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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.!
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Nlli DESPERANDUM.
VOL. IX.
1 llIDGrWAY; &LK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, - MAY 1, 1879.
NO. 11.
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" In the Long: Run."
The old-fashioned saying,
8q lightly expressed,
And so tirelessly uttered,
Is One ol the best.
Oh, ponder, young triflor,
i With young lile begun,
'ilia deep, earnest meaning
Of " id the long ran."
For " in tlie long run," boys,
Tho seed will spring up
That was sown in the gnrdoa
Or dropped in the cup.
And, remember ! no roses
Will spring from the weed,
And no bonutiful iruit
From unworthy seed.
How maay a stripling
In trouble to-day,
By riotous living
With comrades too gny ;
With charaoter shipwrecked
And duties undone,
Will be sorrows harvesting
" In the long run."
And " in the long run," will
The toiler fare bent
Who performs honest lnbot
And takes honest rest.
Who, contented and happy,
Hastes not, in a day,
Or a year, to heap riches
That will pass away !
The good and the evil
That bide on tho earth,
Tho joy aud the sorrow,
The pain and the mirth.
The battles undeodod,
Tho victories won,
Will yield what was sown, lads,
" In tho long run."
Yonkeri Statetman.
AUNT HILLARY'S LEGACY.
"Oh. dear, dear!" said Aunt Hillary,
in a tone of despair; "oh, dear, dear,
whatever shall I do with him?"
She was looking at something which
the expressman had just deposited on the
floor of tlio back ptirch a stout wooden
cape, within which appeared a bright
eyed, )ii nk-faced monkey.
" W by, he'll murder us, I shouldn't
wonder," continued Aunt Hillary, draw
ing back as the' monkey stretched forth
his little black paw, "or set tlie house on
iire, or something else dreadful. What
tun 1 to do willi him?" she concluded, in
a tone of (listless.
"Give him away, aunt, or sell him,"
suggested, poking my school-umbrella
between the bars of the eate.
"No, no; I couldn't think of that.
JIs was such a favorite with poor Janet.
And she left him to me because she was
sure, she said, that I would treat him
kindly; but how to manage him 1 am
sure I don't know. 'What do monkeys
rat, Hose?"
"Oh, coeoanuts, and bananas, and
oranges, and cake, and sugar, and such
things," I replied, confidently.
" Pivtty dear boarding," said old
Ephraim, limping up from the garden,
hoe in hand. " S'posc now, Miss Hil
lary, ou try him with a piece o' bread.
It's plain, but healthy."
The monkey eagerly grabbed the light
roll which Aunt Hillary presented on
the end of a fork, and devoured it with
gusto, lie also accepted some milk
which Ephraim courageously put be
tween the bars; and then he crouched
down in a cifrner and looked so quiet
and wistful that Aunt Hillary quite
pitied him.
" He does look innocent and lonesome,
poor little thing." she said. " I dare say
fie misses his old home and his kind mis
tress: but he shall have at least plenty to
it and drink hero. " Only," she added,
hesitatingly, "I do rather wish that
Janet Waters had chosen anything but a
monkey for a pet."
When, two or three days after this, 1
stopped on my way from school to see
Aunt HillaryI found her in great dis
tress. Jackey (that was the monkey's
name) had turned out a perfect little
demon, and was giving no end of trouble.
He wouldn't stay in his narrow cage
in fact, he wasn't used to a cage, except
in traveling; and when she, with Ephra
im's assistance, let him out and tied him
to the bedpost, he had ripped open the
pillows and investigated their contents,
which he afterward strewed liberally
about the floor. He had then been con
fined in tho back porch, where he
wrapped himself in a roller-towel and
I mlled Tabby's tail, and upset a can of
teroseneoil on Puff, Aunt Hillary's little
white poodle. Thereupon Kphraim had
tied him in the garden, while he pruned
tlie currant bushes, and after a while re
turned to find oil the young radishes
pulled up and Jackey industriously
searching out the garden pens which had
been sown on the previous day.
finally a tall pole was erected in the
midst of tin grass-plot, and to this
Jackey was secured with a rope long
enough to admit of his running up and
down and around in a limited circle;
but, alas! even this expedient failed, for
in two hours he had pulled up half the
grass and scratched innumerable dust
holes. What was to be done with the monkey f
" I don't know which is the worst,"
naid Aunt Hillary, with tears dimming
her usual bright brown eye "the boys
or Jackey." .,
There was an om scuooinouse on tne
big lot adjoining Aunt Hillary's pretty
cottage at tlie end of the village street.
The teacher was a tall, thin, grave-looking
man of middle age "very neat and
threadbare, and with the manners of a
perfect gentleman," as Aunt Hillary ad
miringly observed.
But the boys! tlie whooping, yelling
crew, who made twelve o'clock hideous
with unearthly noises, and who climbed
AuTit Hillary's garden-palings, and snow
balled Puff nnd.fabby in winter and stole
her choice plums and cherries in summer,
and at all seasons enriched her garden
with old shoes, tin cans and discarded
hoopskirts!
An, what pathos there was in that
simple remark of Aunt Hillary's : " I don't
know which i9 the worst the bovs or
Jackey!"
