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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
NIL DESPEKANDUM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. VIII.
KIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THUKSDAY, MAY 30, 1878.
NO. 15.
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If We Would.
If we would but check the speaker
When hesolls a neighbor's fame,
If we would but help the erring
Ere we uttor words of blame ;
If we would, how many might we
Torn from paths of Bin and shame.
Ah I the wrongs that might be righted
If we would but see the way 1
Ah, the pains that might be lighten'd,
Every boar and every dav,
If we would but hear the pleadings
Of the hearts that go astray.
Let us step ontside the stronghold
Of our selfishness and pride;
Let us lift onr fainting brothers,
Let ns strengthen ere we chide t
Let ns, ere we blame the fallen -Hold
a light to oheer and guide.
Ah, how blessed ah, how blessed
Earth wonld be if we but try
Thus to aid and right the weaker,
Thus to chock eaoii brother's sigh
Thus to walk in duty's pathway
To our better life on high.
la each life, however lowly,
There are seeds of mighty good ;
8 till, we shrink from souls appealing
With a timid, If we could,"
But God who judgeth all things,
Knows (he truth is, "If we would."
THAT VOICE !
A day in June, 1903, and one of the
. loveliest early summer days the world
ever beheld a cloudless sky, golden
bright sunshine, soft fragrant air, joy
ously sweet songs of bird, faint musical
murmurs of brooks and plashings of
fountains, delicately green grass, linger
ing violets, and budding roses.
On the lawn in front of the elegant
mansion of Leon Fishback, Esq., a
fiarty of young people are playing "Fol-ow-foilow-follow-me'
a game some
what resembling (so their mothers and
grandmothers tell them) an old game
called " puss in the corner," played a
quarter of a century or more ago, only
in "Follow -follow " the players, instead
of beckoning to eaoh other, beckon to a
group of metallio balls, around which
they stand in a circle, and he or she who
E roves to have most magnetio force the
alls follow with a rush, while the re
mainder of the players rush as wildly in
their efforts to secure the place 'left
vacant by the flying'one.
At this moment the balls are rolling
pell-mell, helter-Bkelter, knocking
against each other with a pleasant ring
ing sound, after a pretty, fair-haired
maiden, whose little feet, clad "'in slip
pers all gleaming with silver and gold,
... flash in the sunshine beneath lier blue
. satin Tuikibk trouserlets as she springs
lightly over the greensward amid the
exquisitely modnlated laughter no one
shouts loudlv in this refined twentieth
century of her merry companions.
In the back garden, on a green clover
sweet grass plat, stands a broad, deep
basket of newly washed, snowy white
linen, and a hanging-out machine,
planted firmly in the middle of the plat,
is industriously raising and lowering its
wooden arms, grasping the various
Eieces in its wonderfully constructed
ands, and hanging them upon the stout
no-clothes-pins line, which is slowly
revolving around it, and to which they
alhere without further trouble.
In the dairy the rosy-cheeked dairy
maid is reading a love poem whilo the
automatic milker is milking the beauti
ful white cow that stands just outside
the door; in the kitchdq. the cook is
indolently rocking to and fro in a low
rocking-chair, watching the " magic
rolling-pin" roll out the paste for her
pies, ready to stop its pendulum-like
movement tue moment the crust is
smooth and thin enough; and a small
servant-boy, with his hands in his pock
. ets, lounges against the wall in one
corner near a tall stool, whistling softlv
to himself as be waits until the pair of
enoes tne eiectrio biacking-brnsli is pol
ishing thereon attain the proper degree
of brilliancy and mirrow-likeness.
This is a prosperous place, this domain
of Leon Fishback, Esq., and Leon
.fishback himself is a tall, handsome.
energetie.positive man of one-and-tbirty
a bachelor, who gives a home to his
widowed sister and her four half orphan
ed children, and in return is taken care
of by her, with the assistance of the old
.housekeeper to tell the truth, with a
great deal of assistance from the old
housekeeper as well as any brother was
taken eare of by any sister.
Still.people.as people will especially
- people with grown-up single daughtei s
. wonder mat ne has never married. It
was not for want of opportunity he had
done so oh, no indeed 1 for a dozen
lovely girls, half a dozen more or less
charming widows, and several ladies of
neither class, had, since his coming into
the property of his unole and godfather
jjeon f ishback, Hen. (whose ashes in a
solid gold casket stood in a sort of shrine.
made of a hundred rare woods, in the
south drawing-room), intimated to him,
in every way that the shrinking sensi
tiveness of womanhood would allow.
their perfect willingness nay, anxiety
to assume tne rote oi mistress of the
Fishback mansion.
