away. " strange to say, Amie wasn t so cour ageous as usual ; so she idled about without renewing the forbidden topic. and having looked into the small square mirror hanging by the sink more from habit than from inclination, thoueht What a hideous complexion this glass gives me," and wal&ed out of the room. The moment sue showed her face to her sisters, they knew she was distp. pointed. After she had detailed her conversation with her mother, and had been rated fo not being bolder, Midge cried spiritedly : pi ever mind. Amie. Ill eo ntrht out and see ma.myself." She was the most demonstrative of the family, was Midse : so she stoln nn behind her mother and slipped her arm j uiyuuu limn nuipiB wuiHK. Airs, juayne was too warm and busy to be in a tend ermood, so, without turning about she said ; "That's you, Margaret 1 knew vonr tricks ; go along." You look so tired, ma : da let me help you." You can t do this go along." " O, you never think anybody can do anything bat yourself!'' laughed auage. . i ' " Because it ia so much easier to do a thing than to bother showing somebody else." . Nevertheless Midge coaxed mo admira bly that her mother left her work and sat down by the - tabl A . handy stroke or two of the iron having put Mrs. Mayne into ffood "humor: Midse. the sly rogue, began, " Say, ma, dear, why won't you lot us have company on Wednesday evening ?" " Well, upon my word, you girls are ridiculous. I thought I settled all that with Amanda." " Yes; but ma, dear, you settled it the wrong way to suit us." " O, I know your tricks, Margaret, and you are all alike. You make up your minds to anything, and there is no get the notion out of your heads." " Now, mother dear, if we are self willed," exclaimed Midge, roguishly, " how did we possibly become so ? We couldn't inherit it from you, of course. Why can't you have Mrs. Nesbett here some other day ?" "Why can't Amanda have her com pany some other evening ?" " wen," replied Midge, slanting her head with an air of being very critical over her work as she bore hard across a rough place, " because she has already sent out the invitations." Mrs. Mayne's temper was instantly nil ablaze. "Get away from there, Margaret. she cried, " you ore pulling that bids seam the wrong way; give me the iron." But Midge was determined not to let the main question drop, " Yon needn't worry abont baldng," said she, mildly, "because it would be so easy to order a few things from the confectioner." "Don't let me hear another word about it, I tell you," retorted her mother, in high dudgeon. "And yon may tell Amanda for me that whoever sets his foot inside the front door on Wednesday evening, if he was the Pope of Rome, would be insulted." Notwithstanding this edict, and the fact that Mrs. Mayne's pleasure had not been softened meanwhife by entreaties, tears or tempers, at precisely seven o'clock on Wednesday evening the girls had all gone np stairs to dress. They occupied two small rooms open ing into each other, and were obliged to shore many things in common. Just imagine four girls forced to take turns at one mirror I Then add to this the un accountable way which ruffles, skirt and ribbons have of getting mixed u p, and you will not be surprisjiid that th ere was some wrangling during the interest ing process of toilet making. However, there are some things which must be viewed from a purely feminine stand point. Of all the sisters, Amie's temper seemed to be the most rasped on that eventful evening. Everything -went wrong with her. "My goodness, Essie Mayne!" said she, scrambling breathlessly around, poking under chairs, the bed, the bu reau, and even looking half demented into her bandbox, "I do believe you have got on one of my Oxford ties by mistake." " No such thing, Amie," replied tha sister addressed, who was at that moment subjecting her eye-lashes to a mysterious treatment which necessitated the 'snaking p of a horrible face, " mine were to gether in the shoe-bag." ' "Come, do get out of the wray, Es," another voice Midge's was heard complaining. " I want the giass to do my hair ; you've been long e aougb. put ting on that black stuff to mike yourself into a nottentoi. " What I want to know- o-his ." said Amie, who had found h ,sr shoe in the work-baiket, and was now straggling with an obstinate lac jjg. j8 whether any of yom had sense enough to light the gas in tlve hall ?" "Nobody in thia family pretends to oe bhuh oni you, Amie," responded Cecil, iiaucily. Tuen go down stairs this instant, anil seeto.it, exclaimed the eldest sinter. peremptorily. " Here I am only half . oocu, nun wivcLJ UUiC LUCJK JH 1116 leust noise it gives me such a start ex pecting to hear the bell. I have a sort ot feeling that Mr. Pickens will be here early." Cecil, who hated to be ordered about, scolded : " Oh, bother you and your old Pick ens I but she threw a shawl about her and went hastily down stairs. 