to - !i "tJSkkXm HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. ; nil' xtjiJEii'A3sriyu m. Ij I 'VI' ! i J J (I .,-i. ' 'f'w Dollars per ..Annum. l ' nr. 1-.. i" . , . . .. ' I y VOL. IX. Do Right. Take this motto lor your lilo, Do right! Gunrd it well in every strife. Do right! Hoed its teachings in your heart, From its precepts ne'er depart, Lot not evil get the start, Do right! Though the tempter whisper low, Do right! He will only prove your loo, Do right! Kver bo whore duty culls, In the field or palace halls, Flco from haunts where sin appals, Do right! Pleasure will allure the mind, Do right! 'Tis a snare to all mankind, Do right! Principle must help us here, Keep our minds from doubt nnd leftr, Muke our pathway bright and olear, Do right! Haltit B. Auttin. TWICE MARRIED. " Yes, I suppose it's all very fine and grand, but I b'iieve I'd ratber Eddie had taken a fancy to some ono who wouldn't have felt himself too fine and grand for her ma and pa." " I can't see but that the young man is perfectly civil and respectful. And certainly his mother has acted the lady , by you. Called on you first, nnd asked Eddie there to tea right off. We should bear in mind that she never expected to make the acquaintance of plain folks like us." " There was nothing else to do, unles, she quarreled with Iter son, and that she would never do, and he the apple of her eye. So she made the best of it. Hut I'll tell you what, pa I mean to have my own way about the wedding, for all Mrs. .Le Uoy's wlieed ling soft speeches." Mr. Clark was always more or less absent-minded when he eanie home at night from the store. It was a minute or two before lie asked, as was expected of him, What do you mean, Eliza?" "Asit's to be an Episcopalian wed ding, it lias to be in church, and of coiir.se there'll be a crowd, her Hends as well as our. And she is ashamed of us. Siie wants lvldie to have Governor Heed tri-" her away instead of her shabby old pa." "Well. if Eddie's willing" "Eddie wi:iing! Of course Eddie 'd be willing if you was willing, and you never could say no to a woman. So if she comes along Mrs. Le Hoy, I mean and talks to you about the social ad vantag. it will be to Eddie to go into the church on the governor's arm, don't you list"n toiler. Just you say that you have left it, to the women-folk to settle t ie wedding." Mr. Clark received his orders meekly, lie hoped he would not bo called upon to combat the eloquence of Mrs. Le Hoy. He doubted that he could hold out against it. unless his wife were by to ba'-k liiin. He sighed. He hated to see Eliza fretted. It was his nature to take thinirs as they came, but it was certainly rot hers. But lie had never seen her so completely upset as she was now. Soma mothers would have been elated at the prospect of a daughter's marrying above her, as the phrase goes, but of these was not Mrs. Clark. She was satisfied with her own station in life. She preferred to keep to l.er own ways and that other people should keep to theirs. She felt that she was as good as anybody else, and she did not desire to be thrown with people who held a contrary opinion. The next morning came a pleasant, cordial note from Mrs. J,e Roy, asking the Chirks father, mother, daughter to tea with her that evening. Eddie wished to accent the invitation, and Mrs. Clark could never bear to crojs Eddie's wishes. She therefore somewhat unwillingly dressed herself in her best nnd brushed up her old man. "Now, pa, don't give in to her," were her last words as they were admitted for the lirst time into the beautiful Le Hoy mansion really a mansion, built in Port Hoyal in the old colonial times. Mis. LeRoy received them with a manner that was graciousness itself. If she made up her mind to do a tiling at all, she did it thoroughly. She had combated her son's engagement to beautiful Eddie Clark as long as there remained a grain of virtue in opposition. Now she deter mined that there should bo no vulgar family jars. She showed a proper gen tility in that nt least. Alas! Mrs. Clark was powerless to in terrupt a long, amicable tcte-a-tcte be twem their hostess and her husband, during which George Le Roy "howed her the various curiosities with which the drawing-rooms were filled, nnd Eddie played soft airs on the piano. Eddie had been beautifully taught at the academy; her tact in music, as in other matters, when she chose to exercise it, was great r she played in that charming pensive, twilight style which serves so admirably to fill up odd corners and crannies. George walked home with Eddie; the husband and wife were together. " I've done it," Mr. Clark said, desper ately, as soon as they were fairly started. "She was too much for me; I couldn't help it." "You didn't agreo that a perfect stranger should give away Eddie?" " Yes, I did. After all, what matler does it make? Anyway, it can't be helped now ; and it's nothing but a form anyway." " Our only child !" groaned Mrs. Clark, with tears. ,IIer heart was very sore. At that moment she would far rather Eddie had been goina: to marry Joe Thompson, a clerk in Tier father's store, who had been in love with her for years, and who would have been honored by the connection, rather than blue-blooded George Le Roy, to whom Eddie's parents were a thorn in the flesh, to be endured as hest might be Mrs. Le Roy carried tho day; Mr. Clark, having given his word, held by it like an honest man. The wedding took place in St. Mary's, and