S S S S " 1 "- - i. ' ' ... -m- -I - - "" , ., ......... i . - - . I. - lie- ;ilV ; IlIMfe.-:;- HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher, NIL DESPERANDTTM. Two Polla" AnnujjjT vnr ty " TUDGWAY. ELK COUNTY. PA.. THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1879. NO. 0. 1 V T VJ-J. JL ? - . ' v ' A ' , . - r : i roetic Answers. WHAT IS TOUR CHARACTER t A rare compound of oddity, frolic and lun, . ; To relish a oke and rojoice in a pun. Goldsmith. That of the epicure, who, serenely full, inny say, ' Fate cannot harm me; I have dined to-dnr. Swift. Luxurious, aTaricious, false, decoitlul, Sullen, malicious, smacking of every sin that has a name. Shakespcnie. WHAT IS TOUR CHIEF ATTRACTION T Thou hast tho sweetest iaco I ever looked on. ,- ' Shakespeare. Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth thesovcu Pope. A form so fair, that like the air Tis less of earth than heaven. E. E. Fiukney. Me is so full of pleasant anecdote, So rich, so gay, so poignant in his wit : Time vanishes before him as he speaks, And ruddy morning through tho lattice poeps. Joanna Baillio. WHAT DO TOC MSB BEST. That all-softoning, ovorpoworing knoll, The tocBin ot the soul tho dinnor bell. Byron. ' A slight flirtation by the light of a chandolior. With music to play in the pauses And nobody very oar. Willis. Gold ! Gold ! Gold ! Gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. Hood. Give me kissos ! all is waste save tho luxury oi the taste. And lor kissing kisses live only when wo tuko or give, Kiss'me, then, Every moraont and again. J. G. Saxe. WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE MOST ? Of every bore, It to the list you add a score, Are not so bad, upon my lilo, As that ono scourge, a scolding wile. Berni. Drunkenness, whoso vile incontinence Take both away, tho rouson and tho sonsc, It drowns tho better parts, miking tlio name To foes a laughter, to friends a shame. liandolph Coarso speech, bad gramimfr, swearing, Drinking, vice. Holmes. Home-made physic that sickens tho sick, Thick for thin and thin for thick, Hood. WHAT IS YOIK HIGHEST AMBITION T To go to church to-dny, To look devout nnd seem to piny, And ero to-morrow's sun goes down Bo dealing slander through tho town. Mrs. Sigourney. To dress 113 the nobles dress, In cloth of silver nnd gold, With silk and satin and costly furs In many an ample fold. Hoo.l. Oh, grant mo, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too huinblo, nor too great, More tliau enough for nature's ends, With something left to trent my friends. Mullet. Oh, gio me tho loss that hae acres of charms; Oh, gie mo lass wi the weel stockit farm ! Burns. Then let mo get money as bees lay up honey ; I'll build new hives and store each cell, Tho sight of my treasure will yield mo great pleasure, I'll count it, and chink it, and jingle it well. Dr. Franklin. WHAT 18 YOUR FAVORITE FLOWER? Magnificent calln, in mantle of milk. Mrs. Sigourney. The chaste eamelia's pure and spotless bloom, That boasts no fragrance ana conceals no thorn. William Koscos. And fuitli that a thousand ills can bravo Speaks in thy bluo leaves, " forget-me-not.'' Pereival. Hose, thou art tho sweetest flower. Burns. WHO IS YOUR INTENDED ? A perfect woman nobly planned, To warn, to comfort and command, And yet a spirit still and bright, With something of an angel's light. Wordsworth. ' A judge, a man so learned, 80 full ol equity, so noble envy Itself cannot accuse, or malice vitiate. Chapman and Shirley. A huifgry, loan-faced villain, A mere anatomy, a mountebank, A thread-bare juggler, and fortune-teller, A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch. Shakespeare. A rosebud set with willful thorns ' As sweet as English air can make her. Tennyson WHAT IS THE CHARACTER OP YOUR INTENDED ? She takes the most delight In music, instruments and poetry Shakespeare. The solemn fop, significant and budge, A fool with judges, and among fools a judge, -Cowper, Sho has road her futhor's well-filled library with profit, And can tidk charmingly: she can sing " Aud piny, too, passubly, and dunce with spirit: She is knowing'in all needle-work; And shines in kitchen as well as parlor. J. N. Barker. He is a scholar, and a ripo and good one, Exceedingly wise, fair spoken and persuading. Shakespeare. WHAT IS YOUR DESTINY T Never wedding, never wooing, ' Still a lovelorn heart pursuing. Campbell. To be a man ol rank and of capacious soul, To riches liave, and fame beyond desire, And heir to flattery, to titles born, ' "And reputation and luxurious life. ' ' ' Robert Pollock Single as a stray glove, minus its mate. Fanny Kemble. WHERE WILL YOUR HOME BE? Where beasts with man divided empire claim, And tho brown Indian marks with murdorous aim. 1 ' Goldsmith. Whore from the rise of morn to sot of sun Tho mighty Mohawk runs, And the dark woods ol pine Along his mirror darkly shine. In some enchanted We, AVhcre heaven and love their Sabbath hold. Campbell. DEMETER'S DAUGHTER. Mrs. Do Lettante had invited a crowd of people to hear a white-haired man of lofty nrtistlc pedigree read. Sho was tOtlll OI pnironi.lIiK uuna. it 1n.11 jii. Kemble Had given 111s ir Alimony au- solute and Sir Fetor leazle, Mrs. De Tttnntfi went about nmong ner guests nnd explained that she had still another pleasure 111 store lor inom: .miss nuaii Wiese would now recite. Miss Wiese was a