But Leon had walked calmly among
them, dispensing hospitality, kind words,
and gracious smiles with the strictest
impartiality, distinguishing none by the
slightest preference, until a few weeks
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young guests merrily called, "H ollow
lollow-follow-me." to their hichlv nol.
ished admirers on the closely shaven
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Then came to visit his sister an old
school friend, Laura Beardsley by name,
who had been residing in a far 'distant
State, but with whom the sister had
kept up a warm correspondence ever
since they parted at the college door the
day on whioh eaoh was publicly hailed
with loud acclamations as " Mistress of
Arts."
Miss Beardsley is a lovely woman of
eight-and-twenty summers, looking at
least five summers less, with an excep
tionally sweet voice, aa exceptionally
bright smile, an exceptionally graceful
figure, and exceptionally winning ways.
And to this bewitching woman has Leon
Fishback, the hitherto apparently un
impressible bachelor, devoted himself
sinoe the moment he took her slender
little hand in his and bade her welcome
to his home. And it is bv her side he
loiters, un tempted by the merriment
without, in the deep, pleasant, vine
enwreathed bay-window of the librarv aa
the fair-haired girl comes flying across
the garden, pursued by the tinkling
uauB.
Laura starts from her seat with
blush, and, leaning from the window,
entreats, Coax them awav. Bella. dAr.
They are dancing on the flower bed."
And as the girl obediently turns and
speeds in the opposite direct ion, she draws
back her pretty head, and looking at her
companion, says, How much Bella is
like her sister Teresa that is, when
xeresa wasomy sixteen I
" Is she ?" asks Mr. Fishback.
" Why, don't you remember ?" says
uue iauj.
"I do not," replies Mr. Fishback,
with emphasis.
Miss Laura makes two interrogation
points of her silken eyebrows, opens her
mouth to speak, thinks better of it,
closes her red lips firmly, and turns to
the window again as the Follow-follow-follow-me
ers stop playing and gather
in a group, with their eyes fixed upon a
small asrial car, gayly decorated with
nags, which is gently ewavrog between
heaven and earth, as it slowly descends
toward the lawn. In a few moments it
touches the ground, and a handsome
young man leaps out, and is greeted
with many exclamations of pleasure and
surprise.
" Your brother Reginald," says Miss
Beardsley. "So soon returned from
London ? Why, he only started a few
aays ago.
" Yes; flying ship American Eagh
fastest of the Air Line. I heard of her
arrival just after breakfast this morning.
when it was shouted by the telephone at
tuo nation Deiow.
"Thirty miles away 1"
" Oh I that's nothing. We expeot to
be able to hear news from a hundred
miles away before many years are past."
"May I not be in the immediate
vicinity when that news is shouted 1"
says the lady, with an involuntary move
ment of her pretiy white hands toward
her pretty rose-tipped ears, "for I
should expect to be deaf for evermore-"
"Never fear, my dear I mean Miss
Beardsley. Such a misfortune as that
shall never occur, even though you
should chance to be at the very side of
the shouter. Edison is at this moment
perfecting an instrument that begins to
deliver its messages in a moderately
loud voice, which increases in volume as
it is carried forward, until it reaches the
most distant point it is intended to reach,
thus maintaining an even tone all along
me route, juow glorious all these JtSdi
sonian inventions are I" he continues.
with a glow of enthusiasm, "and what
humdrum times our ancestors must have
had withont them.! Why, they are the
very life of the ago. There's the phono
graph, for instance bnt I bear pardon:
yon are looking bored. I can not expect
you to take as much interest in these
scientific subjects as I do. Is not Regi-
aiu coming this way t
" He is not." answers Miss Laura, de
murely; "he is still holding Bella's
hand, and totally ignoring all the other
welcoming hands extended to him."
" 'Ah 1 the old, old story that is ever
newr" quotes Mr. Fishback, as he
peeps over the shoulder of his fair guest
at the new arrival; and then, sud enly
rising huu conironung ner, ne exclaims;
" You must have heard that storv verv.
very often, Laura forgive my calling
you so, but you used to permit it in the
days we went blackberrying together
some ten years ago; and forgive me
again, but, upon my word, I cannot
help asitmg you, impelled as I am by
some mysterious power, why have you
never married ?"
A blush rises-to her cheek, but she
looks up in his face calmly, and replies:
" I don't remember the blackberry epi-
soues, ana i nave remained unmarried
because I vowed when a voung girl
never to marry unless convinced that I
was the first and only love of the man
whose wife I became."
" Laura, I have never loved another."
"Mr. Fishback, you forget my old
friend Teresa, the sister of the girl to
whom your brother xteginald is now
making love on the lawn."
" Good heavens ! Laura, how mistaken
you are I"
" 'Twas with her you looked for black
berries. I never knew you to find any
not with me, sir."