Mr. and Mrs. Clark were ushered to their seats like all the rest of the congregation, to see their darling married. Mrs Lb Roy swept in on her son's arm, calm, cool, collected ; the bride followed, supported by the white-headed governor of the State. In bitterness of heart her mother heard her take the vows which made her Edna Le Roy. It was a large, digni fied assemblage, in which good Mr. and Mrs. Chirk felt lost. They felt equally lost afterward at the wedding reception at Mrs. Le Koy's. It was a verv melan. choly satisfaction to them to .hear on all sides praises of the bride'i exquisite love liness. They seemed no longer to liave part or parcel in the matter. If Edna did not realize the pain of all this to her parents, it surely was not be cause she did not love them. She loved them deatly, with a tenderness all her own ; but at that time she was too ut terly absorbed in her own tumultuous happiness to be able to conceive of there being a serpent trail in her paradise. She clung to them witirpass'onate kisses be fore she started on her wedding journey, nnd had almost to be torn from their embraces; but this without probing the nature of their regret and wretchedness. She and George sailed for Europe al most immediately. Ho was a rich man, but ho had a profession to which he proposed to devote himself. For the next two years he attended medical lectures in Paris as assiduously as though lie had been a needy student anxious to So to work to earn a living. He and Idna were very happy during those two years ; it was the life that suited Edna art and music nnd congenial society. The. world was even gayer and brighter than her day dreams had pictured it. Then a year of travel. Then home. Eddie had'never known how she had missed her dear father and mother until she found herself once more clasped in their loving arms, How had she done without, all this while, their extraordin ary devotion, their blind infatuation? She had never half enjoyed her own two babies until she had shown them to her father and mother. Tears of joy and pride rained down Mrs. Clark's cheeks. Eddie's little girls! There never were such beauties, such darlings. Eddie's eyes, clear, brown, eager, with their father's beautiful golden hair. Fortun ately they were sufficiently like their father's family to win favor with their grandmother LeRoy on that score. On the whole, she was satisfied with the appear ance presented by her son's family, Ed die's French toilettes were stylish and becoming; the elder baby prattled in French in a distinguished way; the baby proper was a study for a picture as she lay in the arms of her bonne, whose pic turesque cap nnd apron were the first that had ever appeared in Port Royal. Edna really did not do George discredit; she would be well enough, if only it were not for her vulgar father and mother. Still there were no jars. But, all the same, Edna grew gradually harassed and unhappy. It became patent to her that Mrs. Le Hoy looked down upon her ante cedents, and that it was perpetually upon her mind to instruct her in the different irticlcs of her own social creed. Eddie's gentle soul rebelled. She had her own pride of birth. She hated Mrs. Le Hoy's arrogance nnd assumption. She almost hated Mrs. Le Roy. Day after day she was made to appear to disadvantage be fore George. Day after day she felt that she was stiffening and hardening before the icy breatli of her mother-in-law's constant surveillance. A word here and i word there will prejudice almost un awares. George, for the first time, noticed that his wife had defects; she lacked self control, self-possession. These things would come in time, but they were an indispensable part of the equipment of a finished woman of the world. Gradually George began to object to her frequent visits to her parents, al though never in so many words. The argument he used was that she jvas so much away from home; he saw so little of her. Gradually Eddie abandoned ill's point; but in return she resolved that she would be equally chary of her visits to other places. She established a character for unsociability and indiffer ence among all the Le Roys' friends in I'ort Itoyal, people wliom Mrs. 1,0 Hoy had arsred her to cultivate "forvour husband's sake, my dear; a physician's wife cannot exercise too much discretion in the choice of acquaintances." Gradually she did not seem to herself to be the sanio girl. Oh, if only she and George could live in a little house of their own ! This great, grand house was a prison. liut it Had always bepn on Hie cants that George should live with his mother An unusual devotion ex isted between the mother and son. Eddie was not a wise woman. She made no effort to conceal the bitterness in her soul from her own parents. They knew that she was not happy; they never dreamed of blaming her when day after day went by without their seeing her. But they did blame Mrs. Le Roy, and none the less as they saw Eddie grow quiet and dull and changed. George and she drifted farther nnd farther apart. His was an impression able nature, which speedily fell away from tne magnetism 01 nny influence which was not vigorously exerted. And lie liked life and gayety ; Eddie's mood chilled and repressed him. He had no sympathy for people with tlifi blues. So lie sought amusement elsewhere. IfEd dierefused to return visits, the more rea son that he should visit vigorously. He was always warmly welcomed at the houses