pit ili Ul 111 Y I US ' VII H HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publlchtr. MIL DESPER AK31 2 . "wo Dollars psr Annum. VOL. X. BID GAY AY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSD A Y JANUARY 20, 1881. NO 48. Talet Oh, the iwilt years ! Pleasure, dismayed, beholds them harry on; And love, strong love, looks baok throngh passionate tsars ; Like the bright meteor that scarce appears, 8oon are they gone. Oh, the fleet hours I Why, what is man? their puppet and their slave; At first his totters wreathing with lair flowers Then galled and worn and lobbed of all bis owers, Gaining a grave. Vule ! we cry, Watching in youth the sweet June roses tall; They bloom axaiu smnli matter it they die. Ah ! y. s, they bloom; but canler worms will he, Doubt not, in all. Vale! The word Later has smitten us with mortal pain; Rung out the death-knell ot dtar hope, or stirred 'Xhe lips whose earthly voices may be heard Never uain. Then doo3 it wake Sad recollections, haunting thoughts that grieve; We know the cruel wound somo larowclls make, We loarn to drf a ' the nothinpness, the break railing may leave, So the years run ! Vale ! we soon must bid this briel estate; But for that heiitngo which shall be won When the heed soul with time itsell has done Trusting, we wait. The Argoty. HIS 'REWARD. " You are most unjust, Charles, and 1 know the Lord will one day stirrer your conscience for your cruelty, and your heartieesness1, toward that dear child." ) The speaker writ a comely lady of about fifty, tall. slku. and upright, 'and neatly clad in wid(f v's weeds. Charles Pemberton, her eldest son, a handsome, stalwart Touuar nin ol eieut-and twentv, whom she redressed, answered lniD'itien'Jv: i '51 " C'onfourd the Ik', I wisli he was dead." HeriHrot mean that: for he loved his little brother, vd delighted to make him happy. IVjjhis mother had a fatal facility ofrngue, aid for the last three hr ursAie had been attacking him on tlrff ubject with aggressive meekness. And now, out of his grief and his imi a tieuco, he fiupo; fo'th those bitter wonls. angry with himself as he did so, and rose to leave the room, lest his over wrought temper should betray him further. Ilis mother Hung a parting shaft after him. "You may have your wish sooner than you expect, Charles, and more than that. He will probably not trouble jou many years, for he is very delieate; and 1 shall not outlive hini very loiig. Thfn I suppose, you will be happy." Charles Ptnibcrion paw the cambric prepnred for the shower, and shudder ing fled; whereupon Mrs. Pemberton retired to her bedroom to pray that her son's hard heart might be softened. And then, from n curtained recess at one end ot the room, there came a little hoy of twelve, with blanched, serious luce, half-parti d lips, and wide dark eyes. Townru the close of Mrs. Pem berton's lecture he had entered the room, by au open window, unpereeived, and, lindinp that he was the subject of the discourse, he had concealed himself. f tnAi1a unH tltfiir i 1 1 11 I liia vara lifa- . . VI .J J ,., 1 11 . J 1. Ill 111. U 111U . . A J 111V ) blood. He stood now with one hand clutching the curtain. " So Charles wishes I was dead, does he f And mother thinks I am going to die to please him. But I won't. I wonder what makes mother think I am going to die. Pert aps she only said it to aggravate Charles. Why should he wish 1 was dead P I thought he was fond of me;" and here he was nearly choked with a rising sob, which he gulped down with difficulty. " I won der why I'll ask him." , The next morning, after breakfast, his brother, who had forgotten the inci dent of the previous day, taking a ball, called out; " Get your bat, Teddy, and let's have half an hour's practice." As they were walking down to the field Edward suddenly startled his brother by asking: " Would it be any good to you if I was dead, Charles ? " "Good to me1 Why, Teddy, what are you thinking of J " " Well, ye.terday you said you wished I was di ad ; and you wouldn't wish that if it would be no good to you, would you P " Charles stopped abruptly, and said. with sternness: "Who told you that?" " Nobody. I just came into the room as you said it, and you didn't see me. And ever since I have been wondering why." Charles Pemberton nun away the bat and ball he was carrying, and clasped the boy in bio arms, kissing him, and hugging him, like a girl with a new doll. " Oh. Teddy, Teddy, Teddy," he said : " I wish my tongue had been torn out by the roots belore I had said such a thing; but I didn't mean it, Teddy. You never thought I meant it, did you? Why, Teddy, I wouldn't lose you for all the world, my little playfellow, my brother. It isn't right for me to com plain to you ol mother, and when I have just told you how it happened that I said those cruel words that I didn't mean, didn't ever mean, you know for a moment, Teddy then you must forget all about it. I had t Id mother that 1 wanted to make a man of you, and that it was time you went to school, and learned to stifle up for yourself; and then she said I was cruel to you, and that I didn't care for you, and lectured and scolded me all the afternoon, and then I forgut myself