7 -. . : ' -- 1 i 1 1 HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. . NIL. DESPERANDU M. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. VIII. RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1878. NO. 6. y Night. Might oame down o'er all the earth, And took the tired Day, . And clasped her tightly in her arms, And bore her far away. The moon like aome vast light-house seemed, Far up in the Milky Wayj The glistening stars, like tiny harks, At anchor round her lay. And like a single silver thread That twines in some dark cur!, The river wound through trees and brakes, A gleaming band of pearl. I heard (he soft low dip of oars, Like aweary slow heart-throb; And the wavelets lapped the bow of the boat A low half-broken sob. And on that night, so long ago, A virion woudrons swoct Came to mo in its fullest joy, So pcrfoot and complete. 0 golden droam t why did I wake To find H past and gone ? The dream was like a glorious dy; The waking, cold gray dawn. 'Twere better far that I had died Believing it were true, Twere better far to sloep for aye Beneath the sky so blue, Then live, when oach long weary day Seemed longer than before; When life is but a constant pain A wound unhealed and sore. The river utill flows murmuring on; The stars are just as bright As when the virion otmo to mo That restful summer night. The same? Yes. I alone am changed. Oh God l each weary day 1 wish that I had diod the night The ision passed away. . Harpa-'g Magazine. A Romance of the Pyrenees. I am n Spaniard and the only son and Bole heir of Don Guzman de Mnnsorio, n grandee of Spain of the socond class, by whom I was educated according to my fortune mid exalted rank. At the ago o'f twenty-five I lost my father. It is the custom in Spain that at the death of a father the nobles should wear mourning for o; e year and pass that time in n state of absolute solitude at their re motest estates. I loved my father ten derly and deeply regretted his Iosb, I observed my country's custom on that event as holy duty and in conformity thereto removed into Aragon where I had a castle situated at the foot of Mount M.iladetta, on the extreme frontier, be tween Spain and France. This was in the year 1779, when Spain was Btill beautiful and mighty, although the no bility and clergy ruled it with an iron despotism ; and the feudal laws, more rigidly enforced than they had ever beeu, even in Frauee, were better con solidated by the perfect understanding on this point between the priests and the crown. The nobles ruled tho people mid tho king ruled nil. For my part, I frankly admit that I was proud of my title of Count aud prized the preroga tives of myrank and the rights of my birth. My steward dispensed justice to ny vassals in my name, and when his decisions appeared unjust to them they appealed to me in person. The gallows, which stood before the Brest gate of tho castle, pithily an nounced my power of condemning to death wit hiu the limits of my county. By law all smugglers were subject to this rigorous penalty, to which my deputy nl ways condemned them with unsparing Hcverity, and which I always commuted to a lighter punishment. At this time tho smugglers were in greater numbers than they ore now, and as I had received directions from court to suppress the illegal trnllic, 1 had armed my vassals, who patrolled all tho defiles and by roads, scoured tlie mountains, and as' si-ted the officers of the king's customs ou all occasions. This rigorous pnrsnit of the smugglers increased their auda city aud inspired them with despera tion and revenge. Before they were only dealers in prohibited articles ; they now became brigands, organized regular bauds into troops, and opposed open re sistance in the field to the king's and my jurisdiction. One day fifty of my people were attacked near La Picade and crnelly massacred by these bandits ; whereupon I vowed never again to re mit or commute the sentence of my deputy, but to hnng np the first suggler who fchould be captured. A few days afterwards the worthy inncuonary wub announced and present ed me with a death-warrant for my sig nature. I hesitated, trembled and could not proceed. It is such a shockincr. chilling thought that a few letters, so rapidly and easily traced, should have the power of depriving a fellow-creatnre 01 me I l tried to read the sentence, but my eyes were clouded and I could not see distinctly, so I asked the steward to read it. He commenced with an of ficial tone, but I stopped him at the second line when I found that the culprit was a girl only eighteen years via, "My lordi" said the functionary, "Milanetta is the daughter of the Cap tain of the smugglers. She daily de ceives the vigilance of the guards, and passes and repasses between Spain and France with intelligence to direct the movements of the two troops of bandits, and they could not possibly baffle our authority but for her. This young woman is guilty; I have condemned her, and it is your duty to sanction the law's award. You have pledged yourself to the