of his old intimates. The Sto reys, for instance, made as much of him as though lie still were unmarried, lie believed those girls would do anything for him. He showed Eddie with some what of schoolboy triumph a pair of slippers Minna Storey had worked for him in snadeu nosses. Port Royal at least its exclusive circles always left home in August nnd September. The Le Roys from time im memorial had gone to the Sweetbrier springs during those months. It was decided to carry out his usual pro gramme, almost without consulting Mrs. George Le Roy. She, for her part, detested the idea of going, as indeed she had ended by detesting all the Le Roys' doings. Nevertheless, Sweetbrier springs was a pleasant place enough, in the heart of the peaceful, serene mountains. It was not so lar from Port Royal but that George could join his family once a week, for which fact Eddie would have been more than thankful had she had the full benefit of his society when he did come. But there were not many men at the springs, and Dr. Le Roy was handsome and popular. His weekly arrival was the signal among the idfe girls at Sweetbrier to monopolize his attentions. And George was nothing loath. He came up here to recuperate and to have a good time, and when he applied to having a good time, it was with the same zeal which he had brought to bear upon the study of his profession. The Storey girls were Lis warmest ad mirers. Minna Storey was as bewitch ingly beautiful as the typical Eastern hour! all rounded curves and dimples, soft, tendrilly brown hair, and laughing, mischievous hazel eyes. She was a girl who never hesitated to follow the bent of her pleasures, although these at times led her into somewhat devious ways. She generally hid a love affair on hand, ah hough this was apt to be not so much a flirtation as a romp. At least this was RIDGrWAY, ELK tho distinguishing characteristic of her present encounter with Dr. Ie Roy. It was great fun, no doubt, but it could hardly be said to be dignified. As the weeks slipped by, the fact grew to be an established one am one the other girls that Dr. Le Roy was Minna Storey's ex clusive property. Eddie was wretched. Those women are perhaps to be envied who, in similar situations, cultivate a gayety which, if forced, at least serves as an escape-valve. Eddie not only was wretched but looked so.' And George became irritated, lie actually was at last in the condition of believing himself to be the aggrieved party. One evening, when Eddie hung over tho children until they were asleep, crooning soft airs to them which always lulled them to rest soonest, she wandered down stairs with the vague intention of finding George And trying to dispel the miserable cloud which baa hung between them now for so long. A wish to do so hnd come into her heart as she kissed her babies good-night. She drifted down the great sounding stairway, looking like a pale ghost with her sad eyes and her flowing white dress. She glanced out on the different piazzas on her way; the boarders were apt to walk and sit about on these during the long evenings. But she did not see her husband. She drifted through the parlors, where there were card-playing, dancing, music. "Look at Mrs. LeRoy. How beauti ful she is!" one person remarked. "And how intensely unhappy! Poor thing! What a pity that any one with a heart should have married George Le Roy!' She stood in the open doorway and looked up and down the piazza on which opened the parlors. Ah, at last! George was seated with his back toward her, in a lounging, negligent attitude. Facing him, in an attitude equally negligent, was Minna Storey, her dimpled Bac chante face upturned to his; her white awns gleaming out of the falling rose colored sleeves of her dress.and wreathed with Roman pearls. Perhaps she was posing for Lalla Rookb or some other Oriental character, to whom strands of pearls are appropriated in tableaux vivnnts; at all events, her graceful head was adorned to correspond with her arms. She made a slight movement at the moment that Eddie appeared in tho door way, with which her little white hand fell against Dr. Le Roy's knee, and lay there carelessly. Eddie s face contracted as in pain. She came forward. Minna slightly changed her attitude, but with no visible show of embarrassment. George glanced up. " Will you join us?" he asked, in an unsympathetic, super ficial tone. Eddie paused a moment, looking down upon Minna. Then shtwsaid, icily, " No, thank you," and moved away. She was combing at the long hair presently, when George knocked at the door. Still that rigid look on her face, that hurt look in her eyes. He closed the door, and stood leaning with his back against it. " I wi"h, Edna," ho began, directly, "that you would be a little more like other people. It is con foundedly unpleasant to have you going about looking like a mute at a funeral." " I cannot look more unhappy than I feel." she burst out, with gathering sobs. " Why did I ever marry you? I wisii I had died instead. Why did you not marry this Storey girl, whom you make love to now before my face? If you have no feeling for mo as a woman, I should think you might show nt least common respect for me as your wife." Her tone, her words, stung George Le Hoy to the point of fury. "My wife!" he said. "Heavens! I wish you had not that claim upon my tolerance. A maa reaps a fearful harvest- from a youthful mistake." Then he turned on" his heel and closed