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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.
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