1 suppose ma wouldn t go to the door," continued Amie, "if the bell should ring forty times before any of us .1 i - . . . , . - nro reuuy Here,, image, hOld these crimping-irons in tiie gas for me." In spite of all Uie&e wearvinar aunov ances, could there have been possibly a sweeter, more artless face than Amie's when she had coaxed the little tendrils of hair low down upon her forebtad bad knott ed her silken tie and turned to go down stairs? She was in good season after all, and bod full five minutes quite to herpelf in which to collect her thoughts. " Yes." sua sue, 1 nave made np my mind. It may not be so romantic and all that. but I am sure plenty of girls would jump at the chance. I must tell him before hand that he must not expect me to give np the glide and everything " here the bell pealed through the house, and as Amie ran hastly to the front door her heart seemed to flutter in her throat. Her first guest was, as she had surmised, Pickens. He stepped into the hall, and as he hung his hat and overcoat upon the rack he glanced inquiringly about. None of these roguish sisters were in sight only Amie, looking not unlike a. dewy rose- Dud. tie was a gentlemanly person of fifty or thereabouts, with beard and hair well grizzled ; nor in his strongly marked features did one disoover the least hint of a susceptibility to rounded curves and bright eves yet these had taken him captive. One glimpse of his face and Amie knew intuitively that a decisive moment in her life had come. Nor was she mistaken, for Mr. Pickens took the white hand she slyly gave him, and held it close to his immaculate shirt-front and whispered : " Mine, Amie ?" The ridiculous bell sounding once more with startling emphasis, out short the first kiss. Later in the evening, when the parlor wai all alive with vivacious conversation and musio, when everybody seemed to be entertaining everybody, one after another, the four girls slipped out into the kitohen, whither Mrs. Mayne had withdrawn herself directly after dinner. Amie was the last to go. She knew that her sisters intended making a united appeal to their mother to forego her angry resistance, and to assist them in pleasing their guest ; and she thought, "I am sure ma will be melted at once, if I can whisper two or three words in her ear." ITafortnnately, when Amie got to the hall door she heard loud voices in angry disoussion. " i From parlor to kitchen is always a sharp transition ; but was there ever so marked a contrast between the two rooms as. in Mrs. .Mayne's house that night? 'i "There's no doing anything with ma," said Oeoi : " she's just as obstinate as the Sphinx." " Yes ; everybody has been asking foi her," said Midge, pouting, " and won dering 'why she didn't come into the parlor." "So be sure aud I would have told them Bhe is sick, but like as not if I did, sue would come popping in the next minute, saying thatshe never felt better in her life," added Essie. Then Mrs. Mayne broke in angrily "Don't want anotker word from you, Esther. I've caught yon at your tricks, miss. Didn't yon think I had any eyes in my head when you were giving Oliver money in the hall to-night ?" "Well, suppose I did," retorted EsBie, indignantly; " I can't Bee people coming to the hense and go away without a crumb to eat." " That's just what they will do," said the mother, rapping her knuckles furi ously on the table at which she had been sitting with her sewing. " Didn 1 1 tell you that there shouldn't be any supper to-night ? And as for tampering with your brother, and making him as dis obedient as you girls are, that I will not permit!" " You don't mean to say," exclaimed Essie, nearly inarticulate with anger, " that you stopped Oliver" from going out?" . - v f. " TLat's just what I do mean to say." Mrs. Mayne's tempor had now risen to Bnch a pitch of exasperation that, not--vithstanding the fact that since her en trance Amie had not ceased to pour gen tle pleadings into her mother's ear, the good lady felt she must have some fuller vent than mere words. Her finger itch el to box somebody's ears. Just as she glanced abont from one to the other, poor unfortunate Oliver, who had been sitting on the lounge behind his mother, in swinging his foot, acci dentally kicked his mother's chair. Quick as a flash she wheeled abont on him and gave him a sound slap. "I ain't doiu' nothin'," he cried, sharply, clapping to his geography to hide the ' Claude Duval ' he had been slyly reading. " You needn't take it on on me because you are mad at the girls." " Things have come to snob a pass." aaid Mrs. Mayne, bitterly, "that I never expect to taue any peace or comfort in this house any more " J ust then there cam a gentle rapping at the hall door. - The girls hearts stood still. Was some guest coming out to be insulted ? was their mother going to shame them forever ? Let me in," said a cheerful voice at the sound of