the door sharply behind him. Eddie was only a trifle more miserable than she had been before. The next day was Sunday. Parties for church were mado up. Eddie found herself listlessly included in one. It might at least bo more tolerable than wandering aimlessly about the hotel. As she was handed into the stage she noticed her husband gathering in Minna Storey's draperies within the compass of a light wagon, in which he was going to drive her. She was talking and laughing as usual. There was not a cloud on George's face. The sight cut Eddie to the heart. She averted her face hastily. Her fellow - passengers saw what she saw; they pitied her. It is hard to a young, proud nature to be pitied. The stage clattered off amid a piy Babel of voices. A milo down the road there was a hill. At the top of this hill the horses took fright, one becoming perfectly uncontrollable. Plunging and rearing, they dragged the stage to tho edge of the mountain. The next mo ment tho great lumbering vehicle was overturned and pitched down the moun tain side. Then the horses, having done their worst, stood still. The driver picked himself up and surveyed the scene of the disaster. The lirst object that met his eyes was Mrs. Ije Koy, who had been thrown against a heap of stones. A messenger was dispatched to the hotel, who met Dr. Le Roy lirst of all in his no-top wagon. "Hurry! hurry!"-he cried. "The stage has gone over the side of the moun tain. Mrs. Le Roy is dead." George was off like the wind ; but not before Miss Storey had entreated, with white lips, to be let out. He was alone when he was confronted by Eddie's piti ful pale face. They gathered her tip and carried her to the hotel for dead. The rest of the party escaped unhurt, except for trifling cuts and bruises; but when they laid heron her bed they thought that life was extinct. I might quote pages in support of the assertion that the worth of a treasure is emphasized by the dread of losing it. Harshness, indifference, neglect, dogged George Le Roy's steps like stern accusers, now that Eddie lay speechless, uncon scious, for hopeless hours. It seemed to him that he had killed her. If he had been with her this might not have hapi pened. Surely he might have shielded her. Shielded her? All! had he shielded her from other dangers, other ills? t The bitter reproach haunted him that he had betrayed his trust. How utterly little and contemptible their dissensions now seemed ! Only the one truth remained, that she was his, the woman he loved, the only woman who oould fill his heart. ",' "' He sent for her father and mother, They came, wrung by the cruel ist an guish; but they came just as she began to revive. Youth is stubborn; life 4s obstinate ; and love wrestled with prayer. George Le Roy had never known before what it was to face a mysterious Providence, omnipotent, and yet henrH cuing to supplication. I Eddie was given back to him again- COUNTY, ' PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 26, given back to him, so it seemed, from death. It was a second marriage. , v We oft on wonder if we could live our lives better if we could live them over ngain. Certainly Eddie and her hus band profited by their former mistakes. For one tiling, they spent their second honeymoon in a home of their own. When Eddie went down from Sweet brier springs, in the fall, to Port Royal, she founu a lovely house made ready for her, of which she was the unconditional mistress. George explained, to all whom it might concern, that the situation of the house suited the requirements of his practice better than that of tho he Roy homestead. It was astonishingliow ensy it was to et on with Mrs. Le Roy mere after this, ometimes, indeed, Eddie wondered whether her former troubles had not been chimeras of her brain. As for Mr. and Mrs. Clarki they were at last entirely reconciled to their daughter's marriage. They spenjt tho greater part of their subsequent lives in spoiling their little grandchildren to their heart's content. Harper's Bazar. ' The Health or Cities. The following tabulated statement is compiled from tho annual summary Eublislied by the Registrar General of Ingland. It shows the death rate and population of twenty-three of the largest cities of Great Britain for the year 1878 : Deaths Population, per 1,000 Cities. 1878. living, 1878. London 3,577,30 23.5 Glasgow. . , , .7 668,40 . , , , 24.9 Liverpool 4 632,681 39.4 Birmingham 383,117 25.5 Manchester 360,614 - 27.9 Dublin 814,666 29.6 Leeds 304,948 23.8 Sheffield 289,537 25.0 Edinburgh 222,371 22.1 Bristol 206,419 21.4 Hradtord 185,088 22.5 Sulford 170,251 20.6 Nottingham 165,276 '21.0 Newcastle 144,570 23.8 Hull 143,139 24.3 Portsmouth 129,461 19.0 Iicester 124,473 ' 20 8 Sunderland 112,459 25.6 Oldham 107,366 . 25.8 Brighton ,103,923 , " 21.2 Norwich 84,620 24 6 Wolvorhainptou...... 74,240 23.3 Plymouth 73,599 25.3 'fotnl population .... 8,373,953 Av. 24.4 We publish below a table giving the death rate and population in twenty three cities in the United States, which correspond as near as possible in size with those given in the English table above : Deaths per Cities. Population. 1,000 living New York 1,046,037 27.87 Philadelphia 825,000 ' 22.93 Brooklyn 527,830 23.31 Chicago 420,000 20.41 Baltimore 355,000 20,79 Boston 846,000 23.84 San Francisco 300.000 18.89 Cincinnati 280,000 20.39 New Orleans 215,000 29.10 Cleveland 162,000 19.U0 Washington .'. . 