which I ought not to have done, for I know it is only her love that makes her over-anxious and I said those hateful words, that I.never, never, never meant, Teddy." " I thought you never could mean it. Charles," said the little fellow. He had borne up with wonderful stoicism till now. but the overwhelming sense of re lief was too much for him, and he began to weep and sob convulsively. Shortlv. he sprang up and clasped Ms brother'! beck, laying I . ' I'll go to school, Charlie, and I'll do just as you like, rnd you'll see it I won't Je a man, and I'll win the Greek and Latin prizes, too, if I can ; but you know I'm not clever, Charlie, so you mustn't be disappointed if I don't do that all at once, will youP" " I'll trust you, Teddy, my boy, to do the best you can, and none of us can do more than that. I shall miss you sorely, Teddv. hut there'll be iollv long holi days, you know, and we shall have pleasant times together then. And now come on and let's see how you'll guard your wicket, if you don't do me credit as a cricketer, I'll sit on you." The poor lady's heart was very sore when her ooy had gone, and she felt bench alone, and many and dread were the misgivings that darkened her mind. And Charles, too, felt himself alone. Mrs. Percberton's married life had been outwardly calm and uneventful ; but she was out of sympathy with her husband, a man of easy, jovial tempera ment, who scarcely noticed her cold ness, and never troubled himself aboui it; and she had sought consolation in religion. She had fallen under the in fluence of certain meek persons, who held that "the world," and things of the world, were forbidden to them. When her husband died, leaving her only a life-interest in a moderate prop erty, and making his eldest son sole guardian of the boy. she had made some efforts to win over Charles to her views; but his honest, healthy nature, was absolutely impervious to these nar row notions; he was, according to the jureon of her sect. " given ud to a re probate mind," and day by day the icy crust ot reserve in whicu she lived be came thicker and denser; and it was rendered more hard by the feeling of bitterness inspired by the provisions of her husband's will. Charles felt all this ncutely. He tried to be, and he was, a food son, but all attempts at filial con- tide rce were rcpuUed. The kind of fatalism which she had accepted made tier bow with resignation to the will which had decreed the eternal perdi '.ionof her cider son, in common with nut of the overwhelming majority of .he human race; but with something of it consistency she prayed witli passion' ale earnestness that her younger son mi ''Lt be given to her, and might be gathered into the fold of the elect. The bov throve at school. His health, now lha. ho was freed from maternal coddling, improved ranidlv. As was to be expected he did full justice to his brother's diligent coaching in athletics, uud what no one had expected, he aevet oped a wonderful faculty for mathe nmtics. JS'othing could be more satis factory than the reports of his conduct and progress; and nothing brighter and more beautiful than the lad's healthy confidences with his brother in his happy holidays, when he described his school life and the young hopes and am bitions kindling within him. When the term of Teddy's school life was drawing to a close the head master of the school otrcrtglv urged that he should go to Cambridge; and the lad himself, pleased with the idea, was en couraged in his desire by the fact that the dearest of his school friends had just etitered there. But this was an extension of the educational course which had not been contemplated. By the will of his father, only a very moderate sum bad been assigned for the boy's education, and this had already been doubled by Charles out of his own limited means iu order that he might have the advan tages ot a superior school. If he went to the university, the funds must come entirely from his elder brother, who would have to deny himself in many ways to arrange matters. And it was especially hard to do at this time, for the opportunity had just occurred ot purchasing on advantageous terms some hclds on which he had long looked with an eye of rational desire. Mrs. Pemberton had been looking forward with hungry desire to the clos ing of the chapter of Teddy's school experience. He was still young and impressible, and sho woum nave op portunities daily and hourly of guiding bis thoughts in the only direction in which, according to her views, they could be profitably employed. Her na ture, which hardened more and more to all the rest of the world, concentrated all its tenderness and af fection on this boy; and her dearest hone on this side of the grave was, that it might be through her instrumental ity that he should separate himself from the world, even as she had done. When, therefore. Charles announced to her his intention of sending the boy to (Jambridge, it was to her a cruel and a bitter blow. For a tew moments she sat in silence. the gloom deepening on her face, and her heart growing icier than ever within her. " It will not be with my will or with my consent," she said at length, "that he