debutante, but they would see slie had great possibilities: Mr. Kem ble had spoken to ner 01 tne young lady, who intended to heeomo a pro fessional reader; he was enthusiastic in her praise. So. after a brief interval, a young girl was led forward, who recited por tions of Elaine's beautiful and touching story witn native ease and grace. Mic stood in the third of the suite of rooms that opened one into another, Behind her wns n background 01 winie lowers arranged on graduated steps, a mass of 1 :..!. ,.l.Jfl.. ,1n4V,i.i;la tt it-no liynuuiiiis riii-nj unit u.iiiwiiiif v1 " spring). Sho was a flower of spring herself, with the ineffable glory and charm of youth about her: serene, wide brow, from which heavy dark hair was swept to one side; -the outlines of her IVe pure and harmonious, and strong rather than delicate; in her cheeks the fresh, steadv color that rarely outlasts girlhood. She wore a quaintly simple black silk gown, tho sleeves cut to the elbows and fleecily ruffled .with white; the same white effect at her throat. Her voice was rich and soft and full. Her recitation charmed; there was a murmur of pleased surprise. When she had done she simply it'll back a step or two nirninst tho tiers of flowers. She helped herself to a dnlloilil, and stood carelessly swinging it, listening to some. tiling kind which the elocutionist said to her. Presently Mrs. De Lettante came up with a tall, fair young -man of a studi ous aspect, whom she made known to Miss AYiese as Dr. Douglass. As this vonnsr man bowed in acknowledgement " f . a . . 1 1.- ... 1 i.i lr OI tllC introduction, lie saiu 10 iiuiisrii, " Dcnipter s daughter, lair nnd tree." out of a sweet rhyme-book of his sister's. 1011 cave me a great deal ot pleas ure." ho said, with a touch ot the sclt- contidence of youth in the worth of its own praise. Did 1 1 am very giau. As for Mrs. De Lettante. she is fairly ruffled with competency at hav ing sponsored you." Mrs. Do ljettanto has been very good to me. ' You have repaid her. She is the woman in search ot a mission. ijok at her now, magnetizing that little dark man with those restless hazel eyes of hers She is very gracious and handsome." Extremely so in her sweeping satin robes Nile green vou ladies call that color, do you not? stately, dark-haired, fair-skinned. 1 wonder who mo ugty little man is?" Mr. Kemble told me. lie is a Frenchman, a duke. His father was made a duke by the emperor' at Sol- fcrino. He inherits the title." " Pasteboard nobility." " There has to be a beginning to every. thin". Bravery is its own pedigree Did vou ever hear what adir replied wlien 'Delhi's throne inquired the an cestry' of his son.-" Mv child is noble, tor, though lowly born, lie is the son and grandson of the sword.' " Her simple enthusiasm was contagious " No doubt vou and Nadir is that his name? are right. Here comes Mrs Do Lettante with her duke. lie is like Jacob he halts on his thigh The Due de Bonne Fortune was pre sented in his turn. He was not .an at tractive personage, upon the whole; as you have garnered, nine aim u:uk, uuu very lame. He was a man who had lived in the world and for the world, and Ids life had left no impress of any lofty imnulse upon his lace: on the contrary, there were lines of craft and guile around his mouth and eves. lie was no longt young, but lie looked older than his actual nge. Still ho showed traces of the old-world civilization lie had sprung from; there was a gay sparkle anil vivacity about his conversation which disposed Hilda in his favor. All women ... 1 T 1 , 1 like to be amused, jjcshics, 111 nor up' right vigor she lolt-a "divine compas sion" for his irfirniity. Dr. Douglass drifted away with Mrs De Lettante, who said, going: "Do you know Mrs. Wicse? There she is, all by herself in that corner. Of course she is almost a stranger hero. I asked her for tho daughter's sake. I wish you would talk to her Douglass agreed readily. Douglass bo was not singular 111 111s aiaeruy 10 . .1 . . 1 - . "11 e 1, ..nr.. 1 .i 1. civil 10 tne luoiuei 01 u uvnuuim imugu tor. And Mrs. Wieso proved to bo charm'ng on her own account literally charming, with the unhackneyed and fresh cheerfulness of a child. She had a " primrose face" a phrase I like to bor row from Owen Meredith to describe a certain type of face that never entirely loses its youth witn ready smiles, and changing color, and clear eyes, add, in her case, sunny chestnut hair (the color ing should he Drignt;. An electric spark was struck between Douglass ad herself. Mie hkeii young men in a de lightful, motherly way, that always bore in mind her own hall-grown boys. And young men invariably liked her. Sho talked frankly to Douglass; among other things, about her husband's deli cate health and failing sight. Douglass hail made a specialty of diseases ot the eye, and lent an intelligent interest, lie said he should be honored it Airs. Y lese would permit linu to call upon herself and her husband ; lie did not add, " nnd your daughter," although at that very moment his gaze was resting on the calm young Persephone in the next room, who, still idly twirling her snowy daffodil, was talking to the pasteboard dukc.