160,000 26.40 Buftalo 150,000 14.29 Louisvillo 150,000 . 18.50 Pittsburgh 145,000 19.97 Detroit 120,000 15.31 Milwaukee 110,000 18.95 Providence 103,000 14.64 Albany 95,000 13.78 Richmond 75,000 21.98 Syracuse 60,000 13.60 New Iliivcn 60,000 ' ' 20.43 Chui'lestoii 56,510 35.58 Worcester 52,000 21.61 Total population.. 5,813,407 Av. 20.97 From tho above table we learn that the average death rate per 1,000 living is less in twenty-three cities of this coun try than in as many in Great Britain. Still, as will be seen, the population in the cities of America is not as dense, and in most cases the water is more pure than there. In England the rule is laid down that the mortality of a healthy city should not exceed 17 per 1,000. Un til wo reach that limit in both countries the work of the sanitarian must lie re garded as incomplete. New Haven Union. A Slighted Girl's Revenge. Norman Spencer stole 17,500 from the Pennsylvania Oil Company, that em ployed him as bookkeeper, and fled to the Southwest. The robbery was carefully planned, and the thief s inten tion was to take a new name, settle down as a planter, and marry the Titusville jrirl to whom he had long been engaged. She knew allaboutthis scheme, and wns to join him as soon as practicable.' A detective was sent to watch her, and when she started Westward, after receiv ing a mysterious letter, he guessed she meant to join her lover. He shadowed her on the journey so closely that she became aware of his watching. At Quincy; III., sho hired a woman ofabout her own size and sliape'to put on hei travelling suit, cover her lace with veil and go to Chicago. The detect iv unsuspectingly followed the wrong wo man, while the real ono went on to meet the fugitive thief. Meanwhile Spencer had bought a plantation near Galveston, Texas, and fallen in love with a neigh bor's daughter. Desiring to marry her, ho wrote to the Titusville girl at a point on her journey that she need not come to him. The Titusville girl was as quick at revenge as she had been at deceiving the detective. She at once informed the police where Spencer was and he was arrested. - Words of Wisdom. There is no difficulty to him who wills. An open countenance, but close thoughts. We live no more of our time than we spend well. ' ' ' - ' Never mind where you work; oare more about youi work. There is nothing so fatal to comfort as well as to decorum, as fuss.' It is the best proof of the virtues of a family circle to see a happy fireside. i ,t How few faults are there seen by us which we have not ourselves committed. The heart is a book which we ought not to tear in our hurry to get at its con tents. , : ' - " Be not affronted at a jest. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no uann uutess uiou hast sore places. ,. . Hannah Moore said to Horace Wal- fiole If I wanted to punish an enemy t should bo by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody." ; Ties of general calamity and confu sion have ever been productive oj fjiq greatest minds. The purest ore comes, from the hottest furnace the bri"hteut flash from the darkest cloud, FARM, GARDEN, ASD HOUSEHOLD Health nint. EfiGS ' IK Case op Tbouble. The white of an 1 egg is said to be a spocilio for fish bones sticking in the throat. It is to be swallowed raw and will carry a bone down easily and certainly. There is another fact touching eggs which it will be well to remember. When, as sometimes by accident, corrosive subli mate is swallowed, the white of ono or two eggs taken will neutralize the poison, and change tho effect to that of a dose of calomel. Balsam Ointment. Two ounces of balsam fir;- two ounces of mutton tal low; two ounces of beeswax, and two ounces of spirits of turpentine must bo simmered together and well stirred, then strained through a bit of coarse muslin into a tin box or wide-mouthed bottle that can be kept close from the air. This is one of the best oinmcnts that can be procured for burns, cracked hands, run rounds on the fingers, nnd is equally good for wounds upon horses nnd cattle. A Convenient Plaster. Take one ounce of white rosin, one ounce of mut ton tallow and one ounce of granulated sugar; simmer well together. Have ready half a yard of fine bleached cotton, nnd with a case knife spread the salve, while hot, over the surface of the cloth; spread it on evenly and quite thin. When cold, lay a thickness of tissue paper lightly over the surface. This will prove a constant comfort in little wounds, such as scratches, cuts or burns. A bit cut off and stuck over the place is a quick cure, as it excludes the air and is not bulky or in the way, as finger rags always are. , . . ' Weak Stomach. Where the stomach is weak, its muscular action impaired, and .its nerves over-sensitive, but little food should be taken into it at a time. The best diet is skimmed milk, half a pint every four hours. When milk is not well digested, lime water is com bined with it. Such foods as coffee, tea and tobacco must, of course, bo given up absolutely and at once. A sovereign article of diet is buttermilk. In butter milk tiie casein of milk is coagulated and broken up, so that the stomach is spared two steps of the regular process of di gestion. Another excellent preparation' of milk is koumyss. It contains a good deal of carbonic acid. In all cases tho stomach's work should be made easier by ailictconsistingof eggs, milk, starchy vegetables, stewed fruits and a little but ter, with stale bread. Medical