C7. -Av1 - .1 .11 frtWUHILK! ' ' I : CM X HI ') : , I rm . ( 1 U0SM03 'Mle)"--'- 1:: HENRY A. PARSONS, J Jr. fcdltbKond Piibflihir. " !.' i! w .! r.iv oil ' ill nil -desperandum; 3i ,1.1 ! i ' ll J I t-- I Two Dollars per Annum. ....-. -. . ... .ii.. w 1 . Wk m f : -,..) ; .i r t- rai ( ,-,n i f - i i V ' YOL. IX:, " J. 1 ; On the CltnnncNBont. ' " Whnt ! Frwl, you here T I didn't see . You come aboard nt Dorer. 1 . , met tho IJior n Inst week they said ' .' I'hnt yoh-were coming over( " But didn't sny how soon."? ! ; A .!'' - "Oh, yes, I .1.- r ., . !" x otiiiiu uy iiiu inuiuitic; And wlmt a rush there were lor berths ! 'Twas almost like a panic. j . j.imx I'm mighty glnd to most yon, Willi -Y Whore are you going?" ; i - . " IVris." r " GKjod ! so am I. Tve got to meet ?v . My cousin, Charley Harris, To-morrow. He and I have planned A liulo trip together 1 Through fewitzeriand on foot; I hopn W'll have some docoht weather." ; ' ." Take enre tiioro ! hold your hat : it blows." JYesj ,hcw this steamer tosses ! I'm never soasiok: Charlie is, Ihough, every tiiuo ho crosses. Who s with you, Willt" " I'm traveling with My shter and my mother: They're both below. I came on deck: It's close onouglf to smother Down there. These chaps don't care a snap For vent illation, hung 'ora ! 'Where dil you stop in London? We Were stopping at the Langhaiu." "You were? Why, so was I. Hut then I only got there Sunday At breuklast tiuio, iukI went away The afternoon of Monday i ; tAnd yet within lliat short sojourn I lost niy heart couiiletuly: Such stylo ! such eyes ! such rosy chooks ! . Such lips that smiled so sweetly f . I only saw hor twice, and then Dou't laugh 'twns nt a distance; " But, Will, my b'jy, 1 tell you what, ; rf In all my blest existence I no!er before set eyes upon ) A girl so really splendid. But, pshaw ! I couldn't stay, and so My short-live! visions ended. I don't suppose sliu'll ever know - How I, a stranger, love her," ' . " Who was sbe, Fred ?'' ' " Ah ! that's just it: I couldn't, e'en discover Her numo, or anything at all About her, Broken-he u ted, I saw it wasn't any use To try; so off I started, And here I am, disconsolate." " All lor an unknown charmer ? Yonr'ro soft, my b .'. Lot's stroll abalt: The sea is growingcahner; Or lovwar.l, i! yon iik'i. Tho view May make your ieeiiugs rally. We're drawing near to Franco, iu hull An hour ahull ho at Calais. . See ! there's the town, and, ust this side The port with shipping in it; And, there, beyond, you sea tho spires, And" " Hero, Will, stop a minute. By Jove ! look there ! that girl in gray, With red t!owers in her bonnet ! I do declare I yes it's she: I'd take my oath upon it. What luck! 1! I had only known ! How can it bo I missed her? Look ! In, re s ie conies !" "Why, Fred, you lool ! That girl in gray's my sister !" Geo. L. Cvllin, in Lipiiincutt. FOUND ON THE TRACK. Wot nnl di-p.iry. It is midwinter: the sceno is Kirklinjtton, on the London and Northwestern the time 10.45; ju.st after tho night nisdl hns lhished through with out stoppin.tr. hound for Liverpool and the North. Therailwayoflioials points men, signalmen, porters, platelayers nre colloctin preparatory to going oft' duty for the niulit. "Where's Dan?" asks one of the crowd upon the platform. "I saw him in the hut just nfter the 10.45 went through. Can't have, come to tiny harm, surely." "No; he said he'd seen something drop from the train, and ho went down tho lino to pick it up." And Dan had picked up something. It was a basket h common white wicker basket with aiid fastened down by a string. What did it contain? Refreshments? Dirty clothes? What? A baby! a child half a dozen weeks old, no more; a pink aiid white piece of human china as fragile us Dresden and as delicately fashioned and tinted as bis cuit or Itosi? I'ompadour. "Where did you come across it?" asked one. "Lying on the line, just where it fell, rerhaps it didn't fall; perhaps it was chucked out. What matter? I've got it and got to look after it ; that's enough for me. Some day maybe I'll corue across them as owns it, und then they shall pay me and take it back." "Is there nothing about him? Turn him over." The little mite's linen was white and of lino material, but he lay upon an old shawl and a few bits of dirty flannel. All they'fcfnnd was a dilapidated purse a common snaplock bag-purse of faded brown leather. Inside was a brass thimble, a pawn ticket and the half of a Bank of England note for 100. "What good's half a bank note to you?" " Hal( a loafs better than no bread." "Yes; but you can eat one, but you can't pas the other. Won't you catch it from Tour wife ! How'll you face her, Dan? What'llshosay?" " She'll say I done quite right," replied Dan, stoutly. " She's a good sort, God bless her." ' ' ' - " So are you, Dan ; that's a fact. God bless you, too," said more than one rough voice in softened accents..- Per haps the' child'll bring you luck after all."