- Later in the evening Douglass fell in again with Mrs. De Lettante. "They ten nie, 110 said, indicating Hilda, "that that leautiful child is destined for the stage. I confess I am sorry to hear it. "She has a gift. " To my thinking, it belongs to the world." "And so sho will dim her loveliness behind the footlights, and lose the bloom of her reticence and modesty." " Not necessarily. An ordinary woman might. An artist ia impersonal; her own identity is completely merged. Happy she! Most women's lives stag nate for wnnt of an outlet." Douglass carried out his intention of ailing upon the W loses, and found tliera iving in a house very small, very shabby and forlorn, in the suburbs of the town. However, Mrs. Wiesc and Hilda-were hiore delightful than ever, nnd Douglass sat on a stiff canc-hottonicd chuir on a earpetlcss lloor, nnd his heart sung with in liini. It was nil so unconstrained nnd bright nnd pleasant. The father was a musician, a composer, nn orgnnist; now, in his feeble condition of body, very querulous and irritable. 5ut Douglass conceived n hope that he should be ablo to do something lor his eyes. jur. V lese was a German ly birth; lie had never learned to master his wife's mother tongue. But lie was exceedingly volu ble in his own broken guttural. He never wearied of pouring ids complaints into Douglass' ears. Aim J'ougiass listened witli exemplary patience nay, interest for Hilda's sake. Yes, for Hilda's sake. It had come to that. Ho had yielded to a sentimental fancy at first sight ; now, aj second nnd third sight, he had fallen in love des perately, with nn absorbing energy which colored his whole nature, impart ing sinew nnd muscle to his ambition. It seemed to him now that he had never known before what was genuine nmbi- lon. 110 grew ieverisu wiin iiiip;uiein:u. Ie was a poor man; lie could barely Ruimort himself. If lie should sup port a wife, 'it must be in the simplest, 1 . . . r 1.1 i,m 1. , a plainest w ay. v ouiu 111111a ne winiiigr In marrying, Hilda would be called upon to make more special sacrifices than most women make when they marry. He nl most feared that she would never like him well enough to make these sacrifices for him. He know that Hilda was meanwhile studying hard, preparing for her arduous prolession. nosiues, sue was giving les sons in elocution. Poor little thing! How he longed to work for them both! lie was with her constantly: after a while, every evening. Those delicious spring days suggested country rambles, boating anything which furnished nn excuse for being together. As for Hilda, he dared not stop to realize how happy she was in this constant companion ship. She dared not realize that she simply delighted in lite becnuse it brought Douglass to nerat 1110 enu 01 uie long days.. ' . , Those'davs were shared almost as in variably with M. De Bonne Fortune, lie had followed un his acquaintance as vigorously as had Douglass, appearing at the Wi'eses' dingy little house behind a pair of superb black steeds in gold- mounted harness, lie winrieu mum on in this showy equipage one fine day. Her father stood in the little doorway looking after them, shading his inflamed eves with his hand. " He is in luf mit Hilda, I can sec dat, he said to his wife. It vill pe a goot ting tor us alle." Mrs. Wiese's bright face" clouded. Her own choice for her daughter would bo a different one. jSorhad she tailed to no tice the lighting up of Hilda's face when Douglass came and went. Mr. Wieso was right. M. De Bonne Fortune had fallen in love with Hilda. It was nothing to him who she was. who her people were. She would be above criticism as the Duchess de Bonne Fortune, lie determined to marry her from the outset. He considered it hardly probable that the facts that he was yel low and wizened and lame, and Hilda's senior bv certainly fifteen or twenty years, would weigh in the balance against the advantages of his title and his wealth. Xor did thev when it came to the point. It seemed to her that it washer duty to accept him. Her father had said as much to her from time to time during tho weeks that the duke s black chargers swept his glittering chariot to and from town. Moreover, the duke made his offer to the father in the first place, and the father in repeating it urged the suit in every way. "He has promise to settle an indebent ent fortune on vou." Mr. Wiese urged "Mit dat you can do vat you choose. And he vil set Oscar up in business ven lie has linish school next year. It vil po a great ting for us ail, Jlildachen. " Yes." Ililda said. " I suppose it will I will marry him, father;" and having given her consent, she felt as though she had locked herself into a prison. .That evening Douglass came. M. De Bonne Fortune, who dined late in the city, rarely spent an evening at the Wieses', and it so happened that lie nnd Douglass had never met. Ililda felt like a traitor as she followed tho young man lmrn tr thp hunt thov bad an engage ment to go rowing. The language of love is easy of interpretation; sho had read it in his looks and in his voice a hundred times. Besides, she could inter rupt it bv tho key of her own feelings. But she made up her mind that he should learn of her engagement from her own lips. If lie wns pained, no one out ner silf should see his nain. When she had told him, Douglass rowed on in silence for a while. Then he said, " I have no doubt you have decided wisely. The children ol this world an in their generation wiser than the cliil ilren of light. You have mv good wishes of course ; you resign some things your art." " Yes." she replied, wretchedly. " But a woman cannot always think of her self." They rowed on in silence for another while. Presently sho shiverei! iul suggested that they should returi home "It is so cold on the water to- ni'dit." Toor girl ! she was cold to the heart. Tho tPars stood in Mrs. Wiese's moth erly eyes, nnd there was a weight on her hPiii t. ns heart and eyes both followed tho vnnnir man as he strode down the . o i r. 11 :,.l,f tio wou tho iimte she would have chosen . ........ -- for Hilda, in spite ol waiting, in smio 01 poverty. Alas! she believed, sue icaieu, ' . . ... . f - If ln UnnnQ that Hilda did not. care ior m. w i.i,. Fortune. Sho was taking up the unutter able cross of a loveless life. She went to her daughter on the spur 01 mat convic tion, but Ililda put her away with a cold kiss. " Dear mamma, let it be as I have decided. It is best. 1 am not iikb ;uu I have not the same necessity ior WTins. Tho golden chariot with its coal-black steeds drew up in front of the Wieses little cottage for the last time anu wim iuu Ililda away, alter tne mairmS c- . hoon Tiorfnnned in the carpet- less little parlor whirled her off to a life as different from that of her girlhood as though she had indeed Qieu 10 ir w.iuci ..if Once on their voyage out her husband u. 1 ,.i.inr her faced bowed on her folded arms, as she gazed out upon the lonesome waste of waters. " Home sick?" he asked, half friendly, half re ! Then, taking the tct for IllUIU'jl granted, he went on : ' My child, never look backward ; it does no good." To the outward seeming sho lived a golden life in Paris of caso and luxury and grandeur, steeped in nil the extrava gance and display of the second empire. Nor did she tail to carry out her inten tions toward her parents in America. She sent thorn, year by year, out of her superabundance, enough to keen the wolf from the door. Nor was the duke's promise to Oscar forgotten. The boy was established in a well-known banking house nftor a year or so of additional schooling. But there were times when, in spite of nil this, Hilda De Bonne Fortune asked herself whether her grand marriage had been worth while! To bo sure, she had not been euiltv of the baseness of marry ing for her own mere meat nnd raiment, but nil the same she had learned by a wearisome experience now inlinitely less were these than the demands of the soul. ljorcd her to death ,to be a fine lady, seemed to her that she was a very host of her former self; that that had icd long ago. when she had closed tho door upon the real things of Jife tho art she had surrendered, tne mutual love sho might have worn like a crown. She grew quiet and pale, and her hus band noticed it, and reproached her for fretfully. Had he not married her r her youth and freshness? She must exert herself; she must go into tho orld : she must dress in a manner be fitting her station. He did not choose lis wife to be a dowdy. When he re- roached her he dropped the mask of lis smooth gallantry. He was as out uuiVon and n.s rough and coarse as though lie had not been educated in tho foremost of modern civilizations. The poor little duchess was in despair. Whom was there to turn to? She against the hard, cold world! There was a church not far off. A fancy seized her to go ther". She had seen her mother eomo out of a church sometimes itli a wonderful look of peace on her face. She might might find peace too. She took her maid with her since she never more went quite- free now and strayed into the great, quiet cathedral. She dropped down on her knees. Sho thought of a storm, and of a voice that came in the storm, and of the calm that followed. And presently there was a calm with her. A calm, and a strength that is only born of calm. She went about lier ways serenely; she ruled her kingdom beauti fully. If she had made a grave mistake she did not sit down with folded hands in its shadow. Poor little soul! she hud strayed into hades; but she became the ght. the tranquil moonlight, 01 ne lace. In a day of unfaith and of materialism and of mammon worship, she was true to her own ideals of goodness nnd loveli ness. She never lost her childlike na- ure. her mnocen-e. her simplicity The worldly men nnd women about her rented her with a certain nan-pitying everence. So she made her peace with life, with nature, as the pagans would have said, and ns we Christians still may phrase it, with a devouter nnd more hlial signili mice. But in so making her reconciliation she must also find her way back to her old place in the heart of the bright-faced little woman across tne ocean wno nan sent her forth so reluctantly to her mar ried life. She had written to her mother cold and studied letters during the first months of her married lite; it was not until she bad eonouered her disappoint ment nnd her loneliness thnt she could write to her ns she used to talk to her, with the outpouring of lier heart. One evening at a crowueii reception nt icr hotel, a tal . lair man, wiiu tin: slichtlv stooped shoulders of the student made his way through the throng, and. hesitating slightly, bowed presently over her hand. " I was bv no means sure it was you Madame De Bonne Fortune," Dr. Douglass said. And in truth she was sufficiently altered to have made recogni tion difficult. She had lost her fresh color; the mild rose bloom had given nlaceto the pallor of the lily. Ihere wns an outlooking