zoes. But. I know my will and my wish have no weight with you, and that you delight to thwart them." " Nav. mother." said he. mildly. am thinking only of Teddy's good. It would be far pleasant r for me to have him at home, but both Dr. Vardv and Mr. L'Oste have assured me that Teddy has remarkable abilities, and that he ought t ; go. The boy himself is eager to go; and I know he will distinguish himself, if honest work can bring him distinction." "And what good," she flashed out, " will his distinction do him P ' Knowl edge puffetb up.' and it shall vanish away, mere is but one tmng neeami to know, and of that he is likely to learn little among gay and thoughtless youths, whose homes are all of this world. You are willing to gratify your own small and worldly ambition, by sacrificing the boy s only true interest." "Mother." he pleaded. I wish you would be a little more reasonable" "Ay. reason I'" she broke in "Reason is the will-o'-the-wisp that leads you astray, not only to your own undoing, but that ol others, xou think yourseit wise; and you may be wise in the ways of this world, but God has said, ' I ill destroy the wisdom of the wise, 1 will bring to nothing the under standing ot the prudent.' " She was ready with quotations at every turn to justify herseit, and to con' demn rer Bon. He would gladly have avoided giving her pain, had he known how to do so, but having made up his mind as to what was best for the lad, he did not shrink from carrying it out ; and as he walked the neias aiane, month at ipr month, he was oppressed bv a du! sorrow, which he was compelled to bear in utter solitude, for to no living soul could he complain of bis mother. His only consolation was, that in hit college career Teddy fully justified every expec tation that had been lormea ol mm. His kit long vacation bad oome, sad he was to spend it with his old school chum, who had been his dearest friend alBo at college, but had left the univer sity in the previous year Turenne Jer- mjn was a young man wtiose iricnosnip was worth having, clear-headed, sound hearted, ot exuberant vitality. He had often heard from Teddy of "dear old Charlie," and in arranging for this long vacation an earnest invitation had been given that he should loin them. It offered a tempting break in a dull, monotonous life, and was accepted. Sir Frederick Jermyn's seat lay on the slope of a lovely Berkshire hill, shut round by woods, but overlooking a wide and cnarmmg landscape, as unaries Pemberton passed the lodge gates, and saw on either side the evidences of wealth and social station, he began to regret his acceptance, feeling that he would scarcely be at his ease amid sur roundings so much above his own homelier state. The cordiality of his welcome, however, soon chased away these misgivings, and he had not been many hours at Wilmore Court before a new set of feelings took possession of his minJ. He bad exchanged greetings with Sir rederick, Turenne, and his brotner, was reading, with their assistance, the noble view from the window, when he was suddenly conscious of another presence in the room, and turning beheld Miss Jermyn. concerning whom, curiously, Teddy in his letters had said nothing. but whose presence, as he thought, made of the hall a temple. Not that she was a beauty. A fair-haired girl, with large gray eyes and rather blunt features. there was nothing of classic grace about ner: but in every line ot her lair lace there shone the light of a beautiful soul. There was a faint flush on her face, and two good little dimples marked her Eleasant smile, as, looking straight into is face, with frank, clear eyes, she held out her hand to greet him, and made a captive of him forever. " Your brother," she said, "is already one of the family, and he has made you so well known to us that I teel as though 1 were welcoming an old friend." Thank vou verv much." said he. hope I may yet be privileged to give you batter reason for regarding me as such." That night, as he sat in his room, long after the household was asleep, fie could but ask mnir'elt, with a beating heart, whether it were possible that there was in store for him a compensation for in u oli weariness in his life hitherto, so immeasureably rich as the love of this girl. Was he too old to hope for such bliss? He was barely thirty-seven in years.and he was younger in that he had never been hackneed in the ways of love, and his heart had never bowed to a meaner passion. When he descended next morning, there was the light of hope and love in his face. "Why, Charlie," exclaimed Teddy, how young you lookl if you grow backward at this rate while you are at Wilmore Court, mother will hardly know which is which." He watched Teddy and Lilian in frank and happy Intercourse, and thought with delight that they were already as brother and sister. Her manner to him was confidential, almost allejtionate He was sure ot his ground; more and more sure each day until the very last on the eve of which he sat In his bed room, musing much, for he bad deter mined that he would know his tate on the morrow. There was a tap at the door. "Come in," he cried, and, turning. saw his brother, with a brilliant