She was the most patient and good
humored person in the world, and the
last whom any but a schoolboy would
have taken pleasure in worrying. A
neat, trim little woman about thirty-five,
with bright, kindly eyes, a fresh complex
ion, and a face still so comely and'exprei
sive of gen tle aad womanly feeling that I
often wondered why she should be an old
maid.
Once, when lex-pressed tohrrthis won
der, she colored like a girl, smiled, and
answered frankly that no one had ever
asked hot to marry except Sam Lane, and
he, poor fellow, though good enough in
other respects, had been too dissipated
for anv sensible woman to think of.
For the rest, she might have married,
maybe, if she had been more forward and
pushing; but men don't generally anoy
bnahfulgirls, so she andpoor Janet Wa
ters had been left in the lurch, while all
their young friends got married ; and see
ing how badly some of them had turned
out, why maybe it was all for the best
that she had remained single. She hail
her own house, and money nouh to live
comfortably ; and, if she did feel lonesome
at times mostly in the winter evenings
why, there were the neighbors, and Tab
by and Puff, and, in short, she complain
ed of nothing, except the boys and
Jackey.
Ephrain who lived ncross the road,
and came over every day to do the out
door work had undertaken the manage
ment of Jackey, sbut the experiment
proved a failure.
The monkey had taken a special dis
like to him; and when, at length, the old
man declared that judicious chastisement
was as necessary to monkeys as to boys,
and attempted to carry that theory into
prnctioe, Jackey fairly turned the tables
upon him, forced him to an ignominious
retreat, and remained victor of the field
that is, of the grass-plot, to whosecentral
pole he was still attached.
" I'll go right over," said Aunt Hillary,
desperately "right over to Squire San
ders, and ask him what I hart best do
with that monkey. If I only knew how
to manacc him, I wouldn't part with"
him for gold, on account of Janet; but
lie's worrying the life out of us nil, and
something must be done."
When, on her return from Squire
Sunders', Bhe came in sight of her own
house, she knew that the climax of her
wow was reached. All the boys lust
dismissed from school were collected in
a crowd in front of the cottage, whoop
ing and yelling, while on the roof in full
view sat Jackey, attired in Aunt Hil
lary's very best Sunday bonnet an
ancient Ieg'horn, of rather obsolete pat
tern, which she had that morning care
fully trimmed for its third summer's
term of service,
Jackey, it appeared', had watched her
proceedings as she stood trying on her
bonnet at the open window, and on her
departure had gnawed asunder his fet
ters, appropriated' the bonnet, and
mounted with it to the roof, where he
could examine his prize at leisure.
Poor Aunt Hillary! It was not so
much the injury to her bonnet which
now troubled her, as the greater mis
chief which tho boys were doing. On
pretence of capturing or driving down
the monkey, they were climbing her
nice white front palings, trampling her
choice flower-beds, and throwing mis
silts, which had already smashed more
than one pane in the upper-room win
dows. In vain she implored theru to desist.
In vain she represented to them that she
did not care for the bonnet, and that if
Jackey were only left alone he would
come down of himself. They were too
much delighted with the fun to listen to
her, as she stood, with flushed face nnd
tears in her eyes, on her rose-covered
porch, while her tormentors howled and
screeched, and threw wet clay and mud
balls against the hitherto immaculate
ute walls of her cottage.
Suddenly a hush fell upon the crowd.
The little front-gate opened, and the
boys fell back, as along the walk came
the tall form of Mr. McLean, the school
master. The pale, thin man spoko to
them quietly, but with an air of com
mand, and they silently trooped out of
the gate into the street, where they stood
awaiting further proceedings. 'I hen he
advanced to Aunt Hillary, and lifted his
hat.
" I perceive, madam, that you are in
some trouble. Can I assist you in nny
way !
' Ah. sir." said Aunt Hillary, her eyes
brimming over with tears, " if you could
only send away the boys, and and get
the monkey down!''
" The boys will not trouble you again,
madam, and " he looked doubtfully up
at the roof "I think 1 may possibly se
cure vour pet. I will try."
Kpliraim came limping up with the
garden-ladder, and on this Mr. McLean
mounted, advancing cautiously to the
edge of the roof, near which Jackey was
now seated, deeply absorbed in picking
to nieces the yellow rose which hall
adorned his mistress' bonnet.
He took no notice of the schoolmaster
until the latter quietly stretched forth
his hand, artfully displaying a spectacle
case, when he started up, seemingly in
doubt whether to retreat or to seize the
tempting lure.
" You can ketch him now, sir, easy!"
bawled Ephraim, from the foot of the
ladder. "Grab hold of him at once, or
he'll be right off like greased lightning.
It s a trick o' lus n.
Alas, in his eagerness, Ephraim forgot
that his duty was to hold the ladder
steady. He let go his hold of it and step
ped back to see the results of his advice.
The schoolmaster, with a quick mo
tion, seized the monkey by his long arm.
as it was outstretched to snatch at the
spectacle-case. The impetus threw him
ofl'his balance the ladder slipped slowly
along the edge of the roof and before
Aunt Hillary s horror-stricken shriek had
fairly ceased, Mr. McLean lay, very still
and white, on the bed of violets beneath
the parlor window.