- - ' .....:,. . . ' Winter-tide again six years later, but this season is wet and slushy . Once more we are at Kirklinton, a long strag gling village, which might have sluai- , ered on in obscurity forever had not the Northwestern line been carried close by itjto give it a place in Bradshaw and a ! certain importance as a junction and cen ter for goods traffic. But the activity was all about the station. All the per manent oiliciuls had houses and cottages there in the village JJvod'only the field laborer wbd worked nt the neighbor ing entate, or somntiibp lent their band for ajobof navvyingon the line.. These Eoor folk had a graeomc lifo of It, a hard alul-to month -Btrturfrlft for' bare exis tence against perpetual privation, nc- A new parson Harold Treffry had como lately to ICirklington. He was an earnest, energetic young man, who had' won his spurs in the East: End parish,, ann naa now accepted tnn country liv ing because it seemed to open up a new field of usefulness. He had plunged bravely into the midst of hiswor; he was forever going up and. down among his parishioners, solaeing and comforN ing, preaching manful endurance and trustfulness to all t r -'$ lie is now paying a round of parochial visits, accompanied by an old college chum, who is spending some days with him. " Yonder," said Treffry, pointing to a thin thread of smoke which rose from some gaunt trees into the sullen wintry sir, "yonder is the- house "if, indeed, it deserves so grapd- a name the hovel, rather, of one whose case is tho hardest of all the hard ones in my unhappy cure. This man is a mere hedger :nnd ditcher, one who works-for -any master, most often for the railway, but who is never certain of a job all the year round. He litis a swarm of young children, and he li:is just lost his wife. He is absolutely prostrated; aghast, probably, at the future before him, and his utter inca pacity to do his duty by his motherless little ones. Jack!" said the parson, stopping short suddenly, and looking straight into his companions face, "I wonder whether you could rouse him? If you could only get him to make a sign ; to cry or laugh or take the smallest in terest iu common affairs. Jack, I be lieve you're the very man. You might get at him through the children P that marvelous hanky-panky of yours, those surprising tricks; a child takes to vou naturally at once. Try and make friends with these. Perhaps, when the father sees them interested and amused, he may warm a little, speak, perhaps, approve, perhaps smile, and in the end give in. Jack, will you try?" - - - Jack Newbiggin was by profession a conveyancer, but nature "had intended him for a new lloudin, or a Wizard of the North. He was more than half a professional by the time he was full grown. In addition to the quick eye and the facile wrist, he had the rarer .gifts of suave manner and the face of brass. They entered tho miserable dwelling together. The children eight of them were skirmishing all over the floor. They were quite unmanageable, and be yond tho control of the eldest sister, who was busied in setting out t he table for the mid-day meal; one other child, of six or seven, a bright-eyed, exceedingly beauti ful boy, the least were not nature's va garies well known likely to be born among and belong to such surroundings, stood between the legs of the man him self, who liad his back to the visitors and was crouching low over the scanty tire. ' ' ' The man turned his head for a mo ment, gave a blank stare, than an imper ceptible nod, nnd once more ho glowered down upon the lire. " Here, little ones, do you see this em tio nan? he's a conjuror. Know what a conjuror is. Tommy?" cried the parson, catching up a mite of four or live fiom the floor. " No, not you ; nor you, Sarah ; nor you. Jacky " and ho ran through all their names. .. , . They had now ceased their gambols, and were staring hard at their visitors the moment was propitious; Jack New biggin began. lie had fortunately tilled lits pockets with nuts, oranges, and cakes before leaving the parsonage, so lie had half his apparatus ready to hand. The pretty boy had very soon left the father at the fire, and had come over to join in the fun, going back, however, to exhibit his share of the spoil and describe voluminously what had occurred. This and the reunited shouts of laughter seemed to produce some impression on Mm. Presently he looked over his shoulder, and said but without auiiutv tion ., "It be very good of you, sir, surely; very good for to take so kindly to the littfo chicksi It does them good to laugh a bit, and it ain't much as they've had to make 'em lately." " It is eood for all of us. now and again, I take it," said Jack, desisting, and going toward him t lie children gradually collecting in a far-off corner and comparing notes. ' Vii rtQti'f. l.illfrli nt, f iTAiii. Iin-.t heavy; if you do, it can be only a sham." While he was speaking he had taken the Jlible from the shelf, and resuming his seat, began to turn the leaves slowly over. " I'm an untaught, rough countryman, sir, but I have heard tell that these strange things you do are only tricks; ain't it so?" Here w:is, indeed, a hopeful symptom ! lie was roused, then, to take some in terest in what had occurred. "All tricks, of course; it all comes of long practice," said Jack, as he proceeded to explain some of the simple processes, hoping to. enchain the man's attention. " That's what I thought, sir, or I'd have given you a job to do. I've been in want of a real conjuror many a long day, and nothing less'll do. - See here, sir," he said, as he took a small, carefully-paper from between the leaves of the Bible; "do you see this?" It was half a Bank of England note for 100. "Now, sir, could any conjuror help me lo the other hall?" : "How did you come by It?" Jack asked at once. " I'll tell you, sir, short as