"Laura, how blind you were 1 I
sought her society only to be near you,
I declare, upon my word nnd honor, I
lingered by her side for hours and hours
in the hope that you would join ns for
a moment or two during the time, and
when you did, ia that moment or two
was concentrated the joy of the whole
day. You were so proud, so cold, so
reserved, I did not dare to approach you
save through your friend; and "
"And you did not bury yourself in
seclusion for two years after she jilted
you and married Frank Huntington?"
she asks, as he pauses.
"Great heavens! how preposterous!
Laura, I swear "
But, as he is about to swear, enter a
procession of small nephews and nieces
and attendant friends, the leader of
whioh carries an odd-looking box.
"See, uncle I" the bright-eyed little
fellow calls out as he approaches. "I
found this old phonograph on the top
shelf of your closet, where I was look
ing for your fishing line to play horse
with, and it talks like everything."
With this he begins to turn th metal
crank, and a voice a somewhat shrill
young voice, the voice of Tares ut,r
of Bella whilom friend of Laura
Beardsley begins to speak:
. "Yes, Leon, my own. I will grant
your impassioned prayer, and breathe
the words you long to hear into this
magical casket, and then, when you are
lonely or inolined to doubt me. iealous
one, you can call them forth to bring
back the smiles to your dear face, and
oy kj your uear Heart, i ao return the
ove you so ardently avow, and I will
marry you when mamma gives her con
sent Until then no lips shall touch the
lips made sacred by your kiss, no hand
shall clasp the hand that wean your
lovely diamond ring. Bat. oh. Leon
dear, try to like Laura a little for my
sake. I know she is all that you say she
is affected, cold-hearted, haughty and
uisagreeabie (1 am just naughty enougn
to be pleased when you tell me her
beauty, so much admired by others,
particularly Frank Huntington, fades
into utter insignificance beside that of
your own little Teresa) but, my Leon,
try, oh ! try, to tolerate her, for, strange
as it may appear to yon, disliking her as
you do, l am quite iond or her. Hood
night, beloved. Dream of Tessa."
"That" something or other
"phonograph I" said Mr. Fishback;
"I thought I destroyed it long ago."
as he angrily snatched it from the hands
of the small discoverer.
" What did our humdrum ancestors
do without these glorious inventions ?"
murmured Miss Laura, as she quietly
fainted away for the first and only time
in ner me.
" If ever you go prowling around my
room again, continued Mr. Fishback
addressing his unfortunate nephew, and
supporting Miss Beardsley with one
hand, while he flung the tell-tale out of
the window, where it broke into a dozen
pieces as it touched the ground with a
shrill ear-splitting shriek "I'll apply
the double back action self-acting spank
ing machine until you roar tor mercy."
The procession, considerably demor
alized, started on the double-quick for
the door, and Mr. Fishback, looking
upon tne inanimate torm he held in liis
arms, cried out, as he struck his fore
head with his clinched hand, " She will
never, never look at me again I"
But she did, and, what's more, she
married him a month after. And oh.
the marvellous progress toward perfeot
womanhood in this wonderful twentieth
century ! although they have been man
and wife for some twenty years, she has
never once said to him : " That voice r
Harper a Weekly.
. Japanese and Chinese.
Feminine dress and fashions in Japan
are quite distinct from those of China;
the barbarous custom of crushing, the
foot is unknown (as also are high-heeled
boots,) and small well-shaped hands and
feet are characteristic of Japanese wo
men. They continue, however, to black
en their teeth and shave their eyebrows
when they marry, although the present
empress has set her face against these
time-honored observances. The Japan
ese in general affect a simple style of
dress, wit ho at gaudy colors or ostenta
tious ornaments; except for fastening up
the hair, even women wear no jewelery,
and do not, like their Aryan sisters,
pierce the cartilage of nose or ears in
order to insert metallio rings. Japan
seems to be a country where men never
lose their temper, where women and
children are always treated with gentle
ness, where all the people bow and beg
pardon of each other if they happen to
jostle accidentally, where popular sports
do not inflict suffering upon the lower
animals, where a paper screen is suf
ficient protection against all intrusion
even that of burglars, and where clean
liness takes such a high rank among
social virtues as to be carried almost to
ludicrous excess. Japanese manners are
certainly very different from our own;
but even according to such a standard
as is generaly accepted in Europe, the
Japanese are a thoroughly well-bred
people. And " manners are not idle ;"
urbanity, gentleness, Bnd consideration
for others are not mere superficial quali
ties; when such national characteristics
are found combined with courage, ener
gy and intellect, they may surely be ac
cepted as evidence of an advanced civili
zation. Foreigners, after living in the
interior of Japan for a considerable
time, on returning into " civil'zed socie
ty," have even stated that the manners
of their own countrymen appear to them
vulgar and almost brutal, accustomed as
they have become to a courtesy singular
ly free from servile or mercenary con
siderations. The readiness of the Japan
ese to adopt what seems to them worthy
of imitation in foreigners is regarded by
some as indicating a lack of originality
and independence. But if they imitate,
it is not without discrimination, and
their willingness to accept what is new
ind strange, when convinced of its
merits, seems rather to indioate acute
intelligence with remarkable freedom
from prejudice. The Chinese have just
succeeded in getting possession of the
only railroad in China, and have at once
proceeded to destroy the obnoxious in
novation. The Japanese railways are
being steadily improved and extended,
so as to compare creditably, nnder na
tive management, with any railways in
the world. The Fortnightly Review.