He was not dead though we all
thought so at first. Aunt Hillary ran
for water, and blackberry wine, and knelt
down and bathed his lace and rubbed his
hands, while her own face was as color
less as that of the injured man.
Meanwhile tlie boys had rushed ofl
some tor the doctor and tlie' rest to
spread the news that the schoolmaster
had broken his neck, back and skull, in
consequence of which the yard and street
were soon lined witn an eager crowd.
The doctor and Squire Sanders con
veyed the unconscious man into Aunt
Hillary's parlor, and laid him upon her
uroaa ciuntz soia, wnere, witn proper
restoratives, he was soon revived. And
then, after an examination, it was offici
ally announced by Ephraim to the anxi
ous puunc witnout that mere was
nothing'more serious the matter than a
broken leg.
. "Hoorav!" pried Rill Davis tnosinir nn
his cap "booray, boys! there won't be
any school to-morrow!"
Upon which Aunt Hillary hastened to
the front gate, with more indignation in
her eyes than I had ever before Keen
there.
" uoyg, ain't you ashamed ol your
selves!" said she, severely. "If you
have no more feeling for your good
teacher, at least eo awav from here and
don't disturb him with your unchristian
noise. It is a wonder to me." she
added, as she went back to the house
" a wonder to me that, considering the
badness of boys, there should ever be
any good men in this world."
After a while, I saw her in earnest
consultation with the doctor, who had
just set the broken limb.
"He is uneasy lest he should bo a
trouble to you," 1 heard the doctor say,
"and is anxious to be taken to his lodg
ings, but tomoveiini is simply impossi
ble as yet."
"Of course," said Aunt Hillary,
promptly, " I don't dream of his being a
trouble, poor man; and am sure ho is
welcome- to whatever-1 can do for him.
It is fortunate that he is. in my house, as
I have no family to take up my time,
and so shall be able to pay him proper
attention. Just tell me what I can do
for him. doctor."
"At present," said the doctor, in a low,
grave voice, " he needs only quiet and
nourishing food," . . .
Aunt Hillary did not take In tho full
significance of these words until a few
hours later, when Ephraim returned
from Mr. Mclean's lodgings, whither ho
had voluntarily gone for certain articles
of clothing, and to see the schoolmaster's
effects properly secured during his
absence. And then he told Aunt Hillary
a pathetic story of bare walls and a straw
bed, chair and table; the latter with tho
schoolmaster's dinner set out upon it.
" Pea-soup nnd corn-bread, as I live,"
said Ephraim, "with brown sugar and
coffee in a cupboard, and no butter.
And the shoemaker's wife, who lets him
the room, says he cooks his own victuals
and don't cat enough to physic a snipe,
and mends his own clothes occasional;''
Aunt Hillary burst into tears. She
knew, as did everybody in the place, that
the schoolmaster was very poor; but
she had not dreamed of poverty such as
this. And then he was a stranger, with
no friends near to do him a kindness, or
to loolv-after him in his illness. What
wonder that her tender heart was
touched ? . . ;
Thereafter, despite his helpless eondi
tion, I considered Mr. McLean a fortunate
man. I never entered the house, without
finding in Aunt Hillary's kitchen (a per
fect model of a kitchen, by-the-bye), vari
ous dainty' dishes, -the - very -sight of
which caused my schoolgirl iuouth to
water.
Such fragrant tea and delicate waffles,
served on the French china that had
been a wedding-present to her mother.
Such Savory beef-tea, and fresh straw
berries and translucent jellies ! Such
omelets such broiled steaks such
white, feathery rolls; and all so tempt
ingly arranged on the large japanned
trav, ready to be carried to the invalid's
bedside, where stood a round table al
wnyg adorned with the very choicest of
Aunt Hillary's ilowers not in a big
bouquet, but simply a blossom or two,
fresh and sweet, in a little Dresden-china
vase that had been longer in the family
h-tn Aunt Hillary herself,
And then, how neat and cool and
plcofant was the room in which tho in
valid lay. Kind neighbors -supplied him
with papers and books, nnd Aunt Hil
lary sometimes read to him ; and I more
Until once heard her singing in the twi
light in a low voice, much as n mother
might sing to her tired baby.
As he grew better nnd could sit up in
bed, Mr. Mclx'nn began to make himself
ot use to Ins Hostess, lie retouched a
fatled crayon portrait of her fatker; he
repaired and renovated a much-prized
workbox ; he instructed her how to clean
gilt picture-frames; how to fix colors in
carpets nnd dress goods bv chemical
combination, and, best of all, he took
charge of Jackey the cause of this un
expected change in Miss Hillary's house
hold and, subjecting him to a course
of careful training, transformed him into
a tractable, intelligent and well-behaved
member of the household.
It was wonderful, Ephraim declared,
bow changed the beast had become, and
how implicitly he obeyed the leaxt word
or sign from the schoolmaster, who was
the only person for whom he ever mani
fested the least respect.
Aunt Hillary did her best, by means
of feeding and netting, to win his regard.
but he appeared to look upon her with a
certain contemptuous indifference, some
times expressed in his conduct, except
wlicn sternly rebuKou by Mr. jucjenn.