Record. Fruit Trees. I find that lime, wood ashes nnd old' iron put around the roots of declining fruit trees have a very beneficial effect. These fertilizers restore the tree to a healthy condition, and also greatly im prove the fruit in quality a a quantity. I niade the application on a Windsap and Never Fail ; about half a bushel of mixed lime and a-lies to each; nnd dug it in with a hoe some six feet around the trunk, nnd put the old iron immediately around the base of each. The trees put forth with renewed vigor, bloomed abundantly, and yielded a good crop of fruit. An excellent wash for trees may be made thus: Heat an ounce of salsoda to redness in an iron pot, and dissolve it in ono gallon of water, and while warm apply it to the trunk. After one application the moss and old bark will drop oil' and the trunk will be quite smooth. The wash has highly recuper ative piopertics, making old trees bear anew. I have tried soft soap as a wash with irood results, and also a coat in i; of lime in the spring season, which is a tine specific for old trees. The question is often asked, is it best to manure trees in the fall or spring? I have found the summer season to be a good time: I have much faith in mulching, especially young trees, for several seasons after they are planted. Apple trees are said to have two growths during the season the secondary growth takes place after midsummer, Hence it is tliat a top dress ing of good manure, nnd also coarse litter, facilitates the late growth, and often produces very marked results in tne iiaint and formation ot the tree. The good effect that mulching lias to young trees is. that it wards off the in tense heat of the sun from the tender roots, and also has a tendency to hold moisture. A good top dressing of stable manure in the fall, around young trees, with a good many corn cobs cast over the surface of the soil, give satisfactory results. Rural Mcssenyer. Some Little TtUntca I Learned by Experi ence. If your coal fire is low, throw on n tablespoonful of salt, and it will help it very much. A little ginger put into sausage meat improves the flavor. In icing cakes, dip the knue frequently in to cold water. In boiling meat for soup, use cold water to extract the juices. If the . meat is wanted for itself alone. plunge in boiling water at once. You can get a bottle or barrel of oil off any carpet or woolen stuff by applying dry buckwheat plentifully nnd faithfully. Never put water to such a greasu spot, or liquid of any kind. Broil steak with out salting. Salt draws the juices in cooking; it is desirable to keep these in if possible. Cook over a hot fire, turn ing frequently, searing on both sides. Place on a platter; salt and pepper to taste. Beef having a tendency to be tough can bo made very palatable by stewing gently for two hours, with pep per and salt, taking out about a pint of the liquor when half done, and letting the rest boil into the meat. Brown the meat in the pot. After taking up, make a gravy ol, the pint of liquor saved. A small piece of charcoal in the pot with boiling cabbage removes the smell. Clean oil cloth with milk and water; a brush and soap will rum tliem. Tum blers that have had milk in them should never be put in hot water. .' A! spoonful of stewed tomatoes in the gravy of either roasted or fried meats is an improve ment. The skin of a boiled egg is the most efficacious remedy that can be ap plied to a boil. Peel it carefully, wet and apply it to the part affected- It will draw off the matter and relieve the soreness in a few hours, 1 1 ' Prurflna; Peach Trees ' . . Frequently old peach trees are made thrifty and fruitful by -severe cutting back cutting the large branches down to the very stubs. Not long ago we were told by a very intelligent and experi enced fruit-grower that he wasonce very much surprised by seeing some previous ly fruitless old peacn trees Hanging mil of superior, largefrait.' Inquiry led to the statement that they were apparently worthless trees, which had been the year before closely trimmed to get the outstretching limbs out of the way of working wound them ith a team, so that tho trees presented little more than a trunk with stubs sticking out a foot or two. and now hung full of fine fruit. F. A F. Magazine. 1879. ! TIMEliT TOPICS. The statement is given that more candy is made and eaten in the United States than in all tho rest of the world combined. Boston manufacturers con sume about 4,000 tons annually, New York about 7,000 tons and Chicago does a large business in the same field. The exports from the United States to Europe include "the best Frencli candies." The Prussian government appears de termined to make sure that the army sliall not, like the French soldiery, be permeated by the leaven of democratic ideas. Tho troops stationed in Berlin have been forbidden to read the Liberal newspapers, and their quarters are to be searched at regular times for tho prohib ited journals and for other objectionable publications. Severe punishment is promised those with whom such nrticlcs are found. There are more than a million Welsh speaking people in Great Britain. In f f.n Taa f .in toOnflT.fipP TiPV fPTt. fit U1C lulv vl 1'"" """J " ' ' J - the population in 1871 understood JHanx. in tne Bame year it, com puted that not more than five thousand persons could road Irish, nnd no news paper was published in that language, whereas, in 1851 there was scarcely a county in