A Shl ty Match.
One of the episodes of the long feud
between the Clan Gregor and the Ool
quhouns of Luss a quarrel that ended
in the proscription of the MacGregors in
1608is connected with a match at
shinty. Two sub-sections of the Clan
Alpine, who had some cause of disagree
ment, had settled the vexed question,
and, to celebrate the renewal of perfect
friendliness, the clansmen of both fami
lies agreed to meet and spend some time
in merrymaking. One of the chief
events was to be a shinty match between
the men of each family. That their
visitors and kinsmen might be royally
entertained, the hosts organized a foray
into the Oolquhouns' country by Loch
Lomond side, and carried off many head
of fat cattle. Next day, in a level glen
among the hills, the MacGregors, men,
women and children, were assembled, the
men armed for the time only with the
sturdy clubs to be used in their game.
The ball was thrown up. sticks rattled.
all the shouts and cheers of the game
were heard, when suddenly, high above
the noise of the players, rose a shriek of
the women, as from all sides of the
glen advanced the hated uoiqunouns.
The clansmen, though surprised and
unarmed, at once formed up, back to.
back, and with their clubs prepared to
meet the swords of the foe; but tough
ash and cold steel had hardly met when,
with screams of fury, a naked dirk in
each hand and a bundle of claymores
nnder each left arm, the women of the
clan out through the Oolquhouns, and
brought to their husbands the broad
swords that soon swept the men of Luss
back again to Loch Lomond side. Bel
gravia. -
A newspaper in Eureka, Nev. , declares
that a silk hat draws attention to the
wearer in that rude town, a cane giver
rise to ominous mutterings, eyeglasses
cause the gathering of a mob, and kid
gloves lead at onot to a lynching.
The Bearer.
If there be only one speoles of beaver,
it is very widely distributed throughout
the world. In America it extends al
most as far south as the Gulf of Mexi
co. It once existed in the British
Islands, where, however, it has been
long extinct, and it has become rare in
Europe, in many parts of whioh it was
once common. ; It nas also become rare
in the United States, disappearing rap
idly as civilization , advances, but it is
still abundant in - the wide region of
lakes and rivers which lies to the north
and west of the settled parts of America.
Considerable numbers are also found on
the banks of the Obi and other rivers of
Sibsria, and in Eamtchatka.
The beaver is usually at least two feet
in length from the nose to the root of
the tail, the latter being of oval form,
about ten inches ia length, fully three
inches in breadth, and scarcely an inch
in thickness. These dimensions are,
however, sometimes exceeded. The
general form of the animal is thick and
clumsy, thickest at the hips, and then
narrowing abruptly, so that it seems to
taper to the tail. The head is thick
and broad, the nose obtuse, the eyes
small, the ears short and rounded. The
fur consists of two kinds of hair; the
longer hair is comparatively coarse,
smooth, and glossy; the nnder roat is
dense, soft, and silky. The incisors, or
cutting teeth, of the beaver are remark
ably strong, and exhibit in the highest de
gree the distinctive characteristic of the
order to which it belongs the front of
hard enamel, whioh in the beaver is of
a bright orange color; the back of the
tooth, formed of a softer substance, is
more easily worn : down, so that a
sharp, chisel-like edge is always pre
served, the bulbs being also persistent,
so that the teeth are continually grow
ing, as by their employment in gnawing
wood they are continually being worn
away. Each foot has five toes; those of
the fore feet are short and not connected
by a web; those of the hind feet are
long, spreading out like the toes of a
goose, and webbed to the nails. In
accordance with thia remarkable pecul
iarity the beaver in swimming makes
use of the hind feet alone, the fore feet
remaining motionless and close to the
body. Another characteristic, to which
nothing similar appears in any other
rodent, is the large horizontally flatten
ed tail, whioh, except at its root, is not
covered with hair, like the rest of the
body, but with scales.
The food of the beaver consists of the
bark of trees and shrubs and the roots
of water lilies and other aquatio plants.