And so the sweet flowery June passed ;
ami one day, Mr. Mclean, with the
assistance of a crutch nnd Squire
Sanders' arm, limped out of Aunt Hil
lary's rose-wreathed porch to a carringe
which was waiting before the door,
saw him turn to Aunt Hillary and take
hex hand, and say something in a low
voice about her goodness nnd his grati
tude; und I thought his eyes were moist
nnd his voice somewhat faltering.
And when he was gone (not to his old
lodging, but to Squire banders' hospi
table home). Aunt Hillary went back into
the house and wandered about in a lost
kind of way. nnd linitjjy sat down in Mr. !
McLean's armchair, and then, without !
I a word, began to cry.
1 When I asked what ailed her. she I
wiped her eyes and laughed, and said I
that she felt at a loss, as if her oeeupa- j
tion was gone and she must get an- i
other patient to attend to or go into a
hospital as nurse.
Alter tins l usea to occasionally see
Mr. McLean seated in Aunt Hillary's
front porch, or leaning on her gate, "as
she gathered a rosebud for him. Once
1 heard mm taiKing about ins little girl,
Lillio he was a widower at school
somewhere away in the South, and of
his longing to see lier; and then I knew
that it was for this child to dress her
nicely and give her a good education
that the schoolmaster had saved his little
earnings, to the sacrifice ol his own com-
lort.
He did not go bnk to his little school.
Through Squire Sanders' influence he
obtained the position of principal of
(; Academy, with a good salary;
nml now be began to dress well and look
so handsome that the single ladies of
G began to take quite an interest in
. . ... . . ..j
luro. liiey inviicu nun iu om icij meet
ings and quilting suppers; but it was
vi.rv aolilnm that lie accented an invita
tion, and it came to be understood that
he was not a marrying man, as they ex
itreispri It. ' .
One day. on ray return home from
school, my mother desired me to dress
mvself vei v nicely. a9 she wisliod to take
me out with her. We went first to Aunt
Hillm-v's. whom we found attired in a
rerv net erav vonote dress and a brand
new bonnet, with white trimmings, in
place of the one which Jackey had de
ImvaA Khe looked strangely nervous,
trouhleor hauuiuess I could
not decide, as she was alternately smi ling
aud wiping the tears from her eyes. 1 lieu
Sciuire Sauderi jvme ifi and gave her
his arm. and we all went together to
church. i
I conjectured that there was to be a
service, though it was a week day; but,
on entering, I saw Mrs. Sanders and
her sister and daughters, with Mr.
McLean the latter also dressed in new
clothes and wearing a rosebud In his
buttonhole, i ' t
The clergyman ndvanced to meet us,
and Mr. McLean, offering his arm to
Aunt Hillary, the two stoot before him,
and there, to my utter astonishment, the
fiair were married Squire Sanders giv
nsj away the bride.
This wns two yenrs ngo : and I think
that in all my circle of friends, I don't
know a more quietly happy and con
tented couple than Mr. McLean and his
wife. Lillie, of course, came to live with
them a sweet, lovely girl of about my
own age, of whose place In Aunt Hil
lary's affections I might be jealous, but
the fact that she is my own particular
bosom-friend.
'"'timely "topics."
New York city has nearly 500 churches
and chape'ls, costing f 40,000,000 to build,
and $5,000,000 more per annum to keep
them going. It has htty-nine hospitals
nnd asylums for the sick, aged, blind,
deaf and dumh, lunatics, inebriates,
orphans nnd soldiers, which have cost
$v!0,000,000 to build, and require $5,000,
000 a year to sustnin. The public school
edifices have cost $6,000,000, and $1,000,
000 a year to operate.
A French chemist last year exposed a
quantity of flour to a hydraulic pressure
of 300 tons, which reduced it to a fourth
of its original bulk:, witnout impairing
the quality. He packed a portion of it
in tin boxes and sealed them up, doing
the same . with the unpressed flour.
When opened in three months, the
former was in better preservation than
the latter. When baked into bread, the
pressed article was decidedly superior.
Alter tlie inpse oi a year omer cans
were opened, and tne unpresseu nour
had become spoiled, while, the pressed
remained sweet, and was excellent when
bnked.
A dress woven from the webs of the
larire Bidders common in South America
has been presented to Queen Victoria by
the Emnress of Brazil. It exceeds in fin&i
nese any manufactured silk known, and
is very handsome,- Spaniards, nearly
two hundred years ago, endeavored to
make cloves, stockines end other articles
of spiders' webs, but they yielded so
little profit, nnd necessitated so much
trouble, that the manufacture was aban
doned. In 1710 the calculation was
made that the webs of iOO.OOO spiders
would be required for about forty yards
of silk. Such dresses are occasionally
seen in South America.
There is a man with a cako doing a
thriving business in Michigan. Tlie
papers throughout tne Mate are expos
ing biiu, nnd in a short time, no doubt,
he will lie compelled to seek pastures
new. lie comes in town to start a bak-
crv, and brings a sample ol ms worli
along in the shape of a large and elegantly-frosted
cake. Somo hitch takes
ice about tlie lease oi uie naKe snop,
and he concludes to raffle off the cake.