which Irish was not more or less spoken. Now it is scarcely heard except in the extreme west. Clare, Gal way, Donegal, Kerry, Mayo and the western islands are the strongholds of tho nncient language. "Blind with rage" meant something in a Paris workshop one afternoon some weeks ago. An overseer of the works, finding that one of the men had not finished a piece of work which was urgently required, fell into such a state of fury as to strike him in the face. Almost in the very act of striking, how ever, ho staggered back, shouting for aid and complaining thr t he could not see. The workmen came round him with offers of assistance, but nothing could be done. It was certain that lie iiad suddenly lost the use of both his eyes. Medical evidence showed that some of the blood vessels behind the eye had burst, and that the blood had flooded the interior cavities of the eyeballs. An aeronaut named E'Estrange re cently met with an extraordinary escape from dentil in Australia. In the presence of thousands of spectators he made an ascent from the agricultural grounds on the St. Kilda-road, in the balloon Aurora the same, it is said, which was used to convey dispatches during the Franco-Prussian war. When the balloon had attained tho grent altitude of a milo and three-quarters it suddenly col lapsed, the gas bursting through its side ; but the parachute came lnto play, and, instead of the wreck falling like a stone, it went down in a zitrzag course, and finally struck a tree. Women screamed anil fainted, some fell on their knees with their hands clasped in prayer, while hundreds of men rushed into the govern ment domain expecting to find a mangled body, but to their astonishment they discovered L'Estrango alive and almost unhurt. According to the Deul.irJie Allgemeine Zeiluiff, a German, named Karl Stein- bach, has mado an important discovery in photography. After years of study and experiment ho has succeded in ob taining a chemical composition, by means of which a mirror image may be fixed and sold as a photograph. With this composition the mirror surface is painted, and the back part of the mirror receives also a coating of oil. The mir ror thus prepared is held before the per son who is to be photographed. The oil coating evaporates, and the likeness of the person remains in natural colors on the light surface. The image, so fixed, is brought in to a bath, and is exposed half an 'hour to sunlight, before deliv ery. A rich capitalist in Peru, it is said, has acquin d this invention for $100, 000. and lavo establishments are to lie formed in North and South America for carrying it out. The Two Mill-Owners. There were two men (about 1838), Stiekpenny & Whewell, who owned a sawmill near Old Town, Maine, in com mon. The arrangement under which the mill was operated was that each ono had the mill all to himself during the al ternate weeks. Stiekpenny was a mean, rusty old chap. Whewell was a shrewd, investigating young man. The mill was run by a crude, rough kind of an under shot wheel that gave very little power for the amount of water used, so that the water was often short. Whewell wanted to put in a new iron spiral vent wheel then iust coming out, hut Stiekpenny would have nothing to do with it. He wasn't going to lay out money for any " such job as that." Finally, Whewell said lie would pay all tho b'lls, to which Stiekpenny at last agreed, " but pro vided you put tho wheel in in your week." So the new wheel wa put in, and Whewell. being of a mechanical turn of mind, experimented with it, and soon found that by pluKsrinsr up someoftht orifices the saw went through the log faster than when they were all open. So he plugged them up during his week, and always pulled tho plugs all outagain for Stiekpenny to operate with. Soon it beiran to lie noticed that somehow or other Whert-ell always managed to saw. a couple of thousand feet more of lumber in his w-H-k than ever Stiekpenny could, no matter how the pond was. Finally, Stiekpenny went 'down to see Whewell about it. . Says he: "Whewell, how is it that you always manage to saw more lumber in a given time than I can when my turn comes round? " Says Whewell : " Don't rou know how that is ? Waal.I'll tell you. t's because you ain't been treatin' of me fairly on this matter. It's again nature. You can't expect the mill to saw as well for you as it docs for them as do the square thing all around." Stiekpenny wouldn't believe that . and went away. But still the mill west on turning out regularly more lumbar for Whewell than Stick-, penny managed to get out of it ; so finally, the 'latter came around and said: " What's your bill ? I'll pay my share." He paid it, and thereafter Stiekpenny managed to saw lumber just as lively as Whewell did. . " WeiV' said the old fellow. " I always knew that the folks around here were all ag'in mo, but I never thought tho Almighty was; " and he died without finding out the explan ation of Jtail. , . . .. j ) A man may be as pure as si Yirrin snow flake and as mild as May morn iuir, but he will get wild just the same when ids office boy dips the mucilage brush in the inkstand. ; NO. 19. 