rigid execution of justice to your vassals, and you owe it to the kiud. The word of a Spanish grandee is sacred; therefore, my Zjord, you must sign that paper." "Never I What; send a girl only eighteen years old to death f I couldn't muster strength to do it. What did she urge in her defense I" "Nothing." ' " jjMBhe oon'eBsei tne charge ?" Then I suspend the execution of the sentence. Conduct Milanetta here. I wish to see and interrogate her person ally." m. j ucymj uucyeu, nuu in an instant afterwards Milanetta stood- before me. Oh, if you had seen that youthful crea- lure, glitteriug with grace and beauty ! Had you noticed the sublimity of her looks at that trying moment, the clear olive of her expansive brow (the sun, you know, kisses our Spanish maidens with a scorching embrace), hor dnrk freezes floating looso in tho mountain breeze, her noble attitude and the run jestio bearing of her head, like me, you would first of all have admired ; like me, you would have felt an involuntary re spect for her ; like me, perhaps, yon would have loved her I I was then only twenty-five, and knew nothing of wo men but what I had learned in the clois ters of Salamanca or the courts and re vels of Madrid. My heart was yet in its virgin freshness, my head was heated under our burning sun, and I felt that insctutable want of something to love ; something to invest with the rich wor ship of my soul; something which should burst upon me like a vision of light. even if it consumed me in its rovalation. When I commenced my examination I was much more agitated than my prison er. Wo were alone, and I am sure my emotion must have been apparent when x said : "Do you know tho punishment to which the steward has condemned you ?" "Yes, my lord," she answered, in a low, calm voice "to death." "Before confirming tho law's sentence I nave kred to see you, to asoertain from : .'vmlf whether you have no ex- tonu,-circumstances to allege." " Wiling." " lou are a smuggler, then ?" "Oh, no I" " Why, then, do you cross into France every night ? What other motive could induce you to expose yoursolf to such peril r " That I will never disclose." " Recollect that the only means of saving your liie is a frank and unreserv cd declaration of " " I know it. but I will not do it. will reply to you, my Lord, as I did to your judge : 'I have never smuggled.' Whether I cross nightly into France or not is my own business, and my motives are my own. My doom is spoken ; let it lie executed ; 1 am ready to suiter it. My Lord, I shall not answer another in quiry." From that moment she was insensible to advice, menaces, or entreaties. Notk ing could overcome her obstinate silence, During three days I was constantly with Iter, and did all that I could to extract her secret from her : but she treasured in the bottom of her' heart what she wished t conceal from me, while she soon irnesscd what I dared not disclose to her. Yes, it was in her chill and comfortless cell that I her judge, her lord, the ar biter of her life fell at her feet and re vealed in passionate accents what she had already read in my looks and ges tures. It was in her prison that she oldly repulsed my love and rejected her pardon on tho terms I offered it. No one w ho had seen us then would have said : " He is the judge and pheis the victim." She was always calm, cold and resigned, while I eudnred all the tortures of dis appointed lore irritated by repulses. The vault of the prison resounded with my entreaties and angry exclamations, with my sighs and passionate appeals ; and I momcutaril v was tho prey of every contending emotion now ready to kill Milanetta, aud now resolving to save her at nil hazards ; now begging her to bo mine, and now determined to bid the ex ecutioner perform his fatal office. I was uo longer myself I loved for the first time, and the being to whom I poured out my heart and soul iu protestations of adoration, transport, and idolatry, coldly answered: "I cannot listen to you ; 1 love auotuer. After au awful outbreak of rage at such an announce ment, I insisted upon knowing who my rival was, but Bho replied, with the same calmness of tone and look, " That you Biiaii never Know. At this juncture a violent knocking was beard at the prison door. My people were looking for me on all sides, as a French nobleman had just arrived in great haste at the castle, aud demanded to see me immediately. I went to him at once, striving in vain to hide from my servant the emotions with which I was agitated, and at whose violence I myself was alarmed. I made my appearance in the great hall, a prey to the most gloomy forebodings. I there saw a young man who was pacing the hall with hurried steps, and who desired to converse with out witnesses. "I am the Marquis de Clairval," said he; "I possess a castle in France, which like yours, is on the very frontier, and like you I am engaged in suppressing smuggling and executing justice against those engaged in it." The name of the Marquis was familiar to me, as we had corresponded together to