I can make it. Conjuror or no conjuror, you've got a kindly heart, and I'm main sure that you'll help me if you can." ( Dan then described how he had picked up the basket from the 10.45 Liverpool express. '. " There was the linen : I've kept it. See here; ail marked quite pretty and proper, with lace around the edges, as though its mother loved to make the little one smart." Jack examined Jthe linen ; it bore a monogram and crest. The first he made out to mean IT. L. M. ; and the crest was plainly two hammers crossed, and the motto, " I strike" not a common cre6t nnd ho never remembered to have seen it hefore. ...., . "And this was all?" "'Copt the banknote. That was in a poor old purse, with a pawn ticket and a thimble. I kept them all." 1 Like a true detective, Jack examined every, article minutely ...The purse bore the name of Hester Gorrigan, in rude letifra inside, and the pawnticket was made out in the same name. " I cannot give you much hope that I BtDCrA!YIiKM fipBNTY;PA., THUESDAY SEPTEMBER ; 4,: 1879. shah itlcceedv but I 'will do my" best. Will you trust me with the note for a UmerVr .t. ,. - t . y . ,yitf "Surely,-sir, with tho greatest 01 pleasure. If you could but find the other naif, it would give Harry that's what we call him such p. grand start in life; schooling and the price of binding him to some honestArade." " Jack sbookthe man's tiand find prom' Ised to do his best, and left the cottage. laf .7 .:..., - , When Jack Newbiggin (jotack to the parsonage hd found that Ins host had ac cepted an Invitation for them both to dine at the ?!'Big Housej" ns it was called, the country seat of the squire of the parish. . . , . They were cordially received at the "Big House.' Jack was handed over forth ith to hit old friends, who figura tively rushed into his arms. They were Iiondon acquaintances, no more; of the Sort We meet here and there and every where during the season, who are for us, and we for them, as much as for the South Sea Islanders, but whom we greet with rapturous effusion when we meet them in a strange place. - Jack knew the lady whom he escorted into dinner as a gossipy dame, who, when his back was turned, made ns much sport of him as of her other friends.' ' " I have been fighting your battles all day," began Mrs. Sitwell. "Was it necessary? I should have thought myself too insignificant." . "They were talking at lunch of your wonderful knack in conjuring, and some one said that the skill might prove in convenient when you played cards, for instance." - "A charitable imputation! With whom did it originate?" ' , " Sir Lewis Mallaby." ".Please, point him out to ma.?' , lVerwws shown a grave, scowling face upon the right of the hostess a face like a mask, its surface rough and wrinkled, through which the eyes shone out wit!) baleful light, like corpse-cnudles in; a seputcher. ' ' " " '' - . "Pleasant creature! I'd rather not meet him alone on a dark nighty" . r f , "He. has a terrible character,5 cer tainly. Turned his wife out of doors because she would not give him an heir. It is this want of children to inherit his title and estates which preys" upon bis mind, they say, nnd makes him so morose and melancholy.", ' : Jack let his companion chattel' on. It wns hi 9 habit to get all the information possible about nny company in which he found himself for his own purposes as a clairvoyant; and when Mrs. Sitwel Hugged, he plied her with questions, and lnl her on from one person to nnother, -making mental notes to serve him here after. It is thus by careful and labori ous preparation that mnny of the strangd and seemingly mysterious feats of the clairvoyant conjurer are performed! ' When the whole party wns assembled in tho drawing-room after dinner, a chorus of voices, headed by that of the hostess, summoned Jack to his work. There appeared to be only one dissenti ent, Sir Lewis Mallaby, who ' not only 'di not trouble himself to back up the, Invitation, but When the performance was actually begun was at no pains to conceal his contempt and disgust. - The conjuror made the conventional plum-pudding in a hat, fired wedding rings into quartern loves, did till manner of card tricks, knife tricks, pistol tricks, and juffgled on conscientiously right through his repertoire. There was never- a smile on Sir Lewis' face; he sneered unmistakably. Finally, with an ostentation that savored of rudeness, ho took out his watch, a great gold re peater, looked at it, and unmistakably yawned. , , . ,, Jack hungered for that watch directly he saw it. Perhaps through it ho might make its owner uncomfortable, if only for a moment. But how to get it into his hands? He asked for a watch a dczn were offered. No; none of these would do. It must be a. gold watch, a .repeater. Sir Lewis Mallaby's was the only one in the room, and he at first dis tinctly refused to. lend it. But so marry entreaties were addressed to him, the hostess' leading the attack, that he could not .n common courtesy continue to re fusc:" With something like a'growl he took his watch off the chain und handed it to Jack Newbiggin. A curious old-fashioned watch it was, which would have gladdened the heart of a watch collector; all jeweled and enameled, adorned with crest and in scriution an heirloom, which had pro bably been in the Mallaby family for years. .Tack looked it over ouriously, meditatively, then suddenly raising his eyes he stared