The raffle takes place: the splendid cake
is won nnd perhaps kept on exhibition
for a day or two. Then it is cut up, or
:i party i arranged to assist in its con
sumption, when they attempt to cut
up the cake, then comes tiie fun. I hey
find it is made of wood, tastefully
frosted.
Some thieves, who manifested remark
able ingenuity, have lately been caught
in tlie JUnmea. I ney operated tuus: A
thief was locked in an emutv trunk by
ids -mates; tlie trunk was sent to the
railroad depot ns the baggage of a pass
enger, and put in the baggage car; one
of his mates, who claimed the baggage.
took passage in the same train to the
next station; as soon as everything was
quiet in the baggage car, the thief opened
it and crawled out: he ransacked the
ret of the baggage and put in his own
trunk such valuable articles as were
available ;'then he crawled back to the
trunk and locked himself in. and on
renching the next station, his mate took
off the trunk as his baggage, and they
proceeded to secure their plunder. The
gang of Russian thieves who concocted
this scheme managed to carry It on suc
cessfully for some time ; but at last, on
the occasion of one adventure, the thief
in the trunk took in with him such an
amount of stolen goods that the trunk
burst onen at an unfortunate moment.
The method of operation was discovered
uud the thieves were brought tome bar,
More than twenty years ago two young
men, sitting on a rock in the gold fields
of California, shook hands nnd agreed to
bo partners in business. No articles of
co-imrtnershin were signed. The con
tract was between Dominick und Martin
O'Malley, brothers. Next day Martin
started for Australia, Dominick remain
ing in California. Several years passed.
Martin settled at Westport, Wis. A
year later he was joined by Dominick.
; Each had kept a firm account nnd had
drawn the wages agreed upon, paying
himself from tlie firm's funds in hi own
pocket. The firm's earnings were in
vested in eignt nunureu acres of land.
Martin married. The firm was contin
ued, Dominick lost an arm. lie was
sent to Paris at the firm's expense for a
wootlen one. Dominick married. A
houseful of children were born to both.
Dominick went to the legislature. The
children grew up. . Recently the broth
ers saw that complications might arise
unless the property should be divided
belore their deatn, and tne partnership
was dissolved. The vast estate was di
vided iu a few hours, without a word of
dispute.
Young ladies In Moscow think noth
ing of sliooting a man in polite society.
Somo weeks ago a young nobleman
named Ranaschewski was seated at
home in his salon, entertaining a few in
timate friends. In the midst of a hvel
conversation the door suddenly onenetl
and tnere entered a young lady named
Praskowia Katschka, about nineteen
years of age, handsome and prepossess
ing, a member, moreover, of a well-
known and noble lamilly in the Wilna
District. Perfectly calm and self-noK.
sessed. she crraoefullv saluted the visitors
present in the chamber. Then, drawing
a revolver from her pocket, she deliber
ately shot Bairaschewski through the
head, so that ho fell to the ground, dead
instantaneously. So rapidly and coolly
was tne deed commmea that all was
over before any one in the salon at
tempted to interpose. Praskowia made
no attemnt to escape, and Dermitted her.
self to be arrested without the slightest
resistance. It is said that two dayb be
fore his assassination Bairaschewski
received a threatening letter from the
executive committee of the Revolution.
ary Society, which lie handed to the
pouee.
A man who takes plenty of thyme
win aiways uw ui nmii.
FARM, .GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Planting at the Klakt Time.
The exact date or time of year at which
certain kinds of trees Bhould be trans
planted or crops put in is a very difficult
point to determine, except from actual
local experience. Not only must the
time be varied with every degree of lati
tude, but the seasons also vary, necessi
tating a corresponding varintion from
year to year in tlie samo locality. Soils
also differ In composition and texture,
and some become dry and warm in spring
much sooner after tlie frost has left them
than others, which circumstance must
be taken into account in fixing a time to
use them for any particular kind of crop.
Of course every farmer and gardener
ought to be the best judge in regard to
the right time for planting on his own
land ; but there are, nevertheless, certain
general rules applicable to all climates,
which the novice is very likely to disre
gard, owing to want of experience; and
thus ho often fails when he would other
wise have succeeded. If wo take two of
our most common and widely-cultivated
garden vegetables, peas and beans, we
will find a great difference in their sen
sitiveness to cold. The pea will with
stand a considerable amount of freezing,
and even the growth of the vine in spring
is seldom injured by light frosts; while
the bean is so sensitive that it soon de
cays if placed in contact with wet, cold
soil, and tho leaves will not withstand
the least chill, or even cold winds. 1'eas,
therefore, may be nut into the ground as
soon as the frost is out, but the planting
of beans should be delayed until warm,
growing weather lias actually com
menced. Among tho seeds which it is safe to put
in early and before the earth has become
warm, we may name peas, racism's,
beets, cabbages, lettuce, onions (both
seeds nnd sets), as well as leeks and gar
lics. Tomato seed may be sown cany,
but the plants will not grow until warm,
weather. Among the more tender sorts
which early planting will not hasten,
the various kinds of squashes, melons and
corn are tlie best known. The seeds of
all these soon decay if placed in cold,
moist or wet soil. Potatoes may go in
enrlv. because the tubers are generally
placed so deep that a slight freezing of
the surface will not reach them, nnd if
the voung growth should be cut off, new
shoots soon spring up from the main stem
or the tubers below. With all the dif
ferent kinds of meadow, pasture and lawn
grasses, early sowing is far preferable to
late, because they are naturally hardy
and grow in cool weather, and the young
plants will be making roots even when
there is but a slight growth of leaves,
lint with theannual grasses, millets, sorg
hums and the like tlie case is quite dif
ferent, as they are all tender plants, na
tives of hot climates, and their seeds soon
rot in cold, wet soil; the slightest frosts
will kill the young plants, so that whnt
would be termed late sowing snouui al
ways be practiced with these tender an
nuals that is, after all danger of frost is
past nnd the ground has -become warm
and comparatively dry- 1'liu now pearl
or Enst India millet is even more sensi
tive to cold than the sorghums or com
mon species and varieties of millet. The
pearl millet is by fur tho most productive
forage plant we possess, but does not
thrive in a cool soil or grow rapidly ex
cept during tlie hottest weather.