devise measures for the security of the frontier. " But," continued he, "however rigid snd nurelentinir may be our justice against those taken in tho act, it is rather too muelhat we should condemn innocent people to death merely because they refuse to give reasons for their be havior. " To what do you allude, Monsieur ?" " Listen to me. A young girl, named Milanetta, has fallen into the hands i f your officers " "Ha I can you explain ?" "That is the sole object of my visit. It was but this morning that 1 heard of her arrest, her condemnation and that she declined disclosing the motive of her frequent trips into France by night. I know the cause and am come to unfold it to you; but it is in full confidence of your honor and discretion. Milanetta is mine I" Yours r You Milanetta's lover I" "You i eera surprised at this because such a beautiful creature as Milanetta did not reside with me in my castle, or that I did not. take her with me to Paris during last winter. Yon may be also astonished that a noble of France should be sufficiently enamoured of a peasant girl to submit to the constraint of mys tery and the harass and trouble of night ly and dangerous interviews, ' But Mil anetta is not one of those women who yield easi'y, nor is she one whose influ ence can be easily shaken off." " I think I know her character," I added. ' Oh, no I You never can know the deep well of love aud energetic feeling in the heart of that youug creature. Klin linn vinlrml 1 1 . 1.. 1 . ' love me in secret and now you have the object of her nocturnal journeys, whioh she would not disclose to you because she would have had to blush at the con fession, and least a public declaration made to her judge should come to the ears of her father. To prevent this she would have died without opening her lips. Now, my Lord, I have said suffi cient to convince yon that she is unjust ly condemned. Yon are absolute here. I ask her pardon of yon and feel assured that you will gladly concede it." The Marquis's language, the love which he confessed, and Milanetta's passion for him, of which he boasted so proudly and fervently, threw me into rage and despair. Ideas of vengeance and of blood rushed through my brain till I grew giddy. Without a conscious ness of what I was doing, or going to do, I rang the boll impatiently and ordered Milanetta to be brought immediately before me. "Do not let her see me!" cried the Marquis ; "let her not be made ac quainted with what I have done I If she loamed that it was to me that she owed her life, her feelings towards me would be all absorbed in gratitude, and it is her love only that I desire." This expression increased my frenzy, while the Marquis, who was nearly as much agitated as I was, did not per ceive my emotion. He only heard the sound of steps in the corridor, and thinking that it was Milanetta who ap proached, he asked me where he could conceal himself." I pointed to the door of my closet, and tho moment it closed upon him Milanetta came into the hall. For a moment I was speechless, over powered by transports of envy and pas sion. Milanetta turned away from the fierce expression of my featuros. With a hoarse voice I shouted, "I know your lover now ; I am no longer ignor ant who it is you prefer to me. He has come to solicit your pardon. Tho Mar qnis de Clairval has cleared you of tho charge of smuggling, but has acknowl edged that you are his love 1" "Whatl" she frantically exclaimed, " has tho Marquis been here ?" " He is hero still, Milanetta, "What, here? here in your power? Oh 1 spare him, my Lord, spare him. It is I only who hava deserved your vengeance death is my portion; but for him " " Yes, scoruful girl ! Death for you ! He has asked for mercy for you he has come to ask me to place you again in his arms ; but I will .give you to the executioner, and your lover shall wit ness " Tho Marquis flung open the door with violence. I had quite forgotten that he was there, and he had heard every word I spoke. At his appearance Milanetta uttered one despairing shriek, while I looked at them both vindictively. He beckoned mo aside, and said with a low voice: "My Lord Count, you are a gentleman by birth, but yon have dis graced your name and rnnk. Among people of our station tho sword is the only arbiter, and the injuries of jealousy and love are settled by that appeal. It is not by hanging Milauetta that you should revenge yourself when you have the opportunity of a gentleman of fight ing me." "What! Would you accept a chal lenge ?" " This very instant." " But you know the striot laws ngaiust duelling, and the rigorous strictness with which both kings exact tho pen alty?" " 1 kuow very well that both, in ranco and Spain tho duellist is punished by the forfeiture of his estates; that his shield is defaced and his coat of arms burned, and that if his enemy is killed he is beheaded ; but I hate you now as stronRly as yon can hato me, aud to hold my sword's point to your heart I would lace every peril and every disgrace I "To-morrow, then, at daybreak, I