intently into Sir Lewis Mallaby's lace, and almost as "quickly dropped them again. "This is far too valuable," he said, courteously, "too much of a treasure to be risked in any conjuring trick; an ordinary modern watch 1 might replace, but not a work of art like this." And he handed it hack to Sir Lewis, who received it with ill-concealed satis faction. He was as much pleased, pro bably, at Jack's expression of possible failure in the proposed trick as at the re covery of his property. Another watch, however, was pounded up into a jelly, and brought out whole from a cabinet in an adjoining room; nnd this trick successfully accomplished, Jack Newbiggin, who was now com pletely on his metal, passed on to higher flights. He had spent tho vacation of j tho year previous in France as tho pupil 1 of a wizard of European fame, and had mastered many of the strange feats which are usually attributed to clairvoyance. There is something especially uncanny about these tri 'ks, and Jack's reputation rapidly increased with this new exhibi tion of his powers. Thanks to his cross examination of Mrs. Sitwell at dinner, he wiis in possession of many facts con nected with the company, although mostly strangers to him; and some of his hits were so palpably happy that he raised shouts of surprise, followed by that terrified hush which not uncom monly succeeds the display of seemingly supernatural powers. " Oh, but this is too preposterous," Sir Lewis Mallaby was heard to say quite angrily. The continued applause pro foundly disgusted him. '.'This is the merest charlatanism. It. must ba put an end to. It i the commonest impos ture.. These are things which he has toadied up in. advance. Let him be tried with something which upon the face of it he cannot have learned before hand by artificial means." . ' .-Try him, Sir Lewis, try him your self cried several voices. " " " . I scarcely like to lend myself to such folly, to encourage so pitiable an exhibj- lBuVhe eemedito be conscious: that fun her protest would tell in J ack's favor. " I will admit that you have consider able power in this strange branch ot ni' i'n i 1 i" i' : r i . ' t . 1 1 r necromancy if you will answer a few questions of mine." - -t n . i 1 " Proceed." said Jack, gravely, meeU ing his eyes firmly and without HincbingJ I' "Tell me what is most on my mind at this present moment." ' .-. i "The want of a male heir," Jack re plied, promptly, and thanked Kin.-Sit j well in his heart. i -i ' .'.t ' " Peliaw! ' You - have learned from Burke that I have no children," said Sir Iewls, boldly ; but he was a little taken aback.! " Anything elseP" : , , i r '' The mmory of a harsh doed you now strive in vain to redeem." ...,-. t. -'This borders upon impertinence," said Sir lewis, with a hot flush on his cheek and passion in his eyes. -"But let us leave abstractions and try tangi ble realities. Can you tell me what I have in, this pocket?". He touched the left breast of his tail-coat. . . , , , 't V A pocketbook." ... , .c ' Bah I " Every one carries a pocket book in Ids pocket.!'.-,.. 'But do you?" asked several of the bystanders, all of whom .we're growing deeply interested in this strange duel. , Sir Lewis Mallaby" confessed that he did, and produced it an ordinary mo rocco leather purse and pocketbook all in one. ' "Are you prepared to go on?" said the baronet haughtily to Jack. " Certainly." " What does this ' pocketbook con tain?" - , " Evidence." ' ' The contest between them was now to the death. ' "Evidence of what?" .' ' " Of facts that must sooner or later come to light. You have in that pock etbook links in a long chain of circum stances which, however carefully con cealed or anxiously dreaded, time in its inexorable course must bring eventually to light. There is - no bond, says the Spanish proverb, which is not some day fulfilled ; no debt that in the long run is not paid." ...... -" What ridiculous nonsense! I give you my word this pocketbook contains nothing absolute.y' nothing but a Bank of England note for ono hundred pounds." "Stay!" cried Jack Newbiggin, facing him abruptly and speaking in a voice of thunder. "It is not so you know it it is only the half!" i . And as he spoke he took the crumpled paper from tho hands of the really stu pefied baronet. It was exhibited for in spection the half of a Bank of England note for 100. ; There was niueii applause at this harmless and successful denouement of what threatened at one stage to lead to altercation, perhaps to a quarrel. But Jack Newbiggin was not satisfied. "As yon have dared me lo do my worst," said Jack, " listen now to what I havo to say. Not only did I know that was only the' half of a note, but I know where the other half is to be found." - 1 - -' - " So much the bettfer for me," said the baronet, with an effort to appear humor ous. , " That otlwr half Was given to shall I My. Sir Lewisl" -v .