In summer it eats berries, leaves, and
various kinds of . herbage. There is
reason to think that it never, as has been
supposed, kills, or vats fish. Like some
other rodents, it .avs nn stores of pro
visions for winter ; but these in the case"
of the beaver consist chiefly of bark, or
the branches and even the trunks of
trees. Its extraordinary powers of
gnawing are exerted to cut down trees
of several inches in diameter both for
food and for the construction of its won
derful houses and dams. A tree of
eighteen inches has been found cut
down by beavers, though they usually
exhibit a preference for sma ller ones.
When a large tree is cut, the branches
only, and not the trunk, are employed
in their architectural operations. These
are very wonderful, although the state
ment, at one time commonly made, that
beavers drive stakes into the ground,
has no foundation in fact ; and some of
the particulars which passed current
along with it were equally fabulous.
Still, they are marvellous builders. A
recent English writer, in speaking of
the wonderful constructions raised by
their industry, says : " Truly Canadians
may be proud of the beaver. Its works
give a stranger who sees them for the
first time the idea of human intelligence,
industry and forethought. Their dams,
even mistaken for the works of man, are
constructed with an amount of skill
whioh leads the visitor to form a high
estimate of the local engineer ; and if
he investigate more closely the habits
and modes of life of these extraordinary
animals, he will find in their domestio
habits, in their foresight in providing
food for the morrow, in the way they
regulate their water supply so that in
the highest freshet and the most pro
tracted drought they are on the one hand
neither delnged nor on the other re
stricted in supply, in the construction
and fortification of their lodges, and
finally, in their system of government,
which drives the drones out of the com
munity, and regulates the size of the
different households and villages accord
ing to the supply of wood tnat can be
obtained and stored for winter use, he
will find in all their mod of life a
sagacity, a foresight, an intelligence,
and a system of organization which
elevate them above some race of savage
men. Their influence on the features
of the country constitute another paral
lel with man. Many small lakes and
wild meadows are the work of past gene
rations of beavers. First of all the small
brook is dammed ; by and by this dam
becomes solid, and forest trees take root
and grow on it ; as other outlets of the
water occur they are closed by these in
defatigable workers, till at length the
pond assumes the proportions of a lake,
buu remains ior au time to attest to
their powers. The meadows are formed
by the draining of the lakes. The beaver
has left more permanent and enduring
monuments of its existence on the sur
face of the country than the aboriginal
inhabitants of Canada have left or are
likely to leave."
The houses or lodges of beavers ar
almost without exception grouped to
gether neat the edge of the water, the
mud being scraped away from the front
so as to secure a sufficient depth of
water to allow of free egress even during
the most severe frost The winter stores
of the animal, consisting of piles or
heaps of wood, are always under water,
and at such depths that they can not be
locked up by ice. When the depth of
water Is not sufficient a dam is con
structed, by the side of whioh the lodge
is placed. . These dams are sometimes
300 yards in width, and always convex
toward the current ; , frequently they
extend on both sides beyond the natural
ohannel of the stream, i Ia their build
ing, beavers interlace j small branches
with eaoh other, scouring them to the
larger with great ingenuity. A beaver
kapt in confinement has been known to
exhibit his building instincts by weaving
twigs into the wires of his cage.
A beaver's lodge resembles in shape
the snow houses of the Esquimaux, be
ing nearly oircular in form and half as
high as they are wide. The average
height is about three feet, and the
diameter six or seven. These are the
interior dimensions, the exterior meas
urement being much greater on account
of the exceeding thickness of the walls,
which are continually strengthened by
their owners with mud and branches, so
that during the severe frosts they are
nearly as hard as solid stone. The
beaver is a social animal, and each lodge
will accommodate several inhabitants,
whose beds are arranged about the wall.
Generally the beavers desert their huts
in the summer-time, although one or
two of a group of houses may be occu
pied by a mother and her young off
spring. All the old beavers who have
no domeptio ties to keep them at home
take to the water and swim up and down
the stream at liberty until the month of
August, when they return to their
homes. There are also certain individu
als, called by the trappers let paresseux,
or idlers, which do not live in houses
and build no dams, but abide in subter
ranean tunnels like those of the common
water-rat, to whioh they are closely
allied. These paresseux are always
males, and it sometimes happens that
several will inhabit the same tunteL
The trapper is always pleased when he
finds the habitation of an idler, as its
capture is a comparatively easy matter.
The beaver is easily tamed, but natural
ly no wooden cage will keep one con
fined. "Madame Rachel."
It is not many years sinoe the name
of Madame Rachel, "Arabian Perfumer
to the Queen," achieved a somewhat
unenviable notoriety on both sides of
the Atlantic. Those who remember the
tribulations of the too credulous
Madame Bonodaile, a middle-aged lady,
who was inspired by the "Arabian Per
fumer" with the hope that, for a certain
considerable sum down, she would be
made "beautiful forever' will not have
forgotten that Madame Rachel came to
dire grief, and, despite her oriental title
and supposed miraculous lore, was igno
miniously cast into prison. But the
"beautifler forever" of the vain and
foolish womankind of London is, it
would appear, fairly irrepressible.