flush on his face and a strange fire in his eyes. "Charlie," said he, in a voice that quivered with some deep feeling. want, to ten you something." " Yes," said he, kindly, and scarcely noticing these signs of unusual emotion. ' And 1 have, I think, something to tell sou. What is your new at" Teddy walked to the window, and stood there, looking out lor a few sec onds before he asked, speaking abruptly, and without turning: " Charlie, what do you think of Lilian ermyn?" Had thel boy then discovered his secret, and was he coming to urge him to the step on which he had already de termined P His agitation was eo great that he could scarcely find . ords to speak, but he began to ans arer slowly, in low tones : "I should, perhaps, have spoken to you earlier, Teddy " The young man turned to him impul sively. " Ah!" he exclaimed. " vou have seen it all. I might have known that, dear old brother. Charlie, bless me, con gratulate me, make much of me ; she has promised to be my wife." He had thrown his arms round his elder brother's neck in the old childish way, and was for a moment or so inco herent in his joy ; he did not observe, or, if he did observe, attributed to u. wrong cause his brother's emotion, though he felt in every fiber of his frame a thrill of grateful recognition as his brother kissed his forehead and said: "God bless you, Teddy, and make you worthy of such a treasure." Au hour later, as Teddy was leaving him, he said : "Oh, Charlie, there was something you were going to tell me. wnat was in 44 Oh that rtraa a amall w n t to a WU WUUV VT UID U B1UU11 UlUVll IVl IT O will not mix it with your joy to-night." Words of Wisdom. No man is wise or safe but he that is honest. Without earnestness one cannot even ju'st to effect. Even the weakest man is strong enougu to eniorce his convictions. Do what eood thou canst unknown : and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. It is not only arrogant, but is profit gate for a man to disregard the world's opinion ot nimseii. In certain souls, more haughty than tender, pardon is a polite form, a sort of eupuemism oi contempt. Look on slanderers as direct enemies to civil society; as persons without honor, honesty or humanity. The law can never make a man hon est ; it can only make him very uncoiu tortabie wnen ne is aisiionest. The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought ot sell pass in and the beauty of great action is gone the bloom from a soiled flower. If men would spend in doing good to others a Quarter of the time and money they spend in doing harm to themselves misery would vanish irom the earth. To protect one's self against the storms of life marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it prves a tempest in the har Dor. FOR THE FAIR SEX. M las Lollipop's nonsekeeplns;. Miss Lollipop thought she must help To wash up the dishes and wipe off the shelf, To braBh off the table, and sweep np the floor And olean oft the stains from the paint on the floor. She put on her apron and pul'ed an her sleeves She didn't want work that was only make- believe; For muzzerg who've dot yittle chillens,' said she, ' Must have yittlo housekeepers ; dat's what I'll be." Little Miss Lollipop went through the room, Whisked the dust hih wHh the edge of the broom, Broke the poor oup which she dropped on the floor, ' Lett the paint twenty times worse than before. Spattered and splashed but oh ! how eould I chide The little heart swelling with sweet helpful pride T " For how would my mnzzer bo ablo," said she, "To get fro her work if she didn't have me !" Dearer the love in the sunny blue eyes, Than the dust she is raising, which fades as it flics ; Better to miss the best eup on the shell, Than chill the dear heart whioh is giving itself. Dear little Lollipop ! we are, like yon, Spoiling the work we are trying to do But surely the Father, who loves ua, will heed, And take in His kindness the will ol the deed Wide Awake. Marriage or Money. A singular story comes from Indian apolis of a clerk in a leading business house in that city who became so in volved that he needad $500 to e ttricate himself from the diln jultios. Bv some means he discovered that a table-irl at one of the hotels had, by hard 7ork, saved up a considerable sum ot money, ana to ner lie applied tor a lo.ui. ruu was readily granted, and a note with in terest and a day of payment, only six months in the future, was exreuted in acknowledgment of the same. The time came and witn it the same chronic in ability on the part of the maker to pay it. Ele pleaded for an extension of time, but this the waiter maiden refused to grant, and informed him that he must either pay the sum at once or marry her. The woman was about forty yeirs old, and much more than correspondingly u jly so that the debtor demurred against the imposi tion of such hard terms. The woman. however, was non-relenting. With her it was either the money or a husband. and, on the whole, she seemed quite anxious to cuoose tue latter, wneu the hero saw the gravity of the situation he perceived no way to escape it. and finally capitulated, so the marriage was performed. The man belongs to a good family, ana is