- iV;,-- Sir Lewis nodded indifferently. " It was given to one Hester Gorrigan, an Irish nurse, six years ago." It was the price of a deed of which yon " "Silence! Say no more," cried Sir Tyewis, in horror. " I see you know all. I swear I have had no peaee since I was tempted so sorely, and so weakly fell. But I am prepared to make all the resti tution and reparation in my power un less, unhappily, unless it bo already too late." Even while ho was speaking his face turned ghastly pale, his lips were cov ered with a fine white foam, he mado one or two convulsive attempts to steady hiniM-lf, then with a wild, ten-ilied look around, he fell heavily to the floor." It wtis a paralytic seizure. They took him up stairs nnd tended him; but the case was desperate from the first. Only just before the end did he so far recover the power of speech as to be able to make full confession of what had occurred. Sir Lewis had been a younger son; the eldest inherited the family title, but died early, ' leaving his widow to give him a posthumous hoir, tho title remain ing in abeyance until time showed whether the infant was a boy or girl. It proved to bo a boy. whereupon lewis Mallably, who had the earliest intima tion of the fact, put into execution a ne farious project which he had carefully concocted in advance. A girl was ob tained from a foundling hospital and substituted by Lady Mallaby's nurse, who was in Lewis' pay, for the newly born son and heir. This son and heir was handed over to another accomplice, Hester Gorrigan, who wns bribed with 100, half down in the shape of a half note, tho other half to be paid when she announced her safe arrival in Texas with the stolen child, Mrs. .Gorrigan had an unquenchable thirst, and in Tier transit between Ixindon and Liverpool allowed her precious charge to slip out of her hands, with tho consequences we know. It was the watch borrowed' fi-ohiJfjF Lewis Mallably which first aroused Jack's suspicions. It bore the strange crest two hammers crossed, with the motto "I Strike "which was marked upon the linen of the child that Dan Blockit picked up atKirklington station. Tho initial of tho name Mallaby coin cided with the monogram II.-' L. M. Jack drew his conclusions, and made a bold shot, which hit the mark, as we havo seen. Ixiwis Mallaby's confession soon rein stated the rightful heir, and Dan Blockit, in after years, had no reason to regret the generosity which prompted him to give the little foundlirg the shelter of his rude home. Words of Wisdom. Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. What cannot be required is not to De regretted; f f ' T r j I M D good with what thou hast,' or it will do thee no good. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer aad forge yourself one. - . Modesty is to worth what shadows are n a painting; she gives to it strength and relief. e : -v . i ) . There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues. ) , i -, ; i , . , , If a man have love in his heart, he may talk in broken language, but it will be eloquence to those who listen. ! ' Don't despise the small talents; they are needed as well as the great ones.- A candle iisometimps as useful as the sun. The diamond fallen into the dirt is not the least precious, and the dust raised by high winds to heaven is not the le6s vile. FARM, G1RDEN, AND HOUSEHOLD. ''' ' V' The teph to Cover Serttt. ' '' Rulei are often laid down ' by wi-iters as guides for farmers when planting the seeds of their various . farm - crops, as thouirh any rule could be depended unon 'under all circumstances, When the fact is every one must use judgment in this as in every other operation on the farm. We have before us an account of an ex periment made by some ono in sowing wheat at different depths from one-lourth of an inch to three or more inches deep, also in leaving it unon the surface. That sown from one-fourth to three-fourths of an inch cam tip soonest nnd grow best, while that left on the surface,' and that covered thiee and a half inches deep, was two weeks in getting started. The writer would, therefore, recommend covering grain not less than one-half inch, nor more than one Inch deep to- se cure the. quickest germination and the most vigorous grewth, which would he a good depth whenever the soil is in the best condition for planting, that is, when it is jubV perceptibly moist throughout, from the surface downward. But there nre times, during severe droughts, when there is so little moisture in the top soil that seeds planted less than an inch deep might lie for wcekB without germinating, while if covered two or three inches deep, they would find moisture enough to sprout them. ' Much may be done to insure germination by stirring the soil deeply just before sowing, to bring up moist soil from the bottom, and by roll ing the surface tifter sowing with a heavy iron roller to compact the soil and render it capable of taking up moisture from below by capillary attraction, but after all it is usually good economy, in dry weather, to sow seed, grain especially, quite liberally, and endeavor to work it well down into the soil with a cultivator, disk harrow, or something of the kind. The smoothing harrow may then follow to level the surface, after which the land should be l'olled smooth and as hard ns the nature and condition of the soil will allow. Some farmers delay sowing grass or grain in autumn when the weather is dry, and wait for rain, but we always prefer to put in the seed as soon as the ground can bo prepared, after the season of sowing has arrived, and then trus'tthe future for rain to sprout it, and suitable weather for its growth. If one could plant no more seeds than would grow to maturity, a great saving would be made ina term of years, but still we believe il is usually a better plan to seed liberally and allow something for uncertainties I ban to stint tho quantity. In tho early