Early planting of all hardy trees and
shrubs is always preferable to late, no
matter whether thoy be deciduous or
evergreen kinds, for the simple reason
that tlie eartli in spring is generally
warmer and of a more even temperature
than the air, and this excites the roots
into growth, which may proceed for some
considerable tune neiore mo weatner is
warm enough to cause tho buds to swell
and new shoots to push out; consequent
ly when the leaves call upon the roots for
a supply of sap, they arc in a condition
to respond, aud the lifo of the plant is
thereby insured. Having tested both
early and late planting of evergreens and
deciduous trees, we are fully convinced
that the former is to bo preferred in all
soil which becomes dry enough to' be
bandied readily soon after the frost leaves
it in spring; and if it remains wet nnd
lumpy for any considerable time after
ward, it is not suitable for trees, and
should be put in good condition before
used for this nurpose.
It is well to make haste in getting the
crops in early, but there is such a thing
as overdoing the matter by putting in
seeds before the land is in proper condi
tion for their reception, or the weather is
warm enough to insure growth ; and it
would often be better to plow and har
row the land twice before sowing small
Feed or planting it with corn, even if a
little time be lost, than to sow on land
full of lumps or soaked with water.
eiu iork hun,
lIuuKeltold IltuU.
To Remove On, Spots fuom Mat-.
TINT.S, COI NTKKI'ANF.S, ETC, Ot With
alcohol, rub with hard soap, then wash
witli cold water.
Wai.i, Paper. In selecting paper for
house use, avoid all greens as far as pos
sible, for this color invariably contains
more or less poisonous matter, ami will
inevitably poison to some extent all who
use it .
A HAxnr Article. J o make feather
brushes to use in greasing pans, or
brushing egg over tarts or pastry, boil
the wing feathers of a turkey or chickens
for about ten u inutes, then rinse tnem
in tenid water, dry and tie up in bunches.
Moths in Caupets. A good way to
kill them is to take a coarse towel, and
wring it out in clean water. Spread it
out smoothly on the carpet, then iron it
dry with a good hot iron, repeating tho
operation on all suspected places, and
those least used. It is not necessary to
press hard, heat and steam being the
agents, and they do the work effectually
on the worms and tlieireggs.
Moldiness. is occasioned by the
fjrowth of minute vegitation. Ink, paste,
father and seeds most frequently suffer
by it. A clove .will preserve ink; any
essential oil answers equally wen.
Leather may bo kept free from mold by
tho same substances. inus, jtussian
leather, which is perfumed with the tar
of birch, never becomes moldy. A few
drops of any essential oil will keep hooks
entirely free from it. For harness, oil
of turpentine is recommended,
Cementing Metai. to Glass. Take
two parts of finely powdered litharge,
and one part of fine white lead, mix im
mediately, and work up with boiled lin
seed oil and lac-conal to a stiff dough:
one part of copal and three of oil. and
enough litharge and white lead audeti to
give it the consistency of putty, the
side to be cemented is coyered with the
putty and pressed against the glass, the
excess of ceratnt is scraped off with a
knife or other suitable instrument. The
above will be found reliable, as it dries
quickly.
Health Hlnti.
To Rimovi Fusa Wobiu Fbom
the FACE.--Take a large-si Bed watch
key, place the stem directly over tue
black spot, and press firmly on it.
Insomnia. To procure sleep, take
bromide of potassium. Furnished by
chemists.
To Cvue Corns. Apply, morning
and evening, one drop of solution of per
chloride of iron.
To Al.I.AY CllAWI.lNO OF THE FLESH
on Nervousness. Put a tablcsponful
of bi-earbonate of soda ordinary cook
ing soda in one quart of water. Bathe
tho entire person.
Stinos and Bites. Carbonate of soda
wet and npphed externally to the bite
of a snider." or any venom jus creature.
will neutralize the poisonous effect al
most instantly, it acis line a cuariu in
the case of snakebite.