saia to be greatly numui ated bvthe condition in which he so UUWllUUgiY 1111US UIU13U1I iu ueiug by force to a woman so inferior to him self in social position and intellect. The woman, however, was so well pleased that she rented and furnishel a house and was ready for business before the wedding day. Fashion Hints. Some odd styles are said to be in prep raation for simple muslin and wool dresses for the spring and summer. Thus there are waists contrived w ithout shoul der seams, probably by being cut bias on the shoulders, and still others have the entire sleeve cut in one piece with the waist of the dress, the only seam ol the leeve being on the inside ol the arm The seam down the middle of the froat is also bias, and there is a bunch of hirring each side ol this seam at the waist line. Shirred yokes, and basques that are shirred all over, were worn years ago, and, it is said, will be revived for thin lawns and grenadines of next season. News and Notes for Women. The Princess of Wales has just passed her thirty-sixth birtnaay. Massachusetts can supply the world with surplus females. The most sprightly girls in the wor.d are said to ba the hpamsh girls. Two daughters of the sultan, not vet bfteen years old, are anout to be married to Turkish cavalry omoers. The Fulton Times thinks that kissing a girl on the cheek is like eating the skin of an oiange and throwing the I nicy pulp awaj. 'We old maids," remarked Miss Stephens, " love cats because we have no husbands, aud cats are almost as treacherous as men." A lady who had quarreled with her ba.dheaded lover said, iu dismissing him: "What is delightful about you, my friend, is that I have not the trouble of sending back any locks of hair." Kate Field expresses the belief that George Eliot was the only woman in the civilised world who has never been photographed. There is a cravon por trait ot her owned by the Blackwoods in kdinburg, out it has never been copied. An official return puts the feminine "models'' in Paris 675. The pay for a sitting is from fifty cents to $ 10. Most of the models are Italians; thirty are Americans: 145 ha vo been in the hands of the police. in Aching Told. A troubled young man begins a noem In the Break water L.iyhi as lollows: " 1 cannot love another now, Since thou hast proved nutruo, Another's lips upon my brow Cannot this aching void subdue." It Is an awful pity for the young poet that he has to carry an " aching void " around in bis head. Nothing is more distressing than an "acmng void," par ticularly in one's head, and the dia. tressed young man ought to fill it with cotton. If " another g lips" won't "subdue" it he might try a mustard piaster. mtaaietown urantcrtpt. Mr. Kimball the church dnht. raiser- has visited about 160 churches, and has raised aooui a,uuu,iHKj ior the payment ot church debts, lie estimates that some 94,000,000 more have been raised or saved, in various ways, under the innuenoe ot this wcrk. The Traffic in Dried Fruits. The perishable nature of all kinds of fruit has led to the employment of many methods for its preservation, the most primitive of which is probably that of drying. Although recent im t.rovemonti in canning processes have created an increased demand for canned fruits, the market for the dried article is brisk every year. Many commercial firms in New York deal almost exclu sively in dried fruits.or make this article a leading specialty. Besides the demand for dried fruits in that market, there is every year a large demand for export to foreign countries. Dealers also do a large trade with the Western States and Territories. In many of these, ec neciallv the later settled districts, farm ers have net had time to grow orchards as yet, and so must buy their fruit, both fresh and preseived. L.-.i?d fruit is also much used in the mining regions, being easily transported ; and the miner must often take his choice between dried apnle pie or none at all. Dried peaches, berries, plums and cherries", find a good market in the Wentern States, and are made into pies, puddings and sauce. Few of these siua'lor fruits are exported, the foreign demand being chiefly for apples. Of thes-e there were exported in October of last year 1,853.044 pounds, and in the hist ten months ot the year, 4.4S9.156 roundj. The export trade has in- crensed l:rgely, ot late, as will bo. seen by the record of 1874, when only 1 3(V2 79 J pouuds were exportei. In 1676 the exports rose to 6.900,535 pounds. and last year when the apple crop was muc'i less than the present year, there were exported 5,895,256 pounds. Fiance, Germany, Belgium and England are all uying more dried apples this year than usual. This is a result of the general uilure of the apple crop in those coun tries, and also of the unusually low prices in this country. "Evaporated" fruit, which sold last yee r from thirteen to sixteen cents a pound, now sells at from six to eight cents. Common riiit, which last year bi ought from seven to nmo cents, now brings only from four and one-half to five and one half cents. On account of the general failure of the grape crop as well as the apple crop in France, the distillers in that country are using large