which poor Amie's breath came quickly. O, horrible! If her mother should be disagreeable to Mr. Pickens 1 Neither Amie nor her sisters need have feared. Human nature is many sided ; it has its curious inBtincts. Angry as a mother may be with her own flesh and blood, she cannot flaunt their failings before other people's eyes. Bitter as the pill was, Mrs. Mayne swallo1f?d her wrath whole and walked to the door with a smiling face. "Why, Mr. Pickens! is that yon?" said she, giving him her hand. " I was afraid you were going to be invisible all the evening," replied Mr. Pickens, " and I made bold to hunt you besides, I want my Amie.' A shock went through Mrs. Mayne's frame. Mr. Pickens had told the whole story bluntly in those few words, and magically as a picture snonced from a slate were Amie's shortcomings wiped from the tablet of her mother's remem. branoe. I'm sure." said she. tremulously. " I couldn't wish her a better chnic. Mr. Pickens; and if she makes as good a wife as she has been a daughter, you will be a happy mau. " The little disturbance was all forgot ten. The girls went back into the parlor radiant, while Mrs. Mavne dropped a few salt tears as she brewed some delicious coffee for her daughters guests, and Oliver, harboring no resent, inent, sped to the baker's as fast as his legs could carry him. It was not until the guests were all gone, and the girls were alone together, that Amie received her sisters' congratu lations. The gas flared over the bnrean. nile.1 with ribbons and orimoincr-rjins: brncn. lets and shreds of torn curling papers; a fringe of silken frizettes had fallen across the powder box; then there were ruffles, brashes, cosmetics and combs. But nobody minded the disorder in the least. Perched on one bed, arrayed in the " prettiest night-gowns under the snn were the four girls, talking and talking, in spite of the lateness of the hour. There will be only three of us to squabble for the looking-glass," said iu.iuk, signing. " And I suppose we will have to bo on paying for meat that is eaten, and clothes that are worn out, while Amie will have no end of lovely dresses and bonnets," added Essie. " You haven't euessed the nicest thine df all that I shall have," laughed Amie. " Oh, I know," exclaimed Ceci, tri umphantly; " your own way I" Her Economy, The dried anule of tn.d HV hfla Si hun dred yards the start of the dried apple of ten years ago, but yet all people are not willing to admit it, A Woodward avenue grocer was yesterday trying to induce a woman to buy a three-pound package, instead of half a bushel of green apples, telling her that she would save money by the operation. " Yes I mio-nt save itrnrnt m.nA . I mightn't," she mused. . i Enow you would," he urged. " But if I took home dried apples in. stead of green, there would be no parings for the children and no cores for my husband to obew ou during the long eveniog. And there's the worm-hole they re awful nioe for my canaries." us wok green apples, YeJrett. Fashion Notes. Chene silks are revived. Macrame lace is revived. Polish styles are coming in vogue. Soft-finished percales are preferred. Table naperyis trimmed with Macrame lace. Crape enects are seen in new spring gooas. Wattean backs are revived for princess ureases. Moonstones and cat's-eye jewels are very fashionable. Scotch ginghams are woven to produce bourette enects. Velvet and satin are the materials for matron a ball dresses. Black and white lace over white satin is revived for ball toilets. Moss greens, India reds and indigo uiues are retained as spring colors. The new colored grenadines show India colors and Turkish designs. The coming bonnet is a capote of shirred silk with a tulle cap under it. Cheap cotton and wool goods show a great improvement in the method of manufacture. Knotted, bouele or rough surfaces, polka dots, and Greek squares are con spicuous in spring fabrics. New grenadines are rough, knotted and bouele threaded, and woven also in Mexicame, brocade and canvas effects. Black grounds relieved by figures of wnite, gray, brown and high colors ap pear conspicuously among the new spring gOOdB. Basques are simulated on fourreanx. but are no longer made separate gar ments m tne most fashionable dress making establishments. A novelty is black grenadine lumlne, woven with flat threads of metal old gold, silver and tin f el red, thrown into Dotn warp and wool. A Free City of Constantinople. Constantinople under Turkish rule became the centre of a vast system of plunder and conquest. The city was enriched by the spoils of Europe and Asia. ' A large multitude gathered there. But its legitimate commerce has never been large. The race whioh held this golden key of the world's commerce has never been able to open the store-house. They were like barbarians in possession of a com plicated machine. The sultans have simply wrunir their -wealth plundered peasantry, and