will be at Venasqne with a second." "Be it so. And now sign Milanetta s pardon." "iler pardon I " It is the first and only condition of our meeting." I signed it, and handed it to Milan etta, who refused to take it. "What will it avail me," said she, " when my father knows the secret of my nocturnal journeys ? When he ques tions me, what answer can I give him f If I tell him the truth he will kill me on the spot." " Kill you, Milanetta? ' "He is onlv a smuggler or a bandit in your eyes ; but this bandit is as jealous as any peer of Franco or grandee of Spain. He will kill me I tell you, and I would prefer dying by the executioner's band to his. Next morning: before the sun rose I was at the very extremity of the Spanish frontier, and the Marquis made ins op pearanco almost as soon. He brought his second but I had forgotten to bring one. A man on horseback was passing within a few paces of us. I called to him and asked him if he would become my second in a duel. Me immediately dismounted, meas ured our swords like a man accustomed to the bus'ness, and offered me his own as better tempered than mine. We had scarcely crossed our blades when the French and Spanish guards came run ning up, separated us, enjoined ns to desist, and threatened to arrest ns if we renewed the combat. Milanetta had in formed them of our intentions. I per ceived the rage and mortification of the Marquis at this interruption, but I told him that we could laugh at their inter ference, and tight before their faces without their having the power to inter fere. . . . " The frontier of France and Spain is marked by that cross. You, who area Frenchman, cross into cpain, wniie 1 Bter into France. We can then cross our blades, with our feet touching the frontier line, which we can Keep Detween our bodies and our swords. The Span iard who fltrhts a Frenchman on French ground, and the Frenchman who meets a Spaniard on the Spanish soil, cannot be reached dj tue law, tor we a-uk ui Spain has no more power over you than the King of Frauoe has over me, and neither would violate the laws of notions by arresting their subjects on a loreign territory." . A. , With one bonud I stood upon the ter ritory of Franco, while the Marquis re mained in Hpsiu, una we uu imicu iu tho guards: " Baok, marshalmen of France, yon have uo authority over a noble of Spain." "Away, holy broth crhood of Spain; keep your hands off a gentleman of France." The soldiers fell back amazed and irresolute, while we stood and fought in the narrow poss, whore there was not room for more than a man to stand. Our swords had scarcely recrossed when the Marquis fell, pierced to the heart. I rushed forward to support him, when my second, holding me in his iron grasp, shouted: " Stop where you are I One foot forward and death stares you in the face, and that upon the scaffold 1" His words were interrupted by a shriek, and wo snw Milanetta fling herself upon tho dead body, uttering the most passionate exclamations of agony and tenderness. My second gnashed his teeth, when he saw and heard her. He rushed to her and tore her roughly from the body which she embraced. She uttered a heart-piercing shriek, and. falling on her knees and clasping her hands, she ex claimed: " Forgive me, father, forgive me !" " Dishonored 1" answered lie, with a gloomy voice. "Then die with him!" and with one blow of his knife he laid her lifeless at his feet. Then lifting up her body he flung it to me, saying: "She who loved a hated Frenchman is not worthy of finding a grave in her country; the soil of Spain rejects the body of Milanetta." " The guards of the holy brotherhood surrounded the smuggler, who threw his knife away and held out his hands to them. " Bind me," said he, " I am the leader of the smugglers you can hang me at once for smuggling, but not for killing my daughter. You have outlawed the smuggler, and therefore he takes justice into his own hands." My estate was confiscated, my es cutcheon disfigured, my caBtle burned and a price set upon my head; but hea ven has punished me iu lengthening ray existence and protracting my sorrows. I have survived this event fifty years, but my heart is still young in recollections and sufferings, and from that time I have never trod upon the soil of my conn ry! v Words of Wisdom. He but waters his soup who takes many words to tell a short story. Friends are won by those who believe in winning. He who hns no taote for order will be often wrong in his judgment and seldom considerate or conscientious in his ac tions. Some people aro like eggs, too full of themselves to hold anything else. Many people find their own happiness in forcing themselves to be unhappy. When you are alone watch your thoughts ; when in the family circle wutch your temper ; when in society watoh your tongue. .