quantities of dried ap ples lor the manufacture ot brandy. The ommon grades ot apples are preferred tor this purpose, especially Southern fruit, which is said to yield ten per cent, more alcohol than ordinary fruit. An ra port duty ot one-half cent a pound viis to be levied on oned apples in Frau 'e after January 1. Previously, dried apples have been on the free list in that country. The exporting of the or dinary stock tends to keep the market tinu, and dealers are generally confident of good prices. The English market will take little except evaporated apples. and it is only within a few years that any nave been shipped there; but the demand now is steadily increasing. For the lierman market iruit dried In quar tens is preferred. "Sun-dried" apples are about the only kind shipped to Con tinental iaropa. Hie "evaporated" apples are dried very quickly, by artificial heat, in a carefully-constructed apparatus. After otitic; peeled, cored and sliced trans versely into thin rings the fruit is sub jected to the fumes "ot sulphur, which causes the white color to be retained in drying. So ellactually does tLis fumi gation arrest decay that quantities of the apples may be left several days be fore drying without icjury. "Evapo rated" apples are generally packed in wooden boxes containing about fifty pounds The common grades are paired in barrels. Allot the older States send more or less dried apples to this market. New York State tukes the lead, and Ohio and Indiana comes next. Tennessee and other Stales in the Southwest also send hira qu- n'.ies. Dried peaches and b'aekbeni?) came in large part from North Carolina. Peaches arealso dried i-y the evaporation process, and there is some daoif.nd for them in the English market. Although there was a very large yield of apples last year, dealers say that there was not a correspondingly large amount aned. The reasons given are, that driers generally anticipated ttiat large quantities would be dried and that prices in consequence would be low; accordingly they were afraid to engsge in the busincss'very largely. It it also stated that the cold weather coming so early in the season destroyed many apples that otherwise would have been dried. New York Tribune. Sodden Checking of Perspiration. A Boston merchant, in " lending a hand " on board one of his ships on a windy day, found himseif at the end of an hour and a half pretty well exhausted and perspiring freely. He sat down to rest, and engaging in conversation, time passed taster tirin he was aware of. In attempting to rise he found he was unable to do so without assist ance. He was taken home and put to bed, where he remained two years; and for a long time after ward coum only nobble about with tue aid of a crutch, less exposures than this have in constitutions not so vigor ous resulted in inflammation of the lun-js pneumonia ending in death in less than a week, or causing tedious rheumatisms, to be a source of torture for a lifetime. Multitudesot lives would De saved every year, and an incalculable amount of human suffering would be prevented, it parents would begin to explain to their children, at the age of three or four years, ttie clanger wuicn attends cooling off too quickly after ex ercise, and the importance of not stand ing still alter exercise, or work, or play, or of remaining exposed to the wiud, or ot sitting at an open window or door, or of pulling off any garments, even the hat or bonnet, wuue in tieat. "Uardeii or China." Around Shanghai lie 50,000 square miles which are called the Garden of China, and which have been tilled for countless generations. This area is as large as Mew xork and Pennsylvania combined; it is all meadow land, raised a lew f jet above the river lakes, rivers, canal a complete net-work ol water communication; three crops a year are gathered; population is so densj that wherever you look you see men and women in blue pants and blouso, so nu merous that jou fancy some muster or lair coming on, and all hands turned out for a holiday. According to Kolb's "Universal Statis tics," the average length of life among thoso in comfortable circumstances is fifty, among the poor thirty, among ministers sity-hve years. FARM, GARDES AND HOUSEHOLD. farm and Uarden Notes In purchasing bulls buy mixed varie ties of the hardy sorts. Never breed from a vicious sire; tem per is hereditary in animals as well as in man. Constant cutting off just below the surface of the ground will in time eradi cate poison ivy. Clover that sends its roots deep into the earth is considered the best sub-soiling agent to be had. Many a farmer pays out large sums for fertilizers, while he allows those of his own barnyard to run to waste. Fertilizers should beappliedto house plants only when they are in a growing state, and should be applied in the li quid form. , Tea roses are to be preferred for the house, both for fragrance and beauty. They are free growers and bloomers under almost all circumstances. The National Live Slock Journal thinks that wildness and bad temper in a mare may be remedied by breeding them, and cites several instances where this has succeeded. Water is a much better deodorizer than is