Once more London is agog with her
doings; once more she is the central
figure of a cause celebre. It is amazing
that so old and so notorious a swindler,
with the prison brand upon her name,
should still be able to dupe respectable
ladies, and, emerging from her durance,
should again set up, with signal suc
cess, as a conjurer of youth and beauty
to faded cheeks and waning charms. This
Madame Rachel is well known to be a
proved and convicted impostor. The
utter uselessness of her cosmetics and
washes has been demonstrated before
the world. Moreover, she is known to
have obtained money under false pre
tenses, to have held on to jewels against
all right, and to have led a most shame
ful career of fraud and deception fof
years. Add to this that she is grossly
ignorant, unable to read or write, and
that thus her assumption of mystical,
Eastern lore is so absurd that the won
der is she was not long since laughed
out of conceit of it. Her last perform
ance only affords one more sad illustra
tion of the inveterate gullibility of weak
women in their mania to cling, by any
means and at any risk, to the external
advantages of youth.
A young married lady, the daughter
of the great singer Mario, was caught in
the net of the "Arabian Perfumer " by
the thinnest of devices. She was told
that by the payment of two hundred
pounds she would be provided with
certain washes which would preserve
the beauty of twenty till she was sixty.
A momentary glimmer of reason
prompted her to ask Madame Rachel
why, if she could achieve this marvel
for others, she did not make her own
person an example. The sly old woman
was ready with her answer that, though
she seemed only sixty, she was really
eighty-five ! This seems to have ex
tinguished all doubt in the mind of her
customer. The first installment paid,
a "wash" was given and need. The
result was appalling. The victim found
her face breaking out in a horrible
humor. But her anxiety was appeased
when Madame Rachel told her she had
only to go on with the wash to not only
cure the humor, but become as fair as the
lilies of the field. Then the viotim,
unable to raise the cash to meet the
demands of her aged benefactress, gave
up her jewels, which the "perfumer"
lost no time in pawning. Meanwhile,
the bargained-for beauty came not. At
last the lady, driven to despair, did
what she ought to have done before
she told her husband; and he at once
caused Madame Rachel to be indicted.
Appleton't Journal.
Fashion Notes.
Among the new accessories to the
toilet is the matelot or square sailor
collar.
Stocking manufacturers not to be be.
hind the times have succeeded in intro
ducing bourette effects.
Mitta form no unimportant part in
the valuable accessories of the toilet,
and fans are made to correspond.
The rich falling collars of to-day are
copies of the paintings of the old French
school.
The new kilt-plated skirt and plaited
blouse are stylish for street or house
attire.
Wash goods, such as prints or per
cales, will be trimmed with solid colors
in bands.
' Many sleeves of elegant dreeses have
no trimming, because separate cuffs are
fashionable.
The coat is one of the most popular
ooque tries of the season, and is becom
ing to all ladies.
Woolen batiste dresses are favorites
with Parisian ladies, and are becoming
iasmonaoie here.
- Easy elegance, withont either soanti
ness or drapery or an excess of flowing
loias, is tne present iasnion.
Printed costumes and polonaises are
worn above plain, skirts by both grown
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Ponltry Notes.
It is a fact well known to poultry rais
ers that the first eggs are always the
best for hatching, and are also much
truer to their breed, showing all the finer
points as well as developing sooner, and
approaching the nearest possible to per
fection.
The chicken cholera was very bad here
last spring, and I will tell your readers
how we cured it. For every forty fowls
we took a piece of assa'oetida the size of
a hickory nut, broke it in small pieces
and mixed it in about a pint of corn meal,
wet it thoroughly with boiling water.and
placed it near the roosting place, so that
the chickens could eat of it the nrst
thing in the morning. If they were not
too near dead to eat, a cure was certain,
Correspondence Ohio Farmer.
A successful turkey-raiser feeds the
chicks during the first eight days on
eggs boiled hard and minced; during
the second week he adds to this bread
crumbs, chopped with parsley and
onions; during the third week he keeps
back the eggs, and only continues the
bread and the vegetables; afterwards in
stead ot the bread he gives moistened
meal, boiled peas. and. above all. millet,
of which young turkeys are very fond.
When the birds are sickly they are
easily cured by making them swallow a
pepper-corn, their bills being carefully
opened to avoid hurting them.
The cleaning and disinfecting of the
poultry house should, of course, be done
oftener than semi-annually, but a regu
lar thorough cleaning out is in order al
wavs. After removinor all the utensils
and fixtures (and they should all be
movable), carry out all the dirt and
filth that can be swept and shovelled.