lived genera tion after generation in their rich pala ces on the Bosphorus, No building, no work of art, no machine or invention, s far as we are aware, has ever been discovered or constructed in Constanti nople by a Turk. The Greek has done all. The race has basked in the rich sunlight of that deliciour climate, and has enjoyed all the luxuries aud beau ties of the Golden Horn for more than four centuries, has seen the current of the world's history flow by, and has never contributed a single blessing or favor to mankind. Outside of the capi tal, its dominion has been to Christians a curse and a burden ; inside, it has per mitted all things to remain as they were. As a free city, it might, like Venice of old. or Hamburar in later centre of a world's commerce. The Greek has an aptitude for trade, and, no doubt, the merchants of all countries would gather there. The burdens that have hitherto rested OU nil nrrwl not Inn and iudnstry in the Turkish empire would then be removed, aud we might see a new centre of eiviliznHnn tvliom Slavic barbarism has reimied so lonar. But this will not be (ill the empire of the race of Osman lias mmn in its and that must be yet in a future, not remote, but not immediate. Aew York j. met. How Muck Tobacco 1 The entire mass of tobacco which is annually consumed in smoking, snuffing and in chewing on the earth.is 4,000, 000, 000 pounds manifestly too high au esti mate for from 1,200,000,000 to 1,500, 000,000 of inhabitants. Let us take the half as the more probable, and let us suppose the tobacco leaves transformed into roll tobacco, a tobacco serpent is creatfd which, with a diameter of two inches, and following the direction of the equator, could wiud itself around the earth thirty times, Let us suppose that the tobacco is formed into tablets similar to the chocolate tablets, and which, indeed, is the shape which the chewing tobacco of sailors takes, and we have a colos?al pile worthy of being placed beside the third largest of the pyramids of; Gizeh, that of the Myker mos, and as massive and high as that old regal edifice. Let us grind all the tobacco into snnff, and let us picture to ourselves the sad case that an evil equi noctial wind, one flue morning, blows the snuff over the ocean, and showers it on one of our German states, we are certain more than one of the Liliputian states would have much difficulty in recovering its existence by shoveling away the snuff. Cope't Tobacco Plant. Be Social. We are social beings, and the home circle, alone, however attractive, will not satisfy. The old-fashionefl singing ouuuui, mo nnsBing party, the lyceum, the grange, the Good Templars lodge, or division of the Sons of Temperance, whatever draws together the young men and women, the boys and girls, for development of mind and character and for social enjoyment, is to be welcomed. All the better, too, if the parents can renew their youth, or enter heartily into the young people's enjoyment. Ihere is but one object in the world more pitiable than the adult man or woman who feels no thrill of sympathy over the happiness of the young, and that most pitiable of all is the old head on young shoulders, too dignified to ao cept the keen wisdom of the old Roman poet, " It is pleasant to be foolish some times. " Work and play each have their time,x and advancing years bring no pangs for the innocent sports and enjoy ments of the youthful daya long past. We grow old all too soon, but if the heart ia fresh, and in sympathy with the world around us, it matter little how we count our years. Th JIomeHead. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. A Model Poultry Yard. Looking at the yard of a poultry fau oier a few days ago, I was pleased with his hen-house, not because it was the finest I ever saw, but because of its per fect simplicity. As he was a man of abundant means, and his place is near a fashionable resort, there was a tempta tion for a nicer building than other peo ple, but he preferred to set a good ex ample for his poorer neighbors. This building was framed, of convenient size for two flocks of about twenty fowls each; boarded outside and inside of the frame with matched boards, and with a large window on the south side. It was very warm inside, even when the air outside was nearly at freezing point. On the inside of the sill a plank was spiked over to go down a foot into the ground, all around the building, which prevented the outside moisture from coming under the building, and as the building inside was raised some inches with earth and dry loam, it was at all times a dry place to wallow in. As the house was for large fowls, the roosts were low, and a space was left where the hens could stand on the ground all night, instead of roosting if they pre ferred, which some did. I noticed the fence between the poultry yards was boarded np some three feet high, with short pickets above