generally supposed. It has great absorbing capacity. Fresh water running through a milk room keeps it free from odors. Roses need very rich soil to bring them tr perfection, thriving best in a mixture of well-rotted manure, sand and garden loam, nnd to stint them of nourishment is indeed poor economy. Filling a horse rack with hay, as some persons do, and permitting a constant supply, is one of the most probable means of producing disease, and the most positive to render animals unfit for fast work. In England it has been found that seven pounds of sulphur mixed with one hundred pounds of ground bone and allowed to slightly ferment for a tew days before being applied to the soil, will effectually defend the young turnip plants from the attacks of ths fly. Spreading Manure. It is always better to spread manure as it is drawn than to put it in heaps. When put in heaps a large portion of the soluble matter is left iu the ground under the heap and makes these spots too rich, and of course deprives the rest of the ground of its propershare. When it is spread as drawn there is no waste, tLe soil s equally benefited, and when the ground is worked over in the spring with the wheel-barrow or the cultivator the whole is well mixed together. There is also a saving of labor, as one hand ling is avoided. Household Hints. Cut bread fine for filling for fowls; this is better than to crumble it. No sogginess. Cold boiled potatoes used as a soap will clean th hands and keep the skin soft and healthy. Those not over-boilea are the best. In boiling dumplings of any kind, put them in the water one at a time. If they aie put in together they will mix with each other. Charcoal powder is good for polishing knives without destroying the blades. It is also a good tooth powder when fin .'ly pulverized. Simple and tasteful table covers for bedrooms muy be made of pale blue Can ton flannel trimmed with antique lace, or with velvet Tibbon feather-stitched on, and finished with fringe made of blue split zephyr or Shetland wool. A Broker's Romance. It Is a very touching incident. We heard a Southern editor telling it on tin elevated train ye3terda7 and he was in a great hurry to get home and put it iu his paper and make an affidavit that it was true. The scene of the romance opens in a palatini mansion in New York. A lady sits in a parlor filled with the most costly luxuries. Diamond!) as big as filberts glitter in her ears. Lace costing $36 per yard almost hides the color cf her dress from sight. A clock cobting $18,000 strikes the hour 4 p. m At this moment her husband rushes into the house, pale, haggard, suspenders broken, hat bunged up, and his boots all mud. "Have you have you caught the epizootic?" she gasps, as she starts up. "Oh, wife! we are busted ruined gone up smashed fiat as a shiDgle!" he moaned in reply. "HOW." " I invested $75,000, in the Crooked River railroad at 98, and it has declite i to 4! Jay Gould hr.s bought and con solidated it ! We must leave this palace aud all these luxuries and works of art and take two fourth-story rooms over in Brooklyn." She laughed merrily and long. II ad the sudden news ere zed her P He thought it had: bu: he was green. She left the room for a moment and then returned with a pillowcase containg $200,000 in greenbacks. "Let the Crooked River railroad crook away!" she laughed, as she emp tied the money at his feet. " You have given me this money during the past five years, a few thousand dollars at a time, to buy little articles for toilet. I had saved it up to get me a pair of stockings fur Sunday, but I cheerfully hand it over to my good husband to set him on his pins again. Take it, my dar ling, and if you can get a whack at Jay Gould bite him hard, and I'll back you with the $50,000 1 had laid away to send to the heathen." They embraced. All was joy and peace. Wall Street News. Pet Names. Bishop Elder, of Cincinnati, has been giving parents some advice, which is an improvement upon boiuo previous sug- festions and worthy of general attention, le advises parents to give their children full Christian names, ana not abbrevia tions or pet names. If they please to make use of these familiarly in the family, it is well enough. But when a young girl is growing up it is not well to allow every young man that speaks to her to use a pet name as if he were as intimate as her brother. Although this is only a little matter in itself, it contributes its share toward lessening the maidenly reserve which is so beau tiful and so serviceable an ornament. It likewise detracts from the Christian dignity of womanhood for one to be'all her life addressed as if she were a pet etiild, instead . of .a) lady owning a Christian name and entitled to tho rspot of having it vuwd. True to One's Self. Speak thou the truth, lot others fenoe And trim their words for pay ; In pleasant sunshine of pretense, IM others bask their day. Guard thou the fact, tho clouds of night Dawn on thy watch-towor stoop, Borne lrm thee by their swoop, Though thon shouldst see thy heart's dolight. Face thon the wind." Though safer seem In sholter to abide, We wore not made to sit and dream, Tho sale must first be tried. Show