patience now in her eyes, and there wereshadows under them that told of sleepless nights and restless days. But if the luster of lier youthful heautv was dimmed, perhaps the splen dor of the setting sufficed to make nuiends. Her palace was very splendid her toilette was a triumph in its way her fair bead was diademed with dia monds. She looked the queen tiiat she was in the world ol lashion. " I seem to be in a dream," Dr. Doug buss went on: "or rather it seems to mo that it must have been in a dream that we once took country rambles together down shady innes, and gathered wild flowers, and rowed about in a boat, and did various other rustic things. Part of the dream was that you wore a white straw hat trimmed with scarlet poppies Your dress is trimmed with scarlet pop pies to-night, I see." " Poppies are said to be the flowers of dreams. As far as that gpes, this scene to-night is the dream for me. I am not accustomed to my grandeur yet; it is still unreal. Oh, Dr. Douglass "dropping her voice " how is my mother ? When did you see lier ?" Poor little queen ! mere were tears in her eyes. Looking into lier earnest face, nnd so into the soul behind it, it did in deed appear as though lier fine clothes and her jewels were a mask, and ns though she were holding court in a veri table place of shades. Dr. Douglass had thought hard things of her ; he had called lier a mercenary worlding. He took it all b'ck now ; he forgave her; he pitied her. After that. Hilda never rested until sho bad seen her mother face to face, Her conversation with Dr. Douglass brought u;- the past so vividly that she could not, lie satisfied without. So in tho spring she crossed the Atlantic, with her little retinue of man and maid, two years after her marriage. She knocked at the door of the shabby dttle house she used to call home, late one evening. It was May. in the twi- m it n I ...... . Ii 11 .111 1 . I .liutinnllion I'llll 1 I iar flowers in the small carifen heart's- ease and daffodils. She stooped and plucked a daffodil, lier favorite flower, as she waited for them to open the door. Its iragranee carried ner straight oacKto lier happy, hopeful girlhood. It brought up such a look to her face that when her mother caught iier to ner arms present. ly, it seemed to her that her Ililda had never been away at all. Since then years have rolled slowly on But every spring has brought Hilda across the highway of the ocean. She and her mother have been one in hear ever since. They hnve lived chiefly in the time ol tueir reunion and in the look itig forward to it nnd the rememberins it. Always when the- daffodils bloom Mrs. Wieae gathers great bunches of ,mvi anil filla with thom the VasCS in Hilda's room, and makes ready for her darling. And the pale little duchess re fhehomitvof the apiing flowers, and goes back to Paris with all the more, heart to the wearing of her dark-henrted poppies in winter. (Sedan comes ana gora, ntn" tho Km-ond Empire, nnd sweep- ng awny the fortunes of many of its no bles; butM. De Bonne Fortune weatners the crisis, and Madame De Bonne For tune still holds her shifting court. The child of nature, gifted ns are the favored children of our great mother ; tho ill-favored lord; the coal-black feeds; the daffodils, such as grew on :nna: the poppies that brought forgct- fulness: the yearly visit to a purer air; the Hades throne nil these features in an old-world story have come into- my mind as I have written of a Persephone of to-day. Harper1 Bazar. TIMELY TOPICS. A number of English gentlemen have annually been in the habit of presenting to the poorer classes in their neighbor hood a variety of flower seeds and a few ornamental shade or fruit trees. The result is that they have encouraged a taste for the cultivation of flowers, nnd the appearance of many villages has been wonderfully improved. -T-innn InvPS tllO Postal CM'd. This cheap and useful device was introduced auea to into Japan three years ago, nnd last year over 10,000,000 cartis were useu. rur eign mail matter is increasing so fast in Japan that before long it must break down the exelusiveness of that country. n 1875, 44,000 letters were received Horn foreign parts. Iast year the number was. 158,203. The postal department is conducted with great honesty, only nineteen money letters being lost last year, containing $130, which was made good to the owners by the government. FARM, GARDEN, AND HOUSEHOLD The Vie of the Harrow In Spring; When the spring frosts have censed, says a New York paper, the condition of the winter grain is frequently very de plorable. After ninny nlternnte changes of freezing nnd thawing, tho plants in late-sown fields, or where the stand has not become well tillered, will be found, in great part, nearly drawn from the soil, and with their roots exposed. If thus left, the first drying wind completes the damage and destroys the weakened plants. This may be avoided by nn early hnrrowing of the ground with a light harrow, the teeth of which should slope backward nt nn nnglo of forty-five degrees. These teeth not only stir up the soil and press the roots into the ground, but they draw the soil over the plants and cover the exposed roots. The benefit is two-fold. The damage nnd threatened loss are prevented, and the plants nre stimulated to a quickened growth. After several years' experience in the use of such a harrow