spring when the ground is usually quite moist, shallow covering and even surface seeding may be advisable, but in mid summer deeper covering is demanded. ;Vc' England Farmer. Carelessness as Source of Income. It is amazing to consider the extent to which losses are incurred on the one hand, and sales and occupation afforded, on tho other hand, by the inexcusable carelessness of people who know better and ought to do better. The fastening of a well-bucket is deranged, or a hoop is Joose, but .tho.ihouglitless .man or woman never notices the trouble until the bucket is dropped in the well or the bottom is out. Then t'uie is lost, the family is inconvenienced, and perhaps a neighbor gets a job of work nnd the ptiy. The gate-latch is out of order; no attention is paid to it; the hogs or co-vs get in ; the yard is rooted up ; the shrub bery is destroyed; the gardenir Is em ployed, and tho nurseryman has an" order. A tire is loose on the wheel ; the wood is swiftly wearing away, a little caro would set the matter right; no pains arc taken ; away on the road a wheel is crushed, and the wheelwright has some employment. A shingle is out of place m the roof; one nail would mend the trouble; that nail isn't driven; the rain steals In, nnd soon the plasterer is paid to use trowel and brush. A bridlo rein is weak; a bit is worn;-nobody thinks of examining either; a horse is drawn to one side, or a horse runs away ; a vehicle is broken; a carriage-maker or black smith is profited, and perhaps a surgeon has a profitable professional engage ment. The water of a well is impure; those who use it complain, no proper steps are taken; the family have serious sickness; the druggist sells his medicines, and the doctor gets his fees. In tho same way the cellar is foul ; the mephitic gases escape through the floors; the blood is poisoned; the fever rages, some Buffer; some die; the physician has a . harvest, and even the undertaker and sexton find employ ment. A stove-chimney is in a danger ous condition : dcodIc have eves to see. but don't use lheni ; tho fire soon doei its dreadful work, and carpenters unil mercnanis nave a goou time, so ot many very many things. Are you innocent of such . oegleet? There are far better and cheaper ways to give work and profit to others. By taking care of what you have, you may become able to add other and more val uable things which you desire. There Is true economy in proper attention, to small as well as great things. Kural New Yorker. ' ' , 5 " . ;'' ,: Firm Butter Without Icoi ' ' '. ' ' From W. P. . Hazzard's treatise on but tor and butter-making, we extract the following: In families or where the dairy is small, a good plan to have but ter cool and firm without ice is by' the process of evaporation as practiced in India and other warm climates. A cheap plan is to get a very large-sized porous earthen flower-pot'vith an extra large saucer. Half fill the saucer with water, set it in a trivet or light stand such as is used for holding hot irons will do; upon this set your butter: over tho whole invert the llower pot, letting the top rim of it rest in and be covered by the water; then close the hole, in the botton with a cork; then dash water over the flower pot, and reoeat the tro- cess several times a day, or whenever it looks dry. If get in a cool place, or where the wind can blow upon it, it will readily evonorato the water from the pot, and the butter will be firm and cool as if from an ice-house. ' . " , , ' . For Cabbaa Worms. .The following is recommended bv Philip Osborne, of Girard, Pa. as sure t.l....l. ...11 .IIT..I.. iioklu ou mo cuuuagu worms. j.hko one part slack lime, ona part plaster, one part wood ashes and one part salt. Mix well together. Sjjrinkla a little on the center, and no matter if over the . entire surface. Four quarts of the coniposii tion will save one hundred cabbages about a handful to five plants. I applied it to mine this morning while. t light dew was on. and it was gratifying to see the worms tumble off to rise no move. Last year J saved all my cabbage that J applied It to, , Have no fears of tills com position injuring your cabbage. It will all work out, with, the growth of the plant and ' the salt will make tho h'Juds bolid." TIMELY TOPICS. , Georgia is nbout to erect a monument to Sergeant William Jasper, of South ('arolina, who fell in the assault on Savannah, October5 9, 1779. .This is the hero who leaped from the pnrapet of Fort Moultrie and regained the flag tohleh had been shot away by a ball from the British fleet. On another oc casion, aided by a single companion,- ho captured a British guard of ten soldiers and rescued twelve American captives. '-Wild Bill," the frontiersman, who in his day was as notorious as Kit Carson, and .who was killed three years ago, hns tiirrted to stone from scalp to toe. His remains, which were buried nt Dead wood, in the Black Hills. Were taaen from the grave for re-interinent at an other place, when they were found to have become petrified. The features arc as natural hs life, save that a ivhiteness overspreading all gives to the face tho appearance of chiseled marble. The following statistics will prove in teresting to those who raise either dogs or sheep: In 1H60 Massachusetts had 114,000 sheep and 112.000 dogs, and it is believed that the present number of sheep in that Slate is actually below 55,000, while there are