Then follow with a good coat of white
wash; go over every point of the surface,
floor and all. Then clean out all nest
boxes, pour a little coal oil in the corn
ers, then whitewash them, together with
perches and everything in or about the
house, and put everything in place again.
Now make a fire on the floor, if it be an
earthen one, as it should or in an old
iron pot or kettle, if it is not, and burn
half a pound each of rosin and sulphur
in the house, keeping all doors and win
dows closed as tight as possible. When
the fire is burning well, throw some
shavings or rags, saturated with crude
carbolic acid, on it, and thus employ the
fumes of this best of all disinfectants.
When all is thoronghly done, open and
ventilate the house, and it will be ready
for its occupants, and be sweet and
wholesome. The house should have such
a cleaning up three or four times each
year. It is some trouble, but it will
pay.
Recipe.. .
Pumpkin " Pie. To two : quarts of
stewed pumpkin mashed through a wire
sieve add one pound of sugar and six
well-beaten eggs; bake in a rich paste,
without cover.
Potato Douohntjts. One pint-bowl
of mashed potatoes, one pint-bowl of
sweet milk, one egg, a piece of shorten
ing as largo as an egg, one large table
spoonful of yeast; set to rise in half the
milk; cloves; mix thin, and cover with a
cloth till cool, after cooking.
Hot Rolls. A nice breakfast ar
rangement, where there are no dyspep
tics in the family, is to take a quart of
sifted flour, one and a half cupfula of
sour milk, two spoonfuls of thick cream,
a teaspoonful of soda; stir up quickly
and dip into roll-bakers, well-buttered,
or cup cake tins, aud bake in a quick
oven. They are very palatable and
easily made.
Hominy Bread. This is easy, quiok
and nice. Two eggs; salt to taste; two
cupfuls of boiled grits or boiled rice;
one cupful of meal, one tablespoonfnl
of butter or lard, and sweet milk enough
to make a thin batter. Bake in the dish
in which it is to be served: help with a
tablespoon. The Virginia name for that
soft kind of corn bread w "Pudding
Bread." Country Gentleman.
Corn 1 ebf Soup. When the liquor
in which the beef and vegetables were
boiled is cold remove all the grease that
has risen and hardened on top, and add
tomatoes and tomato ketchup and boil
half an hour thus making au excellent
tomato soup; or add to it rice, or sage,
or pearl barley, or turn it into a vegeta
ble soup by boiling in the liquor any
vegetables that are fancied. Several
varieties of soups may have this " stock"
for a basis, and be agreeable and nutri
tious. Corned Beef. Select a nice piece of
fresh beef, rub over it sufficient salt to
"corn " it, but not to make it very salt.
Let it stand two or threedays, judging of
the time by size of the meat. Then
wash thoroughly in cold water, and put
ting in the pot, cover with cold water
and boil gently till quite tender. Add
such vegetables as are desired, like the
old time-honored " boil-dish.' Judge
of the quantity of vegetables by the
strength of flavor desired in the soup to
be made from the water in which'the
whole is boiled. When done, dish beef
and vegetables, and serve hot.
Baked Beans. Soak a pint and a
half of dried beans over night. In the
morning pour off the water, cover with
freshwater and boil till they craekopen,
or are tender. Then put them with the
water in which they were boiled into a
deep earthen dish, adding a little salt,
and if agreeable a tablespoonfnl of
molasses. Put on top of the dish one
half pound of fat and lean pork, which
should be scored or gashed across the
rind. Bake four hours, and longer if
convenient. It will be better for it,
only bake slowly. Keep nearly covered
with water till two-thirds done, then
allow it to dry away.
The first United States cent, issued
from the Mint from 1777 to 1791, and
now called the Franklin penny, bore on
the center of its obverse a sun-dial shone
upon by the sun with the word "Fugio"
on the right and the date on the left.
"mind your business" being inscribed
in the'exergue. On the reverse a oirole
of thirteen rings representing the orig
inal number of states, each nng bearing
the name of a state on some varieties.
On some the larger circle incloses a
smaller ineribed "the United States,"
while on the others the order is reversed
and the words read "States United,"
with e central legend, "Wa are one."
Items of Interest.
Bluht people often say sharp things.
A lady in New York sang three hours
on a stretch.
An important suit the first jacke
and trousers.
The more suits at law, the less suits
go on your back.
February is the most impeounions -month;
is is always short.
When may a ship be said to be in
love t - When she wants a mate.
The Western Union T legraph Com
pany owns over 200,000 miles of wire.
A gamecock drove his spur into a
child's head, in Bullet county, making a
fatal wound.