in the spring upon fall grain crops, we do not hesitate to recommend it ns a beneficial work. It is a question if it would not be advisa ble to ndd a rolling to the harrowing, which may be done without trouble by attaching a light roller to the harrow by short chains. It would ndd but little to tho draft, but much to the effectiveness and usefulness of the work. Another use for the harrow nt tin season is to loosen up the surface of clover or grass fields. By thus scarify ing the surface, the grass roots are in- spread nnd thus tmcKcn tne herbage. This effect is greatly nided by spreading some iresli seed, some new variety, perhaps, and giving a fair dress ing of fine manure or artificial fertilizers, such as guano, nitrate of soda, dissolved bone, salt, plaster, wood ashes, or any other that may be chosen or found con venient. As a rule, our meadows nnd pastures are neglected and consequently poor: but bv giving them attention in this way nt this season their condition at haying time may be found much more satisfactory. The harrow is nlso useful Tho irondnnne lately killed in the at- in spreading manure which has been ...t- Vihiliata nt. Kipff. in Russia, carried into the stubble or plowed fell bv the hand of a woman, Olga Has- ground through the winter. The lumps SOWSka. Utlicr jMlllnsi women iisuifu I m "iumiii iuu6 im.i ."i iti,n.ipf..iwpnfniipofthe houses entered heaps are spread nnd mixed with the by the police. In another house was Mile. Gersefeld, daughter of a gen eral nnd a distinguished place-holder. She was a noted beauty and but eigh teen years of age. While firing her pis tol at the gendarmes in tho melee, she wns wounded by a bayonet nnd cap tured. On being carried before the chicl of police, she said : "I fired to-day only upon a simple gendarme; but on tho next occasion we 11 kill nil of you, ns so many mad dogs." The Countess Panin, admired equally with Mile. Oersefeld for her beauty, was also arrested, jier Hus band's mother is one of the ladies of the empress' court. Mr. G. F. Needham, 'of Washington, thinks that the people of the Northern States make a great mistake in not rais iiirr fiira " TTo KllVR that the fruit is grown successfully in-Kngland, where the fog- it v atmosphere is not nearly so lavora- ble to it as our sunny land. Northern climi.'S are even better than southern, because too great heat is inimicnl to the plant, and our days are more evenly tempered than those of the South. In Ohio it has been found that the fig tree s quickly grown, is easily protected, is a sure nearer nnu is very pruum-. The trees begin to bear when two years old, and when they have attained an age of four or five years produce from the same nrea, with less labor, a greater and more certain crop than either pota toes or tomatoes. Mr. JSeediiam adds that what is true of Ohio is true of the whole North. usefulness. To the latter class it may be interesting to know that toads live al most wholly upon slugs, caterpillars, beetles and other insects, making their rounds at night when the farmer is anlopp and the birds too and the in sects are supposed to be having it all their own wny. English gardeners un derstand these facts so well that toads tare purchased at so much a dozen nnd turned loose, and the best of it is the toads generally stay nt home, so the gar dener is not troubled with buying his own toads over again every few days. The toad can be tamed and will easy learn to know " its master," and come when called; the writer lias not only had such pets himself, but could give other instances of toad taming that have come under his observation. Toads can be, made very useful about the house, nnd will do not a little good in destroy ing cockroaches, lues, and other house hold nests. ' Thev arc sometimes known to ent worms, which they grnsp by the middle witn ineir laws, cramming m me writhing ends of the unfortunate articu lates by means of tfie front feet. Insects nre seized and conveyed to the mouth by means of the rapidly darting tongue, which alwavs secures the victim as it is nbout to fly or run away. C. R. D.t in New York Tribune. The Ijiwii, The man who puts on a frequent lit tle sprinkling of salt or bone dust or superphosphate, or any fertilizer that will ndd an additional rich green tint to tho turf, is always recompensed by se curing the most conspicuous grass plat in the neighborhood. J lie nest lawn we ever saw, says nn agricultural writer, was occasionally treated to a sprinkling of diluted blood from a slaughter-house, just previous to a shower. When the soil is soft, run the roller over; it helps the nppenrance greatly, a lie applica tion of a little ground gypsum will also ircsnen up tne grass, uui nuuve nu, never neglect to run tho mowing machine over frequently. Once a week 1 none too often during a wet senson. Scientific American. The New York Herald has a long arti cle on preachers' salaries, from which we gather that the average compensation of clergymen, of all denominations, city nnd country, is less than sauu a year. Mr. Beccher's salary, once 350, is now !?