that. This prevent ed the cocks from fighting through the fcnee. The whole arrangements of build ing and yards were neat enough for a gentleman's country place, and yet not too extravagant for any farmer to copy. The yards were set with plum and bench trees, and the owner said he had no diffi culty in getting abundant crops of the finest fruits every year, which was a handsome profit in itself npon the cost of keeping the iovt.Boton Journal. Household Hint. To Make Boots Waterproof. Yel low beeswax, Burgundy pitch and tur pentine, of each two ounces ; boiled lin seed oil, one pint Apply to the boot with the hands before the fire till well saturated. Milk. Milk absolutely supplies every requisite for the body, and enables a young calf to grow into a heifer and a baby into a thriving child. It is a model food in fact, it is the most per fect that exists in nature. Let parents realize this, and encourage its use in the family. Poultry as Food. For table use. fowls that are killed directly from a free range, where they have been well fed for some tune previously, and, having taken plenty of exercise, are in perfect health, are to be preferred to those which have been kept in a close coop, in con nection with their own excrements and a polluted atmosphere. To DlSTTNOCISH BCTTER FROM OLEO MARGARINE. Artificial butter now so nearly resembles the genuine article that it is difficult to distinguish one from the other. M. Jail lard submits the follow ing plan : When the butter is placed be tween two slips of glass the animal fats appear under the microscope as abores cent crystallizations. Pure butter is seen only as fatty globule. Jellies. In making ie'llies of apples. plums, peaches or apricots, peel, remove the stones or cores, cut in pieces, cover with water, and boil gently till well cooked ; then strain the iuice gently through a jelly bag and add half a pint of sugar to a pint of juiee, boil until it ropes from the spoon, or from fifteen to twenty minutes. Ju making raspberry je ly use one-third currants and two thirds raspberries Drill ll ion l C'allle. P. H., Raymondville. writes: ' I would like to ask through tho columns of your paper if cattle shed their teeth the same as the horse; if so, nt whatage f" Beply. Cattle, as well as well as other animals with teeth, shed their first teeth before they reach maturity. The matu rity of an animal is frequently considered to be complete when the dt ntition be comes permanent. Iu horned cattle the first two central permonent incisors ap pear at the age of twenty mouths or two years; the next two appear at three years; the next two at four, and the last two, which ore the corner ones, at about rive years old. The first and second perma nent molar teeth appear at the age of two years, an additional one on each jaw appears every year after up to the sixth year, when the mouth is full. As the permanent teeth appear, the milk or de ciduous teeth drop out, or are forced out by tho new ones. After tho sixth year the teeth begin to wear down, and the amount of wear, in ordinary cases, is a guide to the age of the animal. When sheep or cattle are pastured upon sandy land this test is deceptive, as the teeth wear down faster than they would other wise do. Neio York TimcH. The Soli for Flower arjd PJnul. The best soil for most flowers, and principally for young plants and tie seed-bed, is a mellow loam containing enough sand to prevent its baking after watering it. A good many have the idea that seed will grow most anywhere and with any treatment. Mostly the seeds are planted too deep, so they cither rot in the cold, damp soil for the want of warmth necessary to their germination, or after germination, perish before the tender shoots can reach the surface. To prevent this, sow your flower-seeds in a cold-frame, box, or pot, and transplant as soon as the yonng plants attain their proper size. Transplant when the weath er becomes warm and settled. Absent Minded. A letter from New Preston, Conn., to the Litchfield Enquirer, oontains this anecdote: A man who had been sort ing tobacco for one of his neighbors, stopped at one of the stores on his way from work and purchased a pair of shoes. He threaded his dinner-pail upon his arm, took the shoes in the same hand, and with the other thrust deep in his breeches' pocket, started for home. Having got opposite Dr. Ed's he missed his dinner-pail, and, thinking be had left it at the store, back he went for it Aa he went through the door it swung to, and hit the pail strung on bis arm. His only eiaonlation was, " Thunder I I thought I left it !" He's the cams man who took hiswatob to New Milford to be repaired and two day afterward found it in hi vest pocket The Yeais. Silent silent ! like God's blessing on a shi- bewildered earth t Coming comingwith s glory and a promUe at tbeir birth ! Wondrous wondrous, wbite-winged heralds, with a wordless