good reasons for believing that it ban more than two, perhaps nearly three dogs to every sheep kept in tho State. During the year 1875, 11.489 dogs killed 1,673 sheep; and in 1878, there were 10,000 dogs taxed, nnd sheep killed by them to the value of The cotton crop in the South this year will correspond well with the enormous crops of wheat and corn in the West and Northwest. .The report of the executive committee of the National Cotton Ex change, jnst received, says that "dur ing the last five years cotton-culture in tho United States has outstripped the most sanguine expectations; that the problem of free labor has been virtually solved, and that the South must be re garded as tho future reliance of the cotton manufacturers of both America and Eu rope." . The plague of rats in the Deccan, Bombay, for the second season in suc cession, is occasioning serious alarm. These animals overspread the country like locusts, destroy the crops almost as thoroughly, and are even more difficult to keep down. So grave had become the aspect of affairs that a " llat Committee" was appointed to inquire into the best means of disposing of these creatures. They have advised the people to turn out cn masse and face the enemy, lie wards are to be offered for dead rats, and. in fact, tho invasion is to be treated as a matter to be dealt with vigorously by tho whole community. In the meantime the question litis arisen ns to how th6 r,ats have multiplied. On the 31st of December, 1877, there were 58.400 postoffices in Europe, with 2i!t,517 persons employed, or one postal establishment' for -every 0,134 inhabit ants. These postoflices are most thickly planted in Switzerland, and after Swit zerland in Great Britain and Ireland. A striking contrast to these two coun tries is afforded by Russia and Turkey, thcic being in the former only one post oflice to everv 5,708, and in the latter one to everv 1, 105 square miles. Altogether, 5.0f2.Otio,0O0 letters, papers, etc.. were sent by post in Europe iu 1877, 3,597, OOO.ODO' being letters or postcards, 1.522, (lOtl.OOO newspapers, nnd 503.000,000 pat terns and the like; and tho greatest number of letters, papers, etc., were sent in Great Britain and Ireland, the total number dispatched being 1,483,075.000, or nt the rate of 34 7 letters and 9.4 news papers for every inh ibitant. Increase In Lunacy. Dr. Lu-.li, the president of the British Medico Psychological Association, in the course of an address delivered to the members, drew attention to a marked increase of Info; years in lunacy. In the first report of the commissioners on lunacy they state that in June, 1840, there were in England and Wales 23,000 persons of unsound mind. The popula tion was then nbout 17.000,000, now it is 25,000,000, and it is estimated that on the first of January, 1879, there were 70,823 persons in England and Wale who need ed the protection of the lunacy laws. It appears, therefore, that while the popu lation has increased at the rate of forty live per cent., the number of lunntics in detention has risen at the rate of 250 per cent. Assuming that another thirty three years will yield similar results, accommodation will have to be provi led in 1912 lor nearly a quarter of a million of insane or imbecile persons in England and Wales. The true solution of the difficulty, he thought, Is to bo sought 1st. In increased family responsibility. 2d. Iu educating the popular belief in the gravity of the disease itself. 3d. In further State interference if possible. 4th.' In increased efforts to make the lot of insane persons under detention as lit tle irksome as is consistent with safety and the conditions of their malady. Be yond these he feared not much can be dono or hoped for; less ought not to bo required; and if, instead, a callous in difference continues to prevail as to tho extent oi insanity, grave and calamitous results, to be discovered only when too ln'.e to be repaired, must follow a neglect of the accepted teachings of medical science and experience. A GLiss Mountain. Another marvel recently brought to light in the Yellowstone Park of North America is nothing less than a mountain of obsidian or volcanic glass. Near the foot of Beaver Lake, a band of explorers came upon this remarkable mountain, which rises at that place in columnar cliff's and rounded bosses to manv hun dreds of feet in altitude, from hissing hot springs at the margin of the lake. As it was desirable ' to pass that way, the party had to cut out a road through the steep glassy . barricade. This they eiutctea uy making nuge nres on tue iflass to thoroughly heat and expand it. and then dashing tho cold water of the lake against the heated surface, so as to suddenly cool and break it up by shrink ago. Large fragments were in this way detached ' from the solid side of ; the mountain, then broken up small by sledeo hammers -and picks, not. how ever, without severe lacerations of the hands and faces of the men from flying simmers, iniueurana Lemon oi me Gibbon river the-'Cxplorers also found precipices f yellow, black and banded ohsiljin hundred of feet high, .. The natural glass of these localities has from time immemorial been used by the ln I dians to tip their spears and arrows; 1 - it: NO. 28. . pr-! i , . r ' f ' I-, la the Testlbule. . ,; ? - if - . 