- ,. The real wauls of nature are the measnro of employments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary pov erty. Haste turns usually upon a matter of ten minutes too late, and may be avoided by a habit bke that of Lord Nelson, to which he ascribed his success in life, of being ten minutes too early. Manners are the shadows of virtues ; the momemtary display of those quali ties which our fellow-creatures love and respect. If we strive to become, then, what we Btrive to appear, manners may often be rendered useful guides to the performance of our duties. Tho most agreeable of all companions is a simplo, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive great ness ; one who loves life And understands tho uso of it ; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper, and stead fast as an anchor. For such a one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker. The Potato. Conrad Wilson recently read an arti cle on the potato crop before the American Institute Farmer's Club, giving much interesting information in regard to that valuable food staple. Mr. Wilson says : A bushel of potatoes when judicious ly fed to animals of a good breed will produce Of Beef from 2 to 8 pounds. Mutton " 4 to 5 " " Pork " 4 to 6 " " Milk " 85 to 40 " " Butter " 2 to 2tf An acre of potatoes, when expressed in the form of other food staples is measured In Beef by 400 to 500 pounds. " Pork " 800 to 1,000 " " Mutton " 800 to 1,000 " " Milk "7,000 pounds, or over. " Bread "4,000 " " Butter " 400 Again, as I have already shown that the total potato product of this country is nearly certain to reach 200 million bushels as the average for the next de cade, it will be seen that if the above figures are extended so as to meet this case of the total product then it will be found that the annual potato crop of the United States is equivalent In Beef to 400,000,000 pounds. " Pork " 800,000,000 " " Mutton ' 800,000,000 " " Milk "7,000,000,000 Bread "4,000,000,000 ' " Butter " 400,000,000 " Movements of the Stan. Tho star known as Groombridge, though., in the category of fixed stars, moves''' at the rata of not less than two hundred miles per second. With this speed it cannot be stopped in its career by any star which it may approach, or compelled to form an orbit around a star or star group. Whence originated this enormous velocity ? The combined at traction of all the stars known to astron omers would not confer it. It must have begun outside of our visible universe. The star will pass through that universe with unohanged course. We know neither whence it came or whither it is going. As to the proper motions of other stars, they are so different in their direction aud speed, that we must oonolude that the stellar universe has neither the sta bility nor the regularity of our solar system. Bat these and other considera tions in fact, all modern scientific dis coveries and research point to the con clusion that)our unirerse had a beginning and will come to aa end. How Rubber Balls are Made. The process of making the hollow rubber balls used by ohildren for play things is quite curious, and may be in teresting to those not familiar with it. A Holyoke writer thus describes it: The upper room of the mill is prepared to push this branch of the business for a few months, and it will probably turn out some 60,000 dozen of those balls be tween January and June. These balls have a solid surface, are made by a different process from that of making the soft rubber balls which are perfor ated by an opening, and. of course, aro ranch more firm, durable and elastic. The sheets of rubber prepared for the balls are cut into strips of double convex shape. The edges of the strips are moistened with a preparation of rubber and naphtha, by whioh they are joined firmly together, three of the strips being used for one ball. This part of the work is done by girls, and a skillful girl can earn about $1.50 per day. When the strips are joined together, the ball is very near the shape of a Brazil nut. Before the last opening is closed, a small quantity of carbonate of ammonia is put inside, whioh, when subjected to a strong heat, will make the rubber expand and fill out the ball mold. The opening is then closed with the adhesive mixture, and it is placed in an iron mold of the size and shape of the ball desired. The molds are packed into frames in which they are subjected to the heat of the vulcanizer. They are kept in place in the frame by iron reds along the side, and, when the frame is full, iron plates at the ends are screwed down tightly upon the molds to hold them in place. These iron plates are about three-fourths of au inch thick, and so strong is the expansive force of the rubber in the molds that they have bent this thick iron into a curve. If one of the molds should work out of place while vulcanizing is in process, the molds will fly out with a noise like the report of a dozen pistols, and the work is spoiled. The action of the heat does the rest. ' When the molds are opened they contain the perfect round balls, with no mark of the places where the pieces were placed. The slight ridge made by the mold is ground off by a stone used for the purpose, and the ball is done. This is but one pro cess of rubber