mystery, Bearing with them gleam and glimmer of the far-off " jasper sea." Swiftly swiftly down onr earth-way) bring ing treasure all unknown s Iloaobing ont still bands to touoh ns with tbe radiance of a Throne ! Bllont silent I golog going -ont beyond our utmost reach I Bearing with thorn so much sweetness scarce we knew they came to teach. Swiftly swiftly while we struggle for a little Iocs or morn, Down their tide dear footprints vanish, leaving ours npon the shore ! Calmly calmly while onr pulses beat to ev'ry s'ren tunc, Ou their waves our sunlight trembles, and onr day grows dim at noon ! Onward onward ending ever at God's foot stool ! Ah, will lie Merge thoxe weary fragments into His serene Eternity? Aew York Evening I'onU Items of Interest. Snoring is now politely described as indulging in sheet music. Petroleum is the favorite illuminator in many French households. About 20,000 Italians annually immi grate to this country to fettle. Turkey's experience is that iron clad fleets do not amount to shucks. Dr. Petermann, the leading geogra pher of tbe world, places Stanley fore most among all explorers. It is said by men who have sailed a mile a minnte ou an ice boat that the sensation is like falling from a building. A London paper estimates that during the latter '200 days of 1877 that human blood flowed at the rate of forty gallons an hour. A Chiciigo German, who wanted to add a postscript to a letter after he had mailed it, was found trying to dig up the lamp post A paper speaks of a horse that eats meat. Harry says that he has never seen a horse actually eat meat, but has seen one ruuning for a stake, Lieut l lipi er, the only colored grad uate of West Point, is to bo appointed military instructor of the colored brancu of the agricultural aud military college of Texas. A patent lias been taken btifc-pGE ftl:. most everything of valne, but there is a fortune waiting for the man who patents a boot-jack that will kill two Thomas eats at one time. An Indiana farmer misned a 360-ponnd hog and found him, after thirty-five days, under a box that had fallen and caught him under it. Tho hog lived, but he only weighed 200 pounds when found. There was a shower of worms iu Michigan, one day recently. Some days previously there was a shower of fish. And now, if Naturo understands her business, n shower of fish-hooks is next on tho programme. The total dividends paid laRt year by miniug companies, banks, insurance aud express companies, aud other commer cial enterprises on the Pacific coast, not including tho Central Paciflo Railroad, was ftM.afifi.OOO.an increase oi 81,2r0,000. A deserted Ute squaw, grieved by the heartlessncps of the Indian who had only a few mouths previously taken her to his wigwam, drowned herself. Before her suicide, she formally and elaborately cursed him. The Indian belief is that such a curse is a potent. A Frenchman has analyzed the dust aud debris of the streets of Paris and Florence, and has found that thirty-five per cent of that collected from the road way is iron given off by horses' shoes, and that from thirty (o forty per cent, of that taken from the sidewalks is glue. He proposes to ntiiize both the iron and the glue. In the harbor of San Francisco a wave struck a fishing boat, aud overboard went two disciples of Ike Walton. Bjrue parties who happened to be in a boat close by went to their assistance, and resoued the half drowned pair. On be ing questioned how the accident occur red, they replied : " Wo didn't capsize; we only went down to see why the fish wouldn't bite." John Bright wrote, lately, a note in which occurred this passage: "If children at school can be made to under stand how it is just and noble to be hu mane even to what we term inferior ani mals, it will do much to give them higher character and tone through life. There is nothing meaner than barbar ous and cruel treatment of tho dumb creatures who cannot answer us or re sent the misery which is so often need lessly inflicted upon them." I'OP COHN. Pip, pop. Hip, bop, Tip, top, Pop corn ! Out of the pan, Into the Ore, Bursting aud bouncing, Higher and higher. White as new snow, yellow as gold, Yon'd better be patient Till it U cold. King Victor Emmanuel was especially fond of a fight. At the battle of Goito, In 1819.be charged at the head of a regi ment, an Austrian battery, and showed the same courage during the eighteen hours' strife at Novara. On traveling one day in a carriage without escort, to bis chateau of Poleuzo, he found a num. ber of gendarmes exchanging shots with brigands. Victor Emmanuel seized the carbine with whioh he traveled, and aid ed the gendarmes, two of whom were killed at his side. The brigands who were not killed finally fled. The officer In command of the gendarmes was jniicU at.touisb.ed on learning that the king was bis new recruit, . J J.
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