thou the light. If oonsoienoe gleam Set not the bushel down, The smallest spark may send a beam O'er hamlet, tower, and town. Woe unto him, on safety bent, Who creeps lrom a?e to youth. Failing to grasp his life's intent Because he tears the truth. Be true to every inmost thought, And as thy thoughts, thy speecb, What thou hast not by strivins bought, Presume not thou to teaoh. Then each wild gust the mist shall clear We now see darkly through, And ju9tiflod at last appear The true in Him that's true. HUMOROUS. On the spot A detective. The way for a bad bDy to go on a bender, is over his mother's knee. Like a ferryboat, 1881 runs equally wel 1 either end ahead New York Qraphit. "If you want me, drop me aline," said the fish to tho angler. Phi'aAelphii Sun. A pretty girl may talk slang but she never says, to her beau, " None of your lip!" As the sled is bent so is the boy in clined; as.the slipper falls eois be made to mind. A burglar sometimes breaks into a man's chest with false keys, but n woman attempts to break into his heart by means of false locks. "I'm running this thin!" as the infuriated bull remarked when in pur suit of the young man with the flashy red necktie. Yonkers Stilesmm. Russell Sage has $1,000,000 per annum income, .Tav Gould $5,000,000 and Van derhilti $210,003,000. These figures are all the more disheartening when it is remembered that scores of us hive to squeeza through a year on only 81,000, ooo. This is the season of the year when the citizen is attacked with a severe case of economy, and immediately cuts off his entire list of newspapers. There is one paper he does not relinquish, however. It is his paoer of tobacco. Rickland Courier. If there is anything that will make a mm rip stavin, roarin, bilin mad, it is to have the cook appear before him at breakfast with tho announcement that the two pounds of lamb chops purchas ed by him the evening previous, during the wee small hours disappeared down the capacious maw of the family Thom as cat. 'Do you love me for myself?" she asked, as she gazed dreamily through the isinttlass windows of the " Morning Glory " into the glowing coals, which threw back a rich tint upon her fair face. " I do," he answered, pressing her hand : " I do. but I am not selfish. I im billing to ki33you for your mother." "Ah! I always knew you had a good heart." she murmured . Curtain. ' Twas Sunlay eve and the small boy stood With his eye to the keyhole pressed, And ho suw his sister Bussy's head Oj Absulom Thompson's vebt. Then he ran to his parent stern an told, And the parent stern replied: " There ain't no harm in a vest; slide out," But the lad relused to slide. 11 There ain't no harm in the vert, I know," And his eyes flashed bright that minute, " But isn't it dungerous, dad," he asked , " When Absalom Thompson's in it?" Lost Poet. It is difficult for any one to understand how a woman can be happy whose seal skin sack has been lengthened by sewing on it a piece of fur. She knows that her sack is short, and everybody knows it is short, and she knows that everybody knows it, and everybody knows that he knows it, and everybody knows that she knows that everbody knows it, and she knows that everybody knows that she knows that everybody knows it, and everybody knows that she knows that everybody knows that she knows that everybody knows .that she knows it. Puck The Banana. The Cuba correspondent of the Bos ton Commercial Bulletin writes: The manner in which the fruit is developed is quite interesting. From the midst of the leaves and at the top appears a large, smooth, purple cone hanging down gracefully at the end of a siaik. The flowers are all wrapped up in this cone, which consists of a lari:e number of closely packed spathes. By-and-bye the uppermost of these spathes disengages itself from the rest, curls up and dis closes a row of three or iour long blos soms, with the young fruit of each be ginning to form . While this row of fruit is tender the spathe remains hanging over it like a rooi. Dm wnen tue iruu uas acquireu some size and strength the protecting shield drops off and the next in order rise3 up with a similar row of young fruit over which it stands in the same watchful attitude till it also drops off, to be succeeded by another. When one circle ot fruit is completed another is commenced below, and in due time another, while the common stem around which the fruit is disposed n-rowa conatantlv loneer. and the cone of spathes diminishes in size, till it is all unfolded, and a monstrous bunch of bananas Is finished, which seldou weighs less than twenty or thirty and sometimes as much as seventy or eighty pounds. Ol all kinds ol vegetable nutri ment the banana is perhaps the most productive, and most easily raised. Alter a plant has produced its bunch of fruit the stem is either cut or is suf (crcA tn wither and fall on the spot. In the former case it is good fodder for cattle ; in the latter it forms good man ure for the young shoots which have been springing from the root, and which are soon roady to bear fruit in their turn. From these shoots or sprouts the plant is propagated.
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