work. Besides the hollow balls are made solid balls of rubber, etc. Constantinople Socially. , A traveler through the East sends a loiter to the New York Tribune, from which the following is condensed for the purpose of showing the social and polit ical condition of Constantinople, as it appears to a non-professional. The war naturally worked a sad change in the lives of poorer classes. With the depre ciation of paper money came a dispro portionate advance in the price of bread stuffs, and consequent suffering among the people. One instance is cited ns hav ing come under tho writer's observation. A young girl who was able to earn five piastres a day, with which to support hor mother, two sisters and herself, stood before a baker's shop with her Veil fallen to tho ground and her eyes flushing with anger, while her whole at titude be'okenod grave alarm. She had gradually seen tho price of bread in crease while her own wages remained unchanged, until at last she had been told her money was no longer sufficient to keep her family from actual starvation. The picture of that poor sufferer wat one typical of the invaded and doomed re gion. The parent government is no longer able, if it is disposed, to help its children, and the tradesmen are rude anil grasping in their demands. The condition of that section of the world is deplorable, but it is such as inevitably follows Bn unsuccessful struggle at arms. A Dangerous Position. On tho coast of Normandy the women are tough and hard to kill. A few weeks ago the wives of three fishermen, having filled their baskets with shell-fish, were going home, when they found them selves suddenly in the midst of a dense fog, which prevented their seeing land. But they knew their way, and walked on. This was about six o'clock in the evening. When they thought they were near home they were surprised by the tide. They walked as long as they could, but at length had to stop. Tue water was then up to their knees. They had to remain in the water till the tide receded, the fog being still dense. They scrcamod as loudly as th y could, but heard no voice in reply, and they were final y overtaken by the morning tide. Meanwhile their husbands were running up and down the Bauds with lighted torches, screamiag with all their might ; but neither party saw nor heard the other. At last the fog cleared away and the tide ran out, and the three fisher men's wives were rescued, after having been in the water twenty-five hours, and during a night when the frost had bitten every tree in the neighborhood. They did not seem to feel much the worse for their adventure, and were in clined to laugh over it. Death from Overrating. A French cook named Paquette set out from a village on the upper Ottawa, Canada, some time ago, to walk to Gat ineauPoint through the mow, having supplied himself with provisions enough to lost him several days. He proceeded quietly on his journey for tho first day, but on the second, a blinding snow-storm same on, and he lost his way. At the end of the third day, the provision bag gave ont, and he had not the dightebt idea of his whereabouts. On the Beveuth day he had grown so weary that he was unable to walk any further, lie luy down in a snow bank and made np his mind that there he would have to per ish. He had been there but a few min utes when a horse and cutter came in view, and he had barely sufficient strength left to hail the driver. He suc ceeded, however, in the end, and it turned out to be a priest, to whom he told his story. The prtest drove him to tho parsonage and gave him some thing to eat. Ho then left him alone at the table whilst he went outside to look after his horse, and when he reUrued, found Paquette lying on the floor writh ing in agony. He had eaten too much and died before a physician could be summoned. FIRM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Rector. Tongue Toast. Take cool boiled tongue, mince it fine, mix it with cream, and to every half-pint of the mixture allow the well beaten yolks of two eggs. Place over the fire and let it simmer a minute or two. Have ready some nicely toasted bread; butter it, place on a hot dish, and pour the mixture over. Send to table hot. Breast op Veai Cover thickly with crumbs of bread, put some small lumps of butter about on it, and sprinkle with pepper and salt when baked, making a gravy of butter. This is a very nioe dish. Both the rack and breast, as commonly dressed, are but little esteem ed, yet in this way make excellent dishes. Bazar Cook Book. Rms of Beef Roasted. The fore rib is the best roasting piece. Put the meat down before a nice, clear fire, put some dripping into the pan; dredge the joint with a little flour, and keep con tinually basting. When thoroughly done, put upon a hot dish, and sprinkle a little salt over the joint. Pour a little boiling water into the dripping, season with pepper and salt, and strain it over the meat. Vegetable Sotjp. The best soup may be made with little expense when vege tables are plentiful. What remains of a roast