-J0,000 a year, with a three-months va cation: Dr. Halliday, Beccher's nssist- anfc gets $3,000; Tahnage receives .18, 000; Morgan Dix, $15,000.; Dr. Wm. Taylor, 511,000; Dl liepwonu s salary is 5.000. which he savs is never paid soil verv thoroughly. If the harrow gathers the litter into heaps .these may be unread again, nnd ngain harrowed until the whole is broken up nnd proper ly distributed The roller should follow the harrow in all these operations. Even should the meadows need no loosening up of the surface, thev will at least be all the bet tor for a thorough rolling, which will sink all tufts, stones or other inipedi ments to the mower into the soil, and cave a smooth surface to work upon Household Hints. Cl.EAXINli ClSTF.KN-WATF.lt. Add tWO ounces powdered alum and two ounces borax to a tweiitv-barrel cistern of rain water that is blackened or oily, and in a few hours the sediment will settle and the water bo clarified and fit for washing, and even for cooking purposes. Meai.y Potatoes. Select the potatoes so that they will be nearly of a size; do not put them into tin? pot until the water boils. When done, pour off tho water and remove the cover until the steam is gone; then scatter in a half teaspoonful of salt and cover the pot with a towel. Watery potatoes will thus come out mealy. Cleaning Dishes. Dinner dishes nnd plates which have had greasy food upon them may be rubbed oft" with a little In dian meal before putting into water. They are thus prevented from making the water unlit lor continued use, wnue the meal, saved by itself, is good for the pig or the chickens. A Strong Cement. A cement par ticularly adapted for nttnehing the brass work to bottle-necks, lamps, etc., is made by boiling three parts of resin with one ot caustic soda and five of water. The composition is then mixed with half its weight of plaster of paris. It sets firmly in about tliree-quarters of an hour. It is said to bo of great adhesive power, not permeable bv petroleum, a low conductor of heat and but superficially attacked by hot water. Let the Beds he Aiked. It is a bad ..1.... 4,. ' n...l. ...O' ,1... 1..1li ........ ..Knfnlu umLi!L iT firfi aikSn' A.: VT er breakfast, the sleeping apartments ter. 810,000; Dr. liflanv, ft 10,000; Dr. n,.!,. j.,,,,1,1 1, nni ..,. ,,!,, to Morgan, 15,(100; Dr. Tyng, -000; Dr. t, c nud tQ thc atmoSpn(re. p not Stone, $12 .000; Dr. Chapin ft8,000 to , , too much haste to get the chain- bora in order. lA'ttnesneets una mannero the cities range from $1,000 to $3,000, the Presbyterian from 1,200 toftio.ooo, nnd the Congregationalists from $1,500 to $20,000. The Episcopalians average $3, 000, the Baptists $2,000 and the Unitar ians $4,000. The Friends. A New York paper says: The Quakers, or Friends, are said to have been dimin ishing slowly though steadily during thc last twenty years, in consequence of thc secularization of many of the younger people born in the society. Iheir laith and life are simple, and their ways so gentle and honest, as to be in sharp Contrast U IUUCIl m llic l-oniym-aici linn artificial wants and manners of the latter half of the nineteenth century. Many members of the society in Philadelphia, where they are tar more numerous man in any other city in the union, are anx ious to correct tiiffdecreasing tendency of the body, nnd nre zealously engaged in a movement for the formation of settle ments in the West. The Friends have been so scattered and isolated in that section as to gradually lose interest in their habits and principles. The inten tion is to organize an association which shall purchase tracts ot land, and sell larms and lots on easy terms, eitner to Friends or those in sympathy with them, and to aid such persons as have limited means with money to erect dwellings nnd develop their scanty re sources. The association proposes to lay out roads, put up school and meeting-houses, and push forward all need ful and worthy enterprises. The West can have no better or more useiui or mare desirable citizens, for the name of Quaker lias become everywhere a syn onym of purity, order thrift, and benevo lence. The whole number 01 menus is estimated at present at 120,000, of whom 00,000 belong to the united Mates. An important discovery of alest for dia moiuU has been made by Professor William Crookes, of London, the full details of which have not yet been made known. He finds that rough diamonds emit an intense blue light when subjected to the action of electricity in a tube from which most of the air has been exhausted.' Diamonds placed among othtr geuia can thus be easily distinguished. icrs in be spread over separate chairs, the mat tresses lifted apart, and the pure morning air be allowed to get into every nook and cranny of the room before the beds are made. Better to endure a little delay in getting tho house in order than loss of health. (tecdluK and Fertlllilng in Spots. Mowings nnd pasturage, when seeded and manured, nre treated usually only once for all, and as a whole. We have often wondered why it was that farmers allowed bare and sandy spots to co un attended to until the bareness, or the weediuess. extended so as to cover large proportion of the soil. This is, we know, altogether needless. We nre ac. quainted with at least one extensive farmer and dairyman who, pot content with keeping his pastures free from all sorts of brush, never permits a bare or seedy spot in them. If from the settling of water, tho effect of frost, or the paw ing of animals, a bare spot appears, it is at once seeded, and in some cases even sodded, so that the turf is maintained unbroken. Similarly, where the grass gets thin nnd weeds begin to