4-; r-t . A little, chubby, red-lipped child, .,;-: With dreamy eye Sleuth fringe of silken Insh, And, working o'er its features, wonder mild, . Like ripples kindled by the sunbeam's flush Just at the oi trance- ol the maze called life, floodless of all its turmoil, blare nnd strife, Yon Is waiting, ' 1 Hesitating Not with little nerveless fist to beat Its tnp, And in file's vestibule fo bound its sott. ligh rap. ' . ' Say, what fclrnll be the entering Ir I ' Through hulls of right, or hulls of sin ' To right, to left, bcoide the gat j, Attending spirits beckoning wait. Ohi shall tho good or evil win? ' ' ' 11. A youth beside a church-door stands; ' Across the way the ruby wine doth loam, '' And comrades lure with beckoning handn, While swelling organ tones play ' Heaven's : my homo.", i. Behold him on the vnrge ot manhood here, With careless heart und love ol worldly cheer, Woiting, waiting, ' Heeitaung, A voice within him pleading, " To tho right," Vet ou the lelt he sees a world ot dear delight. Say, what Khali be the ontering here T The orxan note persuasive, clear, . Swell nut in eU-iiiu inspiring, grand, And sweet, " lluaven is Father-land," While siren tones Buig " Wino doth choor.' A ripe, old man, of honors lull, Conqueror ol ologies and. fume, From vestibule to vestibule, Having gone iu and writ.en high his nniuo At life's lust door lluils .-till mi enlrnnce hull, And leeble, nerveless, infunt-liko in all, Yet is waiting, Hesitating Here nt this limit vestibule to Und Knlinn.e by death alone where pass iu all mankind. " Say, wb ii shall be the catering here ? In loving faith or loathing fear? Upon th) right, n iinsions t blis, The shad.iwy lelt, realms all unnl..i , In whicn, eh, Soul, wilt thou appear? Lovitc S. Dnor, in Portland Transcript, ITEMS OP IXTEBKST. A prowed thing A ship. Cold muffins Hagamurtins. A moving sight Old cheese. You can't beat a porcelain'cgg. A judge's position is a trying one. Post. . - Did the man who " shot at random " hit UP How strange it is that hot words should produce ,a coolness. It is reported that the Indians . ill Florida now number only 300. No hotel porter ever tried to smash an elephnnt's trunk. Kew i'ork Knvs. T!ic strength of an elephant is calcula ted as equal to thatof l'lOmcn combined By a now law the French postollice undertakes the collection of small bills in the provinces. . The Philadelphia JYmc says that girls who sing in hotel parlors have conspicu ously largo mouths. "I expend a good deal of panes at my work," as the glazier said to the window sash. New York Mail. . Mr. Barry Sullivan,-the English actor, prides himself on having placed Hamlet, more than 2,800 times in till quarters ol the globe. "All's well that ends well," said a vic tim of the toothache, ius his swollen cheeks resumed their former size. Dan ielsonville Sentinel. A lad being askeir " What is Hhodo Island celebrated for?" replied : "It is the only one of the New England States wbh-h is the smallest. " Tiie official returns of tho registrars of Ireland for the second quarter of the year contain a l coord of the death of persons aged respectively H'a, 107 and 117. . . , Two boys have been arrested in Paris for cutting buttons from men's coats. It was learned that they collected dozens ii day und sold them, to pbscuro tailors. The flouring mill industry In the United States employs 00,000 men m 25,000 mills, turning out yearly OO.ooo.iK'O barrels oi Hour, of which 4,000,00(1 are exported to foreign countries. ; . ' . The world's Wheat crop in 1879 is put at 1,510,000,000, not much aliove a bushel to every human being in tin' world : and much wheal is consumed by tho lower animals. . . New Hampshire's .manufactures last year amounted to over $00,000,000, niuon them beiiitf 93O.588.50O worth of cotton ' goods. 1 1,709,000 of boots and shoes,- and $9,23,ooo ot wooiens. Of the 80,250,000 English-speaking peo ple in the world, 17,750,000 are Episco palians, 11000,000 are Methodists, 13, 500,000 Roman Catholics. 10,000.000 Pres byterians. 8,000,000 Biiptists, and 7,000, 000 Congregationalists. ' ,. Wo believe L stands for fifty, according the Roman notation, and that is the rea son why a young man who had just in- lieriteil a Ulty dollar legacy won me con sent of the girl's lather by tolling the old man ho had just been left a bare L of money. Keokuk tonnutuvion. , T-pariiinflT from physiological .sources that carrying a pitcher of water on the head would conduce to a graeciui poisu of tho system, a down-town girl tried the experiment. She hasnt paid for the pitcher yet, ann sue is cnxiousiy liiquii fnir for-sotwet hina to take water spots out of her .hc.'t.ilf,-rAVu) Havm Reg ister. . : '7: . ., ,, " I'm sitting on this Vte, Mury," , ' He said in accents snd, - '. s Keraoving troui the tnokiug cUnir , Xhe best silk hat he had) And while be viewed the shapeless mass,' That erst was trim and neat, ' - i . He murmur 4, " Would it had been felt, - liefoie I took my seat." - Yacoi Strvtui. James Stewart, tw lve.yenr.old son of James Stewart, residing, rear Willy's Neck, Porehester county, Md , was sent into an out-tield to make a smother, to k-'ep the mosquitoes from1 the cattlci Not coming -back after a reasonable time had . elapsed the fn'hcr went. into, the field. jtQ,eari'h for 141U- Jle -Wiis found lying face dow-riwfi'rd on tho gronnrf dead, his' lrfotrtlli' throat) nose'- and ears liter ally puCkbd -with mosquitoes.
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