will serve very well for a basis, if no piece of fresh uncooked meat is at hand. Let the vessel iu which yon make your soup be provided with a close cover, and allow yourself plenty of time, so that the soup need only simmer for five or six hours, but never boil hard. As the water evaporates, add more, but always let it be boiling water, after the first which is poured cold over the meat. Add vegetables according to the taste of your family. For instance, a quart of ripe tomatoes, scalded and peeled, is not too much, but even two or three make their impression when more cannot be obtain ed; a large handful of green corn, cut from the cob; another of young tender okra; and yet another of Irish pota toes, peeled and cut into small pieces, and lastly, a handful of small Lima beans. Season cautiously with salt and pepper, remembering that more can be easily added at table. In this kind of soup a pod of red pepper is regarded as preferable seasoning to black, the pod not to be broken. Stir the soup fre quently, lest the vegetables stick to the bottom and bum. Skim carefully, and dish up hot. In the far South, where this soup is made to perfection, they let tho vegetables cook so thoroughly as to form an indistinguishable mass, and strain it, moreover, so that the flavor is left without their substance. Household Hints, Keep fresh lard in tin vessels. Keep yeast in wood or glass. Keep preserves and jellies in glass. Keep salt in a dry place. Keep vinegar in wood or glass. Keep meal aiid flour in a cool, dry place. Sugar is an admirable ingredient iu curing meat and fish. Lard for pastry should be used hard, as it can be cut with a knife. It should be cut through the flour, not rubbed . Crusts and pieces of bread should be kept in an earthen jur, closely covered, in a dry, cool place. In boiling meat for soup, use cold water to extract the juices. If the meat is wanted for itself alone, plunge in boiling water at once. Broil steak without salting. Salt draws the juices in cooking; it is desirable to keep these in if possible. Cook over a hot fire, turning frequently, searing on both sides. Placo on a platter, salt and pepper to taste. To prevent meat from scorching during roasting, place a basiu of water in the oven. The steam generated prevents scorching and makes the meat cook better. Beef having a tendency to be tough can be made very palatable by stewing gently for two Lours with pepper and salt, taking out about a pint of the liquor when half done and letting the rest boil into the meat. Brown the meat in the pot. After takiDg np, make a gravy of the pint of liquor saved. The Science or Feetllna Poultry. The purposes served by food are of several distinct kinds the maintenance of animal heat, the growth of bone and muscle, and the supply of fat. For heat and respiration the food needs starch, sugar-gum and oily or fatty Bubstanoees, for which purposes rice and wheat take the lead in value, followed by corn, buck wheat, barley, wheat bran, and potatoes. For supplying the growth of the body and the production of eggs, flesh-forming foods are required, such as peas and beans, middliugs and oats. As bone making food, bran is best ; next is barley ; while oats, wheat and beans have about the same relative value. To fatten poul try rapidly such food must be selected as contains most fatty or oily matter. In this respect corn stands at the head, next oats, middlings, cow's milk, wheat and peas. Rice, potatoes and vegetables have little or no fat. Animal food is frequently given, but, when roaming about at large, fowls get a sufficient snpply in the insect and worms they naturally devour. Poultry need a con stant supply of. vegetable food when confined in coops, such as potatoes, turnips or cabbages, and when this is cooked an mixed with meal, the effect is still better. Nothing is so desirable as a constant supply of pure, fresh water. American Cultivator, John Rhodes, of Hounslow, England, dressed himself as a tramp, . denied him self the necessaries of life, and took to the road. He lately died, and his for tune was found to be over 100,000. The man bequeathed it to various metro politan charities. A similar instanoe of eccentricity occurred in Marseilles. The object of the miser was to build an aque duct to convey wat?r into the city free, and it was done. During the life of the Frenchman he was ridiculed, despised, and, like Stephen of old, came near be ing stoned on account of ' bis rags and his meanness, Itcmts of Interest. Shoemaker's Motto. "Never too ate to mend." One of nature's no-bill men He who pays cash. Forty-four municipalities in Massa chusetts are free from debt. Egypt is the placo for jnvenilo excur sions. Aboycan always find his "mum my" there. General Mite, the dwarf who weighs only fourteen pounds, has earned $20, 000 for his mother in two years. She calls it the widow's mite. Oil has been struck in the Black Hills. For the benefit of gentlemen who havo been interviewed by tho natives of that region we hope it is hair oil. We cordially agree