Tooth ache. For toothache.take equal
narts of camnhor. sulnhurlc ether, am
monia, laudanum, tincture of cayenne
nnd one-eighth part of oil of cloves. Mix
well together. Saturate with the liquid
a small piece of cotton, and apply to the
cavity oi the decayed tootn.
Foil Cholera Infantum. The
whites of two eggs, well beaten ; then
mix with pure water, add one tea
snoonful of orange-flour water and a
little sugar: a tablesnoonful every hour.
It. will cure the worst case of cholera
infantum, tlie eggs coating the bowels
Flens on Doit.
A correspondent of tho Forest and
Ktrcam gives a new remedy for killing
fleas on dogs. If you try it, give our
readers the benefit of your experience.
The following is his letter : " Some years
ago I learned from a druggist in New
,..!- tlint tl.A monoirnr. rt? an r,1Ttlian
.win wiiiu iii i,igji . o vi .... v.
asylum freed the heads, of the unfortu
nate waifs from parasites by applying
tincture of fishbemes to the scalp. I
tried the samo thing on my setter pup
for fleas, with the same success. Since
then I secured another setter which was
also troubled with fleas, and one applica
tion cured him. I did not use in cither
case more than a few drops, rubbing
thorn in on tlie nape of the neck and at
tlie end of the back where the dog would
be in no danger of licking tho place to
which the tincture had been applied.
My care in this regard may have been ex
cessive, but as the stuff is poisonous, I
preferred to run no risks. This is a sure
cure, and can be obtained from druggists
anywhere for a few cents.
A PANTHER FIGHT.
A Life nnd In-nth Htrwjrirle in the Wilds
of iVev York Stale.
Colonel Scth A. Abbey, the veteran
nrinter. who in 1831 issued 10,000 copies
of the old English Reader, has just re
turned from California. Oregon and
Washington Territory. He is" full of
those hunting reminiscences now so rare.
and favors the Cleveland Herald with
tlie following: I went to atertown,
Jefferson county, New York, in January,
1819. with my printing establishment,
ami commenced publishing a newspaper.
Jairus Rich was a kind of half-way law
yer; he had started a newspaper a year
or two belore ana ianeu. lie ana ins
wife then started a little tavern near tlie
court house, and they did not succeed in
Hint v-erv well, lie said to me one day:
" I think" I can get a better living with
my rifle and traps in the woods than 1
can by Hanging aiounii ncre in inu u-
lage." Rich was a ermonter by birth ;
a small, muscular man. the north por
tion of Jefferson county, at that time
was an almost unbroken wilderness, and
thither Ritdi. with his wife and traps.
bent his way. A number of months
ebmsed before I heard anything from
him. At length a rumor came that
he had been killed by a panther. Near
ly a month after this I got a letter from
him describing his encounter with a
panther; ho was hardly able to write
then. His story ran thus: " 1 had fast
ened one of my traps to the root of a
large hemlock tree, and near by was a
dense thicket of low hemlocks of about
half nn acre. When I visited my trap
this morning I discovered one panther
fast in tho trap and another near by. I
tired at tlie one outside of the trap and
wounded him, and he made immediately
for this thicket. I hod a little whiffet
dog with me, aud I put the little dog
nto the thicket where t he panther enter
ed, and I ran around the thicket where I
thought the panther would come out and
met "him just as he came out of the
thicket. I tried to shoot him, but my
gun missed lire, and there we were, lace
to lace, and 1 nnu to run oriignt. i
threw down my rifle and drew niv
hatchet from my belt and made a pass at
him and he knocked my hatchet more
rh'in twnntii feet from me. We then
clinched in and we were up and down in
every shape; he tewing away with his
C;:vs and chewing my nanns. lie
would sometimes have one hand in his
mouth and sometimes the other. We
were wrestling and tearing in this way
until I was nearly done for. In one of the
falls ho happened to como under, and I
clanued mv Knee right in his flank, for
ward of his hind leg, with my, left hand
in his mouth. I then slipped my right
hand into my pocket and pulled out my
iack-knife and opened it with mv teeth.
and made short work of it then. I lay
there by the side of my victim a long.
long time. My clothes were torn off
from me or hung in shreds; my face and
limbs a gore of blood. The nearet-t
settler was two miles. I came to myself
after a time, so that I killed the other
panther. It took all the rest of the day
to maKO tne house oi tne nearest seiner.
T knew this man for many years after
this encounter, and, strange to say, he
still continued to hunt panthers and
wolves., I saw a panther skin that was
green, killed by him and just taken from
tho body, thnt measured, from the noso
to the end of the tail, nine feet. I would
like to tell you one of Rich s wolf stories,
lie diil not tell it for several years after
it occurred the reason why you will
probably guess at after hearing tlie story,
lie said he was out among the rooks and
discovered a wolf; he shot and. killed it.