1 . Song and Summer. i ' '" : WTiilut the goldrni hand of morn . . StfoMers rosea oter the Bky, ."And the SOPth wind, nearly born, Wandors full Pf odor by Sing tor summer ?peedeth fast? Sing and every pleasure (bare ! Soon, alas, the wintry blast . '"' Strips the Woodland bare, - '' ' Sweet bird, Strips the woodlnnd bare ! Sing, and make the morn thy friend ! Circle round each happy tree Where thy brother mates attend, Full of Joyous liberty ! Spoed thy wing from spray to spray Teach the world thy merry song ; Swiltly summer glides away -. Pleusure lnsla not long, , . Sweat bird, Plcasuie lasts not long ! Charlet Swain. ITEMS OF INTEREST. What the country wants Summer boarders. Uneasy lies the man who has already been caught at it once or twice. Three Nevnda mining towns that had 21,000 people now muster, all told, about nay. Hanging is capital punishment es pecially when you're hanging on some good looking girl's arm. Why is a newspapei like a tooth brush? Because everyone should have one of his own, and not bo borrowing Ilia neighbor's. A liver pad man wants us to adver tise him and take a pad. We don't want a liverp ad. without the money. Saturday Night. George Eliot got $35,000 for her hist novel. We expect people would pay us that much for our last one, too if they could be convinced it really was the hist one. Burdctte. Young men who make regular visits Sunday nights, with several sandwiched in during the week, may properly be said to belong to the " Press Associa tion." Bradford Era. "The only real bitter tears," says someone, " are those shed in solitude." You may bet your life that philosopher never saw a ten-year-old boy coming out of the woodshed in company with his father and a skate-strap. Hawkcye. " Must have rained around about last night," remarked the old farmer, as he looked abroad in 'the morning. And his little boy, whose jacket was very ragged, said he" wished that it had rained a roundabout for him. Oriswohl. A pnrishioner of a Berkshire pastor was asked what the color of the parson's eyes was. He didn't really know, "for," lie said, "when he prays, his eyes are shut, and when he preaches, I generally shut mine." When yon and I wore lad and lusg A fresher lute was on the grass, And stars were twinkling in the sky, Ilecause yon hit me in tlio.cyo; We quarreled then lrom first to last, When you and 1 were lad unci lass. When lad nnd bias were yon and I You stole and ate mil's custard pie. Thou in my coat the crumbs did throw And how they licked me you well know; Such were the things that oame to pass When you and I were' hid and Iiish. Oil City Dei rick. 4n Enormous Condor. In the course of the day I had an op portunity of shooting a condor; it wns so satiated with its repast on the carcass of a dead horse as to suffer nie to ap proach witnin pistol shot before it ex tended its winjjs to take flight, which to me was the signal to fire; and having loaded with an ample charge of pellets, my aim proved effectual and fatal. What a formidable monster did I behold in the ravine beneath nie, screaming and flapping in the last convulsive struggles of life! It may bo difficult to believe that the most gigantic animiU that in habits tho earth or the ocean can be equaled by a tenant of air; and thrse persons who have never seen a larger bird than our mountain eagle will probably read with astonishment of a species of that same bird, in the southern hemisphere, being so large and strong as to seize an ox with its talons, nnd to lift it into the air, whence it lets it fall to the ground in order to kill and prey upon the carcass. But this aston ishment must in a great measure subside when the dimensions of the bird are taken into consideration, and which, in credible as they may appear, I now in sert verbatim, from a note taken down with my own hand. "When the wings were spread they measured sixteen paces (forty feet) in extent, from point to point, the feathers are eight paces (twenty feet) in length; nnd tho quill part two palms feicht inches) in circum ference. It is said to have power suf ficient to carry off a live rhinoceros." Temple s Travels in rent. The Duke of Argyll. The Duke of Argyll now visiting America is the eighth duke of that title". He was born at A rdingcaule castle, Dum bartonshire, in 18:23, and succeeded his father in 1846. Before his father's death, and while ho was Marquis of Lome, he took an active part in the controversy in the Presbyterian church, and did some literary work, publishing, among other tilings, A Letter to the Peers from a Peer's Son," a letter to the Rev. Thomas Chltlmers, D. 1)., on the present position of church affairs in Scotland, nnd an essay entitled Presbytery Examined." Ilo has been a frequent speaker in the House of Peers. He lias filled enough offices to turn an American politician green with envy.--- In 1851 lie was chancellor of the University of St. Andrew's, in 1853 lord privy seal in the cabinet of the Earl of Aberdeen, In 1855 he held the same office under Lord Palmerston, in 1856 he was postmaster general, in 1858 lord privy seal again,' in 1860 postmaster genera again, 1861 lord priwseal again, lie lias been rectorof the University of Glasjrow, president of the Royr.l Society of Edin burg, and secretary of btate for India. Among his other offices are those oi hereditary master of the queen's house hold in Scotland, chancellor of the Uni versity of St. Andrews, trustee of t he British Museum and hereditary sheriff and lord lieutenant of Argyllshire. Still, with all these honors, he walks nnd eats and has hands and feet just like other men. In later years he has published "Tho Heign of Law," " Primeval Man ' and a number of other works. A
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