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VOL. X. BID GAY AY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSD A Y JANUARY 20, 1881. NO 48.
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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.
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) 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
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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
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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.