A correspondent writes to ask what it
is proper to wear at picnics. We should
eay " clothes."
iCdison has been asked to invent a
machine that will cause a carpet " to
get up and dust."
. The coast of Florida has but one Mns
quito Inlet, but the interior of Florida
has a musquito-bar for every bedstead.
A New York dancing master has added
his to " one of the few immsrtal names,"
etc., bv waltzing for sixteen hours. It
must make Longfellow and Tennyson
siok to think of what labor and study
it cost them to become famous.
Close imitations of silver dollars are
made of block-tin, bismuth and pulver
ized glass. An immense number of these
bogus coins are in circulation in the
West. They imitate exactly the true
color and ring, and are about right in
weight.
"That's our Jeremiah," said Mr.
Sheldon; " he went off to make his own
living by his wits." "Well, did he
sucoeed ?" inquired a friend. " No,"
said the old man, with a sigh, signifi
cantly tapping his head, " he failed for
want of capital."
The man who advertises in the news
papers to send directions that "will ena
ble a person to make $200 a uionth,
owes his washerwoman for three months'
washing, and was seen a few days ago
trying to borrow five dollars td pay a
week 's board bill.
Fish in Germany are seldom broiled;
they are boiled. The size of a fish that
need not be returned to the water when
caught iB fixed by law. Thus a salmon
must be sixteen inches long, a perch
five and an eel fourteen. Germans do
not fish for sport as a rule.
A growth of human hair, the longest
on record, is among the curiosities to
be seen at the Paris Exposition. It
came from the head of a Norman girl,
Merlot by name, who lived with her
mother in the extremest poverty. It is
seven feet long, of an exquisite golden
color, luxuriant, ana silky.
An Illinois farmer has told his rat
story. He was going out to his corn
crib the other morning, he says, when
he saw a large rat with head erect, car
rying a full sized ear of corn in his
mouth, while at the same time his tail
was wrapped around another large ear,
whish he was dragging behind him.
Mr. Edison, who has within a twelve
month made his name a household word
in the scientific, social, aud business
world, was married in 1873 to Miss
Mary Stillwell, of Newark, New Jersey,
They have two children a little boy
four years old and a little girl aged two
nicknamed " Dot" and " Dash," .'Iter
the characters in the Morse alphabet.
A couple of young men were out fish
ing the other day, and on returning were
going past a farm house, and felt hun
gry. They yelled to the farmer's daugh
ter : " Girls, have you any buttermilk?"
The reply was gently wafted back to
their ears : " Yes ; out we keep it for
our own calves." The boys calculated
they had business away -and they went.
Pretiy Parsees.
A correspondent of a New York paper
writes from Bombay: A day or two
after my arrival I accepted an invitation
to attend the exhibition exercises at a
Parsee school and witness the distribu
tion oi prizes. The visitors were Par
sees, Hindoos and a few Europeans; the
pupils were girls, some fifty or more, of
ags varying from eight to twelve years.
All were bright-eyed and intelligent,
and nearly all were pretty as pinks
brown-hued pinks, I may say, as the
most of the complexions had a brunrtte
tinge. I do not remember ever to have
seen a more pleasing lot of juvenile faces
than on that occasion, and all through
the exercises I continued tc admire the
galaxy of budding beauties. Each head
was covered with a gold-embroidered
cap, and the rest ot the costume was
quite Oriental loose trousers, with a
white or embroidered frock. As the ex
ercises were entirely in Guzerat, the
language o' the Parsees, I cannot say
much about the sentiments expressed.
The recitations and songs were delivered
in a manner worthy of any school in
America or England, and with a cool
ness and self-possession highly com
mendable to the tiny ladies that gave
them. As each little miss I don't
know the Parsee name for miss came
forward to receive her prize, she bowed
gracefully and marched oil to her seat
with all the dignity ot a princess.
A Starling's Mimicry.
Mr. H. O. Forbes sends ns the fol
lowing instance: In the grennds of a
friend in the neighborhood of London,
a colony of starlings had for many years
built their nests in the trees in boxes
placed there for their accommodation.
The children of the house all quite
young then a lew years ago at whose
presence the birds showed not the
slightest alarm, were constantly playing
about close to the nests, and ot course
constantly calling eaoh other by name.
There was only one girl in the family, .
called Maggie, and aa she was a great
pet, perhaps her name was oftener men
tioned than those of the others, lie
that as it may, her father was one day
greatly astonished by hearing bis daugh.
tier's name pronounoed in exact imita
tion of the voice of one of her brothers,
whom he knew could not be near. For
a moment he was puzzled, but close at
band, on the bough of an acacia tree,
he detected the mocking bird a com
mon starling in the act of deception,
whioh he oontiuued to praotioe often
afterward. Nature,
JJ