with the captain of the vessel that brought the Cloopastra obelisk into the Thames that it i n't pleasant to have a needle in toe. The Italian exploring expedition, which attempted to penetrate into the interior of Africa, has been attacked by the King of Shoa, and compelled to re turn to the coast. Mr. Brandt, a member of tho Min nesota Legislature, accepted a bribe of 850, gave it to the clerk, and exposod the corruption, which related to tho snpply of books for the public schools. A foolish fellow residing near New York, has issued a challenge to any man in America to smoko cigars. Henley says he hns smoked 100 in twenty-threo hours, and can beat that. He desires to wager $500 to $1,000 on the result Montgomery Queen's menagerie has been sold in Louisville by the sheriff. An eland went for $205; a zebra $230; lions, $100 each; a leopard, $50; hyenas, $21 each; a wart hog, $190; an elephant, $1,500; a camel, $130; a royal tiger, $000; and a rhinoccrons, $8,600. In speaking of s person's faults, Pray don't forget your own; Remember, those with homes of glaBS Bhould seldom throw a stone. If we have nothing else to do But talk of others' sin, "lis hotter we commence at home, And from that point begin. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips and is ready to drop out before we are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. "Why, my dear, what is the matter ? What can you mean ? You look so de pressed. It cannot bo and yet oh, re lieve this killing suspense ! Alexander, havo yon failed !" said his wife, with clasped hands. " No, my dear; my credit is yet unimpaired, and business is looiting up." ' You can't mean to say, dear, that your old pain in the head has come back." "No." "You haven't had to pny the noto for your brother Joseph?" "No." "Have you now tell me, Alexander Bidlack, have you had another attack of vertigo ?" " No." " Has your cashier broken his Murphy pledge'?" "No." "Now I know I expected it I knew it all the time I felt sure it would bo so. Mr. Debonair has asked for Soraphina ?" ' No, noth ing of the kind.,' " Then tell mo, with out waiting another miuutc, what has happened; I can bear it; let me know tho w.-irst." "Well, that button I told you about has got tired of hanging on by one thread, and here it is. Elmira Oazette, The Telephone Novelty. A writer in the Popular Science Monthly soys : When we begin to use a telephone for the first time there is a sense of oddity, almost of foolishness, iu tho experiment. The dignity of talking cons sts in having a listener, and there, seems a kind of absurdity in addressing a piece of iron, but we must raise our respect for the metal, for it is anything but deaf. The diaphragm of the tele phone, the thin iron plate, is as sensitive as the living tympanum to all the deli cate refinements of sound. Nor does it depend upon the thinness of tho metallio sheet, for apiece of thick boiler plate will take up and transmit the notion of the air-particles in all the grades of their subtility. Aud not only will it do the same thing as the tympanum, but it will do vastly more ; the gross dead metal proves, in fact, to be a hun dred times more alive than tho living mechanism of speech and audition. This is no exaggeration. Iu quickness, in accuracy, and even in grasp, there is a perfection of sensitive capacity in the metal, with which the organic instrument cannot compare. We speak of the pro verbial " quickness of thought," but the telephone thinks quicker than the nervous mechanism. Let a word be pro nounced for a person to repeat, and the telephone will hear and speak it a hun dred miles away in a tenth part of the time that the listener would need to utter it. Give a man a series of half a dozen notes to repeat, and he cannot do it accurately to save his life ; but the iron plate takes them up, transmits them to another plate hundreds of miles off which sings them forth instantaneously with absolute precision. Tho human machine cun, hear, and reproduce, in its poor way, only a single series of notes, while the iron ear of the telephone will take np whole chords and trains of music, and, sending them by lightning through the wire, its iron tongue will emit them in perfect relations of harmony. Premature Burial. Another lucky escape from burial alive has occurred in Paris in the case of a lawyer named Lelone. His son, sum moned to his death-bed, found him, as it was supposed, dead, kissed his brow, and was supprised at its warmth. Some hours later he revived and raid : " Ah, doctor, those few moments' sleep have done me a world of good." The French laws require that interment shall follow death within, at most, thirty-six hours, and thus it often happens that burial takes place previous to putrefaction. It was against this limited time imposed by the burial bill that an eminent prelate so powerfully protested in the French chamber, relating how he himself had been laid out for burial. Here, too, in summer, burial takes place much too soon. In England at least five days intervene,