appear, manure is applied to that spot, and the enfeebled grass thus stimulated to re- occupy the ground. In this way a pas ture of a hundred acres presents at all times a sod of pure, thick grasses, the like of which it would be hard to find on this side of the Atlantic. Yet there are thousands of farmers as well situated and as well able to have such pastures, if they only would, nnd the same prin ciples are equally or more applicable to mowing lands. The result is not only a matter of looks, but of profit.. The cheese of the farmer abovo alluded to is sought for and taken bv flie high-class restaurants and hotels of New York and Philadel phia at a fancy price. Much of its ex cellence is doubtless due to his hereditary skill in its manufacture, but certainly the excellent quality and perfect uni formity of this cheese are due, in no small degree, to the fact that it is made of grass-milk, and because no weed-milk or browse-milk ever goes into it Hurul Keto Yorker. Tally Several for the Toad. Many gardeners already-appreciate the valuable services of the common toad. mid afford them protection for their inT sect-destroving propensities. - while as many more perhaps are ignorant of their Fedcstriun Hints. The common things of lifo We little weigh; Amidst much care ami strife AVe seldom stay To think of what concerns Our eveiy-day Reposeful life. One learns Not nil one may. We've given farming hints, And guides to talk ; We now give you a few glints Of how to walk. Always keep to the left; by this course you show a spirit untramnieled by the thrall of convention. It may irritate tliose you meet ; but what of that, so long as their irritation hurts them and not you? The above rule may be departed from with propriety when the person met also snows an liiciiiiuiioii iu go iu m in. hen, while pretending to do the same, iirt suddenly to the right. With prac tice, by dodging first to one side and then to the other, you may keep a person nt bay for several minutes. Not only is this a good example physically, but it affords you nn opportunity to study your w-a-m. Xlio proper study 01 maiiKinu is man. By all means carry a cane, in the bands of an expert it is a powerful aux iliary in making pedestrianism a boon. It should bo earned over the shoulder, the ferrule end on a level with the eye of tho person following in your wake. If you can contrive to stop aoruptiy now and then, it will greatly add to his pleasure. If not convenient to carry the cane as above, another favorite fashion is to trail it a lew feet behind you. J. he only 00- ection to this is that occasionally some ungentlemanly individual will tread on your stick and break it. However, tne pleasure afforded your fellows in tripping over your cane amply compensates for the loss ol one now and men. Prodigies may be accomplished with nn umbrella. When one comes to deal ing with this, he emits matters mundane and soars to the empyrean. When closed, tho umbrella should be carried under the arm or on the shoulder. Do this, nnd thc oculist will bless you. When carried under the arm, a feat of surpassing merit can be achieved by any one after a little practice. This consists in turning hall round suddenly, uy mis you kill two birds with one stone, or rather one umbrella. This exploit al ways calls forth remark. With an open umbrella great amuse ment can be obtained by knocking ott hats, eye-glasses and even wigs. This is rather too common to be recommended as a novelty, to be sure, but it should not, nevertheless, be overlooked. Never walk in a direct path ; it is in belter taste to wabble from side to side of the walk. This gives any person be hind you a diversity of view to the front ; besides which, it exercises the patience of him who would pass you too eagerly. Patience being a virtue, it should be ex ercised. Of course it would be idle to instruct Indies how to dispose their garments. They nre such consummate experts in this matter that we shall attempt but ono reflection. Trains should be worn ns far back on the sidewalk as the length of the material will allow. In the absence of a train, a shawl can be substituted. If any ill mannered man should step on your trail ing garments of the day, treat liim sum marily, uuu 111 mu niiiuiii i 111s mi deserves. Where there nre two or three together, they may live in every heart by. walking with due deliberation and spreading out to the breadth of the pave. It is your duty to run into all tho ladies you meet. It lias a tendency to throw back their shoulders, you know. Ladies nre oftener round-shouldered than men. lou would best not attempt this with men. They might not appreciate your well-intentioned attentions. If you have parcels witli you, your own good sense will teach you how to dispose them so as to cover all the sur- tace possible, ihe law 01 gravitation is our suna-ieni warrant ior this. yc Witli an oil can or paint not vou mav be more potent than the greatest earthly monarch. The possibilities of these ac cessories nre illimitable. There might be many more rules laid down. Jhit the above are sufficient. If strictly followed, you will be immortal- ized and very quickly. Boston Tran tcript. . Never ire slang. It may not always ap ply, -Listen as A comes into B's'rooia SaysB: "How do you like my new shoes?' A : ' Qh, they're immense I'1 V 1
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