Upon examining it he found it to be a
she wolf, and suckling young ones. He
finally found her den and crawled into
it, and found ten young pups. He took
them to his shanty and built a log pen
for them and reared them on deer meat
they were too young to get the bounty
on. There was then a bounty on each
grown-up wolf offered by town, county
and State, in all amounting to about $50
frw Oftpll Wftlf TllPV WPl'fl tbft InrffP m-nv
wolf, one of them nearly black. This j The prisoner finally concluded not to
one, he said, he used to take out and play" forward a check at all. He sent a boy
with it the same as a dog. He said he out to find hiin four good lawyers who
regretted to kill this one "very much, but I would carry his case to" the Supreme
$50" was too great a ' temptation-. As J Court, but the boy was gone so long that
these wolves grew up, he would take the police wagon backed up and removed
them into different sections, kill them, the tourist to another and more useful
take their scalps off, and-get the bounty, sphere. Detroit Fret Frew.
The Model irl.
" Prettiest,
Wittiest,
Among all girls;
The sweetest,
The nontest,
More precious than penrli
" Industr'ous,
Not blustrotia,
Bat modest nnd kind j
She's spnrcfnl,
She's oarcfld,
And all right in mind.
" She faints not,
She paints not,
Like some foolish girls;
She pouts not,
She spouts not,
Because her hair eurls.
" Not childish,
Not wildish,
Not running here, theroj
Not frettish,
Coquettish,
Like somo young girls are.
" Not wealthy,
But healthy,
And alarmingly smart;
A dandy
Witfi enndy
Cannot win hor heart."
Columbvt (O.) Dtmoera
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Never look a gift apple in the worm
hole.
Are shopping ladies liable to be called
price fighters?
The nresent custom of christening a
ship is a very ancient practice.
See small bills." ns the mother bird
said when exhibiting her brood.
There are fortv-eielit lighthouses and
light beacons on the coast of Maine.
There were 619.007.001 gallons of petro
leum produced in the United States last
year.
Tn ordinary respiration about two-
thirds of a pint of air is inhnled nt each,
breath.
Only one person out of every ten es
capes premature iicarn, according xo
statistics.
They say a strong grasp of the hand
denotes a strong hciu't. It also denotes a
good grip.
There are still some live hundred styles
of arranging the hair, and only one kind
of Boston brown bread.
Nineteen families of Belgians, with
sixty car-loads of stock and gootls, have
settled near Sherburne, Aiinn.
It is easier to bear tlie troubles of
others than to sit right down and do
your own Buffering patiently.
Tim loss bv fire in Eurone is only about
one-fourth what it is in tlie United States
on property of equal valuation.
When the lady fainted at the matinee.
the usher brought her a single glass of
water, nnd soon afterward brought her
to.
It is snfe to say that Norristown enjoys
more late springs than early springs.
We allude to springing out of bed in the
morning. Kor. Herald.
I suppose the bells are sounding nn
ulnrm of lire," sneeringly said an old man
as the cliurcu bells were calling the wor
shippers one Sunday morning; to which
a clergyman who wns passing replied :
" les. my friend ; but the lire is not in
this world."
An unique celebration is to take place
n Pomneii. Italy, in November next.
Eighteen hundred years ago, on the 24th
of November, the city was buried from
sight by an eruption of Vesuvius. On
the 24th. ot .November, lBi'J, tnere win bo
a banquet and illuminations on the his
toric spot. Several houses will be un
covered in honor of Iho anniversary or
the event of A. I). 70.
" Sly life by yours enfolded is,"
He whispered in her ear;
" I only bi-uttlio when yoti'ro about.
Live only with you, dear."
Suys slie, with archness on I er brow,
I've taith iu what you say;"
Then glunciHg at his raven locks,
" You dye whou I'm awuy."
Boston Transcript.
HiiseJy Deceived.
Hiram Oldham lives at Lockport when
home, but if he doesn't appear there this
summer his friends may rest assured
that whut is his loss is their gain, and
tlie biggest kind o' gain. He wandered
this way because he heard that day-
laborers in Detroit were paid six dollars
per day nutl had live tickets to the opera
uouse every uignw. iikiiiuushiuc wuuiu
como here and earn a few thousand dol
lars this summer and return to Ixickpor
in the fall and buy him a residence with
walnut trees in the front yard. . He
arrived here on the trucks of a freight
car, and "after sleeping one night iH a
coal-shed he was open to engagements,
lie didn't find any iobs at six dollars
per day, and when lie went around to
the opera house the man at the door
shook a club at him and cried out :
"Yes, I'll give you a kingdom for a
horse oh. yes!"
The police finally gathered the Lock
porter in. They have a way of linking
urnis with a stranger who doesn't seem
loaded down with good clothes and cash.
The prisoner's face wore a blank look as
he stood before tho bar. lie seemed to
feel that he was booked for a watering
place. " You see, it doesn't look exactly right
for a full-grown man to be free-lunching
around nnd sleeping in dry -goods
boxes," observed tae court, as ho wiped
off his nen.
" I want to light right out of this
town," replied the prisoner.
" You would only light down on some
other. This is tho headquarters here,
and you can be sent up far cheaper than
from the interior. 1 permitted a pris
oner to start for the interior a few days
ago, and yesterday he came to the House
of Correction from one of the western
counties at a cost of $30. 1 shall book
you for sixty days "
" Can 1 send my poor mother a check
on the bank before I go up?" asked the
man.
" You can. sir. Biiah will furnish vou
all kinds of blank checks und pen and
ink. Writd vrnp nnniA nlnlnlv "